The complaints about cheating are not connected to the electronic voting machines. They are connected to the mail-in ballots. People on social media are talking about tracking their ballots that they either mailed in or put in drop boxes and finding out their ballot was marked provisional, when it wasn't. Or it was rejected. Or it never made it to the polling places. Or they are missing. It's happening mainly in swing states. Then there is Musk's app to consider which targeted voters in swing states and collected personal information from them instead of letting them register to vote like it was supposed to. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html?__source=sharebar I think he might have gotten into trouble for this, but I'm not sure. Personally, I also find it odd that swing states are saying they had record-breaking turnout on early voting that even surpassed day of voting records, but then the day after the election, reports started saying voter turnout was low and that Harris received far fewer votes than Biden and Trump received the same amount of votes.
As far as what we need? We need unbiased, fact-checked, and trusted news sites without paywalls that are easily acceptable and not just reliant on social media (at least not current popular social media). If people can't afford rent and food, they also can't afford to buy their news. News is a public service, or at least it should be, but right now, too much news is owned by corporations, so there are paywalls. I appreciate being able to access your information without having to pay. But my point is that without access to news sources that are trusted by the general public, where a large number of people can only access sensationalized headlines, they are forced to go to independent sources, or fringe media that isn't always as reliable.
This leads me to think we need a trustworthy social media site. We need a place where we can have conversations and easy access to fact-checking mechanisms, where we aren't being tracked, and our data isn't being sold. Between Zuckerburg and Musk, our data is being used against us to sway our opinions and influence our behavior, including how we vote, because our algorithms are designed for the CEOs to make money from us vs. being a place to socialize and organize online. They are both destroying how we interact with the world, creating and proliferating mistrust in the people we know and don't know and our institutions. Many of us stay, though, because we think it's the only free place to communicate. We want to share our stories and learn about other people from a distance that seems safe, but even that is deceptive.
If they didn't win by what would traditionally be thought of as cheating, then they won using propaganda, which is not a new idea. We aren't supposed to be able to pay people to vote, yet Musk got to give away millions to voters to get them to register, and he got them to gamble to incentivize them to vote; how is that legal? We don't need to be like them. We need to do better, and we need to be better. I think we could create a social media site that works on donations instead of selling user data that would be a great start.
Although I’m merely a 🇬🇧 bystander, I can see how pervasive the politics of fear and division, underpinned by vast sums of vested interest money behind this, has become the biggest threat to democracy globally. I echo the need for effective messaging but concerned that is being choked by the same monied vested interests.
The results of 2024 election are a majority of white women actually voted for Trump. I am a male and a liberal democrat. If white women are not holding having reproductive healthcare as a human right so beit. What will happen because of the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe is that people, mainly women, will refuse to move to states which have restricted access to reproductive healthcare. For the states that have past laws and regulations which restrict access to reproductive healthcare, their ability to grow their economy will be limited because we are currently at full employment and the pool of workers they have access to will be limited because women don't want to live there.
Donald Trump has a big problem relative to the economy which is the national debt. If he re-approves the tax cuts established in his first term in 2025 he and the Republicans are going to have a big problem with the national debt which will impact interest rates and slow down the economy. He is going to implement his tariff regime to generate new revenue to mitigate the impact of extending his tax cuts. The tariffs will raise costs to American consumers across the board with the middle class and poor families paying an estimated $4000 per year and that is what he is going to do. The result of the whole scenario is US consumers will have less money, consumption will decrease, and the economy will grind to a slow halt, i.e. the US economy will go into recession. Of course, Donald Trump will blame this on Biden and the Democrats but he will cause it and the Democrats will get elected in 2028 and they will spend the next 6 years digging out of the fiscal / monetary mess MAGA will leave them.
Thank you from my soul. I watched it later. I needed this.
This was awesome. So needed. So glad I could watch it later! Looking forward to the next one.
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It was a great conversation. Here for all your grief-y needs.
Thank you for this! I would love to see Dr. Alison Fragale interviewed on public perception of Harris vs Trump.
The complaints about cheating are not connected to the electronic voting machines. They are connected to the mail-in ballots. People on social media are talking about tracking their ballots that they either mailed in or put in drop boxes and finding out their ballot was marked provisional, when it wasn't. Or it was rejected. Or it never made it to the polling places. Or they are missing. It's happening mainly in swing states. Then there is Musk's app to consider which targeted voters in swing states and collected personal information from them instead of letting them register to vote like it was supposed to. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html?__source=sharebar I think he might have gotten into trouble for this, but I'm not sure. Personally, I also find it odd that swing states are saying they had record-breaking turnout on early voting that even surpassed day of voting records, but then the day after the election, reports started saying voter turnout was low and that Harris received far fewer votes than Biden and Trump received the same amount of votes.
As far as what we need? We need unbiased, fact-checked, and trusted news sites without paywalls that are easily acceptable and not just reliant on social media (at least not current popular social media). If people can't afford rent and food, they also can't afford to buy their news. News is a public service, or at least it should be, but right now, too much news is owned by corporations, so there are paywalls. I appreciate being able to access your information without having to pay. But my point is that without access to news sources that are trusted by the general public, where a large number of people can only access sensationalized headlines, they are forced to go to independent sources, or fringe media that isn't always as reliable.
This leads me to think we need a trustworthy social media site. We need a place where we can have conversations and easy access to fact-checking mechanisms, where we aren't being tracked, and our data isn't being sold. Between Zuckerburg and Musk, our data is being used against us to sway our opinions and influence our behavior, including how we vote, because our algorithms are designed for the CEOs to make money from us vs. being a place to socialize and organize online. They are both destroying how we interact with the world, creating and proliferating mistrust in the people we know and don't know and our institutions. Many of us stay, though, because we think it's the only free place to communicate. We want to share our stories and learn about other people from a distance that seems safe, but even that is deceptive.
If they didn't win by what would traditionally be thought of as cheating, then they won using propaganda, which is not a new idea. We aren't supposed to be able to pay people to vote, yet Musk got to give away millions to voters to get them to register, and he got them to gamble to incentivize them to vote; how is that legal? We don't need to be like them. We need to do better, and we need to be better. I think we could create a social media site that works on donations instead of selling user data that would be a great start.
Although I’m merely a 🇬🇧 bystander, I can see how pervasive the politics of fear and division, underpinned by vast sums of vested interest money behind this, has become the biggest threat to democracy globally. I echo the need for effective messaging but concerned that is being choked by the same monied vested interests.
Appreciate your dissection of the topics. Brava!
The results of 2024 election are a majority of white women actually voted for Trump. I am a male and a liberal democrat. If white women are not holding having reproductive healthcare as a human right so beit. What will happen because of the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe is that people, mainly women, will refuse to move to states which have restricted access to reproductive healthcare. For the states that have past laws and regulations which restrict access to reproductive healthcare, their ability to grow their economy will be limited because we are currently at full employment and the pool of workers they have access to will be limited because women don't want to live there.
I think Trump doesn't understand that people are tired of having him in their living room everyday with more carzy sh#t.
BTW, Biden needs to expel Elon Musk from the US because of his past activities as an illegal alien and being Putin's lap-dog.
I wrote this last week:
Donald Trump has a big problem relative to the economy which is the national debt. If he re-approves the tax cuts established in his first term in 2025 he and the Republicans are going to have a big problem with the national debt which will impact interest rates and slow down the economy. He is going to implement his tariff regime to generate new revenue to mitigate the impact of extending his tax cuts. The tariffs will raise costs to American consumers across the board with the middle class and poor families paying an estimated $4000 per year and that is what he is going to do. The result of the whole scenario is US consumers will have less money, consumption will decrease, and the economy will grind to a slow halt, i.e. the US economy will go into recession. Of course, Donald Trump will blame this on Biden and the Democrats but he will cause it and the Democrats will get elected in 2028 and they will spend the next 6 years digging out of the fiscal / monetary mess MAGA will leave them.
Last thing, lets start working / organizing for the 2026 election right now.