BarryLaverty Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 Been reading this professor for about a month now, and I think she is well spoken and worth keeping up with...you're welcome! She sources all her commentary like all should. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-8-2024 Heather Cox Richardson Nov 08, 2024   Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information. Daniel Laguna of LevelUp warned that Trumpâs proposed 60% tariff on Chinese imports could raise the costs of gaming consoles by 40%, so that a PS5 Pro gaming system would cost up to $1,000. One of the old justifications for tariffs was that they would bring factories home, but when the $3 billion shoe company Steve Madden announced yesterday it would reduce its imports from China by half to avoid Trump-promised tariffs, it said it will shift production not to the U.S., but to Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil. There are also stories that voters who chose Trump to lower household expenses are unhappy to discover that their undocumented relatives are in danger of deportation. When CNNâs Dana Bash asked Indiana Republican senator-elect Jim Banks if undocumented immigrants who had been here for a long time and integrated into the community would be deported, Banks answered that deportation should include âevery illegal in this country that we can find.â Yesterday a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a policy established by the Biden administration that was designed to create an easier path to citizenship for about half a million undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, Trumpâs advisors told Jim VandeHei and MIke Allen of Axios that Trump wasted valuable time at the beginning of his first term and that they will not make that mistake again. They plan to hit the ground running with tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, deregulation, and increased gas and oil production. Trump is looking to fill the top ranks of the government with âbillionaires, former CEOs, tech leaders and loyalists.â After the election, the wealth of Trump-backer Elon Musk jumped about $13 billion, making him worth $300 billion. Musk, who has been in frequent contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin, joined a phone call today between President-elect Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky. In Salon today, Amanda Marcotte noted that in states all across the country where voters backed Trump, they also voted for abortion rights, higher minimum wage, paid sick and family leave, and even to ban employers from forcing their employees to sit through right-wing or anti-union meetings. She points out that 12% of voters in Missouri voted both for abortion rights and for Trump. Marcotte recalled that Catherine Rampell and Youyou Zhou of the Washington Post showed before the election that voters overwhelmingly preferred Harrisâs policies to Trumpâs if they didnât know which candidate proposed them. An Ipsos/Reuters poll from October showed that voters who were misinformed about immigration, crime, and the economy tended to vote Republican, while those who knew the facts preferred Democrats. Many Americans turn for information to social media or to friends and family who traffic in conspiracy theories. As Angelo Carusone of Media Matters put it: âWe have a country that is pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.â In The New Republic today, Michael Tomasky reinforced that voters chose Trump in 2024 not because of the economy or inflation, or anything else, but because of how they perceived those issuesâwhich is not the same thing. Right-wing media âfed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win,â Tomasky wrote. Right-wing media has overtaken legacy media to set the countryâs political agenda not only because itâs bigger, but because it speaks with one voice, âand that voice says Democrats and liberals are treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country and are your last line of defense against your son coming home from school your daughter.â Tomasky noted how the work of Matthew Gertz of Media Matters shows that nearly all the crazy memes that became central campaign issuesâthe pet-eating story, for example, or the idea that the booming economy was terribleâcame from right-wing media. In those circles, Vice President Kamala Harris was a stupid, crazed extremist who orchestrated a coup against President Joe Biden and doesnât care about ordinary Americans, while Trump is under assault and has been for years, and heâs âdoing it all for you.â Investigative reporter Miranda Green outlined how âpink slimeâ newspapers, which are AI generated from right-wing sites, turned voters to Trump in key swing state counties. Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who studies focus groups, told NPR, âWhen I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, âWhat is an authoritarian?ââ In a social media post, Marcotte wrote: âA lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past.â That jumped out to me because there was, indeed, an earlier period in our history when voters were âpickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.â In the 1850s, white southern leaders made sure that voters did not have access to news that came from outside the American South, and instead steeped them in white supremacist information. They stopped the mail from carrying abolitionist pamphlets, destroyed presses of antislavery newspapers, and drove antislavery southerners out of their region. Elite enslavers had reason to be concerned about the survival of their system of human enslavement. The land boom of the 1840s, when removal of Indigenous peoples had opened up rich new lands for settlement, had priced many white men out of the market. They had become economically unstable, roving around the country working for wages or stealing to survive. And they deeply resented the fabulously wealthy enslavers who they knew looked down on them. In 1857, North Carolinian Hinton Rowan Helper wrote a book attacking enslavement. No friend to his Black neighbors, Helper was a virulent white supremacist. But in The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, he used modern statistics to prove that slavery destroyed economic opportunity for white men, and assailed âthe illbreeding and ruffianism of the slaveholding officials.â He noted that voters in the South who did not own slaves outnumbered by far those who did. "Give us fair play, secure to us the right of discussion, the freedom of speech, and we will settle the difficulty at the ballot-box,â he wrote. In the North the book sold like hotcakesâ142,000 copies by fall 1860. But southern leaders banned the book, and burned it, too. They arrested men for selling it and accused northerners of making war on the South. Politicians, newspaper editors, and ministers reinforced white supremacy, warned that the end of slavery would mean race war, and preached that enslavement was Godâs law. When northern voters elected Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 on a platform of containing enslavement in the South, where the sapped soil would soon cut into production, southern leaders decidedâusually without the input of votersâto secede from the Union. As leaders promised either that there wouldnât be a fight, or that if a fight happened it would be quick and painless, poor southern whites rallied to the cause of creating a nation based on white supremacy, reassured by South Carolina senator James Chesnutâs vow that he would personally drink all the blood shed in any threatened civil war. When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, poor white men set out for what they had come to believe was an imperative cause to protect their families and their way of life. By 1862 their enthusiasm had waned, and leaders passed a conscription law. That law permitted wealthy men to hire a substitute and exempted one man to oversee every 20 enslaved men, providing another way for rich men to keep their sons out of danger. Soldiers complained it was a ârich manâs war and a poor manâs fight.â By 1865 the Civil War had killed or wounded 483,026 men out of a southern white population of about five and a half million people. U.S. armies had pushed families off their lands, and wartime inflation drove ordinary people to starvation. By 1865, wives wrote to their soldier husbands to come home or there would be no one left to come home to. Even those poor white men who survived the war could not rebuild into prosperity. The war took from the South its monopoly of global cotton production, locking poor southerners into profound poverty from which they would not begin to recover until the 1930s, when the New Deal began to pour federal money into the region. Today, when I received a slew of messages gloating that Trump had won the election and that Republican voters had owned the libs, I could not help but think of that earlier era when ordinary white men sold generations of economic aspirations for white supremacy and bragging rights. â Notes: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/trump-elon-musk-business-tax-cuts https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/11/08/tesla-hits-1-trillion-market-cap-musk-becomes-300-billion-man-after-trump-win/ https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/americas-political-discordance-the-want-progressivism/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/trump-harris-policy-quiz/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/biden-citizenship-deportation-program https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/economy/steve-madden-china-trump-tariffs https://www.levelup.com/en/news/810189/Console-prices-could-skyrocket-by-40-due-to-Donald-Trumps-victory-tariffs-could-make-a-PS5-Pro-cost-up-to-1000-USD-experts-say https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/elon-musk-trump-zelensky-call/ Mitchell Snay, The Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Keri Leigh Merritt, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press: 2017). https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/facts.htm https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/twenty-negro-law https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/helper/helper.html Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/knilirabaj.bsky.social/post/3lahdyeatut2z X: mirandacgreen/status/1854967274202935803 atrupar/status/1854940104462147832 RBReich/status/1854962350828257353 AmandaMarcotte/status/1854906041877619197 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 Somebody's trying too hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeahBuddy Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 Didnât read.  Prolly useless horse crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 Just now, YeahBuddy said: Didnât read.  Prolly useless horse crap Uses Salon and NPR ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte1076 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 (edited) 22 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: NPR ..... Thoughts for your thoughts... Â Edited November 11 by Monte1076 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion7000 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 25 minutes ago, YeahBuddy said: Didnât read.  Prolly useless horse crap Isnât it always! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirtFalcon Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 1 hour ago, BarryLaverty said: Been reading this professor for about a month now, and I think she is well spoken and worth keeping up with...you're welcome! She sources all her commentary like all should. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-8-2024 Heather Cox Richardson Nov 08, 2024   Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information. Daniel Laguna of LevelUp warned that Trumpâs proposed 60% tariff on Chinese imports could raise the costs of gaming consoles by 40%, so that a PS5 Pro gaming system would cost up to $1,000. One of the old justifications for tariffs was that they would bring factories home, but when the $3 billion shoe company Steve Madden announced yesterday it would reduce its imports from China by half to avoid Trump-promised tariffs, it said it will shift production not to the U.S., but to Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil. There are also stories that voters who chose Trump to lower household expenses are unhappy to discover that their undocumented relatives are in danger of deportation. When CNNâs Dana Bash asked Indiana Republican senator-elect Jim Banks if undocumented immigrants who had been here for a long time and integrated into the community would be deported, Banks answered that deportation should include âevery illegal in this country that we can find.â Yesterday a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a policy established by the Biden administration that was designed to create an easier path to citizenship for about half a million undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, Trumpâs advisors told Jim VandeHei and MIke Allen of Axios that Trump wasted valuable time at the beginning of his first term and that they will not make that mistake again. They plan to hit the ground running with tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, deregulation, and increased gas and oil production. Trump is looking to fill the top ranks of the government with âbillionaires, former CEOs, tech leaders and loyalists.â After the election, the wealth of Trump-backer Elon Musk jumped about $13 billion, making him worth $300 billion. Musk, who has been in frequent contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin, joined a phone call today between President-elect Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky. In Salon today, Amanda Marcotte noted that in states all across the country where voters backed Trump, they also voted for abortion rights, higher minimum wage, paid sick and family leave, and even to ban employers from forcing their employees to sit through right-wing or anti-union meetings. She points out that 12% of voters in Missouri voted both for abortion rights and for Trump. Marcotte recalled that Catherine Rampell and Youyou Zhou of the Washington Post showed before the election that voters overwhelmingly preferred Harrisâs policies to Trumpâs if they didnât know which candidate proposed them. An Ipsos/Reuters poll from October showed that voters who were misinformed about immigration, crime, and the economy tended to vote Republican, while those who knew the facts preferred Democrats. Many Americans turn for information to social media or to friends and family who traffic in conspiracy theories. As Angelo Carusone of Media Matters put it: âWe have a country that is pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.â In The New Republic today, Michael Tomasky reinforced that voters chose Trump in 2024 not because of the economy or inflation, or anything else, but because of how they perceived those issuesâwhich is not the same thing. Right-wing media âfed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win,â Tomasky wrote. Right-wing media has overtaken legacy media to set the countryâs political agenda not only because itâs bigger, but because it speaks with one voice, âand that voice says Democrats and liberals are treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country and are your last line of defense against your son coming home from school your daughter.â Tomasky noted how the work of Matthew Gertz of Media Matters shows that nearly all the crazy memes that became central campaign issuesâthe pet-eating story, for example, or the idea that the booming economy was terribleâcame from right-wing media. In those circles, Vice President Kamala Harris was a stupid, crazed extremist who orchestrated a coup against President Joe Biden and doesnât care about ordinary Americans, while Trump is under assault and has been for years, and heâs âdoing it all for you.â Investigative reporter Miranda Green outlined how âpink slimeâ newspapers, which are AI generated from right-wing sites, turned voters to Trump in key swing state counties. Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who studies focus groups, told NPR, âWhen I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, âWhat is an authoritarian?ââ In a social media post, Marcotte wrote: âA lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past.â That jumped out to me because there was, indeed, an earlier period in our history when voters were âpickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.â In the 1850s, white southern leaders made sure that voters did not have access to news that came from outside the American South, and instead steeped them in white supremacist information. They stopped the mail from carrying abolitionist pamphlets, destroyed presses of antislavery newspapers, and drove antislavery southerners out of their region. Elite enslavers had reason to be concerned about the survival of their system of human enslavement. The land boom of the 1840s, when removal of Indigenous peoples had opened up rich new lands for settlement, had priced many white men out of the market. They had become economically unstable, roving around the country working for wages or stealing to survive. And they deeply resented the fabulously wealthy enslavers who they knew looked down on them. In 1857, North Carolinian Hinton Rowan Helper wrote a book attacking enslavement. No friend to his Black neighbors, Helper was a virulent white supremacist. But in The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, he used modern statistics to prove that slavery destroyed economic opportunity for white men, and assailed âthe illbreeding and ruffianism of the slaveholding officials.â He noted that voters in the South who did not own slaves outnumbered by far those who did. "Give us fair play, secure to us the right of discussion, the freedom of speech, and we will settle the difficulty at the ballot-box,â he wrote. In the North the book sold like hotcakesâ142,000 copies by fall 1860. But southern leaders banned the book, and burned it, too. They arrested men for selling it and accused northerners of making war on the South. Politicians, newspaper editors, and ministers reinforced white supremacy, warned that the end of slavery would mean race war, and preached that enslavement was Godâs law. When northern voters elected Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 on a platform of containing enslavement in the South, where the sapped soil would soon cut into production, southern leaders decidedâusually without the input of votersâto secede from the Union. As leaders promised either that there wouldnât be a fight, or that if a fight happened it would be quick and painless, poor southern whites rallied to the cause of creating a nation based on white supremacy, reassured by South Carolina senator James Chesnutâs vow that he would personally drink all the blood shed in any threatened civil war. When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, poor white men set out for what they had come to believe was an imperative cause to protect their families and their way of life. By 1862 their enthusiasm had waned, and leaders passed a conscription law. That law permitted wealthy men to hire a substitute and exempted one man to oversee every 20 enslaved men, providing another way for rich men to keep their sons out of danger. Soldiers complained it was a ârich manâs war and a poor manâs fight.â By 1865 the Civil War had killed or wounded 483,026 men out of a southern white population of about five and a half million people. U.S. armies had pushed families off their lands, and wartime inflation drove ordinary people to starvation. By 1865, wives wrote to their soldier husbands to come home or there would be no one left to come home to. Even those poor white men who survived the war could not rebuild into prosperity. The war took from the South its monopoly of global cotton production, locking poor southerners into profound poverty from which they would not begin to recover until the 1930s, when the New Deal began to pour federal money into the region. Today, when I received a slew of messages gloating that Trump had won the election and that Republican voters had owned the libs, I could not help but think of that earlier era when ordinary white men sold generations of economic aspirations for white supremacy and bragging rights. â Notes: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/trump-elon-musk-business-tax-cuts https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/11/08/tesla-hits-1-trillion-market-cap-musk-becomes-300-billion-man-after-trump-win/ https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/americas-political-discordance-the-want-progressivism/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/trump-harris-policy-quiz/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/biden-citizenship-deportation-program https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/economy/steve-madden-china-trump-tariffs https://www.levelup.com/en/news/810189/Console-prices-could-skyrocket-by-40-due-to-Donald-Trumps-victory-tariffs-could-make-a-PS5-Pro-cost-up-to-1000-USD-experts-say https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/elon-musk-trump-zelensky-call/ Mitchell Snay, The Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Keri Leigh Merritt, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press: 2017). https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/facts.htm https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/twenty-negro-law https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/helper/helper.html Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/knilirabaj.bsky.social/post/3lahdyeatut2z X: mirandacgreen/status/1854967274202935803 atrupar/status/1854940104462147832 RBReich/status/1854962350828257353 AmandaMarcotte/status/1854906041877619197 She's just another wrong headed anti-Trump Ivy league libtard hack .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sportsfanatic1 Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 Read one paragraph and seen it was straight Horse . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 12 Author Share Posted November 12 17 hours ago, Sportsfanatic1 said: Read one paragraph and seen it was straight Horse . You did? You seen it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokedOut Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 Oh boy @BarryLaverty. Itâs gonna be a long 12 years for you. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 12 Author Share Posted November 12 25 minutes ago, SmokedOut said: Oh boy @BarryLaverty. Itâs gonna be a long 12 years for you. Nope. First, being the 'loyal opposition' is easy with Trump and MAGA, so there's that. Second, Republicans (MAGA especially), really don't know how to govern. They always overplay their hand or there is corruption or straight-out incompetence. And if you don't think there will be a massive fallout if the promised mass deportations actually happen, you should know that there will be. Not to mention that the price of eggs may or may not come down rapidly. Plus, JD Vance is no more likable or qualified than he was before the election, so I definitely wouldn't count those chickens. Just because he's a 'Bro' doesn't mean he knows much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveTV1 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 Big whoop so Chiner prices will go up and be competitively priced with American made goods which goes to American employees vs. slave labor since they make on average $400 a month. Don't believe me look it up. Barry proving again that he's Pro-Chiner and Anti-American. Keep Chinese prices low !  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeahBuddy Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 20 hours ago, BarryLaverty said: You did? You seen it was? You posted itâŚ.thats enough for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeahBuddy Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 18 hours ago, BarryLaverty said: Nope. First, being the 'loyal opposition' is easy with Trump and MAGA, so there's that. Second, Republicans (MAGA especially), really don't know how to govern. They always overplay their hand or there is corruption or straight-out incompetence. And if you don't think there will be a massive fallout if the promised mass deportations actually happen, you should know that there will be. Not to mention that the price of eggs may or may not come down rapidly. Plus, JD Vance is no more likable or qualified than he was before the election, so I definitely wouldn't count those chickens. Just because he's a 'Bro' doesn't mean he knows much. Heâs smarter than the dumbasses your side keeps picking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeahBuddy Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 12 hours ago, DaveTV1 said: Big whoop so Chiner prices will go up and be competitively priced with American made goods which goes to American employees vs. slave labor since they make on average $400 a month. Don't believe me look it up. Barry proving again that he's Pro-Chiner and Anti-American. Keep Chinese prices low !  He supports pedophiles too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 13 Author Share Posted November 13 1 hour ago, YeahBuddy said: He supports pedophiles too Again, @BlahBlah. He really can't help himself, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 Well any educated person or a person with the brain the size of a pea should know the tariffs raise prices. Duh. And yes, mass deportations will hurt the economy, but we need end this âfreeâ entry into our country. I look at the mass deportations as a way to get all those folks on unemployment working again. As for the mass deportations, I would give âillegal criminalsâ until April 1 to âselfâ deport and place their names on a list for re-entry based on the laws we have in this nation NOW. But I will say that the personâs article was correct in several ways. Historically. 5-10% of southernerâs owned slaves. Most southernerâs who didnât own slaves fought for what they thought was Stateâs rights. And because the south was dead set against having factories on their ag land, the northâs industry was the determining factor in the war. Plus some mistakes made by southern generals cost them a quick war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeahBuddy Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 8 hours ago, BarryLaverty said: Again, @BlahBlah. He really can't help himself, right? Just calling the spade a spade.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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