Chaos in USA

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Well, the Sun is moving from Left to Right as viewed from the USA

[probes]

I’m waiting for the Orange One claim that he organised the eclipse and that his is the best eclipse ever

ever...sometimes... maybe! well, anyway.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Latest 'hot' US CPI numbers mean July seems to be the only remaining opportunity for the Fed to lower interest rates before the election, and maybe not even then.
Not good for Biden.

Bank of Canada has just announced it is holding rates.

[probes]

If Russia breaks through, this will be our fault. And then we will understand what we have lost. Everything that Ukraine is doing for us can be reversed. If Ukraine is defeated, we will find ourselves in a far more dangerous world. It will be a world where we can expect war in Europe and war in Asia. A world in which Russia can cut off the food to the Near East and Africa that Ukraine now supplies. A world without rules and a world full of nuclear weapons.

Opinion: Congress must let Ukraine win, say Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Imagine Dragons, Timothy Snyder and other luminaries

Could public opinions change something? Anything? Or won't it change the vote count anyway, therefore could be ignored?

[k3k3]

The problem is Mike Johnson won't allow a vote, no vote, no aid.

[probes]

Actually, the 'situation' really is frightening. Would the Conservative hardliners support mil aid to ruz and putin?
One wonders.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The percentage of the US population that "completely or mostly trusts the US Government" has dropped to a new low of 20%

The percentage of the US population that works directly or indirectly for the US Government has risen to a new high of 20%

[probes]

Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.

(Time)

How Far Trump Would Go

Oh God.

[k3k3]

FFS! He wants to be an absolute monarch. I don't think I've ever seriously wished someone would drop dead up to now, but...

[Dushan]

Of course he was too nice. He should have drained the swamp, like he promised to, right away.

[Boac]

Let's hope the dumb sceptics don't re-elect a man who cannot keep his word!

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Well that applies to every western leader for the last 30 years at least.

[Boac]

Indeed, but there are some idiots who think the Chump is better.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I had several chats, in the USA, with a guy who ran his own painting business.
He supported Trump (then President) not from any particular liking for him as a person, but simply because he largely did what he said he was going to do.
Much of that was getting rid of not just pointless, but actually counterproductive red tape. He gave me several examples which were clearly things that needed doing.

I think this is where the US election is.
Neither side has much liking for their own candidate (bar the idiots), but they have a strong liking for the majority of their policies, and a deep dislike of the policies of the opposing candidate.
The basic problem with Democrat policies is that they haven't worked. The Democrats are currently split into 3 groups:
Those who believe the BS data, ignore the contrary data (or simply can't do math) and think Biden's policies are actually working (at least for them personally).
Those who believe Biden's policies are doing as well as any policies could in the current world environment, and it will all work out in the end.
Those who believe Biden's policies aren't doing well, and somehow it's all Trump and his supporters fault.
The non-Democrats are split into 3 groups.
Those who think Trump was and will be mostly good for the country, despite his failings.
Those who think he is mostly bad, but will fix at least some of the major problems they are experiencing under Biden.
Those who think Trump is too bad as a person to vote for.
I've picked those two sets of three groupings based on the propaganda of both camps. Each campaign push seems to be targetting one of the six groups, and either trying to firm up that view, or shift it into one of the other groups, in either case to benefit their candidate.