It’s been 11 days since former President Donald Trump was convicted in a partisan Manhattan courtroom.And I can say with confidence that it did not have the impact Democrats had hoped for.
For months, Democrats had pinned their hopes on a conviction in one of four cases brought by Democratic district attorneys and special prosecutors. The three cases brought by Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and Florida and Washington Special Counsel Jack Smith are effectively stalled, while the ugly stepson, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, scored the first 34 goals. The only problem was that no goals were scored in the end. And even this conviction… Might be Collapse.
National polls are essentially unchanged, and in fact there are some trends leaning toward Trump. Like Virginia — has long been a temptress for Republicans in Washington, spending their money and leaving them with broken hearts and hangovers. It’s the first time in 20 years that a Republican running for president has gone home with 13 electoral votes. President Joe Biden won the state by more than 10 points. Friday morning RealClearPolitics has moved He put Old Dominion in the “50-50” category.
“How can you not make a decision at this point?” pollster Frank Luntz Asked Biden asked Trump in a New York Times focus group after his conviction. He has a point. Both men have been president for four years each. Biden is the leader of the free world, and Trump may be the most famous of them all. Biden has been on television for 50 years, and his first meeting at the White House was with President Richard Nixon. Trump has been a star for 40 years, with ups and downs, bankruptcies and victories. Since their debuts, neither of them have had a month without their names appearing somewhere in the news or on television.
And that is exactly what these beliefs are about. What did they tell Trump haters and independents that they didn’t already know about Trump? That Trump probably slept with Stormy Daniels? This scandal broke in 2018, back when creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti was still a corporate media darling. We knew this about Trump. It’s part of the deal.
What we didn’t know was that the Democrats and their self-proclaimed healer in chief were prepared to send their political opponents to prison. In fact, knowing this, Republicans were able to hold their own against the Democrats in the only area where they were lagging behind: fundraising. In a race as close as this one is, that makes all the difference.
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In other news
Bibi’s Trap
Congress and Israel have finally set a date for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress, but at the same time it will spell imminent disaster for the ill-behaved Democrats.
Despite all the talk about “norms,” Democratic leaders are incensed that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeen Jeffries (D.N.Y.) agreed to an invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to be prime minister during a war. They point out that this is simply good etiquette and precedent, but a significant number of their colleagues are not buying it.
“We should not be honoring a foreign leader who is currently causing the worst humanitarian disaster in the modern history of our country by speaking before a joint session of Congress,” liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an Independent, complained on MSNBC.
Last week, 42 Democrats joined Republicans in defiance of the White House by backing a bill from Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy that would create International Criminal Court sanctions over Netanyahu’s arrest warrant, even though Biden has warned the sanctions are too broad.
The Democratic Party’s civil war has been on full display since the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. Campus occupations, protests, and riots have slowly died down as the school year ends, but liberal churches are coming back for the summer: the DC protest road trip. On Saturday, tens of thousands of pro-Hamas activists from across the country descended on the nation’s capital on charter buses, besieging President Biden’s White House, trashing American history, attacking police, and firing smoke bombs.
As we head into the 2024 elections, it seems we can shake the kefir and say goodbye to any kind of unity.
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Fire up: Compact: Ending child exploitation by big tech companies
Social media is eating our kids. There’s no escaping it. In countries where kids have easy access to mobile phones and the social media platforms they host, suicide rates, depression, gender dysphoria and eating disorders are on the rise. At the same time, the tech giants who are preventing kids from using their products are exploiting our libertarian impulses to protect their business models. The good news is that politicians are finally waking up. Zephyr Teachout reports:
Social media companies made $11 billion in advertising revenue from minors in the U.S. in 2022 alone. But even this astronomical figure Unaware of the economic value these giants derive from hooking kids on their platforms, Meta, Google, TikTok and Twitter have excessive incentives to ban, slow or undermine any efforts to decommercialize social media for kids.
But now, the focus on exploiting teenagers’ emotions has ricocheted back at Big Tech. After a decade of blaming themselves for rising depression, anxiety, and self-harm among teenagers, parents are now banding together to demand safety on social media, a central part of their children’s lives. A bipartisan group of parents is mounting a new campaign. 2024 is shaping up to be the year we stop the vicious, deadly exploitation of our children’s emotions for profit.
A major breakthrough in this fight occurred on Friday: The New York State Assembly, in a near-unanimous, bipartisan vote, passed a landmark bill that takes a direct stand against exploitative business models. New York’s approach is also being adopted in California and Kentucky. Bipartisan! — Its simplicity puts people at ease. The law bans three different design features aimed at minors on social media platforms: targeted feeds, notifications between 12AM and 6AM, and commercialization of children’s data. (This is the default measure. All of these design features can be put in place with verifiable parental consent.)…
