Trump Abortion Ban?

The title is super weird. It's cringy. Drunkle cringy.

Trump implemented this???

"Or is it that the billionaire owner did not want his paper to present an opinion in the opinion section that he did not agree with?"

Very likely, but there is nothing wrong with that. Would you have objections if a paper wanted to endorse Trump and the owner refused to let the staff use the paper as their own personal sounding board?

And it's also important to note that he did not make them endorse a candidate he disagreed with-he very well may have done the same if they had chosen to support Trump-he told them they could not use his paper as a vehicle to voice their opinions. And I don't think "billioniare" has anything to do with it...other than the fact that "billionaire" is one of the negative buzzwords that progressive like to use to throw around to signal their dislike for something. A publicly traded news outlet would be equally smart to do the same.

"Why should not the editors, who are intimately exposed to the news each day, be allowed to express their opinions in the section of the newspaper that is set aside for such opinions?"

IRT the Washington Times, it was about the paper, not the individuals, endorsing a candidate. I cannot speak for Jeff Bezos, but I have seen nothing to believe that he would have fired staffers who endorsed any candidate...speaking for themselves. And they can still do that.

"I mean, what is the fear here?"

What's the fear in remaining apolitical? It's not like the paper is endorsing Trump instead.

I think the anger come from the fact that the paper's owner has prohibited it from being used for an explicitly political purpose.

"What is the issue with the opinion part of the newspaper expressing opinions?"

In this case, their boss did not want his paper presenting a political opinion. There is nothing wrong with that. I like it.

I don't see it as being terribly different from the prohibitions on military personnel wearing their uniforms and political events.

And...there would have been crickets from this same group of handwringers had been directed to endorse Harris.

What a bunch of steaming -------. Handwringers getting pissy because a newspaper is directed to be apolitical.

Don't worry. You still have Mother Jones. Is the Daily Kos still around?

Oh, and I don't think it will happen, but Harris offering $25k to new home buyers is most definitely not going to do anything to bring down housing costs. Quite the opposite.

"Based on my anecdotal social media readings, some people from my hometown are voting to "send a message" about high grocery prices. When rent and groceries are all that people can afford to care about, that might affect their votes."

Two things. First, the profit margins for publicly traded grocery stores are very low. I think the highest is 1.4%. So increases are likely a result of what is going on in the commodities market, which is pretty much un-gougable. I would say that there is no such thing as price-gouging to start with, but that's a different story. Bottom line is that the increased prices are a reflection of market activity left of the grocery store.

Second, if you look at housing, the trend for decades has been bigger and bigger. The per square foot cost of a house hasn't changed all that much. A new trend is emerging where demand is shifting to smaller houses, which will inevitably cost less, all other things being equal.

"Now, the problem I see is that the income of some folk may not have kept up with those increases in prices. (as indicated by a resurgence of the labor movement). And what may have caused that trailing of income vs prices? Corporate and company owner greed in wanting to extract more profits at the expense of not paying their workers?"

From the article:

"On a per-person basis, American economic output is now about 40% higher than in western Europe and Canada, and 60% higher than in Japan"roughly twice as large as the gaps between them in 1990. Average wages in America's poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than the averages in Britain, Canada and Germany."

"There are a plenty of indians alive today for Biden to apologize to."

Hmm. Should I apologize too?

Yes. He really should have done something about that. Back in the 1800s.