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Henrik's avatar

Don’t get too excited just yet, but it appears anti-Assad rebels have just seized Aleppo out of nowhere and much of the Syrian Army is throwing their guns down rather than resist

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Jonathan's avatar

more of this please. !

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

Hezbollah got decapitated and crippled and is out of the game as Assad's plausible deniability murder squad.

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Henrik's avatar

Very good point

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Buckeye73's avatar

Tulsi won't like this.

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Marcus Graly's avatar

Biden was the most pro-Labor president we've had in quite a while, though I think Harris did a somewhat poor job capitalizing on it. Trump's appeal was more from broad dissatisfaction with the changes of the last half century, rather than from any Biden-Harris policy.

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Jonathan's avatar

you are way overanalyzing here (imo); voters used a 'perceived inflation' metric and voted their pocketbook

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ArcticStones's avatar

And "perceived inflation" was strongly rooted in 3.5 years of Trump and Republicans non-stop shit-talking the economy and President Biden’s policies.

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Mike in MD's avatar

And the news media as well, which is probably a redundancy here....

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Buckeye73's avatar

That is what happened in every country in the world that has had elections this year.

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Jonathan's avatar

Exactly

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benamery21's avatar

Knowledge of Biden’s mildly pro-Labor stances was largely limited to business executives, HR departments, and labor/political activists.

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Marcus Graly's avatar

My partner is in the UAW and they did send her a big spread promoting the pro-labor policies of Biden and Harris and highlighting Trump's anti-labor record, so there was at least some attempt of unions to educate their members on this. To what extent that actually changed anyone's mind, who knows.

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Paleo's avatar

What does this have to do with elections?

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

Assad is often the jokey reference when someone wins by a ridiculous margin.

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ArcticStones's avatar

The big question: Is this good for John McCain *and* Tulsi Gabbard?

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Jonathan's avatar

Tangentially it could if Trump does something really stupid in the region

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