@AmericanAir your system told us our flight from DEL to JFK was canceled, we requested a refund, but turns out your system was wrong. Customer rep tells us there’s nothing they can do because we requested a refund - leaving us here in India. Spent several $k on these tickets.
Democrats wishing to lose the ‘26 midterms should promote a 33 year-old socialist devoid of executive experience for mayor of America’s largest city and impeach a president who ended a tyrannical regime’s nuclear threat while achieving a cease fire days later.
The CBC has projected that the Liberals will win the most seats in Canada for a fourth straight election. A remarkable comeback for a party that was dead in the water just a few months ago.
Democrats were in. We had the strongest economy in the world, added 16 million jobs, brought the unemployment rate to a 50-year low, and the stock market to a record high.
Now the Republicans are in and we're on the verge of a recession. Again.
@NilesGApol So much so that Biden was an early supporter of Carter’s in 1976 and was the first Senator to back him (including an amusing snippet from Jonathan Alter’s biography of Carter below)
The overall story, so far: Nothing here looks like a story of various campaign decisions or a VP choice or big set piece speeches. It's an electorate mad at the incumbent WH's record and expressing it pretty uniformly everywhere, blue and red states alike.
Probably have seen enough at this point, but fairly confident that it’ll remain the case that the Dems haven’t won the WH this century without Biden on the ticket
@NilesGApol There’s a tinfoil theory I’m making up right now that she was going with Shapiro from the start and the scheduling reflects that. It’s also a pretty big snub to announce in Philly when it was apparent Shapiro was the favorite from the start (pretty much the day Biden dropped)