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The scale of the United States’ economic dependence on Taiwan is revealing. Taiwan is the country’s fifth-largest trading partner; a Chinese blockade of the island would imperil more than $250 billion in trade and could shave more than three percent off U.S. GDP in a year, according to a Bloomberg report. As much as 97 percent of the global supply of the high-end logic chips used in smartphones and other advanced electronics are produced or packaged in Taiwan. Losing access to Taiwanese chips could reduce advanced electronics production globally by 60 percent, with factories forced to rely on their chip inventories. The United States’ auto and medical device industries could deplete their inventories in a matter of weeks. The U.S. firms Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia are among the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s ten largest customers, which together represent more than $14 trillion in market capitalization. With AI growth buoying the U.S. stock market and the broader economy, a...
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Will the Democrats now rise to the occasion of building on this through at least two more national elections?  To do so, they must avoid “progressive” versus “centrist” fights, stop passing huge kitchen sink bills no one understands and instead pass one at a time popular measures and force Trump to veto them, and keep in touch with their voters everywhere.  They must use state government powers to the max to get more visible wins than they can via Congress (without the presidency for the next two years), and they must invest more in organizing on the ground in the South to build on Black outrage over voting rights attacks by the Supreme Court.   Fire most of the high priced TV consultants who recommend a lot of TV ads just before elections, invest in sustained all year organizing through existing on the ground networks, keep the messaging straightforward and clear (use some advertising money for that), and relentlessly excoriate Trump and remaining GOP officeholders ...
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Right-wing pundit plays the blame game

“ Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Corey Lewandowski are the ones who broke the Hispanic coalition out of the GOP. Donald Trump won 46% of the Hispanic vote in 2024. They turned decisively against him yesterday. And you know what their issue was? They're scared of getting deported. They're mad about gas prices. They're mad about the economy. But among Hispanic voters, fear of ICE has skyrocketed.”   *snip* “Who gets fired for that? Who gets fired for that? Does anybody get fired? Where's the accountability? If it's stand by my man and that man is Donald Trump, who do you throw under the bus for what happened last night? Is it Pete Hegseth? Is it Stephen Miller? Is it Susie Wiles? Is it Howard Lutnick? Is it Peter Navarro? Who are the names? Who are the people? There's got to be accountability.” A fish rots from the head. https://www.mediamatters.org/erick-erickson/erick-erickson-stephen-miller-kristi-noem-and-corey-lewandowski-are-ones-who-broke
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Fight club comes to the WH?

Apparently, Trump has offered the job of WH press secretary to Dana White, CEO of a mixed martial arts promotion company,   who Trump lauds as “the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior.” Maybe they can start each press conference with this 1970’s classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt4D8oA3mxU
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The reality is Democrats do not face a stark choice between confrontation and compromise. They can do both or either or neither. They get to pick when and where to fight their battles. They get to decide which hills to die on. They are in the driver’s seat. ~David Kurtz
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So the Democratic party has a mandate. But as yesterday’s election wasn’t a normal one, the party’s mandate isn’t a normal one. The mandate is to look beyond the normal horizons of party politics. It’s a challenge to Democrats to think big. And it’s an opportunity for Democrats to act not just as Democrats but as defenders and strengtheners of liberal democracy; not just as representatives reflecting the will of the people but as leaders entrusted with high office to help shape a better future for all of us. ~William Kristol
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Versatility of conviction

Grandpa Trump as polls opened on Tuesday: “Greg Abbott has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election. He is an  exceptional   Governor and man. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR GREG — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”  Grandpa Trump later the same day as the returns showed Abbot losing:   “If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO [Republican In Name Only] in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost. He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty!”   The art of the flip-flop.
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