The real reason:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/pro-israel-money-progressives-congress-challenges

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-100-million

https://abcnews.go.com/538/pro-israel-groups-spent-big-oust-squad-members/story?id=113675889

Now do the math showing how a 3rd party can win in the US. :)

1968 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election

Electoral College:

Republican - 301, Democratic - 191, American Independent - 46.

1980 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election

Republican - 489, Democratic - 49, Independent - 0

1992 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election

Democratic - 370, Republican - 168, Independent - 0

1996 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election

Democratic - 379, Republican - 159, Independent - 0

Those are the four closest.

Only one party can beat the Republicans, it’s the Democrats.

Similarily, only one party can beat the Democrats, also the Democrats. :)

Nope, keep reading. :)

You have it backwards. The morons voted 3rd party.

Trump - 77,302,580 - 49.8%
Harris - 75,017,613 - 48.3%

Fun with math:

49.8 + 48.3 = 98.1.

77,302,580 + 75,017,613 = 152,320,193

152,320,193 = 98.1% of the vote.

x = 100%, solve for X.

152,320,193 * 100 / 98.1 = 155,270,329 total votes (approximately).

155,270,329 - 152,320,193 = 2,950,136 voters who failed to vote for Trump or Harris.

Flipping the popular vote would have required 2,284,968 of them to vote for Harris. 77.45%.

Even then, that’s not a guarantee thanks to the Electoral College:

Trump won Pennsylvania at 50.37%. Getting all the non-Trump votes behind any single candidate would have still lost. Harris or otherwise.

Arizona? 52.22%

Nevada? 50.59%

Georgia? 50.73%

South Carolina? 58.23%

Only 2 atates could have seen a non-Trump vote flip the election to Harris:

Wisconsin - 49.60%
Michigan - 49.73%

But even if Harris won those 2, it wouldn’t have been enough to flip the election.

Electoral vote:
287 (270 to win) - 251

If a 3rd party won those two, which would have been the first time a third party won ANY state since 1968, it wouldn’t have been enough to flip the election.

287 - 226 - 25

Pretty much what I said. :)

It’s complicated.

As someone who got to see this from the inside:

1. When constructing a car, one of the key components is the wiring harness that bundles together all the wiring for the vehicle.

Surprisingly most wiring harnesses used to come from Ukraine of all places. So when Russia invaded Ukraine, that completely disrupted the wiring harness supply.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ukraine-invasion-hurts-flow-wire-harnesses-carmakers-2022-03-02/

To work around that, manufacturers had to come up with either new, stable suppliers or invest in their own production lines.

2. Covid. As mentioned in the article, but there were multiple impacts on that. For example, it made it incredibly difficult to do lease returns. If people leasing their cars can’t return them, then they can’t get into new vehicles. Similar, re-sellers of lease returns and fleet vehicles have no stock because nobody is returning their lease.

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/07/dealers-brace-for-the-next-pandemic-related-supply-issue-fewer-lease-returns/

3. Tariffs. Also as noted in the article.

Cows in India aren’t quite the same deal as simple vegetarianism is in the West. They are treated with a level of religious reverence.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/sanctity-of-the-cow

Imagine there was a group of Americans going around cutting down crosses and crucifixes, they’d be met with a similar level of violence.

Or folks in a Muslim country burning Qurans. You aren’t going to get far doing that.

Mistreating cattle in India is the same sort of deal.

Now you can argue religion is the insanity, which is a whole OTHER deal.

There are more, I just try to be more public facing.

Yeah, I was offline doing “husband work” the last couple of days. I’m catching up now!

27 unresolved reports in World… whee!

lemmy.world DOES have a bot that notifies all mods when they start stacking up. I’ll see what’s up!

Watch out for the Marvel trademark on the name, Disney has lawyers.

Followed by “Well I don’t know whoever voted for him! I sure didn’t!” (red hat ashes in the trashcan).

It’s going to be really interesting to see how it plays out with the Rupert Murdoch lawsuit…

Not as long as Republicans control the House and Senate.