Key Inflation Measure *Falls* in Nov, 2023 Ending on An Upbeat Note, MAGA = Frauds, Liars, Charlatans, Thieves, Insurrectionists
We Are Ending 2023 Strong Everyone. Let's Make 2024 Even Better
Happy Friday all. A few things today:
More Encouraging Economic News - A second measure of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, (PCE), fell by 0.1% last month. The other big inflation measure, CPI, was 0% in October and just 0.1% in November. Now we have PCE coming in at -0.1% in November. Yes, this means by this measure, overall prices are now *falling* - remarkably good news. With wages continuing to grow at a 4-5% annualized rate while prices are holding steady or even falling we are in the midst of particularly good run for American workers.
Joe Biden and the Democrats are ending the year on a very upbeat economic and political note. The economy is closing strong, consumer sentiment is rising sharply, we won elections across the country in 2023 and our poll numbers have ticked up in recent days. Congrats everyone! We head into the holiday break with a bit of momentum and wind at our back. 2023 was a good year for us; let’s commit, together, to make 2024 an ever better one.
For more on why 2023 has been such a good year:
Our 2024 Campaigns So Far - Please Volunteer, Donate, Promote - Thanks To Everyone Who Has Already Taken An Action!
Tom Keen FL HD-35 - Jan 16th Special Election - thanks to you everyone who joined Florida House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell and Tom Keen last night for a pre-holiday pep rally!!!!!
Tom Suozzi NY-3 - Feb 13th Special Election for Santos Congressional seat
North Carolina Democratic Party - Ongoing, top 2024 battleground Presidential pickup opportunity. Watch our interview with dynamic NC Chair Anderson Clayton - well worth your time
MAGA = Fraudsters, Liars, Criminals, Charlatans, Bigots, Misonynginists, Insurrectionists, Fifth Columnists = The Very Worst of Us. WTF Happened To The Republican Party? - Truly, it’s a daily parade of horribles. Rudy ordered to immediately pay $148m. More Ziegler sex tapes emerge in Florida. In Texas Kate Cox was forced, over the advice of doctors and a lower court, to carry to term. DeSantis bragging in an interview about removing 2 duly elected prosecutors in Florida because he didn’t like them. Ongoing attacks on our public health systems, ones that caused hundreds of thousands to die unnecessarily. The most corrupt Supreme Court in history. The RNC Chair caught on tape actively working to overturn an American election, other party leaders now in AZ, GA, MI, NV, WI indicted or having admitted guilt, an investigation begun in New Mexico. More than 1,200 people have already plead guilty in an historic party-wide conspiracy to overturn an election and end American democracy. GOP leaders repeatedly echoing Putin, delaying Ukraine aid, slavishly doing his rancid bidding. George Santos. MAGAs abusing their power in the Senate to hold up hundreds of appointments to the Pentagon, dozens to the State Department and shut down government programs critical for our collective security. Promises of mass detention camps and mass deportations. A sitting Congresswoman kicked out of a movie theater for groping her boyfriend. The head of CPAC, a highly influential conservative organization, charged with sexual assault and financial improprieties. Trump declared ineligible to run in 2024 for leading an insurrection; already found liable for attempting to rape a woman in a department store and for committing massive years long financial fraud; stole and almost certainly shared our country’s most important national security secrets; parroting Hitler for fuck’s sake.
Trump has given his allies permission to be the very worst of themselves, and of America. It remains shocking on so many levels, and as unpleasant as it is, we cannot look away. It’s a reminder of why we are here, and why we are going to do everything next year to make sure we win.
Keep working hard all - Simon
Just saw the news that Wisconsin’s hyper-gerrymandered maps have been struck down and new maps MUST be drawn in time for the 2024 election!!!! We helped do that peeps.....pat yourselves on the back because this is hands down one of the most consequential actions taken as a result of the D grass roots hard work to win elections all the way up and down the ballot and it will 💯 percent have national implications. SO. FUCKING. PROUD!!!!!!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hi Simon, a quick quibble from a big fan and Hopium subscriber:
Describing Trump's attack on E. Jean Carroll as attempted rape isn't accurate. The judge said it WAS what most people would call rape, just digital rather than penile.
The following from AP explains it:
"The judge said the NY Penal Code requires vaginal penetration by a penis, while forcible penetration without consent of the vagina or other bodily orifices by fingers or anything else is labeled “sexual abuse” rather than “rape.”
He said the [NY] definition of rape was “far narrower” than how rape is defined in common modern parlance, in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes and elsewhere.
The judge said the verdict did not mean that Carroll “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed ... the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”