Talkin' Politics Jan. 8, 2024 | Iowa School Shooting and Book Banning; Farm Land Politics; Abortion Center Stage; SCOTUS to hear Trump ballot case; Biden opens 2024 strong

1. Kicking off 2024 with a YEAH YEAH…
   1. Court blocks Iowa's "staggeringly broad" book bans, teaching restrictions
   2. https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2023/12/31/court-blocks-iowas-staggeringly-broad-book-bans-teaching-restrictions/
   3. LAURA lead off 
2. True or False: Farmland issues are causing a shift in heartland politics
   1. Nebraska - who’s buying the land? 
      1. https://flatwaterfreepress.org/whos-buying-nebraska-corporations-investors-grabbing-giant-chunks-of-nebraska-farmland/
   2. Missouri price issues
      1. https://missouriindependent.com/2024/01/01/boom-or-bubble-high-missouri-farmland-prices-encourage-investors-concern-farmers/
3. Parson issues executive order, no foreign ownership of farmland within 10 miles of military installations, asking for administrative rules to be adopted, received with a resounding bipartisan popcorn fart
   1. https://www.missourinet.com/2024/01/03/parson-executive-order-bans-foreign-ownership-of-ag-land-near-military-sites/
4. You Don’t F***in Say
   1. VP Harris is out stumping for abortion rights as 2024 heats up
      1. https://www.missourinet.com/2024/01/03/parson-executive-order-bans-foreign-ownership-of-ag-land-near-military-sites/
      2. Florida ballot initiative on abortion is a sign for every other state to get moving and get it on the ballot
         1. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/florida-abortion-ballot-vote-2024
5. Buy or Sell: SCOTUS dumps Trump
   1. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-insurrection-2024-election-0baac5ba0c1868e437e365af17eeab24
   2. MissourinSOS to retaliate for Trump by taking Biden off the ballot, which is an oddly hilarious undercut of their entire argument 
      1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/missouri-republican-secretary-of-state-biden-trump-ballot-rcna132600?taid=6598b42c6621b500019d8287&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
   3. Retired Federal judge who advised Pence makes the argument on how clear the 14th applies to Trump
      1. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4393472-former-federal-judge-trump-14th-amendment-supreme-court-colorado/
6. Big One: It is officially 2024
   1. Biden’s Valley Forge speech - quite a moment or just a quiet moment?
      1. Transcript 
         1. https://apnews.com/article/biden-speech-valley-forge-trump-campaign-bda2293cac2b30e49157c2e6fb256d64
         2. Adam’s fave quote: In trying to rewrite the facts of January sixth, Trump was trying to steal history, the same way he tried to steal the election.
         3. Most satisfying quote: Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election. Every one, but the legal path just took Trump back to the truth, that I’d won the election and he was a loser.
   2. Trump responded by making fun of Joe’s stutter and then calling for a civil war and blaming Lincoln for the first civil war for failing to negotiate well. 
   3. CHIPS act, and Inflation reduction act impacts are starting to hit
   4. Job numbers, good. Inflation: Down. Gas prices: Down. Unemployment: Down
   5. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/biden-factory-spending-manufacturing-chips
      1. CHIPS act is building factories in America, american jobs!
   6. Trump camp attacking economy: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4390967-trump-campaign-biden-economy-democracy-jan-6/
   7. NY Times - comparing today to 1948?https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/upshot/2024-election-biden-truman-economy.html
      1. From article: If there’s a time that might make sense of today’s political moment, postwar America might just be it. Many analysts today have been perplexed by public dissatisfaction with the economy, as unemployment and gross domestic product have remained strong and as inflation has slowed significantly after a steep rise. To some, public opinion and economic reality are so discordant that it requires a noneconomic explanation, sometimes called “vibes,” like the effect of social media or a pandemic hangover on the national mood.
      2. But in the era of modern economic data, Harry Truman was the only president besides Joe Biden to oversee an economy with inflation over 7 percent while unemployment stayed under 4 percent and G.D.P. growth kept climbing. Voters weren’t overjoyed then, either. Instead, they saw Mr. Truman as incompetent, feared another depression and doubted their economic future, even though they were at the dawn of postwar economic prosperity.

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