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The GOP's tax cuts for their billionaire donors ballooned the deficit, so they're blaming the problem on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — demanding cuts to these programs that millions of Americans rely on.
It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
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Never stand between a #Republican and the #Treasury.
You’ll get killed in the stampede as they rush to loot and pillage.
Four years ago we were in a state of panic because of Trump's mishandling of Covid. Americans were hoarding toilet paper. The economy was collapsing. Hospitals were running out of ventilators and PPE.
Yes, we are unequivocally better off than we were four years ago. https://t.co/S0lZQGMbr3
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The title of the article says it all:
"Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics"
#Biden #economy #election2024 #VoteBlue https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4534670-bidens-populist-budget-marks-the-overdue-end-of-trickle-down-economics/
Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics
A budget document with tax and investment priorities reflecting the needs of the people rather than ever-increasing corporate profit and excessive wealth is a good step in the right direction.Karen Dolan, opinion contributor (The Hill)
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Biden SLAUGHTERED Trickle Down. By TAXING the giant corps 2 trillion more than the year previous, by cutting the deficit by a trillion, by spenfing hundreds of billions on climate, while growing the economy gangbusters, HIGHEST EMPLOYMENT, STRONGEST WALL STREET.
Is just the beginning, its just the samples, and Biden proves high wages, robust corporate taxation WORKS.
Trickle down was always a scam, and 'ol Joe Proved it.
Reelect Biden, of course.
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Biden:
Experienced. Trusted. Internationally respected. Consistent leadership qualities. Understands how government works. Has a vision for the future. Discusses critical issues intelligently.
Trump:
Inspires hate, fear, hysteria, bigotry as part of his personal brand. Failed businessman. Fraudster. Snake oil salesman. Gives and receives bribes. Pays off porn stars. Attacks character of his victims. Serial Rapist. Liar. Does not understand anything except his own lust for power. Agent of Putin
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The NLRB is standing up to union busting. That’s why Amazon is suing to destroy the NLRB.
Amazon knows it can't stop workers from organizing, so they want to destroy the whole system.
Nothing scares them more than unions and the govt agency defending the right to organize.
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You say, "When I say trickle-down economics is a hoax, this is what I mean."
The Democratic Party & Republican Party are also a hoax.
Trickle-Down Economics, Weaponized Law & Order of Democratic/Republican Party Fascist Duopoly/US Fascist Ruling Class, implemented by US Fascist Ruling Class against Working Class. US Fascist Ruling Class uses Weaponized Law & Order to deny Working Class Labor a SEAT AT THE TABLE, a legitimate Working Class Political Party.
Chuck Schumer calls for new elections in Israel, breaking with Benjamin Netanyahu
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, called for new elections in Israel as the country continues its war with Hamas. #press
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https://chaser.com.au/world/families-in-gaza-begin-work-on-suspicious-photoshop-pic-in-hopes-to-get-the-media-worrying-about-their-wellbeing/
Families in Gaza begin work on suspicious photoshop pic in hopes to get the media worrying about their wellbeing
Desperate times call for desperate measures.The Chaser
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Satire is more truthful than mainstream media.
You say, "When I say trickle-down economics is a hoax, this is what I mean."
The Democratic Party & Republican Party are also a hoax.
Trickle-Down Economics, Weaponized Law & Order of Democratic/Republican Party Fascist Duopoly/US Fascist Ruling Class, implemented by US Fascist Ruling Class against Working Class. US Fascist Ruling Class uses Weaponized Law & Order to deny Working Class Labor a SEAT AT THE TABLE, a legitimate Working Class Political Party.
All this handwringing about teacher shortages is just so much hot air. You want more teachers?
▪️ Pay a decent living salary
▪️ Increase benefits
▪️ Cover / reimburse cost of teaching materials
▪️ Protect / increase school meal programs so teachers don't have to spend their own income on feeding their students
▪️ Institute programs to ameliorate job burnout
This isn't fucking rocket science, people.
#teachers #education
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Group of republicans trying to stop #TFG from being reelected by filming testimonials from former supporters who will not vote for #trump this time.
They’ve found that these testimonials have more impact than ads comparing the downside of another trump presidency with the progress #biden has made. (gift)
Republican Voters Against Trump Plans $50 Million Ad Campaign
The group, Republican Voters Against Trump, will run a series of homemade videos of Americans who voted for him in the past but say they can no longer do so in 2024.Reid J. Epstein (The New York Times)
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When a Jewish man protests your hijacking his Jewishness & the Holocaust to justify your occupation, & your response is to (loudly, repeatedly & falsely) tell everyone that what he has actually done is renounced his Jewishness, guess what?
You are hijacking his Jewishness to suit your occupation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-gaza-israel-judaism/
#Oscars #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide
Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Speech Represents the Best of Judaism | The Nation
Instead of confronting what the director of The Zone of Interest actually said, Zionists distorted his lines.The Nation
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To pretend, as many dehumanization apologists in Israel & the US did today, his remarks are a skin-deep protest, denies meaning to human creativity. He worked on it for 10 years.
"I remember [my dad said] Don't talk about it...I have had my own struggles with that very sentiment. But it is, of course, very important that we...make it as familiar as we can. [N]ot as a museum piece...that we...feel safe from...It's quite the opposite. It needed to be presented with a degree of urgency & alarm."
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Well, goodnight to everyone else on the safe side of the wall (for now, anyway).
I am off to make sure all the house lights are turned off and the doors are locked.
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The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War
Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.
#news #russia #disinformation #propaganda #putin #security
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/09/russia-putin-disinformation-propaganda-hybrid-war/
Spies
Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence wa...www.simonandschuster.com
Of Course a Left Third Party Vote is a Vote for Trump – The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz
...Practically speaking, a progressive or liberal vote for Cornel West is a vote for Trump. A vote for Robert Kennedy Jr. is a vote for Trump. A vote for NoLabels is a vote for Trump. Any vote right now that doesn’t intentionally protect this nation from the MAGA movement is participating in it and putting generations of Americans in harm’s way.
Of Course a Left Third Party Vote is a Vote for Trump – The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz
…Practically speaking, a progressive or liberal vote for Cornel West is a vote for Trump. A vote for Robert Kennedy Jr. is a vote for Trump. A vote for NoLabels is a vote for Trump. Any vote …Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News
I want to say something I think is really important for elections, there's big ones coming up in #UK & #US.
67.3% voted in the 2019 UK #GeneralElection.
66% voted in 2020 US #election.
A third of the populace don't vote. Many of them feel politics is just a tool for the rich and powerful, or don't see how it affects their life, are persuaded by apathy and 'nothing really changes', and many also are turned off by the divisions.
Libtard & Snowflake being yelled by 1 third, Nazi and Fascist being yelled by the other third, and a third just check out & wash their hands of it all. Typically those people are not on the #Fediverse and will need to be engaged elsewhere, often more successfully in day to day life, by asking questions and listening.
It's important to speak to non-voters in language they can accept. Things do get worse when we don't vote. Engaged voterbases have better outcomes. Not only will politics shape how most parts of society we take for granted either continue or decline, but also how humanity survives coming challenges (tolerably, badly or or barely at all).
Voting has a direct impact on everyone's day to day life, our healthcare, our age care, our disability care, our childcare, our emergency care, our grocery & utility bills, our kids education, our illness & maternity cover, our pay & working conditions, how safe our food air and water is, and how much everything costs our families.
#TacticalVoting, non-voters being motivated to tactical vote, and knowing how to tactical vote, is becoming more important than ever. Yes the rich and powerful try to rig the systems, that's why tactical voting is so important. Here are some good UK resources.
www.bestforbritain.org/get_votingtacticalvote.co.uk/tactical.vote/all/stopthetories.vote/
Big Tech is the equivalent of Big Tobacco.
They are absolutely aware that they are peddling behavioral addictions that cripple 10% of the population (conservatively, imo), & that their products, which are building vast empires of cash for a few white men who own them, are harming 100% of human society.
I see them no differently. I am sad that anyone is duped by their pretend "philosophies" taken straight out of an Ayn Rand CrackerJack box as a snack to keep their power trip going. It's profit.
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The Trumps pledge to run the RNC like one of their businesses.
So that means it will rip everyone off, lie about its finances, make fraudulent reports to its business partners, refuse to pay its vendors, commit perjury before government authorities, and then go bankrupt.
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Somehow, this was a state of the Union address AND a campaign speech.
He was aggressive.
He presented a vision.
He was passionate.
He went for over an hour.
He dealt with hecklers.
He's ready to fight.
SHUT UP about the doddering old guy rhetoric.
PLEASE.
For crying out loud.
#SOTU
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Biden is saying a lot more about the negative impact of the war on Gaza than I thought he would. I'm pleased about that.
I am not pleased about the fact that he's putting it all in a passive voice rather than explicitly pinning the blame on #Israel.
#politics #USPol #SOTU
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"Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants. …
Publisher A.G. Sulzberger — perhaps unintentionally — showed his hand in a speech on Monday at Oxford University on 'Journalistic Independence in a Time of Division.'"
~ Dan Froomkin
#NewYorkTimes #ArthurSulzberger #media #MediaFail #democracy
Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants. | Press Watch
Sulzberger's two rules: Don't be alarmist and don't make the partisans happy.Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)
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#BraveWords
GENE HOGLAN Would Love To Jam With RUSH's GEDDY LEE & ALEX LIFESON - "I Will Take The Pepsi Challenge Playing NEIL PEART With Any Drummer On The Planet"; Video
#GeneHoglan #Rush #GeddyLee #AlexLifeson
GENE HOGLAN Would Love To Jam With RUSH's GEDDY LEE & ALEX LIFESON - "I Will Take The Pepsi Challenge Playing NEIL PEART With Any Drummer On The Planet"; Video
On the occasion of Death To All's performance at Metal Beer Open Air in Chile, American drummer Gene Hoglan (DTA, Death, Dark Angel, Testament, etc.) spoke with PowerMetal.bravewords.com
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Total support for Ukraine per country in percent of GDP:
Estonia: 4.1 %
Denmark: 3.0 %
Lithuania: 2 %
…
Greece: 0.7 %
Portugal: 0.6 %
Malta: 0.5 %
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United States: 0.3 %
Source: https://app.23degrees.io/view/F1tc2gv8QzFCs1ij-bar-stacked-horizontal-figure_3_4_csv_v2-1
Government support to Ukraine: By donor country GDP, incl. and excl. EU share
Includes bilateral commitments to Ukraine. Does not include private donations, support for refugees outside of Ukraine, and aid by international organizations....ifw-medien (23degrees)
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It's not a big surprise, and not that different from WWII - unfortunately it might take a "Pearl Harbour" moment for the American public to take the Ukraine war seriously.
Recall also that we are saturated with images of destroyed cities - it's not as shocking to see Dresden or London destruction after years of Bosnia and Syria images ...
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#BidenHarris2024
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/3/6/ahead-of-the-state-of-the-union-voters-support-bidens-agenda-and-accomplishments-despite-low-awareness
Ahead of the State of the Union, Voters Support Biden’s Agenda and Accomplishments Despite Low Awareness
Not even a plurality of voters credit Biden for several significant accomplishments during his first term.Timothy Bresnahan (Data For Progress)
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"#Trump’s speech on Saturday was chock-full of slurred words, confusion, strange non sequiturs & other red flags that anyone who's watched a family member’s mental decline would have no trouble recognizing. But the @nytimes runs a front-page article about how unpopular President #Biden is & voters’ worries about his age.🤦🏼
The real story is the fact that the #Republican nominee has serious, observable signs of mental decline, and nothing #Biden says or does comes even close!" 🤨
-Meredith Dytch
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The 4 women on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the 14th Amendment
The 5 men on the Court made up language that isn't actually there -- pretending that Congress *must* pass legislation for disqualification to occur
They're mansplaining the Constitution
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Voting democrat is like taking out the garbage. It's not pleasant. It's not fun. It's not going to add bedrooms. It's not going to fill the fridge.
But if you don't do it, the place starts to stink.
Take out the garbage AND work to build a better house.
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Deborah Feldman “accuses Germany of struggling to accept the diverse reality of Judaism, in particular left-wing secular Jews such as her, by looking exclusively to Germany’s Israel-aligned conservative community.
Where Judaism as she knows it is messy and contested…many Germans expect order. Others display philo-Semitic tendencies, she says, or allow Jews [to] ‘exist purely from a German position...as a German projection’…a transactional, exoneration-loyalty complex.”
An unorthodox approach: ‘We disrupt the idea of Jewishness to which Germans are attached’
Since the October 7th attacks in Israel, writer Deborah Feldman’s sinking feeling about her adoptive homeland has been gathering paceDerek Scally (The Irish Times)
#AllenWeisselberg, the fmr CFO of the #TrumpOrganization, pleaded #guilty Mon in #NY to #perjury in connection w/ testimony he gave at #Trump’s #civil #fraud #trial.
Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office earlier Mon & entered state court in #handcuffs, wearing a mask, before pleading #guilty to 5 counts of #perjury.
#law #legal #law #conspiracy #NYAG #LetitiaJames
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-weisselberg-perjury-0101a9972cefd1e1fb4ba6d36e69fecb
Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury
The former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s company has pleaded guilty in New York to lying under oath during his testimony in the ex-president’s civil fraud case.JAKE OFFENHARTZ (AP News)
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Prosecutors accused #AllenWeisselberg of #lying under oath when he answered questions in a #deposition in May & at the Oct #trial about allegations that #Trump #lied about his #wealth on #financial statements given to #banks & #insurance companies.
#Weisselberg will be sentenced to 5 months in #jail, the judge said.
Weisselberg’s new #criminal case comes just weeks before Trump is scheduled to stand trial on separate allegations that he falsified business records.
#law #fraud #conspiracy
"FREEDOM"
BUT YOU DON'T
CARE IF IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE,
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY LOVE IS
"PRIVILEGE."
"Thirty percent of Americans claim, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the last presidential elections were “rigged”.
Across the world we see the growth of propaganda that promotes an alternative reality. How can we defeat it?
The story of the British man who took on Hitler’s information machine offers valuable insights into the fight against the rise of authoritarianism."
Perhaps also some lessons for our fractured & polarised world rife with fake news.
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Just like Russians hang up on you when you mention the war crimes ongoing in Ukraine, people who have been propagandized by the fossil fuel industry don't want to hear how much damage climate change causes, especially if it concerns other people far away.
It's much more fruitful to meet them where they're at: to talk about how clean energy helps their budget, and the lungs of their children, or how climate-friendly farming can increase their crop yield.
This is why I never give the same climate talk twice: If you invite me to speak, I'll ask you about who the audience is, and taylor the talk to them.
My talks are mostly climate solutions, but "climate solution" means different things to an 8th grader, a business owner, a home owner, or a person living in a retirement home.
And I usually end my climate talks - which is mostly about solutions - with this cartoon by Joel Pett
Because I like to hear people laugh.
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"As Jews, we don’t get to fly under the radar and break the law and hide it in the synagogue”. [...]
"I know there is going to be a demonstration, because I’m going to organise it, " Mr. Rich Siegel (Teaneck, NJ)
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RT @BonsaiSky
Stolen West Bank settlement homes are being sold in America to Jews. An real estate event at a synagogue was set up, and this fine gentleman (a Jewish man) was having none of it.
2:05 p.m. · 29 feb. 2024
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March is Women’s History Month.
A reminder that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%.🤯
The "strong 1950s family unit" GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.
Or maybe that’s the GOP’s goal.😐
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