Elmo is the biggest welfare queen

 Elmo the welfare queen!

 

OAN is around still. Thanks AT&T

 The Story -  To be clear though, I first heard this on John Oliver's show. 

 Most of the articles on this are at least 2 to 3 years old, so not certain on where this currently stands now.  That being said, this article, has 1 pretty damning fact on it.

 CLAIM: “AT&T has never had a financial interest in OAN’s success and does not ‘fund’ OAN.”

FACT: No one would have any financial interest in OAN were it not for AT&T's early and ongoing support for the company. Per Reuters, "Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.” If that’s not what “funding” something looks like, I don’t know what does.

Elmo only servers himself

Make no mistake, Elon is serving himself. 

"Elon Musk says we should “[get rid of all]” government subsidies, that “the government is the biggest corporation with a [monopoly on violence],” and last week [mocked] Washington for hiring more employees at the IRS. Let’s be clear: Elon didn’t build an EV company in South Africa or start a rocket company in Canada. He built Tesla and SpaceX in the United States. And both continue to be *heavily dependent on U.S. government support.* 

There would be no SpaceX without NASA, its largest customer. Tesla built its Fremont factory with a $465 million DoE loan in 2010, and its first 200,000 cars benefited from tax credit subsidies of up to $7,500. For years the company was able to report profits thanks to the “sale” of emissions credits to other carmakers. All told, the company has accepted an estimated $2.5 billion in government support."

Slobbering the knob

 I need a job

This guy, was seriously slobbering the knob of trump Friday on Yahoo Finance today.  Way past rose colored glasses.

Kleptocracy in action

!!! NO VERIFICATION AT THIS TIME !!!

 

Report from the Senate Floor:

Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. Republicans forced us to debate their billionaire bailout budget framework. We started voting at 6 PM because they knew doing it in the dark of night would minimize media coverage. And they do not want the American people to see how blatant their handover of our government to the billionaire class is. 

So I want to explain what happened last night and what we did to fight back. The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And they plan to pay for it with cuts to programs that working people rely on. Popular and necessary programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, are all being targeted. In order to pass the tax cut, Republicans have to go through a series of procedural steps. Last night, they took the first step which requires them to pass an outline of their plan, but with it, any senator can offer as many amendments as we want. So my Democratic colleagues and I did just that. 

Now, we knew that Republicans would largely unanimously oppose them, but we had two objectives here. One, Republicans were forced to put their opinion on record — many for the first time — on the most corrupt parts of Trump and Musk’s agenda. Two, as I’ve been saying, I am going to make every process and procedure as slow and painful as possible for as long as my colleagues choose to ignore the constitutional crisis happening before our eyes. 

So what did we propose? We proposed no tax cuts for anyone who makes a billion dollars a year. We made them vote on whether or not Elon Musk and DOGE should have limitless access to Americans’ personal data. We made them vote on whether to protect IVF and require insurers to cover it. Every single amendment Democrats proposed was shot down. On almost every single amendment, Republicans universally opposed it. Every Republican voted against our proposal to prevent more tax cuts for billionaires. The corruption and theft is happening in the open here. 

The whole game for Republicans is taking your money and giving it to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires — even if it means kicking your parents out of a nursing home or turning off Medicaid for the poorest children. They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice. 

Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do everything we can to make sure they cannot destroy democracy and steal your money in the dark of the night. We are being loud about what is happening. I’m going to continue to grind the gears of Congress down as much as possible to make it that much harder and slower to get away with this corruption. That’s why the votes lasted until nearly 5 AM. 

This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months. It’s still in our power to stop the destruction of our democracy with mass mobilization and effective opposition from elected officials. So we can’t miss any opportunity to take advantage of opportunities to put Republicans on the record and shine a light on what is happening. 

And you have a role to play in this as well. I need you to amplify what’s happening, support the leaders who are fighting for you to make sure they can continue speaking truth to power against Musk and Trump’s billionaire cronies, and show up at rallies and town halls. Use every tool at your disposal to send a message loud and clear about how you expect my colleagues to lead and fight in this moment.

Every best wish, 

US Senator Chris Murphy (D - CT)

 

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The Grift expands

 Trump freezes U.S. law banning bribery of foreign officials

This should allow so many other officials participate in more areas of grift now.

kicking the can down the road

Typical politicians.  Not just the reds or blues, but all of them do this.  Kicking the can down the road.

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/city-council-to-consider-2-multimillion-dollar-settlements-plan-to-borrow-830m/

No political will, only grandiose deeds that bankrupt us in the future.

Vote none of the above.

greed quote

The only thing big enough and as large as Mother Nature, is Father Greed.

it was never inflation

It is all just a fnord, to get you to look the other way.  Our whole system is built on distracting you from what is really important.  

In this article, we learn that a company is preparing an unknown price hike, to combat an unknown tariff at this point.

In reality, how much can we raise prices before it "hurts" too much.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-exits-quebec-operations-cut-170124669.html

The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province — the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees — over the next ...

the only unionized province

Their statement is so phony.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-exits-quebec-operations-cut-170124669.html

"""The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province — the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees — over the next ..."""

There will be no savings to customers.  This is solely being used to fight unions, and make more profits.  There is no reduction of prices coming to the customers of this province. 

If anything I expect the cost to be pushed to the consumer via delivery charges, or increased prime membership costs.

Your life will soon be a subscription. 

these surveys are so stupid

Where do they get data like this? Who's only paying $300 a month for child care? Especially those who have to have infants cared for. This surveys are wildly out of touch with reality 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/we-are-in-a-crisis-now-childcare-costs-outpace-inflation-133034183.html

Costs for day care and preschools ran higher than headline inflation in March, but parents have been struggling with this issue for years.

Not Socialism

Welcome to the Matrix

We are certainly living in the matrix these days. Instead of a battery though, we have just be turned into these....

or our potential on how many of these we can make for the powers that be.

Joe Scamchin is Scum

This is not the only article on how scum this guy is.  Just the one the inspired this post.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-manchin-big-coal-west-virginia-1280922/

Scamchin is a great example of why politicians should only make the median income of their district.  I bet WV rises quickly from the bottom of things when Scamchin has to live just above poverty.

He is doing his part in log jamming any work though.

Potential Research Project

https://www.propublica.org/article/these-real-estate-and-oil-tycoons-used-paper-losses-to-avoid-paying-taxes-for-years

Think I have found a research project....

scathing, but true

"""America’s rapid descent into an impoverished nation has had a catastrophic consequence which is completely unseen. Americans don’t trust one another. They live in a society without social bonds. Sometimes, this rears its head in obvious ways...."

https://eand.co/why-america-imploded-d52db893acc6

a problem in the US

Twitter find

https://twitter.com/FaartheRam/status/1391741728571461632?s=19

free stuff

teen spenders

We are so desperate for normal....

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teen-spending-record-low-piper-survey-morning-brief-095034828.html

This is horrible though. Our society is so stuck on money that we track how much our kids spend.