The GOP would never apologize, step down, or show any contrition for anything they would say or do. The feckless leadership of the democrats rolled over on this guy afterwards.
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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
2025/03/13
2025/03/11
energy taxes affected by tariffs
The Reddit post discusses a 25% increase in electricity exports from Ontario to the United States in response to U.S. trade policies under former President Trump. However, the post was removed by the moderators of the r/Maine subreddit for not being directly related to Maine. Some users still mentioned that while the issue is not directly linked to Maine, New Brunswick, which is closer to Maine, plays a significant role in electricity imports for the state.
2025/03/03
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."
2025/03/02
Slobbering the knob
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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2025/02/28
Female Leopards should not eat faces
MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power
The equivalent of "the Handmaiden's Tale" is approaching...?
Will we remove their ability to vote next, hold property, and truly go back to the 50s view of women?
Also......
Is the faction that wants the death penalty for women who terminate pregnancies winning?
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.
what a turd
Representative Zinke from Montana was on the idiot box very recently. The main gist was his support of Elmo, DOGE, and the cuts.
The point he wanted to sell was that Congress was powerless to dig through the bowels of the bureaucracy in order to fix things. Talk about an abdication not only of his responsibility, but of their own agency. What the actual F, dude?
What is the point of you being in office then? To wear that cowboy hat on TV, and complain about the front line of the bureaucracy.
No, wait, it was to talk about corruption because your orange hero is butt hurt?
2022/06/25
2021/09/06
all will cave
Too bad all the mayors will cave to the political pressures. They will find a way to exempt police officers once again.
2020/10/21
More Shenanigans
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/20/business/us-economy-coronavirus#pelosi-mnuchin-stimulus
More BS, from the comgress critters we let run and ruin our country. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a republican only thing, or a Senate only thing. They are playing games with our lives.
To me this confirms, that McConnell cares more about the courts, and building his conservative majority, than he does about the people is supposed to be representing.
Recently MO represntatives have said that they would not support any bailout if it benefits "blue" states. I am OK with this, if no "blue" state money is used to bail them out. The amount of funds we give out in taxes, is by far greater than what we recieve back, and it is quite the opposite for MO.
2020/09/09
A few Articles
Mixed Messages
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/court-approves-warrantless-surveillance-rules-while-scolding-fbi.html
Belarus continues the fight
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/belarus-protests-100000-turn-out-in-minsk-alexander-lukashenko
Thank you Captain .....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/05/cyber-security-workers-in-demand.html
A Big Navy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2020/09/01/china-has-the-worlds-largest-navy-and-its-getting-better-pentagon-warns/#3dc8169f7933
New American Jobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/amazon-drivers-are-hanging-smartphones-in-trees-to-get-more-work
2020/07/08
good take on this
What Russia Understands about Trump
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/02/what-russia-understands-about-trump/
2020/04/24
Such a generous man
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-mcconnell-bailouts-new-york-20200422-fjli4iuxznapdol3csfzyu7j3q-story.html
He does realize that New York puts a lot more money into the Federal coffers, than his state?
Also, his state takes out more from that pot, than New York gets.
OK, no bailout. no big deal we can move on.
No more money from us for your state in the future...
Is that the game he is pushing towards? How petty is that?
He does realize that New York puts a lot more money into the Federal coffers, than his state?
Also, his state takes out more from that pot, than New York gets.
OK, no bailout. no big deal we can move on.
No more money from us for your state in the future...
Is that the game he is pushing towards? How petty is that?
2020/02/07
2019/12/12
More Chinese Retaliation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/09/china-tells-government-offices-to-remove-all-foreign-computer-equipment
This has to be a response to the US requirements now, and the US language around Huawei
This has to be a response to the US requirements now, and the US language around Huawei
2019/12/09
2019/10/14
I no one is listening
So I know there are not any followers of this blog oh, but I had a few thoughts but I wanted to throw out and see what the world thought about them.
As events continue to unfold in the Middle East in the surrounding area, I'm left wondering what the people in power hope to accomplish with all of this.
More and more it seems that Russia and Turkey are using all of these conflicts as a means to expand their Empires.
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