"The villain in American politics isn’t the political party system, it’s the segment of the population determined to remain uninformed and misinformed so they can cling to their biased and illogical opinions. They are the easily manipulated mob and the politicians feeding them disinformation are mobsters."
>> "The villain in American politics isn’t the political party system, it’s the segment of the population determined to remain uninformed and misinformed so they can cling to their biased and illogical opinions. They are the easily manipulated mob and the politicians feeding them disinformation are mobsters."
#RyanSelkis, a #cryptocurrency exec, was eating dinner at Mar-a-Lago last month when he got an unexpected invitation: #Trump wanted him to come to the stage & say a few words.
#Selkis, who runs the crypto data firm #Messari, was at an event for Trump’s #NFTs.
“There’s 50 million crypto holders in the US. That’s a lot of voters,” Selkis declared.
Prior to 1982, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. But under President Reagan, stock buybacks were made legal. Now, instead of investing profits into people, big corporations use them to line the pockets of wealthy shareholders. They're a scam.
Sharks, #Trump claimed, were attacking more than usual (not true) & posed a new risk bc boats were being required to use batteries (not true), which cause them to sink bc they’re too heavy (really, really not true—the world’s heaviest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, stays afloat bc of laws of #physics despite weighing >550M lbs).
8 #Republican senators announced Fri they would boycott #Democratic#legislative priorities & nominations as payback for #Trump’s #guilty#verdict.
In a joint statement, the senators said they would not “allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare.”
In a statement revealing his decision, #Manchin accused both the #Democratic & #Republican parties of prioritizing "partisan extremism" & "jeopardizing our democracy."
"Today, our national politics are broken & neither party is willing to compromise to find common ground," #JoeManchin said
"To stay true to myself & remain committed to put country before party, I have decided to register as an independent with no party affiliation & continue to fight for America's sensible majority."
In a letter to #Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-IL, & Sen Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, Roberts said he "must respectfully decline your request for a meeting," citing concerns about maintaining judicial independence.
That is a nice, simplistic, acontextual, and irrelevant story. Thank you for sharing it, but I find it to be defeatist. I prefer to look at #history.
The #USA is a multiparty #democracy. The current dominant parties have not always existed. There have been periods of multiparty governance in the USA; it is the normal circumstance in other, similar, #democratic states.
Voting for any evil is morally and ethically wrong.
#Freedom, #justice, #equality, and #opportunity are #values the majority of #Americans can agree on. The #GOP as it is incarnated now so narrows the scope of applicability as to make their positions utter falsehoods for large groups of people. The majority can see through their #lies, but adherents see #mendacity as the cost of doing business. But at least they believe what they profess and the means to get there. #Democrats on the other hand, are facing a crisis of #legitimacy. The #contradictions between #democratic values and #foreign_policy have been laid bare. #Israel/Gaza, the #TikTok ban, and the heavy-handed #police response to campus #demonstrations have shown that democratic values will be tossed aside the moment they conflict with #policy goals and manufactured #consensus. It's not that people don't #believe in the values Democrats profess; it's that people don't believe that Democrats believe in these values.
ℹ Over the next decade, about 300 million people currently aged 50 to 60, are set to leave #China's workforce. This is their largest age group, about the size of the #US population
In #China today, nearly a quarter of the population are 65 or older, and an increasing number of working-age adults are leaving heavy #industry in search of better jobs in bigger cities ⏩
The quarterly report released Tues is based on data sent to the FBI from about 80% of the #law enforcement agencies in the country. Final detailed data for 2023 is expected to be released in the fall.
#Republican Donald #Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the #history of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol attack [#insurrection], but positioning the #violent siege & its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the #WhiteHouse.
On the other hand, it appeared to leave open the possibility that the court might draw distinctions — or ask lower courts to — between #OfficialActs & private ones.
…a 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, …unanimously rejected his arg that he may not be prosecuted for actions he took while in office. The panel, made up of 1 #Republican appointee & 2 #Democratic ones, said #Trump became an ordinary #citizen in the eyes of #criminal#law after leaving office.
So, if Biden and the Dem Party are our best defense of democracy and freedom against MAGA fascists, why is Biden asking Trump to join him in the war on immigrants?
Today in Labor History February 13, 1837: A Flour Riot occurred in New York City. 6,000 New Yorkers, attending a "bread, meat, rent, and fuel" meeting in Chatham Square, assaulted local flour merchants who they claimed were hoarding flour in order to drive up the price. The Locofocos (a libertarian-like faction of the Democratic Party that opposed Tammany Hall) organized a public protest against runaway prices that turned into a riot. The police arrested 40 people.
"The Biden administration plan for the “day after” in Gaza is rooted in American hubris and ignorance, and therefore doomed to failure."
"The United States has a long history of misunderstanding the Mideast, but this level of ignorance and willful blindness far surpass anything we’ve seen before."
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
We all have #liberal friends who have expressed misgivings about the upcoming election #Biden is too old etc.
#Democracy will only be preserved in #Election2024 if the #Democratic base turns out in big numbers and we manage to persuade enough of the middle 1/3 of the country to see things our way
So when you see a liberal friend vacillating about #voting, have them watch this viedo from @DavidPepper