I am so freaking tired of the whole “two terrible candidates” “vote Biden just to avoid trump” talk.
We have a great candidate!
Don’t believe me? check out my series highlighting just some of President Biden’s accomplishments
I’ve been writing a Boosting Biden post every weekday of this year and plan to continue to the election. You can share these every day (or some days) with Facebook groups or other groups via email with friends on other social media… anywhere!
You can use these to educate other people about what Biden has done and we can win!
Here are the posts so far. Not too late to read and SHARE:
Dark Brandon Saved us From a Recession: Boosting Biden Day 1
Dark Brandon Destroyed Crime: Boosting Biden Day 2
Dark Brandon Reduced Inflation: Boosting Biden Day 3
Dark Brandon Put the First Black Woman on the Supreme Court: Boosting Biden Day 4
Dark Brandon Cleaned up the Great Lakes: Boosting Biden Day 5
Dark Brandon's Stimulus Saved the Economy: Boosting Biden Day 6
Dark Brandon Created Workforce Hubs to Retrain Workers for Modern Jobs: Boosting Biden Day 7
Dark Brandon Expanded ACA so 10 States have (almost) universal health care! Boosting Biden Day 8
Dark Brandon went after cheating 1%ers AND WON: Boosting Biden Day 9
Dark Brandon Protected People with Disabilities: Boosting Biden Day 10
Dark Brandon Pardoned Thousands Convicted of Marijuana Use: Boosting Biden Day 11
Dark Brandon Created Jobs: Boosting Biden Day 12
Dark Brandon protected our soldiers from sexual harassment and assault: Boosting Biden Day 13
Dark Brandon Cancelled Billions in Student Loans: Boosting Biden Day 14
Dark Brandon OWNED the republicans at the State of the Union: Boosting Biden Day 15
Dark Brandon Caused a Black Small Business Boom! Boosting Biden Day 16
Dark Brandon Protected Veterans Health Care with over nine different Bills: Boosting Biden Day 17
Dark Brandon Saved The State of Virginia! Boosting Biden Day 18
Dark Brandon is Destroying Methane Emissions: Boosting Biden Day 19
Dark Brandon protects victims of sexual harassment and assault: Boosting Biden Day 20
The Dark Brandon Economy Is Remarkably Strong. Stop the Malarky!!! Boosting Biden Day 21
Dark Brandon Is a Snarky MFer: Boosting Biden Day 22
Dark Brandon Is Old. Get Over It. Boosting Biden Day 23
Dark Brandon is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth: Boosting Biden Day 24
Dark Brandon has done more for unions than any president ever: Boosting Biden Day 25
Dark Brandon made heat pumps and solar panels a national security issue: Boosting Biden Day 26
Dark Brandon Stopped 500 Illegal Gun Purchases: Boosting Biden Day 27
Dark Brandon Saved the State of Pennsylvania! Boosting Biden Day 28
Dark Brandon Made Lynching a Federal Crime: Boosting Biden Day 29
Dark Brandon Caused a BOOM in Small Businesses! Boosting Biden Day 30
Dark Brandon is saving the planet by plugging old oil and gas wells: Boosting Biden Day 31
Dark Brandon Feeds Hungry Kids! Boosting Biden Day 32
Dark Brandon is going to make your kids smarter! Boosting Biden Day 33
Dark Brandon Can Create Chains With His Bare Hands!!! Boosting Biden Day 34
Dark Brandon Is Fostering More Resilient Foods Systems Across the World: Boosting Biden Day 35
Dark Brandon Is Slashing Bank Overdraft Fees! Boosting Biden Day 36
Dark Brandon Ushered In a New Era of Tribal Self-Determination! Boosting Biden Day 37
Eight Ways Dark Brandon Has Lowered Health Care Costs: Boosting Biden Day 38
Dark Brandon Is Helping States Reduce Gun Violence: Boosting Biden Day 39
Dark Brandon Is Boosting Electric Cars: Boosting Biden Day 40
Dark Brandon Is Saving Salmon: Boosting Biden Day 41
Dark Brandon Brought Diversity to the Judicial Branch: Boosting Biden Day 42
Dark Brandon is increasing access to birth control: Boosting Biden Day 43
Biden Is Giving Farmers Big Bucks to Go "Climate Smart": Boosting Biden Day 44
President Biden is moving microchip production home! Boosting Biden Day 45
President Biden made it much cheaper to buy hearing aids: Boosting Biden Day 46
President Biden Helped Small Meat Producers Fight Against Giants! Boosting Biden Day 47
President Biden is making light bulbs more efficient: Boosting Biden Day 48
President Biden is modernizing airports: Boosting Biden Day 49
President Biden Reduced Climate Emissions from Cars: Boosting Biden Day 50
President Biden's Secret Plan to Get Better Judges: Boosting Biden Day 51
President Biden made the largest investment ever in indigenous communities: Boosting Biden Day 52
President Biden Saved Michigan! Boosting Biden Day 53
President Biden Put Putin in His Place: Boosting Biden Day 54
President Biden was the first president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day: Boosting Biden Day 55
President Biden's Stutter Made Him A Better Person: Boosting Biden Day 56
President Biden Breathed New Life into NATO: Boosting Biden Day 57
President Biden Saved the State of Illinois! Boosting Biden Day 58
President Biden Is Fighting Human Trafficking: Boosting Biden Day 59
President Biden Is Meeting His Commitment to Underserved Communities: Boosting Biden Day 60
Now onto the good news!
Democrats do great things
Biden cancels nearly $6 billion in student debt for 78K public service workers
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the White House has approved the cancellation of nearly $6 billion in federal student debt for thousands of public service workers.
The 78,000 eligible public service workers include teachers, nurses and firefighters, according to the White House.
The White House has approved nearly $144 billion in federal loan forgiveness for about 4 million borrowers in total, according to the administration.
DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case
- The Justice Department sued Apple in an antitrust case, saying that the iPhone maker has a monopoly over the phone market that harmed consumers, developers, and rival companies.
- Apple’s ecosystem, from the Apple Watch to Apple Pay, supports that monopoly, prosecutors said.
- The challenge strikes at the core of Apple’s walled-garden model and comes as regulators worldwide scrutinize tech companies.
Proving the experts wrong, the Biden economy is booming while reducing inequality
President Joe Biden has been having some fun with the economists whose predictions about the economy were so wrong. He jabbed back: “Experts, from the time I got elected, were insisting that a recession was just around the corner. Every month, there was going to be a recession.” Instead, economic growth has been robust.
When 2023 began, just about everybody who had an opinion was predicting the U.S. would be in a recession by year’s end. It hasn’t happened. Not only that, but the U.S. economy is growing (as measured by gross domestic product, an admittedly incomplete measure of our economy but one that does allow for comparisons over time) like gangbusters. As Harvard economist and former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman—who ran with the crowd of pessimists—admitted, “Economists can learn a huge, healthy dose of humility.”
And it’s not like we are just riding the wave of a global economic boom. America’s growth is much stronger than that of other wealthy countries—most of whom are barely growing at all. In fact, perennial powerhouse Germany’s economy actually shrank last year, even as it and the majority of G7 countries had an equal or higher rate of inflation than ours.
The fact that Biden’s economy has seen inflation fall back near the ideal level while maintaining a historically robust job market, including stronger than expected labor force participation—in the most recent month, prime age (25 to 54 years old) workforce participation reached a level not exceeded in 20 years—and wages growing above the rate of inflation is truly impressive. It’s also worth noting that high numbers of immigrants are helping to power that growth. In particular, the Biden presidency has been good for blue-collar workers, with major wins for unions
Not only has wage growth been highest for lower-paid workers, real wages are now higher than they were pre-pandemic across the board.
Reich laid out how “Biden is fundamentally reshaping our economy to make it better for working people”
Manufacturing jobs have also shot up
AstraZeneca will cap inhaler costs at $35 per month
AstraZeneca is capping out-of-pocket costs for inhalers and related medication at no more than $35 per month, the drugmaker announced Monday.
The Britain based pharma giant said the expanded savings are intended to help vulnerable patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, especially those without health insurance. The price cap takes effect June 1.
The move matches a cost-reduction program from Boehringer Ingelheim, a German pharmaceutical company that rivals AstraZeneca in the inhaler market. It follows the launch of an investigation by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in which Democratic senators and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, wrote to four major inhaler companies asking them to lower prices.
EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year but is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products.
The final rule marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled regulations governing tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in everyday products, from household cleaners to clothing and furniture.
The new rule would ban chrysotile asbestos, the only ongoing use of asbestos in the United States. The substance is found in products such as brake linings and gaskets and is used to manufacture chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, including some that is used for water purification.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan called the final rule a major step to protect public health.
United Steelworkers union endorses Biden, giving him more labor support in presidential race
Bad News for Bad Guys
Last week I talked a lot about how bad the RNC Trump takeover was for Republicans. Later that day, Rick Wilson put it like this “"what they've done is like a mafia-type bust out where they take over a business, run up the bills so they can never be paid and when they're done they burn the place down for the insurance money."
"They fired the research staff, communications staff, political staff, outreach staff, the early voting programs, what's left is to move money into the Trump crime family. What's left is just the bare-bones, to keep doing the fundraising, put it under the RNC hat, and ship it all off to Trump."
"This is now not a political party. It's a shell corporation set up to fund Trump's legal defenses. It's burning down 30 years of a political machine that wins elections. Now Trump has burned that down to the ground. For money."
for example →
Trump’s invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC
Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press.
The unorthodox diversion of funds to the Save America PAC makes it more likely that Republican donors could see their money go to Trump’s lawyers, who have received at least $76 million over the last two years to defend him against four felony indictments and multiple civil cases. Some Republicans are already troubled that Trump’s takeover of the RNC could shortchange the cash-strapped party.
MAGA Reps Suddenly Face an Existential Threat: Themselves
The 2024 primaries are just getting started, but there’s good reason to believe this year could be a lot more brutal for Republicans than recent ones.
But 2024 is poised to be a very different election year, one in which no House Republican is safe, no matter how MAGA they may be.
At least 21 House Republican incumbents are facing primary challenges from candidates who are seriously campaigning and raising at least some funds, according to a Daily Beast review of campaign filings and other materials.
Like in every election year, at least one of these challenges will almost certainly be successful. It’s possible many could lose, or 2024 could be a better year for incumbents than 2022, when five lost primary challenges in non-redistricting-related races.
But the more important upshot of any member having to worry about a primary threat, no matter how marginal, may not be who wins—it may be how members adjust their behavior to survive.
Could Republicans blow it with bad candidates — again?
In selecting Moreno, Ohio Republicans not only gave Donald Trump what he wanted; they also gave Democrats what they wanted. Democrats spent millions of dollars to help push Moreno over the line, believing he would be a weaker general-election opponent for Brown in a state that goes red in presidential elections.
Legal consequences are harsh and painful when they finally arrive in Trump’s orbit
Donald Trump is a master at postponing legal accountability, but two cases targeting the ex-president and his orbit now in the penalty phase show that when the law finally exacts its price, the experience can be harsh and humiliating.
Trump’s lawyers said Monday that he cannot secure a bond to cover a near half billion dollar judgment against him in a New York fraud case while he appeals. The admission is a dent to the mystique of an ex-president who built his brand on the power and size of his “The Art of the Deal” fortune. And it raises the possibility his cash crunch could worsen a growing personal and campaign financial crisis.
And Peter Navarro, Trump’s former trade guru, is headed to prison after failing in his plea for the Supreme Court to spare him jail while he appeals a conviction for ignoring congressional subpoenas for documents and testimony about his boss’ bid to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump’s failure to secure a bond could put his New York properties on the chopping block
If Trump doesn’t pony up the $500 million or so he needs to set aside, pending his appeal of last month’s order against him for ill-gotten gains on his properties, Judge Arthur Engoron says the judgment may be enforced, and New York Attorney General Letitia James can start seizing Trump’s properties and selling them to pay down what he owes.
New York Attorney General takes initial step to prepare to seize Trump assets
The New York attorney general’s office has filed judgments in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump’s golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven Springs.
State lawyers entered the judgments with the clerk’s office in Westchester County on March 6, just one week after Judge Arthur Engoron made official his $464 million decision against Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization.
The decision against Trump and the difficulty the former president is having securing a bond while he appeals the verdict strikes directly at Trump’s image as a billionaire as he attempts to raise more cash for both his legal bills and third run for the White House.
Trump Is In Trouble
As I’ve been arguing here for weeks I think Donald Trump is a far weaker candidate than conventional wisdom reflects right now. His agenda is much more extreme and dangerous than Trump 2020, who lost. His performance on the stump is far more erratic and disturbing. He keeps losing in court, is now an adjudicated rapist and fraudster, and may be facing personal bankruptcy due to his misdeeds. But of all of this challenges, I think the splintering of his party, and the refusal/reluctance of the non-MAGA wing of the GOP to get behind Trump may be the biggest threat of all.
With Pence, Romney, the Cheneys and a growing chorus of prominent Republicans coming out against Trump, the permission structure to walk away from the GOP nominee is getting far stronger. We’ve already seen it in the data - a large chunk of Republican voters are ready to bolt from Trump.
Trump Is Weak, Not Strong. An Unprecedented Dumpster Fire, Not A Juggernaut
With Trump’s struggles raising money and another election night where the opposition to Trump inside the Republican Party continues to be significant (even long after his opponents have dropped out), it is time for the “Trump is a strong candidate” bubble of the last few months to fully burst.
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Trump has underperformed public polling in most of the early battleground states, signaling reluctance of voters to vote for him when making that final decision
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The struggle of his campaign and the RNC to raise money in an election year is shocking, a clear sign that MAGA is unattractive even for core Republicans - cannot stress enough what a big deal this is
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The GOP itself is in turmoil, laying off dozens of staff, and going through a very rough leadership transition in an election year. Dozens of leading Republican officials including State Party chairs in key battleground states have been indicted
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Republicans got blown out in NY-3, a big “bellwether,” seeing a seat they won just 16 months earlier by 7.5 pts going +8 for the Dems. The loss here was a continuation of the GOP’s ongoing struggle in elections of all kinds all across the country since Dobbs
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There is an unprecedented revolt against Trump inside the GOP - Pence, Romney, the Cheneys, it just goes on and on. Two former GOP Vice Presidents, a former Party nominee, the former chair of the RNC, dozens of senior government officials who worked for Trump…..we’ve never seen anything like what is happening inside the GOP now. These leaders are creating a powerful permission structure for other Rs and R-leaning independents to walk away from Trump, as they did in the battleground states in 2022. Last night the Biden campaign announced that six major fundraisers for Nikki Haley’s campaign had started raising money for Biden-Harris. The party is splintering, bigly
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Peter Navarro, a senior advisor to Trump, went to jail yesterday. His CFO went to jail last year, and is returning soon for committing more crimes. Most of his core 2020 campaign team were convicted or pled guilty of crimes. The man who was fueling the Impeachment inquiry was just arrested, and appears to have been working with both Russian intelligence and Trump. Everywhere you look there are crimes, crimes and more crimes…
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House Republicans are retiring in droves, leaping from the burning MAGA ship. Large scale retirements are a vote of no-confidence in the party itself, and the ones who are leaving are considered “serious” Republicans
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Trump keeps losing in court, badly, and he and Rudy now owe $700m, which is almost the size of all the hard money spent by the Trump campaign in 2020. It is serious money, and we all understand the President may go bankrupt or start losing properties and assets as early as Monday - it will be devastating for his image as a successful business if this begins happening. Dumpster fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Trump’s performance on the stump has been scary, a daily “bloodbath,” providing Democrats with an unending amount of material to use in the election to push him further and further away from voters
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Due to the success of the Biden Presidency, the major GOP attacks on Biden - economy, inflation, crime, border, war on energy, deficit, Biden crime family, age - are all evaporating, making this election increasingly a referendum on Trump, not Biden. That is really bad news for Republicans…
Behind Trump’s campaign cash crunch: Small-dollar donor fatigue, major donor hesitation
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has begun to see warning signs that the small-dollar donors who fueled his last run for the White House have slowed their support to the former president this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Since late last year, members of Trump’s team have been warned by Republican Party advisors that their small-dollar donor base could be shrinking, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters.
Some have even been told there may not be much that the former president or his campaign can do to win back these key donors, the sources explained.
The drop in Trump’s small-dollar contributors could be significant obstacle as the former president faces the well-funded incumbent president, Democrat Joe Biden.
Evidence from earlier in the 2024 election cycle already hinted at an erosion of Trump’s small-dollar donor base, or support of $200 or less.
In 2023, Trump’s reelection campaign raised 62.5% less money from small-dollar donors than it did in 2019, the year before the last presidential election.
In January of this year, Trump’s campaign reported raising around $3 million from small-dollar donors, according to data from OpenSecrets.
This may sound like a lot of money, but consider that Biden’s political operation raised nearly $2 million in just one day, Feb. 29, according to a campaign spokesman for the president.
Other Good News
Even with NO ONE ELSE IN THE RACE Trump can’t even get to 70% of the votes in the primary
Compare that to Biden
AND keep this in mind:
The Supreme Court’s center right appears increasingly frustrated with the judiciary’s far right.
There are several recent signs that the federal judiciary’s center right is losing patience with its far right.
Last week, a policymaking body within the judiciary announced new steps to combat “judge shopping,” a practice that has allowed Republican litigants to choose to have their cases heard by partisan judges who are well to the right of even the median Trump appointee. The Supreme Court has also heard several cases in its current term where it appears likely to reverse rulings made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a MAGA stronghold that frequently hands down decisions that appear designed to sabotage the Biden administration.
Most of the justices, in other words, appeared eager to resolve both cases without significantly altering their Court’s First Amendment doctrines, and without disrupting the government’s ability to function. That’s good news for the NRA, but also good news for the Biden administration.
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