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9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all ...
by Mokurai
on Sun May 05, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Kevin McCarthy might have been a miserable speaker, but he had unmatched skill in connecting big-money donors with Republican bank accounts. But since MAGA elements tossed McCarthy to demonstrate their control over the House, Republicans are forced to...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu May 02, 2024 at 11:30 AM PDT
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If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently...
by iafflerbach
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM PDT
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A few weeks ago, one of my many brothers-in-law posted a thing (that I call a poster, like you would hang on your wall, but I think folks call them memes), on our Facebook family group chat.
It was ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 10:01 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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"Donald Trump, a 77*-year-old Bible salesman from Palm Beach, Florida, has emerged as the nation’s most prominent Christian leader." Adult film star Stormy Daniels shut down a slew of Donald Trump's followers Friday with a burn against the former...
by annieli
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 11:58 AM PDT
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by bigjacbigjacbigjac
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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For the last two weeks I published diaries�highlighting the�returns in the gofundme that was created by Elena Cardone in order to pay for tRump’s huge fine by New York state. It was fun enjoying ...
by chloris creator
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 11:50 AM PDT
with 158 Recommends
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My neighbor across the street has an outlet on her front porch. She uses it to plug in her Christmas lights in the winter, and her lawnmower in the summer. In November Nicki, another neighbor, was using it to charge her phone. Nicki works at the...
by MeJean
on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 02:22 PM PDT
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From today’s The Bulwark by Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger (scroll down a bit): Breaking the Bank We’ve all gotten more or less used to Donald Trump’s robbing his supporters blind with deceptive, aggressive fundraising tactics and using the millions he...
by Dan K
on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 10:03 AM PST
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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both,” said Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1941. Billionaires in the United States are subject to a lower overall tax...
by frankfaiola
on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 06:55 PM PST
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Every year, my next door neighbor went down to the local strip mall to have his taxes done, by a professional tax preparer. The company advertised on prime time. He had no reason not to trust them. My neighbor had grown up in the Depression. His mother...
by MeJean
on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 05:55 PM PST
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Hamas' October 7 attack against innocent civilians, women, and children enraged the Israelis (and rightly so; any decent person would have been upset). Still, a few weeks earlier, the Israelis themselves had supported the Turks and the Azerbaijanis in...
by tony a
on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 02:28 PM PST
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist and nuclear physicist Frederick Soddy was also a mathematician and economist, initially derided as an economic crank, but proved right on many points over time. The most ...
by Mokurai
on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
with 11 Recommends
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Do these people have any idea how many military bases are in Texas? San Antonio is known as Military City! San Antonio, alone has 4. The largest and most diverse joint base in the Department of Defense, Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) is comprised of...
by TexMex
on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 07:34 AM PST
with 182 Recommends
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Among other questions raised by the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas should have been how did they pay for it? How did they buy the weapons and supplies? How did they pay for the training? How could they afford to build the huge network of...
by xaxnar
on Sat Dec 16, 2023 at 10:13 AM PST
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The so-called “legal architect” and co-defendant in Donald Trump’s coup plot says he hasn’t been able to to raise the kind of funds from MAGA land that would protect him from dipping into personal savings to pay his legal bills. Newsweek reports that...
by Walter Einenkel
on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 02:21 PM PST
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Thomas B. Edsall, an American journalist and academic, wrote an outlandish opinion piece in the New York Times that claims small-dollar donations to political candidates are the real problem, not big money in politics. His piece was titled “Small...
by frankfaiola
on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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The American political system has been taken over by major corporations. Many political scientists already do not consider the U.S. a full-blown democracy, rather they view it as an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a country ruled by the few, in America,...
by frankfaiola
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
with 139 Recommends
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“The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy…Under current law, campaign contributions are illegal if there is an explicit quid pro quo, and legal if there isn’t. But legal campaign contributions can be as bad as bribes...
by frankfaiola
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT
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According to End the Bribe System, “A ‘corporate democrat’ is a term used to describe a politician or political candidate who is associated with the Democratic Party in the United States and who is perceived to be more aligned with corporate interests...
by frankfaiola
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 10:31 AM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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