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The annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, got under way on Thursday. One of the big names on the stage was none other than Donald Trump’s sycophant daughter-in-...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 02:30 PM 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
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 06:55 PM PST
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After months of the White House telling voters "Bidenomics is working" with mixed results, the President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is pivoting to attacking Donald Trump's economic record, according to Politico. Team Biden plans to build on...
by Kerry Eleveld
68 comments
on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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Not too long after attempting to pick a literal fight with Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien at a Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin appeared on the Oklahoma-based podcast “Undaunted Life: A Man’s Podcast.” And Mullin and...
by Walter Einenkel
81 comments
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 12:21 PM PST
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Alex Lawson is the executive director of Social Security Works, a nonprofit with a mission including protecting and expanding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well as advocating for lower drug prices and other policies that might ensure...
by Walter Einenkel
155 comments
on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 08:46 AM PDT
with 289 Recommends
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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
45 comments
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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I beg to differ. I was once convicted and sent to federal prison in Lompoc. I had also spent time in state prison. Here is what I saw. In state prison, all prisoners were lower class earners and could not afford an attorney. They were locked up because...
by Ray Romero
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 10:09 PM PDT
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This will prove interesting. Disney has a huge family friendly non-controversial message about love, kindness, death (coco), and the importance of family, and finding yourself despite bigotry and ignorance (Luca (a favorite)). Disney has also added to...
by iarnstein
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on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 12:43 PM PDT
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I's been more than fourty years since my college economics classes Econ 101 and Econ 102. So forgive me if I can't quite remember in which class I learned the following, but what I do remember well was the fundamental tenet of the lesson. My professor...
by Phil In Denver
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on Sun Apr 23, 2023 at 11:56 AM PDT
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It is NOT surprising that Elon Musk who fired over 70% of Twitter employees and asked the remaining crew to pick up the slack is now being accused of abusing employees at Tesla factory by having them do the workload of 7 people . . .
by The Boss Gomez
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 07:14 AM PDT
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“On Wednesday, Twitter users were faced with the errant warning: "You are over the daily limit for sending tweets." That's because an employee accidentally deleted data about these limits, Platformer reported. And the team responsible for the service...
by The Boss Gomez
17 comments
on Fri Feb 10, 2023 at 05:58 AM PST
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Have you ever seen the movie “Trading Places”? I for one love that movie, and I have an idea on how to use it and make the rich and powerful take a step back and feel our pains. In the movie, the Eddie Murphy character quotes the following “The best...
by PapaBear
7 comments
on Tue Jan 31, 2023 at 04:34 PM PST
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Donald Trump Jr. is still a thing. He uncomfortably sells Trump steaks and stuff. He also has a podcast or something resembling a digital interview show called Triggered. The title is a reference to how he triggers people. It is also the name of his...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 01:53 PM PST
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In thinking of all the bile and the depths to which our country has sunken to in politics, I just keep thinking about the quote from Golda Meir. Hers was about peace and education. Our country is not built upon extremism. Our country was supposed to be...
by iarnstein
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on Sat Nov 12, 2022 at 11:43 PM PST
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The GOP has offered their contract for America. It isn’t a contract that celebrates America—it is a contract for cruelty, period. It instills the far right agenda, the stripping of basic rights from the people, and instilling the overwhelming weight of...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 11:20 AM PDT
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Long post. You can sum a lot of this is to where do we stand on freedom of speech and use of our money. And more importantly, what money means. And how about a little religious philosophy too? In a discussion of cash bail and the laws trying to...
by iarnstein
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on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 12:18 PM PDT
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It’s time for the Ultra Rick to pay their fair share of taxes. Elon Musk just spent billions of dollars to buy Twitter, while his companies have received billions of Tax Payers' money in the from of subsidies.
by The Boss Gomez
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on Wed Apr 27, 2022 at 04:41 AM PDT
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The firm initially rebuffed Mr Musk's bid, but now asked shareholders to vote to approve the deal. All the FAKE Russian account will be back , white supremacists will spread their hateful ideology all so that Elon can make even more money Mr Musk...
by The Boss Gomez
38 comments
on Mon Apr 25, 2022 at 12:20 PM PDT
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How sad that a millionaire main concern is not how to help those less fortunate but instead just wants to make sure poor people don’t live anywhere near his mansion
by The Boss Gomez
13 comments
on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 07:19 PM PST
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