170) #Trump’s support by the wealthy is in many respect far more disappointing than those #MAGA redcaps of modest means
Usually, the rich have had the benefit of a good education and should understand that democracy is at stake in #Election2024. I can only conclude that many wealthy types care more about promised tax reductions and deregulation than the obvious threat of #fascism
169) The Blueprint poll reported on by Semaphore below focuses on young people and gathers data via an online poll and should be treated cautiously.
I’m not surprised by the poll sentiment. Since the Reagan era, the #GOP has sewed distrust in government and been aided and abetted by a #RightWing #NewsMedia ecoystem.
All this to insure #garchs lower their tax bill, if #democracy is sacrificed, so be it
The #FossilFuel folks are terrified by the increasing efficiency of #GreenEnergy. They have significant investments in underground assets that are yet to be exploited. The challenge is to keep those assets just where they are.
These #petrogarchs seem to believe they are exempt from the consequences of their rapacious greed and they have an alternative to planetary collapse
For years the #GOP has been beating the Dems with the #SouthernBorder stick.
I agree that it’s time to return the favor and remind voters that the #Republican party only governs to one end, tax breaks for #garchs.
The GOP dreams of world of Darwinian savagery, a hunger games survival of the fittest spectacle, where none receive compassion or help and only those born to wealth have the right to succeed
John Sherman's wife, Marny, declared following the defeat of a $500m tax subsidy for Royals and Chiefs stadiums that "neither team will work with Jackson County again" — implying they'll cross the border to Kansas, which has no stadium offer in place. https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2024/04/05/21263/friday-roundup-more-vague-royals-threats-coyotes-trying-every-trick-in-book-at-once-plus-stadium-theme-song-challenge/
156) Excellent piece from #NYTimes on the financing of #TrumpMedia aka #DJT
Unsurprisingly #Trump put very little of his own money in the venture. He relied on other #garchs who wanted to curry favor with him to get the company afloat.
Now #DonaldTrump will rely on his base to prop up the stock until he can cash out
#USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/business/trump-media-backers-investors.html
155) Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society”
Thanks @rbreich for reminding us that a properly funded #IRS insures that the #garchs pay their fair share
The #GOP bitterly opposes the fair payment of taxes. If you want to live in a fairer country #VoteBlue
120) To the surprise of no one, the House #GOP and #MikeJohnson are not the slightest bit interested in doing a deal on #border #migration. They’re busily engaged in forelock tugging mode before Dear Leader aka #Trump and his master, Czar #Putin
#Republican politics are only about one thing, tax breaks for the #garchs in #Russia, #America, and all other geographies
Want to fix something for the other 99.9%. Look elsewhere
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and House Republican leaders denounced a bipartisan Senate deal to impose new US border restrictions and unlock billions of dollars in Ukraine aid, endangering its prospects for passage.
86) Today we’ll witness the sad spectacle of President #Zelensky lobbying #MikeJohnson for #UkraineWar support.
That request will fall on deaf ears
Let’s be clear what is going on here. It is not about budgetary prudence nor is it about the #SouthernBorder.
It is about what #Trump wants and #DonaldTrump loves #Putin. The continuation of European democracy is irrelevant to the Trumpist #GOP who care for nothing except for what #garchs desire
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/4355200-zelensky-lobbies-speaker-for-ukraine-aid/
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet President Biden today and make a personal appeal to senators and the Speaker in an effort to salvage U.S. support for additional military assistance this year. Zelensky and the Ukrainian military are simultaneously fighting Russia, working to keep European allies united behind a war seemingly caught in a stalemate…
14) #Wired with the story on how American #FarRight figures are amplifying their fringe counterparts in #Ireland
Just as #Stalin and #Lenin encouraged global communist revolution through the #Comiterm, we now have #ElonMusk and #Putin stoking a #Fascisterm aimed at undermining western democracies
Ireland is a plaything for these #garchs
#DublinRiots #MastoDaoine
#IrishNews #ItishPolitics
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-calling-for-ireland-civil-war
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