Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

He promised to reduce the national debt but instead increased it. It is now at its highest level relative to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II

This is one of his lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies, the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.

#usa #politics #debtceiling #gop

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

Today's PSA: (because, apparently, this is shocking to people). It's OK for corporations to make less money. It's OK for shareholders to receive less value.

No, they don't have to raise prices on their consumers. No, they don't have to cut wages or benefits. They're choosing to.

If your perpetually ascending profit model only works because you exploit your labor, then your profit model deserves no sympathy, fretting, or hand-wringing.

You can, and should, make less profit.

"Was it first lift and then turn - or first turn and then lift to make the water run?"

I do hope Mika will never find out...

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #MaineCoon

But Trump/Russia is just about a few Twitter bots

RT @[email protected]

In 2016, the FBI special agent (McGonigal) who was charged with investigating the Trump campaign's Russian connections went to work (according to the indictment) for the very same Russian oligarch (Deripaska) as Trump's campaign manager (Manafort).
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-specter-of-2016?r=f9j4c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web