Once more into the breach
This is an important message from Robert Reich’s newsletter. Pleas take action: protest! Call your senators! “Friends, One of my purposes in sending you this daily letter is to give you the truth about an important issue that Trump and his lapdogs in Congress are demagoguing — so you can spread the truth. Right now, …
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“Trump’s tariff machinations—he has moved them more than 50 times since he took office—are also enriching the Trump family. Last week, Trump’s son Eric Trump joined Vietnam’s prime minister Pham Minh Chinh in a groundbreaking ceremony for a $1.5 billion luxury real estate development with three 18-hole golf courses outside the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. …
It is imperative to check out the rise of Hitler in the 1930’s and the subsequent conquest and destruction of Germany and the rest of Europe. He is Trump’s model for the destruction of America. Kings and dictators require an illiterate public (ex. Slaveholders prohibiting the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burning books). Trump’s …
Nobody wins in a war. Palestinians are starving because their government has failed them in arriving at a positive peace agreement with Israel. Instead, they have kidnapped Israelis, reluctantly returned dead bodies, and supported the Hamas. Starvation is intolerable but so is the failure to do what is necessary to achieve a ceasfire and peace. …
Trump’s idiocy requesting women to have more children and graciously giving them a $5,000 baby bonus, while touting that he wants to be known as the “fertilization president,” is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to showcasing his lack of empathy, understanding, and care for women and children in this country. He …
When Biden was in office, it was largely agreed that the economy was doing well, that America’s economy flourished and that under his administration, “the U.S. had added 16 million jobs, unemployment was at its lowest rate in 50 years, real wages for the bottom 80% of Americans were increasing, and inflation levels had come …
From Robert Reich… Fernando Rodriguez Jr, a Trump appointed U.S. district court judge in Texas, said “The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal.” This is …
The congress and the senate are elected by the people to represent the people, NOT to kiss the ring of Trump or anyone else. Although they are elected, they actually are being paid by the citizens of America by Americans’ tax money. Trump recently took in millions, if not billions of dollars in personal money. …
Trump presents himself as a great businessman and is making horrendous deals right, left, and center for the United States of America. Here is the history of Trump, the oh, so successful New York businessman: He has declared bankruptcy six times. Robert O’Harrow of the Washington Post discussed Trump’s Taj Mahal opening in April 1990 …
What has happened to decency in America? What has happened to the America that went to war against Hitler and his illegal deportations and killing of 6 million people in World War II? How is it possible that Americans are not rising up en masse to stop the illegal deportation of American citizens or people …