Reminder of what people are calling the “radical, extreme-left agenda”:— Alexandria Asia-Cortez (@AOC) July 18, 2019
✅ Medicare for All
✅ A Living Wage & Labor Rights
✅ K-16 schooling, aka Public Colleges
✅ 100% Renewable Energy
✅ Fixing the pipes in Flint
✅ Not Hurting Immigrants
✅ Holding Wall Street Accountable
tnb ... I'd add Support Unionization, Legalize Pot, and Back Off on Guns. Focus on things that give people more, not on things that take away.
Trump and the Tea Party
The day the tea party died - So much bullshit here.
More on this from Political Irony: Trump kills the Tea Party
- The Tea Party didn't die. They became Trump supporters.
- The Tea Party didn't care about deficits. They cared about a black president's deficits.
- I'll bet you can't find five Tea Party members who voted for HRC over Trump.
- Complete BS from "liberal" media, just trying to keep the "deficit" fear out there for when the progressives want to spend a little money on the poor folk.
The Tea Party was furious when Obama raised government spending by 3% during his first term in order to fix our cratering economy. But now, Trump is on track to raise government spending by 4%. Why is Trump raising spending when the economy (thanks Obama!) is doing just fine? And after Trump’s big tax cut for corporations and rich people?
During his campaign, Trump promised to pay off the national debt in eight years. He has already raised the national debt by $2 trillion, and he isn’t even done with his first (and hopefully only) term yet.
Middle East
Israel creating "facts on the ground" in the Occupied Territories - Israel destroys Palestinian homes in biggest demolition push since 1967
Wars for Energy - Natural Gas Version
Washington hosts US-Israel-Cyprus-Greece economic conference
"US Asst. Secy of State for Economic and Business Manisha Singh on Thursday discussed US-backed regional cooperation at a meeting in Washington with Cyprus Ambassador Marios Lysiotis, Greek Charge d’Affaires Theodoros Bizakis and Deputy Head of Israel’s Mission to the United States, Benjamin Krasna. The meeting focused on “ economic tools to address shared economic and economic-related national security issues,” the US State Department said. This meeting was the second for the group dubbed 3+1 which first met on March 30 to discuss common Mediterranean energy projects and a pipeline to Europe."
Related to these from a couple weeks ago.
Freedom of Speech
Except on Israel..... The one thing the US Congress can agree on.
US House approves motion opposing anti-Israel boycotts. more here: U.S. House Passes anti-BDS Resolution in Bipartisan Vote
You can boycott the setting US president's businesses but you can't boycott an oppressive regime.
House overwhelmingly passes bill opposing BDS, but the Israel boycott fight is just beginning
War
Will War Return? Have a nice day. The post sees war as cyclical but I think this from the comments makes more sense.
What do you think of the (in my opinion null) hypothesis: war exists when there is a conflict for power. Right now we are in the Pax Americana because no one can challenge the US, but it seems like the US hold on power is weakening. Similarly, the Pax Brittanica was in place prior to WWI, but as Britain was no longer clearly the strongest nation others began to resist, which ultimately turned into war.
Trump and Netanyahu are doing their best to piss-off the rest of the world.
Anti-Government
Most are just anti-government when it helps others.
David Horsey on The myth, and reality, of Western self-reliance
American Corrupitalism
Privatize the profits. Build a big pile-o-private-cash. Use some of that cash to purchase the right politicians. Purchased politicians vote to socialize the losses of private businesses. Keep the big pile-o-cash made initially. Rinse and repeat. the rich get richer.
OHIO REPUBLICANS BALKED AT A NUCLEAR BAILOUT, SO THE INDUSTRY ELECTED NEW REPUBLICANS — AND WALKED AWAY WITH $1.1 BILLION
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