Archive for October 2024
Are Americans Ready to be Test Subjects for How Much Tariffs Will Raise Prices?
Donald Trump is dangerous in so many ways. Nearly half of Trump’s cabinet have refused to endorse him. Former four-star Marine general and former Trump chief of staff has said Donald Trump fits the definition of a fascist and that he “prefers the dictator approach to government.” Retired Gen. Mark Milley agreed Trump is “fascist…
Read MoreDonald Trump Ignored the Fentanyl Crisis While Americans Were Dying
Trump’s Drug Enforcement Agency produced a report warning of influxes in Fentanyl coming from all around the world. The report has since been declassified, and you can read it here. Despite that report and the warnings presented to Trump and his administration, they did NOTHING to attempt to stop fentanyl at the source. Overdose deaths…
Read MoreAsk the People Who Have Worked with Trump, and They Will Tell You He Shouldn’t Go Near the White House Again
Nearly half of Trump’s cabinet have refused to endorse him. Former four-star Marine general and former Trump chief of staff has said Donald Trump fits the definition of a fascist and that he “prefers the dictator approach to government.” Retired Gen. Mark Milley agreed Trump is “fascist to the core,” and former Defense Secretary Mark…
Read MoreDo We Want Donald Trump to Use the Military to Raid American Businesses?
Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has become a vocal critic of Donald Trump’s economic plans. In addition to making the rounds on national media, he is appearing at Kamala Harris rallies denouncing Trump’s tariff plans as a “tax on everybody.” He also reinforces a theme many economists echo: Kamala Harris is better for business. He…
Read MoreHarris’s Plan to Expand Medicare to Cover the Cost of Long-Term Care at Home Would Help all Americans
Caring for an aging parent can be enormously expensive and time-consuming. Yet, while most people will face the moment when a parent can no longer live without assistance, neither Medicare nor Medicaid cover in-home care. Rather, people must either try to avoid going bankrupt helping senior family members or “spend down” all of their assets…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Mental Decline is Dangerous and Impossible to Ignore
Donald Trump has never been known for his ability to speak coherently. He has always jumped from subject to subject, a trait that has somehow escaped real scrutiny for almost a decade since he entered politics. He has and continues to be held to a looser standard than any other politician. As pundits breathlessly analyzed…
Read MoreHe Wants You to Forget, but Donald Trump Attempted a Violent Overthrow of an Election
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by a mob of rioters. The riot aimed to overthrow the result of an election they did not like. And they were encouraged to do so by the president, the person tasked with upholding the Constitution. Attempting to violently overrule the will of the people…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Plan to Tax Working Families in Exchange for Giveaways to Corporations is a Disaster
Donald Trump’s signature 2017 tax cuts failed to produce the promised benefits, so he plans to implement more of the same. In fact, he promised multiple times to pair his 2017 cuts with tax relief for middle-class families, but those promises ended after the 2018 midterms, and middle-class tax cuts never materialized. The reality is…
Read MoreWhat Donald Trump Wants to Do with the Military is Insane
Once again, Donald Trump is telling us exactly what he wants to do. Despite the damage control the Fox News propaganda wing of his campaign and other feckless Republicans are attempting, he keeps repeatedly threatening the “enemy within.” And once again, his supporters are, at best, laughing it off and, at worst, actively cheering him…
Read MoreProject 2025 is an Attack on Veterans
Fact Check: Donald Trump is linked to Project 2025 in several ways. Over 140 of his advisors and staff worked on the Heritage Foundation project. And Donald Trump himself told attendees at a Heritage Foundation conference, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.“ The section of…
Read MoreProject 2025 Attacks Workers by Making it Easier for Employers to Dodge Paying Overtime
Fact Check: Donald Trump is linked to Project 2025 in several ways. Over 140 of his advisors and staff worked on the Heritage Foundation project. And Donald Trump himself told attendees at a Heritage Foundation conference, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.“ Donald Trump has…
Read MoreLetting an Old Man Play in the Drive-Thru Doesn’t Help Workers
Donald Trump staged a photo op on Sunday in which he pretended to work at a McDonald’s in an effort to troll Vice President Harris for having the nerve to understand what it’s like to work your way up from a middle-class background in a single-family household. Like everything Donald Trump does, the whole event…
Read MoreExperts Agree: Kamala Harris’s Plans are Best for the Economy
Kamala Harris has released an 82-page economic policy book with ideas for child care, healthcare, inflation, small business support, and implementing a fairer tax system. This book is an excellent resource for people who still want to know more about her plans. Economists who have examined both candidates agree that Harris’s plans are better for…
Read MoreKamala Harris Has Worked with Foreign Leaders to Prosecute Trans-National Gang Members
Kamala Harris began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, where she concentrated on prosecuting child sexual assault cases. When she moved from Alameda to San Francisco, she increased the resources available to the office’s domestic violence and sexual assault units. As DA, she successfully shut down Backpage.com, a site where the adult…
Read MoreDonald Trump Wants to Suspend the Constitution to Tear Apart American Families
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime authority to detain people from an enemy nation. The law lets the president target immigrants without due process — not even a hearing — based only on their country of origin. Detaining people without due process creates an obvious constitutional crisis. It runs directly counter…
Read MoreMass Deportation Will Make the Economy Worse for Everyone
Donald Trump has made mass deportations the centerpiece of his closing argument as November approaches. He is threatening to go it alone by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to detain and deport immigrants. Generally, Congress has to use its power to provide the president with wartime privileges under the act, but Trump is…
Read MoreProject 2025 on Education: Only the Rich Should Get It
Republicans have dreamed of dismantling the Department of Education since Jimmy Carter created it. Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump, and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, as well as other Republican leaders, have openly advocated for the policy. Like most of the right-wing fever dreams outlined in Project 2025, the idea is couched in the…
Read MoreDonald Trump Has Never Been a President for Forgotten Americans, and He Is Incapable of Starting Now
Donald Trump really likes to blame other people for his failures. Especially Democrats. And China. And Immigrants. Of course, politicians try to deflect blame for mistakes, particularly during an election season, but Donald Trump’s behavior takes the practice to a new and dangerous level. His rhetoric about blue states and democratic cities and FEMA and…
Read MoreProject 2025 on Presidential Power: It’s Unlimited
“We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be.” – Leader of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts Project 2025 imagines a country where executive power rests entirely in the president. If implemented, the president could fire any federal employee and replace them with…
Read MoreProject 2025 on the Economy: Higher Costs for Average Americans
Project 2025 puts the Republican dream of shifting the burden of funding policies and priorities to the middle and working class on steroids. Its policies would undoubtedly make things more expensive for most Americans and drive an even bigger hole in the federal deficit, crippling its ability to maintain infrastructure, handle crises and fund Americans’…
Read MoreProject 2025 on Abortion and Healthcare: Let’s Get Rid of It!
Project 2025 would both reduce access to healthcare and make it more expensive. It would do this through a series or restrictions, cuts and repeals that include ending abortion access, repealing the Affordable Care Act, privatizing Medicare and drastically reducing Medicaid spending. Eliminating Abortion Access Federally Project 2025 suggests two methods for eliminating access to…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Economy Not The “Best Ever” Even Before the Pandemic
Donald Trump likes to take credit for things that are handed to him, and America’s economy is no exception. Before the pandemic, Trump frequently claimed that he inherited a “dismal” economy, which he turned into the best America has ever seen. Both of these claims are false. 1) Donald Trump inherited a very strong economy.…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Obsession with Immigrants Makes America Less Safe
Donald Trump envisions a violent America — an America where the military is weaponized to invade sovereign U.S. states and tear families apart. Donald Trump’s promise to deport over 12 million immigrants would drastically reshape America in ways that are difficult to imagine. Mass deportation is a fundamental repudiation of the fabric of America’s promise…
Read MoreProject 2025 and Donald Trump Want You to Pay to Get Weather Reports
Republicans have a strategy for dealing with climate change: don’t talk about it. For example, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill this year that removed references to climate change from the state’s laws. Other states, like Arizona, have passed legislation prohibiting the use of state funds on climate change initiatives. READ: Columbia Law School…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Actions Take Money out of Your Pockets
Donald Trump promises to fight for forgotten Americans who, by all rights, have legitimate grievances about how they have fared under an increasingly monopolistic economy that affords fewer chances to get ahead. But Donald Trump is a liar. He lies effortlessly, from frivolous claims like a crowd going wild for him at a debate that…
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