Posts by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
(DIR) Post #ATuyHp7izyCgS9O6jo by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-03-23T20:07:50Z
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The GOP recipe is a crazy, unholy combination of one part conspiracy-addled, racist base, one part partially crazy, racist politicians, one part partially racist and crazy donors, and two parts donors who are mostly greedy as hell! Gather all the insecure, emotionally stunted and immature nutjobs in one place and shake like hell until the country falls apart and fascism is achieved.#GOPWillfullyUnWoke#GOPRacist #GOPRacistBase “Conservative Republicans like to smear anything and everyone to the left of Genghis Khan as 'woke,' while simultaneously having trouble defining it. But at its core, those of us to the left of Genghis Khan know it means pretty much any efforts toward equality or an acknowledgment that inequality exists in America.” -NA
(DIR) Post #AU9tfRk0PhMYpH2XM8 by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-03-31T01:01:18Z
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Twitter is an open sewer in so many ways right now. There are still some great voices posting over there, but there is so much sewage; nude picture sites, trolling and outright disinformation, and tons of racist, fascist and nazi content. It was never great, but it was infinitely better than it is now. Twitter Ad Revenue Plunges 89% Since Musk Takeover as Major Brands Stay Away (Report) https://www.thewrap.com/twitter-ad-revenue-plunges-elon-musk-bloomberg/#MuskKillsTwitter"Twitter advertising dollars have plunged 89% since billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform in October, Bloomberg reported, and as a result, revenue has dropped by half.Twitter has seen a slight uptick in daily users since early 2022, the report said, but advertisers have not returned to the site amid the ongoing upheaval at the company. Since Musk took over Twitter in October, he’s slashed jobs by about 75%, leaving the company with less than 2,000 employees, and most of the content management team gone.Last week, Musk valued the company at just $20 billion, less than half of what he paid for it.Citing data from Pathmatics, Bloomberg said that from September to October of last year, the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent $71 million on ads. In the past two months, the total was just $7.6 million, a decline of 89%, the research firm said.Twitter’s top ad customers used to include marquee names like Ford, American Express, HBO, Amazon, IBM and Coca-Cola. But amid the early turmoil surrounding Musk’s takeover, major brands fled the site in droves, with 50 out of the top 100 advertisers pulling their ads.Roku Cuts Another 200 Jobs in Restructuring BidAlso Read:Roku Cuts Another 200 Jobs in Restructuring BidBut while reports in January said that the number of brands spending on the service rose in the months after Musk’s takeover, Bloomberg said major media agencies like IPG and Horizon Media that advised clients to pause their Twitter campaigns last fall have not yet reversed course."
(DIR) Post #AUA1DjoUQWRcOwR5H6 by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-03-31T02:22:27Z
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The Republican party and the right-wing couldn't care less about our democracy. They just want power and their way! This has been brewing for quite some time, and there is no way to avoid this fact any longer. They don't care what the majority of the people in the country or their districts want. Whether it's being dedicated to serving the obscenely wealthy donors they suck up to, or completely buying into the insane Christian nationalism, fascism or racism that now makes up a large part of their base, they have abandoned liberal democracy and are marching in lock step towards some kind of autocratic, oligarchic totalitarian fever-dream/nightmare. We can't do anything about this threat to our democracy and country if we remain in denial about what they are increasingly telegraphing is their ultimate intention. Donald Trump's Congressional Friends Are Keeping Him Up to Date On Committee Goings-On https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43454466/trump-congressional-committee-communications/#GOPHatesDemocracy #GOPLovesPower #GOPFascists #ChristianNationalism #Oligarchy"The Republican Party has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump campaign.To the surprise of approximately nobody, there is some serious colluding going on between the campaign of the former president* and the new and narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives. But CNN took the time to go long on the developing puppet show:'That dynamic has been on full display over the past week, as top House Republicans attempted to intervene in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation of hush money payments Trump allegedly made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. That’s led to an acrimonious back and forth between three powerful Republican committee chairs and Bragg over what, if any, jurisdiction Congress has over the DA’s work. House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican, has become a key point person for Trump on Hill investigations. The New York Republican talks to Trump roughly once a week, and often more, frequently briefing him on the House committees’ work, three sources familiar with their conversations tell CNN. Trump often calls her as well, the sources said.'The report goes on to describe the connections between the campaign and the various snipe-hunting congressional committees that sprang up when the House changed hands last fall. It also details the coordination between the Trump operation and the various outside conservative groups, some of which are dissatisfied both with the pace of congressional action, and with the apparent clumsiness of the Republican leadership of the investigative committees. These qualms are based, of course, in the permanent victimhood through which the prion disease has encased the conservative brain:'A number of these Trump-affiliated groups have urged the GOP-led committees to move more aggressively against Biden.“We can’t have two years of hearings and then a report,” President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton told CNN, referring to the pressure his group has placed on Congress to act immediately on the abuses of power that he sees happening, including “censoring Americans and trying to jail those who are perceived as political opponents.”'So it is not merely the Republican Party that—willingly or otherwise, it hardly matters any more—has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump campaign, but also the entire modern conservative movement, mind, body, and donor class. Any anti-Trump movement within the party or the movement is doomed to fail, and anyone involved in it will find themselves praying outside the camp pretty quickly. Half of the time will be spent rehabilitating the former president* and revenging itself on everyone and everything that done him wrong. The other half will be dedicated to electing him again so that he can commit all the crimes again, and a whole raft of new ones, besides. It's all hands on deck on the plague ship."
(DIR) Post #AUBxYxVog9xJT5U7ai by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-01T00:31:14Z
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It is clearly not just Trump inciting the susceptible to violence. All of these inciters need to be charged or penalized in some way! Our democracy doesn't support or condone violent threats as a way of creating change, that's fascism! We vote and we get involved, we don't threaten violence! These bad actors and the people they have radicalized, aren't interested in democracy. They want power, control and violence and they don't care about the law because they think they are above it somehow. How does a democracy respond to these kinds of threats? Clearly ignoring them and wishing them away doesn't work!!! Our response to attacks on our democracy and the law must be strong and unequivocal! Well, Gardner?!Far-right fury over Trump’s indictment has shades of January 6 https://www.fastcompany.com/90874482/far-right-fury-over-trumps-indictment-has-shades-of-january-6#Fascism #GOPFascism #ViolenceIncitementAsPolitics #GOPHatesDemocracy #TimeToFightBack"As soon as news broke on Thursday that former president Donald Trump had been indicted by a New York grand jury, right-wing activists took to social media platforms like Twitter and Truth Social to issue veiled threats about the retribution to come. “Bad move,” wrote a QAnon-branded account, @Q, on Truth Social. “Houston – activate Anons,” one user replied. Another added: “The Citizens of the United States will not be deterred by our Military . . . God is on our side.”On Twitter, the messaging was just as inflammatory. Alt-right personality Jack Posobiec tweeted at his two million followers: “Did you really think they would just let you take your country back?” followed by tweets that simply read, “Bring it” and “Are you ready.”Ali Alexander, the organizer of the Stop the Steal protests that led to the January 6 riots, tweeted: “New York has declared a civil war on the rest of us by indicting President Donald J. Trump and stoking violence. Pray!”It’s hard not to miss the parallels between what unfolded on Thursday and the upwelling of online anger that eventually resulted in the Capitol insurrection. And if the aftermath of January 6 is any indication, online posts like these may well be of interest to officials and tech platforms as they monitor any potential plots to protest Trump’s indictment in the coming days and weeks. In 2021, internal documents disclosed by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen showed that the social media company had failed to act on weeks of warnings as riot participants posted on its platform that they were going to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. Social media posts have also played a role in the prosecutions of January 6 insurrectionists. At a hearing in 2021, a federal judge read aloud social media posts by a rioter before sentencing him to prison, saying the posts made it “extraordinarily difficult” to offer him leniency. Trump was suspended from Twitter and Facebook after the January 6 riots. Both platforms have since reinstated his accounts, though Trump has only returned to Facebook, and reserves his most incendiary commentary for Truth Social, where he’s contractually obligated to post first. But since last week, Trump has unleashed a flood of Facebook ads, some of them increasingly menacing. In a 1 a.m. Truth Social post last Friday, Trump warned of “potential death and destruction” if he was charged, something that he said would be “catastrophic for the country.” On Facebook, his campaign ran an ad that blared: “I AM YOUR RETRIBUTION.”When a Fast Company reporter asked Meta for comment on Trump’s recent activity, a spokesperson responded with a company blog post that noted “in the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed, and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation.”The question now is whether Thursday’s indictment will indeed lead to any broader attempt at “retribution.” After all, it’s not as if Trump intends on staying silent. Following news of the indictment, he posted on Truth Social: ““THIS IS AN ATTACK ON OUR COUNTRY THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE. . . . SO SAD!”"
(DIR) Post #AUG2Ob2EfcKBGQMmdU by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-02T23:48:11Z
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Great video detailing Trump's threats against Bragg and his family and how this kind of criminal/mafia boss-like behavior is par for the course for Trump, but also why he must be prosecuted fully!! Surely there are charges that could be brought just for this kind of incitement of violence against a judge!Trump pulls DANGEROUS last-ditch stunt against Manhattan District Attorney - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmhymGKxoIU&t=43s#TrumpFascist #TrumpIndictment #TrumpCriminal #TrumpPathological
(DIR) Post #AULoLGxC7o4RHfBJK4 by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-05T18:41:14Z
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Jamal Bowman gives Marjorie Taylor Greene a piece of his mind after she delivers a "hateful" speech in NYC regarding Trump’s arraignment and then flees in a limo. Well worth watching as he tells her to get her ass and her hatred and white supremacy back to Washington and actually do something about gun violence, affordable housing or poverty! Good job! She is just a poser that wants attention and power and has never, as far as I know, proposed any policies to help the American people. It's only BS that is designed to help Republicans, fan division and undermine our government. Video: New York Democrat decries ‘hateful rhetoric’ in city as Trump arraigned#MGTIsAParasite #GOPWantsDivision https://flip.it/PT3bA5
(DIR) Post #AUYWNXzHrvTA5Eb23c by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-11T22:08:18Z
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The GOP is acting like the mob, trying to intimidate prosecutors and others from bringing Trump to justice. None of these actions have anything to do with valid congressional duties, this is purely weaponizing their offices and committees to protect Trump and the GOP, not the government or people of this country. The GOP is increasingly acting like a fascist party and there may be no turning back now for them. This must change how Democrats act and think about the GOP. They are no longer a partner in democracy or governing, they are now only a threat to democracy and our country and must be treated as such. Their legitimacy is gone!! They and their extremist supporters don't want democracy, they want power and control over all of the rest of us.Manhattan DA Bragg sues GOP Rep. Jordan over Trump case https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/04/11/alvin-bragg-jim-jordan-lawsuit?#GOPHatesDemocracy #GOPFascism #GOPMobsters #WakeUpDems #DemocracyIsEndangered "What You Need To KnowManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit against House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio in an effort to block congressional Republicans from interfering in his office's ongoing criminal investigation into former President Donald TrumpBragg, in the filing, asked a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan has or plans to issue as part of an investigation of Bragg's handling of the case, the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. presidentTrump pleaded not guilty last week to 34 felony counts related to alleged hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaignThe lawsuit is the latest escalation in the war of words between Bragg and House Republicans related to the Trump case; it comes one day after Jordan announced a hearing in New York for next week titled "Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan" aimed at exploring Bragg's policiesAccording to the court filing, Bragg claims that House Republicans launched an "unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack" on his probe into Trump and accused them of a "transparent campaign to intimidate and attack" him.Bragg, in the filing, asked a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan has or plans to issue as part of an investigation of Bragg's handling of the case, the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.Trump pleaded not guilty last week to 34 felony counts related to alleged hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign. The lawsuit is the latest escalation in the war of words between Bragg and House Republicans related to the Trump case. Three House Republican committee chairs – Rep. Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisc., the Chair of the House Administration Committee, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the Chair of the House Oversight Committee – sent a letter to Bragg last month seeking information about the case and slamming the probe as an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”Bragg's office pushed back on that letter, charging that complying with such a request would “interfere with law enforcement” and would represent an “unlawful incursion into New York’s sovereignty." The Republican chairmen responded days later with a threat to subpoena Bragg.“We believe that we now must consider whether Congress should take legislative action to protect former and/or current Presidents from politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials, and if so, how those protections should be structured,” the chairs wrote in an eight-page letter. “Critically, due to your own actions, you are now in possession of information critical to this inquiry.” “It is not appropriate for Congress to interfere with pending local investigations,” Bragg responded in a statement. “This unprecedented inquiry by federal elected officials into an ongoing matter serves only to hinder, disrupt and undermine the legitimate work of our dedicated prosecutors.”In a Twitter post, Jordan accused Bragg of suing "to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it."The lawsuit comes one day after Jordan announced a hearing in New York for next week titled "Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan" aimed at exploring Bragg's policies. The hearing “will examine how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents,” according to a statement put out by the committee on Monday.“Don’t be fooled, the House GOP is coming to the safest big city in America for a political stunt,” a spokesperson for Bragg said in a statement on Monday. “The hearing won’t engage in actual efforts to increase public safety, such as supporting national gun legislation and shutting down the iron pipeline,” a term used to describe the flow of guns from states with less-restrictive gun laws into New York, where gun restrictions are among the toughest in the nation..."
(DIR) Post #AUYZYsdLkMkDAFQm0W by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-11T22:44:22Z
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@Tilopa You are so right, it is sad and depressing. They only care about their "team" winning, as if politics was just another spectator sport instead of incredibly important. The base has become so brainwashed that they can't think straight or their way out of a wet paper bag. I don't think they can even tell the difference between the truth and a lie that makes them feel good. They just knee jerk towards the feel good lie!
(DIR) Post #AUYaWY23TJO4e2REZ6 by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-11T22:55:09Z
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@Tilopa Good points. They have been lied to so much, they've gone nearly blind and brain dead! Talk about being not self-aware!
(DIR) Post #AUcVxJK616iKcMQOie by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-13T20:14:10Z
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It is well past time for Feinstein to step down and let a successor be appointed so that the democrats can get their judges appointed. Come on, Diane, hop to it! Resign now, please! Hanging on doesn't help anyone, especially not your constituents. Ginsberg should have resigned, and you should resign now!Feinstein And the Ginsburg Betrayal – Ian Welsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/feinstein-and-the-ginsburg-betrayal/#AllInThisTogether #SelfishnessIsAsocial "Ginsburg had cancer. It was a type of cancer which was almost always fatal. She refused to step down from the Supreme Court when a Democratic president could easily appoint her successor, and as a result the Democrats lost a court seat. Ginsburg was looked up to by liberal women, but she betrayed them, though most can’t see past their hero worship to recognize that.Feinstein is in a similar position: shingles isn’t the real issue, she has dementia and everyone know it. If she cared about the interests of her constituents she would step down immediately so that judges could be appointed and laws passed which need her support. It’s not that she’s a good Senator, she’s voted for a lot of crap, but Democratic appointed judges tend to be better than Republican appointed judges and the difference is important.Given how bad her dementia appears to be it may be that this isn’t mostly on her: it could be her circle who are keeping her in. If so, they’re the one’s betraying, though she did pick them before age took its toll.A leader who puts themselves first is not a leader, just someone looking out for themselves."
(DIR) Post #AUcfdLKPqpkOaQgx9M by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-13T22:11:05Z
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@dibi58 That is funny!
(DIR) Post #AUp4DqCgvMffbaFsLg by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-19T21:37:36Z
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Like so many things, the water crisis in the western U.S. is about short-sighted, self-interest (read selfishness and greed) and the power of certain, small but wealthy groups to dictate government agendas that hurt the majority of the population. Huh, greed, selfishness and bought politicians getting in the way of making government work for all of us? Sounds so damn familiar!!!Why is the Colorado river drying up? Feeding cows is a large part - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-water-alfalfa-dairy-beef-meat#GreedKills #CapitalismKills #AllInThisTogether"...residential water use accounts for just 13 percent of water drawn from the Colorado River. According to research published in Nature Sustainability, the vast majority of water is used by farmers to irrigate crops....which crops receive the bulk of the Colorado River’s water, 70 percent goes to alfalfa, hay, corn silage, and other grasses that are used to fatten up cattle for beef and cows for dairy. Some of the other crops, like soy, corn grain, wheat, barley, and even cotton, may also be used for animal feed....The stress on the West’s water supply due to alfalfa is especially acute in Utah: A staggering 68 percent of the state’s available water is used to grow alfalfa for livestock feed, even though it’s responsible for a tiny 0.2 percent of the state’s income. Last year, the editorial board of the state’s largest newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune, declared that “it’s time for Utah to buy out alfalfa farmers and let the water flow.”California takes more water from the Colorado River than any other state, and most of it goes to the Imperial Valley in the southern part of the state. It’s one of the most productive agricultural regions in the US, producing two-thirds of America’s vegetables during winter months. But the majority of the Imperial Valley’s farmland is dedicated to alfalfa and various grasses for livestock.In Arizona, Phoenix’s backup water supply is being drained to grow alfalfa by Fondomonte, owned by Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy company, which it ships 8,000 miles back to the Middle East to feed its domestic herds. (Water-starved Saudi Arabia banned growing alfalfa and some other animal feed crops within its own borders in 2018.)...all that alfalfa is used to produce beef and dairy — two food groups that themselves contribute significantly to climate change. In other words, we’re using water supplies that have been shrunk in part by climate change to produce food that will in turn worsen climate change.
(DIR) Post #AVAFS4IqTmwZCdHLV2 by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-04-29T22:06:49Z
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Great article. HIs point about our elites running our government and our economy very poorly is right on. The government is our government, by and for the people. Yet that isn't how it's been run, more like by and for the oligarchs and elites! Taxation and general economic policies have transferred many, many trillions of dollars from the middle class to the 1%. That wasn't an accident, that was the plan. And they keep coming back for more, with the Trump tax cuts and the new ones the GOP is itching to put in place and the way the Federal Reserve is attacking inflation by destroying the economy for the working class and eroding their wages rather than going after the real culprits and breaking up monopolies and taxing excess profits.And there are so many other ways our government has been hijacked and turned into the rich's lapdog! We have our work cut out for us to restore our government and economy so that they ensure that all citizens are healthy and secure financially while working and retired. This is what the government is supposed to do, not spoil and only serve the wealthy! Government For the People Shouldn’t Keep Secrets From the People – Ian Welsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/government-for-the-people-shouldnt-keep-secrets-from-the-people/#MoneyIsNotFreeSpeech #GovtByN4ThePeople #GreedKillsDemocracy #GovtByN4TheRich"This is hard to talk about, because we live in a debased period.Government’s job, in a democracy, should be to increase the welfare of the people and represent their will.Because people elect the government, they need to know what the government is doing and has done in order to choose who to elect.This is fundamental.When people do not know what the government is doing, they cannot make good decisions.Further, elected representatives (in principle, not in current practice) are the employees of the population. As employers, the population has a right to know what the representatives are doing. (Or if you prefer another metaphor, perhaps better, they are trustees.) They don’t have the right to know everything, but anything related to the job, including corruption and double dealing, they do.The only possible exceptions are certain military related issues which would be very useful to enemies, but even there, the span is limited.The reason for this, because apparently it’s not obvious, is that if electors don’t know what the people they elected and the government those people run are doing, they can’t make good decisions, like choosing to, oh, fire them.As an aside, this is also why we have a right to know what our government is doing and why they don’t have a right to spy on us: they work for us, we do not work for them. Even so, their personal lives, other than graft and blatant hypocrisy should be off the line. But what they do officially we need to know.If government doesn’t serve the people, it becomes tyranny.The current system of classifying virtually everything and then lying and lying and lying is clearly anti-democratic and tyrannical.What we have right now in most countries (see France, Pensions for a non-American example) is not democracy. It is oligarchical tyranny: the rule of the few over the many.Nor is this just about “ought”, the problem with endless propaganda is that our elites have been running our countries terribly. They have mishandled the economy repeatedly since 1968 or so, have completely bungled climate change and ecological collapse, have made the middle and working classes poor and the rich richer. They have been running government for the benefit of the few, not the many. The only major notable exception is China, and from what I hear from those on the ground, that’s changing for the worse and has been since after the 2008 financial crisis.Governments which impoverish the many to benefit the few are tyrannies and need to be overthrown. But one of the ways they get there is by constant lying and saying “we’re lying and concealing for your own good. You’re children, it isn’t safe for you to know.”Anyone who thinks you don’t deserve or need to know what they claim to be doing on your behalf isn’t your friend or your employee, they are your master and they see you as their slave.
(DIR) Post #AVk4ItK6SEmWcoFigy by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-05-17T00:27:07Z
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This is an interesting turn of events. Good outside-the-box thinking to protect our country's fiscal security.House Democrats Now Own Kevin McCarthy https://politicususa.substack.com/p/house-democrats-now-own-kevin-mccarthy?#DebtLimit #DebtLimitHostageTaking "A group of House Democrats have told Kevin McCarthy that if he does the right thing on the debt limit, they will block House Republicans from removing him from the speakership."
(DIR) Post #AW8JyBniYZhdq4cXi4 by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-05-27T21:06:47Z
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The media's misinforming the public about the GOP hostage-taking over the debt ceiling is dangerously close to disinformation and propaganda! The changes the GOP wants are only conducted within the budget process, yet they lack the votes to enact their dream list that way, so they are using the relic that is the debt ceiling to try extortion instead of democracy. They are threatening the livelihood and financial well-being of America and Americans to get their donor's wishlists enacted. Only the Democrats care about and are being motivated by America and American's well-being in this manufactured crisis, and the GOP is leveraging the Dems caring to enact concessions. The hostage-takers don't care about the hostages, and the public ought to be aware of that! Yet the media is pulling their lame bothsidesism again and willfully misrepresenting this situation to the detriment of us and our country. This is yet another example of how most of the mainstream media is used by their wealthy owners to mislead Americans so they can achieve objectives that the rest of us don't want. The rich have needs and goals that are not in the interests of America or average Americans. When the wealthy own media, our democracy is missing it's fourth pillar!!The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a "partisan standoff""It was completely manufactured by Kevin McCarthy and his House Republicans"https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-debt-ceiling-debacle-is-not-a?publication_id=365422&post_id=123808361&isFreemail=true#GOPHatesAvgAmericans #TheRichOwnTheMedia #TheRichHateAvgAmericans #GreedKillsDemocracy "This morning, the credit-rating agency Fitch put the nation’s AAA rating on a watch list, citing “increased political partisanship” over the debt ceiling. I just heard ABC attribute the standoff on the debt ceiling to “polarization” in Congress. NPR blames the fight on “hyper-partisanship” in American politics. Reuters blames the stalemate on lawmakers “digging in on partisan positions.”“Partisan standoff” is the way most of the media is now characterizing the fight.Hello?Enough with the “both sides” reporting on the debt ceiling.The current fight over raising the debt ceiling — and the growing possibility the United States might default on its debts — is not because of partisanship. It’s not due to political polarization. It’s not because lawmakers are “digging in” to “partisan positions.”Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster.In order to become speaker, Kevin McCarthy made a deal with right-wing MAGA House Republicans to use the debt ceiling as a way to hold America hostage and force the Biden administration to come begging.McCarthy and his band of MAGA crazies don’t give a fig about the national debt. Hell, they had no problem raising the debt ceiling three times under Trump — while providing trillions in tax cuts for the rich.This current fight is entirely theirs.The “both sides” reporting is misleading the public and giving a free pass to McCarthy and his extremists.I admire Joe Biden, but he should not have allowed the media to so badly mischaracterize what’s happening. He never should have begun negotiating with McCarthy. Biden has the bully pulpit; he should have addressed the nation by now, pointing out that this fight is manufactured entirely by House Republicans.The media’s reporting is inexcusable.
(DIR) Post #AW8JyDdVjUj7WzrQ4u by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-05-27T22:45:07Z
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@jacobrogers256 It sure looks that way, doesn't it. Perhaps we could take up a collection and get them a backbone!!
(DIR) Post #AW8JyEx2qLwjbs0XAG by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-05-29T01:05:12Z
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@jacobrogers256 Valid points, but I would point out that the GOP is even worse! No desire for compromise which is essential for a democracy and they take more corporate money and the worst corporate money, i.e., fossil fuel and NRA. So yes, the dems do have a problem, for sure, yet the GOP is much more problematic. ever since the GOP gutted our unions, the dems have had to increasingly rely on corporate money and this has been problematic all around. What do you think?
(DIR) Post #AW8JyGYerzcyaoc5Qm by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-05-29T01:21:48Z
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@jacobrogers256 Very true!!! And they need to grow a spine and stop selling out average americans at times. much better than the GOP but by no means ideal.
(DIR) Post #AYCR5ZcYGDuYMurSGO by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-07-29T21:48:13Z
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If we ever wondered what the racists would do if they got power and control of parts of our government, here's the answer. Whitewash their history, lie to make their preferred take on reality real, and later our all to accurate take on what racism and slavery is all about!#RacistsHateHistory #RacistsDon'tWantToChange
(DIR) Post #AZ2IiTAmqriuDrkIQi by notwhatwethink@climatejustice.social
2023-08-23T21:49:28Z
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Of course they did. The GOP thinks that rules are for suckers and certainly not them. Like McConnel sabotaging Garland's supreme court nomination and countless other examples, they care about winning and getting their way not democracy or the rule of law.It’s All but Settled: The Reagan Campaign Delayed the Release of the Iranian Hostages | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/172324/its-settled-reagan-campaign-delayed-release-iranian-hostages?mc_cid=34f5b33a17