What has happened to the economy over the past half century? Well, here are a number of things that are provable: Almost all new wealth has wound up in the hands of the top 1%, which has driven the demand …
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Tell Us How You *Really* Feel
The weird thing about Trump is that about half of voters agree with Robert DeNiro (though we might not express ourselves quite like he does), while the other half believe the president was sent by God to make America great …
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We Need an Economy that Works for Everyone
Yes, that’s true. But that would a be a lot easier to achieve if we had fewer hateful, uneducated people who vote for Trump.
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Trump and an Unstable Civilization
An old friend sent me this article that deals with an instability that Team Trump is sewing into human civilization. The real problem of course, is that people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t rely on 401(k)s to provide …
Boycotting Tesla
Tesla sales were sliding long before Musk was appointed to be the lead executioner for essentially everything that the federal government does to serve the American people. Bumper stickers like the one below began to show up as soon as …
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Reforming the Democratic Party
I trust Bernie Sanders, and I’d like to believe he’s right here, but I actually don’t. In 2024, a plurality of voters elected Trump, consisting of perhaps 20% amoral rich people and 80% uneducated morons. These people absolutely adore what …
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**Some** Americans Are Embarrassed About What Our Nation Has Become
Let’s be honest. The American people elected this SOB just a few months ago, and he was hardly an unknown quantity. We need to deal with the fact that almost half of U.S. voters approve of ignorance of basic economics, …
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Another Website for Climate Deniers
As shown at left, the people who want to muddy the waters on climate change (Big Oil?) are at it again. In truth, there were occasional articles in the early 20th Century that (correctly) asserted that the emissions from burning …
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Why Poor People Die Young
Bernie Sanders has this to say on the graph here: “Stress kills.” To that I would add the multiplicity of other stuff that kills poor people: malnutrition, shoddy healthcare, living in communities whose air and water are polluted, dangerous professions, …
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Donald Trump Calls CNN and MSNBC ‘Illegal’ During DOJ Speech
From AdWeek: President Donald Trump referred to CNN and MSNBC “illegal” during a speech at the Department of Justice on Friday. It marked the latest escalation in his language about the news media and those two networks in particular since he returned …
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