applegrove
applegrove's JournalI guess so. My worry that because the student 'breached'
the building MAGA will claim it is like Jan 6 and will insist the students stand trial over the next 4 years. Watch for it on Fox 3 ... 2 .... 1 ...
PAUL KRUGMAN Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
PAUL KRUGMAN
Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
April 29, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/opinion/trump-economics.html
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What’s really worrisome, however, are indications that a future Trump regime would manipulate monetary policy in pursuit of short-run political advantage, justifying its actions with crank economic doctrines.
The Federal Reserve is a quasi-independent institution, not because of any sacrosanct constitutional principle, but because nations have found that in practice it’s important to limit partisan influence over interest rates and money creation. But in recent weeks there have been reports that Trump advisers want to take away much of the Fed’s independence, presumably so that Trump could juice the economy and the stock market the way he wanted to in 2019.
There are also reports that Trump advisers, obsessed with the trade deficit, want to devalue the dollar, which would indeed help exports but would also be clearly inflationary — raising import prices and overheating a U.S. economy that is already running hot. (In fact, our economic strength is probably the main reason the dollar has been rising.)
And even as they talk about weakening the dollar, Trump advisers are reportedly discussing punishing other countries that reduce their use of the greenback — which seems both contradictory and to involve a delusional view of how much economic power even America possesses.
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RACHEL MADDOW: TRUMP IS QUARTERBACKING A NATIONAL GOP CRIME SCANDAL
RACHEL MADDOW: TRUMP IS QUARTERBACKING A NATIONAL GOP CRIME SCANDAL
JASON EASLEY MSNBC, RACHEL MADDOW, TOP NEWS MON, APR 29TH, 2024
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/04/29/rachel-maddow-trump-gop-crime.html
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Maddow said after pointing out that state Republican officials in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are all facing criminal charges related to Trump’s attempted coup, “I know him being on trial for multiple felonies is an amazing and unprecedented and frankly astonishing spectacle. But stick a pin in that idea of astonishing. Because the crime he is alleged to have quarterbacked, to try to keep himself in power despite losing an election, that crime is now a sprawling nationwide scandal that has resulted in dozens of Republican officials, in almost all of the swing states, being criminally charged and in all of the prominent lawyers involved in that effort, either being criminally charged or having their law licenses put at risk or both.”
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Maddow brought up the point that almost everyone seems to miss. Trump is the quarterback of team GOP crime, but the party has been brought along with him. This means that the Republican Party itself is now a criminal operation at the federal, state, and even local levels.
Donald Trump is the headliner of the crime wave, but there is a whole touring company allegedly committing crimes by his side.
No one should believe that if Trump went away tomorrow, the Republican Party would return to normal. The GOP has its party DNA mutated in the image of Trump. Crime is a part of who they are now, and getting rid of the source will not make the infection completely disappear.
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Nancy Pelosi Calls Out Katy Tur For Being A Trump Apologist
Nancy Pelosi Calls Out Katy Tur For Being A Trump Apologist
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/04/29/nancy-pelosi-calls-out-katy-tur-for-being-a-trump-apologist.html/amp
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So, it might surprise Tur to learn that a sizable number of MSNBC viewers agree with Pelosi.
The idea that the pandemic was solely responsible for the job losses under Trump is a false Republican talking point.
Studies have shown that Trump’s economic policies had already pushed the economy into recession. The economy was already in recession before COVID. Trump was going to have a bad jobs record without the pandemic. Solely blaming the pandemic for the job losses ignores what Trump did to the economy.
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Xi Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Europe and the U.S.
Xi Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Europe and the U.S.
April 29, 2024 at 4:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/29/xi-tries-to-drive-a-wedge-between-europe-and-the-u-s/
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“Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the European Union for the first time in five years with a clear message: Beijing offers much more of an economic opportunity for the bloc than the U.S. wants to admit,” Bloomberg reports.
“The Chinese leader will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary on May 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing. Those nations are seeking investment from China, despite a litany of EU probes into Beijing’s industrial policy and the warnings from officials in Washington about the risks.”
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Applegrove:
When the intelligence authorities took over the old Nortel (fiber optics) head office after it closed in Ottawa they found tons of Chinese bugs inside the walls. The Chinese stole everything for the high tech company.
Repugs don't want to pay medicare and SS to seniors.
The Billionaires will go to Europe for cancer treatment.
Reminder: Inflation is Temporary, losing your democracy is Permanent
https://www.threads.net/@jacques.kesse/post/C6OZI5uLWHh/?xmt=AQGz2iABgsSqc4hj307ByhBxA1yPLS1vW_KgJI8xGO1qygReminder:
"Inflation is Temporary, losing your democracy is Permanent"
Dean Obeidallah
https://flic.kr/p/2pMCzCe
Meme on AOC: Biden doesn't stand for all the values I do. But I would rather fight for those things in a landscape
https://www.threads.net/@beingliberal/post/C5-wwVILyk4/?xmt=AQGzeuIuiEnubALRVP1yzXZEXhKchdIWapem70WTbkTshASee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez video at link above:
Meme on her words: Biden doesn't stand for all the values I do. But I would rather fight for those things in a landscape where democracy still works, than a landscape of racist, sexist authoritarianism.
(Note: out-take is a representation of what AOC said in the video at the link. For complete language go to video.)
Chris Sununu Is No Different Than Matt Gaetz
Chris Sununu Is No Different Than Matt Gaetz
April 15, 2024 at 1:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 122 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/15/chris-sununu-is-no-different-than-matt-gaetz/
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Jonathan Last: “It’s important to note that Sununu didn’t have to go on This Week.”
“If his conscience requires him to vote for Trump, no matter what, Sununu could do that quietly, in the privacy of his own voting booth. Volunteering to go on TV and promote Trump is a choice. Showing up and then spouting lies on Trump’s behalf is another choice.”
“Functionally, Chris Sununu is as active a part of Trump’s campaign as Matt Gaetz or MTG, or any of the other MAGA freaks. And it seems not to bother him that these people would poleaxe him if given a second’s chance. It seems not to bother him that his political career is over. He’s not just willing to exit public life on his knees—he’s eager to do it.”
“In the end, it doesn’t matter if Sununu is a mountebank, a coward, or a fool. Those three characters are equally pernicious.”
“What matters is that the rest of us understand that it is the Chris Sununus of the world who make this ongoing authoritarian attempt possible.”
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Applegrove:
For sure there should be a price to pay for knowingly supporting Trump when you know better. And Sununu knows better.
moun·te·bank
noun
a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-bell-ca-revc&source=android-browser&q=mountebank
Johnson Signals He Won't Put Senate Bill on Floor
Johnson Signals He Won’t Put Senate Bill on Floor
April 14, 2024 at 10:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/14/johnson-signals-he-wont-put-senate-bill-on-floor/
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“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday did not indicate that he would put the Senate-passed supplemental package on foreign aid on the floor this week, despite mounting pressure from Democrats and some GOP lawmakers to do so after Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel,” NBC News reports.
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And from February 28th 2024:
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Key Findings
Six in 10 Americans favor providing both economic assistance to Ukraine and sending additional arms and military supplies to the Ukrainian government (58% each).
Majorities of Democrats (75%) and Independents (54%) favor providing military aid to Ukraine, which a majority of Republicans (53%) oppose.
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Seven in 10 Americans (69%), including majorities across party lines, favor the United States supporting Ukraine’s admission to NATO.
A majority of Americans (60%) say that the US security relationship with Ukraine does more to strengthen US national security than it does to weaken it.
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https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/americans-continue-support-military-and-economic-aid-ukraine
Applegrove:
So 70% are for NATO. This is turning out to be another issue like abortion. It is all on Trump.
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