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July 6 was the day Donald Trump launched his campaign for president by labeling the Mexican people rapists and bringers of âtremendous infectious diseaseâ across the border. Republican primary voters never looked back.We believe that as long as the the âtextbookâ racism of July 6 lives on in the Republican party, July 6 is a day that must be remembered and have attention brought to it. Vanilla is pretty much the most respected of spices. And there is no better Vanilla than the Vanilla produced by the people of Mexico. So for eight years now weâve been having an outrageously good deal on Mexican Vanilla extract to mark this day. And of course the problem with Trump launching his Republican primary campaign with âtextbookâ racism is that it worked. Heâs not actually dumb. Heâs a con man. He knows there are those things people tell themselves and there are those things people actually believe, and that itâs in the difference between that someone like him does their thing.
The other Republican candidates believed that Republican voters were split into camps. There were the fiscal conservatives who were there to balance the budget. There were the small government crowd who had weird bathtub fantasies dreaming of shrinking government to a size where it could be drowned. Then there were the Republican religious types who somehow imagined Jesus to be really into guns and border patrol cosplay.Trump's opponents believed the path to victory was winning one of those groups outright and just enough from the other two groups to deny victory to their rivals. Trump on the other hand understood that in reality, virtually nobody was backing the Republican party for balanced budgets, small government, or the Ten Commandments. Those were just the socially acceptable excuses they gave. Truth was they were there for the racism.
So July 6 Trump went all racist and just like that all three groups lined up behind him and elected him president. In his first term he ran up trillion dollar deficits in times of prosperity; grew the federal government to its largest size ever; and, we learned with his Trump University, he literally lied to people to steal their money, which he then used to buy the silence of women he was having adulterous relations with.How did Republican voters respond to learning he was the exact 180 degree opposite of the reasons they claim they voted Republican? By electing him the Republican candidate for president ever since. For the most part no one wins elections by talking about why those they seek to defeat do what they do or how they go about doing it. Elections are won by presenting something people want more. Elections are won by having fun. Still, until the Republicans seek to honestly address the racism that so weaves its way through everything they do, this needs to be brought up. Historically, July 6 is a good day to do it.Ten out of ten racists agree that, given the choice between the Republican party and the Democratic party, racists prefer Republicans.
Does voting for the party that is preferred by racists and that intentionally goes out of its way to court and encourage racist voters make every Republican voter a racist? Yes, absolutely, of course it does
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Trump doesn't know anything about Project 2025! Even though it has a great deal in common with Agenda 47, his plan of action during a possible second term that you can find on his Website.
And he doesn't know the people involved with Project 2025! If you believe that you have to wonder if he's suffering from severe memory loss:. Here is a list of Project 2025 authors and their jobs in the 2020-2024 Trump administration:
There is a big-money push from corporations and the ultra-wealthy to get Trump elected. The press does a piss-poor job of covering his mental lapses and lies. It's barely analyzing and highlighting Project 2025 which strips away checks and balances in favor of an imperial presidency. The six conservatives on the Supreme Court have set the table for presidential abuses of power.
There is a very powerful group of people in the US who are actively trying to kill democracy in this country.
I think that at this point they have pretty much achieved their objective
There is a big-money push from corporations and the ultra-wealthy to get Trump elected. The press does a piss-poor job of covering his mental lapses and lies. It's barely analyzing and highlighting Project 2025 which strips away checks and balances in favor of an imperial presidency. The six conservatives on the Supreme Court have set the table for presidential abuses of power.
There is a very powerful group of people in the US who are actively trying to kill democracy in this country.
Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? He was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared.
No one remembers the website Trump Golf Count?
Rolling into the oval office at 11, zoning out for the intelligence briefing, whining until they let him wander away and watch fox. That was Trump every damn day. And he flew to one of his personal country clubs to play golf almost every weekend.
Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? He was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared.
No one remembers the website Trump Golf Count?
Rolling into the oval office at 11, zoning out for the intelligence briefing, whining until they let him wander away and watch fox. That was Trump every damn day. And he flew to one of his personal country clubs to play golf almost every weekend.
Project 2025 Prescription Drug Plan Would Increase Costs for as Many as 18.5 Million Seniors and Others With Medicare
If Project 2025 is implemented, at least 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries with high out-of-pocket costs will pay more for prescription drugs next year.
Over the past two years, seniors and other Medicare enrollees have begun to benefit from monumental prescription drug price reforms thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. However, these lifesaving policies are now under threat.
The Heritage Foundation has outlined a sweeping, far-right policy vision to put powerâand profitsâback in pharmaceutical companiesâ hands. Project 2025âs âMandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promiseâ calls for repealing the Inflation Reduction Act. Similarly, the Republican Study Committeeâs âFiscal Sanity to Save Americaâ fiscal year 2025 budget proposal calls for a full repeal of the law. If Project 2025 is implemented, millions of Medicare enrollees will see their out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs rise, reversing much-needed savings generated by the Inflation Reduction Actâs Medicare Part D reforms and other provisions.
Across the United States, more than 1.5 million Medicare Part D enrolleesâwho are among the most vulnerable enrollees with significant health needsâcould see their 2025 out-of-pocket costs rise if the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap is repealed. But beyond that, 18.5 million Medicare Part D enrollees could lose much-needed out-of-pocket savings from the Inflation Reduction Actâs full package of Medicare Part D redesign elements (as detailed in 1aâf under âWhatâs at stake in the Inflation Reduction Actâ). Some seniors could see an average of nearly $400 in lost drug savings in 2025 alone. Overall, Medicare Part D enrollees across the nation could lose out on up to $7.4 billion in out-of-pocket savings next year.
...See how Project 2025 could increase costs for Medicare Part D enrollees in your state.
HOW IRA REPEAL COULD IMPACT MEDICARE PART D ENROLLEES IN 2025, BY STATE
Ohio
67K
Estimated number of Medicare Part D enrollees who could pay more without $2,000 out-of-pocket (OOP) cap
687.4K
Estimated number of Medicare Part D enrollees who could pay more without IRA OOP savings
$451
Average potential increase in OOP costs among Medicare Part D enrollees with OOP cost increases
$310.2M
Total missed savings for Part D enrollees in Ohio
Sources: Juliette Cubanksi, Tricia Neuman, and Anthony Damico, "Millions of People with Medicare Will Benefit from the New Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending Cap Over Time" (San Francisco: KFF, 2024), available at https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/millions-of-people-with-medicare-will-benefit-from-the-new-out-of-pocket-drug-spending-cap-over-time/; Bisma A. Sayed and others, "Inflation Reduction Act Research Series: Medicare Part D Enrollee Out-Of-Pocket Spending: Recent Trends and Projected Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act" (Washington: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 2023), available at https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1b652899fb99dd7e6e0edebbcc917cc8/aspe-part-d-oop.pdf.
The closely watched case focuses on a charge that former President Donald Trump also faces in his election interference case.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The justices in a 6-3 vote on nonideological lines handed a win to defendant Joseph Fischer, who is among hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants — including former President Donald Trump — who have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding over the effort to prevent Congress' certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory.
The court concluded that the law, enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the Enron accounting scandal, was only intended to apply to more limited circumstances involving forms of evidence tampering, not the much broader array of situations that prosecutors had claimed it covered.
The provision targets anyone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so," but the court determined that its scope is limited by a preceding sentence in the statute referring to altering or destroying records.
While he is evil enough, he was never a member of the cabinet.
One little stat to ponder: there are 26 cabinet-level positions in the executive branch. If Trump had 44 cabinet members that would be a lot of turnover in four years.
By my count there were 36 cabinet members confirmed by congress in the Trump administration. Of the 25 cabinet posts at the end of the term only 4 left office before the term was up. The rest sat thru Jan. 6th and rode it out, so maybe that stat is a wee bit of an exaggeration.
Still...
If you count those that didn't make it through confirmation you get 42, and Pence counts too, so that's 43. But the NBC story I think this references just says:
NBC News reached out to 44 of the dozens of people who served in Trump's Cabinet over his term in office. Most declined to comment or ignored the requests. A total of four have said publicly they support his run for re-election. Several have been coy about where they stand, stopping short of endorsing Trump with the GOP primary race underway. Then there are those who outright oppose his bid for the GOP nomination or are adamant that they don't want him back in power.
so it's not members of the cabinet, it's people who served in. A bigger pool. And the responses were 'coy' or 'no comment'. But 4 yays out of 44 people who were certainly some level of insiders isn't a good look.
If you ask the guy leaving the restaurant how it is and he looks at the ground and says "well.... Uh.... no comment", I'd look around.
