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What a list of losers (from the article):

We now have, as a result of Trump's choices and the endorsement of every or virtually every Republican in the US Senate:

" An alcoholic B-list weekend TV star in charge of our military,
" A formerly heroin- and sex-addicted brainworm-infected lawyer in charge of our public health,
" A wrestling promoter in charge of our Education Department,
" The president's personal criminal defense lawyer in charge of the Justice Department,
" A C-list reality TV star in charge of our air traffic control system,
" A plumber in charge of Homeland Security,
" A "miracle weight-loss pill" TV hawker in charge of Medicare and Medicaid,
" A social media hustler and children's book author in charge of the FBI,
" A predatory hedge fund guy in charge of the Treasury,
" A fracking CEO who denies the climate crisis in charge of the Energy Department,
" Jeffrey Epstein's former next-door neighbor and Epstein Island visitor in charge of the Commerce Department,
" A politician who built his career on a phony story about his parents fleeing Castro in charge of telling America's story to the world,
" The mentee of an anti-democracy billionaire as our VP,
" A Project 2025 architect who was excited to put federal workers "in trauma" in charge of America's federal budget,
" A racist whose own uncle publicly denounced him as an immigration hypocrite, and whose leaked emails pushed white nationalist material to Breitbart, in charge of immigration policy,
" A former NFL player in charge of public housing,
" A real estate developer and golf buddy with no diplomatic experience whatsoever negotiating with and sucking up to Vladimir Putin,
" The world's richest man firing people investigating him and his companies while gutting the federal government and killing millions by "feeding USAID into the wood chipper,"
" And a self-described "proud Islamophobe" with no government job vetting the National Security Council staff.

DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle claims that it underpaid delivery workers in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday.

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Would you look at that. Mayor Mamdani is looking out for delivery workers while the-------------------'s stormtroopers are shooting them in the back.

"A return to sanity

In the 1930s through the 1960s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and JFK/LBJ put America back together after the First Republican Great Depression and built the largest and wealthiest middle class in the history of the world at the time.

Today, 45 years of Ayn Rand's ideas being put into practice by libertarian Republicans from Reagan to Bush to Trump have gutted the middle class, made a handful of oligarchs wealthier than any kings or Pharaohs in the history of the world, and brought a whole new generation of predators, hustlers, and grifters into the GOP.

And then there's Trump's war against Iran, his theft of Venezuela's oil and gold, his attacks on NATO and threats against Greenland, his cutting off weapons to Ukraine, his cashing in on the presidency in ways that clearly violate the Constitution, and his and the GOP's multiple efforts to rig our elections.

There's a popular meme going around the internet these days that says:

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to find out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."

If America is to survive as a functioning democratic republic, we must repudiate the "greed is good" ideology of Ayn Rand and libertarianism, get billionaires and their money out of politics, stop Trump and his lickspittles, and rebuild our civil institutions.

That starts with waking Americans up to the incredible damage that 45 years of Rand's writings and libertarian "Reagan Republicans" have done to this country and giving Congress to Democrats who'll actually investigate and prosecute these crimes against both democracy and our nation itself.

And that starts with checking your voter registration at vote.org and making a plan today to be sure your vote is both cast and counted.

Tag, we're it!"

"The model here is straightforward: government is something to be exploited for personal gain not public service, because government is essentially an evil thing.

So, load it up with incompetents, suck up as much money as you can, and leave the mess to the Democrats:

" Three Republican presidents borrowed over $35 trillion, put it all on the national credit card, just to hand all that money to the billionaires who fund their campaigns and sustain their lavish lifestyles.

" Republicans in Congress have thrown millions off of food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid and refuse to fix Social Security or Medicare.

" Trump just discarded many of our pollution rules, a move that will lead to more cancers and asthma among our children.

" Bob Kennedy saluted putting cancer-causing chemicals on our food supply.

" Anything Putin wants from Trump he gets.

" They're selling off public lands and destroying our park system like there's no tomorrow, while rewriting America's history into a white supremacist fantasy.

" Miller's ICE goons are murdering Americans and getting away with it while imprisoning brown-skinned people without due process.

" Trump has made billions since becoming president through crypto scams and bets on his own war proclamations.

And that's just the beginning. Which is causing millions of Americans, scratching their heads in wonder, to ask:

"Where did this anti-American-government insanity come from, and how did it come to seize control of the entire Republican Party?"

It all started with the Libertarians:" MORE at the link

Analysis of Obama's deportations........

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

Immigrant advocates and serious researchers have known for years that the deportation dragnet cast by the Obama administration is capturing thousands and thousands of people who pose no serious threat to public safety. This week, the New York Times and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University each independently confirmed this conclusion. They did so through comprehensive analyses of data obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (not included were deportation numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection). Both investigations thoroughly undermine the administration's claim that it is going after "criminals, ---------ers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families."

The principal finding of the Times investigation is a damning indictment of an administration that has claimed repeatedly to be targeting the worst of the worst violent, foreign-born criminals. In reality, according to the Times analysis, "two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all." In contrast, only "twenty percent"or about 394,000"of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show."

And as you pointed out.......there were protests. Why would there be protests if Obama only deported folks with criminal records?

#23 | Posted by visitor_

Job Creation: Over 7 million new jobs were created.This after cutting bloated Federal payroll.
It's about 750,000 jobs. Some of the worst job creation ever. And the federal payroll means nothing works, including the IRS and VA.

Unemployment Rate: Achieved a historic low of 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years.
The unemployment rate is 4.1%. This is much higher than under Biden's last 2 years (3.6% and 4%)

Tax Cuts: Implemented $3.2 trillion in tax cuts, benefiting working families.
Taxes went up on the middle class and under. The only tax cuts were for the rich and corporate America.

Poverty Reduction: Significant decreases in poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
You are making up numbers that aren't official. Unofficial numbers indicate slight increases in the poverty rate.

Record Highs: The stock market reached unprecedented levels, with the DOW closing above 30,000 for the first time.
...you gave them $3.5 trillion in borrowed money that tax payers have to pay back...

Manufacturing Jobs: Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
We've lost 75k to 100k manufacturuing jobs since Trump took office.

Food Stamp Reduction: Lifted nearly 7 million people off food stamps.
Kicking people off food stamps isn't lifting them off food stamps.

Economic Growth: The economy experienced substantial growth, with median household income reaching its highest level ever recorded.
GDP growth is averaging 2% under Trump, down further this year. Biden averaged 2.5%. And Household income is up like every year but surpassed by inflation.

Everything you said is a literal lie. Literally by every metric, we were better off under Biden.

More: All politics are identity politics. Republicans have long mocked this notion, treating the very concept of "identity politics" as a left-wing fixation. In reality, the GOP's success is entirely due to the cheapest form of identity politics: For decades, but especially now, they have worked to distract voters from the party's ruinous policies with appeals to their identity as white, provincial and, most importantly, Christian. This campaign has been enormously successful. White evangelicals have been the backbone of the GOP for decades not because they love tax cuts for the rich and environmental degradation, but because they have been told, repeatedly, that Democrats are demonic and there is no such thing as a liberal Christian.

This is why there's a growing panic in the Republican ranks over the campaign of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, and it's not just fear that he could beat Ken Paxton, the state's Republican attorney general. Win or lose, Talarico " a seminary student-turned-politician " embodies an existential threat to the right's long-standing myth that to be Christian must necessarily mean voting Republican.

"As a young evangelical we were taught repeatedly and clearly: It is not possible to be a Christian and a Democrat," Brad Onishi, a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley and co-host of the "Straight White American Jesus" podcast, told me. "But candidates like Talarico are changing that. His theological acumen and keen ability to use the language of the New Testament to disarm bad-faith religious attacks is showing a new way forward."

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