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Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Elon Musk has used his large platform on X to promote a theory that a free-thinking "Republic" could only exist under the decision-making of "high status males" " and women or "low T men" would not be welcome in it. read more


The employee's dismissal letter, shared with the Tampa Bay Times, said he released unauthorized' information to the public. read more


Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian! Sources and Transcript at the link.


Monday, September 02, 2024

Donald Trump's team is approaching the final nine weeks of the presidential campaign as a race to drag Kamala Harris down. read more


Saturday, August 31, 2024

Donald Trump has said he will vote against a ballot measure in his home state of Florida that would protect abortion rights after facing backlash from conservative supporters. read more


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To put the quote in context:

"By Roosevelt's inauguration, unemployment had grown to over twenty-five percent of the nation's workforce, with more than twelve million Americans out of work."
-William Leuchtenburg, Esteemed FDR historian

Roosevelt displayed effective leadership by steadfastly pushing to replace short-term monetary relief, like government handouts, with long-term solutions, like creating jobs.

His empathetic vision for America included mending both the economy and the spirit of the people."

Roosevelt displayed effective leadership by steadfastly pushing to replace short-term monetary relief, like government handouts, with long-term solutions, like creating jobs.

His empathetic vision for America included mending both the economy and the spirit of the people."

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"In his State of the Union Address before Congress on January 4, 1935, President Roosevelt declared, "the time has come for action by the national government" to provide "security against the major hazards and vicissitudes [uncertainties] of life."

He went on to propose the creation of federal unemployment and old-age insurance programs. He also called for guaranteed benefits for poor single mothers and their children along with other dependent persons."

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"A few months later, on August 18, 1935, Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.

It set up a federal retirement program for persons over 65, which was financed by a payroll tax paid jointly by employers and their workers.

FDR believed that federal old-age pensions together with employer-paid unemployment insurance (also a part of the Social Security Act) would provide the economic security people needed during both good and bad times.
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In addition to old-age pensions and unemployment insurance, the Social Security Act established a national welfare system."

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much more at the link

and...

Context is your friend.

Cherry picking quotes isn't context.

"Most consequentially, the 1970s were when Trump's modern-day Republican Party was birthed.

Prior to that, the nation had hummed along for 40 years on a top income tax bracket of 91% and a corporate income tax that topped out around 50%.

Business leaders ran their companies, which were growing faster than at any time in the history of America, and largely avoided participating in politics.

Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Dwight Eisenhower had renewed America with modern, state-of-the-art public labs, schools, and public hospitals across the nation;

nearly free college, trade school, and research support;
healthy small and family businesses;
unions protecting a third of America's workers, setting the wage floor so two-thirds of us had a living wage and benefits;
and an interstate highway system, rail system, and network of new airports that transformed the nation's commerce."

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"But the seeds of today's American crisis were planted just ten years earlier, in 1971, when Lewis Powell, then a lawyer for the tobacco industry, wrote his infamous "Powell Memo."

It became a blueprint for the morbidly rich and big corporations to take over the weakened remnants of Nixon's Republican Party and then America itself.

They then moved on to infiltrate our universities, seize our media, pack our courts, integrate themselves into a large religious movement to add millions of votes, and turn upside down our tax, labor, and gun laws."

much more at the thread link

Here's the video version:

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Kamala today...

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and

"An ABC News/Ipsos poll released on Sunday found that 46 percent of likely voters viewed Harris favorably versus 43 percent unfavorably, while Trump's ratings were 33 percent to 58 percent."

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