Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to grant Congress more power over instituting tariffs on other countries following President Trump's announcement of wide-ranging taxes on nearly all U.S. foreign trading partners. read more
But Vance, who also advocates claiming the Panama Canal as American territory, is not just contemptuous of the U.S.-Denmark alliance. He's actively trying to weaken Denmark.
The country particularly bedevils Vance and others on the global far right, who see it as a leading avatar of the Europe they loathe and fear"the one that's still faithful to the liberal orthodoxies that defined the West for seven decades.
More human than humans? read more
We have the world's richest billionaires, who pay only a tiny fraction of their income in taxes compared to cops and bus drivers. Our middle class, meanwhile, has collapsed from being two-thirds of us in 1980 to fewer than 45 percent of us today as Reaganomics (which is still in effect) has transferred over $50 trillion in wealth from working class people into the money bins of the top one percent. read more
In what may be an American first, President Donald Trump pardoned a company sentenced to $100 million in fines for breaking money laundering laws. read more
Originally something to do with Camptown Races (before my time) and or drug dealers.
Popularized again by the Grateful Dead.
https://medium.com/@soup777/from-song-to-saga-the-journey-of-the-grateful-deads-doodah-man-fe07c34c9f98#:~:text=Central%20to%20the%20narrative%20of,were%20common%20in%20the%20countercultural
"Political courage is not outdated in the United States. At every level of government, leaders are putting country first, and not backing down.
Despite our political differences, it is hard to imagine an act of greater consequence than Vice President Pence's decision to certify the 2020 presidential election during an attack on the U.S. Capitol," Kennedy and Schlossberg said.
"Upholding his oath to the Constitution and following his conscience, the Vice President put his life, career, and political future on the line.
His decision is an example of President Kennedy's belief that an act of political courage can change the course of history."