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Saturday, March 01, 2025

Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service, still covered in the blue paint she used to mark trees for local loggers. Then she got the text. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news," her union leader wrote. read more


Tuesday, February 25, 2025

North Carolina's economy is bracing for a hold on billions in funding to the state government, universities, businesses, and hospitals after the Trump administration announced a sweeping freeze on federal grant and loan programs. read more


Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Freshly confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a room packed with federal health workers on Tuesday that he plans to "investigate" whether the timing of childhood vaccinations and anti-depression medications are among several "possible factors" in the nation's problem with chronic diseases. "Nothing is going to be off limits," Kennedy told the large crowd Tuesday. read more


Thursday, February 13, 2025

The State Department was planning to buy $400 million worth of "Armored Tesla" later this year, according to its 2025 procurement forecast, a document outlining projections of anticipated contracts, which was published in December. read more


Friday, February 07, 2025

The first jobs report since President Donald Trump's inauguration came out Friday morning, falling short of headline expectations in the weakest start to a year for overall job growth since before the COVID-19 pandemic, though other data points revealed a resilient labor market. read more


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The dems lost due to 1 reason.

The moral bankruptcy of a sizable portion of the American electorate.

The bloated orange pedo tapped multiple veins of resentment in the US....

Misogyny
Racism
Transphobia
Wokeness

But what it came down to was the fact that wages have not kept up with inflation. This is not new. It has been happening ever since the GOP destroyed unions in the 70's. Cheap energy in the 80's and 90's hid the fact that wages were not keeping up due to outsourcing, right to work and union busting.

It was very easy to pin that on migrants who are willing to work and scrape by on minimum wage jobs that corporate america needed filled.

The democrats don't see that anger. They think by saying the GDP grew by X amount will placate the masses. It won't. America wants real change away from the plutocracy it is now.

It is hard to get people to believe they are better off as corporate america creates ever new methods to shift the cost of employment onto the workers. Pensions replaced by 401ks. Health insurance replaced by HMO's and then replaced with high deductible plans that drain the paychecks of workers and still leave them unable to afford to get sick. Instead of $10 copay from an HMO on a prescription, you get to chose to pay the first $7000 out of pocket or 50% or 40% or 60% of the retail cost of the prescription. But wait... you can now take up to $7000 from your paycheck to cover the high deductible AS WELL AS the increased insurance premiums lost in the word salad of bronze, silver and gold plans.

Fat nixon sold them the bill of goods that he was going to bring the cost of rent, food, gas, homes, etc without telling them how. The media when they asked about how would get a ten minute rambling explanation that ended up with talking about Hannibal Lecter from sundowning grandpa befuddlepant.

The people were dumb enough to believe him a second time.

Now the real pain is coming.

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