Don't underplay anti-monopoly action regardless of whether it is big oil, big pharma, or "big ticket prices." This is front line action in the battle against corporate capitalism. We need anti-trust action like their was 120 years ago.
It's the juxtaposition I think is a mistake. Both are incredibly important. While the monopolies exist they have the ability to own the politicians that and judges. That power must be broken if we ever hope to have anything close to free, fair, or equitable.
At the same time, yes, much of what happens in the government is play acting to distract the masses.
I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”
So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”
Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.
So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.
“We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald #Trump, but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”
@GottaLaff And George Bush and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay and Pat Buchanon and Roger Stone and Ronald Reagan and Pat Falwell and Grover Norquist and... the list goes on.
A group of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote to begin debate on a bill to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers, leaving the chamber scrambling on how to address the important spy tool -The Hill
Colorado law requires the Governor now call a special election to fill Buck's seat. Whoever wins the special will have a leg up running as the incumbent in the fall. So... Boebert must either resign her seat to run in the special or run against an incumbent in the fall or switch again and run in her current district.
Buck's district is a safe republican seat. Boebert's is not. Buck screwed Boebert with this move.
Trump filed his reply in the immunity issue in the Supreme Court.
It's so bad it is embarrassing. It is exactly how not to write a legal document.
To review: The issue now is simply whether the Supreme Court will put the trial DC-J6 trial hold while it considers whether to grant cert (hear his appeal.)
Ordinarily the order is this:
💠 Person loses and files a writ for certiorari (which means asking SCOTUS to hear the appeal.
💠 SCOTUS decides whether to hear the case.
@kcarruthers Yes, I was about to update my post with the following:
Let's be very clear that Nazism is inherently violent. A Nazi doesn't need to call for or promote violence explicitly. It is a violent and deadly ideology and to identify as a Nazi, explicitly, by symbolism, or by quotation and language appropriation is to declare your support for violence.
@GottaLaff Suozzi is a self promoter that wants to be Governor and has for years now. He's never struck me as being that much different than Andrew Cuomo.
Wow. How entitled do you have to be to keep arguing to a court that you are too busy to testify midweek because of childcare when a) your husband, the other parent of your child, is on the scene and b) you have plenty of money for a sitter and c) probably have a nanny? Ivanka, like her father, clearly thinks legal obligations are for other people. Appellate court didn’t buy it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/ivanka-trump-must-testify-trump-organization-fraud