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applegrove's JournalHouse Republicans Finally Think They've Found an Issue
House Republicans Finally Think They’ve Found an Issue
May 2, 2024 at 7:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 129 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/02/house-republicans-finally-think-theyve-found-an-issue/
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“After flailing around for months unable to unite on anything, House Republicans finally think they’ve found an issue they agree on — countering the scourge of antisemitism on college campuses nationwide,” Punchbowl News reports.
“With 187 days until Election Day, a legislative cupboard that’s all but bare, a presidential impeachment inquiry that’s going nowhere and a speaker who has struggled to generate any discernible level of excitement, the anti-Jewish sentiment that’s spilled out at universities from coast to coast during Gaza war protests offers what Republicans believe is a compelling plot line during the closing months of the 118th Congress.”
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Applegrove:
They mean they needed to find an issue they could work hand in hand with Russia on as Russia manipulates young people on the internet. There is enough anger without Russia seeding and spreading it.
Trump Auditions VP Picks Before Wealthy Donors
Trump Auditions VP Picks Before Wealthy Donors
May 2, 2024 at 1:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/02/trump-auditions-vp-picks-before-wealthy-donors/
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“Donald Trump is sharpening his focus on a possible running mate by taking a page from his days hosting reality show The Apprentice and parading the top contenders for the slot in front of rich benefactors this weekend,” Bloomberg reports.
“Contestants jockeyed for a job with his business empire for over a decade on the NBC show, with Trump pitting them against each other for his favor. An exclusive donor retreat at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach this week promises a similar vibe — drawing hundreds of deep-pocketed GOP backers as well as allies eyeing the No. 2 spot on the Republican presidential ticket.”
“The spectacle comes as Trump is narrowing his gaze on a handful of potential running mates: Ohio Senator JD Vance, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, according to people familiar with the deliberations as recently as this week.”
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Applegrove:
VP Harris will wipe the floor with Rubio in a debate because he doesn't have a killer instinct when it comes to lying. The others are cartoon characters but accomplishments liars. I mean Rubio will be asked by Harris about the 6 week abortion ban in his home state and he will sputter and swallow and gag his way through the answer because 64% of people in the battleground states want to see access to abortion.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218916061
And he's going to have camps for 11 million the undocumented? Let disease
that is novel go rampant? What could go wrong?
Younger people did not experience inflation until
Bide's administration. It probably scares them. Remember jobs were outsourced to China and cheap good were imported in the 2000s and 2010s. The worker fought inflation. There was little inflation until Covid. Not Biden's fault but young people's fears should be attended to.
I guess so. My worry that because the student 'breached'
the building MAGA will claim it is like Jan 6 and will insist the students stand trial over the next 4 years. And to be put in jail for 4 years. Watch for it on Fox 3 ... 2 .... 1 ...
PAUL KRUGMAN Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
PAUL KRUGMAN
Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
April 29, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/opinion/trump-economics.html
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What’s really worrisome, however, are indications that a future Trump regime would manipulate monetary policy in pursuit of short-run political advantage, justifying its actions with crank economic doctrines.
The Federal Reserve is a quasi-independent institution, not because of any sacrosanct constitutional principle, but because nations have found that in practice it’s important to limit partisan influence over interest rates and money creation. But in recent weeks there have been reports that Trump advisers want to take away much of the Fed’s independence, presumably so that Trump could juice the economy and the stock market the way he wanted to in 2019.
There are also reports that Trump advisers, obsessed with the trade deficit, want to devalue the dollar, which would indeed help exports but would also be clearly inflationary — raising import prices and overheating a U.S. economy that is already running hot. (In fact, our economic strength is probably the main reason the dollar has been rising.)
And even as they talk about weakening the dollar, Trump advisers are reportedly discussing punishing other countries that reduce their use of the greenback — which seems both contradictory and to involve a delusional view of how much economic power even America possesses.
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RACHEL MADDOW: TRUMP IS QUARTERBACKING A NATIONAL GOP CRIME SCANDAL
RACHEL MADDOW: TRUMP IS QUARTERBACKING A NATIONAL GOP CRIME SCANDAL
JASON EASLEY MSNBC, RACHEL MADDOW, TOP NEWS MON, APR 29TH, 2024
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/04/29/rachel-maddow-trump-gop-crime.html
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Maddow said after pointing out that state Republican officials in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are all facing criminal charges related to Trump’s attempted coup, “I know him being on trial for multiple felonies is an amazing and unprecedented and frankly astonishing spectacle. But stick a pin in that idea of astonishing. Because the crime he is alleged to have quarterbacked, to try to keep himself in power despite losing an election, that crime is now a sprawling nationwide scandal that has resulted in dozens of Republican officials, in almost all of the swing states, being criminally charged and in all of the prominent lawyers involved in that effort, either being criminally charged or having their law licenses put at risk or both.”
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Maddow brought up the point that almost everyone seems to miss. Trump is the quarterback of team GOP crime, but the party has been brought along with him. This means that the Republican Party itself is now a criminal operation at the federal, state, and even local levels.
Donald Trump is the headliner of the crime wave, but there is a whole touring company allegedly committing crimes by his side.
No one should believe that if Trump went away tomorrow, the Republican Party would return to normal. The GOP has its party DNA mutated in the image of Trump. Crime is a part of who they are now, and getting rid of the source will not make the infection completely disappear.
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Nancy Pelosi Calls Out Katy Tur For Being A Trump Apologist
Nancy Pelosi Calls Out Katy Tur For Being A Trump Apologist
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/04/29/nancy-pelosi-calls-out-katy-tur-for-being-a-trump-apologist.html/amp
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So, it might surprise Tur to learn that a sizable number of MSNBC viewers agree with Pelosi.
The idea that the pandemic was solely responsible for the job losses under Trump is a false Republican talking point.
Studies have shown that Trump’s economic policies had already pushed the economy into recession. The economy was already in recession before COVID. Trump was going to have a bad jobs record without the pandemic. Solely blaming the pandemic for the job losses ignores what Trump did to the economy.
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Xi Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Europe and the U.S.
Xi Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Europe and the U.S.
April 29, 2024 at 4:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/29/xi-tries-to-drive-a-wedge-between-europe-and-the-u-s/
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“Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the European Union for the first time in five years with a clear message: Beijing offers much more of an economic opportunity for the bloc than the U.S. wants to admit,” Bloomberg reports.
“The Chinese leader will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary on May 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing. Those nations are seeking investment from China, despite a litany of EU probes into Beijing’s industrial policy and the warnings from officials in Washington about the risks.”
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Applegrove:
When the intelligence authorities took over the old Nortel (fiber optics) head office after it closed in Ottawa they found tons of Chinese bugs inside the walls. The Chinese stole everything for the high tech company.
Repugs don't want to pay medicare and SS to seniors.
The Billionaires will go to Europe for cancer treatment.
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