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Retired Econ teacher. Opinions are my own. Landscape pic in profile by Redwine Photography.
Mom!!! I hit Canada and they bitch slapped me back! WAHHHH!
So far, Trump has imposed a 35 per cent tariff on all non-free trade Canadian goods, a 50 per cent levy on Canadian steel, aluminum and copper, and is threatening to bring in more.
In A Democracy The Military Defends The Nation From Invasion
When militaries shift from defending the nation to policing its citizens, they risk becoming tools of state repression.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The cases of Canada, South Korea, and Turkey illustrate a dangerous escalatory pattern: When elected leaders rely on the military to resolve domestic challenges, they often accelerate democratic backs...
We pay into it. It is our money! #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
Social Security isn’t the government’s money. Seniors earned their Social Security over a lifetime of hard work. #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
However far gone you think SCOTUS is as a “guardrail” against Trump’s autocracy, it’s worse than most of the legal sector will say out loud.
This signals to other sectors: “Chill, don’t break glass yet. We have another argument. The law still bends toward justice.”
And democracy dies by doctrine.
📌My latest is up on @rawstory.com ... I hope everybody finally understands that it's not the economy that drives Trump's Republican voters ...
It's the racism, stupid.
I am back to pondering how in the hell we got here, because try as I might, I will never understand how a thoughtful, caring person who truly loves his or her country, could vote for a racist monster ...
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He is destroying the VA along with everything else he swore an oath to protect!
I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started.
📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.
See how they don’t deny it and get extremely defensive about it??
Trump and his family will personally net $3.4 billion dollars from his presidency!!
While they strip healthcare and school lunches!!
