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Eager to get on to the next economy. You know, after the fascists.
PS: Want to know what you would have done if you were in Germany in the 1930s ..... You're doing it.
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Trump's firings, his incompetence, his corruption and likely his ties to Putin are going to crash this economy, Senator.
When it goes down, you and your fellow Democrats had better have predicted it, warned everyone about it, and be ready to keep it from further dividing this country.
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Trump/Musk firings, incompetence and corruption will crash the economy. Say that now, so when it happens, the MAGA propaganda machine does not use people's misery to further divide.
Joe Biden had the economy humming. Trump is trashing it. The budget and debt ceiling are the places be clear on this.
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Lump them together in opposition to rule by the rich. It's the through line and people understand it. Don't mix anything.
All the details are just examples.
MAGA has been sold out to the rich. This cannot be simply the defeat of Trump. The whole fascist plutocrat program must go down.
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Nice. The uncomfortable part is that Democratic policies need to directly defeat the rule by the rich that began with Citizens United.
MAGA has morphed into a party of, by and for the rich. Real Democrats know that and articulate it.
Where are you?
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"Possible autocratic takeover".
Sorry, in case you didn't know, Elon Musk is prohibited by Article 1. The takeover is not "possible", it is in progress
Abandoning Ukraine is possible, in progress, but not done.
Your job, Congressman Adam Smith, is to make sure FOR AMERICA that does not happen.
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Canada used to be our ally and Russia our adversary.
That was five weeks ago.
Ukraine is on the chopping block, Congressman. You are on the center stage. Not in the parking lot. Let's go.
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Which is not to detract from how excellent this piece is. Thank you. A resource I did not appreciate.
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"He was left wing, but appreciated the dynamism of capitalism..."
Heck, virtually ALL economists were left wing until 1970. Eisenhower hired a Democrat (Burns) for his chief economist in order to be taken seriously. Economics moved right, produced worse outcomes and lost credibility in that order.
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Take heart, the stupidity of gouging government is revealed when the economy crashes because of it. Trump's coup cannot take the economic collapse he is creating.
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Fact Check for Context: Tea Party Republicans and Bernie Sanders Democrats came out of the bank bailout and the GFC. Yes, the Tea Party was visceral and fuzzy thinking and in need of elites to attack, but the original energy is still somewhat like what's going on today.
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List of what is legal in the NYT article below.
List of what Dusty objected to, including handing over Article 1 to Elon Musk, is ZERO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
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Here's a list of what is and is not legal, and what is stopped currently by the courts. The list of things Dusty has objected to, including Elon Musk (who is prohibited by Article I) is a big fat cat zero.
South Dakotans did not vote for rule by the rich.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
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Gov JB Pritzker's speech is a shining example of how every democratic politician should respond to the Trump administration dismantling of the US constitution.
Listen and follow the call to arms.
youtu.be/hS66O1C7Gp4?...
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Can you not just ask the Supreme Court to read Article I to Trump?
He is out of control. Article I prohibits Elon Musk.
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Were the death threats FROM the FBI? No? That's next week? Ah.
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JD, you are a bad person and you are not a man.
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Maga Mike needs Dem votes for (a) the budget, (b) tax cuts to billionaires and (c) to lift the debt ceiling. Probably none available for (b), but the other two give Dems leverage. (1) For guarantees the budget will be executed as written this time and (2) To stop the betrayal of Ukraine to Putin.
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If people abided by Article I of the US Constitution, these firings would be stopped. Musk is prohibited by Article I. Tell me again why obeying the law is out of range of practicality.
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If a hurricane did this, we'd call it a national disaster. 200k people lost their jobs so far, from firings and grant closures. That's economic damage as in the dark days of the GFC.
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I love the cover. It's a Humpty Dumpty smile, sitting on the wall, smirking at the world, king of all he surveys.
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Abandoning Ukraine is a NO, Senator. The politics and the ethics and morality all line up on this.
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Keep it up, Senator. Trump's incompetence and corruption are eating away at his base. Tough action, now is the time.
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This is a red line. No real American wants to surrender Ukraine to Russia Russia Russia. The overt complicity with Putin by Trump needs to be called out and named.
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This is your part of the field, Congressman. Abandoning Ukraine to Putin cannot happen. You must make it maximally painful to your colleagues, deny your vote for the debt ceiling, whatever. Speak clearly and publicly. America stands with Ukraine, not with the Moscow Monster.
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Betraying Ukraine is a red line, Congressman. It cannot happen. Trump's overt complicity with Putin has to become a talking point. This is historically critical.
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I see you lie when you use a keyboard. Very telling.
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Amen. Off the charts. Literally. The US is the extreme outlier in the Gini coefficient, the measurement for wealth disparity. Consequently we have rule by the rich. That has to end for us to get our Constitutional democracy back.
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Incompetents and incompetence are serious weaknesses for the Coup. That and a couple of million people in the streets should end this.
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Bologna is the meat, baloney is the BS.
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And scammed and intimidated.
This is more like it, Senator. Now is the time to stand up, or better, to shut down government until this coup is repelled.
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There are good, productive workers facing the threat of deportation. They have been vilified and scapegoated and marginalized. We need them here, for this economy, to do the work they are doing. That is the reality. Say so.
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200k workers are losing their jobs, from direct firings and cuts to grants. TIt's chaos and it's getting worse. THAT'S what we cannot afford.
Biden had the economy humming. Instead of riding the momentum, Trump is concocting a crash.
You need to get out of your crouch and stand up, Senator.
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ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR WEEKS AGO?
Biden had the economy humming. Instead of riding the momentum, Trump trashed what he could, gouged the government, cut employment, threatened tariffs and deportation. It's chaos and it's getting worse.
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The messaging is languid and stale. Here:
ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR WEEKS AGO?
Biden had the economy humming. Instead of riding the momentum, Trump trashed what he could, gouged the government, cut employment, threatened tariffs and deportation. It's chaos and it's getting worse.
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Musk is clueless, he's cognitively limited to a kind of cowboy corporatism. Cannot conceptualize a system of the whole, just a video game system.
Like Trump. They literally do not understand that firing government workers and creating chaos will tank the economy. I guess they're not alone on that.
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I sincerely think the Trump government is unable to conceptualize a whole system. They're cognitively limited to a kind of cowboy corporatism. Really limited.
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China needs to have a social safety net if it wants higher consumption. Hoarding against old age and want is a requirement for a prudent citizen. One reason the US has a high consumption rate is social security, a reliable pay-as-you-go retirement system.
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Now is not the time for this bullshit, Phil. Wake the hell up.
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Counting you in on buying the bogus premise, Mark. They fired the inspectors general, amigo. There is zero interest in waste, fraud and abuse (at least cutting it) when you fire the people who have been delivering efficiency in these agencies. Wake up.
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I'm thinking there is a secretive group that tells our electeds what to do. This group directs many federal agencies -- the Fed, for example -- on details. Out of sight, behind closed doors, conspiring against democracy. They travel on private jets, not black helicopters, and they back Trump.
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Very foolish for Xi. Domestic consumption is what he needs, not foreign debt (the only alternative to foreign goods). Xi can double down if he wants, but it cannot get better. Internally it is the Irish potato famine, shipping out the goods. Only its your own government starving you.