What You May Have Missed
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Who Needs Democracy? Inside America's Billionaires' Brazen Attempt at Fascism - Part 1
The biggest lesson Americans learned this election year is that billionaires basically own half of our political process. In the seven most tightly contested Senate races, billionaire spending on Republican candidates outpaces that on Democratic ones by
Who Needs Democracy? Inside America's Billionaires' Brazen Attempt at Fascism - Part 2
Over four thousand Pennsylvania residents who live overseas just had their right to vote challenged by a group using data from a billionaire-funded outfit. As Sam Levine wrote for The Guardian:
The Billionaires Won: The 50-Year War on Democracy That Built Trump's Oligarchy and Killed the American Dream
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat, Economic sophisms, 2nd series (1848)
The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic Backbone
Donald Trump is preparing to crash the American economy. He intends to do it by tearing up vital parts of our American government. He may even hire Elon Musk to pull it off.
Left Behind: How Neoliberalism’s Legacy Cost Democrats the 2024 Election
We just elected a guy who’s fine with the planet melting down, kids getting shot in school, insurance companies going back to denying coverage for preexisting conditions, and wants to weaponize the federal government in a way dictators do.
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Saturday Report 11/9/24 — Is this really who we are?
— Will Trump satisfy his voters? How quickly will he fail them? If Trump follows through with his promises for radical tariffs and mass deportations, while both may be emotionally satisfying for his voters, both will also take a big bite out of the economy, probably provoking a recession. That will be a real test of his and R…
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I really enjoy your Sunday Round Up's,Thom,it gives me a chance to revisit the Hot Topics I otherwise would have missed. Besides, I can't get enough of your writing anyway. Thank You, and you know I'll reStack ASAP 💯👍🗽