Trump Revives Herbert Hoover’s Nightmare and Canada Fights Back
Late Friday night, trade talks with Canada collapsed when Prime Minister Mark Carney — the former president of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, a guy whose knowledge of economics and history makes Scott Bessent’s bleatings sound pathetic — said he was tired of Trump bullying his country. He was blunt about the scam Trump’s trade people t…
Trump’s Inner Circle Panics Over “Natalie” as the Rasputin Parallel Gets Real
The people around Trump, according to reports, call it “the Natalie situation.” The word they’re trying to avoid saying out loud is “Rasputin.”
RFK Jr. Gets Busted as America’s Vaccine Defenses Collapse
Louise went to the local pharmacy yesterday to get her Covid shot because Covid is climbing in all fifty states right now. She was turned away, because there’s apparently no current Covid vaccine available anywhere in America.
Big Tech Is Coming For Your Water, Your Land, Your Lungs, and Your Electric Bill
There’s a growing movement across America that’s turning conventional politics on its head. For example:
Put the CEOs in Handcuffs: Trump’s ICE Is Arresting the Wrong People
There’s a simple solution to our “illegal immigration” crisis: put some wealthy white CEOs — who are inviting these often desperate people into the country and hiring them — into prison. Ronald Reagan came up with the idea and put it into law, but no president since him has been willing to enforce it.
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Two Possible Futures
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Cheeto And Fascist Republican Billionaire Robber Barons
In Vanessa Williamson’s Power of Taxation in American History(bit.ly/44Hswxp) she makes the point that cuts through the myths surrounding taxation and democracy, spotlighting how fiscal choices reveal who a country is actually built to serve, Does it serve WE the People or does it serve the wealthy? The voucher educational gambit is just another political shell game to take $$$ away from WE the People and shunt it towards the private wealthy class.
What becomes unavoidable is the way taxation functions not as an accounting exercise but as an architecture of democracy—one that is deliberately weakened when authoritarian movements want to keep public institutions too poor to challenge private dominance.
The history she interrogates shows that when opponents of democracy fear the public’s voice, they don’t just suppress votes; they drain the revenue that makes self-government real. This is at the heart of Project 2025. Render the federal government nonfunctional so that the wealthy class can rule through a dictatorship. This has always been the fascist Republican playbook since Reagan in the 1980’s. Get the wealthy to replace the "social safety net" BUT by their rules.
One such example is Michael Dell of Dell Computers is making a “donation” to kids of low income families to the tune of $6B (yes that’s with a “B”) to fund what will be called “Trump accounts”. Of course this is not out of the generous heart of Dell. He’s been cajoled to make a Republican fascist “business deal” donation for Cheeto so he can make good with his “Trump accounts” or baby accounts(bit.ly/4oDh2T1).
It is now clear how this fascist party wants to implement Project 2025. Create programs that businesses will support but can pull at any time at their own discretion leaving WE the People holding nothing. Classic counterparty risk and no accountability.