The GOP is just getting warmed up When Republicans win elections, they celebrate and move on. When they lose, they scream foul and launch lawsuits. And insurrections. Americans marked the fourth anniversary of the Trump insurrection on Monday. Donald Trump was impeached and indicted for trying to steal the presidential election he lost in 2020. North Carolina Republicans now mean to steal 60,000 votes and an entire statewide election. In broad daylight. In court. For a Republican state Supreme Court candidate, a judge yet. Two recounts confirm that Jefferson Griffin lost his election to incumbent Associate Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes. Griffin’s attorneys hired Republican political consulting firm Coldspark to identify potential votes for challenge. Four people I know, friends, including the former local president of the NAACP, are among the 60,000 Democrats, Republicans and independents whose votes Judge Griffin wants vacated so he can sit on the state’s highest court. Griffin means to steal the election ecumenically.
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“Trump threatens ‘economic force’ to make Canada ‘51st State’ after PM resignation.” — The Independent
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America, you know Canada as your hat. We’d like to keep it that way.
As you may be aware, Donald Trump has been flirting with illegal expansionist fantasies again. They include possibly invading Panama, taking over Greenland in some kind of rent-to-own scheme, and, of course, making Canada the fifty-first state.
We are flattered to be asked, but think maybe this whole thing is moving a little too fast. We’re super busy with work, and there’s that thing with our mom, who is now our dad. It’s complicated.
Canada has been right here, hanging out with America’s frosty bits, for 157 years. It’s been great, mostly. You seem to like us when you remember us. Everyone needs a friend who can explain the rules of curling. And we love you too. Or, at least, we love certain aspects of you.
I veckans utgåva av Langsomme Samtaler pratar Rune Lykkeberg med den amerikanske ekonomen och professorn James Galbraith om prisreglering, pengarnas betydelse för den amerikanska demokratin och behovet av att göra upp med marknaden som den dominerande dogmen inom ekonomiskt tänkande. Väl värt att lyssna på!
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And why those that do aren’t just trading in meme coins for the lulz.
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The Government is 'absolutely not going to save us... 2025 needs to be the year we start to save ourselves'
Today (November 27, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator – for November 2024, which showed that the annual underlying inflation rate, which excludes volatile items continues to fall – from 3.5 per cent to 3.2 per cent. The overall CPI rate (including the volatile items)…
So, a very partial list of donors to Trump’s second inauguration includes:
- Apple’s Tim Cook.
- Ken Griffon of Citadel.
- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
- Sam Altman of OpenAI.
- Zuckerberg of Meta/Facebook.
- Dara Koroshawi of Uber.
- General Motors, Ford and Toyota.
Trump imposed a lot of sanctions on China in his first term but somehow Apple avoided most of them. Not coincidentally Tim Cook supposedly talked to Trump every week. I’m sure he spent that time being Trump’s good friend and toady.
I don’t blame him for it, it was his job. Apple sold a ton of phones in China and made most of their gear in China. Trump could have (and can) tear the heart of out of Apple.
The FTC is planning to take Meta to court over anti-trust violations this year. Want to bet they change their minds?
Amazon is nothing but a giant sucking anti-trust violation.
Trump is fighting tooth and nail to keep Jack Smith’s report from being released to the public and you have to wonder why. He beat them all. He’s not going to be prosecuted. But as Bill Kristol points out, there is a good reason for him to want to keep it out of the public record: Trump knows how crucial his rewriting of the history of January 6th was to his victory in November. If most Republicans had held to their original judgment of January 6th as a day of shame—if they had continued to believe that it was what Trump the very next day called a “heinous attack” that “defiled the seat of American democracy”—Trump would not have been the 2024 GOP nominee. If most Americans had thought January 6th not just an unfortunate event but a disqualifying disgrace, Trump wouldn’t have won the general election. The whitewashing of January 6th was key to Trump’s political comeback. And Trump has the sense—and I think he’s right about this—that he must make sure that January 6th stays whitewashed for the sake of his political success going forward.
That is the number one cable news network in America.
Billionaires gonna billionaire — and lick the boots of whoever will bring them more riches and impunity.
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