"MAGA’s closing pitch to voters: economic pain and health care sorcery

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It’s easy to look back at the Trump years and declare, “We survived!”—unless you’re one of the thousands of Americans whose death from COVID might have been avoided if not for Trump’s mismanagement, demagoguery, selfishness, penchant for conspiracy theories, and incompetence. There’s no guarantee that any of us, in the next crisis, will be lucky again."

~ Cathy Young

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/16

Trump’s COVID Response: A Preview of Disasters to Come

Based on his past record, Trump should not be anywhere near American government during the next national emergency.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Yes the bog-down the attempt would create on Day 1 would wreak widespread destruction throughout the US. Which would be amusing to watch from afar but not to be involved in.

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@wdlindsy

He's more likely to just put them on flimsy rafts and push them out into the ocean.

[gumpfloyd@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you are some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/17

It Could Definitely Happen Here

Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist Right

(thomaszimmer.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It’s difficult to convey to people how much the GOP has radicalized, how much the power centers of conservative politics are in the hands of extremists, how much the rightwing intellectual sphere is dominated by some really radical ideas that are being pushed into the mainstream."

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/18

[jaythurbershow@union.place]

@wdlindsy Yeah, I've thought the same thing. When you tell them what Republicans are doing, they don't believe it, because it sounds so insane: "Well, no one who wanted to get elected would do something like that."

[flowermob@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy well he fails it everything so why should this be different?

[ericlawton@kolektiva.social]

@wdlindsy

Where are they going to get permission to land?

And what if they don't get permission to leave again for another load?

[twitter_expat@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy
I lived through a downfall that Prof Snyder is trying to explain, Venezuela. Yes trump can find the tens of thousands loyalist he wants by bribing them with better money than anyone else, but the whole American economy will crash, crash in a way America have never seen before in any depression. And obviously the world economy will suffer too.
Needless to say that “ Yes sir” people can’t run a country, they are there to please the dictator. I live through that in Venezuela.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

All of Trump's plans are funded by some of the richest people on the planet.

Trump's agenda is their agenda.

Now ask what do they get in return?

Jan Koum & Miriam Adelson aren't funding Trump just for a Netanyahu genocide. There's a foreign policy objective that risks world war.

As spending by Jewish PACs soar, two billionaires give GOP group major fundraising advantage

New campaign finance data shows Miriam Adelson and WhatsApp founder fueling Republicans, while Democratic billionaires give smaller sums.

The Forward (forward.com)

Billionaire Clans Spend Nearly $2 BILLION On 2024 Elections - Americans For Tax Fairness

With A Week To Go, 150 Families Have Outpaced By $700 Million What 600 Individual Billionaires Spent in 2020 With a week to go before Election Day, just 150 billionaire families have already smashed the billionaire campaign-spending record, contributing $1.9 billion in support of presidential and congressional candidates, a new report from Americans for Tax …

Americans For Tax Fairness (americansfortaxfairness.org)

barrons.com

(www.barrons.com)

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

The billionaires who control Texas GOP politics : Here & Now Anytime

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey here or at wbur.org/survey. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida's west coast Wednesday night or early Thursday. Rep. Jared Moskowitz talks about his bipartisan call for Congress to pass another $15 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster response. Then, an investigation by The New York Times and ProPublica finds that two billionaire preachers hold the keys to the Republican Party in Texas. Reporter Ava Kofman talks about two men, their influence and interests. And, Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras discuss this year's performances at El Tiny.

NPR (www.npr.org)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Npars01 Thank you -- valuable links and great commentary!

[shuttersparks@qoto.org]

@wdlindsy Nobody mentions resistance from millions of businesses that can't afford to lose their key employees.

Is Trump going to clean the rooms at Mar a Lago himself? Also, Trump and Vance will have to look for new wives.

[vruz@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

Hey, at least that vastly underestimated pain on the rest of us will help Trump get out of debt, and Elon Musk will be twice as rich as Jeff Bezos!

It's not without an upside!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Twitter_expat Thank you for your first-hand, from-the-spot testimony. It's valuable. You're right: what you experienced in Venzuela follows a clear trajectory sketched by Snyder, and it will happen in the US if fascism wins the day.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@EricLawton Lots of logistical questions here, aren't there? Mind-boggling ones about a threatened operation that is beyond inhumane....

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Flowermob Why, indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jaythurbershow That's a big factor, especially for the well-educated and well-heeled folks who keep voting for Trump, like the crowd that gathers around Wall Street Journal. They love to pretend that the fears of what Trump will do -- and he's told us exactly what he'll do -- are overblown.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gumpfloyd Thank you. A great graphic.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@the5thColumnist Sadly, yes. Any cruelty seems possible.