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

[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

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nytimes.com

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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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@megatronicthronbanks And yet an act of colossal cruelty like this would involve all of us in manifold ways.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@FallsMom What a treat! He's so sane, sober, balanced, thoughtful, and at the same time, full of great moral passion.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vruz Well-stated and very well-noted.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wondrng1 Of course markets won't correct. You're right about that, for sure. The system will be smashed so that it can then be swallowed whole by the oligarchs who want to benefit at everyone else's expense.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SoftwareTheron I suspect there's a Plan B.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vruz Not without an upside, for sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@shuttersparks And that makes it all the more incomprehsible that the richest business owners in America are refusing to come out in support of Harris, most of them. I can only think that either they believe Trump won't do what he's promised to do or they themselves will somehow be insulated from the fallout.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

The cruelty is the point. Always.

[lperry2@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Yes. A friend asked me where I was getting "this stuff"--I gave her a link to Project 2025.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LPerry2 Good for you, helping educate her about what Project 2025 intends for all of us.