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Cathy's avatar

FYI. The "left" polices their own historically. See Al Franken, the Cuomo's, to an extent John Fetterman for his hostility and bad behavior, also the CA congresswoman whose affair was outed by her ex's posting revenge porn.

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Carol Gamm's avatar

Thank you.

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Elizabeth St's avatar

I was a bit confused by the commercial which showed a clip of Sean Feuchts. I wasn't sure if you endorsed him or not but I did note that the woman spaeking made a quick mention of Christian nationalism at the time that his video footage played. It seems to me that one would have to know in advance who these people are, whether in the Evangelical or Christian Nationalist world.

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James M. Coyle's avatar

Hunger has a way of exposing what a country actually believes.

This, exactly. The self-styled "Christians" in our Congress and judiciary are performative Christians only. Starve the kids to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Barbara Perra's avatar

Amen April! Put my taxes to ACA subsidies, Medicaid, and SNAP. ZERO TO ARGENTINA!!!!

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Marvin Margolin's avatar

Read the Opus. You will then understand the Catholic Church and Christianity's grip on our politics starting many years ago. They in fact brag about it talking about how they have several Supreme Court judges agreeing with them including the chief for injustice,Senators ,Congressmen And possibly the President and Vice President. Maybe we ought to be looking at how we can reduce their influence in our politics. Separation of church and state would be fantastic but not while opus is around. It won't work.

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MPT's avatar
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Ted Cruz and his crowd are KKKristian Nationalists. Their idea of of acting in Christ's image is to not release the epstein files and allow children to go hungry. trump and his feed the wealthy starve the children policies. Satan blushes...

trump and most of his deranged admin, including musk, were born with silver spoons in their mouths and never felt the sting of poverty or hunger. Don Jr snorts more snow than children crink formula.

Credit scores being damaged is simply part of the trump cruelty agenda.

What receives little attention are the increases in costs of health insurance of employee sponsored health ins. which on average will increase 15% next year. And Medicare Advantage plans are cutting benefits and raising copays and out of pocket costs. Those two instances are receiving mush too little attention.

Billionaires are following the 1984 playbook of Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace, and Slavery is Freedom.

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Cheeto And Corporate Monopolies

Over at Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack channel she has a great interview with Lina Khan (https://bit.ly/4nubIRe) head of the FTC during the Biden administration and walks through the history of antitrust and how it gained strong momentum during the Reagan years, essentially like Cheeto, bypassing Congressional approval just by changing policy at the executive level

In a general political context the Nazi/Republican party has perennially sought support from the business side of society whereas the Democratic party has supported the interests of the working middle class When unethical business practices affect their employees and the consumer price of goods and services occur, the government can step in to protect the interests of employees and consumers who may get price gouged In the end the government is seen as an intrusion of practices by businesses because they are watched by those who oversee their business practices

What can the average American consumer do to change the monopolistic corporate stranglehold that large corporations and companies leverage against middle class workers/consumers? First get involved at the local level to ensure that workers are fairly compensated, have no NDA influences, and pay attention to what people running for local, state, and federal office have to say about corporate monopolies that can create disadvantages for the American worker/consumer

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