Again we laugh at this but the ignorance and the stupidity and the conspiracism is gonna kill us all. We should treat public education and public health as national emergencies.
White men have these violent fantasies of unaliving anyone who touches their daughter, but then a rapist comes along and they vote for him and put his name on their trucks.
Permanent DST is stupid because in the winter we get 9 AM sunrises.
Permanent Standard is stupid because in the summer we get 4:45 AM sunrises (and lose an hour of sun in the evening during the nicest time of the year).
The best solution is what we do if we'd stop being babies.
He's building a massive WH bunker, firing election officials, demanding voter rolls, and wants to create a permanent way to block access to the WH. If I was a conspiratorial sort, I'd be connecting some dots that don't end well for democracy.
I actually think this statement is a big deal.
Because it tells you all you need to know. They believe, in their bones, in an imperial presidency where the executive rules absolutely and uses his power to destroy enemies and enrich himself.
A major California labor union representing over 120,000 healthcare workers (SEIU-UHW) proposed a one-time 5% tax on California billionaires, and they secured enough signatures for this to make it on the November ballot.
Organizers estimate that it'd raise $100 billion to offset federal healthcare cuts with additional funding for food assistance and education.
Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has spent $82 million on a committee to defeat the proposal, and the committee has raised nearly $120 million from less than 12 donors.
Every American should be paying attention.
This is a direct political confrontation between organized labor and organized oligarchs.