"It's another of his forever wars. This one's a trade war," David Brooks says. "It's like we're a big bully, and we think we're just going to render someone undignified and humiliated. It's like the economic spirit of Abu Ghraib. Canadians have no choice but to stand up." https://t.co/9pLVRp8mp3
#BREAKING: Fmr Sen McCaskill: “One of the things that really stuck in Canada’s craw on this deal was they [Trump admin] were trying to dictate things that had nothing to do with trade. They were trying to dictate items of culture about the French language, and I mean, who are we to tell Canada things they should be doing with their culture? We don’t have the right to do that. It is so offensive to Canada, and frankly, the rest of the world is watching, and they’re just shaking their head at what happened to America.”😳
EXCLUSIVE: ~400 Christian leaders have issued an Ash Wednesday statement decrying the Trump admin as “cruel and oppressive,” arguing the govt has been corrupted by an aberrant faith and calling on Christians to perform “greater acts of courage to resist.” https://t.co/XQzJiJxEOf
Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela?
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable.
Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.
TWEEPS: trump’s holding 22 million families hostage—premiums exploding Jan 1. Dems are the ONLY wall between you and a massive monthly healthcare bill.
Smash 1,000 RTs & replies with #GOPHealthCareShutdown to get it trending!
Please and thank you!🙏 💪🏽
Soybean farmer reacts to Trump’s bailouts:
"A government payment is nothing more than throwing a dollar bill on a spilled glass of milk on your kitchen table. It's designed to not make us whole as farmers, and that's the biggest misnomer of all. We're lucky if we get 3 cents on the dollar for a program that is designed to make up for a man-made disaster. This is a man-made disaster. This is caused by this administration and their actions"
OBAMA: “What if I sent the National Guard into Texas and said I don’t care what Governor Abbott says… and just kind of took over?”
Imagine that.
Fox News would’ve held a 96-hour emergency broadcast with 18 split screens and a countdown to “Tyranny Day.”
But when it’s Trump doing it? Crickets.
Soybean farmer reacts to Trump’s bailouts:
“We don't want a bailout. Bailouts don't work. Bailouts are band-aids. That's money that should be going towards senior citizens. That's money that should be going toward the Affordable Care Act. That's money that should just be going to regular tax cuts for normal Americans. What Trump is doing is destroying our markets, and when those markets disappear, we're not gonna get them back”
Republican members of Congress are saying that they won’t take their checks until the end of the Shutdown,but they only get paid once a month so it’s all a pile of crap! They will get paid like they always do while on vacation for over 3 weeks while Federal workers are starving!
BREAKING: President Obama warns us of the wave of authoritarianism that is sweeping the globe.
"Like many of you, I have become increasingly concerned about the rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe. We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale assaults on democracy now understand we’re all part of this struggle."
Obama is using the Obama Foundation to fight back against authoritarianism around the world.
Michael Fanone on the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned: Daniel Rodriguez, he was sentenced to over 12 years in prison, for driving a stun gun into my neck while I was restrained and being beaten. Kyle Young, who attempted to take my firearm from its holster. Thomas Sibick, who stripped me of my badge and my radio, and then buried my badge in his backyard like it was some kind of a souvenir. Albuquerque Cosper Head, who in my body-worn camera footage yells out, 'I've got one'.
They didn't send ICE after a single street gang.
They didn't send soldiers to recover missing children.
They didn't arrest or deport a single person on the Epstein list.
They went after the law-abiding housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, teachers, single mom's +car wash workers.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on today’s ruling: “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”
RETWEET if you stand with Justice Sotomayor!
The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.