Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
I do feel like mina kimes being a news story for saying “Jackie Robinson’s historical significance is directly tied to his race” is a good illustration of how much more insane the right has gotten over the past few years
I think there might be some ethical issues with handing over huge swaths of the government to the worlds richest man (and a major government contractor to boot), then doing an informercial for his cars on the White House front lawn, then having that man put $100m into your PAC
Quick summary here
-January 2025, Elon's Starship blows up causing massive disturbance by raining down debris
-FAA starts investigation
-Trump takes office
-Elon fires head of FAA, fires FAA employees, takes over FAA software, and steals a contract from the FAA
-Elon launches another Starship before the FAA investigation is complete
-March 2025, Starship blows up causing massive disturbance by raining down debris
Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired.
Trump fired the people who were finding fraud in his COVID programs, replaced w/DOGE.
https://t.co/s0aUUB5RZK
What's especially frustrating about Musk making it seem as if millions of Social Security checks might be going out to people aged 100+ is that we know how many Social Security checks went out in December to people aged 99+: 89,106.
If you're angry because:
-Inflation is high
-Crime is rising
-Migrants are invading
-Fentanyl Overdoses are rising
-The economy is bad
The truth is:
-Inflation isn't high, it is 2.6%
-Crime has been falling for years and continues to fall
-Border crossings are the lowest in over 4 years
-Fentanyl overdoses are dropping rapidly
-America has the best economy in the world
You're actually angry about the endless lies designed to keep you upset, scared, and willing to support those who will make your life worse and take your rights away to "solve" these issues.
Be angry at the people lying to you.
People can analyze, hypothesize, blame Dems till they are blue in the face. None of it matters.
This is the game right here.
Misinformation works. Those that believed misinformation voted Trump. Those that believed the truth voted Harris.
There is NO candidate that can change this.
Republicans have a well oiled propaganda machine that spans all media platforms and we do not.
Period.
Those anti-trans ads they’re showing during the World Series are the kinda thing they’ll put in movies 30 years from now to show what a mean, bigoted time 2024 was