Last night, I was endorsed by a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independent in Arlington, TX.
We really are building a new kind of politics — and now there’s a word for it:
TRIPARTISAN
.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.
The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.
And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.
Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.
We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
What a nightmare. By implementing the tariffs illegally, and now having to unwind them, the Trump administration created over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers.
Your refund: $0.00
Apple’s profit: $2.2 billion
Netanyahu: I need $12 billion
Trump: Approved
Elon Musk: SpaceX needs $4.16 billion
Trump: Approved
Jeff Bezos: Amazon needs $17.5 billion
Trump: Approved
Top 1%: We need a $1 trillion tax cut
Trump: Approved
Average Joe: My wife has cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.
James Talarico: “Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft. They have been stealing the wealth that we all created. It’s why everything sucks right now. We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We don’t have a government of, by, and for the people. We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires”
Meet the senior staff running Mitch McConnell's DC office. You pay their salaries. You're entitled to know what they're keeping from us.
Let them know how you feel.
Mitch McConnell's team reached out to me earlier today — through an intermediary, of course — asking me to take this down.
I won't. I don't bend the knee.
And if they don't like having their name and face attached to it, maybe they should ask themselves why that is.