I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Mitch McConnell Is Terrified That Democrats Will Take Back The Senate
While speaking to reporters, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn't hide his fear that Democrats will take back the Senate.
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So many great cartoons and memes! Still wish we had a "like" button here.
And it is concerning that tRump will declare himself the winner before all votes are counted. He will undoubtedly claim that the mail in votes, last to be tallied, are rigged, or fake, or voted by dead people or something.
In FL, vote-by-mail ballots are not tallied until election day. I followed my primary ballot process online, and I could see that it had been received, it was "blue" which meant there were no problems associated with it,("red" means there is a problem) but the website plainly says, it will not be "processed" until election day. That means so MANY ballots to be tallied on one day. And it's not just the President, it's the local people, state house, etc, plus I know we have 4 amendments. So it is a lot of boxes there.
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I watched Jared Kushner be interviewed on PBS News last night. He has obviously gone to the Kelly Anne Conway school of public speaking. He talked in that monotone of his never taking a breath or allowing Judy Woodruff to ask a follow up question. I do think he may be some kind of cyborg as he seemed to never take a breath, blink or move anything other than his mouth! Do they all memorize the bullet points, then spew them over and over?
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Surprise! Under Trump, Super-Rich Rake In Billions While You Get…A #MAGA Hat David Cay Johnston
September 16 | 2020
Official White House Photo by Andrea HanksReprinted with permission from DCReport
If you are in the 99 percent here is how well you are faring under Trump policies compared to the 1 percent: for each dollar of increased income that you earned in 2018, each One-Percenter got $88 more income.
Huge as that ratio is, it's small change compared to the super-rich, the 0.01 percent of Americans with incomes of $10 million and up. That ratio is $1 for you and $2,215 for each super-rich American household. Let's call them the Platinum-Premiere-Point-Zero-One-Percenters.
The slice of American income pie going to the poor shrank under Trump by the same amount that it grew for the super-rich.
Ponder that.
For each additional dollar you earned in 2018 compared to 2016, each of the Platinum-Premiere crowd got an additional $2,215.
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The bottom line: with Trump as president it's good to be rich.
The average Platinum-Premiere American enjoyed is $7.1 million more income under Trump in 2018 than in 2016, the last year that Barack Obama was president. For the Ninety-Nine-Percenters, in contrast, average income rose just $3,360 with most of that gain among those making $200,000 to $500,000.
You haven't heard these numbers on the nightly news or read them in your morning newspaper because no one announced them. I distilled them from an official government report known as IRS Table 1.4, a task I've repeated annually for a quarter-century.
At DCReport we don't attend press conferences, we don't rewrite press releases and we don't depend on access to officials because other journalists do that just fine. Instead, we scour the public record for news that oozes, news that no one announced.
Last week I reported my preliminary analysis of Table 1.4, showing that 57 percent of American households were better off under Obama. That contradicted Trump's naked claim, repeated uncritically and often in news reports, that he created the best economy ever until the coronavirus pandemic.
This week's focus is on the big changes in how the American income pie is being divvied up.
The rich and super-rich are enjoying a bigger slice of the American income pie.
On the other hand, this is a truly awful time to be poor. Trump policies are narrowing the pockets of the poor, the third of Americans make less than $25,000. In 2018 their average income was just $12,600, a dollar a day less than in 2016.
Trump & Co. has numerous plans afoot to reduce incomes of the poor even more and take away government benefits, as we have been documenting at DCReport.
The poor saw their slice of the national income pie shrink by 1 percentage point from 6.5 percent to 5.5 percent. In a mirror image of that change, the super-rich saw their share of income pie grow by the same 1 percentage point, from 4.5 percent to 5.7 percent of all income.
That means the richest 22,122 households now collectively enjoy more income than the poorest 50 million households.
What these huge disparities make clear is that the sum of all Trump policies not only makes the poor worse off, but their losses are transformed into the gains of the super-rich.
The economic growth that began in early 2010 when Obama was president continued under Trump, albeit at a slower pace as DCReport showed last year. Pre-pandemic Trump underperformed Reagan, Clinton, Carter and the last six years of Obama, who inherited the worst economy in almost a century.
The continuing upward trajectory for the economy meant that overall Americans made more money in 2018 than in 2016 even after adjusting for inflation of 4.1 percent over two years. Total income grew by almost $1 trillion to $11.6 trillion.
Almost half of the increase went to the 1 percent. They enjoyed $487 billion more money. The rest of America, a group 99 times larger, divvied up $511 billion.
The big winners, though, were the super-rich, the $10 million-plus crowd. That group consists of just one in every 7,000 taxpayers yet they captured every sixth dollar of increased national income, a total gain of $157 billion.
So, if you are among the 152 million American taxpayers in the 99 percent ask yourself whether Trump administration policies are good for you. Do you want a government of the rich, by the rich and overwhelmingly for the rich? Or would you prefer a government that benefits all Americans?
And see what you can do to make sure more Americans know about the big shifts in the way America's income pie is being sliced up.
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Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with the evolution of our individual consciousness and with it, responsibilities for choice. Pain and joy both come with life. I believe that how we respond to what happens to us and around us shapes who we become and has to do with the psyche or the soul's growth.
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Saw this on Colbert last night. Better Know A Ballot will help people figure out what they need to vote in their state. Not all state videos are up yet, but they will be. Here is the clip from last night:
And this is the website: https://www.betterknowaballot.com/
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Glennie -- wonderful Colbert post. Thank you, thank you.
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He not only has grave issue remembering what he said, but also when he said it. So, whatever is, is based on what or how I feel right now not matter what is going on. That is a lunatic in action.
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This cracked me up !!
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If you're still stuck in 8 yrs. ago you got some real catching up to do.
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Purely sad.
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Last night's "Town Hall" was a veritable goat rodeo. Trump had never before gotten questions on the spot, and not since the 2016 debates did he ever fsce a time limit for speaking. And his answer denying downplaying the coronavirus--even with recordings of him saying he did--smacked of "who ya gonna believe: me or your lyin' ears?"
Also in the middle of a Trump rolling vehicle rally last night, the DNC managed to bring in a truck with a scrolling billboard with a graphic of Trump's photo & his quote to Woodward, and loudspeakers playing that soundbite in an endless loop.
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--sob--
I've found my people
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hehehehe you’re welcome❤️❤️
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Welcome edj3. I'm glad you have found us.
Great pics and memes again!! Yes, one lifetime,, from John and Jackie, to tRump and a porn star. *sigh*
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Now now, I wouldn't call Melania a "star". (bless her heart)
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Miriandra, how are you & your DH feeling today? Thinking of you!
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Yeah, Trump being put on the spot and asked direct blunt question with a time limit to his rambling is going to be sweet in these town halls and debates. We'll have some big orange pouts to look forward to!
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He's already complaining that ABC & Stephanopoulos "set (him) up," and his FOXNews lapdogs are singing along with him.
Barr also seems to have hopped onboard the Caputo Crazy Train: saying in a podcast ("Chicago Talk") that Democrats are threatening "mob rule" and "no peace" unless Biden wins, and that protestors (only the anti-Trump ones, presumably) are guilty of "sedition." He also thinks that a Democratic win would "put us on the socialist path." He prefaced these remarks by saying that as A.G. he's not supposed to "be political." I guess sheer lunacy and delusion doesn't count as "politics."
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And not to put too fine a point on it, but what Melania did was racy, even vulgar, but not porn. I’m no fan of hers but I’ll leave the exaggerations to the Reps
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Seriously, Jackie Kennedy would not have had 1 iota of interest in the drump and vice versa because she was a highly principled, moral and ethical individual. True she did overlook her husband's dalliances but she remained faithful and was a lady.
drump likes them cheap, tawdry and foreign born, the exception being Marla and she was just dumb. Maybe not porn but supposedly there are pictures of Melania in her birthday suit and what does that say about the caliber of our first lady (she isn't one).
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Hi Sandy! Thanks for the well wishes! We're doing well. Feeling a lot better overall, but not much appetite yet.
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Hi edj!! So glad to see you over here!
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