Campaigning the new way:
Biden denounces Trump for $2tn tax cuts as he unveils budget plan | Joe Biden | The Guardian
Vs the old way:
Attribution: The Process by Guy Parsons, PoliticalCartoons.com
Quite the reverse of a “read my lips, no new taxes” promise, Joe.
from The Guardian link above:
I’m waiting with bated breath for the RW announcement that the Bill is dead on arrival in the House. (Doesn’t take a psychic to foresee this little play).
Jon Stewart unpacks Biden’s fired-up State of the Union and Katie Britt’s disastrous GOP kitchen rebuttal, then calls bulls**t on conservatives branding themselves the party of “true American patriots” and wrapping themselves in the Constitution, while their leader Trump’s rhetoric sounds more like an undemocratic king.
too bad this was twiXted after Jon taped his show. it would’ve fit right in with the magaT “patriotism” bit.
Trump pledges to immediately free ‘January 6 Hostages’ from jail if re-elected president (msn.com)
The presumptive GOP nominee is a dictator-loving Hitler fan who mocked President Biden’s speech impediment after the State of the Union. Across the pond, Brits are still trying to figure out what’s going on with Kate Middleton.
How can someone so obviously nuts be tied in the polls?
I doubt even Dean Phillips was thinking about himself at 1:26AM!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Dean Phillips, who just “quit” in his hapless campaign against Crooked Joe Biden, was not very good at his craft, politics. In fact, I would say that he was far worse than the Republican challengers to me, with a few exceptions. I’ll give you those names if you like, but I’d rather get down to the serious business of defeating the worst President in the history of the United States, by far, Crooked Joe Biden!!! For the good of our now failing Nation, and in order to inform the American people of what is going on in our Country, we must immediately have a full scale debate between Crooked Joe and Honest Don. I’m ready to go, ANY TIME, ANY PLACE!
Mar 12, 2024, 1:26 AM
OSCARS: Behind the scenes debate over reading Trump tweet
Variety: About 10 minutes before the show ended, one of Kimmel’s writers ran over and showed him something Donald Trump had just posted on Truth Social, ranting about the “boring” show. Kimmel decided to read the former President’s review verbatim — and Executive Producer Molly McNearney (who, by the way, is also Kimmel’s wife) admits she tried to talk him out of it.
“I will tell you, I’m really not proud of this, but I tried to talk Jimmy out of reading that,” she says. “I feel like my instincts are usually right, but I was totally off on that. I said, ‘Please don’t read this.’ And he asked why. I said, ‘I don’t want to give Trump airtime in the Oscars. This is the one time we don’t have to talk about him. We talk about him every night… This night is not about him and it’s not about politics. My second thought was just the risk, like the show was going well! I just wanted to make sure it ended well, and I didn’t want it to end on a sour note.”
McNearney adds, “But he had a glimmer in his eye, and he said, ‘I got this.’ He really did. This is where he shines.”
Kimmel huddled with his writers, and he came up with the retort: “Isn’t it past your jail time?” It killed in the room, and McNearney notes that Kimmel’s instinct was right. “I will tell you, I’m never going to win an argument in my household again!” she says.
https://variety.com/2024/tv/awards/oscars-producers-nude-john-cena-trump-tweet-1235938486/
On thread post topic — it’s hard to believe, but despite the overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that trickle-down economics is a myth, we’re about to hear it all over again from defenders of low taxes for the wealthy against Biden’s hikes for corporations and earners over $400,000. Since the Reagan days all we’ve seen is how cutting taxes for the rich ONLY helps the rich, no one else — and they ALWAYS explode the deficit. No exceptions.
Mike Johnson made his smirk when the President suggested that billionaires “pay their fair share”, which i believe i am to interpret to mean the GOP is anti-billionaires-paying-their-fair-share 🧐
Polls are tied because MSM is not conveying how addled trump is, they want the horserace
Bink,
Nailed it.
Robert De Niro let tRUMPsky have it last night on Kimmel’s show.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-de-niro-donald-trump_n_65f027b5e4b02ad7de1a3868
De Niro, smiling, replied: “He’s so fucking stupid.”
When it [audience laughter and applause] finally died down, De Niro went on, “I mean, look at the lame, inane things that he says. He’s so stupid he can’t even say anything clever. He’s a fucking moron.”
“But he’s a scary one,” he added, “and in all seriousness, and we know it here, people have to get out and vote and vote and vote and vote.”
And the audience applauded and laughed bigly, again.
Maybe i’ll say something like, “i really admire how trump doesn’t let his dementia prevent him from running” to the local trumpers so i can make that point without starting an argument 🤔
…workshoppin’ 🤷♂️ ✌️ 🇺🇸
Slava Ukraine
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4521307-robert-de-niro-slams-trump-as-total-monster/
The guy is a total monster… I don’t understand it,” DeNiro said Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher, referring to polls that show the GOP front-runner leading President Biden, adding that Trump is “such a mean, nasty, hateful person.”
Nothing,” DeNiro told Maher. “Nothing at all, nothing redeemable in him.”
“There’ll be things that happen that none of us can imagine,” he said Friday. “That’s what happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which is what he says. Let’s believe and take him at his word.”
“So he’s a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist,” he added. “He is a dangerous person.”
Trump hit back Saturday in a post on Truth Social, calling the actor’s comments “stupid.”
Ah, so that’s why Adolf sent the lame comment about De Niro that Kimmel read last night.
“Robert DeNiro has a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” he wrote. “Such a stupid sounding guy, a low IQ individual!”
Didn’t tRUMPsky just actually admit to being deranged himself?
“Since the Reagan days all we’ve seen is how cutting taxes for the rich ONLY helps the rich, no one else — and they ALWAYS explode the deficit. No exceptions.”
—CC
Sometimes referred to as “getting the economic ball rolling” for the incoming democratic president (who then has to clean up the TOTAL MESS created by republicans kissing billionaire ass).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seth-meyers-sean-hannity-jacked-up-joe_n_65f03780e4b032e17a837c16
“Meyers proceeded to show a montage of Hannity repeatedly calling the president “Jacked-Up Joe,” a departure from his usual “Sleepy Joe” refrain.
The comedian suspected Biden’s campaign might not be too fazed by the moniker.
“When the Biden team heard Hannity saying the words ‘Jacked-Up Joe’ that many times I bet they said ‘thank you for that kick ass new nickname,’” he quipped.
Move over, Dark Brandon.
Here comes Jacked-Up Joe!
Seriously, Biden/Harris did great shirt collabs last time. Get that merch store stocked!
And so it begins, the battle between Putin and Jeffries..
NEWS — A discharge petition to schedule a House vote on the Senate’s Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan aid bill will open for signatures TODAY. Will need 218 for a vote.
https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers
“One of the most glaring examples of corporate greed we face is the rise of stock buybacks. Over the last decade, instead of investing in employee compensation and new infrastructure, companies have put 94% of their profits into stock buybacks and dividends. The increasing financialization of the economy is only made worse by these buybacks, and results in corporations squeezing as much profit as they can out of their employees. At the end of the day, workers see a decrease in their bargaining power and a dramatic rise in income inequality, all in the name of maximizing “shareholder value”.
This needs to be on the regular, old news so folks see it, hear it, and ingest it.
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-buybacks-pay/
Example:
“When health insurer Humana Inc reported worse-than-expected quarterly earnings in late 2014 – including a 21 percent drop in net income – it softened the blow by immediately telling investors it would make a $500 million share repurchase.”
“In addition to soothing shareholders, the surprise buyback benefited the company’s senior executives. It added around two cents to the company’s annual earnings per share, allowing Humana to surpass its $7.50 EPS target by a single cent and unlocking higher pay for top managers under terms of the company’s compensation agreement.”
“As corporate America engages in an unprecedented buyback binge, soaring CEO pay tied to short-term performance measures like EPS is prompting criticism that executives are using stock repurchases to enrich themselves at the expense of long-term corporate health, capital investment and employment.”
Reporters and pundits need to CEASE with the “Red Line” bit.
Stop it.
Well… Rick and I just got back from voting in our town election today. A bunch of conservatives are trying to cut a million dollars from the school budget… we both voted no. Yeah… I’d like to pay less in property taxes too. But when I go into a voting booth… I don’t think “me”… I think WE.
Bink… you did nail it…. they want the horserace….
In the first sentence of the first part of Special Counsel Hur’s Biden interview — which has become about Biden’s grasp of dates and recall — Hur gets the time of day wrong.
Sen. Britt of Alabama clearly said she talked to that sex-trafficked woman during her trip to the border. That’s not “misleading”, it’s a straight up bloody egfing lie. I guess wearing a cross around your neck gives one the right to lie.
George of ABC to Nancy Mace: Why are you supporting a convicted rapist for president?
Mace of [shudder]. SC: Stop rape shaming me!!!
Speaking of crosses….Jesus H. Christ on a skateboard!
Shareholder value is the be-all and end-all of Capitalism. Nothing else comes before it.
https://apnews.com/article/lara-trump-rnc-donald-trump-9c25a74e096439cd7b0ac37c96530675
“Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and handpicked choice to help lead the Republican National Committee said she thinks Republican voters would support having the political organization pay the former president’s ballooning legal fees.”
If so, they are even more brainwashed than I thought.
The shareholders are getting a taste, while the owners and top execs are swimming in an infinity pool.
Stock buybacks are financial manipulation at the expense of employees and consumers.
You mean progress is no longer their most importantly product?
Watch now as donations to the RNC come to an abrupt end.
You can fool all the yada yada yada.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/03/archibald-how-katie-britt-alabamas-so-called-reasonable-senator-lost-herself-and-a-whole-lot-more.html?e=87003e1eb754f9d40574ce526134d300&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Archibald%2003.12.24&utm_term=Newsletter_john_archibald
Britt saw this as her shot at becoming a gop HEADLINER, like a Gym Jordan and Marge Green.
So she jumped in with both of those big fat Alabama feet and now she IS a gop HEADLINER just like Gym Jordan and Crude Rude Marge.
Stump’s next ad buy:
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EVERYTHING MUST GO!
Remember: Crazy Don is SLASHING PRICES TO THE BONE!
So if you’re looking for a REAL deal,
Come in and see CRAZY DON and get the Deal of a lifetime!
Remember: CRAZY DON says: If you don’t buy his stuff you you’re just a
SUCKER AND A LOSER!!
today’s meme…
RR – I have my big boat at a marina in a county in Virginia which taxes boats as personal property. It based on purchase price and stays the same as long as the property is in Virginia in January of each year. One year as I was dropping my payment envelope in the drop box at the country court house the tax man drove up and parked. We had not talked for about a year and it was nice to catch up on things with him. He thanked me for paying my taxes. My response surprised him, a lot. “I am happy to pay my taxes. I use the county roads, the county services and more. No government can function without these taxes. I am happy to pay them.” He could just keep saying “thank you”. The county is one of the deepest red magat counties in the country so he gets a lot of anti-tax yacking from the locals.
Ad Hominem attacks. Zero facts.
Adam Schiff did a nice job of cutting through the BS. Wapo:
Good work Adam.
Blue Bronc, Mr. Ivy says the same thing to anyone complaining to him about taxes. If he’s paying taxes, it means he made money.
How do they think we’re supposed to pay for the jails they want everyone locked up in?
(Actually, jail is not free. They squeeze lots of money out of the prisoners and their families, as has been noted.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4525967-hur-to-testify-as-a-private-citizen/
“Special Counsel Robert Hur will testify as a private citizen…”
“Hur will still be bound by DOJ policies and protocols because he is testifying about his work for the agency.”
“Other special counsels, like Hur, have resigned at the conclusion of their work.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-hur-trump-special-counsel-b2510944.html
“In preparing for the hearing, Mr Hur has turned to William Burck, a veteran Washington lawyer with deep ties to the Republican political establishment to serve as his counsel during his testimony before the committee.”
“During the DOJ probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election led by former FBI director Robert Mueller, Mr Burck represented three Trump White House officials, Mr Trump’s first White House counsel, Don McGahn, his first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and his 2016 campaign chairman and White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon.”
“And he has served as a board member of the Fox Corporation, operator of the right-wing, Republican-aligned Fox News Channel, since 2021.”
I find out what the IRS wants and I fork it over because I believe a good citizen pays his taxes and doesn’t bitch about it if some of it is used to help poorer people have something to eat.
Remember that time the guv-ment gave away all that cheese? Wonder what was up wid dat………Dat was a ASS of Velveeter.
Where the hell did they get all that cheese?
BREAKING: President Biden has diplomatically secured a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that will secure hostage releases.
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-791645#791645
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/us-announces-weapons-package-ukraine/index.html
“The Biden administration announced another package of military aid to Ukraine worth up to $300 million on Tuesday after months of warning there was no money left, with officials saying the new funding became available as a results of savings made in weapons contracts.”
POTUS Joe has had a productive week. He could issue EOs on the border and force Republicans back to the table, too.
It was wiki cheese from the USDA.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-food-packages-regulatory-requirements-wic-eligible-foods#:~:text=Must%20be%20domestic%20cheese%20made,fat%20or%20cholesterol%20are%20allowed.
!!!
Please pick Jesse! He will be a shoo-in.
“Mr. Ventura, 72, was famous in the 1970s and ’80s as a professional wrestler known as Jesse “the Body” Ventura, and he also appeared in movies and television before he entered politics. He was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998 on the Reform Party ticket, and served for one term.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/rfk-jr-aaron-rodgers-jesse-ventura.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20240312&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=72667539&segment_id=160589&user_id=87003e1eb754f9d40574ce526134d300
Hey Craig! I’m hoping Biden wins Michigan in November. The far-right county commissioners have pretty much opened the eyes of a lot of people in my city and county. They see how truly bad those people are.
CNN declares Biden wins Democratic presidential nomination, Georgia put him over the top
It doesn’t matter what he-Hur-it says, Joe has put it to the lie.
You know, somehow it’s not enough for the gop to give massive tax cuts for the Uber-rich and corporations, no; that’s just not enough, they also want to cut social security and Medicare from the people who actually have to live on those programs, and they want to gut food stamps from the poorest among us.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-mississippi-alabama-primary-results-biden-trump/
“President Biden clinches Democratic Party nomination with Georgia win, CBS News projects”
Biden admin found a bit of money to help Ukraine.
Biden admin brokered a ceasefire with Hamas to release hostages.
All Biden does is win, win, win, no matter what, what, what.
Colorado Republican House member Ken Buck leaving his office not in November, but in a few days from now.
https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/governor-polis-releases-statement-resignation-congressman-ken-buck
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1767673862919991612?s=20
GOP Rep. Ken Buck: “This place just keeps going downhill…Mike Johnson’s ability to talk me into staying here, is going to be as successful as his ability of talking to me into unconstitutional impeachments.”
AP: Biden celebrated the nomination while casting Trump as a serious threat to democracy: “Trump is running a campaign of resentment, revenge, and retribution that threatens the very idea of America. I am honored that the broad coalition of voters representing the rich diversity of the Democratic Party across the country have put their faith in me once again to lead our party — and our country — in a moment when the threat Trump poses is greater than ever.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/bloodbath-at-rnc-trump-team-slashes-staff-at-committee-00146368
“Bloodbath at RNC: Trump team slashes staff at committee”
“All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff, though the names were not made public. Additionally, some vendor contracts are expected to be cut.”
“The RNC had about $8 million at the end of December, only about one-third as much as the Democratic National Committee. Under the new structure, the Trump campaign is looking to merge its operations with the RNC. Key departments, such as communications, data and fundraising, will effectively be one and the same.”
Here’s something fun to think about. Let’s say Orange Adolf isn’t around anymore (exile, jail, oblivion). Who wins to be next in line? Junior? Eric’s wife?
Not a good sign for Trump in the general election — losing 70,000 Georgia Republicans (14%) to Nikki Haley in a primary after she dropped out– in a state you only lost by 11,000 last time. Despite being a ghost Haley is getting 30% in Atlanta suburbs like Cobb County (Gingrich’s old district), 45% in Dekalb County, 25% in Savannah. Hard to imagine these Republicans showing up for Trump in November if they’re voting against him when he’s the only GOP candidate running. Georgia might be doable for Biden again.
Poobah, Mrs. P and I were talking about that during Alex’s show as the results were coming in from the Deep South. He’s doing worse against Nikki, who isn’t running, than Joe is against live candidates and “uncommitted”.
Nikki Who gets 25% in Washington.
Despite pro-Palestinian organizing in Washington uncommitted gets 8% in Dem primary, that’s half what they got in Michigan
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/12/texas-randy-weber-house-freedom-caucus/
“U.S. Rep. Randy Weber kicked out of House Freedom Caucus”
“The Texas Republican said it wasn’t so much a lack of interest as a dislike for the “burn the house down” procedural tactics the rightmost flank has come to be known for. In response, Weber said Good told him he’d need to reapply for admission back into the caucus.”
“It was a shock because I’ve disagreed with some of the Freedom Caucus chairs … but I’ve never had them tell me you need to get out of the Freedom Caucus,” Weber told The Texas Tribune.
“Weber was a Freedom Caucus member for nearly a decade. He said he has seen the group shift from being party rabble-rousers to playing a major hand in holding up budget fights and forcing an unprecedented Speaker election last year. The rightmost flank holds more weight now given House Republicans’ razor-thin majority, dangling the threat of a motion to vacate or a government shutdown if leadership doesn’t concede to their hardline demands.”