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Post by dizzycheermom on Sept 27, 2022 3:16:13 GMT
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Post by ntsf on Sept 27, 2022 3:40:23 GMT
this information on workers and growing net worth of a large number of lower income persons needs to be shouted over and over and over .....
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Post by dizzycheermom on Sept 27, 2022 3:52:12 GMT
“On Friday the committee subpoenaed Wisconsin House Speaker Robin Vos to ask about a phone call he had with Trump in July 2022 (not a typo) in which Trump tried to get him to change the 2020 result in Wisconsin. Vos is challenging the subpoena.”
Not surprising at all that as recently as this summer he was still trying to overturn the election. Probably to escape all of his legal troubles more than any other reason.
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 27, 2022 8:17:04 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Sept 27, 2022 11:23:08 GMT
She always does a fabulous job providing a historical perspective and tying news stories together. And she generally knocks it out of the park with her conclusions. Thank you for this thread!
My favorite part - I never thought I would be a big Liz Cheney fan, but I admire her courage and convictions. I just wish there were more Republicans like her.
“I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn't anywhere close to the Oval Office,” Representative Liz Cheney said this weekend at The Texas Tribune Festival, which highlights politics and policy. “And if he is the nominee, I won't be a Republican.” She warned that a Republican majority in the House would empower Trump Republicans like Jim Jordan (OH), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Lauren Boebert (CO).
And when asked if Trump should testify before the committee, Cheney answered: “Any interaction that Donald Trump has with the committee will be under oath and subject to penalty of perjury.”
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Post by guzismom on Sept 27, 2022 12:56:13 GMT
She is so smart and I enjoy her daily news synopsis/synthesis/analysis.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Sept 27, 2022 14:40:46 GMT
this information on workers and growing net worth of a large number of lower income persons needs to be shouted over and over and over ..... I thought that was interesting but I thought they were saying that credit card debt was going way up especially among those with lower incomes. Which seems contrary.
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Post by ntsf on Sept 27, 2022 19:20:56 GMT
I saw a report that more people are paying off their monthly credit card bills in full.. another good sign of the economy
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Post by purplebee on Sept 27, 2022 19:25:01 GMT
I love HCR’s letters and read them every morning. She tells it like it is!
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Post by Scrapper100 on Sept 27, 2022 20:51:54 GMT
I saw a report that more people are paying off their monthly credit card bills in full.. another good sign of the economy I thought that was while getting stimulus… I remember seeing that a lot but recently it seems people are putting more on cards due to inflation. I haven’t seen any real numbers. This is the only place I have seen that they have more money I guess my question is do they have more actually have more money after bills? If you gets 3% raise but inflation is 9% it doesn’t really help. That said I want to believe that they are doing better. More people are working and less on unemployment so that’s good especially since you make more working than on unemployment.
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Post by FrozenPea on Sept 27, 2022 21:15:51 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Sept 28, 2022 5:27:31 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Sept 29, 2022 5:43:51 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Sept 30, 2022 15:11:28 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 1, 2022 5:06:55 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 3, 2022 6:47:23 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 3, 2022 11:18:36 GMT
I love this line at the end and agree 100%.
In the Washington Post, columnist Karen Tumulty concluded that while Trump was outrageous, “there is plenty of fault to go around. The Republican Party’s refusal to denounce him makes them complicit.”
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 3, 2022 17:58:22 GMT
I love this line at the end and agree 100%. In the Washington Post, columnist Karen Tumulty concluded that while Trump was outrageous, “there is plenty of fault to go around. The Republican Party’s refusal to denounce him makes them complicit.” Yes! I'm not sure what it will take to get back to more sensible Republicans. I have heard talk of a split into 2 parties, but many more will have to speak up for that to happen.
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 4, 2022 5:42:27 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 4, 2022 11:16:36 GMT
She sums up really well the danger to our democracy posed by Trump, the oath Keepers, the Republican Party and the Supreme Court. This is my favorite part
Also today, the Supreme Court began its new term this week with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the bench. In the minority, Jackson will not change the right-wing slant of the court, which the editorial board of the New York Times on Saturday called “a judicial arm of the Republican Party,” discarding “the traditions and processes that have allowed the court to appear fair and nonpartisan.”
One of the cases before the Supreme Court in this session is Moore v. Harper, which is about the “independent state legislature” doctrine. That doctrine is a new legal theory based on the election clause of the U.S. Constitution, which reads that “the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.” The theory says that this clause means that the legislature alone can determine elections in a state, unchecked by the state courts or even the state constitution.
The case comes from North Carolina, where the state supreme court in February declared that the new congressional and state legislature maps so heavily favored Republicans as to be “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.” The Republican-dominated legislature says it alone has the power to determine state districts.
Revered conservative judge J. Michael Luttig, who sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, is clear about this doctrine’s illegitimacy. Calling Moore v. Harper “the most important case for American democracy in the almost two and a half centuries since America’s founding,” he made his understanding of that case clear in an article in The Atlantic today titled “There Is Absolutely Nothing to Support the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory.” The subtitle explained: “Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.”
Luttig correctly identifies this theory as “the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election”; had it been in place, Trump’s scheme for throwing out Biden’s electors in favor of his own would have worked, and he would now be in the White House. Luttig calls it “baffling” that six of the Supreme Court justices have “flirted” with the theory, because “[t]here is literally no support in the Constitution, the pre-ratification debates, or the history from the time of our nation’s founding or the Constitution’s framing for a theory of an independent state legislature that would foreclose state judicial review of state legislatures’ redistricting decisions.” Indeed, the Constitution says just the opposite.
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 5, 2022 6:41:59 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 6, 2022 6:10:41 GMT
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Post by mollycoddle on Oct 6, 2022 10:24:47 GMT
The Saudi bit is concerning. I have to wonder if it is in our interest to continue to sell them arms. I am no expert on this topic for sure, but they are no ally.
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 6, 2022 18:16:20 GMT
The Saudi bit is concerning. I have to wonder if it is in our interest to continue to sell them arms. I am no expert on this topic for sure, but they are no ally. I agree!
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 7, 2022 6:54:43 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 7, 2022 11:45:46 GMT
Thank you for the thread and for posting links every day!
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 7, 2022 11:56:42 GMT
from last night's post on the subject of Saudi Arabia, this is concerning
We still don’t know just what is in those documents, and who else has seen them. This is an unfortunate wild card as Biden is trying to rebuild alliances to defend democracy. In the trial of Thomas J. Barrack Jr., an investor and Trump backer being prosecuted for secretly working for the United Arab Emirates during Trump’s term, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson today said he did not know about the contacts between Barrack, Jared Kushner, and representatives for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that are coming to light in trial testimony.
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Post by mom2jnk on Oct 7, 2022 18:55:16 GMT
from last night's post on the subject of Saudi Arabia, this is concerning We still don’t know just what is in those documents, and who else has seen them. This is an unfortunate wild card as Biden is trying to rebuild alliances to defend democracy. In the trial of Thomas J. Barrack Jr., an investor and Trump backer being prosecuted for secretly working for the United Arab Emirates during Trump’s term, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson today said he did not know about the contacts between Barrack, Jared Kushner, and representatives for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that are coming to light in trial testimony. I agree! And believe that there is so much more that we are not hearing about in regards to sketchy connections/deals with the Saudis. It is not a coincidence that MBS decided to cut oil production at the beginning of November, coinciding with our national elections. The Saudis and the Russians know just which levers to pull in order to manipulate large quantities of American voters.
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 7, 2022 19:44:37 GMT
The other scary thing was the talk about who they would pick for speaker of the house because compared to the new crop of Republicans McCarthy is “too moderate” ??
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Post by dizzycheermom on Oct 8, 2022 6:11:07 GMT
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