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Trump asked Big Oil to give him $1 billion for his campaign last month.

He promised lower taxes and to gut environmental regulations in return.

Big Oil CEOs already appear to be taking him up on the offer, inviting Trump to a fundraiser in Houston yesterday.

Be warned.

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Not sure I understand what difference this makes. This is what Trump and the GQP was going to do anyhow.

rbreich , to Random
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The Appeal to Heaven flag isn't just tied to Jan 6.

It's a Christian nationalist symbol.

Christian nationalists believe that the law of the land is not the Constitution, but instead the law of God as they interpret it.

Do you see the problem with Alito flying this flag?

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Speaking as an atheist, I see a problem with his being a Roman Catholic, an especially horrific and irrational version of Xianity. Our government was designed to be secular, and not a reflection of the will of the Vicar of Christ.

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Ron DeSantis signed a law that prevents municipalities in Florida from requiring that employers provide shade and water breaks for outdoor workers.

A study found that heat-related deaths in FL shot up by 88% between 2019 and 2022.

Folks, this is the GOP's vision for America.

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If they're reporting up 88% you can bet it's up a lot more than that. Southern states are a like a bunch of Baghdad Bobs when it comes to health reporting.

rbreich , to Random
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You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee gets a bonus of $176,500. Hello?

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And high school football coaches can make over $100K a year - well, a season at least.

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I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

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Anybody remember the Kasperzy malware protection software? Obama made everybody in the Executive Department, including the DoD, take it off their machines because it was sending dumps to the KGB. One of the first things Trump did was tell everybody to put the Kasperzy spyware back on their machines. Hopefully Biden has ordered it removed again.

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4 years ago today, Dr. Fauci contradicted Trump's claim that Covid would magically go away before the fall. After that, Fauci was sidelined from public briefings & barred from speaking to press.

During the greatest national crisis of our time, all Trump cared about was his ego

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To be fair, Trump also wanted to murder as many people in NYC and Blue states as he could. It wasn't all just ego, there was also the excitement of bioterrorism and the sadistic pleasure of seeing his enemies die from covid.

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Extending Trump's tax cuts will cost $3.5 trillion over a decade.

This is why Trump wants to cut Social Security.

So he can take a lifetime of earned benefits away from working people and gift them to the rich.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

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With Citizen Trump's real estate holdings loosing money and Trump Social in the red, Trump himself seems to have no declarable income, so at least it can be said that a tax cut for the wealthy won't affect him directly.

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