When will they ever learn?
— Americans pay 10 times as much as Canadians for some drugs because Republicans— at the same time Trump and his GOP buddies in the House and Senate borrowed $1.7 trillion to fund a tax giveaway to his billionaire buddies, student debtYet somehow the “conservative” base voters never seem to figure it out. Why?
At the tippy-top of the pyramid, it’s capstone, are the handful of white billionaires who answered Lewis Powell’s 1971 call to get active and seize control of America’s political institutions. They understand that Voltaire was dead serious when he said, “The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor.”
He’d begun the privatization of Medicare with his Medicare Advantage scam in 2003; lied us into two unnecessary and illegal wars; borrowed around $4 trillion to fund a massive tax cut for his donors, family, and friends; and to top it all off was only in the White House because his brother was governor of Florida and threw 80,000 Black voters off the rolls just months before the 2000 election…andBush Junior was also the least racist of the Republican presidents since Nixon, and put two Black...
The billionaires leaped to the opportunity. Resurrecting a meme from the tobacco industry’s “smoker’s rights” scam of the 1990s, they rolled out the 2009 version of the Tea Party, complete with millions of dollars to pay for buses, staged events, and well-funded PR operations to get it all into the media every day.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Will GOP Voters Ever Wake Up to How Much GOP Lawmakers Screw Them Over?From stagnant wages to soaring costs for rent, medical, and prescription drugs—the so-called 'conservative' voter never seems to figure out what's going on.
Read more »
George Santos will have to 'consider resigning,' Republican Rep. Brady saysRetiring GOP Rep. Kevin Brady said Rep.-elect Santos would need to “take some huge steps” to regain public trust. “This is troubling in so many ways,' the veteran lawmaker said. 'Certainly, he’s lied repeatedly.'
Read more »
Letter: It’s clear why Republican doctrine too often draws on LDS Church doctrineTribune readers occasionally express the wish that the LDS Church would get out of politics. While I share this sentiment, I don’t believe it’s possible given the current political makeup of church leadership. Some years ago the Tribune published an article on the political affiliations of the LDS First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, and nearly all were currently or formerly registered as Republicans. To my knowledge, the last Democrat was James E. Faust, who died in 2007.
Read more »
Some House Republicans concerned McCarthy speakership would continue 'past and ongoing Republican failures'Nine GOP House members said Kevin McCarthy's election to the speakership could mean a continuation of past and ongoing Republican failures.
Read more »