“If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.” .. (Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg)
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Don’t Let Them Forget Iraq
They don’t talk about it. When it’s mentioned they look shifty and hurry to change the subject or retreat behind a stubborn barricade of denial. They keep their ex-president (whose name must never be spoken publicly) hidden away in fortress Texas, far from the campaign trail. But it won’t go away.
However much they pretend it’s not there, these desperate and depressing Republican hopefuls scrabbling towards the brass ring of the 2016 presidency, the lingering stench of Iraq still hangs around them like a ripe dog turd that’s been trodden into the carpet. They try their best to ignore it but we mustn’t let them.
Don’t let them forget how deliberately and repeatedly a Republican President and members of his administration lied to the American people.
Don’t let them forget that there is no doubt now that these were lies. Not misunderstandings, not faulty intelligence, not matters of opinion, but great big, dirty, self-serving lies that have been exposed many times for all to see.
Don’t let them forget that it is beyond question the war they still refuse to apologize for had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, Al Quaeda, or ‘WMD’.
Don’t let them forget the thousands of American service men and women who gave their lives or were wounded in this War of Lies for absolutely nothing.
Don’t let them forget the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians slaughtered and the millions made refugees, the worst man-made disaster the middle-east had seen in living memory. All completely unnecessary.
Don’t let them forget that the economy and infrastructure of a whole nation was brutally smashed while corporate cronies of the Bush administration made obscene fortunes out of the wreckage.
Don’t let them forget the vile Bush-sanctioned regime of torture, the horrors of Abu Ghraib and the other CIA hell-holes where men, women, and children were sadistically abused.
Don’t let them forget the massacres and war crimes and the lethal legacy of toxic waste that is still killing and deforming children in places like Fallujah.
Don’t let them forget that the criminals and sponsors of torture in the Bush regime all got off scot-free, exposing a rotten American political system more concerned with self-interest and expediency than law or what is right.
Don’t let them forget that the world is still waiting to see justice done.
Don’t let them forget Iraq.
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The worst kind of Throwback Thursday: Today Jeb Bush doubled-down on supporting his brother’s worst foreign policy mistakes.
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Both parties are not the same.
I need to write a dystopian story based off the Republican platform.
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american horror story: season five
Dear Republican men: You’ve got a lot of choices when it comes to picking a candidate but I’d ask just one thing:
PLEASE don’t vote for them just because they’re men.
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When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem.
We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.
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Behold: Knowledge for the people who say #BlackLivesMatters’ tactics are counterproductive or ineffective. If you look around — especially at the response to every police-involved black death — you’ll see the movement is working.
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reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
On the conservation front, Carter tried to lead by example, installing solar panels on the roof of the White House. Ronald Reagan would later go on to remove said panels, claiming that there was no room for an energy crisis in his administration, and that no one needed to worry about conservation. Looking back over the last 35 years, it is plain to see that Jimmy Carter had the right idea.
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You know that minimum wage isn’t actually minimum wage right?
Like sure you might make $7.25, or even $15 an hour. But you pay 25% taxes so instead of making $15,000 or $31,000, you’re actually only making $11,300 or $23,400. And that’s the money used to pay for bills, rent, to buy new clothes, to buy groceries, and fill your gas tank.
$11,000 a year, working 40 hours a week, on minimum wage.
That’s abhorrent.
So we should lower taxes is what you’re saying. Maybe get rid of income tax all together and only pay a tax when we buy something. Income tax is the government saying that we have to pay them to even have a job. Does that seem fair to you?
No we shouldn’t lower taxes, not at all. Not when the United States has 18 BILLION in debt Source. People who make millions of dollars a year like Mitt Romney should pay 25% like everyone else instead of the 15% that he pays Source. In fact, I bet he could pay 40% on his $21.7 million dollars per year which would be about $8 million. I don’t know about you, but I could live comfortably on $13.7 million.
We also need to increase exports. Taxing the common-folk will NOT solve our debt problems. We need to make sure everybody pays at least 25% in taxes, and we need to increase the stuff we sell to other countries (aka exports), and lower the amount of money we spend on imports (like oil, and an easy fix for this is solar power). We should focus on spending for the goods we make in this country so that my $5 spent in the US gets circulated throughout the US, not other countries.
It’s not black and white. It’s not tax tax tax, and minimal exports if any. Nor is it no taxes, and maximized exports. It’s meeting in the middle.
There’s no meeting in the middle when one side is using 80% of the resources and insisting he doesn’t owe anybody for the privilege. Romney surrounds himself with lawyers and accountants who were educated at public expense. He may be paying them a salary NOW but the public paid for them to go to school and get to the point where Romney could
exploituse their talents to make him richer. And he gets to pay less than a bartender in taxes?
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