Corporate greed causes inflation — not worker’s salaries.
In AP Business on June 3, 2024, Mae Anderson, Paul Harloff, and Barbara Ortutay reported that the pay for chief executives in Fortune 500 companies jumped 13% last year when inflation was beating up workers. The median pay package is now $16.3 million. However wages and benefits for private-sector workers rose only 4.1% through 2023. … Read more
The Philadelphia Inquirer Gets it Right in Calling for the 34 Times Convicted Felon, Twice Impeached Traitor, and Sexual Assaulter to Withdraw
The below editorial from the Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board is for all those snobby bedwetters at the New York Times, Washington Post, and all the other center-left media hubs that panicked and, like rats on a ship, flocked away from President Joe Biden for one bad debate performance even though they had acknowledged he has … Read more
Tough Love for Demoralized Dems
Time for Stoicism people: stop fretting about what you can’t change; redouble your focus on what you can affect. We Democrats and Joe Biden had one poor night in the recent debate. So what? Stop yapping about changing candidates or worrying that the sky has fallen based on one event. If we knew that Joe … Read more
Simon Rosenberg: Democrats Will Win
This is an edited transcript of Simon Rosenberg’s speech at the LD18 Democrats meeting on July 25, 2024. Simon Rosenberg is the author of the Hopium Chronicles, a Democratic newsletter with 9,000 subscribers. A veteran political analyst, strategist and commentator, Rosenberg is a veteran of two Presidential campaigns and senior roles at the Democratic National … Read more
Kirsten Engel and Ruben Gallego Release New Campaign Ads
The very watched Kirsten Engel House Campaign and Ruben Gallego Senate Movement have released new ads in the last week to appeal to voters in the upcoming November elections. In the Engel ad, called “Who IS Juan Ciscomani,” she goes after her opponent, Juan Ciscomani for supporting an Ultra-Right Christian Nationalist organization called The Patriot … Read more
5 Reasons Biden is Still the Headliner and Trump is Just a Sideshow
Alright, folks, let’s cut to the chase. We’ve heard it all—Biden’s too old, he looks frail, yada yada. But if we’re talking real leadership, which is what this country needs, Biden’s got Trump beat hands down. Grab your coffee (or something stronger) and let’s dive into why Joe’s still the one for the job. Experience … Read more
Do as I Say Not as I Do: Raquel Terán’s Attacks are Misleading, Offensive, and Hypocritical
Opinion: Raquel Terán’s outside spending groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars smearing progressive Yassamin Ansari. It didn’t work in 2020, and it won’t work now. When I was the executive director for the Maricopa County Democratic Party, I fought to elect Yassamin Ansari who became the youngest woman ever elected to the Phoenix … Read more
