Update to Reality TV show president’s election year stunt is ‘a war on Social Security’. Let’s take a look at Donald Trump’s executive order (actually a memorandum) for a so-called payroll tax holiday. This bit of economic quackery apparently comes from Trump economic advisor Stephen Moore (one of the “trickle down twins” with his twin … Read more
Our reality TV show president and authoritarian wannabe tin pot dictator pulled an election year stunt on Saturday in a pathetic attempt to make it appear as if he is actually doing something, which he is not. In the process, he demonstrated just how uninformed and unfit for the job he is. Trump attempts to … Read more
Mr. Trump just signed four Executive Orders this afternoon that he claimed will: Give $400 in enhanced unemployment benefits to people that can not go back to work either because there is no job or for health considerations although the states have to give $100 of that allotment (to get the other $300?) and there … Read more
Priorities USA and Mark Kelly have released two ads over the last day dealing with Trump attempting to set up a police state and Republican proposals to cut (again) Social Security and Medicare. The Priorities USA ad, titled “Police State” starts off with scenes of brutality towards protestors and Donald Trump sanctioning that approach while … Read more
Among the package of bills being belatedly offered by Senate Republicans, dubbed the Heals Act, for the next round of coronavirus pandemic relief is one that has not received much attention in press reports. It is Senator Mitt Romney’s attempt to revive President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform aka the “Simpson-Bowles Commission” on reducing … Read more