11/16 News Roundup – Bernie Blasts GOP Tax Plan As A ‘Terrible Proposal’, Kaine Sides With Sanders On Superdelegates & More
Bernie Sanders Rips GOP Tax Plan: ‘Terrible Proposal’
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday ripped the Republican tax-reform plan as a “terrible proposal” being “paid for by the billionaire class who control the political process.”
“It’s a bad idea,” Sanders, the Vermont Independent and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, told Anderson Cooper on CNN.
It’s going to throw 13 million Americans off the health insurance they currently have, including about six million people on Medicaid.
“It’s going to raise premiums by about 10 percent for ordinary Americans.”
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Sanders attributed both plans to GOP’s effort to “give huge tax breaks to corporations and make them permanent.
“What this whole business is about is the power that big money has in American politics, as a result of our corrupt campaign-finance system.
“Billionaires and millionaires have brought hundreds of millions of dollars into the political process, supporting Republican candidates — and today is payback time for them.
“Huge tax breaks for the rich, huge tax breaks for multinational corporations,” Sanders said. “Meanwhile, at the end of 10 years, tens of millions of American families in the middle class are going to be paying for more taxes.”
https://youtu.be/ZIZLM9juK0M
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Kaine sides with Sanders, calls for eliminating superdelegates
Fingers are crossed that they actually do this
From Bernie:
Haha, well worded!
amazing.
7 ways Democrats are misreading the November 7 results
Great article–I especially liked this part
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/16/7-ways-democrats-are-misreading-the-november-7-results_partner/
Democrats Will Need More Than Resistance to Govern (And that means running candidates who do more than oppose Trump.)
Democrats Can Win in Alabama—and Everywhere
‘Ready to Resist’: Progressives Rally Ahead of Crucial GOP Tax Scam Vote
Declaring ‘Train of Injuries Must End,’ House Dems Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Trump
Trump admin. to reverse ban on elephant trophies from Africa
Trophies from elephant hunts in Zimbabwe were banned in the U.S. Trump just reversed that.
and i’m sure we have tons of regulators ensuring where each lion comes from.
Fox’s Laura Ingraham rips Trump for ending ban on importing elephant trophies from Africa
someone must have offered or given a lot of money.
His sons are trophy hunters, this is a gift to them.
I’m so pissed off right now!!! I just saw that!
And the claims that killing elephants are good for conservation are pure bunk! I don’t care what that pro-hunting piece of work over at TOP used to claim all the time. I’ve done my own research. For one thing, the hunters target the finest, most robust, creatures to put on their walls of death. Take removes strong genes from the gene pool.
Elephants, leopards, giraffes, lions, all the endangered ‘big game’ need room to roam in. They need land. And they’re losing their land at an alarming rate. 🙁
Curses on your ugly heads Mugabe, Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and all who make $$ from trophy hunting.
That removes, not take removes.
I’m so pissed off I can’t type straight.
How come the Rs and their corporate master remind me of this quote from Independence Day
” President Thomas Whitmore: I saw… its thoughts. I saw what they’re planning to do. They’re like locusts. They’re moving from planet to planet… their whole civilization. After they’ve consumed every natural resource they move on…. ” If theirs intelligent life out their please keep us limited to earth orbit, we need to grow up first. We don’t need to take this mindset out to other planets and destroy them like we are this one.
Wow, great quote, I’d love to ask the writer if he was actually referring to us in some way?
Don’t often watch the boob tube, but when I do it tends to be either comedy or sci-fi. I grew up on Asimov books and Star Trek, then went from there (big fan of Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Samuel Delaney (Dhalgren!), read every John Wyndham, so many others) and I also decided that we’re not yet advanced, enlightenment-wise, enough to leave our solar system.
I must admit that I would actually prefer if we don’t even leave “earth orbit” either quite yet. The plans in place now to plunder the moon of resources scare the heck out of me. Our ecology is directly tied to the moon. We need to understand the implications of massive mining operations, for example, before we do it! We need wise leaders who somehow figure out a way to rein in corporate control.
The next space race– Helium 3 is very abundant on the moon, 25 tons of helium-3 — or a fully-loaded Space Shuttle cargo bay’s worth — could power the United States for a year. Nuclear fusion reactors using helium-3 could therefore provide a highly efficient form of nuclear power with virtually no waste and no radiation. This would put fossil fuels out of business, Probably the real reason we quit the going to the moon due to oil gas and coal lobbyists back in the 70s. Or the aliens did want to share this power source (Snark)
Read more at
http://www.explainingthefuture.com/helium3.html
Richard Cordray, Who ‘Held Big Banks Accountable,’ Announces Resignation From CFPB
The Trump Administration Had 1 Real Wall-Street Cop—and He Just Quit
House Dems Introduce ‘Groundbreaking and Much Overdue’ Bill on Palestinian Rights
Kudos to these reps.
This is progress. Still, I would’ve expected at least a few more dems to support this bill. Ro Khanna, where you at?
Democratic candidates for California 4th Congressional District speaking in South Lake Tahoe Thursday
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