it’s annoying and scary at the same time, Republicans on the generic ballot are up over the Democrats by 3 points from last week…they’re blaming Biden for the economy…violent crime ( crime rates are higher in Red States then Blue States ) ( and it’s working…blaming the Democrats )…and foreign policy and immigration…they’re trying and succeeding in scaring us…with no solutions…and if they take power again, they don’t have any policy, no solutions…they don’t have a platform, unless you call them tearing down all Biden has done including infrastructure and reducing drug prices ( we haven’t seen any of the results of that yet…not until next year, but repugnants will close it down along with the January 6 investigations )…they’ll just attack social security…medicare…give their donors more tax breaks and vote against gun legislation… more voter suppression…and an outright national ban on abortion…their message on inflation and the economy and higher gas prices and higher prices at the grocery store…they blame Biden and the democrats…we’ve all seen those price increases…Robert Reich tells us that inflation stems from corporate greed…from his Inequality Media Podcast: “Since March I’ve been screaming about the Federal Reserve’s total misreading of inflation — that it’s being caused by workers getting wage hikes and government spending, when the real domestic cause is powerful corporations raising prices higher than their costs.
Major corporations that dominate key industries are using the cover of inflation as a means to jack up prices, resulting in their fattest profit margins in 70 years. ( Rodney McMullen, CEO of Kroger…”a little inflation is always good in our business, we expect to pass that through.”…Jamere Jackson, CFO of Autozone “inflation is a little bit of our friend in what we see in retail pricing.”…Brian Niccol, CEO of Chipotle, “and we know if we have to take more pricing, we have the room to do it, we see not resistance from our customers.” )
In public, corporate executives blame “government handouts” and wage increases for inflation. Meanwhile, they talk with investors about how inflation has been their “friend” because it gives them cover to raise prices.
It’s the definition of corporate greed and deception. I’ve had enough.
Congress and the Biden administration must take direct action against powerful corporations that are driving inflation. We can no longer rely solely on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to slow the economy. Not only will this risk another recession — it will put the entire burden of fighting inflation on working people who are not responsible for it — and who are already hit hardest by rising prices.
There are better ways to control inflation that limit corporate profits rather than jobs and wages — such as a windfall profits tax, tougher antitrust enforcement, and even temporary price controls.
We can’t keep letting greedy corporate executives get away with this.
Many thanks to The Groundwork Collaborative for uncovering these corporate earnings calls and helping spread the word about corporate price gouging.
Know the truth!
Lindsay Graham asks the Supreme Court to block his subpoena from Georgia…let’s hope he will be smacked down and forces to give testimony under oath…
disappointing to me is greasy, sleazy Steve Bannon was sentenced to 4 months in prison and only fined $6500…a drop in his bucket…not only disappointing but annoying…he made out like a bandit…it’s stayed awaiting an appeal…which he could, in true trump fashion, run out the clock…for months as well as years…is this justice?…
and the January 6 Committee calls on trump to testify on November 14th…and to turn over documents by November 4th…from The New York Times by Luke Broadwater and Michael S. Schmidt: “WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued a subpoena on Friday to Donald J. Trump, paving the way for a potentially historic court fight over whether Congress can compel testimony from a former president.
The subpoena was the most aggressive step taken so far in what was already one of the most consequential congressional investigations in decades.
It came weeks before the midterm congressional elections, as the Justice Department conducts a separate criminal inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and was likely to thrust Mr. Trump and the Jan. 6 committee into a legal battle that could ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
In a wide-ranging, four-page document issued alongside the subpoena, the panel directed Mr. Trump to produce an extensive list of documents and communications — including phone calls, texts, encrypted messages and email — related to nearly every aspect of his effort to invalidate the 2020 election between the dates of Nov. 3, 2020, and Jan. 6, 2021.
It asked for material on the former president’s bid to create false slates of pro-Trump electors in states he lost, his connections to the militia groups that attended the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, any attempts to delay or disrupt the electoral count by Congress on that day, and his interactions with members of Congress.
“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, and Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, the leaders of the committee, wrote to Mr. Trump Friday.
They said the panel’s request was “narrowly focused” on information that the former president was “uniquely positioned to provide.”
The committee cited numerous examples of former presidents, including John Quincy Adams and Gerald R. Ford, who testified before Congress after they left office. But the Supreme Court has never decided a case in which a former president refused to comply with a congressional subpoena, and the panel made no mention of cases where presidents have resisted legislative inquiries.
Ms. Cheney, the committee’s vice chairwoman, said this week that if Mr. Trump refused to comply, members of the panel would “take the steps we need to take.“
But it was unclear what the committee could do, particularly if Republicans win control of the House in next month’s elections. In that case, G.O.P. leaders, who fought the formation of the inquiry, boycotted it and have denounced it at every turn, would be all but certain to allow the panel to dissolve, as it is scheduled to do at the close of the current Congress in January.
The subpoena to Mr. Trump requires him to turn over documents by Nov. 4 and to appear for a deposition under oath on or about Nov. 14 that it says could last several days.
The panel asked the former president to inform the committee “promptly” if he intended to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
In a statement on Friday evening, a lawyer for Mr. Trump said his firm would review the subpoena and criticized the panel for its handling of what he called an “unprecedented action.”
“We understand that, once again, flouting norms and appropriate and customary process, the committee has publicly released a copy of its subpoena,” the lawyer, David A. Warrington, said.”…the pot calling the kettle black!…
Mike’s Midterm Tsumami Truth Number 24 – from Michael Moore giving us HOPE…Vote Local, Win National…”
(A daily series to counter the reporting that the Republicans are going to win the House and Senate. They are not.)
I’ve spent all my time here on the Tsunami of Truths focusing on us winning the House, the Senate, and some Governors’ races.
But as one who himself was elected to local office at the age of 18, I’ve neglected to point out that all change begins at home — meaning right there in your neighborhood, your ward, your borough, your school district. It is there where the crazies are trying to ban Maya Angelou. Where the Right is trying to stop affordable housing from being built. Where the Chamber of Commerce is trying to eliminate environmental regulations. Their mission is to stifle debate, to put a halt to change, to lock things down so that the big money in town calls the shots. That’s where the Ted Cruzes of this world get their start on the road to perdition. And if we don’t stop them there, they will one day become the next Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In the small town in Michigan where I live, there’s a group of wealthy white men who meet quietly once a month for breakfast. They call themselves “The Owners”, and the meeting, “The Owners Breakfast.” They don’t do this out of self-aggrandizement. They are doing this because they believe it to be the truth, and they are probably right. They own mass amounts of local real estate and investments in Northern Michigan, and they can’t afford for any of that to be disrupted or closely examined. No one has elected them or appointed them to anything. They’ve declared themselves the town’s Owners and that’s that. Few in the area know about this secret group or its members. (Someday, when we’re all not busy trying to save the country, I will tell you how I discovered them.) The Owners are smart enough to make sure their existence is kept under wraps. After all, the everyday citizens in a democracy like to believe they themselves are the ones in charge. Even if we know we’re not. Pretending and believing the myth of equality and democracy is 9/10 possession of the republic, right?
Nonetheless, we persist in the hopes we will all one day, regardless of status or bank account, be the real owners of at least the few square miles where we live and raise our families.
So while I don’t have the time or resources to cover all (random guess) 14,577 city, township, local judge and school board races across the country next month, I can humbly beseech you to do a little research to find out who these candidates are and make the right selections. It’s harder to do that these days, in large part because our local media has been decimated — radio is dead or racist, print is “what is print?“, and civic groups like the League of Women Voters are, in many places, a shell of their former selves.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a whip-smart local bartender (AOC) running for town council, or a middle school principal (Jamaal Bowman) on the ballot for County Commissioner or a local activist and mother (Cori Bush) seeking to become the township clerk. There are hundreds of these good people running across the country and it will feel good to find them, meet them and vote for them. The bigger changes that we seek nationwide begin right here in Our Town.
As the t-shirt says above, the mayor in Jaws — the political hack who at the behest of the local business community demanded that the sheriff open up the beaches for that all-important tourism money-maker known as the Fourth of July weekend (even though a mad shark who had already killed a skinny-dipper was still lurking offshore) — by the time “Jaws 2” rolled around, this bastard was still the mayor! Proving unequivocally that if you don’t pay attention to your local elections, if we don’t do our duty as citizens, even in the “smallest” races on the ballot, there will be no night swimming left for any one.
17 days to Roevember!
Spirits up!
I can’t make this victory happen alone. They only let me vote once! We’re all in this together.
Fear of the Trumpsters gives that power over to them.
Believe in our collective power!“…yes, we can do it…get out there and vote those repugnant, lying Republicans out…way OUT!…
went to see Black Adam…all action and no substance…of course, good versus evil…and good wins with all kinds of special effects…Dwayne Johnson is Black Adam…going all the way back to 2600 BC…for the story…go see it if you don’t mind children at a 9:10 time slot…and paying a premium because “it’s a new film”…how much can it make on opening weekend?…found 2 pennies and a nickel…
Art Salazar 