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turbinetree's JournalRNC Considers Multibillionaire To Be An 'Everyday American'
Diane Hendricks is nothing like most Americans.
By Chris capper Liebenthal — July 19, 2024
Meet Diane Hendricks from Janesville, Wisconsin. Per the RNC, Hendricks is just an "everyday American," like you or me:
But it is safe to say that Hendricks is nothing at all like you or me. She has a net worth of nearly $21 billion and is ranked as the 92nd wealthiest person in the world.
Hendricks spoke at the RNC convention on Thursday night and said that she is living proof that the American Dream is real. Apparently, the American Dream is marrying a man who built a home builder supply chain and then taking over the company after he died. But then she started laying it on thick:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/rnc-considers-multibillionaire-be-everyday
How much has she paid into Social Security after making her $168,000.00.....out of the 21 billion or state taxes in
Hendricks Paid No State Income Taxes in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diane_Hendricks
MO Attorney General Sticks It To Student Loan Forgiveness
Why do Republicans love to break things?
By Susie Madrak — July 19, 2024
A federal appeals court yesterday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans. Via Reuters:
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven Republican-led states to put on hold parts of the U.S. Department of Education's debt relief plan that had not already been blocked by a lower-court judge.
That ruling last month by U.S. District Judge John Ross in St. Louis had blocked the department from granting further loan forgiveness under the administration's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan but had not blocked all of the plan.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/mo-attorney-general-sticks-it-student-loan
My Navient student loan ( FFELP) is going to MOHELA this coming October, because I was told it would save Navient $400 million dollars to outsource it to MOHELA..........oh yippie ki fucking yeah........at one time it was Sallie Mae and then Navient and now this Mohela.....I am just dancing, I am so happy ...............
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It's a Workers' Party Now?
Republicans are trying to rebrand as pro-labor. There’s just one problem.
TIM MURPHY
2 HOURS AGO
On the first night of the Republican National Convention, I settled into a seat in the upper levels of Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum to watch the most incongruous political address of my life. The speaker was Sean O’Brien, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The subject was the betrayal of the American worker. The audience included many of the kinds of people he held responsible for that treachery.
O’Brien, whose union has not endorsed Donald Trump, started off nice but soon got angry. He slammed the “economic terrorism” of corporations firing employees who try to organize and attacked business groups like the US Chamber of Commerce. As he worked further into his list of grievances, the applause grew more and more tepid, until it finally just seemed to stop. Trump and his newly announced running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio—whom O’Brien singled out for praise for having recently walked a picket line—stood politely throughout. Occasionally, the former president turned to his would-be vice president, cracked a joke, and smiled.
If you suspended your skepticism for a moment, it looked like a glimpse of the anti-corporate, anti-elite Republican Party that Vance, a self-styled spokesman of “forgotten” people, has promised to usher in. Then I checked my notifications and found the Republican Party that Vance more concretely represents. Around the same time O’Brien took the stage, another figure who has historically shied away from events like the RNC was shaking up the race in his own unprecedented way: The Wall Street Journal reported that one of the world’s richest union-busters, Elon Musk, was planning to donate $45 million a month to a super-PAC supporting the Republican campaign.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/its-a-workers-party-now-rnc-trump-jd-vance-teamsters-2024-biden/
As the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities look to alternatives for water
BY BERENICE GARCIA/THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Updated 1:47 PM EDT, July 19, 2024
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas.
That’s the sobering conclusion Rio Grande Valley officials are facing as water levels at the international reservoirs that feed into the river remain dangerously low — and a hurricane that could have quenched the area’s thirst turned away from the region as it neared the Texas coast.
Although a high number of storms are forecast this hurricane season, relief is far from guaranteed and as the drought drags on.
For now, the state’s most southern cities have enough drinking water for residents. However, the region’s agricultural roots created a system that could jeopardize that supply. Cities here are set up to depend on irrigation districts, which supply untreated waters to farmers, to deliver water that will eventually go to residents. This setup has meant that as river water for farmers has been cut off, the supply of municipal water faces an uncertain future.
https://apnews.com/us-news/texas-water-shortages-general-news-fc639111246e655e3c182bc20d1a28d3
'It's scary': CNN analyst warns of Trump-Elon Musk quid-pro-quo
By Kathleen Culliton
Published July 16, 2024 10:03 AM ET
Billionaire Elon Musk's relationship with Donald Trump — former president, convicted felon and presumptive Republican presidential nominee — is more akin to that of a Russian oligarch's with a dictator than an American businessman's with a political candidate, a former White House staffer said Tuesday.
Van Jones, a onetime official in former President Barack Obama's administration, warned of the effect that Musks' millions might have after the Wall Street Journal reported the Tesla CEO and X owner will flush $45 million a month into a pro-Trump super PAC.
"It's scary," Jones said. "What is Donald Trump going to do to reward someone like an Elon Musk — he's has already given him a vice president — what's next?"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-elon-musk-2668756766/
I guess when you file suit to get a 50 Billion pay package.from shareholders ............this is what you do with the money........and get government contracts paid for by taxpayers..............and Citizens United is free speech.............
45 per month x 4 months = 180 million..............can't use that for workers wages, benefits or anything just give it to a fascists
Inside Ziklag, The Secret Organization Of Wealthy Christians
The group is trying to sway the election and change the country.
By ProPublica — July 14, 2024
by Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.
ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/inside-ziklag-secret-organization-wealthy
They should have there 501(c) ( 3 ) pulled...........end of story........
Fox Immediately Blames The Media For Trump Assassination Attempt
How dare anyone report on the fact that Trump's a danger to our democracy? Fox and their allies on the right are going to do their damnedest to try to stop the rest of the media from ever mentioning Project 2025 again now that someone tried to take Trump out.
By Heather — July 14, 2024
How dare anyone report on the fact that Trump's a danger to our democracy? Fox and their allies on the right are going to do their damnedest to try to stop the rest of the media from ever mentioning Project 2025 again now that someone tried to take Trump out.
As Karoli pointed out here, members of Congress began immediately escalating things following the shooting, and this is what we can expect to put up with for God knows how long now from the right.
Pretending that the media has been lying about the threat Trump represents to our democracy in America. Pretending that reporting on that threat, rather than the actual threat, is irresponsible. Continuing to downplay what Trump and the right's plans are to destroy women's reproductive rights in America. And lying about and downplaying what Trump said and did, and what happened during the January 6th insurrection.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/fox-immediately-blames-media-trump
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When Trump stops representing a threat to our democracy, the media should stop reporting on it, but they should not allow themselves to bullied by the likes of Hannity and Ingraham into stopping any of their coverage of Project 2025.
The right is going to use this as an excuse to deify Trump and turn him into a martyr. He deserves no such deference. Sadly the incident this weekend just made things more dangerous for everyone in politics all across the country.
Scott Jennings Wastes No Time Blaming Democrats For Trump Shooting
Remind me again who recently said, “Some folks need killing!”
By NewsHound Ellen — July 14, 2024
It’s never too early to weaponize violence – if you’re a Republican. In the aftermath of the apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Jennings was on CNN blaming Democrats. Before we even knew anything about the shooter.
It should have been a moment to call for unity and to tone down the rhetoric. Like President Biden did. And unlike Donald Trump did when a mob of his own supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol and endangered his own vice president.
Instead, while feigning concern for overheated rhetoric, Scott Jennings used the moment to foment more of the same against Democrats.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/scott-jennings-wastes-no-time-blaming
Trump adviser asks Project 2025 to remove his group from its advisory board amid outrage
By Carl Gibson, AlterNet
Published July 12, 2024 10:26 PM ET
The more Americans learn about the Heritage Foundation's authoritarian Project 2025 initiative, the more they dislike it. That may be why both former President Donald Trump and groups allied with him are now trying to keep it at arm's length.
According to ABC News, America First Legal — which is led by Trump's top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller — has reached out to Project 2025 and asked to be removed from its list of advisory board members. The network reported that the group was listed among the other groups collaborating with Heritage on Project 2025 as recently as Thursday.
"I have zero involvement with Project 2025. Zero. None. I made an advice video a long while back for students. I have no involvement with the project whatsoever," Miller told ABC.
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-distances-project-2025/
Hey Miller no matter how you try this gambit.............you got money from this group, who gave money to that compromised red hat golfer that you have been aligned with for years..........you knew...........if you didn't know then why did you make a video.............you sat on a board and had meetings..............
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