Day: November 19, 2024
Trumponomics Watch: Tax Cuts for the Rich Covered by Cuts to Medicaid, Food Stamps
“President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year,” the Washington Post reports.
“Among the options under discussion by GOP lawmakers and aides are new work requirements and spending caps for the programs.”
“However, concern is high among some Republicans about the political downsides of such cuts, which would affect programs that provide support for at least 70 million low-income Americans, and some people familiar with the talks stressed that discussions are preliminary.”
Sailin’ Past Failin’ Palin
Once again, Sarah Palin’s was passed over for another.
She coulda done transportation or education, among others.
However, Donald Trump will refrain
From naming the running mate of John McCain:
No cabinet post for “Queen of the Tea Party” and “MAGA’s Mother.”
Fascism Experty Timothy Snyder: Trump’s Cabinet of Deplorables Is Designed to ‘Destroy Our Country’
Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: It is a mistake to think of [Trump’s cabinet nominees] as flawed. It is not they will do a bad job in their assigned posts. It is that they will do a good job using those assigned posts to destroy our country.
However and by whomever this was organized, the intention of these appointments is clear: to create American horror. Elected officials should see this for what it is. Senators, regardless of party, should understand that the United States Senate will not outlast the United States, insist on voting, and vote accordingly. The Supreme Court of the United States will likely be called upon. Although it is a faint hope, one must venture it anyway: that its justices will understand that the Constitution was not in fact written as the cover story for state destruction. The Supreme Court will also not outlast the United States.
And citizens, regardless of how they voted, need now to check their attitudes. This is no longer a post-electoral moment. It is a pre-catastrophic moment. Trump voters are caught in the notion that Trump must be doing the right thing if Harris voters are upset. But Harris voters are upset now because they love their country. And Harris voters will have to get past the idea that Trump voters should reap what they have sown. Yes, some of them did vote to burn it all down. But if it all burns down, we burn too. It is not easy to speak right now; but if some Republicans wish to, please listen.
