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The election this year is monumentally important. Will Brazil keep it’s Trump-like leader, Jair Bolsanaro, or will it return to democratic rule:
Background:
The surge in requests for official elections has overwhelmed the NLRB. The agency said it’s understaffed and “handling unsustainable caseloads.”
It has also alarmed corporate executives, who are paying thousands of dollars a day to break up organizing efforts. Amazon, Dollar General, Hershey’s, Pfizer, Walgreens and Chipotle are just a few major companies that have done so since the start of the pandemic, according to Public Integrity’s review of disclosures filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Over the last 30, that is 30 years years, America’s richest families have gotten even richer, while everyone else still hasn’t recovered from the Great Recession.
US families in the top 10% of the wealth distribution added about $60 trillion to their wealth from 1989 to 2019, while the bottom half of Americans added just under $1 trillion to their total wealth during the same time.
That’s according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which assesses how family wealth has changed from 1989 to 2019. The report, requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders, shows just how uneven wealth distribution is in the US — and how the rich have only gotten richer.
The day before the 2020 election, Roger Stone, the long-time Republican operative and ally of former President Donald Trump, said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results.
“F**k the voting, let’s get right to the violence,” Stone can be heard saying, according to footage provided by a Danish documentary film crew and obtained by CNN.
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Rove’s opinion on this matter will be hard to dismiss by the GOP:
Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that Texas’ abortion law is too extreme, underscoring an increasingly public discomfort with the measure among Republicans.
Rove made the comment during an exchange at a Texas Tribune Festival panel about elections following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. He said voters in Kansas had defeated an “extremist measure on abortion,” defining extreme as “essentially no abortion, no exceptions.”
“Do you think Texas is too extremist?” Tribune CEO Evan Smith asked.
“Yeah, I do,” Rove replied. “I think it’s gonna create a real problem for Republicans in the Legislature next year when they have to deal with it.”
There are questions about Biden’s mental fitness that were first raised in 2020, when he ran for the presidency. Those questions have not gone away:
US president Joe Biden has appeared confused and “lost” on stage in a clip his political opponents have seized on to cast doubt over the leader’s mental acuity.
After delivering a speech on Wednesday (local time) at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York, Mr Biden appeared unsure what to do.
The president wondered to the right of the stage before stopping and putting his hands out. He then lurched with his hands out before stopping again and standing still. As he appeared to interact with someone off stage, he looked unsure about what to do and whether or not to walk off.
…The focus and mental stamina of Mr Biden was a major issue during his presidential campaign in 2020 and has not abated during his first two years in the White House.
‘Morning Joe’ MSNBC’s daily news program is hosted by a Republican (The host Joe Scarborough, claims to have left the party because of opposition to Donald Trump) . The show is usually anti-Trump. Nevertheless, it was surprising to see a segment that is laudatory of Ron DeSantis. The co-hostess, Mika Brzezinski, giggled as she read a pro DeSantis Op-Ed appearing in the Washington Post. She then interviewed Republican consultant, Elise Jordan (who is a frequent contributor to the program). Pretty obvious the show wants DeSantis to win the GOP nomination in 2024. And the fact the Florida Governor has extreme right wing views is apparently of little concern to MSNBC.
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