U.S. Politics

[Rick Plant]

President Biden @POTUS

The United States' support of the State of Israel's defense capabilities is stronger than ever before, including our partnership with Israel on the most cutting-edge defense systems in the world like the Iron Dome and Israel’s new laser-enabled system called the Iron Beam.




Today, I paid a visit to the hallowed ground of Yad Vashem where I had the distinct honor of meeting Dr. Gita Cycowicz and Ms. Rena Quint, two Holocaust survivors.

I vow to continue our shared, unending work to fight the poison of antisemitism wherever we find it in the world.



https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1547337043059113986

[Rick Plant]

Each of these Republicans gave tax cuts to the ultra wealthy resulting in record deficits. The GOP tax scams exploded the debt and put us into an economic crisis in 2008 under Bush and 2020 with Trump. Now, the GOP wants to get back into power to give more tax cuts to the ultra wealthy as they are talking about eliminating Social Security and Medicare.   

Each Democrat decreased Republican deficit and fixed Republican economic disasters.   

The Bush Tax Cuts Are the Disaster that Keeps on Giving
6/7/11
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-bush-tax-cuts-are-the-disaster-that-keeps-on-giving/

How Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs will make coronavirus recession worse
5/19/20
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-19/trumps-tax-cuts-trade-wars-economy-coronavirus-recession

[Rick Plant]

WATCH: Biden, Israeli leaders deliver remarks in Tel Aviv

[Rick Plant]

Biden Signs Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Into Law | NBC News

[Rick Plant]

Republicans want to force women to give birth even if it kills them. That's how radical and extreme they are. They claim to be "pro life" but when the mother's life is at stake, they refuse to save her life. These people are not "pro life" they are sadistic and many women will die because of them.

Texas is suing the Biden Administration and their argument is that a mother's life should not be saved during a medical emergency to her pregnancy. Let that sink in. Republicans just want the mother to die and you can't save her. Many women will die for no reason at all and this insanity can't be allowed to take place in America. If Republicans ever gain control of Congress they will make this a federal law in all 50 states.

How would you feel if a woman in your family had severe complications to her pregnancy and there would be nothing you could do to save her life? You just had to sit there and watch her go through excruciating pain as she is dying. This is what Republicans want for women in America and the husbands who love them.

So as a result of Republicans, the mother dies. the child is never born, the husband becomes a widower, and the family loses the woman. This is absolutely barbaric and insane when Republicans will force women to die all because of their radical extreme religion. Republicans do not care about separation of church and state, they want to force their church on you with their extreme laws. This is not America, this is fascism. If Republicans ever gain control of Congress they will be forcing more of their extreme religious laws on you as they take away more of your freedoms.   

Texas sues Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions be provided in medical emergencies to save life of mother
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/14/texas-sues-biden-emergency-abortion/

[Rick Plant]

This is today's Republican party.

NEW: The powerful Indiana attorney Jim Bopp told POLITICO the 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion here should have carried her pregnancy to term and would have been required to do so under his law. W/ @meganmesserly

https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1547626776486039552
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/14/anti-abotion-10-year-old-ohio-00045843

[Joe Elliott]

The Roe backlash is real. And, as they say, it is spectacular

People are enraged about the Supreme Court unceremoniously overturning Roe. Now we’re seeing just how angry they are.

Organizers behind Michigan’s Reproductive Freedom for All proposal report that they’ve already collected over 800,000 signatures, nearly double the 425,059 needed by July 15 to get the measure on the ballot – a Michigan record for a ballot initiative.

If approved, this proposal would amend that state’s Constitution to sup1931 law that banned abortion until Roe came along.

And more importantly, it would send a message to the enemies of reproductive rights everywhere – be afraid. Right now, you’re looking upon your works. You should despair.

A ten-year-old rape victim forced to flee her home. Doctors fearing prison if they decide to save a patient from an ectopic pregnancy. Red state politicians salivating at being able to hunt anyone seeking an abortion by preventing them from crossing state lines.

For now, you’re getting exactly what you wanted.

But voters won’t rest until the rights Roe guaranteed are restored.

The popularity of this measure also confirms something that should be obvious to anyone who pays attention to politics – Michigan is the model for resisting autocracy.

You may say that I’m a little too proud of my adopted home state. You might also say I’m overcompensating for the shame of my state of having helped elect Donald Trump in 2016.

You would be right. But so am I.

Like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Michigan responded to the realization that they’d put a Putinist in the White House by electing Democrats to key statewide offices, including governor, in 2018.

But the Mitten took the extra step of passing two ballot measures that helped undo some of the damage done to voting rights.

Proposal 2 gave the state one of the best approaches to ending gerrymandering in the nation. Proposal 3 expanded ballot access dramatically by, among many other things, giving every Michigander the option to vote by mail.

Both proposals passed with more than 61 percent support. Both were more popular than the measure legalizing weed, which also passed.

Making it easier to vote helped Michigan reject Trump in 2020 by 146,000 votes, more than 10-times his margin of victory in 2016.

Thanks to our new fair maps, Democrats have a chance to win back the state Senate for the first time since 1984 along with the state House, which has been in GOP hands most of the last decade.

This would not only give Governor Gretchen Whitmer a chance to actually govern in 2023, it would prevent what is shaping up as the GOP’s plan to steal key swing states in 2024 by using gerrymandered legislatures to overrule voters.

Increased voting rights and fair maps are the simplest way to fight back at the attrition of democracy that made Trump possible. And to be fair, I have to note that Michigan has a huge advantage in achieving these goals over many states, including our fellow bricks in the Blue Wall – Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Pennsylvanians need the state legislature to approve a measure before it can go on their ballot. And the GOP-controlled, gerrymandered-for-their-pleasure state House in the Keystone State will never do anything like that to risk their power or ability to help elect Trump or a Trump impersonator.

In Wisconsin, you need the measure to pass two consecutive legislatures to pass a ballot measure that would modify the state Constitution. Something that will never happen because the state is, at this point, barely a democracy.

But Michigan’s unique ability to fight for democracy makes it more important to the rest of the nation, not less.

If Michigan’s Reproductive Freedom for All passes in the nation’s third most important swing state with nearly two-thirds of voters supporting it, as I imagine it will, this will send a message to the rest of the nation.

That message will be loud and it will resonate much in the same way that Mallory McMorrow’s righteous speech calling out Republican BS did. And hopefully it will embolden weak-kneed Democrats to stand up on an issue where voters overwhelmingly and clearly oppose Republican BS.

It will say, we’re sick of your garbage and we’re not going to take it anymore. Yes, this isn’t enough, given the depths and depravity of the threats to our rights and democracy we face.

But it’s definitely a start.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/roe-backlash-real-and-spectacular/

Come on you Wolverines! Beat those rebels in November.

[Joe Elliott]

Each of these Republicans gave tax cuts to the ultra wealthy resulting in record deficits. The GOP tax scams exploded the debt and put us into an economic crisis in 2008 under Bush and 2020 with Trump. Now, the GOP wants to get back into power to give more tax cuts to the ultra wealthy as they are talking about eliminating Social Security and Medicare.   

Each Democrat decreased Republican deficit and fixed Republican economic disasters.   

The Bush Tax Cuts Are the Disaster that Keeps on Giving
6/7/11
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-bush-tax-cuts-are-the-disaster-that-keeps-on-giving/

How Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs will make coronavirus recession worse
5/19/20
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-19/trumps-tax-cuts-trade-wars-economy-coronavirus-recession

This is a great graph.