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Spending priorities

mardi 28 septembre 2021 à 02:00

What are Congress's spending priorities? An added $768 billion for one year of added military spending passed easily. An added $350 billion per year to help civilians has met with fierce opposition.

This comes out of the Reaganite ideology that government should never try to help ordinary people.

Senator Sinema's conflict of interest

mardi 28 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Senator Sinema received a campaign funds from a private equity tycoon after being an intern at his California winery.

The bizarre part is that she did the internship in 2020, while already a senator. She was paid for the internship. Is this not a conflict of interest for a senator?

Anyway, this is part of why she is committed to keep taxes low on those tycoons.

Sinema describes herself as having a nonstandard sexual preference. In my opinion, that is neither good nor bad, it is just a neutral personal characteristic, like one's hair color. I think what's important about Sinema is that she developed politically from progressive to right-wing.

Please don't be led astray by identity politics!

Starmer's plan partially succeedes

mardi 28 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Starmer succeeded in implementing part of his plan to make it hard for the left to beat the plutocratists in the Labour Party.

This comes after dropping part of the plan.

In a few years, if the "centrists" (plutocratists) have gained a bigger share as a result of this, they can propose the other part again.

Large landlords expropriated

mardi 28 septembre 2021 à 02:00

*Berliners vote to expropriate large landlords in non-binding referendum.*

Covid-19 vaccine booster

mardi 28 septembre 2021 à 02:00

A Covid-19 vaccine booster dose gives much stronger immunity than after just two doses.