This blog began dedicated to gathering and sharing information about Americans for Prosperity and other such right-wing 'libertarian' brainwashing group's, with their many deceptions and denial of fundamental geophysical reality. It’s become a collection of relevant stories and information for this election season. *** ADULT ADVISORY *** Contains tough love !
I've done a lousy job of keeping up over here, I have a draft about the ultimate defeat of the malicious Anti-Democratic recall petition against La Plata County commissioner Gwen Lachelt. But its been on the back burner due to more pressing obligations. Though I received the following from Karl Hanlon and it seemed like something that really should be shared far and wide.
Lost in the deafening roar of the outrage over the human rights abuses on our nation's border was the passage of an unfortunate anniversary – one we cannot let pass without noting. Yesterday marked the six-month anniversary of the day the Trump Tax Scam was signed into law. A law Scott Tipton voted for.
This backwards scam is a massive tax cut for billionaires & corporations that raises taxes on millions of middle class Americans. It’s going to increase the deficit by $1.9 Billion which lays the groundwork for Republicans in Congress to attack vital programs like Medicaid and Social Security. Tipton’s vote for this will hurt us here at home.
I was coming home tonight listening to NPR when Karen Duffin reminded me of the old story of Chris Jankowski who perfected targeted smear campaigns based on wanton lies that blindsided candidates and derailed many campaigns. The man is quite proud of himself and his stealth effort, being the amoral creature of obsessive self-interest that he is.
I find his story and his fundamental hubristic contempt for humanity, civility and common decency difficult to stomach. But, rather than kicking the dog out of frustration when I got home, I decided to put together this collection - just in case anyone out there was interested in learning more about what these treasonous scoundrels did and continue to do. The other thing to get out of this is how inept the DNC has been to confront such efforts and to come up with a clear message that enunciates the need for a rededication to rationally resolving problems based on truthful facts and a bit of respect for each other's humanity.
Republican Senator Bob Corker has some revealing words for the cowards in his own party. Time for the GOP to stand up to the Trump Cult of ruthlessness and disregard for America's Democracy, save America from itself. I follow this video with another of David Cay Johnston sharing his insights.
GOP Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) criticizes his own party on the Senate floor for failing to even vote on amendments because they may upset President Donald Trump.
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Here's some more details of what's going on in Washington these days. What we don't know, can and will hurt us.
David Cay Johnston 'It’s Worse Than You Think:
What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America’
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston may know Donald Trump better than any other working journalist, having first profiled the forty-fifth president in 1988 and tracked him ever since. He was the first to write about a potential Trump presidency when Trump announced his campaign in June 2015, and we turn to him now for a comprehensive examination of the first one hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency in his book 'It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America'.
He provides unique insight about the actions the new administration is quietly approving without drawing the attention of the Washington press corps, and examines phenomena the mainstream press stopped covering years ago. Join Johnston for a deep exposition of the workings of federal government agencies as they affect the lives of all Americans: from our wallets, to our health care, to our safety.
David Cay Johnston is a journalist, author, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. He has chronicled Donald Trump’s conduct in his books: Temples of Chance and the New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump. He has been called “One of America’s most important journalists” by The Washington Monthly, and he has acted as an uncredited source of documents and insight for major campaign reports by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and network television.
Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Civics series.
Thinking about root causes and bubbles, it seems to me our fundamental problem, the one that spawns all others - is that pretty near everyone, from top to bottom, clings to the notion that increasing economic growth is our cure-all, sadly sober math and unavoidable physical reality makes clear that it’s the path to speeding humanity’s self-destruction. So it goes.
Over the past year, I’ve started a few Scott Pruitt projects, but have been overwhelmed and unable to follow through since it requires more focused time and energy than I could muster so I've walked away, hoping for another day. Still I hear the news while driving to jobs and am appalled at what these people and their hatchet-man Pruitt are getting away with while most the public seems unconcerned. Sad thing is, they are going to win unless many more children of the Intellectual Enlightenment get informed and engaged.
The following handy resource is a bibliography focused on what Scott Pruitt has been doing as EPA Administrator. After this list I repeat it sharing selected quotes from each of the articles hoping to entice readers to continue on to the full stories and reports. This is by no means a complete list, but it is a good start. I'd welcome any additional suggestions, if offered.
(... Last month, the EPA barred reporters from entering a heavily publicized summit on toxic water contaminants. An Associated Press reporter was grabbed and shoved by a security guard. ...)
