Have you noticed the GOP considers "treason" something only possible by women or minorities? #TrumpKnew— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) December 18, 2016
Dec 18, 2016
Today's Tweet
Dec 17, 2016
The Wealth Gap Just Gets Worse
Both Bernie and Hillary tried with this, but the message was never enough to cut thru the frenzied clutter of the Trump Chaff Machine, plus the Voter Suppression that the GOP has been working on for 20 years, plus the Kremlin, plus the FBI, plus the Rat-Fucking and the Fake News and and and.
From The Institute For Policy Studies:
Key findings
Just 100 CEOs have company retirement funds worth $4.7 billion — a sum equal to the entire retirement savings of the 41 percent of U.S. families with the smallest nest eggs.
This $4.7 billion total is also equal to the entire retirement savings of the bottom:
- 59 percent of African-American families
- 75 percent of Latino families
- 55 percent of female-headed households
- 44 percent of white working class households
On average, the top 100 CEO nest eggs are large enough to generate for each of these
executives a $253,088 monthly retirement check for the rest of their lives.
Among ordinary workers, those lucky enough to have 401(k) plans had a median balance at the end of 2013 of $18,433, enough for a monthly retirement check of just $101.
executives a $253,088 monthly retirement check for the rest of their lives.
Among ordinary workers, those lucky enough to have 401(k) plans had a median balance at the end of 2013 of $18,433, enough for a monthly retirement check of just $101.
Of workers 56-61 years old, 39 percent have no employer-sponsored retirement plan whatsoever and will likely depend entirely on Social Security, which pays an average benefit of $1,239 per month.
With nearly $3 billion in special tax-deferred accounts, Fortune 500 CEOs stand to gain enormously from Trump’s proposed tax cuts on top earners.
If President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in cutting the top marginal tax rate from 39.6 percent to 33 percent, Fortune 500 CEOs would save $196 million on the income taxes they would owe if they withdrew their tax-deferred funds.
With nearly $3 billion in special tax-deferred accounts, Fortune 500 CEOs stand to gain enormously from Trump’s proposed tax cuts on top earners.
If President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in cutting the top marginal tax rate from 39.6 percent to 33 percent, Fortune 500 CEOs would save $196 million on the income taxes they would owe if they withdrew their tax-deferred funds.
Unlike ordinary 401(k) holders, most top CEOs have no limits on annual contributions
to their tax-deferred accounts. In 2015 alone, Fortune 500 CEOs saved $92 million on their taxes by putting $238 million more in these accounts than they could have if they were subject to the same rules as other workers.
to their tax-deferred accounts. In 2015 alone, Fortune 500 CEOs saved $92 million on their taxes by putting $238 million more in these accounts than they could have if they were subject to the same rules as other workers.
Michael Neidorff, the CEO of Centene, a provider of health plans to Medicaid recipients and other low-income Americans, has nearly $140 million in his deferred compensation account, up 658 percent since the 2010 launch of Obamacare.
The retirement asset gap between CEOs mirrors the racial and gender divides among ordinary Americans.
The 10 white male CEOs with the largest retirement funds hold a combined $1.4 billion, more than eight times more than the 10 CEOs of color with the largest retirement assets and nearly five times as much as the top 10 female CEOs.
The retirement asset gap between CEOs mirrors the racial and gender divides among ordinary Americans.
The 10 white male CEOs with the largest retirement funds hold a combined $1.4 billion, more than eight times more than the 10 CEOs of color with the largest retirement assets and nearly five times as much as the top 10 female CEOs.
Resist
As the era of Trump approaches, some of you are succumbing to the following four syndromes:
1. Normalizer Syndrome. You want to believe Trump will be just another president—more conservative and pompous than most, but one who will make rational decisions once in office.
You are under a grave delusion. Trump has a serious personality disorder and will pose a clear and present danger to America and the world.
2. Outrage Numbness Syndrome. You are no longer outraged by what Trump says or what he does—his incessant lies, his cabinet picks, his bullying, his hatefulness—because you’ve gone numb. You can’t conceive that someone like this is becoming president of the United States, so you’ve shut down emotionally. Maybe you’ve even stopped reading the news.
You need to get back in touch with your emotions and reengage with what’s happening.
3. Cynical Syndrome. You’ve become so cynical about the whole system—the Democrats who gave up on the working class and thereby opened the way for Trump, the Republicans who suppressed votes around the country, the media that gave Trump all the free time he wanted, the establishment that rigged the system—that you say the hell with it. Let Trump do his worst. How much worse can it get?
You need to wake up. It can get a lot worse.
4. Helpless Syndrome. You aren’t in denial. You know that nothing about this is normal; you haven’t become numb or stopped reading the news; you haven’t succumbed to cynicism. You desperately want to do something to prevent what’s about to occur.
But you don’t know what to do. You feel utterly powerless and immobilized.
Millions of others feel equally powerless. But taking action—demonstrating, resisting, objecting, demanding, speaking truth, joining with others, making a ruckus, and never ceasing to fight Trump’s pending tyranny—will empower you. And with that power you will not only minimize the damage that is about to occur, but also get this nation and the world back on the course it must be on.
If you find yourself falling into one or more of these syndromes, that’s understandable. Normalizing, numbing, becoming cynical, and feeling powerless are natural human responses to the gross absurdity and genuine peril posed by Trump.
But I urge you to pull yourself out. We need you in the peaceful resistance army, starting January 20.
Dec 16, 2016
Dec 15, 2016
In Putin's Image
From Bloomberg:
So I guess we're seeing the implementation of what the Leftie Loonies have been saying all along - The US is a Private Enterprise Operation with a Militarized Police Force and Nuclear Weapons.
USAmerica Incorporated.
Donald Trump is building a cabinet in his own image. The first billionaire U.S. president has appointed two billionaires and at least nine millionaires, with a combined net worth of about $5.6 billion, to run government departments. Two appointees to cabinet or cabinet-level positions are former generals. And fewer than half have any prior government experience. Many of Trump's nominees have close ties to Wall Street and corporate America. Altogether, his cabinet is shaping up to look a lot different from his predecessors.
The expansive corporate connections, collective wealth and varied policy goals of Trump's cabinet-level picks say a lot about the priorities set to shape his administration. Here are Trump's cabinet nominees so far, in order of their succession to the presidency.It's interesting - Trump's picks for the various Business Units of the Federal Government are all high-roller CEO types, and his picks for Law Enforcement and National Security are all hardass authoritarian enforcer types.
So I guess we're seeing the implementation of what the Leftie Loonies have been saying all along - The US is a Private Enterprise Operation with a Militarized Police Force and Nuclear Weapons.
USAmerica Incorporated.
Dec 14, 2016
Keith Again
"Compromise" is among my favorite words.
NEW: As 20+ Trump Electors hint at vote switch, the way out: Electoral College can and must prevent his inauguration pic.twitter.com/lBCaVnXy3o— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) December 14, 2016
Today's Chart
Again:
The presence of confirming evidence
and
the absence of conflicting evidence
yields a higher probability for truth
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The absence of confirming evidence
or
the presence of conflicting evidence requires continued skepticism and further review
Today's Tweet
RT @billmckibben: When scientists protest, their picket signs have footnotes #standupforscience pic.twitter.com/IOKvhuODFH— Dr Kelly Sennholz (@MtnMD) December 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016
Call 'Em Out
When you notice something wrong in the way the Press Poodles are behaving - like normalizing Trump's shit, Both Sides, etc:
AP: 212-621-1500
ABC: 212-456-7777
CBS: 212-975-4321
CNN: 434-827-1500
NBC/MSNBC: 212-664-4444
NPR: 202-513-2000
NTY: 212-556-1234
NTY DC: 202-862-0300
WaPo: 202-334-7410
WSJ: 212-416-2000
Welcome To The Trump Era
All that is not profitable is prohibited.
All that is not prohibited is mandatory.
Curiouser
It's one guy - and it's CNN - but there seems to be an increasing amount of smoke.
Dmitri Alperovitch said that their firm did, in fact, catch 2 groups associated w Russian intelligence agencies in the act#TrumpLeaks pic.twitter.com/jJDyfBwUmM— Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) December 13, 2016
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