This is what oligarchy looks like. Manipulating markets to make illegal, insider trading profits.
Posts by John Lippitt
The green lining to Trump's illegal, ill-advised war on Iran is that it's made renewables much more attractive financially.
No more government funding for Musk. It's all fraud, waste, and abuse.
The ethics of a number of our Supreme Court Justices are lacking, and Thomas leads the parade.
The Trump administration is both incompetent and unserious about negotiating peace. They just use their announcements to manipulate the markets so they and their cronies can engage in illegal insider trading and line their own pockets. This is what kleptocracy looks like.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
If anyone in the Trump administration were serious about wanting to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, they would start at the Defense Department. Anything else is a politically motivated distraction.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Six of the Supreme Court Justice are not calling balls and strikes, they are changing the size and location of the plate to make politically and ideologically biased decisions.
Democracy requires fair taxation. The current U.S. tax system is unfair. Given the huge inequalities in wealth, wealth and transfers of it need to be taxed directly. Wealth taxes are essential to re-establishing a fair tax system and reducing economic inequality.
This is what oligarchy looks like. We need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It will fight for all of us!
His hypocrisy knows no bounds.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Maybe is the US had some professional diplomats negotiating (rather than a couple of sketchy financiers) something serious would come out of the negotiations.
Democracy requires fair taxation. The current U.S. tax system is unfair. Increased progressivity of individual and business income tax rates, especially on income from wealth (versus work), is one essential piece of re-establishing a fair tax system and reducing economic inequality.
Democracy requires a government that fosters people’s freedom. Its resources must come from fair taxation. Oligarchs cut taxes and undermine democracy to consolidate their power. Economic inequality has bred discontent and distrust of government and democracy, an opening for authoritarianism.
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Once again, Trump violates the Constitution and congressional authority by spending our tax dollars in ways other than what they are legally appropriated for.
The U.S. affordability crisis is caused by low pay, high prices, economic inequality, and public policies skewed to favor wealthy individuals and corporations. Here are some strategies for tackling the affordability crisis. THANK YOU to all of you who participated in or supported a No Kings rally!
There is no voter fraud. There is no need for the VOTE Act. It's just voter suppression. Contact your Senator and tell them to oppose the VOTE Act.
Priorities, priorities. There's always enough money for wars but never enough to help ordinary people. This is what oligarchy looks like.
This is what oligarchy looks like!
The Trump administration time and time again tries to hide what it's doing. I wonder why. Maybe it's because they know what they're doing isn't right, ethical, or popular with the American public.
Democrats have offered multiple times to fund TSA and everything else at DHS except ICE and CBP. The Republicans keep refusing because they want to cause a crisis and don't care that it inconveniences the American public.
His nose is getting so long it will reach Iran.
So important to target and win at the state and municipal levels, as well as the federal level.
The U.S. affordability crisis is multifaceted and has been growing for 45 years, caused by low pay and high prices. Here are longer-term strategies for tackling low pay and high prices. Unfortunately, the Trump administration’s policies are exacerbating the crisis. Please join a protest on March 28.
We get to choose: democracy, government of, by, and for the people, OR oligarchy, government of, by, and for the wealthy.