UAW leaders joined Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) Saturday in Warren, Michigan, for the "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here" tour.
More than 6,000 people packed three different auditoriums to hear from Sanders and UAW President Shawn Fain.
CBS News Detroit's Jack Springgate spoke with two cancer survivors who attended the rally.
"They're cutting children's cancer research and the NIH and also interfering with grant funding rules for medical research," said rally attendee Elliot Stephens. "I have a daughter with cancer, and that for me is unforgivable."
Stephens and his brother are also cancer survivors. They say potential healthcare cuts could have fatal consequences.
"If they cut Medicaid, that's going to hurt a lot of people," Elliot Stephens said. "Senior citizens, disabled people, single moms, children who rely on Medicaid, it's going to hurt them. People are going to die from that."
Sanders says he's visiting congressional districts that were narrowly won by President Trump in 2024 to urge those representatives to vote against a bill that could bring cuts to Medicaid, housing, education, nutrition and other social programs.
He's asking those constituents to do the same.
... A House vote on this bill is expected to happen on Tuesday as Democrats look to flip just two Republican votes to stop it from passing....
Take note of Fain's t-shirt.
I never looked up the origin of the phrase before:
"Eat the rich" is a political slogan associated with anti-capitalism and left-wing politics, as well as sometimes anarchist violent extremism. It may variously be used as a metaphor for class conflict or a demand for wealth redistribution. The phrase is commonly attributed to political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778), from a quote first popularized during the French Revolution: "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich".
Cool! Though the attribution to Rousseau may be dubious, not many phrases survive and thrive for 250 years. I've got historical roots!
... He suggested that halting Social Security checks might be a good way to root out people trying to defraud the system.
“A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining,” he said.
“The easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he claimed. “Because my mother-in-law is not calling me. Come on, your mother ― 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds ― they trust the government.”
That makes no sense.
... A Bankrate survey from November found that 77% of current retirees rely on Social Security checks to cover necessary expenses, while only 15% say they are not at all reliant on them....
That's ridiculous. Nevermind that whether it's "necessary" or not, it's money that is legally owed. Past that, doesn't that fool realize that a lot those geezers voted to put his boss's sorry ass in office?
That's ridiculous. Nevermind that whether it's "necessary" or not, it's money that is legally owed. Past that, doesn't that fool realize that a lot those geezers voted to put his boss's sorry ass in office?
The Rich Eat Dirt:
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Jeff Bezos rushed to embrace Lauren Sánchez after her space flight—only to faceplant in front of the cameras. Rocket man, meet gravity.
Breaking @JeffBezos Injured during spaceflight.
No word on the condition of this hero who fell from the sky.
Watch Jeff Bezos fall from orbit trying to save his lady from the rocking chair rocket ride of a midlife crisis mission.
Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.
Videos taken at locations in Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto show various messages that begin to play when crosswalk buttons are hit. The voices appear to imitate how Zuckerberg and Musk sound....
In another video, taken in downtown Palo Alto early on Saturday morning, a voice claiming to be Musk says that he would “like to personally welcome you to Palo Alto.”
“You know, people keep saying cancer is bad, but have you tried being a cancer? It’s f—— awesome,” the voice goes on to say.
... Some of the impacted crosswalk buttons in Palo Alto were no longer playing the messages on Saturday morning, one local resident reported.
City of Palo Alto spokesperson Meghan Horrigan-Taylor said on Saturday that city employees determined that 12 downtown intersections were impacted and have disabled the voice announcement feature on the crosswalks until repairs can be made. The tampering may have happened on Friday, Horrigan-Taylor said....
Redwood City Deputy City Manager Jennifer Yamaguma said on Monday that her city was aware of four locations where crosswalk signals were hacked.
“The unauthorized messages have since been disabled, and staff are evaluating ways to strengthen system protections,” Yamaguma said. “We also want to remind the public that tampering with City infrastructure, including crosswalk signals, is unlawful and poses a safety risk.” ...
Genius! Go to the link to hear the audios that I did not quote. They're better that way.
All hype, theft and co-option, no intelligence or talent.
And you can thank The Apprentice for fostering the illusion of DonOld's success to the gullible masses that think it was a real representation.
Exactly. Fta:
... But like Musk, Trump's one clear talent is that he is a fantastic hype man for his own story. On the verge of financial ruin, he was saved by re-selling his myth via The Apprentice. And then Trump did it again two decades later, when in 2024 he was in real danger of getting wiped out by almost $500 million in legal penalties. He was pulled out of the danger zone by the meme stock-like explosion of Truth Social. This was the ultimate example of the Trump pattern: reaping a mind-boggling windfall based on the initiative of other people and the value of attaching his invented cult of personality to an otherwise flailing business (and yes, of course Trump nearly messed up the deal; and yes, of course he then turned around and backstabbed the people who made it happen)....
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA):
The Cabinet is the wealthiest ever. "It's worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate."
“The president is not at his palace in Florida thinking about whether you can afford day care for your daughter or how to stop insurance companies from denying your claim, or anything that matters to our daily lives."
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA):
The Cabinet is the wealthiest ever. "It's worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate."
“The president is not at his palace in Florida thinking about whether you can afford day care for your daughter or how to stop insurance companies from denying your claim, or anything that matters to our daily lives."
So what is Ossoff's plan? He is a lucky as Lindsay Graham. The opposition cannot find a viable candidate.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA):
The Cabinet is the wealthiest ever. "It's worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate."
“The president is not at his palace in Florida thinking about whether you can afford day care for your daughter or how to stop insurance companies from denying your claim, or anything that matters to our daily lives."
So what is Ossoff's plan? He is a lucky as Lindsay Graham. The opposition cannot find a viable candidate.
Dunno Ossoff personally, but his plan (and only viable alternative at this point) is to use his voice to point out things that need to be changed, and to attract as much attention to those things as he can in an effort to get enough fellow senators to have a meaningful vote and/or to attract enough voters to oust the ones who put these unqualified, incompetent bumblers into their positions. It wouldn't matter right now what detailed ideas or plans he might have as long as there are 50+1 Republicans in the Senate willing to let Trump run amok. But sure, it would be nice to live in a world where a minority-party senator could come up with a good idea and plan of action and get a bi-partisan supported bill passed for the benefit of the country and its citizens. We don't live there anymore.
"The opposition cannot find a viable candidate."
The primaries are 3 years away, sheesh. We've even got a 3 page thread that SoupySales participates in discussing the lists of qualified potential nominees. viewtopic.php?p=212267#p212267
Pay attention. They include, in no particular order:
Pritzker
Jeffries
Booker
AOC
Newsom
Kamala
Shapiro
Wes Moore
Rahm Emanuel
Buttigieg
Others? It's good to have options.
"The opposition cannot find a viable candidate."
The primaries are 3 years away, sheesh. We've even got a 3 page thread that SoupySales participates in discussing the lists of qualified potential nominees. viewtopic.php?p=212267#p212267
Pay attention. They include, in no particular order:
Pritzker
Jeffries
Booker
AOC
Newsom
Kamala
Shapiro
Wes Moore
Rahm Emanuel
Buttigieg
Others? It's good to have options.
Sorry I went over Vrede's head. I was referring to viable GOP candidates to oppose Ossoff.
As for the list, as an opponent for a GOP candidate I would think Emanuel is the most viable. However, he would be considered to moderate for the current base of the democrat party.
He may have been talking about in Georgia, opposing Ossoff. But if true, that is certainly a telling fact about the quality of Georgia Republicans. Maybe he means no Georgia Republican loon is able to get popular enough to compete against a literate, moderate, capable guy who comes from a family whose tree actually forks. And he may be right. A Republican version of Ossoff probably wouldn't get through primaries because of the "Boebert Effect" (not a majority vote for the looniest, but enough do to force runoff) and a true loony isn't likely to win Georgia anymore. 57% of population live in Atlanta metro area and it's become (gasp) minority white. Race-baiting drooling rednecks now have an uphill battle in what once would have been a slam dunk.
I'll take the good-looking, well-spoken, energetic white guy regardless of position on the "liberal" spectrum. If you get people to like you, if you have little baggage at the start of the campaign, if you support widely popular ideas, get a catchy slogan, you've got a better chance to win. Trump was the exception to most of that except he is a white guy.
He may have been talking about in Georgia, opposing Ossoff. But if true, that is certainly a telling fact about the quality of Georgia Republicans. Maybe he means no Georgia Republican loon is able to get popular enough to compete against a literate, moderate, capable guy who comes from a family whose tree actually forks. And he may be right. A Republican version of Ossoff probably wouldn't get through primaries because of the "Boebert Effect" (not a majority vote for the looniest, but enough do to force runoff) and a true loony isn't likely to win Georgia anymore. 57% of population live in Atlanta metro area and it's become (gasp) minority white. Race-baiting drooling rednecks now have an uphill battle in what once would have been a slam dunk.
I was referring to the GOP in GA. They are as dysfunctional as democrats with all the infighting. As much as I think of Herschel Walker as a UGA legend, he was a terrible candidate. Fortunately, Gov. Kemp and Trump have made up. Their partnership can go a long way bringing sanity to the GA GOP.
Fuck Jeff Bezos!
That makes no sense.
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