Thom Hartmann tells us about King Elon I putting $100 million into the political operation of Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence...also, more background on what I would call the “filthy CR” (as opposed to the “clean” one) – the ”filthy” one gives cover to these DOGE bastards allowing President Musk and his orange flunky to continue to wreak havoc on our government, economy...you name it...and I think Thom is wrong to say #47 is in violation of the Hatch Act since apparently that doesn’t cover presidents as we recently learned, but Cantaloupe Capone sure as hell IS in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution...
...and if there is one thing the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch absolutely HATES more than anything else on earth, it’s paying their fair share of taxes, and Andrew Rivera of More Perfect Union tells us about the biggest tax dodge in history...it’s basically an intricate scheme to avoid paying the estate tax, which the wingnuts have been after for years...and if there’s one thing I freaking hate, it’s these billionaire f*cks strutting around a stage like they’re rock stars, patting each other on the butt, when in reality they made bank off the labor of many, many workers, to say nothing of benefitting from infrastructure funded by our tax dollars (I think Steve Jobs was the first one of these life forms to do this putrid act, pretending like he’s Bono or something...of course, the vast majority of these characters are “nepo babies” anyway)...and I’d never heard of a GRAT until now; learn something new every day (Bob Lord, by the way, is a member of Patriotic Millionaires...kudos to him)...important history lesson also on the decades-long effort to repeal the estate tax from Chuck Collins, and David Cay Johnston has definitely done fine reporting on this also...
...and Chris Hayes brings us more on Trump lawlessness, leading with the absolutely criminal treatment of Mahmoud Khalil, and also trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving EPA grants...heckuva job, all you numbskulls who made sure to inflict this misery on us last year...and leave it to that beyond-useless Trumpist lickspittle Lee Zeldin to manufacture some BS conspiracy from the right-wing online fever swamps that somehow funding clean energy was a Biden-esque giveaway to “far left groups”...and yeah, Ed Martin figures into this somehow, accusing the United Way and the New York Department of Taxation of some kind of criminal fraud...video gets cut at the end with Hayes almost in mid-sentence, oddly enough...
...and color me shocked (well, not really), but, according to Sam and Emma of The Majority Report, it looks like Repugs hate the stock market now, or at least this Rob Schmitt character on Newsmax believes that (I believe the market rebounded a bit yesterday, but so far, it’s down again today)...oh, so the Gropenfuhrer needed to tank the market so we could get a break from inflation? Really??!! Well, let’s see where we are a month or two from now on that, OK (and once more, inflation was declining under Biden, down to 2.9 percent as noted here, but good luck finding that out while that info was getting drowned out by right-wing BS)...and I don’t know how this Newsmax idiot thinks housing prices will actually go down WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO BASICALLY BUILD THE FREAKING HOUSES, TO SAY NOTHING OF PICKING OUR CROPS ALSO, ARE ALL GETTING DEPORTED!!!...
...and Brian Tyler Cohen brings us the story of a lawsuit from Bronzer Beelzebub against Marc Elias’s old law firm that was shut down by a federal judge from the bench...and I get it that Elias has to be circumspect about criticizing his own profession at about 4:57; sounds like lawyers generally are doing the right thing even if some “white shoe” firms aren’t...important indeed to note that Democracy Docket is on its own platform – definitely an open question as to how certain media and legal operations may react to this intolerant fascist era in which we find ourselves...
...and here’s a bit of what I guess you could call Gen Z angst...kind of wraps it up quick I would say.
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