Notices by Wokebloke for Democracy (dougiec3@libretooth.gr)

" Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, billionaire Scott Bessent, said that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts was "the single most important economic issue of the day." But he said he did not support raising the federal minimum wage, which has been $7.25 since 2009 although 30 states and dozens of cities have raised the minimum wage in their jurisdictions."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-16-2025?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Trump #Musk #TechBros #Oligarchy

It is nice to know that Oligarchs can be afraid, too, and feel the need to create fictional proxies to enable them to espouse Nazi propaganda.
#Musk #Xitter #Fascism #Cowardice

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-4-2025?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Landscape #Photography #Winter

"...two of the members who had voted for people other than Johnson switched their vote to him, giving him the votes he needed to become the speaker of the 119th Congress. One of the holdouts, Ralph Norman (R-SC) was the man who urged Trump to declare “Marshall Law” on January 17, 2021, to keep President-elect Joe Biden from taking over the presidency."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-3-2025?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Trump #Johnson #Congress #2025

Ann Telnaes!
#Trump #Musk #2024

Happy New Year!
#Alcohol #NonAlcohol #AlcoholFree

Clarence Thomas living like a millionaire (I know. It's just a figure of speech as it isn't what it once was.) in exchange for his loyalty to Project 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/ethics-inquiry-supreme-court
#SCOTUS #Corruption #ClarenceThomas #Bribery #Ethics

@hellomiakoda @punishmenthurts @shyestrange @roknrol
I know my tv puts out sound that seems off center. Could be your headphones are getting sound from a device that isn't transmitting that surround sound?

Very good explanation of why, even with digital sound, modern movies and streaming series are hard to follow without subtitles.
We watched a movie (DVD, not streaming) of a movie from the last century, and every word was clear and easy to understand.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/why-movie-dialogue-is-so-hard-to-understand-these-days-163708191.html
#Movies #MovieMaking #Digital #Analog

“I got so tired of writing about dead kids...
Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died and then watching nothing happen.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/state-department-employee-resigns-israel-gaza
#GAZA #Israel #Genocide

Luckovich!
#Trump #Musk #Budget

I've read that the Nazis built the gas chambers because of the human toll of so many summary executions on the soldiers assigned to the task. German soldiers were committing suicide. Solution: assign a clerk to check people into the "showers" and turn a couple of valves on the other side of a wall from the condemned.
Insurance companies are looking to AI because the denial of medical coverage also takes a toll with perhaps too few people like Dave Opperman to do the job.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

But, statistically only 0.1% of policy holders denied coverage might decide to take lethal action against the insurer.
"The lawsuit claims that(United Health Care)knowingly uses an algorithm that makes errors 90% of the time because it also knows that only about 0.2% of policy holders will appeal the decision to deny their claims.
The shooter, whose actual motive remains unknown, is fast becoming a folk hero."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-5-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#HealthCare #Assassination #CEO #Corporations

Neo Nazis outed-
"Cyan Cruz, a 40-year-old marketing professional who appears to have lived in Austin and Amarillo and operates the X account TheOfficial1984; Michael Gramer, a 42-year-old retired mechanical engineer who has lived in New Hampshire, operates the X account 9mm_SMG, and has claimed to have a house in Galveston and to be spending time in Dallas; Robert “Bobby” Thorne, a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase in Plano..."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#Fascism #NeoNazis #JPMorgan

"Republican senators have also insisted on FBI background checks for Trump’s nominees before they face confirmation votes, as has been standard practice for decades. Lawmakers have been particularly interested in seeing the findings of reviews into Trump’s designated nominee for defense secretary, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, and former representative Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/trump-team-background-checks
#TrumpCabinet #Putin #Trump #Hegseth #Gabbard

"... it turns out that Trump did not win 50% of the vote... his margin comes in at 44th out of the 51 elections that have been held since 1824. He also had very short coattails—four Democrats won in states Trump carried—and the Republicans have the smallest House majority since there have been 50 states, despite the help... from the extreme gerrymandering in states like North Carolina.
More Americans voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-18-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Vote #2024

And another thing: what was Jill Stein's payoff for participating in the 2024 election?
#Democracy #Money #Putin #JillStein

From the Justice for All or Justice for None Department-
"Republican establishment leaders have always wanted to dismantle the New Deal... but have never wanted to dismantle the rule of law on which the United States is founded or the international rules-based order on which foreign trade depends.
... the rule of law is the foundation on which the security of property rests: there is a reason that foreign oligarchs park their money in democracies."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-13-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Trump #MAGA #Congress

The Chinese Connection-
"The last time Donald Trump won an election, he faced a cash shortage, forcing him to take out an unexpected loan, which he kept hidden by leaving it off his financial disclosure reports, Forbes has learned. Then he apparently quickly repaid it, using proceeds he received from selling his daughter’s penthouse to a woman with Chinese government connections."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2024/11/05/short-on-cash-after-2016-election-trump-secured-secret-loan/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydozentest&cdlcid=66a1495d9e1a4fe5924a68ce
#Trump #Felon #Russia #China

Heller!
#Bezos #Endorsement #WaPo