https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/638073655528607
Is Any of This Legal? (ft. Rebecca Slaughter) | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
Long read but a good wrap-up for the week:
Today I’m feeling nauseously optimistic. (Nauseous optimism is when your heart aches and you’re sick to your stomach but believe you’ll live to see the dawn.)
Although every other constraint on Trump is gone — congressional Republicans are in the MAGA cult, Democrats are zombies, big business doesn’t dare oppose Trump, and high-tech has gone over to the dark side — one constraint remains: the federal courts.
And the federal courts seem to be holding firm, at least so far.
Consider what the courts did this week:
https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/639846732017966
https://www.facebook.com/VietVetsforDems/posts/1714510345934210
Presumptuous moron!
The fastest way to start a revolution and throw Krasnov out of office is to start withholding the Social Security checks of 70 million Americans.
As the staff cuts at the Social Security Administration leave monthly benefit payments to tens of millions of Americans up in the air — alarming former SSA leaders on both sides of the aisle — Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, doesn’t think you should be complaining if your check doesn’t show up.
“Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month — my mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t,” Lutnick told All-In Podcast hosts David Friedberg and Chamath Palihapitiya on Thursday. “She’d think something got messed up, and she’ll get it next month.”
By offering cash to voters who sign a petition opposing “activist judges,” Elon Musk’s super PAC can help identify conservative voters in a race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Elon Musk is bringing back his most controversial gambit from the 2024 presidential election: paying voters as part of a plan to identify and turn out conservative-leaning ones.
The super PAC that Mr. Musk founded to funnel his fortune into Republican causes, America PAC, said on Thursday that it was offering $100 to registered voters in Wisconsin who sign a petition “in opposition to activist judges” or refer others to sign it.
Musk Offers $100 to Wisconsin Voters, Bringing Back a Controversial Tactic – The New York