Elections 2016 to 2026, candidates, Florida politics, the far right.
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As usual, the media is falling all over itself to explain how Trump said Alabama was a possible target of Hurricane Dorian as it moved north-northwest, skirting the country’s eastern seaboard. As this photo shows, Trump used a black magic marker to extend the hurricane’s path farther west and near the Gulf of…
Here is an old joke about Canadians: How do you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? The Canadian has free health insurance and does not own a gun. A recent article on Bloomberg says the difference between middle-class Canadians and Americans shows more differences between the two groups of citizens. A Luxembourg…
No other nation has treated the Jews better than the United States. In turn, Jews have also made significant positive contributions to the country. Jews have been good citizens and have a higher percentage of voter participation than other Americans, 85% versus the national average of 52%, according to a 2018 GBA Strategies and…
One of the main criticisms of Afro-Americans voters’ support of progressive Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is that he has criticized the Democrat Party. As a result, political analysts say this has reduced Afro-American voter enthusiasm for Sanders. While it is critical that Afro-Americans and other racial and ethnic groups vote for Democrats,…
When any political party takes control, it has tremendous responsibility and power. It also has to promote new people who can work with the new leader to execute policy, foster new relationships and demonstrate they can get things done. This is also very stressful. It is a reason why many people chose…
Republican attacks on the feminist movement are designed to create resentment against women who want to enter the workplace and assume jobs traditionally done by men.
Here is why the U.S> political system became so corrupt, and how it got a corrupt businessman elected president of the U.S.
The Democrats are fielding 20 presidential candidates, each with positions on critical issues ranging from job creation to dealing with the environment. However, underlying all their positions is a central issue to any democracy: How much corruption can the nation handle? Americans are suffering through the most corrupt presidential administration…
When something very newsworthy happens, people are re-awakened. That happened when Trump was elected. It has been downhill ever since. Since Trump’s election, Americans have been exposed to a lifestyle of the sociopathic, unrepentant and venal. Worse, too many Americans now see this as the new normal. All this has happened…
“I am running for president, but this won’t be easy. We’ll be taking on the entire financial establishment and a corporate media who have long dismissed us and our ideas as ‘radical’ and ‘fringe.’” –Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT) and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders is a clear, direct thinker and his statement above…
A financial forensic investigator has been rewarded for his years of work on a financial scam involving JP Morgan, resulting in a $267 million settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The investigator, Edward Siedle, who formerly worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission, received $78 million as a reward for his efforts in…
America’s right-wing hate machine moved into high gear at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday when a series of speakers, fueled by NRA chief Wayne LaPierre, dropped their list of the most vilified groups, people, and movements in the U.S., who all stand in the way of allowing them to achieve their pure society. Among…
In his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, National Rifle Association (NRA) chief executive Wayne LaPierre railed against any imaginary effort to roll back the Second Amendment and gun control ownership as the “new socialist wave in America.” He then warned that if Democrats gained more elected seats in Congress, “our American freedoms…
It’s pretty clear that Bernie Sanders was denied nomination by the Democratic National Committee and would have made a better candidate than Hillary Clinton to combat Trump. As numerous politicians have noted, the 2016 election was for Hillary Clinton to lose. And she did. But why was Sanders denied any attempt…
The truth hurts, but here it is: “Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don’t agree, because I’ve been there. Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn’t that Donald Trump won…
As President Obama leaves office this month after two terms, people should rightfully assess his achievements, especially those related to financial reform after the largest recession since the Great Depression. But for those who take the time, Obama’s financial reform legacy is non-existent. He had a Democratic majority at the time…
Today’s news has the following long overdue announcement from the Democratic National Committee: “Democrats have alternated between internal finger-pointing and uneasy soul searching after an intensely rocky year. The painful 2016 cycle capped eight years under President Obama that saw the party lose more Senate, House, Governor and state legislative seats than under…
Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders and Republican Capitalist Donald Trump have tentatively agreed to a debate before the June 7, 2016 primary in California. If so, the event would be an uneven intellectual, bare-knuckles debate about a range of critical issues ranging from the failures of unregulated capitalism, income inequality, the ban on Muslins, immigration…
“The business model of Wall Street is fraud.” Or, to put it another way, “The business model of Wall Street is conflict-of-interests.” By far, the most pointed statement made so far in the 2016 presidential campaign (at least, as far as the financial services industry is concerned) has been the single sentence…
When you are a master of the universe, you have to make sure your place on earth is secure. That’s why the nation’s largest hedge funds have been pushing the odds, gaming the system, working to get the edge and hedging their bets to get the most bang for their millions in donations to the…
