Trump has a four-year record as president on abortion, IVF, marijuana legalization, "no tax on tips" and the Child Tax Credit. The press should point to glaring flip-flops.
Michelangelo, I find the attitude of the press to be absolutely terrifying. They are scared of Trump. Dana Bash is a disgrace, but the others are no better except for Nicole Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell. All the critics of the press are brilliant, but nobody sees those criticisms. This is so much like pre fascist Germany.
The problem is the press are not scared of our side. They’re not side afraid of the pro-democracy side. They’re not being picketed they’re not being singled out on social media. Why are we not effectively protesting their bias?
Trump is so insane that the media loves to cover him. Meanwhile, they are doing great damage to the country by giving him so much air time. His fans don't care what he says. They are enamored with their messiah and see him as a leader. It's baffling, but it's a sign of the deterioration of our society. Good news for Putin, Kim Jong and any other dictators who look at the west with scorn.
Bill Clinton had sex with an Intern in the Oval Office. What message does that send? Kamala is where she is due to dating married men twice her age. What message does that send? Signorile has a history of outing gays that wanted it private. What kind of human is he/she?
To donnab, and the left is so enamored with kamala “word salad” and her “Joy” campaign which is reminiscent of Hitler’s campaign, (look it up), and her many accents, and her LACK OF PLATFORM AND PLANS FOR AMERICA! Did you see the videos from the Goldstar families BLASTING kamala for bashing Trump? No because the Liberal media CENSORED YOU FROM THE TRUTH!
To DC, did you think, perhaps the biased Left who have censored us for several years should be held accountable for NOT TELLING US BOTH SIDES OF A STORY? Take a look at what the Left has done, at least in the past four years with Trump, Giuliani, Stone, Flynn aka The Opposition to the DNC.
the " left" is Sick of the constant LIES, VIOLENCE, and outright dangerous Stupidity, of the Wrong wing.
republicans are clearly domestic terrorists with an extra long red tie.
we no longer are interested in their "side". we've clearly seen the jan 6 attack on the united states, and we Reject your violence, and dangerous platform completely.
That's what happens when you don't offer a good governance quality policy as an opposition to ongoing criminal enterprise. It becomes a race to the bottom. You're suffering from the illusion of choice
that's what happens when you " allow" targeted idiocy fuelled by machiavellian, bilderberg one percenters.
it starts by degrading public education, then using the stupid to divide the population, and destroy themselves.
if you can Invent an enemy like, say, the roughly point zero zero 3 percent , or so of the population, that is trans, you take folks attention away from improving their own lives.
folks who believe the world should remain for future generations, need to understand, and leave this shameful past behind.
deprogramming could be a start.
also jailing traitors would be a good example of putting survival above greed.
get rid of the face of this trickle down stupidity (the dirty old man, trump)- I would suggest, finally.
That's why you have to go view what the GOP/MAGA's are saying. Like watching Senator Cotton on Meet the Press Sunday morning, I learned a few things from what he said.
In a nutshell, he pretty much said making IVF free (Trump's plan) would cost too much. He also lied about Harris being invited to Trump's Arlington cemetery photo political stunt.
And, has anybody noticed that since Biden dropped out we are no longer talking about candidates being too old to serve? This despite the fact that one of the two present candidates will be 82 at the end of his term and is manifesting clear mental decline. Perhaps the corporate media would like to explain this for us, given that all they could talk about for a year plus was Biden’s age and alleged cognitive decline.
I feel like I know the answer to your question - Don-old is too lucrative for them. I think their pushing out Biden is backfiring on them because Drumpf is now facing a young, strong candidate who is being embraced by voters, some of whom are Republicans and Evangelicals.
In drafting these detailed, contextualized, evidence-based memos, the Harris campaign literally did the media's job for them, and they STILL won't expose Dump for the complete and total fraud that he is. They're determined to "normalize" us right into a fascist nightmare.
Americans know lying, self-serving Drumpf very well by now, and are either totally sick and tired of his BS and want him out, or think he’s the anti-political “savior” (as you say so often Michelangelo, they’re in”the cult,” bc his actions and words have always shown he’s a narcissistic bully, only out for himself.)
It’s vital that we do our part; donate, volunteer, talk to family and neighbors, do SOMETHING, to make sure voters are registered and motivated.
Let’s hope intelligent, progressive, hopeful and SANE Americans get out to VOTE so he will be defeated in a landslide. We have to have faith that there are more of US than there are cult members.
The media is clearly biased in favor of Trump. The fact that Trump is doing all these interviews where he never exactly answers the questions and meanders onto a different topic, and gets no push back for his nonsensical comments. Like the one where schools are indoctrinating students to become trans and offering surgeries. No push back on that nonsense. Or his flipflop on the abortion amendment in Florida where on Thursday he said he would vote for the amendment (because 6 weeks was too short) and Friday he said he would vote against it.
From: Ian Sams, Harris for President Senior Spokesperson
Date: Saturday, August 31, 2024
Subject: Trump’s Brazen Flip Flops, Pandering, and Policy Dishonesty
Over the past week or so, there has been significant media scrutiny of Vice President Kamala Harris’s positions on a range of issues in this election. They were the focus of a large portion of her first national TV interview as the Democratic nominee on CNN Thursday night, and she answered clearly about where she stands and why.
At the same time, former President Donald Trump has made several bewildering “policy proposals” that deserve real scrutiny – the latest unveiled just this morning.
On issue after issue, Trump is saying one thing after having done another. For example:
As a candidate in 2024, he suggests he is for decriminalizing marijuana – but as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses.
As a candidate in 2024, he has thrown out a vague promise to pay for everyone’s IVF treatment – despite the fact his own platform could effectively ban IVF, and his own running mate voted against IVF protections on the Senate floor just a few months ago.
As a candidate in 2024, he keeps proclaiming “no tax on tips” – after pushing regulations as President that would have stolen more than $700 million a year from tipped workers to let bosses keep their workers’ tips.
As a candidate in 2024, he and his running mate JD Vance say they want to expand the Child Tax Credit – but for years, Republicans have blocked doing that.
Let’s be blunt: Trump is just making stuff up. And he hopes we will all memory hole his actual record and only pay attention to his shallow words.
He is running on a dangerous Project 2025 agenda that the American people oppose, and as soon as Trump starts catching heat for his unpopular agenda and record, he rushes out to claim he would actually do the opposite. It’s a desperate play from a candidate whose back is up against the wall running against Vice President Harris.
But it demands scrutiny. He was President for four years, and how he exercised his power on these issues is the best metric for how he will do so again if he gets the chance. What he says now is just desperate pandering from a scared man who is worried he will lose.
So let’s take a look at his actual record on just a few of these key issues:
1) As of this morning, Trump now suggests he is for legalizing marijuana – but as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses.
Trump’s Administration took marijuana reform backwards, withdrawing guidelines to limit prosecutions of marijuana offenses that were legal under state laws. Trump even proposed removing medical marijuana protections.
2) Trump claims he will provide free IVF treatment – but his platform could effectively ban it.
Donald Trump’s own platform – linked on his campaign website – could effectively ban IVF by establishing so-called “fetal personhood.”
Here is how The 19th News described it: “If established by legislation, fetal personhood would have the practical effect of prohibiting abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Its impact could become national if courts affirm state-level laws that extend the application of the 14th Amendment to fetuses. … Fetal personhood is widely seen as being in conflict with in vitro fertilization (IVF), which creates embryos outside of the uterus that are later implanted. Fetal personhood bestows the same rights currently reserved for people to embryos from the moment of fertilization. The GOP platform said the party supports ‘mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments).’ It does not explain how they plan to support IVF while also supporting fetal personhood policies that would render it illegal.”
As President, Trump appointed an anti-IVF judge to a lifetime federal judicial appointment. He even added her to a list of potential Supreme Court picks.
Trump’s campaign has refused to support national protections for IVF access.
Trump’s White House and campaign hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice whose ruling effectively ripped away access to IVF in the state earlier this year.
Trump has deep ties to the anti-IVF movement.
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, voted against IVF protections in the Senate just a few months ago.
3) Trump is now pushing a vow of “no tax on tips” – but when he was President, the Trump administration enacted a regulation that stole $700 million a year from tipped workers to let bosses keep their workers’ tips.
Donald Trump’s administration enacted a rule that stole over $700 million a year from tipped workers and put it in the pockets of big corporations and Trump’s rich buddies.
National Women’s Law Center: Trump’s Proposed DOL Rule Is Tip-Poaching, Not Tip-Pooling
Fast Company: A last-minute Trump administration rule could lower restaurant workers’ wages by $700 million a year
In fact, it was the Biden-Harris administration that had to clean up this mess.
2021: Reuters: Labor Dept. unveils rule rolling back Trump-era tip regulation
4) Trump and Vance suddenly claim they will expand the Child Tax Credit – but Republicans have been blocking a serious CTC for years.
Under Trump’s leadership, Congressional Republicans blocked multiple efforts to expand the CTC and instead passed Trump’s tax cuts, which “largely left behind millions of working families, while doing much more for high-income families” and “denied the full $1,000 child tax credit increase for more than 26 million children in low-and moderate-income families.”
JD Vance didn’t even show up for a vote to expand the CTC. His Senate GOP colleagues killed it.
Top Trump campaign economic advisor Stephen Moore recently warned he has “doubts” about the Child Tax Credit, arguing we can’t keep giving middle class Americans “free money.”
Like Trump, Moore also appeared to express opposition to the refundability of the CTC, complaining that “a lot of the people getting it don’t even pay taxes” and echoing recent claims by Senate Republicans attacking the CTC as nothing more than “cash welfare.”
Economic experts, including conservatives, agree that Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would raise costs on the middle class by nearly $4,000 each year and set off an “inflation bomb.”
THE BOTTOM LINE
Donald Trump has a long, nearly ten-year record as a presidential candidate, president, and now a presidential candidate again. With his back against the wall, he is suddenly pretending to be a completely different candidate, desperately attempting to memory-hole his past positions and rhetoric.
It won’t work. Voters will see right through Trump’s lies over the next 66 days.
Trump must be held accountable for his brazen flip-flops wholly at odds with how he governed as president.
Are you aware that legitimate candidates and parties run on their own merit? Bashing the opposition is for lame ass losers who have no merit. Which is what both of our two major political parties do. That explains a lot.....
Corporate sponsored entities are never going to give you legitimate "news." Only carefully crafted narrative that obviously is not for the benefit of the working class. They're never gonna give you your knowledge required to overthrow them.......
It’s all about keeping the election close and maintaining interest for clickbait and money. This in turns comes from people like David Zaslav and John Malone at CNN, both of whom have shown support for Trump.
The anchors and reporters know who pays their salaries. I’ve spoken with several media personalities and they openly acknowledge that things are tough for them. I wish they’d put their money where their mouths are, but the reality is there is nowhere else to go, given how much of the media is owned by right wingers. It is an impossible situation, and the main reason that fora such as Substack exist.
Mark, just because CNN and a couple others are seeing the logic with Trump certainly doesn’t mean they support Trump. They’ve always hated him. But before he announced running for President they ALL LOVED TRUMP!
Exactly. The work will all be done for him. Meanwhile, he can play his revenge games, jail reporters and shower his rich cronies with another huge tax break.
Just like kamala and joe. They do whatever their shadow government tells them to do. Who’s running the government now? Joe isn’t, he’s on the beach for a 2nd week and kamala is running around bashing Trump, NO interviews to tell us what her policies are except her “values haven’t changed”, and pushing g “joy”, reminiscent of Hitler, using a different accent in Detroit and her Indian accent when she’s talking to Tech people.
I vary my television news watching among a variety of different networks: MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc al. I am sickened by CNN’s lack of pushback and the attempts at “balance” they appear to do. If I see Scott Jennings or David Urban on a panel any more, I switch to a different station.
Right there with you Donna. Other than the same clips that everybody else sees floating around on the Internet, I haven't watched CNN in years. I refuse to participate in their fuckery.
The media is outright lying to the American people. They have been hiding Trump’s deteriorating mental health from the voters by editing tapes of his speeches. Voters aren’t even aware of how bad he is - while they “feel” sorry for Biden - that’s editing.
As you also point out, Trump has flip flopped on numerous issues - basically saying whatever pleases the audience he is in front of at the time. None of what he says matters anyway because Project 2025 is the agenda - however he denies it. Again the media is lying to the public about that.
Who will the public hold accountable if Project 2025 is actually put into play against the American public? I would guess, those media personalities who had the knowledge and the means to warn people but refused to do so, will be some of the ones held accountable.
What do you expect from corporate sponsored media sources? Truthfulness and encompassing dissemination of pertinent information?
Quit consuming that bullshit. JFC
It's a carefully constructed narrative, created most certainly not for your benefit. That is if you're a member of the proletariat.
Quit doing business with everyone who does. God demand change. Jesus Christ we suck who is blaming someone else you know what "we the people" are responsible for this entire shit show. All of it !
The corporate media (or at least their corrupt billionaire owners) totally pushes Trump while emphasizing everything 'negative' about Harris (and Biden before her) while completely ignoring Trump's cognitive decline, his frequent speech gaffes and incorrect identification of people...
I think the Florida republican legislature already severely limited recreational use of all smoking in florida ahead of the vote.. so undercutting it before it passes. Likely also gave deals to donor growers.
Vezv, I’m in Florida and the amount of openly smoking pot is greater now than ever before! And it’s ridiculously easy to get a marijuana card too! I’m not against pot at all but Amendment 3 is BAD. If amendment 3 is passed, you cannot get pulled over for smoking in your car, where now you can. And pot today is VERY DIFFERENT AND EXTREMELY POTENT, compared to the days when we had about 5 different types of pot.
Hear that gang? Donnie is gonna come up with $50k+ for Octomoms-in-training to get knocked up with a litter while the bitch runs around with assholes who paid the Supreme Court to write ✍️ down that they believe blood clots & eggs 🥚 are more important than the dignity of human beings.
BC, haha that’s all you got?? I’m too old to breed. BUT I can Cook really well! Kamala said she’ll sign a bill, when in office, for Reparations! That’s called pandering. Wake TF up!
Michelangelo, I find the attitude of the press to be absolutely terrifying. They are scared of Trump. Dana Bash is a disgrace, but the others are no better except for Nicole Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell. All the critics of the press are brilliant, but nobody sees those criticisms. This is so much like pre fascist Germany.
The problem is the press are not scared of our side. They’re not side afraid of the pro-democracy side. They’re not being picketed they’re not being singled out on social media. Why are we not effectively protesting their bias?
I would add Alex Wagner, Joy Reid, Mika and definitely Rachel Maddow to the MSNBC list.
That's because Trump has already threatened to jail them if he becomes president.
Trump is so insane that the media loves to cover him. Meanwhile, they are doing great damage to the country by giving him so much air time. His fans don't care what he says. They are enamored with their messiah and see him as a leader. It's baffling, but it's a sign of the deterioration of our society. Good news for Putin, Kim Jong and any other dictators who look at the west with scorn.
Look at the message this sends to our children.
You can be a felon and become President.
Bill Clinton had sex with an Intern in the Oval Office. What message does that send? Kamala is where she is due to dating married men twice her age. What message does that send? Signorile has a history of outing gays that wanted it private. What kind of human is he/she?
Kids hear all about sex on the playground and school bus.
There is a huge difference between adult consensual sex and multiple felonies including rape.
To donnab, and the left is so enamored with kamala “word salad” and her “Joy” campaign which is reminiscent of Hitler’s campaign, (look it up), and her many accents, and her LACK OF PLATFORM AND PLANS FOR AMERICA! Did you see the videos from the Goldstar families BLASTING kamala for bashing Trump? No because the Liberal media CENSORED YOU FROM THE TRUTH!
To DC, did you think, perhaps the biased Left who have censored us for several years should be held accountable for NOT TELLING US BOTH SIDES OF A STORY? Take a look at what the Left has done, at least in the past four years with Trump, Giuliani, Stone, Flynn aka The Opposition to the DNC.
the " left" is Sick of the constant LIES, VIOLENCE, and outright dangerous Stupidity, of the Wrong wing.
republicans are clearly domestic terrorists with an extra long red tie.
we no longer are interested in their "side". we've clearly seen the jan 6 attack on the united states, and we Reject your violence, and dangerous platform completely.
That's what happens when you don't offer a good governance quality policy as an opposition to ongoing criminal enterprise. It becomes a race to the bottom. You're suffering from the illusion of choice
that's what happens when you " allow" targeted idiocy fuelled by machiavellian, bilderberg one percenters.
it starts by degrading public education, then using the stupid to divide the population, and destroy themselves.
if you can Invent an enemy like, say, the roughly point zero zero 3 percent , or so of the population, that is trans, you take folks attention away from improving their own lives.
folks who believe the world should remain for future generations, need to understand, and leave this shameful past behind.
deprogramming could be a start.
also jailing traitors would be a good example of putting survival above greed.
get rid of the face of this trickle down stupidity (the dirty old man, trump)- I would suggest, finally.
None of that has anything to do with what I said, which is the paradigm. Better than Trump is an incredibly low bar.
You really don't think I understand the dynamics that play here? Please
That's why you have to go view what the GOP/MAGA's are saying. Like watching Senator Cotton on Meet the Press Sunday morning, I learned a few things from what he said.
In a nutshell, he pretty much said making IVF free (Trump's plan) would cost too much. He also lied about Harris being invited to Trump's Arlington cemetery photo political stunt.
Shut up, agitprop silicone chip. Kindly take that bullshit elsewhere.
Nicole and Lawrence are the only two anchors that I watch anymore. Lawrence’s criticism of the press last week was spot on.
Michael Steele on the weekends.
Chris Hayes.
I believe Jen Rubin in the WaPo but I refuse to read it so I don't know if she's become a both sides proponent.
And, has anybody noticed that since Biden dropped out we are no longer talking about candidates being too old to serve? This despite the fact that one of the two present candidates will be 82 at the end of his term and is manifesting clear mental decline. Perhaps the corporate media would like to explain this for us, given that all they could talk about for a year plus was Biden’s age and alleged cognitive decline.
I feel like I know the answer to your question - Don-old is too lucrative for them. I think their pushing out Biden is backfiring on them because Drumpf is now facing a young, strong candidate who is being embraced by voters, some of whom are Republicans and Evangelicals.
I’m in complete agreement with yku.
Exactly! 😡
In drafting these detailed, contextualized, evidence-based memos, the Harris campaign literally did the media's job for them, and they STILL won't expose Dump for the complete and total fraud that he is. They're determined to "normalize" us right into a fascist nightmare.
Thanks for bringing out the second memo. I hadn’t heard a word about it.
Keep writing about this! I’m glad the Harris campaign is calling Trump out!
Americans know lying, self-serving Drumpf very well by now, and are either totally sick and tired of his BS and want him out, or think he’s the anti-political “savior” (as you say so often Michelangelo, they’re in”the cult,” bc his actions and words have always shown he’s a narcissistic bully, only out for himself.)
It’s vital that we do our part; donate, volunteer, talk to family and neighbors, do SOMETHING, to make sure voters are registered and motivated.
Let’s hope intelligent, progressive, hopeful and SANE Americans get out to VOTE so he will be defeated in a landslide. We have to have faith that there are more of US than there are cult members.
The media is clearly biased in favor of Trump. The fact that Trump is doing all these interviews where he never exactly answers the questions and meanders onto a different topic, and gets no push back for his nonsensical comments. Like the one where schools are indoctrinating students to become trans and offering surgeries. No push back on that nonsense. Or his flipflop on the abortion amendment in Florida where on Thursday he said he would vote for the amendment (because 6 weeks was too short) and Friday he said he would vote against it.
Is it possible to get the Memo of Trump's flip flops?
I've copied and pasted here.
To: Interested Parties
From: Ian Sams, Harris for President Senior Spokesperson
Date: Saturday, August 31, 2024
Subject: Trump’s Brazen Flip Flops, Pandering, and Policy Dishonesty
Over the past week or so, there has been significant media scrutiny of Vice President Kamala Harris’s positions on a range of issues in this election. They were the focus of a large portion of her first national TV interview as the Democratic nominee on CNN Thursday night, and she answered clearly about where she stands and why.
At the same time, former President Donald Trump has made several bewildering “policy proposals” that deserve real scrutiny – the latest unveiled just this morning.
On issue after issue, Trump is saying one thing after having done another. For example:
As a candidate in 2024, he suggests he is for decriminalizing marijuana – but as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses.
As a candidate in 2024, he has thrown out a vague promise to pay for everyone’s IVF treatment – despite the fact his own platform could effectively ban IVF, and his own running mate voted against IVF protections on the Senate floor just a few months ago.
As a candidate in 2024, he keeps proclaiming “no tax on tips” – after pushing regulations as President that would have stolen more than $700 million a year from tipped workers to let bosses keep their workers’ tips.
As a candidate in 2024, he and his running mate JD Vance say they want to expand the Child Tax Credit – but for years, Republicans have blocked doing that.
Let’s be blunt: Trump is just making stuff up. And he hopes we will all memory hole his actual record and only pay attention to his shallow words.
He is running on a dangerous Project 2025 agenda that the American people oppose, and as soon as Trump starts catching heat for his unpopular agenda and record, he rushes out to claim he would actually do the opposite. It’s a desperate play from a candidate whose back is up against the wall running against Vice President Harris.
But it demands scrutiny. He was President for four years, and how he exercised his power on these issues is the best metric for how he will do so again if he gets the chance. What he says now is just desperate pandering from a scared man who is worried he will lose.
So let’s take a look at his actual record on just a few of these key issues:
1) As of this morning, Trump now suggests he is for legalizing marijuana – but as President, his own Justice Department cracked down on marijuana offenses.
Trump’s Administration took marijuana reform backwards, withdrawing guidelines to limit prosecutions of marijuana offenses that were legal under state laws. Trump even proposed removing medical marijuana protections.
2) Trump claims he will provide free IVF treatment – but his platform could effectively ban it.
Donald Trump’s own platform – linked on his campaign website – could effectively ban IVF by establishing so-called “fetal personhood.”
Here is how The 19th News described it: “If established by legislation, fetal personhood would have the practical effect of prohibiting abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Its impact could become national if courts affirm state-level laws that extend the application of the 14th Amendment to fetuses. … Fetal personhood is widely seen as being in conflict with in vitro fertilization (IVF), which creates embryos outside of the uterus that are later implanted. Fetal personhood bestows the same rights currently reserved for people to embryos from the moment of fertilization. The GOP platform said the party supports ‘mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments).’ It does not explain how they plan to support IVF while also supporting fetal personhood policies that would render it illegal.”
As President, Trump appointed an anti-IVF judge to a lifetime federal judicial appointment. He even added her to a list of potential Supreme Court picks.
Trump’s campaign has refused to support national protections for IVF access.
Trump’s White House and campaign hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice whose ruling effectively ripped away access to IVF in the state earlier this year.
Trump has deep ties to the anti-IVF movement.
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, voted against IVF protections in the Senate just a few months ago.
3) Trump is now pushing a vow of “no tax on tips” – but when he was President, the Trump administration enacted a regulation that stole $700 million a year from tipped workers to let bosses keep their workers’ tips.
Donald Trump’s administration enacted a rule that stole over $700 million a year from tipped workers and put it in the pockets of big corporations and Trump’s rich buddies.
National Women’s Law Center: Trump’s Proposed DOL Rule Is Tip-Poaching, Not Tip-Pooling
Fast Company: A last-minute Trump administration rule could lower restaurant workers’ wages by $700 million a year
In fact, it was the Biden-Harris administration that had to clean up this mess.
2021: Reuters: Labor Dept. unveils rule rolling back Trump-era tip regulation
4) Trump and Vance suddenly claim they will expand the Child Tax Credit – but Republicans have been blocking a serious CTC for years.
Under Trump’s leadership, Congressional Republicans blocked multiple efforts to expand the CTC and instead passed Trump’s tax cuts, which “largely left behind millions of working families, while doing much more for high-income families” and “denied the full $1,000 child tax credit increase for more than 26 million children in low-and moderate-income families.”
JD Vance didn’t even show up for a vote to expand the CTC. His Senate GOP colleagues killed it.
Top Trump campaign economic advisor Stephen Moore recently warned he has “doubts” about the Child Tax Credit, arguing we can’t keep giving middle class Americans “free money.”
Like Trump, Moore also appeared to express opposition to the refundability of the CTC, complaining that “a lot of the people getting it don’t even pay taxes” and echoing recent claims by Senate Republicans attacking the CTC as nothing more than “cash welfare.”
Economic experts, including conservatives, agree that Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would raise costs on the middle class by nearly $4,000 each year and set off an “inflation bomb.”
THE BOTTOM LINE
Donald Trump has a long, nearly ten-year record as a presidential candidate, president, and now a presidential candidate again. With his back against the wall, he is suddenly pretending to be a completely different candidate, desperately attempting to memory-hole his past positions and rhetoric.
It won’t work. Voters will see right through Trump’s lies over the next 66 days.
Trump must be held accountable for his brazen flip-flops wholly at odds with how he governed as president.
###
Paid for by Harris for President
Thank you!
Are you aware that legitimate candidates and parties run on their own merit? Bashing the opposition is for lame ass losers who have no merit. Which is what both of our two major political parties do. That explains a lot.....
“Legitimate?” “Bashing?” We have very different definitions for these words.
Well, I'm not a tribalist tool. So there's that....
Corporate sponsored entities are never going to give you legitimate "news." Only carefully crafted narrative that obviously is not for the benefit of the working class. They're never gonna give you your knowledge required to overthrow them.......
It’s all about keeping the election close and maintaining interest for clickbait and money. This in turns comes from people like David Zaslav and John Malone at CNN, both of whom have shown support for Trump.
The anchors and reporters know who pays their salaries. I’ve spoken with several media personalities and they openly acknowledge that things are tough for them. I wish they’d put their money where their mouths are, but the reality is there is nowhere else to go, given how much of the media is owned by right wingers. It is an impossible situation, and the main reason that fora such as Substack exist.
Mark, just because CNN and a couple others are seeing the logic with Trump certainly doesn’t mean they support Trump. They’ve always hated him. But before he announced running for President they ALL LOVED TRUMP!
Remember back in 2016 when Democrats asked Republicans about Trump's lack of political office experience?
Their answer, "We just need someone who can wield a pen".
If Trump gets elected he will sign anything they put in front of him, including an abortion ban.
Since he won't face another re-election, he has nothing to lose.
Senator Cotton said "We will have to see what the costs will be for IVF". You already know that answer, too expensive.
Trump just does what the Heritage Society tells him to do. He's a puppet of the right-wing. He has no principles, conscience or morals.
Exactly. The work will all be done for him. Meanwhile, he can play his revenge games, jail reporters and shower his rich cronies with another huge tax break.
Just like kamala and joe. They do whatever their shadow government tells them to do. Who’s running the government now? Joe isn’t, he’s on the beach for a 2nd week and kamala is running around bashing Trump, NO interviews to tell us what her policies are except her “values haven’t changed”, and pushing g “joy”, reminiscent of Hitler, using a different accent in Detroit and her Indian accent when she’s talking to Tech people.
I vary my television news watching among a variety of different networks: MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc al. I am sickened by CNN’s lack of pushback and the attempts at “balance” they appear to do. If I see Scott Jennings or David Urban on a panel any more, I switch to a different station.
I won't watch it. My husband watches CNN. I leave the room and read.
Right there with you Donna. Other than the same clips that everybody else sees floating around on the Internet, I haven't watched CNN in years. I refuse to participate in their fuckery.
The media is outright lying to the American people. They have been hiding Trump’s deteriorating mental health from the voters by editing tapes of his speeches. Voters aren’t even aware of how bad he is - while they “feel” sorry for Biden - that’s editing.
As you also point out, Trump has flip flopped on numerous issues - basically saying whatever pleases the audience he is in front of at the time. None of what he says matters anyway because Project 2025 is the agenda - however he denies it. Again the media is lying to the public about that.
Who will the public hold accountable if Project 2025 is actually put into play against the American public? I would guess, those media personalities who had the knowledge and the means to warn people but refused to do so, will be some of the ones held accountable.
What do you expect from corporate sponsored media sources? Truthfulness and encompassing dissemination of pertinent information?
Quit consuming that bullshit. JFC
It's a carefully constructed narrative, created most certainly not for your benefit. That is if you're a member of the proletariat.
Quit doing business with everyone who does. God demand change. Jesus Christ we suck who is blaming someone else you know what "we the people" are responsible for this entire shit show. All of it !
The corporate media (or at least their corrupt billionaire owners) totally pushes Trump while emphasizing everything 'negative' about Harris (and Biden before her) while completely ignoring Trump's cognitive decline, his frequent speech gaffes and incorrect identification of people...
I think the Florida republican legislature already severely limited recreational use of all smoking in florida ahead of the vote.. so undercutting it before it passes. Likely also gave deals to donor growers.
Vezv, I’m in Florida and the amount of openly smoking pot is greater now than ever before! And it’s ridiculously easy to get a marijuana card too! I’m not against pot at all but Amendment 3 is BAD. If amendment 3 is passed, you cannot get pulled over for smoking in your car, where now you can. And pot today is VERY DIFFERENT AND EXTREMELY POTENT, compared to the days when we had about 5 different types of pot.
Hear that gang? Donnie is gonna come up with $50k+ for Octomoms-in-training to get knocked up with a litter while the bitch runs around with assholes who paid the Supreme Court to write ✍️ down that they believe blood clots & eggs 🥚 are more important than the dignity of human beings.
BC, and you know this for a fact? How?? Shut your pie hole!
Go squat and breed
BC, haha that’s all you got?? I’m too old to breed. BUT I can Cook really well! Kamala said she’ll sign a bill, when in office, for Reparations! That’s called pandering. Wake TF up!