While many folks are singing along to their favorite Christmas music, decorating Christmas trees, adorning their homes with fantastical light displays, and settling in to stream a myriad of Christmas-related movies,1 the conspiracy crowd continues promoting War on Christmas treacheries.2 However, the real myth, according to Dr. David Kyle Johnson, is Christmas itself! According to […]
Four years ago, CEO Howard Schultz made the decision to open Starbucks' bathrooms to everyone, including homeless people and drug users, after two black men were arrested at one of his stores in Philly for demanding to use their bathrooms without making a purchase and then refusing to leave in protest.
Howard Schultz is a billionaire who hates Trump and who thinks-- or formerly thought-- that those two conditions entitle him to be president. His campaign was a stinker from day one-- although he managed to make a whole bunch of greedy political operatives much richer in the process.
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy?
With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation’s first billionaire president, it’s not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics.
George Clooney is staying out of the primaries but plans to back whoever the candidate is against Trumpanzee. He feels confident Trump will be a one-termer, although he worries that the Starbucks guy could screw up everything.
The graphic above shows the 45 members of the House who signed on to a vague statement of support for the Green New Deal. But now that AOC is actually getting ready to introduce a formal bill-- although some of the details are still sketchy and up for negotiation-- there are far fewer members... at least so far. The first members of Congress to sign on as co-sponsors:
Last night Marianne Williamson announced her presidential campaignThank God Gina Raimondo isn't running for president. Everyone else is.
