Billions of dollars in PPP loans to churches have been forgiven. Basically religious institutions got free money from the government.
But the government refuses to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans.
This is so fucked up.
Churches got free money while people suffer under crippling debt.
People deserved that money. Not your local con man who gives a speech twice a week.
The wiki page for "crimes against humanity.
Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace or war. They are not isolated or sporadic events but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. War crimes, murder, massacres, dehumanization, genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportations, unethical human experimentation, extrajudicial punishments including summary executions, use of weapons of mass destruction, state terrorism or state sponsoring of terrorism, death squads, kidnappings and forced disappearances, use of child soldiers, unjust imprisonment, enslavement, torture, rape, political repression, racial discrimination, religious persecution and other human rights abuses may reach the threshold of crimes against humanity if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.
Further down it has this listed by the UN.
The UN pointed out the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) specifically Article 7 (Crimes against Humanity), which defines large-scale acts of violence against a locality's civilian populace. These acts consist of murder; annihilation; enslavement; bondage; forced removal of the population; imprisonment or deprivation of physical liberty that violates international laws; maltreatment; forced prostitution and rape; discrimination and tyranny against certain groups; apartheid (racial discrimination and segregation); and, other inhumane acts.
Some of the powerful people on earth definitely qualify under these terms. They have become Hostis humani generis (Latin for "enemy of mankind"). I believe now is the time for legal action. The biggest class action lawsuit followed by a tribunal to get these slave traders and faux kings justice.
Bringing to attention the fact that elected official Yuh Line Niou (Blue Check) is joining with Frankie Hu*ng to call out the misogyny and “disgusting” messages she receives from “men of color” aka Asian men send to her.
Why do boba lib politicians like her need to feel the need to constantly reassert how terrible Asian men are??
And yet she still supported a WM who sexually assaulted an AF until it became completely unworkable.
Who’s this politician supposed to represent? Certainly not the half of the community that voted for her!
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/10/republican-backers-ghostwrote-bill-punish-homosexuality-death-ghana/
Al Gore, Obama, Hilary Clinton and Biden were all right: climate change is a threat to all our lives and we should have listened.
Obama and Biden were the first in history to create a global warming plan for America and actively lower greenhouse gas emissions, which lowers climate change.
But these politicians and their media said it was "fake news" and they shredded all our global warming plans and raised emissions, which is quite literally burning us all alive.
I remember Al Gore and the Democrats ran in 2000 to deal with climate change, but the Republicans said it was fake news and wanted Bush for tax cuts to the rich and their Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
We lost eight years to reduce climate change because of Bush and another four years to Trump.
Climate change is real, there is a massive conspiracy to groom millions of Americans to believe it is "fake news", and the consequences of this cult insanity will be felt by billions of human beings now and for centuries into the future.
Ok sure, I can go vote, but I have no say over who gets elected in Kentucky or West Virginia. Since it seems only a few politicians from random states like that can bring our federal government to a grinding halt, what’s the point?
In 1960 the top marginal tax rate was 91%. This means that if you earned $129k in 1960, the equivalent of $1m in 2012, or $1.2m today, your effective tax rate would have been 72% and you’d have paid $93k in taxes.
Now flip that around. The $1.2m earner today, with an effective tax rate of 72%, would still have a cool $336k - that’s THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS - a year to with which to eke out a living.
Don’t let anyone tell you we can’t highly tax the rich. They’ll still do just fine. We’ve done it before, in the not too distant past, and we can do it again.
Sources:
https://qz.com/74271/income-tax-rates-since-1913/
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Time for Americans to stand up to the bullshit we need to take money out of politics. Politicians are bought and paid for and is proven. Politicians are against the American worker.
There is no rationalizing this.
Trump is HOSTILE. The Republican Party is too badly compromised to be trusted with any power.
After six years of this freak, it is beyond clear he is obviously subversive and dangerous to us. He is still praising Jan. 6 still as his LOVEFEST at all his Republican Love Rallies and demanding they overturn the election like he did in 2016 and 2012.
The man is a THREAT TO AMERICA.
We have to separate people from this political party and that fucking psychopath traitor.
I have always loved my time in America's South, I believe most people are good. But they are being massively betrayed by these Republican politicians and Trump who is so clearly very very a danger to all our lives.
All this QAnon stuff is happening because these politicians are grooming their followers and creating alternative realities and fucking up America beyond recognition to save their asses.
Republican Politicians are a DANGER to ALL AMERICANS.
This is not a left-right thing, Trump is an ongoing threat to all Americans including the people who voted for him.
This has to become a normal conversation.
It is WRONG for the President of the United States to cause a suicide terrorist attack on the US Capitol to overturn an election and force himself onto all of us against our consent.
These Republican Politicians are losing their grasp of reality and fueling their own fantasy world through their distorted media.
This is not about any "sides". This is about all Americans looking at two political parties and seeing one with a climate change plan, an infrastructure plan, Pre-K to start school for all kids at age 3 instead of 5 because studies show those two years help improve kids' lives.
And the Republicans had NOTHING. Trump had NOTHING but treason and failure.
Time for a suicide terrorist attack on the US CAPITOL, NOTHING for climate change, nothing for infrastructure.
And he is still fighting the election results, and they are moving men in place to sabotage America's elections in this insane coup attempt.
The Republican Party is madness incarnate. They are spiralling into oblivion and dragging the entire country into hell for insane reasons.
China is quickly overtaking America as the Leader of the New World, and Republicans are installing judges to overturn ABORTION. We're experiencing accelerated global heating, a chip shortage, supply chain issues, crises abound.
And these Republican politicians are making things WORSE.
They have turned our
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if i wanna see corrupt politcians my country is already on top of the list smh
They are eating at the American politician's house. A 6 bedroom house with a 2 Mercedes Benz at the front. And a 500 square foot garden.
The Mexican politician remarked how nice his house was and how he was able to afford it.
The American politician said: "see that highway over there? It was meant to have 4 lanes instead of three"
A few months later the Mexican politician invited the American over to his house down in Mexico. When the American arrived he saw the Mexican had a 30 bedroom mansion a lush orchard and a massive garden with bodyguards and a lambo, a mercedes, a porche and a few SUV's at the front.
Awe struck the American asked "how could you afford all of this?"
To which the Mexican replied: "see that bridge there?"
Confused the American said: "what bridge?"
"Exactly" the Mexican said
Looking a Joe Biden, during his campaign he promised a $10,000 reduction in student loan debt for everyone with student loan debt, and additional forgiveness for students from public schools from families with less than $125,000 of income. Neither of these things have happened, or any progress towards these promises planned.
What I think should happen: a candidate registers their Platform (all the things they say they will do) with the Congress, and 12 months after taking office (or 15, maybe 18.. Washington is slow) the President is eligible for a recall. If recalled by the congress, the VP steps in, and has a similar time horizon for starting efforts to implementing the promises that the former president was elected on but didn’t follow through with.
But how is the start of effort defined? For me it is drafting a bill or executive order for the proposal (depending on whether a legislative change is required or not), and submitting the document for consideration or execution.
I’m not a lawyer or a political scientist, so if there’s a reason why this wouldn’t be a feasible or legal, open to learning!
The other day I was reading an article of the New York Times, that describe the re-election of a 97 years old mayor in a town of the state of New Jersey.
After that I searched the age of many politicians of the US, and I realized that many of that are very eldery, the famous example of that are the current president Joe Biden who is in the age of 78, the last President Trump (75), and many another politicians like Nancy Pelosi (80), Mitch McConnell (79), Bernie Sanders (80) and a lot of another examples, that are too old if we realized that the rest of the world preffer more young leaders.
So why this phenomenon occurs in the US?, why the two political parties refuse to make a generacional change of leaders?
Gonna get buried, but North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. In the US, insurance companies can invest a certain percentage of the money you pay them in stocks or other assets. They can then sell or transfer a certain percentage of those assets to other companies. When
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