Greg Snyder
January 13, 2018 ·
Thanks to: the news media, to Russian hacking and interference, to the electoral college that ripped off the majority of voters (and thus the whole country) who did NOT vote for Trump, to the republican gerrymandering and restrictions on voting and gutting the voting rights act.
But it’s really ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and conservative talk radio and conservative commercial radio that gave Trump full constant exposure starting before the primaries and continuing to this day, for their absolute obsession with Trump.
Trump claimed that he would not take or need or use any money to campaign other than his own. He said he would use his own money to finance his campaign. That, of course was, and still is a lie. And, he said he wasn’t going to take anyone else’s money to campaign, yet one of activities as president has been to continue his fund-raising activities since he took office. So, that was yet again another lie from Trump.
Trump didn’t have to spend any of his own money campaigning and he still is not having to spend a single cent of his own money for full blown, non-stop exposure and coverage by the obsequious mainstream news outlets and conservative Murdoch and other conservative owned media radio and television empire.
Who are the owners of the giant media corporations that chose Trump to be president and then helped make him become president. We know about Murdoch. But we also have the owners of all the other big media conglomerates to thank for the Trump presidency. The chose him. And they helped make it happen. So, if you are wondering how we got to this point, you can look at and very much point the finger of blame at the news media, television and radio. Specifically the owners.
Thanks a lot guys!
Fucking assholes.
Month: September 2021
If we had a government that worked for us.
Greg Snyder
November 18, 2017 ·
If we had a government that worked for us, the people, to start with, we would have: universal health care, a free, publicly-owned internet, as it was originally envisioned and intended, for every American citizen, even the most isolated and rural Americans, shelter for all, food for all, free, top-notch pre K through to grad school public education and teachers who are compensated well for the important work they do, a restored and fully functional infrastructure, and a clean, sustainable smart energy grid. Cars and planes and ships that do not pollute and green sustainable non-carbon-based energy systems, a transportation system that includes an efficient national high-speed rail network, mass transit systems for our cities, and a modern efficient infrastructure that does not poison our water and keeps our rivers and estuaries and oceans clean and free of toxic wastes. Our government would not concern itself with our personal lives or the decisions we make as long as they don’t hurt other people or animals. Our government would get out of the business of making war and hurting and killing people and disrupting legitimate governments and sovereignties all around the world. Our government would divest from the defense sector of the economy and war profiteering and redirect that money into the other programs and ideas stated here in this article. The government would stop its use of mercenaries otherwise known as private security contractors and employ only the American military forces to protect the country. The use of militia and/or hate groups and the promotion of nationalistic fascist groups that has become the operating principle of the Trump campaign has to end. This is not a fascist despotic state no matter how much Trump wants it to be so. The government WOULD create laws to protect all of us from gun violence. Our government would protect us, keep us safe, protect the environment, and act responsibly with regulating business to not allow crippling, disease-causing pollution. This is not impossible pie in the sky thinking. We pay taxes. Those taxes could be used to pay for those things. And corporations and the rich can begin to put in their fair share of taxes. Nothing is impossible.
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WTF is a Hedge Fund and what makes a Hedge Fund Manager so special?
Greg Snyder
October 6, 2017 ·
What is a hedge fund and why do hedge fund managers get to make billions of dollars and are given special reduced tax rates and little to no rules or regulations on their income? In your life, do hedge funds or hedge fund managers have an important and/or crucial role? I would just like to know what it is that they do.. Do the work? If so, what is it? Are they important contributers in terms of productive work? I kinda don’t think so.
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The con and rip off of Trump
Greg Snyder
March 6, 2018 ·
What do Trump supporters and Russian bots have in common? They deny treason. They deny collusion and obstruction of justice. The Russians get what they want politically from a very stupid Trump. Trump supporters get what they think of as a “rebel” in Trump when all they are really getting is a con and a cheesy television reality persona from a show that was never even worth watching.
Church, tax exempt or a business?
August 26, 2019
The United States gives churches a tax exempt status but should this standard be maintained when many churches involve themselves in politics or discriminate against certain groups of people? These are two issues that I believe the United States Congress should re evaluate in terms of whether or not churches should retain their tax exempt status. A separate issue but also one that is very important to consider in whether or not to allow any church to retain its tax exempt status should be its charitable activities and spending. There should be a minimum amount of church expenditure whether monetary or service-based, based on the income of the church, in order to retain their tax exempt status. If this basic obligation is not met annually, the church should have its tax exempt status revoked.
1.Does the church discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity?
2.Does the church act politically by contributing money to any political candidates, parties, or campaigns? Or, does the church support any political candidates, parties or campaigns not monetarily but with endorsements and/or public statements? Both types of support should be considered to be political actions.
If a church is non-inclusive, discriminates, and/or is abusive to any of its members, to people who want to be members, or to the general public and/or culture and society, it should not be considered a religious institution and therefore should not be tax exempt. It should be taxed fully as an ordinary business using ordinary business tax rules and law.
The culpability of the church can be determined even by the testimony of a single person with a solid grievance. The church accused of discrimination and/or abuse can appeal but has the burden of proving that it does not or did not discriminate and was not abusive in order to clear itself of the accusation. The church would have to prove, beyond a doubt, that it does not or did not do anything that was discriminatory and/or abusive. On the other hand, if a church does not ever have any complaints against it in terms of how it treats its members or people who would like to be members, it should be able to retain its tax exempt status as a religious institution.
Churches should be required at tax time to demonstrate their charitable spending to maintain their tax exempt status. Churches should be required to spend a fixed amount of their income on charity and the provision of services to the community.their tax exemption.
If churches are to be thought of as being religious institutions with a tax exempt status they should be required to not discriminate against anyone, whether a member of the congregation or anyone outside of the church, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Churches found to be violating civil/moral/ethical/and, yes, religious precepts to not discriminate should no longer be given a tax exempt status.
Churches, if involved in political activities or discrimination should have their tax exempt status revoked. They can appeal, but the churches would have to prove beyond a doubt that they did not discriminate and that they did, indeed, fulfill their legal obligation to spend x amount of their income on charity and/or the provision of service to the community. It would be the burden of the church to prove its innocence in cases of discrimination and in compliance in matters of charitable spending at tax time.
It’s a choice.
Greg Snyder
October 27, 2016 ·
I think the world of economics has 2 kinds of people:People who hoard and amass and are selfish and do not care about anyone but themselves. That kind of selfishness creates poverty and misery, drives more and more people into poverty and deprivation. That’s the world we live in now.Or, people who value living collectively and socially and taking care of each other for the common good and welfare so that everyone can be a productive, contributing member of society and society can be as strong and unified as it can be and income inequality is minimized.What kind of a world do we want to live in?
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What does a dead Koch brother mean?
August 27,2019
Greg Snyder
One Koch brother is dead. That’s good. But it still leaves the other one alive.
Still leaves Trump as president and he is trying to accomplish the Koch brother agenda of killing off Social Security and Medicare and getting rid of the entire social safety net that Americans have paid into and on which they depend, the Post Office, fair elections, voting rights, the list goes on
still leaves all the libertarian/conservative think tanks doing Koch brother work
still leaves the Koch brother financed “universities” churning out legions of lawyers indocrinated in Koch brother libertarian dogma and trained to do their political work
still leaves Americans for Prosperity and the tea party doing Koch brother work
still leaves ALEC writing Koch brother legislation instead of our elected representatives doing their job and writing legislation themselves, for their constituents, the people who elected them, addressing the needs of the people, not the Koch brother interests
still leaves Koch organizations to continue to attack workers and labor and weaken the middle class and (mom and pop) small to medium sized business
still leaves total Koch control of the entire Republican Party
still leaves Koch industries that are carbon-based, fossil fuels and petrochemical mega corporations churning out their planet-killing poisons and Americans eagerly buying them all up
still leaves the vast fortune that the Koch family will continue to use to manipulate and control national, federal and state politics
still leaves the Koch dynasty intact with a vast fortune
still leaves the country at the mercy of what the Koch brothers want to do with our politics and their continued assault on the world’s climate
Yes, it’s good that one of the Koch brothers died. But nothing else changed and his death really doesn’t matter at all.
The Koch brothers are half of the problem they create. The other half of the problem is us. Americans who buy their products, buy their gas, invest in their stocks, give them more money day in, day out. Accept and acquiesce the political manipulation and gaming of our American democracy, which has turned it into an oligarchy that represents the Koch brothers and the Walton family and the 500+ other billionaires that make up the top 2% of the population. We do nothing to make any changes to this pattern of behavior. And we do nothing to correct and/or counteract the evil empire that the Koch brothers set into place.
We could do a lot about it. We could make a lot of changes and shut down this evil empire even though they have all the money and we don’t.
Would the Koch brother empire be able to continue to exist if it no longer had the republican party to do its work? If ALEC no longer had the ability to advance Koch brother legislation? If all eligible American voters voted? Would the Koch dynasty be able to continue to do its work if it were taxed progressively, aggressively? All of these things are do-able but it would require a democratic Congress and President and a lot of laws that have been made in the last few decades that provide this power to the Koch empire would have to be rescinded.
David Koch is dead. But his evil empire lives on. That could be corrected. But will it ever be corrected? That’s the question we now face.
The grift goes on.
Trump campaigning, fund raising, and campaign activities all began before Trump was officially named the republican presidential nominee for the general election in 2015 and has continued uninterrupted and unabated from then until now so how is this news or anything different? The grift goes on.
What’s a billion?
A billion dollars is equal to 1,000 million dollars. Let that sink in. A million dollars times 1,000 is a billion dollars. Even if a billionaire is taxed at maximal rates and all of the taxes ever proposed are collected, that billionaire would still be a billionaire and have at least a thousand million dollars left in his pocket.
She’s so see through.
I think the only thing Sinema is focused on is her big donors. It’s not about bipartisanship. It’s not about results. It’s MOST DEFINITELY NOT about the American people. It’s ALL about the payoff. Oh, and it’s partially also about that tingly sensation she gets in her hooha when she does the acting out, bad girl thing or when she ignores her constituents. Everything she does is a performance. A badly done performance. A performance that is seriously detrimental to the entire country.
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