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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1484820
Obama v Trump. Let’s do this.
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Missed, but cat.
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WaPO see it’s just a disagreement on if children can be used as slaves. Or When all the imigrants are gone and you still need labor
Changes to child labor law being proposed across America - The Washington Post (archive.is) (archeved , so free to read)
At least 16 states have one or more bills to weaken their child labor laws, while 13 are seeking to strengthen them
The push for changes to child labor laws arrives as employers — particularly in restaurants and other service-providing industries — have grappled with labor shortages since the beginning of the pandemic, and hired more teenagers whose wages are typically lower than adults’.
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Alternate headline , Millionaire is a big baby. Why won’t Virginia taxpayers pay for his toy??
Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis is trash-talking Richmond (msn.com)
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Narrator’s voice over:
It started long before Easter, and it didn’t stop with Easter.
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“Is this racism?” Dana Bash asked Moore, as if the white anchors can’t identify it themselves. And so the responsibility for explaining and contextualizing the racist attack falls on the victims themselves.
A brilliant observation.
Tv media does that a lot. We so want to see the reporter as “working for us”, as reflecting common interests, we don’t see what’s happening.
It isn’t information. It’s manipulation.
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Over the course of 70+ posts Easter morning, Trump vilified and attacked a wide range of his antagonists in ALL CAPS zeal. At the same time, he reposted articles declaring himself to be “The Chosen One.”
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Back to the mail-in ballot discussion from last week, per an article the Allentown, PA’s The Morning Call newspaper. 2.8% of the received ballots were disqualified for the 2023 primary election. 2.8% could throw a general election. Many of the issues are comparable to a literacy test.
“Ballots can be disqualified for a number of reasons. For the 2023 primary, the Department of State reported that of 597,000 mail ballots statewide, counties rejected 17,000 (about 2.8% of the total). The breakdown for disqualification was: received after Election Day (46.8%), no date on the outer envelope (20.3%), no secrecy envelope (14.9%), an incorrect date on the outer envelope (8.4%) and no signature (4.7%).”
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I love the economic theory of “if we lower wages of the workers we say we can not find, we can hire more workers.”
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Happy Monday!
New Filing Shows Truth Social Lost $58 Million In 2023
April 1, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports:
Former President Trump’s social media company lost over $58 million on just $4.1 million in revenue during 2023, according to new SEC filings. There is a massive disconnect between the financial fundamentals and stock performance of Trump Media & Technology Group, which is valued at more than $7 billion after going public last week. Most of its expenses are tied to interest on debt, although TMTG also had around a $16 million operating loss for 2023.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-truth-social-revenue-2023
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Isn’t that already happening? In the Republican minds at least?
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