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SCOTUS will probably put off making their decision until after the elections. If Trump wins, they could then rule in favor of presidential immunity. If Biden wins, they certainly wouldn't.

I don't think any POTUS should have a get out of jail free card for whatever they decide to do while in office, so I'm fine with Biden not having immunity.

Trump having immunity would be the end of democracy in the US.

SCOTUS should not have the power to determine whether or not democracy survives.

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Voters don't need to take Trump's words lightly. He has been very clear that he plans to end our Democracy.

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MAGAAAAAA!

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Capitalism is destroying the American dream.🥹🥹🥹

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And again, it would be cheaper to build affordable housing and/or convert existing structure for that purpose than to continue to persecute the homeless while simultaneously preventing them from finding housing.

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I can't imagine anyone with a lick of sense looking around the USA in 2024 and saying "This would be a great time to start a family. Maybe the kids will get to enjoy a few years of underfunded public education in a fascist country before they get shot."

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If Joe Biden was trying to impose his Catholic faith on US school kids, Evangelicals would be rioting in the streets. Biden understands the separation of church and state.

Evangelicals need to learn it.

Vote blue and stop the religious right!

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You know what we have to do.

VOTE BLUE🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

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The super-rich have using the GOP to their benefit for decades. They created the conditions that made it possible for Trump to be in a position of power. Defeating Trump in November is crucial, but saving democracy means taxing the top 1% and putting more money into public education. Repealing Citizens United and bringing back the FCC Fairness Doctrine would help a lot.

We cannot sit this one out. We cannot let Trump destroy our Democracy.

Vote Blue🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

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For the billionth time-

No one wants to take your fucking guns.

We just want you and your guns to be licensed and registered, same as driving a car.

It’s common sense. It keeps 5yr olds from driving down the street. I’m epileptic, so the state won’t give me a driver’s license…. does that upset u or does it make you feel safer that I’m not behind the wheel?

Stop the stupidity. It’s getting old.

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And now that it's been proven repeatedly that armed security guards and cops can't be bothered to interfere with a shooter in a school, they want teachers to do that job as well.

I really feel bad for teachers. Everybody blames every problem that comes on the teacher. Maybe it's time to just let them teach!!

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I think most of America is sick of the hypocrisy

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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14

April 12-19 2024

The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.

The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.

The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.

The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.

The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.

The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.

The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.

Bonus:

President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.

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That'll do for a start. The top tax rate in the 1950s was 90%. The US economy was better then than ever before or since.

Biden plans to tax Billionaires 25%

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Bernie has proposed a 100% tax rate on anything over a billion. I'm not opposed, as long as the less filty-rich also get tax increases.

Maybe it is time to cap the wealth. Once you reach billionaire you have to give everything else to the poor!!

Just an idea!!

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