Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Feds Investigating Millions Of Fake Messages Opposing Net Neutrality:

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With his loss to Cindy Hyde-Smith in the runoff Senate election in Mississippi, Mike Espy joins Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and others in a wave of high-profile black candidates who lost closer-than-expected elections for major office in the South. Will their campaigns be a turning point for the region?

Closer than expected is a good thing, but the fact remains: Gillum, Abrams, and Espy all lost to white Republicans who played the race card with a vengeance. Ron DeSantis, who beat Gillum for the Florida governorship, said his opponent would “monkey this up” at the start of his campaign. Abrams lost her Georgia gubernatorial race to Brian Kemp, the state’s secretary of state, who literally had charge of an electoral process notorious for throwing impediments in the path of minority voters. Hyde-Smith not only cracked a joke about a public hanging but had a well-documented history of endorsing her state’s Confederate legacy.

Continuing demographic shifts may well make a difference in elections to come in Florida and Georgia. But not in Mississippi, the nation’s poorest state, where the white majority is large, entrenched, and not likely to be challenged by an influx of new industry and its more diverse workforce anytime soon. But the bigger issue is how these races confirm the reality that the Republican Party has proudly and uninhibitedly come out of the closet as the standard-bearer for white supremacy in the Trump era.

This racial animus has deep roots, after all, in a GOP that first employed its race-baiting “southern strategy” a half-century ago under the aegis of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. In 1980, just 16 years after three civil-rights workers were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, Ronald Reagan chose that spot to deliver a “states rights” speech right after sewing up the presidential nomination. (Hyde-Smith took nearly 71 percent of the vote in Neshoba County, where Philadelphia is located.) George H.W. Bush ran as much against a previously obscure black criminal, Willie Horton, as he did against Michael Dukakis, and George W. Bush appointed Chief Justice John Roberts, who castrated the Voting Rights Act. Even now, the Republican-majority Senate is on the verge of confirming Thomas Farr as a federal judge in North Carolina. Farr was a protégé of the unabashedly racist Senator Jesse Helms, and an author of the 2013 North Carolina law so restrictive of minority voting rights that the federal court which overruled it three years later declared that it had targeted African-Americans “with almost surgical precision.”

Trump has made Jim Crow great again for his nearly all-white party. This is a banner it will likely fight under for years to come, no matter what Trump’s fate, as it tries to ward off its demographic fate.

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The US Problem with the Internet Isn’t Access – It’s Leftists’ Lies About It

Trump IS responsible for the stealing healthcare part of it for the phony health plan he backed and his continuing efforts to kill obamacare.

Trump Forces Big Pharma to Swallow a Bitter Pill

Trump’s actions are in stark contrast to those of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who gave PhRMA a sweetheart deal — promising to oppose any congressional action to allow Medicare to bargain for lower drug costs or re-import cheaper drugs — to ensure it wouldn’t oppose the Affordable Care Act. (The powerful lobby might well have killed the bill otherwise.) Drug companies agreed to reduce consumer costs by $80 billion over 10 years, but the bite could have been far bigger. “That took real reform off the table for the entirety of the Obama administration,” Maybarduk says.

For Trump, there have been some hiccups along the way. Charlie Silver of the libertarian-leaning think tank Cato Institute, says Trump’s work to renegotiate drugs bought under Medicare Part B, for example, is a small slice of drug-pricing concerns compared to those bought under programs like Medicare Part D. It is “still the tail, not the dog,” says Silver, co-author of Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care.

Your meme makers are the dumbest people around. Trump is not responsible for the lobbyists in Congress from big pharma. The Congress can fix this, they won't.