Part 3 article links...

Economic Challenges & Crazy GOP

Part 3 always gives us economic news, while towards the bottom are links to the GOP’s abundance of lies & conspiracy theories. This first group helps explain how our modern capitalist system is broken, needing a real fix to help bridge the wide divides. These are examples of the real economy that seem to escape the headlines full of glossy/misleading statistics:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-natural-consequence-anti-democracy-060032320.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/10/capitalism-is-broken-its-time-something-new/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/11/giant-hole-trumps-economic-argument/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/09/massive-triumph-rich-illustrated-by-stunning-new-data/?utm_campaign=post_most&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conservatives-love-the-free-market-when-it-benefits-the-wealthy/2019/12/10/d6bc143e-1aa0-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/american-workers-deserve-better/2019/12/09/c85833c4-17a7-11ea-80d6-d0ca7007273f_story.html

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/10-jobs-fastest-growth-next-decade-2020-majority-low-paid-2019-12-1028755859

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-is-absolutely-happy-to-agree-with-bernie-sanders-on-one-big-problem-facing-america-2019-12-10?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/10/21001843/tucker-carlson-paul-singer-fox-news-hedge-funds-populism

https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/staggering-new-data-shows-income-of-top-1-percent-has-grown-100-times-faster-than-bottom-50-percent-since-1970/

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/473755-deficit-spikes-12-percent-in-first-two-months-of-fiscal-year-cbo

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-budget-deficit-12-month-above-1-trillion-2nd-month-2019-12-1028756490

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/9/21000162/high-tech-job-growth-concentration-brookings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2019/12/10/the-technology-202-experts-want-to-help-heartland-cities-compete-for-tech-jobs-their-plan-costs-100-billion/5dee818d602ff1440b4de8d5/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-10/retail-jobs-growth-doesn-t-match-expansion-of-online-sales?srnd=opinion

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-10/trump-china-tariffs-boomerang-on-america?srnd=opinion

https://time.com/5747336/pelosi-trade-pact-usmca-nafta/

https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2019-12-10/pelosi-house-dems-sign-off-on-usmca

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/10/toomey-rips-trump-trade-deal-080686

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/powells-half-full-u-glass-195512278.html

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/474099-paul-volcker-knocked-trump-in-essay-written-before-his-death

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/474057-survey-ceos-economic-outlook-drops-for-seventh-straight-quarter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/americas-dairy-farmers-are-hurting-a-giant-merger-could-make-things-worse/ar-AAK0QJq?ocid=spartandhp

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/12/10/celadon-truck-drivers-seek-answers-after-sudden-company-bankruptcy/4391756002/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/12/10/stock-market-2020-millionaire-investors-sour-u-s-economic-outlook/2631918001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/12/10/corporate-pensions-defined-benefit-mercer-report/2618501001/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jobs-future-clustering-handful-u-050811664.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/half-of-us-employers-make-workers-promise-never-to-compete/ar-BBY1AYA?ocid=spartandhp

https://www.theweek.com/articles/883281/gops-partisanship-trap

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/socialism-america-history-politics-apple-pie

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/america-capitalism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/how-the-phenomenon-of-total-party-unity-led-to-the-extinction-of-liberal-and-moderate-republicans/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-do-something-democrats-show-they-can-legislate-even-while-they-impeach/2019/12/10/53e1593e-1b72-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/12/10/the-health-202-congress-can-t-get-its-act-together-on-lowering-drug-prices-or-eliminating-surprise-medical-bills/5deebc7a88e0fa51665bf0e5/

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/donald-trump-democrats-drug-pricing-082545

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/azar-verma-health-care-white-house-081598

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-11/medicare-costs-are-accelerating?srnd=opinion

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/473647-record-percentage-of-americans-putting-off-serious-medical-treatment-due-to

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/473600-the-missing-piece-of-the-current-health-care-debate

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/12/health-insurance-saves-lives/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/heres-what-trumps-snap-cuts-will-really-do/

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/education-department-student-loan-forgiveness-experts-185033968.html

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/art-acevedo-ted-cruz-mitch-mcconnell-nra-gun-victims-120732897.html

https://www.vox.com/2019/12/11/21011462/jersey-city-pensacola-florida-shooting-gun-control-laws

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/11/win-rule-law/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/trump-immigration.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/9/26/20882958/greta-thunberg-climate-change-trump-attacks-right-wing

https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/

Irrational GOP

To actually believe these arguments, to me it seems like it would take a very serious case of brain rot. See for yourself inside these many links how patently absurd the GOP propaganda & talking points have become:

https://thebulwark.com/weighing-the-evidence-against-the-president/

https://thebulwark.com/the-trump-defenders-make-their-weak-case/

https://thebulwark.com/how-are-republicans-going-to-explain-voting-against-an-obstruction-article-of-impeachment/

https://thebulwark.com/the-senate-as-an-impeachment-court-should-not-be-the-senate-as-usual/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-sane-and-normal-democrats-are-saving-america?ref=wrap

https://www.vox.com/2019/12/9/21002572/devin-nunes-lev-parnas-maria-bartiromo-interview-phone-calls

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/needham-analyst-mocked-trump-claim-crowdstrike-ukrainian-cybersecurity-firm-2019-12-1028748970

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/the-senate-should-put-trumps-foreign-policy-on-trial/603385/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/trump-impeachment-hearing-house-judiciary-republicans-procedure.html

https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/ten-ways-conservatives-have-used-george-soros-undermine-impeachment

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-analyst-calls-out-gop-conduct-at-hearing-didnt-even-defend-trump-just-played-game-of-distraction-and-disinformation/

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/gop-lawyer-castor-biden-impeachment.html