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20 Dec, 6 tweets, 5 min read
"we should pay more attention to the news that Goldman Sachs has downgraded the US growth forecast, in response to Manchin’s opposition to BBB."
~@ThePlumLineGS

The #ManchinSlowdown
could lead to the #ManchinRecession

Does @Sen_JoeManchin care?
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"Goldman projects that if BBB does not pass, that fiscal picture will be “more negative” than it might have been."

#ManchinSlowdown
#ManchinRecession
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“Instead of having a Biden boom, we could have a Manchin slowdown"

#ManchinSlowdown
#ManchinRecession
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"Manchin does not feel pressure from arguments that BBB failing will mean immiseration for his own constituents...

But Manchin does want to be seen as standing for a good economy...

Goldman has recast the debate, putting Manchin on the side of slower growth."

#ManchinSlowdown Image
"Numerous moderate Democrats are hammering him [Joe Manchin] by arguing that BBB failing will be an unforgivable betrayal of countless Americans and our planetary future."

#ManchinSlowdown
#ManchinRecession
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"The Goldman note gives moderates another argument: that passing a revised BBB is essential to sustaining economic growth.
...
They should shout it from the dome of the Capitol."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#ManchinSlowdown
#ManchinRecession
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"Eight ways the House select committee is changing the conversation on Jan. 6"

A thread of the @JRubinBlogger article:

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"Unlike many in the media and the White House, they made clear this was an attempt to overthrow democracy."

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#Jan6thCommittee
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"As Cheney said, “These text messages leave no doubt ... multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately.”

And they leave no doubt about their cringeworthy pandering to Trump and his base, whom they helped radicalize."

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"Over the course of Trump’s presidency, one of the running debates about the man boiled down to: menace or clown? ...

Many observers rejected the dichotomy... described the former president as “both farcical and deeply dangerous.”"

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"In nearly every battle space of the war to control the count of the next election—statehouses, state election authorities, courthouses, Congress, and the Republican Party apparatus—Trump’s position has improved since a year ago."

#DemocracyInDanger
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"The more we learn about January 6, the clearer the conclusion becomes that it was the last gambit in a soundly conceived campaign—one that provides a blueprint for 2024."

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7 Dec
TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.
~@bartongellman
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"Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024."
"The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means.

Given the opportunity, they will act.

They are acting already."

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"Republicans are pushing various efforts to “audit” or “recount” the 2020 voting, which should be seen as dry runs for manufacturing pretexts for subverting future outcomes."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#TrumpCoupAttempt
#GOPCorruptionOverCountry
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"a GOP governor could refuse to certify a slate of electors for a Democratic winner of the popular vote, or send rogue electors for the GOP candidate, in defiance of the popular vote, for Congress to count."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#GOPCorruptionOverCountry
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“it is theoretically possible that a governor, with the support of a legislature of the same party, could certify a result contrary to the popular vote & that Congress would then count those electoral votes.”

#TrumpCoupAttempt
#GOPCorruptionOverCountry
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7 Oct
"Nine months after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, we continue to learn many new details ... [that] paint an increasingly clear picture of a concerted effort to overturn — and lay a predicate for overturning — the election"
~@AaronBlake

#Jan6
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"The effort included attempts to politically weaponize the Justice Department and apply pressure on federal, state and local officials in the service of that goal [of overturning the election]."
~@AaronBlake

#TrumpCoupAttempt #DOJ
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"Given how many moving parts are involved, it can be difficult to keep track of [all of Trump's attempts to overturn the election].

So below is a timeline of all the major events we’ll keep updating as we get new details."
~@AaronBlake

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"But it’s not just foreigners who are moving money to the “little tax haven on the prairie”: High-net-worth Americans also are shifting billions to South Dakota... shortchanging federal and home state tax collectors in the process."

#Corruption
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"With the 1983 law, South Dakota became the first state to allow trusts to exist free of state income tax forever...

Perpetual trusts — rare before the 1980s — have now become a standard tool in the high-end estate planning kit."

#Corruption
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"Soon, other states — often encouraged by high-end estate planners — started to pass statutes that facilitated additional creative tax avoidance strategies."

#Corruption
#TaxTheRich
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