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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Using official Trump administration data, the report linked below shows how horribly unfair the Trump / Republican 2017 tax scam was.

The first data showing how all Americans are faring under Trump reveal the poor and working classes sinking slightly, the middle class treading water, the upper-middle class growing and the richest, well, luxuriating in rising rivers of greenbacks.


Monday, September 28, 2020

This is an unusual post for Smart Dissent.  It's simply a list of the horrifically dangerous lies being told by the head of OUR Department of Justice head Bill Barr.

Let's begin:

1) In early September 2020, Bill Barr confidently, even pugnaciously, told CNN viewers about a massive mail-in ballots fraud incident in Texas that never happened.


Wednesday, September 23, 2020

You probably msised this Friday night news leading into Labor Day, a purposeful time to dump news that Republicans want to avoid us noticing. 

Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them as “divisive” and “un-American”....

 OMB Director Russell Vought says Trump has asked him to prevent federal agencies from spending millions in taxpayer dollars on these training sessions.


Tuesday, September 22, 2020

In another self serving transaction for Trump and his re-election campaign comes a tax cut for military service members who will receive bigger paychecks for the last few months of the year. The catch? They have to pay ALL the money back in 2021.


Monday, September 21, 2020

The USPS had a plan to send 5 reusable facemasks to every household in early April. Even had a press release ready.  The White House blocked the plan.

Nearly 10,000 pages of emails, memos and other private documents offered new details about the agency’s struggles and the pro-Trump figures to whom it turned for advice.... The records also offer fresh detail about the Postal Service’s precarious position in the White House’s early pandemic response.


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