“They’re going to call you socialists anyways”: Progressives slam 109 Dems for backing GOP stunt

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Here’s what this is really about: More and more members on the other side of the aisle are calling for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and many have referred to these programs as “socialism” throughout their existence. The other night in the Rules Committee they showed their cards. Republicans refused an amendment to declare that Social Security and Medicare is not socialism. This resolution is little about intelligent discourse and everything to do about laying the groundwork to cut Social Security and Medicare.

‘Socialism’ for me, but not for thee?!

Democrats Lambast GOP Plan to Abolish Income Tax and Impose 30 Percent Sales Tax

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Democrats Lambast GOP Plan to Abolish Income Tax and Impose 30 Percent Sales Tax

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Ms. Cat’s Chronicles.

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

Hoisted on His Own Petard: Biden’s Hidden Classified Documents Set to Expose U.S. Instigation of 2014 Ukraine Coup

January 17, 2023January 18, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments

As I write, four days after it was revealed that classified documents had been found in the former personal office of President Joseph Biden when he was Barack Obama’s Vice President in charge of the 2014 U.S.-backed fascist-led coup in Ukraine, no one has revealed who found the secret documents, or others that were “discovered” soon after. No one has reported their contents, although a combination of government agencies, now in possession of the documents, including the keepers of the National Archives and Records Administration, the FBI and no doubt Republicans who today control the House of Representatives, will sooner or latter reveal whether they are deemed useful to bring charges against Biden or, as The Times reports, his drug-addicted, most likely corrupt, rich boy son Hunter.
Hoisted on His Own Petard: Biden’s Hidden Classified Documents Set to Expose U.S. Instigation of 2014 Ukraine Coup

To be honest, I’m not holding my breath for this to happen. “Ukrainegate” didn’t expose it because it would have revealed that both Republicans and Democrats were complicit!

Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd

UK Study Reveals Huge Emissions Gap Between Top 1% and Poorest

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Lifestyles of the “polluting elite” bear little resemblance to those of the rest.

The top 1 percent of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions in a single year as the bottom 10 percent emit over more than two decades, new data has shown.
UK Study Reveals Huge Emissions Gap Between Top 1% and Poorest

Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is profit’s prophet and the corporate media are his cultish devotees, joining hands to sacrifice working people. In this cult, profit is sacrosanct.
Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure

Space Junk

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Remember the Cold War Space Race between the former Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s and 1960s? During the past year, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk went ahead and turned that into a modern-day dick-measuring contest, for lack of a better phrase, to see who could get there first for the longest. Their space outfits, extensively reported on by CNN Science, received more attention than the pollution caused by this narcissistic billionaire power competition, in which one rocket launch produced an estimated 300 tons of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere, where it can remain for years.
Space Junk

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