The Best of the Rest of the News.
— Thursday
my daily take was about how our manufacturing dependence on China cripples our ability to stand up for Taiwan, one of the most vibrant and boisterous democracies on the planet. Now China has doubled-down.
— Republican Senators Pat Toomey and Mitch McConnell
engineered a vote against funding for US veterans sick or dying from cancers and other diseases they got from open burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Josh Hawley (R-Chickencoop) and Ted Cruz fistbumped in celebration.
— In Ohio, multimillionaire hedge fund manager and GOP senatorial candidate JD Vance has
said the quiet part out loud: women must, in his opinion, be subservient to their husbands "for the children," even when their husbands beat, rape, or otherwise subject them to violence.
— Ever since five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized political bribery with their
Citizens United decision, Congress has been in a state of perpetual paralysis.
— Republicans hate gay and trans kids so much they want to deny them school lunches until the Biden administration stops requiring schools to report instances of hate and discrimination against LGBTQ children.
— A group of Texas Republicans are
suing to block Obamacare's requirement that insurance companies provide preventative healthcare for STDs, including HIV and HPV.
— Crazy Alert! The Sperm Bros are touring the world, offering to help women who don't want to go through fertility clinics get pregnant.
Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
