Trump lead shrinks to 4% in Texas and 5% in Florida according to Emerson; His campaign is pulling out of Minnesota, Virginia, and New Hampshire!
Under strident public pressure from rapacious plutocratic donors, Harris-Walz campaign agrees to reduce proposed top long-term capital gains tax rate for wealthy taxpayers from Biden’s planned 39.6% to 28%; current rate is 20%, set by Trump in 2017;
This retreat would reduce revenue for necessary reforms as nation moves towards refinancing Social Security and Medicare while strengthening the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit to fight poverty;
Goal of reducing the exorbitant wealth and power of the billionaire class would also be undermined; Negative portent for looming fight to prevent extension of Trump 2017 tax cuts for the rich, which expire at the end of December, 2025;
As collapse of Trump candidacy proceeds apace, influx of Wall Street and Silicon Valley plutocrat donors, drifting ex-Republicans, and independent stragglers poses risk of pulling the Harris-Walz campaign to the right, with detrimental consequences now and in the future; these backward influences need to be compensated for by pushing the ticket in a New Deal Economic Populist direction;
Last week, Harris had pledged to retain the Biden-Harris budget for FY 2025, which contains the full 39.6% capital gains tax figure as part of Biden’s alternative minimum tax on parasitical billionaires; this figure of course represented the opening bid in a complex negotiating process with Congress, and simply retreating from it recalls the flawed practice of Obama, who was notorious for negotiating with himself in public, offering concessions without any quid pro quo in
the vain hope of obtaining one or two Republican votes, ultimately acquiring the reputation of being a pushover; This is how the vital public option disappeared from the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare;
Trump’s speech to the Economic Club of New York marks new phase in his cognitive deterioration; orange dotard’s answer to final question on childcare will be studied for decades as a classic of evasive raving utterly estranged from reality; his promise to give Musk sweeping powers as federal “Efficiency Czar” suggests any future Trump regime would be strangled by committees of incompetent and mediocre oligarchs; Project 2025 confirms this hypothesis;
Responsible media figures condemn the blatant double standard inherent in the bothsidesism of the Wall Street press and television, who have transferred their vicious hostility from Biden to Harris, while maintaining their dog-like devotion to Trump; mediocre but megalomaniac reporters obsessively nitpick every detail of Harris’ remarks, but blithely ignore the virtual delirium of Trump’s tirades;
All the News That Fits We Print: In a self-serving Washington Post jumbo op-ed, New York Times boss A.G. Sulzberger indignantly rejects idea that defending the U.S. Constitution makes up any part of his remit; instead, he hypocritically pursues his vendetta against Biden for refusing to submit to an exhaustive interview with his scribblers and minions
Sulzberger claims that neutrality and fairness make up his Creed, but the New York Times article on Trump’s speech to the Economic Club of New York published the same day amounts to a blatant SANEWASHING distortion of what actually happened, clearly designed to mask Trump’s cognitive decline;
this time, the Biden administration has issued timely indictments of Russian intelligence agents spending $10 million to generate articles from the fascist-subversive lunatic fringe viewpoint to help Trump win the election; This Operation Doppelgänger is said to be commanded by Sergei Kiriyenko, one of Putin’s top Kremlin oligarchs;
RT pasionaria Margarita Simonyan is heavily implicated; two other key figures may have already defected to the United States under threat of indictment, possibly along the lines of Telegram’s Pavel Durov in France;
Tenet Media of Tennessee and its stable of scriveners allegedly a key vehicle; Dimitri Simes, a crony of Nixon and Rand Paul, is indicted in absentia; US counterespionage under Biden has thus advanced from mere discovery to active disruption, which no mega Republican would ever dare carry out;
Consternation in the MAGA Camp, where the subversives had deluded themselves that they had permanently buried the “Russia Russia Russia” issue under a thick stratum of lies, gaslighting, fabrications, and intimidation; aspects of this issue are destined to ride again with a vengeance in the Chutkan January 6 case in Washington DC and the Florida stolen secret documents case;
Ukraine has now successfully held Russian territory in the Kursk region for one full calendar month, leaving Russia a paper Tiger and its leader Putin impotent, humiliated, and vulnerable to the intrigues of the Siloviki;
In Ukraine,
President Zelenski reshuffles cabinet after almost 3 years of all-out war; army chief Syrskyi asserts that the relief counterattack into Kursk is successfully diverting Russian forces away from Pokrovsk offensive, leaving the front frozen in place for the past six days;
Zelenski attends Ukraine contact group at Ramstein airbase in Germany to urge allies to deliver more air defense equipment; German Chancellor Scholz stresses that his government will back Kyiv as long as needed; Zelenski plans New York visit to attend United Nations General Assembly and Confer with President Biden to Finalize Plan for Victory;
German state-level elections in former East German (DDR) Thuringia and Saxony: Alternative for Germany (AfD) is largest single party with 33% of the votes in Thuringia; German courts have already ruled that top
Alternative honcho Björn Höcke qualifies for the epithet of “fascist” after being found liable for reviving Nazi slogans on two separate occasions, making it harder for this party to find coalition partners to form a majority government; in Saxony, the Christian Democrats remain the largest party; Brandenburg votes on September 22, with national elections almost a year away;
Part of the damage comes from excessive credulity in the West about Putin’s rocket-rattling, which has permitted privileged sanctuaries for the Russians on their own territory, thus needlessly prolonging a tragic war;
Speedy expulsion of Russian forces from Ukraine under the 1988 Gromov doctrine will tend to deprive Alternative and the anti-American Sahra Wagenknecht personality cult of a key issue;
Chancellor Scholz should also adjust immigration and asylum policies along the lines of the successful changes recently introduced by Biden using executive orders;
Breaking: Garland raids officials working for New York Mayor Adams: is this a new series of political prosecutions on the model of Abscam and Brilab decades ago?
In 2016, Obama and his National Security Council Director Susan Rice did virtually nothing to fight Russian efforts to subvert the presidential election in favor of Trump, allegedly because Obama was terrified of being viewed as partisan;