https://prospect.org/2025/12/22/demands-for-data-center-moratoriums-surge/

Maybe this will bring these folks down before they burn down the world.

#ai #genai #techbros #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #datacenters #democracy #justice #affordability #humanrights #labor

Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.

#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying

Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.

#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

#Affordability?
"Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office."
Why?
Trump cancelled 25,000 MWe of new (cheaper renewable) power plants, while demand is surging due to data centers and other uses, causing prices to rise and consumers to pay more.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bills-us-increased-13-trump-office-new/story

Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.

#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying

Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.

#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Affordability?
"Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office."
Why?
Trump cancelled 25,000 MWe of new (cheaper renewable) power plants, while demand is surging due to data centers and other uses, causing prices to rise and consumers to pay more.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bills-us-increased-13-trump-office-new/story

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

"Which is amazing when he himself is plating everything he can in the White House in gold and building a 200, you know, actually it's now 300 or 400 million dollar glorious ballroom. And at the same time, lecturing people that they've never had it better. I don't think any of that seems to be working."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/13

"The highlights from that speech are just... I mean, he's telling people you're doing better than you've ever done. Again, going back to you don't need 37 dolls, you know, two or three are nice. You know, school kids, children just need a few pencils, not a whole box of them."

~ Joe Trippi

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-is-weaving-right-into-an-oncoming

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/12

"Same dollar. Five commitments. Zero proof. Zero possibility. ...

The 'tariff shelf' is a prop. Trillions are fiction. Promises are illusions."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/11

"On paper, at least. Tariff revenue has been promised to reduce the national debt. It’s been pledged for rebate checks. It’s been earmarked to bail out farmers harmed by trade disruptions. It’s been floated as funding for childcare programs. And in moments of rhetorical enthusiasm, it’s even been suggested as a substitute for federal income taxes altogether."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/10

"We are now deep into the era of what Trump calls the tariff shelf. You’ve heard about it. It’s apparently stocked with trillions upon trillions of dollars—so many, in fact, that the number changes depending on who’s holding the microphone. ...

The administration has already spent the money it insists is sitting on that imaginary shelf."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/9

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-arithmetic-of-make-believe

"If you really, truly, deeply believed that Trump would lower prices quickly? I’m sorry. You’re an idiot."

~ Michael Tomasky

The truth is, it never was about the economy for a majority of Trump voters. Truth is, they knew exactly whom and what they were voting for. "The economy" was just a specious excuse. The racism and heterosexist male entitlement and immigrant bashing: that's what they wanted.

#Trump #MAGA #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #ballroom
/1

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=980a875ff6ef9c2d75e74307cbf5d205.2475&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"If you really, truly, deeply believed that Trump would lower prices quickly? I’m sorry. You’re an idiot."

~ Michael Tomasky

The truth is, it never was about the economy for a majority of Trump voters. Truth is, they knew exactly whom and what they were voting for. "The economy" was just a specious excuse. The racism and heterosexist male entitlement and immigrant bashing: that's what they wanted.

#Trump #MAGA #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #ballroom
/1

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=980a875ff6ef9c2d75e74307cbf5d205.2475&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

There’s a chance that by calling #affordability a #hoax and going full Orwell on economic statistics, #Trump is digging his own political grave.
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/trump-affordability-economy-pennsylvania.html?smid=url-share

@oldrawgabbit
#DonTheCon... who made "Affordability" the centerpiece of his 2024 re-election campaign... now calls #affordability "a #Democrat con-job".

Well, it certainly WAS a #ConJob, as #inflation was going DOWN under #Biden after #DisasasterDon destroyed the #SupplyChain by ignoring #Covid.

But now inflation is back up, and the same guy who RAILED about inflation under #Biden, is now admitting it was all a con-job.

Yeah. We knew that. 😞
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-the-word-affordability-is-a-con-job-by-the-democrats

#BlackFriday #Affordability