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Trump Admits He'll Do Nothing to Lower Prices - The Friday AM Quickie 12/13/24

By Corey Pein —

"The CEOs are tripping." God help us. Jacob's back Monday. - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Trumpocalypse: Kleptocracy Alert as Bezos and Zuckerberg Line Up to Lick Inaugural Boots

  • Sorry, Suckers! Trump Is Already Saying He Won't Bring Down Grocery Prices After All "It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard," he says. via Time Magazine and the Washington Post.
  • Trump Advisers Want to Kill the 'Near Sacred' Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Which Makes Sure the Bank Doesn't Lose All Your Money "Any move that threatened to undermine even the perception of deposit insurance could quickly ripple through banks and in a crisis might compound customer fears." via the Wall Street Journal and HuffPost.
  • Trump Calls for 'Immediate Ceasfire' in Ukraine and Says He Would 'Absolutely' Withdraw from NATO Alliance "The quick responses from Ukraine and Russia demonstrated the seriousness with which they regarded the idea from the incoming American president." via the Associated Press.
  • Trump Mideast Adviser, Tiffany's Father-in-Law, Is Actually a Small-Time Truck Salesman in Nigeria, Not a Billionaire Michael Boulos met Tiffany Trump at Lindsay Lohan's club in Greece, later presenting his fiance with a $1 million diamond ring that "seemed to confirm great wealth"; in reality, his father Massad Boulos's stake in his wife's family truck dealership is worth only $1.53. via the New York Times.
  • 'His Goal Is the Same Goal I Have': New York City Mayor-Cop Eric Adams Cozies Up to Trump Deportation Boss Meanwhile, newly reported figures show the Biden administration separated 300 children from their families, mostly at the southwestern border. via the New York Times and ProPublica.
  • Inspector General Confirms FBI Did Not Incite Jan. 6 Insurrection, But Rather Underestimated the Threat from Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, appears "on a glide path for confirmation, with Republican senators lining up enthusiastically behind him." via the Associated Press and the New York Times.
  • Trump's Pick to Lead DOJ Civil Rights Division Has Sued 'Antifa' and Schools That Honor Trans Student Rights "Rick Chavez Zbur, a Democratic member of the California Assembly and an attorney, said [Harmeet] Dhillon's nomination is 'essentially giving the middle finger to the enforcement of civil rights in this country.'" via Politico, TruthOut, the Daily Beast.
  • Why Is Trump Supporting Dockworker Union Demands on Automation All of a Sudden? Trump made a labor-friendly statement yesterday after meeting with International Longshoremen Association President Harold Daggett, a decades-old associate once linked by the Justice Department to the Genovese crime family. via the Washington Post and the Associated Press.

Bernie Sanders: Don't Murder CEOs, Organize

Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders tells Jacobin that the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly by the privileged but suffering 26-year-old Maryland prep school and Ivy League grad Luigi Mangione, showed that "many, many people are furious at the health insurance companies who make huge profits denying them and their families the health care that they desperately need."

Sixty thousand people a year die because they don’t get to a doctor when they should. Sixty thousand people! ...
The murder is absolutely abhorrent. We are not going to reform the health care system by killing people. The way we're going to bring about the kind of fundamental changes we need in health care is, in fact, by a political movement which understands the government has got to represent all of us, not just the 1 percent. And absolutely at the very top of that list is the understanding that health care is a human right. ...
Imagine if you had a political party that said that.

Democrats still aren't sure they want to be that party, per Politico. But some, like Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, see "an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be."

Meanwhile, New York police claim they have "no indication" Mangione was ever insured by United Healthcare. Mangione's defense lawyer, Thomas Dickey, says he hasn't "seen any evidence that says that he's the shooter."

Triumphant Syrian Rebels Seek US Recognition

The political wing of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, the Islamist rebel group now taking control of Syria after defeating the Assad regime, has offered to "cooperate directly" with the US to search for American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing there 12 years ago. "We're obviously pleased with anyone that's making a concerted effort" to find Austin, his father Marc Tice tells the Washington Post. "I would be hopeful that the US government would accept that offer." But the Biden administration has only been in indirect communication with HTS, which the US considers a terrorist group. HTS freed another American, Travis Pete Timmerman, from a Syrian prison this week. Syrian families, of course, are also searching for loved ones disappeared by the deposed government. International arms control experts, meanwhile, are wondering where they might find hundreds of tons of banned chemical weapons produced under the Assad family's long reign. And US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told reporters yesterday that Israel's seizure of territory in Syria is "a temporary move," although United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres does not seem convinced.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Gerontocracy Circles the Wagons: Pelosi Lobbies House Democrats to Keep AOC Out of Key Committee Leadership The former House Speaker's preferred candidate to serve as the ranking Democrat on House Oversight, Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly, 74, is currently battling cancer. via Axios and The New Republic.
  • Biden May Veto Senate Bill Adding Federal Judgeships for Trump to Fill New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called the Judges Act "irresponsible" even before the White House announced its opposition. via the Washington Post and Politico.
  • Justice Department Civil Rights Deal Gives Louisville 5 Years to Turn Around Its Racist Police Force "My daughter lost her life. It's always going through my mind and no one's taken real accountability for that and they might never do that," Breonna Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer said at a press conference announcing the Kentucky city's new federal consent decree. "And that's OK, but people need to understand why we're here. Something happened that got us here." via the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and the Louisville Courier-Journal.
  • Lina Khan's FTC Sues Largest US Liquor Distributor for Screwing Over Mom & Pop Shops in Favor of Big Grocery Chains Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, a $26 billion private company that distributes 7,000 brands of alcohol, allegedly "violated the Robinson-Patman Act by providing 'steep discounts' without any market justification to a certain set of retailers." via the New York Times and NBC News.

SOME NUMBER

15 percent

That's the share of US teens in a new Pew survey who say they use YouTube "almost constantly." One-third of teens say they use either YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook almost constantly. But YouTube remains the most popular digital platform for young people, with 75 percent of teens reporting daily use. Austrailia recently passed a ban on social media use for kids under 16, "an ambitious social experiment" that raises free speech concerns.

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PARTING WORDS

"There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there's no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States."

-- Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh, responding to wild claims by New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who claimed to have "very high sources," that the mystery "drones" seen over New Jersey and New York were being launched by a supposed Iranian "mothership" off the US East Coast. White House spokesman John Kirby yesterday told reporters that law enforcement was unable to corroborate the sightings, some captured on video, but nonetheless concluded the so-called drones were "actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully." Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim of New Jersey and Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York have demanded a briefing from the heads of the FBI, the FAA, and Homeland Security on the unidentified, or perhaps identified but classified, flying objects.

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