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Warren Buffett has a message for the Trump White House: trickle-down economics don't work. As the third-richest man in the world with a net worth of nearly $86 billion, it's safe to say that when 87-year-old Warren Buffett talks about the economy, people listen. On Thursday, the CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway said that while he's hopeful that American children will live better than their parents did, he fears that wealth disparity in America is only increasing. "Between the first computation in 1982 and today, the wealth of the 400 increased 29-fold–from $93 billion to $2.7 trillion–while many millions of hardworking citizens remained stuck on an economic treadmill," he wrote. "During this period, the tsunami of wealth didn't trickle down. It surged upward." Trump's $1.5 trillion tax plan relied heavily on the concept of trickle-down economics. "I don't believe that we've set out to create a tax cut for the wealthy. If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that … [Read more...] about Warren Buffett Slams Trump’s Economic Plans

Chances are slim to nonexistent that former President Donald Trump will be convicted during a Senate trial, but his legal team has to present a defense nonetheless and their plan is to go after Democrats directly. In January, the House impeached Trump for a historic second time on one charge of "inciting an insurrection" and his trial in the Senate is set to begin on Monday. At the center of Trump's second impeachment is whether his comments about the election encouraged the violence at the Capitol on January 6 and if convicted, he could be barred from holding public office in the future. Instead of focusing on Trump's rhetoric, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the former president, said his legal team will make the argument that Democrats are "trying to put freedom of speech on trial." "By doing that we're going to turn it around and make sure that [Senator] Chuck Schumer , [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi , [Representative] Maxine Waters—all the radical crazies—on the … [Read more...] about Trump Legal Team Prepares to Put Waters, Pelosi, Schumer ‘On Trial’

Donald Trump loved Herschel Walker. He told him so when he “fired” him from “Celebrity Apprentice.” As Trump put it: “You know how much I like you. I love you. I love you. I am not a gay man, and I love you, Herschel. Herschel, you’re fired.” As Walker said in an interview years ago, “I’ve known Donald before he became ‘The Donald.’ I started out with Donald Trump. I tell everyone that little Donald and little Ivanka lived with me during the summer.” He took them to Disney World, Sea World, the Bronx Zoo, “any place.” Walker’s son Christian referred to Trump as Uncle Don. The men were clearly close. Trump believed in Black exceptionalism — but only for athletes and entertainers. When New York’s elite shunned Trump, he found a home in pop culture. He came to understand the currency in it and the power of it. Unlike high society, which thrived on exclusion, entertainment fed on the possibility of inclusion and economic ascendance. Trump learned early the lucrative … [Read more...] about Walker, Trump’s Celebrity Pick, Underscores Trump’s Fall

Israeli kindergarten teacher Shalva Zalfreind, 64, warned that some parents were sending children to school despite having family members who were in isolation for coronavirus. Zalfreind sent a message to a Whatsapp group of her students' parents two weeks before she died, according to The Jerusalem Post . In the comment, she said that some families had discounted the government's rules on isolation to contain the coronavirus. Israeli law requires anyone who has had close contact with a patient with a confirmed case of COVID-19, or anyone with respiratory symptoms to isolate themselves at home for 14 days after the last day of contact with the patient. Those who violate the law will be fined, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health. "Unfortunately, there were those who preferred to send the child to kindergarten out of a feeling of Israeli 'trust,' while fatally damaging an important value of 'mutual responsibility,'" Zalfreind wrote. ""For me, it no longer matters who I … [Read more...] about Teacher Dies After Warning That Parents Are Sending Sick Kids to School

Wild conspiracy theories have a way of seeping into public discourse these days, thanks in part to the divided nature of U.S. politics, the growth of websites that actively promote them, such as InfoWars, and the capacity for fake news to spread virally on social media without any fact-checking or oversight. Enter "Q." In late October, just days before a different InfoWars-inflated conspiracy— about anti-fascist protesters plotting a civil war —was about to fizzle, a user identified as Q on the imageboard website 4chan started posting vague, portentous messages related to an approaching "storm." The user claimed to be a high-level government operative, and the folks on /pol/, a subsection of 4chan with a history of spreading fake news, took notice—with some even believing it was President Donald Trump himself who was posting the messages on 4chan and on a similar website, 8chan. Today, #Qanon (meaning Q, anonymous), also known as #TheStorm, is the web's fastest-spreading and … [Read more...] about How ‘the Storm’ Came to Dominate Fake News

Click here to read the full article. Kirstie Alley , a two-time Emmy-winning actor who rose to fame with her role as Rebecca Howe in the NBC comedy series “ Cheers ,” has died of cancer. She was 71. Alley’s death was confirmed through her official social media presence, which shared a statement from her children. More from Variety ATX TV Festival Sets First Round of 2023 Programming: A 'Cheers' Celebration, James Burrows Tribute and More 'The Masked Singer' Reveals Identity of Baby Mammoth: Here Is the Star Under the Mask Why the Oscars Diversity Rules Should Be Embraced by All Members “To all our friends, far and wide around the world… We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered,” reads the statement. “She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever … [Read more...] about Kirstie Alley, ‘Cheers’ and ‘Look Who’s Talking’ Star, Dies at 71

Right-wing TV networks Fox News , One America News Network (OAN), and Newsmax were hit with billion-dollar lawsuits over their coverage of the November 2020 U.S. presidential election. Voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems brought defamation cases against the three media organizations, accusing them of spreading conspiracy theories that it rigged the presidential election against Donald Trump and skewed results in favor of now-President Joe Biden . Meanwhile, a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion against Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, was given the green light to proceed last month. The suit accuses the company of allowing Fox News to spread and amplify baseless accusations of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, including unfounded allegations that the election was stolen with the help of Dominion, which provided voting machines to 28 states. It argues that the company, which is owned by the Murdoch family, is liable … [Read more...] about Fox News, OAN, Newsmax Defamation Lawsuit Explained

With President Obama, Democrats and their media fellow travelers having failed to win the hearts and minds of voters, they are now trying to build a legacy on the big lie: “The president is handing his successor an economy that’s now the envy of the world.” David Corn of the progressive Mother Jones magazine claimed on November 7: “the election is a referendum on the explicit use of hate in politics — a reckoning toward which the GOP has been hurtling for half a century.” But Donald Trump won by campaigning on making the election a referendum on President Obama’s failed economic policies. The 2016 election results were the worst performance by the Democrat Party since the 1870s. Republicans now hold the presidency, both houses of Congress, 33 governorships and control of both legislature chambers in 32 states. The Democrats only control both legislature chambers in just 13 states. Middle class voters, especially in “flyover country,” came to believe on November 8 that the … [Read more...] about Left Pretends Trump Inheriting Strong Obama Economy

From the outside, the marriage of convenience between white conservative Christians and Donald J. Trump looked like a devoted one: White evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump overwhelmingly in 2016 and stuck with him in 2020, brushing aside perpetual lies and sexual impropriety to support a man they saw as their protector . However, not everyone was content. Now, one of the most prominent white evangelical women in the United States is breaking with her longtime denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention , citing the “staggering” disorientation of seeing its leaders support Mr. Trump, and the cultural and spiritual fallout from that support. “There comes a time when you have to say, this is not who I am,” Beth Moore , told Religion News Service in an interview published on Tuesday. “I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists,” she added. Her stature in the movement poses a serious challenge for the Southern Baptist Convention, which has … [Read more...] about Beth Moore, a Prominent Evangelical, Splits With Southern Baptists

James Gray started writing his new film, Armageddon Time , after taking a trip to his childhood home in Fresh Meadows, Queens, with his own children a few years ago. One of the only pieces of evidence that his family had ever lived there was, he told me, “a gate my father had built around the garbage cans which had a majestic G for Gray , which was off its hinges.” He thought about dinners, gatherings, and how all of his family who lived there, except his brother, have since died. “I was filled with real melancholy,” Gray said. “And I started to feel like there was no memory of their existing.” This realization sent Gray on a journey into creative territory he’d so far mostly avoided: his memories. Gray has spent much of his storied career making movies about New York, but his last two projects, the masterful tropical epic The Lost City of Z and the mournful sci-fi blockbuster Ad Astra , had taken him far afield. “I made a film in the jungle, which was … very physically … [Read more...] about The Film That Connects 1980 With Today’s Dysfunction