Category: Politics, Religion & Money

Here’s a Turning Point USA story you aren’t likely to see anywhere else:

https://www.fsugatepost.com/post/political-group-attempts-to-host-table-on-mccarthy-patio

All they had to do was ask for permission and apparently pay a fee, to hawk their message at the campus center. Instead, their approach is the same as setting up in a supermarket parking lot to sell electronics that “fell off a truck.”

The more I know about TPUSA, and contemplate its mission, the more I see it as a next generation Campus Crusade for Christ. Except now, with the support of Republican operatives, the twisted use of Jesus to provide cover for a political agenda is fully developed and expressed.

The Oregon AFL-CIO calls out the Department of Labor for its vision of Ayn Rand poster boys, worthy of gracing the covers of her romantic fantasy novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

An American workforce that appears to be young, straight-looking, closeted gay white men. If the Defense Department is going to be called the War Department, then Labor may as well be called the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

Trump is acting as if he “don’t need to show us no stinking permits” to construct his precious ballroom.

Outside, it will be an outsized monstrosity. Inside, it will be chintzy, tacky, and tasteless, like everything else he’s decorated.

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the editor of The Economist. The publication that, a year ago, declared America’s economy was the envy of the world. What about now?

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024-10-19