EPSTEIN

In the files released so far (where are the rest?), his name appears more than 38,000 times.  Why are they heavily redacted?  What are they hiding?  Is it possible there’s something shameful that even MAGA supporters could not abide?

DELANEY

By and large, Trump’s detention centers, like Delaney Hall, are not housing “the worst of the worst.”  Most have no criminal record, many are children, some are American citizens.  Why is the Trump regime denying members of Congress, governors, lawyers and the press access?  What are they hiding?  Is it possible the conditions and injustices are too shameful for even MAGA to abide?

(Meanwhile, the cruel, unChristian mass deportation program is costing taxpayers a ton while weakening Social Security.)

YANG

The shame here is inequality.

Sure, if you’re born to wealthy parents you deserve a better life than someone born poor.  (But do you really? And how much better?)  And sure, if you’re born with the DNA for exceptional intelligence or looks or athletic prowess, you deserve a vastly better life than someone born with more typical, let alone sub-optimal genes.  (But do you really? And how much better?)

(As long-time readers know, I once asked Warren Buffett why he’s a Democrat.  He introduced me to John Rawls’ “Veil of Ignorance” — the thought experiment where you’re in the womb, about to be born but don’t know whether you’ll be black or white, rich or poor, male, female, or intersex, straight or gay, etc., etc. — and you have the power to determine what kind of social structure you would like to be born into.  Health care only for the rich?  Medicare for all?  Medicare for all with the right to buy a “first class overlay”?  Etc.)

Ronald Reagan launched the current binge of ever-widening inequality and exploding National Debt, amplified by George W. Bush and now Trump.

It threatens to grow even worse with AI.

Andrew Yang has spent a decade addressing this issue, first with The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future and yesterday, when he argued that we should Tax AI, not humans.

Have a great day.