2018 elections update – 10/27/18

A FiveThirtyEight Election Update pic.twitter.com/RufBq7UfHJ

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 27, 2018

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted this tweet AFTER a bomb was sent to Soros' house. Up until a couple of minutes ago it was pinned to the top of his profile. pic.twitter.com/FEeKoPolHL

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 24, 2018

With 10 days until Election Day, Democrats are poised to make significant gains in the US House https://t.co/FQHcaZCYUY pic.twitter.com/6lUkuDarD3

— CNN (@CNN) October 27, 2018

Government-run network called Soros “multimillionaire Jew”

Bigots! Sad!

It's worse than you can possibly imagine, even when you take into account that it's worse than you can possibly imagine https://t.co/7cC1cT26vB

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 29, 2018

Another Trump business scam

lock him up!

from the article:

“The four plaintiffs, who were identified only with pseudonyms like Jane Doe, depict the Trump Organization as a racketeering enterprise that defrauded thousands of people for years as the president turned from construction to licensing his name for profit.”

President Trump is accused of misleading salespeople who lost money in a multi-level marketing company that he endorsed in speeches and on "The Celebrity Apprentice," according to a lawsuit. https://t.co/2xSPtpfp7Q

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2018

Trump defrauded investors in marketing scheme, lawsuit says https://t.co/xEbsAUPugS

— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 29, 2018

The rise in hate crimes

Pittsburgh shooting comes amid rise in hate crimes, growing anxiety about right-wing extremism https://t.co/ylkO3NoMfi

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2018

SPLC warns of massive uptick in hate crimes against the Jewish community since 2016 election https://t.co/ITogNHMegv

— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 28, 2018

Tax cut roundup – 10/28/18

So far, it has helped the rich and hasn’t produced an investment boom

Who’s really benefiting from @realDonaldTrump tax cuts? Money committed by U.S. companies to stock #buybacks this year enough to give $5,600 to every U.S. payroll employee. #inequality #economicinequality #insidertrade #insidertrading #equities #stocks

— TrimTabs Research (@TrimTabsIR) October 23, 2018

Analysis: The Trump tax cuts were supposed to set off an investment boom. They aren’t so far. https://t.co/9nPYf7WUGo

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2018

Looks like corporate tax cut (retroactive to sep/2017) produced a pop in structures investment in q4 & q1 that has now faded. Data is noisy, too early to know if it raised trend investment or just pulled forward future capex. All figures exclude mining, oil & gas. pic.twitter.com/yGRqGa2dAs

— Greg Ip (@greg_ip) October 26, 2018

Hey yall – the middle class already got a 10% tax cuts in the 2017 tax bill.

How about we find a way to pay for it now? I noticed the rich seem to be doing pretty well after the tax bill … we could start there. pic.twitter.com/aQFjmj0cbU

— Marc Goldwein (@MarcGoldwein) October 22, 2018

Oh, look: US corporate taxes were actually low before the Trump tax cut, and are now much lower than other major countries https://t.co/lUFeXjUf88 pic.twitter.com/yoZ6fzVCup

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 22, 2018

"One number that stuck out: $204.7 billion. That’s how much corporations paid in taxes in fiscal year 2018. It’s striking because the figure is more than $90 billion less than the $297 billion corporations paid in taxes the previous fiscal year." https://t.co/IMa0jBEQTf

— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) October 19, 2018

For those trying to claim that a tiny rise in overall revenue over the past year vindicates the tax cut, a comparison with the Obama years pic.twitter.com/81kWWxw2Ex

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 18, 2018

I wrote about tax cut cons 15 years ago; not much has changed, except that the lies are more barefaced than ever https://t.co/x0A98y9EkO pic.twitter.com/OGo2dvnoch

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 17, 2018

and there’s this:

Think what could be done with $180 billion
"The first is tax evasion by individuals, which is illegal.
The second is tax avoidance by huge multinational corporations, which — as long as the lawyers are doing their jobs — is perfectly legal" https://t.co/Y5C5bYlDJz by @Schwarz

— Charlotte Greensit (@cgreensit) October 26, 2018

Fox Business did not reduce caravan coverage in favor of the bombs

I wrote on Friday about how Fox Business was the only cable news network that didn't back-burner the caravan in favor of mail-bomb coverage. https://t.co/U4bW9FrQUb pic.twitter.com/EBd2PribRv

— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 28, 2018

Anti-Semitism

Not all Trump supporters are bigots but I think a lot of them are. Trump, with his hate-filled lies, has encouraged anti-Semitism and other kinds of bigotry.

Here are columns about anti-Semitism. I am Jewish and I think every Jew in America has experienced anti-Semitism to some degree and is always aware it could happen.

From Jennifer Rubin’s column linked to below:

“In February, the Anti-Defamation League released its annual report, finding that “the number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since ADL started tracking incident data in the 1970s.” ”

Perspective: Donald Trump and the ugly history of blaming Jews for the violence against them https://t.co/RyOQfVUxo0

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2018

Perspective: Trump doesn’t understand how anti-Semitism works. Neither do most Americans. https://t.co/5GGdFZdsdC

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2018

The Pittsburgh synagogue massacre may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history—but it’s nowhere near the first. @IsabelFattal recounts some of the many violent attacks targeting Jews in recent history: https://t.co/IanQ1Q8aOu

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 28, 2018

Read this thread. At the time, I didn't fully appreciate what the Charlottesville marchers, aka very fine people, meant by chanting "Jews will not replace us". But it's all clear now: the right has bought into a meme of Jews bringing in brown people to destroy whites 1/ https://t.co/58PJmPhGgI

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 28, 2018

The “very fine people” chanting "Jews will not replace us;" the exclusion of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust; the demonization of "globalists;" scapegoating Soros; the Jewish Star on $ during the election; David Duke: When will it be okay to say POTUS is an antiSemite?

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 28, 2018

The return of anti-Semitism to the mainstream

Shaking My Faith in America https://t.co/Eiq6XhE2m7 Just beautiful, Howard

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 28, 2018

If you think words — especially an American president’s words — don’t matter, think again https://t.co/8G02TwyHFC

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 27, 2018

Don’t forget this Trump tweet from the 2016 campaign:

god i forgot how insane this was pic.twitter.com/1fQbyPyf6f

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 28, 2018

It wasn’t a sheriff’s star. It was the Star of David. It was changed when there was enough outcry. pic.twitter.com/gDGEvQwdll

— Boooooo-lisonFromThe401 (@AllisonRhody56) October 28, 2018

The Trump administration corruption guide

This is great!

Brilliantly done @dleonhardt. Also serves as a handy cheat sheet for our @crewcrew docket of over 300 legal matters opened against Trump & his cronies in each of these areas. My only quibble: I would say Trump exceeds Harding. https://t.co/pVDvc4d7RV

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) October 28, 2018

America First Action is certainly pro @realDonaldTrump's bottom line https://t.co/HI4ddSie0T

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 29, 2018

Five things to know about “false flag” theories

Five things to know about ‘false flag’ conspiracy theories

Trump lied about the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Trump said the NYSE opened the day after 9/11. It was closed until 9/17 He just wants to justify hold his hate-filled rallies.

Fact Checker: In an effort to justify holding a campaign rally after 11 people at a synagogue were gunned down in Pittsburgh, President Trump twice referenced an event that did not happen. https://t.co/AF6q88PL02

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2018