The Comrade Courant

Trump’s Thanksgiving Lie? Is the 25% ‘Savings’ Built on Smoke and Mirrors? Trump’s Thanksgiving Lie? Is the 25% ‘Savings’ Built on Smoke and Mirrors? Three days after the original claim—and just in time for holiday prep—here’s what’s really on the menu. On November 7 and 8, 2025, Donald Trump repeated a rosy economic promise to voters: “Thanksgiving this year will cost 25% less than last year,” he declared, pointing to Walmart’s promotional meal basket as proof. It sounds like good news. But it’s not true—not in any meaningful way. Yes, Walmart’s 2025 basket is priced about 25% lower than its 2024 version. But that’s only because the 2025 basket contains fewer items, smaller portions, and cheaper substitutes. In short: it’s not the same meal. It’s a bait-and-switch dressed up as generosity—as the Associated Press fact check confirms. The Walmart Supercenter on Richmond Ave...

What Is a Tankie—and Why You Don’t Want to Be One On authoritarianism, anti-imperialism, and the betrayal of socialist principles In leftist discourse, few terms carry as much heat as “tankie.” It’s hurled in online arguments, whispered in organizing meetings, and increasingly invoked to describe a certain strain of pro-authoritarian “leftism” that defends dictators under the banner of anti-imperialism. But the term isn’t just internet slang. It has a precise historical origin—and a political meaning that every socialist should understand. “Maximum Tankie” by Red & Black Salamander (9mmballpoint.blogspot.com). Used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The Origin of the Term The word “tankie” emerged in 1956, when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the Hungarian Revolution—a popular uprising of workers and students demanding democratic socialism. Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who defended this violent suppression were derisively ...