How Did the Bullies Take Over America? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Samuel Alito is a fraud, and the Supreme Court's far-right justices are acting as Trump's flunkies.
Heather Lofthouse of @imcivicaction and I delve into this and more in this week's Coffee Klatch. Please pour yourself a cup and join us.
John Roberts as the Chief Justice is solely to blame. This is not about delaying justice. This is about the court being corrupted.
Roberts controls the docket. Every decision by the Chief Justice is based on what benefits the billionaire aristocrats that own this country.
If he does nothing, he owns the corruption.
SCOTUS FCKDUS 4 JESUS. same shit. different century.
He's not leading on ANYTHING. It's Alito and Thomas leading the charge. "Chief Justice" means nothing.
@@5amiann What corruption?
It's absolutely disgraceful how scotus is being Trump's legal defense
That's why he appointed them
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Five members of SCOTUS were appointed by Presidents who did not win the popular vote.
They are NOT defending him. They are preventing him from being held accountable. They are PROTECTING him and that is an important distinction.
trump's legal team has been unable to defend him, which is why he called up his USSC justices to PROTECT him from ever being held accountable.
Again, there is NO LEGAL DEFENSE taking place here. They are PREVENTING him from ever being held accountable.
....but you are missing the more frightening reality. If he is allowed back in office, he can NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANYTHING he does in *an official capacity as POTUS*. He can have all his enemies killed, claiming they are a threat to him as leader of the US, and this USSC will let it slide.
I think your estimation of 35% of Americans having trust in the current Supreme Court is being very, VERY generous.
Yeah. That has sort of gone out the window. How can we?
They're likely magats.
That means 35% are not paying attention.
@@TeraJohnson-nv2sp 100% agree, but I sincerely think the percentage of Americans who DO trust the high Court as an institution has fallen to much lower than that 35 Robert mentioned.
Vote of no confidence for the nonSupreme Court.
The amount of money an individual+corporation contributes to a political campaign must get regulated.
The Democrats use dark money. Look it up.
The MAGA Roberts Court will not allow it. That’s why we’re here.
Citizens United passed in 2010. How much TIME do Americans need to STAND UP for America and democracy?
Another decade? 🤭😜😉
Congress should ban Dark money for political purposes! Corporations are not individuals and should have caps or be banned altogether for individual candidates. Individual people are already capped on how much they contribute. Elections should be fair for all candidates and not biased for the wealthy.
Politicians won’t ban dark money, Congress, won’t regulate it. Come on, Money, has corrupted every form of government in this county. It is a dark time in America, nothing United about it.
UK here. I’ve just stumbled on your channel and I’ll say that it is so refreshing and comforting to know the US has not totally lost its mind. Great discussions. Keep up the good work.
Yes yes! Society is about how we treat, what we owe each other! Yet here we are in a society that admires and lifts up sociopaths and narcissists to the highest corporate and political positions. The more money, the more we elevate bullies to do the dirty work of leading with oppression as the goal (so we can have more money). Thanks for being a sane safe place to come to share our values and the truth💙xx to all from Oregon
Yeah and don't talk about skipping social media, because you are some of the best on social media. Thanks to you both.
I've moved to Ecuador. I'm so glad I can still start my Saturday with Coffee Klutch!
What's living there like?
When someone sews fear as a means to take from you, it really is bullying. When they make you hate the other guy because "he's ruining it for you", thats bullying. When they tell you they need more financial breaks and incentives or you will be out of a job, that's bullying.
Yes! It’s a cult! You are correct Heather! The same people follow him just like groupies! Good call! Thank you both for all you do!!!
The -Grateful Dead- Hateful Red.
The leading reason it's a cult is their members being poisoned against content outlets that debunk their narrative. When you're accused of watching CNN or reading the NYT, that's what they train their minions is polluting the minds of those who test their faith. They dare not mention more corrupting sources, lest they undermine the narrative that those outside the cult are the ones who don't expose themselves to enough information, and lest they risk cult members realizing they're surrounded by sources that could debunk the cult narrative.
The cult trains their members that having inside information is easy, that being a hero is easy. They want to hide from members that what is far easier is finding arguments that debunk the cult's false narratives.
All of America should listen to Robert Reich. He is brilliant and completely knowledgeable and totally unbiased. No one is quite like him. VOTE BLUE!!! 💙💙💙
We have a society of bullies.
Please bring up the damage that private equity does to the companies they take over and saddle with debt. This affects things like hospitals that we depend on.
And newspapers
Congress needs to do something where the supreme court will be accountable.
You guys want it abolished in reality. The constitution is also a problem for the progressive left.
Not in a thousand years.
It's WE THE PEOPLE not We the Congress or DOJ 🤭😜🫣
Go back to 8th grade
Congress can't do anything
Really? You still believe in Congress, but the Supreme Court hasn't been equally compromised? Really?
I blame corporations and greed for high prices.
That's exactly right. The President doesn't set the price of goods. Corporations do.
No, it's the creation of 12 trillion in fake money in the last 4 years.
Always enjoy your enlightening conversations. Keep up the good fight!
Money is the evil of all supreme court judges.
I am middle class or poor; I don't care about the stock market. Just lower rent!!!
Guess who owns all the real estate? The stockmarket people who have made a killing over the last 30 years
Demand reinstatement of rent controls!
Excellent reason why it's important to Educate and get people to Vote Blue in November. The reason I will never vote GOP again is due to their recent corruption and the Courts failure to simply do the right thing when nobody is watching. History will never be forgotten.
This is what Blue Joe did to this nation.
This is one of Joe's experienced, astute, kind , and caring policies. His "Open Border".
Joe allowed the “illegal” crossing of the “open border” by 8-10 million “illegal migrants' ' , criminals, terrorists, drug smugglers, and gotaways, etc. This will affect all 50 states; their state safety net, housing, flooding of hospitals and educational systems, criminal systems, drug issues, and employment.
With little to no border security over 3 years, huge amounts of the narcotic drug fentanyl has crossed the “open border”. The Mexican Cartel has raked in billions of dollars, destabilizing the economic and social structure of Mexico.
Yearly, 75,000 deaths of young Americans (ages 15-44) occur throughout 50 states. Those who survive are damaged for life, overwhelming medical and social service programs. Their life expectancy is 47.5 years. Expect 300,000 families to bury their children during Joe's four years.
A tragedy of this magnitude not only affects the family and relatives, but the nation as a whole. This national tragedy is having a devastating immediate and lasting impact on the nation's economy, social structures, public health systems, and overall demographic trends.
Sadly this event has not been on Joe Biden’s radar or agenda for improving our nation. Joe likes to speak about democracy. There is no democracy for a young dead person.
“Please pay attention to what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do or don’t do for America. Their actions will tell you everything you need to know.”
1950s: "I like Ike" vs. "I find St. Paul appealing and St. Peale appalling."
And large corporations actually paid taxes.
Thank you for messaging Biden for us! 16:48
The bullies took over because their orange god eroded the traditional guardrails and enabled them.
The bullies actually started in the 1920s with Andrew Mellon and the policies he pushed through under 3 Presidents that cemented dynastic wealth families' power over American citizens's lives.
It started with Obama. Trump is a response to Obama. And Biden is a response to Trump. The pendulum keeps swinging with greater amplitude.
The bullies took over because, since the 1960s, the GOP has been building alliances with the evangelical far right, proliferating over a thousand hate-radio stations, influencing the government on taxes and deregulation, ignoring antitrust laws (and crumbling infrastructure), and defunding public education and the social safety net-- even the Post Office! Trump is a mascot, not a cause.
Well said.
I'm so very sorry to learn that you were bullied. You have been such a positive role model for me and so many others. Bullies are who we face daily. We the People, in my opinion, still don't know how to negotiate.
I have so much respect for Robert's perspective. He comments that he's old, but he's so very wise, and he's not that old. My dad and grandpa lived to be almost 100. I can't wait for the next conversation or video.
I woke up today to the sun shining, the birds chirping and The Donvict breathing. Today sucks.
They are BEGGING to get expanded. And I think we'll just divide the payroll more ways instead of allocating more money.
Be careful with that idea. That was expressly how Thomas started getting checks from monied interests to come flooding in, when he went in front of Congress to complain of how low his income as a scotus justice was a good 3 decades ago. Paying them insufficiently was the impetus for his grievances with lacking wealth as an individual who was essentially boasting of his power and [potential] influence as a Supreme Court justice.
The Supreme Court has no public trust when the majority has no respect for their decrees. Their decisions are arbitrary based on personal ideology.
The blue states can just ignore their capricious, harmful decisions. We're 2 countries now btw.
Well said. Justice should be based on higher values.
The 9-0 decision on the 14th Amendment was a bunch of arguments that all worked from the conclusion backward. The Bad Guys had the guts to choose the President back in 2000...
Thank you 🎉
In 1913 when politicians allowed the biggest bankers in the world to take over the currency supply. It was all down hill from there.
End citizen's united. Thanks for going live next Thursday. I'm concerned SCOTUS will decide immunity the day before.
Greed by corporations.
Will the Fossil Fuel executives have their own private atmosphere?
The bullies took over because our political/economic system that you refuse to demand we change encourages them to
Read ANY of Justice Sotomayor's recent dissents, and then tell me that there are "no big minds" on this court.
Betty Bowers, Women who pay for abortion should go to jail. Men who pay for abortion should go to congress.
Republican Congress and their double standards. It’s almost like a religious zealots ideology take-over.
And do, and have, even when abortion was illegal in this country.
Love Betty . BTW anyone remember the scene from The Birdcage when Nathan Lane (as a woman) and the senator (I forget the actor) Are discussing abortion and she comes up with the idea the women should be killed, 20 to 30 years ago it was hilarious I never thought we’d get therre
Some wise person said, "If men could get pregnant, there would be a free clinic on every corner, with free beer and sports on TV."
Really?!! You don't know much about real life.
What a corrupt country
This is such a great Saturday morning event. Thanks!
How did this happen? One word, bipartisanship, working with people that want to lord over everyone regardless of what they want
How about decaf Thursday night? 😇 I set my phone alarm to remind me to tune in to watch Robert, Heather, and the debate.
The Bible Teaches ; " Life Begins, When God Blows His : Breath of Life, Into The Nostrils of The NEWLY BORN ! " That's Why Abortion, is Totally Legal, in Jewish Israel !
I start watching your shows (and others about the state of our union and constitution and life in the US) and I get so depressed that I can't finish. It is too much and there is no happy ending in our future.
The good guys went on retreat. But they're back.
We must take it back, by force
To tell the truth the whole TRUTH❤❤,SO HELP ME GOD!
Let's just all agree that labels can be misleading if not distracted, so we shouldn't trust labels only the actions and people do.
Justice delayed is justice denied, and a president has the ability to put out the Supreme Court. It has been done before it needs to be done now, but our chickenshit president decided to run again if he only did what he was supposed to do which is fall on the sword and be a one term president and do the right thing for this nation, but no, he has to run again. Ugh!
he beats the psycho with his fake hair and orange makeup
very good, thanks.
I find it weird that the president gets to pick some of the judges that put him on trial.
... And the Universe screams: NOOOOOOO! ... WHO CARES??? 😭😭😭
Hi from the uk
Rest in Power Micky ✊🏽🤍
I've been a Biden supporter and continue to be, but more and more often I wonder if history will show his biggest mistake to be his refusal to adopt aggressive SCOTUS reform.
I'd watch the debate with you guys.
Why do I feel sick about this?
In California if you're registered to vote you get a mail-in ballot But first you get sample ballot. I start at the bottom and research every single name on there over a couple of weeks time so when I get my official ballot I'm good to go. Then I walk it to the polling place and sign/date it in front of the pollster and drop it in the Box. Couple of days later I get an email saying that my ballot was received
... FDT ❕❕❕
Could you not sue(try) them(the supreme court justices) for giving aid to insurection ? ❤❤❤❤❤ 14th amendment i think
Yeah, I remember the Warren Commission. The Trilateral Omission - Johnson - Hoover - Warren.
when all one knows is immunity to reality, reality is too scary. reality is too scary for the entitled and privileged.
So the rich people don’t care if we get our rights taken away because they don’t have to follow any rules
Regarding Trump's rallies, I watched a Stephen Colbert video a couple of days ago, where he showed a clip of Trump bragging about the crowd size at his New Jersey rally, and I posted this:
May 14, 2024 Newsweek headline: "Fox News Questions Donald Trump's Rally Size", followed by...
"Fox News's Jesse Watters has downplayed claims that more than 100,000 people attended Donald Trump's recent rally in New Jersey. Speaking on Monday's episode of The Five, Watters said that a reporter he sent to the 2024 campaign rally in Wildwood said there were tens of thousands fewer people in attendance than what Trump and others are claiming."
The Republican Party ideology is fundamentally Aristocratic.
Hi Alan, Justice Corrupted, and you’re looking at CT, amazing, how about Enmoron and the Merchant of Justice?
Maybe I'll make it through more of it if you two are smirking!!!
13:40 - It is a date, can not wait.
I'll bring chocolates and Rose Wine.
The debate I mean!
Might you two do a comparison between Trump and Andrew Jackson? Daniel A Sjursen’s “A True History of the United States”does an excellent job with this topic, but we need to get this comparison out to a large audience.
Robert, so huge in stature…something the Orange Hulk would never understand! And I love Heather’s bright, educated interjections that keep everything moving along at a fast canter.
Robert, I had already watched your video on the KKK murder of Mickey, and was so moved I sent it to my children and grandchildren. When my older daughter was in school about 40 years ago, she went around intercepting acts of bullying by bigger/older children on smaller, weaker ones. By her senior year, she was elected school president by the latter (who far outnumbered the former) and whenever I saw her out on the school grounds she looked like the Pied Piper (she’s close to 6’) with a trail of smaller children in tow. I’m happy to say she did not end up bloodied and dead in a ditch on a godforsaken back road. The thought of such a fate as Mickey and his friends suffered, even from this great distance of time and place (Bermuda), tears at the heart.
As for the heat, A/C saves one life at a time while adding enormously to greenhouse gasses. A circle of the most viscous kind! We're lucky here, as the farthest one can live from the water is about 500 yards. And a swim cools the body’s core.
Trouble is, even the water is heating up, fish are dying, stronger hurricanes proliferating. Mother Earth and all her wondrous life forms are being bullied to death, and as Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
How? You voted for them, that's how. It's a self-inflicted wound.
I'm a very straight woman, but I must admit to having a crush on heather. I want to have coffee with that gal! Ah well, instead i will follow her @imcivicaction
The day the supreme Court decided to hear this case was one of the worst days for the American experiment.
Exactly! I agree with you.💯
I knew this was going happen quite some time ago.
Right it should have been ruled on months ago,
End citizens united and stop using electoral college. Place Senators based on population.
So you want minority rule? The electoral college accounts for the majority of the country. The popular vote only accounts for a small area of the country, the cities etc.
@@intheknow7659
You've got it wrong. Right now with the Electoral College we get minority rule.
@@donnashankie4526in the snow 🤭 has it bassawards 😉
@@intheknow7659 Not true. The electoral system gives the minority states power. The popular vote is the way the potus election needs to be decided like every other election. But good luck getting it changed.
also, UNCAP the size of the House which was ILLEGALLY constrained in 1929 for purely racist and sexist reasons
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis
Such prescience! Why is it so lacking in our own Congress? Because they are ALL wrapped in the flag and carrying crosses until the next election!!!
The flag might be upside down...
Excellent Quote Facts are it should be shared with everyone.
...and an AR15 with a bump stock
It’s been here and will continue to be but it’s our responsibility to do our part and fight against those that embrace it.
The KKK terrified my mother when she was a child w their horrible marches downtown. My mom was a green eyed strawberry blonde little girl. Her fear of them never subsided. I cannot even imagine the fear black children & families endured. I was so sad to hear about your friend
Sounds awful.
How long ago was that?
Me too blonde green eyed child visited Memphis in 1957. I cried the entire time. No street lights or sidewalks on the "black side" of the street. White men joking about shooting the ears off Black men. I had nightmares and asked my mom why the white people are so mean there. She said "people are crazy here. We'll be back in NJ soon". I never went south of DC ever again.
Same trauma i have,for being exposed to croatian fascism.Wich by the way,is spreading his harmfull influence for the last 33 years.
#246(Bill) Gates Event 201 held in 2019 was ULTIMATE expression of fæscism, and look who jumped on that:
_"Get the )ab! Get the )aaaaab!"_ we heard Herr Brandon say again and again, as he locked down our churches, but not the liquor stores. And then:
_"I never said you had to take the )ab! It was always your free choice: _*_No )ab, No )ob!_*_ "_ FJB!
The fact that anyone can give a candidate 50 million is insane!!
I know. Only democrats candidates should be allowed to get that size donations.
Dummy!!
@@JMyoutube1 No one should get that kind of donation. Super Pacs need to be shut down!
Unless that candidate is a Democrat.
And *THAT* plutocrat in particular.
His great-grandfather, Coolidge/Hoover-era Treasury Sec. Andrew Mellon, *engineered the great depression* to (in his words) "liquidate businessmen, farmers, and the middle class - so we can re-establish society to our liking."
That apple didn't fall far from the tree.
I think that expecting children to give a shit about the Ten Commandments when you clearly don't is the height of idiocy.
Idiocracy!
ask any of these people to actually recite all 10 of them from memory.... my bet is the overwhelming majority of people who think this is incredibly important can't tell you them all
Virtue signaling to their voting base.
The cost of housing, gas, food and rent is not Biden’s problem. Canada, Britain have the exact same problem. Should they blame Biden as well? Obviously it is corporate greed, period.
If government doesn't rein in corporate greed on the essentials of life- food, shelter, transportation - nothing will change.
Same problems in Australia too, definitely not Biden's fault, ...just pure corporate greed here too.
@@janeglover3118 So corporations just got 'greedy' in the last 3 or 4 years?...weren't they always 'greedy'?
@@CarlGerhardt1 i never said only in the last 3 or 4 years, where did that come from? They've been destructively greedy ever since they were given the same legal rights as a human being, even in Australia, yes.
@@AndyCroat-v6dYou're asking too much of Republicans in Congress.
RR is the most cogent and effective Trump antagonist on this planet. I find myself consistantly in awe of his intellect and communication skills. Almost without exception, when he says something, it's something I would do somersaults to have said first.
True that BUT, and it's a big but, economics is a s*** science. Funny how the obfuscation of the legal profession dovetails so nicely 👌 with the obfuscation of the economic prognostication.
Like so many other trained monkeys.
Researched facts, those that do that! Plus experience RR has lots!
He’s really one of the most lowbrow gaslighters on YT.
Al franken too but my man is keith olbermann. Cometh the hour cometh the man.
I’m so sick of SCOTUS and their bad behavior. Absolutely disgusting.
This is what I find disgusting.
This is one of Joe's experienced, astute, kind , and caring policies. His "Open Border".
Joe allowed the “illegal” crossing of the “open border” by 8-10 million “illegal migrants' ' , criminals, terrorists, drug smugglers, and gotaways, etc. This will affect all 50 states; their state safety net, housing, flooding of hospitals and educational systems, criminal systems, drug issues, and employment.
With little to no border security over 3 years, huge amounts of the narcotic drug fentanyl has crossed the “open border”. The Mexican Cartel has raked in billions of dollars, destabilizing the economic and social structure of Mexico.
Yearly, 75,000 deaths of young Americans (ages 15-44) occur throughout 50 states. Those who survive are damaged for life, overwhelming medical and social service programs. Their life expectancy is 47.5 years. Expect 300,000 families to bury their children during Joe's four years.
A tragedy of this magnitude not only affects the family and relatives, but the nation as a whole. This national tragedy is having a devastating immediate and lasting impact on the nation's economy, social structures, public health systems, and overall demographic trends.
Sadly this event has not been on Joe Biden’s radar or agenda for improving our nation. Joe likes to speak about democracy. There is no democracy for a young dead person.
“Please pay attention to what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do or don’t do for America. Their actions will tell you everything you need to know.”
Mr.Reich is a force for righteousness. He clearly stands as a warrior on the right side history.
When the government, media, hollywood, and corporations are on your side, you aren't the resistance.
Reich wants a Socialist dictatorship.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
When Professor Reich speaks, I listen!
Just another professional victim.
Money rules in America. That's the class system. The Republican's greed is good motto of the eighties still holds true, but has now transformed into absolute power is good for the very rich. Give someone enough money and they think they literally own the world. Oldest story in the world.
Lurching towards neo-feudalism.
"greed is good"
One huge problem is when our representatives take Social Darwinism so far as to be willing to drive the country over a cliff or parrot talking points of foreign adversaries if they think it will help them hold onto their jobs and get vested in the Congressional pension.
Another problem is that there are too many in Congress who think horse-and-sparrow economics is grounded in evidence any more than Ayn Rand's fiction is.
The U.S. has one of the world's most oligarchic governments, from the high population:representative ratio to the influence of dark money to the gerrymandering of House districts to the disproportionate representation by the Senate to the gatekeeping role of expensive college administration bloat to media that can be majority-owned by foreign profiteers.
Another consolidation of the oligarchy is the chilling effect of doxxing. I wouldn't be surprised if fear of violent retribution is behind the GOP Senators failing to convict Trump of insurrection, despite saying the Dems' case was airtight. Or why the emoluments clause isn't enforced. Or why local officials who make ballot determinations in regard to age and citizenship restrictions were ruled by SCOTUS not to be able to enforce the 14th Amendment the same way. I think it's behind why GOP candidates don't point out during debates Trump's drug abuse, his inability to get a loan in the U.S., his Chinese loans and bank accounts, his pleading the Fifth 400 times, his inability to read a commercial real estate contract during deposition, or even provide evidence that he did his own schoolwork past 8th grade.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/12/2015577/-Cowardly-GOP-lawmakers-find-new-rationale-to-acquit-Trump-surely-voters-have-learned-their-lesson?detail=emaildkre
Math: Another weakness that allows consolidation of the oligarchy is the math of presidential primaries. If the loony candidate gets 30% of the vote and the sensible candidates get 70% of the vote, but spread pretty evenly, the loony candidate wins. Ranked choice in Republican primaries would address that. It worked against Palin.
Thank you Robert! Your continued dedication and service to our country is truly inspiring.
His services is akin to what the fuhrer would like. He likes to spew nothing but propaganda.
When all you know is privilege, equality feels like oppression.
SCOTUS is up for the highest bidder. So disappointing. We need term limits. Also, imo we should add many justices and rotate per case.
I think some are acting out of fear of violence, as in doxxing, lone wolves, a DePape-style break-in, creation of a talking point for incendiary, foreign-owned Fox, another coup attempt--but next time the cache of ARs brought a little closer. Congress was 20-30 seconds from being harmed, which was to be the pretext for a claim of emergency powers, as was the count not being finished. Fortunately neither pretext took place. Many are imprisoned but organizers are still loose. Phone records show Stone and Don Jr. in contact with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers before and after the insurrection.
It appears to me that John Roberts is NOT the lead justice, it appears that the chief justice is shared between Thomas and Alito. At least that's the optics of it
I agree. The only thing that makes sense to me is that Roberts has been compromised.
John Roberts makes a jellyfish look vertebrate.
No one explains things better than RR ❤❤❤
It's either Alito or Thomas that are holding up the decision. Most likely both. And John Roberts may be the third. The decision should have been made weeks ago. We now have a MAGA Supreme Court, plain and simple. And it is naive to think that Alito and Thomas give a damn about public perception.
They care about public perception. Since the supreme courts power is a legally fiction. They lose public legitimacy they can be stripped of their power by us plebs.
Months
Clarito gives a damn about public perception. That's why he lies.
This holdup is such BS. Plays into Trump's usual courtroom strategy of running out the clock. The Justices could have said, "We're not going to create a test for what constitutes protected presidential conduct, but we will say that in this particular case, immunity certainly doesn't apply and such conduct need not be protected for the interests of the country to be served. Such a ruling should make no reasonable President feel that his or her ability to perform the duties of the office is inordinately restricted nor should it make a President more fearful of liability for nor more hesitant in performing the duties of the office. By providing a narrow ruling, we aim to avoid overreach on a monumental topic," and throw it back to the lower court. That could be done in an hour. 10 minutes if they use AI.
The anagram of Samuel Alito is I Am A Sellout.
If all the branches of government have checks and balances then why not the Supreme Court.
Great video! I was born in 1950, and have vague memories of Eisenhower and of Stevenson who my mother, a socialist, suported but dad, an old fashioned liberal republican, did not. Of course I remember Kennedy clearly, and as a 6th grader watched all his news conferences. In those days people took world affairs seriously, anf an evil clown like Trump would never have gotten anywhere near the presidency.
It is hard to determine which is more appalling, the purchase of privilege or the flaunting of the act of purchasing privilege.
Being pro-life when it comes to fetuses means being pro-death when it comes to pregnant women.
They don't give a rat's fart about fetuses or they would be working on serious gun control. I think they are anti-abortion to keep target numbers up.
As long as the babies can get firearms.. that's what matters.
Abortion is about wide-open free sex and about Eugenics.
if a woman’s health is endangered with a pregnancy, or a fetus is not viable, abortion is health care.
No one ever talks about the untold suffering of the Children born to women who cannot care for them. “Pro Life” is NOT about life! It’s about judgement and control over women. It’s misogynistic.
Everything seems to revolve around money. "The love of money is the root of all evil." The more you have, the more you want.
Elon's an example.
1 Timothy 6:10
When a poor person frauds a rich person -- it's thief!! When a rich person frauds the poor -- he's a great businessman !!
This continually makes me sick.
Corporations, buying up increasing amounts of single family homes, are driving up prices and rents at alarming rates.
There is no one I have more respect for than Professor Reich 🎉No One. He is the most knowledgeable person on the planet with an encyclopedia memory. I wish I would have had him as a Teacher when I was younger. Applause Professor Applause 🎉❤🎉
The first Constitution of the Dutch Republic was the Union of Utrecht (1579 with a Senate, deciding on budgets, taxes, war and peace)! Article 1 was Freedom of Religion, which is again discussed in the USA :) We had rewrites of the Constitution in 1815 (Dutch Monarchy; Treaty of Vienna after the French Revolution); 1848 (2 chamber Parliament retaking all powers of 1579); 1917 (Female voting rights) and 1983 (Social rights, like the right on: legal counsel; security of livelihood; environmental protection; public health and education). We never believed that our founders could see 400 to 500 years ahead.
Of course. That's a rational take on it. Too many white men in the US seem to have an over inflated ego tied to their material possessions & societal power, along with a glaring belief in their own inadequancy (was it the influx of colonists who were 2nd & 3rd sons of the nobility along with poor men? - you decide) leading them and all of us to inevitable destruction because they refuse to grow and change with the times. The ultimate toddler tantrum with devastating consequences, such as, SCOTUS deciding whether a pregnant person can be denied medical care if that care includes abortion or Congress refusing to pass living wage laws or rampant homelessness or corporate price gouging. And, the cherry on top, the political promise of White Christian Nationalism all set out in a 900 page public document. It's a shitshow, for sure. Grab your popcorn and favorite beverage...
Make the wealthy pay their fair share.
Good luck with that.
One distinction that David Stockman had trouble getting Reagan to understand was the difference between tax cuts for individuals and tax cuts for corporations. Reagan was stuck thinking of how Hollywood actors would get two movies in the can and then go live cheap away from Hollywood for the rest of the year to avoid entering a higher tax bracket. The same logic applies to, say, medical benefits taken away precipitously if a poor worker takes on too much work. Both are undesirable.
But corporations used to be more encouraged by the tax structure to reinvest in the company's growth. Under Reagan, those incentives were undermined, and the C suite was rewarded for shipping labor oversees and gimmicks to goose the stock price to sell their options into.
Previous incentives need to be recovered. For that matter, I think the incentive for charitable giving should be more generous, from both individuals and corporations. Since donors are doing pinpoint giving instead of painting with the broad brush of the Federal government, writing off $1 for $1 donated seems to me insufficient reward. The government has $0.30 less revenue (roughly) but $1 was spent with focus. If immediate family members of the individual donor can be shown to have no tie to the gift recipient, or the company can show there's no _quid pro quo,_ like the tobacco industry funding a study on the benefit of smoking to short term memory, why not double that? It would be a loss of $0.60 of government revenue but an increase of $1 of the sort of spending the gov't does. In a way, it's a sort of referendum on where tax dollars should be spent, and decentralizes government spending. It's a more democratic or libertarian approach to the allocation of tax dollars. The higher multiplier effect of smaller recipients not on the Federal radar may even provide a rare case of tax cuts paying for themselves.
We need to defang greed.
And no one ever talks about this seriously 😒
Professor Reich, you are an American treasure. Thank you for sharing with those who would deign to hear.
Along with the many relatives, uncle's aunt's
mother's daughter's who died because of Trump
Let's not forget the millions who died and why
Ne were fed up with that. We were always fed up
with his drama day in and Day Out. That's where
the anxiety came from. It's not the pandemic, but
being locked up with a maniac
So true. Locked up with a maniac.
So Trump created the COVID germ in his secret lab?....No, that would have been your 'hero', Dr. Fauci.