Robert Reich
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Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder, @InequalityMedia . Substack: | Mastodon:
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The next time you hear someone blame inflation on stimulus checks that Americans got four years ago or workers finally getting much-needed pay bumps, kindly remind them that corporate profits are at a 70-year-high. Hello?
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Your reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon banned in war.
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Forced birth in a country with:
—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations
This isn't about "life." It's about control.
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Republicans who say we can't impeach a president 10 days before an inauguration had no trouble confirming a Supreme Court justice 8 days before an election.
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If Redditors rallying GameStop is unacceptable market manipulation, what would you call it when greedy Wall Street bankers gambled away our entire economy in 2008 and faced no consequences?
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Forced birth in a country that refuses to protect children from being murdered at school.
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Shh don’t tell the Republicans, but at Walter Reed they have socialized medicine.
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Call me old-fashioned but I don't think a president who incites a coup against the U.S. government deserves a $200,000 pension for the rest of his life, along with a million-dollar travel budget, all financed by U.S. taxpayers. Just sayin.
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Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
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Those now saying Twitter's ban violates free speech didn't object when the NFL fired Colin Kaepernick.
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How about we nix Presidents Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?
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Please stop calling undocumented people who pay taxes “freeloaders”. A freeloader is a trust-fund billionaire who pays $0 in federal income taxes for 10 out of 15 years and then receives top-notch government-funded health care when he gets sick.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but refusing to disclose the corporations receiving $500,000,000,000 in taxpayer-funded bailouts is just about as corrupt as it gets.
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Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.
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So let me get this straight: Republicans in Congress wanted to impeach Obama for passing the Affordable Care Act, but they don't want to impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection?
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We have a literal yacht tax deduction in this country, and our politicians have the nerve to call a survival check a handout.
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So let me get this straight: Black Lives Matter protesters are tear gassed for protesting the murder of George Floyd, but MAGA protesters are left alone for bringing AR-15s inside state capitols?
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So let me get this straight: conservatives love free speech for Elon Musk, but hate free speech for Colin Kaepernick?
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If a president is not impeached and removed from office for seeking to overthrow the government of the United States in order to remain in power, I don't know what the Framers of the Constitution meant by impeachment.
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Can I let you in on a secret? We have the money to extend unemployment benefits and send the American people $1,200 direct payments.
The Pentagon spends $2,000,000,000 a day.
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Where is Congress? Where is the Supreme Court? Where are the mayors and governors? Living former presidents? Where are the university presidents, foundation heads, religious leaders, corporate leaders, union heads, editors and publishers? All must stand up to Trump’s madness.
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So let me get this straight: Black men are shot for jogging, but white men can bring AR-15s inside state capitols?
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No industry -- not airlines, not hotels, not cruise ships -- should be bailed out. They can stay in business by borrowing at rock-bottom rates, using their assets as collateral.
Taxpayer money should be used to bail out people, not corporations.
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I never want to hear Republicans talk about law and order again.
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If Thomas is correct, wouldn't the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia also have to be reversed, barring him from marrying Ginni?
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Impeachment or 25th amendment. Either is fine. Must happen now. Trump shouldn't be in office another day.
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I have held off using the f word for three and a half years, but there is no longer any honest alternative. Trump is a fascist, and he is promoting fascism in America.
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RT if you want to see Congress pass legislation prohibiting the use of tear gas in the U.S.
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In other news, America's billionaires could give everybody in the country a $3,000 stimulus check and still be richer than they were before the pandemic.
It's past time for a wealth tax.
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Call me a radical lefty, but I think frontline workers should have access to the vaccine before Republicans in Congress who refused to take it seriously.
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Another mindless Republican politician just blamed the power outage in Texas on the Green New Deal. Hello? It hasn't been implemented yet. Over 80% of Texas power is from non-renewables.
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More peaceful protestors and journalists have been jailed in the past week than all the bankers who were jailed for fraud during the financial collapse.
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Why did we all bust our as*es getting Democrats elected to the presidency and in control of both houses of Congress if they can't do a simple thing like protect voting rights?
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Donald Trump isn’t alone. The richest 1% of Americans is responsible for 70% of all unpaid taxes.
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Trump attacked 17-year-old Greta Thunberg for fighting to save our burning planet, but defended Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old charged with murdering Black Lives Matter protesters.
Tells you all you need to know.
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If you let your constituents freeze to death, you’re not pro-life.
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Call me old-fashioned, but when armed insurgents breach the Capitol building at the request of a president, I'd call it an attempted coup.
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I'm fed up with fascists calling for unity. The rest of us have to unify against them.
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So let me get this straight: Redditors rallying GameStop is market manipulation, but hedge fund billionaires shorting a stock is just an investment strategy?
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If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.
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Donald Trump is the only president in history to have been impeached, lost the popular vote, and be limited to a one-term presidency.
A fitting legacy.
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Today, 15 Republican Senators chose not to attend Trump's trial. They should be held in contempt of Congress.
Jurors in criminal trials cannot get up and leave the courtroom. If they did, they'd be held in contempt of court, and face possible fines and jail.
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Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.
Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.
Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.
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As a former secretary of labor, I can tell you that the airlines don't deserve a $50 billion bailout.
In the last 10 years, they spent 96% of their cash flow to buy back shares of their own stock in order to boost executive bonuses.
They shouldn't see a dime of taxpayer money.
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If we can afford a $740,000,000,000 military budget, we can surely afford to pay people to stay home to contain Covid.
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McConnell refuses to call the Senate back into session to convict Trump.
Why does one man — who only 1.2 million people voted for — hold absolute power over 330 million people?
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I have this radical lefty belief that we shouldn’t spend $1,700,000,000,000 on a failed F-35 fighter jet program when 94% of public school teachers are forced to spend their own money on school supplies.
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I refuse to tolerate a system that lets billionaires add $792,000,000,000 to their wealth during a pandemic but doesn’t raise the $7.25 minimum wage for over a decade.
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While Elon Musk lays off 10 percent of Tesla employees, he's set to take home $23 billion bonus. Yes, $23 billion.
The economy is somehow always great for billionaires, bad for workers.
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Call me old-fashioned, but it’s nice to see a president speak in coherent sentences.
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You know how you got your vaccine without paying a dime? That’s how all health care could be.
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What would you give to watch Ted Cruz try to live off of a single $1,200 check for 4 months?
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So let me get this straight: Jeff Bezos has grown his fortune by $24,000,000,000 during this pandemic, but he still can't afford to provide sick leave to all of his employees?
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If you think Trump is on the ropes and will surely lose in November, think again. He will do anything to be reelected. Our side has limits because we believe in democracy. Trump has no limits because he doesn't.
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How can you have a fair trial if the jurors are co-conspirators?
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Folks, this is not complicated. Without accountability, the next coup will succeed.
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Why did we all bust our as*es getting Democrats elected to the presidency and in control of both houses of Congress if they can't do a simple thing like raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour?
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Here’s the difference, folks.
When Colin Kaepernick speaks out against racial injustice, no team will sign him.
When Josh Hawley gets dropped for helping incite an insurrection, he lands another book deal in less than 2 weeks.
This is what white privilege looks like.
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The next time you hear Republicans in Congress accuse AOC of being divisive, please remind them that she used her platform to raise more than $3M for a red state.
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Jeff Bezos' D.C. mansion will have:
— 2 elevators
— 25 bathrooms
— 1,006 light fixtures
— A full movie theater
Amazon's Whole Foods cut health benefits for part-time workers less than 2 months ago.
Tax the rich.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I think ending poverty and hunger on Earth is more important than colonizing Mars.
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Unfettered capitalism is Jeff Bezos making $8,961,187 per hour but refusing to provide paid sick leave for all of his employees.
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So let me get this straight: After months of downplaying the virus, Marco Rubio is now attacking Dr. Fauci, but he was first in line to get vaccinated?
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So let me get this straight: essential workers are essential to keeping the economy going, but it's not essential to pay them a living wage?
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If any member of Congress dies after catching COVID from Republicans who refused to wear masks, those Republicans must be indicted and convicted for involuntary manslaughter.
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I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my six-year-old friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get polio shots (without the howling of governors or anti-vaxxers). And we eradicated polio.
Why has saving lives become political?
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I will never accept a system that enables billionaires to add $1,100,000,000,000 to their wealth during a pandemic but doesn’t raise the $7.25 minimum wage for over a decade.
Tax the rich. Raise the wage. Now.
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Just a casual reminder that 60% of all wealth in America is inherited.
“Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is a sham.
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Can you imagine how much better off we’d be right now if Trump was convicted the first time he was impeached?
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Anyone else wondering why Louis DeJoy is still postmaster general?
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but including another $21,300,000,000 for the Pentagon in a bill that refuses to extend extra unemployment benefits for 25,000,000 people is the real looting in America.
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Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them sick leave, health care and hazard pay.
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So let me get this straight: Legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act has been sitting on McConnell’s desk for months — and he will directly benefit from his state allocating just one polling place for 616,000 predominantly Black voters?
Can this be any more blatant?
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News flash: If you ban mask mandates, outlaw abortions, dictate what educators can teach in schools, and stop people from voting, you're not the party of "limited government."
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So let me get this straight: Aaron Rodgers can spread misinformation about vaccines, but Colin Kaepernick can't speak the truth about racial injustice?
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When you get your stimulus check, be sure to thank Black organizers and voters in Georgia.
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So let me get this straight: We can afford to give airline companies billions in bailout even when they’ve spent billions on stock buybacks, but we can’t afford to bail out the postal service?
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We must ensure that Donald Trump can never hold public office again.
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Starbucks is raising prices after reporting a 31% increase in profits. The company’s revenue increased by almost 20% to over $8,000,000,000. Their CEO’s pay increased by almost 40% last year to more than $20,000,000.
Do not be fooled. This is about corporate greed. It always is.
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So let me get this straight: 55 of the most profitable companies in America paid no federal income taxes, but Republicans in Congress still think corporate taxes are too high?
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How is it that Jeff Bezos can grow his wealth by $13,000,000,000 in a single day but Amazon can’t afford to provide paid sick leave to its warehouse workers?
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News flash: If you outlaw abortions, ban mask mandates, dictate what educators can teach in schools, and stop people from voting, you're not the party of "limited government."
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So let me get this straight: a Democratic president can’t appoint a new a justice to the Supreme Court during an election year, but a Republican president can?
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We spend $716,000,000,000 on defense and insurrectionists were practically escorted into the U.S. Capitol. Read that again.
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When billionaires like Elon Musk justify their motives by using “freedom,” beware. What they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
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A 0.1% tax on Wall Street trades would generate $777 billion over a decade. That's enough to end homelessness in the United States 38 times over.
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Jeff Bezos could give every Amazon employee $105,000 and still be as rich as he was before the pandemic.
If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, I'm not sure what will.
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So let me get this straight: Elon Musk doesn't think the government should bail out the American people during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but he has no problem collecting government subsidies and tax breaks to line his own pocket?
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So let me get this straight: Declaring Election Day a national holiday would be a "power grab," but declaring a national emergency over a manufactured crisis is totally fine?
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How about we nix Presidents Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?
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Next time you hear Trump and his enablers touting the economy, remind them that more Americans have filed for unemployment this year than voted for Trump in 2016.
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As a former secretary of labor, I can tell you that we shouldn't be talking about stimulating the economy or going back to work.
We should be talking about shutting down the economy and keeping people home, with enough money so they can pay their bills.
THREAD.
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It's time to face the facts. Donald Trump is a fascist. Use the word.
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Jeff Bezos' new $165 million Beverly Hills mansion will have:
— 3 hot houses
— 2 guesthouses
— A nine-hole golf course
— A tennis court
— A "motor court" with gas pumps
Remember when Amazon's Whole Foods cut health benefits for part-time workers to save money?
Tax the rich.
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So let me get this straight: Jeff Bezos is now worth $200 billion, but Amazon still can't afford to provide paid sick leave, hazard pay and personal protective equipment for thousands of warehouse workers?
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Call me a radical lefty, but I can’t accept a system that spends $115,000,000,000 a year on police but forces 94% of public school teachers to spend their own money on school supplies.
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BREAKING: DC Attorney General is looking at charging Trump and others for inciting violence — via CNN.
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Donald Trump built his real estate empire evicting people of color.
Today, people of color evicted Donald Trump.
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