Randomness

Not sure what I'm going to do or say from here, just the randomness of my mind

[robertreich]

Hello?

[depsidase]

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[robertreich]

"Efficiency."

[liberalsarecool]

Billionaires lie. All the time.

[robertreich]

This story from @guardian_us was mind blowing to me. What are your thoughts?

[liberalsarecool]

Trump the Rapist breaks the law, then deals with the illegal fallout. The damage is done.

They should put the contractor who did the work in prison. Same with the contractor who tore down the East Wing. Send a message.

[robertreich]

This much is clear. CBS is being “murdered,” as Scott Pelley calls what’s happening, not because of economics but because of politics. Economically, “60 Minutes” is a gold mine. Politically, Trump thinks it’s dangerous as hell because it tells the truth about him and his regime, and wants it killed. It’s important to see all this as a systematic effort by Trump to silence the truth about what he’s doing to America. Trump’s increasingly corruption — rife with crony capitalism, corporate welfare, and payoffs to the powerful — is producing an increasingly corrupt economy in which everything depends on bribes and personal deals made by the biggest Republican loyalists and grifters, oligarchs and plutocrats, billionaires and multibillionaires, and monopolists. When political and economic deal-making become personal transactions — when greed and payoffs replace trust — what happens? Authoritarianism replaces democracy. And an economy collapses, as it did at the end of America’s first Gilded Age, in the Great Crash of 1929, leading to the Great Depression. One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s despicable reign. In the meantime, thank you Scott Pelley for telling the truth. Thank you, former “60 Minutes” producers, correspondents, and staff, for telling the truth. And now, what do we do in the interest of the truth? We boycott CBS.

[liberalsarecool]

Zohran Mamdani is using New York City to show the world how progressive policies work for everyone. #DemocraticSocialist

[robertreich]

Tech billionaires want to force data centers on us with little to no regard for water usage, energy price spikes, environmental harms, or basic democratic decision-making. We must rein in AI before it's too late.

[liberalsarecool]

Solid start.

[robertreich]

Just some helpful context now that Jeff Bezos is back in the news...

[liberalsarecool]

Boomers experienced a very socialized version of capitalism with very little current-day debt obligations. No student debt, no medical debt, no credit card debt, cheap state school education, and robust infrastructure investment.

These Boomers will experience a hellish version of their golden years courtesy of Republicans as Medicare/Medicaid is attacked and Social Security is throttled with outdated caps on contributions.

The path forward is a social democracy and a diminished Boomer influence.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[scout273021]

You’re talking about the Walton family inheritors, y’know those yacht people who’ve never worked a day in their lives

[seymour-butz-stuff]

Those heirs spend more money than most mid-size companies make in a year to keep their unbelievably complex tax avoidance system running, which allows them to receive money tax free from WalMart. They pay multiple accounting firms and multiple law firms to set it up and keep it functional because that costs a fraction of what they get from it every goddamn fucking year.

[liberalsarecool]

AOC brings the receipts, again. #ElectWomen

Lee Zeldin lost all his elections, yet finds a home at MAGA to destroy America. #sinister

[depsidase]

[robertreich]

Political power is a zero-sum game. The more it’s centered in a few hands, the less political power everyone else has. It’s almost impossible to separate wealth from power, because the wealthy turn their fortunes into campaign contributions to politicians who will change laws to their liking (and prevent laws they’d detest from ever seeing the light of day). By spending his fortune trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, Sergey Brin is making the argument for why we need to tax billionaires more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could. Thank you, Sergey.