As a Brit living in the UK even I am aware of this but how does this stark message reach those who need it most? The US MSM seems to be doing its darndest to keep the truth from the American electorate rather than helping it make an informed choice. Yet they will not escape Trump’s wrath should he make it to the WH. Both they and Trump voters are turkeys voting for Christmas.
The US media have, as usual, been driven by ratings, and serious discussions about the economy don't buy eyeballs. Nevertheless, you would think that Trump's gross incompetence and callousness would have filtered through to the masses after 8 years of his nonsense. And I think it has, to a large extent. People want to burn down "the establishment" and will vote for him precisely because he is perceived as a crazy anti-establishment figure.
We are hoping there will be sufficient numbers of rational people in a handful of swing states to finally dispense with this ridiculous old man.
I am hoping that there are sufficient numbers of anti-trumpers out there to keep America sane. If trump get in there, the world will believe that America has gone crazy. I don't understand how anyone who pays attention to real things, not just listening to trump spew his lies and bizarre comments but paying attention to what he is really saying. In this case, "burning down the establishment" is the same as burning down America. Please, get out and vote blue. Let's keep the insanity out of the White House!
It really shouldn't be close at all, there is NO choice for reasonable people. An articulate, intelligent, conscientious, energetic, successful person with a vision for moving America forward in excellent ways vs. a convicted felon who instigated a lethal insurrection against the country/Constitution he took an oath to protect as well as defying the espionage act with the theft of top secret documents and who has nothing to offer America except cozying up to dictators, advancement of white supremacy, division and tax cuts for the very wealthy.
It’s extremely easy to understand that people want to live in peace and happiness, not fear.
During Democrats, lower and middle class increase standard of living. During Republicans, billionaires become richer and lower and middle class Americans needs are ignored. That's a fact.
Imagine wearing these kinds of t-shirts in a red state 👇 🤣
And having worked in the jails and prisons I am honestly hoping that many rally folks will not vote … or cannot but just like the noise!!
Also to be clear don has said “he is doing away with the federal bureaucracy which means social security, pensions, Medicare etc…. Do MAGA’s are ya gonna take a chance on losing your money 💰?
Right on. The only policy promoted by the incompetent Republicans are lies. There is no sane choice. It is a One Party Choice to save democracy. I know what happened in Pakistan. This keeps feeling similar.
The lower and middle class are not better off now. Real wages are down and the income inequality gap between the lower and middle classes and billionaires has increased significantly. Inflation and handouts are not the way to "lift" people up.
I just met someone from Germany. She says that people in Germany think he is ridiculous and that Germans feel sorry for Americans that half of us are being led astray by a con man. They should know about con men, shouldn't they?
We should know about con men too; didn’t our soldiers fight and die for democracy in World War II as well? It may have been a lifetime ago for many of us, but the lessons still apply.
Jan : you are right : tRUMP is also burning down himself and the MAGA cult: every time he opens his mouth. "Shady " Vance is even worse! 🔥 look at their policy centerpiece::(killing women and girls , while denying those who want children IVF treatments. 🙄 Idiots all! Losers! For sure : even if they "win"! Like the billionaire's 'jackasses' they rode in on. If they want a class war : they will surely have one! There are more of US than there are of them. And even though We are not elephants : We Will Never Forget!
I love your analogy, Ann! You are right about MSM. Most of them are owned and run by far-right MAGAs. They only allow what they want to be aired. They want to keep the orange man in the running for the White House so they pick and choose what to air. They do what I've heard many call "sane-washing" to make it look as if the orange man is still cognizant of his surroundings when the truth is, he is old and suffering from dementia. I believe their purpose is to get him in the White House and then use Amendment 25 to put the vice-president in office. That would be couch vance and absolutely no sane person wants that! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
You wish. No matter how nuts, he pulls eyeballs. Hulk Hogan in a suit. Amendment 25 would get us JD Vance, the angry little twit who threw his family under the bus in his autobiographical pre-presidential aspirational memoire. (JFK's prepresidential book was Profiles in Courage.) Just like Clarence Thomas, a working class kid who by virtue of intelligence and hard work benefitted from DEI to graduate from Yale law school. With chips on their shoulders and deep self hatred projected on those they left behind.
Peggy Freeman: tRUMP is 'crazy' like a FOX and full of guile, shrewdness. He just wants to appear hapless and clueless. He is a hateful opportunist predator. Who kills with no shame. Very scary indeed.
If you actually believe that Trump's mental pathology is all just an act, you too are affected by Trump contagion. He is seriously mentally damaged, and VERY dangerous.
I would bet that his handlers and sycophants are well aware of Trump’s mental deterioration, but are still determined to find him useful for their own evil agendas. I do not know who they are in their multitudes, but they are more terrifying than Trump.
Not being a professional and evaluating him, I obviously could not know his mental pathology. He pulls out the stops with the distractions and culture war horrors. To the point of killing people ( Covid misinfo, disparaging comments about Black's. Jews, Muslims, women of : :all races denying emergency medical care. I never said it was an act. But the extent to which he has control 🤔 over his actions is unknown by the casual. but freaked out observer. He certainly is not a well balanced ethical or sympathetic man He seems to enjoy hurting people. I have no doubt about how dangerous he is. The media sometimes does sanewashing to make him appear less of a threat: but who really believes that. I never said he is a sane, or harmless guy. As I said: He wants to appear to be an independent "cut _up" and his followers think he is a " hot $#it" rebel who is owning the Libs". He distracts from the puppet masters who control him with money and flattery., so the voters can't see where all their hard earned money is going : up to the billionaires.
Thomas : If you actually believe that I'm in thrall under tRUMP and cannot see his dangerousness: you have not read ANY of my posts during the almost 3 years that I have been a member of this forum. Please don't be affected by his contagion by gaslighting someone just because you can.
"The US MSM seems to be doing its darndest to keep the truth from the American electorate rather than helping it make an informed choice."
I tend to view it more as this way: A large percentage of Americans find an "information bubble" that suits them -- i.e. panders to their biases -- and rarely venture out of it. The media outlets are there to attract people and so reinforce the bubble that keeps their audiences intact.
Any American who WANTS to know the truth about any issue will not be lacking for resources out there. They just need to have some critical thinking skills.
Totally agree with you Ann. As a fellow Brit I am astounded that Robert's piece is the first truly critical article I have read on this issue which clearly lays out the facts. One alarming policy not mentioned is Trump's threat to 'increase tarrifs on John Deer tractors/farm equipment by 200%' will kill the agriculture sector; in addition to the ridiculous plan to 'round up all immigrants and deport them.' The man is truly unhinged. Americans are facing starvation, insolationism, and a total collapse of their economy - not to mention the added knock on effects on the global economy. I for one would be calling for a total distancing of all American funded industry/imports here in the UK should Trump win as this will drag the UK down with it if we don't.
Re the proposed deportation of “illegal” migrants I was walking across the Ghetto in Venice a few days ago and saw a stunningly moving bas relief of Jews being herded into buses. It struck me then what this proposal really means.
Ann, it harkens back to hitler's time for me, too. I made a comment on a news feed that asked MAGA to take a minute and think of this scenario. You're in your home and suddenly you are invaded by militia. They round you up and herd you to this camp. When you ask, 'why are you doing this?' they tell you they are rounding up all the MAGAs and deporting them to the shit-hole countries the orange man has targeted. As they herd you onto the box car that will take you to that country, they brand your arm with a number. The orange man's is number one. Does it sound vaguely familiar? That's what the Nazis did in Germany. I asked them to put themselves in the position they are screaming they want immigrants to be in. It is nuts but some just cannot do that. They think that because they kiss the orange man's ring it will not happen to them until it does. Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
I think this country has been driven by the love and greed of money to the point of - it's semi suicidal. There is no balance of stake holders. The real stakeholder is the consumer, th environment, and the employees too.
I'll add that we have become (by design) a country of beggars. The tip jars are everywhere. Companies demand free labor in the form of volunteers and "internships".
kamala's team needs to step it up and show us her economic plans not just speeches.
Robert speaks to this in his excellent 14-part 'Wealth & Poverty' class he taught at Berkeley; available on YouTube. There was time when corporations were responsible to their employees, the communities in which they operated, and their shareholders. Now, it's only the latter.
Exactly. Agree entirely about the plan to replace Trump with Vance and asap after his inauguration (should it be some awful disaster come to pass) too.
“Turkeys voting for Christmas” is a common Brit saying BTW. I’ve never heard “turkeys voting for Thanksgiving” but it would work just as well.
well, no not exactly. She can't move the needle because she's not saying much about the economy. I was hopeful and now disappointed. I hope her team can step it up and sooner rather than too late. should shrug.
There are more "trumps" in the pipeline. Wall Street owns our government at this point and that's the real problem.
she does need to hammer on how her policies will help people with their bread and butter concerns. Do NOT rely on abortion to carry too much of the weight to get her elected. It won't IMO.
Yes, but abortion is still important. I don't know either. I'm not voting for trump but I don't feel as excited as I want to for the first woman president.
There are poor republicans and poor democrats who are unhappy. I'd love to care more about losing democracy but many people are afraid of losing the roof over their heads first.
Fret not: King Biden I, per the alt right's clownish supreme court, has SUPREME POWER to nullify Bunkerboy's fraudulent election, should it come to that.
The MSM (and Herr Marx or Gospodin Marx?) seem oblivious to reality. Your candidate is unfit. And a loser. And a tyrant.
Here are the fundamentals. "Today, there are about 91 million Americans who have voted for Biden and House Democrats since 2016, and about 83 million who have voted for Trump or House Republicans. If this pool of voters votes that way again, and if they constitute 80 percent of those voting in 2024 (a fairly conservative assumption), then the other 20 percent of voters would have to favor Trump by 18 points for him to overcome that deficit." Podheizer. Not to mention enthusiasm and new registrations favor Democrats.
He treats his businesses as his personal bank accounts. What do you think he will do if he is president? Any contracts will go directly to HIS businesses! The scariest part of all is that he will have the nuclear codes of America!
Jan, and he'll sell off the entire country, land, resources, trade deals, assets, .... to the highest domestic or foreign bidders. And hell will come to us all. And I worry not about contracts going to his businesses, but to nefarious foreign actors who wish us harm and tfg being too self-absorbed to ponder or care.
Your comment speaks for itself! His father tried to help him out by buying $100,000 worth of casino chips and not use them (an infusion of money) but that was not enough to fix his son's mess!
Leaving aside all the other defects of tariffs, they are devilishly difficult to enforce. They are ad valorem, meaning they are a function of cost. As the cost happens in another jurisdiction it is difficult to audit. Evasion does require deceit to disguise the cost the importer pays but it is often more than worth it. Trump is an idiot.
I know he retained them. The systems were set up so it was expedient to do so I expect. I am very hostile to tariffs because I was involved in their enforcement. Take my word for it they are monumentally difficult for the authorities. In the past they were a primary source of revenue along with land tax. I suspect the customs duties were by quantity rather than by cost. In the 20th century they were primarily for protection rather than revenue. The higher the tariff the less imports there will be. That is a poor result if you are trying to collect revenue. Don’t forget that tariff policy deepened the Great Depression due to retaliation. It would be very easy to put tariffs on American exports. Many of them are electronically transmitted and can be tapped with ease. Tariffs are deeply stupid.
That is a fascinating topic. I've often wondered about the American overseas vote, and forgot to include myself when I served in the Navy overseas.
There are between 3 and 4 million eligible voters living overseas, but relatively few vote. (Ballots have to be requested from the state considered the last "official residence" and that's where the ballots are counted.)
Writing from a north Atlanta suburb with Helene passing through for another few hours.
Today, in Washington DC, the World Mental Health Coalition holds a very important meeting to warn about Donald Trump's mental pathology -- which makes him a danger.
Stay safe, Thomas! Helene was a monster! I live in Florida but thankfully, in the center of the state. We got wind and rain but not what our coastal neighbors had to deal with! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
Thank you, Peggy. I'll be early voting in person as soon as it opens up on October 15. Quite often, I'll add a note or two about what's happening here in Georgia.
Everyone's still talking about his "protector of women" riff he gave on the 24th in Savannah.
I just talked to my sister there in Georgia. She said the eye passed over during the night while she was asleep! I do remember his comments about "protector of women" and it made my skin crawl! Eeeewwwww! Looking forward to hearing how things are going in your neck of the woods!
Whenever I start to feeling down -- and I didn't realize your connections with Georgia, Peggy -- I play this video of Senator Raphael's speech at the FIRST Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta in late July. It is one of the best welcoming addresses I have ever heard -- and it always leaves me filled with hope and more than a few joyful tears.
We are so lucky to have these two wonderful senators. Keep in mind that Rev. Warnock beat his Republican opponents FOUR straight times. Twice in the November elections of 2020 and 2022, and twice in the January run-offs.
So if EVER you need some picking up .... I think we're going to get the last laugh again.
Oh Thomas! What a powerful message! As I listened to Sen. Warnock, I thought about Rep. John Lewis and everything he did for our country. Sen. Warnock is powerful like that. The letter to his daughter made me cry. Thank you for sharing that. What I saw in the crowd was happiness, enthusiasm, hope and laughter. We need that so much now. Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
Yes we are, Thomas! More votes for Kamala than last time! A huge blue Tsunami washing over and sending MAGA out! Let's do this! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
We must be ambitious and aggressive, Ann Higgins. just like Kamala Devi essentially is and is starting to be more in the open. Why, she's even giving Trumpelstiltskin a run for his money in swing states like North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. Perhaps, even Ted Cruztello may lose his Senate seat in Texas. The sky's the limit, as I continue to predict we Democrats will win big this time (and I'm willing to bet $1,000 that our margin will be 11 million votes). After all, not only have the banana Republicans failed miserably at "commanding" the US House of Representatives under Speaker Johnson, with one of the worst records in the history of our Congress, the last time they held the Presidency due to the Electoral College manipulations of Pukin's hackers, we had 2 million MAGA deaths in the Americas owing to Covid-19 and their stupid refusal to heed sound scientific advice.
They believe trump. I guess they didn't realize that Covid was like the flu and would just go away (according to trump)! They believed trump! They do not live in the real world, they live in trump's world! I wish there were a pill to give them to make them wake up to trump's lies! In the meantime, we need to get out in record numbers and vote for Harris/Walz!
Excellent! Thank you for this informative, creative video. I he already shared it with the media, people leaning toward Trump (because they felt the economy was better) and Harris voters for them to share. You are brilliant!
If you’re in a browser there are 3 dots on the lower right of your comment, select that. On the phone app, I don’t know, it refuses to size to my iPad screen, so I don’t use it.
Thank you Prof. Reich for your brilliant new video that reminds us yet again in the most vividly convincing way that Trump has indeed lost more marbles that he'll ever be able to replace.
People are ignorant of history - they don’t know that when a Trump ICE descends on a small business to round up workers to deport, mistakes will be made in the frenzy. Innocents will be collected and held in detention camps without legal recourse. Businesses will be ruined. Some people will be injured or killed. Consumers, and the general economy, will be damaged. Any people of any ethnicity who support Trump are not only ignorant! They are blind and stupid too…
Please.... would someone point out that the Trump tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthier Americans was created out of star-dust. The money was, and continues to be borrowed, with the national debt still expanding at a frightening rate. This debt falls to the middle class to pay, along with their children and grand-children. If allowed into the White House again he will double it. Ellis Johnson M.D.
Mainstream media continues to cover this like a normal election. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned Rachel Maddow’s documentary about Russia interfering in the elections on any of the news shows? Why hasn’t anyone gone to prison for this in the government? Insanity!
As a Brit living in the UK even I am aware of this but how does this stark message reach those who need it most? The US MSM seems to be doing its darndest to keep the truth from the American electorate rather than helping it make an informed choice. Yet they will not escape Trump’s wrath should he make it to the WH. Both they and Trump voters are turkeys voting for Christmas.
The US media have, as usual, been driven by ratings, and serious discussions about the economy don't buy eyeballs. Nevertheless, you would think that Trump's gross incompetence and callousness would have filtered through to the masses after 8 years of his nonsense. And I think it has, to a large extent. People want to burn down "the establishment" and will vote for him precisely because he is perceived as a crazy anti-establishment figure.
We are hoping there will be sufficient numbers of rational people in a handful of swing states to finally dispense with this ridiculous old man.
I am hoping that there are sufficient numbers of anti-trumpers out there to keep America sane. If trump get in there, the world will believe that America has gone crazy. I don't understand how anyone who pays attention to real things, not just listening to trump spew his lies and bizarre comments but paying attention to what he is really saying. In this case, "burning down the establishment" is the same as burning down America. Please, get out and vote blue. Let's keep the insanity out of the White House!
It really shouldn't be close at all, there is NO choice for reasonable people. An articulate, intelligent, conscientious, energetic, successful person with a vision for moving America forward in excellent ways vs. a convicted felon who instigated a lethal insurrection against the country/Constitution he took an oath to protect as well as defying the espionage act with the theft of top secret documents and who has nothing to offer America except cozying up to dictators, advancement of white supremacy, division and tax cuts for the very wealthy.
It’s extremely easy to understand that people want to live in peace and happiness, not fear.
During Democrats, lower and middle class increase standard of living. During Republicans, billionaires become richer and lower and middle class Americans needs are ignored. That's a fact.
Imagine wearing these kinds of t-shirts in a red state 👇 🤣
teespring.com/stores/libtees-2
Kamala: The only choice. She will preserve our Democracy.
Can't wait to vote for our FIRST woman president!
It’s unreal how many people are still MAGAs
And having worked in the jails and prisons I am honestly hoping that many rally folks will not vote … or cannot but just like the noise!!
Also to be clear don has said “he is doing away with the federal bureaucracy which means social security, pensions, Medicare etc…. Do MAGA’s are ya gonna take a chance on losing your money 💰?
Right on. The only policy promoted by the incompetent Republicans are lies. There is no sane choice. It is a One Party Choice to save democracy. I know what happened in Pakistan. This keeps feeling similar.
The lower and middle class are not better off now. Real wages are down and the income inequality gap between the lower and middle classes and billionaires has increased significantly. Inflation and handouts are not the way to "lift" people up.
What is your suggestion then? Surely not to merely "trust in Trump!"
Still time to make a blue tsunami. Do something.
https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/
I just met someone from Germany. She says that people in Germany think he is ridiculous and that Germans feel sorry for Americans that half of us are being led astray by a con man. They should know about con men, shouldn't they?
We should know about con men too; didn’t our soldiers fight and die for democracy in World War II as well? It may have been a lifetime ago for many of us, but the lessons still apply.
Jan : you are right : tRUMP is also burning down himself and the MAGA cult: every time he opens his mouth. "Shady " Vance is even worse! 🔥 look at their policy centerpiece::(killing women and girls , while denying those who want children IVF treatments. 🙄 Idiots all! Losers! For sure : even if they "win"! Like the billionaire's 'jackasses' they rode in on. If they want a class war : they will surely have one! There are more of US than there are of them. And even though We are not elephants : We Will Never Forget!
The thing is, I thought a nation that would vote for George Bush jr a second time wasn't quite "all there".So, no complacency for me.
Is 70% enough?
From your lips to God's ear, Michael! We must, must win in November! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
He and his cult followers have a “concept “of what they would replace the establishment with 🤪
Ashes
Trails - good!
So are the rest of us.
I love your analogy, Ann! You are right about MSM. Most of them are owned and run by far-right MAGAs. They only allow what they want to be aired. They want to keep the orange man in the running for the White House so they pick and choose what to air. They do what I've heard many call "sane-washing" to make it look as if the orange man is still cognizant of his surroundings when the truth is, he is old and suffering from dementia. I believe their purpose is to get him in the White House and then use Amendment 25 to put the vice-president in office. That would be couch vance and absolutely no sane person wants that! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
You wish. No matter how nuts, he pulls eyeballs. Hulk Hogan in a suit. Amendment 25 would get us JD Vance, the angry little twit who threw his family under the bus in his autobiographical pre-presidential aspirational memoire. (JFK's prepresidential book was Profiles in Courage.) Just like Clarence Thomas, a working class kid who by virtue of intelligence and hard work benefitted from DEI to graduate from Yale law school. With chips on their shoulders and deep self hatred projected on those they left behind.
Peggy Freeman: tRUMP is 'crazy' like a FOX and full of guile, shrewdness. He just wants to appear hapless and clueless. He is a hateful opportunist predator. Who kills with no shame. Very scary indeed.
If you actually believe that Trump's mental pathology is all just an act, you too are affected by Trump contagion. He is seriously mentally damaged, and VERY dangerous.
I would bet that his handlers and sycophants are well aware of Trump’s mental deterioration, but are still determined to find him useful for their own evil agendas. I do not know who they are in their multitudes, but they are more terrifying than Trump.
Not being a professional and evaluating him, I obviously could not know his mental pathology. He pulls out the stops with the distractions and culture war horrors. To the point of killing people ( Covid misinfo, disparaging comments about Black's. Jews, Muslims, women of : :all races denying emergency medical care. I never said it was an act. But the extent to which he has control 🤔 over his actions is unknown by the casual. but freaked out observer. He certainly is not a well balanced ethical or sympathetic man He seems to enjoy hurting people. I have no doubt about how dangerous he is. The media sometimes does sanewashing to make him appear less of a threat: but who really believes that. I never said he is a sane, or harmless guy. As I said: He wants to appear to be an independent "cut _up" and his followers think he is a " hot $#it" rebel who is owning the Libs". He distracts from the puppet masters who control him with money and flattery., so the voters can't see where all their hard earned money is going : up to the billionaires.
Thomas : If you actually believe that I'm in thrall under tRUMP and cannot see his dangerousness: you have not read ANY of my posts during the almost 3 years that I have been a member of this forum. Please don't be affected by his contagion by gaslighting someone just because you can.
"The US MSM seems to be doing its darndest to keep the truth from the American electorate rather than helping it make an informed choice."
I tend to view it more as this way: A large percentage of Americans find an "information bubble" that suits them -- i.e. panders to their biases -- and rarely venture out of it. The media outlets are there to attract people and so reinforce the bubble that keeps their audiences intact.
Any American who WANTS to know the truth about any issue will not be lacking for resources out there. They just need to have some critical thinking skills.
Confirmation bias big time
and get out of their comfort zone in addition to the thinking skills.
And that is why "critical" thinking" is hard.
Right! -- I'm going add on edit > "and the inner strength to want to venture out of the bubble."
Totally agree with you Ann. As a fellow Brit I am astounded that Robert's piece is the first truly critical article I have read on this issue which clearly lays out the facts. One alarming policy not mentioned is Trump's threat to 'increase tarrifs on John Deer tractors/farm equipment by 200%' will kill the agriculture sector; in addition to the ridiculous plan to 'round up all immigrants and deport them.' The man is truly unhinged. Americans are facing starvation, insolationism, and a total collapse of their economy - not to mention the added knock on effects on the global economy. I for one would be calling for a total distancing of all American funded industry/imports here in the UK should Trump win as this will drag the UK down with it if we don't.
Re the proposed deportation of “illegal” migrants I was walking across the Ghetto in Venice a few days ago and saw a stunningly moving bas relief of Jews being herded into buses. It struck me then what this proposal really means.
Ann, it harkens back to hitler's time for me, too. I made a comment on a news feed that asked MAGA to take a minute and think of this scenario. You're in your home and suddenly you are invaded by militia. They round you up and herd you to this camp. When you ask, 'why are you doing this?' they tell you they are rounding up all the MAGAs and deporting them to the shit-hole countries the orange man has targeted. As they herd you onto the box car that will take you to that country, they brand your arm with a number. The orange man's is number one. Does it sound vaguely familiar? That's what the Nazis did in Germany. I asked them to put themselves in the position they are screaming they want immigrants to be in. It is nuts but some just cannot do that. They think that because they kiss the orange man's ring it will not happen to them until it does. Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
They won’t of course. In their heads they are immune to his wrath. If they could feel empathy they wouldn’t follow him.
They think because they are WHITE it can't happen to them.
Or you get invaded and they say they are rounding up all non-MAGA.
But I'm a MAGA you protest (and you are in fact a MAGA).
"Not according to our records mam. Please come with us."
Point is,no one is safe when the rule of democratic law gives way.
Excellent point, Steve!
Trump's proposed tariff on John Deere equipment has led to his latest branding opportunity: TRUMP Hoes.
"Nobody, but nobody, knows hoes like your favorite president, little ole me."
I actually wrote about this. Mainstream media betrayed us.
I think this country has been driven by the love and greed of money to the point of - it's semi suicidal. There is no balance of stake holders. The real stakeholder is the consumer, th environment, and the employees too.
I'll add that we have become (by design) a country of beggars. The tip jars are everywhere. Companies demand free labor in the form of volunteers and "internships".
kamala's team needs to step it up and show us her economic plans not just speeches.
Robert speaks to this in his excellent 14-part 'Wealth & Poverty' class he taught at Berkeley; available on YouTube. There was time when corporations were responsible to their employees, the communities in which they operated, and their shareholders. Now, it's only the latter.
Exactly. Agree entirely about the plan to replace Trump with Vance and asap after his inauguration (should it be some awful disaster come to pass) too.
“Turkeys voting for Christmas” is a common Brit saying BTW. I’ve never heard “turkeys voting for Thanksgiving” but it would work just as well.
Here in the USA, we often say: "like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders."
Slugs voting for salt is another, more appropriate one, I would aver! ;o)
well, no not exactly. She can't move the needle because she's not saying much about the economy. I was hopeful and now disappointed. I hope her team can step it up and sooner rather than too late. should shrug.
There are more "trumps" in the pipeline. Wall Street owns our government at this point and that's the real problem.
she does need to hammer on how her policies will help people with their bread and butter concerns. Do NOT rely on abortion to carry too much of the weight to get her elected. It won't IMO.
Yes, but abortion is still important. I don't know either. I'm not voting for trump but I don't feel as excited as I want to for the first woman president.
There are poor republicans and poor democrats who are unhappy. I'd love to care more about losing democracy but many people are afraid of losing the roof over their heads first.
Fret not: King Biden I, per the alt right's clownish supreme court, has SUPREME POWER to nullify Bunkerboy's fraudulent election, should it come to that.
He CANNOT win now! ZERO percent! Oops.
Oh come on man. FFS.
The MSM (and Herr Marx or Gospodin Marx?) seem oblivious to reality. Your candidate is unfit. And a loser. And a tyrant.
Here are the fundamentals. "Today, there are about 91 million Americans who have voted for Biden and House Democrats since 2016, and about 83 million who have voted for Trump or House Republicans. If this pool of voters votes that way again, and if they constitute 80 percent of those voting in 2024 (a fairly conservative assumption), then the other 20 percent of voters would have to favor Trump by 18 points for him to overcome that deficit." Podheizer. Not to mention enthusiasm and new registrations favor Democrats.
I just want to know one thing, how did Trump bankrupt his casino? Even a novice businessman would have to be an absolute idiot to bankrupt a casino!
Well.......Trump's an idiot.
Taking on too much debt, competing against himself with three Atlantic City casinos, taking out too much money for himself:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/heres-how-donald-trump-bankrupted-his-atlantic-city-casinos-but-he-still/2281296/
He treats his businesses as his personal bank accounts. What do you think he will do if he is president? Any contracts will go directly to HIS businesses! The scariest part of all is that he will have the nuclear codes of America!
Jan, and he'll sell off the entire country, land, resources, trade deals, assets, .... to the highest domestic or foreign bidders. And hell will come to us all. And I worry not about contracts going to his businesses, but to nefarious foreign actors who wish us harm and tfg being too self-absorbed to ponder or care.
He hates everyone.
Jan Yes,: He was quoted as saying " We have nukes: Why not use them?"
Smokey, thanks!
Your comment speaks for itself! His father tried to help him out by buying $100,000 worth of casino chips and not use them (an infusion of money) but that was not enough to fix his son's mess!
The only thing that could fix the mess that is Donald J Trump is a new law allowing retroactive Abortion !
My understanding is that it was 3 casinos he managed to bankrupt.
Keith Olson : Buying too many bimbos? And showing off a dozen Gold toilets. Too many unprofitable golf courses? Yachts? Lawyers....protection..
Leaving aside all the other defects of tariffs, they are devilishly difficult to enforce. They are ad valorem, meaning they are a function of cost. As the cost happens in another jurisdiction it is difficult to audit. Evasion does require deceit to disguise the cost the importer pays but it is often more than worth it. Trump is an idiot.
President Bidem kept Trump's origibal tariffs in place Many prices are falling
Protectionist policy may raise some domestic prices. This is offset, however, by higher donestic wages.
Reich is not telling the whole story.. And Democrats are shilling for Wall Street's misguided trade theories.
Hey, it's Vlad from Vladivostok! How's the weather in Russia? You still have that meathead in charge or has he fallen out of a window yet?
I know he retained them. The systems were set up so it was expedient to do so I expect. I am very hostile to tariffs because I was involved in their enforcement. Take my word for it they are monumentally difficult for the authorities. In the past they were a primary source of revenue along with land tax. I suspect the customs duties were by quantity rather than by cost. In the 20th century they were primarily for protection rather than revenue. The higher the tariff the less imports there will be. That is a poor result if you are trying to collect revenue. Don’t forget that tariff policy deepened the Great Depression due to retaliation. It would be very easy to put tariffs on American exports. Many of them are electronically transmitted and can be tapped with ease. Tariffs are deeply stupid.
Professor Reich: as an overseas voter, i have my ballot printed out and will mail it today. i guess we all know who i'm voting for for POTUS!
That is a fascinating topic. I've often wondered about the American overseas vote, and forgot to include myself when I served in the Navy overseas.
There are between 3 and 4 million eligible voters living overseas, but relatively few vote. (Ballots have to be requested from the state considered the last "official residence" and that's where the ballots are counted.)
Writing from a north Atlanta suburb with Helene passing through for another few hours.
Today, in Washington DC, the World Mental Health Coalition holds a very important meeting to warn about Donald Trump's mental pathology -- which makes him a danger.
Stay safe, Thomas! Helene was a monster! I live in Florida but thankfully, in the center of the state. We got wind and rain but not what our coastal neighbors had to deal with! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
Thank you, Peggy. I'll be early voting in person as soon as it opens up on October 15. Quite often, I'll add a note or two about what's happening here in Georgia.
Everyone's still talking about his "protector of women" riff he gave on the 24th in Savannah.
I just talked to my sister there in Georgia. She said the eye passed over during the night while she was asleep! I do remember his comments about "protector of women" and it made my skin crawl! Eeeewwwww! Looking forward to hearing how things are going in your neck of the woods!
The proverbial Fox guarding 💂♀️ the hen 🏠.
Whenever I start to feeling down -- and I didn't realize your connections with Georgia, Peggy -- I play this video of Senator Raphael's speech at the FIRST Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta in late July. It is one of the best welcoming addresses I have ever heard -- and it always leaves me filled with hope and more than a few joyful tears.
We are so lucky to have these two wonderful senators. Keep in mind that Rev. Warnock beat his Republican opponents FOUR straight times. Twice in the November elections of 2020 and 2022, and twice in the January run-offs.
So if EVER you need some picking up .... I think we're going to get the last laugh again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl1joi_Jyic
Oh Thomas! What a powerful message! As I listened to Sen. Warnock, I thought about Rep. John Lewis and everything he did for our country. Sen. Warnock is powerful like that. The letter to his daughter made me cry. Thank you for sharing that. What I saw in the crowd was happiness, enthusiasm, hope and laughter. We need that so much now. Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
The "letter to Chloe" ALWAYS gets me. And I just LOVE the faces in that crowd!!
We're going to do this again... more to follow.
Yes we are, Thomas! More votes for Kamala than last time! A huge blue Tsunami washing over and sending MAGA out! Let's do this! Vote blue, America, up and down the ballot!
Thomas : I hope you survive this storm, in good health. Also the orange hurricane/tornado.
We only lost our hot water -- going under into the crawl space to try turn the gas water heater back on. Thank you.
We must be ambitious and aggressive, Ann Higgins. just like Kamala Devi essentially is and is starting to be more in the open. Why, she's even giving Trumpelstiltskin a run for his money in swing states like North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. Perhaps, even Ted Cruztello may lose his Senate seat in Texas. The sky's the limit, as I continue to predict we Democrats will win big this time (and I'm willing to bet $1,000 that our margin will be 11 million votes). After all, not only have the banana Republicans failed miserably at "commanding" the US House of Representatives under Speaker Johnson, with one of the worst records in the history of our Congress, the last time they held the Presidency due to the Electoral College manipulations of Pukin's hackers, we had 2 million MAGA deaths in the Americas owing to Covid-19 and their stupid refusal to heed sound scientific advice.
They believe trump. I guess they didn't realize that Covid was like the flu and would just go away (according to trump)! They believed trump! They do not live in the real world, they live in trump's world! I wish there were a pill to give them to make them wake up to trump's lies! In the meantime, we need to get out in record numbers and vote for Harris/Walz!
Excellent! Thank you for this informative, creative video. I he already shared it with the media, people leaning toward Trump (because they felt the economy was better) and Harris voters for them to share. You are brilliant!
I just hope enough people will pay attention to it and stop being blinded by trump! I do not understand how anyone can vote for him.
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If you’re in a browser there are 3 dots on the lower right of your comment, select that. On the phone app, I don’t know, it refuses to size to my iPad screen, so I don’t use it.
Prof., am curious. How come no media pundit or opposition Democrat has asked Trump to explain his 6 bankruptcies?
bankruptcy for the rich is a strategy to dump debt
Done - I've let friends and relations who are US citizens know.
Republicans are the largest group of idiots on parade that I have ever seen in my 73 years. And I have seen a lot of idiots during that time.
100% agree!
Thank you Prof. Reich for your brilliant new video that reminds us yet again in the most vividly convincing way that Trump has indeed lost more marbles that he'll ever be able to replace.
He started out with a marble deficit anyway!
People are ignorant of history - they don’t know that when a Trump ICE descends on a small business to round up workers to deport, mistakes will be made in the frenzy. Innocents will be collected and held in detention camps without legal recourse. Businesses will be ruined. Some people will be injured or killed. Consumers, and the general economy, will be damaged. Any people of any ethnicity who support Trump are not only ignorant! They are blind and stupid too…
Please.... would someone point out that the Trump tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthier Americans was created out of star-dust. The money was, and continues to be borrowed, with the national debt still expanding at a frightening rate. This debt falls to the middle class to pay, along with their children and grand-children. If allowed into the White House again he will double it. Ellis Johnson M.D.
It another case of his “ making shit up as he goes along”
Tariffs are paid by the people who pay the price to get foreign goods here
Econ 101!!!
It will certainly cost us at the end
Let not go there
Social Security, Medicare etc all will be gone when don does away with the federal bureaucracy !!
Wanna guess how many people at the rallies need those??
Bet it’s lots!! Do they know that … maybe not?
Pls tell em’ that’s the chance they’re taking !!
DEFEAT TREASONOUS, TERRORIST, NAZIS, FELONS, RAPISTS AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. VOTE TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM.
Mainstream media continues to cover this like a normal election. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned Rachel Maddow’s documentary about Russia interfering in the elections on any of the news shows? Why hasn’t anyone gone to prison for this in the government? Insanity!
There’s not enough cells in the present prison system to accommodate all of the Trump backers who belong there !
Remember when Russian "meddling" was first reported in 2015, on page 9, at the bottom, in small print.
Our MSM just sucks for the most part. It's as if nothing was learned the last 8 years, too often anyway.
But it aired on MSNBC then just went away!???
Trump Trump! Vote against high tariffs the USA citizens will pay 💰.