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As the ongoing GameStop saga sparked renewed calls for a financial transactions tax and other commonsense redistributive measures to tackle soaring inequality and Wall Street abuses, billionaire investor Leon Cooperman took to the airwaves Thursday to fume that the idea of compelling the mega-rich to pay their fair share is a “bullshit concept” and merely “a way of attacking wealthy people.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a longtime proponent of raising taxes on billionaires like Cooperman, was not impressed.
“Oh look, another billionaire is mad that he might have to pay more taxes while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep on the street. Cry me a river,” the Vermont senator tweeted late Thursday. “Yes. We will make Wall Street billionaires pay their fair share of taxes and create an economy that works for all of us.”
A hedge fund manager who was charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016, Cooperman is one of several industry big-wigs who has appeared on financial networks like CNBC in recent days to complain about the retail investors who banded together to send GameStop shares into the stratosphere, blowing up a ploy by short-selling hedge funds to cash in on the company’s seemingly imminent demise.
Cooperman, whose net worth is estimated to be around $3 billion, sniffed that “the reason the market is doing what it’s doing is, people are sitting at home, getting their checks from the government, basically trading for no commissions and no interest rates.”
“I’m not damning them. I’m just saying from my experience, this will end in tears,” Cooperman said as the investing app Robinhood abruptly restricted trading on GameStock and other shares, prompting members of Congress such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to demand hearings and an investigation.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Sanders proposed a Wall Street transaction tax aimed at both curbing reckless financial speculation and raising revenue that could be used to fund progressive agenda items, including tuition-free public colleges and universities.
Warren Gunnels, Sanders’ staff director, noted in a tweet Thursday that Sanders’ transaction tax would raise $2.4 trillion over the next decade—”enough to make public colleges tuition free and cancel student debt.”
“If the working class could bail out Wall Street,” Gunnels said, “Wall Street can bail out working families in America during a damn pandemic.”
HuffPost’s Zach Carter argued Wednesday that a financial transactions tax would be the “simplest solution” to an untenable status quo in which Wall Street titans are handsomely rewarded for engaging in “what is a mostly economically wasteful activity.”
“We have plenty of roads and bridges to repair and a vastly outdated transportation system,” Carter wrote. “Redistributing money from hedge funders in the Hamptons to a high-speed rail network or a national public housing program would do more for growth and productivity than all the shorts and put options in New York.
Not a fan of Timberlake. You beat me to it, jcb. I was going to post a tune, too. 😊🎶👍 This is such a great song cos of the lyrics. Cooperman is such a gilded yahoo. This is classic universal aristocracy looking down its nose at the serfs. Sh1t💩 on them!
After a grimace and eye roll, it was crystal clear where Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was headed Thursday when she was challenged on her support for a wealth tax.
Warren is proposing an annual 2-cent tax on every dollar over $50 million of a family’s net worth. Billionaires would pay a 6% tax above $1 billion.
“There is no evidence that anyone is going to leave this country because of a 2-cent wealth tax,” an exasperated Warren responded when CNBC host Sara Eisen raised the argument. Several nations have far higher tax rates, in addition to wealth taxes, so it’s not clear where they would go.
“How about a counter-argument that’s based on fact?” the senator snapped.
“The wealthiest in this country are paying less in taxes than everyone else,” Warren said. “Asking them to step up and pay a little more, and you’re telling me that they would forfeit their American citizenship …. I’m just calling your bluff on that.”
Warren added: “Can we just keep in mind right now in America who is paying taxes?” She noted that the “bottom 99%” of Americans paid roughly 7% of their total wealth in taxes in 2020. But the top “one-tenth of 1%” paid only 3.2% of their total wealth in taxes, she added.
“If they added a 2-cent wealth tax, they’d still be paying less than most of the people in this entire nation,” Warren added.
“All I’m saying is can we have just a little fairness here?” she said. “Someone has to pay to keep this nation going. And right now what the … wealthiest people in this country have said is, ‘Let’s let everyone else pay for it.’ Because what they want to do is not only keep their wealth, they want to keep building their wealth faster than anyone else.”
Torabs
Good and well, but rather than talk about fairness, I’d prefer to see things framed the way they really are: the rich have waged class warfare on the rest of the country. Our existing policies and structures perpetuate this war. It’s time to end the Establishment’s abuse and exploitation of the rest of us, and become a real country (again?).
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Thursday demanded Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) apologize for comments she made slamming Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Twitter earlier in the day.
In a letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Roy said that it had “come to his attention” that the interaction between Cruz and Ocasio-Cortez had taken place.
“It has come to my attention that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent out a tweet a few hours ago in which she accused Senator Ted Cruz, in essence, of attempted murder,” Roy, who previously served as Cruz’s chief of staff, wrote.
“As a member of this body who disagreed with ‘objections’ to the electors and who has expressed publicly my concerns about the events leading to January 6th, it is completely unacceptable behavior for a Member of Congress to make this kind of scurrilous charge against another member in the House or Senate for simply engaging in speech and debate regarding electors as they interpreted the Constitution,” he continued.
“I ask you to call on her to immediately apologize and retract her comments.”
Roy concluded the letter stating that if Ocasio-Cortez did not apologize for her words there would be other measures pursued to condemn her statement.
“If Representative Ocasio-Cortez does not apologize immediately, we will be forced to find alternative means to condemn this regrettable statement,” Roy, wrote in a letter to Pelosi on Thursday.
In a comment, someone wrote that she should write this “apology.”
Dear Senator Cruz,
I am very sorry for complaining that mine is among the many lives endangered by the coup in which you are one of many elected officials who happen to be participants. I am remorseful that my words were very hurtful to others opposed to the coup who felt left out, and realize I should have said “had US murdered.”
In the sincere hope that you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me, I remain
Nearly 150 House Republicans supported President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims that the election had been stolen from him. But Mr. Gosar and a handful of other Republican members of the House had deeper ties to extremist groups who pushed violent ideas and conspiracy theories and whose members were prominent among those who stormed the halls of Congress in an effort to stop certification of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.
Their ranks include Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, who like Mr. Gosar was linked to the “Stop the Steal” campaign backing Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the election’s outcome.
Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado has close connections to militia groups including the so-called Three Percenters, an extremist offshoot of the gun rights movement that had at least one member who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, whose adherents were among the most visible of those who stormed the building, and she appeared at a rally with militia groups. Before being elected to Congress last year, she used social media in 2019 to endorse executing top Democrats and has suggested that the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was a staged “false flag” attack.
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida appeared last year at an event also attended by members of the Proud Boys, another extremist organization whose role in the Jan. 6 assault, like those of the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, is being investigated by the F.B.I.
It is a very sad indictment on how stupid this nation is. First, it elects a yo-yo like Roy. And then its press outlets publicize his dumb statements with no comment.
Democrats are moving quickly to lay the groundwork for passing additional coronavirus relief, with or without help from Republicans.
The push comes as Democrats are under pressure to go big amid new data showing the economy shrank 3.5 percent last year with stubbornly high levels of unemployment persisting into 2021.
Democrats can muscle through a budget resolution, the first step for a coronavirus relief bill, with a simple majority in the House and Senate. Under a plan crystallizing on Capitol Hill, they are hoping to pass it through both chambers next week.
“Congress must pursue a bold and robust course of action to defeat the disease, recover our economy, get our country back to normal. … But if our Republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent and necessary legislation, we will have to move forward without them,” said Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the House would vote on its budget resolution next week and floated that moving forward could put pressure on Republicans to support the legislation. Senate Democrats haven’t formally locked in a schedule, but Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said that next week was the “ambition,” and incoming Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he will be ready to go with the reconciliation instructions.
Biden has pitched a $1.9 trillion proposal that includes a round of $1,400 stimulus checks, more help for state and local governments, funding for vaccines and schools and a boosted unemployment benefit. The measure also includes unrelated provisions like increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
But it’s unclear whether the entire bill could survive arcane Senate rules that determine what does, and does not, qualify under reconciliation. The budget process allows for bypassing the 60-vote legislative filibuster but also places limits on what can be included.
The wage hike appears most at risk of being jettisoned both because of Senate reconciliation rules and because, while Democrats are generally supportive of increasing the minimum wage, $15 an hour does not yet have the support of all 50 Democratic senators.
Using the reconciliation process without any GOP support is already putting a spotlight on potential Democratic tensions because of slim margins in the House and Senate.
Progressives view the $1.9 trillion price tag from Biden as the floor for the size of the eventual bill, in a preview of the intraparty discussion that lay ahead if Democrats go it alone.
“If anything, we should strengthen it, not weaken it,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said during a Politico Playbook event.
But in the Senate, Schumer will need the support of every one of his members to pass both the budget resolution, which will include instructions for drafting the coronavirus bill, and the eventual legislation if he’s going to do it without a single GOP vote. Democrats have the edge in the 50-50 Senate since Vice President Harris can break a tie.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — part of a group of bipartisan lawmakers negotiating on coronavirus relief — sidestepped multiple questions about whether he would vote for the budget resolution. Opposition from Manchin alone, or any other Democratic senator, would be enough to throw a wrench into leadership’s plans.
“Right now we’re just working through all the figures and doing everything we can to make sure Joe Biden’s successful,” Manchin said.
Pursuing a bill just shy of $2 trillion is unlikely to garner much, if any, GOP support. Biden’s price tag is largely viewed as a non-starter for Republicans after Congress passed a roughly $900 billion coronavirus bill late last month as part of the end-of-year government funding bill.
Schumer needs to put on his big boy pants, and keep the pressure/media spotlight on jokers like Manchin and Sinema. They will eventually cave, but he has to do his job as Majority Leader first. If he’s not up to it, step down and let the senators elect someone who is. This country desperately needs help.
“Oceti Sakowin” is Lakota for “seven council fires,” referring to the seven bands of the Lakota people, also called the Great Sioux Nation. “Since time immemorial, the people of the Great Sioux Nation have lived, hunted, fished, and engaged in ceremonies adjacent to the Missouri River – Mni Sose in Lakota,” four of the seven tribal governments wrote to Joe Biden on the day before his inauguration. They asked for “quick, decisive action on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).” DAPL is the 1,200 mile long pipeline that transports crude, fracked oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale fields to Illinois, en route to Texas. As one of his first acts in office in 2017, President Trump greenlit both the Keystone XL pipeline and DAPL. On his first day in office, Biden revoked the permit for Keystone XL, but left DAPL intact. On Wednesday, one week into his presidency, dubbed “Climate Day” by the White House, Biden announced sweeping executive actions to confront catastrophic climate disruption, but again did nothing on DAPL.
The Lakota letter listed the 19th-century treaties between the tribes and the U.S. government, adding, “after gold was discovered in the Black Hills, the government violated the treaties,” stripping “vast areas of land out of the Reservation.” For the original inhabitants of this land, American democracy brought not freedom but violence, displacement, and genocide. Nevertheless, indigenous nations on this land they call Turtle Island survive, and continue to resist.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, supported by hundreds of other native tribes and allies, successfully forced the Obama-Biden administration to shut down DAPL in 2016. Declaring in Lakota, “mni wiconi,” or “water is life,” they feared a DAPL oil spill would poison the Missouri River, on which their very survival depends. The pipeline company, owned by Energy Transfer LP, controlled by Texas billionaire and Republican mega-donor Kelcy Warren, hired private security guards to combat the water protectors. Over Labor Day weekend in 2016, they beat protesters as massive bulldozers razed sacred grounds. Our team watched and filmed in horror as guards unleashed attack dogs, biting the non-violent, indigenous protesters. Blood dripped from the mouth and nose of one of the dogs.
Biden’s “Climate Day” executive actions signal a critical departure from Trump’s destructive, science-denying environmental policies. For indigenous nations, though, the climate crisis and COVID-19 have deepened the devastation of centuries of genocide. Shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline is a vital step towards repairing the damage already done, one that President Biden can and should take, with the stroke of a pen, without delay.
Stopping a potential mass-eviction wave set to crest next week, California lawmakers on Thursday barred evictions through June and earmarked $2.6 billion to cover past-due rent accrued during the pandemic.
Approved in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, lawmakers said extending the emergency relief was necessary to avert an eviction crisis budding in a state already saddled with massive unemployment and homelessness.
“With the economy reeling and so many people out of work, it is absolutely essential that we help people struggling to keep a roof over their heads,” said state Senator Bill Dodd,D-Napa. “Extending the eviction moratorium is a commonsense measure to support tenants and landlords. It is one of the key steps we are taking to ensure California’s economic recovery as we beat this pandemic.”
Finally someone addressing landlords, too. i know it’s not a popular stand, and i’ve said it on twitter, too. I go further and ask for mortgage relief overall, bc already the jackals are buying up more, adding to their 2008 haul, charging ridiculous rent and resale amounts.
Needs to happen nationwide.
Torabs
My issue with it is that this is on the state level, and that means taxpayer funds are being used to bail out landlords. Some relief is acceptable, but I don’t think it’s ok for them to socialize their losses entirely. Especially on state budgets gasping for relief themselves due to federal inaction.
In the wake of the horrifying right-wing assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Republicans have flooded state legislatures with an unprecedented number of laws aimed at curbing future “riots” across the country. So far, at least 13 states have introduced 26 anti-protest bills since that attack, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law’s protest law tracker.
Republicans have flooded state legislatures with an unprecedented number of laws aimed at curbing future “riots” across the country. At first glance, it might seem like Republicans are finally taking responsibility for the wave of armed protests by their supporters across the country. In fact, opportunistic state legislators are merely repackaging laws they have promoted for years to squash racial and environmental justice protests.
Legislation in Florida, Nebraska, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Washington and Indiana would expand the legal definition of a riot to target peaceful, if disruptive, protests. These bills create new felony penalties for rioting, which is broadly redefined to include “tumultuous conduct,” blocking streets or sidewalks, and obstructing law enforcement or other governmental functions.
Other so-called “critical infrastructure” bills — like the one that Ohio’s governor signed into law in January — are aimed at stopping protests against the fossil fuel industry. The proposals introduced in Minnesota would make trespassing “with the intent to disrupt the operation” of a pipeline a felony, in a clear attempt to thwart the ongoing Indigenous-led movement to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
But that is just the beginning of the danger that these anti-protest laws pose. They would variously criminalize the removal of Confederate monuments, bar public benefits and government jobs to demonstrators, ban “camping” outside state capitols, or even protect those who hit protesters with their cars.
Sadly, car attacks are not an abstract threat. White supremacists and the far right — both civilians and police — deliberately plowed their vehicles into Black Lives Matter demonstrators more than 100 times in the months following the killing of George Floyd, according to a report in USA Today.
In perhaps the most absurd provision, a bill in Mississippi would punish any group of six or more people with up to three years in jail and a $5,000 fine for disturbing “any person in the enjoyment of a legal right.” If enacted, all protests would essentially be rendered illegal.
The historical record paints a clear picture. Anti-protest laws, dating back to the Sedition Act of 1798, have not been a response to the threat of violence, but to legitimate dissent and organizing for social change. And this raft of new laws continues that ignominious tradition.
If we were organized, we’d wait for Roberts to resign, as promised, apparently, and then as soon as one is used, have a trained team ready to calmly violate the right, and then sue.
dang. wish i had made better use of my studies every damn day. but am working on accepting my past with some kind of love. ugh. i know there are civil rights nonprofits who will hopefully take this up.
Torabs
Washington State jumps out to me on that list. Just fucking terrible.
Democrats in both the House and the Senate have announced plans to hold hearings into Wall Street’s practices and the inner workings of online trading platforms amid the controversy surrounding GameStop stock.
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the incoming chairman of the Senate Banking and Housing Committee, said Thursday that he will hold a hearing on the matter soon.
“People on Wall Street only care about the rules when they’re getting hurt,” Brown said. “American workers have known for years that the Wall Street system is broken — they’ve been paying the price. It’s time for SEC and Congress to make the economy work for everyone, not just Wall Street.”
House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters of California also said she would hold public hearings after multiple members of the committee, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, called on the committee to probe the matter.
Waters said the Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing specifically “to examine the recent activity around GameStop stock and other impacted stocks with a focus on short-selling, online trading platforms gamification, and their systemic impact on our capital markets and retail investors.”
Dems that rallied behind Bernie to give him the California primary win need to do much more at taking the campaign to local levels, and getting rid of these people.
California’s post-Reagan drift into the welcome arms of the corporate-friendly Democratic Party has meant a politics that looks like an elite lifestyle brand. It’s a state where social liberalism reigns, but so does staggering poverty and inequality. The Democratic Party has failed California and unless things change, it will continue to fail our nation.
Torabs
In many ways, this Alabama-based author is on point. The stereotypical Establishment Dem is in charge on the state level (none more typical of the group than Governor Newsome, whose ex-wife is a fascist, and who has continued many of the hypocritical policies of his predecessor). The passing of Prop 22 was one of the most ghastly open displays of class warfare I’ve seen in recent memory (though it was voted down in San Francisco by a 60-40 margin).
There are clear signs of hope in the state – we’ve driven the Brown-Pelosi cabal out of power in San Francisco (with the notable exception of the Mayor), and cities like Richmond and Berkeley have seen strong progressive policies and leaders take root. But the battle is ongoing, and the outcome is not certain.
funny, but after thinking about it, this is the sort of thing they did to Bernie, taken to the extreme and not sure that a “trusted news anchor” show is really the place for this. i mean, wth?
In Sounder, Tyson’s Rebecca running to greet Winfield’s Nathan on his return is a knockout scene
Leachman’s memorable first appearance on the screen running down the highway clad only in a raincoat flagging down Mike Hammer in the opening scene of the bonkers 1955 film noir Kiss Me Deadly.
Im reading in places that RobinHood not only blocked buying yesterday, in some cases they actually sold peoples stock without their consent. That seems extra criminal.
My little pile on to wall street with my weeks lunch allowance purchase of a few amc shares has paid off lol. Ill never ‘invest’ the large amounts that others do, but hey its something
I was able to purchase AMC on cashapp yesterday but Gamestop and a lot of the others are not on there. Apparently some of the other apps, etc are limiting purchases to 10 or fewer shares if not blocking buying outright. This has caused the shares to go down as people can sell but not buy, helping out the shortseller. I only made a two digit purchase, so no plans of getting rich, just wanted to buy into history 🙂
Apparently this may be permitted under the terms and conditions, but the collusion among all the fast trading platforms to universally stop buying has to be criminal.
As 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland lay dying on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6 after being crushed by a mob, fellow rioters were charging over her to attack police officers with crutches, a hockey stick and pepper spray, new police body camera footage shows.
Video obtained by The Times provides a previously unpublished view of the brutal fight between rioters and officers at a central entryway on the west side of the Capitol — the same one that President Biden used to descend to his inauguration ceremony two weeks later.
The footage shows how rioters, in their effort to attack the police, trampled on Ms. Boyland even as her friend, Justin Winchell, shouted that she was dying and needed help.
Seconds into the video, as rioters tumble over one another, a voice can be heard shouting, “Save her!”
As rioters fall out of the doorway, Ms. Boyland is briefly visible in the video, and Mr. Winchell begins to scream, “She’s gonna die! She’s dead!”
“I need somebody!” Mr. Winchell shouts, turning to the crowd. Instead, a rioter behind him sprays a chemical irritant over his head toward the police.
A bearded rioter wearing a hat, brown jacket and University of Michigan sweatshirt then begins to move up the stairs toward the police.
“Knock their masks off!” another rioter in a cowboy hat tells him.
The bearded rioter charges over Ms. Boyland and begins to grapple with the officer, grabbing his baton. At the same time, another rioter jabs the officer with a crutch. The officer is driven to the ground as the crowd cheers the attack.
The riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, followed a rally at which President Trump made an inflammatory speech to his supporters, questioning the results of the election. Here’s a look at what happened and the ongoing fallout:
A man in a hooded winter jacket, whom prosecutors say is Mr. Foy, is seen on the body camera footage advancing with his hockey stick and repeatedly swinging it down at the officers. Prosecutors allege in court documents that Mr. Foy, a former Marine, struck officers at least 10 times in 16 seconds.
“No! No!” Mr. Winchell screams, as the rioters swing at the police over Boyland’s body.
“I’ll kill you,” a rioter says to an officer, using an expletive, before grabbing the officer by his helmet and dragging him out of the doorway.
Mr. Winchell can again be heard screaming “Rosanne! Rosanne!”
After the first officer is dragged away, another rioter can be seen grabbing onto the leg of the fallen officer wearing the body camera. Then the footage ends. Other videos reviewed by The Times showed that rioters dragged the officer down the steps seconds later.
wpDiscuz
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/29/cry-me-river-sanders-hits-back-billionaire-investor-whines-about-potential-tax-hikes
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That looks like a performance on the Tom Jones show from the 60’s.
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a true musician.
tried to leave a <3
Not a fan of Timberlake. You beat me to it, jcb. I was going to post a tune, too. 😊🎶👍 This is such a great song cos of the lyrics. Cooperman is such a gilded yahoo. This is classic universal aristocracy looking down its nose at the serfs. Sh1t💩 on them!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-grimace-wealth-tax-defense_n_601347eac5b653f644d2329d
Good and well, but rather than talk about fairness, I’d prefer to see things framed the way they really are: the rich have waged class warfare on the rest of the country. Our existing policies and structures perpetuate this war. It’s time to end the Establishment’s abuse and exploitation of the rest of us, and become a real country (again?).
STFU Jackass
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536429-gop-congressman-demands-ocasio-cortez-apologize-following-twitter-exchange
In a comment, someone wrote that she should write this “apology.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/republican-ties-to-extremist-groups-are-under-scrutiny.html
See my previous comment. 😔
It is a very sad indictment on how stupid this nation is. First, it elects a yo-yo like Roy. And then its press outlets publicize his dumb statements with no comment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/536422-democrats-ready-to-bypass-republicans-on-covid-19-relief-bill
Schumer needs to put on his big boy pants, and keep the pressure/media spotlight on jokers like Manchin and Sinema. They will eventually cave, but he has to do his job as Majority Leader first. If he’s not up to it, step down and let the senators elect someone who is. This country desperately needs help.
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/28/lakota_tribes_call_on_biden_to
Choosing Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary is one of the smartest moves by any prominent Democrat in the last few decades.
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-goes-to-bat-for-struggling-renters-and-landlords-in-latest-pandemic-aid/?amp=1
Finally someone addressing landlords, too. i know it’s not a popular stand, and i’ve said it on twitter, too. I go further and ask for mortgage relief overall, bc already the jackals are buying up more, adding to their 2008 haul, charging ridiculous rent and resale amounts.
Needs to happen nationwide.
My issue with it is that this is on the state level, and that means taxpayer funds are being used to bail out landlords. Some relief is acceptable, but I don’t think it’s ok for them to socialize their losses entirely. Especially on state budgets gasping for relief themselves due to federal inaction.
https://progressive.org/op-eds/the-gop-is-making-protests-illegal-stoner-210128/
And until the FRightwingnuts are literally stopped in their tracks, the fascist crackdowns will continue. 🤮
If we were organized, we’d wait for Roberts to resign, as promised, apparently, and then as soon as one is used, have a trained team ready to calmly violate the right, and then sue.
dang. wish i had made better use of my studies every damn day. but am working on accepting my past with some kind of love. ugh. i know there are civil rights nonprofits who will hopefully take this up.
Washington State jumps out to me on that list. Just fucking terrible.
https://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-democrats-will-hold-hearings-on-gamestop-robinhood-2021-1?utm_source=reddit.com
Are Brown and others serious, or is this just some more window dressing?
thanks.
Dems that rallied behind Bernie to give him the California primary win need to do much more at taking the campaign to local levels, and getting rid of these people.
The Biden Administration Is the Californication of the Democratic Party
In many ways, this Alabama-based author is on point. The stereotypical Establishment Dem is in charge on the state level (none more typical of the group than Governor Newsome, whose ex-wife is a fascist, and who has continued many of the hypocritical policies of his predecessor). The passing of Prop 22 was one of the most ghastly open displays of class warfare I’ve seen in recent memory (though it was voted down in San Francisco by a 60-40 margin).
There are clear signs of hope in the state – we’ve driven the Brown-Pelosi cabal out of power in San Francisco (with the notable exception of the Mayor), and cities like Richmond and Berkeley have seen strong progressive policies and leaders take root. But the battle is ongoing, and the outcome is not certain.
T and R, jcb!!☮️😊👍
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That is great—wonder if Williams was in on it? Can’t tell.
😂😂😂😂😂😂Cruise looks and sounds so smarmy. Too much!😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
of course Brian was in on it. He’s often sarcastic and very funny while doing his show.
Brian and Jon Stewart were summer roommates very long ago on the jersey shore.
Brian’s timing and delivery makes me wonder sometimes if he wanted to be a comedian.
funny, but after thinking about it, this is the sort of thing they did to Bernie, taken to the extreme and not sure that a “trusted news anchor” show is really the place for this. i mean, wth?
Two great actresses. Sunday Morning interviews
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=82INF4zbq5I
In Sounder, Tyson’s Rebecca running to greet Winfield’s Nathan on his return is a knockout scene
Leachman’s memorable first appearance on the screen running down the highway clad only in a raincoat flagging down Mike Hammer in the opening scene of the bonkers 1955 film noir Kiss Me Deadly.
And those poor horses
Classic for sure!
Im reading in places that RobinHood not only blocked buying yesterday, in some cases they actually sold peoples stock without their consent. That seems extra criminal.
Better response. People are fucking stupid.
My little pile on to wall street with my weeks lunch allowance purchase of a few amc shares has paid off lol. Ill never ‘invest’ the large amounts that others do, but hey its something
woo hoo! yeah–in one day–that’s awesome!
Ive never bought a stock before and dont necessarily plan on doing it ever again, but I can see why people get addicted and lose it all.
Still going on up.
that’s great! so they haven’t shut it down completely.
I was able to purchase AMC on cashapp yesterday but Gamestop and a lot of the others are not on there. Apparently some of the other apps, etc are limiting purchases to 10 or fewer shares if not blocking buying outright. This has caused the shares to go down as people can sell but not buy, helping out the shortseller. I only made a two digit purchase, so no plans of getting rich, just wanted to buy into history 🙂
how is this legal? damn so frustrating.
Apparently this may be permitted under the terms and conditions, but the collusion among all the fast trading platforms to universally stop buying has to be criminal.
Greene must think this was real
Yo Momma! +100! 😂👍
Show this at the impeachment trial for the world to see.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/capitol-riot-woman-trampled.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage