Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: What Did I Tell You?
From: Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com>
Organization: ViperNews - www.vipernews.com
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:06:11 +0000
pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:vt4k36$3h0lp$2@dont-email.me:
> On 2025-04-08, Skeeter OG <invalid@none.com> wrote:
>> In article <vt44n3$33iuk$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
>> says...
>>>
>>> On 2025-04-08 14:27, Skeeter OG wrote:
>>> > In article <XnsB2BB827AF69C8629555@185.151.15.160>,
>>> > noemail@aol.com says...
>>> >>
>>> >> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
>>> >> news:vt3hgf$2ip22$1@dont-email.me:
>>> >>
>>> >>> On 2025-04-08, Skeeter OG <invalid@none.com> wrote:
>>> >>>> In article <XnsB2BAD99FE195629555@185.151.15.190>,
>>> >>>> noemail@aol.com says...
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
>>> >>>>> news:vt1lqp$rtpj$1@dont-email.me:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On 2025-04-07, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Robert Reich
>>> >>>>>>> @RBReich
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> The richest 0.1% own 17% of stocks
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> The richest 1% own 50% of stocks
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> The bottom 50% own 0.7% of stocks
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Repeat after me: "The stock market is not the economy."
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> WE will be fine.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24,1946) is an American
>>> >>>>>>> professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He
>>> >>>>>>> worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and
>>> >>>>>>> Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to
>>> >>>>>>> 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a
>>> >>>>>>> member of President Barack Obama's economic transition
>>> >>>>>>> advisory board.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy
>>> >>>>>>> at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since
>>> >>>>>>> January 2006. He was formerly a lecturer at Harvard
>>> >>>>>>> University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a
>>> >>>>>>> professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School
>>> >>>>>>> for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. In
>>> >>>>>>> 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet
>>> >>>>>>> Members of the century, and in the same year The Wall Street
>>> >>>>>>> Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential
>>> >>>>>>> Business Thinkers.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> Reich has published numerous books, including the
>>> >>>>>>> best-sellers The Work of Nations (1991), Reason (2004),
>>> >>>>>>> Supercapitalism (2007), Aftershock (2010), Beyond Outrage
>>> >>>>>>> (2012), and Saving Capitalism (2015). The Robert Reich-Jacob
>>> >>>>>>> Kornbluth film Saving Capitalism debuted on Netflix in
>>> >>>>>>> November 2017, and their film Inequality for All won a U.S.
>>> >>>>>>> Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking
>>> >>>>>>> at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He is board chair
>>> >>>>>>> emeritus of Common Cause and blogs at Robertreich.org.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> As I have always maintained, follow the money.
>>> >>>>>> Additionally look at the reaction to some event by both the
>>> >>>>>> left and the right. Words mean nothing but reactions mean
>>> >>>>>> everything.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> So looking at current events, why would ANYONE be opposed to
>>> >>>>>> cutting government waste and spending?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Government waste:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Park Rangers
>>> >>>>> Air Traffic Controllers
>>> >>>>> VA doctors
>>> >>>>> Government watchdogs
>>> >>>>> Firefighters
>>> >>>>> Nuclear safety engineers
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Vital Government Spending:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Trump golf trips
>>> >>>>> Vance Greenland trips
>>> >>>>> A military birthday parade for Trump
>>> >>>>> Space Contracts for Musk
>>> >>>>> Plans for invading Gaza
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Again your stupidity is showing.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The TDS is strong in the Hollow specimen.
>>> >>> LOL.
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> 2017 - 2021: "Mever mind current
>>> >> president Trump, we need to talk
>>> >> about Obama"
>>> >>
>>> >> 2025 - now: "Never mind current
>>> >> president Trump, we need to talk
>>> >> about Biden."
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Never mind 50 countries caving to the tariffs.
>>>
>>> How are they "caving" exactly?
>>
>> They want to negotiate. That was the plan.
>
> Indeed.
>
> <https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/scott-bessent-says-up-70-nations-w
> ant-negotiate-over-trumps-tariffs>
>
>
Does that include the island inhabited by penquins?