Matt Taibbi: Return of the Vampire Squid | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

[@nopeteys2424]

Hell yeah Matt is one of the few real journalists left in this country!

[@Politicallyhomeless18]

Him and Tim Poole

[@rvanzo925]

Nowadays it mostly does because most of news and journalists are opinionated, so their accuracy depends on your agreement with their preconceived notion.

[@louiscotteta566]

@Marcos 989politics makes them inaccurate

[@bosmith1820]

@@Politicallyhomeless18 lol what stories has Tim Poole broke? He is just a commentator, not a journalist.

[@ManfromNowhere233]

Because he’s not a product of Columbia Journalism..

[@ricardo950535]

I remember writing letters to Matt when he ran the NY Press newspaper in the 90's early 2000's. Always responded. Put a few in the paper. Always smart and respectful. Man has class and character.

[@ZobethC]

He looks like a great fun guy to be around. Nice looking pad too with the drum set and cool steam-punk art on the walls.

[@caringforall4454]

We love Matt

[@chickmcgee1000]

Taibbi’s one of the few in journalism who puts the work into his reporting that yields stories people can learn something from. Discovered him through his reporting on the 2008 crisis and have followed him closely since then.

[@vmchen]

Only tuned because I saw it was Matt Taibbi. Great segment.

[@SoloDallasII]

Quite the contrast to the preceding guest ... Brett Fucking Stephens.

[@leviathan76]

Mike utubesux Bret “Bedbug” Stephens, to be precise.

[@MattSingh1]

Taibi is an anti-American traitor.

[@willritter4076]

umm... Brett Stephens is a Trump opponent, while Taibbi doesn't seem to care about getting Trump out of the White House... therefore, Stephens >>> Taibbi.

[@TTownTim]

@@MattSingh1 eat my liberal SHit, magat

[@gardenbun]

Enlightening interview! Wish it was longer! Please have him back on your show! :)

[@pattytracey3131]

His podcast is Useful Idiots on KZbin. He has other shows too.

[@tellemsteve-dave4276]

Listen to his podcast on KZbin. Also watch Rising on The Hill TV w/Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjheti

[@JohnDavid-kc9kt]

"Never let a good crisis go to waste." ~Ruling Class Proverb

[@BadAssElf810]

Yes. Petyr Baelish would be impressed at what the oligarchs have done with this pandemic.

[@JohnDavid-kc9kt]

He probably did. I heard it from a former Obama official who also worked for Trump. Simple folks choose sides. Intelligent folks choose truth. Both sides are equally to blame for the rampant corruption and mismanagement we now face. On a larger level, Americans who blame and don't take personal responsibility for the sacrifice it takes to maintain freedom and a democracy are more to blame. These politicians are the people we chose to solve our problems because we haven't had the discipline to do it collectively ourselves. We deserve what we get.

[@johnbeechy]

GAAP does not allow for prior year's profits inside Retained Earnings to ever be used Upon current or future year's tax deductible expenses.. this is a grade 10 accounting class Fact.. GAAP is what the CEOs follow.. / Retained Earnings (after corporate income tax $$ from current and prior years) are used for 3 Main Normal transactions. 1. Pay Dividends 2. be used to BUY another company thru a Merger = less jobs & 3. Buy back of stocks from managers so they can pay less taxes on their Bonuses W2 taxes would be higher than a lower tax rate for a capital gain that is done annually with new shares handed out annually. // non deductible items would also lower the Retained Earnings (non deductible portion of meals, as an example)... Learn Generally Accepted Accounting Principles .. Other Wise, U'll be remaining the slaves to the Big Lie that a 'corporate tax cut will lead to higher wages'.. LOL>> did any of U non share holders receive that $4000 that Sec Treasury Moocher promised? (sears learned the hard way not to deal with this guy) trump promised and now the sheep and slaves are out of work and they are Mad because of the lack of the $4000 before they got Fired! / God Bless and stay inside and be safe.. The Purge of the inferior sheep will continue FBI chatter has 'Possible Taliban agents' are planning to C-Virus the protesters and have them take the C-V back to their Home bases (militias have home bases).. at home. lol // two first names that is interesting..

[@renaudtheis1197]

"This would be a terrible crisis to waste" Hillary Clinton

[@safreas]

Or in today’s parlance, “You see a problem, I see an opportunity!”

[@scottryals3191]

What a surprise - it was bound to happen again. None the crooks from last time went to jail. so what's to stop them? Fines didn't do it - prison might.

[@scottryals3191]

@C Seay/playlists Occasionally people commit suicide when they lose everything, making it tantamount to murder.

[@reverend_wintondupree]

@Ray Lat Iceland - www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-to-iceland-where-bad-bankers-go-to-prison&ved=2ahUKEwi1_q6biMXqAhVDaCsKHSoqDa8QFjAMegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw0qjk2CpoUOSmYJQfFLPMAg

[@ABCD1234JKL]

About time you had Matt Taibbi back on the show!

[@draculawolfman1502]

Matt Taibbi rules.

[@philguy8563]

Agreed. He calls it how it is, but doesn't veer out into whacko conspiracy territory.

[@ricardo950535]

He's a great writer, agreed

[@edwdecarlo]

We are once again in a 'Too big to fail and too small to matter' situation.

[@TheHSoko]

Matt Taibbi is brillant! Love his reporting! Useful Idiots-RS on You Tube....I listen to is every day!

[@douglaswmcgavin8509]

Im in Canada ive gotten $2000 cerb and $2000 ei a month . Which equals what my pay would be a month. I spend it on rent and in my neighborhood businesses that can operate. I've never been prouder to be Canadian. Its time to recognize that bottom up is the only way to stimulate growth.

[@jarbuthn]

bottom-up is definitely the way to go but not everyone here in Canada is as lucky as you. many people, like myself, work in the gig-economy and are getting a big fat zero dollars per month, hoping this thing ends soon!

[@randyjax09]

Douglas W McGavin Americans are idiots. They vote based on name recognition and fight over insignificant wedge issues like abortions & gun laws. Meanwhile politicians are cutting taxes for the wealthy and handing out government contracts & subsidies to their favorite donors.

[@sloburnjo]

@Nigel Tufnel eleven

[@twoshedsjohnson8540]

We have that too in America...$2400 a month Federal Unemployment Aid on top of State Aid. About 1/2 of recipients are receiving more in unemployment benefits than when working. Now we're seeing workers disincentivized not to go back to work...sure makes it easy to push this "quarantine" and "stay at home" policy, huh?

[@yutyuiiu]

Two Sheds Johnson based on nothing

[@umalaurenbowman7276]

Thanks for having Matt Taibbi on, he's always very knowledgeable

[@MusicfromMarrs]

Did this interview get cut short? Aaaaah - need more!

[@shannonpincombe8485]

I love how Matt's voice has so much anguish in it when he says "this money is already gone. It's been taken by investors as soon as they could...." No joking. Public money, once again, bails out the big end of town and the only people to benefit are those who were never, and have never been, in real financial difficulty. That this can happen again is plain stupid. Two people on the oversight committee?? Fuck off!

[@schex9]

One person; Donna Shalala doesn't count for anything.

[@bullmoosemedia]

McConnell is literally telling cities and states to file bankruptcy after spending TRILLIONS of dollars bailing out corporations. I don't understand how anyone can be okay with this shit.

[@umiluv]

Our whole federal system is a joke. I don't know why we allow them to tax us for this crap. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

[@MattSingh1]

Taibi is an anti-American traitor and scumbag.

[@TTownTim]

@@MattSingh1 FACTS= magats love the nazis and the confederates..if i was protesting and i looked around and there were swasis and confederate flags..i would realize..i am in a group of racist asshats...must be comfortable with absolute moronic behavior and complete racism..magats..eat...my..liberal..shit

[@AndiDuck]

Ruth's steakhouse got millions . One person sucked up most of the money that should have gone to small business owners

[@AndiDuck]

@Deadbeat Donny I think she should return the money since she never qualified for it in the first place . There were others that didn't request it and didn't qualify for it and they returned it .

[@AndiDuck]

@Deadbeat Donny Good !

[@nero4771]

@Deadbeat Donny spoken like a true deadbeat.

[@nero4771]

@Deadbeat Donny you're gay.

[@nero4771]

@Deadbeat Donny Trump 2020. :)

[@quantumeseboy]

Matt Taibbi does not age.

[@aa697]

What a MESS!!!!! And what a DISGRACE!!!!! The whole system is going to collapse if this continues any longer.

[@umiluv]

Yes. The people currently in charge have no idea wtf they're doing.

[@TheMrjimed]

@@umiluv NOT TRUE THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

[@jimmiller3059]

I’m investing in a rope company.i want them all hung with a new rope to keep the complaining down to a mlnlmum

[@carolpridgeon8200]

@@TheMrjimed exactly they know exactly what they're doing. Oh my God the curtains been pulled back how many times ? Why aren't we rioting in the streets namaste

[@TheMrjimed]

@@carolpridgeon8200 PLEASE VOTE!

[@townsendjean]

We´re not used to dreading our future nor are we used to fearing our president. We are living through failure of presidential leadership so epic, so sweeping that historians will be studying it for decades. Let’s hope that americans have figured it out the incapacity of this man, and figured out he’s not going to change.

[@TheMrjimed]

YOU ELECT A CLOWN ........ YOU GET A CIRCUS

[@twoshedsjohnson8540]

It's government that is the problem, not just the President. It's governors across the nation enacting authoritarian policies restricting the rights of the people.

[@briantyson7744]

@@twoshedsjohnson8540 Really though, stick to talking about your sheds Arthur.

[@twoshedsjohnson8540]

@@briantyson7744 Funny thing is...I can talk about my sheds and other stuff...try it sometime, it's awesome.

[@janetkizer5956]

I remember when he was first elected. People said to be fair. Give the man a chance. He'll improve. Become presidential with time. All I can say is, thank God I'm not american, and he's not my president. But I feel sorry for people who are stuck with him.

[@markbrownner6565]

trickle down: if you stuff enough oats in the horse's mouth, eventually the sparrows get fed....

[@simbamartens7192]

At the root of all these problems is the broken campaign finance system. As long as your government continues to be captured by corporate interests, nothing will change. Came across a great video exploring the campaign finance system and how it undermines US democracy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2SWiIWke9B1fNk

[@plm8550]

@@simbamartens7192 I watched it, thanks, some of it I knew, some I didn't. That's why Bernie would've been a great start to a much needed revolution in this country. I have hope that by the 23rd century things may start to change. Unlikely though.

[@simbamartens7192]

@@plm8550 Happy to share! Only 200 years to wait man! Haha. But yeah the only way is to continue to struggle and to organise to get money out of politics.

[@plm8550]

@@simbamartens7192 Yeah, it's a very steep uphill battle but it's possible, maybe. Rome wasn't built in a day & the US can't be dismantled in one either. Thanks again. Take care.

[@kerrysly1]

I'm sorry Mark Browner but I like your though so much I'm going to share it on FB with my "Never Corporate Teat Sucking Repub/Dem Government Again" friends.

[@timpower4922]

It’s like they aren’t worried about the lives of everyday people. Weird.

[@patrickvanmeter2922]

That is because they're not. You could go away tomorrow without even being noticed by any of them . They make billions off of wars that kill 10s of thousands of young people and they give the families a folded flag. Don't think for a minute they care about us. What is weird to me is that they are doing it again as we speak and we don't even complain.

[@grantmarcus5675]

It's Mahered's mood. BUT, finally, a token progressive on the Shill Mahred Show. I hope Matt, makes sure he does a 30-second body wash of every part when he turns off his skype so he doesn't catch the conservative virus that seems to have plagued Shill Mahered.

[@Virtual-Media]

@@grantmarcus5675 I hope Grant Trollhard realizes no one cares about his opinions, or that his status at Guardian of the Trolls only raises ratings of all the videos he posts on.

[@johnbeechy]

wit with a name lasting POWER.. them with it provide the test of IF they do care.. / POWER does corrupt .. GAAP does not allow for prior year's profits inside Retained Earnings to ever be used Upon current or future year's tax deductible expenses.. this is a grade 10 accounting class Fact.. GAAP is what the CEOs follow.. / Retained Earnings (after corporate income tax $$ from current and prior years) are used for 3 Main Normal transactions. 1. Pay Dividends 2. be used to BUY another company thru a Merger = less jobs & 3. Buy back of stocks from managers so they can pay less taxes on their Bonuses W2 taxes would be higher than a lower tax rate for a capital gain that is done annually with new shares handed out annually. // non deductible items would also lower the Retained Earnings (non deductible portion of meals, as an example)... Learn Generally Accepted Accounting Principles .. Other Wise, U'll be remaining the slaves to the Big Lie that a 'corporate tax cut will lead to higher wages'.. LOL>> did any of U non share holders receive that $4000 that Sec Treasury Moocher promised? (sears learned the hard way not to deal with this guy) trump promised and now the sheep and slaves are out of work and they are Mad because of the lack of the $4000 before they got Fired! / God Bless and stay inside and be safe.. The Purge of the inferior sheep will continue FBI chatter has 'Possible Taliban agents' are planning to C-Virus the protesters and have them take the C-V back to their Home bases (militias have home bases).. at home. lol //

[@grantmarcus5675]

@Hana Ayo Alemayehu Exactly. Herd immunity on the right. Herd immunity on the left. They use Sweden as example. But Sweden has national health care and EVERYONE gets it. And, it has stockpiles of medical supplies, so EVERYONE has masks, EVERYONE has a hospital they can go to, where nursing staff dont have to wear trash bags. Sweden doesn't have 500 thousand homeless living on their streets.

[@Chifan71]

Yes, Bill, the Wall Street companies do have a rainy day fund. It's called the U.S. Treasury.

[@TheClayCoKid]

He is like Hunter S Thompson without all the drugs

[@Nathan-gd7xq]

But with the drums ( in the background).

[@brainchowder5235]

"Without all the drugs" means you don't know Matt, although I can't speak for the present. Without dementia from drugs, absolutely. Can drugs sometimes make someone better? Absolutely.

[@TheClayCoKid]

@@brainchowder5235 I doubt Matt could hang with Hunters daily regiment

[@carolynmaryscott]

Stock buy backs is the name of the game. And as Taibbi says, "most of that bailout money is gone to the shareholders who are buying their big mansions ... if people understood that - they would be a lot more angry."

[@dansorci]

No democracy, only kleptocracy

[@jasontaylor8214]

When do Americans get fed up with trickle down economics and get rid of representatives in government that continue to support it?

[@TheMrjimed]

63 MILLION VOTED FOR TRUMP. THATS WHO IS TO BLAME

[@karalynn8415]

I live in an area with a lot of run down trailers and vehicles. A lot of them have Trump stickers, flags and signs. Ppl are stupid. They vote against their own interests.

[@kkandola9072]

@@TheMrjimed😂

[@fastbreak0822]

The only thing trickling down is the 99 percents bank balances... shameful...

[@westvirginiaglutenfreepepp7006]

Taibbi has more journalistic integrity than the whole of cable news

[@rikcoach1]

Not tickle down but ‘tinkle on’...us.

[@elenarynkevic1954]

Rick Wieland Tinkle down since Regan

[@justthinking526]

You talked about opening up like Sweden has and aim for herd immunity. THEY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE as a human right. We have rugged individualism for the masses and corporate welfare for the wealthy.

[@wanderer0617]

I haven't seen Matt in a long time, he used to be on MSNBC a lot.

[@edgarcayce2.02]

Don't expect to see him on MSNBC again, especially after his book *HATE INC* was released last year.

[@SoloDallasII]

Useful Idiots posts their full episodes on KZbin. Highly recommended! kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5-2d2Vmqd2fi9k

[@tellemsteve-dave4276]

He's a way better source of news than anyone at MSNBC, that's for damn sure.

[@nesne2167]

You can see him at his podcast or read his articles on Taibbi stacks.

[@TheHSoko]

He is too much a truth teller...a real reporter. They don't want that too much on MSNBC. He is on a Rolling Stone Program called "Useful Idiots" on You Tube. It's great commentary.

[@jondunmore4268]

I absolutely LOOOOVE Matt Taibbi's big brain!!!!

[@danrion8839]

Leaving Trump and his cronies with Money is like leaving Rats with Cheese.

[@terry6512]

brilliant response.

[@NoraGermain]

They’d rather explode or die from overeating than be ethical

[@seangelarden8753]

Trickle down economics is the notion that if you give the rich more to eat they're be more crumbs on the floor

[@sspbrazil]

I like Matt Taibbi, he’s a great journalist and covered the last economic downturn better than anyone, right too, trickle down doesn’t work. No bank bailouts, no large corporation bailouts,NO STOCK BUY BACKS. Money should go directly to people like as in UBI. It’s our tax money. I have a novel idea, all the CEO’s of major banks and multimillion dollar companies forfeit their salaries and bonuses for one year and that money should be put into a fund which will go to workers and small businesses. Taibbi is right too, if ordinary people understood this more they would be angry.

[@Misuci]

The Former Fed Banker Who Apologized for Role in QE Bloomberg•November 21, 2014 Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Huszar, senior fellow at Rutgers Business School, talks with Erik Schatzker about Federal Reserve oversight of banks and what has and hasn’t changed in the aftermath of the financial crisis. He speaks on “Market Makers.”

[@alanbailey5621]

" TRICKLE DOWN " = TRICKLED ON

[@flickercrab5704]

Mr. Taibbi has perfectly understated the anger one feels after learning how the government(s) actually function. I've even written my congressman complaining about having to learn his job just so I know how their decisions are going to affect me, the public. I'm most upset that we, the public, have no real time recourse when our 'employees' screw up! We just have to sit by watching crime after crime and we're not allowed to prosecute. I'm telling you that this has got to end. I need a government that is representative of me and my fellow Americans. I am truly disgusted with how the rich has shaped our society.

[@robboltwood]

Matt looks like Vince d’onofrio in full metal jacket

[@georgehugh3455]

*Congress Wrote the Bill!* While Oversight is definitely important, _the BLAME lies with those who create the laws_ that prescribe who gets the money. If outlets/hotels/restaurants of large public companies, educational institutions like Harvard & the LA Lakers were LEGALLY able to apply for & get this Cares Act money, *the primary responsibility sits squarely with the Dems & GOP in the House & Senate.*

[@gearradar]

“Your” tax dollars ar work America.

[@spiceinsights]

Matt Taibbi is actually the coolest

[@jonmiller948]

Didn't know Vincent D'Onofrio was a journalist

[@gmpm]

Matt is the best. So glad Bill had him back on.

[@KingdomKali]

Oohhh, wonder if that's a Roland electric kit behind Matt..... Great interview. Amen to all that was said.

[@jenniemalloy7402]

I like smart people. Who aren't clueless. Rare? Hope not.

[@mistercohaagen]

The U.S. education system has been under Conservative and business-class attack since the 70's. Even if people are born genetically predisposed for higher intelligence, they're sabotaged in an intellectually diminished environment for at least 12 years. We're entrained consumers now, who get cowed into a lifetime of debt to purchase levels of education that used to be entitlements, long past the age of youthful brain plasticity when it would've made a significant difference in our ability to reason clearly. It's better for GDP (a measure of toil, suffering and waste), better for societal susceptibility to media and marketing influence, it preserves religious institutions through diminishing reasoning ability to discern fact from fiction and also provides endless fodder for our prison and war industries, let alone every other ridiculous "bullshit job" that exists in our total contrivance of an (anti-)economy. Basically, it's deliberately induced stupidity to preserve the status quo and keep those already at the top in permanent power. 'Merica ; ( The few that somehow made it through the moronic gauntlet with our intelligence intact have to spend over half our lifespan figuring out how to even contribute to society in a way that doesn't cause yet more waste and suffering for someone else on the other side of the planet. Finding a moral lifestyle option shouldn't consume 90% of your brainpower... yet in this broken society it is necessary; corruption is systemic.

[@mistercohaagen]

@Eileen Farrar I don't know what to do about it though. Being sorta smart isn't good for much these days.

[@wutzis3589]

Nobody ever talks about the Federal Reserve keeping rates artificially low for decades. There is no price discovery or free markets

[@wayne-kj4iw]

why don't people .. common citizens .... have lobbyist in Washington looking out for our interest ... oh wait we do they are called congress .. we need a better congress

[@JohnKunkleAuctioneer]

@BillMaher Your throwing our only alternative to orange in November under the bus tonight was beyond the pale! I mean, WTF!

[@MooMan1374]

If this money was going to go to 9/11 First Responders we would have to debate it for decades.

[@petehamm896]

Matt Taibi is great. A true and consistent liberal.

[@michaelrch]

Matt Taibbi is just great. Such a great journalist. Clear headed, incisive, smart and entertaining. More like this please Bill. If you like Matt, you can subscribe to his articles at taibbi.substack.com

[@jennifermathis3983]

A very good conversation!!!!

[@bottimind8726]

This has been the most pleasant interview ive seen during this catastrophe, maybe ever. Great balance of personalities. I dont even care what the facts are anymore, I just want to listen to calm people share knowledge. More of this Bill, pretty please.

[@rev40oz]

Taibis book was pretty insightful. Really enjoyed it

[@olivermarijuanajones1584]

Fuckin love this guy. Him and Katie Halper and Ryan Grim are some of the only real, unbiased journalists around...

[@dailydanks6685]

The swamps are overflowing in other words💯

[@wyredmusic]

Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald are the only journalists I trust

[@bradmiech5743]

330 million people. 500 billion billions. We all should be billionaires give each of us a billion dollars.

[@bradmiech5743]

Same families over 100 years. New Generation graduating this year.

[@bbkmitch]

Glad to see Matt was on this show!

[@mk1st]

Matt Taibbi; ace reporter and drummer!!

[@DJTORONTO]

at 2:33 - " Could have paid off every sub prime mortgage, instead they spent 10 times that and bailed out Wall Street"

[@Jowls2024]

Ordinary people. Duh what? What do you mean there is nothing leftover?

[@nancymesek]

Didn’t Mnuchin have his name printed on currency?

[@lovely-mk4rt]

Treasonous trump

[@countdebleauchamp]

All treasury secretaries have their name printed on currency. But Mnuchin had Trump's name printed on the stimulus checks.

[@trancedarkdust90]

Lets do "trickle up", give it people and they can spend it. Companies get rich on the profit.....you know......business.

[@jasonofassynt]

Is there a longer version of the interview?

[@Blitznstitch2]

I’m so tired of rich people getting bailed out

[@Pugetwitch]

He has a great voice.

[@dropical9497]

Seeing an Electronic Drumset in the background... thats a new one.

[@Ward413]

mukund p Lol I can’t picture Bill drumming. He’s unmarried with no kids and, as far as I know, lives alone. Maybe it’s like a man cave filled with random shit for people to screw around with when he has a social event. Or maybe Bill likes to get lit AF and then play an electric drum set. Who knows.

[@thesoundsmith]

@@Ward413 ??? That was in Matt's room...

[@Ward413]

mukund p Lol oh shit mah boo. I thought he was talking about Bill’s blurry ambiguous background. Well at least the first sentence of my original comment holds true.

[@mk1st]

Won't disturb the neighbors. Right on.

[@phillipsmitj9606]

This old black man used to work at the steel mills back in Chicago in the 70s.Myself and that Appalachian coal miner who hates me share the same socio economic enemy. The problem is our enemy looks like him.

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

Phillip Smitj Wise.

[@yurona5155]

Props to Matt for keeping a straight face when Bill mentioned having just talked to Bret Stephens! ;)

[@franfranfrancis]

Maher is BACK!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🔥

[@earlgibbs7083]

Matt is an incredibly smart guy!

[@brianrich5871]

Wish this segment was longer.

[@kellygoodine9944]

50 billion in buybacks... that is exactly how much they got from the bailout. Buybacks were illegal from the mid 30's up to Reagan.

[@sheilahayden816]

1982

[@kellygoodine9944]

@@sheilahayden816 Thank you :)

[@TheEpikak]

I think he has the same e-drum kit as me. Good for you, Matt:)

[@lauralima6719]

it's a disgrace that small companies have been screwed like this. I'm let down by all politicians. As a life long Democrat, I'm shocked. I looked at my own community in California and wonder who will be able to reopen. People's life long work has gone up in smoke and when I listen to the news, I hear nothing but excuses. Its' such a ugly time. Glad to hear so many people do care. We are just voiceless now. This country needs a non violent revolution in the future.

[@gamkal7231]

They know perfectly well nothing's going to trickle down. They don't want or expect it to. Who are we kidding?

[@mrmxl8381]

This guy is awesome! ❤️

[@malcolmwatt4866]

Who are the shareholders if the shares are bought back by the corporation? The corporation is the shareholder so shouldn't the money be retained in the corporation? What is the account that holds that money and who is in charge of it? Who gets to spend it? Where are the dividends?

[@artstrology]

Commercial flights should be capped at 7,000 per day, instead of the 26,000 per day previously

[@michaelcain721]

I thought that was Vincent donofrio

[@googleplusisterrible4837]

Maybe we can start reconsidering taxes.

[@TheMaggieDress1]

Thanks Bill...good to hear a voice of reason in the middle of this shit storm...still no one is menitoning the fact that ALL of our rihts were taken in the blink of an eye and no one blinked

[@bosmith1820]

We told you this would have happened when you elected trump. Hillary would not have shut down the economy. Of course the economy reopened under Biden. The trump shutdown was a predictable disaster.

[@asantewa1629]

IS THIS HAPPENING TO ANYONE ELSE? All of a sudden I’m a REPUBLICAN. My e-mail is being flooded with republican funding requests. But I’m a DEMOCRAT. Maybe their turning democratic registrations to republican. Key to winning in November.

[@MaxPower72]

I don't understand why money given to Corps can't be restricted to operations and keeping people employed. Also, there isn't such thing as trickle down economics or a theory of trickle down economics, and I wish people would stop using it as a real thing to advance an argument.

[@jenbrez70]

Most people don't realize small business owners have 2 sets of bills. 2 rents. 2 Power bill etc and they are ineligible for unemployment. How long is their rainy day fund supposed to last? Keep it up America and you will have 2 choices; amazon and Walmart, for everything from cat food to haircuts. Do you still think they will be the "best deal" once they are the last one standing?

[@eschaefer6512]

Unfortunately, most shareholders couldn't care less about anything, they just want their dividends and that the stocks they have remain high.

[@kensmith5694]

I like the dip in stock prices. It looks to be a good time to buy.

[@zyzzyvacation]

Matt's 2009 Rolling Stone magazine article referred to Goldman Sachs, the world’s most powerful investment bank, as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Plus ça change . . . 🤔

[@ClaudyArfaras]

Congress hand corporate America $700B and then handed cash to lower income folks amounting to $500B first round...

[@Yrr666]

I have a prostate problem so I know what a trickle is. They are just pissing it away.

[@lau_dhondt]

Good man

[@f.kusuma4952]

Now, implementing the wealth tax is actually kinda makes sense!

[@mk1st]

Companies should be rewarded through the tax code for paying their workers, across the board, more money. Pay more, get a lower tax rate. Pay the executives more or buy back stock, pay a higher rate.

[@bigdog44pc]

Trickle? Try tinkle down economics.

[@jessiejoy1703]

I mean the difference between 08 and now is that the corporations are not at fault here.

[@suefalls1600]

No money here! Retired and not rich! No stimulus check here yet! I have my doubts about getting anything! No trust in my government!!!!!

[@rudyperez7934]

It all needs to be explained better. Average person doesn’t understand what buying bonds and mortgages means or why. Also present it with what you would do instead. Don’t just laugh and criticize, what’s the alternative? Step up media experts share with us

[@BrettFairchild]

Random, but I felt like Maher looked the best with this camera setup and lighting

[@darbyheavey406]

BlackRock is far worse than Goldman S

[@ProNorden]

#Taibbi is the best, along with #TuckerCarlson. But we need effective pressure methods.✌ #GoNationalist✌ ... 'Independence, Peace, & Ecology'✌