Flip the Pyramid

10/12/2020

It doesn't have to be this way.

09/12/2020

09/11/2020

"Saying progressive policies held Democrats back from expanding their House majority/taking the Senate just doesn't hold water with data available so far."

They would have won seats if they had expanded their voter base by actually offering policies the people are asking for and desperately need. Their foolish attack on the left is a surefire way to lose future elections by even wider margins.

14/10/2020

08/08/2020

Register NOW for The People's Convention on August 30!

21/06/2020

GARY S CHAMBERS. This man is AMAZING!
East Baton Rouge School Board Members Get Told Off By Citizen Gary Chambers In Powerful Speech

Link to his IG: https://instagram.com/garychambersjr?igshid=h350j7n6j63q From Gary Chambers Jr Facebook: I told Connie Bernard to her face she needed to resi...

14/06/2020

Across the highest reaches of corporate America, an outpouring of solidarity with those protesting brutal police killings of Black Americans and systemic racism. But most of this is for show.

JPMorgan has made it difficult for Black people to get mortgage loans. In 2017, the bank paid $55 million to settle a justice department lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against minority borrowers.

BlackRock is one of the biggest investors in private prisons, disproportionately incarcerating Black and Latino men.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes – in the halls of Congress and the corridors of statehouses, in fundraisers and in private candidate briefings, in strategy sessions with political operatives and public-relations specialists – the CEOs who condemn racism lobby for and get giant tax cuts and fight off a wealth tax.

As a result, the nation can’t afford anything as ambitious as a massive Marshall Plan to provide poor communities world-class schools, first-class healthcare and affordable housing.

The CEOs resist a living wage and universal basic income. They don’t want antitrust laws jeopardizing their market power, thereby requiring consumers pay more. They oppose tighter regulations against red-lining or prohibitions on payday lending, both of which disproportionately burden Black and brown people.

Perhaps most revealingly, they remain silent in the face of Donald Trump’s bigotry. Indeed, many are quietly funding the re-election of a president whose political ascent began with a racist conspiracy theory and who continues to encourage white supremacists.

They know that as long as racial animosity exists, white and black Americans are less likely to look upward and see where the wealth and power really has gone.

This is not a new strategy. Throughout history, the rich have used racism to divide people and thereby entrench themselves.

Half a century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. observed much the same about the old southern aristocracy, which “took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than a Black man.”

Trump is the best thing ever to have happened to the new American oligarchy, and not just because he has given them tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks.

He has also stoked division and racism so that most Americans don’t see CEOs getting exorbitant pay while slicing the pay of average workers, won’t notice giant tax cuts and bailouts for big corporations and the wealthy while most people make do with inadequate schools and unaffordable healthcare, and don’t pay attention to the bribery of public officials through unlimited campaign donations.

The only way systemic injustices can be remedied is if power is redistributed. Power will be redistributed only if the vast majority – white, Black and brown – join together to secure it.

Which is what the oligarchy fears most.

The president is the best thing that ever happened to the corporate elite, a distraction on the lines of the old Jim Crow

25/05/2020

06/05/2020

I'm no public health expert, but...

17/04/2020

15/04/2020

Today, April 15th, is Tax Day in the US. At least, it should have been - thanks to the coronavirus crisis, the IRS has extended the tax filing deadline to July 15th. But even though tax day comes a little later this year, taxes - and taxing the rich - have never been more important.

That’s why the Patriotic Millionaires are celebrating this “Tax Day” just like we do every year: by calling out the countless, horrible ways our tax code is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else.

Join us and our allies on Twitter () today, April 15th, at 2 pm EST to say: !

It’s no secret that special interests and mega-rich folks often use the tax code as their own personal gravy train. Corrupt politicians work hand-in-hand with wealthy individuals and corporations to make sure they get a dizzying array of special privileges, handouts, and sometimes - they let them get away with paying NO taxes at all!

Even in the midst of a lethal pandemic, these rich folks (and their GOP collaborators) are still running a smash-and-grab on the American economy through the tax code. Here’s just a few outrageous ways our tax code is being manipulated right now:

The Coronavirus relief package will force American taxpayers to pay $90 BILLION for a tax break for millionaires, thanks to a hastily snuck-in provision from Senate Republicans.

While more than 17 million people are unemployed and waiting for one measly $1,200 check from the government, Congressional Republicans made sure to stick $200 billion in tax breaks for rich business owners and shareholders of major corporations.

So far, President Trump’s big, bold ideas to respond to the crisis have been payroll tax cuts (only benefit the rich), capital gains tax cuts (only benefit the rich), bailouts for oil companies (only benefit the rich) and corporate tax cuts (only benefit the rich). Seeing a pattern here?

If this makes you just as mad as it makes us, join us TODAY at 2 pm EST to demand !

Happy Tax Day. Let’s tax the rich - together.

Warmly,
The Patriotic Millionaires

09/04/2020

A spectre is haunting Europe
A spectre is haunting Europe
A spectre is haunting Europe

All you zombies in the club
Raise your fists up high
Fu***rs can't hold us down
We too fly not to fly

Republicrats and Demicrins
They want you in their boat
So you'll line up like sheep
'Cause they told you how to vote

All your life you've been doing
Just what you've been told
All your thoughts have been
Bought up, processed, and sold

Motherf**k the president
And f**k the police
Got to tell you right now
Ain't no freedom before peace

We comin' out the grave like u-u-uh
We'll be eatin' up your brains like u-u-uh

Dead bodies of the world uni-i-ite
Rise up and join our fi-i-ight

You've got nothing to lose but your g-g-graves
They've got nothing to lose but their b-b-b-brains

All zombies disdain
To conceal their aims
We'll tell you their names
Because we know who is to blame

Rupert Murdock, Condoleezza Rice
Gotta tell you twice
George Bush, George Bush

Pope Benedict
Know whose a dick?
Dick Cheney

Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson
Karl Rove, Fox News
How can we choose?

They tell you their lies and they call it the news
They are in the business of keeping you amused

The fight against bourgeois may immediately begin
We want to send capitalism into a tailspin

Eating up the rich
Will be my sweetest retribution

Let the ruling class tremble
At the zombie revolution

Let the ruling class tremble
At the zombie revolution

We comin' out the grave like u-u-uh
We'll be eatin' up your brains like u-u-uh

Dead bodies of the world uni-i-ite
Rise up and join our fi-i-ight

You've got nothing to lose but your g-g-graves
They've got nothing to lose but their b-b-b-brains

Nothing can stop us
We're a force to be reckoned with
Don't misinterpret this
Here comes a paradigm shift

Nothing can stop us
We're a force to be reckoned with
Don't misinterpret this
Here comes a paradigm shift

Dead bodies in the club tonight
Rise up and join our fight

Dead bodies in the club tonight
Rise up and join our fight

Get your back up off the wall
To claim your undead right

Shake that ass, yeah
Shake it fast, yeah

Shake that ass, yeah
Shake it fast, yeah

Shake that ass, yeah
Shake it fast, yeah

Shake that ass, yeah
Shake it fast, yeah

What do you call a Republican?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

What do you call a Democrat?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

What do you call a Capitalist?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

Anorexic or Bulimic?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

What do you call a consumer?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

A Rage-infected monkey?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

What do you call a celebutant?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

What do you call a Democrat?
A z-z-z-z-zombie

What do you call a Republican?
A motherf**king, motherf**king
Motherf**king, motherf**king, motherf**king
Motherf**king, motherf**king, motherf**king
Motherf**king, motherf**king, motherf**king
Motherf**king, motherf**king, motherf**king,
Motherf**king, motherf**king zombie!

We comin' out the grave like u-u-uh
We'll be eatin' up your brains like u-u-uh

Dead bodies of the world uni-i-ite
Rise up and join our fi-i-ight

You've got nothing to lose but your g-g-graves
They've got nothing to lose but their b-b-b-brains

We comin' out the grave like u-u-uh
We'll be eatin' up your brains like u-u-uh

Dead bodies of the world uni-i-ite
Rise up and join our fi-i-ight

You've got nothing to lose but your g-g-graves
They've got nothing to lose but their b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-brains

we have
The world
To win

https://open.spotify.com/track/2cfaUaWvd2nDv5sconmZ9F

Zombies! Organize!! · Song · 2008

25/03/2020

"Our people were already struggling, and we refuse to die just to save Wall Street."
—Kaniela Ing, People's Action

The call for a , crafted by a dozen advocacy organizations and now endorsed by hundreds more, urges members of Congress to commit to five principles while putting forth COVID-19 relief and stimulus packages that contribute to a just recovery:

1. Health is the top priority, for all people, with no exceptions.
2. Economic relief must be provided directly to the people.
3. Rescue workers and communities, not corporate executives.
4. Make a downpayment on a regenerative economy while preventing future crises.
5. Protect our democratic process while protecting each other.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/500-groups-demand-peoples-bailout-counter-push-wall-street-friendly-coronavirus

"Lawmakers must respond to this pandemic in a way that yanks us back from the abyss and actually prevents future catastrophes."

21/03/2020

FK airlines

United Airlines is warning about possible job cuts if the government doesn't quickly provide aid to combat coronavirus.

17/03/2020

THIS WAS SIMPLY AMAZING!
🔥🔥🔥 WATCH NOW!
REPLAY is on YouTube> https://youtu.be/OopsCVKamrs ‬

DIGITAL RALLY WITH NEIL YOUNG: Join me now for our first-ever digital rally featuring Neil Young and Daryl Hannah, as well as musical performances from Jim J...

06/03/2020

15/02/2020

America has socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

[Cartoon via Mike Luckovich]