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How Billionaires Ruined Politics (w/ Robert Reich)
Do you ever wonder why it seems like billionaires have suddenly become outrageously powerful, while the rights and needs of average Americans are, at best, ignored, and at worst eviscerated?Hi, I’m Robert Reich, here to talk about one of the most destructive events in our recent political history: a Supreme Court ruling from 2010 called Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.This decision was the final nail in the coffin for nearly a c...
Billionaires Are a Crime Against Humanity (w/ Hasan Piker)
Good morning, bad news: billionaires are a crime against humanity and should be mathematically impossible. Hey, I’m Hasan Piker, and if already didn’t know: the idea that there's any relation whatsoever between work and billionaire net worth is pure delusion. These people are not working hard for their money. Instead, they manufactured a system of extreme exploitation that steals wages, from a huge number of people forced to work against ...
$27/hr is The Real Minimum Wage
Minimum wage is actually $27 an hour, and the only reason you don’t make $27 an hour is because the people who owe you that money spent it on propaganda and political lobbying to make you think that the extinction wages you’re being offered are an acceptable alternative to the living wage you’re actually owed.Hey everyone, I’m Christian Pierce for Good Morning, Bad News, and let’s talk about the fact that you’ve been gaslit by an econ...
5 Ways Biden Can Fix His Failing Presidency
With just a stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden could secure a landslide win for Democrats in the 2022 midterms, and coast to a second victory against Trump in 2024 - and it wouldn’t rely on cooperating with far-right conservatives like Joe Manchin.Right now, Biden is facing garbage approval ratings for Democrats across the board, and inevitable catastrophic losses in the Congressional midterms, that will lead to Republicans easily able to t...
Is College Worth It?
Going to college might be the worst investment you can make in your future. Now, we’re not saying that you shouldn’t go to college or that it’s not worth it, but the idea that our parents and teachers have been telling us since the 90s - that a college education is the key to lifelong career success is, unfortunately, bullshit.Hi, I’m Abelina Sabrina here for Good Morning, Bad News, and you should know that it used to be the case that mos...
The Supreme Court Just Invalidated The 4th Amendment
The Supreme Court just effectively ruled that federal law enforcement agents have total immunity from being sued for violating the Constitution - particularly when it comes to your fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. In other words, federal agents whose jurisdiction covers 2/3rds of the US population and nearly every major city can stop, interrogate, search, and assault you without a warrant or reasonable suspicion - ...
The Poverty Line is Fake! (w/ Sam Reich)
the poverty line is fake! In 2022, in the United States, the poverty threshold for a single person under 65 was an annual income of $13,590, or $1,132 a month. The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $1,697 a month.So a person on the poverty line can’t afford a single month of rent, not to mention food, healthcare, childcare, transportation, clothing, internet, a cell phone, or literally anything else.And of course y...
Monkeypox Is Spreading In The US and Europe
The first reported case of Monkeypox has been discovered in the United States after an outbreak in the United Kingdom and Spain. Monkeypox is an infectious disease closely related to smallpox, which is one of the deadliest and most contagious diseases in modern history, and which has been effectively eradicated through vaccination. Luckily monkeypox is not nearly as deadly or contagious, with symptoms that include fever, headache, muscle aches, s...
Supreme Court Abortion Ruling is Much Worse Than You Can Imagine
The Supreme Court has voted to end abortion rights in the United States after overturning Roe v. Wade by a conservative supermajority, according to a confirmed leak from Justice Samuel Alito. The consequences of criminalizing abortion will be devastating for the United States, and not just for the women who are now forced to carry a fetus against their will. This ruling is designed to punish women, specifically middle and working class women, and...
Why Do We Force People To Be Homeless?
Being homeless is a choice. Not THEIR choice, of course. But people who have the power, money, and resources to end homelessness — TODAY — are choosing not to. The fact is, we don’t know how many homeless people there are in the United States - and it’s not because we can’t find out, or that it’s too expensive, it’s not. We just don’t care. Ending homelessness is simple and surprisingly cheap. According to the Department of Housin...
The Best Year to Be Born? w/ Robert Reich
If you’re a young person today – GenZ or Millennial – I'm sorry to say you've been shut out of economic opportunities that existed for many of us older geezers. No matter what “influencers” or financial gurus on TikTok tell you, no amount of “hustling” or gig work can replace a system that was once designed to help you prosper.Millennials are deeper in debt, half as likely to own a home, and more likely to live in poverty th...
2023 Recession Official Prediction
After two years of record economic recovery fueled by shoving free money at the richest people in the world, this blatant house of cards is finally collapsing, and you and I are stuck holding the bill.The next recession has been officially predicted by Deutsche Bank to start late next year as a result of the inflation caused by throwing trillions of dollars into the stock market while doing next to nothing to prop up the bottom 99% of the country...
Facebook’s Secret Attack on TikTok
Facebook is paying the largest Republican media firm in the country to launch a coordinated attack against TikTok by planting misleading stories and negative op-eds claiming that TikTok is dangerous, and promoting made up TikTok trends like “slap a teacher challenge” that don’t actually exist.In other words, convincing baby boomers who watch local news that their children are at risk by using this app, and turning that negative public opini...
What is Wrong With Russia’s Military?
Good morning, good news! Russia is failing in their war on Ukraine despite being better equipped, having more soldiers, and spending $25 billion dollars a day on this unprovoked invasion. According to military analysts, Russia has largely stalled on all fronts, and Russian forces have made minimal progress on land, sea, and air, while continuing to suffer heavy losses.But how is it possible that the second most powerful military in the world is l...
New COVID-19 Hybrid Variant Discovered: Deltacron
We are NOT prepared for the new COVID-19 variant, and it’s already here! In fact, it’s a hybrid of the two worst variants we’ve seen so far: delta and omicron, and it’s unofficially being called “Deltacron”. here’s everything we know about it so far:Most of the samples of this new hybrid virus that have been studied, are genetically identical to the original delta variant, but with a spike protein that’s identical to omicron. And ...
The Richest Criminal in the World; Vladimir Putin’s Rise to Power
Russian President Vladimir Putin might be the richest man in the world, running the biggest criminal organization and mafia state in history.Over the last 22 years he has officially and unofficially ruled over Russia as a dictator, through open threats and assassinations against his opponents and critics. Putin’s rise to power is marked by allegations of false flag terrorist attacks against his own people, aggressive human rights abuses, and so...
Will You Be Drafted in 2022?
Would the US ever reinstate the draft, and how would that even work? It’s an interesting question: technically, yes they can. In the US, if you’re a male between the ages of 18 and 25 you’re legally required to register with the Selective Service System which is a “draft list” that has been continually updated since 1940. In fact, failing to register is a felony punishable by up to years in prison or a $250,000 fine. (Although in realit...
We Know Putin’s Next Move…
As you know by now Ukraine is in the middle of a full-scale invasion by Russia - so here’s what’s happened in the last 48 hours, and what we expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to do next in this deadly and unprovoked assault. Let’s start with the facts: on the morning of February 24th, 2022, Russia launched an offensive attack on Ukraine, starting with ground forces invading major cities like Ukraine’s capital of Kiev, and other popu...
WTF Are Russia’s “Super-Nuclear” Weapons???
Russia is unexpectedly testing its strategic nuclear reserve, by practice launching intercontinental ballistic and cruise missiles within striking distance of the Ukrainian border. Simultaneously, Russian-backed separatists are firing explosive artillery shells into eastern Ukraine and they just hit a kindergarten, wounding three teachers, but thankfully no children.This comes in the middle of reports by western intelligence that Russian presiden...
Kidnapped, Tortured, and M*rdered for Avocados?
Avocados are about to get a lot more expensive and a lot harder to find as the US just banned Mexican avocado imports because safety inspectors are receiving death threats from the violent cartels that control the avocado trade in Michoacán, Mexico.That’s a lot to take in, but the short version is: Chipotle is screwed. Get ready to pay $10-$20 a scoop when they tell you “guac is extra”. This ban affects 80% of the avocados that are consume...
When Will Russia Invade Ukraine?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent according to President Joe Biden, and is now predicted to happen as early as this week. Biden and his advisors are now urging all Americans living in Ukraine to evacuate the country, within the next 24-48 hours, in light of a massive escalation of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border.The US is simultaneously sending 3,000 of their own troops to neighboring Poland in case the invasion happens even f...
Stop the War on Black America
A few days ago, police in Minneapolis, Minnesota broke into a apartment with a no-knock warrant and within nine seconds, shot and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, who was asleep on the couch in the living room. This happened in the same city by the same police force that murdered George Floyd in 2020, and under the same hypermilitarized no-knock raid tactics that led to the murder of Breanna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.Amir Locke wa...
Why Joe Biden Hates Elon Musk…
The Richest Man in the World and the President of the United States hate each other. Over the last year, President Joe Biden has explicitly snubbed Elon Musk at every possible turn, and not just publicly, but through targeted legislation that specifically punishes Tesla for its business practices. Joe Biden even refuses to say Elon Musk’s name out loud, or include his company in praise directed to other American electric vehicle manufacturers, ...
Quit Your Job Today, Seriously!
You should quit your shitty job today! Or at least, start looking for a new one. Right now is historically the best time ever to find a new job that will pay you more money, with better benefits, and better working conditions.Last year a record number of Americans voluntarily quit their jobs, 47.4 million people - that’s 1 in 4 woring age adults! And in doing so, the power balance in the labor market has shifted dramatically back towards worker...
$100k for 3 Hours A Day…
Did you know that you only need to work 15 hours a week for a full-time salary? Companies in the US and UK are trying out a 4-day, 32-hour work week to combat pandemic burnout, and a similar proposal is making its way through the California legislature.That’s a good start, but on average Americans work 47 hours a week, and if they’re salaried, they may be working as much as 60 hours a week or more for the same amount of money. But if you work...
Capitalism Is Dead...
Capitalism is dead. Now, to many of you that might sound like good news, until you find out that it’s been replaced by a much worse, more exploitative, and aggressively unsustainable economic system that we can best describe as “decapitated capitalism” or “decapitalism”.It’s the reality that we’re living in right now where the very few protections afforded to us under capitalism, simply because the billionaire class needed most of u...
Did Omicron Give You Super Immunity?
You might have super immunity from COVID-19, and could help end the pandemic this year! A study just published yesterday by the journal “Science Immunology”, shows that people who catch COVID-19 after being vaccinated, or who were vaccinated after having the virus showed signs of “super immunity” or “hybrid immunity”, which is 10x more potent than vaccination alone, and generates an overwhelming immune response to future exposure to t...
Do You Hate Living With Your Parents?
During the pandemic, for the first time since the Great Depression, a majority of adults under the age of 30 lived with their parents. Over the past two years, a record-breaking 52% of young adults reported either still living at home, moving back home, or having a parent move in with them, which is the highest percentage that’s ever been measured in American history.So, how is it possible that the single most educated, most productive, and har...
Will Russia Invading Ukraine Start WWIII?
We might literally be on the verge of World War 3 right now, if Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And the White House is reporting that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent, which experts believe would include “bombing raids, missile strikes and cyberattacks that could devastate Ukraine's military infrastructure, disrupt communications and pin down ground troops.”The Biden Administration is actively preparing to count...
Why Omicron is Mysteriously Disappearing…
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is unexpectedly... disappearing. The second most contagious disease in the world is starting to vanish just as fast as it appeared.No, not everywhere and not all at once, but in regions like the UK, the number of COVID cases has dropped by 50% in just the last week, and in Cleveland, Newark, and Washington, D.C. daily cases are falling dramatically, suggesting that parts of the world that were hit first by the Omic...
