I gotta be honest the worst looting I've ever seen take place happened a few weeks ago when ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Walter Shaub Retweeted

I gotta be honest the worst looting I've ever seen take place happened a few weeks ago when corporations collected over 500 billion dollars in stimulus money while everyone else was left with a $1200 dollar check and having to decide if they pay for food or rent..

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[Blue Owl]

1. Yeah no shit...

[Sinistrous]

2. You nailed it !

[delisen]

3. Yes!and we need those billions back!

...and the Trump tax cuts reversed.

[mvd]

4. Exactly! K&R

I can’t get too upset about the people looting when corporations have been looting in a different way on a much grander scale with no strings attached.

[yaesu]

5. Plus the Fed pumped over 6 trillion dollars into the stock market buying stocks & junk bonds. nt

[iluvtennis]

6. Perfect. nt

[marieo1]

7. Just the facts!!

Davey D....this is why I love Democratic Underground - none of the BS that comes from all other media. I respect people being honest and telling it like it is. Corporations and people like DJT have been looting our economy for a long, long time. It has never been as bad as it is now, they have become bolder and bolder. They throw a few crumbs out to us and we shut up and go back to our struggling lives. Thanks!!

[crickets]

8. THIS is the truth. K&R

[malaise]

9. Perfect

Rec

[AllaN01Bear]

10. truth

[2naSalit]

11. Damn straight!

[ancianita]

12. Looting does not define American protest or protesters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd-protesters-condemn-opportunistic-looting-violence

He said: “This is what I’ve got to say to the people who are destroying things. If you really feel like you have to take an opportunity, like if you’re going to be opportunistic, something is wrong with you.

“If you cannot stand up and fight the good fight and you want to be a cheater and go ahead and take what we’re trying to do, something is wrong with you. Because what we’re trying to do is stand up for the basic right of humanity. And that’s what we’re trying to do and we’re trying to do in a peaceful way.”

...Joe Biden, his presumptive opponent at the polls in November, has spoken in support of peaceful protest.

On Sunday, mayors of cities affected by the violence voiced similar sentiments.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic mayor of Atlanta, told CBS’s Face the Nation: “I think that there is a place in America for peaceful protest, and we know that peaceful protests have had a history of changing things in this country.

“But it has to be organised and it has to be for a purpose. And when you have violent eruptions like we’ve seen across America, then we lose sight of even what we are talking about.”

[Scarsdale]

13. Also, all these expensive dinner parties

at the State Dept. given by Pompous Pompeo and his portly wife - at TAXPAYER expense. He is filling his coffers with campaign cash, so he can run for the WH in 2024.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Yep. That's for sure

[MoonlitKnight]

15. Plus millions of Americans have not received unemployment benefits

States are overwhelmed and incompetent or have systems designed not to pay benefits.

[Harker]

16. That was OUR money... stolen.

Republicant's are practically always on the wrong side of every issue or cultural matter of concern.

[Rebl2]

17. Amen to that!