Katie Porter hits ANOTHER home run.

[blm]

Link to tweet

[DURHAM D]

1. I bet she will be on Lawrence O'D tonight.

Hope so.

[FM123]

2. Please sit down!

Katie Porter is a rock star.

[renate]

3. I love her infinity to the power of infinity

I’m so proud to be a member of the same party that she is.

[soldierant]

56. I am too, and

equally proud to be a member of the same gender she is. And that her sister is.

[gristy]

4. "Nice little national airline we've got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it..."

Sounds like a threat to me.

But it's an empty threat. United SHOULD lay folks off if they don't have the business to support keeping them. And the gov't will provide unemployment benefits to those layed off. That's how this is supposed to work!

[dmr]

32. It sounds like extortion to me.

I agree with everything you said.

[moondust]

5. Hostage situation.

Call the police.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Actually

Extortion or Black Mail.....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Let United Airlines go bankrupt so better jobs and better companies can spring forth.

Too many of these big corporations are just parasites that funnel the money to execs and boards. Need more money going to those who actually produce.

[HarlanPepper]

10. What about flight attendants, ground crew etc.?

Fuck them and let them eat cake? You do realize these companies employ actual people who don’t belong to country clubs and drive expensive cars? So what about them?

[gristy]

11. Of course not.

Unemployment insurance. Extended unemployment insurance.

[HarlanPepper]

12. And then what?

Easy for you to say. Gee it’s interesting when real life collides with bumper sticker slogans.

[ahoysrcsm]

43. Extended unemployment benefits.

Sen Schumer was speaking about 4 months of full pay UI the other day. If the 2020 recession goes longer than that and a majority of people cannot find a job, I expect the Democrats will extend the benefits further. We are going into known territory, again.

[LakeArenal]

49. As great as extended UE benefits are

They do not support life. Believe me I know.

Also extended unemployment can ruin any retirement you have built knowing they are trying to eliminate SS.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. You don't think a better company will form to take up the slack?

[druidity33]

17. turn over

the company's assets to the employees. Make it a worker owned cooperative. Problem solved?

[treestar]

22. Bail them out instead of the company

[Turin_C3PO]

35. I'm with the Democrat, Katie Porter

on this issue.

[lostnfound]

40. Speaking quite personally, many many people will go bankrupt

Huge employer. I see your point but I’m very personally opposed to it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

46. Not a fan of 'trickle-down'; put the money in the worker's hand and stuff gets done.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. All those late buybacks like July 2019 were Buy High Sell Low. And they want to be rewarded?

Those CEOs should be fired by their boards for incompetence.

[LuvNewcastle]

15. A lot of CEOs and boards are made up of embezzlers.

They stuff their pockets with the company's money and then when the company hits a rough spot, there's no savings to keep the company afloat. But that's okay, the government will come along and bail the company out. These parasites are 100 times worse than any Cadillac-driving, fur-clad welfare queen.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

36. The "Cadillac-driving, fur clad welfare queen who was NOT a black woman...

but it worked for ignorant idiots who've ALWAYS wanted 2 blame POC & WOMEN 4 everything that's wrong with the world. I HATE TRUMP, ALL HIS ENABLERS, REAGAN & HIS MERRY BAND OF DROOLING ASSHOLES, the so-called evangelists who are preaching BLASPHEMY & doing their level best to steal as much as possible from the most idiotic of their followers, Bush 1&2, Darth Cheney, the kleptocrats AL OVER THIS PLANET, the sheldon adelsons, kochs & ALL the fuckers who've stolen elections, gerrymandered & lied us into this mess..with a PURPLE PASSION!!

[blm]

52. I concur.

[uponit7771]

8. VP Porter ? ... jus sayin,

[MFGsunny]

39. i Like It! If not that post, surely Biden administration can/will/should use her. n/t

[LakeArenal]

50. True. No primary baggage. Brilliant mind.

[Yavin4]

9. Bail out the laid off workers. Give them the money directly.

Don't negotiate with terrorists.

[scarletwoman]

13. "Don't negotiate with terrorists." Exactly!

[blm]

20. ✔️

[2naSalit]

51. +1

[bobbieinok]

14. Do you have video of her comments? Q

[blm]

19. It was her Twitter response.

[iluvtennis]

18. Kick. nt

[grantcart]

23. MS Porter never goes for a bunt or a sacrifice fly.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Hahaha. United Airlines should launch a GoFundMe page like we have to do when we need healthcare

Brilliant.

[NonPC]

25. Don't Threaten if You Aren't Prepared to Back It Up

I learned a long time ago in business -- don't threaten if you're not prepared to back it up. Is he bluffing? Let's find out.

Let United downsize to a level that their finances will allow as to survive. Isn't that what Capitalism is all about?

The laid off people will have to collect unemployment like the rest of America.

That's what happens when your too aggressive with your balance sheet and free cash flow.

Sorry.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. K&R for much truth.

Airline employees are no damn better than the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker.

KY..........

[stillcool]

26. why not buy them out..

rather than bail them out? Wouldn't it be something if corporations were replaced by businesses whose stock reflected the value of the company, rather than the corporation whose value is determined by its stock price.

[Volaris]

30. I'm fine with we the people owning publicly held and funded and govt administered companies

Airlines, Energy/Utilities, maybe a transportation company or 2..

A National Credit Union that makes simple interest mortgages to people, perhaps?

A HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY??

I'm good with all that.

[Volaris]

28. Hrmm. If they're argument is that they're so unprofitable as a private company,

Maybe they should be nationalized, so that We the People can our OUR OWN AIRLINE, and then we will actually get something out of out tax dollars that we're dumping into them.

No?

Didnt fucking think so.
So Bootstraps and the Free Market it is then.

Dont ask again.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. Heavens Katie, there's a socialist at the helm of one of our airlines!

KY..............

[Marcuse]

31. "What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget."

[IronLionZion]

33. Companies hold their employees for ransom to get money

I've seen this movie before

how about we give that money directly to the employees and not the companies?

Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression
“We are freezing the economy.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/

[gristy]

34. Great responses, everyone!

I just hope Pelosi and Schumer see it the same way.

[pattyloutwo]

37. I'm so thankful

For smart people like her (and Cuomo, Warren, Schiff, more!..) fighting for US citizens. Thank you!

[blm]

42. ✔️

Same here.

[Hekate]

38. Reminded me to send another donation. Thanks.

Another great Californian.

[blm]

45. You are the best!

Republicans want her gone.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. She is the queen of FACTS!! 👏🏾

[smirkymonkey]

44. +1000

You go, Katie Porter!

[PufPuf23]

47. Bailout or job cuts or NATIONALIZATION

The way to stabilize the economy and best deal with the pandemic is to 100% shut down the securities markets and, if money is inserted into corporations, the taxpayers take equity positions with the corporations.

Otherwise the effort of bailout $$$ will be abused just like in 2008-2009.

[TexasBushwhacker]

48. The downside of publicly traded companies

Anyone with a lick of sense can look up all the shitty things you do.

[Celerity]

53. Fuck Boeing as a privately run business, nationalise it and toss its entire board in prison

for systemic fraud and also building death trap planes.

Or just let it fail completely and still toss that lot in prison. Whatever makes the most long-term sense.

But the current board and all involved in the past fraud must go to prison. The line simply must be drawn somewhere and this seems like a good place. I would still love to see the vast majority of the heads of the mega banks locked up too. The US is utterly out of control at the top of pyramid. The entire American economy has been turned into a giant wealth extraction scheme for the top .01% and .001%, at damn near EVERY level.


2015 (I am sure it is much higher now with renitier raper Rump at the helm) figures

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/soi-a-ints-id1801.pdf

The rising fortunes of the top 1 percent of income-earners in the U.S. is drawing attention to questions of income inequality and fairness. But what is the exact financial threshold to be counted as a member of that group?

Answer: Individuals must have adjusted gross income of at least $480,930 per year, according to the IRS. Although the top 1 percent are relatively small in number -- just 1.4 million out of the nation's 141 million taxpayers -- they paid 39 percent of the country's total federal income tax, the agency said in a new report (The data is based on tax returns for 2015, the most recent year cited in the report.)

That dollar figure marks the minimum income to be counted among the top 1 percent, though most people in that category earn are more -- average annual income is $1.48 million. But that's a pittance compared with the fortunes of the top 0.01 and 0.001 percent, with average annual incomes of $35.1 million and $152 million, respectively.

[Soxfan58]

54. I love her!

Its alright my wife does too. Shes got spunk.

[joost5]

55. Sure, bail them out, WITH strict CONDITIONS /nt