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No one can argue with this good news from Rashida Tlaib. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/12/18661193/lead-pipes-paint-flint-michigan-usa-cost-fix "We’ve grown too daunted to solve America’s lead crisis because of the sheer amount of money necessary to clean it up. But the fact that it’s a really big problem — one that does inordinate harm to children, in particular — is exactly why it’s worth trying to solve. As the 2020 Democratic presidential primary heats up, and candidates stake out their policy positions, every candidate should propose a solution. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, to his credit, is proposing a big, comprehensive plan to tackle lead. But the amount of money he’s proposing to dedicate to the problem, while large compared to today’s inadequate efforts, is still relatively modest compared to the scale of the problem. We know lead is a dangerous neurotoxin. Regulators years ago forced an end to its routine use as an additive to paint and gasoline or its use as a metal of choice in water pipes. But many old houses are full of old lead paint. Lead water pipes run beneath the streets of many of our houses. Most insidiously of all, though our cars no longer spew lead into the atmosphere, all that old lead from the gasoline of the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s didn’t vanish. It settled on the ground, where it contaminates the dirt and soil of every place that had a lot of automobile traffic during the generation following World War II." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJuly 1

GOOD NEWS! Progressive candidate Jamaal Bowman destroys Democratic incumbent Eliot Engel in the NY-16 primary. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/24/jamaal-bowman-eliot-engel-new-york-primary/ "IN WHAT LOOKS to be a major victory for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal from the Bronx, is set to oust Rep. Eliot Engel — the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee — in the New York primary. “Eliot Engel — and I’ll say his name once — used to say that he was a thorn in the side of Donald Trump,” Bowman said in a de facto victory speech on Tuesday night. “But you know what Donald Trump is more afraid of than anything else? A black man with power.” Despite a last-ditch effort to save the hawkish Democrat, including an endorsement by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bowman came away with a 24-point lead early Wednesday in the primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District — which includes portions of the Bronx and Westchester County, and the town of New Rochelle — pending mail-in ballots. Pro-Israel groups also scrambled to save the 16-term incumbent, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on his reelection, including a TV ad that attacked Bowman for failing to pay some of his state taxes over the years. This was Engel’s first competitive primary challenge since 2000." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 24

The GOP could lose this Texas district to progressive candidate, Donna Imam. She joins John Iadarola to break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Donate to Donna Imam’s campaign here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/donnaimamtx Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.votefordonna.com/why/ "People who work for a living are America’s biggest assets. They get up every single morning and dedicate their day to creating value for this country and its businesses, big and small. Even though they create enormous wealth for America, and their hard work is essential to our economic success, most have been left behind. Right now, half of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, in debt, with no path to a higher paying job. Many can’t afford to get health care even if they work full time. College tuition is out of reach for most working families. How do you go to school or get skills for a higher paying job if you’re on your feet all day trying to make ends meet just to survive? You can’t. …" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 22

Educator, historian, activist, and mother, Thearse McCalmon dismantles the New York political establishment as she runs for NY Senate. She joins John Iadarola to break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Donate to Thearse McCalmon's campaign here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/thearse Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://thearseforsenate.com/ "“WE ARE AT A CROSSROAD IN NEW YORK. PEOPLE ARE LEAVING OUR STATE DUE TO CAREER POLITICIANS SELLING OUT ON US - UNAFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE & HOUSING, WAGES NOT KEEPING UP WITH STANDARD OF LIVING, AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CRUMBLING AROUND US. MY NAME IS THEARSE MCCALMON. I AM AN EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, ACTIVIST, MOTHER, AND GRANDMOTHER. I AM ASKING TO BE YOUR NEXT STATE SENATOR. I’M HERE TO BRING THE CHANGE NEW YORK DESERVES. I AM NOT PART OF THEIR CLUB, AND NOR WILL I EVER BE. THAT IS MY PROMISE TO YOU.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 15

Bold progressive, Sen. Edward J. Market roasts status-quo, democratic golden boy Joseph P. Kennedy III. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/08/metro/kennedy-markey-tangle-senate-debate/ "Senator Edward J. Markey and Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III unleashed their sharpest attacks against one another in an intense debate Monday night, each characterizing the other as ineffective, as the opponents clamor for attention amid national turmoil that has pushed their race to the back of most voters’ minds. An animated Markey — who sidestepped almost every opportunity to criticize Kennedy at last week’s debate — repeatedly assailed his 39-year-old challenger as not progressive enough to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate. He slammed Kennedy for working for “right wing” Republican District Attorney Michael O’Keefe on Cape Cod after law school, for being slow to embrace Medicare for All, and for failing to mention climate change when he delivered the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address in 2018." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 9

The looters identities have been confirmed. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/irs-fails-to-pursue-thousands-of-rich-tax-cheats-watchdog-says "The Internal Revenue Service is letting hundreds of thousands of high-income individuals duck their tax obligations, according to a government watchdog report. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that 879,415 high-income individuals who didn’t file returns cumulatively failed to pay $45.7 billion in taxes from 2014 to 2016 and that the agency hasn’t tried to collect from many of those taxpayers. The IRS didn’t put 326,579 of the cases into its enforcement system, and it closed 42,601 of the cases without ever working on them. “In addition, the remaining 510,235 high-income nonfilers, totaling estimated tax due of $24.9…" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 2

US schools out Betsy Devos’ destruction of American education. John Iadarola and Marc Porter Magee break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://50can.org/about-us/mission/ "We are guided by four foundational beliefs that make up our vision for the road ahead. We believe that growing the ranks of citizen-advocates will change the trajectory of children’s lives. We believe in the power of evidence-based policy and the power of open advocacy. We believe that nationwide change depends on a network of local advocates. We believe that to improve education for all students, we need an unwavering commitment and a clear-eyed approach." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 2

What will future US education and schooling look like following the chaos created by this pandemic? John Iadarola and Marc Porter Magee break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://50can.org/about-us/mission/ "We are guided by four foundational beliefs that make up our vision for the road ahead. We believe that growing the ranks of citizen-advocates will change the trajectory of children’s lives. We believe in the power of evidence-based policy and the power of open advocacy. We believe that nationwide change depends on a network of local advocates. We believe that to improve education for all students, we need an unwavering commitment and a clear-eyed approach." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJune 2

Progressive’s past informs the future of affordable housing in NY-15. John Iadarola and Samelys Lopez break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://lopezforthepeople.com/ "Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the South Bronx by a Dominican mother, Samelys grew up in the NYC family shelter system and faced many of the challenges her Bronx neighbors experience - housing scarcity, domestic violence, food insecurity, economic anxiety, underfunded public schools, and the indignities of the welfare system. As a community organizer, Samelys works with grassroots groups to turn their activism into electoral power. Samelys has dedicated her professional life to the affordable housing field, where she helped build homes in some of New York City’s most underserved communities, including her home borough of the Bronx. Despite going to underfunded Bronx schools in University Heights, Samelys López was able to obtain a degree from Columbia University’s Barnard College. Samelys was then selected for a competitive fellowship at the National Association of Elected Officials (NALEO). At the conclusion of NALEO, Samelys was placed at Congressmember José E. Serrano’s Bronx district office where she assisted with constituent housing in her role as a Congressional Aide. After working for Congressmember José E. Serrano, Samelys enrolled at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service and graduated with a Masters in Urban Planning with a focus on Housing and Community Development. Samelys interned at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) where she gained experience in providing affordable housing for New Yorkers." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 29

This congressional race will open the progressive floodgates. John Iadarola and Alex Morse break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://alexmorseforcongress.com/ "Alex’s story in the 1st congressional district starts in a Holyoke housing project where his parents met and fell in love. Both his mother and father grew up in poverty. Alex’s parents started a family as teenagers and neither had a chance to attend college. They worked tirelessly with what they had, struggling from job to low-wage job on public assistance in public housing. Over time they were able to make their way into the working class. Now 33 years down the road, Alex’s father heads to the same meat packing company in Springfield every day of the week for work. And Alex still recalls the neighborhood family daycare his mom ran at his childhood home. Alex’s parents worked hard to provide opportunities for their children — Alex and his two older brothers — that they didn’t have. Alex’s gratitude for his parents, and for the city of Holyoke, led to his passion for public service. The gratitude he has to his parents, and to Holyoke, became a passion for public service. At 16, Alex came out to his parents, and their response of unconditional love and support gave him the courage to bring his whole self into this life, and into this work." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 14

Public educator fights for a progressive future in NY-16. John Iadarola and Jamaal Bowman break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.bowmanforcongress.com/ "Jamaal is a middle school principal and has been a teacher and public school advocate for twenty years. He has seen firsthand how low-income families are being locked out of opportunity by a system that’s rigged for the wealthy and privileged few. ‍Jamaal was born and raised in New York City and spent his early years in public housing and later in rent-controlled apartments. He didn’t have much growing up but his mother provided him all that he needed: love, a stable family, and a sense of community. ‍Jamaal now lives in Yonkers with his wife and three kids. His approach to being a teacher and principal at a Bronx middle school has been grounded in service, love, and empowering each person to transform our communities. Over the past ten years, he has led community organizing efforts against standardized testing, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the corporate-driven privatization and chronic underfunding of our public schools." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksMay 13

Meet the progressive candidate who is surging in Harlem, rallying people young & old in the fight for universal basic income & more. John Iadarola and James Felton Keith break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Learn more about James Felton Keith here: https://www.jamesfeltonkeith.com/bio "Growing up in Detroit in the middle of its economic demise, James was forever riddled by a place and time that seemed to be synonymous with the modern ruin of the industrial age. With the odds against him, his family was strong enough to insist on finding education through curiosity. His sister is an award winning educator. She Co-Founded the Keith Institute, but she used to be annoying 😘 . His mom is a union steward at SEIU Local 517. His dad is a financial planner. They unknowingly taught James and his sister the value of a dollar by giving them an allowance for school grades with outdated check books. They had to write and balance checks for things they thought they'd like to buy with the allowances that they earned. James' parents were just looking for a way to stop the constant ask for things. He says that he considered himself an entrepreneur, before he was familiar with the word. His mother tells a story of his suspension from school for selling Now And Later candy to his classmates in the 1st grade. The Detroit Public School's principal at McKinney Elementary told her that James would be a drug dealer. It turns out that he was only selling candy to make new friends to fight a bully from the orphanage next door. And so they did. JFK has been straddling the fence of entrepreneurship and politics for the 30 years since... And beating up bullies has become a sort of pastime." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksFebruary 14

Graduates of historically black colleges may be paying more for loans according to a watchdog group. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/05/802904167/watchdog-group-minority-college-graduates-may-pay-higher-interest-rates "Financial firms may be discriminating against people based on where they went to college, a watchdog group says. In particular, the group found that a lender named Upstart appears to be charging higher interest rates on student loans to graduates of historically black or predominantly Hispanic colleges. A lot more people are getting loans these days from a new breed of lenders known as fintechs, or financial technology firms. And some of these lenders factor in where loan applicants went to college. "It really raised some alarm flags," said Kat Welbeck, the civil rights counsel at the nonprofit Student Borrower Protection Center. So her group decided to run a test. It chose a lender called Upstart, in part because it's a fairly prominent fintech that says it considers educational data. And the group was able to easily apply and get loan offers on its website. The group applied for dozens of loans online — posing as a 24-year-old man. It said he lives in New York, works as a financial analyst and makes $50,000 a year. Each time the group applied for a loan, it kept a whole range of factors constant." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksFebruary 12

Trump is screwing you over with his new budget proposal.February 10

These wealth inequality facts will shock you! John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/20/worlds-22-richest-men-wealthier-than-all-the-women-in-africa-study-finds "The world’s 22 richest men have more combined wealth than all 325 million women in Africa, according to a study. Women and girls across the globe contribute an estimated £8.28tn ($10.8tn) to the global economy with a total of 12.5bn hours a day of unpaid care work, a figure more than three times the worth of the global tech industry, claims an Oxfam report published on Monday ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The charity says women around the world, especially those living in poverty, do more than three-quarters of all unpaid care work, which is chronically undervalued and taken for granted by businesses and governments alike. Ageing populations, cuts in public spending, and the climate crisis will exacerbate gender and economic inequality, the report warns. “When 22 men have more wealth than all the women in Africa combined, it’s clear that our economy is just plain sexist,” said Oxfam GB’s chief executive, Danny Sriskandarajah.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksJanuary 23

Emma Vigeland breaks down Trump’s obsession with the stock market and why it’s a poor indicator of overall economic performance.December 30

Donald Trump cheats his own base as his economic touts mean nothing for the majority of the public. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/19/trump-economy-americans-voters-unemployment “The award for this year’s Biggest Backhanded Compliment to Trump goes to White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who recently predicted a Trump victory in 2020 because “people will vote for somebody they don’t like if they think it’s good for them”. Trump is the least popular president to run for re-election in the history of polling but Mulvaney thinks Americans will vote for him anyway because unemployment has hit a 50-year low, wages are rising and economic growth exceeds 3%. A CNN poll released in early May shows 56% of Americans approve Trump’s handling of the economy. This is making Democrats nervous. No president since the second world war has failed to be re-elected during a good economy. “What Democrats have to be most worried about is the economy,” says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. It is possible, of course, that the economy will take a dive before election day, especially in light of Trump’s trade wars and the global economic slowdown. But it’s more likely that the recovery that began in 2009 will continue, even though Trump isn’t responsible for it." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksDecember 6

Trump steals food from millions of Americans. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport? sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/food-stamps.html "Hundreds of Thousands Are Losing Access to Food Stamps The Agriculture Department gave its final approval to the first of three rules that are ultimately expected to cut more than three million from the food stamp rolls." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksDecember 5

Trump is kicking Americans off of food stamps.December 4

The sad myth about working hard in America. John Iadarola and Daniel Markovits break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/548174/the-meritocracy-trap-by-daniel-markovits/ "A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksNovember 15

This billionaire is very passionate about lower taxes.November 5

Fox News gives a ridiculous take on Millenials. John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/fox-business-panel-suggests-millennials-should-worry-about-inheriting-wealth-instead "CONNELL MCSHANE (GUEST HOST): So you might not have thought this, but millennials could actually become the richest generation ever, and of course, it's thanks to their parents. A new study out showing that millennials are set to inherit $68 trillion from their parents by the year 2020, and this is right up your alley, Chris, this kind of thing. Millennials get a bad rap, and then wonder what they'll do with the money. Maybe people will start asking. But this is something else. It's already, by the way, a lot. There's 618,000 millennial millionaires apparently out there, according to these numbers. CHRIS HOGAN (AUTHOR): Yeah. This is -- I mean, we're about to go through one of the largest wealth transfers in history. And if these millennials don't have a game plan and don't understand how to handle it -- MCSHANE: You see a business opportunity for yourself. HOGAN: This is going to be a very short transfer window. Meaning that the opportunity to go out and invest in things they don't understand, not setting up their next generation. This is the mindset. Legacies don't happen by accident." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksOctober 29

Jesse Watters can’t hide his elitism during this Fox News segment. Brett Erlich and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.mediamatters.org/five/foxs-jesse-watters-doesnt-tip "MARTHA MACCALLUM (GUEST CO-HOST): The thing that really tips me off is the iPad thing that they hold up in your face after they give you coffee and say, "Do you want to tip me 10, 15, or 20%?" And just putting -- JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Oh yeah, right in front of them. MACCALLUM: I hate that. I think that's rude. WATTERS: Yeah. I'm not afraid to go zero right in their face. GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Of course, Jesse. WATTERS: Well I mean all you're doing is handing me coffee." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksOctober 18

Fox & Friends guest applauds progressives. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/fox-friends-host-gets-unexpected-lesson-on-wealth-inequality-from-ohio-diner/ "A “Fox & Friends” host got an unexpected lesson on wealth inequality from a retired man eating breakfast in an Ohio diner. Pete Hegseth visited a diner Wednesday in Columbus, where he encountered a few fans of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) the morning after the latest Democratic presidential debate. “I think she makes a lot of sense,” said Bill, a longtime Democrat sipping coffee in the diner. “You know, when she brought up that billionaires and taxing them after about $50 million, two cents of every dollar that they’ve made after, it’s nothing to them, and it would help so many people here.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksOctober 16

An angry New Yorker attacks homeless. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://gothamist.com/news/angry-queens-residents-shout-down-plans-for-homeless-shelter-i-hope-someone-burns-it-down "A community hearing on Monday night over a planned homeless shelter in Glendale, Queens was drowned out by opponents of the shelter, who shouted down city officials and residents who attempted to defend the facility. Hundreds of angry community residents packed the auditorium of Christ The King High School in Middle Village to denounce the plan to build a new shelter to house 200 adult men at 78-16 Cooper Avenue. The facility, part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to build 90 new homeless shelters and expand 30 existing sites, would be an employment shelter, meaning residents would need to qualify by having a job to stay there. Community Chairperson Vincent Arcuri Jr. moderated as a stream of speakers came to the microphones. Some raised widely-held concerns—including that the shelter is within a mile of several schools. Others were simply vitriolic." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksOctober 9

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helps Trump supporters more than Trump with this new proposal. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxpan/heres-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-massive-plan-to-address-poverty-in-america "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just unveiled another ambitious policy package — this one geared toward lifting more Americans out of poverty — at a time when other buzzy proposals like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal are becoming something of a litmus test for progressive 2020 Democrats. "One of the things that we can get done is build popular support in acknowledging how bad the problem already is. In doing so, we can actually begin to fundamentally address those problems," the 29-year-old freshman Democrat from New York told NPR before the package was officially revealed Wednesday. Ocasio-Cortez, a bogeyman of the right, has introduced or endorsed many of the policies that are now key to progressive candidates’ platforms." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksSeptember 25

Bernie Sanders’ wealth tax plan is better and bolder than that of Elizabeth Warren. John Iadarola and Emma Vigeland break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/bernie-sanders-proposes-wealth-tax-after-plan-from-elizabeth-warren.html "Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled a tax on wealth Tuesday as he aims to cut income inequality and fund his sprawling social programs. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate’s proposal follows a similar plan from Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has made a wealth tax a centerpiece of her White House campaign. But the measure from Sanders, who has long railed against an economic system that he says favors corporations and the rich, would tax the richest Americans’ assets more heavily than his rival’s. The Sanders campaign said the levy would apply to net worth above $32 million and raise an estimated $4.35 trillion over the next 10 years. It plans to put the funds toward an affordable housing plan, universal child care and “Medicare for All” — the candidate’s signature proposal. The campaign said the tax would cut the wealth of billionaires in half over 15 years. In a pair of tweets after he released the proposal, Sanders said “billionaires should not exist.” He added: “We are going to tax their extreme wealth and invest in working people.”" #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksSeptember 24

Pete Davidson curses out “privileged” students in the audience mid-show. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-davidson-students-ucf_n_5d656a1de4b022fbceb20d6b “Comedian Pete Davidson went off on a crowd of college students during a show at the University of Central Florida, calling them “privileged little assholes” for having their phones out. The “Saturday Night Live” star was headlining a stand-up show at the Orlando school Monday night when the sight of audience members holding phones sent him on an expletive-ridden tear. “Don’t fucking ruin the show for people who actually want to be here,” shouted Davidson, as seen in a video taken by an audience member. Davidson, 25, went on to tell the audience to “fucking grow up, OK?” “It says no phones,” he said, adding: “I have to have my fucking boy patrol you guys like you’re 5 years old? That’s fucking embarrassing.” The audience initially reacted to Davidson’s tirade with laughter. But as he continued to lambast the crowd, the reception appeared to shift. “Don’t you want adults to respect us? Don’t you want your parents to, like, be proud of you? You know how fucking embarrassing it is to be our age and walk out and knows everybody thinks you’re a fucking idiot? Grow the fuck up,” he continued. At one point he grumped: “That’s why the world is gonna end in 25 years, because you’re all fucking retarded.” UCF officials told The Hollywood Reporter they were not pleased with Davidson’s language.” #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksAugust 28

Trump's tax cuts are too good to be true and here is what he doesn't want you to know. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/21/20826685/trump-payroll-tax-cuts-capital-gains-recession-economy "The White House keeps floating the idea of more tax cuts. You should be skeptical of that. Amid growing concerns about a rocky economy and the White House’s attempts to downplay them, President Donald Trump and his aides have, yet again, suggested a new round of tax reductions may be on the horizon. Their messaging on it hasn’t been entirely consistent — Trump has reversed himself at least once on the matter already this week — but potential tax cut season is in the air. While speaking with reporters on Tuesday, the president said his administration is “always looking at the capital gains tax [and] payroll tax” cuts as options on the table. “Payroll tax is something that we think about and a lot of people would like to see that,” he said. The remarks came as somewhat of a surprise because the day before, White House aides had denied a Washington Post report that the White House was kicking around the idea of a payroll tax cut. Then on Wednesday, Trump flipped his position and said he’s not considering any tax cuts at all. “I just don’t see any reason to,” he said. But on Thursday, the White House switched positions yet again. Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, said in an interview on Fox Business Network that tax cuts may be on the agenda later down the line — namely, in the lead-up to the 2020 election. “You may very well see a new rollout of additional ... middle-class tax relief and small-business tax relief,” he said." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksAugust 23

Bernie Sanders and Cardi B talk about wages, jobs, and inequality in America. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/ Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOIN Subscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/entertainment/cardi-b-bernie-sanders-wages-trnd/index.html "Cardi B met with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to discuss wages, unions and jobs. The Bronx rapper shared a clip from her discussion with the Vermont senator on her Instagram Tuesday night. "A couple of weeks ago I asked my followers if you all had the chance to ask a Democratic candidate a question, what would that question be?" she wrote in a video caption for her 49 million followers. "The topic that was mentioned the most by all of you was about raising MINIMUM WAGE." In the video, she tells him how difficult it is for some people to survive on their wages. "Like, for example me, as a New Yorker, not now, but you know, when I was not famous, I just felt like no matter how many jobs I get, I wasn't able to make ends meet," she said. "Like, I wasn't able to pay my rent, get transportation and eat." Sanders said that's an issue in America, adding tens of millions are living on what he described as starvation wages." #TheDamageReport #JohnIadarola #TheYoungTurksAugust 14

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