Posted on 09/16/2019 1:15:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich warned Sunday that Americans are getting so used to President Donald Trump’s troubling behavior that they fail to see how truly “dangerously unstable” he is.
In a column published Sunday in The Guardian, Reich pointed to Trump’s days-long advocacy of his inaccurate weather forecast that said Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian. He even went so far as to promote a map with a circle awkwardly drawn around Alabama to make it look like the state was in the hurricane’s path.
“We’ve had presidents trying to cover up a sexual liaison with an intern and a botched burglary, but never have we had one who went to such lengths to cover up an inaccurate weather forecast,” Reich wrote. “Alabama being hit by a hurricane? Friends, this is not rational behavior.”
Then there was the planned — and canceled — secret meeting with the Taliban just days before the 18th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, and the cancelled trip to Denmark after the nation derided Trump’s offer to purchase Greenland.
“Hello? Greenland wasn’t for sale,” Reich wrote. “The U.S. no longer buys populated countries.”
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Little tiny suits and platform shoes
Reich has a serious problem. He can’t see above President Trump’s knee caps. His views on everything seem to be very short sighted.
Per Wiki
Reich is a political commentator on programs including Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN Tonight, Anderson Cooper’s AC360, Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CNBC’s Kudlow & Company, and APM’s Marketplace.
He served in the administrations of Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was Clinton’s Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997(When they were shipping USA jobs to China). He was a member of President Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory board.(When the market was crashing)
Reich has been the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC BERKELEY since January 2006.
Bill Clinton incorporated Reich’s thinking into his 1992 campaign platform, “Putting People First”, and after being elected invited Reich to head his economic transition team. Reich later joined the administration as Secretary of Labor. During his tenure, he implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), successfully lobbied to increase the minimum wage, lobbied to pass the School-to-Work Jobs Act, and to integrate all job-training and job-displacement programs so workers who lost their jobs could get access to all the help they needed to get new ones that paid at least as much as the old.
In addition, Reich used the office as a platform for focusing national attention on the need to help American workers to adapt to the new economy. He popularized the term “corporate welfare”—arguing that the nation could get the money it needed to retrain people and move them from welfare to work by cutting “aid for dependent corporations”. He advocated that the country provide more opportunities for workers to learn technological skills.
n 1996, between Clinton’s re-election and second inauguration, Reich decided to leave the department to spend more time with his sons, then in their teen years. He published his experiences working for the Clinton administration in Locked in the Cabinet. After publication of the book, Reich received criticism for embellishing events with invented dialogue. The paperback release of the memoir revised or omitted the inventions.
In 2002, he ran for Governor of Massachusetts. He also published an associated campaign book, I’ll Be Short. Reich was the first Democratic candidate for a major political office to support same-sex marriage. He also pledged support for abortion rights and strongly condemned capital punishment.
In 2004, he published Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America, a book on how liberals can forcefully argue for their position in a country increasingly dominated by what he called “radcons”, or radical conservatives.
On April 18, 2008, Reich endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.
On February 26, 2016, he endorsed Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
In February 2017, Reich stated that he would not rule out that violence at UC Berkeley against Donald Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos was a right-wing false flag for Trump to strip universities of federal funding. This idea was described as “phantasmagorical” by The Washington Post.
Reich also supports an unconditional and universal basic income. On the eve of a June 2016 popular vote in Switzerland on basic income, he declared that countries will have to introduce this instrument sooner or later.
Since shortly after the Trump’s 2017 inauguration, Reich began producing a “Resistance Report” program, offering contextual analysis of latest White House and Cabinet activities, typically a 15- to 30-minute presentation, available on social media sites like Facebook and YouTube.
Every few months, the pip squeaks.
He projecteth too much.....typical little communist...with emphasis on little.
Apparently he has found a field he is worse at than economics?
He’s more “Third Reich” than he is “Robert Reich”...
I didn’t realize Robert ‘Baguette’ Reich was still around. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/clinton-crony-poses-nude
LOLlololololol!!!!!
I was talking about skeletons...too funny.
Americans? Hey dope,you mean democrats,American love President Trump!
Yes but he has a very low center of gravity. For this reason, he is quite stable, especially for a professor.
Like the angry little drawf in Don’t Look Now!
Reich has been dangerously unstable for decades and he is getting worse.
Who other than 2ndDivisionVet reads the Huffington Post?
Third Reich is typical DIM / LIB lunatic who has hidden in government positions cleverly getting paid with taxpayers’ money. This allows him to spout his lunacy while having a high income. He is a pompous a** who will go down in history as a nitwit loser who only spouts fraudulent ideas. What an absolute putz. No one listens to this tiny oaf.
There's "Little Man Syndrome," and then there's Robert Reich.
He’s been called far worse.
Back to removal on crazy grounds.
White supremacy is burnt out.
Merry-go-Round will be back.
I'll bet he's a money supporter of "Pedos Against Trump 2020".
once again the malignant dwarf speaks. Pat him on his head and send him back to the kiddie table.
Based on the headline, I think he really means Biden.
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