The Rogue Scholar

Seems to be something about bills like this that make no sense to celebrate. #InflationReductionAct #Deficit #Neoliberalism #Austerity #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Biden #Democrats #Congress #MMT #Economics #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Follow @sdgrumbine on Twitter. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

Conflating doing MMT and policy is absolutely insane to say. MMT is a description of how the system works, so you can tell how well a given policy may work, but you NEVER do MMT. MMT allows you to see things clearly. But it is not policy with the lone exception of a Job Guarantee which we will discuss. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

I was at the Medicare for All Rally with #M4M4A on Saturday. I was both encouraged and saddened by things I realized and this stream will address the small and the large picture. The battle my seem like it is the establishment... but it starts at the people level supporting efforts like this... or not.

I really do not think that most folks understand neoliberalism nor how it shows its ugly face and why we must kill it. Student Debt is a prime case of this. As August 31 fast approaches and student debt is about to explode back onto the scene, recession already starting... this is gonna kill families ability to stay afloat. Destruction. https://www.metrotimes.com/news/what-americas-student-loan-de...

Sometimes it's painful, but one must take a real look at what society looks and behaves like and then ask "to get anything done, do we need a leader or a benevolent dictator?" Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

We will discuss Slipknot's Corey Taylor and his complete loss of hope for mankind and compare his idea of what it takes to keep hope alive and why some cannot fathom the need to make a cacophony to bring that change to a head. Time is short. Losing hope is going to happen more and more as we see performative, tone deaf responses to real world problems. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In A...

The latest images of space from the Webb Telescope are breathtaking. What a small planet we are on in the universe... yet we behave as if we are unable to do anything because we have no money... like sitting at a bus station without a ticket to ride. We need to use this as a means of opening the minds of those whose minds are closed. #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST #MMT #Macroeconomics #Neoliberali...

Rights and Opportunities are fading away like a game of musical chairs, we are going to be left out and left for dead. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

Happy Independence Day so they say. I see the digital facsimile of life full of alienation, isolation, destabilization, predation and a lack of knowledgeable support systems (including familial systems!) makes any framing of our colonized independence from a far away 17th century England kinda seem silly... We are trapped in a digital matrix that strives to trap us in convenience whilst predating...

When the World of Political Messaging and Organizing meets with the world of Macroeconomics, something crazy happens. Until we get this across both spaces, we stand absolutely zero chance to make progress. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

From student debt to black lives matter and the January 6th insurrection, we are trapped in false equivalences, invisible prisons and false choices that end in back and forth finger pointing. It's shameful and must end for our well-being. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war?s=r I love Hedges. He is a hero. His economics, however, are abysmal. So many repeat the bad economics like Richard Wolff and other headline activists and media hosts. It's tragic. Let's help them. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

Uniting is difficult because our self interests betray our class interests. When did we lose our ability to think in non-binary ways? Was it always this way? https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/inventing-black-and-white Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

So many want to have you change what you are doing to go with their way, even if it is empirically false. #StateByState #Medicare #Healthcare #LayerCake #GreenNewDeal #Taxes #MMT #RaceToTheBottom #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressInAction #RealProgressives Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

Its not a zero sum gain... until you get to solutions. We see many of the same problems... but what they propose is just completely... well... very opposite of what a leftist would or should I say "should" propose. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

A shit storm of propaganda and fake news will cause anyone to doubt anything... even in spite of their own eyes saying otherwise.

Coming into agreement with the facts. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

"Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, the Texas Department for Public Safety said. The 18-year-old gunman is dead, officials said. He shot his grandmother before the mass shooting, authorities say, and she remains hospitalized in critical condition. President Biden called on the US to turn its collective pain into poli...

Some things must simply be explained... Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

Say what you mean and mean what you say. #Activism #GreenNewDeal #ClimateChange #MMT #Buttigieg #MayoPete #Neoliberalism #Inflation #PriceGouging #BabyFormula #Priorities #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

When we don't really know where we came from, we don't learn the lessons from our most vital historical events and the overall transitions and false narratives keep us in bondage. #History #Economics #Propaganda #MMT #Weimar #Hyperinflation #Stalin #Media #Propaganda #Neoliberalism #IMF #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress...

Aren't you tired of reichwingers who say "Nothing is Free"? Me too. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

Steve goes Rogue to talk about American Exceptionalism. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

Just cuz... we are gonna kick it and read some important articles and also try to answer questions. #MMT #MonetarySovereignty #CurrencyIssuer #CurrencyUser #Taxes #Wray #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

What might one say to a neoliberal in power if in fact... they might be listening? Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube