QasimRashid

QasimRashid, 1 year ago to random

A quick history lesson. From 1940-1980:
•Wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax
•0 of them went broke from taxation
•0 of them left USA
•All remained exceedingly wealthy
•Manufacturing boomed
•The middle class was 62% of US economy (It's now 40% post 'trickle down scamenomics)
•We had the strongest middle class growth in US History

Let's do that again. Stop protecting billionaires. Start taxing them.
#TaxBillionaires

QasimRashid, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Need to point this out.

As a murderer stabbed a Muslim woman named Dr. Talat Khan to death, witnesses report that 17 Texans pulled out their firearms. 17! The murderer stabbed her, stopped to check her pulse, confirmed she was alive, & went back to stabbing her to death.

And 17 "good guys with guns" did nothing.

A reminder that the "good guy with a gun" myth is a propaganda point to sell more guns. It does nothing beyond an anecdote to save lives.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12688199/pulse-talat-khan-miles-fridrich-texas.html

QasimRashid, 10 months ago to random

EIon Musk’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $249B

Jeff Bezos’s Wealth
2009: $6B
2023: $153B

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $105B

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
Worker tax rate: 13%

Pay workers.
Tax Billionaires.
Save our economy.

QasimRashid, 3 months ago to random

Horrifying new reports that Israeli bombing killed at least 92 Palestinians overnight in Rafah, including the bombing of a kindergarten serving as a shelter for displaced people.

Israel declared Rafah a “Safe Zone” that would not be bombed. Rafah is the further south that Palestinians can go. How is this not a war crime?

This beyond horrific. Ceasefire NOW.

QasimRashid, 8 months ago to random

The Reaganomics trickle down scam has redistributed $50T from bottom 90% to top 1%.

If the minimum wage increased with inflation & corporate productivity it’d be $26/hr today.

Corporations annually steal $15B from workers and face zero meaningful accountability.

Think about these facts next time you hear an exploitative CEO of a blue collar retail store complain “People just don’t want to work anymore.”
#LaborDay

QasimRashid, 9 months ago to random

“AR Gov Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S.”

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Some white people were enslavers. Other white people were abolitionists. If you think teaching that accurate history “spreads hate”—then you’ll have to first explain why you associate more with enslavers than with abolitionists?🤔
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ap-african-american-history-hate-comments-rcna100657

QasimRashid, 7 months ago to random

Horrific. I am Beside myself.

In Plainfield, IL, a 71 year old man is in custody for stabbing to death an 6-year-old Palestinian child named Wadea Al-Fayoume & nearly killing his mother.😓

The murderer stabbed the child 26 times & yelled "you Muslims must die!"😳

No charges filed yet. Police are investigating.

Please be safe my friends. Be diligent and look out for each other. God help us.

https://abc7chicago.com/plainfield-il-breaking-news-lily-cache-road-will-county/13914218/

QasimRashid, 11 months ago to random

Barack Hussein Obama won as Barack Hussein Obama

Meanwhile…

Nimarata Nikki Randhawa had to run as Nikki Haley

Piyush Jindal had to run as Bobby Jindal

Rafael Edward Cruz had to run as Ted Cruz

Even Ronna Romney had to run as Ronna McDaniel

And don’t get me started on the 11-teen different names of George Santos

Point is, GOP claims that “Dems are obsessed with identity politics” is 100% projection.

QasimRashid, 10 months ago to random

A Republican got offended I called the founding U.S. citizens "colonizers,"—rebuking me that “the original 13 colonies were beacons of freedom.”

I asked him to repeat that part...slowly. Apparently "colonies" is respectful—but calling those who built colonies "colonizers" is not.🤔

Also, I'm sure the enslaved, Native Americans, women, and anyone not a WASP wealthy land owner would likely disagree with that whole "beacon of freedom" part.

QasimRashid, 7 months ago to random

I stand by what I've long said. Attacks on civilians are never justified. Hamas terrorist attacks, which have killed 200 Israeli civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, and horrific. My deepest condolences to the loved ones of those lost.

Furthermore, Hamas is not Palestine. Israel's attacks, which have killed 230 Palestinian civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, & horrific. Israel now cutting off electricity to 2M+ Gazan civilians is collective punishment & violates international law.

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QasimRashid, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing opulence.

Smh. We don’t have to live like this.

QasimRashid, 6 months ago to random

To recap…as of today:

IDF bombs have killed 10,000 Palestinian civilians in 30 days—which is more than the number of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian bombing in 600+ days. Ukraine’s population is 22X Gaza’s population.

IDF dropped as many bombs on Gaza in 30 days as USA dropped on Afghanistan in 12 months. Afghanistan is 1788X larger than Gaza.

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QasimRashid, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Wow. Rep Ro Khanna to intro major bill to increase congressional & judicial accountability:
•12 year Congress term limit
•18 year SCOTUS term limit
•Judicial code of ethics
•Ban Congress from trading stocks
•Ban Corporate & PAC donations

Count me in!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/ro-khanna-unveils-blueprint-term-limits-stock-trading-ban

QasimRashid, 6 months ago to random

I posted that no Pakistani American has ever been elected to Congress & I’d be the first ever.

A not insignificant number of people responded upset that I ignored Rashida Tlaib—the first Palestinian American in Congress.🤔

So—to clarify—Palestine & Pakistan are 2 different nations.

Cheers!

QasimRashid, 5 months ago to random

The head of Israel's Metula Council is calling to send Gazans to refugee camps & make Gaza 'resemble Auschwitz.’

Netanyahu invoked Amalek to launch the destruction of Gaza & is boasting about blocking a Palestinian state.

1.9 million Gazans are displaced, 20,000 are dead, IDF is snipering Christians in church, bull dozing refugees in tents, bombing hospitals, & killing Palestinians in the West Bank.

I just don’t get how anyone can see all this atrocity & conclude the answer is More war.😓

QasimRashid, 10 months ago to random

From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

QasimRashid, 10 months ago to random

We don't have a cancer drug shortage
We don't have an energy shortage
We don't have an insulin shortage
We don't have a housing shortage
We don't have a teacher shortage
We don't have a labor shortage
We don't have a food shortage

We have a billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny us our basic human rights.

QasimRashid, 6 months ago to random

BREAKING: Israel military confirms it bombed Gaza’s largest refugee camp—resulting in IDF mass killing Palestinian refugees. Horrific.

We demand a Ceasefire. It is a violation of international human rights law to kill refugees & civilians.
#CeasefireNOW
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/middleeast/jabalya-blast-gaza-intl/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2023-10-31T18%3A09%3A45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN

QasimRashid, 10 months ago to random

Worker: I can't live on $7.25/hr

GOP: So go to college

W: I can't afford $100K tuition

GOP: Take out loans

W: I can't afford to pay these at 8% interest

GOP: No one forced you to go to college

W: But you just said—

Billionaire: I NEED MORE MONEY!

GOP: Here's a $2T Tax Cut

QasimRashid, 2 months ago to random

In short—USA's response to starvation in Gaza is to cut UNRWA funding, arm the occupying army with another $3.8B, ignore ICJ ruling that mandates Israel must provide aid, & ignore Article 55 of the 4th Geneva convention that mandates an occupying army ensures aid gets through.😐

This isn't just. This isn't sustainable. This is a crime against humanity.

QasimRashid, 10 months ago to random

Here’s my big announcement!

As a human rights lawyer, I’ve spent my career supporting DV survivors, asylum seekers, and demanding economic, social, and climate justice.

I’m running for U.S. Congress in the district I grew up in because these crises are getting worse—and justice can’t wait.

Watch our launch video here: https://youtu.be/qvng-I2KcGQ

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QasimRashid, 9 months ago to random

Trump threatens the POTUS, judges, & prosecutors that "I'M COMING AFTER YOU."

DeSantis threatens anyone labeled "deep state" that he will "slit their throats."

A MAGA country singer is touring on a song about lynching Black people.

This is what fascism looks like. This is GOP.

QasimRashid, 9 months ago to random

Repeating this. I’m Muslim. I don’t feel attacked when people condemn Taliban b/c Taliban do not rep Muslims & I proudly take the lead in condemning Taliban terror.

If you’re MAGA white & feel personally attacked when we condemn white supremacy terror—you’re telling on yourself.

QasimRashid, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Juneteenth should remind us that human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. The US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers who lost their “property” but not to the formerly enslaved who lost their lives, was legal. Indeed, prison slavery is still legal today.

Do not let legality & power be your measure of morality & justice.

QasimRashid, 8 months ago to random

Labor Day reminder: If the min wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $26 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $19/hour from working Americans for 60 years.

That’s generational theft from the working class to keep people in poverty.

We don't suffer a lack of resources—but an excess of greed.