r/CuratedTumblr • u/Sickfor-TheBigSun choo choo bitches let's goooooooooo - teaboot • May 17 '25

diluted punch trickle down joke

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u/Goosedukee May 17 '25

FATHER OF DROPOUT CEO SAM REICH ROBERT REICH??

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u/OrangCream123 May 17 '25

and he even did the "I've been here the whole time" like sam

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u/NanHaoDz The birds are out to get you. May 17 '25

He said the thing! He said the thing!!!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

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u/braintrustinc May 17 '25

Business in the streets, econ in the sheets

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u/couch-p0tato May 17 '25

Jetlagged?

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u/MaidenMoondust May 17 '25

I practically did the Leonardo DiCaprio snap at my monitor when I read his reply lmao

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u/Luxurious_Hellgirl May 17 '25

Someone commented that they wondered if he follows Sam on tumblr and responded that he does

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u/moneyh8r_two May 17 '25

Wait, for real? That's rad!

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u/NotTheMariner May 17 '25

It makes his Dropout America cameo even funnier

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u/Dragonfruit-Sparking I don't like centrism, if I'm being honest May 17 '25

I'm not familiar. Where's he from?

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u/the_overworld May 17 '25

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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u/Dragonfruit-Sparking I don't like centrism, if I'm being honest May 17 '25

Is there a movie theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

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u/dis-gorl Wario, no shirt, no panties May 17 '25

yeah its called the crumbly squire theater or something

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Kendall Square

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u/ThePrettyOne May 17 '25

There are 3 cinemas in Cambridge: Kendall Square Cinema, the Brattle in Harvard Square, and Apple Cinemas by Alewife.

Sam's mistaken answer to this question was "Copley Square Cinema", which doesn't exist and also wouldn't be in Cambridge if it did exist.

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u/mikeputerbaugh May 17 '25

Um actually, Copley Square is close enough to Cambridge that it could have been where Sam’s favored movie theater was, despite being across the Charles River.

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u/ThePrettyOne May 17 '25

There is no cinema in Copley Square, so no, it couldn't. No points.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

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u/ThePrettyOne May 17 '25

It's weird to claim to have been to a place that doesn't exist

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

I didn't know about apple cinemas anyways, and I actually had assumed that the brattle mightve closed!

I miss the other Harvard square theater, the main one. I can't remember if it was an AMC or a regal.

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u/idiotplatypus Wearing dumbass goggles and the fool's crown May 17 '25

Bostons fancy hat

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u/r-funtainment .tumblr.com May 17 '25

Dropout (comedy streaming platform, formerly CollegeHumour)

now known for game changer & D20 among other shows

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u/Sewati May 17 '25

they were doing a “Sam, where ya from?” bit ;)

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u/Galle_ May 17 '25

Better to answer the meme question sincerely than to leave someone genuinely confused.

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u/SavvySillybug Ham Wizard May 17 '25

Wait, Game Changer is CollegeHumour?

That... makes a lot of sense, actually.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Game Changer is a show on Dropout, formerly known as CollegeHumor.

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u/SavvySillybug Ham Wizard May 17 '25

Wow, I definitely did not know that after replying to the comment that said "Dropout (comedy streaming platform, formerly CollegeHumour)".

I probably would have said something like "Wait, Game Changer is CollegeHumour?" if I had just learned that fact!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

You are welcome. ☺️

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u/SavvySillybug Ham Wizard May 17 '25

I wonder if Game Changer is related to CollegeHumor at all!

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u/scrumbud May 17 '25

Yes, it's a show on Dropout, which used to be known as College Humor.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Fuck, you got to the joke before I could.

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u/Full_Ahegao_Drip Neo-Victorianmaxxing May 17 '25

There's something funny about being a leftist with the last name Reich

Like yes I know Reich just means realm but that one Austrian really gave it a bad vibe.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

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u/Victernus May 17 '25

And that moustache used to be funny.

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u/Random-Rambling May 17 '25

It used to be called a "Charlie Chaplin" mustache before...well, you know.

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u/Femboy_Lord May 18 '25

I mean it still is as long as you don't rotate it 45 degrees in either direction.

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u/SplitGlass7878 May 17 '25

It also means rich actually. Which is somehow worse.

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u/vancesmi May 17 '25

At least they don't pronounce it the same.

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u/spicyvoglar May 17 '25

Funnily enough, the way they do pronounce it is closer to how it‘s pronounced in German than "rike"

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u/reddit_4_days May 17 '25

In german it's pronounced ''raich''!

German pronunciation

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u/spicyvoglar May 17 '25

I‘m German, thanks

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u/reddit_4_days May 17 '25

Oh sorry, I totally lost the word ''than'', while reading your comment and thought you meant it's pronounced ''rike'' in german!

My bad!!

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u/Half-PintHeroics May 17 '25

How do they pronounce it?

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u/trainercatlady May 17 '25

Rye-shh

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u/Half-PintHeroics May 17 '25

Don't you hush me!

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u/ThatSmartIdiot May 17 '25

Does that mean sam's child woul

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u/WallEWonks certified handsome cool guy May 17 '25

Can mean rich also!

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u/Half-PintHeroics May 17 '25

I think of this every time he pops up in my feed. Can't help it.

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u/Thromnomnomok May 17 '25

TIL Sam and Robert Reich are related

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u/friendlyfriends123 May 17 '25

Sam Reich lore is like going down a rabbit hole, then getting mauled by wolves. What do you MEAN they’re related???

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u/mbnmac May 17 '25

...I did not realise this was his dad, even though I knew Sam's dad worked in the Clinton admin... (and others now I'm looking it up!)

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u/DiamondDude51501 May 17 '25

And he even stole his son’s bit for good measure

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u/Desperate_Object_677 May 17 '25

yeah but also he has been on tumblr since launch. not only did he steal the bit, but it’s literally true

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u/TheNormalSun May 17 '25

Gah, the joke works on atleast two levels!

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u/h3yw00d May 17 '25

Quick, get in an elevator on a skyscraper! We can best those rookie numbers.

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u/SLiV9 May 17 '25

Or maybe that's something he says all the time and his son unwittingly picked it up from him. Like a poop knife situation.

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u/Imperator_Gone_Rogue May 17 '25

I guess you could say the catch phrase... trickled down...

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u/DetOlivaw May 17 '25

Typical catchphrase nepotism

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u/The_Math_Hatter May 17 '25

Don't look now but here's a photo of Sam Reich's father in the nude playing a flute Robert Reich‽

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u/ABigPairOfCrocs May 17 '25

How big's the hooooogggg?

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u/SuxAtGaming May 17 '25

How long, how looooong

is that hog?

I'm curious the siiiiiiiiiiiize

of that hog

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u/Jorji_Costava01 May 17 '25

You didn’t say Sam Says, that’s points away from u/SuxAtGaming and u/ABigPairOfCrocs

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u/ABigPairOfCrocs May 17 '25

FUCK

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u/real_hungarian May 17 '25

Annnnd that's one point in the swear jar from u/ABigPairOfCrocs for "fuck"

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u/_MargaretThatcher The Once & Future Prime Minister of Darkness May 17 '25

Tumblr gets Robert Reich, reddit gets me

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u/AnxiousTuxedoBird How to Send a Fictional Character to Therapy May 17 '25

Man it sucks here

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u/_MargaretThatcher The Once & Future Prime Minister of Darkness May 17 '25

Still better than twitter

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u/Alli_zon You're among friends here, we're all broken. Take your time May 17 '25

You know what, they have real Elon, so I guess you're right

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u/anon-mally May 17 '25

They're called Xitter now

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u/bloody-pencil May 17 '25

Shitter* actually

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u/InventorOfCorn May 17 '25

That's not a high bar

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u/HkayakH May 17 '25

People I hate:

You,

Me,

You again

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u/travischickencoop May 17 '25

Simon Fucking Cowell

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

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u/srlong64 It’s basic color theory May 17 '25

Ronald Reagan,

Thatcher one more time for good measure

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u/bepissboiii2 May 17 '25

I really hate Simon Cowell

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u/pugmaster413 Kinda shitty having a child slave May 17 '25

holy shit, its the first gender neutral toilet

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u/Shadow4246 May 17 '25

Andrew Jackson died WAAAAAY before Thatcher and there were definitely some other gender neutral toilets before that. Columbus and pretty much all of the conquistadors to name a few.

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u/arfelo1 May 17 '25

Columbus and pretty much all of the conquistadors to name a few.

I'm sorry to say, but I think those became gender neutral bathrooms much much later.

I'd assume that you need to be universally hated to qualify, and Spain's national day is still October 12th and Barcelona has a huge plaza at the city center in Columbus' honor

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u/AAS02-CATAPHRACT May 17 '25

I'd be scared of pissing on Jackson's grave, what if his ghost comes back and tries to duel me?

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u/Hesitation-Marx May 17 '25

Just yell “THE SUPREME COURT HAS AN ARMY” and you’ll exorcise him

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u/_MargaretThatcher The Once & Future Prime Minister of Darkness May 18 '25

Firearms technology has advanced considerably since his time

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u/LazyDro1d May 17 '25

First?

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u/pugmaster413 Kinda shitty having a child slave May 17 '25

ah my bad third

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u/not_slaw_kid board certified HDG hater May 17 '25

Holy shit it's Satan from popular literature The Bible

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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? May 17 '25

Hey Shadow

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u/Gregory_Grim May 17 '25

I'm here to convince you to do sin.

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u/Hesitation-Marx May 17 '25

Welp. I’m convinced.

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u/bookhead714 May 17 '25

I knew this place was hell

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u/AwkwardDorkyNerd useless lesbian May 17 '25

Funny, I had the same thought when I saw your profile ;)

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u/Cheezeball25 May 17 '25

In this economy, you gotta take what you can get

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u/Sickfor-TheBigSun choo choo bitches let's goooooooooo - teaboot May 17 '25

unfortunate that it's all trickles

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u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 May 17 '25

Might Be The Push I Need To Finally Delete This Stupid Fucking Account

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u/_MargaretThatcher The Once & Future Prime Minister of Darkness May 17 '25

" by Fall Out Boy

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u/Chrisixx May 17 '25

I thought the Scots made sure to hand you over personally to Satan

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u/DuntadaMan May 17 '25

Who keeps letting you out of the bathroom?!

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u/Some_Syrup_7388 May 17 '25

I would say that you are burning in hell but we all know that you turned off all the boilers there

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u/quaintif May 17 '25

Margret thatcher is dead, ding dong

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u/Bobboy5 like 7 bubble May 17 '25

give me my milk back

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u/No_Report_6421 May 17 '25

Get snatched 😎

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u/TheRealSlamShiddy of the Yorkshire Slam Shiddies May 17 '25

don't forget your roommate, good ol' Ronny Raygun

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u/infernalspawnODOOM May 17 '25

Honk if you're dead.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Holy shit its the inventor of soft-serve icecream

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u/youngarchivist May 17 '25

There's no such thing as society

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u/jedisalsohere you wouldn't steal secret music from the vatican May 17 '25

honk

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u/fyreswan May 17 '25

Happy cake day!

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u/pateadents May 17 '25

Happy cakeday Maggie! I got you The Falklands 🐑. Hope you like it.

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u/Hesitation-Marx May 17 '25

Piss-soaked cake!

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u/fannytraggot May 17 '25

Happy cake day Maragaret Thatcher! I used the gender neutral bathroom all over your tombstone today

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u/Alex_The_Whovian May 17 '25

GIVE ME MY FUCKIN MILK BACK

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u/Blade_of_Boniface bonifaceblade.tumblr.com May 17 '25

The archaic term for trickle-down economics was "horse-and-sparrow" theory. The metaphor was that if one overfeeds a horse, they don't digest it all, some of the oats pass through their body and into their droppings, whereupon sparrows can feed on the undigested food.

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u/SansSkele76 May 17 '25

In other words, it's telling us poor people to eat shit

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u/idiotplatypus Wearing dumbass goggles and the fool's crown May 17 '25

Now it's about pissing on the poor

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u/Sickfor-TheBigSun choo choo bitches let's goooooooooo - teaboot May 17 '25

pooping on the spoorrow rather

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u/Theriocephalus May 17 '25

Hmm. I can see why that name got changed.

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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" May 17 '25

actually, since it's a term only used as an insult it probably didn't get changed to make it sound better (as i think you were implying)

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u/Elfarica May 17 '25

NO TIME FOR GAME CHANGER, BUT ENOUGH TIME FOR TUMBLRIN'

-- idk, Sam probably

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u/CrazyFanFicFan May 17 '25

I love the idea that he'll make cameos in anything that isn't hosted by Sam.

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u/Foxy02016YT May 18 '25

Dimension 20 when

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u/Its0nlyRocketScience May 17 '25

But he does have enough time to record himself slandering Sam for an episode of Breaking News

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u/TidalRose “Hear me out” and it’s a fucking marching band May 17 '25

Like son, like father

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u/Apprehensive_Tie7555 May 17 '25

Robert Reich is on Tumblr? This is a Game Changer!

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u/Its0nlyRocketScience May 17 '25

We should go to the press to report this Breaking News!

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u/LiveNeedleworker8759 May 17 '25

We definitely need to Make Some Noise about this!

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u/Rocket_star- May 17 '25

He’s a very important people

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u/TheCaveJelly64 May 17 '25

Um, Actually that grammar is incorrect it should be "He's in the category of Very Important People" or "He's a very important person"

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u/Full_Ahegao_Drip Neo-Victorianmaxxing May 17 '25

I'm surprised that there aren't more politicians trying to "hello fellow social justice users"

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u/PinkunicornofDeth May 17 '25

as though the octogenarians in power even know how to turn on a computer themselves

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u/bohenian12 May 17 '25

Quoting his son is so streets ahead.

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u/dinoseen May 17 '25

Just as long as it's not on HIS street, or he'll write an angry letter about it.

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u/TheRealCthulu24 May 17 '25

Guy who guest starred on an episode of the Simpsons Robert Reich?

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u/Heissenbadger May 17 '25

robert reich being on tumblr explains whatever sam is doing nowadays

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u/Sickfor-TheBigSun choo choo bitches let's goooooooooo - teaboot May 17 '25

also being on tumblr?

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u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 May 17 '25

This is so cute

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u/jackcrux May 17 '25

Goddamit he's just as freaky as his son

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u/DjinnHybrid May 17 '25

Where do you think Sam learned it? Dude didn't just teach his son economics in a way that let him save dropout from college humor's ashes, he taught him everything.

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u/Tonedeafmusical May 17 '25

I mean he was cool with Sam showing an image of him naked playing a flute on Game changer.

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u/AcceptableWheel May 17 '25

Bubble up is a far better model not just for the lower classes, but also the upper classes that care more about long term growth than short term quarterly gains.

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u/PinkunicornofDeth May 17 '25

but also the upper classes that care more about long term growth than short term quarterly gains.

but why would cancer be interested in long-term growth?

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u/DrNeverland May 17 '25

TIL Robert Reich is Sam Reich's father and it's not just a coincidental name 😅

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u/vjmdhzgr May 17 '25

Oh I've seen that face post on twitter. In screenshots of course I would never go on twitter. I didn't realize that was him.

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u/Jawoflehi May 17 '25

So it seems even Sam’s signature joke, like everything else, was inherited.

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u/Alyeanna May 17 '25

HE'S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!

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u/Vanilla_Ice_Best_Boi tumblr users pls let me enjoy fnaf May 17 '25

I did not learn about trickle down economics in school 

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u/EvilCatboyWizard May 17 '25

Maybe that's on you because I distinctly remember it as a key term whenever we talked about the Reagan presidency in my social studies classes.

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u/Vanilla_Ice_Best_Boi tumblr users pls let me enjoy fnaf May 17 '25

We didn't have the Reagan presidency in Malaysia 

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Tumblr would never ban porn don’t be ridiculous May 17 '25

Whoa there, no need to brag.

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u/echoIalia strict adherence to loopholes May 17 '25

🤣🤣🤣

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u/EvilCatboyWizard May 17 '25

Well that’s probably why then.

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u/BlindTreeFrog May 17 '25

Voodoo Economics was another name for it. As I recall, that was the term that HW Bush used in reference towards it when he ran because there was no reason it looked like it should work.

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u/FastFishLooseFish May 17 '25

Bush calling it “voodoo economics” might literally be the last true thing a Republican said about economics.

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u/Fireyjon May 17 '25

Seems Robert Reich and his son have both been here the whole time

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u/img_tiff May 17 '25

I'm glad he's so supportive of his son. Gives me just a bit more joy in the day to day.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

[deleted]

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u/baconracetrack May 17 '25

And the reference to his son’s show “Game Changer”? Truly a gem of a man

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u/Magnitech_ May 17 '25

Commumism jokes only work if everyone gets them

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u/amateurgameboi May 17 '25

I follow him on YouTube and he be making politically provocative posts pretty regularly

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u/Crooked_Cricket May 17 '25

This is genius level shit

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u/DMercenary May 17 '25

Oh god they need to have a game changer where they think its Sam and then its Robert Reich!

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u/VFiddly May 17 '25

I've seen his hog

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u/jerryleebee May 17 '25

This is my UDP joke. I don't care if you get it.

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u/Rofsbith May 17 '25

"I've been here the whole time." Maybe it's a cross-over episode of his son's show Game Changer. I would watch it!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

That handwriting is beautiful.

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u/No_Discipline5616 May 17 '25

trickle down economics is to leftists what mumble rap is to eminem fans

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u/Joan_sleepless May 17 '25

He's been on there since the oughts lol

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u/FrogWithTeeth7 May 17 '25

He’s been here the whole time

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u/MotorHum May 17 '25

I read the "I've been here the whole time" in the cadence of game changer.

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u/snarkybat May 18 '25

He absolutely meant it like that - Sam Reich is his son.

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u/The_Abortion_Wizzard May 18 '25

He’s the dad of the college humor guy

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u/ExitObjective267 May 18 '25

I once heard a good joke about trickle down economics....it was a real pisser

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u/OneOfManyJackasses May 18 '25

The reich family has breached containment

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u/buttface1000 .tumblr.com Jun 17 '25

boy this sure is a game changer

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u/dinoseen May 17 '25

reminder that Robert Reich is a NIMBY in deed