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Hi, this is Jimmy. Who's this? Hi there, Jim. This is Senator Mitt Romney of Utah. Oh, Senator, how you doing? Well, I'm a little worse for wear, Jimmy. I've had one of those weeks, as they say, on network prime time television.

That's right. Didn't you just get censured by the Utah Republican Party for your impeachment votes?

Well, no, that's not completely accurate. The state party has stood behind me. Actually, I was censured by the Utah Platform Republicans PAC, which is sort of the militant wing of the Utah GOP, sort of the IRA to the Republicans, Sinn Fein.

Oh, I see, so so it's no big deal then.

Oh, no, there are dire consequences to crossing these people. They're an extremely dangerous organization. Wow.

OK, well then a few days before that, you managed to injure yourself and even it required stitches. Oh, so many stitches.

I was unconscious and everything. Really. What happened?

Well, you know, it was the darndest thing. Pardon my language. I was at home in our kitchen trying to open a jar of pickles. My wife and loves her sweet deals. But sometimes those jars are a doozy. And this one certainly was. I finally popped that sucker open. But unbeknownst to me, I was standing at a little pool of spilled avocado oil on the kitchen floor. So when I did the angular momentum transferred to my now frictionless foot and ankle rotated me along Y Z axis with such force that I banged my noggin into the cabinet, knocking me out cold.

I fell back and banged my face on the oven top on the way down and called nine one one. But she was so distraught they couldn't even understand her. They said, Ma'am, I need you to calm down and slow down. Also, are you eating pickles? So let's get in there.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, Jimmy, it was quite a day. They fix me up real well, though.

But from what I read in the news, these injuries occurred at your son's house while you were there visiting your grandchildren. And there's no mention of pickles, Mitt. Hmm. Well, that's certainly strange. What's the source? Reuters and the AP via your Senate office. Well, I did bang my head pretty badly. Perhaps I misremembering your son is quoted here as well. OK, Jimmy, fine, you got me, I'm a lousy liar, it's one of my few flaws, I'll tell you the truth.

It was the Utah Republican's platform PAC they got me. What when they say political action committee, they mean the action part. My friend Mitt, what are you talking about?

People whom they have to fire the pack have deemed insufficiently Republican, are often targeted for violent home invasions. You're kidding. Oh, no. Utah politics is notoriously treacherous. The GOP split here roughly coincides with the wings of the Mormon Church with extreme LDS members siding with the pack and their assassins. They're not quite FLDS. Those are the polygamists, but they do form close friendships with women who aren't their wives. So, you know, they sort of skirt the line.

Little bit.

This is crazy. What happened?

Well, we were Tagg's enjoying some Sleepytime tea before bed when all of a sudden some fellows in paramilitary gear rappelled to the windows, like in Patriot Games. I yelled, It's the PAC. Romney said the deck and grabbed a shotgun off the mantel and took one out immediately. I ended up hand-to-hand with another fellow and it was dicey for a bit there. That's where I got these wounds. Tagg ran to get us throwing knives and took two more out while my 46 grandchildren immediately formed a total phalanx like they've been trained.

We ended up on top, thank goodness. But it's it's not how we plan on spending a Tuesday evening.

But then they censored you. Yeah, exactly.

So then they really took the gloves off. Now I know they mean business, really.

The censor comes after the home invasion. Oh, certainly in Mormon culture, openly criticizing someone is considered more of an attack than actual violent confrontation with deadly force. That's that's just how Utah politics is. It can get quite gritty at the county level. There are beheadings.

Well, but I must say this all beggars belief, but I'm afraid I have to let you go.

One question, though, Mitt, shoot.

How did you have that fake pickle's story all ready to go and so detailed?

Oh, well, that actually happened one time for real and and ah dang pascals. It's sort of an inside joke around here. Anyway, it's good to talk to you, Jimmy, and go fuck yourself, you lousy Courtemanche. Why did I ever stop doing that.

Why? Why did he ever stop doing that. Establishment organs, gaslighting, so full of bullshit they can't afford to miss. Oh. He has his share, the median speeds and jumps the median somewhere down the chimney to show.

Let's talk about the progressive posturing, I'm here with Justin Jackson. The thing is, here's what David Sirota, friend of the show, David Sirota, says.

The thing is, if sixties, I still like David's right that he's a he's fighting hard on Twitter and Twitter.

He's great. He's great on Twitter. He says the thing is, if six out of 10 House Democrats, he must not be in my shadow because it does. He doesn't bother me. I don't get it. I don't have reaction to David Sirota. I don't have like a it's like he's so he must not be on my show.

But I do have a reaction. Other people. So they must be in my shadow. The thing is, if six out of 10 House Democrats draw a line in the sand and say they aren't voting for a KOVR-TV relief bill without a minimum wage hike, in it, they become instant megastars. They get to be heroes on a wildly popular issue and save the Democratic Party from itself.

Truly an epic opportunity, but they won't draw their line in the sand. As David. He knows this, but, you know, but they won't draw the line in the sand just and they won't even dip their toll in the frickin water.

Mm hmm. Hey, they said they said this bill is a win like that. So that's what they're saying.

It's not a win. I don't know why it's a win. If the Republicans if the Republicans if the Republicans ran Congress, it would be a win. If it was a Republican president, it might be a win. That would be a win. Exactly. But this is definitely you guys just fucking fumbled on your own, whatever you fuck yourselves. How about that? I could do a I'll do a porno reference. You guys just fuck yourself. I can't do sports.

So here's our minimum wage was the bare minimum aske bare minimum. And the fact that it's not in this bill, this is not a great bill, that they won't even do the bare minimum of the bare minimum.

So here's what David's back to. Back to David Sirota, Twitter Keiller. He says it would be hard for six to 10 House Democrats to stand up and say they aren't voting for any covid relief bill without minimum wage. But that's what real heroism is. The hard is what creates greatness. They have a rare opportunity to make real change right now. They have the power they actually do. That sounds exactly like what we were all saying about forced to vote.

I think even David Sirota was saying that about forced to vote at that. Eventually he came around and CNN here. So here's Airline Ohmar. Now, this is about a two minute clip I'm going to play and let's just listen to her. Here she is being asked about this.

When you look at this and this specifically this agreement, when it comes to reducing the cap on the relief checks, do you see this as Joe Biden abandoning progressives? I see it as a really disappointing development. We obviously are now ultimately sending money to less people than the Trump administration and the Senate majority Republicans were willing to. There are going to be about 70 million people who will get less money. This is not the promise that we made. This is not where we are given the opportunity to be in the majority in the Senate and have the White House.

And so ultimately, it is a failure when we compromise ourselves out of delivering on behalf of the American people and keeping our promises.

I mean, that was a very long, long, long answer to say yes. That's what you want? Yes, it's a failure that was all that was needed in that answer. Yes, we're literally dividing crumbs from the crumbs.

But here she goes on to say even more to be clear on what you're saying, that Trump wanted to deliver more in the way of checks for Americans than Biden. Yes, yes, yes, checks that we were able to send had given 17 million more people than we will ultimately do with the caps now, and that is going to be something that we're going to have to explain. And I don't know if many of us have a logical explanation on why we are delivering less than what the Republicans were willing to compromise us on delivering on behalf of the American people.

OK, your face.

Do you all have a plan to force a vote on it?

So the question is, what is your strategy now to deal with this impasse legislatively that the Democratic establishment is forcing on you? What is your plan? What's your strategy? Because you guys, all your as Democrats, you are going to work as a strategy and work as a vote, a bloc of voters. A bloc, right? No, they're just not. I don't know, Justin, but there doesn't seem to be a sense of urgency in her voice.

No talking at all.

There's not. And that's that's a that's a problem. And they need to answer to why they know this is a must pass bill. And you're telling me putting a 15 dollars minimum wage isn't worth three or four extra days? Right, like, that's the question, because people have been waiting. I saw a guy on Twitter was like, I've been homeless, like waiting for this check so I can put it in my bank account and actually signed a lease for, like, my mom, my disabled mom and me.

I'm like, there's people out there like that that I've been waiting for this immediate check for two or three months. You tell me three extra days to get millions of people double OK, like double their wage and they call lift out of poverty. It's not worth two or three or four extra days to make them relitigate and renegotiate all this. They're not willing to do that.

And then and then when she goes on. And she has absolutely I mean, if you could show her my show show, she doesn't seem upset. She doesn't see her hair is not on fire. She doesn't feel the pain of the people who don't have relief right now. It's not none of it. She just she acts like it's just like another day. It's another bill. And I don't know how we're going to explain this. This is certainly bad.

Well, how are you going to explain that? You don't have a plan. You never had a plan. You never talk to anybody to get a plan. And you didn't flex the leverage that you obviously and actually do have. That's what you have to explain. Not that the Democratic Party failed. That's for them to explain it. Why did you fail? Why did the justice Democrats fail again so much so the chick Kuga had to do with tear filled fucking video.

That's how bad it is. Jugar Had to admit I was right. Well, he course he did. And because that would take character. But everybody knows what that that's what that video was. And she got upset.

She's not upset. Every people are people are literally dying in the streets and she doesn't seem to have any urgency, doesn't seem to give a shit. Now, she's technically for fifteen dollars minimum wage if she doesn't have to do anything to get it. Well, that's not why we sent you there, we sent them there to go do something right. Yeah, and here's here's Corey Bush. Kerry Bush said a vote against a 15 dollar minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote. That was not a conservative vote. That was no vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote. I agree with Glenn, they're very good on there, they they right, they can acknowledge the problem and they're not afraid to speak it. They're saying it on Twitter.

But then what's your strategy? They won't say the solution. Right.

What's the right what's your strategy to get to where, you know, to get the 15 hour minimum wage in the bill?

There is no strategy. And here's Jamal Bowman. He said it is despicable and and unacceptable. Well, it's not unacceptable. You're accepting it. In fact, you're going to fucking vote for it today, right? You're not it's not unacceptable, is it's acceptable because Bernie Sanders just told us it's a great bill and you're all going to vote for it today. So that, again, is just lip service bullshit. He's not in Congress two months that he's he's full of it.

Uh, here's AOC, she says it is utterly embarrassing that pay people enough to live is a stance that's even up for debate, override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McDonald's workers in Denmark are paid 22 hours an hour and six week paid vacation. Fifteen dollars an hour is a deep compromise, a big one considering considering the phase we're in. Yeah. Why don't you do something about but you won't do anything to just tweet about the problem.

And that's why I really like the way Brianna Joy, great talks about this, because she's saying like. Yes. So you have to be willing to have the public debate.

Right. Stop the bill for two or three days, make them renegotiate it and make and get the public pressure call rallies like Kshama Sawant was saying, call rallies. Yes, like put pressure on them to put it back in the bill. Like, I agree with everything you're saying, but there is a possible solution you should consider.

That's the part of the bill considering. Yeah, that's the pot they're leaving out that's on purpose. So that's called gaslighting. And here's Pramila Japan. She says the same thing. She goes, the federal minimum wage has been seven twenty five for 12 years. The federal tipped wage has been to thirteen for thirty years. How can Congress members believe wages like this are acceptable? We must. We must give 32 million workers the raise they need and deserve.

And when I say we must, I mean if Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer let us. Reminder, you and a handful of progressives could band together and refuse to pass the bill without the 15 dollar minimum wage. All it takes is political courage. If you do that, if you do not, then you also believe that these poverty wages are acceptable. That is a fact.

I wonder if that ever got a reply. She was wonder if this ever got a reply from Representative J. Paul, I'm going to guess. No, gee, if you only you and say four to six other members of the House had it within your power to vote no on a piece of must pass legislation in order to make sure fifteen dollars an hour was included in the bill before you'd vote yes on it, that would mean using leverage, something you don't want to do.

And finally, Medicare for all or no vote says, what is the point of tweeting this if you won't do anything about it? Appeasement. Every politician's tweet should be reassured by people saying, and what are you going to do about it? They wouldn't even withhold their votes for Pelosi as speaker to get a floor vote on Medicare for all, they are going to fight to raise the minimum wage. These people tweet they don't fight 15 dollars minimum wage with the demand eight frickin years ago.

Now they want to phase it in by 2025, when it should be more like 20 dollars at least. It's true that if you and five other progressives refuse to sign the bill without fifteen dollars an hour, it will have to go back to the Senate. If so, please take a stand for us. Thanks. Hey, yeah, these rah rah tweets without accompanying action are getting old, so people are starting to see through them. How do people still follow progressive politicians on Twitter?

All they do is complain how Republicans are the problem and then they can't do anything because of Republicans. It's Obama administration deja vu except with lame Twitter platitudes. And in general, all they do is fucking tweet Jesus Christ, how many times we've been asked, what would you do with two thousand dollar checks? I don't know, Gerald. I'll let you know when all you all start fighting for it.

Wow, that's true. Politician's job is to make sure the working class are never paid what their labor is actually worth. The goal is to always have a desperate, barely surviving working class in order to exploit them for the profits of the wealth class. And that's exactly right.

That's and that's what American rescue plan like. I predict that's what the rescue plan does. It gets people back to the point where they were before the the covid-19 pandemic. But are we not going to talk about where people were before the pandemic? Right. Like most working people were still living paycheck to paycheck. That's right. Oh. What is it rescuing you to? Back to where you were? We were already struggling. And that's what's so frustrating about them talking about this bill like it's so amazing.

And then they say and then they cite the Republicans, Bill, as a comparison, I know like that and that's that's Overton Window shifting that shouldn't even that is so below the pale because and then they like like Bernie will say.

Bernie will say. It's better than what the. It gives more to regular people and not businesses like the Republicans build it, because that is what the Republicans bill did. It gave a bunch of money to corporations, but that shouldn't be what we're relating or framing this argument. You know, comparing it to it should be no, this should be two thousand dollar recurring checks. That's what we should be talking about. And unless they don't put that in the bill.

Then we're not going to vote for it. And a minimum wage you need to have at a minimum wage. I want minimum wage. And are they talking about the both the Republican bill they're comparing it to Justin? Is that the Carers Act that they're referring it to that the first one they passed in the House passed?

Yeah, guess what? Just say it was the Republican bill either.

But if that's a Republican bill, because Trump was president and Republicans had the Senate, the House passed it, every Democrat voted for it. Remember, that was my screen. Every ad agency tried to pretend she didn't vote for it afterwards and the interceptive printed it, which was a lie. And we all did that here. And so they all voted for that Republican bill. So what the fuck? And they had the power then to go ahead. Yeah.

And what? And what and what's the excuse? The excuses always. Oh, well, you know, they put this bill in front of us and people are struggling. And so we just had to vote. Yes, yes. Yes. No, that's your leverage. Right. Trump needed that bill passed the all the Congress need that bill passed because people were struggling. So you use that leverage or you like for your size. And then what did they use as an excuse for this bill while they won't force the vote on this bill?

Oh, well, it does things for unemployment and, you know, it does small for people. OK, we understand that, but it's not enough. So when are you going to come together and withhold your vote is the same excuse every time and it's getting old. That's why people like Jank are coming out now and saying if they don't do it now, they're never going to do it. And he's right. Yes, you're right. We said that two or three months ago.

You're saying it now, but. We all we're all starting to see is what I'm trying to say, but he still partially defend anymore. But but if you notice the people who are even saying that now, like Genk, Ugur and Twit are saying that you guys have to do something, that he still won't, he he's not employing a mechanism to keep them accountable because that's what I was telling people. What is our mechanism to hold our progressive politicians to?

We all helped get elected. What are how do we hold them accountable? Nobody has an idea. And I have an idea. You tell them I'm going to tell people to stop donating to you. That's my mechanism. And Genk, Ugur is not serious. He will not ever fucking pressure politicians. He's a coward. That's not that's not pressuring politicians. You tell them you do this. And if you don't, I'm telling people to stop donating to you.

And until you do that, you're not serious. You're just a coward. Go along again. Still running interference for them. If you don't hold them accountable, you're not holding them accountable.

I don't know what else to say it right. Is it that how you hold him accountable? You say, I'm going to tell people not to vote for you.

There has to be a consequence and there's no consequences. If there's not a consequence, then just the excuse for why the Carers Act was so bad is going to be the excuse for why this bill so bad is going to be the excuse, why the infrastructure bill will be means tested or whatever. You know, not big enough, not doesn't meet the moment, doesn't meet the crisis like it's going to be the same excuse for every single bill. We're not going to be advancing anywhere.

Justin didn't say to you directly on Twitter, she said the reason why we're not going to force to vote now is so we can do things like fight for a fifteen dollar minimum wage later. That can pass. Right. Maybe she said that to you.

Yeah. And that's that's just not that was that was a lie. That will change if it's not in this bill. I don't know if we're going to get it. So that was just a distraction when she did that to you.

That was just a distraction. And and it also didn't make sense because it had already passed. We're not talking about the minimum wage. We're talking about Medicare for. All right. The Green New Deal. I do it for something, some big ticket thing that we can get onto the platform like, actually.

They're not going to bring Medicare for all up for a vote, and if we want to advance the cause for Medicare for all having a public vote, just like for the impeachment, having a public vote could help push it forward.

That's right. But you didn't want to do that? No, no. And so it's, uh, it's you know, I have to try to detach from it because if I stay connected to it too much, it will upset me, especially what I get in the car and I see people under bridges and on every corner asking me for money and L.A. and L.A. and Los Angeles. That's how it is.

I know I was I'm from I'm from Chicago, just like you. So when I first got out to L.A., I thought it was going to be like the movies, you know, like how it looks. And then when I was in downtown L.A., I'm like, holy. Like, I did a thing at the mission, which is like the the homeless right mission. Yeah. And on Skid Row, that was an unbelievable experience for me. Like just understanding what they have to deal with, what these people and a lot of people in L.A. just can't afford the housing.

Like I asked the lady, I was like, how many of these people have jobs? And she was like 40 percent of the people that come to this homeless mission have jobs. So it's not like they're not working. They just can't afford it and they're living out of their car or something. They can't you know, they can't afford to rent a place. So just the fact that. They see all that and then they're selling this bill as some amazing thing when it's not going to do anything for that, like his heart is hard to see that stuff.

And so it does upset you. Like, I feel you on that. And I see it every time I'm in Los Angeles and it's like, come on. Like, what are we doing here?

And then you see alien Omar talking about it with a smile on her face. Emergence, no urgency, urgency to help people couldn't give a shit. And 15 dollar minimum wage was the bare minimum ask when you got Bernie telling everybody it's a great bill, we got to give Behati you guys should be happy. Fucking please.

Hello. Hey, man, any good news for everybody and all everyone for this car, I'm going to be at least 15 percent less incoherent than last time. You know why?

Why it took me off the air tranquilizers.

Mr. President, you were on elephant tranquilizers. That's right. No jump, no more a jumbo transfer Djoghlaf I want Seabridge ranks now Xebra all the way my friend I got stripes in the morning zabaglione suck it up Irish.

Well that's great news Joe. I know. Test me. How many fingers am I holding up right now.

I don't know. Correct. Hey, man, see Oprah, she interviewed the king of Britain and his wife, the Duchess of Success. I mean, you know, I think it's very sad. Firstly, I didn't know he was a chubby checker.

His orange or. The orange, maybe the college, my seniors again, I got Jill, my wife, I got Jill to send the repair guy over again. My UHF is all fucked up. I could barely see Jets Hartley and Roger Mudd so mighty.

Yeah, I thought you were friends with Prince Harry and Meghan. Oh, we are look like courage for him to come out like that and speak to Oprah without a mask on courage. A friendship is well documented. I understand her stepping down from their post is really rich people living in untold luxury to become private, really rich people living in untold luxury. That's hard. Hard struggle. They face were unfathomable. Think about it. Larry's wife was unable to receive the medical help she so dearly need.

Take about it.

But Joe, you could give everybody Medicare right now if you wanted.

But I hate millions of you in getting checks. Yes, it's sweet. Fifteen dollars an hour. Good bye. You know. That's called another week in the books.

Another week in the books. That's right.

I'm doing my job. It's in the books. I like that Trump guy who's always somewhere golf and fucking people over there in the White House. Fucking people over my dog Bertocchi.

There we are. Use your power as president.

I said to you by not do anything about it that I think your minimum wage is about time.

We had an increase in the minimum wage, but incrementally, like maybe up to fifteen dollars.

But that's the above proposed Joe. Every two hours. I know I saw it. We got to take a bold new stance. It's actually 25 cents an hour. Buy me a new house for struggling family, a college education for someone's baby, or that new liver for your daughter's baby or that new baby for your shiny new roof over your car. It's all there. The dream of America. Twenty five cents that could change the world. Fifteen dollars for two hours is something we can all dream of, because when we dream, we all dream.

Last night I dreamed it was an eggplant. Oh, before we go, what do you recall?

Elizabeth Warren said you were the man to meet this moment. How do you respond to that now, Joe?

I tell her, don't say in front of my dog bounty on separate tracks now all away kids nowadays don't know like you have it every night. Their kids in China go to bed without a CIA. Come on, man, and remember this. Pop was a bad dude, my dog, big guy, pull up your damn mask, some guys.

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This is a key point Comilla gave these eight Democrats cover those eight Democrats in the Senate who voted against it. But these eight Democrats also gave her cover because they can now say, look, it wouldn't have made any difference. We're nowhere near 50 votes.

So here's Reverend Barber and here's what he has to say. Well, I see them had and had and had a reconciliation rule and a parliamentarian rule that I'm not even in the Constitution. Not one of them swore to uphold a parliamentarian's rule. Not one of them swore the president didn't swear to do it. The senators didn't try to do it. And even when I see the president, I love and preached his inaugural summer from this very pulpit. But when I see him say he is going to listen to the parliamentarian rather than listen to the people, the poor people, the low wage people who have kept this country alive, who have been the first to have to go to work and the first to get affected and the first to get sick and the first to go to the hospital and the first to die.

And when I see the vice president, yes, he's my sister, but I know she can overrule the parliamentarian and she can force the senators to vote. But then people are saying, no, don't do that. I want to say, Sister Harris, you like the you were born for such a time as this. And when we know that trillions have been given to the wealthiest one percent to three didn't even go through the Congress, they just found a way to say here you can have an extra treat and a half dollar and billionaires have made nearly a trillion dollars in the midst of this pandemic.

And when I see people who are dying from poverty and people poor and low wealth workers are the last to get any help but the first to suffer. And for over nine years, we haven't raised the minimum wage. It was seven to seven. Twenty five now two down 13 per cent for tipped workers. And these politicians walked the whole poor and low wealth people captive in poverty and played games. Republicans walked the block because many have never seen a wage hike they like and Democrats run on one thing.

And then when they get in office to scare, to run on what they said, they were going to do. Word more about some kind of false notion of compromise. Don't you remember the three fifths compromise that kept us in trouble but two hundred fifty years and we still haven't gotten over? We need to change. Fifteen minimum wage would lift 45 percent of black workers out of poverty, 62 million people could often be impacted. We need to move.

We need to move from here to where God wants us to be.

So that was Reverend Barber calling out the vice president, Kamala Harris, and the president. He even said so on Twitter. He said, Vice President Harris, please listen to former restaurant worker Chris Kincaid from West Virginia.

We're told that we're essential, but they can never seem to find the money to let us live in dignity.

Nearly 70 percent of tipped workers are women like Chris from West Virginia. He's a mom of three, and I've pretty much worked minimum wage jobs my entire life from fast food restaurants, you know, to your general janitorial work. I've done it all. And I love cooking in restaurants. I love cooking and I love getting to talk to the people, you know, all the different kinds of people that you get it. What I haven't loved is the pay.

Well, up until the beginning of the pandemic last year, I was managing a bar and restaurant for five days a week. I got a full 40 hours a week and I still qualified for food stamps and I was still in poverty. It didn't matter that I worked 40 hours a week. It didn't matter that I had worked over the last decade to move up in the industry. Not none of that mattered. So now I'm a janitor. I clean banks in the evening.

I clean your dentist office and doctor's offices. I clean your factory. We're so essential. And yet we can't we're not paid enough to support ourselves or our families. We demand and we deserve 15 dollar minimum wage. Period. Not tomorrow, not next year. Now we demand a living wage now, and I think we deserve it not only myself, my co-workers, but for my family there, there's so many people with stories just like mine. They're told they're essential.

They're heroes for keeping our economy and our businesses open. And yet they can never seem to find the money to let us live in dignity. And so that he was appealing to Vice President Kamala Harris, who he helped get elected. This is Dr. William Barber. That's a woman. He's working with and advocating for and you want to know how people responded to Reverend Barber advocating for the poor people, poor working people. We know how Democrats responded to that.

Well, here's one. The trashing of our vice president has gone on long enough, I mean, following you in multiple accounts and unsubscribing from the Poor People's Campaign, and I will no longer donate to your organization. Jennifer D.. Severely disappointed by your relentless attempts to scapegoat the vice president. I am not following your accounts and unsubscribing from the Poor People's Campaign. There was a time I was so inspired after hearing you speak at the Democratic convention no more.

This is real. I'm blocking you for spreading lies about the role of the vice president when the votes aren't there, it's harassment.

Oh, God, it's all right. I spent. This is violence. That was violence. Do you see why you should never pay attention to these people? These are the same people. This is Genk, Ugur, doing the hashtag forced to vote. There's no way that these people during the 60s would have been able to handle what was going on with the civil rights. There's no way.

Here's another one. The campaign you are waging against Vice President Harris is, quite frankly, quite disgusting and very ungodly. I have very quickly gone from being a big fan to thinking there is something very wrong with you. That's someone named Kid Phantasm.

April Garino says, stop it, stop damming our vice president just to score points with journo Brose invertors.

It's ugly to see you going after anyone like this, especially when you admitted she can't do what you keep demanding she do. Much more as this is the historic whoever this is, as Vice President Kamala Harris is the tie breaker in the Senate, and she certainly can override the advice offered by the unelected parliamentarian, the latter of whom is clearly taking a partisan conservative stance here on the issue of basic survival wages for working people.

That's this person responding to that person. If only Kiv, those are the people who mindlessly defend the powerful vice president, Kamala Harris, if only Kihei spent that energy they use on defending their favorite politician to instead fight for the fifteen dollars an hour or policies that help that actually help people imagine that. Instead of. Instead of attacking people who are speaking up for the poor. Ajamu Baraka says, where is the feet to the fire that Democrats claim was the strategy to hold Biden accountable?

Biden and the Democrats are playing games with the minimum wage and attempting to condition the public for more wars. Where is the opposition? The president pressure the principal's job and knows there isn't any. There never was. That's why we're starting a third party right night says the Democratic Party markets itself as the party of working people when it is campaigning and then stabs working people in the back when it gets the power, of course.

Ready for quick liberation says Obama runs on the public option and then delivers a right wing health care plan that includes mandated unaffordable health insurance. I don't know if you. The key, how people can I just say this about the people? They sound exactly like the sycophants who were defending AOC in the squad during forced to vote, yes, they sounded exactly like that.

That's what they sound like. Cheerleader, she says she shouldn't have to put up with his rage filled rants. The fuck is wrong with these people? They don't have a shame button. People at the Young Turks don't have a shame button in their brain anymore, they've hung around. The shameless narcissist gewgaw so long, it's infected everybody over there.

Contempt for the poor and working class is bipartisan. That's exactly right. Vote blue, no matter who kind of loses its or once a bunch of Democrats vote down a minimum wage, it's. But you got to keep voting for that, and it's not just that everybody told you you had to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and first they told you to vote for Hillary Clinton.

It's not just that they did that knowing that was evil.

But they demanded nothing, and they made you ashamed to demand something for your vote, because that's what I was telling people, demand something for your vote and Joe Biden was offering nothing. The only thing he would offer was a fifty dollar minimum wage. Now, of course, he's not. He's killing it. So. What do you how can you look those people in the eye anymore, those people who told you to vote blue no matter who, and shamed people like me for those people who demanded nothing for their vote?

Nothing. They demanded nothing for their vote for Hillary Clinton and they demanded nothing for their vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, nothing those people.

Are destructive. People say I'm destructive, those people are destructive. Look at the country you're living in right now, they're the ones squashing the workers so Wall Street can come and repossess their houses, their cars and their apartments. That's why they're not giving you a minimum wage, and that's why they're not giving you covered relief. Oh, wait, Jimmy, they're giving you a one time fourteen hundred dollars means tested bullshit that you'll.

Hmm, that's not covered relief the rest of the world is getting monthly payments of two thousand dollars. The rest of the western world is getting that. The only place that isn't getting that is the place that is being run by the Democrats. And now. The guys who told you to keep voting blue and keep voting Democrat are in a pickle, aren't they? And they're unwilling to hold the Democrats feet to the fire. They won't even call the squad out by fuckin name.

You're big, brave YouTube hosts won't even call out the Democrats by name. President Biden tweeted this out. He's finishing the job of delivering two thousand dollars in direct relief to the hardest hit Americans. That's the American rescue plan. Now, you notice he doesn't save finishing the job of delivering two thousand dollar checks. Because that's not what he's delivering, they're delivering fourteen hundred dollar checks to some people and then they're going to means test the other part and then they're reducing your unemployment.

So they're doing it themselves. They can give you whatever they want and they're not doing it and they don't want everyone to see. By the way, is Twitter disputing the claim with this tweet? Because this is not a this is not an accurate tweet. That should be that should be flagged for for fake news. That should be flagged for misinformation. He's not giving you a two thousand dollar stimulus check. I love that the American rescue plan will complete the two thousand dollars gaslighting lighting.

They misspelled delete, I think. I think that's what that is. And so then the Democrats. So that's President Biden tweeting that out, Justin. And then here's this is here is the Democrats tweeted this out. The president of the United States will build on the 600 dollar down payment provided by Congress last year, sending an additional fourteen hundred dollars to households across America totaling direct payments of two thousand dollars per person. And there I guess they're sort of I guess they're hoping no one notices what they're doing.

That's what this afternoon. It's kind of like what all the people were doing against forced to vote. They were hoping nobody noticed. And then we did notice. Right.

And they came and they came around.

Eventually they came around New York, eventually too late and then, you know, didn't organize or anything for the force, the minimum wage vote. So isn't that funny that we organized for force to vote for Medicare for all, but then nobody, nobody organized for forced to vote for a 15 dollar minimum wage? Not our revolution, not brand new Congress, not the justice Democrats, not D.C., not the t t t the young. Nobody did it.

Yeah, nobody did it. And then all so what they do, they did a video saying somebody did it. Did this.

Yeah. That's what they do. Go ahead. It's it's it's honestly upsetting because these are just missed opportunities. Like if you're if we're trying to actually, you know, get to a better society and get these programs implemented, we're missing opportunities here. Right. We missed we missed with forced to vote because they didn't get the committee assignments we wanted. Right. Didn't get, you know, got kicked out, got kicked off of those committees, actually, like Katie Porter got kicked off the committee so we didn't get any advance of the Pego wavelike.

Nancy Pelosi instituted PAYGO, so if you get a Pago Pago waiver just for covid, that's that's two steps backwards, one step forward, we're still behind you. So I'm saying. So I see you are saying we got to start taking advantage of these opportunities. And this is another thing with the minimum wage, because if they don't put it in this bill, they're not going to put in the next reconciliation bill. You know, like it's going to be a harder fight then.

That's right. You have the popular bill, you've got to force it into this bill and you were missing out on that, you are again astute politically for twenty four year old. You got it down. You see it as a you know, it's it's it's straight there.

It's right in front of your face. This isn't again, I don't know if you saw Genk Younger, who was kneecapping, forced to vote, is now saying this is basic politics. Yeah, that's what we've all been saying this whole time. That's basic politics. So I love what Rebecca says. You're also silly. The they obviously didn't mean to send checks and you were really the dumb ones for believing them when they used actual images of two thousand dollar checks and repeatedly said two thousand dollar checks.

Ha ha ha. It's you. You dummies believed politicians. That's what the Biden and the Democratic defenders are saying. That's kind of hilarious. And here's what The Washington Post I wanted to show you this. So you saw this headline. Just this is The Washington Post. This is their headline. Biden Stimulus Shower's Money. Shower's Money Sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses will be happy. Porres brought to you by the paper owned by the second richest man in the world.

So this is the newspaper telling you be happy with the crumbs you're getting. The rest of the world has been getting a check every month. You're getting crumbs again. We're reducing your unemployment at no minimum wage. Suck it. And Jeff Bezos paper is here to tell you you should be happy. That's what that's what that is.

They forgot to add depending on if you meet the requirements and if the year was nineteen fifty, that's what they forgot to add to that headline there.

That's so. That's The Washington Post. Straight up propaganda for Joe Biden, straight up propaganda, I mean that I don't even think the Democrats would be so ballsy to put that in a press release. We're showering money on Americans.

That is kind of crazy. Go ahead.

I've been seeing a lot of tweets about like people, quote, tweeting, you know, they post those like fan cam like pictures of them, like walking, saying like week four. Yeah.

Going in a week for all that type of shit, like as if they've done so much like as if they've done so much. People are still one. OK. Yeah, they signed the bill. But at this moment, right now people are still fighting evictions. I just saw a video of people fighting evictions in New York, holding protests because people are being evicted already. And if you've been evicted and you can't show them you have two or three months of income, it's hard to get a new lease.

That's right. Like so it's already late. OK, so stop acting like you've done so much. Right. And this is the same thing with The Washington Post. Like they're acting like this is this monumental bill. But they're saying that because that's what the Biden administration saying and that's what the Democrats are saying.

That's right. And Bernie Sanders is also helping run interference for them, pretending gaslighting people into thinking this is a great bill when everyone knows it's not a great bill because Tiffany says the stimulus check will sharply cut poverty. Really, how far do they think a one time check of fourteen hundred dollars go rent for a small one bedroom apartment in many areas starts around eighteen hundred dollars a month. Way to be detached from reality. They are they're completely detached, completely.

Even North Korea has more subtle propaganda than The Washington Post just pulled off that.

And that is a fact. That's funny.

I mean, that you what you guys, you're getting a fourteen hundred dollar check. Stopped buying avocado toast.

Even North Korea has a more subtle propaganda, how about the People's Party tweeted out, it's almost like the media outlet is owned by an oligarch or something. It's almost like that. Spoiler alert. A bunch of the other newspapers are owned by one two, spoiler alert. By the way, here's here's The Washington Post opinion. This is their editorial board. This is their idea. They say, why increasing the stimulus checks from six hundred to two thousand dollars is a bad idea.

Oh, my gosh.

That's the editorial board handpicked by the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos. That's right there. The editorial board that's got some jagoff they hired. That's the paper's thinking, go ahead, Justin. That just shows the frame at which they're looking at. At their world, they think that this is a good thing. All right, how is it ever worse to give people more money? It doesn't make it like defies logic.

And then they act like we live in a meritocracy and they just got to this position. Right, because they're the smartest. Right? Because they're the best. No, that's not that's not the case. This is a terrible headline and. I mean, that's The Washington Post, the editorial board, like that's important, yeah, that's not good. Like that's not some goes through that room. That's not just one jerk that they hired. That's the whole thing.

That's hey, we gathered collectively and we found out that we're all horrible at The Washington Post, not just one guy. I bet they have the worst holiday parties ever. I bet they I bet it's a cash bar.

Hey, would just if we gave you free booze, it would just hurt you if we gave you nice things. Here's what I do.

I do have to shout out Jeff Stein, because I use him a lot. And my show, he's like the one actual reporter at the like. He celebrated by the left because he's an actual reporter and actually reports the facts, you know, accurately and frames them in the correct way.

I think I've actually I think I've actually featured him on our show a few times and I'm like, how did he slip through? How?

Well, believe me, he's going to if he keeps doing that, you know, he's out that he's not. That's he's as soon as his contract is up, if he's actually doing good work, he's out just in.

And you fucking know that I'm interested to see. I hope not.

I said, well, here's what Wendell Potter says. He says, As a former health insurance executive who quit the business, let me tell you, no one will be more excited about the new covid package than my old friends in the corporate insurance industry. It would funnel forty eight billion dollars of taxpayer money to them after their most profitable year to date.

Yeah, can I actually comment on that? Yeah, because I just did a I just did a video about Chris Murphy tweeted out something about in the American rescue plan. There's a premium cap, it's eight point five percent, but it is also means tested and it doesn't say anything about deductibles. Right, it doesn't say anything about deductibles, capping those nothing about co-pays, so it's so means tested that someone making like eighty thousand dollars, which in Congress they think is bridge.

Right, instead of making eighty thousand dollars living in L.A. being difficult, you know, your lower middle class. And with that health care premium cap, they pretty much don't get any of the subsidy. So their premiums are the same, almost three hundred, four hundred dollars a month. Like it's tough to live off that.

Yeah, a lot of money I. Wendell Potter goes on, he says, For years, insurers and pundits have called for Americans to put more skin in the game when it comes to health care spending, with health care costs already at three point eight dollars trillion a year and now a fresh 48 billion windfall courtesy of taxpayers, there isn't more skin for folks to give. Here's MSNBC on Morning Joe. They were trying to convince House progressives to vote for a bill without the minimum wage in terms of attacks from the left, they are actually really grateful for the support of Bernie Sanders, who they believe have given them progressive cover here.

And then, by the way, this tweet. This tweet had do you see this little warning at the bottom? It says the following media includes potentially sensitive content. And what was that? Potentially sensitive? This is real. Here's what that potentially sensitive content was. This guy saying this?

Well, there were certainly some sarcastic behind the scenes commentary about Senate Majority Leader Joe Manchin, considering the senator from West Virginia, his outsized influence on the process. Right now, those in the West Wing weren't always delighted about that, but they they recognized that they had to get made. And in terms of attacks from the left, they are actually really grateful for the support of Bernie Sanders, who they believe has really given them progressive cover here, that, yes, there are some on the very left portion of the party in the House who have some complaints, who might make a little bit of noise this week.

But they feel like if Bernie Sanders is on board with this and he released a statement afterwards touting how historic it was and how necessary it was that Democrats, the progressives, will fall in line to that. This party has been able to, despite some of this opposing tension, stay together for this.

So there's the guy saying that they're Bernie Sanders is the guy who's actually snow snowing the progressives about this city, Bill. And here he is doing it. I'll show it to you. What we did is right and pass a bill to address the crisis facing the American people, not the wealthy and large corporations. The result is the most significant piece of legislation to benefit the working class in many years. And that's just Bernie's flat out fucking bullshitting you at the behest of the establishment, the oligarchs and the Democratic Party, because that is straight up bullshit and he fucking knows it.

And he's been doing it nonstop since he dropped out of the race and even before. And I'm just going to laugh about it now. Justin, what did you have to say about that?

Yeah, I mean, one the biggest piece of legislation that progressives could have wanted in that bill was the minimum wage. Right. We knew we weren't going to get Medicare for all on that damn bill.

We saw that, you know, weeks, months before. But the fact that that's not in this bill and that the next record, like Bernie says, he's going to keep fighting for, I believe him. But like in his way, you know, he's not fighting for how we really want him to fight for, like, holding up bills like Joe Manchin is doing.

Yeah. So when he says he's going to fight for it, he means he's going to politely suggest it, but he won't actually ever do anything to make sure it happens.

He's not going to he's not going to withhold his vote like Joe Manchin.

Right? Correct. So you get Joe Manchin.

That's not in this bill. And then, like I've been explaining, the rest of it is very means tested. And as for being a millennial, there's not a lot of millennials that have like families like young millennials because we have so many debts and so many costs that people aren't starting families till later. Yes, right. So it helps people with kids a little bit.

The tax credit was already two thousand dollars. You could refund like fourteen hundred. Now they moved it to three thousand. So it's helping a little bit, but it's means tested. So don't act like this is this amazing, huge bill. And now progressives in the House aren't going to force the vote on it because it's giving them cover.

That's Bernie Sanders giving cover to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. That's not Bernie Sanders sticking his neck out for workers or students or millennials. That's him running cover interference for the people who are taking 15 million, 15 dollar minimum wage out of the bill. He didn't threaten to put a hold on the bill. He didn't threaten to not vote for it like Joe Manchin did. So Bernie Sanders, again, as Kyle Kolinsky says, is a cock to the party.

And that's exactly what he's doing. Because what's not in that bill, where is the student loan cancellation? Unemployment benefits are actually reduced in the bill. There's no minimum wage and fourteen hundred dollars instead of two thousand dollars. This is ridiculous. And if you guys think you're going to fucking win another election, I'm going to laugh. Suddenly, what FDR did is not of the modern era. He'd laugh at this week's shit.

That's exactly right. You should have voted against it to get the fifteen dollars an hour included. The the corporate jets are willing to play hardball. You have to be willing to do the same, Bernie. And if you look at the stats from the Great Recession, there was no recovery. Black families are still behind by tens of thousands from it. There won't be any recovery from this either. Just a permanent underclass and tent cities that you want. And you want to hear Joe Biden held true.

Here he is.

If you send John and the reverend to Washington, those two thousand dollar checks will go out the door.

We will be able to pass two thousand dollar stimulus checks for the people.

Next week, we'll deliver the two thousand dollar stimulus checks. And that begins with the two thousand dollar stimulus. When you send me and Reverend Warnock to the Senate, we will pass those two thousand dollar stimulus checks. You send me and Reverend Warnock to the Senate. We will pass those two thousand dollar stimulus checks.

They will make decisions about whether we give people a two thousand dollars that we need to pass two thousand dollar stimulus checks for the people, for getting people that two thousand dollars a relief direct payment.

Congress should pass two thousand dollar checks. President elect Biden and Democrats are all pushing for two thousand dollar relief. That two thousand dollars. Stimulus checks, two thousand dollar relief checks, two thousand dollar relief checks, they should send two thousand dollar checks to the American people right now by supporting two thousand dollar relief payments right now.

We need to be passing the two thousand dollar stimulus relief checks. And that means we need John OSF and Raphael Warnock, who will go to DC when sure. The two thousand dollar checks, you see ads that say, what, your two thousand dollar stimulus check, vote Democrat, vote for war, not a stimulus check check he was trying to increase of 2008.

Well, I actually have a bill for that.

One of the first things that I want to do when our new senators are seated is deliver the two thousand dollar checks to the American families and the debate over two thousand dollars.

Is it some abstract debate of two thousand dollar checks to kind of actually fourteen hundred dollar checks by electing John and a reverend who put an end to the block in Washington at two thousand dollars stimulus check, 10 moderate Republicans want a seat at the table to pitch a slimmed down relief proposal.

That money that would go out the door immediately. What they might be willing to do is negotiate on those stimulus checks. How can you assure Americans that relief will come and come soon? Have you ever known anyone in the history of the United States of America that could be president who was sure exactly what the Congress was going to do? That money would go out the door, immediately, left the. So you could clearly hear in that video they were actually saying fourteen hundred dollar checks.

They are all saying fourteen hundred dollar checks, they weren't saying two thousand dollar checks, so any any response to that?

To that as we close out the sketch now, it's just the fact that like six hundred dollars.

Right. Six hundred dollars extra, the fact that they're tripping over that little amount of money to them, as much money as they've spent. You telling me spending two hundred or three hundred billion dollars more to give people a six hundred extra dollars, that's just six hundred after a whole year of a crisis, just 600 bucks like that's too much to ask of you like the bars on the floor for these people. So they did this.

Now you're not even recurring. That's where the frame of the argument should be. Yes, these need to be recurring checks. So when you that's what the rest of the world has been doing.

That's right. The rest nobody's talking about that either. You go on the news, I went, I'm Tucker Carlson. I was the only person who I ever heard say that I'm new on the network news that this isn't happening in other countries and other countries are giving people monthly checks. And nobody ever says that. I don't watch the TV news that much, but I have never seen it. Have you seen somebody say that? I haven't.

And they haven't even said how other countries just subsidize the wages of the companies. So no one went on unemployment. That's right. Have you heard the horror stories of people like waiting or trying to get. Yes. For like 30 days. Yes. As they're like late on rent, late on utilities. They're calling the government. It takes a whole month to get to get to hear back from them. Why don't you just subsidize the wages of the companies so people can stay home?

So here's why. So when you were 12 or 13, we had an economic crash caused by Wall Street and we have Barack Obama as President Barack Obama was installed by Citibank. We know that. And I mean his whole entire cabinet came from an email. WikiLeaks revealed that, which is why they're still trying to kill that guy.

And what we thought was that Barack Obama was going to help people. He was going to help them keep their homes. He was going to devise a bill that would help them keep their homes. What Barack Obama did and Timothy Geithner did was they wrote a bill that actually helped the banks and made them solid and whole, but it made the homeowners default on their loans. That was the plan. It wasn't to help them keep it. The plan, as revealed by Matt Taibbi and Dave Deyn, the plan, it wasn't a bug that people lost and defaulted on their mortgage.

That was the plan and the reason why they wanted people to default on their loans. And they kicked 5.1 million families out of their homes instead of saving their homes because because they wanted to give those homes to Wall Street. So then Wall Street could sell them again. And that's exactly what happened. And so that's what they're doing right now. The reason why they don't want you to have your rent payment or your mortgage payment, because they want you to default so they can give that property to the creditors.

Who are the creditors? Wall Street. They're doing the exact same thing and they're doing it again and no one's calling them out. Why in the fuck wouldn't they give people a two thousand dollar check like it's coming out of Joe Biden's own bank account or something? We all know they're just going to print the money. There's nothing in it politically for them to do this. So the only explanation is that they are doing this for their Wall Street donors.

And the biggest tools of Wall Street in the Democratic Party are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

There it is. That's where he gets most of his money from Chuck Schumer. So there you go.

And Bernie Sanders running interference for him. I'm not going to be the guy screaming about it this time. Let somebody else scream about it. You know what? Nobody's gonna nobody's going to scream about it. And Bernie's going to get to whitewash you and put a bullshit face on the Democratic Party like he always did. And everybody's just going to take it. And you're going to think Bernie's a nice guy. Bernie Stone, you are a fucking nuclear be left and right and you nobody sees it.

He's going to fight for a fifth. He's not fighting for shit. He won't even fight for his own fucking campaign. He's not going to fight for you. Believe me, he'll never fight, ever. He'll fight for whatever Joe Biden says he can fight for anyway.

Anything else?

Oh, it hurt. It hurt when he called Joe Biden his friend. That hurts. That's your good friend.

Not knowing what knowing what Joe Biden has done legislatively, but specifically for the black community. I don't. Come on, I know you have to co-exist with these people, but don't call them your friend, don't rehabilitate a goddamn war criminal.

How about that? That's messed up. Yeah.

Why are you why are you doing that? Oh, I know why you're doing that. Because you don't. Because you don't have a spine and you don't want to be Ralph Nader. I got it. I get it.

That's the best we got in the Senate. That's the best. He's the best we got.

And now you know why there's people living under every bridge. Americans still don't have health care or a living wage because the best we got is a fucking Democrat. That's the best we got. Wow.

Hey, former President Barack Obama is calling me. Hello. Hey, Jimmy.

I'm former President Barack Obama. How are you doing? But always good to hear. Have you been listening to my new podcast with the boss? The boss told out Jamie Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, The Boss. We've got a podcast together called Watergate. No, we're renegades, look out or mavericks, and he's the boss. Wow.

What do you guys talk about?

The lame duck songs about the working class? Yeah.

You know, I don't love to do more for New Jersey schools. Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call.

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