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March 11, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hi, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hi there, Jimmy.
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 primetime 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.
Jeez.
Oh Oh, I see.
So it's no big deal then.
Oh, no.
There are dire consequences to crossing these people.
They're an extremely dangerous organization.
Wow.
Okay, I see.
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.
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 Ann loves her sweet dills, 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 in 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, rotating me along my 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.
Ann called 911, 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?
There's so much shit in there.
Oh, my goodness, Mitt.
Oh, Jimmy, it was quite a day.
They fixed 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 missed remembering.
Your son is quoted here as well.
Okay, 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 Republicans platform pack.
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 the PAC have defined, or the PAC 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 the extreme LDS members siding with the PAC 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.
Mitt, this is crazy.
What happened?
Well, we were at Tags enjoying some sleepy time tea before bed when all of a sudden some fellas in paramilitary gear rappelled through the windows like in Patriot games.
I yelled, it's the pack.
Romney's hit the deck.
Ann grabbed a shotgun off the mantle and took one out immediately.
I ended up hand-to-hand with another fella, and it was Dicey for a bit there.
That's where I got these wounds.
Tag ran to get his throwing knives and took two more out, while my 46 grandchildren immediately formed a turtle phalanx like they've been trained.
We ended up on top, thank goodness, but it's not how we planned on spending a Tuesday evening.
But then they censored you?
Yeah, exactly.
So then they really took their gloves off.
Now I know they mean business.
Really?
The censure 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 just how Utah politics is.
It can get quite gritty.
At the county level, there are beheadings.
Well, Bitt, 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 story all ready to go and so detailed?
Oh, well, that actually happened one time for real.
And in her dang pickles.
It's sort of an inside joke around here.
Anyway, it's good to talk to you, Jimmy, and go fuck yourself, you lousy cockmunch.
Why did I ever stop doing that?
Why?
Why did he ever stop doing that?
Establishment media sets on its fighting.
So good luck.
Watch and see as a jackal.
Comedium speeds and jumps the medium and hits him head on.
It's the chimney tour 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 six to ten.
I still like David Sirota.
Hey, he's fighting hard on Twitter.
And Twitter.
He's great.
He's great at Twitter.
He says, the thing is, if six out of ten House Democrats, he must not be in my shadow because he doesn't bother me.
I don't have a reaction to David Sirota.
I don't have like a, it's like, so he must not be in my shadow.
But I do have a reaction to other people.
So they must be in my shadow.
The thing is, if six out of ten House Democrats draw a line in the sand and say they aren't voting for a COVID 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 their line in the sand, Justin.
They won't even dip their toe in the frickin' water.
Hey, they said they said this bill is a win.
Like, that's what they say.
That's what they're saying.
It's not a win.
I know.
Don't lie.
It's a win if the Republican was.
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 fucked yourself.
How about that?
I could do a portal reference.
You guys just fuck yourself.
I can't do sports.
Bare minimum.
And the fact that it's not in this bill, this is not a great bill.
They won't even do the bare minimum of the bare minimum.
So here's what David's go back to deck, back to David Sirota, Twitter killer.
He says, it would be hard for six to ten 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's what sounds exactly like what we were all saying about force to vote.
I think even David Sirota was saying that about force to vote.
Eventually, he came around.
And CNN, so here's Erlhan Omar.
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 17 million people who will get less money.
This is not the promise that we made.
This is not what 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 she wanted.
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, you're saying that Trump wanted to deliver more in the way of checks for Americans than Biden.
Yes.
Yeah.
So the last 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.
Okay.
You're facing some issues.
Do y'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 just forcing on you?
What is your plan?
What's your strategy?
Because you guys all, you're Justice Democrats.
You are going to work as a strategy and work as a vote.
A vote is a block, 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 fucking at all.
There's not.
And 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 minimum wage isn't worth three or four extra days?
Right?
Like that, that's the question.
Because people have been waiting.
I saw a guy on Twitter who was like, I've been homeless, like waiting for this check so I can put it in my bank account and actually sign a lease for like my disabled mom and me.
I'm like, there's people out there like that that have been waiting for this immediate check for two, three months.
You're telling me three extra days to get millions of people double like double their wage.
And they call lift out of poverty.
It's not worth two or three, four extra days to make them relitigate and renegotiate all this.
They're not willing to do that.
And then when she goes on and she has absolutely, I mean, if you could show her, Mike, show the video.
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 talked 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 that Jake Cougar had to do a tear-filled fucking video.
That's how bad it is.
Jake Uger had to admit I was right.
Well, of course he didn't because that would take character.
But everybody knows what that, that's what that video was.
And she's not upset.
She's not upset.
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 $15 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 Corey Bush.
Corey Bush said a vote against a $15 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, again, they're very good on Twitter.
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 minimum wage in the bill?
There is no strategy.
And here's Jamal Bowman.
He said it is despicable and unacceptable.
Well, it's not unacceptable.
You're accepting it.
In fact, you're going to fucking vote for it today.
You're not, it's not unacceptable.
It is acceptable because Bernie Sanders just told us it's a great bill and you're all going to vote for it today.
So again, it's just lip service bullshit.
He's not in Congress two months and he's full of it.
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 workers in Denmark are paid $22 an hour and six week paid vacation.
$15 an hour is a deep compromise, a big one considering the phase we're in.
Yeah, why don't you do something about it?
But she won't do anything.
She just tweets about it.
The problem, and that's why I really like the way Breonna Joy Gray 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 Kashama Sawant was saying, call rallies.
Yes.
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 y'all should consider.
That's the part considering it.
Yeah, that's the part they're leaving out on purpose.
So that's called gaslighting.
And here's Pramila Jayapel.
She says the same thing.
She goes, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 for 12 years.
The federal tipped wage has been 213 for 30 years.
How can Congress members believe wages like this are acceptable.
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 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.
I wonder if this ever got a reply from Representative Jayapol.
I'm going to guess no.
Gee, if 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 $15 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 ratioed 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 full vote on Medicare for All.
They aren't going to fight to raise the minimum wage.
These people tweet.
They don't fight.
$15 minimum wage was a demand eight freaking years ago.
Now they want to phase it in by 2025 when it should be more like $20 at least.
It's true that if you and five other progressives refuse to sign the bill without $15 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 H. Christ.
How many times have we been asked, what would you do with $2,000 checks?
I don't know, Gerald.
I'll let you know when all you all start fighting for it.
Wow, that's true.
Politicians' 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.
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 COVID-19 pandemic.
But are we not going to talk about where people were before the pandemic?
Right?
Like most working people are still living paycheck to paycheck.
That's right.
So what is it rescuing you to back to where you were where you're already struggling?
And that's what's so frustrating about them talking about this bill.
Like it's so amazing.
And then they cite, and then they cite the Republicans bill as a comparison.
I know.
And that's Overton window shifting.
That shouldn't even, that is so below the pale.
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 bill did, 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 $2,000 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.
And a minimum wage.
Minimum wage.
Are they talking about the Republican bill they're comparing it to, Justin?
Is that the CARES Act that they're referring to?
That the first one they passed in March?
That the House passed.
Yeah, guess what?
You can't 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 scria.
And AOC tried to pretend she didn't vote for it afterwards and the intercept printed it, which was a lie.
And we outed that here.
And so they all voted for that Republican bill.
So what the fuck?
And they had the power then too.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
And what's the excuse?
The excuse is 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 on it.
Yes.
Yes.
No, that's your leverage, right?
Trump needed that bill passed.
All the Congress needed that bill passed because people were struggling.
So you use that leverage for your size.
And then what did they use as an excuse for this bill?
Why they won't force the vote on this bill?
Oh, well, it does things for unemployment and it does small things for people.
Okay, we understand that, but it's not enough.
So when are you going to come together and withhold your vote?
It's 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're all starting to see it is what I'm trying to say.
But he still won't pressure that.
But if you notice, the people who are even saying that now, like Jenk Uger and TYT, are saying that you guys have to do something.
He still won't, 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 who we all helped get elected?
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 Jenk Uger is not serious.
He will not ever fucking pressure politicians.
He's a coward.
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 how else to say it.
Isn't 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 consequence.
If there's not a consequence, then just the excuse for why the CARES Act was so bad is going to be the excuse for why this bill is so bad is going to be the excuse why the infrastructure bill will be means tested or whatever, you know, not big enough, 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 AOC say to you directly on Twitter, she said the reason why we're not going to force the vote now is so we can do things like fight for a $15 minimum wage later that can pass, right?
Remember, she said that to you.
Yeah.
And that's, that's just not that was a lie.
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 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 or the Green New Deal.
Like 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, it's, you know, I have to try to detach from it because if I say connected to it too much, it will upset me, especially when I get in the car and I see people under bridges and at every corner asking me for money.
In LA.
In LA, in 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 LA, I thought it was going to be like the movies, you know, like how it looks.
And then when I was in downtown LA, I'm like, holy, like, I did a thing at the mission, which is like the homeless mission 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 LA 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% 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, it's hard.
It's 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 Ilhan Omar talking about it with a smile on her face.
No emergency.
No urgency.
No emergency to help people.
Couldn't give a shit.
And $15 minimum wage was the bare minimum.
Ask.
Then you got Bernie telling everybody it's a great bill.
We got to get behind it.
You guys should be happy, you fucking plebes.
Hello.
Hey, man.
Good news for everybody and all everyone.
For this call, I'm going to be at least 15% less incoherent than last time.
You know why?
Why?
It took me off the elephant tranquilizers.
Mr. President, you were on elephant tranquilizers?
That's right.
No jump, no more jajumbo tranks for Joe.
I'm on zebra tranks now.
Zebra tranquility.
Zebra all the way, my friend.
I got stripes and the moon's the balloon.
Suck it up or shut up.
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.
She Oprah.
She interviewed the king of Britain and his wife, the Duchess of Success.
I mean, you know, the thing.
Very sad.
Firstly, didn't know he was so chubby.
Second, he's orange.
Orange.
Is he orange?
Maybe the color's bad on my Zenith again.
I got Jill, my wife.
I got Jill to send the repair guy over again.
My UHF is all fucked up.
I can barely see Chets Huntley and Roger Muds Almighty.
Yeah, I thought you were friends with Prince Harry and Megan.
Oh, we are.
Look.
Took a lot of courage for them to come out like that and speak to Oprah without a mask on.
Courage.
Friendship is well documented.
I understand they're stepping down from their post as really rich people living in untold luxury to become private, really rich people living in untold luxury.
That's hard.
That's hard.
The struggle they face were unfathomable.
Think about it.
Larry's wife was unable to receive the medical help she so dearly needed.
Think about it.
But, Joe, you could give everybody Medicare right now if you wanted.
But I ain't.
Millions of you ain't getting checks and you just had sweet $15 an hour goodbye.
You know what that's called?
Another week in the books.
Another week in the books.
That's right.
I'm doing my damn job.
It's in the books.
I don't like that Trump guy who's always somewhere golfing fucking people over.
I'm hearing the White House fucking people over.
My dog bit a guy.
Think about it.
We are.
Use your power as president.
I said, think about it.
Not do anything about it, fat.
Make a minimum wage.
It's about time we had an increase in the minimum wage, damn it.
But incrementally.
Like maybe up to $15.
But that's the amount proposed, Joe.
Every two hours, I know it's a lot.
We got to take a bold new stance.
This extra 25 cents an hour might mean a new house for a struggling family.
Or college education for someone's baby.
Or that new liver for your daughter's baby.
Or that new baby for your son.
Or a new roof over your car.
It's all there in the dream of America.
25 cents that could change the world.
$15 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.
Before we go, one year ago, Elizabeth Warren said, you weren't the man to meet this moment.
How do you respond to that now, Joe?
I tell her, don't say that in front of my dog, pal.
Come on, zebra tranks now.
Zebra all the way.
You kids nowadays don't know how lucky you have it.
Every night there are kids in Shiny who go to bed without a CIA.
Come on, man.
And remember this.
Cornbop was a bad dude.
And my dog bit a guy.
Pull up your damn masks up, guys.
Psycho.
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This is a key point.
Kamala 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.
I see them hiding, hiding behind a reconciliation rule and a parliamentarian rule that are 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 swear to do it.
And even when I see the president, I love him preach his inaugural terminal from this very pulpit.
But when I see him say he's 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 Esther.
You were born for such a time as this.
And when we know that trillions have been given to the wealthiest, 1.2 trillion didn't even go through to Congress.
They just found a way to say, here, you can have an extra trillion 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 $7 to $7.25 now, $2.13 for tip workers.
And these politicians want to hold poor and low-wealth people captive in poverty and play games.
Republicans walk the block many because many have never seen a wage hike they like.
And Democrats run on one thing, and then when they get in office, too scared 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 kept us in trouble for 250 years and we still haven't gotten over.
We need a change on a 15 minimum wage would lift 45% of black workers out of poverty.
62 million people could ultimately 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% of tip workers are women like Chris from West Virginia.
I'm 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.
None of that mattered.
So now I'm a janitor.
I clean banks in the evening.
I clean your dentist's 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 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'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, and 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?
Want to know how Democrats responded to that?
Well, here's one: The trashing of our vice president has gone on long enough.
I'm unfollowing you in multiple accounts and unsubscribing from the Poor People's Campaign, and I will no longer donate to your organization.
Jennifer Dees severely disappointed by your relentless attempts to scapegoat the vice president.
I am unfollowing 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 harassment.
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 Jenk Uger doing the hashtag Force 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 Fantasm.
April Garino says, stop it.
Stop damning our vice president just to score points with journal bros and burners.
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.
There's more.
This is the historic, here's whoever this is.
As vice president, Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker 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 K-Hive, those are the people who mindlessly defend the powerful Vice President Kamala Harris.
If only K-Hive spent that energy they use on defending their favorite politician to instead fight for the $15 an hour or policies that help, that actually help people.
Imagine that.
Instead of attacking people who are speaking up for the poor.
Ajama Baraku 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 pressure, the principles?
Ajama knows there isn't any.
There never was.
That's why we're starting a third party.
Ryan Knight 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 to power.
Of course.
Ready for Queer 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 but the K-Hive people.
Can I just say this about the K-Hive people?
They sound exactly like the sycophants who are defending AOC and the squad during Force to Vote.
Yes.
They sound exactly like that.
That's what they sound like.
Jimmy Door, 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 Jenk Uger so long.
It's infected everybody over there.
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 ring once a bunch of Democrats vote down a minimum wage.
But you got to keep voting for that and demand.
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 $50 minimum wage.
And now, of course, he's not.
He's killing it.
So 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 demand.
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 COVID relief.
Oh, wait, Jimmy, they're giving you a one-time $1,400 means-tested bullshit box.
That's not COVID relief.
The rest of the world is getting monthly payments of $2,000.
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 we 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 fucking name.
Your 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 $2,000 in direct relief to the hardest hit Americans.
That's the American Rescue Plan.
Now, you notice he doesn't say finishing the job of delivering $2,000 checks because that's not what he's delivering.
He's delivering $1,400 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 an accurate tweet.
That should be flagged for fake news.
That should be flagged for misinformation.
He's not getting you a $2,000 stimulus check.
I love that the American Rescue Plan will complete the $2,000 stimulus.
Oh, the gaslighting.
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.
Here is the Democrats tweeted this out.
The president of the United States will build on the $600 down payment provided by Congress last year, sending an additional $1,400 to households across America, totaling direct payments of $2,000 per person.
And I guess they're, but it's sort of, I guess they're hoping no one notices what they're doing.
That's what this is.
It's kind of like what all the people were doing against Force to Vote.
They were hoping nobody noticed.
And then we did notice, right?
And they came around eventually.
They came around.
Like eventually.
Too late.
And then, you know, didn't organize or anything for the forced to 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 Force to Vote for a $15 minimum wage.
Not our revolution, not brand new Congress, not the Justice Democrats, not DSA, not the TYT, the Young.
Nobody did it.
Nobody did it.
And then what they do, they did a video saying somebody should have did this.
That's what they do.
Go ahead.
It's honestly upsetting because these are just missed opportunities.
Like 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 with Force to Vote because didn't get the committee assignments we wanted, right?
Didn't get kicked off, got kicked off of those committees, actually, like Hady Porter got kicked off the committee.
And so today was.
Like, we didn't get any advances.
The PAYGO waiver, like.
Nancy Pelosi instituted PAYGO.
So if you get a PAYGO waiver, a PAYGO waiver just for COVID, that's two steps backwards, one step forward.
We're still behind.
You see what I'm saying?
I see what you're 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.
No.
Like, it's going to be a harder fight then.
That's right.
It's a popular bill.
You got to force it into this bill.
We're missing out on that.
You are, again, astute politically for a 24-year-old.
You got it down.
You see it as a, you know, it's straight there.
It's right in front of your face.
This isn't, again, I don't know if you saw Jenk Uger, who was kneecapping Force to Vote, is now saying this is basic politics.
Yeah, that's what we've all been saying this whole time.
That's what he said.
That's basic politics.
So I love what Rebecca says.
You're all so silly.
They obviously didn't mean $2,000 checks, and you were really the dumb ones for believing them when they used actual images of $2,000 checks and repeatedly said $2,000 checks.
Ha ha ha.
It's you, you dummies-believed politicians.
That's what the Biden and the Democrat 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, Justin.
This is the Washington Post.
This is their headline: Biden stimulus showers money.
Showers money.
Sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses.
Wow.
Be happy, Poors, 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 1950.
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, even that would, 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's kind of amazing.
Go ahead.
I've been seeing a lot of tweets about like people quote tweeting.
You know how they post those like fan cam like pictures of them like walking saying like week four, like going into week four, 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, okay, 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.
They're holding protests because people are being evicted already.
And if you've been evicted and you can't, you know, 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, okay?
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 is 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 you think a one-time check of $1,400 go?
Rent for a small one-bedroom apartment in many areas starts around $1,800 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.
And that is a fact.
That's funny.
I mean, you guys, you're getting a $1,400 check.
Stop buying avocado toast.
Even North Korea has 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 too.
Spoiler alert.
By the way, here's their Washington Post opinion.
This is their editorial board.
This is their idea.
They say why increasing the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 is a bad idea.
Oh, my God.
That's the editorial board handpicked by the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos.
That's right there.
The editorial board.
That's not some jagoff they hired.
That's the papers thinking.
Go ahead, Justin.
That just shows the frame at which they're looking at their world.
They think that this is a good thing to write.
How is it ever worse to give people more money?
It doesn't make it defies logic.
And then they act like we live in a meritocracy and they just got to this position because they're the smartest.
Right.
Because they're the best.
No, like that's not, that's not the case.
This is a terrible headline.
And I mean, that's the Washington Post, though.
Their editorial board.
Like, that's important.
Yeah, that's not, again, like, that's not.
That's what goes through their room.
Like, 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 charge.
I bet it's a cash bar.
Hey, we 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.
I do have to shout out Jeff Stein because I use him a lot in my show.
He's like the one actual reporter at the Washington Post.
He's celebrated by the left because he's in like actual reporter and actually reports the facts accurately and frames them in the correct way.
I think I've actually, yeah, I think I've actually featured him on our show a few times.
I'm like, how did he slip through?
Well, believe me, he's going to, if he keeps doing that, you know, he's out.
As soon as his contract is up, if he's actually doing good work, he's out, Justin.
And you fucking know that.
I'm interested to see.
I hope not.
I'll see.
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 $48 billion 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 video about Chris Murphy tweeted out something about in the American Rescue Plan, there's a premium cap.
It's 8.5%.
But it is so 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 $80,000, which in Congress they think is rich, right?
Instead of making $80,000 living in LA being difficult, you know, you're lower middle class.
And with that healthcare premium cap, they pretty much don't get any of the subsidy.
So their premiums are the same, almost $300,000, $400 a month.
Like it's tough to live off that.
It's a lot of money.
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 healthcare spending.
With healthcare costs already at $3.8 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 was certainly some sarcastic behind the scenes commentary about Senate Majority Leader Joe Manchin, considering the senator from West Virginia is outsized influence on the process right now.
Those in the West Wing weren't always delighted about that, but they recognized that the deals 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 portions of the party in the House who will 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 released a statement afterwards touting how historic it was and how necessary it was, that Democrat, the progressives will fall a line too, that this party has been able to, despite some of this opposing tension, stay together for this.
So there's the guy saying that Bernie Sanders is the guy who's actually snowing the progressives about this shitty bill.
And here he is doing it.
I'll show it to you.
What we did is write 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 $15 minimum wage.
Right.
We knew we weren't going to get Medicare for all in 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 it.
I believe him, but like in his way, you know, he's not fighting for it how we really want him to fight for it, 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 with, he's not going to withhold his vote like Joe Manchin.
Right.
Correct.
Joe Manchin is a good thing.
So the fact that that's not in this bill, like, 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 at 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 $2,000.
You could refund like $1,400.
Now they moved to $3,000.
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, like you said, 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 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 Kalinsky says, he is a cuck 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 $1,400 instead of $2,000.
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 $15 an hour included.
The corporats 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.
And you want to hear Joe Biden Harold?
Here he is.
If you send John and the Reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks will go out the door.
We will be able to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for the people next week.
We'll deliver the $2,000 stimulus checks.
And that begins with the $2,000 stimulus.
When you send me and Reverend Warnock to the Senate, we will pass those $2,000 stimulus checks.
You send me and Reverend Warnock to the Senate.
We will pass those $2,000 stimulus checks.
They will make decisions about whether we give people a $2,000 check.
We need to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for the people for getting people that $2,000 relief, direct payment.
Congress should pass $2,000 checks.
President-elect Biden and Democrats are all pushing for $2,000 relief checks.
$2,000 stimulus checks.
$2,000 relief checks, $2,000 relief checks.
They should send $2,000 checks to the American people right now, supporting $2,000 relief payments right now.
We need to be passing the $2,000 stimulus relief checks.
That means we need John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, who will go to D.C. to ensure the $2,000 checks.
I see ads that say, want your $2,000 stimulus check?
Vote Democrat.
Vote for Warnock.
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 $2,000 checks to the American families.
And the debate over $2,000 isn't some abstract debate.
$2,000 checks.
It's a kind of extra $1,400 checks.
By electing John and the Reverend, we'll put an end to the block in Washington and that $2,000 stimulus check.
10 moderate Republicans want to seat at the table to pitch a slimmed down relief proposal.
That money that will 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 and assure exactly what the Congress is going to do?
That money that will go out the door immediately.
That's not hyperbole.
That's real.
So you can clearly hear in that video, they were actually saying $1,400 checks.
They were all saying $1,400 checks.
They weren't saying $2,000 checks.
So any response to that as we close out this sketch?
Nah, it's just the fact that like $600, right?
$600 extra.
The fact that they're tripping over that little amount of money to them, as much money as they've spent, you're telling me spending $200 or $300 billion more to give people a $600 extra dollar.
That's it, just $600.
After a whole year of a crisis, just $600.
Like that's too much to ask of y'all.
Like the bar is on the floor for these people.
So they did this.
They're not even recurring.
That's where the frame of the argument should be.
Yes.
These need to be recurring checks.
That's what the rest of the world has been doing.
That's right.
Nobody's talking about that either.
You go on the news.
I went on Tucker Carlson.
I was the only person who I ever heard say that on the network news that this isn't happening in other countries, that 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 on November?
No, I haven't.
And they haven't even said how other countries just subsidize the wages of the company.
So no one went on an unemployment.
That's right.
Like, have you heard the horror stories of people like waiting or trying to get unemployed checks 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 back 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 you're when you were 12 or 13 we had an economic crash caused by wall street and we had barack obama as president now barack obama was installed by citibank we know that and
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.
revealed by matt taibi and dave dane the plan it wasn't a bug that people lost their 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 is 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
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