>> Congress continues to fail in providing
another round of stimulus to Americans amid
the pandemic.
And White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
was resorting to some pretty flimsy excuses
when he talked about it on CNBC.
Let's hear what he had to say.
>> As we've had discussions with Democrats
on Capitol Hill, as we've continued our discussions
with Republican senators, we're making real
progress.
And I will say that as we look at the number
of things that we actually agree to, and the
amounts of money allocated to those areas.
Probably the biggest stumbling block that
remains is the amount of money that would
go to state local help.
The speaker is still at $915 billion, which
is just not a number that's based on reality
and certainly not a number that represents
lost revenues for state and local governments.
>> So let me be clear about what he's referring
to when he talks about the funding for state
and local governments.
This would impact the unemployment benefits
that the tens of millions of Americans who
are currently unemployed would be able to
rely on during this pandemic.
These are jobs that haven't come back yet.
These are people who are desperate.
Consumer Debt, which doesn't include mortgage
was already incredibly high, over $4 trillion
before the pandemic.
Now the numbers are increasing because Americans
are becoming increasingly desperate.
They don't know what to do.
So they're taking out these high interest
personal loans and digging themselves into
an even deeper hole that's gonna be impossible
to get out of.
And when Mark Meadows talks about state and
local government just understand they don't
want to help you.
Right now Senate Republicans are considering
what they're referring to as a $500 billion
skinny stimulus.
But that skinny stimulus I guarantee you will
do little to help average Americans.
They're talking about maybe one more direct
payment check to Americans.
Something along the lines of what Americans
got last time, which is about 1200 dollars
depending on how much money or income you
made last year.
But again, that clearly isn't enough to help
people.
Pay their rent, put food on the table for
their children and keep them above water during
this pandemic.
>> Yeah.
So, look, the Republican Party has been guilty
all along.
And so, what annoys me to some degree lately
is when people say.
I realized now because of Trump or what what
they're doing or, Trump is the exception but
why does the Republican Party wake up?
Wake up to what?
They've been 100% corrupt for almost my whole
life, and I get it if you're late to figuring
that out and I was late to figuring it out.
I grew up a Republican in New Jersey, well
back when they were liberal Republicans, but
guys, it's been 40, 50 years now.
I mean, where does the republican party ever
helped the poor or the middle class, all they
ever do is help the rich.
So when it was time for the first giant stimulus
bill, it was a fat bill because 90% of it
went to the largest corporations in the world.
Now when it's time for you guys, all of a
sudden it's a skinny bill.
Funny how that works.
But it's nothing new.
This is exactly what The Republican Party
has been doing.
For the last, you know, like I said 40, 50
years this redistribution of wealth.
If, you know what, honestly even the camp
that I belong to a million years ago, the
liberal Republicans, they also transferred
wealth to the top.
They just weren't as racist and they weren't
sexist and homophobic that doesn't exist anymore.
Every single Republican is in that camp now.
And they're all conservative Republicans now,
there are no liberal Republicans left.
So that you get the racism and helping the
rich exclusively all for the low low price
of only one Republican.
It's the same package now and so they're not
going to help you.
And every negotiation the corporate Democrats
at least bothered to go through the pretense
of trying to help you.
And they try to help you on the mergers, then
they agree with the Republicans to give 80%
of the money to the richest people and corporations
in the world.
And the Republicans go no, no, no, no, we
want 99% of the money to go to the top corporations
who all bribed us I mean, gave us campaign
donations.
And I just summarized American politics for
you in the last 40 years.
>> Yeah.
I think that it would be naive for anyone
to expect any type of stimulus to go through,
anytime soon or if at all.
And look, Trump has relied on.
Unrest and chaos in the streets.
And he's latched on to that for his campaigning
purposes.
He might throw people some bones through executive
orders as we approach election day.
But understand that he's going to do that
to help him beat Biden.
And on the other side, I mean you can't get
conservatives off television.
You can't stop them from doing daily press
briefings.
I just, silence I just feel like there's complete
silence.
From Democrats and they're allowing the right
wing to run with whatever narrative they'd
like whether it has to do with responding
to Black Lives Matter, or the economic crisis
that so many Americans are facing right now.
And there's a political price to pay for that.
And unfortunately, the political price that
Democrats are gonna pay will negatively impact
the rest of the country and our democracy.
And it's frustrating and it's yeah,
>> Yeah so.
>> What i have to say.
>> Yeah, so look, there's an extra element
of frustration here because progressives are
actually willing, able and really happy to
kick Republican ass.
But we're not allowed on TV.
If you've noticed since Bernie Sanders lost,
there's been almost no progressives on any
cable news program anywhere, gone, wiped off
the face of the earth.
Because, cable news only cares about power
they don't care about news.
And so now, all there are is pathetic, weak
Democrats left on air.
Yeah, playing defense.
I mean, did you see that Democratic Convention?
They barely touched Donald Trump.
I mean, you're running against the fascist
tyrant.
None of the speeches are about how awful he
is.
You could have filled hours and days and weeks
of how terrible Donald Trump is.
Not nary a word on it.
Factless, weak Democratic Party.
I'm scared to death that they're going to
blow this election.
Just get out of the goddamn way already.
And let us tell the American people what the
Republicans are actually about.
By the way, thank you to all of you who support
us in doing that.
In fact, Ted Barkliff, Lady Lola, and Joseph
Funk just signed up on YouTube.
You can do that by hitting the join button
underneath.
But guys, I didn't tell you how the story
ends.
So Republicans asked for 99% to go the top
1% and the Democrats say no, no, we want only
80% of all the money to go to the top 1% and
how does it end?
It ends with usually 90 to 95% going to the
richest corporations in the world who just
conveniently happen to give.
Campaign donations to both corporate Republicans
and corporate Democrats.
So that's how this game is played.
It's played on you and against you.
And that's exactly what's happening with the
stimulus bills.
It's just that in the era of Trump, they've
just gotten more brazen.
So they come out and they go, yeah, yeah,
yeah, we gave $6 trillion to Fortune 500 companies.
Both through legislation and through the Federal
Reserve.
And that was a really fat obese bill.
That was awesome.
What are you gonna do about it?
Now time for you 20 million people out of
work.
Time for a skinny bill, bootstraps.
Corporations, they don't need bootstraps.
They need government money, trillions of dollars
of government money and so called capitalism.
But when it comes to you, you need bootstraps.
And you need to know the meaning of personal
responsibility, if you're a corporate CEO,
no, no personal responsibility isn't for you.
Socialism is for you.
We just take all the taxpayer money and give
it to you.
And so that's how this game is played and
I'm sick of the Republican Party.
And I'm sick of the Democratic Party bowing
their heads and losing to these monsters.
