if you are that that slacker barista who who, who wasted seven years in
college studying completely useless things now has loans and
can't get a job Joe Biden Just gave you 20 grand what you just heard from
Republican Senator Ted Cruz is exactly what the establishment Republican Party
thinks about working people in this country, that they're bums,
that their trash, that they deserve absolutely no help from the individuals
they elected into positions of power to make this country a better place.
And as someone who worked as a barista while I was in college,
I will just say it is far more difficult than anything Ted Cruz has ever had to do.
But nonetheless, here he is, whining about workers getting a little bit
of relief from the federal government in the form of student loan debt forgiveness.
Let's watch Holy Cow 20 grand that, you know, maybe you weren't gonna vote
in November and suddenly you just got 20 grand and you know, if you can, you know,
get off the bong for a minute and head down to the voting station or
just send in your mail in ballot that the Democrats have helpfully sent you.
It could drive up turnout particularly among young people.
So that's what Ted Cruz thinks about people who put in an honest day work over
Starbucks and I don't think it's a mistake that he's specifically mentioning
baristas at a time when Starbucks stores are unionizing across the country.
But if you happen to be a barista, you're just,
you're a bum and you're just addicted to that bong, right?
Whereas Ted Cruz Jenkins, a very hard worker who deserves all the corporate cash
that flows into his campaign coffers, who deserves that massive return on investment
that he sees in his stock portfolio as he engages in what you know you and
I would be considered to do as insider trading.
That is what Ted Cruz is all about, but he's not rare,
he's representative of what the establishment Republican Party genuinely
thinks about workers in this country.
Okay, so let's get this right.
Ted Cruz says, hey joe biden by relieving the debt of working class americans
by 10 to $20,000 is basically bribing them into voting for the Democratic Party.
Okay, interesting.
So now you guys want to know how much the carried interest loophole was worth
because that's the thing that every Republican,
because including Ted Cruz fought tooth and nail to keep,
it's a it's a tax cut for the richest people in the country.
It just happened by the way.
So chris's cinema and other conservative democrats helped Ted Cruz keep this,
but before we do that, let's find out what Ted Cruz motivation is.
So, first we go to new york times explaining during the early phase of
the 2016 campaign, Mr Mercer, that's robert Mercer donated $13
million to a super pac supporting Mr Cruz, $13 million support, he might get 10 or
$20,000 back because I hear that's what they're looking for.
10 or $20,000 maybe he's even gonna get 30,000?
Let's find out.
Mr Mercer is in the hedge fund business,
which takes advantage of the carried interest tax loophole.
How much did that save?
Let's find out.
Now we go to CBS news, private equity managers and others who gain from
the carried interest tax loophole benefit to the tune of up to $18
billion annually, according to americans for financial reform.
Every year, the Mercer's and the rest of the hedge fund and
private equity businesses get $18 billion gift from Ted Cruz and
then they shovel bribes back into 10 cruise money.
Anybody think even if you're right wing of the 13 million that the Mercer's gave
Cruz, anybody think that's not a bribe everybody that isn't mentally insane or
a Washington DC reporter knows that's a bribe and in return, he didn't get 10 or
$20,000 then that industry got $18 billion you're right about the corruption.
But the other thing I want to mention is that while the democratic establishment
is whining and crying about biden doing something that is clearly popular on
the right end of the political spectrum, you have right wingers who are fearful
that biden forgiving a portion of student loan debt is going to be so popular
that it will galvanize democratic voters and get them to show up to the polls.
So do you get what I'm saying here jake?
Because paul Begala who's a mouthpiece for
Democratic the democratic establishment, went on CNN and said this is dangerous.
This could really hurt Democratic incumbents in some of these swing
districts.
Then you hear the republicans and they're shaking in their boots because they
realize, actually helping people out financially making
their economic conditions better, is actually incredibly popular with voters.
This might actually hurt the Republican party and
help joe biden that that has two amazing components to it.
So number one is, well, it turns out there is something that
establish from democrats will betray joe biden for corporate cash.
So they don't they're not just praying to the establishment leadership.
They prayed to the corporate donors.
Okay, that's who they work for.
It's just that most of the time joe biden also happens to work for them.
But the reason we gave joe biden credit on this issue when it was first announced is
because this was good job.
I did a good one on this one we did.
So why do we say that when we mainly criticizing?
Because we're fair and you could tell in the corporate reaction and
their dog's reaction to this story.
But the second interesting part is wait, I thought it was
outrageous to criticize Democratic leadership on cable news.
I thought it was outrageous to critique joe biden in mainstream media
all of a sudden that when you do it from a conservative perspective?
No one minds totally okay if a progressive, criticizing intraparty
fighting, Why did the progressives start intraparty fighting?
Why don't they just bow their heads?
Democratic leadership?
They're causing division in the party when conservative corporate goons like paul
Begala doing bravo way to cause division in the party and
try to get all of our candidates to lose weight to go paul.
That's being honest, there's such crooks and
I can't get over Ted Cruz referring to baristas as bums
essentially as lazy people when first of all they're not.
I know from personal experience how incredibly difficult that job is.
But aside from that, maybe take a good hard look at yourself.
Ted Cruz, a moment of self reflection.
And if you need a little assistance, we're happy to help.
Let's watch the texas Republican and
his family flew off to a Cancun resort on Wednesday as millions,
millions of his constituents were without power and water.
Well, look, my kids, all of us this week,
this has been a hell of a week for texas.
I don't like this being used as a distraction from the real issues.
Do you regret going because of the firestorm or
because you left when people were here struggling.
Look, look both,
many of the people who were upset with me were upset with me before we started.
You can work remotely.
That was my intention.
But even so I needed to be here.
So there's a massive disaster in texas where the power
grid failed during a disastrous winter storm.
And the first thing Ted Cruz did was try to get on a plane and leave for
a vacation in Cancun.
Now you tell me who the real bum is.
Okay. A man who works for a government,
a governing body that has more recesses than grade school kids.
It's unbelievable.
Yeah.
I mean, look, he's a politician.
He barely does anything in the first place.
All he does is go around collect checks from the people that are bribing him and
then they take all of august off.
They take half the year off.
They never even freaking work.
And he has the nerve to criticize working class people who are on their
feet all day long serving jerks like him.
And I'm being as polite as I could possibly be.
So yeah, no, thank you on your fake populism, Ted Cruz as you attack
the working man every single day in service of your owners,
robert and Rebecca, Mercer, let alone all the other donors.
Why don't you go ask them for what your next orders are, dog