Preliminary reporting on the deal that President Joe Biden made with
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the debt ceiling indicate that Democrats
are giving everything away.
And Republicans will get everything they want,
including spending caps on government programs that help ordinary Americans,
a continued increase in defense spending.
And of course a special project for Joe mansion that has to do with
a natural gas pipeline that would run through his state.
Now, while objective people can look at the deal and look at the provisions and
clearly understand that Republicans are getting everything they want.
That's not what you're going to hear from corporate media,
including Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC.
Here's what he had to say about it.
>> You actually have in Joe Biden and here Kevin McCarthy, but
you have a Democratic President and Republican Senate and
now House that have worked together in pretty historic ways
over the past year and a half getting bipartisan legislation.
And let's look at Kevin McCarthy really quickly here.
This is Kevin McCarthy, who many said for quite some time for good reason, we're
concerned that he was gonna go sideways on supporting freedom fighters in Ukraine.
We heard him shut down that Russian reporter said, get out of their country,
stop killing their children, stop committing war crimes.
And here the nation's economy was on the line, and he behaved responsibly,
Biden behaved responsibly, they were grown ups.
>> Now to be fair to Joe Scarborough who is a Republican and
was a Republican when he was in elected office, he loves austerity and
he loves spending cuts that impact ordinary Americans.
He loves the idea of work requirements for people who are so needy that they need to
rely on Snap benefits, a whopping $6 a day in order to be able to feed themselves.
So, of course, he looks at this deal and says, like,
thank God the world economy and my precious stock portfolio isn't about to
crash because they failed to reach a deal on the debt ceiling.
But this obsession with bipartisanship is such a shame because it's never
really about genuine compromise and bipartisanship.
It's really about Democrats being good boys and girls and
handing over all the cookies to their Republican counterparts.
>> Okay, guys, the mainstream media your whole life, and
every one of you will agree to this cuz it's obvious and it's not controversial,
has told you that bipartisanship is a great thing.
They celebrate bipartisanship every time it happens, you see it in the headlines,
amazing bipartisan deal.
They never say like, terrible bipartisan deal, unfortunate bipartisan deal I've
never seen in my whole life, neither have any of you, right?
But wait, why is bipartisan by definition a good thing?
What if one side wanted to cut taxes only for the rich by a trillion dollars,
another side wanted to cut it by $2 trillion.
And they reached a bipartisan agreement to take it from the middle class and
give one and a half trillion to the rich, bipartisan compromise.
But wait, why is that a good thing?
Nobody agreed to that, in fact, 76% of Americans want tax increases for the rich.
So, why is bipartisan by definition good?
It isn't, in fact, what if both sides are wrong?
Then you're picking, and I talk about this in my book Justice Coming.
And guys, these things are so obvious yet
you've never heard it your whole life in the media, what if both sides are wrong?
So, now we're picking a neutral midpoint between two wrong sides and
then celebrating it?
No, the question is objectively, what is good and what isn't?
Well, how can you tell what's good?
Well, one thing to do is you can look at the polling, don't trust me,
don't trust pundits, don't trust any of those guys, just say, hey,
what do the American people want?
For example, 84% of Americans want paid family leave, hey, is it in there?
I mean, that's a big 84% in a democracy, it's obviously in there, right?
No, it's not, no, you never get what you want.
Are the things that are in those provisions popular?
No, none of them are popular, they don't want the anti climate change stuff that's
in there, they don't want the American people don't want the cuts.
We can show you the polls on each one of them, they're doing a deeply unpopular
bill, but the media turns it around and goes, it's beautiful.
>> Yeah, exactly.
>> It's wonderful because it's bipartisan.
>> It's the power of propaganda, >> Bingo.
>> And so if you have a one sided, pro corporate media diet,
you're going to have the impression that this was an excellent
negotiation, Joe Biden is a real deal maker here, right?
I mean, he's so incredible with how he was willing to work and
compromise with Republicans, but
understand that Republicans did not compromise with Democrats at all.
Again, everything that the GOP wanted,
they got in the first round of negotiations.
And now you have the more extreme elements of the Republican Party engaging in
the theater, complaining about how they allegedly didn't get everything they want.
Because after the first round of whatever happens in Congress happens this week,
right, where they vote on it, if it doesn't get passed, well,
then Democrats will turn around and give Republicans more cookies.
>> Guaranteed, there's a 0% chance that this is the last deal,
Biden will give them more, you could write it down in stone, okay?
I've seen this movie 200 times, by the way, so is every reporter that lies in
their coverage and goes, wow, they have a deal, it's done.
The Republicans are complaining about it, I guess it must be so good for Democrats,
you goddamn liars.
>> In fact, why don't we go to the next video?
This is from the same segment that Joe Scarborough was commenting in,
and in this portion of the segment,
they talk about the disdain that the GOP has in regard to this deal, let's watch.
>> It does look like I say this a little bit hesitantly cuz we don't
know where it's headed in the next 24 hours or
36 hours that they will get to 218 to get this thing passed.
>> Yeah, the House starts bringing up today vote, tentatively slated for
tomorrow, we're not quite sure when the Senate will take it up probably the day or
two after that,
with operations in both parties feel pretty confident that they'll get there.
To your point, yes, there are extremists on the right who have made it very clear
they want nothing to do with this, and they're throwing bombs left and
right on Twitter, press conferences saying this is a disaster of a deal.
It's a Democratic blank check, was among the rhetoric used, I believe also,
Turd Sandwich was tossed about.
And we've got some progressives on the left who are also expressing some concern,
saying that they don't like this bill either, but
the White House sort of expected that would be the case.
>> And look, before you comment on that Jenk, I have to go to Primila Jayapal,
who's the head of the Progressive Caucus in the House.
Her tepid response tells you everything you need to know about the lopsided
power imbalance that we have in Congress right now when it comes to these issues,
let's watch.
>> This is saying to poor people and people who are in need that we don't trust
them, and the average amount of assistance for Snap, for example, is $6 a day, Jake.
We're talking about $6 a day, and
I think it is really unfortunate that the President opened the door to this.
And while at the end of the day, perhaps this will because of the exemptions,
perhaps, it will be okay, I can't commit to that, I really don't know.
>> Did you hear that last part?
>> Yeah.
>> Did you hear that last part?
>> I did, yeah, all right, so she says, like, this is unacceptable, okay,
great, then no problem, don't accept it, right?
Why don't you just vote against it, right, you're not gonna do that, are you Jayapal?
Cuz God forbid you should ever use your power, the progressives in Congress have
given away all their power cuz they refuse to ever vote no.
Whatever Biden says, they do, they all kneel, they all bow immediately.
You just said it was unacceptable, so why are you accepting it?
And you've been saying it's unacceptable the whole time,
every provision you said was unacceptable, but at the end,
what are you gonna do Primila Jayapal, you're gonna accept it.
And, guys, look, the only way that they avoid the Republicans getting even more
out of the deal which Biden wants them to do, right?
He wants there to be more drama, more etc.,
is that they're gonna get a couple of Republicans that are with McCarthy and
a whole bunch of Democrats to vote together, right?
So, they're gonna need the progressives, and if they don't need the progressives,
then the progressives will do a show of, like, huffing and puffing and vote no,
full well knowing they don't need the votes, okay?
>> Right, so, >> That's how this theater is played.
>> Real quick, so, look, let's be fair, you're asking,
well, what do you plan on doing Primila Jayapal?
Well, this is all we know so far and
I don't think it's gonna extend any further than this.
Progressive Caucus Chair Primila Jayapal
says the Congressional Progressive Caucus is taking a formal whip count.
They're doing a formal whip count everyone to determine whether or
not the CPC will take an official position on the debt ceiling bill.
>> You're wondering if you should take a progressive position on them cutting $30
billion from the COVID funding relief, $20 billion from the IRS budget.
Giving Mansion the dirty pipeline deal, extending the energy deals,
drilling all over the country and expediting it.
>> Right. >> We get absolutely nothing, they cut
spending, they pay go on executive action, we get literally nothing out of it.
The Republicans get everything they wanted and then some out of it, and you're
considering whether you're gonna say progressives are theoretically against it.
Wow, I didn't know you're gonna be that tough man, hats off, hats off, okay,
and Joe Scarborough likes the deal.
You know why, cuz Joe Scarborough is a Republican,
he's a former Republican congressman, but
he never said he left the Republican Party, he just doesn't like Trump.
By the way, he used to be great friends with Trump, including when the first time
Trump was running for office, Joe Scarborough hasn't changed his positions.
>> Right. >> He's a Republican, but
MSNBC has gone so right wing that Republican looks at home at MSNBC,
in Washington a Republican is the idea of a liberal, okay?
>> I mean, the Democratic Party has now become the party of
disaffected Republicans, right?
Republicans who hate Trump, who are horrified at what the Republican Party
has turned into, but understand that these are individuals who
are Republicans under the George W Bush administration.
I became passionate about politics because I became politicized during
Bush's administration.
And let me just tell you something, I absolutely hated Bush's administration and
the Republicans that were within that administration.
So, to turn around and now say, I'm gonna continue to support the Democratic Party
as they have welcomed Bush era Republicans into the party with open arms.
And are much more receptive to them as opposed to their own voters,
as opposed to progressive policies, I mean,
it's not a party that speaks to me at all at this point, at all.
>> Yeah, the only thing they have going for them and the only thing they ever say
is Republicans are worse, they hate LGBTQ people, they're passing terrible
discriminatory laws, >> I know,
but what have Democrats done in response to that?
>> I know, they've done nothing in response to that or
in response to anything, right?
But people in Washington aided and abetted by mainstream media
genuinely believe that Democrats doing absolutely nothing for their voters.
And constantly bragging about how they only gave the Republicans half of
what they want every single time is some sort of like heroic action,
it isn't, it's less than the bare minimum.
So, as they lie to you and by the way, our members are writing in right now saying,
yeah, I saw it on MSNBC, they're saying this is the greatest deal ever.
This is an amazing compromise, this is wonderful, right, it's so reasonable.
Just ask those lying anchors, what did the Democrats get?
And say, well, they stopped the Republicans from complaining about
the debt ceiling, is not a thing.
You could just use the 14th Amendment and be done with it,
there's nothing they could do is just a grotesque lie.
Lie after lie after lie as they give away the sort of Republicans and
the mainstream media cheers on and pretends that the Democrats are heroes.
Yes, the Republicans are terrible, no, that does not mean the Democrats
are angels and wonderful and actually fight back and win anything.
All they ever do is give more and more to the Republicans, they have the same exact
donors, which coincidentally also happen to be the advertisers for corporate media.
Funny, they all get paid by the same people, the same people who just got yet
another win in this deal and they took it off of our hide, the average Americans.
They redistributed that wealth, and all the people they fund just told you
wonderful little bedtime story about how it was a great bipartisan deal.
And you should be really happy that they took your money and
gave it to the rich again.