>> America is generally not as far along the left line as Bernie and Elizabeth.
Free stuff from the government does not play well in the Midwest.
Because they're just convinced that they're never the ones getting the free stuff.
They're working really hard, and they can't afford to retire and that was part of the
thing that Trump did.
He said basically, I'm gonna tap into your anger and your angst.
We're gonna blame the Mexicans and the Muslims for everything that's wrong with world.
And a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama said maybe this guy is finally gonna, let's
pull the pin on the grenade.
And toss it and see what happens.
>> So there is Claire McCaskill who lost her reelection bid in Missouri, and she lost her
reelection bid running as Republican light.
But she is on MSNBC, giving analysis.
Arguing that the Progressives on stage have no business pushing for policies that are
actually pretty popular.
And then there's a lot of conflicting points in what she said there.
Because she talks about how, look, these people voted for Trump because they don't have enough
money to retire.
Gee, I wonder why they don't have enough money to retire?
I wonder why so many retirees are currently going bankrupt because they can't afford to
pay their medical bills, right?
But let's talk about how it would be a smart strategy to run as Republican light.
Because that worked out real well for McCaskill in Missouri, this country really does reward
failure.
>> God, isn't that true?
But only failure of certain people, as we see, and it's interesting how McCaskill just
has this viewpoint.
That it doesn't go well in the Midwest, even though as we've observed, people there are
struggling.
They do need help, just like the rest of us do, and also this is money that we work for.
These are things that are paid out of our taxes, that we've contributed from our paychecks.
There is no free handouts, this is us being able to get back what we have earned.
As opposed to going to major corporations and big farm and everything else that does
not trickle down to us, and we the people.
>> Yeah, like we were talking about a little bit earlier, entrepreneur-omics has a logic
to it.
And the logic is that if you don't make yourself from something, this imaginary, invisible
something.
Then you don't wanna work, and you're a bad person if you don't wanna work.
And you rely on other people and their savviness to make themselves to give back to that.
And so, it's created this idea of a philanthropic class.
>> Yes.
>> And that philanthropic class, it's such a two, what is that?
My God- >> Two-way street?
>> No, sword- >> Double-edged sword.
>> Thank you, you guys, I haven't slept in 48 hours.
>> It's such a double-edged sword because here's what happens, they get reviewed.
For being able to make that money as an alleged entrepreneur or businessperson, and then they
say, guess what?
I'm gonna to give it away to you, and you have to applaud me for being that kind and
giving.
But really the foundation is a setup to keep their money, it's a setup to keep themselves
from being taxed.
And that's what again, going back to Elizabeth Warren, all people want is fairness.
They want to get the fruits of being taxed at a percentage that's higher than wealthy
people, and that's what they want.
Like every other country in Europe wanna see that my tax money that's being taken out every
single paycheck.
Is gonna give me something and not give a Delaney something and not give a Trump something.
>> Exactly, exactly, I mean, and try to think of it, people think politics is way more complicated
than it needs to be.
It's not that complicated, think about it in your own terms, in your own life.
What you spend money for and what you expect to get back, right?
So I like to think of it as every month I have to pay the Homeowners Association a certain
fee.
And that fee goes toward maintaining the grounds, paying for the water bill, whatever it is.
Imagine like paying that fee every month and having the head of the HOA tell you, okay,
here's the thing.
We're not gonna give you free water, you're just looking for free water and that's unacceptable.
What we're gonna do is, we're gonna take this money, and we're gonna bulldoze the building
next door.
Because we don't like the head of the HOA in that building.
I mean, that's essentially what our government does, our money goes toward nonsense wars.
And we purposely do it because, hey, the private contractors love those giant federal contracts.
They love that taxpayer money, I mean, we gotta pay Boeing, we gotta pay Raytheon, we
gotta pay all these defense contractors.
That's where the money goes, and then little by little, they keep cutting taxes for the
wealthy again.
Lately to the tune of $2 trillion over the next ten years.
And then they also start defunding programs that help the people who need it.
I would much rather have my money go toward, keeping children in poverty, fed in America,
then giving contracts to defense contractors.
>> And also, when they do have those quote, unquote programs that are funding people.
And trying to make up for historic inequalities, they have conditions.
If you are a woman who is on welfare, you have to be a single mother to receive that
money.
And that prevents her from having any real relationships with other people.
>> Such a good point.
>> So people are in a permanent class of poverty, and always vulnerable to any sort of hit.
What I really love about Elizabeth Warren's messaging around healthcare is.
That people are pretty much a healthcare bill away from poverty.
>> Yes, all of us.
>> All of us, all of us, and we are that vulnerable, whether you are in the working class, whether
you are middle class.
And so to not talk about why we're in that position, that has been the result of decades
of endless wars.
Decades of giving tax breaks to wealthy Americans, not even rich, we're just talking about wealthy.
We're talking about 0.01% of Americans who outsource all your jobs, too.
>> That's right.
>> So we're getting the raw deal, you're going back to the HOA and the HOA is supposed to
provide you with water.
The response is, you're lazy, why don't you go find your water?
>> Exactly, exactly.
>> You paid me money, but you're so lazy you can't put up your little rain collector.
>> So the rage that someone would feel if they would be confronted with that type of
situation.
Is the rage that they should feel toward our Federal Government and people like McCaskill.
And honestly, people felt enough rage to vote her out of office, which is why she lost her
reelection bid.
Which we'll get to in a second, because I wanna give you some commentary on that.
But I wanna to share some Tweets that I thought were fantastic in response to what McCaskill
said.
This is from Waleed Shahid, and he writes, free stuff from the government does not play
well in the Midwest, Claire McCaskill.
Number 1, Rashida Tialb, Ilhan Omar are also from the Midwest.
And obviously they champion the types of policies we heard from the Progressives on stage last
night.
And also number 2, Medicare and Social Security are both technically free stuff, and they
play very well.
Now, look, the second part, I really wanna move away from using the Right Wing framing
on these programs.
They're not free, these are not free programs, these are programs that are paid for by the
US taxpayer.
This is money that we pay to the system, and they should go back to helping us, to helping
our peers, to helping our fellow Americans.
Let's move away from that Republican talking point.
Now by the way, and Shahid is amazing, and I make that mistake as well.
Like when I refer to the pro-life, the anti-abortion group as pro-life, they're not pro-life.
I mean, they sit by and they watch these migrant children die at the border, they don't care,
they're not pro-life.
>> They're campaigning executions all over the country.
>> Exactly, so let's move away from that framing, let's not use their PR stunts to make them
look better than they really are.
So Parker Molloy writes, out of curiosity, why does Claire McCaskill have all this free
time to be paid cable news commentator again?
Or to be a paid cable news commentator again?
It's a great point, and then I wanna read a few excerpts from the New York Times, this
is a piece from 2018.
Beating back a liberal suburban groundswell that proved lethal to many House Republicans.
Josh Hawley, claimed victory here on Tuesday over Senator Claire McCaskill.
So this is the night that she lost, toppling one of Senate Democrats last remaining moderate
voices, The Associated Press said.
Ms McCaskill turned heads in the campaign's closing days by backing Trump's polarizing
approach.
To a caravan of asylum seekers marching toward the Southern border.
And releasing a radio ad that described her as, not one of those crazy Democrats, she
later elaborated on Fox News.
So it seems like a great expert to have on a program, to do analysis on what does and
does not play well with voters.
>> She definitely seems to go with whatever side, in the moment, could possibly benefit
her, knowing that she's on her way out of office.
And hey, she's gonna need a job, she's gonna need opportunities.
And so we see her pretty much almost speaking out that Republican rhetoric.
And keeping that dialogue going to help that side, and it really is unfortunate to see
this.
Especially because you know so many people are struggling.
And the thought in their mind, by planting that seed that this is a handout, as opposed
to something you've worked for.
Is very damaging because they may actually turn it away out of ego and pride.
And that really becomes an issue because then you start having the poverty that becomes
even more problematic.
And becomes more systematic.