The debt ceiling debacle continues this time with Senator Lindsey Graham
threatening Republican Senators who might help in increasing the debt ceiling and
actually work along with democrats to make that happen.
Now, this is also in response to Mitch McConnell,
the Senate minority leader who has apparently struck some sort of deal
with Senate majority leader chuck schumer so that democrats will be
able to pass this debt ceiling legislation or raise this debt ceiling.
Now Lindsey Graham is like, look guys, we can't do it because our
daddy Trump is gonna give us a spanking and we just can't have it.
That's really what's going on right now.
Yap. That's how pathetic Lindsey Graham and
the rest of the Republican caucuses.
So in blunt remarks to the Senate Republican conference,
Graham harshly criticized McConnell.
He said McConnell had backed away from his vow earlier
this year to not give democrats any help in raising the debt limit.
Now let me just be clear if they don't raise the debt limit,
everything falls apart in the economy.
Okay, the markets crash immediately.
The very markets that these republican lawmakers are heavily invested in,
they're going to raise the debt ceiling.
It's gonna happen.
That's my prediction.
Obviously, I don't know for sure, but
you can quote me on it because it's gonna to happen.
It would be disastrous if they fail to raise the debt limit.
Now one GOP senator said Graham specifically warned colleagues
that the president is going to be engaged on this issue.
And when he says President, I think they're referring to Trump here.
He told colleagues that McConnell had led them on a charge up a hill and
now they were getting shot in the back according to the senator.
Yeah, what's funny is that Trump is the only shooting them in the back.
And Lindsey Graham is blaming Mitch McConnell not Trump.
He's like, why did you lead us up the hill,
because it exposes us to getting shot in the back by Trump.
So since he's shooting us in the back, we should do whatever he says.
Lindsey Graham is the definition of weakness.
No one has ever been more spineless in American politics is a jellyfish.
And so, I mean, I want Josh Holly to address the lack of masculinity when it
comes to senator Lindsey Graham.
I mean, they're constantly obsessed with masculinity, right?
Yeah What is this weakness, this lack of strength that they pretend to be so
much in favor of donald Trump isn't even president, but
he's got a firm grip like around their necks.
It's so pathetic.
Yeah, it's funny from the stand your ground party.
He's like, he's shooting us from the back, run.
Don't fight back though it's surrendered in Trump.
So look, this is an interesting civil war, at the end of the day if
the republicans ever don't raise the debt ceiling, that means the donors have
lost control of the Republican party and that's a fascinating phenomenon.
But that means they've gone insane populist.
I mean, obviously, you see a giant faction already doing that.
But what I'm telling you is, things are not what they appear,
especially if you're watching mainstream media or reading them.
So in my whole lifetime that this whole rate is not
raising the debt ceiling has always been a fraud.
It's there's never any question about it because the donors control both
the Republican and Democratic Party nearly 100% and
it would affect affect their stock portfolios and they're not clowns.
So they might be bad guys, but they're not clowns.
And so if 99% of the world's economists say yes, it would definitely send a US
economy and probably the global economy into an immediate meltdown.
They're not interested in losing all their money.
Right. So now if the republicans actually get to
a point where Trump has beaten all the donors, but leads them off a cliff.
Like I love beating the donors, but not if you're driving off a cliff, right?
But if they drive off a cliff, that means that's it
they will do anything no matter how irrational.
And so it's at this point, I don't think the donors have lost full control.
No. But
Lindsey Graham at the same time is also an animal of the donors, right?
And he's a kept boy.
And so for him within the caucus to say no,
we should be full blown idiots defy the donors and drive off the cliff.
That's a troubling phenomenon.
This is my take on this whole debacle, this whole story.
Okay, so Trump releases a statement in response to Mitch McConnell striking
some sort of deal with chuck schumer in order to raise the debt limit.
And Trump's statement is this.
Because as Mitch McConnell just folded on the debt ceiling, a total victory for
the Democrats didn't use it to kill the $5 trillion dollar real number build back
worse bill.
By the way that bill is going nowhere.
That what $5 trillion?
What are you talking about?
They passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill to the tune
of $1.75 billion dollars trillion dollars, right?
No, yeah.
1.75 trillion for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
The build back better agenda hasn't passed.
No, the one point yes, it's definitely trillion 1.75 is build back better.
So when he says a real number, it's not, of course it's not a real number.
The other one when you take out all the parts,
the one that actually did pass, when you take out all the parts that are,
were already old funding from covid relief bills.
It's only about 550 billion.
So half a trillion that Trump is claiming is five trillion.
So that's, that's normal Trump lies.
Right, and he says build back worst bill that will
essentially change the fabric of our country forever.
Yeah.
They wanna make you trick Starbucks every single day from now until forever anyway.
All the hyperbole from republicans is hilarious.
But then he follows a statement with the old crow is a disaster.
Obviously speaking about Mitch McConnell.
So my theory is Lindsey Graham is terrified of Trump.
I think that he really does believe that Trump will probably be in power again
sometime in the near future.
And so he's doing his due diligence to make daddy happy, right?
He's speaking out against McConnell knowing full well
that McConnell will be dismissive of Lindsey Graham, but
it is having an effect because apparently republican senators who are going to
go along with what McConnell is doing are now kind of backing off.
Before I get to those statements,
I do want to show you how McConnell is responding to this controversy.
Washington Democrats 2021, will have one major theme.
Ramming through inflationary spending on a partisan basis that
hurts american families and actually helped China,
the whole country understands the democrats on this mess.
They have seized one party control of the economy.
So you better believe that they'll have one party accountability for
the resulting nightmare.
Democrats have wanted to transform the country alone,
they wanna print and borrow trillion after trillion on our own,
they want to create even more inflation on their own.
So as republicans have made clear for months,
they will have to own a death feeling increase as well.
This week,
the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement to make that happen.
Democrats will get one shot at this.
They won't be able to add any other amendments and
every single senate democrats will have to put their name to the gigantic dollar
amount of debt they're prepared to pile on the american people.
So this is Mitch McConnell's way of selling it to republicans because
the argument here is, well, this is going to be disastrous for the Democratic Party.
And he also, of course notes that now there's a bipartisan path forward, but
that bipartisan path might be in jeopardy now because of Donald Trump's threats.
One lawmaker who spoke anonymously to the hill said somebody needs to get to donald
Trump and tell him to shut up about this.
Again, said one nervous Republican lawmaker who added
that Graham's warning about Trump is having a chilling effect.
Graham was warning us about what Trump was going to do and
may God have mercy on your souls, the lawmaker said.
They're so afraid of Trump, it's amazing.
It's amazing.
God we need a populist in this country so badly to look out for
the average person and not the donors and big businesses.
And instead we got a populist madman who says, hey,
why don't we just drive the country off a cliff and see what happens.
And because he doesn't care about us,
he wants the country to be in shambles when biden is president.
So he could re win the president's, he loves chaos.
Yeah, of course.
It's so obvious if you told Trump right now, Hey lets you can press
a button that destroys the American economy, cost 20 million jobs.
and, and all of the different disasters that happened,
but you get back into power.
He'd be like, where's the question?
Of course I'll destroy America to get back in power.
And so now his spineless lackeys like grammar doing alright, But
guys, this is important, the messaging.
so so republicans say, okay, democrats, our own all this debt etcetera, etcetera.
And the democrats in return say nothing as always,
just lay down flat and get steamrolled.
Right? Why isn't their fiery speech after a fiery
speech about, hey republicans, you're the ones who raised the debt ceiling.
When you give $2 trillion to the wealthy under Trump,
why'd you raise the debt ceiling?
Why'd you raise the debt ceiling Mitch?
Because a liar.
He loves raising the debt ceiling, Lindsey Graham is a liar.
No, nothing, nothing deaf mute and dumb for sure.
So democrats never fight back now to the media.
Look, there's many articles, of course I read about this, but what,
half of them and the one on the hill in particular said so
I'll focus on this because I don't want to speak to all the articles, but
most of the articles miss 75% of the relevant facts.
Okay, so what are the relevant facts here?
Number one, this is not about new spending, this, about paying for
old spending by the way, the majority, which was done under donald Trump.
But if you don't clarify that in your article,
everybody thinks, the democrats are now spending trillions of dollars and
that's why they're raising the debt ceiling.
No, that's different.
You want to criticize them for the bills.
That's fine, right?
As a political issue.
But the debt ceiling doesn't have anything to do with that is paying old bills.
You have to clarify that in every article.
If you don't, then you have completely misled your readers,
then they don't clarify at all in a great majority of the articles that
the republicans raise the debt ceiling every time there's a republican president.
Well, God, that gives you the context of their massive hypocrites and
they're playing with your lives and your jobs for their own political gain.
If you don't write that, you haven't really given people the real story.
And this article in particular didn't even mention that it would be an economic
apocalypse if the republicans do this.
So it made it seem like a 50 50 issue for the republicans, right?
Or the democrats.
Right, Is it too much spending?
And finally, of course,
this one they'll never ever ever do because the corporate media is corrupt.
But you should talk about what we just told you,
which is the real people that the real dynamic here.
And it's an interesting one by the way, super interesting is between the donors
and Trump and the populist wing of the Republican Party.
And both sides, in my opinion are terrible people, right?
But you don't have to say that as a reporter,
but you do have to explain to the readers that Trump is
going not against Mitch McConnell but against most of the Republican donors.
That's a that's a more interesting story and in some ways gives Trump more
credit for being more populous than against donors who everybody hates, right?
But they don't do any of that context.
And so God help people who are getting their news from mainstream media
because they're honestly, it's just awful.
You can't actually tell what's happening in the country at all if that's
all you're reading.
Yeah, because the debt ceiling story, let's just keep it real.
I mean, snooze fest.
Like who cares who sees a headline about the debt.
So I was like, whoa, I can't wait to read about that.
But the debt ceiling, once you understand the impact of not raising it,
how it would totally crush the economy, potentially the global economy.
Yeah, it's an important issue.
They just,
it's like they go out of their way to frame it in a way that like repels people.
Yeah.
Look, I'll say one last thing about that.
Look, if you don't raise the debt ceiling, one of the reasons the economy
crashes is because then people no longer have full faith and
credit in the United States dollar.
And what that does is it greatly increases the interest rate that we are all charged
as americans including most importantly the U.
S. Government.
Okay so what that does is it actually massively adds to the deficit.
It does not reduce the deficit.
So it's deeply ironic and very fiscally irresponsible.
I have seen that explained in about 2% of the articles.
It's an absolute fact.
You could read it online,
you can find it all the economists agree that that's what it would do.
But if you read a mainstream media article or you watch cable news you would think
republicans are the ones that are being fiscally responsible.
And the democrats are being fiscally irresponsible when in
reality it's the exact opposite in this situation.