When death is the good option, it is easy to see why John Fetterman is so depressed.
>> That's Representative Matt Gaetz taking a pretty disgusting shot at
Senator John Fetterman,
who actually pretty bravely opened up about his struggles with depression.
He went to a treatment facility in order to deal with it and
was very open about that.
Now, to understand the context in which that distasteful joke was made,
why don't we watch Matt Gaetz's statement with more of what they were talking about,
more context, let's watch.
>> 47% of Gen Xers say that they can't even think about saving for retirement and
are just trying to take care of day to day expenses, month to month expenses.
64% of Gen Xers say that they won't have enough saved for retirement, period.
67% say their income is not keeping up with the rising cost
of living in Joe Biden's America.
>> And no one wants to buy their CD collections anymore.
The Gen Xers that got all the great music, no one even wants that, so
that major investment that was made unlikely to issue a return.
When death is the good option it is easy to see why John Fetterman is so
depressed in this economy and it is a direct result of the inflation.
Like Jen was saying, if you're a younger person, if you're in the economy,
you can go make more money, you see variable income.
But if you are hoping that you don't outlive your cash and that cash doesn't
go as far as it used to, you can easily see how there is a true victim of this.
They want to act like they can keep printing money and underwriting debt and
no one ever pays for that.
But it's actually grandma and grandpa who pay for
that when they don't get to live their final days and final years in dignity.
>> Now, consumer debt is at an all time high and part of the reason why
is because Americans are not making enough money in order to cover the essentials.
And if I recall correctly, Cenk,
it was specifically the Republican Party that fought tooth and
nail to essentially cut spending on social programs that help the poor.
If I recall correctly, they implemented certain work requirements
when it came to food stamps, even for individuals in their 50s.
So at first, someone at the age of 50 who ended up losing their job and
needed food stamps, they didn't have to worry about dealing
with work requirements or anything like that.
Now that age has shot up to 54 thanks to the latest debt ceiling deal,
thanks to what Republicans insisted on including in the debt ceiling deal.
So I'm telling you all of that because I'm not really interested
in hearing from a single Republican on their faux economic populism.
If you actually care about how inflation is impacting ordinary people,
if you're actually concerned about how wages have not kept up with inflation,
then you wouldn't be supporting the Republican Party.
You wouldn't be rooting for them, and
you certainly would be speaking out against the austerity that they
keep pushing onto working people every time they're in power.
But that's not what Republicans are doing, that's not what Matt Gaetz is doing.
Just be clear on that, their economic populism is fake, super fake.
And it's super annoying to hear them pretend like they care about the little
guy, they don't.
>> Yeah, I got more on that, too.
First, I like how Matt Gaetz's new look is neo prosperity preacher.
He's looking more and more like a cheesy prosperity preacher every day.
Now, look, he says something right and something wrong.
The stat that is devastating is 61% think that
they're more afraid of running out of money than they are of dying.
>> Yeah, let me give you that.
So a remarkable 61% of Americans say they're more afraid of running out of
money than they are of death, and that's according to Allianz.
>> Okay, so that's devastating.
Now, the part that he's lying about is and the whole premise of
that segment is lying about is look at how bad it's gotten under Biden.
No, those numbers were just a couple of percentage points off from what they were
under Trump.
So same exact phenomenon, same exact pattern.
And under Trump, was Matt Gaetz worried about, my God, I can't believe how much
the economy sucks and Gen Xers are afraid and millennials are in dire straits.
No, they never talked about that.
Now, to be fair to Matt Gaetz and all those guys,
because we're the fairest show in America, both sides do this.
And so here's what I mean by that.
When Trump was in charge, you hear Democrats all the time going,
can you believe the economic situation that we're in?
And just $400 and half the country can't survive a $400 hit.
And it's terrible what Trump is doing.
The minute Biden gets in office, democrats, where are you on that?
All of a sudden, Democrats are like, no, we don't have to worry about it at all.
Income inequality, what name?
So never heard of it, okay?
All these devastating stats, never talked about under Biden,
when it's the Republicans, under Trump, never ever mention it.
When it's Biden, they're like, look at what Biden did.
Absurd, they're all doing it.
They're the uni-party, okay?
And he's also wrong about millennials.
He's like, millennials have deterred Radley, so they're fine.
No, they're not, you apparently didn't read the study.
The millennials are also in disastrous shape.
One of the things that the study said was 63% of them say that affording a house
is much harder today than it was for their parents generation.
>> Of course.
>> And that they're despondent about the idea of being able to ever afford a home.
But he wants to hit Biden and
he wants to pretend that millennials are fine and all this stuff.
No, the reality is these numbers have been relatively similar, if not the same,
on many of these for
many of these generations because we're all getting squeezed under corporate rule.
>> No, and look, here's what an actual economic populace would point to, instead
of using inflation as little political tool for your political game, okay.
>> That was fun, though.
>> [LAUGH] I love when you make fun of my hand gestures because they are funny.
Okay, but anyway, someone who actually,
genuinely has some concern about how Americans are faring in this disastrous
unstable economic situation would look at inflation and maybe pay a little bit
of attention to not even left wing publications, but notoriously conservative
publications like the Wall Street Journal on two different occasions.
Reporting on how inflation is directly tied to corporate profits As a result
of these corporations price gouging Americans, that is what's happening.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, they just put out a report,
we covered it last week, where they made it abundantly clear the price gouging,
the corporate profits, is behind this, don't believe me?
Let me give you some receipts right now.
Here's the Wall Street Journal, one of the Wall Street Journal headlines.
Why is inflation so sticky?
It could be corporate profits.
Some companies might have been raising prices faster than their costs have
increased, and they brag about it in their shareholder meetings.
They talk about how we're doing real good, our profits are excellent because we're
piggybacking off of this narrative of inflation to justify raising our prices,
even though the costs that we're taking on do not justify it.
Companies push prices higher, protecting profits, but adding to inflation.
So if I were Matt Gaetz and I actually genuinely cared about how inflation is
destroying the economic stability of ordinary people, I would maybe wanna call
out the corporations that are price gouging my constituents.
But he's not interested in that, and
instead he's interested in engaging in political nonsense while simultaneously
putting out some disgusting distasteful joke about John Fetterman, he's gross.
>> Yeah, but I'll tell you, since we're the Fairest Show in America,
Gaetz is an interesting cat because he's the one Republican that
doesn't take corporate Pac money.
So now he does the easy things, like he attacks corporations for being woke,
absurd, right?
That doesn't prove anything.
And it's just you being fighting the cultural wars and it's irrelevant.
Then he did put together a pretty good anticorruption bill, and
AOC backed him on that bill, they co sponsored it.
I was like, Whoa, that's the first time in like 20 years that I've seen a Republican
do something decent, that's not quite right.
To be fair, there's a couple of other things that I agreed with them on, right.
But it was an actual anticorruption belt.
>> I know, Cenk, but who needs corruption when you're a little bitch for
corporations anyway without having to be corrupt.
>> So the point I was getting to is I believe that Matt Gaetz is actually
free from corporate control.
If he does what Anna's talking about and goes, hey, you know what,
how about corporate price gouging, which we know for
a fact is the case that's driving up inflation that's populous.
That is correct, his own voting base doesn't like big business.
It would be a logical, smart thing to do, and it would gain him credibility.
I know what the mainstream press,
they would hate it because the mainstream press is massively pro corporate.
They would hate Gaetz even more after that, but
it would gain him credibility in the reality based world.
And then I could say, hey, I disagree with him on social issues, etc, but
at least he's got something going, right?
But when he does antics like this,
purposely taking a shot at Fetterman's Mental Health for as a cheap shot and then
twist the numbers to make it seem like it's uniquely a democratic problem them.
Well, then you're full of crap, and then you lose credibility and
that's our job to point that out.