House Minority Leader Kevin
McCarthy got punked by 19 year old,
because he apparently doesn't know
what ends up getting passed in
Congress.
When in reality as a member of
Republican leadership
he should be fully aware.
So it all started after this was
posted online, it was what looked
like an ad from the IRS indicating
that families would get a monthly
check for each of their children
until they turn 18.
Now, we don't live in a fantasy
world here in the United States or
any type of civilized country that
would actually provide a robust
social safety net for children.
So, McCarthy should have already
known that this was a real policy
that had been implemented.
It was actually a piece of art that
was put online by Toby Stone,
a 19 year old college student.
When McCarthy saw it though,
he shared it and said this,
infuriating.
The IRS is literally spending
taxpayer money to advertise
a government handout.
This is welfare
without work requirements.
I want children to starve,
also I'm pro life.
>> [LAUGH] I mean.
>> What are we going to do with
these people Emma?
What are we going to do with
these people?
>> I don't know.
And the thing about it too,
is unfortunately this, well, okay,
I have two thoughts in my mind.
One is this IRS obsession has been
in Vogue since Reagan, right?
Where the IRS was completely
demonized, and it works because no
one wants to pay their taxes.
And so you're appealing to people's
worst nature there.
But part of me
also feels like that's gone,
that era of politics is gone.
And I find Kevin McCarthy to be so
supremely untalented,
it doesn't shock me that he's one,
duped by this, and two, kind of
just going back to the playbook.
It's like if you, I'm sorry Anna,
forgive me this is a sports
reference.
It's like Mike McCarthy, right?
>> Totally. >> He's a former head
coach of the Green Bay Packers.
He was notoriously incredibly
simple with his playbook and wasted
much of Aaron Rodger's career.
He's going back to basics.
He's playing high school
football and
doing high school pass formations.
When he's the leader
of the Republicans in the House
of Representatives,
that's how I feel about him, right?
He's doing high school coach
tactics when he's supposedly
coaching on the NFL level.
>> While,
I may not know the analogy or
understand the analogy fully,
I will say that you're right,
because it's not even about
agreeing politically.
I mean, I think that we can both
admit that there's a very clear
difference in terms of skill and
talent between
Senator Mitch McConnell and
Kevin McCarthy, right?
I mean, Kevin McCarthy- >> Exactly.
>> Mitch McConnell, actually,
unfortunately for
us, is a skilled tactician [LAUGH].
He knows what he's doing and
he knows how to consolidate and
use power, whereas Kevin McCarthy
is just like, I mean,
what year, is it 2003?
Does he think that it's all good
play to speak out against
a potential government program that
would help families financially,
especially after the- >> Yeah.
>> Economic turmoil
of the Coronavirus and
all these businesses shutting down.
>> I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to interrupt you, but
that's such a good point too.
When people hear government checks
now they're like, great.
I mean, that's awesome.
It was almost so successful that if
the pandemic wasn't so horrible and
Trump's handling of it wasn't so
sociopathic, it could have actually
put Trump over the top.
I mean, the election was too close
for comfort as is, even though in
the popular vote it wasn't.
But if some states had flipped
a certain way, who knows, right?
And that's why Trump knew,
I'm going to sign my big
name on these checks,
because it was a popular program.
And so, I'm not even exactly sure
what the poster fully says there.
But as long as people are seeing
that, there's going to be
a positive connotation associated
with it, especially
in the wake of the checks.
There we go, right, I mean, yeah,
that sounds good to people in
the year 2021, given what we
just went through in 2020.
>> Yeah, I mean,
it's part of the reason why Biden's
initial infrastructure proposal and
the American families plan pull so
well.
They pull well,
because they actually provide
programs that materially benefit
and improve people's lives.
It's just amazing to me how stuck
in the past McCarthy is, even in
his political posturing, right?
Because we're seeing that pattern
or that trend of populist rhetoric
coming from right wing lawmakers.
And those are the right wing
lawmakers we got to watch out for,
because they're actually paying
very close attention to the
temperature in the country and to
what Americans are concerned about.
It's just that they're using
the rhetoric to hook American
voters and
then offer them absolutely nothing.
They offer nothing more
than nonsense arguments about Mr.
Potato Head, and Dr. Seuss Brooks,
and critical race theory, and
whatever, right?
But there's still some Republican
lawmakers like McCarthy
that are like, what?
Names on checks?
That might be a bad idea.
[LAUGH] He's just not a smart guy.
[LAUGH] >> Not a small guy.
>> But it has IRS in the posters,
so, >> Right [LAUGH].
>> Again, it's just, dude,
come on, get into the 21st century
at the very least.
>> Well, hopefully he's not
watching this,
I don't want to help him out.
But, I do like your point.
>> He's not.