>> For my garbage person of the week, I almost did Tucker Carlson with this stuff about Obama
at the John Lewis thing. But no, it needs to go bigger and also, I think he was mine
last week. I'm gonna go bigger. I'm gonna put our entire government, both parties are
absolute donkey and elephant garbage or whatever else comes out of a donkey, or elephants.
>> John it's poop. >> It's poop. They go in here and do you know
why? Let's talk about why. The republican controlled US Senate has adjourned for a three
day weekend as enhanced unemployment payments are officially set to lapse on Friday. The
chamber is not set to reconvene until 3 PM Monday.
That's fun. It's more than a three day thing. As Politico reported Thursday, tens of millions
of laid off American workers will go weeks without federal jobless aid because Congress
hasn't renewed the benefits in time for overwhelmed state unemployment systems to adjust their
computers. Those computers will need weeks to reprogram to account for an extension of
the $600 federal weekly federal payments that expire on Saturday, or any changes the Congress
makes to the benefit amount or eligibility rules.
So they left for a long weekend, a weekend that will see two important milestones. One,
the ending of those enhanced unemployment benefits. And even if they come back and within
a week, come up with new ones, anyone on that, like the millions of people that are losing
their jobs as we speak, are gonna have to wait weeks to actually get the benefits that
they desperately need.
Especially because of the other milestone, which is rent is due again. And by the way,
that eviction crisis that we were talking about all week, they're not doing anything
about that either. So they're off on a nice long weekend. The pandemic continues to race
like wildfire across America.
People are losing their jobs. They're gonna be losing their apartments and their homes.
And our government has done basically nothing to stop it. That is why they're all garbage.
It's so bad, everything about that, I hadn't seen the part where, and I think earlier in
the show I said August recess, but that's what it feels like.
But it- >> The recess starts on the 7th, I think.
>> Yeah. But the fact that it takes that much time to reprogram the computers to do something
they were doing until like a week ago. >> And it's not technically the computer code
that needs to be changed.
It's restarting a program that will be over, yeah, and
>> Like that just proves how disconnected they are from the actual experience of being
human. And like, listen, I'm probably the most like capitalist friendly person on the
network. But even still, this proves that they don't even care about the realities of
the system.
This is the part that you need to continue to help people with. You can't just abandon
them in these times because think of every aspect of what you're going to do in the meantime.
>> Yeah. >> You're gonna go collect salary for an extra
day off. When you only have to work a small fraction of the year of actually doing anything-
>> In the best of times. >> In the best of times, and you got to take
this extra day off. Trump literally, he essentially said I just want something that has checks
with my name on it, that's it. And he said like so people could pay for stuff like mortgages
I hear that's what people have to pay.
And then he said as for the rest of it, I don't care. Yeah, we don't care. He doesn't
care. They don't care. We need actual help for people. In the meantime like, I don't
know, it reminds me of like when they don't mess around with the lapsing of our debt.
But they do mess around with the lapsing of your debt. Or the debt ceiling. But they don't
care about the debt or the ceiling over your head.
>> You want an example of that? The bill that the GOP was pushing, they're not anymore.
Now they're going on recess, included $686,000,000 for the F-35.
>> Yeah. >> And zero for the USPS in the coronavirus
stimulus bill, very worried about these advanced jets developing a respiratory illness, apparently.
And so that was their priority. Their priority wasn't actually helping people which is why
they're okay with simply going and taking a nice, long weekend.
And you know, I know some people are probably what's that?
>> $170,000 a year. >> Yeah. Some people probably saying well
look, isn't that mainly on the the GOP? Hypothetically the dems wanna continue the stimulus or whatever,
but they fail. I understand. They don't control the Senate. Well they need to do something.
And the sum total of the government's output during a pandemic is zilch. That is what is
going to matter. And it is going to be little comfort to people who are thrown out of their
apartment and have no money that in theory, the minority party would have done better,
I guess.
But anyway, really fast. Let's go to the community garbage person of the week. Every week, we
ask you for suggestions. Those are accrued by our amazing producers, and then put to
vote on the community tab on the TDR YouTube channel. And that's on Thursday. And so today
we have the results with 13,000 people voting.
Bill Barr is the big winner this week with 59% of the vote for serving the president,
not the American people, while helping to get the whole fascist thing up off the ground.
17% to Tom Cotton for declaring that slavery is a necessary evil. 9% to Ted Cruz for saying
workers don't deserve added unemployment and guaranteeing that everything he eats or drinks
from here on out from a fast food place will be spat upon.
And Louie Gohmert 8% for being the dumbest person affected by coronavirus in our country,
all great choices. The bill Barr choice is great. I don't disagree with it. But they
they went on sort of a three day recess after that vote. So I had to go with them.
So good choices. >> Yeah.
>> Everybody though.