While everybody has been talking about the, uh, January 6th hearings that have happened,
you know, over the last week and a half.
And for good reason, obviously it's the biggest news out there.
There was another hearing kind of, if you wanna frame it that way, that happened, live
streamed on Fox nation.
And this was something we had talked about prior to it happening.
It happened this past Monday, and it wasn't, like I said, a hearing, it was a debate between
senators, Bernie Sanders and Lindsay Graham.
The first of several debates that are gonna be happening throughout the summer into the
fall between the two senators talking about issues of the day.
And for anybody who may have forgot that it happened, or, you know, didn't know it was
gonna happen.
I'll just go ahead and tell you right now that Bernie Sanders pretty much mopped the
floor with Lindsay Graham, Lindsay Graham had no retort to Bernie Sanders ideas, his
plans, you know, his talking points other than to say, well, that's socialism.
We can't do that.
It's socialism.
That's all the man could say he couldn't offer any solutions.
He couldn't offer any valid criticisms of what Bernie Sanders had to say.
He just kept saying, well, that's socialism and we don't have socialism here.
So I have to read, I have to read these statements from Bernie Sanders.
They're just, they're wonderful.
They're so wonderful.
So here it is.
Does Lindsay care that we have the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs
and that the pharmaceutical industry right now has 1500 paid lobbyists in Washington
DC, to make sure that in some cases we pay 10 times more for the medicine that we need.
Did Lindsay talk about the fact that we have in South Carolina and all over this country,
tens of millions of workers working for starvation wages.
Did he talk about a corrupt political system in which billionaires today can start a superPAC
uh, and I guess you have some familiarity with super PACS, they help fund your campaign
who can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect candidates.
I didn't hear Lindsay talk about the crisis of climate change.
Do you have a concern that two people own more wealth than the bottom?
42% bottom line is we're moving towards an oligarchy.
And if we don't stand up and say that we need a government that represents working people
in the middle class, I worry very much about the future of this country.
And then of course, Lindsay Graham goes into his whole well that's socialism, socialism
socialism.
So Bernie Sanders retorts the policies that I advocate are taking place all over the world.
I think we should increase benefits for social security recipients by lifting the cap is
that socialistic is making sure that all of our kids are able to get a higher education.
Is that socialistic is saying that three wall street companies should not control $20 trillion
in assets.
And we gotta break them up.
Is that socialistic, take a look at the issues we are fighting for on every one of those
issues.
Lindsay, guess what?
The American people support me,
Not you and then slow clap.
Right?
I love it.
You know this, I, I, I hate to go back to this.
I truly hate to go back to this.
This is the guy we needed, folks.
This is the fighter.
This is the guy that has every fact in his head.
It's all there.
He can pull it out like magic.
The only other person I've seen been able to do this is Tom Hartman.
And it's truly a remarkable feat, but you can't take him off his game.
He knows what he's doing.
And more importantly, he knows, like he said there at the end on every one of these issues,
the public is with me, not you, that's the kind of messaging the democratic party needs.
That's the kind of anger, the fire and brimstone that the party needs, not this Mey mouth like,
oh, well, I don't know what we could do.
No, go out there.
Say what you mean, say what you want to do and make it clear to everybody that, yeah,
Hey, guess what?
You may call it.
Socialism.
A fringe group of idiots may call it socialism.
But most people in this country want these things.
And most other countries already have these things.
We are falling behind.
And we look like a bunch of idiots because we have a handful of morons telling you to
hate these things.
That pretty much everybody else outside of this country already has.
That is the kind of leadership we need in this country.
And that is why these debates are so powerful.
And so sorely needed.