So at this point, Democrats in the Senate,
in the House in Congress don't seem to be planning all that much to
deal with what's been revealed about the Cicadas in the future of Roe v Wade.
But, even though they in theory have a bill, seemingly largely symbolic,
that'll do something about it.
Even in that they're capitulating to the right in a number of different ways.
So we wanna reveal those to you.
So, the bill's lead sponsor is Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
And he tweaked the bill,
to appease worries from what political here is calling moderates.
They will never define what that actually means.
Stripping out some of the again,
just nonbinding language about abortion that raised some objections.
It's also at the same time far from clear if Joe Manchin,
an abortion rights opponent, would vote differently than he did in February when
he opposed the Democratic bill.
So, again, they're still anti-choice Democrats in office.
And so, here are some of the issues with the language that they had.
Some of them had to do with tying reproductive rights and
abortion to all that to gender oppression.
Basically language around gender.
The latest version, let's see.
It strips out statements linking abortion restrictions to white supremacy,
gender oppression.
And emphasizing that the protections and it applied both to women and
transgender men, non-binary individuals,
those who identify with a different gender and others.
Because even though, those groups do need equal access to these rights.
It looks bad I guess to right wingers.
And they're terrified at all times of the right criticizing them or talking.
I don't know, maybe they'll give a speech on the House Floor Cenk about Disney or
something in relation to this.
So once again,
those groups get thrown into the garbage by the Democratic party, because they
think that will stop the right from criticizing them when they try to do this.
>> No, every part of this is absurd.
What a set of liars and frauds.
So let me explain the facts to you guys.
So number one, they're stripping out this bill to appease the right wing.
So does that mean that the right wing is going to vote for it?
No, almost no.
There's a couple of Republicans that say if you water it down further,
I might vote for it.
And so we'll get to that in a second.
But is it even going to convince the Democrats that are ready to vote,
no like Manchin.
No, Manchin says no, water it down and I might still vote no.
What kind of a sucker would voter water it
down without a guarantee for with a with a vote?
Look I don't mind horse trading, but you're giving him everything he wants,
he's giving you nothing.
This is classic Joe Manchin.
And classic idiot Democrats were, okay, we'll just give it to you.
Look, those particular provisions.
They're nice to have.
If they took those provisions out but made Roe the law of the land,
I would do that deal cuz I'm practical, okay?
And then we'll come back to that and we'll see if we can pass that language.
But they're getting nothing in return.
And then you say, okay, well, Susan Collins [INAUDIBLE], That's interesting.
Well, that's a second set of compromises.
Now, those compromises are actually part of the core legislation that would
actually compromise women's rights to choose.
But the Democrats are considering going to do that as well.
Well, all right, but then are we gonna at least get some protections passed.
No none of this has ever going to pass.
At most if they do literally compromise on top of compromise,
they would only get 52 votes at most and none of that is promised.
But because they won't take away the filibuster, you need 60 votes.
So all of this is a joke and a lie being played on you.
Any reporter or any media outlet that doesn't tell you that
this is all marketing by the Democrats who do not actually intend to
pass this law are helping them to do propaganda.
It's alternative facts.
When you asked Shumor,
are you gonna take away the filibuster cuz that is the only way this can pass?
He says no, they're not even gonna vote on it.
There are a joke.
And people in Washington say,
no if you applaud the Democrats lies harder than it will somehow pass, really?
Where's your eight Republican senator snake?
We don't you wanna know why they're not voting to take away the filibuster?
Because then they would leave no excuse for their corporate donors.
The Democrats say they want child tax credit, paid family leave, higher wages,
they're all lying.
They don't want any of their those things cuz their donors don't want it.
If you take away the filibuster, it leaves them vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy.
So they say we'll just do a fake vote and of course we won't protect women.
In fact Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi today are fighting for
anti-choice legislators like Henry Cuellar in Texas,.
She's trying to help take away the rights of women.
She's trying to put another vote in for an anti choice candidate.
The Democratic leadership are filled to the rim with absolute undeniable liars and
hypocrites.
>> Yeah and it's Henry Cuellar,
it's what do you desperately need to have in the party because he's just so popular?
Why are you you holding on Henry Cuellar?
Him being anti-choice that's I guess in the top five worst parts of him but
the rest of that list is awful too.
He's horrible in a number of different ways and
they could easily elect Jessica Cisneros.
But again, it's not that they don't get that Cisneros is potentially a superstar
in the Democratic Party,
obviously far more representative of where the country is going.
Is that they do get that, but they don't want it.
They don't want any of these stars on the left that can draw attention to these
sorts of issues and everything.
And so as Cenk said,
they're gonna do this just far enough until it gets filibustered.
And along the way, since the only thing they're gonna have is this symbolic bill,
they're gonna make it the weakest symbolic bill possible.
Thus getting the least benefit out of it.
When alternatively, they could do something,
they can't necessarily get Sandra Cisneros or Joe Manchin to switch over and
they're obviously not even going to try.
But what they could do Cenk, is they could actually make the Republicans
filibuster this and not for five seconds, not in some sort of procedural thing and
then we immediately move on to the next bill or whatever.
They could make them hold the floor.
Four days or four weeks or four months.
And they could draw the attention of the entire country to the republicans
being willing to do this.
And almost unprecedentedly long filibuster specifically to strip women of
their rights.
And I know most people think well of course they'd still be willing to do that,
maybe, but the right is running scared from even talking about the implications
of what the Cicadas leak has revealed.
They understand that this isn't politically popular.
And it'll be a lot less popular after they shut down the US government for
literally months to do it.
And as I said on my show this morning, some people might think, well yeah
maybe but then the senate wouldn't be able to accomplish anything for a few months.
>> [LAUGH] >> And I want to laugh in your face
over that.
They're not gonna do anything between now and the election.
So shut it all down.
Make them filibuster until the vote actually happens in the midterms.
Do that, show these groups that you actually have their back.
And honestly, for all of those who pretend that this is about the tradition of
the filibuster curses, cinema,
who lies about how it protects vulnerable groups when as Cenk points out.
No, it protects the most privileged people in this country from having to ever take
a stand on anything and reveal who they truly are.
Then this would be, if you love the tradition of the filibuster,
let's go back to the traditional filibuster.
And let's have a months long filibuster over this.
Cenk, they're not gonna do it but
there should be a national campaign to try to force them to do that.
>> Yeah, of course they're not gonna do it.
And then if you do that campaign, the media will yell at you in unison.
Every hack in Washington will yell at you and unison.
You're hurting the Democrats ability to do nothing and
delight to their voters nonstop.
Please, you're hurting them with the truth, don't do it.
Okay, look, just when you think it can't get worse, it always gets to worse.
So last two things on this.
Sean Hannity as you'll see later in the show, I had Tulsi Gabbard on and
he said something really curious.
He's like, I mean, abortion is not gonna be illegal in America anyway.
What are you talking about?
It's gonna be illegal in 24 states after the Supreme Court publishes that ruling.
And you wanted to be illegal in every state?
He saw the polling.
The polling indicates that 70% of Americans are pro-choice.
Even Sean Hannity is running scared.
Meanwhile Democrats are running into the arms of Republicans on this issue.
They're pathetic.
But watch this one now, this is the worst of all.
If they agree to the two compromises, to quote on quote,
get Murkowski and Collins vote.
Remember the bill doesn't pass anyway.
This is all just games.
But what it does do, is it allows two Republican Senators,
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski to say, I voted pro-choice.
Now that it didn't actually affect anything, but
it helps protect those right wing senators and the Democrats would
love to do nothing more than to help their Republican colleagues.
That is what the point of this law is.
Is to protect people like Collins and
Murkowski passed by the Democrats having no effect on women's rights.
Media, you're embarrassing.
Please report actual facts.
Everything I'm saying is undeniable.
Democratic leadership doesn't care about you,
doesn't care about women's rights at all.
They care more about protecting anti-choice legislators and Republicans.
That's inarguable facts.