Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman has challenged
his opponent, multimillionaire Dr Oz, to a lifestyle on minimum wage.
Now keep in mind that around 40 I'm sorry 64% of Americans are currently
living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they're just scraping by.
But the situation is obviously further exacerbated by those who are making
the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which, of course, has not gone up in 13 years.
The last time the federal minimum wage was increased was 13 years ago.
Like just let that sink in.
Now, in a statement marking the 13 years since
the federal minimum wage was increased,
Fetterman challenged Dr Oz to living on a minimum wage.
In a minimum wage situation where he doesn't have millions of dollars,
some of which, by the way, was provided through the labor
of undocumented immigrants that he's now viciously going after.
So Federman says, so since Dr Oz who owns 11 homes around the world,
including seven multimillion dollar mansions, Things that are minimum
wage is a livable wage, then he should be forced to live on $7.25 an hour so
that he can demonstrate to all of us how it's possible.
And by the way, if you're curious to see what this is like,
you should definitely read Barbara ehrenreich and the book she wrote
basically doing this experiment for herself working minimum wage jobs.
As someone who goes to people's homes and cleans or
someone who works as a waitress or a server.
That was An incredible book that really gives you the reality of what people were
facing back then.
But the situation is even worse now, considering inflation is incredibly high.
Corporate greed is an all time is at an all time high and
wages haven't really increased to keep up with that inflation.
And so keep in mind that Dr. Oz boasts the net worth of $100 million.
And I love what Fetterman is doing because he's focusing on issues,
material issues that really do matter to voters in this country.
And he's being pretty successful in redirecting the conversation to these
bread and butter issues.
Whereas Dr Oz wants to really dive into manufactured culture wars was yeah,
isn't it just astounding when a democrat gets something right,
when it comes to messaging and marketing themselves to potential voters?
Obviously nobody is into these rich pricks who think it's their entitlement to,
you know, basically lord over us and run the world and run the country.
And Dr Oz has no qualifications for, you know, being a public servant to
the people of pennsylvania outside of the fact that he's a celebrity and
a really rich guy and he thinks it's his birthright to do so,
so to highlight that he's just a rich out of touch jerk.
You know, he brings up a salient point like we need to get this thing passed 15,
we need to get it to 20 you know 20 to even and so
I think this is the kind of issue that that people who are working Two and
three jobs to scrape by this speaks directly to them.
And yeah, I'm sure some of these, you know, these these
hovering parents who are worried about what their kids are learning in school and
this and that probably won't care as much.
But man, there's way more people struggling than, you know,
Horny 20 people who have these fake problems.
Well, look, I think that when people are not getting their needs met economically,
it's super easy to manipulate them in directing their rage toward
whatever manufactured culture war republicans want to distract them with.
And so I see a lot of that going on, you know,
not to minimize the fact that there are moneyed individuals in this country who
are also engaging in that culture war just out of pure hatred.
But in terms of the average republican voter, you know,
I do see their rage being misdirected and I do see them getting
super manipulated by these republican lawmakers to freak out about
issues that they either aren't happening at all right in the case of like,
critical race theory being taught in elementary schools that ain't happening.
That's like graduate level, curriculum.
But then there's also the unbelievable incessant focus
on hating the transgender community, right?
Like on pronouns.
And it's like, look,
the pronoun debate is not going to put food on the table for your kids.
Okay.
And so that's why I love that, Fetterman isn't digging into that, right?
Like he's not since he actually has a substantive set of policies that
will improve people's lives, he's able to focus on those policies.
He's able to reject the deflections coming from republicans, including his
republican opponent, Dr Oz, in order to focus on what voters genuinely care about.
And that's why he's killing it so far.
According to the polling in this Senate race in pennsylvania.
Now, I want to go to something else here because you had mentioned, imagine that
democrats actually fighting back with an economic message that's popular.
I want you to juxtapose what we see from Fetterman a progressive to what we saw
from the biden administration when his White House Press secretary was asked
about people really struggling in this country with low wages.
Let's watch Growth of job growth in the us is shrinking is decreasing.
And 7.5 million people a growing number are multi jobs.
They have to work more than one job to afford a living.
So his job is really a good indicator.
Look, here's what I would say.
We've always talked about the strength of our economy.
We've always talked about how historic it's been.
And we've always talked about the transitioning, right?
The transitioning to more stable and steady growth.
And so to your point about the job growth there.
This is what we have been kind of stating for
the past several months, what do you mean?
The economy is great?
We've been talking about how great the economy has been from the very beginning.
You should just take our word for it.
The economy is great.
What?
So when you're an american voter who's experiencing what this economy is
really like if you're working multiple jobs and
this is the message you're getting from democrats, what are you going to think?
Well, democrats aren't gonna do anything for me.
They're not the party of working class people anymore.
That is the message they get.
And so there's a very clear distinction between progressive or even leftist
political candidates versus what we see from the mainstream Democratic Party.
You know, I would love to use the example of the people in the Rio grande Valley
border towns essentially who have flipped to be more GOP leaning.
A lot of those folks just got law enforcement jobs.
Mexican people, Border patrol people.
And when you get those jobs, the republicans are seen, you know,
I don't know if it's credible, but being way more pro cop, right?
And the idea being like I got this job, it's well paying, it's steady,
it's helping me build a nice life for myself.
I'm GOP, never mind the rhetoric coming out of the White House and
from their ridiculous frothing at the mouth bass, this matters to me.
So this idea that there are people who can't be reached by
straight up just meeting them with their material needs.
I think the example is the opposite.
You see actual latin latin X.
I don't know what we're saying for that, I've lost the plot on that one, but
you know, we're saying like these people, you know,
demographics are destiny for the democrats, blah blah blah.
Why are they doing this?
Well, in the Real Grant, specifically man with all these people working in
law enforcement, these great jobs, they just straight up on GOP,
I don't see why that couldn't be the case for other people.
Yeah, absolutely, exactly.
And while the mainstream Democratic Party seems to be completely oblivious to how
self destructive they are,
you see the GOP positioning themselves as the party that defends the working class
when in reality we know what their policies really entail, right?
So in in some very specific cases, especially when it comes to
like the fossil fuel industry or jobs related to to border patrol, you know,
they might be doing a little better under Republican leadership, but
there's a reason for that, the GOP has no problem funding the police state.
They love it.
They can't get enough of it.
But when it comes to jobs for everyone else,
when it comes to sustainable jobs that will be here long term,
they don't fight for those jobs, They don't care about those jobs and
they certainly do whatever they can to help the corporations who
offshore those jobs or abuse their workers with incredibly low wages,
Republican or right wing populism really means one thing, which is,
let's get rid of people of color and stop any type of foreign aid to
any other country and put people to work, but not in a gainful way.
Put people to work in a way that's beneficial to our corporate overlords.
That's what we see with the right wing.
And democrats just sit idly by and
do the bidding of corporations as well because they're funded by the same donors.
That's where we are right now in the country.
I mean, we talk about two party system, but is it really a two party system when
you think about it, when it comes to the bread and butter issues?
And I know some democrats are like, but biden's agenda.
It was there, it was so great.
It's just that it was, it was just mansions fault, it was mansions fault,
biden himself admitted that he didn't negotiate with mansion.
I don't know, maybe he was lying about that.
I don't know.
But clearly he didn't fight for his own agenda because he didn't really care about
funding social programs that materially improve people's lives a man.
They got 40 billion to fund that war in Ukraine though, that that sailed through
the Congress, biden couldn't wait to get his pen out to sign it,
those kinds of things get enthusiastic support from the White House and
by the way, they have no problem trying to articulate how they want to sell it.
They will sell the hell out of that kind of crap,
which is just corporate welfare is just a straight up government giveaway
government money to companies like Raytheon, and Halliburton and all,
you know, you know, the usual suspects in the military industrial complex.
They have no problem selling this crap to the american people.
But you know, something like, you know, can we get these wages up to these folks?
Can we get some jobs, some good paying union jobs,
pension having jobs in the hands of these folks?
They, yeah, I don't know how to do that exactly.