Cancel culture is a real thing.
It is very real.
>> They want cancel culture.
Our country wasn't built by cancel culture.
>> We have to protect our girls,
it is discriminatory to force them to compete against biological males.
>> In your understanding.
What does critical race theory mean?
What is it?
>> All right, so this is the nonsense that you see daily,
as if these are the most important issues in politics could have grace theory isn't
really being taught in math class.
In Florida answers is, no, not remotely.
My God,
trans girls going into high school track [INAUDIBLE] biggest issue in the world.
No, it's all nonsense.
What is it trying to cover up, what actually happens in politics?
And that's what I'm gonna tell you about in this story.
Okay, so, something really important is happening in the Senate this week.
Let me tell you,
how post reports Senate minority leader mitch McConnell won't support a bipartisan
domestic manufacturing bill if democrats try to lower prescription drug prices and
tax the rich, the Kentucky Republican announced on Thursday.
So, while they're distracting you with squirrels about critical race theory and
cancel culture, Mitch McConnell is trying to make sure that you do not tax the rich.
That the middle class pay almost all the taxes and
drug prices which are literally killing you because of how high they are and
you can't afford it, Mitch McConnell is making sure on behalf of
the republicans that your drug prices are higher.
Those are things that actually affect your life.
They affect your life tremendously, unlike fictional things like
critical race theory, which isn't even thought in high school.
They have to distract you for what they're doing to you in Congress as we speak.
Now, let me explain further what that means.
They're gonna vote on two different bills.
It looks like, one is a semiconductor bill and they, and McConnell say,
I'm not gonna let you vote on that semiconductor bill,
if you dare to vote on the second bill, which is build back better.
So they think you're bringing that back that had all the different priorities
that were also progressive priorities lowering drug prices.
Child tax credit paid family.
All these things that massively affect your life.
A lot of you were getting the child tax credit.
It made a giant difference in your life.
And you hated that it went away, right?
Well, McConnell saying not on my watch,
otherwise you don't get to pass the semiconductor bill.
Okay.
Well what's in the semiconductor bill?
It sounds kind of obscure, right?
Well, here's what it is.
The centerpiece of both the Senate and the House bills is $50 billion for
a semiconductor incentive program and advanced microelectronics research.
So it's $50 billion dollars to a random industry.
Who cares?
That's a giveaway to giant multi billion dollar corporations.
It's actually not even who cares.
It's worse.
You know whose money they're taking, they're taking our money, you and
I are paying taxes and then they're giving it to the richest companies in the world.
Who are you holding that one hostage Mitch McConnell?
But for democrats that's our donors, that's our donors.
Don't know Mitch will do anything,
I swear, I swear we won't help the American people.
This is the sixth state of actual politics in America.
So let me give you more details.
So by the way, is he is Mitch McConnell being serious?
No, he's obviously bluffing.
Why?
Listen to this.
The Senate passed this version of the semiconductor bill by a vote of 68 to 32
with 18 republicans in support including McConnell.
It's not clear if the 17 other republicans who voted yes, would join McConnell and
changing their positions.
No, they're not gonna change their positions, you know why?
They have the same donors.
The semiconductors guys bribed the democrats.
They bribed the republicans.
Why do you think the republicans voted for it?
They never vote for any democratic bill because it's not a democratic bill.
It's a Republican bill totally brought to you by giant corporations,
meant to rob us.
Okay, so I was like, yeah, I won't let you help my donors.
[LAUGH] Of course, you're gonna let them help their donors, your donors.
It's absurd, it's a total bluff.
So is it really true that build back better is coming back?
Well, let's go to that.
The centerpiece of the legislation would be a provision giving Medicare.
That's the build back better.
Giving Medicare more power to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers for
lower prescription drug prices.
Well, that sounds great and I'm one billion% in favor of that.
Or the democrats really gonna do that?
Well, let's keep going.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin have nearly finalized
a prescription drug agreement according to a source familiar with the negotiations,
really have they?
But prescription drugs would be just part of the bill.
The other major components under consideration would address climate
change, that sounds good and partially undo tax cuts for
the wealthy that Republicans enacted in 2017.
It sounds really good.
Democrats have dropped a number of social policies and
build back better than mansion opposed.
That sounds really bad.
Okay, so look, they dropped all the things that would help you,
paid family leave, child tax credit, I can go on and on.
But even the couple of bare bones would sound pretty good that still remain
because the bill had a lot of good stuff in it.
So now, here come, the catch is first of all,
are they really gonna do anything on climate change?
No, another report indicated that they are now rewriting it.
So that doesn't really help with climate change, instead,
it helps the oil companies and the coal companies,
including the ones that mansion owns everything in politics is a lie.
Okay, you have to sift through all of this to find out what the reality is.
And then are they really gonna increase taxes on the rich in Washington, really?
Well, let's go to the last sentence.
The tax piece will be difficult for
Democrats since they need all 50 members of their caucus degree and
Senator Krysten Sinema has said that she won't support higher tax rates.
It's a shell game.
Manchin wants to raise taxes on the rich.
But Mansion wants to lower drug use, but cinema doesn't.
Sinema wants action on climate, but Manchin doesn't.
Well I guess there's nothing we can do.
And McConnell threatened the semiconductor bill, that is so
important to the american people.
So we will do none of it.
That's the games that they play,
mainstream media reporters never tell you about any of that.
And they allow them to lie to you and to distract you at the same time.
>> I feel like even when it comes to things, you mentioned,
the media will allow them to do this.
I think a significant percentage of the media actually doesn't even get it either
because they're too busy wrapped up in the process.
I wrote a report that they said, okay, and I move on the next, I gotta keep my access
and make sure I say what they said because I trust my smart politician congressman
senator who just told me that's what's happening and it goes on and on and on.
I think we give a little bit too much credit to their intelligence and
how much they're part of the process.
They are part of the process, but they've just been duped into,
they're just another cog in this system.
So another part about this, I do wanna point out because Jake is telling you guys
that this is how politics works.
And Jake is a talk show host.
He's not a politician.
Yeah, what do you guys talking about?
Jake just over here is ranting and raving because he just wants to demonize these
folks that are trying to do something for the american people.
Here's a politician, he works with politicians.
Name is Brendan Buck.
I go back to this article probably once every two weeks.
This was back in the beginning of this year and
he was talking about how the approach that republicans are supposed to have in
the midterm elections is the beginning of this year.
And he was talking about how republicans don't need to present any kind of agenda
or strategy because their voters just don't care.
Don't believe me.
How about we read this quote?
He goes to probably the right move for republicans,
I don't think you need to present yourself as the focus of this election.
On top of that, he also said that the GOP electorate had changed to focus more
on culture wars and quote, fighting wokeism rather than on whether their
elected leaders would deliver policy victories.
He went on,
I don't know that republican voters care too much about policy as they used to.
It's much more of a cultural fight that they're waging and
that's really what motivates people.
It's almost like they understand how the people that they've appealed to our
thinking and they wanna keep them in this cycle of, I'm so mad about this.
I'm so mad about that, culture wars, wokeism,
Jake brought up all those things we were talking about.
The trans swimmer and, my God, can you believe inflation?
When actually anytime someone talks about inflation or talks about food shortages or
baby formula shortages and those things try to get addressed, they block them.
Republicans need problems happen within our country for two reasons.
So they can claim that the other party is doing it.
And then there's also people can continue to struggle at such a high rate that they
don't have enough time to think about what their politicians are doing right in front
of them and it works over and over and over again.
>> Yeah, and you're absolutely right and circling back to how you started JR
talking about the how the media frames this.
They are doing the mainstream media is doing such a disservice to
all of us because even as I was looking into this story, I saw reporter after
reporter referred to the semiconductor bill as like a national security bill.
And so, I was so confused as to why Mitch McConnell would be so
ready to just hold this national security bill hostage to try and
block a bill that he doesn't like with the budget reconciliation.
And so, I think it's really important that we go through these processes of
really breaking down who is benefiting financially from these bills because even
as I consider myself pretty media literate and I just kept seeing again and again.
Centrist reporters saying like, no, McConnell's bill is very important for
national security for all of these different things.
And then, yeah, just just to see him holding it hostage for
something that republicans ostensibly care a lot about national security and
just being so willing to scrap his support of these other things.
Like was so confusing to me.
So that clears up a lot of things on my end.
And again, it's just, I don't know how the two of you feel about like McConnell
is just such a, he's just such a fighter and he,
it's almost like he doesn't even do things for political expediency.
He really is just focusing on maintaining his own power and
absolutely doesn't care about the quite literally millions of republicans who also
suffer from exorbitant drug costs and who suffer from the effects of climate change.
And it's insane watching the Republican Party drum up this support for
different rights of the working people, the non elites.
But then fail to deliver for them time and time and time again and
again, it's really frustrating to be on the left and
just see us being hostage to this type of truly.
Just abhorrent political situation where it seems we have nothing to do.
And again,
the centrist mainstream media isn't doing any favors in propping up certain
Republican led bills as certain things that they're just fundamentally not.
>> Yeah, so listen one last thing for me,
I don't want you to get what I'm saying wrong.
So is it important for us to have semiconductor manufacturing within the US?
Well, for a number of reasons it is otherwise we're too reliant on china etc,
would so this bill create more investment in the country and create some more jobs?
Yes it would, so those are positive things.
But those are things that they have to convince us of,
the American people because we're going to pay $50 billion to
incredibly profitable companies that already make billions of dollars.
They should, the onus is on them to say, hey guys,
even though it looks like they're spectacularly profitable,
we should take your hard earned money and give it to them.
Because these are really important issues that might even be national security
issues, but we're not having that conversation at all.
Instead, McConnell is saying and this is important goes to Caroline's point.
I hate McConnell, but I respect him.
McConnell who is definitely gonna pass that bill is saying I might not pass it if
you dare to help the american people with any other bill.
So what are the democrats supposed to do?
Hey, idiots of idiots you're supposed to fight back.
So this is what your, if I was a democrat so easy, like wait,
this semiconductor bill, McConnell wants to kill it.
He just said he wants to kill it, if we do build back better.
Well, okay, then if we have a national security issue with China,
it is 100% mitch McConnell's fault.
We were gonna put a facility in Ohio, could just cost 12,000 jobs,
100% Mitch McConnell's fault.
What is wrong with you?
Why don't you do the most basic things in politics?
And by the way, McConnell says, unless we make sure there's higher drug prices?
Well then why don't you put them on the spot, you morons?
Why don't you put up a bill that says, here's lower drug prices.
Go ahead, vote, no, vote no McConnell.
I want every Republican voting no, but
that one as with most of these things, I tell them that they're
stupid because they don't do the most obvious things in the world.
But really a lot of you make this point and it's a really good one,
it's what I made for 20 years.
They're not really stupid.
They do stupid things, but
the reason that they do them is because they're corrupt because Schumer and
Biden also wanna give the $50 billion dollars to their donors.
And they don't want to lower drug prices because they also get money from
pharmaceutical companies.
Just like Mitch McConnell does, they're lying.
That is why we have this whole game.
That's why you have the squirrels and the distractions.
And that's why you have this fake bluffing by McConnell.
So Schumer and Biden can go, my God, Mitch McConnell twisted my arm.
Now I cannot lower drug prices.
I cannot tax the rich at all, donors you guys thrilled.
They're like, yes, way to go Biden and Schumer.
And the press is like >> [LAUGH]
>> Jake if you keep bashing Biden and
Schumer, we're going up with republicans in power, then republicans will start
getting the things that they want [LAUGH] which is exactly where we are today.
Does it look like the democrats are in charge?
It looks like the republicans are getting everything they want.
And that's because they are.
Yeah, and it's the thing that's so scary about McConnell's threats
versus the democrats threats, is like he follows through on his threats.
And where we've been in this position since, Roe versus Wade falling where,
we keep seeing all of these like bombastic statements from left leaders and
it's like, does anyone believe them anymore, the threats they're making.
So yeah, it's evil, but it's compelling and it and it gets their base riled up and
then they're just on to the next squirrel issue or whatever.