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Ted Cruz FLOPS Trying To Stop Infrastructure Bill - YouTube
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over the weekend the senate pushed the
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bipartis bipartisan infrastructure bill
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over another hurdle uh and of course
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that is the legislative filibuster
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now uh that requires 60 votes in the
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senate in order to pass
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any piece of legislation with a few
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exceptions on reconciliation bills
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now senators easily overcame another
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60-vote hurdle
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on a vote of 68-29
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as many as 20 republicans are expected
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to join democrats in the
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early or evenly split senate for what
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could be a robust final tally
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if approved it would go to the house so
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i want to be clear
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in stating something that i hope we've
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been clear on so far
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the senate infrastructure bill the
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bipartisan infrastructure bill
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is different from what's being referred
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to as the reconciliation infrastructure
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bill
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or what some are now referring to as the
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budget bill which we'll get to in just a
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second
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but moving back to the bipartisan
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infrastructure bill which of course
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um allocates an additional 550 billion
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dollars in new spending
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the senate uh could pass the one
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trillion dollar bipartisan
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infrastructure bill as early as tuesday
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morning tuesday of this week
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the plan which calls for 550 billion
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dollars in new spending on
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transportation
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utilities and broadband is expected to
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get through the chamber with democratic
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and republican support
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now it didn't pass easily or or this
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overcoming this hurdle um did have a few
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hiccups
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so i'm just gonna go to one video uh
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featuring ted cruz
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and the shenanigans he engaged in where
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he thought he was making a good point
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but as usual only embarrassed himself
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let's watch
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as admiral akbar said in star wars
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it's a trap
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this is a trap this is a trap
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now listen for democrats
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it's what they campaign on if you're a
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democrat
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you want to raise taxes and raise
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spending you want more debt from china
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that's what democrats do
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but for republicans come on guys
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we're like charlie brown
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with chuck schumer being lucy in the
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football
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and you've got republicans happily
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running going oh he's going to keep the
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football he's going to keep the football
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and every time lucy pulls the football
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up back
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and we go up in the air and land on our
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rear
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it'd be nice
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for republicans not to fall for it again
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so ted cruz feels that this is a trap
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because uh voting in favor of the
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bipartisan infrastructure deal
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paves the way for the passage of the
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reconciliation
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infrastructure bill which includes
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everything that we actually care about
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the human infrastructure components
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funding for child care elder care
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um you know free community college the
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honestly more robust version of the
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infrastructure deal
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now uh jank i wanted to get your
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thoughts on uh what ted cruz said there
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but more importantly
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like this strategy like do you think
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that
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democrats are handling this
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appropriately right there seems to be
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this
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notion that they're definitely going to
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pass a reconciliation bill
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but i don't really see a clear strategy
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with the exception of progressives
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standing in the way saying that they'd
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block
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the bipartisan bill unless there's a
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clear path forward for reconciliation
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what do you think so good news is we're
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going to find out everything about
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congress real soon
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okay so i'll explain uh first i want to
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say about ted cruz
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um i'm really like anna's assault queen
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right
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but i've also gotten to a point where
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i'm tired of covering the liars
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so everything ted cruz says is a lie and
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i don't want to engage with the
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mainstream
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media that uh says oh no that's
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offensive
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um you have to take his lies and take it
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at face value and pretend that it has
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50 chance of being true and has validity
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it doesn't have any validity and he's a
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showman and a terrible showman at that
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he's such a poor great actor republican
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voters can see it
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from a mile away trump is a far more
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sophisticated con man
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so as ted cruz does these kind of
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speeches
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even the republicans don't buy it they
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know he's a scam artist so
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anyways uh now on to relevant things
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um look there is one point that the
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republicans are
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a little bit right about so we're we do
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an honest show so
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it will cover no matter what
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uh as it actually is so they're doing
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two different infrastructure bills they
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were both called infrastructure bills
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now
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the larger one is being called a budget
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bill that's a
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bit of optics that the democrats are
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doing okay it's harmless optics but it
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is optics
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it's not it was infrastructure it is
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still is infrastructure
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and it has more of the green new deal in
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the larger one
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that's now being called the budget build
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that part is true okay
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and um and so why are they doing two
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different bills
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if the democrats can pass the larger one
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without any republican votes
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so that means instead of doing one
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trillion and three and a half trillion
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they just combine it if they have enough
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votes and just pass it as four and a
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half trillion
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so the one trill there's two possible
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explanations and neither one of them is
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good
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uh for the democrats now so the
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republicans are right that
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splitting it is weird right and some of
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the ones that are opposed to it go
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why the hell are they splitting it
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they're gonna trick you guys and they're
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gonna vote for the three and a half
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trillion dollars but they're not
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tricking you they're saying they're
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gonna vote on the three and a half
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trillion dollar one
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okay it's actually a trick in the
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reverse for on democratic voters
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okay so i'll get to what's most likely
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but second most likely
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is they say um
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well it's okay uh we help the
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republicans with their
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uh marketing by doing a bipartisan one
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now it also helps joe biden's marketing
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that's why he's presumably doing it
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because he ran on being bipartisan
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but the republicans will get to say we
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did the infrastructure bill
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we did infrastructure okay now the
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reality is it lets them vote
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against 75 percent of the funding for
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infrastructure
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but it still gives republicans credit
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for doing infrastructure
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so that's a giant marketing help to the
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republican party
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that's totally needless if they can pass
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the larger one with only democratic
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votes
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that's inarguable anyone in the media
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that tells you that's not an hour you
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literally can't do math right so that's
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the best case scenario where the
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democrats as usual
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help the republican party massively for
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no reason
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okay now the worst case scenario no the
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most likely thing is the democrats never
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meant it they're just as much corporate
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stooges their leadership
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is as the republicans are so they're
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gonna actually do
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lucy and and charlie brown and pulling
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the football oh yeah progressives come
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this way we're going to vote on three
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and a half trillion dollars sure it's
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going to happen
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oh golly gee we couldn't get mansion or
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cinema or any of the other rotating
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villains
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to say yes so we can only do the
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bipartisan one
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so everybody shut up and do unity and
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we're all going to yell at you and say
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you're the worst and it's all your fault
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if at the very last second and they'll
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always leave it to the last second
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so it'll seem like an emergency right
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the progressives didn't vote for it it's
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their fault
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so that is the most common game and so
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what we're all going to find out
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together
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we don't know it yet you're all going to
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find it out as we find out
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if the democrats actually pass the three
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and a half trillion dollar one from the
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senate
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and and and and then the house passes it
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and it becomes law
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holy cow we've actually moved congress
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and progressives have made a difference
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i would love to give the democratic
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party credit for that i would
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love it it would be literally the first
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time
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in in my lifetime in covering politics
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for 25 years
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i have never seen the democrats mean it
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never not once
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okay so if they mean it this time that
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is a giant victory and you should give
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credit where credit is due
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now if it's like every other time and
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they pull the football and they don't
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give them the do the three and a half
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trillion dollar deal
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that is when you will hear mainstream
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media do marketing for them propaganda
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purest worse than anything on sputnik
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or anything that you see uh like the
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north korean television
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they will tell you oh no we couldn't
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have done the three and a half trillion
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everybody always knew it was not gonna
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be the three and a half trillion dollars
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i can't believe progressives are
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preventing the one billion dollar
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infrastructure deal it's all the
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progressive assault
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they will all say it in unison uh and
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and i'm and the other good news is i
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don't care what the mainstream media
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says anymore my job is to point out
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their lies so
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devil's advocate democrats now referring
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to
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the reconciliation infrastructure bill
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as the budget bill
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could be optics on behalf of the
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democrats because
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of course in order to pass a
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reconciliation bill which would only
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require a simple majority in the senate
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you need to prove that it has an impact
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on the federal budget
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right so calling it a budget bill helps
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with that cause um
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some some red flags though that i wanted
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to mention
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is that you already have the
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congressional budget office
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uh studying the impact of the
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reconciliation version of the
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infrastructure bill
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and pushing back a little bit in regard
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to whether or not
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it would qualify under the
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reconciliation process
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but i want to be clear about something
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the whole thing about reconciliation
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and the senate parliamentarian the biden
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administration does not have to listen
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to the senate parliamentarian
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someone who is unelected someone who can
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just easily be fired
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and the administration and and the
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democratic party can move forward with
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the reconciliation bill and get it
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passed with the simple majority the fact
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that we're already hearing about like oh
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well the cbo
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is looking into this and we don't know
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if
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we don't know if this 3.5 trillion
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dollar uh now
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budget bill is going to qualify for the
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reconciliation process
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we'll see how it plays out but nancy
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pelosi on multiple occasions
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has said that she will not bring the
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bipartisan
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infrastructure bill for a vote on the
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house floor until the senate passes
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both of the bills meaning the
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reconciliation bill and the bipartisan
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bill
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we'll see we'll see if she's actually
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going to follow through on her
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commitment there
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but there's that commitment and then
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there's also
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progressive lawmakers in the house who
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claim that they'll block the bill
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you're right jenk there's going to be a
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tremendous amount of pressure on them
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to not block the bill to to play along
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and to um you know do whatever the
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corporate media and corporate donors
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want them to do
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there's going to be a lot of pressure
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but this is the true test to see if
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they're willing to go
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through all of the disdain all the
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hatred they're gonna get in the
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corporate media to do the right thing
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which is to block the bipartisan bill
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unless it's abundantly clear
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that they can pass the reconciliation
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bill okay guys
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everything is online and everything's
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going to be decided so anna's absolutely
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right calling it the budget bill is a
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good thing because budgets must pass
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right so that's an indication that
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they're uh that they
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actually want to pass it now in the past
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i would have told you
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there's no chance they're gonna pass
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that three and a half trillion dollar
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bill if the corporations are not in
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favor of it we
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live under 100 corporate rule it has no
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i would have said zero percent chance
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now i'm not telling you that now okay
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i'm telling you that there is some
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chance
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they pass it why uh one bernie is saying
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a thousand times over it's gonna pass
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and that this was the fruits of all of
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his laborers
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in all the compromises now if bernie
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gets fooled on that that is going to be
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devastating for him okay and so
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on the other hand if he passed the guys
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people like me who were his critic on 15
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minute wage etc we all have to turn
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around and go holy cow he did it
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like i've never seen it in my lifetime
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where corporate democrats agree with
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progressives rather than vice versa
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okay and what anna said about nancy
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pelosi is critical
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i've never seen nancy pelosi draw the
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line like that and say
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i will pass progressive legislation and
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if i don't you should judge me on it
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i've never seen it so we're an
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unprecedented unchartered territory
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so it does have some chance of passing
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but if it doesn't if it was all a trick
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all along
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and the progressives fold and nina
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turner lost
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then we're back to a dark place where
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there's no hope
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at all so the progressives cannot fault
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if they fold it would be devastating it
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would be devastating not just
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for the future of their
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you know political careers which i
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honestly don't care that much about
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it would be devastating literally for
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the planet like
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the reconciliation version of the
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infrastructure bill is the one that
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includes
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climate action we need to address
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climate change i mean we need to go even
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further than what's in the
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reconciliation bill
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but the reconciliation bill is a good
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start
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and and if they don't fight for that
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i i mean it's just gonna the future is
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incredibly bleak by the way the
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reconciliation bills i
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as i said before includes everything
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that we actually want so it's expansion
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of
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paid family and medical leave you've got
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child care programs free community
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college an extension
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of increased uh infor affordable care
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act uh subsidies
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universal uh pre-k you again
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like it's important to address how
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expensive education is for people so
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free community college is a good start
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although i would like to see it go
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further
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but all of the human infrastructure
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stuff is included there
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the extension of the child tax credits
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we need this we need to give americans
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relief this is
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finally a little bit of redistribution
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of wealth
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to the bottom instead of a
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redistribution to the top as we're
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likely to get with the bipartisan
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version of the bill
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look honestly if progressives block the
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bipartisan bill because we're not going
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to get the
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reconciliation bill and we get nothing
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on infrastructure at all
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i would almost prefer that because the
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bipartisan bill
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is nothing but corporate handouts
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there's some positive spending there uh
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for
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infrastructure improvements that we need
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but we're privatizing public
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infrastructure through
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this um these are all the you know
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physical infrastructure things that
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corporate america wants because it
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benefits them and their bottom line
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so no we need the reconciliation version
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of the bill that's the bill that has
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everything that we need everything that
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we want we should be hyper focused on
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fighting for that
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so last two things on that um so
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uh one of the reasons why there's also a
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little bit of hope is because the money
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is moving people always follow the money
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and so a large democratic donors
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now are beginning to understand uh oh
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the planet is burning
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and we don't have a second planet and so
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now this
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actually endangers me helping the other
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people who cares
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but look i i might have billions but i
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don't have enough money for this
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by the way bad guys and good guys right
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i know a good guy
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who's very wealthy and is now literally
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he's given up on uh politics and
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and he's a scientist he he's seen the
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numbers there's no question about it
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he's now going to go and move uh and and
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buy tons of real estate
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as far north as he can and start
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building bunkers that's
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that's real okay and that's a good guy
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who tried and tried and tried to fix it
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and thinks nope it's broken we're not
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going to be able to fix it in time
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you got to start preparing for a worst
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case scenario now if enough
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donors thought that they might actually
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be able to push the democratic party in
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the right direction
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that's why it's not hopeless but at the
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end of the day what is the most likely
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outcome
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the most likely outcome is the same
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outcome we've seen for
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the last 40 years of corporate rule
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which is
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and this is an important part of this
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guys they're gonna try to run out the
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clock
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while pretending there was nothing they
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could do so when the three and a half
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billion dollar version ever comes up in
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the senate
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that's what cinema will object and then
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they'll go to the cbo
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and then they will take tons and tons of
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time negotiating back and forth
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none of it is meant to actually do
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negotiations it's just meant to run out
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the clock
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and then at the end they'll go oh my god
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we're running out of time
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so we got to pass the billion dollar the
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trillion dollar version
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the smaller version the bipartisan
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version and then we'll come back to the
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other one we promise we promise we'll
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come back to the other one right
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and that's the oldest trick in the book
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so what you will see with your own eyes
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as they start to run out the clock
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