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- [00:01]
Dave
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Kristen
It's been so long. How have you been? Hello. I'm doing well, Dave. Why are you talking that way? Please say one for a compliment or two for a question. Yeah, this is weird. I think I'm gonna go.
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MAGA Mike
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Robert Garcia
Johnson getting more terrible news. I mean the dude can't even pass a freaking budget. The most basic function of Congress. And now he's getting attacked from within. A day after by the way, another MAGA Republican from Indiana, Victoria Spar, says she's out. She's not caucusing with Republicans. She doesn't want to be on committees. She may not even vote with Republicans. So does MAGA Mike even have a majority at all? Could we be ushering in soon somehow? Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries still doubtful. But MAGA Mike needs Hakeem Jeffries desperately here. Otherwise the government would be shut down. Mega Mike's being attacked from within. Other MAGAS MAGA Republican Andy bigs posted on Dec 16 he goes government funding expires Friday. We're now expecting to vote on a 1500 page short term omnibus on Wednesday. We still don't have the text of the bill. The D.C. cartel loves to operate in the shadows. The swamp is deep and must be drained. The D you. You control the majority. Biggs, who's the cartel is MAGA Mike the cartel? Y'all literally run the government and you're soon to run, unfortunately all three branches. Yet all y'all do is whine that it's the Democrats. It just to me goes back to do when they were all like, oh, the. The Democrat deep state on January 6, Trump was in power. It was his FBI director who was a Republican. But you have Andy Biggs now attacking MAGA Mike Johnson right there. And so now you get headlines like this because by Friday there would be a government shutdown. A government shutdown would usher in probably a depression. And because MAGA Mike can't pass an actual budget, they do this with what's called stop gap measures to basically stop the bleeding versus actually function and do their jobs because they can form a coalition to actually govern. So Congress is scrambling for a stop gap sprint. Why? Just do your job the right way. And by the way, what is it like 75, 80% of Americans don't approve of the work of Congress yet because of gerrymandering. Elect the party that they hate back into power. Make that make sense. Gerrymandering. Here is Melanie's and on his post, Johnson's Mike MAGA Mike says at the presser they are almost there on a continuing resolution. Deal will go until mid March. Said initially it was intended to be a clean stopgap, but said other events intervened, such as hurricanes, struggles in farm community, etc. So we have to add that. So it's no longer a clean continuing resolution. And now they just pushed the goalposts a few more months until March. And can I ask an honest question here? I mean, this is a question for Akeem Jeffries and the Democrats. Look, I definitely understand. I hate the. I don't like the F around find out stuff where we the people suffer, friends, family suffer, community members suffer. But Democrats have bailed Republicans out over and over again on these continuing resolutions. Why? Why? Just they're in charge. They have all the branches of the government. Why don't you just show the. Why help them? They didn't help you. They stopped a bipartisan immigration bill and then ran on immigration when y'all were trying to solve the problem. So why help them when they already are saying they want to inflict economic hardship on the people? Shouldn't we just expose them? Am I being petty for asking that question? I don't know. You could tell me if in the comments. Right there. This is what Politico is reporting. Congress strikes a deal on 100 billion in disaster aid and punting funding until March. They're punting the funding until March? Dude, just do your freaking jobs. Just solve it. Pass a budget. What? What are you even doing all day? Like, what do you do with your day in Congress? And the ultimate irony here, right, is that the MAGA Republicans attack federal workers. We want to slash these jobs. We want to get rid of these jobs. We're going to. You don't do your own job. Have you ever looked at a congressional calendar before? Like, these people don't really work. What do they work like? Like half the year, if that. A quarter of the year. Maybe you work. Maybe all of you who mock people who work from home but are actually working. I don't know, maybe I'll work from home and you could go through, like an Excel spreadsheet or whatever you gotta do, do a zoom meeting and perhaps you can, I don't know, pass a budget. But instead you'll probably go with your cowboy hats to the border and say, look what we're doing here. Look how tough we are versus actually doing your job. So I like that Congress member Robert Garcia out here from California. He talks about this. Exactly. He's like, so you want to bring in a conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr. Who's going to cut jobs at the National Institute of Health. Just think about it. Cut jobs that help people's health, while the Republican members of Congress can't even get a budget. Here, watch this.
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Bernie Sanders
I rise today to call our colleagues in the Senate to reject Donald Trump's nomination of RFK Jr. As Secretary of Health and Human Services. Now, RFK has proven himself for decades to be a conspiracy theorist, and we cannot allow the critical work by the HHS and the doctors, the medical professionals there to be undermined by someone with his record. Now, for Those not familiar, RFK Jr. 1st has no scientific or medical credentials. Instead, he spent his career fueling anti vaccine movements around the world, including one in Samoa that contributed to a measles outbreak that killed dozens of people and made almost 6,000 sick, most of them children and infants. Now, RFK Jr. Has falsely claimed that vaccines cause autism and suggested that Covid health measures were worse than the Holocaust. He's also peddled in conspiracy theories that chemicals in water are making children transgender and gay. Now, this is someone who has threatened to gut the National Institutes of Health, the federal agency responsible for medical and public health research. Now, they, along with the rest of hhs, do vital, nonpartisan work that impacts every American, in every community. From pandemic preparedness to cancer research to resources for mental health and substance abuse. There are real lives at stake. We just went through a pandemic that cost the lives of 1.3 million Americans, the single largest loss of life event in the modern era in our country and around the world. We cannot allow at this moment to hand over the keys of public health to an extreme and unqualified and dangerous nominee. The Senate must reject RFK Jr. For HHS.
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Angie Lee
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Robert Garcia
And let me show you this right here. This is Senator Bernie Sanders. This is from this weekend talking about MAGA Republicans trying to hoist up an oligarchy here.
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Donald Trump
Play this clip as President Trump comes into office. We have got to understand Kristen, and this is something I feel very strongly about and it's not talked about enough. We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so so few people have so much wealth and so much power. Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership sector after sector power of Wall street and never before in American history. And we better talk about this. Have the people on top had so much political power. We can't go around the world saying oh well, you know, in Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. Well, we got an oligarchy here, too. And in this last election, in both parties, billionaires spent huge amounts of money to elect their candidates. You know, here in the state of Vermont, we believe we have town meetings. One person, one vote. That's democracy, not billionaires buying elections. Those are the issues we got to focus on. We got to rebuild the middle class, 60% of our people.
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Robert Garcia
And one more clip here of Bernie Sanders. Let's play.
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Donald Trump
You know, when Trump talks about sending to jail people who are on that January 6th committee, that sounds like being a tin pot dictator. So I would hope that we have an FBI and a Justice Department that protects the civil liberties of the American people and does its best to protect American democracy.
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Joe Biden
Well, we know the White House is considering potential preemptive pardons of those who've clashed with President Elect Trump. In light of what the President elect said to me that, yes, he does think that members of the January six committee should go to jail. Do you think that Mr. Biden should issue preemptive pardons for the entire January six committee?
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Donald Trump
Well, I think he might want to consider that very seriously. Look, that is an outrageous statement. This is what authoritarianism is all about. It's what dictatorship is all about. You do not arrest elected officials who disagree with you, who undertake.
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Robert Garcia
Mega Mike. Why help this guy? Do your. Why help him in March? I mean, I mean it. Why bail him out? Democrats have bailed them out over and over again. Let them sit in their own stew of dysfunction, disorder and denial.
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Angie Lee
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Robert Garcia
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