It's Democracy Vs The Filibuster | Pod Save America
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- The end of the pandemic may finally be in sight, the House passes historic voting rights legislation, and Joe Biden offers his support to unionizing workers at Amazon. Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer discuss the continuing distribution of the covid-19 vaccine and the latest on the coronavirus relief bill. Then, they break down HR-1 and the Republican efforts to increase voter suppression on the state level. Finally, they discuss Biden's comments on unions and their history with the Democratic party.
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As a Texan who lives in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the hardest hit places for Covid, I’m so angry at Greg Abbott. Abbott ,Cornyn, Cruz, Dan Patrick all these fools need to go 😑
Not loving my Governer here in Mississippi either. Feel UR pain.
Every senator should be required to sit through the 10 hour reading. Especially Ron Johnson.
Every senator who votes no should be required to live on the current minimum wage for one year with no access to their savings.
I was going to suggest 10 hrs of Ted Cruz reading Green Eggs and Ham, or his, "Florida is awesome, but not quite Cancun" bit. Then wait and see which comes first, insanity or common sense.
I’ll call my Senator again this weekend. I will do that every weekend until this is done. I am not giving control of my country to Margerie Taylor Green.
Thank you!
Big thank you. Going all out on this and the PRO Act as well. Best wishes.
My Senator is Warren I know where she stands but I’ll call any way. Just to keep pushing.
Resist...still, because even winning doesn’t mean you win....
😂🤣😂but you’ll give it to quid pro quo Joe 😂🤣 love the video of him signing an executive order and he says “I don’t know what I’m signing” priceless
I will never say, “I don’t need money”, but I’m happy to give my portion to those who really, really need it. The homeless and unemployed need it the lost as well as families truly struggling.
so do it take everything your making more than 15 dollars/hour and donate to the homeless and unemployed
That is basic Social Democracy, finding a sliver of equity in our society.
Are we all calling Joe Manchin's office every week? Just me? Okay
I loved the comment that Republican efforts to delay Biden’s Covid Bill is not so much a strategy as it is performative assholery. Thank you for increasing my vocabulary. That is such a perfect description of the Republican Party actions.
YES WE ALL SHOULD!!!
You can't get through if you don't live in his state.
Lots of us are giving Murkowski a lot of reasons to stay curious. The staffer I talked to said they are getting 90% of the calls in favor of the bill.
Hammer that home. Especially if your caller ID shows a local #.
Gov. Abbot wasn’t sure if everyone realized how stupid he is, so he decided to offer up some definitive proof.
It is always best to get doubt out of the way! No muddy waters here!
I can't believe people elected that asshole!
Now that Trump isn't in power there's a furious race to the bottom amongst Republicans to prove they can be inherit his solid gold dunce cap
@@Notfunnysam And the rest of the vile TX GOP politicians.
The lawlessness of Biden/Harris is a disgrace!! You don’t trample our Constitution! People are being ignorant allowing changes will lose their rights and only have themselves to blame!
The relief should’ve happened under Trump but dems waited until people’s lives are destroyed! Biden administration are incompetent and need removed. The corruption is appalling
"It seems like we don't yet have the full force of a public campaign...from celebrities, or athletes, or musicians -"
This is Dolly Parton erasure and I will not stand for it.
LoL - it's not really "erasure" - she/we just *haven't gotten enough* celebrities, athletes and musicians to SPEAK UP LOUDLY about it!
I literally couldn’t have gotten through the past year without you guys (and Tommy and most importantly Travis and Lovett)
Yes I agree these guys are great. 😁
Tommy would hate me so much, I’m the least healthy person in America and not sure about the rest of y’all.
Your post reminds me of a song, I think it goes like “looking for love in all the wrong places“
Ugh! I am so sick of Susan Collins! She has over stayed her welcome!
“How does every discussion of policy NOT end up in the Joe Manchin cul-de-sac?”
We are stuck in the Manchin cul-de-sac. WandaVision style. 😪
Cuz teevee is real right?
West Virginia, please take care of your man. You must become a squawking albatross that never rests and that makes his life a living hell. Call his offices 24/7, picket his local offices every day, yell at him for hours at a time at town hall meetings (if he has them). And go to the next level, harrang and threaten to boycott (or just boycott) his donors. Get creative y'all, think Bart and Lisa working on Homer to get a pool.
YES!
Yes, yell, threaten and boycot. A definitive definition of performative assholery. He ought to dismiss you out of hand if you're adding nothing of value other than acting like spoiled children.
@@audioenthusiast2817 shut up, you’re not helping...We’re not asking for puppies we’re asking for healthcare
@@epiccollision Yeah. And who's paying for the healthcare? Us, right? So it's actually not free after all.
@@audioenthusiast2817 performative for whom? I'm not suggesting assholery for the sake of symbolism or "sending a message". These are life or death issues and citizens have to use all the legal tools at their disposal to try to influence their supposed representatives.
Filibuster is another proof that Americans and their democracy are weird.
Not weird just an old "democracy" that owes more to the classical Greek understanding of democracy than what Americans have been told democracy means in the context of the republic. Just as in ancient Greece, the founders never intended that everyone should have the right to vote and until relatively recently that idea has been in force and still is stubbornly clung to by Republicans apparently.
It’s Democracy held hostage by institutional racism and bigotry. The politicians protecting these structures are owned by their corporate masters.
To broaden on Pak's point a little more, and to integrate into it some of Mash's point: the US's democracy has the flaw that the nation has been able to avoid some of the most destructive events of the last 100+ years, and therefore hasn't needed to radically alter its Constitution and governmental structure in that time...and therefore it still has the bias and flaws of that era held in it, and its attempts to purge those issues has long been stymied due to an inability to rebuild the foundations, as it were.
It's weird because it's like a computer running an OS that should have been replaced decades ago: it's kitbashed a bunch of workarounds to stay functional, but we need to either make more sweeping alterations to get it truly functional.
You guys think that the filibuster is getting in the way of your progress that’s why you don’t like it. If the filibuster goes away and my state is steam rolled into doing things that we don’t want to do we’re gonna break away end of conversation.
@@floridamanrides863 treason
Ron Johnson 🤮
Dolly Parton made a video of getting the vaccine! "Don't be a chickensquat, go get your shot!" (Writing from East Tennessee...)
She is the absolute best!
Yes ma’am she did!! Made me smile.
'Chickensquat'?
I learn new words here, every day.
"Republican voters live in hermetically sealed, ideologically homogeneous information bubbles" - WOW - they say you can say everything in German in a single word but leave it to Americans to be able to perfectly encapsulate a concept in a string of words. Bravo !
It's funny they say that about Republicans. I enjoy this show, but I spend half of it thinking guys, you're basically talking about yourselves here. Perhaps not the people who host this podcast, but a lot of Dems and liberals are more comfortable surrounding themselves with ideas that comfort them instead of exposing themselves to all sides of the coin. I'm a human. I'll listen to this, and then go listen to a more conservative show later in the day.
@@audioenthusiast2817100% agreed. This may be the biggest problem in society at large and it happens in Europe as well and it baffles me. Not only is it dangerous but also boring. Exposing yourself to opposing ideas, challenging your own beliefs again and again that´s how we grow individually and as a society. Trump being elected in 2016 and getting 10 million more votes the second time around, should have triggered the most interesting debate of the 21st century about the fabric of society and instead 98% of energy is wasted in discussing trivalities and throwing stones at the poor losers that follow him blindly, instead of really trying to understand the source of it. Bummer. Do your work and step back, the only path to serenity.
@@danielhofmann4283 It's funny to me. I hear Dems accusing Republicans of hero or idle worship when it comes to Trump. Aren't they doing a version of that for Biden, and to a lesser extent Pelosi, Harris, AOC etc? I understand Nancy and AOCAREN'T the President, but when was the last time there was a story about Melania Trump's wardrobe in Vanity Fair? I didn't read the article because I frankly thought the headline was sappy BS, but there was an article about what Kamala Harris's marriage can teach America. I'm sorry, I've been happily married seven years in October. I don't need anyone to tell me anything about that, and I wouldn't ever advise anyone on marriage because we're all different. If you ask me for some advice on staying together or maintaining said marriage, I'm happy to talk about it, but I don't think I need to be the world's example. Sorry about the long post.
@@audioenthusiast2817 As you said the American Media is totally polarized, so far away from topics and policy and the Democrats live in their own information bubble as well. That story about Kamala Harris´ marriage is total BS of course, who is to say that Melania and Donald are not perfectly happy as they are. It´s the finger pointing, the stone throwing, the idolizing and demonizing that is so annoying. I thank God I do not live in the US and if I would, I would probably be apolitical. Watching it from the other side of the pond it feels more like a series from Netflix than reality and I also stopped engaging, since the Season Finale of Biden´s inauguration. Just listening to these guys because they are funny and well articulated. Embrace the Tao, Audio Enthusiast, I have done so and it helps. Have a nice Sunday !!!!
Go Biden and Unions! Amazon workers really need it to protect them from one of the wealthiest Corps in the whole world!
In my area, in the past 2 weeks, signs posted at store entrance: Target "Now hiring $15.00 per hr" Walmart "Now hiring $11.00 per hr" And Costco just announced a $16.00 minimum wage. Walmart should be ashamed.
@@gmaureen Yes! Shame on them!
Just called my Senators in support of HR1 and attending a PRO Act rally next week. Killer 2nd half of the episode. Call your Senators to support HR1 & the PRO Act! 🇺🇸
Thanks for making those calls and doing your part!
@@podsaveamerica Thank you for your informative great content. :)
"Performative Assholery" was spot on dudes!
Quite a few epidemiologists already talking about how there is a surge due to a variant coming in a couple of weeks.. now i hope they are wrong, but if not, we are going to have another spike that could go crazy if everyone does a texas.
We're having a spike anyway because of all the republican dumbasses not wearing masks
In Germany a lot of Amazon workers are unionized as we have a national union that they can be folded into. However, they have been fighting for close to 8 years now with regular strikes during Christmas Black Friday, and very little has happened as Amazon sees folding to one union as opening the floodgate.
The Democrats should get the guy that use to do the FedEx fast-talking TV ads - he'll cruise through 600 pages in a matter of hours. alternately, get 600 people to each read a page simultaneously. Hey - the provision says to read it aloud, not how.
Give the checks to everyone as originally planned and deal with who gets to keep it in the traditional manner, by claiming it as income and taxing the full amount at 100% in some obscure section on your income tax form. Problem solved. The threshold discussion is avoided and forgotten.
It would also bypass the idiocy, of means-testing access to the checks, based on 2019 income, when the person has lost their job, or seen a drop in income throughout 2020.
This is how the UK resolved it.
You don't need to piss about, quibbling if someone has other sources of income (shares, property letting, etc), because if they did, it would come out on their tax return, and they'd be earning over the personal threshold, and be giving some back.
The lack of an outro leaves me emotionally dissonant and I need y'all to remedy this lol, but great discussion as usually guys, thanks for what you do
I had to take a break from listening to the Bill reading to watch literally anything else, and I was tickled pink that CM had another episode up. It’s gross that they are making the senate clerks read the bill while they all leave for dinner.
Texas already had a supper spreader event during the power outage. All those people having to get together to stay warm, get water and fix homes.
And now the governor found it necessary to open up the state.🤔🤔🤔
Love you guys! You always make this old gal laugh!
You guys make politics so digestible and understandable, keep up the good work! Plus Jon and Dan are the squad!
I love you all, I learned so much about how our government works during this COVID stay home process! It’s is interesting to see the youth take an important role in teaching us!
Thanks for watching, Laura!
When good people stand by and do nothing, Evil wins.
If we need to convince our own representatives to pass a bill to keep their own jobs, they don’t deserve there seats and I am not wasting my time trying to convince them.
Which is great news......for the congress people who don't want to be contacted and held to account.
Many GOP/Trump Voters who disapprove the American Rescue Plan are only opposing it because it's a Democratic bill. If GOP submitted the exact same bill, GOP approval rate would be higher.
The subtitle of this episode could have been, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" and somehow, we'd all already know what is being talked about. >.>
But really, it's time to make Joe Manchen's life a living hell. This is not the time to be a selfish, self-righteous prick! Furthermore, not even HIS seat will be safe if he doesn't do anything about HR1.
He's not selfish. It's not his fault Dems didn't win any of the other seats they needed to flip. He's the last D to hold that seat for a long time. Dems should be happy he caucuses with them at all.
@@williamjoshualucas6503 No. He's being selfish. He's in a cushy seat in a blue state. He's made it abundantly clear that he doesn't care about other people with the same conservative rhetoric that if people are poor, they're just lazy/want a handout.
@@IliyaMoroumetz wait what? Joe Manchin is in a “cushy seat in a blue state?” Trump got nearly 70 percent of the vote there. WV is one of the most red states in the country.
Mr Pfeiffer has mentioned the redistricting game before.
The message has to go out to those who will reform the filibuster if not eliminating it.
AND WHO ARE WE GOING TO GET TO TAKE THIS ALL OF THE WAY THROUGH??
Hella early today. It says 'posted 17 seconds ago' up there^^ 😂😂
I had an urge to type, "Two! Two comments, ah ha ha!" in the Count's voice from Sesame Street.
My viewcount literally says "no views." I feel special 😌✨
Hella love hearing from fellow Bay Area people. Keep it real, Kimberly.
Dolly Parton!!
Interesting idea, but do MAGAts listen to her?
@@elizabethhenning778 I mention her because she made a video of herself receiving the vaccine that she helped to pay for. The pod guys were saying how not a lot of celebs are promoting vaccination. She went out and did it on her own.
She is one of the most popular country music icons of our time. I imagine a lot of people listen to her.
"Don't be a chicken squat, get the shot"
Dolly Parton
@@elizabethhenning778MAGA hats only have one Master. They might love Dolly but they'll turn on her if Trump tells them to. But actually Trump was very concerned about getting credit for the vaccine and a lot of people still don't want it so I'm not sure he even has control of maga anymore.
"Donald Trump is not a leader in a traditional sense" upon hearing this I literally laughed so hard I almost snorted my lemon water.
Can’t the Senate agree to suspend the filibuster for HR1 and then let Manchin slither back to his party of never. I mean won’t the legislation help him in WV and especially Sinema in AZ?
I tend to lean more conservative, but to vaccinate or not based on party affiliation is idiotic I think. I'm not rushing out to get one at this time simply because I don't go out very often and I'm still working remotely. I'd rather allow our seniors to get it before I do. I'm young and healthy. I can wait I figure.
I guess I have lost the respect of GOPers. Radical Liberal Brian has gotten his first shot and wears his mask religiously. I am so into cancel culture I seriously believe we can cancel a virus!
I’m worse than you....I wear my mask always and I got 2 shots...I’m protected, I hope😷😷😷😷😷
Radical liberal Rusty🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
@@brianwalkup5214 i guess I’m not a radical liberal because I believe everyone should live their life anyway they want without worry. Less hate More LOVE🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🌈🌈💙💙
@@rustyb2692 No fear, no hate!
@@brianwalkup5214 that’s what I want to hear....we only take this journey once..no do overs. Stay Strong💙💙
Why doesn't R. Johnson read it? Why make a poor staffer do this? Plain cowered!
Wish these guys would run for office
Without the connections it will die. Everything else does without HR1. Simple.
WHEN IS SCHUMER GOING TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE.. SEEMS MC CONNELL IS RUNNING THE SHOW!!! DEMOCRATS GET YOUR ASS IN GEAR AND SUFFOCATE THESE REPUBLICANS!!! I AM 70 YEARS OLD WOMAN THIS IS RIDICULES!!!
Great use of active terms at 38: improving versus strengthening. Thanks
I got vaccinated for anthrax when deploying to Iraq, you'd think people could get vaccinated for COVID.
Great Pod, as usual👏👏👏👏👏
For the conservative counties that are having trouble filling appointments they should just start expanding their areas of service to the democratic leaning counties and put out ads in their home counties saying, "democrats are taking YOUR vaccines, we gotta get a shot before they take all the covid immunity, start by calling this number..."
What the F is the matter with Joe Manchin?
He is not a terribly 'non-Republican' Democrat
But WHY is Manchin so against getting rid of the Filibuster?
Isn't the stimulus taxable? The money will come back to the government if people get overpaid but after it helps the economy.
Yes. Correct. In the end, cutting 2000 dollar checks instead of 1400 amount to a virtual rounding error on 2 trillion. Anyway. It is what it is.
You guys are great Crooked Media.
Thank you for watching! :)
Get the house to pass the union bill and then send it to the senate and get the vote before voting on HR1. If the union bill doesn’t get the votes in the senate because of the filibuster, it will force Manchin’s hand to end his never position on the filibuster. Then hold the senate vote on HR1
THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ! WHY DO WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS STILL? I AM SURE IT IS ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS THERE IS NO BODY ELSE WHO HAS A REASON TO DO IT THEM AND THE FAR RIGHT DEMOCRATS
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!! THANKS FOR THAT!! JESUS CHRIST WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT NEVER? YEP HIS PEOPLE HAVE TO GET RID OF MANCHIN!- WE HAVE TO GET TO HIS PEOPLE!!!
I love Thursdays❤️
How are you feeling, you sound strong, thinking of you💙💙🌈🌈
@@rustyb2692 I am responding well to a new meds regime. The most complicated one I have ever had, but it is starting to work. It takes time for me to come back all the way, but I am on the path. Thank you for checking in. It means a lot.
@@brianwalkup5214 💙💙🏳️🌈
@@rustyb2692 ❤️❤️❤️
HANGED.
I continue to hear it, but few others acknowledge it.
Heard suggestion to turn back to minor party forced to do the filibuster with all senator's from their party present. The minute one leaves it's over
I’m enjoying watching this after Bernie, Klobuchar, Stabenow, and Smith endorsed abolishing the filibuster, and Joe Manchin has endorsed reforming it to make it “very difficult.”☺️ Oh, how fast things change! This podcast was done THREE days ago!
Doesn’t getting rid of the filibuster stand a strong chance of backfiring massively?? If the senate is already the chamber that favors the republicans the most, why would we want to make it easier for a theoretical future GOP senate to pass bad legislation?
That is definitely a risk. But sometimes you have to take a risk in order to move forward.
Killing the filibuster allows us to take our fate into our own hands. Yes, we will have to beat Republicans to prevent them from abusing the lack of the filibuster, but at least we're giving ourselves a fighting chance! And I am confident that if the Biden administration does good work, and we organize, campaign and vote, then we can beat Republicans under HR1.
If we don't kill the filibuster, then HR1 cannot pass, and we will not receive a chance to fight. We will very likely get kicked out of the House by gerrymandering, and elections in general will become much harder to win because of voter suppression, which is going to jeopardize our control of the Senate and the presidency to boot. Moreover, the impact of voluntary work during elections will diminish, which (in my opinion) is a disservice to everyone who has fought hard to get us into the current position of legislative power and everyone who might do so in the future.
So it's either: We kill the filibuster and give ourselves a fighting chance; or we don't kill the filibuster and resign ourselves to an opposition with slightly more power in the Senate.
Closing Remark: Let's be real, the filibuster might prevent Republicans from passing the most egregious nonsense in the Senate, but it certainly doesn't prevent (and hasn't prevented) them from running the country into the ground through other means (e.g. budget reconciliation). This is especially true right now, when the worst thing we can do is *do nothing*. In the face of urgent crises, such as climate change, the filibuster disproportionately punishes the party that actually wants to pass urgent legislation. Republicans, who (for the most part) simply don't want to do anything about climate change, don't care nearly as much about getting blocked by the filibuster as Democrats do. Being able to filibuster pro-life bills won't do us much good once equatorial regions are literally on fire.
It sure is and good luck to the Dems getting this done.
There are other tweaks that could be done to the filibuster that might help a ton. And would have the advantage of Manchin being able to say he held strong on keeping the filibuster while some of the fangs being removed from it. One tweak is to put the onus on the minority to block a bill, instead of the way it is now where the minority just has to send an email saying "nah"., and it is on the majority to overcome the block. In other words, the minority has to back up their objections with real effort.
The other thing that would help is if voters really understood what the current filibuster really is, since I think there probably are still a lot of people who think of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" when the issue comes up. Quaint and romantic, but nothing at all like current reality.
We need the filibuster or our REPUBLIC is over.
American Rescue Plan Curious!!! You guys are great. I presume you are widely watched in the current White House. Should be. Best news reporting and interpretation available. From insiders no less.
Thanks, Carl!
What does popularity have to do with anything? If there was a bill introduced to give a million dollars to every citizen it would have near a 100% popularity. Doesn't make it a good bill.
Except that wouldn’t get 100% support. Look up polls on UBI which is essentially what you’re suggesting. www.google.ca/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/19/more-americans-oppose-than-favor-the-government-providing-a-universal-basic-income-for-all-adult-citizens/%3famp=1
My understanding of the bill is that less than 10% goes for Covid relief. Also, there is still a huge amount of money not yet spent that has already been allocated by previous covid relief Bill's. Furthermore, California has had stringent lockdown policies, yet some of the highest rates of Covid cases.
That is incorrect. www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fact-check-breaking-down-spending-covid-19-relief-bill/6887487002/
If you think about it. If the stimulus money idea is to get to the people who really need it then I tend to think the 75000 gang isn't hurting quite as much as the roof layer who makes 40,000. 75 is not much different than 80gran. Imho if stimulus money is not being spent and the thought is citizens are putting their stimulant money under their mattresses, it isn't the 25.000g people putting money under their mattresses. So changing from 75 to 80 is not solving any problem whatsoever. The cutoff for governmental purposes, for the feds to save a bit of money, realistically should have a cut off of who needs it should go to single people who make a max of about 55000. And couples $110,00
Or make the cheques taxable income.
Those earning nothing, due to unemployment or furlough, get to keep it all; those on reduced income may have to pay back a small amount; and those doing well pay back more, based on what tax band they're in.
Either way, it should be based on current income, not what you made in 2019-20.
A person who was on $75k, then hasn't worked for a year, isn't necessarilly doing better than the person on $40k, who's worked throughout the whole year.
How do the "right to work laws" affect unions
This whole podcast could’ve been Dan just saying “it’s so stupid it’s so stupid” over and over again and it would have been correct and entertaining...
I’m not a big Pod Save guy but this episode was pretty good. They’re on the right side of the issues. The only major criticism I have is that the hosts give Biden too much benefit of the doubt. Biden uses McConnell and Republicans as excuses for his inaction, just like he uses Sinema and Manchin as excuses, and they’re all fine with it. In case you haven’t noticed, Biden isn’t putting pressure on Republicans, he isn’t putting pressure on conservative Democrats… he’s doing nothing while placing blame on everyone else. I would give him credit if he were out there publicly calling out Manchin and Sinema and McConnell every day until they cave. But he’s not doing that. That’s the bare minimum, and he’s not even doing that.
Also, I love the phrase “Joe Manchin cul de sac” and I will be stealing it. 🙂
Uh...I'm left of liberal, and I don't see why people making that much need the check. There are homeless people all over the place on the West Coast, maybe help them instead? The fires at night are really giving things an apocalyptic vibe out here and that seems like a much more pressing problem than some middle class couple putting a few thousand more in their retirement accounts.
I understand the politics of being against lowering the income cap on direct payments, and I'm not saying they should have done it, but it is a challenge to my empathy skills to care that people making $80,000 don't get the $1,400.
They should bring in a speed reader/speaker lol
I just realized by listening on TH-cam I don’t have to hear Lovett talk about SimpliSafe.
How do we pass HR 1? I get how important it is. Give money? Where? Call who? Calling Ernst & Grassley, my senators, does nothing. Call Manchin?
Public pressure on your own senators is best way to move things. Once you've called them yourself start convincing as many other people in Iowa to do the same. The next best thing is to get people in other states to call their respective senators. If you know anyone in West Virginia lean on them to lean on Manchin. You can certainly try contacting him yourself but they generally only care if its from their own constituents.
Head on over to votesaveamerica.com/forthepeople to find other ways to help! :)
@Irene - Have a look at the Indivisible campaign group, they have good advice on how to make your political voice have the greatest impact.
@@telectronix1368 thanx!
12 billion is all that this restriction saves?! Come on fam get on board!
Dolly Parton got her vaccine! 😍 She even did a little parody song about getting vaccinated! I love that woman!
We don't deserve her :)
Super Libs lmao
Why an Owner and not the proletariat? More BS.
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel... so let's stop running, and let the hungry bears catch up before we reach safety.
Mix those metaphors!
Do people making $75K actually need financial assistance if their jobs are intact?
It's less about financial assistance and more about stimulating the economy. People who might otherwise save out of fear of losing their jobs and having to dip into savings, would feel better about buying things and spending money... thus keeping businesses open. It does maybe make sense for there to be a cutoff, because for some people $1,400 doesn't matter at all, and would just get thrown in an investment portfolio or spent on Gucci or something. But 75k is not that income. 100k probably isn't that income, either. Unless you own your home outright and never dipped into your savings to pay a dental/medical bill or something.
Sinema is going to be a girlboss and vote it down
redistrict manchins's district to show him that he might be at risk...can you guys do that or help us know why that isn't a risk to him
Senators don't have districts that change since the entire state votes for senators unlike Representatives who come from smaller districts within each state.
The political rule for 2021 is that all conversations begin and end with Manchin
6:40 is the $80,000 cut-off determined by 2019 or 2020 tax returns?
Probably 2019 since 2020 taxes still aren't finalized for most people.
@@podsaveamerica ...which means that folks who made a lot less money in 2020 (due to the pandemic), who *really need* the stimulus check, may not get another. The Dems are really shooting themselves in the foot here.
Depends on what the Feds have on file. If you’ve filed 2020, they should use that year. If you haven’t filed by the time they calculate payment, then they’ll use 2019.
In the uk we have Eric Cartman as a prime minister yet no one can bring them down
It's pronounced Neandertal. The word has a German root and German has no "th" sound in it.
From what I understand the checks are $1,400 because more people are actually eligible (millions of poor adult dependents who were not eligible for the first and second rounds of stimulus will now be eligible). Not to mention, those who have child dependents are also going to receive more money that they rightfully need to support their children. This would cut child poverty in half and bring millions of families out of poverty. So yes, the cut-off is at $80,000/year for single filers but ngl if you make that much money (and prob work from home too) you really do not need the stimulus check... You are already doing your job in stimulating the economy, and definitely not living paycheck to paycheck. I am certainly more concerned about the child who doesn't know where their next meal is coming from, or where they're going to sleep that night... Or for a parent who is picking between feeding their children or paying their rent... Republicans wanted a $50,000/year cut... I agree the stimulus checks should be $2,000, but I am hopeful that they will come up with another relief package. I also agree a $15 minimum wage absolutely needs to be sorted out ASAP... Even the Republican Gov. of WV said that he would agree with it yet Manchin is still sitting on his ass.
We need everybody to get vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can so that we can get to herd immunity by April 2021. And pass another 1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief bill.
Are you all going to mention expanding Congress, maybe?
Or D.C. or P.R. statehood.
This whole show has become The Filibuster & the deterioration of US Government
What about nuking the filibuster by democrats
There aren't the votes.
Manchin won't vote to remove it.
That would require Democrats winning more seats in 22, but I'm not sure there is enough seats opening up in 22 and some Democrats don't want to get rid of it but might be open to modifying it.
@@subgirl3739 Not yet no but it's much easier for moderate Democrats to stand against process changes in the abstract but quite another thing to stand against it when the public conversation is about how the antiquated rule is the only thing preventing very popular legislation from passing.
It might still fail to change the minds that matter but don't accept defeat without a fight. If Manchin and/or Sinema want to hold firm make it clear what they're decision means and make it hurt for them.
frankly, I don't think that watching people get the vaccine is a big help. Some of us have a bit of a phobia about needles.
Yes, public health and concern for one's neighbours should be the focus.
I know a speed reader that can make light work of the American rescue plan. Dems should match the silly Republicans challenge.
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