Rep. Katie Porter schools $3.5 Trillion opposers. Vaccine mandates, Evangelical fraud. Dems, Please! - REGISTER: Ask Egberto Anything
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Rep. Katie Porter took no prisoners: Schools ‘fiscally irresponsible’ Joe Manchin the $3.5T bill.
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Frank Schaeffer compares the Evangelical movement with the Taliban. He knows. He was a part of it!
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Rep. Katie Porter took no prisoners: Schools ‘fiscally irresponsible’ Joe Manchin on $3.5T bill
Rep. Katie Porter did not hold back on those presenting obstacles to the vital $3.5 Trillion human infrastructure bill. It was clear that Stephanie Ruhle was surprised by her candor.
It was clear that a new talking point emerged from those who wanted to give the wealthy a pass. It is about paying back as little as possible to solve our real problems. Ruhle suggested that child care be made a standalone bill, a cut out from the human infrastructure bill.
Porter made note immediately that the standalone child care carve-out is a new crazy talking point.
“Let me be clear to the American people,” Katie Porter said. “Women and parents and childcare aren’t some special need. They are a building block of our budget and our economy.”
Porter pointed out all those who believe there is a glass ceiling for women. The bill helps mitigate that reality. She said it increases productivity and is a part of building back better.
Porter went on to school Manchin.
“If something costs ‘A,’ then you have two options,” Porter said. “You can negotiate down from ‘A,’ or you can find the money. We have revenue options on the table. Many corporations pay zero taxes, and by making savvy revenue choices, for example, using a real corporate profit approach to dealing with those corporations that pay zero, we could generate 700 billion. If we use the corporate minimum tax approach, we're going to generate 40 billion. Right there, Senator Manchin. Right there, anyone who's worried about spending. We can generate the revenue so that this isn't about $3.5 trillion in spending. It's not even now about $3.5 trillion in spending because we're going to generate the revenue to pay for these things. I have the will to do it. The question is, does Senator Manchin or is he more concerned about his corporate donors including large corporations, the oil and gas industry, the big pharmaceutical industry, and others who are getting away with paying nothing under our current tax system.”
Katie Porter then admonished Joe Manchin and his hypocrisy.
“I'm willing to talk to him about what we need to do to create a budget bill that meets his goal and his definition of being fiscally responsible,” Porter said. “I think it's dead on fiscally irresponsible for Senator Manchin to refuse to raise revenue and at the same time out of the other side of his mouth, maybe the side of his mouth that he uses to talk to his corporate donors complain that we can't pay for the things that American families desperately need.”
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Dr. Eddie Glaude points out the unfortunate truth about Democratic leadership. Change this, and we win.
Dr. Eddie Glaude points out that Democrats lose when they act like scorned lovers as they neglect parts of their base for others.
While discussing the draconian Texas abortion law, Nicolle Wallace noted that Democrats are, in fact, in lockstep with the values of most Americans. Dr. Eddie Glaude had a prescient answer.
“At the end of the day, Nicolle, Democrats have to turn their backs on that particular political actor that's at the heart of their political imaginations, it seems to me,” Glaude said. “You know, Democrats act like that scorned lover, you know, trying desperately to get the Reagan Democrat to love them again. And so at the heart of their political choices, at the heart of their political decision-making, their strategizing, it's always this white male heterosexual working-class person, you know, that's always at the center of how they imagine their politics.”
And he is right. Too often, Democrats continue to look for that mythical center they believe the Reagan Democrats imagine they represent even as their prejudices are used against their common sense. Democrats must lean into who their base is, not who they were.
Glaude took Wallace aback with a statement that she agreed with but wanted him to expand on.
“Let me say this really quickly, Nicolle,” Glaude continued. “It's also going to involve us to finally leave behind this melodramatic view of politics where the villains are clear, and the heroes are clear, and the heroines are clear. Maybe we all are caught up in this mess, and we need to figure out how to get through this together, it seems to me.”
“I need you to say more about that,” Wallace said after Glaude thought he was done with his statement.
“Oftentimes, we think of our politics as, you know, the bad people are over there. The bad people are the Republicans,” continued Glaude. “The bad person is Donald Trump. … All we need to do is banish them. Get them out of the way, and all things will be okay. Well, what we're seeing in this political mess that is Washington DC is that the problem isn't just simply Republicans. What we're seeing in our country is that the problem isn't just Donald Trump or power-hungry Republicans, It cuts across all of these different lines. And if we move beyond melodrama and kind of get at the heart of the tragedy that seems to me at the center of American politics and be honest with ourselves and grow the hell up, maybe we can get beyond this. But we seem to be content playing games.”
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Frank Schaeffer compares the Evangelical movement with the Taliban. He knows. He was a part of it!
The Evangelical movement was neither Christian nor accidental. Frank Schaeffer points out. It was a scheme manufactured to control a sect to be used.
Frank Schaeffer is atoning for his past involvement in capturing the Evangelical movement. He, his dad, and their cohort did not do it for any good intentions. It was aimed at controlling the controllable to execute the will of a few.
Schaeffer explains to Joy-Ann Reid the part he and his father played in corrupting the Evangelical movement. He enumerated the reasons why the movement is now no different than the Taliban, the American Taliban.
Schaffer, over the years, has been calling out this fraud.
Frank Schaeffer continues his 'crusade' to atone for his past in the Right Wing religious hate machine. His article "My Horrible Right-Wing Past: Confessions of a One-Time Religious Right Icon" on AlterNet is a must-read.
One prescient passage in Frank Schaeffer's piece describes the essence of the Right-Wing movement.
The leaders of the new religious right were gleefully betting on American failure. If secular, democratic, diverse and pluralistic America survived, then wouldn’t that prove that we were wrong about God only wanting to bless “Christian America?” If, for instance, crime went down dramatically in New York City, for any other reason than a reformation and revival, wouldn’t that make the prophets of doom look silly? And if the economy was booming without anyone repenting, what did that mean?
What began to bother me was that so many of our new “friends” on the religious right seemed to be rooting for one form of apocalypse or another. In the crudest form this was part of the evangelical fascination with the so-called end times. The worse things got, the sooner Jesus would come back. But there was another component. The worse everything got, the more it proved that America needed saving, by us! Plus, it was good for fundraising.
Some 30 years later, what we helped start continues (I'm sorry!). With the Republicans in control of the House and Senate the question arises, again: where does the American far right find the energy to oppose everything and everyone again and again?
The short answer is that the American right is not about politics as most people understand it but about religious absolutes. As the New York Times noted on the single-minded desire to subvert President Obama’s overhaul of the broken immigration system, “And in their most audacious plans, Tea Party groups are preparing to recruit challengers to run against high-profile Republicans they accuse of betraying them — as they did when they toppled Eric Cantor, the former House majority leader.”
We need more born-again Schaeffers to remind some in the movement of their new genesis. We must continue to promote his message over and over.
Chuck Todd to anti-mandate rambling governor: What about the freedom of those who got vaccinated?
Governor Asa Hutchison (R-AR) replied to Chuck Todd with bubblingly silly answers to his mandates objection. Todd hits back.
Chuck Todd started the interview by soft balling Governor Asa Hutchinson. He told the governor he is in a difficult space since he believes in the vaccine but does not support vaccine mandates. Todd asked the governor if mandates are not all that is left.
Voluntary vaccination is not working. Gullible Americans fall for lies, conspiracy theories, and the misuse and misinterpretation of statistical data. The only option left is, in fact, a mandate. The governor gave a senseless bumbling answer. After giving a long, convoluted answer, he said this.
“We're not going to increase vaccination rates by more mandates from the government,” Hutchinson said. “We're going to have to build confidence in our communities. This reverses that strategy.”
If seeing emergency rooms filled with dying unvaccinated people has not already built confidence, nothing will. As such, mandates are the only option.
An exasperated Chuck Todd insinuated it was time to stop coddling the unvaccinated.
“It does feel as if our entire political rhetoric has been about accommodating the unvaccinated.” Chuck Todd said. “What about the folks that have done the right thing, and they're still at risk? Their freedoms are being denied here!”
It is time to stop coddling the unvaccinated. They are equivalent to a mad person roaming the street with a loaded gun that cannot control and randomly kill others. The unvaccinated are killing us all, even if it is mostly them.
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