 dystopian time. Mitch McConnell was uh very offended here uh actually let me share my screen give me one sec uh because he claims that Democrats and I don't even necessarily agree with him here I don't think that most Democrats believe this is the case but he says that Democrats um don't think that corporations are people like who would say of course corporations are people in fact they're more people than people are but uh let's let's listen to this turtle speak our friends on the other side like corporations are not people well what about all the people that work there and all the people who have stopped and they're retirement accounts it's not like this is surprising because this is the republican party this is both parties for the most part but to be outraged and brag about the fact that you are the party that believes corporations are in fact people as some sort of a gotcha to me I feel like that really is like truly dystopian um Tiffany I'll go to you because I know that you said that you were uh looking to talk about this go ahead yeah I he's not licking the boot it's firmly up his rectum he's just uh it's comfy there he loves it um every time Mitch McConnell opens his mar I can't help but roll my eyes uh corporations are run by people but the company itself is not a sentient being worthy of uh personhood and honestly I think Mitch McConnell knows this otherwise he wouldn't he would be more concerned about corporations and billionaires not paying their taxes but here's the thing Mitch McConnell has been subservient to corporate America throughout the entire political his entire political career as of many other corporate establishment politicians so even if corporations were considered people they would only be considered as such until it was inconvenient to be so for example if a law passed limiting the amount of money a person can donate to a politician I guarantee you politicians would walk back the whole but corporations are people narrative I hate to sound like a broken record but as long as we have money in politics and legalized bribery aka campaign contributions these kinds of talking points are going to be persistent and yeah um Jeff did you want to jump in here uh you know our friends on the on the other side they say the corporations aren't people what about the people libs equals owned I mean no seriously they'll never recover I well we're we're never gonna recover I'm so thoroughly owned my brain is now again back in recovery mode weirdly enough and never left for me right no I love how this is to them it's a gotcha but understand that the people that are a lot of the people that work at these corporations they don't see the benefits of their labor and so yeah the corporation which is by the way an amoral machine which is run by a CEO a board of directors uh and all these top level executives they're the ones that see pretty much all the profit and it does not go down to the workers doesn't trickle down to the workers uh and it's actually a very authoritarian type of thing I mean when you when you look at you know the American workplace in general it's it's not democratic whatsoever okay and so no uh the whole argument of saying that well I mean you should care about the profits of a corporation because that's what this is and not tax them which is really important uh that means you're somehow looking out for the people no you're looking out for your donors you're looking out for the very richest people uh there who are doing diddly shit for for for the actual workers no you want to help the workers you raise their wages you want to help the workers you you know you make sure that you and by the way this would help the corporations too health care medicare for all take the burden off of employers and do something cheaper like medicare for all and everybody gets health care uh and then again that's that's so these corporations can actually then pay a living wage and and by the way we shouldn't even be asking for for just a living wage we should be asking for $25 an hour minimum and four-day work weeks and four days yes there was that study from Finland that absolutely pointed out how guess what four-day work weeks oh Iceland sorry yeah thanks for correcting me I didn't want to put out fake news or misinformation I would get I would Facebook would come after me you know how it would be cancelled extreme no I would be pointed out for for spreading extremist content but no the four-day work week six-hour days because of course studies have shown how you know the brain kind of shuts down and productivity drops after six hours that's what we should be doing that's how to actually look out for the workers in these corporations not whatever kind of tax cut bullshit mumbo jumbo trickle down crap that Mitch McConnell is trying to push yeah yeah Isaiah did you want to jump in here because I know that you're probably chopping at the bit because Mitch McConnell I mean he's such an easy target because look at him but at the same time I mean it's not it's not super surprising coming from Mitch McConnell so what Mitch McConnell did was very very insidious but it was actually very genius pay attention to the word that he said there's a big difference about people who work for a corporation and people who work at a corporation so let's let's not he was making a difference without a distinction so allow me to do so people who work for a corporation are those who care about the shareholders and getting the bottom line up and and profits over profit over loss and margin and revenue and all that stuff those type of people are the people Mitch McConnell was signaling to the people who line his coffers every campaign cycle people who work at a corporation are just like everyday people like you and me who just got a job to put food on the table and to try to survive but when he lumps all of them in together without making that distinction anybody who was against them is now against the little man is now against the little woman they want to they want to get rid of your 401k they want to take away your pension which he fails to mention doesn't mean a damn thing in 2021 because whatever pension you have is not enough to survive off of this isn't 30 40 years ago when they give you a pen you can on a regular union job you could buy a house a car and put two kids through college that's that's let me again disabuse you of that notion so that's not anything he's talking to the people who wear suits and ties to work and I don't mean you know a $10 tie from from walmart I mean a briyani tie that's $250 I'm not talking about a suit jacket from men's warehouse I'm talking about a suit jacket from Armani those are the people he's talking to but he lumped them all together so anybody who's against that is against you know working people so that's number one number two we again we know what they think about republicans actually aren't that hard to figure out they actually they make it very easy you know I mean they care about money nothing else nothing else it may look like different forms in the form of war military industrial prison you know the tough on crime the prison industrial complex keeping government out of your healthcare the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry all of it stems back to they just like money so that's very easy to figure out how to be we need to get enough people in office that can tip the scales in the balance for everyday people it's that simple I know it's it's a monumental task I know it's a hard task I ran for office before I'm running for office right now I'm I'm fully aware of the perils that lie performing but it's a very simple thing we need to do because if you had a hundred Ilhan Omar's and 47 Jamal Bowmans and 35 Corey Bushes and 12 ALCs then the democrats couldn't get anything passed that didn't that didn't actually help the people let's not forget Rashida to leave and all of them all the people who actually fight and you may not agree with you know all the democrats all the the progressives in there I get that but at least we're talking to each other and I can move you further to the left when I show you that you know this piecemeal stuff just isn't enough republicans I'm a thought a big word are intransigent they are they are camped out they are not moving we have seen this since the southern strategy in the 70s when all these racist as democrats left the democratic party and went and went to the republican party and they have been ensconced for generations so we know that there is no getting to them I get that it is 2021 I have neither the time nor the inclination to get you to believe the problems that we have you're either with me or you're in my way those are the only two options that you have one or the two don't try to dissuade me from fighting for people of color don't try to dissuade me from fighting for for women don't try to dissuade me from fighting for any marginalized group because we have seen time and time again that you do not give a damn so I say that to say this it is incumbent upon all of us everybody out there to get behind somebody that you know that is going to fight for people like you and like me that's as simple as I can make it I mean it sounds very complicated let's let's remove all of it as simple as I can make it as we have to be the change we wish to see leaving it up to others is not going to get it done our problems are not going to go away just because we're tired just because we're hurt just because we think these are dystopian times listen the sun is still going to rise in the east and set in the west and if it doesn't we got a whole bigger set of problems but as long as that still continues to happen as long as there's blood pumping in your chest and your brain is working you need to get off of your ass me and myself included you need to get out there and you need to fight yeah well said and I'm glad that you you pointed out the insidious nature of his comment because that is really clever like republicans do this since they they don't like they don't want to be working class but they want to larp as working class you know representatives uh and and to me um that got me to think that uh mitch mcconnor here he has big care and energy by saying that because to lump in like the uh the executives with the workers it reminds me of the people who would come into the store when I worked at wal-mart and they'd like threaten me if I didn't have something or I couldn't find what they were looking for they said well I'm just not going to come here I'll give my money to someone else it's like I still make minimal money regardless if you leave or not so that's that's such a caring thing to say and you know that's a big care and energy from uh mitch mcconnell so