 So as many of you know on Tuesday the Senate reached a deal on phase four of the corona stimulus package and Predictably Chuck Schumer and the Democrats got absolutely nothing now I shouldn't actually say that they got nothing because they think that they got something they think that there's victory in Their defeat or at least that's what they're telling us that they think they got something but in actuality This is embarrassing and I think that this story It's really forcing people to come to terms with the fact that we need a new Explanation for the way that Democrats are governing because we can't just keep calling them incompetent if they never learn from their mistakes We have to at some point assume Militious intent we have to assume that maybe things are panning out exactly as they'd want them to pan out because it's not like They don't know how to play politics We just saw the entire Democratic Party establishment coalesce around Joe Biden to crush the left so they're strategic They're savvy. They know how to play politics. It's just that in instances like this Maybe they're doing exactly as much as they think they need to do to appease their donors So let's take a look at this Jeff Stein of the Washington Post explains. These were the things not expected to be included in the bill hazard pay for frontline workers additional funding for states and cities election security Which would probably include vote by mail because that would keep American secure During a pandemic assuming it goes on until November more oversight of the previous bailout Additional revenue for food stamps a rent freeze another stimulus check I mean you can make the case that They shouldn't agree to anything if all of these things are not included Especially after they just went along with a multi trillion dollar bailout I mean, I don't think people fully grasp the ramifications of that, right? So after they went along with that either willingly or unwillingly to get people that $1,200 check I Mean I would not agree to anything if we didn't get at least four of these things But let's just like take out one and really think through the importance Let's think about election security and vote by mail if this isn't something that gets codified into law by November Democrats are basically throwing this election away if the pandemic is Still going to you know require us the self-quarantine Because think about this. There's a growing contingent of the Republican Party Their base in particular that doesn't even Believe in COVID-19 like put aside the people who think that we should sacrifice Our lives for capitalism. There's people who just outright think it's a hoax so if given the choice between staying home and You know playing it safe not voting or risking your life to vote in a pandemic in November Who's going to be you know the one who is hurt by this the most if we don't get vote by mail Republicans are gonna come out no matter what they're gonna vote for Republicans But if Democrats don't get vote by mail, do you honestly think that more rational people theoretically speaking are going to risk their lives? No, it's gonna be the people who think that we should just allow the virus to wash over America And that's even if they believe it's true in the first place So like do you understand if they don't get vote by mail and this pandemic? Persists until November this election is a wrap Democrats lose and I mean think about this a hundred million people didn't even vote in 2016 Republican voters will not be deterred because of COVID-19 So if you don't get this done if you don't throw it into any bill Then I mean you're throwing this election away But Chuck Schumer doesn't think or he doesn't want us to think that they didn't get anything because he tweeted out The bill before us is an interim measure It has hard won provisions Democrats fought for but it's a building block and the weeks ahead Congress must prepare another major bill Big bold and ambitious So don't worry guys. We know this bill isn't great, but in the next bill It's gonna be better. We promise now the hard one provisions That he's referring to here I mean these are objectively good things that are needed increased funding for hospitals increased funding To the tune of I think 25 billion dollars for test kits for COVID-19 But imagine being naive enough to think that that's a victory that you won This is something that Republicans need as well, right? They can't continue to look competent if they don't propose some sort of additional funding for hospitals additional funding for test kits So basically what I can imagine happening is Mitch McConnell was probably trying to make a deal with Chuck Schumer and said hey look Well, we'll give you 25 million for COVID funding test funding and Chuck Schumer just thought that he won when Mitch McConnell was probably going to have to give some funding away anyway like they think that they won and They lost but yet he's still thinking that we should appreciate all of the hard work that he put in when he rolled Over and died immediately not once but now twice or excuse me four times because What what what phase are we on now? This is phase four? I mean, this is just it's genuinely embarrassing and I want to go through what this contains here because It really is like even what they managed to get here if we're gonna assume that they should take credit for the additional funding for hospitals and test kits Even what they got wasn't sufficient So if you're just going to draw that line at you know hospital funding and test kits Why not get an adequate amount of funding? But they couldn't even get that so as Owen Higgins of common dreams explains the bill does include 321 billion for small businesses 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion for coronavirus testing but to center on budget and policy priorities president Robert Greenstein That's not enough while providing needed support to small businesses and hospitals the new COVID-19 package announced today Falls short even as an interim measure Failing to deliver crucial state and local fiscal relief and food assistance Greenstein said in a statement Tuesday critics of the bill pointed out that house Democrats could have moved to pass their own Bill addressing issues important to progressives, but did they choose to do that? No, so it doesn't matter that they have the House of Representatives and they could do something like that They could propose their own Stimulus relief package and say look we just passed a clean bill that provides every single American $2,000 per month for the duration of this pandemic and they could just hammer Republicans over and over again on every cable news show like they could easily do that and Force the Republicans to actually give them this victory even if they're taking the other shitty bailouts for large multi-billion dollar companies But they won't even do the bare minimum they won't even do the bare minimum and What's insane to me is that after they passed that massive multi trillion dollar bailout with the last bill They went along with it with almost no oversight. They didn't even try to improve the oversight in this new package They just threw their hands up and rolled over and died again And what's really astonishing is that after they got no oversight They're not really trying to get any additional oversight as staff writer for the Atlantic Adam sewer put it Democrats in Congress are doing no oversight over Trump's mishandling of the pandemic and have handed Trump millions with no strings attached But at least they're also caving on everything else So in other words, they got no oversight of that multi trillion dollar bailout last time No oversight of that multi trillion dollar bailout this time and what did they get an exchange for giving up oversight? Nothing zero zero concessions. Nothing. Oh, excuse me. They got additional funding for hospitals and a COVID-19 test kits something that is also mutually beneficial for Republicans as well and Okay, I shouldn't actually say that they got no oversight because according to them They have oversight that they're really proud of so there's a five-person oversight commission And there is what? 262 I think Democrats in the House of Representatives, so Nancy Pelosi is tasked with putting people on that commission She could have shows any one of these individuals. Who does she choose? Perhaps one of the least qualified members of the House of Representatives freshman congresswoman Dana Shalala Who doesn't have any expertise when it comes to the regulation of the financial services industry on top of that? She is a criminal because she didn't disclose the sale of her stocks last year which is a pretty brazen violation of the stocks act and After Nancy Pelosi chose to name this crooked politician to oversee crooked industries Making an even bigger mockery of the so-called oversight commission There were expectedly calls for Pelosi to replace her with anyone else I mean Nancy Pelosi Literally has hundreds of options Anyone she could replace Donna Shalala with but what was her response when this huge corruption scandal broke out as she's going to oversee a Multi-trillion dollar bailout. No, I'm not gonna withdraw This nomination of Donna Shalala What? Not joking. So as roll call reporter Chris Marquette tweeted speaker Pelosi will not withdraw her nomination of Representative Donna Shalala to the congressional oversight commission after the Miami Herald reported she failed to disclose her stock transactions a requirement for all members of Congress under the stock act Drew Hamill a spokesperson for Pelosi said congresswoman Shalala Has the speaker's complete confidence as she works to hold the administration accountable To the taxpayer through the cares congressional oversight commission since coming to Congress congresswoman Shalala Has taken aggressive steps to avoid even the suggestion of a conflict of interest over her personal investments Hamill said in an email Representative Shalala has taken responsibility for her mistake in missing filings required under the stock act and has been working With the ethics committee to address this issue since she became aware of it He added there are no words to describe how absurd the situation is and think of how brazen they are in trying to gaslight you like This is Gaslighting one-on-one. They're peeing on your leg and they're trying to convince you that it's raining so in response to Donna Shalala not disclosing the sale of her stocks Which is illegal mind you they end up praising her saying How moral and ethical she is because she doesn't want there to be a conflict of interest because she sold her stocks No, you don't praise her in this circumstance You lambast her you punish her Shripper of her committee assignments because she just broke the law Nancy Pelosi and now you're rewarding her with the seat on this toothless committee I Don't even know what to say and I think that David Dan Journalists for the intercept put it best 16 months of violating the law but as soon as she was aware of doing it a day before her spokesperson lied to me about it She took action amazing. Yeah, it's so amazing And now she's being praised This is unbelievable like this is things that you see in a movie She can pick anyone else. I mean it it honestly doesn't matter It's a simple gesture to your base to communicate to them that you still care about Morals and ethics throw a fucking dart at the board. It doesn't matter pick anyone But she won't do it So getting back to you know, all of their incompetence This isn't just incompetence This may be malicious, right? It's incompetence at best maliciousness nefarious behavior That's intentional at worst, but this is really irresponsible for them to keep caving I want to repeat to you. They are in control of the House of Representatives they have leverage they have power they can pass their own stimulus bill easily $2,000 a month scream about it on every single cable news show. They have their own propaganda outlet MSNBC Badger Republicans for not voting on your clean bill to give every single American $2,000 a month no questions asked, but what are they doing instead? Nancy Pelosi is going on late night television shows bragging about how both of her $11,000 a piece refrigerators have been restocked with ice cream That's what they're doing at a certain point. The left needs to acknowledge the likely reality that they're not just incompetent They're not just really really bad at politics. They don't know how to play chess They're doing this on purpose. They are willfully throwing these fights with Republicans because They're content with the status quo Economically speaking, they're aligned with Republicans There may be a lot of disagreements with Republicans at least when it comes to rhetoric on Social justice issues, but on economic issues the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. They're sympathico So it's not like they don't have the tools that they need to fight It's not like they don't have the leverage to pressure Republicans to give us a little bit more than crumbs or at least more crumbs They're doing this on purpose You can't just keep assuming that they're incompetent. Are they incompetent? Yes, but they're doing this on purpose. They're losing on purpose They're fighting as well as a boxer who shows up to a match who's paid to throw the fight So stop assuming automatically that they're incompetent even though it's really easy to do that because they're just so painfully Seemingly idiotic They're doing this on purpose. They know how to play politics. They play politics hardcore with the left When when it comes to the right getting any sort of policy concessions that would benefit the American people like Tangible goods in the hands of Americans money They're not doing that. They're rolling over and they're dying And it's just People have to realize what's happening. You have to understand that they're also people who must be defeated It's not just Republicans. You have to fight Democrats as well because they're clearly not operating on your behalf They're not doing that. There's no other logical explanation for their behavior. They're not fighting for you and That's on purpose. That seems intentional at this point It's just time to people realize what's happening and not accept the gaslighting as we usually do