 Even though Donald Trump lost this election, I think it's pretty obvious that had he not bungled this pandemic He probably would have won now. There's no way to prove this. This is basically just speculation That's really difficult to quantify, but nonetheless when you see that Democrats underperformed the polls and Trump somehow grew his vote share. I mean, it's a really bad sign for Democrats And so basically regardless if you agree with that analysis or not I think that it's clear Democrats have to make some substantial changes if they want to prevent a full GOP takeover of our government in 2024 actually improve people's lives changed leadership Take action to prove to people that you're fighting for them. Otherwise You might not win. I mean the pandemic Really was the key factor here in this election But we're already off to a pretty bad start because Democrats predictably are proving that they haven't learned a single Thing because after losing seats in the House of Representatives, the same members of House leadership will remain in House leadership Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, and of course Nancy Pelosi. She will remain House Speaker Once again, but don't worry because we're supposed to be relieved that this is probably going to be her last term I'm not necessarily banking on that. But still when you lose an election Or you do worse an election under your leadership The thing to do if you care about the party is to resign But the only individual in democratic party leadership that actually resigned is sherry boostos Who was the chairwoman of the d triple c But we all know that that's probably because she's going to get a job in biden's administration So after they performed worse Then everyone was expecting then the polls indicated we see zero change in leadership That's insane It tells me that this party is not serious about winning But let's hear from House Democrats because they spoke after they were victorious and remaining in leadership And everything they said was completely wrong and idiotic Nancy Pelosi A voice for the voiceless A defender of the disenfranchised a legendary legislator a notorious negotiator and a powerful profound prophetic principled public servant Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thank you so much, mr. Chairman for your kind words I always accept any compliments on behalf of the house democratic caucus Because they enable any of what we do to be possible by their courage their integrity and they're just a Beautiful vision for a better america I am pleased to look to the 117th congress But i'm focused on the 116th congress We need to get work done for the american people they need right now. We must in this congress respond to the dreams and aspirations of the children and their families And I am hopeful That we can work together within our caucus and reaching out across the aisle To get done what needs to be done So in other words, there's not going to be a strategy change because there is not going to be a change in leadership And it's just it almost made my head explode when jeffrey said that nancy plosie is A voice for the voiceless Someone who has millions and millions of dollars and two 12 000 dollar refrigerators who looks the other way When more than 50 000 americans die every single year because they don't have health care That's not necessarily someone who I'd describe as a voice for the voiceless So in two years if democrats lose even more ground in the house and lose the house altogether I wouldn't be surprised if um, we see no leadership changes again Because democrats in the house have proven that they care more about self-aggrandizement and their own personal power Ambitions than they care about the party and delivering for people, but that's only the house Let's check in on the senate Maybe democrats in the senate have a little bit better, you know of a grasp of what they need to do To stop republicans from taking back power So who controls the senate is going to come down to two runoff races in georgia Let's check in on one of those races to see what one of the candidates john ossoff stands for Do you support the green new deal? No Do you support medicare for all? No Do you support dc statehood? Yes. Do you support port rican statehood? Yes Do you support defunding the police? No. Do you support abolishing ice? No Do you support expanding the supreme court? No Do you support ending the filibuster? Maybe So he's gonna blow it Now he is neck and neck with david purdue and i hope that he wins Because to have democrats in control of the senate that allows us to exert a lot of pressure on them I don't want them using a will republicans control the senate as an excuse I don't want them using mitch mcconnell as an excuse for their failures if they don't deliver I want them to be blamed for it. I want them to be accountable So I want him to win but when you run a campaign where you stand for nothing I mean who's going to come out to vote for you? I hope he pulls it off, but It shouldn't be this close It shouldn't be neck and neck you have to stand for something stand for anything And after seeing that incumbent democrats who supported medicare for all won even in red and swing districts You should at least adopt one progressive policy But john ossoff is a corporate clown so if he wins it'll be by the skin of his teeth And I hope he pulls it off Now um, there's another area of opportunity for democrats So donald trump just announced that he's withdrawing some troops from iraq and afghanistan Now democrats can use this opportunity to attack donald trump from the left and say mr president You should be bringing all of the troops home So what are they doing? Let's look to uh, tammy duckworth who is a veteran who speaks out about foreign policy issues pretty frequently What is she saying? How is she holding donald trump accountable? All of the military commanders have spoken up and said this is the wrong thing to do We want our troops home, but let's not bring them home into in body bags And that's potentially what's going to happen if this president gets his way and puts his own political timeline ahead of our national security We've been there for 20 years tammy How much longer do we have to stay there to ensure that we bring our troops home safely? I mean the argument that she's using doesn't even make sense and understand how ridiculous this is You are to the right of a president on foreign policy who just last week wanted to bomber on When it comes to foreign policy, you should never ever lose the moral ground to that psychopath But here we are you are lambasting him for uh, not Staying in iraq and afghanistan when you should be criticizing him for not bringing home 100 of the troops So congressional democrats are just clueless, but maybe joe biden Is going to do a little bit better. Maybe There's some things that he's going to do We've seen pressure from elizabeth warn and chuck schumer on joe biden to cancel $50,000 of student debt for each student Via executive action. So when he was asked about this, what did he say the student loan forgiveness figure in your plan? Would you take executive action to achieve it? It does figure in my plan. I've laid out in detail. For example the Uh, the legislation passed by the democratic house calls for immediate $10,000 forgiveness of student loans. It's holding people up. They're in real trouble They're having to make choices between paying their student loan and paying the rent those kinds of decisions It should be done immediately in addition to that if you know I think that everything from community college Straight through doing doubling Pell grants to making sure that we have access free education for anyone making under 125 thousand dollars for four years of college And there is a program that exists now under the law that forgives student loans for Being able to engage in their engaging in public service I've I've gonna institute that fundamental change in that so it is able to be available to everyone That in fact is engaged. It's not being very well managed right now. So I'm gonna do all of those things So, I mean, I guess I can get behind a means tested version of free college. That's better than nothing But um when it comes to cancelling just $10,000 of student debt That is not going to do much It's not going to uh have that big of an impact in the grand scheme of things at the macro level And furthermore if you truly expect to only make that happen through congress Well, if republicans retain control of the senate, that's not gonna happen. So I mean Why even be hopeful? I mean, I wasn't ever hopeful that joe biden would do this I was just shocked that chuck schumer said he should do this But I mean Democrats they just they can't not disappoint. They are fundamentally incapable of not fucking up Now People have told me that look even if we will be disappointed in democrats And joe biden in particular at least we can you know take comfort knowing that We're gonna see donald trump in uh in handcuffs behind bars and to that my response always was Now why am I so skeptical that donald trump will be held accountable for any of his crimes? Well, quote biden hopes to avoid divisive trump investigations preferring unity Shocker biden has told aides that he's concerned that investigations would divide the country But that he would leave decisions up to an independent justice department. Look, uh, don't get your hopes up Trump is probably going to get away scott free and uh, he probably will most likely run for president again in 2024 And he's probably going to be the republican party's nominee And I wouldn't be surprised if he beat whoever the democratic party nominee was I mean, he's already leading in 2024 polls. These are early polls but nonetheless, you know, republicans still really like him even though he just lost an election And democrats have a really really short window to act And if they don't take meaningful action to address the concerns that americans have We are going to find ourselves in the exact same situation that we're in currently Where donald trump could literally become the president again Because democrats fail to act and when democrats fail to act voters do not come out for them And when voters don't come out for democrats republicans win So they have to take action And the early signs that we're seeing show us that they're they're not going to do jack fucking shit They're not going to change a single fucking thing After their strategy time and again has been proven a failure when democrats Do not control most state legislatures After losing more than 1200 seats inside legislatures across the country under, you know, obama's watch They've changed nothing And they're still possibly not going to change nothing And if anything they're going to be worse because they're going to use biden's victory as evidence that their centrist strategy is uh More beneficial more more, uh, electorally viable Okay, well once again Uh, if they don't change they're going to lose and after they lose they will then argue why They shouldn't change anything and centrism is the way to go and not actually taking care of people Materially speaking is uh the way to go. Let's just do some incremental things It's like a never-ending cycle that uh constantly Repeats itself and there's just no hope of escaping the cycle. It's frustrating not surprising. I'll be it still frustrating