 So I think that everyone is aware of what went down over the weekend And I want to now take some time to talk about the fallout of the death of the $15 an hour minimum wage Now it's not completely dead as of yet. We'll talk about what can be done to resuscitate it However, I want to take some time to focus on the ghouls that killed it Gleefully so now First of all zero Republicans voted in support of a $15 an hour minimum wage including so-called populists Like Josh Holly shows you that they are frauds And let me remind you that the $15 an hour minimum wage even though it is significant even though millions of workers would get a raise from this It's still entirely insufficient like we've been talking about a $15 an hour minimum wage For years now, so it really should be $20 an hour $15 an hour is not enough But would it be beneficial for workers to have at least a baseline wage of $15 an hour at a minimum? Yeah, I don't think anyone would deny that but these eight Democrats or Seven Democrats and one independent who caucuses with Democrats not Bernie Sanders Decided to vote against even the bare minimum and as Kylie breakman puts it This is the new enemy's list. It includes Joe Manchin John Tester Jean Shaheen Maggie Hassan Tom Carper Chris Coons Angus King and the notorious Kirsten Sinema all of these individuals who are Democrats voted against the $15 an hour Minimum wage increase and when it comes to Kirsten Sinema as you all know by now She didn't just vote against it But she decided to do a little bit of a victory lap after patting her buddy Mitch McConnell on the back Take a look. This is a this is something else Miss Sinema Miss Sinema No Just completely fucking shameless to vote against the $15 an hour and minimum wage. That's like that's morally reprehensible But to do it gleefully like to celebrate openly when you know, you're being filmed when you know Your behavior is going to be broadcasted to millions like that's I don't I don't even know what we call that behavior It's just disgusting However, if you were offended that Kirsten Sinema decided to pour salt in the wounds of workers who desperately needed an increase in the minimum wage Well, congratulations. You're a gigantic sexist because as Amanda Turkle of HuffPost reports Senator Sinema spokesperson said it's sexist to comment on a female politician's body language or physical demeanor When HuffPost inquired about her thumbs down vote on the minimum wage. Yeah Nobody buys this not a single person buys this She is very obviously trying to deflect and shield herself from criticism And look, I'm gonna do a little bit of a reverse UNO card on them and say that if you criticize me and say that I'm sexist Since you're criticizing me a gay man, I'm gonna say that that's homophobic to criticize me in any way whatsoever So, uh, Kirsten Sinema must be homophobic for not allowing me to criticize her Are you are you really trying to like dictate how a gay man? Criticizes powerful people and elites really Kirsten Sinema. Is that what you're trying to do you homophobe look? It's all ridiculous, right? Of course That's not an actual argument I'm making because I'm actually a serious person Whereas this spokesperson for Kirsten Sinema and Sinema herself. They're not serious people But she got a lot of backlash and I'm sure that you know about this or you're you were part of it I just want to give you a small sample of the outrage That she invited because she decided to just play it off pretend like she didn't just like give American workers the middle finger and she tweeted this out Wow, incredibly grateful for Arizona's frontline workers caring for loved ones during the pandemic Now as you can see, this is just shameless Let's go to her page because I want you to see the ratio because it gives you a sense Of how many people were not buying her bullshit. So you see 16,000 replies to 2.7 Thousand likes nobody Believes this because if she actually cared about frontline workers in Arizona Then she would make sure that some of them wouldn't be making less than a $15 an hour minimum wage And she was met with this image. I also decided to participate Which says fuck the poor on her mask because that is essentially what her little, you know stunt Demonstrated like it was a message to workers. You see Chelsea Manning saying this as well You see Savage Joy sharing this Kirsten Sinema world's cutest neo fascist You can't see like the text, but this is what the bottom of it says see the image again Vosh saying damn You know what piece of legislation those essential workers would have benefited from You see the amazing atheists joining in Benjamin Dixon is saying may I recommend career builder calm? Basically saying your career is over can clip and steen actually shared this image and told people to To spam it you see a good politic guide great YouTube channel by the way saying that so that was a fucking lie I love this meme by Todd the creator and basically if we scroll down you will see this meme over and over and over again Anthony Fantano shout out to my boy here saying I then paid them more dummy. I mean what she said is Obviously insane like nothing. There's there's nothing here, but you know memes and people like shitting on her rightfully so because She's literally saying oh wow. I appreciate frontline workers so much But you literally just gave them the middle finger gleefully so so for you to like tweet this After you just did what you did it's it's downright grotesque like you should be hiding your face You should be ashamed of yourself like like it's still going like it goes on forever and ever and ever Like we'd be here all day because this is a This is what she was met with and I hope that for the rest of her career this image haunts her so I mean, um it is really satisfying to see everyone like Call out her bullshit, but at the same time at the end of the day She still gets the last laugh because she she wins she killed the policy that would have helped millions of Americans and if Democrats like if eight Democrats If they deflect on the $15 an hour minimum age, what does this mean? Like is it even possible? Well, the answer is yes, but two things have to happen. First of all Joe Biden actually has to fight Joe Biden has not been doing anything to put pressure on conservative Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema and furthermore Chuck Schumer who is now pretending to be more progressive because he doesn't want AOC to primary him in 2022 He needs to actually Keep his caucus in line like whip the votes up for policies that you claim to support like you are in leadership But Claire McCaskill actually kind of like gave us some insight after she or when she was competing Against Josh Hawley back in 2018 and she said look Chuck Schumer is great because he doesn't really try to like control us He lets us do whatever we want That's an issue if he's letting you be as conservative as you need to be in order to seek re-election Or when re-election that's a problem and makes the aggregate party look worse And this is an issue that I have with the Big Ten party label because you have a tent That's so big that you end up including Republicans in your caucus and they obstruct your agenda So if Joe Biden doesn't actually fight and put pressure uses bully pulpit to actually like Get these Democrats in line It's not gonna happen now another way that this can be saved is if it is passed using budget reconciliation with 51 votes That means it is going to have to go in a piece of legislation that Joe Biden really wants to get passed And he wants to pass his 1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief package now Here's the thing it's gonna go back to the house if progressives actually bind together They can block this and vote against the COVID relief package Unless it includes a $15 an hour minimum wage provision that could help get this Codified into law because here's the thing it's clear now. You're not gonna pass this with 60 votes if if you try to pass the $15 an hour minimum wage with 60 votes It's not gonna happen. So 51 votes is gonna be difficult. So you have to put it in legislation that These Democratic senators don't want to vote against and that 1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief package is definitely something that they don't want to vote against So if progressives bind together and they say we will not support this package when it comes back to the house Unless it includes a $15 an hour minimum wage then that can actually Help because here's the thing currently the balance of power very clearly tips in the scales Tips on the side of a conservative Democrats. They are controlling everything they are dictating what is or isn't including and included in legislation and Progressives have absolutely got to stick together be disciplined and flex their muscles actually say look We don't like that. They took out the minimum wage to appease these conservative Democrats So we want it back in and if we're not appeased then we're not gonna support it now at that point Conservative Democrats they will remain disciplined and they will suggest that you know the squad and progressive Democrats They're just trying to hold up this legislation when Americans desperately need relief But if they are disciplined if they say look no, it's actually you who are holding up this legislation because Workers need a raise especially now during a pandemic. We think that a $15 an hour minimum wage is Part of COVID relief like this is going to stimulate the economy by increasing the purchasing power of working Americans If you don't support this then you're the one who's holding it up because we see it as crucial like if they actually remain disciplined then This has a chance, but if they don't this is gonna die and I think that they should bear some of the responsibility and accept that they didn't fight hard enough for this Because the pattern that we're seeing here is that the left and the squad they have no say in any legislation whatsoever They make recommendations and they tweet about it, which is great But you don't actually control anything if it is conservatives who are constantly dictating what goes in Legislation and what gets taken out of legislation You actually have to withhold your votes and really remain disciplined bind together be a strong block So that way, you know, everyone in Congress is trying to appease you and not these Conservative Democrats who should have no say whatsoever right now especially when the American people need relief So that's what I want to see am I optimistic? No, not necessarily. Does it seem like the $15 an hour minimum wage is dead? Yeah, it really seems that way and that's just fucking pathetic. It's pathetic Like this is what Democrats ran on and if they don't deliver they have nobody to blame but themselves Joe Biden will have nobody to blame but himself if he loses control in 2022 and if Democrats lose in 2024 More handily because if you don't deliver for the American people, they're not going to come out and vote for you So you've got two years to deliver the bare minimum and if you can't even get the bare minimum to the American people then You deserve to get blown out. We don't deserve the consequences of Republican policies Americans don't deserve that But that's what's going to happen because as a party you've shown that you are completely incompetent now Look, it's what 50 days or so into Joe Biden's administration. He can still turn things around He can actually choose to fight or just remain Passive as he's been and allow conservative Democrats to obstruct his entire agenda But if he does this he's going to learn real quick that the American people will not be there for him at the Democratic Party So, uh, I mean, I don't know what else to say like this story is a Grotesque, but it's not surprising because the Democratic Party is a big 10 party and when you allow Republicans into your coalition Things like this happen when you allow Republicans like Kyrsten Sinema into your party rather than kicking them out and marginalizing them This is what happens