 So I want to take some time to remind everyone what the Democratic Party promised voters before the Georgia election When it comes to $2,000 stimulus checks We will be able to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for the people next week when we win these races in Georgia and get economic relief Directly into the bank accounts of the American people who are suffering right now Because They were pretty clear pretty clear if you ask me we got an exact amount as well as a specific timeline John Ossoff said we'll be able to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for the people next week Joe Biden said the money will go out the door Immediately is that so so I can't help but wonder Where are the checks because you've been president now for more than a week and We still don't have the checks So what's going on now as many of you know? They immediately moved the goalpost once They took back the Senate rather than saying oh well, it's gonna be $2,000 checks. They immediately started saying Actually, we meant $1,400 checks because you already got 600 so 600 plus 1,400 equals 2,000 Except no, that's not what you said. That's not what you promised and for all the folks who are Twisting themselves into fucking pretzels trying to do mental gymnastics to explain away this thing Like don't pretend like we're stupid for thinking that like this mailer that Raphael Warnack's campaign sent out didn't Specifically suggest we'd be getting $2,000 checks if we were supposed to get $1,400 Then wouldn't this fake check say $1,400 and not 2,000? So I mean they promised 2,000 and in my opinion anyone who's trying to explain that away is Lying to themselves or lying to other people like this is a betrayal And that's exactly what voters thought as well who came out to support the Democrats in Georgia Because as this Mediaite article reports a betrayal Georgia voters enraged after Democrats promise of $2,000 checks becomes $1,400 under Biden's stimulus plan now one voter named Oscar Zahro explains a lot of people in my district voted blue in the runoff for Two main reasons one Lothar and Perdue denying us relief during COVID while profiting millions themselves and two $2,000 stimulus checks. They really underestimate just how much people are hurting economically Zahro added referring to Democrats Who he views as reneging on their word now another voter who actually canvassed for Warnock and Ossoff who knocked on over a thousand doors Said this at the doors. I was literally telling people $2,000 checks. You can rely on this I'm a man of principle and morals and I feel like shit. I lied to them. I was lying to them the whole time I was lying to people that were relying on this at the time I didn't know it was a lie But that was not the reality and that's just the small snapshot of the outrage that this lie and yes It was a lie caused and to make matters worse. They even moved the goalpost further So we started at $2,000 checks. It was very quickly moved to 1,400 and now it is getting watered down even further because Reuters reports that Biden is now open to further means testing the $1,400 checks in order to accommodate right-wing idiots like Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema But that's not all Chuck Schumer is now suggesting that it's going to take another month If not month and a half to get checks out the door So we started out at $2,000 checks next week to $1,400 means tested checks by maybe March This is outrageous and if Democrats think that this isn't going to come back to bite them in the ass hard They are horribly mistaken because this is Outrageous like usually when politicians lie There's some space between Them saying something and then doing something else, but this is like a really quick 180 like we're breaking records here So to recap as David Cerro de points out in an article for the Daily Poster on January 4th Joe Biden made an unequivocal pledge telling voters that by electing Democrats the Georgia Senate seats You could make an immediate difference in your own lives the lives of people all across this country because their election will put An end to the block in Washington on that $2,000 stimulus check that money will go out the door immediately to people who are in real Trouble less than four weeks later Biden is pushing $1,400 checks rather than using his election mandate to demand new full $2,000 checks Democrats are now suggesting that it could take at least until March to even pass the legislation Even as the economic crisis worsens Biden is now responding to threats of Republican obstructionism by floating the idea of Reducing the number of people who would even get the checks Reuters reports that he is open to negotiating the eligibility requirements of his proposed $1,400 COVID stimulus check a nod to lawmakers who have said they should be more targeted The signals of retreat are happening Even as new polling data shows that the original promise for a full $2,000 survival check is wildly popular and at risk of being overly Redundant we're gonna play exactly what they said one more time We will be able to pass $2,000 stimulus checks for the people next week when we win these races in Georgia and get economic relief Directly into the bank accounts of the American people who are suffering right now You can make an immediate difference in your own lives the lives of the people all across this country Because their election will put an end to the block in Washington at $2,000 stimulus check So this is a complete failure on their part You promised something that would have immediately given people material and economic relief and You're backing away that quickly. This is honestly The dumbest politics I've seen in quite some time both Democrat or Republican. This is just It's insane The good news for Democrats as David Cerro de points out in that article is that it's not too late You can still not look like asses. You can still do the right thing. You can still give folks $2,000 that was promised and you could do it immediately You don't have to wait till March. You don't have to include these $2,000 survival checks with some broader economic relief plan You could just pass the checks as standalone checks That'll be easy to hold people accountable because you know There's not this question of oh well was there bad things with this bill was there things that I disagree with was there too much Pork you could just simply say look we just passed a clean bill $2,000 checks and these are the folks who voted against it and in effect. They voted against you It would be so easy like it's it's an easy way to cultivate support for you But they can't even do the bare minimum the bare minimum Democrats just like they are their own worst enemies. They they can't help themselves It's like they have to find a way to fuck up even when they're playing on the easiest difficulty imaginable anyone who's against $2,000 like if this is about you not being able to get support because Kirsten Sinema or Joe Manchin don't support this. I mean you can easily Point to them as the reasons you could point blame. There's Accountability here like this isn't that difficult It's wildly popular. There'd be immense public backlash if anyone went against this and specifically like single-handedly Prevented these checks from going out, but there's just there's no fight in Democrats no fight whatsoever So at this point, I don't even know that we're gonna get $1,400 Like if we get it by March, I'd be surprised They've moved the goalposts so much that by the time you see this video like by the time it's uploaded to YouTube I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the story even more like this is just This is abuse like you promised people something and you lied to them. It was a lie so it's outrageous and Nobody should give them a pass for this like this is a hundred percent a betrayal and it's quite frankly pretty fucked up That they did this but I mean They can turn it around they could still not look like total asses if they actually just do what the fuck They said they were gonna do if they took back the Senate