Episode 199 Promo - The Ungrateful Left?
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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The "inflation reduction" reconciliation bill has now passed. How should the left feel? Brie speaks to Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project about what the climate provisions really mean in the broader context of the fight against climate change, whether or not it actually addresses inflation, & why Joe Manchin finally got on board with a reconciliation bill after over a year of being pressured. Also, are they going to really end the student loan moratorium at the end of the month? And why are we experiencing historically low unemployment if high interest rates were supposed to depress business growth?
Next, an interview with Brent Welder -- lawyer and former congressional candidate in Kansas's 3rd district -- about the recent victory for abortion advocates in the state who defeated a ballot measure that would alter the state constitution to curb abortion rights.
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| 0:00.0 | do one more extension and then he'll restart it after the election. That's my guess. |
| 0:05.4 | Now I don't know about forgiveness. For a while, I was pretty confident that he was going to do that |
| 0:10.1 | because they were putting out all these messages all the time and you would see it in all the papers, |
| 0:15.2 | you know, they'll own a name source as this and that. Now I don't know. I think it almost would have |
| 0:21.7 | been more likely if BBB had just failed entirely instead of this inflation reduction act, |
| 0:27.2 | because now he's got some kind of victory that he can hang his hat on whereas if that had failed |
| 0:30.8 | entirely, he might kind of feel like, oh, I need to do something. I feel like he can't get away |
| 0:35.2 | with any of the moratorium without canceling something. Or else he is literally, sorry, worse than |
| 0:40.6 | Trump. You know what I mean? Trump is the guy who started the moratorium and Biden's the guy who |
| 0:45.4 | ended the moratorium. The only way he can try to kind of balance that is to be able to claim that |
| 0:49.8 | he's canceled something significant. Now it's not going to help a lot. I mean, if it's the 10,000, |
| 0:55.3 | okay, it's better than nothing. The average student debtor has $30,000 as student debt plus and |
| 1:00.4 | it's more for all the various groups that we talk about and Biden specifically promised to cancel |
| 1:05.0 | all student loan debt for HBCU graduates and various other groups that will be reneging on his promise. |
| 1:12.0 | But the vast majority of people don't know that he ever promised that every time you say out loud. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, if you say out loud, Biden tried to promise to cancel all HBCU debt for people who earned |
| 1:22.4 | under 125,000 dollars a year. Every Ukraine flag and emoji Biden booster, K-hive person will come |
| 1:29.0 | as you and Akizu of being a liar. And if you screen grab his website or the articles that we're |
| 1:35.2 | written at the time about it, they have like such cognitive dissonance about it. That's how you |
| 1:39.3 | get away with Bill Mar arguing that Biden's problem is that he's capitulated to the left. Because |
| 1:44.1 | Biden will reneg on his own campaign promise. Promise to do something less than what he pledged. |
| 1:50.4 | The left will complain about it not because it's what we really want, but because it's not even what |
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