Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Trump Sides With Bernie, Blows Up McConnell's Relief Deal With One Speech" video.

  1. McConnell tied the covid relief bill to the larger omnibus bill that funds government. The two don't really have anything to do with each other.
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  2. Forcing the vote won't get you M4A "now". At best, you get the vote, it fails, and it gives you ammo to use against anti M4A candidates in 2022, so you can run pro M4A candidates against them (exactly like "shill", AOC, just did with her progressive PAC helping elect more progressives to congress), until you elect enough progressives to pass it. Worse, you don't get the vote, you paralyze the House, and corporate Dems use paralyzing the house as propaganda against the progressives involved ... like arguing progressives won't let them get minimum wage passed, won't let them get lowering social security eligibility passed, and whatever else they can use to make it look like progressives are hurting the people. Worst, if corporate Dems truly would rather lose to Republicans than give concessions to progressives (as Jimmy himself just argued), they could even orchestrate losing the speakership to McCarthy, and blame progressives. It's majority of votes cast, not majority of the house. Jimmy's plan isn't 100% risk free.
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  3. @WeAreIt McConnell had an interview saying he might tie the covid bill to the omnibus bill, before it happened. And, voila, it happened.
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  4.  @luna6093-d6c  All that other stuff is the government's yearly omnibus bill. McConnell attached the covid relief bill to it. It is actually multiple bills together. It isn't all the covid relief bill.
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  5.  @clintholmes2061  If a house speaker isn't elected, the house is paralyzed. The clerk can only hold the house speaker election. No bills would be brought up to vote on. Corporate Dems could just keep putting up Pelosi as their candidate for speaker, and if you keep making protest votes for someone else, the house will stay paralyzed. No bills being voted on is not samesies with one bill not being voted on, dumb dumb. That's what would bring more media attention and magnify the intensity of the propaganda, so not samesies on that front, either. It's majority of votes cast, not majority of the house. You don't need any Dems to vote for McCarthy. You just need enough no shows, or abstentions, to lower the threshold needed to win. Have 9 corporate Dems play sick. Have 3 threatening to abstain. If all Dems present don't vote Pelosi, McCarthy could win. If those 3 think you'll fold and end up voting Pelosi, and you do, then they vote Pelosi too, and she wins. If they think you'll stick to your guns, and you do, they abstain, and McCarthy wins (assuming he gets all Republican votes). Not sure someone who doesn't know how the government works can swat away anything on the topic.
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