Easy answer. Yes. Donald Trump is no longer the President.
As usual, there is much hilarity in the responses:
I did not know that Trump is President in 2021.
Is he in your world?
Is it considered extremism if someone supports insurrectionists who stormed the US Capital to halt our election?
Apparently not if it’s on January 6th.
He answered the question. You just didn’t understand the answer. You were wasting everyone’s time.
When is your next in person town hall so we can ask you questions (that you will truthfully answer).
So, Vicky – WHO is currently the President of the USA?
Will you answer or dodge?
Um. Yes. that’s extremism. Good lord, the state of the GQP today.
The answer is yes and anyone like him
Your job is to defend Missourians, not Trump.
If they still believe he was re-elected and will be re-instated it’s a form of extremism. Extreme stupidity.
No one dodges questions like you do, Slick Vick. And btw was that the best question you could come up with? How bout “did Trump incite the insurrection?”
Well, DJT continues his attempts to overthrow our democracy, so…
I’d like to ask @RepHartzler if it would be considered grifting if a wealthy congresswoman scammed/scams the federal government out of farm subsidies.
Will you dodge the question?
He answered the question to extent such a stupid question deserves an answer. They are not basing anything on political views. FORMER president Trump is a political figure. To extent he suggests the military be involved in the overthrow of the gov’t that moves beyond political.
Was not aware you were so successful in the whine business.
God what an embarrassment you are. Why don’t you do a town hall in Columbia – we’ll see about dodging questions
Feel some shame, you ignorant flibbertigibbet.
You referencing dodging is hilarious. You are the coward that will not hold a town hall.
Also, trolling for that all important U.S. Senate primary endorsement.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Republicans are united in solving the #BidenBorderCrisis.
We’re here on the ground. Where are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Democrats?
[….] 4:27 PM · May 24, 2021
Heh. No masks?
No time or effort put into an open public town hall in the 4th Congressional District?
As always, the responses are hilarious:
You had years to do something about it and you just made it worse.
There’s that.
They’re doing their jobs. Where are you? At the border? Why is the MO rep dicking about at the border with Mexico and not here, dealing with REAL problems?
Not doing pointless photo ops that solve nothing?
1/6/2021. We remember.
Joe and Kamala are taking care of business not going stunts for photo ops yoy hypocrite.
Are they, were they? Can you show us the republicans immigration and security package they proposed and laid forth a sweeping overhaul of the system and fixed a problem that even Reagan called a crisis 50 yrs ago? Or is that a bill that was to come after their healthcare reform?
You think doing photo ops for your pretend “crisis” is solving anything?
[….]
There will never be a public open town hall in Missouri, will there? Or will that be in Virginia?
Yesterday evening:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Enjoyed being on with @GovMikeHuckabee @HuckabeeOnTBN tonight to talk about The Tyranny of Big Tech!
[….] 7:29 PM · May 8, 2021
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Did you talk about Wayne DuMond and Missouri? Just asking.
A few of the comments:
I wonder how much of what you say you actually believe.
Another hour of free television time? Wow. You really are the most censored person in America. I would have watched, but I missed the notice because Huckabee blocks me.
Most Americans, including you, use “big tech” every day and find it very useful. There are some concerns about their rules and use of information, but I am far more concerned about the tyranny of right-wing extremism.
There is no upside to your brand of politics.
Tyranny of insurrection
The Whine and Lie to Liars about Companies that Wouldn’t Amplify My Seditious Lies Tour continues.
Anything to stay away from Missourians. Wouldn’t want to talk to any of them, anyway. Except maybe if they give me money.
#ResignHawley
Apparently the title “Gaslighting For Idiots” was taken.”
-Brian Williams
This is unfettered capitalism. Unfettered by reality.
So much useless shit
how about the tyranny of those who seek to overturn a fairly held election, Mr Raised Fist?
Instead, he appears on the GOP propaganda network. Late last night:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
.@seanhannity had me on to discuss tonight: Nancy Pelosi & the Dems are afraid to try their phony impeachment case. They want to stop Senate trial. Maybe forever. Senate has to fight back!
[….] 9:27 PM · Jan 6, 2020
He doth protest too much, methinks.
Tool.
Some of the responses:
Because it is phony, you have no problem in having Bolton testify before the entire Senate, right?
Wow the insanity of the right can’t get worse – or can it. John Bolton will testify – so let him and if he proves President Trump innocent that is better than pretending he wasn’t impeached – he was!!!!
“They don’t have any evidence.”?
They have plenty of testimony in the House Intelligence committee that shows Trump soliciting a bribe (a favor) from Ukraine and using military aid as leverage.
Trump’s escalating panic and McConnell’s struggling to prevent Republican defections as new witnesses and information keep appearing would suggest otherwise.
Seriously, your smug smile, I dare you to have a real trial. No one misunderstands your eagerness to dismiss…May history treat you with brutal honesty…
You are a total stooge for the party. Do you stand for anything?
Thank God Twitter doesn’t play sound automatically so my ears aren’t abused by your fake man of the people act.
It wasn’t a flatbed.
This is NOT partisan! A fair trial with witnesses is not an unreasonable request. Aren’t you fighting the wrong fight?
I didn’t want you in office either. I don’t know why you’re trashing Pelosi when the Senate rules haven’t been agreed on. Why don’t you get to work on that?
It’s a sad day when a California representative is looking out for me and my country more than my own Senator.
Well, it is her job.
You have got to be kidding. Vote to call @AmbJohnBolton to testify, then we’ll see the dog and pony show you have for us.
Fox and Friends in the morning and Hannity at night. You have plenty of time Basic Cable Pravda but no will to host Town Halls in your *ahem* home state.
You just don’t get it. Remarkable. How did you get through Yale on your own?
“Afraid” and “Nancy Pelosi” do not belong in the same sentence, unless you’re admitting you’re afraid of her.
@HawleyMO a disgrace to his State & his Country. His words & actions will find him out. Signed His Constituent.
Go on a real news network youngster.
I truly believe he is going to be President one day
Now that the bar is so low.
Again… Reminder: You are a public servant not a Fox News contributor. You have been in the Senate a year now, would be nice if you hosted your first town hall.
I like senators I can respect….and Josh isn’t a person I can respect.
It makes my stomach hurt that he supposedly represents our state to the rest of the country & the world.
You disgrace our state. Shameful. I’d ask you to come to Kansas City to discuss, bit that would interfere with all of your Fox News airtime. Would never want to do that….
Is it so hard to come up with Senate rules for a trial, and to call relevant witnesses? Are you so desperate to get the articles because your guy just keeps criming?
Your first problem is associating yourself with Hannity. Seriously, Josh, your decision to go on his show just screams partisanship.
Oh, and by the way, could you talk Trump off the ledge, please?
Did not know who you were before tonight. I saw a few minutes of your interview w/Hannity. Dear lord! Is every single US Senator as dimwitted as you. Clueless re decency, patriotism, facts, the Constitution….we need leaders in the Senate who give a damn re the truth and Anerica
Hawley, you are a fool. You have fallen into the trap of narcissism. Get some witnesses. Let Bolton, and the others testify. American people want the truth. You are stopping it.
You’re an embarrassment to MO and worse than that, you’re spreading false information. Wanting to call witnesses doesn’t sound like a “phony case,” it sounds like an honest one.
Thanks for clearly stating you support a corrupt asshat over your country
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
The Judiciary Committee #ImpeachmentVote was a straight party vote. I remember when Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Nadler said that impeachment should be broad and bipartisan.
#MO04 overwhelmingly support @realDonaldTrump. I won’t be supporting the Democrats’ political theatrics.
[….] 9:44 AM · Dec 13, 2019
“…I remember when Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Nadler said that impeachment should be broad and bipartisan….”
It is. If you don’t count the republican sycophants in Congress.
As usual, there was much hilarity in the comments:
I remember when the GOP cared about the Constitution too…
It should be…..but GOP put Trump above the Constitution.
Never in my life did I think I would live to see the day the gop betrays the country en masse, and yet here we are.
“should be” but “can’t be” when we have a #ComplicitCorruptGOP full of #usefullidots
“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.
Hard to be bipartisan when you have a panel of monkeys covering their eyes and ears and intentionally misconstruing the Constitution whilst screaming into mics in a pathetic contest to see who can get a FOX News soundbite to activate the dialysis center voting bloc.
“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.
That would require you. #CountryBeforeParty
Vicky Hartzler, enabling the man behind Trump University and the Trump Foundation.
You have abdicated your sworn duty and responsibility. Shame on you
This independent, suburban voter thinks the fact that this was a vote straight done party lines says more about Republicans than Democrats.
I feel like I’m living in the twilight zone, how in the world can you deny the evidence against that poor excuse for a human being. You are doing a great disservice to this country and the people will remember this!
Maybe, maybe not.
I think Pelosi made the grave mistake believing that there were a few Republicans that would stand up against a man so corrupt he had to pay 2 million to charities he stole from. It was her genuine mistake to believe this could be ethically handled.
It should be but Republicans are corrupt. All roads lead to Putin.
In Russian – “We are so fucked.”
That was when there was still an assumption Republicans would put country before party. That’s clearly out the window. And it doesn’t preclude the Dems doing the right thing. You’re shameful.
It has gone down the toilet with trump
I remember when #GOP was respectable.
We never thought the GOP was this criminal. But ya are, Blanche!
As your constituent I want you to know that I SUPPORT the impeachment of the traitor trump. And if you don’t then I will actively campaign against you in your next election.
I remember when representatives worked for the country and didn’t enable a criminal
If only there were witnesses who were handed subpoenas that could provide exculpatory evidence for the President…
She incorrectly assumed that there would be some members of the GOP that weren’t treasonous cowards. She was wrong.
There’s that.
So you think it is ok for a president to withhold aid in exchange for help with his personal reelection campaign? Our only if it’s your guy? It’s ok for a president to refuse to cooperate with a constitutionally mandated congressional investigation?
You too took an oath to defend the constitution, and you, your colleagues, and @POTUS are guilty dereliction of duty! Do your job and defend the Republic!
I remember when the GOP respected the constitution. Good times, long ago.
It would have been broad and bipartisan if Republicans had read the Constitution and followed its guidelines. No sane, ethical person can possibly think that what Trump has been doing to our country is right. It’s immoral and traitorous.
And it should have been. Too bad republicans are cowards who will not stand up for our democracy.
Complains about voting along party lines
Votes along party lines.
You can’t write hypocrisy like this
Yes, it’s too bad that the Republicans are more about partisan loyalty than loyalty to the OATH OF OFFICE they took. It makes me sad.
I remember when republicans were against foreign influence in our elections.
Maybe you should try having a town hall sometime so you can find out what your constituents actually think
Bingo!
So you don’t support impeachment for political reasons, the truth and the Constitution be damned? Got it.
Do you remember when you had a soul? What did you get for it, Vicky? Did you trade it for a golden fleece? Will that protect you from the scythes of history? The contempt of men and women?
Political theatrics is what the GOP displayed for all of America to see. #MoscowMitch
Shame on you. Your constituents wont forget your cowardice.
The GOP chose to ignore the abuses by Trump. That is on, and will always be on the GOP. That stain will stay with them in all of history.
Following a con man pulling the ultimate con.
Host a town hall and you will learn otherwise. Don’t forget you represent your whole district not just your base.
Not gonna happen.
Impeachment doesn’t undo an election. It charges an unfit President with high crimes and misdemeanors. If he were to be removed Mike Pence would be President and HRC would still be a private citizen. Get it?
And I remember what @LindseyGrahamSC said about @realDonaldTrump before he got elected. DO YOU?
There’s that.
How nice to know your job is far more important then your oath of office, the Constitution of the US, and the American people as a whole, history will record you as being just that spineless.
When history is recorded, people will note the Republicans who did not vote for impeachment.
That was said before and surely couldn’t have accounted for the fact of the entire GOP turning their backs on their oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution. Just to protect one conman who would throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if it meant saving himself.
I’d like you to do me a favor, though.
Heh.
I remember when republicans cared about the rule of law. I guess times have changed huh?
The impeachment is not trying to undo Missourians’ votes for President Trump. That is dishonest and misleading. On the other hand, if you are in favor of Congress abdicating oversight of any President going forward, vote no.
So are you in the “he didn’t do it” camp or the “it’s fine that he did it” camp?
The “I don’t want to get primaried by a greater whack job than me” camp.
You can’t say you made this decision based on the evidence submitted. What ever price they paid for you was too much. I hope you got the money up front
Republican intransigence is not a defense
When you took office you swore an oath to protect & defend the Constitution of the United States, not to defend/protect the president or the Republican Party. Evidence shows trump committed impeachable offenses. To vote for impeachment is to honor your oath.
Shocking to no one. You would rather watch our democracy burn then dare get in the way of your farm subsidy checks. But hey, maybe you want to come to the biggest city in your district to talk about it? Lol – just kidding, I know you never willingly talk to your constituents.
I think they underestimated how craven their current Republican peers are. Congrats on being on the wrong side of history.
You will go down in history as part of the Russian plot to take down American democracy.
Future generations will have to read about it in Russian.
spare me with your bull
Putin thanks you Vicky
I am embarrassed for the GOP theatrics and hysteria during the proceedings. The only thing they can do is yell and scream nonsense because there is no defense for the lawlessness of the current administration. As one of your constituents I ask you to put Country over Party.
I remember when Republicans were intellectually honest and had principles.
Actually, no, I don’t. They have been systematically lying to the American people, defunding education systems, disenfranchising voters, and enriching their donors since before I was born.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) continued her presidential campaign in Iowa with a town hall at Simpson College in Indianola on Sunday afternoon.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – town hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019
In a presidential campaign tour de force, she spoke at length, took questions, and then stayed and stood for selfie photographs with a very long line of supporters. Close to 500 individuals attended the event.
Senator Warren’s final remarks to the town hall audience, right before she exited the stage for a press gaggle and for audience selfie photos:
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D):…I got the issues you all brought up. I am deeply grateful, uh, that you all come out here on a Sunday afternoon. Uh, the weather was nice. Uh, we got a big decision to make in 2020. And that decision is gonna come right through Iowa. And I am deeply grateful for the time you invest in getting this right. Um, a nation owes you a great thanks. So, thank you Iowans. Thank you [applause][cheers]
The issue that we talked about today and other ones that I talk about, they’re hard. How we’re going to educate our children. Uh, how we’re gonna make sure that everyone gets access to health care. How it is that we’re going to protect seniors who rely on Social Security. By the way, my Social Security bill will lift nearly five million people out of poverty and put a lot more flexibility into the budget for millions more.
Uh, what it means to cancel student loan debts. Uh, we didn’t even get to talk about how we reduce the cost of housing and increase the housing supply across the country. Um, climate change. Very, very difficult. Uh, lots of pieces of that have an effect us.
When I made the decision to run for President I was working on most of these issues. In fact, I’ve worked on many of these issues for pretty much all my grown up life. And I started talking about it right here in Iowa. And I went back to Washington and people would say to me, experts, uh, also known as Senators [laughter], uh, they’d say to me, what you’re talking about is too hard. It’s got too many pieces to it, it’s too complicated, it’s got, uh, it’s just too hard. Uh, go with somethin easier, get some vague generalities, uh, smile more. [gasps][laughter] That’s, that’s how people run for President. Uh, and I always said, thank you.
But, here’s what I thought of them. What do you think the naysayers said to the abolitionists? Too hard, give up now. What do you think they said to the suffragettes just a little over a hundred years ago? They said, too hard. With men, right? What did they say to the early union workers? [voice: “Too hard”] Too hard. Quit now. What did they say to the foot soldiers in the civil rights movement? [with audience] Too hard, quit now. What did they say just a decade ago to the LGBTQ plus activists who wanted equal marriage? [with audience] Too hard, quit now.
But none of them quit. They fought back. They got organized, they built a grass roots movement, they persisted [applause][cheers], and they changed the course of history.
This is our moment in American history. Our moment to dream big, fight hard, and win.
“…the cheapest possible way to make sure that everyone gets the health care that they need is Medicare for All…”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) continued her presidential campaign in Iowa with a town hall at Simpson College in Indianola on Sunday afternoon.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – town hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019
After her extensive remarks, she took questions. After the question and answer session she spoke on Medicare for All:
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D): …I didn’t get a question today, uh, about Medicare for All. I want to say a word about it before we go any further.
And, there is this, every single person who is running for President of the United States on the Democratic side right now knows that families are getting crushed by the cost of health care.
They also know that the cheapest possible way to make sure that everyone gets the health care that they need is Medicare for All. And that’s why I support Medicare for All, that’s why I’m there.
What I see, though, is that we need to talk about the cost and I plan over the next, uh, few weeks to put out a plan that talks about, specifically, the cost of Medicare for All and, specifically, how we pay for it.
You know, right now, the cost estimates on Medicare for All vary by trillions and trillions of dollars. And the different revenue streams for how to fund it, there are a lot of them.
So, this is something I’ve been working on for months and months. And, uh, it’s got jut a little more work until it’s finished. But I want to bring this out.
But, here’s the promise I make to you, and make every chance I get, and that is, I will not sign a bill into law that does not reduce the cost of health care for middle class families, because it is the cost of health care that is hurting and the cost of health care is what they care about. And because they care about it, I care about it.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) continued her presidential campaign in Iowa with a town hall at Simpson College in Indianola on Sunday afternoon.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – town hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019
After her extensive remarks, she took questions.
A question and response on Higher Education:
Question: …My thoughts have been about higher ed. Um, this is an institution that’s pretty key in this community. [Senator Warren: “Yeah.”] Um, has suffered a lot of, uh, layoffs and tumult. [applause] And I also feel like there’s a higher ed arms race. I’m a parent of two high school students. Um, I, I don’t like that you have, that prep, ACT prep is required, that celebrities can have people take children, their children’s tests for them. And that, you were talking about the billion, you talk about the billionaires, that they can donate to each of the Ivy Leagues that they like, that’s not available to me.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D): Um, you’re talking about a great thing. I mean you really are. You’re talking about how the system is rigged. And, and I talk about how it’s rigged in Washington. But the consequences of that are felt all they way through. How, how the children of those who are…rich get one chance, and another, and then another, and then another, and then another, all cushioned by their folks’ money. While other kids, if they’re lucky, may get one shot. May get one shot.
So, let me just pick up on this, okay. If you want to finish the question, it’s okay, but I think I know where you’re going [crosstalk]…
Question: I guess, I guess, I guess I’m thinking what are those things to make this not be contests. And for middle class people to be not spending money, or, be spending money that realistic, do not have. So that their kids [crosstalk]…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D): So their kids get a chance, too.
Question: Yeah, there we go.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D): So, here’s how I see this. The story I told you about me? I fell of the track. Right? I came from a family with no money. I fell off and I didn’t have a family that could pick me up. They couldn’t get me started and they couldn’t pick me up when I fell off.
But, the American taxpayer, they invested enough in giving me a chance. They invested, way back when, in schools that cost fifty dollars a semester. Okay, it was plain vanilla. It didn’t have a lot of, uh, issues you described as the arms race. It didn’t have a lazy river. [laughter] Uh, but it, it had a really good career education. And that was enough that I got to be a public school teacher. And that was my foot in the door….still available to me in terms of a law school. A chance to enter a profession, on price, okay, no longer maybe a waitressing job, four hundred fifty dollars a semester, yeah, probably.
Look, here’s how I see it, we’ve built the right structures and people thought it should be it. And not just the first chance, that if you follow the path willy nilly. You actually got a second chance, you’ve actually got a third chance. It’s there, those pathways I was talking about earlier. The bridges have narrowed and it’s got a lot of on-ramps. And recognize that some people fall off and they’ve got to get back up on…But that’s how we’ve got to build this. And understand this, we’ve got to build it that way for our kids. We also have to build it that way for the future of our country.
When you think about what it’s going to mean to be the leader of the world in the twenty-first century, how does a country lead the world? Man, the one resource that its got is its human beings. If we educate a quarter of them, we’re just taking a lot of our assets and just not taking advantage of what they can do. If we educate half, we’ll do a little better. If we educate three quarters, we’ll do a lot better. And if we educate all of them, and remember, when I say all I mean all of them, I mean kids who test through the roof and I mean kids like the kids I worked with, who didn’t, but who had something to contribute. We invest in every one of our kids, from the time they’re babies, we get those early education experiences for them. You know, rich parents are doing this for their kids. They don’t wait until the kids are in, uh, kindergarten age to be able to send them to school. They’re sending them at twelve months, at eighteen months, all these, they always have cute names to them, but they’re sending them…And it’s because they understand those babies are learning, learning, learning early. We make that investment, that’s how we build those opportunities.
And then, just to appeal to your inner wonk, if you will go to elizabethwarren.com there’s a lot in it in the education part that’s down at the, really down in the weeds about how we get some accountability back. That our schools really are focused on making sure that we’re getting the kids through school. Not just in the front door, that we’re getting them through school. That they really are able to have, uh, uh, jobs on the other side. It’s got a lot in it. And it’s, and it’s about, not only them, it’s about being realistic, not punitive.
If you’re going to educate kids who come from backgrounds where people weren’t using a lot of words, uh, people who had to use, uh, cheaper child care where they herded a bunch of kids in front of a TV set because it was the best they could do.
We’ve gotta have the resources to be able to make up that difference for our kids.
So, for me, this is about building the future, building the future and realizing the path..is through our children. It’s also about living or values, every single day. And all have value, as a country we should be investing in all of them… [applause]
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) continued her presidential campaign in Iowa with a town hall at Simpson College in Indianola on Sunday afternoon.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – town hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019
After her extensive remarks, she took questions.
A question and response on Climate:
Question: …um, the climate crisis. [Senator Warren: “Yeah.”] There’s not an Iowan, not an American, not an Earthling, human or non-human for whom this doesn’t represent an existential crisis. And yet it’s inexplicably and inexcusably missing from the wider conversation, both on the stump and on the stage. And I know you agree with this because you spoke so well to it today and I know you agree with this because you have a plan for that. In fact, you have several. And they’re quit robust and good. What I worry about is that, uh, the voters don’t understand how essential that plan is to all your other plans, and, in fact, to all of their plans. So my question is, can we count on you to raise that, the climate crisis, to the forefront of the election where it belongs? And, if so, what will that commitment look like?
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D): Okay. So, first answer is yes. [cheers][applause] Yes and. And, here’s, here’s the point I want to make ’cause Ryan’s right. Uh, go to elizabethwarren.comto to look at the climate stuff. It’s got a lot in it. Including the latest piece I just rolled out which is about environmental justice. About how it is that black children and black brown children are more likely to have breathed pollution from before they born and all through their lives. And suffer health consequences and diminished future opportunities because the dumps are located near their neighborhoods. Because industrial growth…because the trash that’s spewed into the air and poisons that are thrown into the water have been closet to their neighborhoods. So, when we think about environmental issues there a whole lot of pieces on this we have to think about. And we can’t do them as afterthoughts. We can’t do environmental generally as afterthoughts, but we can’t do these four pieces, including environmental justice. So I urge you, as we talk about this to pick up the different pieces.
I’ll give you one more that I just think is critical. We all are talking on stage, all the Democratic candidates, about how much money we’re going to invest. Me, too. I’ve got a lot of ways to invest money. Uh, I’ve got a green manufacturing plan that is going to produce about one point two million good factory jobs. Green jobs that are going to help us save the environment. Union jobs that are going to help families rebuild economically. I hope you’ll take a look at that.
Because another piece we have to be willing to talk about, many folks are not, and that is the role of regulation. Think about it this way. There are just three industries that produce seventy percent of the carbon we throw into the air…The first one is housing and buildings, right, our housing and buildings. The second one is cars. And the third one is electricity, how we produce electricity. So I’ve got a plan. I picked this up from Governor Jay Inslee ’cause I think it’s such a terrific plan. [Voice: “Yeah!”] [applause] By 2028 new building has a zero carbon footprint. By 2030 all new cars and light duty trucks that are produced, zero carbon footprint. And by 2035 all electricity that is produced, zero carbon footprint. Three regulations in place and we cut our carbon emissions by seventy percent by 2035. [applause][cheers]
That’s not all we need to do, there’s much more. We need to think about this globally, which I do. I’ve got a lot of plans around this. But here’s the part I want to go to just to pull this back together. Noting is going to happen so long as Washington remains as corrupt as it is. So anyone who tells you, oh I’ve got great plan and number A, terrific plan number B, and fabulous plan number C, and isn’t willing to say I’m going to beat back the influence of the big polluters, of the carbon based industry, of the Koch brothers, it’s not gonna happen.
Oh, there may be some bills that get passed that have wonderful names. Right. Like clean up everything and the future only…[laughter] and unicorns. [laughter] Right?
But to make real change we have got to beat back the corruption in Washington. We have got to beat back the influence of money.
So, you ask me what’s it going to look like? And the answer is, all I can talk about is corruption. [applause] I will absolutely…[applause][cheers]
And when Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like it, too bad for Mark Zuckerberg. [cheers][applause]
But, it is about having the courage to call out the corruption. And let me tell you one other, just how this is going to fit together. It’s that we’ve got to attack the corruption head on. So that we can disrupt it. So we can put it on its back feet. So that we can start making the changes we need to make, and I mean making them fast, on every single possible front. It is absolutely critical that we do this. I want to say a lot more about this. It’s the reason, also, that I’m in the fight. Say, I’m going to get rid of the filibuster on the first day. Otherwise those guys, the money interests will continue to have a veto over everything that comes through Congress.
We simply cannot afford this anymore. We need to make change starting January 2021. We need to make it fast. We need to make it right. And we to be in this fight, all of us, all the way. [cheers][applause]
