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Heartland Pod: money, money, money, money…

04 Monday Jan 2021

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Adam Sommer, Heartland POD, Iowa, J.D. Scholten, missouri, podcast, Trump tapes

Ep. 44: “Money Dictates Everything” with J.D. Scholten

The Heartland POD kicks off 2021 with a HUGE show! Adam starts by addressing the Trump Tapes head on (3:00) and then we are joined for “Let’s Have a Chat” (14:00) one of our spotlight progressives from the Heartland, J.D. Scholten. J.D. joins Adam for a chat as the two get into money in politics, accountability and the realities facing folks that the progressive message can reach but are walled off with party identity politics. Then Sean and Zack join Adam to kick off 2021 “Talking Politics” (58:45) and then ending with a “Last Call” (1:45) dealing with the #fraudsquad, plus a surprise appearance of our label of “sneaky little weasel” that you’ll have to listen to find!

America, America…in 2020

19 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Healthcare, social media, US Senate

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Chuck Grassley, Corona virus, COVID-19, Iowa, pandemic, social media, Twitter

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (r):

ChuckGrassley @ChuckGrassley
I remain symptom free & in isolation. I continue to feel good Thx for all the messages of encouragement & prayers
1:58 PM · Nov 18, 2020

Some of the responses:

I’m guessing you are getting the good stuff already. Sorry the two people who just died in my small Montana county and who probably voted R were not as lucky. How does it feel to chop those grasping hands off the lifeboat so you can survive? It it all you dreamed it to be?

Unfortunately, 246,000 Dead #American Families don’t feel so good that the republicans Politicians Mislead constitutes
Undermined Health Experts, COVID19 restrictive measures & enabling the deaths of thousands of more #Americans by not allowing the peaceful transition of power

While you are quarantining, spare a thought for the millions in increasingly dire straits without pandemic relief. Maybe look at the aerial footage of the shockingly long bread lines? Senators like you are their only hope at this point.

Trust me I didn’t send any good wishes or prayers

You’ve got to get back and do the peoples’ business of confirming unqualified judges and quacks to the Federal Reserve

Hope you get well soon. And that this experience informs you of the importance of passing a bill that enables people to stay home without undue financial hardship and that gives every medical facility and essential worker in the country what they need to be safe

Not going to happen.

Must be nice to still get a pay check while you’re in quarantine.

Good, but let’s not forget:

Days it took the GOP to confirm Amy Coney Barrett: 30

Days it took them to pass a $1,900,000,000,000 tax cut for the super-rich: 51

Days since they let expanded unemployment benefits expire for millions of Americans: 99 and counting…

You are complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands. How do you feel about that?

Happy for your family that you aren’t sick. However, how about the families of the 1,700+ Americans who died today? Anything you want to say to them? Besides sorry you didn’t get the same drugs……

Hope for you that this opens your eyes to go the route of caring for your planet and fellow humans vs always siding with greed and power.

Your maker knows the difference.

Nah. If he’s supposedly asymptomatic, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a change of heart. Plus as everyone else has mentioned, it’s super easy to act like covid is no sweat when you’ve got top quality socialized healthcare, exclusive drugs, unlimited PTO and a steady paycheck.

You are fortunate. No ventilator. No struggle to breathe. No family members who must watch you on facetime take your last breath. Perhaps you can show respect for those who wish they had your outcome by encouraging masks on the Senate floor.

How’s that socialized healthcare. I bet they even give you the good medicine. Good thing you’re not a meat packer, you would be forced to work w/o ppe. Relax and enjoy your checks on a regular basis.

It has to be said. But he doesn’t give one good goddamn.

And somehow he doesn’t get it that this is exactly why people should wear their masks. He is asymptomatic, so he has been spreading it to other people around him. What a monster.

Also free of compassion for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free or breathe at all lately

So what you’re saying is that everything is under control and republicans should continue to spread the virus and refuse to wear masks?

He’s shown us time and time again that he doesn’t care. He’s complicit in family separations, forced hysterectomies, and the spread of COVID—just to name a few.

You could have at least ended your tweet with, “Please, Wear a Mask!” But you guys can’t even do that.

No. He doesn’t care about people, just power.

You didn’t get one from me. Btw thanks for missing that vote yesterday. It gave us the opportunity to sink that Fed garbage you wanted installed.

You’ll be fine. Only the good die young.

We could have been like New Zealand.

Just imagine if you were quarantining and you were BROKE and had a couple of kids, with no hope in sight of help from the government who promised to protect you. Because two sides can’t figure out how to come together a lot of people are suffering. Glad to hear you’re fine, tho.

That DC strain obviously does not work on evil politicians. You lucked out.

Is it real yet or no?

Lucky you have socialized health care.

Now talk about the people you possibly infected.

Tots and pears. Tell your president to concede already.

I like the upbeat regular updates. Herman Cain did those too.

A grown man who down played the virus and the advise of scientist, now wants to thank you for your prayers and encouragement. Sorry you are not getting them from me. You are to blame for so many dying.

I think, people who are struggling to live should protest at Senators houses on Thanksgiving! Since they can’t pass a damn stimulus to help people, but, they can question social media CEO’s and confirm another judge

Grassley was last at the Capitol on Monday, when he spoke on the Senate floor. He made a brief speech about the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he was not wearing a mask while he spoke.

Stay healthy while killing people, please! Remember: virus is a hoax, don’t pass expensive relief to those in dire need, save it for the 0.1 percenters, and come out of isolation since straining hospitals and endangering 1st responders is a personal choice. Freedom!

Possibly sarcasm.

Maybe Sherrod Brown had a point when he implored Senators to wear masks? Did you check with Ted Cruz?

Yep, 2020.

Iowa Caucus: remain calm, carry on

04 Tuesday Feb 2020

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caucus, Iowa, media criticism

So, cable news talking heads were bored, and their producers spent a lot of money on their sets, and last night they all looked like they were channeling an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Heh.

Last night:

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
How is it that they make the campaign season 300 years long but demand the vote be counted so quickly that it requires an app? Count the voters and add up the results on paper, you ding-dongs! The media can wait. Accuracy is more important than speed!
10:35 PM · Feb 3, 2020

They have the data, they’ll have the results. Soon enough.

By the way, do you think each candidate’s precinct captains reported results in to their campaigns? They already know.

Notwithstanding all of the criticisms of a caucus, or of the representation of Iowa, or it’s placement as the first, not getting instant results fast enough to please old and new media should be the least of anyone’s worries.

We are doomed

02 Thursday Jan 2020

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Dave Weigel, Donald Trump, impeachment, Iowa, low information voters, social media, Tom Steyer, Twitter

Trump, Steyer Talk Impeachment in Ads
Groups Mention Impeachment Issue In House Races;
Total Ad Spending Approaches $300 Million in Presidential Race

…Tom Steyer has spent $8.5 million on 18,847 ads mentioning impeachment, which constitute 18 percent of his ad airings since declaring his candidacy. These ads do not count the efforts of Need to Impeach, the super PAC founded by Steyer (from which he has stepped down), which aired over $3 million in ads during the first half of the year that called for Trump’s impeachment…

This morning, from Iowa:

Dave Weigel @daveweigel
One reason I’m on the Steyer bus is that people often ask me “who is actually considering voting for Steyer?” One answer from today’s first town hall: An Iowan who told me she voted for Trump in 2016 and thinks other Democrats are too obsessed with impeaching him.

Yeah, I know.
10:23 AM · Jan 2, 2020

Dave Weigel was literally on Tom Steyer’s (D) campaign bus, following his campaign in Iowa.

Michael Bersin @MBersin
Replying to @daveweigel
This will be the introductory paragraph in the comprehensive late 21st Century multi-volume scholarly work, “The Fall of the American Empire”.
10:51 AM · Jan 2, 2020

Some of the other responses:

Well at least we know the electorate is highly informed.

‘That billionaire that put out pro-impeachment commercials in Trump’s first year was too obsessed with impeachment, but this Tom Steyer fellow is different…’

OMG, this is almost like the Trump supporter who told me he supported Trump because “he’s going to protect us from the Russians”!

Clueless.

See Television ads do move the needle….lol

People who voted for Trump aren’t going to elect a Democrat.

Voters (shakes head). I just can’t (shakes head again).

It took me longer than it should have to laugh at that.

Wait, what?

… did you tell her?

I just hit myself in the head with my own keyboard. This country is full of idiots.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

And this is why the Democratic Party nominee shouldn’t waste their time on Trump voters.

Wrong audience

27 Friday Dec 2019

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Donald Trump, impeachment, Iowa, Tulsi Gabbard

In Iowa.

Not how you efficiently reach or convince those Iowa Democratic Party caucus participants.

Nine days ago in the U.S. House of Representatives:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 695
H RES 755 YEA-AND-NAY 18-Dec-2019 8:32 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to Article I of the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors

—- YEAS 230 —

—- NAYS 197 —

—- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 1 —

Gabbard

—- NOT VOTING 3 —

And:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 696
H RES 755 RECORDED VOTE 18-Dec-2019 8:50 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to Article II of the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors

—- AYES 229 —

—- NOES 198 —

— ANSWERED “PRESENT” 1 —

Gabbard

—- NOT VOTING 3 —

Real profile in something, that.

Previously:

Donald Trump (r) finally wins his first and second popular votes * (December 18, 2019)

Impeach this!

20 Friday Dec 2019

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bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, extortion, impeachment, Iowa, population density, quid pro quo, space doesn't vote

In October:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
[….]
6:05 AM · Oct 1, 2019

It happened.

We thought we’d take a first hand look. Out in Iowa:

In Iowa. Space doesn’t vote.

Population density is an actual thing, eh?

Previously:

Impeachment: almost too stupid to remember to breathe (October 1, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Closing Remarks – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019

22 Tuesday Oct 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Town Hall

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Elizabeth Warren, Indianola, Iowa, president, town hall

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:

https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/elizabethwarrentownhallindianolaiowaclosingstatement102019.mp3

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.

Thank you. [applause][cheers]

Previously:

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 20, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – LGBTQ – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Climate – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Higher Education – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 22, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Medicare for All – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 22, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Medicare for All – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019

22 Tuesday Oct 2019

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Elizabeth Warren, Indianola, Iowa, Medicare for All, president, town hall

“…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:

https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/elizabethwarrentownhallindianolaiowamedicareforall102019.mp3

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.

So…[applause][cheers]

Previously:

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 20, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – LGBTQ – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Climate – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Higher Education – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 22, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Higher Education – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019

22 Tuesday Oct 2019

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Elizabeth Warren, Indianola, Iowa, president, town hall

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:

https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/elizabethwarrentownhallindianolaiowatownhallqandahighered.mp3

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]

Previously:

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 20, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – LGBTQ – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Climate – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – Climate – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019

21 Monday Oct 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Town Hall

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Elizabeth Warren, Indianola, Iowa, president, town hall

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:

https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/elizabthwarrentownhallindianolaiowaqandaclimate102019.mp3

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]

Previously:

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 20, 2019)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) – Town Hall Q and A – LGBTQ – Indianola, Iowa – October 20, 2019 (October 21, 2019)

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