hey everybody how's it going so today i
want to discuss this piece of news that
was fairly aggravating just from the
title
itself the title is framing it in in
what i find to be a
manipulative way in my opinion it says
biden it says caving on 1400
checks would break a promise i probably
shouldn't be as mad at the title as i
should be at the individual who gave the
quote
says caving on fourteen hundred dollar
checks would break a promise so in the
united states
there was this um hubbub over stimulus
and two thousand dollar checks
there was a plan to get two thousand
dollar checks out it got put down to six
hundred dollars
in december and i remember biden saying
that that would be a
down payment on future stimulus once he
gets in office
so if you're talking about two thousand
dollars and six hundred was given and
the
vocabulary used was that's going to be a
down payment for later
it really does sound like later on
you're going to get 1400 so there's no
no real big issue there the issue then
comes with the georgia
senate race that occurred in the
beginning of january in the georgia
senate race they really were
using language that led you to believe
that you were getting a two thousand
dollar check
lots of people were expecting two
thousand dollar checks after that
and lots of people are kind of pissed
off that they back pedals
and the problem is that they said
fourteen 1400 after the fact what they
said is no no
wait you don't understand it's going to
be the 600 you got and then 1400 to make
2 000.
but if you listen to the rhetoric that
was used during the georgia race they
were very clear about getting you
2 000 checks so if you already got a 600
check right you already got a 600
check and they say we're gonna give you
two thousand dollar checks if you
already have a six hundred dollar check
then that does not mean that we're
counting your last check so
if you're my landlord let's just say
you're my landlord and i
say i'm gonna pay my rent this month i
give you a thousand dollars right
and then my rent for the next month
because rent went up is eleven hundred
dollars
and i say okay i'm gonna give you eleven
hundred dollars but then i only give you
a hundred and i said no no i gave you a
thousand last month so this month you
wanted 1100 so here i'm giving you 100.
that's not how this works if you wrote
someone a check already and then you say
after you wrote them that check that you
were going to write them another check
for x amounts you do not count the
amount of the last check that's not how
common sense works that's not how any of
this works
and what's really bothersome about all
of this
is just it just showcases the all the
i kind of wonder if a lot of the general
social unrest and economic unrest
is stemming from the fact that we have
one of the most disjointed covered
responses i've ever seen
so just to be clear if we took the route
of listen
this virus is serious it's going to kill
people it's going to spread it's not
going to go away for a while so what we
need to do right now
is shut everything down it's going to
suck
sacrifice shut everything down for a
month a month
nothing we're not going to do anything
and we are going to pay you all for that
month that we shut down or that two
months that we shut down
everybody's going to get paid i know
it's going to be bad i know we're going
to be adding to the national debt and
printing money and blah blah but we need
to do this
so let's do it together i could
understand that also if we took the path
of
listen the last time lewis brought up
this new york city data for coronavirus
deaths
the death toll for people without
pre-existing conditions between the age
of 25 to 34 was five
it has been about five months since
lewis first brought this up and now it
is up to six
it's very clear that this virus is
killing people who are elderly and have
pre-existing conditions and people who
are young without preexisting conditions
not all of them
but for the most part are fine we cannot
shut down the economy for this
we cannot shut everything down for this
we cannot we cannot print endless
amounts of money and borrow endless
amounts of money and
destroy the economy so we are going to
keep the economy open we are going to
protect
the elderly and people of pre-existing
conditions we are going to set up
systems so that they do not have to go
outside regularly for the things that
they need we are going to come together
to help them out
and young people are going to wear masks
socially distance do everything they can
keep things clean but they are going to
go back to work they're going to wear
masks they're going to put it over their
nose they're not going to be dumb asses
like chuck schumer and get on
national television talk about how
important it is to wear a [ __ ] mask
and wear it like this like a dumbass
[ __ ] senate majority leader oh my god
anyway and
we are going to move forward i could
also understand that
but what we did is pretty much the worst
of both worlds we did is we said
okay we're gonna we're gonna have these
lockdowns and we're gonna shut down a
lot of the economy oh
oh you need to pay your bills oh
isn't that cute that sounds like a you
problem
why don't you get a job as an essential
worker get me the money when i need it
is there you want to do that you want to
go to work go take the job as an
essential worker
do it tomorrow
right you're working i am you're an
essential worker
so go take a job as an essential worker
what a [ __ ] degenerate piece of [ __ ]
but moving on so we pretty much had the
worst of both
worlds and you have a country of people
that feel like they've been completely
left behind completely [ __ ] over
and when i look at a lot of the social
unrest that occurs whether it's people
yoloing you know the last one or three
thousand dollars that they
borrowed into a into a meme stock as it
hits 350
or whether it's people that are just
again storming the capital
turning protests into riots last summer
all this type of stuff
i kind of wonder like how much of the
base of that
results from a feeling of anxiety
economic anxiety
that stems from the fact that people
believe that nobody has their back
ever that when there is a problem as a
country
we are going to try and address the
problem but we're not going to address
the the fallout that occurs from what we
did to address the problem together
in a man again did other nations do
covet perfectly
no but there are a lot of other nations
out there where they tried to take care
of their people
in a manner that was considerably better
than what we did and we have the worst
of both worlds
we have lockdowns we have not enough
help
but then when when the the you know the
pot finally boils over
we wind up with finally deciding okay we
are going to spend you know
billions or trillions on the paycheck
protection program billions or trillions
on
on stimulus and everything else after
the fact but that's after everybody's
already [ __ ] and after everybody's
already said okay
listen if you're not going to help me
out here then i'm going to go back to
work i don't care about your stupid
rules
and then covet spreads we literally have
the worst of both responses we have the
worst from both worlds we could have
gone
this way or that way but we pretty much
took okay let's take the worst economic
results of that
let's take the worst pandemic spreading
results from that and let's just mix it
all together
and that makes me just incredibly sad
and again did the people like just
not even the 2000 versus 1400 thing
that was a while ago we're in february
again biden became president
on january 20th the you know
the senators are in office so you have
the senate you have the house and you
have the executive branch
if he wanted to again we'll just uh
budget reconciliatory process
stroke of a pen pretty much say okay
listen we promised you this we're gonna
give you this
we're not gonna bicker over it for two
or three or five or six months
and [ __ ] you over we are going to take
care of this right now
people would think differently and i
have to wonder when i see the
temperature rising in the united states
in general when i see people
putting the last of their money into
meme stocks like
borrowing money to put it into gamestop
at 350 or 400
when i see people like storming the
capital when i see
protests that i remember i remember when
there were protests after michael brown
and trayvon martin and everything and
then i remember what happened
after those protests last summer i kind
of wonder if
the temp just what has been occurring is
a result of the temperature rising in
the country to this degree
and if part of that temperature rising
is the government saying
we are going to screw up your life but
anything that occurs as a result of
screwing up your life is now a you
problem
then saying well we're going to help you
out and then
by that we mean we're going to bicker
amongst ourselves for six to nine months
well we all get paid off of your tax
dollars and then not actually do
anything for you
this is not good and this is how you get
president tucker carlson i mean like i i
know that probably sounds ridiculous but
here's the thing i don't like trump very
much i get a lot of crap my comments for
it i don't it's not like i talk about it
on a regular basis if you go back
through my last four or five years of
videos you're not going to see me
speaking about this in a manner that you
might expect someone who has lives in
new york and has a social media account
to speak about it
a lot of people in new york city that i
speak to don't like to acknowledge the
fact that there are
actual reasons that people voted for him
there were people that felt like they
were
economically disenfranchised or people
that were not being listened to there
were people whose lives
and family lives were getting worse year
after year after year and someone came
along and said here
you know i'm going to fix it here are
the problems that you had let me listen
to the problems you had let me do
something about it now whether or not he
did something about it when at least
when it comes to outsourcing of jobs and
manufacturing
i personally don't believe he did much
with it but he said i'm at least going
to listen to you rather than say you're
just living in a fantasy world and all
that crap's going away
there's a reason that people voted for
him and here's the thing if there is
this precedent set
which is we can say that we are going to
provide you with 2 000
of relief and then it gets diluted to
1400 and then
when you have the senate the house and
the executive branch in spite of having
a full sweep
you wind up dragging your feet and
taking months to do this
then you're you're gonna wind up i'm
telling you you're gonna wind up with
president tucker carlson if you're not
ready to provide what it is that you're
offering
then just don't offer it just don't make
the offer if you're gonna let people
suffer at the very least let them suffer
without the promise of maybe i'm gonna
give you a bone
this is uh this is it's sad to me it
really is because like you could see in
the very beginning that people were like
things are going to change things are
going to change things are going to
change
and i'm sitting here just thinking
they're probably not
they're probably not and i'm a pessimist
i like being proven wrong because when
someone like me who is a pessimist is
proven wrong
that means that something good will
happen and a lot of people kind of
wonder like in 2016
you know you know how how did this occur
how did this happen it's just
not caring about the needs of average
ordinary people like how many people
voted in georgia in those senate runoff
elections that otherwise would not have
turned out because
well you know if coveted relief has been
being blocked for a long time
i can't go to work i'm not allowed to go
to work and you said okay
finally there's going to be some sort of
unity where if you're going to say i
can't go to work you're going to have my
back
oh you lied about the number oh now
you're taking forever to the liver
yeah what a dumb ass i was to go out and
vote and when a candidate
winds up showing up that that is able to
actually speak to people and
get their trust you have to wonder
if that candidate winds up being a nut
bag
and you think they're a nut bag how did
you get to a point
where people were willing to vote for
the nut back what happened that degraded
the trust in the institutions that we
used to have
because so many people like to get up
there with you know their bow tie and
their nice hairdo and everything and go
i can't believe nobody trusts uh
institutions anymore
it's like why would they why would they
at some point there's going to be zero
trust left at all amongst anyone and
that's going to be
a really really bad this is the
beginning of a new administration this
is a clean sweep
they have all three branches of
government they
could actually do things to improve
people's lives or at the very least if
they are not able to improve people's
lives at the very least they could not
promise things that they're incapable
or unwilling to deliver if they promise
things repeatedly that they're
not able to deliver you're going to see
a swing
back to the other side and i'm just i'm
we're going to read a lot of crying when
it happens but in the end of the day
it's going to come down to stuff like
this this is what you advertised
this is what you delivered people are
not going to vote for you again
let me know what you think in the
comments down below that's it for today
and as always i hope you learned
something
this is not financial investing advice i
am not a financial services professional
this is purely
my opinion see you all later