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**VIDEO**: Saagar Enjeti: I Said Gas Prices More Important Than Jan 6, Liberals LOST IT Jun 13, 2022 Breaking Points
Saagar defends his provocative claim about gas prices reaching $5/gallon being more important than Jan 6th hearings and points out the revealing priorities of liberals in media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOwXEhsnsAo
TWEET: Saagar Enjeti XX@XXesaagar
Gas is 5 DOLLARS A GALLON people. Genuinely can't imagine giving a sh!t about about these Jan 6 hearings
1:20 PM · Jun 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1534993835402706973
VIDEO: American Families Struggle To Survive As Inflation And Gas Prices Soar Jun 12, 2022
Gas prices hit $5 a gallon nationwide this weekend while inflation rose by the fastest rate in decades. NBC News’ Kate Snow follows three American families forced to make lifestyle changes just to make ends meet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuPpHQIhHfM
Direct Headline: The Uncredible Jan. 6 Committee
Americans needed a serious accounting. Democrats assured they won’t get one....This week’s Washington corollary to the tree-in-the-forest thought experiment: If the Jan. 6 committee holds professionally polished hearings, amid wall-to-wall prime-time coverage, will anybody pay attention? If the answer is no, the committee will largely have itself to blame...The prospect of public apathy is already deeply vexing the establishment. "Democrats have the steep challenge of convincing a disillusioned American electorate to tune into” the hearings, Politico worries. The Washington Post frets that even weeks of this miniseries may not “change hearts or minds.” The vexed are already laying blame. It’s the fault of Republicans who will “downplay” the findings (to) Americans who are too focused on gasoline prices....
...What’s actually missing in this special sauce of prime TV hours, slick videos and positive press is the one ingredient truly vital for public interest: credibility. If huge swathes of America ignore the committee’s work, it will be because the committee itself—through its construction and through its actions—made it easy...Can Americans trust the findings of a panel whose members began with a preconceived narrative and blackballed any dissenting voices? Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unprecedented decision to veto Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks last July in favor of her own handpicked Republican members blew the committee’s credibility before it even started work. Americans will find it easy to reject “evidence” that is too fragile to bear the scrutiny of fellow House members.....
....And consider Mrs. Pelosi’s Democratic picks. California’s Adam Schiff is the House face of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and secret Ukraine impeachment proceedings. Maryland’s Jamie Raskin knows a little something about objecting to the counting of electoral votes. On Jan. 6, 2017, he objected to Donald Trump’s Florida victory. Mrs. Pelosi had more than 200 Democratic members to choose from, yet her picks allow Americans to dismiss the committee instantly....The committee might have redeemed itself even with this makeup had it conducted its work in a sober, professional manner. Instead, within months, it had become the worst type of Washington leak machine—dribbling documents, texts, emails and inside tidbits about who was up for a grilling next and what was coming out of depositions....
...This practice reached a low in March...The committee’s initial directive to telecom and social media companies to preserve the communications of private citizens—including members of Congress—but to keep the targets in the dark so they’d have no opportunity to litigate. The flurry of criminal referrals to the Justice Department with no debate over whether those accused might have legitimate claims of executive privilege....Finally, how can Americans be asked to trust a committee whose work Democrats are openly broadcasting as a political operation? “Jan 6. Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message,” explains the New York Times, noting that the party hopes to change the subject from the Biden White House’s mounting liabilities—which include roaring inflation, a porous border, soaring crime, and a baby formula shortage. Republicans last year darkly hinted that this was the real purpose of the committee, and leave it to Democrats to make that case for them. It didn’t have to be this way. Each of these decisions was deliberate, and each was an obvious exercise in self-sabotage....
By Kimberley A. Strassel June 9, 2022 6:06 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-uncredible-jan-6-committee-midterms-pelosi-cheney-schiff-miniseries-republicans-11654811166
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Enjeti points out that the current Democratic Party has decided that their version of "Democracy" means it's more important to focus on J6 while ignoring the critical mass of the needs and suffering of every day working class Americans, who want to know why their version of populist "democracy" is being completely ignored. He illustrates the importance of winning elections to have your Party build the kind of America that it wants to see become reality. Thus if you lose by failing the people and failing to have them vote for you, then that's on you and you alone. There is no one else to blame.
And that the only answer, to this clear indifference, is that the current Biden Administration has no plan and no desire to help actual working class people. Because there clearly is no plan and no strategy in place to do so.
As one of the mothers says in the 2nd video, she lives in terror each and every day thinking that none of this madness is going to get better. That's the loss of actual hope. And for what purpose? Top-Down political platforming is having elected officials decide what should matter to the people, even if those talking points, public policies, executive orders, laws and enforcement punishes their very basic survival. This is what the current Biden Administration is using right now. "We decide what should matter to you, your concerns are nonsensical because it doesn't approximate our day to day reality from the elite and privilege point of view" This kind of thinking is the bread and butter zones of authoritarian regimes.
So who has the misguided priorities here?
Every day working class American families worry about finding baby formula and putting food on the table. Not anything near, as the WSJ article points out, the same worries of the current Democratic Party using the J6 hearings as an open partisan deflection to desperately attempt to reset their Mid Term messaging platform.
Are gasoline prices more important to you than J6?
What are the host of current issues that are more important to you than J6?
For those of you who see J6 as more paramount, can you explain why to everyone? Could you explain it to working class families a paycheck and half away from being homeless?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
Saagar defends his provocative claim about gas prices reaching $5/gallon being more important than Jan 6th hearings and points out the revealing priorities of liberals in media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOwXEhsnsAo
TWEET: Saagar Enjeti XX@XXesaagar
Gas is 5 DOLLARS A GALLON people. Genuinely can't imagine giving a sh!t about about these Jan 6 hearings
1:20 PM · Jun 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1534993835402706973
VIDEO: American Families Struggle To Survive As Inflation And Gas Prices Soar Jun 12, 2022
Gas prices hit $5 a gallon nationwide this weekend while inflation rose by the fastest rate in decades. NBC News’ Kate Snow follows three American families forced to make lifestyle changes just to make ends meet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuPpHQIhHfM
Direct Headline: The Uncredible Jan. 6 Committee
Americans needed a serious accounting. Democrats assured they won’t get one....This week’s Washington corollary to the tree-in-the-forest thought experiment: If the Jan. 6 committee holds professionally polished hearings, amid wall-to-wall prime-time coverage, will anybody pay attention? If the answer is no, the committee will largely have itself to blame...The prospect of public apathy is already deeply vexing the establishment. "Democrats have the steep challenge of convincing a disillusioned American electorate to tune into” the hearings, Politico worries. The Washington Post frets that even weeks of this miniseries may not “change hearts or minds.” The vexed are already laying blame. It’s the fault of Republicans who will “downplay” the findings (to) Americans who are too focused on gasoline prices....
...What’s actually missing in this special sauce of prime TV hours, slick videos and positive press is the one ingredient truly vital for public interest: credibility. If huge swathes of America ignore the committee’s work, it will be because the committee itself—through its construction and through its actions—made it easy...Can Americans trust the findings of a panel whose members began with a preconceived narrative and blackballed any dissenting voices? Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unprecedented decision to veto Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks last July in favor of her own handpicked Republican members blew the committee’s credibility before it even started work. Americans will find it easy to reject “evidence” that is too fragile to bear the scrutiny of fellow House members.....
....And consider Mrs. Pelosi’s Democratic picks. California’s Adam Schiff is the House face of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and secret Ukraine impeachment proceedings. Maryland’s Jamie Raskin knows a little something about objecting to the counting of electoral votes. On Jan. 6, 2017, he objected to Donald Trump’s Florida victory. Mrs. Pelosi had more than 200 Democratic members to choose from, yet her picks allow Americans to dismiss the committee instantly....The committee might have redeemed itself even with this makeup had it conducted its work in a sober, professional manner. Instead, within months, it had become the worst type of Washington leak machine—dribbling documents, texts, emails and inside tidbits about who was up for a grilling next and what was coming out of depositions....
...This practice reached a low in March...The committee’s initial directive to telecom and social media companies to preserve the communications of private citizens—including members of Congress—but to keep the targets in the dark so they’d have no opportunity to litigate. The flurry of criminal referrals to the Justice Department with no debate over whether those accused might have legitimate claims of executive privilege....Finally, how can Americans be asked to trust a committee whose work Democrats are openly broadcasting as a political operation? “Jan 6. Hearings Give Democrats a Chance to Recast Midterm Message,” explains the New York Times, noting that the party hopes to change the subject from the Biden White House’s mounting liabilities—which include roaring inflation, a porous border, soaring crime, and a baby formula shortage. Republicans last year darkly hinted that this was the real purpose of the committee, and leave it to Democrats to make that case for them. It didn’t have to be this way. Each of these decisions was deliberate, and each was an obvious exercise in self-sabotage....
By Kimberley A. Strassel June 9, 2022 6:06 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-uncredible-jan-6-committee-midterms-pelosi-cheney-schiff-miniseries-republicans-11654811166
*********
Enjeti points out that the current Democratic Party has decided that their version of "Democracy" means it's more important to focus on J6 while ignoring the critical mass of the needs and suffering of every day working class Americans, who want to know why their version of populist "democracy" is being completely ignored. He illustrates the importance of winning elections to have your Party build the kind of America that it wants to see become reality. Thus if you lose by failing the people and failing to have them vote for you, then that's on you and you alone. There is no one else to blame.
And that the only answer, to this clear indifference, is that the current Biden Administration has no plan and no desire to help actual working class people. Because there clearly is no plan and no strategy in place to do so.
As one of the mothers says in the 2nd video, she lives in terror each and every day thinking that none of this madness is going to get better. That's the loss of actual hope. And for what purpose? Top-Down political platforming is having elected officials decide what should matter to the people, even if those talking points, public policies, executive orders, laws and enforcement punishes their very basic survival. This is what the current Biden Administration is using right now. "We decide what should matter to you, your concerns are nonsensical because it doesn't approximate our day to day reality from the elite and privilege point of view" This kind of thinking is the bread and butter zones of authoritarian regimes.
So who has the misguided priorities here?
Every day working class American families worry about finding baby formula and putting food on the table. Not anything near, as the WSJ article points out, the same worries of the current Democratic Party using the J6 hearings as an open partisan deflection to desperately attempt to reset their Mid Term messaging platform.
Are gasoline prices more important to you than J6?
What are the host of current issues that are more important to you than J6?
For those of you who see J6 as more paramount, can you explain why to everyone? Could you explain it to working class families a paycheck and half away from being homeless?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
