pressure? specifically by the backbench tressure? specifically by the backbench pressure? specifically by the backbench tressure? , , ., pressure? the fact is there isn t a alan. a pressure? the fact is there isn t a plan- a senior pressure? the fact is there isn t a plan. a senior government i pressure? the fact is there isn t a j plan. a senior government source said to me this morning they are not working on a plan for living with covid long term yet. that does not mean there is not one in the future but not one in the work is imminently fast nevertheless, used to covid being around permanently. when it becomes endemic and is less of a crisis. you can see some of those conversations playing out in the newspapers. what happens to free lateral flow tests, for exa m ple to free lateral flow tests, for example question that the government has committed to supplying them for free to the country for the next few months but they have accepted and they accepted last year that at some po
the worse republicans do. that s not always the case. one can look to what happened in the virginia gubernatorial race, when glenn youngkin won that race and turnout was higher. there is this sort of false notion that when black and brown voters turn out if big numbers, that that s worse for republicans. and so that is what is really driving and animating some of these suppressive and subversive laws at the state level. 19 states, 34 laws so far, and that number is expected to grow in this election year, jose. so, cliff, if jeff is saying there really isn t a plan b, if it doesn t work, where does the fight for voting rights go from here. it s really honestly too soon to be talking about if the plan doesn t work, this is actually essentially what we believe part of the reason kyrsten sinema and senator manchin through the statements they make, is to discourage people from moving forward with the process. the process hasn t even really
is going to cost, it s going to cost us as well. jesse: you are damn right it s going to cost us. if you only ban russian oil and don t pump american. biden promised the american people he wouldn t raise taxes on anyone making under 400 gs, but if the cost of your every day life surges, thanks to inflation and this gas price spike, that s a tax hike on everybody. energy consultants are already increased fuel costs are going to cost the average american household $2,000 more for gasoline this year. $2,000 more. this isn t just an energy crisis we are up against. it s an economic crisis, too. banning russian oil and not replacing it with a fuel from another source like what we are doing right here isn t a plan. well, unless your explain to drive up oil prices. if that s the case, you are doing a great job, joe. and maybe that is the plan.
so there really isn t a plan b. the question is, what s the mechanism that gets it across the finish line? and maybe it needs to be wrapped up into one big deal that can be passed with democrat-only votes. if that s what we have to do, i m fine with that. it s a shame it s come to that. yesterday, every single republican in the house of representatives voted to default on our obligations. 3% of the national debt has occurred during joe biden s presidency, a lot of it under the trump presidency. but they want to forget that and force a default, to have the u.s. not pay its bills, to push us into a recession. people across the spectrum, in industry and in in workplace all know this is a stupid thing for republicans to do, but republicans embracing stupid. congressman john kildee,
citizen activists, by online activists? sure, i think if somebody sees him, they ve got to report it. don t go to tiktok and say, hey, i just saw the guy. get on the phone and call law enforcement and say, he was here. there are real things i think there s a tendency for people to use social media to do the communication when it isn t really going to get to law enforcement in a timely manner if you don t pick up the phone and call them. there s a lot of frustration out there. i mentioned the stacks and it does seem that and i think we could qualify it, how many of these stories that become big news, that become that get the fascination online are of attractive white women, frankly. and we don t see that kind of attention paid when people of color or as i said, in wyoming, indigenous people. is that just something that is is that the case online as