In wisconsin, 22vote margin, and she got 31,000 votes. Those are states that decided the election. Thats why investigators are looking at jill stein. Its no surprise the reaction to the russian meddling is polarizing but it Doesnt Matter whether the investigation goes right or left. These leads need to be run down. So if the committees doing it, maybe thats a good thing. Thats our show. Hardball starts now. Bad santa. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington where it was a day of high drama at the capitol. At this hour, were awaiting a senate vote on the republican tax bill that could come at any time. The house voted this afternoon, passing the bill despite every democrat opposing it, along with 12 republicans. Late today there was a wrinkle. House republicans said they will slightly alter the bill and revote tomorrow to ensure it fits with senate rules that allow it to pass with a simple majority. The Senate Parliamentarian had rejected several provisions snu
to this, there s a long list of those. chris rock turned it down, tina fey, they said no. three gentlemen at the bottom, they said no. a lot of people turned it down because of the controversy. there is also this new study out from the university of southern california that shows that a lot of of the promises after that scandal, after george floyd s death of inclusion is and diversion is informative. it feels performtive. we have not moved the needle at all. out of 116 directors in 2023 for the top 100 grossing films, a little over 12% were women. and when it comes to black wum, it was even less than that. it was a little over 3%. and so when you look at that baseden what it s been for women of color, you can count on your hand the number of women of
him in dead poets society. the fact that they stripped humanity out of parenting. the fact this has to be said, the fact that any teacher has to say this sentence, no one is teaching your kids to be gay. sometimes they just are gay. do you think that is actually an open question on the right? i think the vast majority of performtive. particularly by the politicians like desantis who are playing to fears and grievance and a bunch of other things. i can assure you, there are gay children in republican families. i don t know why they re acting like their kids i mean the teacher who educated, you know, your child who happens to be gay turned that kid gay, no, they didn t. that is the point this teacher is trying to make.
regarding the failures of the democrat party when it comes to the african american community. john, i think some of the data, though, here many people thought the idea of the decline in population in san francisco was directly related to the inability to afford any housing in the area given all the things that are going on there, not that every black person living in the city has economic constraints. but how do you see it, cheryl? i want to get your response. do you see this as performtive as he is eluding in that this is an indication that this was thre theatrics? i would say it is impressive to imply it was thr just for sh. it is one thing to make that comment specifically about the board of supervisors, but it is another to put it out there just broadly. folks came there and put their hearts, their souls and their history on the line. for them it was not performtive.
under the budget. translator: i want all of this to be done within a month. what are you talking about? do you not understand the circumstances we are in? please complete this work within a month. agreed? we will try to do our best. no, do not try to do your best. please get it done in a month. no later. general, i guess there s a performtive politics going on in russia these days as well? the menace in that statement is probably a lot like stallen in 1941 during the nazi invasion of the soviet union and the russians were resettling their war industries, and it was draconian how they got their economy back and everything else.