playing field that even with the quote, even after squandering all those even afte squandering all thos elon musk is still the second richest human being on the planet. and on that note, that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back on monday. alex will be back on tuesday, and my own show, here on msnbc, we ll be back on sunday night on 8 pm, but now it s time for the last word with ali velshi and lawrence o donnell. that was a segment after my own heart. what a world, right? a guy can lose 182 billion dollars, 182 billion dollars and just man in the world. i mean, that says it all. one doesn t need any more. with which tells you he had too much in the first place. no human being should have that much money even on paper. i am glad know about your segment about how folks are getting worried about the gas stoves in the culture wars and dr. seuss. and i remember donald knew trump talking about not enough water coming into the shower and asked to flush several times t
182 billion dollars 182 billion dollars and remain the second richest man in the world. that says it all. one doesn t need which tells you that he had too much in the first place and no human beings should have that much even on paper. it s ridiculous. i m glad, though, about your segment about how people are getting more worried about the gas stoves and you are talking about the culture wars and dr. seuss. and i remember don trump talking about not enough water coming into the shower and asked to flush several times to get it to work. but i m glad about that because what they re missing is the actual subversion going on in america tonight with two brown muslim guys anchoring primetime back-to-back on a major american network. i mean, go crazy. don t say it out loud. they re worried a bass about gas stoves. they re not worried about us, mehdi hassan. have a good weekend, my friend. i ll see you sunday night. you too. all right, buddy. breaking now, we now
breaching the debt ceiling isn t congressional democrats. it s not joe biden. it s you. and me, and everyone in america, and possibly the global economy. and to threaten it today is, in fact, much more dangerous than it was back when barack obama was president, back when inflation and interest rates were low. because of inflation, which is currently a global phenomenon, interest rates are higher today than they were then. in so far as republicans had any policy in the midterm elections, they claimed to care about inflation, blaming biden and congressional democrats for causing it and displaying staggering ignorance about basic economics. nevertheless, republicans claim that they would fix inflation if they got elected. now just listen to the republican experts in that article i just quoted from, the u.s. chamber of commerce as vice president says, quote, prioritization doesn t work. we had this discussion a decade ago. the u.s. government skips its payments to american seniors or
about inflation, blaming biden and congressional democrats for causing it and displaying staggering ignorance about basic economics. nevertheless, republicans claim that they would fix inflation if they got elected. now just listen to the republican experts in that article i just quoted from, the u.s. chamber of commerce as vice president says, quote, prioritization doesn t work. we had this discussion a decade ago. the u.s. government skips its payments to american seniors or skips its payments to bond holders, both of those things call into question the full faith and credit of the united states government and our commitment to paying our bills. both of them have pretty catastrophic economic consequences. and quote. an analyst of the manhattan institute says studying this in 2011 convinced us that this would be a really bad idea and something we really did not want to happen. we didn t hear the exercise saying this is feasible and smart, we said let s avoid this at all costs because