On the May 26 episode of Netflix’s Chelsea titled “Beauty Pageants, Black-ish and Going Broke”, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) declared, “Democracy is on the ropes.” The rest of the interview was just as dramatically nonsensical.
Travelling to Washington, D.C. to interview the liberal senator, Chelsea Handler sympathized as Warren told a personal story from her childhood of her father’s heart attack and her mother going to work for the first time at the age of 50. Earning minimum wage allowed her family to survive, she said.
In her insistence that raising the minimum wage will be the answer for all, she and Handler neglect to point out the obvious – minimum wage was set specifically for those entering the workforce. Put into effect in 1938 in America, it was meant as a starting point, not a career salary destination. Warren thinks all companies should be under government mandate – the solution for liberals is always more government.
Moving on to the topic of President Trump, Handler made the rather bizarre assertion that the Russians are “laughing at us.” She said that McConnell and Ryan would be ok with “having us in the hands of the Russians.” “His telling them classified information is really scary.” “Yes, it is,” said the senator.
That’s right – a sitting senator is agreeing with a talk show host that the president is giving classified information to the Russians. Warren was happy to join in this narrative – “Donald Trump and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have put this country in a place it has never been before. Everything from Russians laughing at us to what happens to healthcare for millions of Americans. This is our moment in history and we’ve got to fight back,” she said.
Handler’s cross country trip to interview Warren seems a bit unnecessary. She did not enlighten the audience with any real information – she encouraged anti-Trump people to join groups, recruit people and commit to the fight. But, hey, they accused the president of being a puppet of the Russians and the congressional leadership of enabling him, so maybe that was the pay-off in her liberal mind.
