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00:00:00.000In his first press conference in months, Joe Biden celebrates his successes, questions election integrity, and gives the green light to Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
00:00:23.000We'll get to all the news in just one moment.
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00:01:29.000Okay, so Joe Biden is absolutely flailing.
00:01:32.000We had a poll last week, Quinnipiac, suggesting that his approval rating was down at 33%.
00:01:37.000Well, now we have a second poll from Civics suggesting that his approval rating is at 34%.
00:01:41.000This makes two straight polls in which Joe Biden is in the low 30s.
00:01:45.000These are abysmal numbers if you are the president of the United States.
00:01:48.000And this follows hard on a Morning Consult Politico poll That shows that only 11% of Americans after one year give Joe Biden an A grade as president of the United States, and only another 20% give him a B. Which means that 69% of Americans say that Joe Biden is a C or below president, including 37% of Americans who say that he's got an F.
00:03:06.000Whenever a politician says, and when they start leaking stories to the press about how they are going to shift communication strategy, you know that this politician is a failure.
00:03:14.000When they say they're going to shift political strategy, you know that the politician might actually be capable of changing.
00:03:20.000But when they're refusing to change any of their political strategies, they're just going to shift how they talk to people.
00:03:25.000Because politicians are what they are.
00:03:58.000Barack Obama didn't have a lot of range, but he had a lot of charisma.
00:04:00.000Joe Biden has neither range nor charisma.
00:04:02.000And so when his team says, we need to get you out in front of the cameras more, the first reaction for anyone smart inside the White House should have been, no, we don't.
00:04:11.000This guy became president literally because he did not get in front of cameras.
00:04:15.000It is amazing how many politicians think they are popular because people like them, as opposed to being popular because people hate their opponents.
00:04:21.000Politics is oppositional by nature, and people do not love Joe Biden.
00:04:25.000And they certainly don't love him after what he did in Afghanistan, which is when his polls really tanked.
00:04:29.000OK, so yesterday, Joe Biden decides, I need to save this presidency.
00:05:03.000So this whole thing opens with him being asked by Zeke Miller from the Associated Press about whether he over-promised when he entered office because he said he was going to shut down the virus and he was going to create a booming economy, he was going to bring world peace, all the rest of it.
00:05:16.000And Joe Biden's answer was, of course, defensive because Joe Biden is a defensive, nasty person.
00:05:21.000This has been true in the Senate forever.
00:06:26.000And one of the reasons is because he's absolutely incoherent.
00:06:29.000So yesterday, I mean, it's hard to watch these press conferences with Joe Biden because you do feel in real time that you may be watching the last Joe Biden press conference.
00:06:38.000You feel like he might actually physically keel over.
00:06:40.000His brain just stops functioning in the middle of these in the middle of these exchanges.
00:06:51.000So here is Joe Biden rambling and then going silent talking about the voters.
00:06:57.000The voter who is just trying to figure out, as I said, how to take care of their family, put three squares on the table, stay safe, be able to pay their mortgage or their rent, etc., has is becoming much more informed on the
00:07:23.000motives of some of the political players and the political parties.
00:08:44.000The good news about a press conference this bad for Joe Biden is that he doesn't remember it even now.
00:08:48.000Within five minutes, it was gone from his brain.
00:08:51.000And also, I mean, again, I can just show you clip after clip from this press conference, just play them over and over of Joe Biden completely falling apart.
00:08:58.000There's a point where he said he's going to ask a rhetorical question. No, he won't.
00:09:02.000By the way, his dead giveaway in terms of body language is him clutching his portfolio. He's got this portfolio that usually sits on the desk. He starts clutching it defensively almost as bizarre.
00:09:13.000I don't think there's been much on any incoming president's plate that's been a bigger menu than the plate I had given to me.
00:10:01.000How do you plan to win back moderates and independents who cast a ballot for you in 2020, but polls indicate aren't happy with the way you're doing your job now?
00:10:19.000This geriatric dotard is going to be heavily involved in the midterms, he says.
00:10:24.000Congratulations to all you Democrats in Purple District.
00:10:28.000And I hope that you have a nice lobbying job lined up because, man, it ain't gonna go great.
00:10:33.000I'm going to be deeply involved in these off-year elections.
00:10:38.000We're going to be raising a lot of money.
00:10:40.000We're going to be out there making sure that we're helping all of those candidates, and Scoresome already asked me to come in and campaign with them, to go out and make the case in plain, simple language as to what it is we've done, what we want to do, and why we think it's important.
00:10:57.000For all those battleground Congress people and Senators, it's time to break out that sad trombone from The Price is Right because Joe Biden jetsetting into your territory is probably your worst nightmare.
00:11:12.000You're running a competitive race and here comes an incoherent, He just he's got nothing and that guy's going to jet in and he's going to fix your race.
00:12:59.000It finished the day 10% below its all-time closing high set back in November.
00:13:04.000A decline of greater than 10% is considered a correction for a stock index, right?
00:13:07.000It's not a temporary decline, it's now a correction.
00:13:10.000Wednesday's trading activity continued a tumultuous stretch for major indices, with stocks pairing their earlier gains and closing near session lows.
00:13:17.000In the first week of January, many investors have started dumping shares of tech companies and piling into other corners of the market in anticipation of rising interest rates.
00:13:25.000And of course, the Fed has been talking about tapering and increasing the interest rates because of the inflation that they helped create last year and that Joe Biden's fiscal and monetary policy have generated.
00:13:34.000So Joe Biden was asked some questions about the economy at this particular press conference.
00:13:38.000He said he is not going to scale back any of his big spending plans.
00:13:41.000Man, this guy, Thelma and Louise, it's not just Thelma and Louise headed for the cliff.
00:13:49.000See, the thing about Thelma and Louise, the end of that movie, is that if that movie goes on for another 32 seconds, it gets extremely grisly.
00:13:57.000OK, and the Biden administration is the 32 seconds of Thelma and Louise that was never put on film.
00:14:04.000You are only guaranteed control of Washington for one more year before the midterms.
00:14:08.000Do you need to be more realistic and scale down these priorities in order to get something passed?
00:15:51.000You can't talk to a business person in America right now who's not experiencing labor shortages.
00:15:56.000The prices on fundamental goods have risen exorbitantly.
00:15:59.000If you're running a restaurant right now, you're paying like twice what you were a year ago for goods that you need in order to generate the food for your restaurant.
00:17:13.000He has to continue because he lets the paranoid loonies in his party run everything.
00:17:19.000And it has become an absolute mental condition.
00:17:22.000This is a mental condition for people.
00:17:24.000People who are running around paranoid about COVID, after having been vaxxed, with Omicron being the dominant strain, which is killing something like 90% fewer people, according to Kaiser Permanente, than Delta.
00:17:38.000If you're still a person running around in a state of wild paranoia, you have a problem and you need to think about that problem.
00:17:47.000Joe Biden has a problem because those are the people running his administration.
00:17:50.000So here he is saying that he's not just going to, you know, allow us all to go back to regular life.
00:17:55.000No, we can't do that because COVID won't let us do it.
00:17:58.000The COVID-19 is not going to give up and accept things.
00:18:02.000You know, it's just it's not going to go away immediately.
00:18:06.000But I'm not going to give up and accept things as they are now.
00:18:10.000Some people may call what's happening now the new normal.
00:18:36.000I was talking to a friend from California, and this friend tends to be a little bit more on the paranoid side.
00:18:41.000And people who have been spending this entire pandemic in California, New York, and New Jersey, Connecticut, any place that's very locked down, those people have such a different view of the world than people who have been living in free states.
00:18:54.000But Joe Biden is governed by New York and New Jersey and California, so he can't let it go.
00:21:28.000Who says that the economy is fine and he wants to spend more money and also that he's not going to leave you alone about COVID.
00:21:34.000That was the least controversial segment of what he had to say yesterday.
00:21:37.000We'll get to the most controversial stuff that he said at this presser yesterday because this guy, man, he's going to tank his, there will be people not yet born who don't like Joe Biden.
00:21:46.000I mean, we are talking about generational lows in terms of presidential approval rating from a guy who entered office with a 56% approval rating, 54%.
00:21:54.000First, let's talk about the fact that this should be a good year for a lot of businesses because we should be in a normal economic recovery.
00:22:00.000Actually, the greatest economic recovery from an artificially induced economic coma in American history.
00:22:05.000But some industries are projected to grow even more than normal.
00:22:09.000It includes like pet services, fitness, for example, home improvement.
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00:23:02.000All right, so now we get to the really controversial segment, right?
00:23:06.000So we've only gone through the part where Joe Biden basically His brain stops working.
00:23:11.000We got through the part where Joe Biden says that he's not going to scale down any of his spending plans, and where he blames all of the inflation on the supply chain problems, and where he says that he's just going to continue cramming down bizarre VAX policies on the rest of America.
00:23:24.000That's not the most controversial part.
00:23:45.000It would be the worst thing in the world if anyone did this.
00:23:47.000I mean, if Stacey Abrams does it, that's different.
00:23:49.000But if Donald Trump does it, it's the worst thing that ever happened.
00:23:52.000Donald Trump undermined American democracy and this made him a historically evil human.
00:23:58.000So yesterday, Joe Biden was asked a pretty simple question.
00:24:02.000Joe, you've been going around to places like Georgia and suggesting that there is widespread voter suppression, that Republicans all over the United States are attempting to rig the vote by rigging who counts the vote.
00:24:13.000You have suggested that if Republicans Do not pass your federalization of all election procedures bills.
00:24:20.000And this means that elections will not be fair and free.
00:24:23.000So are you suggesting that elections are illegitimate if you don't get what you want here?
00:24:28.000Here is Joe Biden just saying elections are illegitimate if I don't get what I want.
00:24:33.000Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate?
00:24:44.000Well, it all depends on Whether or not we're able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election.
00:25:14.000They all have different election procedures.
00:25:15.000But he's saying, if I don't pass this federal bill that, by the way, failed last night in the Senate, if that doesn't pass, future elections are in doubt.
00:26:28.000It's that last statement where he says, the increase in the chance of illegitimacy is directly proportional to me getting what I want.
00:26:35.000This man is saying that elections in the United States are no longer trustworthy.
00:26:38.000You can't trust elections because he's not getting what he wants.
00:26:40.000So that means you can't trust elections anymore.
00:26:42.000So I don't want to hear any more from the left.
00:26:44.000I don't want to hear any more from the Democratic Party about Donald Trump undermining democracy when your unifying, moderate president of the United States comes out and says in a press conference twice that future elections are illegitimate unless he passes a bill that just failed.
00:27:01.000He is setting the stage for violence, folks.
00:27:04.000If the idea is that Donald Trump set the stage for violence by raising the temperature, that Donald Trump spent a month and a half, two months, suggesting that the election of 2020 was illegitimate and that led to January 6th, if that's the contention of the left, what does it lead to when the President of the United States says that not just one election, every election in the United States is on the borderline of legitimacy because he's not getting what he wants?
00:27:28.000This means, effectively speaking, there's no one who believes that if they lose, it might be because they just lost.
00:28:00.000The minute you suggest that voter verification procedures somehow mean that elections are illegitimate, it means that you only accept elections when you win.
00:28:08.000That's what Joe Biden is doing right there.
00:28:11.000And then Joe Biden was asked about the line that he's been trotting out recently over the past year, that everybody who opposes his voting agenda is a Jim Crow racist.
00:28:28.000Of his own words, he's asked about saying in Georgia that you have to choose to be on the side of Martin Luther King or on the side of Bull Connor.
00:28:38.000You have to choose between being on the side of Jefferson Davis or being on the side of Abraham Lincoln.
00:28:44.000So he is comparing, without a doubt, the people who do not side with him to people who would have sided with Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis and George Wallace.
00:28:54.000And here is his angry, defensive, ridiculous response.
00:28:57.000I know that you dispute the characterization that you called folks who would oppose those voting bills as being Bull Connor or George Wallace, but you said that they would be sort of in the same camp.
00:29:13.000Go back and read what I said and tell me if you think I called anyone who voted on the side of the position taken by Bull Connor that they were Bull Connor.
00:29:29.000That is an interesting reading of English.
00:29:32.000I assume you got into journalism because you like to write.
00:29:35.000Okay, so that's Philip Blegman of Real Clear News.
00:29:39.000And what he is asking Joe Biden, I mean, even Joe Biden's defense makes no sense.
00:29:43.000He's like, are you saying, are you, are you saying that, you know, interesting reading of English, which is a language I sometimes talk in.
00:29:56.000Are you saying that, go back and read it.
00:30:00.000And you know, when I say that anybody who's on the side of Bull Connor, are you saying I'm saying they're like Bull- Yes, that's exactly what you said.
00:30:22.000I mean, the insanity of him saying a thing, being quoted on the thing, And then suggesting that he never said the thing is truly unbelievable.
00:30:33.000He said, I did not say they were going to be a George Wallace or a Bull Connor.
00:30:36.000I said, we're going to have a decision in history that is going to be marked just like it was then.
00:31:46.000And there is a widely controversial meeting that she had with Saddam Hussein and the government of Iraq right before the Gulf War, in which she apparently said that the United States had no interest in Arab versus Arab conflicts.
00:31:58.000The United States really had no interest in Arab versus Arab border conflicts.
00:32:01.000And and that we just hope that they settled things between Iraq and Kuwait.
00:32:05.000And it was widely reported just after the Gulf War that this had had an impact on the thinking of the Iraqi military, that the Iraqi military had taken that to mean that the United States would not intervene in the case of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
00:32:20.000Now, as it turns out, that may or may not have been true.
00:32:22.000We don't know whether the Iraqis looked at April Glaspie's comments and they thought, OK, well, we can go into Kuwait or whether it had no impact on their thinking.
00:32:30.000We also don't know exactly what she said, because all you have are sort of contemporaneous records that were taken in writing at the time.
00:32:35.000However, one thing we do know is what Joe Biden said at a public press conference in front of the entire world yesterday, which is, he said to Vladimir Putin about Ukraine, just the tip.
00:32:46.000That is what he said to Vladimir Putin yesterday at a press conference.
00:32:49.000He said, you can go into Ukraine so long as it's just the tip.
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00:35:20.000All righty, so we finally get to the apex of the insanity of Joe Biden's two hour press conference yesterday.
00:35:31.000You know, aside from the babbling incoherence, aside from his idiocy on the economy, aside from his idiocy on COVID, aside from the utter craziness of the President of the United States openly saying that all future elections are corrupt unless he gets what he wants, which is a wild statement, it really is.
00:35:46.000Okay, then we got to Joe Biden and Russia and Ukraine.
00:35:49.000So Russia has 100,000 troops stationed on the border of Ukraine.
00:35:52.000They've been threatening Ukraine for, at this point, weeks and weeks and weeks.
00:35:55.000They've been essentially setting up false flag operations inside Ukraine as an excuse for them to cross the border of Ukraine.
00:36:02.000They've been attempting to dictate to NATO that Ukraine should never become a part of NATO.
00:36:06.000They've been attempting to suggest that the West should not come to Ukraine's defense.
00:36:10.000And the West so far has been extraordinarily tepid.
00:36:12.000The West has done pretty much nothing.
00:36:14.000Germany stopped the United States from shutting down preemptively Nord Stream 2.
00:36:19.000Europe has prevented the United States from getting involved in sanctions activity.
00:36:23.000And the United States has refused to put any sort of troop presence in Ukraine to even deter the Russians.
00:36:30.000The goal here is not to go to war with Russia.
00:36:32.000The goal is to deter Russia from going to war with Ukraine.
00:36:36.000On a fundamental level, I don't understand why people don't get deterrence.
00:36:38.000What deterrence is, is we are going to station some of our naval assets in the Black Sea to say to the Russians that if you cross this line, you must know there will be consequences.
00:36:47.000Joe Biden has not done any of those things.
00:36:49.000He's putting additional troops in like Poland.
00:36:51.000Anyway, Joe Biden's foreign policy section of his press conference last night began with his defense of Afghanistan.
00:37:06.000It is worse than Vietnam because we voluntarily pulled out of a country and collapsed it in favor of 8th century barbarians for no reason whatsoever.
00:37:29.000They are literally selling small children in sex slavery for food in Afghanistan right now.
00:37:34.000We have terror groups that are regrouping.
00:37:36.00013 American service people were killed.
00:37:37.000We have hundreds of Americans still stuck behind enemy lines over there and have been stuck for months at this point.
00:37:43.000We have the Chinese taking advantage of the rare earth's minerals in Afghanistan.
00:37:46.000The Russians celebrating because they were backing the Taliban.
00:37:49.000And here's Joe Biden declaring it all a success yesterday.
00:37:52.000There is no way to get out of Afghanistan after 20 years easily.
00:38:00.000Not possible, no matter when you did it.
00:38:03.000Had we stayed, and I had not pulled those troops out, we would be asked to put somewhere between 20,000 and 50,000 more troops back in.
00:38:13.000Because the only reason more Americans weren't being killed than others is because the last president signed an agreement to get out by May 1st.
00:38:21.000And so it's all it's all Trump's fault.
00:38:22.000OK, so that is the predicate for Russia getting more militant, China getting more militant.
00:38:27.000All of our enemies see that this president is a weakling.
00:38:30.000And so they have moved and Putin is moving.
00:38:33.000So here is a Joe Biden yesterday saying that he guesses that probably Putin will move into Ukraine.
00:39:03.000So Joe Biden is trying to explain that there will be consequences if Vladimir Putin goes into Ukraine.
00:39:08.000But he says that if Vladimir Putin does not go full bore into Ukraine, like he doesn't march into Kiev, if he's if he just if it's just the tip, That is fine.
00:39:19.000Just the tip isn't really an invasion.
00:39:31.000I mentioned April Glaspie before, the undersecretary of state in the Middle East during the H.W.
00:39:37.000Bush administration, who suggested that the United States might not do anything if Iraq invaded Kuwait.
00:39:43.000And there's controversy over whether she Basically precipitated the Iraqi invasion or not.
00:39:48.000If Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, you can attribute it to this comment above all others.
00:39:53.000This is the president of the United States in a full public press conference saying that as long as Vladimir Putin only commits a minor incursion, there might not be consequences.
00:40:30.000By the way, according to CNN, the entire government of Ukraine is now in a state of full-scale meltdown panic because that is Joe Biden just offering Ukraine up on a platter.
00:40:39.000Because Vladimir Putin is going to say, well, what if it's not a minor incursion?
00:40:42.000First of all, there's no such thing as a minor incursion on American territory.
00:40:45.000If Mexico just walked across the southern border of the United States and took over some of the border counties of Texas, But they didn't take all of Texas, just like a little bit.
00:40:54.000Would we consider that a minor, like, in what circumstances is it considered a minor incursion for any country to cross the sovereign border of another country militarily?
00:41:23.000And what he said was, you know, NATO is divided.
00:41:25.000We can't get the Europeans on board to do anything if it's a minor incursion.
00:41:28.000So, you know, we really I can't really say that we're going to do much over here because, you know, if he takes the Netsk, then he takes the Netsk, you know, like.
00:41:36.000To say that out loud in a press conference in front of the world, like Vladimir Putin must just be laughing his ass off at this weakling.
00:41:44.000So this necessitated the night nurse Jen Psaki coming in after presumably downing all of her edibles that she keeps for emergency circumstances, according to Red C's over over Twitter.
00:41:55.000It necessitated her showing up And releasing a statement.
00:41:59.000Here is the statement, quote, President Biden has been clear with the Russian president.
00:42:03.000If any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border, that's a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the United States and our allies.
00:42:11.000President Biden also knows from long experience that the Russians have an extensive playbook of aggression short of military action, including cyber attacks and paramilitary tactics.
00:42:19.000And he affirmed today that those acts of Russian aggression will be met with a decisive, reciprocal, and united response.
00:43:25.000I did not anticipate that there'd be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn't get anything done.