An exclusive Human Events poll shows the public is deeply concerned over Biden s supply chain disruption. Next, the Chicago police force is facing a 50% reduction in cops on patrol due to the coronavirus vaccine mandate, a new report out of the Pentagon says suicide has killed more soldiers in the past few months than COVID since the start of the pandemic, and finally, Kavanagh and Kagan are getting into it over the Boston bomber death penalty case. All this and more on today s edition of Human Events Daily.
00:00:00.000Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition Human Events Daily.
00:00:04.600First up, an exclusive Human Events Rasmussen poll shows the public is deeply concerned over Biden's supply chain disruption.
00:00:12.820Next, the Chicago police force is facing a 50% reduction in cops on patrol due to the coronavirus vaccine mandate.
00:00:21.940Next, new report out of the Pentagon, suicide has killed more soldiers in just the past few months than COVID since the start of the pandemic.
00:00:30.820And finally, Kavanaugh and Kagan are getting into it over the Boston bomber death penalty case.
00:00:35.940All this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
00:00:37.540Now, we know that supply chain disruption has been a huge factor this week.
00:00:54.280And of course, going into Q4, going into essentially looking at Christmas.
00:00:58.460That's why I've told people, if you want to go to MyPillow.com, promo code POSO, you get the products that are made in America.
00:01:03.720You get them now. Make sure you put your orders in because Christmas is coming.
00:01:08.840And Biden's supply chain disruptions mean that if your product was made overseas, it might not make it by Christmas.
00:01:15.260Now, listen to what Jen Psaki had to say recently about this.
00:01:17.600Based on everything being announced today, can this administration guarantee that holiday packages will arrive on time?
00:01:26.880We are not the Postal Service or UPS or FedEx.
00:01:31.040What we can do is use every lever at the federal government disposal to reduce delays,
00:01:38.300to ensure that we are addressing bottlenecks in the system, including ports and the need for them to be open longer hours so that goods can arrive.
00:01:49.820And we can continue to press not only workers and unions, but also companies to take as many steps as they can to reduce these delays.
00:01:59.160Now, Human Events. Now, over at Human Events, I'm the senior editor.
00:02:02.880So if you go to humanevents.com, you can read all about this.
00:02:05.320We just co-sponsored a poll with Rasmussen, all about supply chains.
00:02:11.160Americans are deeply concerned about the supply chain crisis and expect federal government action.
00:02:16.780A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and Human Events finds that 85% of American adults are concerned that supply chain problems may lead to shortages of basic items,
00:02:29.840including 49% who say they are very concerned.
00:02:33.760Only 11% were not concerned about the problem.
00:02:36.960Concerts have grown amid reports that dozens of cargo ships are waiting to be unloaded near the port of Los Angeles,
00:02:43.760while thousands of cargo containers are piled up in the port of Savannah, Georgia, the East Coast.
00:02:48.82062% of Americans say they've already noticed shortages of basic items in stores where they live.
00:02:58.160Again, 65% say that they believe the federal government should take action to help fix the problems currently affecting the U.S. supply chain.
00:03:08.920Ladies and gentlemen, we're headed towards Christmas.
00:03:11.420We are hurtling towards multiple crises on multiple fronts.
00:06:23.440Chicago will have a police force at 50% or less due to vaccine requirements.
00:06:30.300Have you seen anything that's going on in Chicago lately that might give you the idea that Chicago maybe, just maybe, could use a police force?
00:06:41.780Our cities are being run into the ground.
00:06:44.440Our once great American cities are being dismantled.
00:06:49.080And the anarcho-tyranny is running rampant in the streets.
00:06:51.720San Francisco, they're lighting homeless people on fire.
00:06:54.940New York, you've got people shooting up like it's a shooting gallery.
00:06:59.440In Philadelphia, there's an area they call it Kensington Beach.
00:07:05.140It's because people are lying on the streets after taking heroin and fentanyl and all this different stuff.
00:07:12.840And because the addicts are lying out on the street, they call it Kensington Beach because there's so many of them.
00:07:19.100Listen to this audio from the head of the police union in Chicago.
00:07:22.760Morning, the FOP president says they will file paperwork today to see if a judge will grant them a temporary restraining order that would stop officers from being forced into revealing their vaccination status.
00:07:31.780But history shows they may have an uphill battle.
00:07:34.420Speaking from his West Loop office last night, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzaro lays out the reasons why he believes the city has overstepped its bounds when it comes to vaccine mandates.
00:07:43.300I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody, let alone that information about your medical history and change the terms of employment, so to speak, on the fly.
00:07:53.740Mayor Lightfoot mandated city employees who are not fully vaccinated by Friday to be tested twice a week on their own time and using their own money or be placed on no pay status.
00:08:02.220The reality is the city acknowledged from the beginning their obligation to bargain in good faith over this subject.
00:08:09.020In a written statement, a city spokesperson said, quote, the city of Chicago continues to bargain in good faith with the Fraternal Order of Police and the Policemen's Benevolent and Protective Association to reach a fair and workable policy that will keep our first responders safe.
00:08:21.340Now, we've talked about it all this week.
00:08:27.960In the video posted online, first reported on by the Chicago Sun-Times, he vowed to take Mayor Lightfoot, this is the FOP, to court if it tries to enforce the mandate, which requires city workers to report their vaccine status by the end of the work week.
00:08:42.860After Friday, unvaccinated workers won't submit to semi-weekly coronavirus testing will be placed on unpaid leave.
00:08:52.540He suggested that if the city does enforce this requirement, and many union members refuse to comply with it, that the city police force will be at 50% or less for the weekend coming up.
00:09:03.380Now, the mayor, of course, didn't respond.
00:09:12.280We talked about the supply chain issues.
00:09:13.860We talked about the shipyards issues, where our Navy is now facing the ability where we're not going to be able to refit, refurbish our submarines and our aircraft carriers because of a potential threat in the South China Sea or elsewhere, because the shipyard workers are getting cracked down with this vaccine mandate as well.
00:09:34.080And now we're talking about the police.
00:09:57.660If you demonize them, if you tell them that you are going to prosecute them for performing their jobs within the guidelines of the police regulations, the city regulations,
00:10:07.380you're going to throw them in jail over viral videos, they are going to leave.
00:10:14.460They are going to walk off and say, you know what?
00:11:07.760Is the safety of our communities, the safety of our cities that have seen, by the way, absolutely exploding homicide rates go up since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
00:11:20.520You are going to see absolute chaos like you've never seen before in America's major cities.