Joe Biden announces that the Pandemic is over, but what does that mean for the rest of us? Also, Rep. Matt Gaetz takes aim at permanent Washington, and Steny Hoyer walks back Joe Biden's pandemic gaffe.
00:00:00.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:19.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.000then welcome, my fellow patriots. You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:32.000You ever watch this guy on television? Like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:37.000I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet. Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:45.000They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way.
00:00:56.000Mr. President, first Detroit auto show in three years. Yeah. Is the pandemic over?
00:01:03.000The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it.
00:01:09.000It's but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing masks.
00:01:13.000Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it's changing.
00:01:17.000And I think this is a perfect example of it.
00:01:20.000Well, there you have it. The pandemic is over. Everyone's in good shape.
00:01:26.000It's quite something declared by Joe Biden, a man who is clearly not himself in good shape.
00:01:31.000But do not allow that to spoil the fun.
00:01:34.000But if the pandemic is over, maybe Joe Biden should repeal the emergency order that was the basis of so many governments restricting our freedoms.
00:01:44.000If the pandemic is over, maybe someone ought to tell the heroes in our military and the patriots who were purged and driven out of our military as a consequence of not being willing to take an experimental vaccine.
00:01:57.000Maybe they ought to be restored with their full rank and back pay as a reparation.
00:02:01.000If the pandemic is over, then maybe we ought to have every child in America back in school without the rotations that are resulting in learning loss.
00:02:11.000If the pandemic is over, then maybe the Biden administration won't come back to Congress for more inflationary spending in the name of the pandemic.
00:02:22.000Well, you know what? The Joe Biden administration still wants all of the powers that it seized during the pandemic.
00:02:29.000Tyrants at every level of government actually still do.
00:02:32.000There are still some mayors out there enforcing mask mandates, social distancing, for goodness sakes, people not able to gather.
00:02:40.000You know what? The White House has walked this back already.
00:02:44.000They were walking it back almost as Joe Biden was saying it, making very clear that stating that the pandemic was over was not in the original plan for Joe Biden's interview with Scott Pelley.
00:02:57.000Well, you don't say the gaffe of a president, Joe Biden, actually making an admission, an admission that the only basis to continue this pandemic is the desire for bureaucrats and tyrants to continue to be able to make your decisions for you.
00:03:14.900And you wonder, what's the next pandemic like? Is it going to be climate change?
00:03:18.900One day is the climate core just authorized in this inflation reduction act going to be knocking on your door saying that you have to be locked down.
00:03:28.900You have to stay in your home. You can't have a job so that eight polar bears in the Adirondack can wander around.
00:03:34.900I don't even know if there are. You know what? They might not be there. Anyhow, you get the point.
00:03:38.900These things never come in ones. And it's quite something that they still don't want to give this up in Congress.
00:03:45.900There was also a walk back of the Joe Biden admission.
00:03:49.900Here's Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer explaining to you that it all really depends on what the definition of over is.
00:03:58.900Here's the majority leader. The House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer defended the president and explained why he believes some covid relief is still not.
00:04:08.900Necessary. Well, of course, some of this is for places that it's not over.
00:04:14.900We don't want to say it went to be introduced in this country.
00:04:17.900I guess over is sort of, you know, subjective in terms of what does over mean?
00:04:27.900What does over mean to you? Well, you know what I'm over?
00:04:30.900I'm over any circumstance where my constituents don't get to live their lives, have their jobs, hug their families, have a barbecue because the people in Washington decided that they were going to engage in covid fear porn because that happened to be what Dr.
00:04:47.900Fauci agreed with that day. So I think the American people actually know what the word over means.
00:04:52.900I don't think they need a subjective definition from Steny Hoyer or anyone else.
00:04:57.900And it's time for government to release the reins of covid and allow our people to be free once again.
00:05:05.900Thank you, Mr. President. Thanks for declaring that it's over.
00:05:08.900And now for a segment on the show, we like to call Florida man.
00:06:17.900Jonathan Isaac is a power forward and the Miami Heat don't have a starting caliber power forward on their roster right now.
00:06:25.900So the possibility of a trade for Jonathan Isaac to the Heat was recently discussed on the podcast Locked on Heat.
00:06:36.900But despite the clear need and the ideal fit, some woke pundits have decided that trades must take into account wokeness as a feature of whether or not someone fits in.
00:06:50.900It's like the woke sports media wants an ESG score, but for basketball players.
00:06:57.900This is Locked on Heat. Listen to Wes Goldberg and David Ramil discuss the possibility of a Jonathan Isaac trade to the Miami Heat.
00:07:05.900And then one other name I'll throw out you is Jonathan Isaac, right? Like you just look at Orlando's roster.
00:07:12.900I know Isaac hasn't played in two years, but he's a power forward. He would probably if Miami had him, him and Bam, that would be the best defensive front court in the league by far.
00:07:22.900Jonathan Isaac. Well, let's just say I hope the Heat have no interest in acquiring him because as interesting a fit as that might be.
00:07:30.900Well, let's just say the off the court interest might not necessarily make him a great fit in the Miami locker room.
00:07:35.900Sounds like Jonathan Isaac is a bad guy according to David Ramil, right? Bad locker room fit. Potential problems off the court.
00:07:46.900Did Jonathan Isaac jump into the stands and beat up a bunch of fans like Ron Artest? I mean, I'm sorry, Meta World Peace did?
00:07:55.700Did he get pulled over with guns and drugs in his car like Torian Prince? Did he pull a gun on his baby mama like Terrence Williams?
00:08:04.460Those are NBA players, but Jonathan Isaac didn't do any of that.
00:08:08.740Never an issue regarding his personal conduct at FSU, at the Orlando Magic.
00:08:13.400No. Jonathan Isaac is a problem, according to David Ramil, because he is an outspoken Christian conservative.
00:08:24.820In his spare time, Jonathan Isaac preaches at Jump Ministries Global Church in Orlando.
00:08:30.140They're doing a lot of good work there.
00:08:32.380Isaac even made national news when he spoke out against the vaccine mandate.
00:08:37.840I thank God. I'm grateful that I live in a society where vaccines are possible and we can protect ourselves and have the means to protect ourselves for the first in the first place.
00:08:50.060But with that being said, it is my belief that the vaccine status of every person should be their own choice and completely up to them without the without bullying, without being pressured or without being forced into doing so.
00:09:04.440I'm not ashamed to say that I'm uncomfortable with taking the vaccine at this time.
00:09:12.540We've all have had different experiences and hold dear to different beliefs.
00:09:16.180And what it is that you do with your body when it comes to putting medicine in there should be your choice, free of the ridicule and the opinion of others.
00:09:27.380From this smooth shooting power forward, we got greater clarity and focus and common sense than we saw out of the CDC or a lot of people in Congress, actually.
00:09:38.700He embraced the concept of personal responsibility, make yourself as resilient as you can.
00:09:44.660And in his circumstance, you obviously see not only a very healthy individual, but a great guy and a brave one.
00:09:52.620On July 31st, 2020, in a game against the Brooklyn Nets, Jonathan Isaac was the only player to stand during our national anthem.
00:10:03.760When questioned after the game, he said, quote,
00:10:05.920Jonathan Isaac went on to write a book titled, Why I Stand.
00:10:24.360And he talks very convincingly about Christianity and the power to shape lives and to help through adversity and challenges.
00:10:36.700If a superstar NBA lottery pick playing in his state where he went to college cannot speak out without facing professional consequence and ridicule, then how can regular Americans, and that's the point, to make you think that any profession of faith or conservatism could harm you?
00:11:01.360That's why people like David Ramil say what they do about Jonathan Isaac, that he would be a bad fit, because ultimately, the people who think that way want you to think you're a bad fit at your job, in your family, with your social group.
00:11:15.540And the reality is that the common sense and clarity of Jonathan Isaac is a lot more in line with the values of Americans than actually what we see from professional wokeism that you see manifest from the Congress to corporate America, even to professional athletics.
00:11:33.540Sometimes, sometimes being a person of faith is uncomfortable.
00:13:16.700It's because in the Paycheck Reduction Act that the Democrats advanced, there was actually a natural gas tax.
00:13:26.160So, if you tax the onshoring of national gas, which is what they're doing if that is extracted over water,
00:13:32.940then you drive up the cost, you limit the investment, and you impact the general balance of supply and demand.
00:13:40.040And so, today on the floor, Republicans will attempt a procedural move to bring up H.R. 8749,
00:13:48.160which would repeal the natural gas tax that the Democrats baked into some of their prior legislation.
00:13:55.880That would be a vision for Republican control that certainly wouldn't lead to the intense pressure that you get from this type of rising inflation and rising prices.
00:14:06.940We also want to take you to the grocery store.
00:14:10.560And I hear as much about inflation at the grocery store as I do even at the gas pump.
00:14:16.320And you have to see these things interconnected because a lot of the fuel costs that are driving up what you pay at the pump
00:14:22.220go into the costs that we pay at the grocery store.
00:18:52.740More than half of Americans are doing that.
00:18:55.580The savings for low-income people have basically been wiped out under the Biden economy.
00:19:02.400I mean, a lot of working people do have 401ks as our economy has moved out of a defined benefit system to a defined contribution system.
00:19:12.060And those 401ks were just on the rise.
00:19:15.420I mean, we were roaring as a country under the Trump economy.
00:19:20.260And then one of the iconic images of the Biden presidency, amongst so many tragic ones to choose from,
00:19:26.300will be Joe Biden holding a celebration at the White House over all of his legislative achievements.
00:19:32.480As you see in the corner, the Dow just plummet.
00:19:35.280And those folks who've made that little contribution in each paycheck to their 401k, maybe got an employer match, just saw their dreams, their retirement, the value of their life continued to decline.
00:19:49.62026 million low-income households have seen their savings totally wiped out as a result of the inflationary cycles in this economy.
00:20:00.660Maybe if 26 million Americans lost all of their savings on the same day the President of the United States is out there saying that the pandemic is over,
00:20:09.480that we should stop the pandemic-infused inflationary spending that is crushing people.
00:20:17.260More than 60% of job creators fear inflation will drive them out of business.
00:20:22.500And this is where this thing starts to cycle downhill very quickly for us, a lot in the way that Joe Biden is cycling downhill.
00:20:29.400Because if major businesses believe that their own prospects are impaired by the inflation that we are seeing today,
00:20:36.980that the value of their deals is diminished, if their supply chain is disrupted,
00:20:42.160well, then they're not going to make the promotions and the new hires.
00:20:45.680They're not going to open that new branch store or maybe take a risk and do more capital investment.
00:20:50.140And by the way, for those of you who do, the cost of money now is going to be higher at the bank and it's going to be harder to take that risk because of rising rates.
00:20:58.760Rates that, you know, now that we're really behind the eight ball, because people like Janet Yellen told us that inflation wasn't going to happen,
00:21:06.200we're going to see a far more, I think, severe adjustment of the U.S. economy.
00:21:11.640And the regular folks that are out there working hard, doing everything they can for their families are the ones that are going to be screwed over.
00:21:19.980I'm going to cover the wasteful spending that we see out of Congress.
00:21:23.420And if Republicans are trusted by the voters to take control, we must hold their feet to the fire.
00:21:30.420We cannot pass government funding bills that continue to operationalize a system that has been weaponized against the people while that very spending is wiping out the savings that hardworking Americans have toiled for their entire lives.
00:21:51.200The mandate for Republicans is to stop the inflation, stop the spending, stop paying people not to work, and to get this economy roaring again.
00:22:01.200And I know we can do it because we've done it before.
00:22:03.920And actually, if you have the discipline, if you have a little bit of fortitude, it's not even going to be that difficult.
00:22:10.860The difficult part will be focusing the investigative work of the next Congress because there's so much corruption.
00:22:19.520We're going to be talking a lot about that on future episodes of Firebrand.
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