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00:01:29.000All righty, so Joe Biden's unconstitutional vaccine mandate was held up in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and that is not stopping the White House from attempting to force businesses to perform this vaccine mandate anyway. Now imagine that Trump had said this.
00:01:45.000Imagine if there had been some sort of order from Trump and a court had said, don't do it.
00:02:04.000Would you have gotten a lot of talk about the breaking of the constitutional system, the constitutional crisis that was now coming to a head?
00:02:10.000But when Democrats say that courts no longer matter and you're supposed to just ignore what courts say, then of course, it's not a problem at all because they are seeking progress.
00:02:20.000According to CNBC, The White House on Monday said businesses should move forward with President Joe Biden's vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses, despite a federal appeals court ordering a temporary halt to the rules.
00:02:31.000People should not wait, said White House Deputy Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre.
00:02:34.000They should continue to move forward and make sure they're getting their workplace vaccinated.
00:02:38.000Court of Appeals halted the requirements Saturday pending review, writing the petitions give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the mandate.
00:02:46.000And of course, it's not just the Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:02:48.000We here at The Daily Wire, we have filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, along with a bunch of other attorneys general.
00:02:55.000In its response Monday evening, the Biden administration asked the court to lift the pause, dismissing the states and companies' claims of harm as premature, given that the deadlines for vaccination and testing are not until January.
00:03:05.000The administration claimed that pausing the requirements would likely cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day as the virus spreads.
00:03:11.000Of course, their information on this is really, really scanty because, again, the rule in the United States is, if you can get a vaccine, it is now up to you.
00:03:19.000That really should be the rule in a free country.
00:03:21.000The Labor and Justice Departments also urged that OSHA acted within its authorities established by Congress.
00:03:25.000Now, the Biden administration, it's so ugly what they're doing here with regard to this vaccine mandate, instead of playing a game.
00:03:30.000They said two months ago that it was an emergency.
00:03:33.000And thus, OSHA was going to promulgate a regulation under emergency temporary standards that was going to be necessary because of the emergency, right?
00:03:48.000If you're a business, And you are seeking to comply with the mandate before January because you want to get as many people vaccinated as possible if you wish to avoid the fines.
00:03:56.000You have to kick that into place pending the federal government actually punishing you.
00:04:01.000But what the Biden administration is saying is that until there's the possibility of us actually fining you, until January, you can't sue.
00:04:08.000So they're saying is the mandates don't kick into place formally until January.
00:04:11.000But you really need the next couple of months to get ready.
00:04:14.000This is why the courts of appeals are holding this thing up because they're saying, well, the punishment doesn't come down until January.
00:04:19.000What you are requiring of people takes time to implement, which means that effectively speaking, you are forcing them to do things right now so they don't get fined in January.
00:04:27.000But the Biden administration is trying to end around that specifically by delaying all this.
00:04:30.000And by the way, delaying it until after the holidays, if it were really so vital, why wouldn't they make this effective inside of two weeks?
00:04:37.000Why instead are they waiting until after the holidays?
00:04:39.000It's because we already have a massive supply chain crisis.
00:04:43.000And if you knock out a significant percentage of the workforce, and I mean even a marginal percentage of the workforce could be significant when you already have supply chain bottlenecks.
00:04:51.000When you do that, you exacerbate the problem.
00:04:53.000So the Biden administration wants to have its cake and eat it too.
00:04:55.000They want to promulgate the regulation.
00:04:57.000They want to do so without harming the economy.
00:04:59.000And they want to do so even though it's unconstitutional and, by the way, not done properly under the Emergency Temporary Standards rules.
00:05:05.000Because normally the way that you promulgate a rule at a regulatory agency is you have to have a comment and review period.
00:05:10.000You have to have the public give their input on how the regulation should actually be written.
00:05:16.000And it takes a while to promulgate these regulations.
00:05:18.000Under emergency temporary standards, places like OSHA just issue a rule, no comment period.
00:05:23.000But now they're saying that they want to issue the rule, no comment period, have it effective in two months, and that's four months after the original announcement by Biden.
00:05:32.000It's a really corrupt and stupid little game that they are playing here.
00:05:35.000And again, the goal here is to force you to do things even though you have no legal or constitutional obligation to do them.
00:05:43.000And in the end, politically speaking, what it's really about is Joe Biden and his administration attempting to say to their base, we did all we could, even though it's going to get struck down in the same way that they pushed the CDC eviction moratorium, even though they knew that it was going to get struck down by the Supreme Court almost immediately.
00:05:57.000They did it so that Biden could tell his progressive base that he had done something.
00:06:02.000The court-ordered pause came a day after the requirements went into effect, starting the countdown for businesses with 100 or more employees to ensure their staff have received the shots required for full vaccination by January 4th.
00:06:12.000After that date, according to CNBC, unvaccinated workers must submit a negative COVID-19 test weekly to enter the workplace, and all unvaccinated workers must start wearing face masks indoors at their workplaces starting on December 5th.
00:06:25.000So it's a good shot at this point that it ends up in front of the Supreme Court.
00:06:28.000I have a feeling the Supreme Court is not going to be particularly friendly toward this regulation.
00:06:32.000All of which means that so much of what is going on right now The Biden administration is about posturing and prolonging the pandemic.
00:06:55.000If they admit they can't keep the promise, then it looks like they're incompetent.
00:06:58.000If they continue to push, then they are just being restrictive and terrible.
00:07:03.000And this does have downstream effects.
00:07:04.000Because when you make a promise and you keep saying that we will keep pushing, we will keep pushing, we will ensure that this disease disappears, it causes people to make bad decisions.
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00:08:39.000OK, so there are some real downstream effects to the Biden administration's desperate clinging to the pandemic.
00:08:47.000So, for example, a lot of people staying out of the workforce because they're under the odd misimpression that if they keep blaming COVID, then they will keep getting paid.
00:08:56.000And one of the reasons you saw an uptick in people re-entering the workforce last month is because of the running of federal unemployment benefits.
00:09:05.000Shock of shocks, people started to go back to work.
00:09:07.000But there are a lot of people who are being very picky about their jobs because they have been convinced, number one, that COVID is extraordinarily deadly at this point in time when, again, if you are vaccinated, it certainly is not.
00:09:19.000There are very good therapeutics that are now on the market.
00:09:22.000That Pfizer therapeutic is going to be out in the next couple of weeks.
00:09:24.000It's supposed to be a pill that reduces your chances of hospitalization by 90% and death by 100% if you take it within the first three days after a COVID diagnosis.
00:09:33.000We are now learning that the Regeneron monoclonal antibody treatment, which was supposedly this cutting edge, ridiculous treatment.
00:09:51.000This means that if you wish to be scared of COVID, that's because it's your choice to be scared of COVID at this point.
00:09:55.000There's really no reason for you to be living in fear of COVID when there are good therapeutics available, when the vaccines are available, And yet people have eaten up the Biden administration theory that COVID is still going to kill you if you go outside and also that the government is going to continue to protect you so long as you believe that COVID is going to kill you.
00:10:14.000There is a correlation between your level of fear and panic and your level of trust in the government.
00:10:37.000The incentive structure for governmental actors is always to promise they can fix all of your problems.
00:10:41.000And so you end up with serious shortages in the workforce.
00:10:44.000There's an article in the Washington Post today.
00:10:46.000It's called why millions of job seekers aren't getting hired in this hot job market.
00:10:51.000According to Heather Long and Eli Rosenberg, even as the United States has a near record number of job openings and companies complain they can't find enough workers, some job seekers remain frustrated that they've not been able to get a job despite filling out dozens of applications daily on popular job sites like ZipRecruiter, Indeed, LinkedIn, and Craigslist.
00:11:06.000Now, you may be asking yourself, wait a second, if there are not enough people who are attempting to get into the workforce to keep up with the job, shouldn't everybody attempting to get into the workforce have a job?
00:11:18.000The reason is because job seekers are apparently now attached to the idea that companies are supposed to do crazy things in order to employ them in the first place.
00:11:27.000According to the Washington Post, American workers are increasingly seeking higher pay, more flexibility, and remote options as they flex their leverage in the current job market.
00:11:35.000But many companies are not necessarily being more accommodative, continuing to favor candidates with several years of experience in their industry, more availability to work evening or weekend hours, or a preference for those willing to work in person.
00:11:45.000So if you read that headline, what it sounds like is that The employers are being intransigent when in reality employers get to dictate the terms of the work.
00:11:54.000So long as there are willing participants in the marketplace who are willing to do what that requires.
00:11:59.000Right jobs are a market and it's a market like any else.
00:12:04.000And when you're an employer shopping for an employee.
00:12:07.000The employer is the consumer at that point.
00:12:12.000The employer is the consumer of the labor.
00:12:14.000That means they get to shop for what they want.
00:12:16.000But employees have been convinced by the media that they now get to dictate terms in incredibly stupid ways.
00:12:22.000According to the Washington Post, while employers have complained for months about the difficulty they face hiring during a labor shortage with more than 10 million job openings for 7.4 million unemployed workers, interviews with job hunting workers revealed a concurrent reality, difficulty finding suitable work as they navigate the pandemic labor market.
00:12:37.000So how are we defining suitable work at this point?
00:12:41.000According to Julia Pollock, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, a lot of interest from employers is not spread evenly across the labor pool.
00:12:46.000There are some people in very high demand.
00:12:48.000There are some people who get no interest at all.
00:12:49.000Employers really do value prior experience a lot.
00:12:52.000Okay, now here's an example of a person who's having a tough time getting a job.
00:12:56.000Lavinia Hampton spent years mixing drinks as a bartender at a popular nightclub in downtown San Antonio.
00:13:01.000But the pandemic has made her rethink her job.
00:13:03.000Hampton has seen COVID infections hobble and kill some of her friends, making her far less willing to take any risks.
00:13:08.000A friend's 70-year-old mother, who is like a second mom to Hampton, died last month of COVID after spending three months in the hospital.
00:13:13.000Another bartender Hampton knows contracted COVID after returning to work and ended up in the hospital on a ventilator.
00:13:18.000Few in Texas wear masks in bars and restaurants.
00:13:21.000For months, Hampton, 40, has been scouring job sites for work-from-home positions in customer service and other fields so she won't have to return to bartending in a packed club.
00:13:29.000I have every right to work in a safe working environment, she said.
00:13:34.000Okay, that is a person who's keeping herself out of the workforce.
00:13:36.000She's 40 years old, unless she has some serious pre-existing health condition.
00:13:41.000Once she gets the vaccines, she's good to go.
00:13:43.000There are therapeutics that are available.
00:13:45.000And she's specifically saying, my 70-year-old mom's friend Died of COVID, so I, a healthy 40-year-old, cannot go back to doing what apparently I am employable at, bartending, unmasked, at a club.
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00:17:01.000So the panic mentality, the belief that government can solve all problems in life is now leading to particular stupidity with regard to the treatment of children.
00:17:10.000So, for this entire pandemic, we had lies about how kids needed to be out of school, or if they were in school, they needed to be masked, and all of it was based on scanty data at best.
00:17:22.000When you're talking about young kids, it was based on no data at all.
00:17:25.000Now, the new push is, you must vaccinate your 5-year-old.
00:17:28.000Now, I'll be honest with you, I've got a 7-year-old, a 5-year-old, a 1-year-old.
00:17:32.000I have no plans to vax my kids right away.
00:17:35.000I'll wait, I will see what the data show, and then maybe I'll vax my kids.
00:17:40.000But I do not feel a deep and abiding rush, a necessity to rush, to vaccinate my kids.
00:17:46.000Because COVID is not wildly dangerous for children across the entire course of the pandemic.
00:17:51.000For all people in the United States under the age of 18, 10 to 20 healthy kids below the age of 18 have died of COVID the entire pandemic, which is about a year and a half long now.
00:18:02.000That is not enough of a basis of risk, a baseline risk for me to sit around worrying about my kids and the risk of not only getting COVID, but then getting seriously ill from COVID.
00:18:15.000And again, the math is a little complex here.
00:18:18.000So there's a good piece today in the Wall Street Journal by Nicole Safier and Marty McCary, both of whom have been guests on the program.
00:18:24.000McCary of course at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Safier is an assistant professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College.
00:18:31.000They have a piece today about whether you should be vaccinating your five year old.
00:18:39.000The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 42% of US children five to 11 had COVID by June 2021 before the Delta wave, a prevalence that is likely greater than 50% today.
00:18:49.000Of 28 million children in that age range, 94 have died of COVID since the pandemic began, 562 have been hospitalized with COVID infections.
00:18:57.000And again, the vast majority of those kids had a pretty serious preexisting condition.
00:19:01.000Serious complications are so uncommon in this age range that of the 2,186 children in the Pfizer vaccine study, no child in either the vaccine or the placebo group developed severe illness from COVID.
00:19:12.00016 of the 663 unvaccinated kids developed COVID infections compared with only 3 of the 1305 vaccinated ones, an effectiveness rate of 90.7% against infection.
00:19:22.000It's safe to assume that vaccinating a healthy child would take his extremely low risk of serious disease and drive it down even lower.
00:19:27.000There's an important exception, though.
00:19:28.000If a child has already had COVID, there is no scientific basis for vaccination.
00:19:33.000Even in the Pfizer report is this line.
00:19:35.000No cases of COVID-19 were observed in either the vaccine group or in the placebo group in participants with evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.
00:19:44.000That is consistent with the largest population-based study on the topic, which found that natural immunity was 27 times as effective as vaccinated immunity in preventing symptomatic COVID.
00:19:53.000Now, again, the CDC has cited less robust studies for the notion that vaccination is better than natural immunity, but the Israeli study is the biggest and still the best study on this particular topic.
00:20:04.000say McCary and Safier. Side effects in the study were significant but not life-threatening.
00:20:09.000The overall adverse event rate following vaccination in the Pfizer study was about 11%.
00:20:12.000Fever occurred in about 6.5% of kids following the second vaccine dose. One case of leg numbness was reported. They don't know if the adverse events were clustered in kids who had circulating antibodies from prior COVID infection.
00:20:26.000There are no cases of myocarditis, but the sample size was too small to rule out a complication that was found in one out of 7,000 adolescent boys.
00:20:33.000Okay, the reason that I'm saying this?
00:20:35.000Is that the baseline notion that is now being pushed by this administration, and apparently the entire media, is that you must vaccinate your 5 to 11 year old.
00:20:43.000That's the only way to end the pandemic.
00:20:45.000In the same way that we must force workplaces to force their workers to vaccinate.
00:20:50.000It's quote-unquote the only way to end the pandemic.
00:20:52.000Or alternatively, adults get to make their own decisions and children are pretty damn safe in the first place.
00:20:59.000But when you have made a promise, and there is no way for you to keep that promise, you have to find other people to blame.
00:21:03.000So now you're going to blame the families who will not vaccinate their five-year-olds.
00:21:06.000Now you're going to blame the workplaces that aren't going to force this on their employees.
00:21:10.000Now you're going to blame Aaron Rodgers, and you're going to blame Joe Rogan, and you're going to blame everyone else who doesn't do it the way you want it done.
00:21:18.000I don't think that's going to be a popular pitch for the Democrats, but they keep building boxes and then getting stuck in them.
00:21:25.000They're constantly in invisible boxes of their own making, whether it's the box of wokeness where they proclaim to everybody that equity is the only thing that matters, and then they're stuck because it turns out that equity, meaning equal outcome, is impossible to achieve absent tyranny, or whether they're saying that they can cure COVID if you give Joe Biden, the old doddering fool in the White House, enough power.
00:21:44.000It turns out they are very bad at solving your problems in the first place.
00:21:48.000Like really, really bad at it over and over and over.
00:21:52.000It is amazing how everything for the Biden administration is a box of its own making.
00:21:57.000Okay, so Pete Buttigieg yesterday, the Secretary of Transportation who earned his job because he loves airports and choo-choo trains.
00:22:04.000Yesterday, he was asked about racism of the highways and here's what he had to say.
00:22:09.000Again, you've made a box for yourself and now you're stuck.
00:22:12.000I'm still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or it would have been, in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.
00:22:40.000Okay, so that was Pete Buttigieg suggesting that your highways are racist.
00:22:42.000They keep creating these boxes, and then they can't get out of the boxes, because there is no way to make the quote-unquote highways unracist.
00:22:49.000Because again, the highways are not super racist, okay?
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00:24:33.000And then all of their public officials are held accountable for this equity talk.
00:24:38.000So you have Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, being asked about the racism of the highways and answering by saying that the highways are clearly racist and then citing a story from Robert Caro's book on Robert Moses.
00:24:51.000The power broker from 1974 talking about how Robert Moses who built a lot of the public works in New York was a vicious racist and how they had built highways that were specifically designed to prevent black and Hispanic people from getting to the beach.
00:25:08.000So we are curing a problem that actually does not exist, at least in the reference that he is talking about right here, Pete Buttigieg.
00:25:15.000Thomas Campanella wrote a piece on this back in 2017 for Bloomberg, pointing out, there's little question that Moses held patently bigoted views, but to what extent were those prejudices embedded in his public works? Moses was complex.
00:25:28.000He gave Harlem a glorious pool and play center, now Jackie Robinson Park, one of the best public works of the New Deal era anywhere in the United States.
00:25:34.000A crowd of 25,000 attended the opening ceremony in August 1936, the 369th Regiment Band playing When the Music Goes Round and Round before Parks Commissioner Moses was introduced to great applause by Bill Bojangles Robinson.
00:25:47.000Contrary to a claim in the power broker, Moses clearly meant buses to serve his Little Jones Beach and the Rockaways at Jacob Rees Park.
00:25:53.000While oriented mainly toward motorists, it is simply not true that New Yorkers without cars were excluded.
00:25:59.000The original site plan included bus drop-off zones.
00:26:01.000Photographs from the era plainly show buses loading and unloading passengers.
00:26:05.000Bus connections with the BMT and IRT in Brooklyn reported the Brooklyn Eagle on the vast seaside playground opened 80 years ago this summer make the park easily accessible to non-motorists.
00:26:15.000So, like, he's just citing bad data in pursuit of the idea that we have to cure systemic racism that exists in highways by Manhattan beaches or something.
00:26:25.000When you create boxes of your own making, it's very difficult to get out of those boxes.
00:26:30.000This is also true with regard to gas prices.
00:26:32.000So the Biden administration right now is undercutting its own economic appeal.
00:26:36.000So Democrats, let's just start with this.
00:26:38.000Democrats got their asses kicked last week.
00:26:41.000Okay, what happened in Virginia and New Jersey should be a shock to the system of Democrats.
00:26:45.000Henry Olsen has a good piece of the Washington Post about this.
00:26:48.000He says, to understand the magnitude of last week's electoral earthquake, one must grasp the concept of margin shift.
00:26:53.000This is the difference between one party's winning margin in one election versus the same margin in the next election.
00:26:58.000This measures the change in voter attitudes can be used to assess what might happen in other contests if the same shift were to occur.
00:27:04.000Tuesday was an utter disaster for Democrats by that assessment.
00:27:06.000Joe Biden won Virginia by 10.1 points in 2020, carried New Jersey by 15.9 points.
00:27:11.000Although some votes are still being tallied, the margin shift for the GOP was 12.1 points in Virginia and 13.3 points in New Jersey.
00:27:19.000Moreover, GOP candidates for the legislatures in each state obtained nearly identical shifts.
00:27:26.000The margin shift was similar or higher in Pennsylvania or New York as well.
00:27:30.000These margins would shatter Democratic congressional majorities if they recur in next year's midterms.
00:27:34.000According to Dave Wasserman, he estimates that Republicans would gain between 44 House seats on the New Jersey state assembly swing and 51 on the Virginia House of Delegates shift.
00:27:44.000Swings on the scale of New Jersey's gubernatorial race and the Long Island local offices would likely push GOP gains close to the record 63 seats they picked up in the 2010 midterms.
00:27:53.000Any of those results would give the GOP more House seats than at any time since 1928.
00:27:58.000Republicans would also be favored to gain massively in the Senate.
00:28:01.000A 10-point margin shift would likely cost Democrats Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and New Hampshire and deny them Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
00:28:07.000A 12-point shift would even put Colorado in play.
00:28:11.000New York style shifts would place Oregon and Washington in play.
00:28:16.000Now, that may not all materialize, but the bottom line is that Democrats are in serious trouble.
00:28:21.000And what they should be doing is tacking back to the center.
00:28:23.000Mark Penn and Andrew Stein were advisors to the Clintons.
00:28:26.000They have a piece in the New York Times today saying, Bill Clinton saved his presidency.
00:28:32.000And they keep pointing out, you guys need to tack to the center.
00:28:36.000You see, according to our October Harvard-Capps-Harris poll, only 35% of registered voters approve of the administration's immigration policies.
00:29:11.000According to Politico, today, President Joe Biden's plans to push the country away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy are facing an unexpected hurdle, the price of propane in Escanaba, Michigan.
00:29:21.000Biden took the stage in Glasgow last week to promise world leaders the U.S.
00:29:24.000was ready to lead the charge against climate change.
00:29:26.000But the messy pipeline fights in the U.S.
00:29:28.000are putting his administration in the crossfire between environmentalists and indigenous groups eager to block fossil fuel projects, and Republicans who are ramping up attacks blaming the White House for soaring energy prices.
00:29:38.000Biden, remember, he quashed Keystone XL.
00:29:41.000He also greenlit the Nord Stream 2 pipeline on behalf of the Russians.
00:29:45.000So, you know, Captain Anti-Russia over here was actually significantly more pro-Russia in his policies than Donald Trump ever was.
00:29:52.000Now, the administration is studying what to do about a pipeline stretching across Michigan that activists and the state's Democratic governor contend poses a catastrophic pollution risk to the Great Lakes.
00:30:02.000Word that the Biden administration was quietly studying the potential market impact of killing the Line 5 pipeline first reported by Politico set off a firestorm of criticism from Republicans saying the move would worsen the spike that has already driven propane prices up 50% from a year ago just as Michigan residents are about to enter the winter.
00:30:20.000Propane is stripped out of the line at the small port city of Escanaba to help feed supplies to communities in the state's Upper Peninsula.
00:30:26.000Environmental groups and Gretchen Whitmer are trying to shut the pipeline down in the middle of all of this.
00:30:32.000And again, this is in the middle of a giant gas price spike.
00:30:36.000Here's the White House Deputy Press Secretary yesterday acknowledging the Biden administration is considering shutting down the Line 5 pipeline.
00:30:58.000But the Army Corps of Engineers is preparing an environmental impact to look through this.
00:31:04.000So, yeah, they're looking at shutting it down is the short answer there.
00:31:07.000By the way, the White House spokesperson also could not name anything that Joe Biden is doing to lower gas prices.
00:31:12.000So I don't, again, I don't, I don't have anything specific here.
00:31:15.000The president spoke to this recently, uh, but he's also asked FTC to crack down on illegal pricing, right?
00:31:22.000That is one thing that he did on gouging in the market and the FTC is responding, but also we're going to continue to monitor the situation and have a number of tools in our arsenal.
00:31:31.000As I just mentioned, I don't have anything specific.
00:31:34.000Yeah, they have nothing specific because they've got nothing.
00:32:10.000And yes, we have a short-term cost issue, because the economy is still coming back on.
00:32:15.000We have a supply that does, a demand that does not, that the supply doesn't meet the demand.
00:32:20.000And that is an issue that we are going through.
00:32:23.000The president is all over this, both in the short-term and in the long-term.
00:32:27.000But the bottom line for, when the president says, when he hears climate change, he thinks about jobs, that is critical for our long-term strategy.
00:32:38.000No, you guys are in real trouble here because you again, you have created an expectation that cannot be fulfilled.
00:32:43.000You could have your cake and eat it too.
00:32:44.000You could do all this climate change nonsense, and that it wouldn't raise the gas prices or have any impact on the economy or have any impact on the way Americans live.
00:32:51.000Barack Obama has been pushing this nonsense forever.
00:32:53.000So Barack Obama headed on over to COP26, right, this climate change boondoggle that's going on over in Glasgow that's going to continue for a couple of months. It's going to host some 20 to 30,000 people because nothing says stopping climate change like a bunch of private jets landing on the tarmac in Glasgow. And Barack Obama is saying that Biden's spending plan is going to reduce energy prices. Yeah, good luck with this one.
00:33:15.000That legislation will devote over half a trillion dollars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over a billion metric tons by the end of the decade, at least 10 times more than any legislation previously passed by Congress. Along the way, it will reduce consumer energy costs, it will invest in a clean energy economy, it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and it will set the United States on course to meet its new climate
00:33:44.000targets, achieving a 50 to 52 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2021.
00:33:52.000Okay, the part that matters there is where he says it's going to reduce energy costs.
00:34:01.000But here's the thing, he's completely disconnected.
00:34:03.000There's an elitist group of people at the top of the Democratic Party that are completely disconnected from the people who they say they represent.
00:34:10.000And Barack Obama is a perfect example of this.
00:34:12.000I mean, besides holding his birthday party, In the middle of an area that just had an outbreak with no masks while proclaiming that everybody else on earth needs to wear masks.
00:34:23.000Well, he's getting his rich Netflix and sweet Netflix cash.
00:34:27.000After having basically provided no real private sector services to anyone over the course of his career.
00:34:34.000But he's been living on public dime as an elected official for a very long time and gotten super rich after being in the White House on this basis.
00:34:46.000And for him, he says things like, I can give up a lot of my lifestyle.
00:34:49.000Yeah, but how about that guy who's living at the margin?
00:34:50.000How about that family that's living at the margin where the family just needs enough gas in their tank to go to work without breaking their budget?
00:34:59.000Barack Obama is worth tens of millions of dollars based on the fact that he was once president of the United States.
00:35:05.000By the way, I do hold a fair bit of resentment for politicians who become rich after being politicians.
00:35:09.000It seems to me that if you're rich before you're a politician, at least you did something useful and then you went into politics as public service.
00:35:15.000If you went into public service so you could leave and become rich, yeah, I kind of resent that.
00:35:19.000Here is Barack Obama talking about how he, in all of his wisdom and generosity, is happy to give up some of his lifestyle to fight climate change.
00:35:26.000The little people, you know, they'll have to pay too, but he doesn't really care about that.
00:35:31.000I can afford to give up a lot of my current lifestyle to benefit the planet.
00:35:37.000Because I'll still have a lot left over.
00:35:39.000A lot of folks don't have that cushion.
00:35:41.000So that means that any climate plan worth its salt has to take these inequities into account.
00:35:47.000Whether it's through subsidies, To poor people, to ease the transition to clean energy, whether it's technology transfers that help poor countries meet their development goals by leapfrogging dirty fuels, we have to pay attention to those embedded inequities and the politics that surrounds them.
00:36:09.000Okay, but he's not going to do any of that.
00:36:11.000The standards that he is setting don't do any of that.
00:36:15.000Are you subsidizing the gas money for the local family?
00:36:18.000Is that one of the things that you're doing?
00:36:20.000Or are you just jacking up the price of energy and then kind of throwing up your hands and saying you can't do anything about it, which is what the Biden administration is actually doing.
00:36:27.000In the end, it comes down to the solipsism of an elite class who believe that their way is the only way.
00:36:32.000And this is why you get Barack Obama waxing poetic about the images of dystopia in his dreams.
00:36:38.000There are times where I feel discouraged.
00:36:43.000There are times where the future seems somewhat bleak.
00:36:46.000There are times where I am doubtful that humanity can get its act together before it's too late.
00:36:53.000And images of dystopia start creeping into my dreams.
00:37:00.000Well, I mean, the human race has disappointed Barack Obama, and you will atone.
00:37:07.000Okay, in just a second, we'll talk about how the Biden administration cannot get out of this box that they've trapped themselves in with regards to economics either.
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00:38:47.000I received over 45,000 comments detailing the way this tyrannical government overreach is affecting everyday American citizens or being forced to bend the knee.
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00:39:14.000The Biden administration does not have the constitutional or statutory authority to force employers to fire their employees for not getting vaccinated for COVID-19, especially at a time when everyone can get the vaccine.
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00:41:01.000Now, meanwhile, the Democrats, again, they have an agenda and that agenda has trapped them because the American people, it turns out, do not like the agenda.
00:41:14.000They completely misread the temperature.
00:41:19.000So they continue to push Build Back Better, even though there is no taste for Build Back Better.
00:41:22.000What exactly is the incentive right now for Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, both of whom are super vulnerable, to vote in favor of a Build Back Better plan, which doesn't actually cost $2 trillion.
00:41:31.000It costs more like $4 trillion and is going to drive up the deficit in massive ways.
00:41:35.000To do a bunch of spending that nobody is really demanding at this point.
00:41:39.000And the moderates are starting to buck.
00:41:40.000Josh Gottheimer, who's a vulnerable Democrat in New Jersey, he says, I think what's most important for people to understand is the responsible thing to do when you get a piece of legislation like this is to do a full analysis and to understand the impact on your district and the families in your district.
00:41:59.000And that's what I'm looking at, to make sure that when we vote for this and give the country this win, that we deliver the way we should deliver.
00:42:06.000And so there's so much in there that matters for my district, you know, from reinstating SALT and lowering taxes, as I said, to child care, to pre-K.
00:42:31.000Nobody is actually interested in passing it.
00:42:33.000If you're a moderate and you want to pass it, it's because you're insane.
00:42:36.000Like, you really have no data whatsoever to suggest that the American people are going to resonate to you passing this massive spending bill.
00:42:44.000Mitch McConnell is correct when he says that the Democrats have already produced inflation and now they're pledging to do more.
00:42:49.000What they've done already is produce rampant inflation.
00:42:53.000I mean, I want to ask for a show of hands of how many of you have been to the grocery store lately and noticed what's going on here.
00:42:58.000The price of everything is going through the roof.
00:43:01.000The American people basically said last Tuesday, stop.
00:43:10.000At the same time, they can't push it through because they just do not have the crowd to do it.
00:43:17.000According to Politico, Democrats are about to run into another buzzsaw here.
00:43:21.000They say, quote, the Senate's year-end to-do list is going to be a train wreck.
00:43:25.000As Mark Warner considers the Senate work left undone as the holiday season dawns, he's weighing a couple of potential ugly scenarios.
00:43:30.000Having only other senators to kiss on New Year's Eve, the Virginia Democrat deadpans about the upcoming December pileup, the only thing that might be worse would be opening each other's stockings on Christmas Eve.
00:43:39.000The Senate is only scheduled to be in three weeks for the rest of 2021.
00:43:43.000With a recess set to start December 10th.
00:43:46.000There's almost no chance that schedule holds at this point.
00:43:48.000The Democratic majority is facing a to-do list more daunting than a Black Friday sales rush.
00:43:52.000Congress has to fund the government past December 3rd, pass a massive defense policy bill, finish out a $1.75 trillion party-line social spending bill, and potentially maneuver around U.S.
00:44:02.000Each of those four bills could take several days of Senate floor time, not to mention the myriad negotiations still left to hash out Biden's GOP-free domestic agenda with Senator Joe Manchin, who wants to slow things down.
00:44:12.000It's going to be a train wreck, says Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, the minority whip.
00:44:19.000Now, again, remember, the biggest thing that is on the calendar that is a problem for the Democrats is that come early December, we hit the debt ceiling again.
00:44:26.000So you'll remember that about a month ago, there was this big talk about how Republicans were going to not vote in favor of increasing the debt ceiling and Democrats were trying to blame Republicans for not increasing the debt ceiling, even though they have the singular power to do so by themselves.
00:44:44.000That gives you a couple of months to jabber with each other about Build Back Better and see if you can do it without going to reconciliation.
00:44:51.000And if you have to use reconciliation, then you're gonna have to use reconciliation.
00:44:54.000You're gonna have to fire that bullet.
00:44:56.000Now, the reason Democrats don't want to do reconciliation with regard to the debt ceiling increase is because when you do reconciliation for a debt ceiling increase, apparently this allows what's called a voterama, where Republicans bring up a lot of unpopular bills and force Democrats to vote in favor of them, or bring up a lot of popular bills and force Democrats to vote against them.
00:45:13.000And Democrats don't want to be on record doing any of that.
00:45:16.000But if Democrats run up against the debt ceiling, it's going to be very difficult for them to make the case that it's Republicans' fault this time.
00:45:21.000Because McConnell literally said to them, we're happy to give you this leeway, but come December 3rd, it's on you again.
00:45:29.000Prior to leaving for this week's recess, senators acknowledged it's possible they have to consider a defense policy bill before a social spending bill, given some of the outstanding hiccups they face in fighting for Biden's agenda.
00:45:40.000Not just that, The debt ceiling is a disaster area.
00:45:43.000Democrats are not even talking yet about how they will address the debt ceiling.
00:45:50.000Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is insisting Democrats will need to raise the debt ceiling along party lines this time after he has sent it to a short-term patch.
00:45:56.000That means using the so-called reconciliation process to evade a GOP filibuster.
00:46:00.000But Schumer is saying that he's now going to beg the Republicans again.
00:46:05.000He's saying that he's going to... Okay, McConnell caves on that.
00:46:09.000Then McConnell should be in real political trouble.
00:46:16.000If Democrats want to avoid this, they can do it.
00:46:18.000And if they want to default on the debt, then that's their problem at this point.
00:46:22.000The Treasury Department says it can cover the country's balance sheet through at least December 3rd, the same day the government runs out of funding.
00:46:27.000But the Bipartisan Policy Center, which forecasts the debt limits brink, predicts the date could instead range from mid-December to mid-February, giving lawmakers a little more time if they have to hit that emergency.
00:46:37.000But Democrats are, Democrats are, they know that the squeeze is coming.
00:46:43.000So it's going to be a rough few weeks here for Democrats.
00:46:46.000They do not have the ability to press this thing through.
00:46:49.000And as I say, Republicans should be held accountable.
00:46:51.000They shouldn't have given Biden his infrastructure plan.
00:46:53.000It's ridiculous that they gave him this.
00:46:56.000By the way, it is such a lie that America requires trillions of dollars in federal infrastructure spending.
00:47:02.000And by the best available estimates, the vast majority of hard infrastructure like highways and bridges, all that stuff, Basically owned by the states, the amount of federal funding necessary to do that stuff is not even close to $1.2 trillion.
00:47:16.000You do understand that on a state, federal and local level, the United States does spend hundreds of billions of dollars, like $300 billion every year on upkeep for highways and streets and bridges.
00:47:25.000The notion that all of our bridges and highways are crumbling is ridiculous.
00:47:28.000Most federal infrastructure at this point is things like dams and levees.
00:47:32.000That is not the sort of stuff that the federal government needs to be spending $1.2 trillion on.
00:47:38.000Mitch McConnell, he gets to compromise once on the infrastructure bill.
00:47:41.000He does not get to compromise on the debt ceiling at this point.
00:47:44.000McConnell yesterday, for example, was praising the bipartisan infrastructure plan.
00:47:51.000I mean, honestly, this should not have been pushed by Republicans.
00:47:53.000Giving Biden this victory was a big mistake.
00:47:57.000I was delighted that the House finally found a way to pass the Instructor Bill last week.
00:48:03.000The President, if he hasn't signed it yet, I'm pretty sure will soon be signing it.
00:48:09.000And this will be the first time I've come up here in a quarter of a century when I thought maybe there was a way forward on the Brent Spence Bridge.
00:48:20.000Okay, once again, one of the big problems with Congress, it always comes down to, can I get pork for my hometown?
00:48:26.000So Mitch McConnell is talking about the pork for his home state?
00:48:29.000Yeah, that is not the way that Congress was originally designed to run.
00:49:02.000College graduates generally make more money than those without a degree.
00:49:06.000But a closer look reveals that for many, the benefit is not spread equally, and a significant minority of students are worse off for having gone to college.
00:49:12.000In a report for the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, I calculated the return on investment for nearly 30,000 different bachelor's degree programs.
00:49:21.000I estimated the median lifetime earnings for graduates of each program based on education department and census data, subtracted tuition costs and wages missed while enrolled.
00:49:28.000I then compared that number with a scenario in which those students didn't attend college, using the earnings of high school graduates as a baseline, and then adjusting for demographics, cognitive ability, and family background.
00:49:38.000As a result, I was able to compare the net boost in lifetime earnings students got from each college degree.
00:49:42.000The results show that 28% of college degrees, almost a third, weighted by enrollment, do not have a net positive return.
00:49:49.000More than a quarter of students are in programs that are actually a net loss for them.
00:49:54.000Those students often obsess over where they get in.
00:49:56.000Majors have the most sway over future earnings, right?
00:49:59.000Whenever people say that there is a racial differential in college graduates and earnings, you have to adjust for the majors.
00:50:07.000Black students tend not to major in engineering as much as Asian students, for example.
00:50:12.000So you're going to get a wide variance in terms of earning potential.
00:50:15.000Somebody with an education degree does not earn the same as somebody with an engineering degree.
00:50:19.000Programs in engineering, computer science, economics, and nursing all yield a high return, often increasing their students' net lifetime earnings by half a million dollars or more.
00:50:27.000But a majority of programs in art, music, philosophy, and psychology leave their average students financially worse off.
00:50:35.000So, if you were given the financial choice between going to a college and majoring in philosophy and not going to the college and getting a job, you are better off, in all likelihood, not going to college.
00:50:46.000A majority of those programs leave average students financially worse off.
00:50:51.000Some students defy averages, of course.
00:50:53.000There are some music majors who will get rich and some engineers who will fail.
00:50:59.000One of the nation's highest return programs is the computer science major at Harvard.
00:51:02.000That degree has an expected value of more than $3 million.
00:51:05.000But attending the nation's most elite school is no guarantee of financial security.
00:51:08.000Harvard's Ethnic and Gender Studies program leaves its students worse off by about $47,000 on average, according to these estimates.
00:51:16.000So if you majored in lesbian dance theory at Harvard, you actually lose money.
00:51:20.000Because who the hell wants to hire a lesbian dance theory major from Harvard?
00:51:24.000Besides major, another important factor for negative return is low completion rates.
00:51:28.000If a student graduates in four years, the increase in earnings is usually enough to justify the cost of college.
00:51:33.000But if you take five or six years to graduate, then the cost of tuition and time spent out of the labor force start to add up.
00:51:39.000If you fail to graduate at all, you're stuck with most of the cost of college but few of the benefits.
00:51:43.000And by the way, there's a huge dropout rate at America's universities.
00:51:48.000So if you look at the full cost of education, so not just the education, but also all of the other costs, like the subsidies that colleges pay for student education.
00:52:00.000The share of bachelor's degrees programs with negative returns is all the way up to 37%.
00:52:03.000So almost 4 in 10 bachelor's degrees are worth less than the money spent on the degree.
00:52:11.000Well, it means that we need to radically change how education is done in the United States.
00:52:15.000It means that the promise of university is basically a lie for a huge number of people.
00:52:20.000I've been talking about this for a long time, and I'm speaking as a graduate of some prestigious universities at UCLA and Harvard Law School.
00:52:26.000And as I've said, Harvard Law School is worth the money because you finish up and now you're a lawyer from Harvard and that means you're going to make a lot of money.
00:52:32.000A poli sci degree from UCLA, maybe it's worth the money and maybe it's not.
00:52:39.000And there's a case to be made that we really should do is move toward a system where you go directly from high school into an apprenticeship program if you want to be a lawyer, for example.
00:52:46.000Because what you actually pick up in a poli sci program at UCLA has almost nothing to do with what you're learning in law school, at least in the first year.
00:52:53.000There's also a good case to be made that law school should be two years rather than three.
00:52:57.000But credentialing has become the thing.
00:53:00.000Credentialing is a big thing in American life.
00:53:02.000And the reason for that is we refuse to look simple facts in the face.
00:53:06.000And those facts include the fact that some people are smarter and work harder than others.
00:53:09.000And so instead of just recognizing that, which you can tell right out of high school, we have decided to create an AirSats method for evaluating whether people are likely to be good employees or not.
00:53:20.000So if you give me somebody, like anybody, if you give me their SAT scores and their GPA from high school, I can say with a high level of certainty whether this person will be a good employee or not.
00:53:30.000I don't need that person to go to a four-year college to tell me that.
00:53:33.000And I especially don't need them to go waste $200,000 at a four-year college majoring in English in order to tell me whether they will be a good employee or not.
00:53:40.000In fact, I would rather hire the kid directly out of high school if they have a good SAT score and a good GPA.
00:53:46.000And good values and have them go to a college where they're really just being indoctrinated into the language of wokeness.
00:53:51.000And so this is why it's one of the reasons why I'm excited about the launching of this new university.
00:54:41.000But in these top schools and in so many others, can we actually claim that the pursuit of truth remains the highest virtue?
00:54:46.000Do we honestly believe that the crucial means to that end, freedom of inquiry and civil discourse, will prevail when a liberalism has become a pervasive feature of campus life?
00:54:54.000The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote you've read and the headlines are heard within your own circles.
00:54:58.000Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having the wrong opinion about hot-button issues like immigration or gender differences.
00:55:08.000Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary actions for their views.
00:55:15.000Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
00:55:23.000The picture among undergrads is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy's 2020 campus expression survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000 roughly
00:55:48.000half successful. The reality is that many universities, writes Hanno Kanellos, the new head of University of Austin. He says, the reality is that many universities no longer have an incentive to create an environment where intellectual dissent is protected and fashional opinions scrutinized.
00:56:06.000The priority at most other institutions is simply to avoid financial collapse.
00:56:10.000They're in a desperate contest to attract a dwindling number of students who are less and less capable of paying skyrocketing tuition.
00:56:15.000Over the last three decades, the cost of a degree from a four-year private college has nearly doubled.
00:56:19.000The cost of a degree from a public university has nearly tripled.
00:56:22.000The nation's students owe $1.7 trillion in loans.
00:56:26.000And by the way, nearly 40% of people who are pursuing a college degree don't get one.
00:56:30.000Okay, so to go back to the stats, that means that 40% of people who pursue a college degree are out.
00:56:37.000Of the remaining 60%, about one-third are going to spend more money on the college degree than the degree is worth.
00:56:44.000So that means college is a really, really bad bargain at this point.
00:56:49.000So, say the folks at University of Austin As I write this, I'm sitting in my new office in balmy Austin, Texas, where I moved three months ago from my previous post as president of St.
00:57:01.000Our project began with a small gathering of those concerned about the state of higher education.
00:57:04.000Niall Ferguson, Barry Weiss, Heather Hying, Joe Lonsdale, Arthur Brooks, and I, and we have since been joined by many others, including the brave professors mentioned above, Kathleen Stock, Dorian Abbott, Peter Boghossian, We count among our numbers University Presidents Robert Zimmer, Larry Summers, John Nunez, Gordon Gee, Leading Academic Steven Pinker, Deirdre McCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Lowry, Joshua Katz, Vicky Sullivan, Jeffrey Stone, Bill McClay, and Tyler Cowen.
00:57:26.000We're joined by journalists and public intellectuals like Lex Friedman, Andrew Sullivan, Rob Henderson, Caitlin Flanagan, David Mamet, Ayaan Hirsi, Ali Sarbamari, Stacey Haque, Jonathan Rauch, and Nadine Strassen.
00:57:36.000Our backgrounds and experiences are diverse.
00:57:38.000What unites us is a common dismay at the state of modern academia and a recognition we can no longer wait for the cavalry, and so we must be the cavalry.
00:57:50.000So their plan is that they are going to be moving through the next few years, beginning to launch degree programs just a couple of years from now.
00:58:01.000And honestly, like, all support to them.
00:58:33.000Again, competition is the lifeblood of intellectual development, and I am very excited that University of Austin is launching, and congrats to all my friends who are involved with that particular effort.
00:58:44.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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