The Biden economy misses wildly on job expectations while the White House pays people to stay home. Vaccination demand drops precipitously thanks to Joe Biden's messaging failures, and the social justice mob grows ever more insane.
00:01:32.000Just before the weekend, we got this April jobs report, and it was just egregiously bad.
00:01:37.000Now, when I say egregiously bad, I mean compared to expectations.
00:01:40.000We had about 266,000 jobs added to the American economy, and there's a downgrade of the number of jobs that had been expected to grow the prior month as well.
00:01:47.000It was supposed to be in March, it was supposed to be like 900.
00:01:53.000And 16,000 jobs ended up being about 770,000 jobs.
00:01:55.000In April, it ended up being 266,000 jobs.
00:01:58.000Now, most economists expected a million job increase, a million job increase.
00:02:05.000According to the Washington Post, U.S.
00:02:07.000economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, a disappointing month of growth that fell well below economists' estimates, despite declining virus caseloads and increased vaccine distribution.
00:02:16.000The White House rejected that notion on Friday.
00:02:18.000relatively unchanged at 6.1%, although economists caution the number is misleadingly low given how many people have dropped out of the labor force in the past year.
00:02:26.000The news increased political pressure in Washington amid concerns about whether a labor shortage reported in some pockets of the economy is slowing down the recovery.
00:02:34.000The White House rejected that notion on Friday.
00:02:36.000Instead, they said, no, no, everything is fine.
00:02:39.000Here, for example, was President Biden saying these job numbers, they show that we're on Well, except for the fact that this was a completely unexpected slowing.
00:02:46.000We had, as of just before the pandemic, some 152.5 million people who were employed.
00:02:52.000We have right now about 144.3 million people who are employed.
00:02:56.000So we are still 8 million jobs short of where we were.
00:03:18.000As I said, my laser focus is on growing the nation's economy and creating jobs.
00:03:24.000Well, I mean, his real laser focus is on ensuring that he makes sure that he Tivo's Matlock.
00:03:28.000But aside from that, his laser focus apparently is on pursuing policies that greatly soften the economy, greatly soften the economy.
00:03:36.000Because here's the thing, what we are currently experiencing is exactly what you would expect if you know anything about economic history.
00:03:41.000When you blow a bunch of money into an economy that was already in a state of recovery, and when you talk about how you're going to tax everybody who creates jobs out the wazoo, what you end up with is slow economic growth and massive inflation.
00:03:53.000And indeed, even CNN is picking up on this.
00:03:56.000According to CNN, over the weekend, Everywhere you look, there are headlines about higher prices.
00:04:00.000Some are tied to commodities, which are getting snapped up as the global economy emerges from its long slumber.
00:04:04.000Lumber prices are at an all-time high thanks to an epic home-building boom.
00:04:07.000Copper and steel prices have also reached records.
00:04:21.000Two major producers, Kimberly Clark and Procter Gamble, have warned customers that fresh hikes are coming as well.
00:04:26.000Shortages of computer chips are helping to push up car prices.
00:04:29.000Soon could do the same for electronics and household appliances.
00:04:33.000Says CNN, this doesn't just matter for Americans guarding their pocketbooks.
00:04:36.000Price increases are also being closely scrutinized by investors and economists who are desperate to know, is this a passing phenomenon as the country emerges from a once-in-a-lifetime economic shock or a more sustained trend that evokes the 1970s?
00:04:47.000Now, normally, It is true that you would end up with higher prices in a time with greater demand and lower supply.
00:04:53.000But the point is that then demand would be caught up to by supply, right?
00:04:57.000As the demand is high and supply is low, you'd be able to ramp up the supply to meet the demand.
00:05:01.000That's usually how supply and demand curves work.
00:05:03.000But when you are artificially preventing people from employing anybody, well then it turns out what you get is hyperinflation, right?
00:05:10.000This is when you end up with the money that you have in the bank being worth less than it was yesterday because the products are just more expensive.
00:05:16.000And this is happening across labor markets.
00:05:18.000You know, I was talking yesterday to a small business owner.
00:05:21.000We went out for Mother's Day for brunch for my wife and for my wife's mom.
00:05:26.000And we went to this restaurant and there was like one waiter and the restaurant was packed.
00:05:31.000There's one waiter and the owner came out and we were talking to the owner and the owner said, yeah, I had seven people who were supposed to show up for work this week.
00:05:37.000And instead they said, no, no, no, I'm not going to show up for work because I'm getting paid too much to stay home.
00:05:43.000I mean, that is a common story that you're hearing from small businesses across the country.
00:05:49.000Small business owners are saying openly that the reason that they cannot ramp up supply is because they cannot get people to come into work.
00:05:56.000There are people who are paying bonuses just to get people to interview for jobs.
00:06:02.000I was hearing rumors that there are chain restaurants that are now paying people like 50 bucks just to show up for an interview because people are not showing up when you pay.
00:06:10.000Unemployment benefits have now been extended all the way through September, even though the pandemic is effectively over in many states in the union right now, so far as the economy is concerned.
00:06:19.000There's a reason that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is saying, listen, you need to show actual effort that you're going to try and get a job if you're going to continue to get unemployment benefits.
00:06:26.000The White House has not been nearly so forthcoming.
00:06:30.000They're trying to pretend that none of this is happening.
00:06:33.000So Janet Yellen over at the Federal Reserve, who last week admitted that inflation is going to kick in and then said, well, you know, we can handle it if it does, presumably by By getting rid of some of their bond holdings instead of buying bonds in the open market and trying to ramp up the open markets rate, the overnight rate for the feds.
00:06:51.000Well, I mean, maybe you can do that, or maybe this is going to run out of control because you've created too much of a barrier in the economy to people getting back to work.
00:06:59.000Here is Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, saying, no, no, no, everything's fine.
00:07:03.000If I had had to write down a number as my best guess, it would have been higher.
00:07:08.000But I've watched data for a long time, and I know that it is extremely volatile.
00:07:15.000There are often surprises and temporary factors, and one should never take one month's data as an underlying trend.
00:07:24.000Besides, remember I said, actually what happened is stronger, I think, than the headline number looks.
00:07:32.000Okay, in other words, don't believe the numbers.
00:07:48.000In a second, we're going to talk about all the various ways the White House is trying to spin this.
00:07:51.000But again, the reality is that when you spend a bunch of money that nobody needed, and by the way, when Americans were paid to stay home last year, so actually the amount of money that Americans have in the bank right now is actually higher than it was before the pandemic by statistics.
00:08:03.000So people are ready to spend, but they're not ready to work.
00:08:06.000And that is a massive gap that is going to have significant downstream effects on the economy.
00:08:10.000And that is what you are seeing right now.
00:08:11.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
00:08:12.000First, Let's talk about the fact you don't want to go to an auto parts store right now.
00:08:15.000First of all, they may not even have enough employees over there.
00:08:17.000Instead, why not go to the interwebs, rockauto.com?
00:08:21.000It's so much easier than walking into a store and someone demanding quick answers to things like, is your Odyssey an LX or an EX?
00:08:26.000And then they usually just have to order the part online anyway, because there are so many types of cars, it's impossible to keep them all stocked.
00:08:31.000You have access to rockauto.com at your desk and in your pocket.
00:08:33.000Rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will do the way that airlines do.
00:08:40.000Why spend up to twice as much for the same exact parts?
00:08:43.000You know, for example, let's say just off the top of my head, because this is what I'm into.
00:08:47.000You needed a Delphi FG 1456 fuel pump assembly for 2005 to 2010 Honda Odyssey.
00:08:52.000That'll cost you like $354 at a big chain store.
00:08:54.000I knew that right off the top of my head.
00:09:22.000Alrighty, so Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, he says, listen, I can tell you right now what the problem is.
00:09:27.000You can't pay people to stay home and then expect they're not going to stay home.
00:09:30.000We've been so generous with our plus-ups to unemployment insurance and the checks that we've been sending everybody that a great many Kentuckians and Americans look at the situation and find they're better off financially To stay home rather than go back to work.
00:09:50.000So we have inflationary issues and we have difficulty in getting people to do the work to meet the new demand.
00:10:00.000It is absolutely clear that this is the case.
00:10:03.000Okay, so what's weird about this, of course, is that then you have Jen Psaki saying, no, no, it's not the unemployment support.
00:10:08.000The fact that we tried to extend it all the way to September.
00:10:10.000It's not the fact that we are paying people to stay home.
00:10:12.000It's not the fact that we have just decided that we are not only going to toss $2 trillion into the economy, but we are also calling for an additional infusion of $4 trillion.
00:10:20.000None of that has any impact on the economy, according to Jen Psaki.
00:10:23.000In order to receive any kind of unemployment benefit, claimants must be able...
00:10:28.000available and actively seeking work. And workers are not permitted to refuse suitable work and continue to receive benefits. That all remains true, including under the pandemic UI program. You're only allowed to refuse work and continue to receive benefits if you are sick with COVID, taking care of someone sick with COVID or offered a job in an unsafe workplace.
00:10:51.000OK, and here's the problem. How are you going to check on all of that? How are you going to check on all that?
00:10:56.000People game that system all the damn time.
00:10:59.000Like seriously, they game it all the time.
00:11:00.000You know how many people are paying people under the table so they can keep their unemployment benefits?
00:11:05.000Tons of people in this economy are paying people under the table so they can claim unemployment and pick up the money on the other end.
00:11:12.000If you think that's not happening, I urge you to check the disability rules in the United States, where literally tens of millions of Americans who are not actually disabled are on the disability rules.
00:11:19.000This sort of stuff happens all the time.
00:11:23.000Well, the kind of last-ditch defense here is coming courtesy of Stephanie Ruhle over at MSNBC.
00:11:29.000So James Pathakoukas quoted Goldman Sachs.
00:11:31.000Goldman Sachs have kind of a stake in how the economy goes.
00:11:34.000They apparently said, quote, In other words, when you pay people to stay home, they do.
00:11:37.000employment rate suggests, likely reflecting the impact of unusually generous unemployment benefits and lingering virus-related impediments to working.
00:11:44.000In other words, when you pay people to stay home, they do.
00:11:47.000And if you're a small business trying to hire somebody, you can't pay more than unemployment.
00:11:51.000Hey, well, Stephanie Ruhle, genius that she is, she tweeted out, why is it that the unemployment benefits are too generous, rather than the pay offered by employers too low?
00:11:59.000Pay more money equals find more workers.
00:12:01.000If margins are so thin that you cannot increase pay without passing it through, losing customers, your business model doesn't work.
00:12:07.000So literally in a time of high unemployment, she is calling for businesses to shut down unless they can pay for higher labor costs, which leads to, wait for it, more unemployment.
00:12:17.000Because when you artificially boost the price of labor such that businesses cannot pay it, those businesses don't simply pass on the prices to consumers if the consumers are not able to support the business.
00:12:27.000Instead, the business is just shut down.
00:12:30.000Effectively, what she is calling for is a gigantic and ever-increasing minimum wage program.
00:12:48.000Right now, all the businesses are increasing prices in order so they can afford to pay for the labor.
00:12:53.000And then, you have a bunch of people who can't afford to pay for those prices, and then you get more unemployment because a bunch of demand falls off.
00:13:00.000This is how you get a stagflationary cycle.
00:13:03.000What the Democrats are pushing right now is driving a stagflationary cycle.
00:13:06.000And I'll be honest with you, you've heard me on the show talk about the economy in the past, and I thought that the underlying economy is strong enough And the economic recovery is naturally strong enough that it was going to be a couple of years before you saw all of this stuff start to kick in in serious fashion, especially because Joe Biden is planning tons and tons of new spending, right?
00:13:22.000He's planning $10 trillion in spending if he could get his way this year.
00:13:26.000So I was expecting you'd get at least a year of solid economic growth before this stuff started to kick in.
00:13:30.000But literally three months into his administration, you're already seeing misses on jobs reports by three quarters of a million jobs.
00:13:39.000And then meanwhile, you have all of these Democrats at the same time pushing vaccination ideas and ideas about COVID that are also keeping the economy a lot slower than they should be.
00:13:49.000By the way, some members of the Biden administration are admitting as much.
00:13:53.000Labor Secretary Marty Walsh came out over the weekend.
00:13:55.000He was like, yeah, you know what's actually keeping people home also?
00:13:57.000The fact that all the schools are closed.
00:13:58.000Oh, why are the schools closed, Marty?
00:14:34.000That's right, it's Democrats in blue states who are keeping the schools closed and talking about how they're gonna keep them closed maybe in the fall.
00:14:39.000The CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, who should be summarily fired, she's been awful all the way through, she now admits that the teachers' unions changed the guidance here.
00:14:46.000Okay, so you're getting it from all sides here.
00:14:49.000The assault on the American economy from this administration is breathtaking.
00:14:53.000They're blowing money into the economy to create inflation.
00:14:56.000They're dramatically increasing the number of people who aren't even looking for work.
00:15:00.000And then they're artificially shutting down schools at the behest of teachers unions so that people have to stay home from work to take care of their kids.
00:15:07.000Here's Rochelle Walensky from the CDC explaining that, yeah, you know, we're supposed to be science-based, but we got the teachers unions to help us write the guidelines for school reopenings.
00:15:16.000As a matter of practice, when we put out guidance, we engage with our stakeholders and users of that information, consumers of that information, to understand what it is that they need from the guidance when we put it out.
00:15:31.000We do that before we release the guidance so we understand and confirm that what we put out is what they need to move forward.
00:17:00.000We'll get to the vaccination misinformation being put out by this administration in just one second.
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00:18:28.000Alrighty, so, meanwhile, another factor that is leading to the slow recovery, the unexpectedly slow recovery, is the fact that this administration continues to downplay the efficacy of these vaccines.
00:18:38.000And so you have the entire media now parroting the idea that if we don't have herd immunity, we can never go back to regular.
00:19:02.000They're well in excess of 95% effective at preventing serious disease and death.
00:19:07.000And it also prevents you from getting it in something like 90% of cases, according to the latest Israeli data.
00:19:12.000So you're in real good shape once you get the vaccines and you can go out and you can live your life.
00:19:17.000Once you've had the vaccine, you don't need to wait for quote-unquote herd immunity in order for you to go out and lead your life and also take off your mask according to the best available data.
00:19:24.000And I'm quoting there a number of doctors ranging from Dr. Marty McCary to one of the CNN in-house doctors.
00:19:30.000This is fairly widely accepted at this point.
00:19:33.000But instead of upplaying the efficacy of the vaccines, which, by the way, would encourage people to get the vaccines, this administration continues to declare that the pandemic will be a forever pandemic.
00:19:44.000So you have the New York Times today, headline, the world may need to learn to live with the virus.
00:19:48.000OK, first of all, if that were true, then maybe you should have been saying that maybe a year ago when you instead of shutting down economies and forcing everybody back into their homes, maybe you should have said, OK, what if we actually just take precautions and go back to work?
00:20:01.000Now you're doing it when it's pretty clear that once you get the vaccine, you're pretty good to go.
00:20:05.000The New York Times says, Early in the pandemic, there was hope the world would one day achieve herd immunity, the point when the coronavirus lacks enough hosts to spread easily.
00:20:12.000But over a year later, the virus is crushing India with a fearsome second wave and surging in countries from Asia to Latin America.
00:20:18.000Experts now say it is changing too quickly.
00:20:20.000New more contagious variants are spreading too easily and vaccinations are happening too slowly for herd immunity to be within reach anytime soon.
00:20:25.000Yes, but these vaccines are also unbelievably durable against the variants.
00:20:31.000In field tests, these variants, the British variant, the South African variant, the Brazilian variant, all of these variants are not overcoming the natural immunity provided by vaccine or the vaccine immunity that's provided by the vaccine.
00:20:46.000But we have to maintain this level of panic.
00:20:48.000And so you end up with Dr. Anthony Fauci continuing to declare that, you know, maybe a year from now, things will be back to closer.
00:21:06.000Once they feel safe, they're doing what they want.
00:21:07.000And if you don't want to get the vaccine, and you want to put yourself at that level of risk, and we're not talking about somebody who has some sort of deep preexisting condition that prevents you from getting the vaccine, And you just don't want to get the vaccine?
00:21:41.000I hope that next Mother's Day we're going to see a dramatic difference than what we're seeing right now.
00:21:46.000I believe that we will be about as close to back to normal as we can.
00:21:51.000And there's some conditions to that, George.
00:21:54.000We've got to make sure that we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated.
00:22:00.000When that happens, the virus doesn't really have any place to go.
00:22:03.000There aren't a lot of vulnerable people around.
00:22:06.000And where there are not a lot of vulnerable people around, you're not going to see a surge.
00:22:10.000By the way, notice how the language of this administration has shifted from get the vaccine and everything will be fine to herd immunity.
00:22:17.000Now, some people were talking about natural herd immunity early on.
00:22:20.000Some people were saying that herd immunity, especially if you can have it among young people, is not a terrible thing because you're killing vectors of transmission.
00:22:26.000And then you were told you're killing grandma if you're 20 and you get COVID, even if you don't go anywhere near grandma.
00:22:30.000Now they're like herd immunity is the BLM doll.
00:22:32.000Weird how the messaging changed just in time to slow down the economy.
00:22:36.000And the message from this White House is, if the economy is slow, that requires more spending, even though it's our spending that's causing the economy to be slow.
00:22:42.000Now, how much of this is based on actual science?
00:23:05.000And yet here, you have Jeffrey Zients explaining to Jake Tapper, or failing to explain, why Joe Biden continues to promote nonsense.
00:23:13.000Is it really necessary for a fully vaccinated person to wear a mask at a limited indoor gathering if everyone there is vaccinated?
00:23:24.000Well, the CDC has given guidance that when you're with family and friends that are vaccinated in small groups, you don't need a mask.
00:23:30.000So why does President Biden, in a room full of vaccinated journalists, with everybody in that room vaccinated, why does he need to wear a mask?
00:23:36.000The President is going to continue to follow the CDC guidance.
00:24:07.000Okay, so let's talk about that for a second.
00:24:10.000Just a few weeks ago, just a few weeks ago, the Biden administration announced via the FDA that they were holding up the J&J vaccine and they were holding up the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
00:24:19.000Because out of the several, it was like six or seven or eight million people who had gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, six people had a severe blood clotting reaction.
00:24:28.000Six out of like seven million people, which by the way is kind of the proportion that you have seen in terms of the number of deaths from COVID.
00:24:38.000From people who have gotten the vaccine.
00:24:40.000And something like 88 million people as of a couple weeks ago.
00:24:44.000There's like 82, 83, 84 million people who had been vaccinated and 88 deaths total in the United States from COVID among people who had been vaccinated.
00:24:51.000So these things are unbelievably effective.
00:24:52.000J&J also a very effective vaccine and much more durable in the sense that you can ship it very easily.
00:24:57.000It only requires one shot as opposed to two.
00:24:59.000Okay, and then this administration idiotically put a hold on the J&J vaccine and publicly announced that they were putting a hold on the J&J vaccine.
00:25:08.000Okay, so here was Joe Biden's COVID czar, Jeffrey Zients, explaining that, you know, when we put that J&J vaccine on hold, it made no difference.
00:26:29.000And then it starts going up pretty dramatically at the beginning of February, all the way up to about 2 million people a day who are receiving, on average, who are receiving their first dose of the vaccine.
00:26:38.000On some days, you're getting over 2.4 million people who are receiving the vaccine.
00:26:42.000And then it starts to plummet right around the beginning of April.
00:26:45.000Right around there, it jumps, it starts to decline rapidly, like down to 1.6, down to 1.2, down to now, only about 400,000 or 500,000 people a day will be getting that first dose reported to the CDC.
00:26:57.000So, what happened, you might ask, around the beginning of April?
00:27:08.000In other words, this administration has been garbage at everything.
00:27:11.000They are messaging with data that is completely wrong.
00:27:13.000Okay, and it is not people who are merely sort of freedom advocates like me, you know, people who are saying that you should be able to take off the mask once you've had the vaccine.
00:27:22.000Scott Gottlieb, who's been as cautious as it is possible to be, the former FDA administrator under President Trump, he's been very cautious all the way, a big advocate of masking.
00:27:30.000He says, once you've got the vaccine, really, you should be able to unmask inside.
00:27:35.000We've always said from a public health standpoint that we would set as a metric maybe when we get down to 10 cases per 100,000 people on a daily basis.
00:27:43.000Well, half the country's there right now.
00:27:45.000If you want to be more conservative and say 5 cases per 100,000 people, well, this week, by this week, probably about a quarter of states will be there.
00:27:52.000So we're at the point right now we could start lifting these ordinances and allowing people to resume normal activities.
00:27:57.000Certainly outdoors, we shouldn't be putting limits on gatherings anymore.
00:28:00.000We should be encouraging people to go outside.
00:28:02.000In the states where prevalence is low, vaccination rates are high, and we have good testing in place, so we're identifying infections.
00:28:08.000I think we could start lifting these restrictions indoors as well, on a broad basis.
00:28:38.000It's been all day long talking about how terrible it is that Fox News exists and that Tucker Carlson exists.
00:28:45.000Okay, now, Tucker has been on his show talking about adverse reactions to the vaccines, and I think that he has not covered the vaccines in a way certainly that I would cover the vaccines.
00:28:55.000But if you think that the chief cause of vaccine hesitancy in the United States is Tucker Carlson rather than, you know, the CDC, the FDA, the White House, you're out of your mind.
00:29:03.000But the media have decided they have to blame somebody, and it can't be Biden, for this vaccine hesitancy.
00:29:08.000This has, by the way, been the myth all along in the media, is that it's everybody who loves Trump has been refusing the vaccine.
00:29:14.000Because Trump voters are older than the general population.
00:29:18.000Some 82% of people above the age of 65 in the United States have already taken the vaccine.
00:29:23.000In fact, if you want to look at communities where there's very, very low levels of vaccination, those communities tend to be predominantly minority communities, right?
00:29:31.000That did not vote for President Trump.
00:29:33.000But it's Tucker's fault, according to CNN, because it can't be Biden's fault.
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00:33:15.000And meanwhile, as though the economy were not already slowing, as though we didn't already have enough crises on our hands, the Biden administration is doing an unbelievable job of manufacturing crisis pretty much everywhere at home and abroad.
00:33:33.000We'll start with at home and then we'll get to abroad, because it really is fairly incredible how they've somehow manufactured an economic crisis where there really ought not be one.
00:33:40.000They're manufacturing a COVID crisis where the COVID crisis is on the wane and essentially done in a bunch of states.
00:33:46.000And they continue to foment social panic with regard to race relations in the United States.
00:33:51.000So, the Black Lives Matter movement continues to...
00:33:55.000Create issues in cities across the country.
00:33:57.000The latest example comes courtesy of Plano, Texas.
00:34:00.000So Plano is about as red in the area as it is possible to find.
00:34:03.000Plano is like 65-35 Republican-Democrat.
00:34:07.000Hey, Black Lives Matter took over an intersection anyway.
00:34:09.000And the cops decided instead of clearing the intersection, they were just going to allow Black Lives Matter to take over the intersection and stop traffic.
00:35:00.000This sort of social division in the country is simply not a good thing.
00:35:03.000And the fact that the police have been told to stand down in the face of this sort of stuff is really, really bad.
00:35:09.000But again, this is all part and parcel of the giant equity push being put forward by the Biden administration.
00:35:15.000It's part of the continuing fragmentation of American life on the basis of race.
00:35:20.000Michelle Obama, who have all the people in the United States, should be Pretty grateful for how great the United States has been to her.
00:35:28.000I feel this way about anybody who's in a position of high power.
00:35:30.000I'm very, very grateful to the United States for all the opportunities that I've had.
00:35:34.000Michelle Obama went to Princeton University and grew up in a two-parent family and became a highfalutin lawyer and earned a big salary and married the President of the United States.
00:35:43.000You know, she really, it seems, should be pretty grateful for the fact that this country's been good to her, but she has not been grateful for that for quite a while.
00:35:54.000I mean, you'll recall back in 2008, Michelle Obama suggested openly that the first time that she had been grateful for the country, or the first time that she'd been proud of the country, rather, is when her husband was nominated for the presidency.
00:36:06.000That's the first time in her life, which is pretty amazing, considering, again, she went to Princeton University.
00:36:11.000Well now, Michelle Obama and President Obama are speaking out a lot about race.
00:36:16.000In an excerpt of an interview that's gonna be released later today with Gayle King of CBS this morning, Michelle Obama revealed her fears that the couple's daughters Malia and Sasha could fall victim to racist aggression as they go about their everyday lives.
00:36:28.000She said, every time they get in a car by themselves, I worry about what assumption is being made by somebody who doesn't know everything about them.
00:36:33.000Maybe they're playing their music a little loud.
00:36:35.000Maybe somebody sees the back of their head and makes an assumption.
00:36:38.000I, like so many parents of black kids, the innocent act of getting a license put fears in our hearts.
00:36:41.000Again, this is just rooted in non-data.
00:36:44.000The notion that young black women are being gunned down by the cops for the crime of being black is insane.
00:37:08.000They're trying to have people understand that we're real folks.
00:37:10.000Oh, we get that you're real folks, and I'm treating you like a responsible human being.
00:37:14.000Like any other responsible human being.
00:37:16.000You know, like responsible for not shutting down traffic.
00:37:19.000Like responsible for not telling lies about the police.
00:37:23.000The bigotry of low expectations exists and it is quite prevalent on the American left.
00:37:28.000And of course, the Obamas are earning strange new respect from the same left that had started to move away from them over all of this sort of stuff.
00:37:34.000Don Lemon doing the same thing over on CNN.
00:37:37.000He says that Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina, who has said America is not a racist country.
00:37:42.000He says, well, you know, Tim Scott's not an Oreo, which is a racial slur meaning black on the outside, white on the inside.
00:38:31.000The fomenting of racial polarization in a country that, as of 2008, was at the height of a trajectory toward being non-racist Is impressive how we've reversed that over the course of the last decade and a half or so.
00:38:44.000Pretty amazing how we've reversed that so quickly.
00:38:46.000Meanwhile, wokeness infusing every part of American life.
00:38:49.000This article is beyond, honestly, it's beyond parody.
00:39:29.000One of the leading indicators of complications from COVID was fat.
00:39:33.000The body positivity movement kept saying, you're beautiful if you're fat, which again is a matter of subjective opinion and is not backed by very much data from around the world, but Put aside the subjective beauty question and instead focus on the body positivity movement's second answer, which is you are healthy if you are fat, which is just contrary to all known medical opinion.
00:39:55.000Now, the problem is, according to the LA Times, that there is a stigma attaching to fat people during COVID.
00:40:00.000Well, maybe it's not about the stigma.
00:40:01.000Maybe it's because if you wanted to live through COVID, losing weight would be a good way of heightening your chances.
00:40:14.000So I am going to try and lose this weight as fast as I possibly can.
00:40:19.000Instead, the LA Times is like, stop, you know, this is all about, it's all about self-esteem and shaming.
00:40:24.000Crystal Bougain cried after the needle went into her arm, not because her first dose of the Moderna vaccine hurt, but because, finally, being fat actually paid off.
00:40:32.000The 53-year-old was inoculated in the parking lot of Kaiser Permanente in San Jose on a rainy Friday in March, four days after eligibility in California was broadened to include people with underlying conditions.
00:40:41.000Among them, a body mass index of 40 or more, 233 pounds for an adult who is five feet four inches tall, Begun's medical record at Kaiser shows she is morbidly obese.
00:40:50.000As an activist, she prefers the word fat.
00:40:53.000Her experience with medical providers has been one incident of size stigma after another, she said, like the time she went in with a scratched cornea and was told to lose weight.
00:41:01.000She fears being hospitalized with COVID-19 and unable to advocate for herself.
00:41:05.000Well, um, maybe you're healthier if you lose weight, and when you deal with medical providers, they will keep telling you that if you lose weight, you will be healthier.
00:41:13.000But again, because so much of the woke movement is about subjective senses of self-esteem over objective fact, we're going to pretend that the big issue with COVID is all of this.
00:41:21.000So, when it comes to racial polarization in the United States, when it comes to wokeness, another crisis being fomented by this administration.
00:41:27.000And then there's foreign crisis fomented by this administration.
00:41:30.000So this administration came into office overtly suggesting that they were going to refund Palestinian terrorist groups.
00:41:36.000Suggesting that they were going to side with Iran over Israel.
00:41:39.000Suggesting that they were going to try to essentially put the Abraham Accords, which are these historic peace deals between a variety of Arab countries and Israel, in the rear view mirror, and instead incentivize violence in the Middle East.
00:41:50.000And that's exactly what has been breaking out in the Middle East.
00:41:52.000And make no mistake, the folks in the Middle East, Fatah, Hamas, terrorist groups, Iran, they know that with Biden in the White House, they now have somebody who is significantly friendlier to them than to Israel.
00:42:03.000And this is true when Obama was in the White House as well.
00:42:05.000Because the soft bigotry of low expectations certainly applies to Palestinian terrorist groups by American presidents in the same way that it does to a variety of other groups who are not expected to behave with decency.
00:42:16.000And so what you've seen in the headlines over the last couple of weeks, and certainly over the last few days, riots in, you haven't seen riots, sorry, not riots, violence, cycles of violence breaking out in Jerusalem.
00:42:27.000Just violence, random violence breaking out in Jerusalem.
00:42:30.000It's because the Israelis are really, really bad.
00:42:32.000And if you listen, To Canada and the so-called Quartet.
00:42:35.000The Quartet is the EU, the United Nations, the United States, and Russia.
00:42:39.000If you listen to them, the Israelis are the problem.
00:42:41.000It's terrible what the Israelis are doing in the Middle East.
00:42:43.000Okay, so according to the Jerusalem Post, they condemned on Sunday the violence that took place on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and called on Israel to halt eviction plans for Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood as violence rises in the country's capital.
00:42:55.000The EU and US also issued a statement against the violence and the pending Sheikh Jarrah evictions as did Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain.
00:43:03.000Individual European countries, as well as South Africa, have spoken out as well.
00:43:07.000Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said, So the easiest thing to do if you know nothing about this region is just to say, cycle of violence, everybody needs to calm down.
00:43:19.000It's like a bad parent walking in on two of their kids who are fighting.
00:43:22.000Well, just everybody should calm, just everybody stop it.
00:43:56.000They blamed the Israelis for it, of course.
00:43:57.000And now, because they canceled elections, and because Joe Biden has signaled that he is going to be very pro-Palestinian, they've decided, you know, it's a great idea.
00:44:04.000Let's ramp up the violence for some media cred.
00:44:07.000And because Fatah wants to outflank Hamas.
00:44:09.000Hamas is considered more terroristic and more radical than Fatah.
00:44:12.000Fatah is a terrorist group, but Fatah also has authority over these Palestinian areas in terms of a certain level of domestic rule.
00:44:39.000There are four families who are being ejected from homes for which they have not been paying rent for decades in a place called Sheikh Jarrah.
00:44:47.000Sheikh Jarrah is a little outskirt of Jerusalem.
00:44:50.000It's a bunch of, it's a almost entirely Arab area.
00:44:55.000It is also known as Shimon HaTzadik because there is a grave of a very famous Talmudic sage named Shimon HaTzadik over there.
00:45:01.000It was a historically Jewish area all the way up to 1948.
00:45:05.000It was majority Jewish in Jerusalem up to that time.
00:45:17.000Because the difference between Israel having territory and the Arab countries having territory is that when the Arab countries gain territory, they expel every Jew.
00:45:24.000When the Israelis gain territory, the Arabs stay, right?
00:45:27.000One fifth of the population of Israel is Arab.
00:45:30.000And so, Sheikh Jarrah is made Judenrein from 48 to 67.
00:45:34.000And then Israel in the 1967 war wins back that territory, including Sheikh Jarrah.
00:45:40.000And there's a lawsuit that is filed by the original owners of the homes in Sheikh Jarrah seeking ownership of the buildings, of the land that they were forced out of in 1948.
00:45:50.000So there's this ruling in 1970, and the ruling said that if you can show that you have a land record here, then these buildings belong to you.
00:46:03.000Okay, and so these Jewish groups came along and said, okay, these buildings belong to us.
00:46:07.000The properties were registered with Israeli authorities under a couple of organizations named Vad Eidar Hasfardim and Vad Haklali L'Knesset Israel.
00:46:16.000And in 1973, these were recognized to be Jewish homes.
00:46:21.000Hey, the organizations then sold the properties to another organization in 2003.
00:46:24.000According to a 1989 High Court decision in Israel, reaffirmed, as in the case of any tenant living on somebody else's property, residents living on the land were required to pay rent to the organizations that owned the property.
00:46:34.000They didn't pay rent for literally decades.
00:46:37.000Now, this has been elevated to a legal case, and the district courts found that the people who are living there are not paying rent, need to pay rent, or they need to vacate, and they can be evicted.
00:46:59.000It is just a pretext to start a round of violence in order for Fatah to avoid the implications of avoiding an election, in order for Hamas, because they're always good for some violence, to seek to outflank Fatah as the populist violence and terrorism generator.
00:47:14.000The way the West treats this is as though Israel is the aggressor in this particular situation.
00:47:18.000So in other words, you have a basic eviction case that has been adjudicated in Israeli courts, and in which, by the way, the defendants acknowledged that they never had any land deed to these areas.
00:47:28.000And not only did they not have any land deed, they acknowledged Jewish ownership of these particular buildings.
00:47:34.000And this has turned into a regional issue and now a global issue.
00:47:38.000And in the end, what that's really driven by more than anything else is the view by the Palestinians that if they can somehow sucker the Biden administration into taking their side, then they can generate concessions and they can avoid the implication of being horrible to their own people.
00:47:52.000Hamas and Fatah are garbage for the Palestinian people.
00:47:55.000If they can generate all of that anger and direct it at Israel, Then this is the natural outcome.
00:48:00.000The Biden administration knows this and they don't care because they have decided that the Israelis are the bad guys in this particular region, generating crisis wherever they go.
00:48:06.000The Biden administration doing a wonderful, wonderful job as always.
00:48:10.000And by the way, the violence you're seeing on the Temple Mount is pre-planned.
00:48:13.000The violence that you're seeing in Jerusalem is pre-planned.
00:48:15.000It is part of a broader terrorist campaign.
00:48:29.000I saw a great Michael Crichton quote over the weekend.
00:48:31.000So Michael Crichton said about the media at one point that if you have any expertise in a particular topic and you watch media coverage of that topic, you know the media don't know anything.
00:48:38.000Then you flip over to a different page of the paper, you're like, oh, well, they must know about this.
00:49:42.000Dr. Fauci holds Mother's Day hostage until everyone gets a vax, a SWAT team takes down a pastor in Canada for disobeying the public health police, and President Trump loses another Twitter account.