The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Is Full Of Ship | Ep. 1354

00:00:00.000 The shipping bottleneck continues as Joe Biden ignores reality and blames private companies.

00:00:04.000 Inflation spikes while the White House downplays the problem.

00:00:07.000 And Hunter Biden's email scandal starts to infect Joe.

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00:01:28.000 Well, The Biden administration's economic woes continue.

00:01:32.000 They are very, very dire at this point because it is patently obvious that inflation is no longer a temporary phenomenon.

00:01:39.000 It is a near permanent phenomenon.

00:01:41.000 According to the New York Times today, consumer prices jumped more than expected last month, with rent, food and furniture costs surging as a limited supply of housing and a shortage of goods stemming from supply chain troubles combined to fuel rapid inflation.

00:01:52.000 This consumer price index climbed 5.4% in September from a year earlier.

00:01:56.000 That's faster than its 5.3% increase through August.

00:01:59.000 That is above economists' forecasts.

00:02:00.000 Monthly price gains also exceeded predictions with the index rising 0.4% from August to September.

00:02:07.000 The figures raise the stakes for both the Federal Reserve and the White House, which are facing a longer period of rapid inflation than they had expected, and may soon come under pressure to act to ensure the price gains don't become a permanent fixture, which means you would assume that the Federal Reserve is going to have to taper faster than they said they were going to have to taper.

00:02:21.000 They're going to have to stop buying bonds.

00:02:23.000 They're going to have to lower the overnight interest rates.

00:02:25.000 They're going to have to do all the things that you normally do in order to tamp down inflation, which typically results in slower growth, at least in the moment.

00:02:33.000 Because they have now created a stagflation situation in which economic growth is not proceeding as fast as it was supposed to.

00:02:39.000 And we also have inflation.

00:02:40.000 And the only way to cure that, we know from the Paul Volcker days, is to cut down on the inflation and then wait for the economy to catch up.

00:02:46.000 On Wednesday, President Biden said his administration was doing what it could to fix supply chain problems that have helped to produce shortages, long delivery times, and rapid price increases for food, TV, automobiles, and other products.

00:02:57.000 In remarks at the White House, Biden said the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating around the clock to relieve growing backlogs, and that the administration was encouraging states to license truck drivers more quickly.

00:03:06.000 Companies including Walmart, FedEx, and UPS are also moving to work more off-peak hours, according to President Biden.

00:03:11.000 We'll get to his shipping policy in just one second.

00:03:14.000 Quick note on that.

00:03:15.000 Remember that time that Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was the greatest Secretary of Transportation of all time?

00:03:21.000 And he was very focused on equity in the roads?

00:03:24.000 And transportation was all about equity.

00:03:26.000 And of course, Secretary Buttigieg was appointed to that position because he thinks that transportation is deeply romantic, and he has a long record of not fixing potholes in South Bend, Indiana.

00:03:37.000 Well, you might have thought that maybe he might have spent the last few months, you know, boning up on exactly how ports work.

00:03:41.000 Apparently not.

00:03:42.000 So instead, we get a shipping bottleneck, the likes of which we simply have not seen in our lifetimes.

00:03:47.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:03:49.000 There are serious downstream consequences to the sort of inflation that we are seeing.

00:03:53.000 So, for example, social security is pegged to inflation, right?

00:03:56.000 It's price adjusted.

00:03:57.000 That means that social security benefits are going to rise 6% in 2022.

00:04:01.000 That is the most in four decades.

00:04:03.000 Who gets to pay for that? 0.99

00:04:04.000 You get to pay for that.

00:04:05.000 Isn't that exciting?

00:04:06.000 Benefits from Social Security, according to the New York Times, which tens of millions of retired Americans rely on to pay their bills, will increase by 5.9% in 2022, according to the Social Security Administration.

00:04:16.000 It's the biggest boost in 40 years, as prices for food, cars, and rent keep climbing.

00:04:21.000 The increase is known as a cost-of-living adjustment.

00:04:23.000 It's the largest since 1982, when that adjustment was 7.4%, according to data from the administration.

00:04:29.000 The average benefit would climb to almost $1,700 a month.

00:04:33.000 The adjustment is a response to consumer prices in the United States that have jumped at their fastest pace in years.

00:04:38.000 And all of this means that hourly wages are down.

00:04:41.000 So for all of the talk about from Democrats, well, look at how much leverage workers have. 0.91

00:04:45.000 They're not coming back because they have so much leverage because there's so many open jobs and isn't that great?

00:04:50.000 Well, there's only one problem.

00:04:51.000 If the idea is that workers are getting better wages and better working conditions because they are holding out, What if all of that is outweighed by the fact they are also paying higher prices?

00:05:00.000 See, the economy has consumers and also producers, and they are the same people.

00:05:05.000 You are both a consumer and a producer in the economy.

00:05:08.000 So if you don't produce, but you do consume, it turns out that there will be bottlenecks, there will be shortages, there will be inflation.

00:05:16.000 And your failure to work is going to end up hurting you.

00:05:19.000 And then even when you go back to work, the prices are going to outrank exactly how much you've increased your pay.

00:05:24.000 And that's exactly what's happening right now, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

00:05:28.000 Is inflation still transitory, as the Federal Reserve and White House like to say?

00:05:32.000 Not if you've been visiting the grocery store, gas pump, online retailer, or anywhere else across the U.S.

00:05:36.000 And not judging by Wednesday's report on consumer prices for September, which showed the same rapid rate of inflation that has been apparent all this year.

00:05:36.000 economy.

00:05:44.000 This is the largest year-over-year increase since 2008 in inflation, and the details in the report add to the evidence inflation is likely to be persistent.

00:05:51.000 Remember when used car prices popped in the spring and various progressive sages said inflation would vanish when those prices stopped rising?

00:05:57.000 Well, in September, used car and truck prices fell 0.7%, but the increase in the cost of the other goods and services more than made up the difference.

00:06:04.000 Used price vehicles are still up 24.4% in the last 12 months, by the way.

00:06:07.000 The price of new vehicles rose 1.3% and are up 8.7% for the year.

00:06:13.000 Try renting a car or truck, and assuming you can find one, you'll pay about 43% more than you did in September 2020.

00:06:20.000 Beef prices are up 17.6% over the last year.

00:06:23.000 Fresh fish and seafood are 10.7% higher.

00:06:26.000 Major appliances are nearly 10% more expensive.

00:06:28.000 Furniture and bedding are up 11.2%.

00:06:31.000 And the September report includes omens of future inflation, notably the rise in housing costs.

00:06:36.000 Actual rents rose 0.5% for the month, while owner-equivalent rents rose 0.4%.

00:06:42.000 The latter is especially important because it makes up nearly a quarter of the Consumer Price Index, and the increase in housing costs show up in equivalent to owner rents with a lag.

00:06:50.000 Housing costs have been soaring, with the Case-Shiller Index up nearly 20% in a year as of July.

00:06:55.000 That increase will flow into the Consumer Price Index as of next year.

00:07:00.000 Inflation is a monetary phenomenon and there's no question the Fed has been pursuing one of the most radical monetary experiments in history since April 2020.

00:07:07.000 By basically just paying everybody to stay home and making credit free.

00:07:11.000 The breadth of the goods and asset price increases suggests a monetary cause.

00:07:15.000 Pick a financial asset or material commodity as prices climb.

00:07:18.000 Real estate is booming.

00:07:19.000 A plot in Johnson County, Iowa recently sold for $26,000 an acre.

00:07:24.000 So much money is chasing assets that smart or manipulative folks have been inventing assets like non-fungible tokens for investment, some of which don't actually have any openly and obviously tangible value.

00:07:33.000 There's a reason the Bitcoin has been rising over the course of the last couple of years.

00:07:37.000 All this is good news for asset holders, but workers are paying the price.

00:07:40.000 And here is the key for the manufacturing base that Joe Biden needs to win in 2024 and Democrats need to hold in 2022.

00:07:48.000 Real average hourly earnings rose 0.2% in September.

00:07:52.000 They are down 0.8% since a year ago.

00:07:55.000 Real hourly earnings are down 1.9% since January, when Joe Biden became president.

00:08:00.000 The White House knows this has become a political problem, which is why it's ignoring inflation and instead focusing on its frantic, if belated, efforts to fix supply chain bottlenecks.

00:08:10.000 If they really want to help with supply, they need to forego their planned tax and regulatory increase on producers.

00:08:16.000 So inflation is a problem.

00:08:18.000 You got supply chain bottlenecks that are a problem.

00:08:20.000 And the administration strategy here is basically to downplay the entire problem.

00:08:25.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:09:46.000 All right, so the White House continues to downplay inflation, even though it obviously is a serious problem.

00:09:53.000 Patrice Onwuka is the director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at the Independent Women's Forum.

00:09:57.000 She writes for the Washington Post, Dollar Tree has already been testing prices up to $5 at its Plus and Combo stores.

00:10:03.000 It resisted pressure from investors in recent years to ditch the dollar barrier in its traditional stores.

00:10:06.000 a buck policy. Dollar Tree has already been testing prices up to $5 at its plus and combo stores. It resisted pressure from investors in recent years to ditch the dollar barrier in its traditional stores. But now they've gotten rid of those. And the fact is that people are paying the price.

00:10:22.000 A demographic profile of Dollar Tree customers reveals discount store shoppers skew older in the 45 to 64 age range and tend to be black.

00:10:30.000 Not surprisingly, people in those groups fall in the lowest income brackets, below $60,000 annual income, and are less likely to be college educated.

00:10:38.000 Dollar Tree's announcement of its policy change suggests prices could hit $1.25 to $1.50, which might not sound like much, but if you are spending your last $10 or $15 a month on necessities, that could be the entire margin.

00:10:51.000 In every inflationary period, the elderly are especially vulnerable because their savings are going down, right?

00:10:57.000 As you devalue the dollar, people who have money in the bank, that money becomes worthless.

00:11:01.000 It's a tax on people who save inflation.

00:11:04.000 It's also a tax on hourly wage earners.

00:11:06.000 So the people who are getting hurt the worst by the Democratic blow-money-through-the-door policy are exactly the people Democrats are supposedly standing up for.

00:11:14.000 So the White House has to downplay all this.

00:11:15.000 Jen Psaki over at the White House, she spent the day yesterday downplaying the inflation and gas prices.

00:11:21.000 We are very well aware for a range of issues, and we should talk about those, that the American people are of course impacted by rising prices of gas in some parts of the country, not all, and also looking ahead to the winter season and looking at natural gas supply out there.

00:11:41.000 Maybe they don't look at it exactly through that prism, but I would say we do.

00:11:45.000 Okay, and then she continued along these lines.

00:11:47.000 She's being asked about inflation, and she makes the utterly asinine and disconnected statement that people are not comparing prices to a year or two years ago, so she doesn't care about the inflation statistics.

00:11:57.000 Um, let me just say, you know what people do care about?

00:12:00.000 They care about whether their prices have inflated over time, and how much of their money they're spending, and whether their real hourly wages are going down or up.

00:12:07.000 Like, that stuff does matter to humans.

00:12:09.000 Not to Jen Psaki, of course, because she's a keyboard warrior, right? 0.95

00:12:11.000 She spent her entire career in the warm, comforting arms of a government that pays her salary, or in a CNN air-conditioned studio.

00:12:19.000 And she's lucky.

00:12:20.000 I know she's lucky because I have a very similar job.

00:12:22.000 I'm lucky.

00:12:23.000 But for all those people out there who may be working on the margins, right?

00:12:27.000 People who are working hardscrabble, blue-collar jobs.

00:12:31.000 Or, frankly, people who just aren't making all that much money, no matter what their job is.

00:12:35.000 You think that inflation doesn't matter to them?

00:12:37.000 People who are struggling to get by, who have a lot of bills?

00:12:39.000 Jen Psaki downplaying this thing just demonstrates how out of touch the elite Democrats are. 0.99

00:12:44.000 We all understand the American people are not looking at cost-to-cost comparisons from this year to two years ago.

00:12:50.000 They're looking at cost-to-cost comparisons to their checkbooks from eight months ago or twelve months ago.

00:12:55.000 And even though factually, if you look back to two years ago, things may be comparative, that's not how people look at things.

00:13:01.000 So our objective here is to tackle each of these issues with the approach that we think will help address it in the shortest term.

00:13:08.000 Tell us how, tell us, Jen Psaki, how people look at things, how people look at things.

00:13:12.000 They don't look at their prices.

00:13:13.000 They just look at whether we are Democrats and then they decide they love it.

00:13:18.000 It's like Nancy Pelosi yesterday saying that even if people don't know what's in the bill, they love the bill.

00:13:22.000 That's not how you don't gauge public opinion that way.

00:13:25.000 And Democrats are about to find out quite hard in 2022 that the American public does not assess these issues the way that professional politicos like Jen Psaki assess these issues.

00:13:35.000 Meanwhile, one of the reasons that you are seeing price increases is not just the monetary phenomenon that has been created by the Federal Reserve over the course of the last two years and the Joe Biden plan to spend more money than God has ever seen, but also the problem with the poors, right? 1.00

00:13:48.000 So we have these shipping bottlenecks.

00:13:50.000 So let's talk a little bit about what exactly is happening with the shipping bottlenecks and why we have these shipping bottlenecks.

00:13:55.000 So Dominic Pino, who writes for National Review, had a good piece in late September talking about this.

00:14:01.000 He says, first, shipping is a global industry, but this crisis is largely an American problem.

00:14:05.000 According to the 2020 World Bank HIS Market Container Port Performance Index, for example, not one U.S.

00:14:11.000 port ranked in the top 50 global ports in terms of getting a ship in and out of port, according to Scott Lincecum, who writes for The Dispatch.

00:14:18.000 The highest ranked U.S.

00:14:19.000 port statistically was Philadelphia at 83, with Virginia close behind at 85, and New York, New Jersey at 89.

00:14:25.000 Oakland ranks 332nd.

00:14:28.000 L.A., Long Beach ranked a dismal 328 and 333, respectively.

00:14:32.000 So why are our ports so far behind?

00:14:34.000 Not because we don't spend on infrastructure, as the Biden administration would have you believe.

00:14:37.000 The federal government could spend a quadrillion dollars on ports.

00:14:40.000 It wouldn't change the contracts with longshoremen unions that prevent ports from operating 24-7, as they do in Asia, and send labor costs through the roof.

00:14:48.000 According to Scott Lincecum, union dockworkers on the West Coast are making an average, an average, dockworkers, okay, of $171,000 a year, plus free healthcare.

00:14:56.000 $171,000 a year plus free health care.

00:14:59.000 Pretty sweet gig.

00:15:01.000 And when you sign a crappy union contract on behalf of the Port of Los Angeles, which is a government agency, when you do that sort of thing, what you end up doing is incentivizing It turns out that rich union contracts, just like everywhere else in the American economy, tend to stagnate whoever the employer is and make it less effective.

00:15:20.000 All the folks on the left who are big into unions, ah, unions are the bulwark of the middle class.

00:15:23.000 Well, it turns out the union contracts are very good for the people who are members of the union and have jobs.

00:15:28.000 And for everyone else, there are serious externalities and the ports are one of those casualties.

00:15:33.000 The unions have been fighting automation at American ports for a long time because they are afraid that they're simply going to be replaced by machines.

00:15:39.000 Also, according to this columnist for National Review, Dominic Pino, the pandemic is not the primary cause of the crisis.

00:15:48.000 The pandemic merely immunitized a crisis that was long brewing.

00:15:52.000 Much of the current mess in the United States was decades in the making, reflecting systemic labor and trade policies that decreased the efficiency and flexibility U.S.

00:15:58.000 ports and the economy reliant on them enjoy in the best of times and desperately need in the worst.

00:16:03.000 The problems we are enduring now will not be solved by a pandemic emergency stopgap measure.

00:16:09.000 They require real changes to the way the industry works that will be difficult to design and implement and will encounter heavy resistance from interest groups that benefit from the status quo.

00:16:19.000 So we've got real systemic problems in the shipping industry that are brought about by really bad trade policy and really bad union policy.

00:16:27.000 And all of this is not fixable by Joe Biden saying words See, the way that shipping works, as Pino wrote back in June, is pretty complex.

00:16:40.000 He points out that the global shipping industry is still behind from the pandemic and likely will be for quite some time.

00:16:45.000 That is because there have been cancelled sailings and ships only like to ship when they are, the owners of the ships only like to ship when the ship is completely full because it takes like three weeks to send a ship from Asia to Los Angeles.

00:16:58.000 It's not like a plane.

00:17:00.000 If you have a cargo ship sitting in LA that's scheduled for Shanghai and the shipping line decides to cancel the sailing, that stinks for both the people trying to ship things out of LA and for people trying to receive things in Shanghai.

00:17:10.000 But it also stinks for people trying to ship things out of Shanghai because the people running the Shanghai port were planning on using that same boat.

00:17:16.000 They were planning on it being in Shanghai in three weeks.

00:17:18.000 Now it won't be there.

00:17:19.000 So you got three weeks worth of containers that pile up on the docks of Shanghai.

00:17:22.000 So you might think they can wait for the next one, but every boat is scheduled to be full.

00:17:26.000 So you end up with these giant backlogs.

00:17:29.000 So, All of this is a serious problem.

00:17:32.000 We have a serious shortage of longshoremen in the United States.

00:17:35.000 There aren't enough workers to unload them.

00:17:38.000 And also import volume from China.

00:17:40.000 The ocean shipping is up 54% year over year.

00:17:42.000 Exports have only ticked up by 4.4%.

00:17:44.000 So a lot of containers are leaving Asia, but not enough have actually been returning there.

00:17:49.000 And you need those containers in order to ship things.

00:17:52.000 There are not enough ships.

00:17:53.000 There are not enough containers to move more goods than ever before.

00:17:55.000 Not enough workers to load and unload them.

00:17:57.000 And that is going to drive up the prices. 0.57

00:18:00.000 So Joe Biden's silly, silly plan here is that he's going to order the ports to stay open for 24 hours. 0.94

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00:19:19.000 Okay, so the shipping shortages that are happening are not Only Joe Biden's fault.

00:19:24.000 But they are certainly partly Joe Biden's fault.

00:19:26.000 Because, as it turns out, when you drive prices up through inflation, and when you sign rich union contracts, and when you do all of these things, ignoring the realities on the ground, well, you end up with some bottlenecks.

00:19:38.000 You have labor shortages because people are staying home from work.

00:19:40.000 When you tell people not to go back to work, when you tell people you'll pay them to stay home, and then you have labor shortages on one end, bottlenecks in the system tend to pile up.

00:19:46.000 It's sort of like how traffic problems happen.

00:19:49.000 If you ever think about a traffic problem, you think, like, why are there traffic jams?

00:19:52.000 Why don't all the cars keep moving?

00:19:54.000 All it takes, studies have shown, is a couple of cars going on an on-ramp a little bit slower than the rest of traffic.

00:20:01.000 And the downstream effects on a crowded freeway are pretty dramatic because people start slowing up behind and suddenly have a bottleneck.

00:20:08.000 So Joe Biden's plan is that he wants to keep the Los Angeles port open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

00:20:14.000 He pledged that this would relieve pressure on an overworked supply chain that has frustrated Americans and blossomed into a major economic shortcoming.

00:20:23.000 There's only one problem with this plan.

00:20:25.000 It is not going to do anything.

00:20:26.000 Biden said that the announcement had the potential to be a game changer in unclogging the nation's supply lines.

00:20:32.000 So here was Joe Biden trying to blame private companies for the shipping delays, as opposed to, you know, the bad policy at the ports.

00:20:38.000 Today's announcement has the potential to be a game changer.

00:20:42.000 I say potential because all of these goods won't move by themselves.

00:20:48.000 For the for the positive impact to be felt all all across the country and by all of you at home, we need major retailers who ordered the goods and the freight movers who take the goods from the ships to factories and the stores to step up as well.

00:21:07.000 So it's all about the private companies who aren't picking up their stuff.

00:21:09.000 Okay, so here is the problem with what Joe Biden is saying, aside from the fact that the man is not with us.

00:21:15.000 According to the Washington Post, no right-wing outlet, the extended hours the administration is touting represent something less than the full around-the-clock operations that are typical of the world's most advanced cargo moving facilities.

00:21:25.000 That is what we've been saying. 0.98

00:21:26.000 Our ports in the United States are operated idiotically. 0.98

00:21:30.000 We don't have the automation. 0.99

00:21:31.000 We don't have 24-7.

00:21:32.000 We have longshoremen unions that are being paid an absolute fortune.

00:21:36.000 The port of Long Beach, which makes up one half of the nation's chief import gateway, began a pilot program late last month of late night and pre-dawn work.

00:21:43.000 An administration official said Tuesday Long Beach had already gone to 24-7 and LA would be meeting that effort.

00:21:48.000 But here's the thing, that's a lie.

00:21:49.000 Only one of Long Beach port's six container terminals works 24 hours a day.

00:21:53.000 One out of six.

00:21:54.000 It only does so Monday through Thursday.

00:21:56.000 So it's not 24-7.

00:21:58.000 Biden said the L.A.

00:21:59.000 port would be open for 60 additional hours each week, but Philip Sanfield, port spokesman, said he couldn't say how many L.A.

00:22:04.000 terminals will now be in operating around the clock.

00:22:06.000 Gene Sirocca, executive director of the L.A.

00:22:08.000 port, said on Twitter, operational details are being discussed and worked out with supply chain stakeholders.

00:22:14.000 Some industry executives described the administration's latest initiative, which the White House billed as nearly doubling the port's cargo handling hours, as incomplete.

00:22:22.000 Matt Trapp, chief executive of the Harvard Trucking Association, whose members service the port, said the measure will make a big difference only if terminals abandon requirements for truckers to return a specific type of empty shipping container before collecting a full one.

00:22:33.000 The problem with that, of course, is that if you don't actually have the empty shipping containers that are being returned to the port, then those ships can't leave, so they just stay there.

00:22:42.000 And Craig Grosskart, Senior Vice President for Global Ocean at Seco Logistics said, Indeed, the administration said an additional 3,500 containers each week would move through the LA port during the new nighttime hours, thanks to promises from Walmart, FedEx, UPS, Target, Home Depot, and Samsung.

00:23:00.000 The port expects to process almost 80,000 containers this week.

00:23:05.000 So in other words, this is a minute upgrade from what was already being shipped in.

00:23:11.000 The administration says giant companies will set an example that will spur others to follow, but longer working hours at the neighboring ports, which operate as a single complex under dual management, will only matter if trains, trucks, and warehouses all do the same.

00:23:22.000 And truckers are reluctant to show up at the Long Beach port from 3 to 7 a.m.

00:23:26.000 because they have nowhere to take containers at that hour.

00:23:28.000 Nothing's open.

00:23:30.000 So basically, Joe Biden is trying to slap a tiny, tiny Band-Aid on a giant problem.

00:23:36.000 That in the end is created by macroeconomic conditions that have been generated by the Federal Reserve and his work policies and bad union contracts and failure for years to upgrade the port contracts and how these things work.

00:23:48.000 It turns out that bad policy has long tails, they have long tails, long downstream bad effects.

00:23:53.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second first.

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00:25:00.000 Okay, so as we say...

00:25:01.000 The 24-7 talk by Joe Biden really means nothing.

00:25:05.000 According to the Wall Street Journal back on September 30th, quote, a pilot program offering 24-hour container operations at the port of Long Beach hasn't attracted any truckers, any, more than two weeks since the extended hours began, highlighting challenges facing Southern California seaports as dozens of ships back up off the coast.

00:25:22.000 Total Terminals International LLC, among the largest terminals at Long Beach, began September 13th to allow truckers to pick up containers between 3 and 7 a.m.

00:25:30.000 Monday to Thursday.

00:25:32.000 So far, we've had zero deliveries, TTI Chief Executive Bill Parrott said.

00:25:37.000 Parrott said TTI is talking to local trucking companies to see if the terminal can attract drivers to pick up and drop off boxes.

00:25:43.000 The extended hours are among efforts at the neighboring L.A.

00:25:46.000 and Long Beach ports to cope with a flood of imports this year that has swamped the critical U.S.

00:25:50.000 trade gateway and snarled inland supply chains.

00:25:53.000 The backups have led to a record number of container ships idling offshore for up to three weeks for berth space, an armada that peaked at 73 ships on September 19 and counted 64 vessels as of the end of September.

00:26:05.000 The congestion is exacerbating storing costs and shipping delays for U.S.

00:26:08.000 manufacturers and retailers all across the country.

00:26:11.000 Most terminals are closed at least several hours a day during the week, with more limited operations on Saturdays and Sundays.

00:26:16.000 The shift to 24-hour operations at one of Long Beach Port's six terminals was encouraged by the Biden administration, but it really hasn't done anything.

00:26:27.000 Mario Cordero, the Executive Director of the Port of Long Beach and proponent of 24-hour operations, says the Port has asked major retailers to direct truckers to use overnight gates, but it will take time to set up new work patterns.

00:26:38.000 We need their buy-in, so they can direct their dreyage companies to move this cargo.

00:26:42.000 Jonathan Gold, Vice President for Supply Chain at the National Retail Federation, said retailers have concerns about the program's restrictions, as well as a nationwide shortage of the truck chassis that are used to transport sea containers.

00:26:53.000 Dreyage companies, which specialize in hauling cargo by truck from ports to local yards and distribution facilities, say the overnight system is burdensome.

00:27:00.000 Truckers can only make an appointment to pick up a container if they're able to drop off a specific type of container and chassis during the same run.

00:27:07.000 Getting everything to match up can be difficult, said Matt Schrapp, chief executive of the Harbor Trucking Association.

00:27:11.000 Schrapp said, I commend TTI for what they're trying to do, but if you can't get the appointment in the first place because it doesn't line up, it doesn't make any difference.

00:27:19.000 Herod said that the terminal accepts containers from seven ocean carriers, but truckers are limited by the type of chassis they're actually able to drop off.

00:27:26.000 So this whole thing is a mess.

00:27:27.000 You know who could have helped with this?

00:27:29.000 Maybe Pete Buttigieg, but Pete Buttigieg was too busy speaking of the romance of airports, talking about how he likes choo-choo trains.

00:27:35.000 Here's Pete Buttigieg announcing that we are seeing challenges.

00:27:37.000 Yes, we've noticed.

00:27:40.000 How bad are they going to get for Americans?

00:27:42.000 And I'm talking specifically, you know, leading here into the December holidays, where people are relying on getting goods, on getting presents.

00:27:53.000 Well, I think there's always been two kinds of Christmas shoppers.

00:27:55.000 There's the ones who have all their list completed by Halloween, and then there's people like me who show up at the mall on Christmas Eve.

00:28:02.000 If you're in that latter bucket, obviously there's going to be more challenges.

00:28:07.000 It's so exciting.

00:28:08.000 By the way, Pete Buttigieg, according to internal Democratic polling, is like the number two shot to replace Joe Biden behind Kamala Harris.

00:28:16.000 What a world of joy they have over there in the Democratic Party.

00:28:19.000 Meanwhile, the White House is saying, you know, we can't give you any answers as to the supply chain crisis and how that's going to affect Christmas.

00:28:25.000 We're only the White House, right?

00:28:27.000 So we're not UPS or the Postal Service.

00:28:30.000 I mean, I noticed the Postal Service is part of the federal government, but here's Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:28:35.000 Can this administration guarantee that holiday packages will arrive on time?

00:28:42.000 We are not the Postal Service or UPS or FedEx.

00:28:45.000 We cannot guarantee.

00:28:46.000 What we can do is use every lever at the federal government disposal to reduce delays, to ensure that we are addressing bottlenecks in the system, including ports and the need for them to be open longer hours so that goods can arrive.

00:29:08.000 Okay, except that this is a complicated process, and you guys can't just flip a switch and then suddenly open this stuff up.

00:29:20.000 Not unless you're willing to go to war with the Longshoremen's Union, so it'll be interesting to see if the Biden administration is indeed willing to go to war with its union constituents over the port.

00:29:29.000 Because this is one area where the United States has really been lacking for a very long time.

00:29:33.000 And I guarantee you, the people who've been signing the contract with those union workers, I promise you, they all work for the Democratic Party.

00:29:39.000 Meanwhile, the good news is that Joe Biden continues to not be with us.

00:29:42.000 So Joe Biden did this little presser yesterday.

00:29:44.000 He got tongue-tied trying to say supply chains.

00:29:46.000 That was great.

00:29:48.000 The commitments being made today are a sign of major progress in moving goods from manufacturers to a store or to your front door.

00:29:57.000 I want to thank my supply-sane disruption task force, which we set up in June.

00:30:02.000 And well, you know, he is supply-sane.

00:30:04.000 That's good.

00:30:05.000 And then afterward, could he answer any questions?

00:30:07.000 No, he could not.

00:30:08.000 He was just going to jet out of there, or hobble out of there, as the case may be.

00:30:12.000 May God protect our troops.

00:30:14.000 Thank you all very much.

00:30:17.000 Back to the basement.

00:30:19.000 Matlock rerun is on.

00:30:21.000 Gotta get some pudding in there.

00:30:23.000 The insurer calls him.

00:30:23.000 Insurer.

00:30:26.000 Meanwhile, the Fed is talking about tapering.

00:30:28.000 So if you've thought that the economy was going to be a problem for Joe Biden, it is going to get a lot worse because the fact is that when the Fed tapers, you're going to start seeing spending drawbacks.

00:30:39.000 And so that's going to tamp down on inflation.

00:30:41.000 I mean, the Fed should never have been pursuing monetary policy this loose in the first place.

00:30:45.000 But when they start tapering, get ready for the world of hurt to descend on the Biden administration.

00:30:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve officials last month worried that disrupted supply chains were raising the risks of more persistent inflation as they firmed up plans to reduce their bond buying stimulus program next month and conclude it by the middle of next year.

00:31:03.000 Under plans discussed last month, the Fed would reduce its purchases by $15 billion a month, divided proportionally between Treasury and mortgage bonds.

00:31:10.000 Officials discussed starting the taper in mid-November.

00:31:12.000 If they follow the schedule penciled out last month, purchases would conclude by June.

00:31:16.000 That schedule for phasing out the Fed's stimulus program is somewhat faster than investors had anticipated just a few months ago.

00:31:23.000 Officials don't want to be in a position where they feel compelled to raise rates at a time when they are still fueling monetary stimulus by purchasing assets.

00:31:32.000 So, great.

00:31:33.000 Everything is going great.

00:31:34.000 The Biden economy is booming, guys.

00:31:36.000 Everything is fine.

00:31:37.000 And you know what would really solve this is if they spent more money.

00:31:39.000 Probably if they spent more money on something, that would solve it.

00:31:41.000 And also if they continued the paranoia about COVID, that would probably solve it as well.

00:31:45.000 Solve labor shortages by COVID paranoia, and solve inflation by blowing out the spending.

00:31:50.000 Probably this will all work.

00:31:51.000 It'll be great.

00:31:52.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:33:02.000 Alright, we'll get to more on all of this in just one second.

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00:36:35.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to talk about blowing out the spending.

00:36:44.000 Representative Pramila Jayapal, who's become sort of the voice of the squad when it comes to spending because she doesn't sound quite as crazy as AOC or Ayanna Pressley or any of the other members of the squad.

00:36:53.000 She's out there basically holding Joe Biden's feet to the fire, saying we want as much spending as humanly possible.

00:36:59.000 Here she was on MSNBC yesterday. 0.85

00:37:02.000 There are two people that still need to come on board, and the president is, in many ways, in my view, the best person to be talking to them.

00:37:10.000 The real negotiation here is with the president, because this is the president's agenda.

00:37:15.000 This isn't some, you know, agenda of 10 senators that was developed separate from everyone else.

00:37:21.000 No, this is the president's agenda.

00:37:23.000 So I think it's completely appropriate that those two holdout senators would talk to the president about what they believe.

00:37:31.000 Okay, so she is attempting to hold the Democrats' feet to the fire on the left. 0.99

00:37:34.000 The same thing from Bernie Sanders, right?

00:37:36.000 So, the Democrats have been trying to get Manchin and Sinema to move, and they've not done a great job getting the progressives to move.

00:37:44.000 And yet, they're still claiming they're not in disarray.

00:37:45.000 So, good luck to them.

00:37:47.000 Here's Representative Jayapal on that.

00:37:50.000 For us, we've been very clear that 98% of all Democrats agree.

00:37:53.000 So this idea that somehow Democrats are in disarray and there's terrible disagreement, it's not true.

00:37:58.000 We're waiting for two people to tell us what they agree on, first of all, because they don't agree with each other, and then we'd like them to tell us what they want us to consider that is different Okay, it's going to be fascinating to see how this plays out, frankly, because Manchin and Sinema have basically no incentive to make a deal with people like Pramila Jayapal.

00:38:26.000 If you are a senator from Arizona in a very purple state, or from a very red state like Joe Manchin is, And you are seen as having signed off on a big spending plan.

00:38:34.000 What is the upside for you exactly?

00:38:36.000 Especially in the midst of a bad economic turn here.

00:38:39.000 What exactly is the upside?

00:38:42.000 And meanwhile, if you're Pramila Jayapal or Bernie Sanders, what's the upside for you in signing off on a fairly moderate spending plan, according to you?

00:38:48.000 None of this stuff is moderate.

00:38:49.000 Spending trillions of dollars.

00:38:50.000 I mean, these numbers are insane.

00:38:53.000 But it's going to be hard for Democrats to bridge this gap.

00:38:56.000 If they finally do bridge the gap, I'm not sure they get much of a win out of any of it.

00:39:00.000 And yet this is what they're spending their time on.

00:39:02.000 And the American people are like, you guys are arguing amongst yourself over how much money we should spend when we are literally earning less month on month than we were the month before, thanks to inflation.

00:39:11.000 And you're telling us that we can't go back to work.

00:39:14.000 This is policy that is designed to make life worse for Americans.

00:39:18.000 And Democrats are going to pay the price for this. 0.67

00:39:19.000 They really, really are.

00:39:21.000 Speaking of which, the utter discombobulation of the administration's COVID policies is the other half of all of this.

00:39:28.000 We have always said from the beginning of this pandemic that public health experts have one job and one job only, right?

00:39:34.000 Which is to try to minimize the amount of death that happens, the amount of health damage that happens in a particular society.

00:39:39.000 But public health experts are appointees.

00:39:41.000 They are not political officials.

00:39:42.000 It is the job of political officials to balance all of the interests.

00:39:45.000 This is true in all public policy, literally all of it.

00:39:48.000 There's not a single public policy that does not have costs and benefits.

00:39:52.000 There are public policy costs to setting a speed limit at a particular speed.

00:39:56.000 If you slowed everybody down to 30 miles an hour, there'd be many, many fewer deaths on the roads.

00:40:02.000 However, you would also ding the economy by a pretty significant margin.

00:40:06.000 So we make that public policy trade-off.

00:40:08.000 When it comes to COVID, the same has been true since the beginning.

00:40:11.000 You were going to have to decide what the trade-offs were, whether the trade-offs were worth it, what sort of mitigation measures could be put into effect.

00:40:18.000 And our public health officials were telling us lies.

00:40:20.000 They were telling us that we could bring the pandemic to an end and eradicate the disease totally.

00:40:24.000 And this has led the Democrats down the primrose path to hell here.

00:40:26.000 So on the one hand, they want to spend as much money as humanly possible.

00:40:29.000 On the other hand, they want to tell you you never have to go back to work.

00:40:31.000 And then they wonder why stagflation is happening.

00:40:34.000 Well, finally, Anthony Fauci is coming around to reality.

00:40:36.000 So Anthony Fauci yesterday, he finally admitted, we're not going to eradicate this disease. 0.98

00:40:40.000 Now, anybody who thinks that Anthony Fauci is a hero, you're just crazy.

00:40:45.000 And there's this whole Disney Plus documentary about Fauci.

00:40:47.000 And I have to say, the Rotten Tomatoes ratings are hilarious.

00:40:49.000 It's like 96% positive from the critics, 2% positive from the audience at Rotten Tomatoes.

00:40:55.000 Because people dislike Fauci.

00:40:57.000 People think that Fauci shifts his opinion day to day based on what the administration is telling him, which is true.

00:41:03.000 Just a couple of weeks ago, he went on national TV and he said, it's not okay if you even get a breakthrough illness, which of course is very silly.

00:41:09.000 Now, as the administration starts to realize that if they actually wish to save themselves, economically speaking, they have to get people back to work.

00:41:16.000 They have to stop with the COVID panic.

00:41:18.000 Now you hear Fauci trying to walk it back.

00:41:19.000 So here he was yesterday saying, we're actually, for all the talk about how we need to get rid of the disease, it's not going to happen.

00:41:25.000 We are seeing now a decline in acceleration and a turnaround of cases.

00:41:31.000 Where do we ultimately want to be?

00:41:34.000 As I mentioned, it is going to be very difficult, at least in the foreseeable future and maybe ever, to truly eliminate this highly transmissible virus.

00:41:44.000 And again, as I mentioned, we've only eradicated one.

00:41:47.000 Okay, so here's my question.

00:41:49.000 Then why is all of your policy talk geared toward eradication?

00:41:52.000 If you talk to anybody who's setting public policy these days, it's about eradication of the virus.

00:41:55.000 This is why they're talking to you about masking your kids up in schools.

00:41:59.000 There's no end point.

00:42:00.000 They literally have no end point.

00:42:01.000 If there are zero cases in a school, then they say, well, it must be because of the masks.

00:42:05.000 And then if you say, well, okay, then when do we get to remove the masks?

00:42:08.000 They say, well, never, because the virus is still out there.

00:42:11.000 If you say, why aren't people going back to work?

00:42:14.000 They'll say, well, you never know, somebody could get sick.

00:42:16.000 You're like, yes, but people should go back to work.

00:42:17.000 They say, yes, but somebody could get sick.

00:42:20.000 They've created a pathological public.

00:42:22.000 This is what the media and the Democrats have done.

00:42:24.000 And Dr. Fauci and our public health establishment.

00:42:26.000 They've created a pathological fear of a virus that should not be feared at this point by pretty much anybody other than people who are uniquely compromised, immunocompromised, or very, very elderly.

00:42:39.000 There's no reason to spend enormous quantities of brain power worrying about COVID these days.

00:42:45.000 Now that the vaccines are available, it's over.

00:42:49.000 If the vaccines are available and you choose to get a vaccine, you shouldn't be worried.

00:42:52.000 If you choose not to get a vaccine, you're probably not getting vaccinated because you're not particularly worried.

00:42:56.000 So we're done.

00:42:57.000 But for certain segments of the population, The paranoia has set in and the paranoia will not leave until you will get more mandates.

00:43:04.000 You'll get more attempts to cram down, more attempts to control, even though you now have the government openly admitting you're not going to be able to eradicate this virus.

00:43:10.000 So then what's the purpose?

00:43:12.000 Really, what's the purpose of what you're doing at this point?

00:43:16.000 The pathology is visible nearly everywhere.

00:43:18.000 So Mark Cuban, he says that he's going to force his employees to be vaccinated.

00:43:22.000 So here he was ranting about all of this.

00:43:26.000 If you work for me, I require my employees to be vaccinated unless there's a doctor's reason where they can't be.

00:43:32.000 You know, like you, I don't want my kids to be at risk.

00:43:36.000 So, you know, the consequences of you not being vaccinated is I'm not going to shut up.

00:43:41.000 I'm going to be in your mother. 0.98

00:43:43.000 You're driving you mother crazy. 0.99

00:43:45.000 What a hero. 0.89

00:43:46.000 What a hero.

00:43:46.000 Okay, there's only one problem.

00:43:48.000 Your kids are not at risk, Mark.

00:43:50.000 Your kids aren't at risk.

00:43:51.000 The total number of children in the United States who have died over the course of this pandemic with COVID-19, not just from with, is under 600.

00:44:00.000 During that same time, total number of kids who have died from pneumonia, closer to a thousand.

00:44:06.000 According to Dr. Marty McCarry from Johns Hopkins University, total number of kids, total, in the United States, who have died from COVID-19 without a significant pre-existing condition is somewhere, he said this on the show last week, is somewhere between 10 and 20.

00:44:17.000 10 and 20.

00:44:21.000 And Mark Cuban is saying that he's going to yell at you and force you to get vaccinated and be in your MFing year because his kids are at risk?

00:44:27.000 The only way you can believe this is if you've been propagandized to.

00:44:29.000 Democrats have put that propaganda out there for too long.

00:44:32.000 And now people are ensconced in it.

00:44:34.000 And when they're called on it, they have no response to it.

00:44:37.000 So Joe Rogan, who is, I mean, listen, I'm full disclosure.

00:44:40.000 I'm very friendly with Joe.

00:44:42.000 I think Joe's great.

00:44:43.000 So Joe had on Sanjay Gupta from CNN, their medical expert over at CNN. 0.99

00:44:47.000 And it just went so poorly for Gupta because if you are the public health expert over the last year, you look like a fool. 0.99

00:44:52.000 You've done a terrible job, generally speaking. 0.98

00:44:54.000 So Gupta was asked by Rogan about children vaxxing.

00:44:57.000 And Rogan says something very simple.

00:44:59.000 And what you're about to hear is a very simple logical point from Rogan that Gupta completely misses.

00:45:04.000 And Rogan says to him, So here's the deal, Sanjay.

00:45:07.000 You're vaccinated, right?

00:45:08.000 And Gupta's like, yeah.

00:45:09.000 He's like, and you don't feel afraid, right?

00:45:11.000 And Gupta's like, yeah.

00:45:11.000 He's like, you're 51, right?

00:45:13.000 He's like, well, um, your chances of dying from COVID are still higher than that of a child.

00:45:13.000 Gupta's like, yeah.

00:45:17.000 So why are we supposed to be worried about kids?

00:45:20.000 Should they be worried?

00:45:21.000 You're not worried.

00:45:22.000 Should kids who are at a lower risk than you, should their parents be worried?

00:45:26.000 Here's Rogan just taking Gupta to the woodshed.

00:45:29.000 Your attitude that you're not worried about catching it because you've been vaccinated and you're a healthy guy.

00:45:35.000 That is the exact same feeling that people have about vaccinating their children.

00:45:40.000 If they have healthy children and they know that statistically speaking there's so few children that have died from COVID.

00:45:47.000 Well, yeah, there are it's like I think 500 or so out of millions and millions and millions of kids that probably have been exposed.

00:45:54.000 Yeah, and but you know, it's again part of it is is not defining this in terms of life and death.

00:46:00.000 Oh, okay.

00:46:01.000 Well, okay.

00:46:02.000 Okay, but by the way, Rogan didn't stop there. 0.94

00:46:03.000 He also went after Gupta because he's on CNN and he was like, um, so I took ivermectin and people kept saying on CNN that it was horse dewormer and you guys are liars.

00:46:12.000 Here is here's Rogan just shellacking Gupta over it.

00:46:14.000 Horse dewormers, not a flattering thing, I get that.

00:46:16.000 It's a lie.

00:46:17.000 It's a lie on a news network, and it's a lie that's a willing... That's a lie that they're conscious of.

00:46:25.000 It's not a mistake.

00:46:27.000 They're unfavorably framing it as veterinary medicine.

00:46:27.000 Yeah.

00:46:31.000 Don't you think that a lie like that is dangerous on a news network when you know that they know they're lying?

00:46:36.000 The thing is, we're like going so fast, like I feel like I'm missing... Do you think that that's a problem?

00:46:41.000 That your news network lies?

00:46:45.000 Well, I don't... Dude!

00:46:46.000 What did they say?

00:46:47.000 They lied and said I was taking horse dewormer.

00:46:51.000 Yeah, it turns out that our media are really, really bad at their jobs.

00:46:53.000 Okay, but here's the problem.

00:46:54.000 A lot of people trust that media.

00:46:56.000 A lot of people have been listening to that media.

00:46:57.000 I don't see how Biden pulls out of the economic tailspin.

00:46:59.000 I don't.

00:47:00.000 I think that he has created a pathological paranoia in a significant percentage of the population.

00:47:05.000 I think there are people who are going to be wearing masks four years from now, five years from now.

00:47:08.000 Maybe forever.

00:47:10.000 Because they've been told that the masks are protective.

00:47:12.000 It's become a security blanket.

00:47:13.000 I think the message of the last year, truly, is that for a new normal to set in, it does not take very long at all.

00:47:19.000 Like, at all.

00:47:20.000 I mean, you do wonder, over the course of human history, there have been some pretty massive changes in how people live.

00:47:25.000 And you wonder, how did people just accept that?

00:47:27.000 How did people just go along with it?

00:47:29.000 And suddenly they were living a completely different life than they were like five years ago.

00:47:33.000 And the answer is that the human brain is quite adaptable.

00:47:35.000 People adapt to new circumstances very quickly.

00:47:37.000 That is the great superpower of humanity.

00:47:39.000 We can adapt to nearly every circumstance.

00:47:41.000 It also means that we can reorient our brains to really bad ideas incredibly quickly and start living in line with those ideas to our own detriment.

00:47:49.000 And it's very hard to shake us from that.

00:47:51.000 After we get to that, unless there is good leadership, this is where leadership comes in and statesmanship.

00:47:55.000 Unless you have people who are out there actively battling these pathologies, these mental pathologies that people now have about this, This is going to remain for a long time.

00:48:03.000 And Joe Biden has, he helped create the pathology.

00:48:06.000 He's got a problem.

00:48:07.000 The only way the economy comes back is if Joe Biden says to people, you are now safe, go live your life.

00:48:13.000 He won't do it.

00:48:15.000 And the only way the economy comes back is if Joe Biden says to people, you need to go back to work and get a job.

00:48:20.000 And meanwhile, he's trying to pay them to stay home.

00:48:23.000 None of this is going to be conducive to a healthy economy or to a healthy presidency for Joe Biden.

00:48:27.000 I think that he's locked himself in a box here, and he is like a mime now. 1.00

00:48:30.000 He's just pushing at the invisible glass, trying to find a way out.

00:48:35.000 And meanwhile, speaking of Joe Biden and being trapped in a box with somebody who's not great.

00:48:40.000 So Joe Biden apparently is now going to become embroiled in the Hunter Biden email scandal.

00:48:44.000 Remember that time that that was not a story, the Hunter Biden email scandal? 1.00

00:48:47.000 Remember because the Hunter Biden email scandal was super stupid. 1.00

00:48:50.000 It was dumb. 0.99

00:48:52.000 Remember because the New York Post posted it and we weren't allowed to post it for a month and all that? 0.98

00:48:56.000 Well, it turns out now that, yeah, it gets a lot worse for Joe Biden.

00:48:59.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, President Biden could become embroiled in an FBI investigation of Hunter Biden's finances, experts say, as emails reveal the father and son shared bank accounts and paid each other's bills.

00:49:11.000 Hmm.

00:49:12.000 Remember all those emails about 10% for the big guy and all of that?

00:49:16.000 Yeah, well, if they shared bank accounts, that gets a lot more suspicious.

00:49:19.000 Emails recovered by DailyMail.com from Hunter's abandoned laptop between Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his business partner at consultancy Rosemont Seneca, show that Schwerin was working on Joe's taxes, discussing the father and son paying each other's household bills, and even fielding requests for a book deal for the then-Vice President, as well as managing the donation of Joe's Senate papers to the University of Delaware.

00:49:38.000 It's unclear why Schwerin had this intimate role in the VP's affairs, rather than government officials in the office of the Vice President.

00:49:45.000 Hunter's claimed that he and his dad shared a bank account also raised serious questions whether funds from the alleged joint account were used for Hunter's May 2018 week-long bender with a prostitute in a Hollywood hotel.

00:49:55.000 Last December, Hunter admitted in a public statement he was under federal investigation over his tax affairs.

00:50:00.000 But Joe Biden wants to look into your $600 transactions with the IRS.

00:50:05.000 The rules do not apply to the specials like Joe Biden.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 14, 2021

Biden Is Full Of Ship | Ep. 1354

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