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00:01:29.000Okay, so yesterday, the president of the United States came out and said that it was time to remask if you were fully vaccinated.
00:01:38.000So before we get to Joe Biden's actual explanation of this nonsensical policy, let's start with what we know and what we don't know at this point.
00:01:48.000If you are vaccinated, you are very, very, very, very safe from COVID.
00:01:53.000When I say very, very, very safe, what I mean is that 161 million people in the United States have been vaccinated against COVID.
00:02:00.000Of those 161 million people, approximately 6,000 people have gotten breakthrough cases requiring hospitalization and about 1,700 people have died.
00:02:07.000This means that your chances of actually being hospitalized with COVID after getting a vaccine are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 in 27,000.
00:02:18.000And your chances of death after getting a vaccine are somewhere, by these statistics, around 1 in 100,000.
00:02:25.000Which means that you are very, very, very, very safe from COVID if you have been vaccinated.
00:02:31.000Nothing that the CDC is now saying changes that simple fact.
00:02:35.000And herein lies the problem for everything that Joe Biden is saying right now.
00:02:39.000If being vaccinated means you are very safe from the virus.
00:02:42.000This means that even if you are capable of transmitting the virus to the unvaccinated, if every single adult in the United States has had the opportunity to get vaccinated, and then they don't, and you infect them, that is their fault.
00:02:56.000It is not your job to prevent somebody else from getting a disease that they have the ability to stop themselves from being harmed by because they won't get a vaccine.
00:03:04.000And the idea that you're going to require the vaccinated to mask up to protect the unvaccinated is not even asked for by the unvaccinated.
00:03:24.000Well, it suggests the obvious solution, which is the unvaccinated should think very seriously about getting vaccinated, but they should not require the kindness of strangers in order to protect themselves.
00:03:32.000They should not require that small children mask up in order to protect them.
00:03:35.000They should not require that people who have already vaccinated mask up in order to protect them.
00:03:40.000In fact, if you want to encourage people to get vaccinated, instead of requiring that the vaccinated mask up, you should do precisely the opposite.
00:03:48.000The Biden administration seems to be operating under the assumption That there is a link between mask mandates and vaccination encouragement.
00:03:56.000And if you push mask mandates, you can also push vaccination encouragement at the same time.
00:04:01.000Push people to wear masks, but also push them to get vaccinated.
00:04:04.000This is nonsensical for a variety of reasons.
00:04:06.000First, because very often when people hear mask mandates, what they think instinctively is, oh, the vaccines must not be working.
00:04:13.000You're seeing a lot of that over the past 24, 48 hours from people who are unlikely to get the vaccine anyway.
00:04:18.000People saying, well, you know, we were told that the vaccines were a cure-all, and now you're telling us that the vaccinated are still passing this thing off.
00:04:23.000So what else aren't you telling us about the vaccines?
00:04:26.000Number two, people will start to think that the masks are actually a good way of protecting people.
00:04:32.000When it comes to Delta, the evidence that the masks are very effective in protecting people is pretty skimpy, according to Scott Gottlieb over at the FDA, as we'll get to in a second.
00:04:40.000And finally, let's even assume that masking the vaccinated lowers the rates of transmission to people who are unvaccinated.
00:04:46.000That does not encourage the unvaccinated to get vaccinated.
00:04:49.000It encourages them to mask up and rely on everybody else to mask up, which means that no one is ever going to unmask for the rest of human history.
00:04:56.000So none of this makes any sort of logical sense.
00:04:59.000Now, let's go through the data that prompted this change in heart.
00:05:02.000Okay, so the CDC mask decision, according to the ABC News, followed a stunning finding from a Cape Cod beach outbreak.
00:05:09.000Hey, this is literally, as we'll see, pretty much the only piece of evidence that the CDC is relying upon is that over the 4th of July, a big crowd went to Cape Cod and a bunch of people infected each other.
00:05:20.000And it turns out that a large number of those people were fully immunized.
00:05:23.000As of Thursday, according to ABC News, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak.
00:05:28.000Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% were fully immunized.
00:05:31.000Yet officials said the vast majority were also reporting symptoms.
00:05:48.000Now remember, your chances of actually getting a symptomatic breakthrough remain pretty damn low.
00:05:54.000So this does not mean that one out of every hundred people who's vaccinated is going to end up hospitalized.
00:05:58.000This means that one out of every hundred, even according to these stats, okay, less than one out of every hundred people who is infected with COVID after being vaccinated, which is a fraction of a fraction now, is going to be hospitalized.
00:06:10.000And how many of these people have died?
00:06:14.000So you're seeing the CDC recommend that every vaccinated person in the United States, all 161 million of them, mask up because there was an outbreak in Cape Cod that resulted in zero deaths.
00:06:23.000And this is what you're seeing across the country.
00:07:15.000It was a CDC slide deck that they put out.
00:07:18.000And the slide deck is not particularly edifying.
00:07:21.000So we're gonna go through some of the slide deck right now.
00:07:24.000So let's begin with what they say about the Delta variant, which is supposedly this giant game changer.
00:07:29.000So what they say is, number one, that people are still evidencing after vaccination that if they have a breakthrough case, right?
00:07:37.000Remember, according to this slide deck, as we will see, your chance of getting a breakthrough case, period, have been lowered by about two-thirds if you are vaccinated.
00:07:46.000In other words, you're significantly less likely to get a breakthrough case, even of the Delta variant, if you're vaccinated.
00:07:52.000Okay, but what they say, in the case they make, is that the viral load that you are carrying, meaning the amount of virus in your nasopharyngeal passage, in your nose basically, the amount of virus that you are carrying is similar to the unvaccinated.
00:08:07.000The study they are relying upon is an Indian study that was already retracted and was based on a vaccine that is not legal in the United States.
00:08:15.000And they kind of admit this on page 16 of this slide.
00:08:18.000Quote, India report of lower cycle threshold values in Delta breakthrough cases.
00:08:22.000The lower your cycle threshold value is, the more virus, essentially, you have.
00:08:25.000Compared to non-Delta breakthrough cases.
00:08:28.000Also larger cluster size with Delta breakthrough.
00:08:30.000They say the Delta infection is associated with a longer duration of having the virus in your body, as opposed to the alpha strain, for example.
00:08:39.000And there may be a higher risk of reinfection, but only if you had an infection more than six months ago.
00:08:44.000Okay, so all of this is rooted in this India study, and this is the only study they cite to this effect.
00:08:49.000That India study was already retracted.
00:08:52.000It was based on a vaccine that we're not allowed to use in the United States.
00:08:55.000So, questionable at best, questionable at best.
00:08:57.000Okay, then they get some more viral load information, and they suggest that, it says at the bottom of this, preliminary data subject to change.
00:09:05.000Okay, so this is all pretty dicey stuff.
00:09:08.000They say, breakthrough cases reported to National Passive Surveillance have lower CT values, cycle threshold values, by three cycles, a tenfold increase in viral load for Delta compared with Alpha.
00:09:19.000So, again, they are saying that you have a higher viral load compared with Alpha, but that's not really, this particular stat is not really comparing the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, which they say are similar.
00:09:29.000The only piece of data that they present outside of the Indian study here, Our data from Barnstable County, Massachusetts, right?
00:09:35.000This is this outbreak that we're talking about in Cape Cod.
00:09:37.000It says there's no difference in mean cycle threshold values in vaccinated and unvaccinated cases.
00:09:42.000It's saying that they haven't actually done viral load cultures here, so it's unclear.
00:09:50.000The assumption is if the amount of virus in the nose of an unvaccinated person is the same as the amount of virus in the nose of a vaccinated person, they transmit the disease in similar fashion.
00:09:59.000That might be a fair assumption, but it is clearly an assumption.
00:10:02.000It is also possible that the amount of virus in a vaccinated person's nose has been affected in some way because that person is vaccinated.
00:10:09.000Perhaps they are shedding virus that is less lethal.
00:10:12.000Perhaps they are shedding virus that is dead, right?
00:10:15.000It is not clear because none of this has been cultured.
00:10:18.000Alright, so this is part of the problem.
00:10:19.000Okay, then you get to the only chart in this whole thing that really matters.
00:10:23.000Okay, as far as logic, the only chart that matters.
00:10:25.000Okay, here are the charts of Pfizer two-dose vaccine efficacy for alpha versus delta.
00:10:32.000Alpha is the original strain that was going around the world, the European strain.
00:10:35.000Delta is the current strain that people are very much afraid of.
00:11:24.000The vaccines are performing very well against symptomatic disease in Canada, and right now they've had zero deaths attributable to Delta in Canada.
00:11:32.000In Israel, which has had this vast sort of post-Delta outbreak, Israel currently is showing a 64% Protection against confirmed infection, right?
00:11:44.000So that's a lot lower than the 90% against confirmed alpha infection.
00:11:48.000But it's 64% still means that basically in 60, not basically, in 64 out of 100 cases where you have the Pfizer two-dose vaccine, you're going to avoid being infected with Delta.
00:12:01.00064% effective against symptomatic disease.
00:12:04.000But again, we don't care about symptomatic disease.
00:12:06.000What we care about is hospitalization or death.
00:12:09.000Okay, hospitalization or death, 93% effective against Delta, compared with about 94% effective against Alpha.
00:12:18.000So in other words, these vaccines are extremely effective in preventing hospitalization and death, which last time I checked, is the main job of the vaccine.
00:12:25.000Okay, now we get to the masking portion of what the CDC suggests.
00:12:31.000There are many problems with what the CDC suggests here in terms of masking.
00:12:35.000So, number one, they assume natural immunity is about 5%, okay, or about 35%.
00:12:43.000Now, it's possible natural immunity is much higher, that many, many more people have had this than the CDC is willing to contemplate.
00:12:49.000In fact, they created these models showing how many people will likely be hospitalized and die.
00:12:56.000Or the probability of the increase in caseload based on natural immunity numbers.
00:13:00.000The big problem here is the model assumptions, which they list here in the CDC report.
00:13:06.000So they assume the vaccine effectiveness in preventing transmissibility is somewhere between 75 and 85%.
00:14:11.000Other assumptions they make that are wrong.
00:14:12.000They assume that for masking, masking is going to be incredibly effective.
00:14:16.000They assume that source control, meaning your ability to infect others, that masking prevents that by 40 to 60 percent.
00:14:25.000Now, all of the data that they gathered on masking efficacy were always very shoddy.
00:14:29.000These were always very shoddy, not real-world data.
00:14:32.000But, even assuming that those data were correct, the source control 40-60% effective, this is, again, Scott Gottlieb saying this, not me, those numbers come from control of the flu.
00:14:43.000The flu virus is much less transmissible than Delta, which is now apparently as transmissible as chickenpox.
00:14:49.000So it is quite possible source control from masks is way lower than 40 to 60 percent, especially depending on the type of mask.
00:14:57.000Using personal protection is 20 to 30 percent effective.
00:15:01.000So masking, in other words, is not necessarily going to do very much here.
00:15:06.000And as we've already seen in the UK, you don't need a mask mandate in order to come down the other side of this particular hill.
00:15:13.000Okay, meanwhile, they also assume, by the way, that there will be no adjustments for other interventions, meaning that nobody in the United States is going to stop going out and stop partying and stop doing what they're doing, which of course is very silly because when people feel there's an uptick in their community from COVID and they're unvaccinated, data show they tend to get vaccinated or they tend to stay home or they tend to not go to big gatherings.
00:15:34.000Okay, so those are all the assumptions with regard to masking efficacy.
00:15:39.000They also make some assumptions about immunity, Again, those assumptions about immunity are not particularly, I would say, compelling.
00:15:48.000And then finally, they make the recommendations.
00:15:50.000And the recommendations, according to the CDC, is they say, Except the war has not changed.
00:16:17.000And here's where they get to where they're going to tell you what to do.
00:16:19.000Consider vaccine mandates for for HCP to protect vulnerable populations.
00:16:26.000So, vaccine mandates for healthcare providers.
00:16:29.000Okay, again, I don't actually think that one is particularly either burdensome or unreasonable considering that healthcare providers are dealing with people with underlying conditions nearly all the time.
00:16:39.000They also recommend universal masking for source control and prevention.
00:16:42.000They've not provided the data that supports this or even the ideological and logical rationale for this.
00:16:48.000And reconsider other community mitigation strategies.
00:16:51.000So now they're opening the door to new lockdowns.
00:16:53.000They're doing all of this based on the fact that we have a very low level of death in the United States right now from COVID.
00:17:00.000Right now, again, I'm going to keep reading you these day-on-day averages because the stats still matter to me.
00:17:04.000The day-on-day average of seven-day death in the United States is 320.
00:17:10.000320 people approximately die every day in the United States of Alzheimer's.
00:17:13.000I'm going to keep saying that because you need to understand what these numbers mean in context.
00:17:17.000In the context of COVID, this means we've reduced the death rate in the United States by a factor of approximately 10 since the height of the pandemic.
00:17:27.000And compared to other causes of death in the United States, like for example, heart disease, about 1800 people a day in the United States die of heart disease.
00:17:33.000About 300 people a day are currently dying of COVID.
00:17:37.000And now they're recommending universal masking again and maybe lockdowns.
00:17:45.000And again, if the idea here is that you need a mask mandate in order to hit the peak, let me show you this chart from the UK.
00:17:51.000The UK was in the middle of the Delta variant about two weeks before we were.
00:17:55.000The UK hit their height about a week ago.
00:17:58.000As you can see from this chart, they've been plummeting in the past week.
00:18:01.000None of our magical health experts seem to be able to explain any of this.
00:18:05.000They don't seem to be able to explain any of this.
00:18:07.000So in other words, the methods that are now being undertaken by the Biden administration, by blue states all over the country, they don't make any form of logical sense.
00:18:15.000Even if you can see, based on the skimpy data available, even if you can see that breakthrough infections of the vaccinated are capable of higher transmission, that still does not result in universal mask mandates.
00:18:32.000The logical gap is just not bridge. It isn't. Then Joe Biden comes out and he announces this policy. And again, he undermines his own policy because none of this makes any internal logical sense. He starts off by saying breakthrough cases are rare.
00:18:45.000Okay, if breakthrough cases are rare, then what in the world are you talking about masking vaccinated for? Here's Joe Biden.
00:18:51.000Many of you who are vaccinated are concerned about what's called breakthrough cases. Yes, some fully vaccinated people will still test positive and some will show some symptoms of COVID-19.
00:19:07.000That's expected with almost every vaccine there is, for other diseases.
00:19:12.000But breakthrough cases remain rare, and almost all are mild cases.
00:19:18.000In fact, virtually all hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated.
00:19:25.000Okay, so if that is true, then what are you talking about?
00:19:28.000By the way, further note, I mentioned earlier on that a lot of what they're talking about in terms of the vaccinated spreading this thing, and they're talking about Provincetown, Cape Cod, that's party central.
00:19:40.000That is like the most efficient method for spreading virus, as Josh Barrow points out.
00:19:44.000Nate Silver says, whether it's true or not of Provincetown per se, the bigger problem is that you don't want to make extrapolations from outliers. But that's exactly what the CDC is now doing.
00:19:53.000So Joe Biden then continues. He says, even if you're fully vaccinated, you could theoretically have the Delta variant in your system and pass it on to others. The CDC recommends you wear a mask when you're in public and indoors, like work or in a grocery store. That's true for both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
00:20:14.000Because even if you've been fully vaccinated and protected from severe illness from COVID-19, you could have the Delta variant in your system and spread it to someone who isn't vaccinated.
00:20:25.000Okay, so if that's your chief worry, is that I, the vaccinated person, am going to pass it to you, the unvaccinated person, wouldn't that encourage you, the unvaccinated person, to get the vaccine?
00:20:36.000Joe Biden still has not yet explained why it is a good incentive structure to force the vaccinated to mask up to protect the unvaccinated when the unvaccinated are fully capable of making decisions for themselves.
00:20:47.000They are adults and they get to decide whether they want to take the vaccine or not, and it's available to them at any Publix anywhere in the United States.
00:20:54.000We'll get to more of this nonsensical policy in just one second.
00:20:57.000By the way, it's absolutely going to come back and bite Biden.
00:21:00.000If he thinks this is a winner for him, he's totally wrong.
00:21:02.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:22:10.000Alrighty, so Joe Biden then lays it out.
00:22:13.000He says, you need to wear a mask in order to protect the unvaccinated.
00:22:17.000That's why you're going to be wearing a mask, gang.
00:22:19.000We need to wear masks to protect each other and to stop the rapid spread of this virus as we work to get more people vaccinated.
00:22:28.000And I hope all Americans who live in areas with substantial or high case rates will follow the mask guidance that's being laid down by the CDC.
00:22:38.000I certainly will and I have because this is one of those areas in Washington.
00:22:43.000Okay, by the way, Rachelle Walensky has been saying the same thing.
00:22:46.000She says, quote, in rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others.
00:22:53.000Oh, so we're just going to vacc- Again, you're talking about masking up hundreds of millions of people at this point.
00:22:59.000Based on circumstances that have been defined by the CDC director as somewhat rare, the only data that have been presented are a breakout case in Provincetown, In May, you made it sound like the vaccine was the ticket to losing the mask forever.
00:23:12.000Even if you accept all that, the incentive structures still make no sense.
00:23:16.000So Joe Biden was asked to explain why he changed his standards on post-vaccination masking.
00:23:21.000And here he is not being able to explain himself, of course.
00:23:25.000In May, you made it sound like a vaccine was the ticket to losing the mask forever.
00:23:30.000And it- That is true at the time, because I love the people who are going to understand that getting vaccinated made a gigantic difference.
00:23:40.000And what happened was a new variant came along, they didn't get vaccinated, it was spread more rapidly, and people more people were getting sick.
00:24:15.000That, by the way, is a lot more coherent than what he's saying now.
00:24:21.000You'll recall the last year, by the way, Joe Biden, it's now been a year since this, Joe Biden said last year, quote, I'm not going to shut down the country.
00:24:29.000I'm not going to shut down the economy.
00:24:35.000Then why won't your White House rule out further lockdowns?
00:24:37.000Yesterday, one of the White House press secretaries came out and explained that the White House would not be ruling out further lockdowns.
00:24:44.000If scientists come to you at some point down the line and say, it is our opinion that there should be shutdowns and there should be school closures, you would do that?
00:24:52.000Well, we listen to, like I said, we listen to the CDC and the expert and their guidance.
00:24:59.000The CDC is a body that is very well respected, and again, we follow their guidance.
00:25:05.000The CDC is not a body that is well-respected.
00:25:12.000They've changed their guidance 1,000 times, not based on good data, but based on this sort of panicked, squirrel-like insistence that every new outlier case is a rationale for public lockdowns and mask mandates without any sort of actual understanding of how the human mind works or how people act.
00:25:32.000By the way, even the mandates that are now being announced by Biden, even those don't make any sort of internal logical sense.
00:25:38.000So Joe Biden yesterday announced that federal employees are going to have to get vaccinated or they're going to have to test like every week.
00:25:49.000Every federal government employee will be asked to attest to their vaccination status.
00:25:56.000Anyone who does not attest Or is not vaccinated, will be required to mask no matter where they work, test one or two times a week to see if they've acquired COVID, socially distance, and generally will not be allowed to travel for work.
00:27:24.000The Trust Us Brigade is here and they don't actually provide any rationale for what it is that they are doing.
00:27:32.000As Admiral Brett Giroir said on Fox News yesterday, there's no transparency, there's weak data.
00:27:37.000Why exactly are we supposed to trust these folks?
00:27:40.000My major concern is we had a incredibly important policy announcement by the CDC to recommend mask wearing even for those who are vaccinated, but they have supplied zero data, no transparency, no information upon which we can have a debate.
00:28:36.000Or, alternatively, we could check out the data they present, see whether it is weak or strong, and then determine whether they are even recommending anything remotely resembling sensical public policy.
00:28:45.000But really, this is what it's come down to.
00:28:50.000There's no question that CDC is one of the premier authorities on top of data and science, and we have to believe exactly what Dr. Walensky, Dr. Fauci said when they're seeing concerning signs that people who are fully vaccinated are at a risk of transmitting this virus.
00:29:05.000Not getting sick and dying, but transmitting this, especially to half the country that's unvaccinated.
00:29:23.000By the way, I don't think it's any coincidence that Joe Biden has now announced that he wishes Congress to extend the federal eviction moratorium.
00:29:31.000The CDC put what is probably an illegal moratorium on eviction of tenants.
00:29:36.000I was not aware that the CDC is anywhere granted legislative power to prevent people from evicting tenants who don't pay their rent.
00:29:43.000The vaccines have now been widely available since March and April.
00:29:46.000We still have prevented people from being evicted from their apartments for not paying rent.
00:29:52.000According to the Wall Street Journal, President Biden would have strongly supported a move to further extend the CDC moratorium, scheduled to expire on Saturday.
00:30:00.000That option is no longer legally viable after a recent Supreme Court ruling the administration said in a statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
00:30:08.000State and local governments have struggled to distribute $47 billion in federal money aimed at helping tenants who can't pay rent because of the pandemic-triggered downturn, leaving many people at risk of being forced out of their homes when the moratorium expires.
00:30:19.000Just $3 billion of that aid has even been delivered.
00:30:21.000Good news, Joe Biden is going to be shoveling more cash out the door, as we're going to discuss in just one moment.
00:30:28.000But the fact that the Biden administration continuously wants these big spending programs, that they need an excuse for it, they need some sort of lever in order to do all of it, is disquieting.
00:32:36.000And then Tim Ryan, the Democrat from Ohio, did one of his usual sort of barn-burning speeches in which he ripped on McCarthy for mocking the magical mask, the most incredible of all masks.
00:32:48.000Somebody in this chamber is coming from a hotspot.
00:33:42.000What we do know is that vaccines do work to prevent death.
00:33:47.000And if you choose not to get it, you're an adult.
00:33:49.000At one point, like, it really does come down to sort of a... The reason this is broken down left-right is because for so many people on the right, at a certain point, they say, listen, you're an adult.
00:34:19.000But that is not something the left can ever allow, which is why they are soāthey're more adamant to teams this time than they were last time, which is wild.
00:34:29.000So Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who of course is coming under renewed fire because he has said, we're not doing mask mandates in the state of Florida quite properly.
00:34:37.000Well, by the way, wildly encouraging vaccines.
00:34:40.000And I don't know what the media does about this because DeSantis has been extremely pro-vaccine since the very beginning.
00:34:46.000He was one of the best governors in terms of tranching this thing out to the elderly in the state of Florida.
00:34:51.000So here's Ron DeSantis yesterday saying, no, we're not gonna do this Faucian dystopia routine.
00:34:58.000Floridians are free to choose and all Americans should be free to choose how they govern their affairs, how they take care of themselves and our families, and they should not be consigned to live regardless of which state in the Union Consigned to live in a Fauchian dystopia in which we're governed by the whims of bureaucratic authorities who care little for our freedom, little for our aspirations, and little for our happiness.
00:35:27.000No more we can't let it happen going forward.
00:35:40.000We could be down to one case of COVID in the entire United States, and they will still be saying, mask up, because after all, somebody could get infected.
00:36:08.000Alrighty, in just a second, we're going to get to the other issue that is going to be coming up in 2022 and 2024, and that is the faltering economy.
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00:38:43.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration is struggling because the reality of the Biden administration is they need a successful economy in order to ram through their gigantic spending agenda, at least in popular fashion.
00:39:00.000Well, the economy is beginning to stagnate.
00:39:09.000Virtually all economists thought it was going to grow at 8.5%.
00:39:11.000And if you recall, just a couple of months ago, they thought it was going to grow in excess of 10%.
00:39:16.000So it is not growing at the rate that they want it to grow.
00:39:18.000That's not stopping the media from feigning enthusiasm.
00:39:20.000You've got CNN Business saying the U.S.
00:39:22.000economy in the second quarter expanded at a slower rate than expected, but still its fastest pace since last fall, growing at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6.5%.
00:39:31.000Their headline, by the way, at CNN Business is, US economy just posted the largest jump in growth since 2020!
00:39:38.000The headline is not the largest jump in growth since 2020.
00:39:41.000The headline is, you missed your mark by 25%.
00:39:43.000In terms of real GDP, the economy has now recovered in that it has grown bigger than its pre-pandemic size.
00:39:50.000But does anyone feel that the economy is really at that rate?
00:39:53.000The answer is no, because GDP is being racked up by government spending.
00:39:57.000It's being held up by the amount of government spending that's being done.
00:40:02.000The National Bureau of Economic Research designated the pandemic recession as the shortest on record, saying it lasted just two months, March and April of 2020, which is when the shutdowns were.
00:40:12.000In normal times, says CNN Business, 6.5% growth would be a reason to celebrate.
00:40:16.000It's still pretty good performance, but it's disappointment compared with the 8.5% growth rate economists had forecast.
00:40:24.000It was only a little change from the first quarter when the economy grew at an annual rate of 6.3%, which, by the way, is kind of amazing because you'll remember that something happened between the first quarter of this year and the second quarter of this year, namely the mass vaccination of Americans.
00:40:35.000And yet nothing is changing, which suggests two things.
00:40:38.000One, the Biden administration's constant drumbeat of doom and gloom with regard to the future of the virus and their unwillingness to acknowledge that the pandemic no longer has public health ramifications.
00:40:48.000means that people are staying home, and two, when you pay people to stay home and then spend trillions of dollars on nonsensical crap, you end up actually subjecting the U.S.
00:40:58.000economy to headwinds that it can't fully overcome.
00:41:02.000According to CNN itself, the acceleration in the recovery was spurred by consumer spending, not least spurred by the last round of stimulus checks, as well as the reopening of the economy and continued vaccination.
00:41:13.000Consumers spent more on services, particularly on dining out and traveling.
00:41:16.000Driven by the same dynamics, measures of inflation rose throughout the spring.
00:41:21.000For example, the price index that tracks personal consumption rose to 6.4% in the second quarter.
00:41:26.000That was its highest level since 1982.
00:41:38.000And here's the thing, the Federal Reserve cannot, they do not have the stones to actually jack up the interest rates in a way necessary to cut down on the inflation.
00:41:49.000If the economy is not faster than this, see if the economy really, really, if we were like 8.5% growth or something, then they could say, listen, we're growing super fast.
00:41:57.000Natural economic recovery is happening.
00:41:58.000We need to raise the interest rates a little bit to prevent overheating and to prevent price inflation.
00:42:03.000Instead, because the economy is growing slower than expected, they are going to continue to rack up quantitative easing.
00:42:09.000They're going to continue to jack money into the economy and keep the interest rates at zero out of fear that they are going to sink Joe Biden's economic record here.
00:42:18.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are so disconnected from reality that they're worried that Joe Biden isn't spending enough.
00:42:23.000According to The Hill, Democrats are now warning that any attempts by moderates to pare down a $3.5 trillion spending package could threaten President Biden's top legislative priority and leave the party empty-handed.
00:42:32.000So Joe Biden wants to get everything done in this budget package.
00:42:35.000He's got the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the trillion-dollar boondoggle, which is at least better than the $2 trillion boondoggle they were originally proposing.
00:42:44.000Now, it's a trillion-dollar boondoggle, which still sucks, but is better than the alternative, presumably.
00:42:48.000Then, they have their giant budget package.
00:42:50.000That giant budget package, the $3.5 trillion budget package, as you'll recall, has been held up by Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate, as well as Joe Manchin, both of whom look at this and they're saying this is too much money.
00:43:02.000Now, you've got Democrats in the Senate saying, we're not going to vote for the infrastructure package if you don't vote for the $3.5 trillion package.
00:43:11.000And not just that, Joe Biden now is saying that he wants immigration reform in the budget package, meaning he wants to legalize some 8 to 10 million illegal immigrants in the United States in the budget reconciliation package.
00:43:24.000By the way, the parliamentarian hasn't even said if you can do that under budget reconciliation.
00:43:27.000The answer is probably not, but who the hell knows?
00:43:30.000Progressive Democrats are sounding the alarm after Kyrsten Sinema warned Wednesday she doesn't support the $3.5 trillion price tag for the expansive package Democrats hope to muscle through.
00:43:38.000Biden is saying he's basically negotiating with her.
00:43:40.000He thinks she'll end up voting for it in the end, but they may have to cut a few things.
00:43:44.000Democrats hope to move the legislation on party lines in the Senate with special budgetary rules, but every Democrat, because there are only 50 of them, every Democrat can hold this thing up with one vote.
00:43:54.000Progressives are saying they're going to hold up the infrastructure plan unless they get the $3.5 trillion plan.
00:43:59.000Bernie Sanders said, it's my absolute conviction, you're not going to have a bipartisan bill unless you have a reconciliation bill of $3.5 trillion.
00:44:06.000So as we discussed yesterday, Joe Biden is now stuck between the progressive rock and the moderate hard place.
00:44:13.000Right now, the Republicans aren't going to vote in favor of that bipartisan infrastructure plan at all unless the Democrats pare down the $3.5 trillion plan and the progressives won't vote for the bipartisan plan or the budget plan unless they continue to have it at $3.5 trillion.
00:44:30.000Sanders says he expects the spending plan would be $3.5 trillion in the Senate, maybe even more in the House.
00:44:35.000And Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut adds that any push to decrease the price tag for the spending package would make it hard to get the votes for it.
00:44:42.000Man, the Democrats are just cruising for a bruisin' in 2022 on all fronts.
00:44:45.000Whether we are talking about these authoritarian lockdown measures, Completely nonsensical.
00:44:50.000Or whether we're talking about the vast spending that is resulting in reduced and tamped down economic growth.
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