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00:00:00.000The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals puts a hold on Joe Biden's vaccine mandate, a handful of congressional Republicans hand Democrats a win on infrastructure, and California rewrites how math should be taught.
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00:01:39.000He nearly lost the governorship of New Jersey for his party.
00:01:42.000He just came back from COP26, this giant global warming conference, with nothing, like with really nothing.
00:01:49.000And people mocking him openly at this point.
00:01:51.000The biggest story so far to emerge from COP26 involving Joe Biden comes courtesy of the UK Daily Mail, quote, he is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions.
00:02:00.000When President Joe Biden produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, It was audible enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall blush.
00:02:07.000An informed source has told the Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week.
00:02:18.000Fresh on the heels of rumors that he had literally crapped his pants in the Vatican.
00:02:23.000It was long and loud and impossible to ignore what the source said.
00:02:28.000Camilla hasn't stopped talking about it.
00:02:30.000The President met the Duchess during a reception on Monday at the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery, attended by Prince Charles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Boris Johnson.
00:02:38.000Just hours earlier, the 78-year-old, nicknamed Sleepy Joe by Donald Trump, had appeared to doze off during the opening addresses, prompting more questions from his political rivals over his fitness for office.
00:02:47.000This is not the first time that Biden has faced claims that he broke wind publicly.
00:02:51.000In May 2020, Republicans including Donald Trump Jr.
00:02:53.000posted a video clip of Biden containing a suspicious noise while live streaming an exchange with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.
00:02:59.000However, a separate video which circulated last month and briefly trended on Twitter under Fartgate was found to have been doctored to include fake flatulence.
00:03:07.000Yeah, it's always great when the big headline coming out of a global warming reduction conference is that you have emitted carbon from your ass.
00:03:18.000And again, that is just, I think, writ small what this Biden administration is right now.
00:03:23.000The American people are unhappy with the Biden administration.
00:03:25.000They've done nothing of note on the foreign policy stage other than to make a bunch of weird noises over at this COP26 conference and then also surrender Afghanistan.
00:04:00.000It doesn't seem like things are set to get better anytime soon for Joe Biden.
00:04:04.000In fact, last week you saw that Joe Biden Snapped at Peter Doocy from Fox News when Doocy read a Wall Street Journal report and pointed out that the Biden administration was reportedly going to give $450,000 to people who had crossed the border illegally and been separated from their families.
00:05:05.000If in fact, because of the outrageous behavior of the last administration, So now he's just as angry about people correctly reporting it as he was when he thought that they were misreporting it.
00:06:02.000Top turkey seller Butterball says it doesn't expect an overall gobbler shortage, but if you're hunting for a smaller bird, they could be tough to find.
00:06:11.000And it's not just the main dish at risk of running afoul for your cranberry sides.
00:06:16.000Ocean Spray tells ABC it's committed to meeting customer demand, but experienced a variety of supply chain challenges.
00:06:23.000OK, and so Joe Biden's response to this is to get super angry at everybody for pointing out the supply chain challenges, which, again, have been exacerbated by bad union contracts at the ports, which have been facilitated by Democrats for decades, as well as the giant labor shortage that continues to hamper the economic recovery.
00:06:39.000By the way, there's some very good statistical evidence to demonstrate that the labor uptick that we saw last month was almost completely due to the fact that all of those benefits the federal government was providing people to stay home started to run out.
00:06:51.000And so people started to go back to work.
00:06:52.000The charts are very telling on that particular subject.
00:06:55.000So in a second, we'll get to Joe Biden's response to the supply chain crisis.
00:06:57.000And it's always just indignation, just indignation of being questioned.
00:07:03.000I know that we were supposed to pretend that he was super empathetic and wonderful.
00:07:07.000He was the kind of guy who's going to sniff your hair and rub your shoulders and make you feel better about yourself or alternatively just sniff your hair and rub your shoulders and make you feel creepy.
00:07:14.000But Joe Biden has always been the jerk who yells at you if you if you cross him.
00:07:19.000And he's always been the guy who, if you cross him, he says, well, fat, look fat.
00:07:25.000We'll get to more of this from Joe Biden in just one second.
00:07:27.000First, let's talk about a podcast that you might want to give a listen to.
00:07:30.000I'm talking, of course, about the Jordan Harbinger Show.
00:07:33.000It's a podcast you really should give a try.
00:07:34.000I know every day somebody tells you you have to listen to some podcast or other, you mostly just blow it off, but you shouldn't blow it off.
00:07:39.000We are fans of Jordan Harbinger's show here at The Daily Wire.
00:07:42.000Jordan's show, which Apple named one of its best of 2018, is aimed at making you a better informed, more critical thinker, so you can get a sense of how the world actually works and come to your own conclusions about what's happening even inside your own brain.
00:07:53.000Each episode is a conversation with a different fascinating guest.
00:07:56.000And when I say there's something for everyone here, I mean that.
00:07:58.000I mean, he talks to people like hostage negotiators from the FBI or Kobe Bryant or Jack Schafer.
00:08:02.000It's just something different and new pretty much every time.
00:08:05.000And even if you disagree with Jordan, you'll find something that you find interesting, even though I don't always agree with Jordan.
00:08:10.000I'm not sure Jordan always agrees with Jordan.
00:08:11.000You'll find something fascinating and you'll learn something by listening to his show.
00:08:51.000If we were all going out and having lunch together and I said, let's ask whoever's in the next table, no matter what restaurant we're in, have them explain the supply chain to us.
00:09:05.000Think they'd understand what we're talking about?
00:09:07.000All I can say is what I'm going to try to do is explain to the American people as best I can.
00:09:14.000And by the way, you all write for a living.
00:09:17.000I haven't seen any one of you explain the supply chain very well.
00:10:14.000And the reason you're too ignorant is not because Joe Biden is bad at his job.
00:10:17.000It's because the media, who pretty much spend every waking moment trying to clean up Joe Biden's mess, the one that he made in his bed every morning, The media, whose job it is to be his night nurse, along with Jen Psaki and the White House press office, he's saying they don't do a good enough job.
00:10:33.000It's just everybody else is doing a bad enough job or noticing that it stinks.
00:10:36.000And then Joe Biden was trying to brag about the economy on Friday.
00:10:39.000Again, all of this is just you wonder why he's flailing because he's flailing because he is who he is and his administration is very bad at this.
00:10:49.000Our economy is starting to work for more Americans.
00:10:52.000Thanks to the economic plan we put through in Congress earlier this year, and a successful vaccine deployment, America continues to add jobs at a record pace.
00:11:17.000Okay, well, it would be a lot more on the move if you get the hell out of the way.
00:11:21.000And that means, if you would stop with this vaccine mandate nonsense.
00:11:24.000Because a lot of people are going to drop out of the workforce because, again, the vax mandate is going to force them to either vax or get fired come January 4th.
00:11:32.000And there's some testing provisions, those could go away under a permanent OSHA rule.
00:11:36.000So Joe Biden spent the same day that he was talking up the economic response, the same day he was talking up what a wonderful job he was doing on the supply chain, he was pushing forward a vaccine mandate that is in fact not popular.
00:11:46.000The polls show that 50% of Americans, this is the last poll that I saw, I think it was ABC News, 50% of Americans don't like the vaccine mandates, 47% of Americans do like the vaccine mandates, and of people who really, really dislike the vaccine mandates, It's like 41% really dislike the vaccine mandates, as opposed to low 30s who really, really like the vaccine mandates.
00:12:03.000In other words, as this begins to hit home, and as people realize that they are not, in fact, if they are vaccinated, at risk from the unvaccinated, this is particularly true once this Pfizer pill comes out that's supposed to reduce hospitalization and death after a COVID diagnosis by somewhere upward of 90%, then why exactly would they be listening to Joe Biden about the popularity of vaccine mandates?
00:12:33.000Already, we've seen organizations that have adopted vaccination requirements increase their vaccination rates by more than 20 percentage points, often as high as over 90%.
00:12:45.000This is good for the workers, for their colleagues, for their loved ones, and for their communities.
00:13:05.000But it seems to me that in a free country, you get to make that call, particularly if you are young and healthy.
00:13:10.000But the idea is that you don't get to make that call.
00:13:12.000This old doddering fool gets to make that call for you.
00:13:15.000Well, there is a piece of good news here, and that is that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now stayed the vaccine mandate in its entirety.
00:13:22.000According to WIBW, one day after Kansas joined six other states in a lawsuit in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the OSHA COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the Fifth Circuit stayed the Biden administration's move.
00:13:32.000So we here at Daily Wire, we did file a federal lawsuit with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, so we are waiting on that.
00:13:37.000In the meantime, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order to stay the entire mandate.
00:13:44.000And the entirety of their stay was basically, this doesn't even look remotely constitutional, It's like a page-and-a-half order.
00:13:51.000It just says, quote, That's literally the whole thing.
00:15:13.000So here is Nancy Pelosi pushing Build Back Better.
00:15:15.000She was literally getting laughed at in the room by Republicans.
00:15:19.000If you're talking about how we want to have immediate and enduring difference for the workers and families, creating jobs, securing middle class tax cuts, lowering costs for families, and making the wealthiest pay their fair share, all the while contributing to reducing the national debt.
00:16:12.000You guys are raising the national debt by blowing out the spending to record levels.
00:16:16.000And you don't even have the votes inside your own caucus for it.
00:16:18.000We'll get to more of Joe Biden trying to strong arm Build Back Better into reality in just one second.
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00:17:28.000so Joe Biden is trying to push Build Back Better as well.
00:17:32.000And he's doing so with class warfare nonsense that's going nowhere.
00:17:35.000So on Friday, he said, you know, the wealthy added value to the country, but they didn't build the country.
00:17:40.000No, it was government, apparently, according to Joe Biden, who built the country.
00:17:44.000The wealthy are value added to the country, but they didn't build the country.
00:17:51.000Hard working middle class folks are the ones that built this country.
00:17:56.000They're the ones that built the middle class.
00:17:58.000They're the ones that built the backbone of the country.
00:18:01.000And what I decided to do was I said we have to begin to build the economy from the bottom up and the middle out.
00:18:08.000Well, folks, that hadn't been the case.
00:18:12.000I'm so tired about trickle-down economic theory that I'm trickled out.
00:19:07.000So this notion that if you are wealthy now, you didn't help build the country, that it was quote-unquote the middle class who built the country.
00:19:12.000There is no group of people who are called the middle class.
00:19:15.000You're not middle class your entire life.
00:19:16.000My parents went from being low income to middle income to high income to retiring, right?
00:19:21.000This is what happens over the course of most Americans' lives.
00:19:23.000That's what happens in a free country, where there's income mobility.
00:19:27.000But Joe Biden is trying to push the notion that the federal government has got to spend ungodly amounts of money because somehow this is going to spur growth.
00:19:47.000They're saying to Joe Biden, you know, as we'll get to in a second, the Republicans are blowing this nearly as bad as Biden is because of course they are.
00:19:54.000But a reporter said to Biden over the weekend, you know, you're not going to have GOP votes for for Build Back Better to get you over the finish line.
00:20:11.000I think what's going to happen is we're going to see what happens in the Senate and whether or not I need only Democratic votes, which is likely.
00:20:24.000And all along, you've told me I can't do any of it anyway.
00:20:30.000He is so obnoxious between his screaming at people about how upset he is about Trump and his weird gazing into camera and leaning forward all creepy like he's living in a sewer and waiting for a small child to come and he's going to attract him with a balloon.
00:20:46.000I don't know what's going on with Joe Biden, but that guy is, there's a reason why he's in the low 40s in terms of his approval rating.
00:20:52.000Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, he says pretty obvious at this point that every element of Joe Biden's agenda is a failure.
00:21:50.000Quote, the increasingly liberal politics of Virginia have been a sore spot for residents of this conservative town of 499 people nestled in the Allegheny Mountains.
00:21:57.000But this past week, as Republicans stormed to marquee victories powered in part by turnout in rural areas like Bath County, local voters cheered.
00:22:05.000We got our Virginia back, said Elaine Neff, a 61-year-old resident.
00:22:24.000In the jigsaw puzzle that is electoral politics, Democrats have often focused their energy on swingy suburbs and voter-rich cities, content to mostly ignore many white rural communities that lean conservative.
00:22:33.000The belief was, in part, that the party had already bottomed out there, especially during the Trump era.
00:22:53.00045 counties, 45, it says four in 2008.
00:22:57.000This year, Youngkin was above 70% in 45 counties and above 80% in 15 of them.
00:23:03.000Steve Bullock, former Democratic governor of Montana, said, look at some of these rural counties in Virginia Folks don't feel like we're offering them anything or hearing or listening to them.
00:23:15.000The Democrats have abandoned the rural areas.
00:23:16.000They've abandoned the non-college-educated white vote.
00:23:20.000And the American people are fighting back against that because there's still a huge number of Americans who are white and non-college-educated.
00:23:26.000And those people are voting increasingly for the Republicans.
00:23:59.000We'll get to that in just one second first.
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00:25:04.000Okay, so, with Joe Biden flailing, you would imagine that Republicans would just let him flail, would you not?
00:25:09.000That, of course, would be the smart move.
00:25:12.000However, you can always count on Republicans to be as stupid as humanly possible, at least a small percentage of them.
00:25:18.000Because, late on Friday, the House of Representatives passed a roughly $1 trillion public works bill, sending to President Biden's desk a generational investment in roads, bridges, and rail that had languished for several months as Democrats feuded over the terms of its approval.
00:25:31.000Now, you'll remember that this thing has already passed the Senate.
00:25:34.000And that Mitt Romney had voted for it, and that Susan Collins had voted for it, and Rob Portman in Ohio had voted for it.
00:25:38.000And then Joe Biden didn't want the House to only vote on it.
00:25:42.000Joe Biden wanted to tie that together with Build Back Better.
00:25:44.000The idea being that if Manchin and Sinema wanted their bipartisan infrastructure plan passed, they would also have to vote in favor of Build Back Better.
00:25:52.000Then it turned out that Manchin and Sinema weren't going to budge.
00:25:54.000And then Biden was stuck in a pickle because the progressives said, we will not vote for bipartisan infrastructure unless we get a vote from Manchin and Sinema on Build Back Better.
00:26:03.000Pramila Jayapal had led that way as well.
00:26:06.000Well, late last week, Pramila Jayapal basically caved on it.
00:26:12.000We know that we're not going to be able to hold up the bipartisan infrastructure plan to get Manchin and Sinema to cave.
00:26:17.000So we do want that bipartisan infrastructure plan passed.
00:26:19.000We will vote in favor of it with like a basic proviso that maybe we'll get a vote on Build Back Better sometime down the road.
00:26:27.000And so, on Friday, a statement came out from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, saying they will commit to voting for the Build Back Better Act in its current form, other than technical changes.
00:26:36.000They still want the cost from the CBO.
00:26:38.000By the week of November 15th, they say they will resolve any discrepancies that come up in the interim to get it passed.
00:26:42.000But that doesn't matter, because again, mansion and cinema.
00:26:44.000are the ones who actually matter in this particular conversation.
00:26:47.000But then Pramila Jayapal put out a statement saying, quote, Tonight, members of the Progressive Caucus and our colleagues in the Democratic Caucus reached an agreement to advance both pieces of President Biden's legislative agenda.
00:26:56.000Our colleagues have committed to voting for the transformative Build Back Better Act, as currently written, no later than the week of November 15th.
00:27:02.000All of our colleagues have also committed to voting tonight on the rule to move the Build Back Better Act forward to codify this promise. The president has affirmed these members gave him the same commitment. OK, but there was one problem left. He had the progressives and the moderates saying we'll vote for some rule to push for Build Back Better, even though we know it's probably going to die a horrible, painful death in the Senate.
00:27:22.000And we'll vote in favor of bipartisan infrastructure.
00:27:25.000You still had six outstanding Democrats, namely the squad and their adjunct members, who were voting against bipartisan infrastructure.
00:27:32.000Democrats could only afford to lose three votes and still pass bipartisan infrastructure in the House.
00:27:37.000So they've lost six, which means they didn't have the votes for either Build Back Better or for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act because they lacked the votes for bipartisan infrastructure in the House and they didn't have the votes for Build Back Better in the Senate.
00:27:48.000So this is the point where if you're a Republican, you stand there and you let them flail.
00:27:53.000Because why would you hand them a win?
00:27:55.000Well, the answer is because Republicans, at least 13 of them, are just complete morons.
00:28:00.000And or they're so eager to slap their own party in the face that they voted against the rest of their Republican colleagues in order to vote for this infrastructure plan, which again is a giant boondoggle.
00:28:10.000It is $1.2 trillion of spending that are unnecessary.
00:28:13.000The vast majority of infrastructure spending that needs to be done is supposed to be done at the state level.
00:28:18.000The notion that America's infrastructure is completely failing, all of our bridges and roads are falling apart, it's not true.
00:28:23.000In most non-partisan studies, the United States' infrastructure is, in the main, okay.
00:28:29.000And if you want to upgrade it, that is something that can be done at the state level.
00:28:31.000There's no reason why Florida should be paying for New York's infrastructure problems.
00:28:36.000But, nonetheless, you had 13 Republicans who then voted in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure bill and handed the flailing Joe Biden, a falling apart Joe Biden, a win.
00:30:03.000But every single member who voted for this thing on the right side of the aisle should be primary.
00:30:07.000You don't get to vote for Joe Biden's signature pieces of legislation at a time when we've already blown out the spending and when inflation is setting in and when we already have a debt-to-GDP ratio higher than at any time since World War II and then get to survive a primary challenge.
00:30:20.000That is not something that should happen inside the Republican Party.
00:30:25.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Again, remember, he had to do this with Republican votes.
00:30:27.000He could not accomplish it with just Democratic votes.
00:30:29.000for making the U.S. more competitive internationally, its passage in the House hands him a bipartisan achievement that presidents of both parties have tried and failed to achieve for years.
00:30:36.000Again, remember, he had to do this with Republican votes.
00:30:39.000He could not accomplish it with just Democratic votes. So this is Republicans' fault. I don't know what House Speaker McCarthy had to do to make sure that those 13 Republicans didn't go along with Joe Biden here, or if there was anything he could have done.
00:30:51.000But bottom line is, if you cannot whip your party hard enough to ensure that they don't vote for the other guy on a bill that has no interior support inside the Republican Party, I don't know what you are doing.
00:31:02.000His sagging poll numbers and Democrats' recent loss in the gubernatorial race in Virginia had pushed Democrats to muscle the legislation through the finish line this week, but the effort was circuitous and tortured for House Democrats, whose paper-thin majority repeatedly complicated leadership's plan for the legislation.
00:31:16.000Democrats had started Friday planning to approve the infrastructure bill after passing the rest of the party's priorities in a separate, roughly $2 trillion, education, healthcare, and climate package.
00:31:25.000Progressive Democrats demanded the social spending legislation first receive a vote in the House, hoping to ensure that centrists would support it.
00:31:31.000That design then fell apart because centrist Democrats said they needed more time to analyze the cost of the social spending bill.
00:31:37.000So then Pelosi just brought up the infrastructure bill and she didn't have the votes.
00:31:40.000She brought up for a vote and she didn't have the votes.
00:31:42.000These 13 Republicans bailed out Nancy Pelosi.
00:32:20.000Because the truth is, the infrastructure bill is going to help virtually no one.
00:32:23.000And no one thinks it's going to help them.
00:32:25.000So it's just going to look like a big bag of spending.
00:32:27.000It's going to allow him to say that he did a bipartisan thing, which is the only bipartisan thing that has happened throughout his entire administration.
00:32:35.000Again, I thought this was a bad move from the time the Republicans agreed to it.
00:32:39.000And I think that in the Senate, the math for Mitt Romney and Susan Collins and company was probably that if they got Manchin and Sinema on board with bipartisan infrastructure, that this would also get them to stand up against Build Back Better.
00:32:49.000So it was one or the other in the Senate.
00:33:15.000He's making fun of Trump, of course, because every week in Trump's administration was infrastructure week and infrastructure never really got done.
00:33:23.000It's hilarious how they've been stashing Kamala Harris away.
00:33:25.000And only when they do something that is camera friendly, do they sort of trot her out and then they just shove her right back wherever she came from.
00:33:31.000It's okay, you need to go back into that closet there and stay there, Kamala, until next time when we try you out and pretend that you had something to do with any of this.
00:33:38.000According to CNN, both Biden and his cabinet officials are now going to go on an infrastructure tour, which is what Americans are up for.
00:33:45.000I mean, there's nothing that sounds like as much fun as an infrastructure tour.
00:33:48.000And it sounds like, you know, just a great band or something.
00:33:52.000Today the president touted the bill at the White House and CNN has now learned that Biden and his top cabinet officials plan to hit the road and tour the country in the coming weeks to promote the benefits of this bill.
00:34:06.000They're going to run around the country talking about how much of your money they're now spending.
00:34:10.000By the way, what exactly is in the bill?
00:34:12.000It includes $110 billion in funding for roads, bridges, and major projects, as well as $39 billion to modernize and make public transit more accessible to the disabled and the elderly.
00:34:20.000Most of that is going to go to New York.
00:34:22.000And a huge chunk of that is going to go to New York City.
00:34:24.000So I'm glad that you get to pay for New York's subway system.
00:34:51.000So Joe Biden finally got to bail out his favorite train, because that dude loves Amtrak and tells all sorts of lies about all the people he's met on Amtrak, and he treats his travel on Amtrak as some sort of actual presidential credential.
00:35:02.000The legislation will provide $11 billion in funding for highway and pedestrian safety programs.
00:36:49.000So again, Republicans hand Biden an imagistic victory here for no apparent reason.
00:36:56.000And there should be blowback on all 13 members of the House who decided to vote in favor of, again, a giant spending monstrosity that was unnecessary in the first place.
00:37:04.000And that allows Joe Biden a victory lap at a time when his presidency is in a state of complete collapse.
00:38:34.000Staring down the face of an increasingly authoritarian president leaves us with no other option.
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00:40:13.000Well, meanwhile, again, Republicans saving Democrats from themselves. It's the stupidest thing they can do because the fact is that on the cultural issues, Republicans are winning This is why I actually think that even though a bunch of foolish and backward Republicans voted in favor of the infrastructure bill, I think it's going to have no long term effects.
00:40:35.000I don't think the Democrats can save themselves.
00:40:37.000I think the Democrats are too tied in to an ideology that is completely at odds with how Americans think.
00:40:41.000I'm just going to give you an example of somebody who's very tied in to this ideology.
00:40:45.000That, of course, is Joy Reid, who represents the hard left wing of the Democratic Party.
00:40:48.000So over the weekend, Joy Reid decided to rip on Winsome Sears again.
00:40:53.000And it's it's insane what people on the left think they can get away with with regard to speaking about race.
00:41:01.000And now this AR-15-wieldin' LG will be their new get-out-of-racism-free card, while Republicans nationwide make ban-all history that shows any white person doing anything wrong to black people ever their 2022 mantra.
00:41:16.000So, according to Joy Reid, Winston Cedars, the new lieutenant governor-elect of Virginia, is actually a just get-out-of-racism-free card for Republicans.
00:41:26.000And unfortunately, this is how Democrats think, and most Americans are not into it.
00:41:30.000Because it has real effect on how people live.
00:41:32.000So the best example of this comes from my former state, I'm so glad I left, of California.
00:41:37.000According to the New York Times, California tries to close the gap in math, but sets off a backlash.
00:41:44.000If everything had gone according to plan, California would have approved new guidelines this month for math education in public schools.
00:41:50.000But ever since a draft was opened for public comment in February, the recommendations have set off a fierce debate over not only how to teach math, but also how to solve a problem more intractable than Fermat's Last Theorem, closing the racial and socioeconomic disparities in achievement that persist at every level of math education.
00:42:06.000Now, the reality is that if you want to look at the disparities that exist at every level of math education, you might have to start with family structure.
00:42:14.000You might have to start with the number of hours of homework that people are doing.
00:42:16.000You might have to start with the educational values of particular communities which differ widely.
00:42:22.000There are Appalachian white communities where education is not valued and so people underperform in schools.
00:42:27.000And there are Asian communities where education is highly valued and so people overperform in schools.
00:42:32.000But according to California, The mere fact of disparity means that they seriously considered shifting how they're going to teach math.
00:42:39.000Now, math is, again, it is the key component, it is the key example, rather, of meritocracy at work.
00:42:47.000Now, honestly, the term meritocracy, I think, has been overused.
00:42:50.000And the reason I think that the term meritocracy has been overused is because when we say that meritocracy rewards merit, people tend to think of that as moral merit.
00:43:15.000They might be measuring how smart you are and your skill set and what you've learned and all of that.
00:43:20.000Okay, so when we say meritocracy, really what people should be saying is something like a skillsocracy.
00:43:26.000And the good news about skillsocracies, about places where skills are rewarded, is when people are rewarded for high levels of skill, that has excellent externalities.
00:43:35.000If you construct a system where people's skills are rewarded rather than, say, their color, or rather than their ethnicity, or their age, or their religion, what this means is that the activities of the people who are skilled generally tend to help other people.
00:43:50.000If you reward skill sets, And those skill sets are awarded because the person with the skills can use those skill sets in order to do something for another person.
00:44:02.000I use my skills to produce a product or go to service for you.
00:44:04.000And then you use your skill set to, in turn, enrich me.
00:44:07.000This is how free market trades work and consensual exchanges work.
00:44:11.000A skillsocracy is really good because it rewards people who have high levels of skill, which means that they are bettering the lives of all the people who they provide services, goods, and products to.
00:44:21.000It's the best form of distributing an elevated standard of living to more and more people.
00:44:26.000Most innovation happens at the top levels of the skillsocracy.
00:44:30.000People have higher skill levels, whether it's just purely in terms of innovation or whether it's in terms of being really good at their own jobs.
00:44:36.000That does bleed to everybody else because it raises the level of the products and services people are privy to.
00:45:09.000This is what California was seeking to do.
00:45:12.000So the California guidelines could overhaul the way many school districts approach math instruction.
00:45:16.000The draft rejected the idea of naturally gifted children, recommended against shifting certain students into accelerated courses in middle school, and tried to promote high-level math courses that could serve as alternatives to calculus, like data science or statistics.
00:45:28.000Okay, so first of all, if you reject the idea of naturally gifted children, it's because you're an idiot.
00:45:34.000Some kids have higher IQs than others.
00:45:37.000And shock of shocks, it turns out that there is a heavy, heavy genetic component to that.
00:45:41.000That if both parents are neuroscientists, there's a good shot that their kid is gonna have a higher IQ than somebody, both of whose parents are on welfare.
00:45:47.000Okay, that is just the... I'm not saying that's inevitably true.
00:45:51.000There are many smart people who are on welfare, I'm sure.
00:45:53.000They're not all that many stupid neuroscientists, but they're, I'm sure, smart people on welfare.
00:45:58.000But if you have to take the average person and all you know about them is child of two neuroscientists versus child of two people on welfare in a free American society.
00:46:43.000The last thing you want to do is reward people who are gifted, who, by the way, should use their gifts on behalf of society in a free market society.
00:46:50.000Free markets allow people to distribute the uses of their gifts widely.
00:47:06.000Socialism makes you more selfish because it assumes that I can sit here on my ass all day and you have to give me something for my trouble.
00:47:13.000So this is what California is pushing now.
00:47:16.000The battle over math comes at a time when education policy on issues including masks, testing, and teaching about racism has become entangled in bitter partisan debate.
00:47:22.000The Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, seized on those issues to help propel him to victory on Tuesday.
00:47:27.000Now Republicans are discussing how these education issues can help them in a midterm election next year.
00:47:32.000Even in heavily Democratic California, the draft guidelines encountered scathing criticism with charges that the framework would inject woke politics into a subject that is supposed to be practical and precise.
00:47:41.000Joe Buller, professor of education at Stanford, said, quote, people will really go to battle for math to stay the same.
00:47:46.000Even parents who hated maths in schools will argue to keep it the same for their kids.
00:47:49.000The battle over math pedagogy is a tale as old as multiplication tables.
00:47:54.000An idea called New Math had its heyday in the 1960s.
00:47:56.000About a decade ago, many debates over the National Common Core Standards broke out as well.
00:48:01.000Today, battles over the California Guidelines are circling around a fundamental question.
00:48:07.000This is the stupidest question I've ever heard.
00:48:09.000The answer is math is for everyone because it helped everyone.
00:48:12.000And if you're not good at math, tough, math still exists.
00:48:16.000Testing results show regularly that math students in the United States are lagging behind those in other industrialized nations.
00:48:21.000Within the country, there's a persistent racial gap in achievement.
00:48:24.000According to data from the Civil Rights Office of the Education Department, black students represented about 16% of high school students, but 8% of those enrolled in calculus during the 2015-2016 school years, white and Asian students were overrepresented in high-level courses.
00:48:38.000Critics of the drafts said the authors would punish high achievers by limiting options for gifted programs.
00:48:43.000William Williamson Evers, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, was one of the authors of the letter.
00:48:53.000And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:48:55.000But this is not what California is moving toward.
00:48:59.000California is moving toward the idea that everyone should be given an equal result, even if they are not equally good at math.
00:49:07.000The detracking movement is an attempt to destroy the skillsocracy in favor of some other moral component that is brought by the left that has no basis in reality.
00:49:19.000So if California and the rest of the left wishes to pursue this, they're going to reap the whirlwind.
00:49:23.000And I'm not sure that they can pull out of this tailspin.
00:49:25.000So yeah, it's bad that Republicans voted for the infrastructure plan.
00:49:27.000Every Republican who did should be punished for it.
00:49:29.000But in the end, the Democrats have embraced a suicidal strategy with regard to the American people who will not accept the substitution of any metric other than a skillsocracy.
00:49:40.000Because if they do, they've substituted bigotry for freedom.
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