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00:01:24.000Alrighty, so the big news of the day is that Joe Biden has basically decided that, remember all that monoclonal antibody stuff that Ron DeSantis was talking about and members of the media were suggesting that he was just sort of making it up.
00:01:36.000And the answer was, he was focusing on vaccines.
00:01:38.000And then for people who did not take the vaccine, or for people who got a serious breakthrough infection, or for people who would not take the vaccine, it is very good to have monoclonal antibodies on hand because they are a very effective treatment from Regeneron.
00:01:49.000So the media immediately Shifted into anti-DeSantis mode, which meant that we were all blowing monoclonal antibodies out of proportion.
00:01:56.000We really should, you know, it's really not a thing.
00:02:01.000And not only that, Ron DeSantis is probably doing this because he might own stock in Regeneron or one of his donors owns stock in Regeneron.
00:02:09.000Well, now it turns out, of course, that Ron DeSantis was correct because as he has throughout this pandemic, Ron DeSantis has been following the science.
00:02:16.000And so he ordered a lot of monoclonal antibody treatment because Florida had a really big spike, you may have noticed, this summer.
00:02:23.000And the treatments that were available included monoclonal antibodies.
00:02:26.000Well, now the Biden administration has stepped in and they've said, OK, we're no longer going to allow states to simply order monoclonal antibody treatments.
00:02:32.000Now we're going to federalize the process and in the process remove doses from places like Florida.
00:02:38.000Which is pretty obviously a revenge play by the Biden administration against states like Florida and like Texas.
00:02:44.000Because the idea is that they're going to what?
00:02:47.000Pick up doses and then not send them where they're most needed?
00:02:49.000See, here's the thing about the market.
00:02:51.000Especially when you have states who are competing to get a limited supply of a good.
00:02:55.000The states that have greater need of the good are generally willing to pay more.
00:02:59.000The states like Florida that were in dire circumstances should pay money where states like New York were not.
00:03:05.000And if New York spikes, then New York presumably will want to buy a lot of monoclonal antibody treatments.
00:03:10.000If states like Vermont, which by the way is 88% of adults in Vermont are now vaxxed and they have their all time high in Delta infections because Delta is infectious and herd immunity seems not to be really a thing when it comes to Delta.
00:03:22.000If Vermont wants monoclonal antibodies, they should go out and get monoclonal antibodies.
00:03:25.000But the Biden administration has decided, and it is obvious what they're doing, that they seek to deprive... I mean, at this point, they are basically just rationing medical care.
00:03:36.000The Biden administration this week slashed the doses of life-saving coronavirus antibody treatment to Florida, giving the state less than half of what is needed for a routine week, prioritizing what they called equitable distribution.
00:03:51.000Now, you'll remember that in the public health context, the Biden administration, when they use the term equity, what they really mean is we're not going to give this treatment to the people who need it most.
00:03:59.000We're going to give it to the people we want to have it most.
00:04:02.000So they did this first when they proposed the CDC that they were going to trench out vaccines, not by age, which is the number one complicating factor for COVID, but instead by race.
00:04:12.000Remember, they suggested they were going to give a disproportionate number of the vaccines to black Americans, not to elderly Americans, which made no sense because the actual absolute number of black Americans who would then die would be higher Because, again, if you have a certain number of black Americans who are in the plus 65 crowd, those folks are much more likely to die than the 20-year-old black Americans.
00:04:35.000They were going to try and give a lot of doses to people who are 20 and not a lot of doses to people who are 65.
00:04:40.000And then there was public outcry and blowback, and the CDC revised its own standards.
00:04:44.000Whenever they say equity, what they mean is we are not going to actually triage this situation and get the doses where they are most necessary.
00:04:52.000Instead, we are going to simply focus in on who are our political constituencies and how do we get them what they want.
00:05:00.000The Biden administration this week began to cut the distribution of monoclonal antibodies to red states like Florida and Alabama, contending those states, including Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana, are comprising two biggest share of the supply in recent weeks, 70%.
00:05:12.000Okay, well, shouldn't we actually determine the supply by where the hospitalizations and deaths are occurring?
00:05:19.000Wouldn't that be the way that you normally do this?
00:05:22.000It's sort of like saying that you have a heavy urban area and a lot of rural areas, and there are a lot of car accidents in the heavy urban area, but we only have a certain number of doctors who are available for car crashes.
00:05:32.000And we know that in the rural areas, you know, those people are our voters.
00:05:35.000What if we just send all the doctors for the car crashes out to the rural areas, which have fewer per capita car crashes?
00:05:40.000And those people in the cities, I mean, they chose to live there, so if they get in a car crash, really kind of their problem, right?
00:05:47.000Department of Health and Human Services said HHS will determine the amount of product each state and territory receives on a weekly basis.
00:05:54.000State and territorial health departments will subsequently identify sites that will receive product and how much, the official continued, claiming the system will, quote, help maintain equitable distribution, both geographically and temporally across the country, providing states and territories with consistent, fairly distributed supply over the coming weeks.
00:06:10.000And all the ambiguity lives in that word, fairly.
00:06:13.000Because again, normally you don't have to worry about what's fair, you just have to worry about who's sick.
00:06:18.000As soon as you substitute the word fair for ill in that particular sentence, you have decided that the ill don't matter, all that matters to you is your political priority.
00:06:27.000Instead, it should be that the geographic and temporal distribution should be rooted in who is ill.
00:06:34.000Again, they don't care about that, they care about the politics.
00:06:37.000Governor Ron DeSantis, of course, is cracking back against the Biden administration.
00:06:42.000By the way, this just demonstrates the lie.
00:06:44.000Okay, so first of all, you'll go back like a week and a half.
00:06:46.000Joe Biden is yelling at the unvaccinated.
00:06:48.000And one of the things he says in his speech yelling at the unvaccinated is we're going to radically ramp up the amount of monoclonal antibody available to people unless you happen to live in a red state, in which case you're screwed.
00:06:58.000We're increasing the availability of new medicines recommended by real doctors, not conspiracy theorists.
00:07:05.000The monoclonal antibody treatments have been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization by up to 70% for unvaccinated people at risk of developing severe disease.
00:07:18.000We've already distributed 1.4 million courses of these treatments to save lives and reduce the strain on hospitals.
00:07:27.000So there he was like a week and a half ago talking about how important it is to distribute these monoclonal antibody treatments, right?
00:07:32.000It's super important to distribute these things.
00:07:35.000And then he's like, what if we just shifted the way we distribute these things so that the people who are sickest don't get them?
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00:09:17.000Okay, so according to Breitbart, the feds have now delivered less than half of the necessary doses to Florida this week.
00:09:23.000According to CBS 12, they sent 30,950 doses according to numbers from the governor's office and confirmed by the Department of Health.
00:09:30.000Normally, the state needs about 72,000 doses a week to meet the current needs on the ground.
00:09:35.000Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for DeSantis, blasted the Biden administration's move, suggested, quote, every corporate media outlet that publishes sensational stories about overflowing hospitals in the South should first demand answers from the Biden administration about why they are restricting the supply of life-saving COVID treatment to the South.
00:09:50.000She said, supply of monoclonal antibody treatment to Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and other Southern states restricted by the Biden administration with no real explanation besides equity.
00:09:58.000How is it equitable to only send treatment for half the Floridians who need it and no state sites in Alabama?
00:10:05.000So Ron DeSantis slams Joe Biden over all of this, as well he should.
00:10:10.000We are very, very concerned with the Biden administration and the HHS's recent abrupt, sudden announcement that they are going to dramatically cut the number of monoclonal antibodies that are going to be sent to the state of Florida.
00:10:26.000We think it'll make a difference in these other states, but man, to just kind of pull the rug out from anyone a week after the president himself said they were going to be increasing the distributions by 50 percent.
00:10:44.000And if you look at the timeline, when he says it's abrupt, it is absolutely abrupt.
00:10:48.000Phil Kirpin, over at the Washington Examiner, he has an entire timeline demonstrating that until like five seconds ago, there was an actual guarantee to Florida that they were going to get a certain number of doses, and then everything just switched.
00:11:03.000As of September 9th, President Biden announced his path out of the pandemic, a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy to combat COVID-19.
00:11:08.000And he announced that they would increase the average weekly pace of shipment of free monoclonal antibody treatment to states by a further 50% in September.
00:11:17.000And then September 13th, HHS announced they were taking complete control and doing weekly distributions for all states and territories.
00:11:23.000That same day, that afternoon, the Federal Department of Health The Florida Department of Health rather communicated to HHS the weekly need for just the 25 state-run sites of about 36,000 doses.
00:11:35.000When HHS mentioned the state receiving the order for all state sites and distributing, the Florida Department of Health specifically asked if such a shift would apply to all facilities in the state providing treatment.
00:11:44.000HHS said this was not the case and did not provide any indication of any upcoming limitation to supply.
00:11:49.000And then, the very next day, they sent an email to all stakeholders indicating a shift to an allocation strategy had occurred that day.
00:11:57.000And they were contradicting what they had just told the Florida Department of Health.
00:12:00.000This is obviously and eminently political.
00:12:04.000This is really about Joe Biden and the Biden administration determining that if you are in a Southern state, you do not deserve the vaccine.
00:12:28.000And on par or more than quote unquote Trump supporters.
00:12:33.000And I'm not seeing any talk whatsoever about denying treatment to people based on that.
00:12:38.000So if the basic idea is that you get COVID because you decided you didn't want to get a vaccine, and then the federal government says, okay, well, you're on your own because you did that, then that should theoretically be equally applied.
00:13:04.000Now again, mask mandates have been tried in nearly every state in the union.
00:13:08.000There's very little evidence that mask mandates have done a damn bit of good.
00:13:10.000When people are scared of the virus, they put on a mask.
00:13:13.000When they are not scared of the virus, they don't put on the mask.
00:13:15.000Which is why you see in every state, including New York and California, that after a mask mandate is put in place, usually what happens, there's a big spike.
00:13:50.000So he thinks mask mandates are the solution.
00:13:53.000Or he thinks that forcing businesses to vaccine mandate is gonna make this sort of stuff happen.
00:13:57.000When the reality is, I mean, I'm talking to people every single day who are vaccine hesitant and all that his vaccine mandate nonsense has done is push these people into a harder position.
00:14:09.000It's now made them more ideologically prone.
00:14:11.000To not only refusing the vaccines, but saying, I'm happy to lose my job.
00:14:14.000You've turned what was a health decision into a liberty decision for a lot of people, and people are going to double down on what I think is a bad decision with regard to vaccines, but an understandable one with regard to liberty.
00:14:24.000But here's Joe Biden basically saying, you don't deserve to get monoclonal antibody treatment.
00:14:27.000I mean, that's really what this is about.
00:14:29.000If you don't do what I want you to do on mask mandates in schools, for example, or if you don't do what I want you to do with regard to vaccine mandates for employers, Now really, if you were about getting the vaccinated vaccinated, and denying them treatment, then there should be a simple, a simple policy, right?
00:14:46.000It would be a vicious and cruel policy, which is why he doesn't want to do it out loud, but he's just doing it by state, and trying to focus in on red states.
00:14:52.000But if the simple quote-unquote moral policy here is, you don't get vaccinated, you get the disease, you're on your own, that should equally apply across states, should it not?
00:15:22.000Okay, again, this sort of tyranny from the federal government that Ron DeSantis is the actual tyrant because he refuses to force businesses To mandate that people have vaccines.
00:15:33.000So, Ron DeSantis says, you're allowed to be free.
00:15:55.000This notion that if you did not take measures to protect yourself, and then you get hurt, or you get sick, we are going to deny you treatment, that does not exist in the healthcare field.
00:16:05.000My wife, the doctor, heard about this and she said, what in the world is this?
00:16:10.000That if somebody did not take measures to protect themselves and then they got hurt, that the medical establishment is supposed to refuse them treatment, as opposed to triaging by level of risk to them.
00:16:22.000Right, well, this doesn't exist in, like, if you're in a car crash and you weren't wearing a seatbelt, and they bring you into the hospital, does anybody go, oh, this jackass wasn't wearing a seatbelt, guess he gets what he deserves?
00:16:32.000You know, he's got some pressure from a hematoma in his skull, but we're just gonna let that go.
00:16:36.000And just let that brain bleed continue.
00:16:41.000Okay, but Joe Biden is pretty openly doing this.
00:16:43.000He's punishing states that don't do what he wants by centralizing monoclonal antibody treatment distribution, when the state of Florida was basically doing it on its own already.
00:16:52.000The state of Florida was already like, we're getting the doses, guys.
00:16:56.000The Biden administration says the restrictions are in place to ensure every state can obtain enough of the drug, Florida got about 30,000 doses in the last week.
00:17:24.000In Florida, the next curve is likely, the next big spike is likely to be Midwestern and Northeastern.
00:17:29.000Okay, but the goal here for Biden is if more people die in Florida, then he doesn't have to worry about running against DeSantis in Florida.
00:17:53.000He tweeted out, Republican governors in states like Texas and Florida are doing everything they can to undermine the public health requirements that keep people safe.
00:18:00.000Because the rates of vaccination, particularly for the elderly in Florida, stack up pretty well against virtually all other major states in the United States.
00:18:07.000What are these measures to undermine public health requirements keeping people safe?
00:18:12.000Forcing people to mask up post-vaccination?
00:18:15.000Forcing children to mask up sans any evidence?
00:18:18.000Forcing employers to fire people and take the food off their table if they don't want to get the vaccine?
00:18:23.000He says they're playing politics with the lives of their citizens, especially children!
00:18:33.000You think I'm playing politics with my kids?
00:18:35.000I care about my kids a hell of a lot more than Joe Biden does.
00:18:38.000And I care about my kids enough to know that my five-year-old should not be forced to wear a mask and eat outside on the pavement every damn day.
00:18:46.000But apparently I just want to risk the life of my kids, according to Joe Biden.
00:19:00.000All he has to do is say that you are at fault if you wish to live free and make decent health decisions for your family.
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00:20:33.000She said, we're not restricting supply.
00:20:34.000We're just, you know, restricting supply.
00:20:37.000Over the last month, given the rise in cases due to the Delta variant and the lower number of vaccination rates in some of these states, like Florida, like Texas, just seven states are making up 70% of the orders.
00:20:49.000Our supply is not unlimited, and we believe it should be equitable across states across the country.
00:20:58.000of supply. So why cut them to those states only if there's no replacement?
00:21:01.000I think our role as the government overseeing the entire country is to be equitable in how we distribute. We're not going to give a greater percentage to Florida over Oklahoma, nor do I think are you suggesting that.
00:21:16.000Okay, that's insane. The dismissive nastiness of Jen Psaki really is pretty extraordinary.
00:21:22.000I mean, she's dismissing people dying in hospitals.
00:22:24.000Because you'll recall that last week there was a fascinating little tete-a-tete between Nicki Minaj and Joy Reid, in which Nicki Minaj tweeted out a bizarre story about her cousin's friend in Trinidad having swollen testicles and impotence because of the vaccine, which of course is silly.
00:22:43.000There's no scientific evidence that the vaccine causes swollen testicles or impotence.
00:22:50.000But then Joy Reid sounded off, and she went after Nicki Minaj, and Nicki Minaj said that she was going after her because of her race, and it was all very entertaining.
00:22:57.000Now, let's assume, for a second, that the person who had tweeted this out was not a famous rap artist, most famous for shaking her posterior and being a Democrat.
00:23:06.000Let's say, for a second, that this had been a country western star who had said, my cousin down in Alabama got swollen balls from the vaccine.
00:23:16.000Do you think the White House would have reached out?
00:23:20.000Or do you think it would have earned extraordinary mockery from the White House?
00:23:25.000I have a feeling I know which way this would go.
00:23:29.000If somebody on the right had said something as bizarre and stupid as Nicki Minaj, the White House would have said, this is bizarre and stupid and inexcusable because this person has millions and millions of followers.
00:23:38.000Instead, you get from the White House, yeah, we called up Nicki Minaj.
00:24:00.000They should be nice, and they should be trying to talk people into it, regardless of your political position.
00:24:04.000As I've said a thousand times, I have individually, on a one-to-one level, tried to talk probably a hundred people into taking the vaccine.
00:24:10.000And I've been successful maybe 25-30% of the time.
00:24:16.000If you're from Florida, go ahead and die, sucker.
00:24:17.000And if you're Nicki Minaj, we're gonna call you up and try and... We're gonna try... We're gonna spend an hour explaining to you the data behind vaccinations and ball swelling.
00:24:27.000Here is... Here is Jen Psaki doing this.
00:24:31.000We offered a call with Nicki Minaj and one of our doctors to answer questions she had about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.
00:24:40.000This is pretty standard and something we do all the time.
00:24:43.000It was a very early stage call at a staff level, staff to staff, and we weren't even at the point of discussing, or not even at the point of discussing, I should say at this point, the mechanisms or the format or anything along those lines.
00:24:56.000It was simply an offer to have a conversation and an early stage call.
00:25:02.000Look how sweet they are to Nicki Minaj.
00:25:04.000Look how sweet they are to particular people who are vaccine hesitant or promoting overt vaccine misinformation like Nicki Minaj did.
00:25:12.000However, If Nicki Minaj were a white guy in Florida who refused to take the vaccine, and then got sick, and needed a monoclonal antibody treatment, then well, you know, equity suggests that we have to send this dose to a place that doesn't need it.
00:25:24.000Because there are no shortages currently in any of these other states, as Jen Psaki overtly admitted.
00:25:29.000This is just about spite, and it's about ire, and it's about nastiness, and it's about people dying, and they don't care.
00:25:37.000Again, Jared Kushner was raked over the coals for the suggestion that he was tranching out ventilators, which, by the way, have turned out to be one of the worst things for COVID.
00:25:45.000But he was ripped up and down for the suggestion that was never verified that he was tranching out ventilators by political preference of states.
00:26:37.000If you're unvaccinated, and you have any sort of pre-existing condition, and if you don't have a pre-existing condition, your chances of a side effect from the vaccine, if you are above the age of 18, are significantly lower than your chances of a side effect from actual COVID itself.
00:26:51.000The natural immunity you get from COVID is going to be more durable than vaccine, but the chances of you getting super sick from a vaccine are a lot lower than the chances of you getting super sick from COVID.
00:27:13.000If you've already had COVID and the notion is you must get vaccinated regardless of whether you have antibodies or T-cell memory, those people are not following the science.
00:27:20.000But Joe Biden is trying to drive up ire at the unvaccinated.
00:27:24.000Let me just say this to the vaccinated.
00:27:31.000Seriously, I know people who are like double, triple vaxxed, have had the boosters, and they're still like, I can't go anywhere near anybody.
00:27:37.000I can't, I can't go anywhere near anyone.
00:27:39.000I can't, you have to test before we meet.
00:27:43.000At a certain point, somebody's gonna have to dose you on the reality.
00:27:46.000And the reality is, this disease does not kill a huge number of people per thousand, not compared to smallpox, which is a serious disease that killed one third of the population.
00:29:11.000I think it is similarly nutty, maybe even more nutty, to once you have had the vaccine, spend the rest of your life hiding in a bubble and demanding that the rest of the world cater to you.
00:29:25.000Okay, I'm going to read you from this Washington Post article in a second, because it's just an incredible example of how the media are garbage at this.
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00:30:53.000Okay, so when I talk about the media trying to scare the hell out of you, This Washington Post piece, parenting a child under 12 in the age of Delta, it's like a fire alarm every day.
00:31:02.000Routine outings become tricky decisions for the youngest Americans who are still ineligible for coronavirus vaccines.
00:31:11.000Again, I care about my kids a lot more than the Washington Post does.
00:31:15.000I don't want my five-year-old and seven-year-old to have to mask for the rest of their lives for a disease that by infection fatality rate is less deadly than the flu.
00:31:32.000Because the Washington Post can't cite a single damned statistic in the entire piece.
00:31:35.000Quote, Greg Otto conducts risk assessment for a living, but the cybersecurity consultant from Springfield never imagined he'd have to do one every time his daughter, six, and son, four, stepped outside the boundaries of their home.
00:31:46.000Playing with next door neighbors outdoors, acceptable.
00:32:04.000He says parenting a child under 12 can be maddening and scary during normal times, but the Delta variant has taken things to a new level.
00:32:10.000With a vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 unlikely to be approved for at least a few more months, parents of young children are weighing a dizzying array of variables every day as they try to navigate the risks of COVID against the mental health and physical consequences of social isolation and their own livelihood.
00:32:24.000Rihanna Contreras, 33, an intellectual property attorney, whose children are 6, 3, and 20 months, said she and her husband, an engineer at Los Alamos National Lab, made the difficult decision to put all three of their kids in school or daycare because of their demanding jobs.
00:32:36.000But she second guesses the choice every day.
00:32:38.000I feel like we're constantly reacting, said Contreras.
00:32:41.000There's not enough time to be proactive.
00:32:45.000And Crofton, Maryland, Lisa Dykes, a graphic designer and mother of two, aged seven and 11, has been thinking a lot about a cartoon she recently saw that featured a parent staring at a vast ocean.
00:32:54.000She recalled that it said something like, "'Only 1% of the children "'are going to get eaten by the shark.' "'It's fine, but it's not 1% of the children.'" That's incorrect.
00:33:04.000Okay, if 1% of kids were dying from COVID after having gotten COVID, then we'd be still socially isolating.
00:33:12.000Out of 73 million Americans in the United States under the age of 18, according to the CDC, last I checked, which was three days ago, 412 deaths. 412.
00:33:29.000That's 73 million divided by 412, which is 1 in every 177,184 people under the age of 18.
00:33:40.000What in the hell are you talking about?
00:33:41.000Sykes48 said the continued reassurances by health officials and experts that children are at low risk are difficult to relate to when you are faced with your own children.
00:33:50.000No, it just means you're bad at risk assessment.
00:33:53.000Because literally, that risk assessment exists every day.
00:33:55.000You know what's more dangerous than Delta to your kids?
00:33:57.000Putting your kids in the car and taking them to school.
00:34:00.000The car ride is probably more dangerous to your kids than actually sending them to school with other kids.
00:34:07.000Even school, which seemed like a hopeful and sensibly calculated risk in May, she said, now feels like an incredibly dangerous roll of the dice.
00:35:06.000Because for every 1 identified case, there are probably 5 that are unidentified.
00:35:10.000And then the Washington Post just decides to scare you with vagueness.
00:35:14.000The risks of long COVID in children, which could include respiratory or cardiac problems, fatigue, brain fog, and other symptoms that can last for months or potentially years, remain a big unknown.
00:35:23.000An Israeli study, one of the first on the topic of 13,864 children published this week, found 11% of those infected had signs of long COVID.
00:35:31.000However, the Israeli Health Ministry emphasized that some of the children's symptoms may be due to prolonged lockdowns, school closures, and global conflict, including being locked in your basement while Hamas rockets rain down upon your family.
00:35:44.000Yes, it turns out that it's quite stressful for children not to be allowed to live a regular life.
00:36:00.000And he said, well, you know, we've heard studies that suggest that there are some neurological effects to a small percentage of children.
00:36:07.000Like 2% of kids might have some long lasting symptoms, according to British studies.
00:36:10.000And that may include some neurological effects.
00:36:12.000Okay, how about some comps from flu, for example?
00:36:15.000Because it turns out that pretty much every virus has a small percentage of people who have long lasting effects.
00:36:22.000There's no evidence that this is Wildly out of proportion with regard to Delta.
00:36:27.000So again, this is all an attempt to scare the living hell out of you based on, like, they say follow the science and then they don't follow the science and they run articles every day not following the science.
00:37:09.000Redistributing monoclonal antibodies, not on the basis of need, but on the basis of politics, is disgusting.
00:37:14.000Telling people that they ought to be far more scared than they are based on the actual risk numbers is disgusting, and the media are participating in it every day.
00:37:22.000Just as it is wrong, and was always wrong, to underplay risks of COVID, it is seriously wrong to wildly overplay risks of COVID, particularly for kids, to scare the living hell out of parents, so that they do unreasonable things that damage their children.
00:37:45.000In just a second, we'll get to the Biden's border activity.
00:37:48.000Because let me just tell you, what they're doing on the border right now, similarly crazy, similarly tyrannical.
00:37:53.000We'll get to that in one second first.
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00:39:02.000Biden has made one thing incredibly clear.
00:39:05.000The vaccine mandate is just the beginning.
00:39:06.000Last Thursday, he announced his plan to mandate vaccines for all companies with over 100 employees or force them to test for COVID at least once a week.
00:39:12.000Many companies are actually forcing their employees to pay for the test.
00:39:15.000The Daily Wire has over 100 employees.
00:39:17.000So we are one of the companies who have been mandated by this idiotic federal government.
00:39:45.000I'm not going to get on board with a mandate that is authoritarian, especially because the vaccines work.
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00:40:29.000Meanwhile, on the border, we have a continuing slow rolling crisis that has been completely ignored by the media because Kamala Harris solves it right.
00:40:39.000I mean, we sent our wonderful vice president down to the border to laugh at it and went away after she laughed, apparently.
00:40:46.000Or alternatively, we have thousands of people who are being held under an overpass.
00:40:51.000In Texas, right now, according to the Daily Wire, the Biden administration has now moved to shut down drones flying in an area along the U.S.
00:40:58.000southern border, where the administration has thousands upon thousands of migrants being held under an overpass.
00:41:04.000Fox News reported that according to law enforcement sources, the majority of those being held under the overpass are Haitian.
00:41:09.000The report comes as the Biden administration once again suffered a catastrophic month at the border for the month of August, according to reports this week.
00:41:15.000Fox News reporter Bill Malugan tweeted, quote, We've learned that the FAA just implemented a two-week temporary flight restriction over the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, meaning we can no longer fly our Fox drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants.
00:41:33.000So they don't want any pictures of the thousands of migrants who are now being housed under an overpass because of this ridiculous, derelict administration.
00:41:40.000Milugin said, quote, Fox News has been covering the border nonstop for almost seven months now.
00:42:21.000By the minute, border patrol is limited in its manpower.
00:42:26.000So there are currently 8,000 migrants waiting to be processed.
00:42:30.000Fox News reports there were more than 200,000 migrant encounters at the southern border in August.
00:42:36.000That's according to a DH source, told Fox News on Wednesday, the second month in a row where the number has been over the 200,000 mark as migrants continue to attempt to enter the United States.
00:42:44.000Additionally, the 209,000 number for August represents a 317% increase over last August 2020, which saw 50,000 encounters.
00:42:57.000Chad Wolf, the former DHS secretary, slammed the administration saying Biden's failed border patrol policies are simply unsustainable, which of course is true.
00:43:05.000They basically opened the door and said, come right in, and then occasionally said, well, you might want to slow that down and it's not working.
00:43:11.000So Joe Biden has a solution for all this, and that is just continue spending the money.
00:43:15.000So we've had some pretty significant inflation.
00:43:17.000I've been less worried about the inflation all along, and I've said this on the show many times, than I have about the stagnation that is likely to follow the inflation.
00:43:24.000What happens when the federal government is trying to shovel money out the door, not only via direct stimulus, but via zero interest rates or negative interest rates, and nobody's taking the loans?
00:43:35.000What happens if the demand is not pressed forward because there is no new product being developed because of all the regulations and restrictions being put on businesses and the taxes being put on businesses?
00:43:48.000Joe Biden, however, has an idiotic idea, and that is if he tosses more money into the economy, somehow this will stop inflation, which must make sense in his adult brain.
00:43:55.000My Republican friends talk a lot about inflation.
00:43:58.000But if you want to talk about actually lowering the cost of living for people in this country, my plan does just that.
00:44:05.000By strengthening the capacity of our economy, we'll also reduce inflationary pressures over the long run.
00:44:21.000This is a new idea of how inflation gets reduced when literally the definition of inflation is too many dollars following too little product.
00:44:28.000You know what? This is fiscally responsible.
00:44:30.000Yes, nothing says fiscal responsibility quite like blowing out the spending in the middle of an inflationary cycle, in the middle of a natural economic recovery because of the greatest artificial shock to an economy in the history of the world.
00:44:41.000Here's Joe Biden, fiscal responsibility, like everything he says, just think the opposite.
00:45:51.000It turns out that the president being not alive and the president doing things are actually not mutually exclusive.
00:45:57.000You can have a dead president who does a lot of stuff, as it turns out.
00:46:00.000He is pushing an unsustainable policy that is rooted, again, in radical leftist groupthink.
00:46:07.000The key is, he's not talking about economic growth.
00:46:09.000He doesn't care about economic growth.
00:46:11.000He's talking openly about quote-unquote fairness.
00:46:13.000Whenever the left says fairness, understand that their fairness comes at real cost to somebody.
00:46:17.000If they're talking about vaccine equity, they're talking about somebody dying who shouldn't have to die because their notions of fairness ought to trump that person's life.
00:46:24.000When they talk about tax equity, they don't mean that you should pay a percentage of your income Equivalent to your percentage of the income that you make on a global basis.
00:46:43.000When they say fairness, what they actually mean is they don't care if they kill the economy so long as they get to go after people they don't like.
00:46:48.000They get to go after the rich and eat the rich.
00:47:49.000CEOs used to make about 20 times the average worker in the company that they ran.
00:47:55.000Today, they make more than 350 times what the average worker in their corporation makes.
00:48:02.000Since the pandemic began, billionaires have seen their wealth go up by $1.8 trillion.
00:48:11.000That is, everyone who was a billionaire before the pandemic began, the total accumulated wealth beyond the billions they already had, Okay, well, actually, when he says simply not fair, I don't know what his alternative is.
00:48:31.000So if you want to say simply not fair for big companies to be worth more money, then maybe you shouldn't have shut down the entire damned economy on behalf of the wealthy.
00:48:40.000See, I can tell you what's particularly inequitable about what Joe Biden has done policy-wise, and that is he's currently putting mandates on all businesses above 100 employees, which is a lot of mid-sized and fairly small businesses, for the benefit of giant businesses who are all perfectly happy with Joe Biden.
00:48:57.000They're all perfectly overjoyed with Joe Biden for doing this.
00:49:01.000Joe Biden is happy with regulatory capture on behalf of giant corporations that then donate money to him.
00:49:06.000He's taken half of the small businesses in the country off the table.
00:49:09.000Blue state governors continue to do so on behalf of giant companies that can absorb some cost in order to knock their competitors out of the business.
00:49:16.000So if you want to talk about inequitable distribution, you might want to talk about regulation that is specifically designed to help the biggest players while killing the people in the middle.
00:49:24.000But that's not what he's talking about.
00:49:25.000He's saying that whatever company exists at the top, whether it is justified or not, that company being wealthier needs to pay more taxes.
00:50:02.000She has, this person has a lot of wealth.
00:50:04.000It's a lot of, like Mark Zuckerberg, that dude is worth a hundred billion dollars.
00:50:09.000Okay, when you say worth a hundred billion dollars, you mean he owns, at the currently valued stock price, a hundred billion dollars of Facebook stock.
00:50:22.000Because the minute, let's say that Mark Zuckerberg decided, I'm selling all my stock in Facebook, that stock would not be worth $100 billion.
00:50:28.000Because his mere selling of his stock would tank the stock.
00:50:32.000Pretending that wealth and income are the same thing is idiotic.
00:50:35.000As I mentioned, you might be very wealthy by Elizabeth Warren standards because you're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because you own a house.
00:50:43.000Have you taken out money against the house?
00:50:45.000If not, you're not realizing the value of the house, are you?
00:50:48.000The same thing is true in the stock market.
00:50:49.000If you haven't sold your stock, you've not realized the gain or loss.
00:50:52.000And yet this is the game that Joe Biden wants to play, for fairness purposes.
00:50:55.000And when he says that CEOs are now earning so much more than employees, yes, because they run much larger companies than they did 20, 30 years ago.
00:51:03.000It turns out that the people who are making policy for thousands of employees tend to earn proportionally a lot more than people who are making policy for four employees.
00:51:47.000So it is no shock that you are seeing quote-unquote moderate senators like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema basically being like, nope, we're not doing any of this crap.
00:51:55.000According to the Washington Post, Senate Democrats were riding high on the afternoon of July 28th.
00:51:59.000A long-delayed bipartisan infrastructure package had finally come together, with many senators eager to finish that bill and move forward with a multi-trillion-dollar piece of economic, climate, and social legislation, President Biden's signature Build Back Better plan.
00:52:10.000But one senator, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, punctured the gleeful atmosphere with a warning shot.
00:52:15.000While Democratic members of the Senate Budget Committee may have agreed on the size of the second bill, she had not.
00:52:19.000She said, I don't support a bill that costs $3.5 trillion.
00:52:23.000Cinema said in a statement that struck some of her fellow Democrats as poorly timed.
00:52:29.000She was saying the only way we're getting the infrastructure package is if you shrink this other package over here.
00:52:32.000And meanwhile, the progressives are like, we don't like that, so we're not going to do it.
00:52:37.000Cinema has stayed silent on all of this.
00:52:38.000Mansion has been out front taking the bullets.
00:52:40.000Mansion's been saying, no, I'm not going along with this $3.5 trillion plan.
00:52:45.000And this is all getting wrapped up into tax debate as well, because Cinema and Mansion are not on board with these massive tax increases that would make our corporate tax rate higher than China's.
00:52:56.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are facing a bit of a deadline here.
00:52:58.000Again, you wonder why Joe Biden is failing?
00:53:05.000It's why he's blaming his fellow Americans.
00:53:07.000It's why he's blaming Americans left in Afghanistan for being left in Afghanistan.
00:53:10.000It's why he's blaming the unvaccinated for his own failure to simply say to people, once you're vaccinated, go out and live your life, which is a very easy thing to say.
00:53:17.000And he's failing when it comes to his fiscal policy.
00:53:20.000Right now, Democrats have a world of hurt on their hands because the debt ceiling debate is about to happen.
00:53:24.000They have the votes to pass the debt ceiling, but they're not going to, and they're going to try and blame Republicans for it.
00:53:29.000It's not going to work because they have a majority in the Senate, a majority in the House.
00:53:33.000According to Politico, Democrats are taking their first concrete steps to avert a government shutdown in two weeks, even as they struggle to wrangle a master plan for handling multiple fiscal cliffs ahead.
00:53:43.000President Joe Biden held a joint call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday afternoon, while top Democrats mulled their options for handling both the September 30th funding deadline and the impending debt cliff.
00:53:54.000The House Rules Committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday to tee up the stopgap spending bill for a floor vote next week.
00:54:00.000Text of that funding measure has not been released.
00:54:02.000The patch is likely to keep government agencies open into December, setting up another critical funding deadline ahead of the holidays.
00:54:07.000Top lawmakers are leaning toward December 10th for the end date, but have also left open December 3rd as a possibility.
00:54:14.000Meanwhile, majority party leaders are deciding whether to pair the must-pass funding package to avoid a shutdown with a measure to tackle the approaching debt cliff.
00:54:22.000Republicans say we're going to reject this.
00:54:24.000It will allow you to continue paying the bills for now, but we're not going to raise the debt ceiling for you.
00:54:28.000A bill that addresses both fiscal threats would likely pass the House, but the odds are highly questionable in the Senate, where all but four GOP lawmakers have promised to vote against raising the debt limit.
00:54:37.000The premise that Republicans are not going to vote in any way, shape, or form or fashion for a debt limit increase is the correct premise.
00:54:44.000Democrats would be remiss to pass the funding bill without debt limit action, since the Treasury Department is expected to run out of borrowing ability sometime next month, a breaking point likely to trigger economic turmoil.
00:54:54.000Majority party leaders can maximize their leverage over Republicans by coupling the issues, forcing GOP lawmakers to either fall in line or go on record against billions of dollars in disaster aid, preventing a government shutdown and avoiding debt default.
00:55:05.000So Republicans are saying, listen, we're not raising the debt limit just so that you guys can blow out the spending some more.
00:55:20.000Ben Cardin says the debt limit is something we should do almost automatically.
00:55:23.000Any opportunity we have to pass it, the sooner the better.
00:55:25.000Wherever we can get a bill in, I hope we can get the debt ceiling included in it.
00:55:31.000Earlier this week, some Senate Republicans indicated a willingness to support a stopgap bill, including billions of bucks in hurricane and flood relief requested by Biden.
00:55:38.000But any measure to raise or suspend the debt limit must be left off, said GOP lawmakers, insisting the Democrats handle this issue alone, since the majority party is pursuing multi-trillion dollar spending plans without Republican support.
00:55:49.000So in other words, we're not going to raise the debt limit just so you guys can ram through a giant $3.5 trillion package.
00:55:57.000Senator Chuck Grassley, he said he's not going to support a continuing resolution this way.
00:56:00.000He says the debt limit is all justifying the robbing the bank to spend a whole bunch of new social programs that are going to feed the fires of inflation.
00:56:09.000So Democrats are basically left with a choice.
00:56:11.000Do they go for Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion plan and not get the debt limit increase because they don't have the 60 votes necessary to move past the filibuster?
00:56:20.000Or do they kill Joe Biden's signature spending bill, which by the way, doesn't even have Democratic support.
00:56:39.000We've seen him on many occasions where he has a repeated cough.
00:56:43.000What is the situation with that cough and is that a concern?
00:56:46.000I don't think it's an issue of concern.
00:56:48.000I think there are a range of reasons why we may need to clear our throat or we may have a little light cold.
00:56:54.000And that's certainly something that presidents, elected officials, reporters, spokespeople can confront.
00:57:00.000But it's not an area where we have a medical concern.
00:57:04.000And the fact that people are asking, that is just a cover for the fact that people on the left, in the media, they're sensing this guy is toast.