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00:00:00.000The White House announces that Joe Biden will commemorate January 6th, as the Congressional Commission focuses on Mark Meadows' text messages, the Biden White House blames meat companies for rising prices, and Omicron panic continues.
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00:01:32.000Alrighty, so Democrats have basically decided that since they have nothing else they're going to run on January 6th.
00:01:37.000This was perfectly obvious from nearly the beginning of the year.
00:01:40.000January 6th has been their talking point since January 6th.
00:01:47.000It followed on two months of Donald Trump saying things that were not true about election fraud and that have now been baked into a certain part of the Republican cake.
00:01:54.000This talk that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, it wasn't.
00:01:57.000Donald Trump lost the suburbs because Donald Trump refused to Run anything remotely like a rational campaign.
00:02:03.000Instead, he decided that he was going to tweet his way out of the presidency.
00:02:24.000Then, on January 6th, a lot of people who went to a rally in Washington, D.C.
00:02:28.000that was supposed to be about the quote-unquote stolen election.
00:02:32.000Some of those people, a small percentage of those people, I know the media wants to make it out like it was everybody, it wasn't, a small percentage of those people decided that they were going to try to break into the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
00:03:15.000These were acts of criminality, if you're talking about walking into the Capitol building and doing violence to police officers, obviously, and people who commit acts of criminality, no matter the political side, should go to jail.
00:03:25.000This became the rallying point for Democrats because it was their response to the fact that they had decided to allow violence to overtake the country throughout all of 2020.
00:03:33.000It was their response to their own policy failures.
00:04:15.000He is not responsible for people breaking into the Capitol building.
00:04:17.000He literally said in the middle of his speech that he wanted people to march over and then peacefully protest what was happening at the Capitol building.
00:04:24.000And you can say people then took that too far.
00:04:26.000People decided that they were going to move into the arena of violence.
00:04:30.000But I'm very wary on all political sides of trying to pin violence on people who don't actively call for the violence.
00:04:36.000Donald Trump gets blamed for heightening the rhetoric.
00:04:39.000He gets blamed for heightening the temperature.
00:04:41.000He gets blamed for saying things that are not true.
00:04:43.000That does not mean that he's responsible for the violence that followed at the Capitol building.
00:04:47.000And again, this is my bipartisan opinion.
00:04:49.000I felt the same way about Barack Obama when a when a Dallas Black Lives Matter member movement decided to murder six police officers.
00:04:56.000Barack Obama's rhetoric on the police had been quite terrible.
00:04:58.000His rhetoric on race had been quite terrible.
00:05:19.000Some of the stuff that Donald Trump said was bad, but this is not the same thing.
00:05:21.000We have to make these logical distinctions because otherwise we end up in a place where essentially everybody is responsible for everything everybody else does.
00:05:29.000And there is no expectation that human beings are going to act in a rational, nonviolent way.
00:05:34.000Okay, so that's problem with the argument number one.
00:05:36.000Problem number two is that the Democrats have suggested, literally since the day this happened, that the entire Republican Party, the entire conservative infrastructure, stood behind January 6th and celebrated it.
00:05:47.000CNN has been saying for a long time that it was Fox News that created January 6th and cheered January 6th and made excuses for January 6th.
00:05:55.000We now have the text from members of the Fox News coterie, from people like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, allies of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
00:06:04.000We have texts from them to Mark Meadows, who's the chief of staff, to Donald Trump.
00:06:07.000Now the media have taken this as, again, proving an argument that they really have not made.
00:06:13.000The argument that they are making, the big one, is that the entire conservative infrastructure is complicit in January 6th.
00:06:20.000Then there's the smaller argument, which is that members of the media have miscovered January 6th, or downplayed January 6th, or attempted to suggest that January 6th was a false flag operation.
00:06:29.000That's a separate critique, and I think there is sometimes some accuracy to that critique, frankly.
00:06:34.000I think the attempt to turn January 6th into some sort of heroic martyr's play is silly.
00:06:38.000I think the attempt to turn January 6th, and by the way, morally counterproductive.
00:06:42.000I think the attempt to suggest that January 6th Was all an FBI setup is untrue or that it was all just Antifa riling people up?
00:07:02.000To suggest that January 6 was not an activity predominantly and I believe universally driven by people who thought they were supporting Donald Trump at the time.
00:07:10.000But that's a separate critique from the bigger critique and the one that they want to push for 2022.
00:07:13.000The one they want to push for 2022 is that January 6 is a natural outgrowth of Republican and conservative governance.
00:07:20.000That is what they are attempting to push.
00:07:21.000And the problem is the case they are currently making in the January 6th committee is precisely the opposite, which is that conservatives, Republicans generally, even the most pro-Trump supporters were not in favor of January 6th and didn't like it.
00:07:34.000Again, you can make the argument that people are not casting enough stones at Donald Trump for his rhetoric and for his actions during that day, and not immediately deploying the Capitol Police or the National Guard.
00:07:46.000But the big argument that they need for 2022 is not that, because Donald Trump ain't on the ballot in 2022.
00:07:51.000The argument they need is that the entire Republican Party and conservative infrastructure stands behind the actual activity of January 6th, and they can't prove that case, not from the text messages that have been revealed.
00:08:01.000Yesterday, Liz Cheney announced these text messages.
00:08:04.000They got a hold of Mark Meadows' text messages on his cell phone, and those text messages showed a bunch of members of the Republican Congress encouraging Trump to step in and do something, and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham doing the same.
00:08:16.000Which undercuts the entire notion that the Republican Party was complicit in January 6th, or that the conservative commentariat was complicit in the activity of January 6th.
00:08:25.000Again, that is not to alleviate responsibility for those who promulgated falsehoods about the stolen election narrative of 2020.
00:08:32.000And again, you can believe that the election was not stolen and still have serious questions about election security, election procedures, the illegality of, for example, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court radically changing election law.
00:08:44.000But that is not the mainline argument.
00:08:46.000The mainline argument of Democrats is that Republicans do not deserve to be elected to public office because they are inherently dangerous and their rule will lead to the overthrow of democracy.
00:08:54.000Well, what do you make, then, of the fact that every major conservative was not only condemning January 6th in real time, but trying to urge the president to step in and do something about it at the time?
00:09:03.000Which doesn't suggest complicity in January 6th, does it?
00:10:23.000As of yesterday morning, it is no longer leading the news at the New York Times.
00:10:26.000Instead, they've got some generic piece about Republicans embracing particular bills.
00:10:32.000Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post, they're covering Omicron and holding Mark Meadows in contempt, but they're really not paying too much attention.
00:10:42.000To exactly what the underlying narrative is.
00:11:00.000But this administration is banking on this narrative.
00:11:04.000They're banking on the narrative that Republicans are too dangerous to hold power because they stood by on January 6th or didn't care about January 6th.
00:11:11.000And January 6th is the be-all end-all.
00:11:15.000There's only one reason why Joe Biden plans to commemorate January 6th.
00:11:20.000January 6th did far less damage in terms of capital, in terms of human life, than the widespread riots of June 2020.
00:11:30.000Those riots resulted in billions and billions of dollars in damage.
00:11:34.000Five billion dollars in insurable damage, far more in non-insurable damage.
00:11:38.000And if you're talking about cataclysmic events in American history, like the actual riots of 2020, I would say have far more outsized impact on the political debate than January 6th.
00:11:48.000And that's not to downplay the evils of January 6th, which I never have done and never will do.
00:11:52.000But the fact that Democrats are commemorating January 6th as though it was Pearl Harbor or September 11th.
00:11:57.000It just demonstrates how much they need the narrative.
00:12:00.000This is a matter of political necessity for them at this point.
00:12:02.000Here's Jen Psaki announcing that Joe Biden plans to commemorate January 6th.
00:12:05.000If honestly all they can run on is January 6th, which boils down to essentially three elements.
00:12:11.000Lack of law enforcement at the Capitol, which we're still trying to get to the bottom of.
00:12:58.000Nobody believes, truly, that democracy was an existential danger, unless you're Ian Millhiser or something, and you've got your head so far up your own ass, it's coming out your face again.
00:13:07.000Here is Jen Psaki trying to push this anyway.
00:13:11.000I don't have anything to report to you at this point in time about our plans.
00:13:14.000I expect we will have more as we get closer to the end of the year.
00:13:18.000But, you know, the President to the President, January 6th was one of the darkest days in our democracy.
00:13:25.000It was a day that our capital, our nation's capital, was under attack.
00:13:30.000And I think there's no question you'll see us commemorate that day.
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00:18:17.000According to the Producer Price Index, for final demand, it increased 9.6% over the previous 12 months after rising another 0.8% in November.
00:18:24.000Economists have been looking for an annual gain of 9.2% according to FactSet.
00:18:28.000You know, when economists keep being shocked, maybe they're not great at their job.
00:18:32.000Maybe at a certain point they should start, you know, overestimating.
00:19:26.000and fish 13% furniture and bedding 12% new vehicles 11% domestic services 10% jewelry 7% electricity 6.5% food 6% apparel 5% milk 4.6% fruit and vegetables 4% 45% of Americans according to Gallup report that recent price increases are causing their family some degree of financial hardship 10% 10% say that it is a severe hardship affecting their standard of living.
00:19:51.000Another 35% say the hardship is moderate.
00:19:55.00071% of those living in households making less than $40,000 a year say recent price hikes have caused their family financial hardship.
00:20:00.000Of course, because inflation always hits those with lowest income the hardest.
00:20:05.000Those are the people who require every dollar.
00:20:06.000When your dollar doesn't go as far, then yeah, it's going to hurt you the most.
00:20:11.000Meanwhile, the Senate just continues to blow out the spending.
00:20:15.000So Congress has now approved a measure that would raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion.
00:20:22.000According to the Washington Post, the early morning vote in the House came less than a week after lawmakers struck an unusual bipartisan deal that allowed Democrats to adopt the increase and Republicans to oppose it without putting the country at risk of missing a critical December 15th deadline.
00:20:34.000The Senate adopted that proposal on Tuesday.
00:20:36.000The bill now goes to President Biden for his signature, and Joe Biden is celebrating this.
00:20:39.000He's very, very happy that we have increased the debt ceiling.
00:20:41.000He says this is about being responsible.
00:20:44.000Because again, the President of the United States is not a sane person any longer.
00:20:47.000This bill will reassure all the economic markets at home and around the world that we're going to continue to pay our debts when they're due.
00:21:45.000This is responsible spending, according to the President of the United States, and they continue to push Build Back Better, which is going to cost $5 trillion.
00:21:54.000CNBC, by the way, says there's no sign that the price increases are abating.
00:23:02.000In fact, self-interest is a constant in human nature.
00:23:05.000And self-interest can only be served by providing a product at a price people are willing to pay.
00:23:10.000If it were just about greed, then meat producers could be charging $1 million a pound.
00:23:15.000Because after all, they're greedy for lots of money, right?
00:23:18.000But if the idea is that meat producers are randomly raising their prices out of greed, not reflecting underlying market conditions like labor shortages and supply chain bottlenecks, and the inflationary economy created by this administration, You're out of your mind.
00:23:32.000And greed alone cannot explain price increases, because again, it is a constant in human nature.
00:23:37.000But here's Gensaki trying to— Again, the real reason meat prices are going up is because of this administration's garbage policies.
00:23:43.000But here's Gensaki saying that it's really because of greed.
00:24:16.000Now, even price gouging the way the government usually defines it is not price gouging.
00:24:20.000Usually price gouging means that a gas station is running out of gas, and so they have to price the gas so as to ensure that people still get gas.
00:24:27.000When you keep the price low, it artificially stimulates demand.
00:24:31.000That is what happens with price and supply curves.
00:24:33.000Okay, but again, the Democrats always have a ready explanation for why things are going bad.
00:24:40.000They did this with Obamacare too, right?
00:24:41.000You'd see companies that would increase their prices to compensate for the fact that they now had to pay for Obamacare.
00:24:47.000And then they would put that on their bills.
00:24:49.000And you remember the Obama administration in the media being like, how dare they?
00:24:52.000That just demonstrates how greedy they are.
00:24:54.000No, it demonstrates that when you artificially boost the prices of things, people have to boost the prices that they charge to the downline consumer.
00:25:03.000There's a weird pattern, I've noticed, that crops up when it comes to the understanding of price in the democratic mindset.
00:25:09.000That weird coincidence is that every major industry that is private is bad, but every policy Democrats push is somehow altruistic and good.
00:25:18.000So, for example, it's not just meat consumers.
00:25:24.000Jen Psaki, this is just a couple of weeks ago, Jen Psaki suggested that the reason that the oil prices were spiking was not because of their crappy policy.
00:25:30.000It was because of the oil executives and their greed, too.
00:25:33.000It's always greed when it's people that the administration doesn't like.
00:25:37.000The price at the pump usually moves alongside the price of refined gas.
00:25:41.000But recently, as you noted, there's been a split where the price of refined gas is going down, but prices at the pump are going up.
00:25:48.000That's exactly why the president sent the letter to the FTC last week, because that's not what we should see as the trend.
00:25:55.000There shouldn't be price gouging across the country.
00:25:58.000You shouldn't have oil CEOs bragging out there about the profits that they benefit from when prices are high at the gas pump.
00:26:05.000Okay, so it's all about the greed of the oil executives.
00:26:07.000However, when it comes to labor and the price of labor, right, which is a commodity, labor is a commodity, and the wages are going up, which means that you're going to drive prices up as well.
00:26:16.000But when the price of labor goes up, that is not because of the greed of people who are attempting to get back in the labor market, of course.
00:26:23.000Then it's still the greed of employers.
00:27:25.000And if we have to blow out the national debt in order to promote this idiotic idea?
00:27:29.000Well, nobody's really worried about the national debt.
00:27:31.000Here is Jen Psaki saying that the national debt is just a lie.
00:27:33.000No one actually cares about the national debt.
00:27:35.000Here's the thing about the national debt.
00:27:36.000No one cares about the national debt until it bites them directly in the ass.
00:27:40.000The national debt is all fun and games until it turns out that servicing the national debt is eating up a substantial chunk of your budget every single year.
00:27:46.000And you have to use austerity measures like they've had to use in Europe in order to get your budget back into realignment because there ain't no one left to pay the bills and no one's buying the bonds anymore.
00:27:54.000because there is no promise they will get paid back.
00:27:56.000But here is Jen Psaki pretending the national debt doesn't matter, because of course, she's a devotee, as is this entire administration, of the idiotic modern monetary theory, which suggests you can just pump money into the economy at record rates and nothing will happen.
00:28:07.000What do you say to people who say we're just going to be having the same conversation a little bit over a year from now?
00:28:13.000I'm not sure what American person is saying that or is concerned about the debt limit, but maybe there is somebody you've met on the street.
00:28:19.000I don't know, but I will say that, you know, our view, the president's view, is that this has been done in a bipartisan way.
00:28:26.000The American people shouldn't be worried about whether or not elected officials are doing what they should do and raising the debt limit to make sure we're covering bills that have already been incurred.
00:28:35.000No, nobody's worried about the debt limit.
00:28:37.000Nobody's worried about the national debt.
00:28:39.000Okay, so they're not worried about inflation.
00:28:40.000And if they are, it's because they're dumb.
00:28:42.000And they're not worried about the national debt.
00:28:44.000And if they are, it's because they're numb.
00:28:46.000In fact, it turns out that everybody who's unhappy with this administration is just wrong.
00:28:52.000And then when you point this out to them, and well, well, January 6th, well, well, well, January 6th.
00:28:56.000Meanwhile, by the way, in all the major cities that are governed by blue government members, The economy is stagnating.
00:29:06.000New York City job growth is completely falling apart.
00:29:09.000Matthew Hogg and Patrick McGeehan reporting for the New York Times.
00:29:11.000Since the start of the year, nearly 6 million jobs have been added in the United States.
00:29:15.000The unemployment rate has plummeted to 4.2%, close to where it stood before the pandemic.
00:29:18.000But in New York City, the economy appears to be in a rut.
00:29:21.000After getting 350,000 jobs in the last months of 2020, employment has slowed considerably this year, with just 187,000 jobs added since March.
00:30:56.000Its under-18 population has declined by 350,000 over the last decade.
00:31:01.000Lousy schools are driving away young families.
00:31:06.000Each Illinois household is on average on the hook for $110,000 in government worker retirement debt.
00:31:14.000$110,000 for each Illinois household in terms of state debt burden.
00:31:19.000This is what happens when you're in a state like garbage.
00:31:22.000The good news is that, again, it's all misdirection.
00:31:25.000You notice that it's all misdirection.
00:31:27.000When they fail, it's about January 6th, or in California, it's about making California an abortion sanctuary state to deflect attention from the fact that the governance there is absolutely terrible, or that they're doing a full-on mask mandate indoors again in California based on Omicron.
00:31:42.000In New York, they're attempting to misdirect by suggesting that they go after lawmakers, I mean, after gun makers.
00:31:48.000New York Attorney General Letitia James, she was on The View, explaining that New York State was going to lead the nation in going after gun makers.
00:31:55.000Yeah, that's going to fix your economy, Letitia.
00:32:06.000They're the only industry that is protected in this country.
00:32:08.000And given the carnage, and given the fact that this is the ninth anniversary of Sandy Hook, I am sick and tired of prayers and individuals whose hearts go out to all of those who have lost lives.
00:32:22.000And what we need to do is hold these gun manufacturers and these gun distributors liable.
00:32:27.000Okay, but all of that is just a distraction.
00:32:29.000And then you can woo that up as much as you want for your audience, but Democrats are losing because they are disconnected from the everyday reality of most Americans.
00:32:36.000Nowhere is that truer than with regard to COVID, where they continue to promulgate the lie that they can shut down COVID when they can't Come close to doing so.
00:33:38.000I'm telling you, that deal that they have on that perfect gift package is just spectacular.
00:33:42.000I mean, you're talking about four bacon-wrapped filet mignons, four boneless chicken breasts, four Omaha Steaks burgers, four gourmet jumbo franks, four individual scalloped potatoes, four caramel apple tartlets, a jar of signature seasoning, and three eight Omaha Steaks burgers.
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00:33:59.000Alrighty, we'll get to the insane COVID policies that continue to shut down the nation in just one moment.
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00:34:50.000So again, Democrats have to rely on something in order to get them out of the state that they are in, but they cannot rely on their own policy because their policies are garbage.
00:35:03.000And this is particularly true with COVID.
00:35:08.000There's an entire article in Politico today about how Democratic governors are starting to realize that they've gone too far.
00:35:13.000According to Politico, the party's defeat last month in Virginia has many Democrats searching for an off-ramp to the pandemic that allows them to sell a brighter future to voters next November.
00:35:24.000Asked in an interview about his November close call, for example, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who almost lost to a person who no one knows.
00:35:30.000I mean, he may have lost to an actual not human being, like to a ghost or something.
00:35:34.000He attributed it to, quote, a lot of folks who are frustrated is my guess.
00:35:38.000Murphy said some New Jerseyans feel like government is not connecting with them.
00:35:40.000They're sick of masks, being told what to do in terms of vaccines, probably not thrilled with what they sense is going on in Washington.
00:35:45.000They may have lost a job or a business that went bust or a loved one, worse yet.
00:35:51.000North Carolina Roy Cooper, Governor Roy Cooper said, I think we have to recognize and acknowledge that families have had a tough time over the past two years, both health wise, whether it is or isn't from COVID, whether it's mental health and economically.
00:36:01.000So Democrats are starting to realize that they have gone way too far on this.
00:36:31.000As a religious person, And you look back at religious history, and you read original biblical texts, and what it sounds a lot like is that people in early religious life thought that God was kind of a gumball machine.
00:37:04.000Religious people realize that there is, in fact, things, that there are things in the universe that you cannot control.
00:37:10.000Because when you say that if you do X, God will respond with Y, what you're really saying is that the entire universe is within your control, not God's control.
00:37:17.000So religious people rethought how they interacted with God and how they interacted with nature.
00:37:22.000And they realized you could do all the good things, but there had to be some inherent value to doing the good things beyond the consequences you thought that you would receive on this earth from the divine.
00:37:35.000The innate human instinct to control all that is around us means that that religious instinct, if you're not a religious person, and particularly not a sophisticated religious person, can be channeled in other directions.
00:37:45.000And so, when you have people who act like pagan prophets of old, suggesting that if you do X, the government will provide you with Y, if you just wear the mask, if you just lock down long enough, if you keep your kids out of public parks and schools, If you do those things, then the government will save you from COVID?
00:38:00.000And it turns out government cannot do that.
00:38:02.000Instead of you doing the same thing religious people did thousands of years ago and realizing that the promise was a lie, and perhaps you should rethink your relationship with the government and what government is capable of doing.
00:38:12.000Instead of doing that, people have doubled down.
00:38:14.000They've decided that no, the real answer is that you were not devout enough.
00:38:19.000If you discouraged yourself, if you whipped yourself, if you made yourself more subservient to government, if you gave up your independence of the heart, then perhaps government would finally bestow upon you all the things that you deserve for having done what government told you to do.
00:38:33.000The most religious people in American life right now are people on the far left and apparently the moderate left who believe that if they perform acts of obeisance to the government, the government will provide them with everything they could possibly need.
00:38:45.000And members of the government are more than happy to continue pushing that notion because it means they get to maximize their power.
00:38:50.000It means they get to keep telling you the lie.
00:39:02.000But that is not stopping her from promoting policies that are designed at zero COVID, that are aimed at zero COVID.
00:39:09.000Rochelle Walensky literally said the day before, so yesterday she says we can't shut down the virus, the day before she's talking about the new Pfizer drug, which if taken within the first three days reduces hospitalization and death by 90% and if taken within the first five by 88%.
00:39:21.000She was talking about that drug and she said, yes, but it's better if you never get it at all, COVID.
00:39:36.000So here she was admitting that the reality, which is the government does not have the power to do the things that governments all over the world have been promising their citizens they would do.
00:39:47.000We're not really going to get an all clear, are we?
00:39:49.000We just have to face the fact that we're going to have to live with this, true?
00:39:52.000I think that that's probably true, but what I would say is we have a lot of control and power to do that as we come together, as we get vaccinated, as we do those prevention things that work to protect one another and ourselves and our family, we can bring down the amount of disease in this country and get much faster to that place.
00:40:09.000Okay, I don't know what she's talking about in terms of quote-unquote bringing down the amount of disease in the country.
00:40:14.000One of the things we know about Omicron is that a lot of people who are vaccinated are getting infected.
00:40:19.000In fact, according to Axios, everything points to a large wave.
00:40:23.000A large wave is coming, a senior Biden official told Axios.
00:40:26.000It won't be as severe, but there will be plenty of hospitalizations.
00:40:30.000Actually, Omicron is far less severe than Delta.
00:40:33.000According to the South African analysis by Discovery Health, the risk of hospital admission among adults diagnosed with Omicron is 29% lower than it was during South Africa's first wave of infections in 2020.
00:40:47.000The researchers adjusted their calculations by VAX status.
00:40:50.000During the current Omicron wave, by the way, the two-dose regimen of vaccine was still 70% effective against severe disease requiring hospitalization.
00:40:59.000It found that two doses of Pfizer are 33% effective against infection, but who cares about the levels of infection?
00:41:05.000You care mostly about severe disease, right?
00:41:18.000And by the way, Omicron is not killing people.
00:41:20.000Okay, Omicron, on a broad level, has killed, as far as we know, so far, on planet Earth, on the entire planet, filled with trillions, with billions and billions of human beings, on this entire planet, the grand total number of people who have died of Omicron, documentedly, one.
00:41:37.000Okay, that is, according to the UK, one person has now died of Omicron.
00:41:41.000Okay, which means, once again, Ted Kennedy has killed as many people as Omicron.
00:41:47.000And yet, everybody's shutting down because they have to maintain the religious illusion that if you do what they say, they can fix all of your problems.
00:41:54.000And so, for example, and they're lying to you, by the way, the White House cancelled a lavish Christmas party because of Omicron.
00:42:01.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host holiday open houses instead of cocktail parties for the holiday season so visitors can see the decorations in the White House in a COVID-friendly way.
00:42:11.000Joe Biden's spokesman Michael Arosa said, anyone who knows the Bidens knows how much they enjoy hosting and celebrating the holidays. In the coming days, we'll host a limited number of holiday open houses, inviting guests to see the Christmas decorations in person.
00:42:22.000It is disappointing. We cannot host as many people as the Bidens would like to.
00:42:26.000But as we have done since day one of the Biden administration, we will continue to implement strong COVID protocols developed in consultation with our public health advisors. By the way, Joe Biden went to a big holiday party yesterday, literally yesterday.
00:42:56.000They're declaring code red over a virus that is not killing young people on a campus that is entirely vaccinated.
00:43:02.000Because the religious illusion must be maintained.
00:43:04.000If only, if only you performed animal sacrifices, then perhaps COVID would leave you alone.
00:43:10.000By the way, a lot of this is tied to how the media began to cover COVID last year, which was that it was some sort of global scourge as a response to Trump.
00:43:36.000If you're a Black Lives Matter protester spitting on other people twerking in the streets for George Floyd, you're fine.
00:43:42.000If, however, you're a person who bucks the conventional wisdom and you decide to take your kid to a public park and then you get COVID, it's because you're bad.
00:43:50.000Even if you're entirely vaccinated, if you oppose vax mandates and you get COVID, it's because COVID was punishing you.
00:43:59.000According to the Ithaca Voice, the Tompkins County Health Department reported four more deaths reported on Monday, December 13th, bringing the local death toll from COVID-19 to 45 people.
00:44:08.000But the four deaths were all of older adults.
00:44:15.000Cornell has now closed many of its campus buildings to students after finding evidence of Omicron.
00:44:21.000Faculty and staff are still allowed to enter offices and work locations, but the school moved its alert level to red, signaling a high risk of spread among the school community.
00:45:38.000If you worship hard enough, then the skies will open and the rain will fall.
00:45:42.000If you draw a circle around yourself, like Honey the Circle Maker in the Talmud, and you just stand there, praying to the gods of COVID, COVID will be alleviated.
00:45:50.000But if you step outside that circle, COVID will smack you so hard, it'll make your head spin.
00:45:55.000This sort of mentality is not going to lead to any sort of recovery in the United States.
00:45:58.000It is just going to lead to continued downturns.
00:46:00.000And that's what you've seen in blue areas.
00:46:03.000And when you cut yourself off at the knees because you are disconnected from reality economically, in terms of pandemics, in terms of anything.
00:46:12.000Reality will clock you across the face.
00:46:14.000And so the only excuse you are left with is just yelling about how bad your opponents are.
00:46:17.000And that's what Democrats have been left with, which is why Joe Biden is going to be doing some sort of commemoration of January 6th.
00:46:22.000When in reality, I thought we elected him to, you know, be the president of the United States, not to be the guy who just spends all day eating oatmeal, watching Matlock, and then talking about a thing that happened a year ago, in part caused by a president Who is no longer in office.