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00:00:00.000The Biden administration grows ever more radical as it seeks to promote an alleged former eco-terrorist to high office, cram through a massive budget bill, and remask Americans.
00:00:23.000Well, you'll remember that Joe Biden was elected on a couple of promises.
00:00:26.000One is that he would not be Donald Trump, which is a pretty easy promise to keep.
00:00:29.000All you have to do is not be Donald Trump.
00:00:30.000The other is that he would not be alive.
00:00:32.000And on one hand, he's kind of kept that promise because this president is not particularly sentient.
00:00:37.000Every so often he gets into a running gun battle with the teleprompter and then loses.
00:00:41.000Every so often, it appears as though he's going to keel over in the middle of a sentence.
00:00:44.000On that score, he seems, you know, doddering, unthreatening.
00:00:47.000But one of the big promises of him not being particularly alive was going to be that he was not radical and he was going to be a moderate.
00:00:53.000That's the reason he won the primaries against Bernie Sanders.
00:00:56.000It's the reason he won against President Trump.
00:00:57.000Again, the entire idea here is that Joe Biden was going to be a return to normalcy candidate, was going to unify Americans by ending radical moves.
00:01:05.000The problem for Joe Biden, Is that his entire administration is predicated, it sits atop the iceberg that is the Democratic Party.
00:01:11.000And that iceberg has been gradually drifting to the left.
00:01:15.000David Shore, who's a statistician and economist, he's of the left.
00:01:19.000He points out that basically all change in terms of policy In terms of both parties has come from the left since 2010.
00:01:25.000The right, the Republican Party, has been basically stagnant in terms of its policy prescriptions and positions since 2010.
00:01:32.000The Democratic Party has been moving ever more steadily to the left, and people on the left have begun to acknowledge this.
00:01:38.000They begin to acknowledge, yes, we're getting more radical.
00:01:40.000Now, what they say is our radicalism is justified.
00:01:43.000And good, but there is no question that Joe Biden himself has moved to the left.
00:01:48.000And this administration, which promised to be a return to some semblance of normalcy, might be more normal in terms of Joe Biden not tweeting, but it is certainly less normal in terms of policy.
00:01:58.000This was always the great disconnect with Trump, is that Trump said crazy things all the time, but Trump's actual policy was mainstream Republican policy, very often embracing centrist policy in terms of spending proposals.
00:02:09.000His foreign policy was basically normal hawkish Republican foreign policy, although with more of a sort of isolationist bent than traditional American Republican foreign policy.
00:02:20.000His tax policy was very traditional Republican policy.
00:02:23.000His domestic regulatory policy was traditional Republican policy.
00:02:26.000Joe Biden, however, has stacked his administration with people who are radicals.
00:02:29.000His Democratic Party has decided to overthrow years, decades actually, of bipartisan agreements on key issues.
00:02:37.000So, for example, Nancy Pelosi has announced that the Democratic Party is going to ram through a revision of the Hyde Amendment.
00:02:43.000The Hyde Amendment has been an agreement between Democrats and Republicans that regardless of where you stand on abortion, federal tax dollars should not be used for individual abortions.
00:02:51.000Federal tax dollars, if you're going to spend them at Planned Parenthood, they're supposed to be used to cover Planned Parenthood's front office.
00:02:55.000Now, we all understand that there's a little bit of a legal lie going on here, that money is fungible.
00:03:01.000If you send Planned Parenthood money to cover its front office staff, then all the money they were going to use for their front office staff, they are now going to use for abortions.
00:03:08.000But at least the idea was that there was an agreement between Republicans and Democrats that abortion should not be federally funded.
00:03:13.000Democrats, however, have decided that abortion is an overt good.
00:03:16.000It is not that abortion ought to be safe, legal, and rare, as in the Clinton days, which at least allowed for the possibility of some crossover between left and right on abortion policy.
00:03:24.000Because after all, if the left acknowledges that abortion is a moral tragedy, then even if they wanted to remain legal, they are not at least, quote-unquote, pro-abortion.
00:03:31.000But the Democratic Party has now embraced, on abortion, the sort of, shout-your-abortion idea.
00:03:45.000You can't actually Usher yourself into the full flower of womanhood, another word that has no meaning according to the Democrats, unless you have an abortion.
00:03:52.000Lena Dunham said this fairly openly a few years ago when she said she wishes she had had an abortion so that she could have really enjoyed the full freedoms of the law.
00:04:02.000Well, Nancy Pelosi, And Joe Biden, both of whom used to basically go along with the consensus view that federal taxpayer dollars should not be used for abortion.
00:04:10.000Joe Biden did it a couple of years ago.
00:04:12.000He had said that he was in favor of the Hyde Amendment.
00:04:14.000Then he reversed himself because he needed to move to the left.
00:04:16.000Now Nancy Pelosi is saying the same thing.
00:04:18.000Now, one of the great, I think, annoyances for many Catholics in the country watching Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi say this stuff is that very often they say this stuff in the name of Catholicism.
00:04:27.000And I'm going to go with The Pope and Jesus, not super huge on abortion.
00:04:31.000I don't have to be a Christianity expert to point out that abortion has been sort of a major issue for the Catholic Church since literally the entire Catholic Church.
00:04:40.000But here is Nancy Pelosi making the case that abortion is actually a positive good.
00:04:54.000As a devout Catholic and mother of five and six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family, five children and six years almost to the day.
00:05:07.000But that may not be what we should, it's not up to me to dictate that that's what other people should do.
00:05:15.000And it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.
00:05:24.000It's an issue of fairness and justice that poor women should be able to kill babies in the womb.
00:05:29.000Sure, my husband and I were blessed by God with these five or six kids, but if we've been poor and if we just want to kill one of them, well, who are we to judge?
00:05:37.000So the Democratic Party, in terms of policy, has moved in pretty radical directions here.
00:05:43.000And it's been true throughout the Biden administration.
00:05:44.000This is why they've embraced quote-unquote equity as the core of all of the things they do, from NASA to commerce, from education to the Department of the Interior, from transportation to whatever is Joe Biden's policy prescription of the day.
00:05:57.000And equity, of course, is a code word for Group social justice on the basis of race.
00:06:02.000This has been embraced by the entire Obama administration.
00:06:05.000I say Obama, but it really is the Biden administration, which is the third part of the Obama administration.
00:06:10.000Here's Gina Raimondo, Biden's Commerce Secretary, yesterday saying that equity is at the core of her commerce strategy, which again, I don't know why.
00:06:18.000In fact, the Department of Equity would be unconstitutional because equity itself as a concept violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
00:06:25.000But here is Gina Raimondo claiming that equity ought to be at the center of commerce.
00:06:32.000Our number one investment priority is equity.
00:06:35.000And as our team decides which, these are, this is a competitive grant process.
00:06:42.000By the way, I think that the fact of the competition will help communities to come together as a community and put their best ideas forward.
00:06:52.000In order to qualify to get the money, you have to prove to us that equity, you'll have an equity lens.
00:07:01.000So she's saying we have a competitive process, but the competitive process is not about best product, lowest price.
00:07:06.000Which normally, when you're negotiating on behalf of taxpayers for grant money, that's usually the process.
00:07:11.000Now, the process is about, can you prove to us that you mirror our political priorities?
00:07:15.000Can you prove to us that you're committed to equity?
00:07:18.000And by equity, we mean you have a certain number of black people on your board, and we have a certain number of gay people on your board.
00:07:22.000That's how we're going to make sure that equity is assured.
00:07:25.000This is very radical stuff from the federal government.
00:07:27.000And the federal government not only has no business doing this, it's pretty clearly violative of constitutional principles.
00:07:33.000First of all, it should be violative of constitutional principles to force taxpayers to pay for abortions.
00:07:37.000It's clearly violative of constitutional, federal principles, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to suggest that the federal government can dole out money to particular businesses based on how many people of a particular melanin level are on their board.
00:07:53.000I'm unaware of a time in American history where the people who are stumping in favor of racial discrimination are the good guys.
00:08:01.000And they have at the top this man approaching senility who is able to put sort of a friendly face on this sort of stuff.
00:08:07.000But the underlying policy is really, really radical.
00:08:10.000And many of the people who are staffing the administration Are really radical.
00:08:13.000It's kind of amazing the kinds of people who have been staffed in this administration.
00:08:16.000I mean, we've seen the DOJ staffed by absolute radicals and people who have written extraordinarily racially radical things.
00:08:23.000People who have been openly opposed to policing now staffing up the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
00:08:28.000Now we have a nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, right?
00:08:33.000which is all about negotiating the needs of people like ranchers and farmers who have to use the land in order to produce and the federal government's vast oversight of huge quantities of land.
00:08:45.000People I think don't have any idea of how much control the Bureau of Land Management has over various swaths of states.
00:08:55.000They have oversight of 247.3 million acres.
00:09:21.000I mean, if you look at the map, it really is amazing.
00:09:23.000Once you get to the west of Nebraska, pretty much half the country is under the control of the Bureau of Land Management.
00:09:29.000Huge swaths of California, huge swaths of Idaho, huge swaths of Oregon, two-thirds of Wyoming.
00:09:37.000So the Bureau of Land Management's a pretty important position.
00:09:40.000So running the Bureau of Land Management, you don't want somebody who's, for example, an environmental radical.
00:09:44.000Because if you have somebody who's an environmental radical in charge of the Bureau of Land Management, presumably that person is going to crack down on the ability of farmers and ranchers to do what they want to do.
00:09:53.000You'll remember that it was exactly this sort of conflict that led to the standoff with the Bundy family in Nevada.
00:10:25.000They would put spikes, metal spikes, into the trees in order to break the saws and presumably injure and harm the people who are attempting to cut down the trees because the trees were more important than the people.
00:10:35.000According to the Washington Post, one spring day in 1989, Tracy Stone rented a typewriter from the University of Montana library and began to retype a letter.
00:10:43.000The typewriter was to avoid using her personal computer.
00:10:45.000The letter was an anonymous warning to the U.S.
00:10:47.000Forest Service that someone had hammered hundreds of metal spikes into trees in an Idaho forest that was slated to be cut down for timber.
00:10:54.000An acquaintance in her circle of young environmentalists had asked her to send it.
00:10:58.000After fixing a few spelling mistakes and removing some profanity, Stone dropped it in the mail.
00:11:02.000It was a decision that has followed her, now Tracy Stone Manning, for more than 30 years, through her rise in Montana politics to become one of the country's most prominent environmentalists and public land experts.
00:11:11.000And now President Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management.
00:11:14.000The letter led to law enforcement raids on student houses and a grand jury investigation.
00:11:18.000Her testimony in the subsequent trial would help send two people to federal prison.
00:11:22.000Now that Stone Manning's nomination is in the Senate, Republican opponents have seized on theā It's pouncing.
00:11:27.000Okay, so the fact that you have an environmental radical, so radical that she was working with people to spike trees, possibly kill loggers.
00:11:35.000Her nomination is just another Republican seizing moment, Republican pouncing moment.
00:11:40.000Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, is on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
00:11:44.000He said Tracy Stone Manning collaborated with ecoterrorists.
00:11:48.000A Bureau of Land Management director during the Obama administration, Bobby Abbey, also said he opposed her confirmation.
00:11:53.000Okay, again, this is an Obama administration official.
00:11:55.000Because of her involvement in the tree spiking incident, and quote, the fact that her initial silence put people at risk.
00:11:59.000Apparently, she did not cooperate with prosecutors in that case.
00:12:04.000However, Jeff Fairchild, who spent two months in federal prison for the tree spiking, said in a phone interview, quote, other than the mailing of the letter, Tracy knew nothing.
00:13:24.000And her history is, I think, pretty dispositive of the fact... I mean, this is not somebody who's just a radical in college, right?
00:13:30.000This is somebody who's actively working with an eco-terrorist group.
00:13:33.000But according to the Biden administration, this is a great nominee.
00:13:36.000And by the way, her actual vote has now emerged through the full Senate on a 10-10 vote, on a party-line vote in this particular committee.
00:13:42.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:14:42.000We want to know what's going on in our property, even when we're out of town.
00:15:10.000But if you are a rancher, if you're a logger, if you're a farmer, if you're anybody who has to do anything with the land anywhere west of Nebraska, then not only have you heard of the Bureau of Land Management, they basically can wreck your life.
00:15:21.000And the person that the Biden administration wants to elevate to this position of unbelievable power is a person who used to spike trees on behalf of radical environmentalists, or at least defend those who are spiking trees.
00:15:32.000The atmosphere was so tense at the 1993 trial of these eco-terrorists in the conservative city of Spokane, Washington, where Stone Manning testified defendants were given bulletproof vests to get to the courthouse.
00:15:42.000Stone Manning has long offered a simple defense for her decision to mail the anonymous letter on the sabotage in the Clearwater National Forest about two hours from campus.
00:15:49.000Because I wanted people to know the trees were spiked, she testified.
00:15:52.000I didn't want anybody getting hurt as a result of trees being spiked.
00:15:56.000The four-paragraph letter she mailed put it a lot more bluntly.
00:16:01.000Jake Krelick met Stone Manning in Washington in 1988, according to the Washington Post, before she moved to Missoula, when they were both interns at the National Wildlife Federation.
00:16:09.000A child of the Beltway who grew up in Silver Spring, Stone Manning had majored in radio, film, and TV as an undergrad at University of Maryland.
00:16:15.000But she was passionate about environmental issues, Krelik recalled, and once she enrolled in the University of Montana's Environmental Studies program, she became active alongside him in a local branch of Earth First.
00:16:24.000The group had a reputation for extreme, frontline environmental activism in opposition to logging, dam building, and other development that threatened wilderness habitat.
00:16:33.000Tactics included civil disobedience and vandalism.
00:16:35.000Activists chained themselves to heavy machinery, laid down before bulldozers, and cut power lines.
00:16:40.000No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.
00:16:44.000Krelik's earth-first debut occurred in the winter of 1985 when he and others barged into the office of Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Bob Barbee, carrying buffalo dung and a Don't Tread On Me flag, to protest the expansion of a campground and RV park into grizzly bear habitat.
00:16:57.000He would get arrested several more times.
00:17:00.000Recalled Krelik, quote, Stone Manning was a spokesperson and someone who was obviously very articulate and knew how to work with the media.
00:17:05.000Certainly, she was philosophically aligned with what our goals were, which was to protect the last wilderness areas in the northern Rockies.
00:17:12.000Okay, so, Senator John Barrasso went after Tracey Stone Manning in her questioning the other day, and of course he is exactly right.
00:17:22.000Tracey Stone Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists.
00:17:25.000She lied to this committee, and she continues to harbor extremist views most Americans find reprehensible.
00:17:32.000She is thoroughly disqualified from holding the important position of Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
00:17:38.000In 1989, while a grad student in Montana, Tracy Stone Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists who had hammered hundreds of metal spikes into trees in a national forest.
00:17:52.000By the way, she did lie to the Senate.
00:18:25.000But the reality is she did not cooperate with investigators.
00:18:28.000A retired federal law enforcement agent who was the lead investigator for the crime wrote to the Senate saying she helped plan the spiking and was a target of the investigation and refused to do anything to help.
00:18:37.000Her intransigence set the pro back by years.
00:18:40.000Only after she was caught and offered immunity did she agree to testify against one of these spikers in 1993.
00:18:45.000And this is who Joe Biden believes would be an excellent pick to lead up the Bureau of Land Management.
00:18:50.000Because again, it's a radical administration.
00:18:52.000Some of us warned about this before the election of Joe Biden, but some people did not listen.
00:18:57.000Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to ram forward their massive spending plans So there are a couple of things that are on the table right now.
00:19:06.000There is the Senate bipartisan infrastructure plan, in which you have Senator Mitt Romney, Senator Rob Portman, who have signed on to this sort of thing.
00:19:13.000And the idea here is $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan.
00:19:17.000But the Biden administration has made extraordinarily clear their actual plans here.
00:19:21.000Anything that doesn't make it into the $1.2 trillion quote-unquote bipartisan plan gets squeezed on over into the $3.5 trillion budget plan.
00:19:29.000And it turns out that Bernie Sanders is in control of that process because he and his fellow radical senators and his fellow radicals in the House have decided they're going to hold up the giant Democrat-only infrastructure plan unless it grows even more.
00:19:43.000According to CNBC, the Republicans working to craft the $1.2 trillion proposal voted Wednesday against advancing it as they draft final legislation.
00:19:51.000For some odd reason, Chuck Schumer decided he was going to bring up the legislation for a vote before it had even been drafted.
00:19:57.000Despite the setback, the 22 Democratic and GOP senators are drawing up the bill, so they hope to release and push ahead a bill in the coming days.
00:20:04.000According to CNBC, the vote leaves President Joe Biden's top legislative priority in flux.
00:20:08.000If the bipartisan deal to revamp transportation, broadband, and utilities falls apart, Democrats will have to consider whether to pair physical infrastructure plans with their separate $3.5 trillion package to address climate change, health care, and child care.
00:20:22.000Asked Wednesday during a CNN town hall, Biden said he thinks the Senate will vote Monday to advance the bipartisan framework he negotiated with the senators.
00:20:28.000And the question here is, how much do you trust Joe Manchin?
00:20:31.000Because, of course, this is going to come down to Joe Manchin.
00:20:34.000Why Republicans would work with Democrats if Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are just going to vote party line in order to advance the inflated bill, along with the bipartisan bill.
00:20:41.000I don't know how Republicans would provide any level of cover for that.
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00:22:38.000There was the Senator from West Virginia yesterday saying, listen, there are a bunch of Democrats trying to hold up this giant budget bill because they want more.
00:22:45.000I don't know what they're talking about.
00:23:00.000The United States of America has to be energy independent.
00:23:02.000Well, what they're proposing, is that going to decimate your industry?
00:23:04.000Well, what they're proposing, the timing of what they're proposing would make it almost impossible to achieve that.
00:23:15.000Again, these policies are really radical, but Joe Biden wants his world-beating policy because he knows that by the end of 2022, he ain't gonna be in control of the House anymore.
00:23:22.000The Republicans have a really, really good shot at taking back the House in 2022, and increasingly a good shot at retaining the Senate as well, or taking it back, rather.
00:23:31.000I think the Democrats are going to lose their seat in Georgia.
00:23:33.000There's a very close race in New Hampshire.
00:23:34.000It looks like Democrats are slated to lose that seat as well.
00:23:37.000There's a lot of talk about Wisconsin, Senator Ron Johnson, who Has made some mistakes, but has overall been a pretty good senator from Wisconsin.
00:23:43.000He's been talking about how he might not want to run.
00:23:45.000There are a bunch of other Republicans in Wisconsin who are pretty popular, like Representative Mike Gallagher.
00:23:49.000He might run for the Senate in Wisconsin, in which case you could be looking at a full Republican Congress by the end of 2022, which means that Joe Biden needs to get his world-beating plans through right now.
00:23:58.000Joe Biden also understands he is in all likelihood the single-term president because, frankly, the man is in decline.
00:24:17.000And so what that means is if he wants to go down in history as a successful one term president, he knows that the way the historians write the record books, the more you spend, The more the historians love you.
00:24:32.000If you look at how historians rank presidents in the 20th century, the way they tend to rank presidents in the 20th century is the more you spend, the better you were.
00:24:39.000Incredibly enough, if you look at how historians rank the presidents of the 1920s, the 1920s were an excellent decade for the United States.
00:24:46.000The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties for a reason.
00:24:48.000Yet, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, these were terrible presidents.
00:24:52.000FDR, who presided over the worst depression in American history, with crappy economic policy pulled directly from his colon.
00:24:58.000He is considered like the best president of the 20th century.
00:25:01.000And the other transformative president is the guy who led us into Vietnam, led to the morass of the war on poverty, spending $22 trillion over the subsequent half century, and led to the societal breakdown of all possible coherence in the United States, LBJ.
00:25:18.000And because Joe Biden knows this, he's like, okay, I'm gonna spend up the wazoo, and I'm gonna pretend that the consequences that attend to spending are not in fact a big deal.
00:26:12.000We got 74% would be concerned with runaway inflation, 78% that it would be higher taxes on them personally down the line, 69% lower growth, 69% a negative impact on my family's finances.
00:26:25.000Okay, those are terrible stats for Joe Biden.
00:26:29.000Remember, that's a panel of swing voters, not Democrats and not Republicans, swing voters.
00:27:18.000Remember, Janet Yellen went from inflation is not a big deal and will go away very, very fast, it's transitory, to inflation might be around a little longer than you want to.
00:27:26.000Yeah, inflation is just a part of life now.
00:27:28.000She said during a closing bell interview on CNBC, quote, we will have several more months of rapid inflation.
00:27:33.000I'm not saying this is a one month phenomenon.
00:27:35.000I think over the medium term, we'll see inflation decline back toward normal levels.
00:27:38.000But of course, we have to keep a careful eye on it.
00:27:39.000Well, the problem is once inflation starts to run out of control, You're gonna get economic contraction, because if inflation starts to run out of control, and the Fed is already at 0% essentially, when they raise the rates, what do you think is going to happen?
00:27:51.000It's gonna make lending harder, but it's gonna make lending harder at a time when the prices are higher, which leads to a slowing of the economy.
00:27:58.000Once you start to superheat the economy, this is the problem with central banks taking control of economic policy.
00:28:02.000Once they're in control of economic policy, and they've shot their wad, they've used all their ammo, there's nothing more they can do.
00:28:09.000If the economy just starts to stagnate, They really have no choice.
00:28:13.000This is how you end up with stagflation, 1970s style stagflation.
00:28:47.000Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly moved higher last week, despite hopes that the U.S.
00:28:51.000labor market is poised for a strong recovery heading into the fall.
00:28:54.000Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled $419,000 for the week ending July 17th, well above the $350,000 Dow Jones estimate and more than the upwardly revised $368,000 from the previous period, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
00:29:11.000Wall Street pointed to a negative open.
00:29:14.000The jobless count was the highest weekly count since May 15th.
00:29:18.000Again, remember, we're supposed to be getting people back to work.
00:29:21.000Now, even Joe Biden is having to admit some truths here.
00:29:24.000So Biden admitted the other day that, yeah, unemployment benefits probably have kept people from working.
00:29:29.000There's some evidence that maintaining the ability to continue to not have to pay your rent so you don't get thrown out and being able to provide for unemployment insurance has kept people from going back to work.
00:29:43.000There's not much distinction between not going back to work in a restaurant and not going back to work at a factory.
00:29:50.000So people are looking to change opportunities, change what they're doing.
00:29:56.000Okay, but meanwhile, Joe Biden is also just lying about his own policy.
00:30:00.000So Joe Biden said at the CNN town hall, which, by the way, had the worst ratings of pretty much anything on cable TV, because no one wants to watch a guy be asked questions about what his flavor of ice cream is.
00:30:11.000Like, what's his favorite flavor of ice cream?
00:30:12.000Here is Joe Biden being asked about his spending bills and inflation.
00:30:16.000Again, his own treasury secretary says, we're going to look at many more months of rapid inflation.
00:30:20.000Here is Joe Biden being like, no, no, no, my spending bills are going to bring down inflation, which is real galaxy brain type stuff here.
00:30:26.000Moody's today, when our Wall Street firm, not some liberal think tank, said, if we pass the other two things I'm trying to get done, we will, in fact, reduce inflation.
00:30:40.000Because we're going to be providing good opportunities and jobs for people who, in fact, are going to be reinvesting that money back in all the things we're talking about.
00:30:50.000Driving down prices, not raising prices.
00:30:57.000He's not even telling the truth there.
00:30:58.000What Moody's said is they think that inflation will be transitory and will eventually go away, but they did not say that inflation is going to be reduced by spending money.
00:31:06.000Okay, when he says that if we blow money into the economy, it's going to reduce inflation, that is like me saying that if I eat 10,000 calories a day, I'm going to lose weight.
00:31:23.000Everybody knows this, except apparently Joe Biden, who's just a... I will say he has been, for nearly his entire career, a very, very smooth liar.
00:31:30.000I remember when he debated Paul Ryan, he just would say things in 2012 that were overtly untrue.
00:31:44.000But it's okay, we don't expect coherence from this president.
00:31:47.000Here is the President of the United States also oddly bragging about Delaware's corporate record.
00:31:51.000He's talking about how he knows how business operates because a lot of businesses incorporate in Delaware.
00:31:57.000You know why businesses incorporate in Delaware?
00:31:59.000I know, because I had businesses incorporated in Delaware.
00:32:01.000You know why businesses incorporate in Delaware?
00:32:03.000Because Delaware, for many businesses, does not have corporate tax.
00:32:07.000Also, Delaware has very predictable rules of the road, which is why people incorporate in Delaware in the first place.
00:32:13.000In fact, all the things that Joe Biden hates about Delaware are the things that make Delaware successful in terms of being an incorporation center for many businesses in the United States.
00:32:21.000Here's Joe Biden talking about Delaware, even though, again, he's had nothing to do with the formation of state law in Delaware that has made it a corporate haven.
00:32:28.000We have more corporations registered in Delaware than all the rest of America combined.
00:33:19.000I am amused, by the way, by some of the creative proposals that are now being put forward by folks on the left to tamp down inflation and fight the reality, which is that people are looking for other sources for investment value other than the United States dollar and bonds.
00:33:33.000One of the reasons, by the way, that Democrats are very skittish about Bitcoin, for example, is because Bitcoin is a repository of value that is not tied to the United States dollar.
00:33:44.000They're very scared of the idea that there could be theoretically a cryptocurrency that people could trade in without reference to the United States dollar, could debase the United States dollar as actually the reserve currency if it were allowed to run out of control, which is why governments are starting to crack down on it.
00:33:58.000But the solution that is now being proposed, which is a sort of Fed coin, why would I possibly invest in a Fed coin when they can just inflate the Fed coin?
00:34:05.000That's the same thing as investing in the dollar.
00:34:07.000I'm not going to invest in anything that can be manipulated by the central bank.
00:34:11.000It's precisely for that reason that Bitcoin was created in the first place, that cryptocurrencies were created in the first place.
00:34:16.000There will be flight like you've never seen to crypto if the Democrats keep this sort of stuff up.
00:34:21.000It really is an amazing thing that the solution to failed government policy is always, what if we just manipulated the government policy more?
00:34:27.000In fact, if you don't like how we're manipulating the dollar right now, if you don't like how we're manipulating, The level of money in the economy right now?
00:34:34.000Wait until we offer the same thing to you, but digitally.
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00:38:22.000The same media are screaming at Republicans, why don't you get vaccinated?
00:38:25.000Are putting out headlines routinely talking about how people who are vaccinated must wear masks, because God forbid, even if you're vaccinated, you might get the disease and you might die.
00:38:34.000Now, the reality is, statistically speaking, you are Extraordinarily unlikely to get seriously ill or die from COVID after you've been double vaxxed.
00:38:42.000Once you've been double vaxxed, you're in pretty good shape.
00:38:45.000I'm going to give you the stats right now.
00:38:46.000This is according to the New York Times.
00:38:48.000As of July 12th, more than 159 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
00:38:55.000Of those 159 million people, just 5,492 had breakthrough cases that resulted in serious illnesses, including 1,000 who died.
00:39:05.000That is less than 0.0007% of the vaccinated population.
00:41:27.000Okay, so for example, you have CNN's Dr. Liana Nguyen, and she is saying the mask mandates will have to come.
00:41:32.000Here is Dr. Liana Nguyen saying this on CNN.
00:41:35.000The CDC in the first place made the right decision when it comes to the science, but they didn't take into account human behavior.
00:41:41.000And I think there's something that, there's one thing the Biden administration can be doing right now that would change the equation when it comes to incentives.
00:41:48.000And that's to use proof of vaccination.
00:41:51.000If they could say, get the vaccine, you have a proof of vaccination, you can take off your mask.
00:41:59.000And I also think that vaccine mandates are something that will have to come.
00:42:04.000So she says we have to have vaccine mandates, and that we need proof of vaccination, or alternatively, if you have the vaccine, you're a responsible adult, and if you didn't have the vaccine, you can do what you want.
00:42:14.000It's not our job to construct all of society so that we can make an excuse for the decision you made.
00:42:19.000And most people, by the way, who don't get the vaccine are perfectly willing to live with that decision.
00:42:22.000It's really, by the way, amusing to watch the left shift on this.
00:42:24.000So the left has gone fully to, if you don't get the vaccine, I mean, I've heard this from many people on the left, people with whom I'm friends.
00:42:30.000If you don't get the vaccine, and then you get sick from COVID, we shouldn't have to pay your bills.
00:42:34.000And I think to myself, all right, that's fair enough.
00:42:36.000How about that for the entire health system?
00:42:39.000Glad to see you here on the Libertarian Side Gang.
00:42:41.000Because it turns out a lot of people have heart disease because they ate crap for 50 years.
00:42:47.000It turns out if you actually want to set up good incentives for people to make good health decisions, you have to make them own their own health decisions.
00:42:53.000So I'm actually not even opposed to that.
00:42:55.000But that's because I'm in favor of people taking responsibility for their health decisions regardless of whether you're talking about heart disease or COVID.
00:43:03.000It is amazing to watch the Biden administration shifting back toward all of the masking policies.
00:43:54.000In fact, the risk of COVID by age, if everyone were unvaccinated, looks very much like the chart of vaccination because people respond to the incentive that COVID itself provides.
00:44:04.000Here is Ron DeSantis saying Florida is not going to require kids to mask because there is no rationale for this.
00:44:10.000There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level, imposing compulsory masks on kids.
00:45:09.000It's not aligned with public health guidelines.
00:45:12.000We know masks are not the most comfortable thing.
00:45:15.000I will say my kids are quite adjusted to them as I know many kids are.
00:45:19.000So certainly we would have concern about Any step that doesn't abide by public health guidelines and we think it puts people at greater risk.
00:46:06.000Are there people in the Democratic Party who want this?
00:46:10.000In other words, they can be as radical as they want to be because Republicans are bad, and all Republicans are QAnon, and everyone in the Republican Party is crazy, so we never have to tackle our own radicalism.
00:46:19.000Okay, guys, you're gonna pay the price for this in 2022.