The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Embraces The Radicals | Ep. 1303

00:00:00.000 The 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.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:23.000 Well, you'll remember that Joe Biden was elected on a couple of promises.

00:00:26.000 One is that he would not be Donald Trump, which is a pretty easy promise to keep.

00:00:29.000 All you have to do is not be Donald Trump.

00:00:30.000 The other is that he would not be alive.

00:00:32.000 And on one hand, he's kind of kept that promise because this president is not particularly sentient.

00:00:37.000 Every so often he gets into a running gun battle with the teleprompter and then loses.

00:00:41.000 Every so often, it appears as though he's going to keel over in the middle of a sentence.

00:00:44.000 On that score, he seems, you know, doddering, unthreatening.

00:00:47.000 But 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.

00:00:53.000 That's the reason he won the primaries against Bernie Sanders.

00:00:56.000 It's the reason he won against President Trump.

00:00:57.000 Again, 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.

00:01:05.000 The problem for Joe Biden, Is that his entire administration is predicated, it sits atop the iceberg that is the Democratic Party.

00:01:11.000 And that iceberg has been gradually drifting to the left.

00:01:15.000 David Shore, who's a statistician and economist, he's of the left.

00:01:19.000 He points out that basically all change in terms of policy In terms of both parties has come from the left since 2010.

00:01:25.000 The right, the Republican Party, has been basically stagnant in terms of its policy prescriptions and positions since 2010.

00:01:32.000 The Democratic Party has been moving ever more steadily to the left, and people on the left have begun to acknowledge this.

00:01:38.000 They begin to acknowledge, yes, we're getting more radical.

00:01:40.000 Now, what they say is our radicalism is justified.

00:01:43.000 And good, but there is no question that Joe Biden himself has moved to the left.

00:01:48.000 And 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.

00:01:58.000 This 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.

00:02:09.000 His foreign policy was basically normal hawkish Republican foreign policy, although with more of a sort of isolationist bent than traditional American Republican foreign policy.

00:02:20.000 His tax policy was very traditional Republican policy.

00:02:23.000 His domestic regulatory policy was traditional Republican policy.

00:02:26.000 Joe Biden, however, has stacked his administration with people who are radicals.

00:02:29.000 His Democratic Party has decided to overthrow years, decades actually, of bipartisan agreements on key issues.

00:02:37.000 So, for example, Nancy Pelosi has announced that the Democratic Party is going to ram through a revision of the Hyde Amendment. 0.99

00:02:43.000 The 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.

00:02:51.000 Federal 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.

00:02:55.000 Now, we all understand that there's a little bit of a legal lie going on here, that money is fungible.

00:03:01.000 If 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.

00:03:08.000 But at least the idea was that there was an agreement between Republicans and Democrats that abortion should not be federally funded.

00:03:13.000 Democrats, however, have decided that abortion is an overt good.

00:03:16.000 It 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.

00:03:24.000 Because 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.

00:03:31.000 But the Democratic Party has now embraced, on abortion, the sort of, shout-your-abortion idea.

00:03:35.000 Be proud of your abortion. 1.00

00:03:37.000 Abortion isn't merely a horrible thing that sometimes is necessary, as Democrats used to argue.

00:03:43.000 Now, abortion is a point of pride. 1.00

00:03:45.000 You 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. 0.99

00:03:52.000 Lena 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.

00:04:02.000 Well, 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.

00:04:09.000 Now they've reversed themselves.

00:04:10.000 Joe Biden did it a couple of years ago.

00:04:12.000 He had said that he was in favor of the Hyde Amendment.

00:04:14.000 Then he reversed himself because he needed to move to the left.

00:04:16.000 Now Nancy Pelosi is saying the same thing.

00:04:18.000 Now, 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.

00:04:27.000 And I'm going to go with The Pope and Jesus, not super huge on abortion.

00:04:31.000 I 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.

00:04:40.000 But here is Nancy Pelosi making the case that abortion is actually a positive good. 1.00

00:04:45.000 Taxpayers should fund abortion. 1.00

00:04:47.000 She starts off by talking about her Catholic faith, and then she's like, ah, my Catholic faith.

00:04:50.000 And she just kind of throws it out the window. 0.99

00:04:52.000 Here we go.

00:04:54.000 As 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.

00:05:07.000 But that may not be what we should, it's not up to me to dictate that that's what other people should do.

00:05:15.000 And it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country. 0.97

00:05:24.000 It's an issue of fairness and justice that poor women should be able to kill babies in the womb. 1.00

00:05:29.000 Sure, 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? 0.95

00:05:37.000 So the Democratic Party, in terms of policy, has moved in pretty radical directions here.

00:05:43.000 And it's been true throughout the Biden administration.

00:05:44.000 This 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.

00:05:56.000 It's all equity.

00:05:57.000 And equity, of course, is a code word for Group social justice on the basis of race.

00:06:02.000 This has been embraced by the entire Obama administration.

00:06:05.000 I say Obama, but it really is the Biden administration, which is the third part of the Obama administration.

00:06:10.000 Here'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.

00:06:17.000 It's not the Department of Equity.

00:06:18.000 In fact, the Department of Equity would be unconstitutional because equity itself as a concept violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

00:06:25.000 But here is Gina Raimondo claiming that equity ought to be at the center of commerce. 1.00

00:06:32.000 Our number one investment priority is equity.

00:06:35.000 And as our team decides which, these are, this is a competitive grant process.

00:06:42.000 By 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.

00:06:52.000 In order to qualify to get the money, you have to prove to us that equity, you'll have an equity lens.

00:07:00.000 Okay, that's insane.

00:07:01.000 So she's saying we have a competitive process, but the competitive process is not about best product, lowest price.

00:07:06.000 Which normally, when you're negotiating on behalf of taxpayers for grant money, that's usually the process.

00:07:11.000 Now, the process is about, can you prove to us that you mirror our political priorities?

00:07:15.000 Can you prove to us that you're committed to equity? 0.56

00:07:18.000 And 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.

00:07:22.000 That's how we're going to make sure that equity is assured.

00:07:25.000 This is very radical stuff from the federal government.

00:07:27.000 And the federal government not only has no business doing this, it's pretty clearly violative of constitutional principles.

00:07:33.000 First of all, it should be violative of constitutional principles to force taxpayers to pay for abortions.

00:07:37.000 It'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.

00:07:53.000 I'm unaware of a time in American history where the people who are stumping in favor of racial discrimination are the good guys.

00:07:59.000 But this is the Biden administration.

00:08:01.000 And they have at the top this man approaching senility who is able to put sort of a friendly face on this sort of stuff.

00:08:07.000 But the underlying policy is really, really radical.

00:08:10.000 And many of the people who are staffing the administration Are really radical.

00:08:13.000 It's kind of amazing the kinds of people who have been staffed in this administration.

00:08:16.000 I mean, we've seen the DOJ staffed by absolute radicals and people who have written extraordinarily racially radical things.

00:08:23.000 People who have been openly opposed to policing now staffing up the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.

00:08:28.000 Now we have a nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, right?

00:08:33.000 which 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.

00:08:45.000 People I think don't have any idea of how much control the Bureau of Land Management has over various swaths of states.

00:08:55.000 They have oversight of 247.3 million acres.

00:08:58.000 240 247.3 million acres.

00:09:03.000 And the amount of land they have control of in each state is utterly crazy.

00:09:07.000 I mean, if you look at the map, basically it's the entirety of the state of Nevada.

00:09:10.000 BLM has control, not Black Lives Matter, the Bureau of Land Management, has control over nearly all of Nevada.

00:09:16.000 It has huge control over Arizona.

00:09:18.000 It has big control over New Mexico.

00:09:21.000 I mean, if you look at the map, it really is amazing.

00:09:23.000 Once you get to the west of Nebraska, pretty much half the country is under the control of the Bureau of Land Management.

00:09:29.000 Huge swaths of California, huge swaths of Idaho, huge swaths of Oregon, two-thirds of Wyoming.

00:09:37.000 So the Bureau of Land Management's a pretty important position.

00:09:40.000 So running the Bureau of Land Management, you don't want somebody who's, for example, an environmental radical.

00:09:44.000 Because 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.

00:09:53.000 You'll remember that it was exactly this sort of conflict that led to the standoff with the Bundy family in Nevada.

00:09:59.000 You remember this.

00:10:00.000 Well, now who's Joe Biden nominating to be the head of the Bureau of Land Management?

00:10:04.000 It's a woman named Tracy Stone.

00:10:07.000 So who the hell is Tracy Stone? 0.99

00:10:08.000 It turns out that Tracy Stone, when in the 1980s, she worked with essentially an eco-terrorist group.

00:10:14.000 And what they used to do is spike trees. 0.99

00:10:16.000 So spiking trees was something that radical environmentalists would do in areas that were about to be used for lumber.

00:10:22.000 They would go in and they would nail nails. 1.00

00:10:24.000 They would spike the trees.

00:10:25.000 They 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.

00:10:35.000 According 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.

00:10:43.000 The typewriter was to avoid using her personal computer.

00:10:45.000 The letter was an anonymous warning to the U.S.

00:10:47.000 Forest Service that someone had hammered hundreds of metal spikes into trees in an Idaho forest that was slated to be cut down for timber.

00:10:54.000 An acquaintance in her circle of young environmentalists had asked her to send it.

00:10:58.000 After fixing a few spelling mistakes and removing some profanity, Stone dropped it in the mail.

00:11:02.000 It 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.

00:11:11.000 And now President Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management.

00:11:14.000 The letter led to law enforcement raids on student houses and a grand jury investigation.

00:11:18.000 Her testimony in the subsequent trial would help send two people to federal prison.

00:11:22.000 Now that Stone Manning's nomination is in the Senate, Republican opponents have seized on the— It's pouncing.

00:11:27.000 Okay, so the fact that you have an environmental radical, so radical that she was working with people to spike trees, possibly kill loggers.

00:11:27.000 It's pouncing.

00:11:35.000 Her nomination is just another Republican seizing moment, Republican pouncing moment.

00:11:40.000 Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, is on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

00:11:44.000 He said Tracy Stone Manning collaborated with ecoterrorists.

00:11:48.000 A Bureau of Land Management director during the Obama administration, Bobby Abbey, also said he opposed her confirmation.

00:11:53.000 Okay, again, this is an Obama administration official.

00:11:55.000 Because of her involvement in the tree spiking incident, and quote, the fact that her initial silence put people at risk.

00:11:59.000 Apparently, she did not cooperate with prosecutors in that case.

00:12:04.000 However, 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.

00:12:10.000 It was not involved.

00:12:11.000 She was a bridge builder.

00:12:12.000 She was a moderating voice in every discussion.

00:12:14.000 She was always the one to say, hey, look, loggers have families too.

00:12:17.000 Well, I mean, if that's the case, then why did she send a letter trying to explain to people that the trees had been spiked?

00:12:23.000 By the way, here is what the actual letter says, in case you were wondering.

00:12:27.000 Again, she wrote this.

00:12:28.000 or at least transcribed a quote, to whom it may concern.

00:12:31.000 This letter is being sent to notify you that the post office sale in Idaho has been spiked heavily.

00:12:37.000 The reasoning for this action is that this place, this piece of land is very special to the earth.

00:12:42.000 It is home to the elk, deer, mountain lions, birds, and especially the trees.

00:12:47.000 Check the lorax, she speaks for the trees.

00:12:48.000 The project required that 11 of us spend 9 days in god-awful weather conditions spiking trees.

00:12:54.000 We unloaded a total of 500 pounds of spikes measuring 8 to 10 inches in length.

00:12:58.000 The sails were marked so no workers would be injured, and so you a-holes know that they are spiked.

00:13:02.000 The majority of trees were spiked within the first 10 feet.

00:13:05.000 Many, many others were spiked as high as 150 feet.

00:13:08.000 I'd be more than willing to pay you a dollar for the sail, but you would have to find me first.

00:13:11.000 And that could be your worst nightmare.

00:13:14.000 Sincerely, George Heydude. 1.00

00:13:16.000 You bastards go in there anyway, and a lot of people could get hurt. 1.00

00:13:16.000 P.S. 1.00

00:13:19.000 Again, this is pretty wild stuff.

00:13:24.000 And her history is, I think, pretty dispositive of the fact... I mean, this is not somebody who's just a radical in college, right?

00:13:30.000 This is somebody who's actively working with an eco-terrorist group.

00:13:33.000 But according to the Biden administration, this is a great nominee.

00:13:36.000 And 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.

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00:14:51.000 So again, the notion that the Biden administration is going to be elevating to high position as the head of the Bureau of Land Management.

00:15:00.000 There are all these government agencies that honestly have so much unbelievable power that you've never heard of.

00:15:05.000 Like how many people, particularly in big cities, have ever heard of the Bureau of Land Management?

00:15:09.000 Not many.

00:15:10.000 But 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.

00:15:21.000 And 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.

00:15:32.000 The 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.

00:15:42.000 Stone 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.

00:15:49.000 Because I wanted people to know the trees were spiked, she testified.

00:15:52.000 I didn't want anybody getting hurt as a result of trees being spiked.

00:15:56.000 The four-paragraph letter she mailed put it a lot more bluntly.

00:16:01.000 Jake 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.

00:16:09.000 A 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.

00:16:15.000 But 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.

00:16:24.000 The group had a reputation for extreme, frontline environmental activism in opposition to logging, dam building, and other development that threatened wilderness habitat.

00:16:33.000 Tactics included civil disobedience and vandalism.

00:16:35.000 Activists chained themselves to heavy machinery, laid down before bulldozers, and cut power lines.

00:16:39.000 Their slogan?

00:16:40.000 No compromise in defense of Mother Earth.

00:16:44.000 Krelik'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.

00:16:57.000 He would get arrested several more times.

00:17:00.000 Recalled Krelik, quote, Stone Manning was a spokesperson and someone who was obviously very articulate and knew how to work with the media.

00:17:05.000 Certainly, she was philosophically aligned with what our goals were, which was to protect the last wilderness areas in the northern Rockies.

00:17:12.000 Okay, so, Senator John Barrasso went after Tracey Stone Manning in her questioning the other day, and of course he is exactly right. 0.94

00:17:22.000 Tracey Stone Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists.

00:17:25.000 She lied to this committee, and she continues to harbor extremist views most Americans find reprehensible.

00:17:32.000 She is thoroughly disqualified from holding the important position of Director of the Bureau of Land Management.

00:17:38.000 In 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.

00:17:52.000 By the way, she did lie to the Senate. 1.00

00:17:53.000 According to John Barrasso, Ms. 0.97

00:17:55.000 Stone Manning claimed she had, quote, That's not true.

00:18:01.000 According to court documents and news reports, Stone Manning was investigated in a 1989 federal probe of the Tree Spiking Conspiracy.

00:18:07.000 She was subpoenaed to provide physical evidence, including hair samples.

00:18:10.000 She admitted in 1990 she was an investigative target.

00:18:13.000 Her experience, she said, was, quote, degrading.

00:18:15.000 It changed my awareness of the power of government.

00:18:16.000 Yes, this was happening to me and not someone in Panama.

00:18:19.000 Stone Manning also claimed she later testified in a trial that resulted in the conviction of a responsible individual.

00:18:24.000 That's part of the story.

00:18:25.000 But the reality is she did not cooperate with investigators.

00:18:28.000 A 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.

00:18:37.000 Her intransigence set the pro back by years.

00:18:40.000 Only after she was caught and offered immunity did she agree to testify against one of these spikers in 1993. 0.99

00:18:45.000 And this is who Joe Biden believes would be an excellent pick to lead up the Bureau of Land Management.

00:18:50.000 Because again, it's a radical administration.

00:18:52.000 Some of us warned about this before the election of Joe Biden, but some people did not listen.

00:18:57.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to ram forward their massive spending plans So there are a couple of things that are on the table right now.

00:19:06.000 There 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.

00:19:13.000 And the idea here is $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan.

00:19:17.000 But the Biden administration has made extraordinarily clear their actual plans here.

00:19:21.000 Anything 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.

00:19:29.000 And 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.

00:19:43.000 According to CNBC, the Republicans working to craft the $1.2 trillion proposal voted Wednesday against advancing it as they draft final legislation.

00:19:51.000 For some odd reason, Chuck Schumer decided he was going to bring up the legislation for a vote before it had even been drafted.

00:19:57.000 Despite 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.

00:20:04.000 According to CNBC, the vote leaves President Joe Biden's top legislative priority in flux.

00:20:08.000 If 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.

00:20:22.000 Asked 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.

00:20:28.000 And the question here is, how much do you trust Joe Manchin?

00:20:31.000 Because, of course, this is going to come down to Joe Manchin.

00:20:34.000 Why 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.

00:20:41.000 I don't know how Republicans would provide any level of cover for that.

00:20:44.000 But here's the thing.

00:20:46.000 Democrats have no doubt about this.

00:20:47.000 They're just going to ram this forward regardless.

00:20:49.000 Representative Catherine Clark, Democrat of Connecticut, she says, yeah, we're going to pass infrastructure pretty much no matter what.

00:20:56.000 They are going to pass because that is what the American people sent us here to do.

00:21:01.000 They said to us in 2020, we want action.

00:21:04.000 We want to be at the center of the priorities again.

00:21:08.000 That's why Democrats won the White House, the House, and the Senate.

00:21:12.000 It is not going to be easy.

00:21:13.000 Our margins are slim.

00:21:15.000 But what we have in abundance is a commitment to getting this done.

00:21:22.000 Okay, so is this actually going to be good for the economy?

00:21:25.000 Here is where the radicalism comes in.

00:21:26.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:22:32.000 Okay, so how radical is the Democratic budget policy?

00:22:36.000 Joe Manchin is pretty skittish on it.

00:22:38.000 There 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.

00:22:45.000 I don't know what they're talking about.

00:22:46.000 Here's Joe Manchin yesterday.

00:22:48.000 How concerned are you about what your party is talking about with climate change and what that means for your industry?

00:22:53.000 Well, it's the only thing.

00:22:53.000 We have a difference.

00:22:54.000 You know that.

00:22:55.000 You've heard me talk on that.

00:22:56.000 I'm an all-in policy.

00:22:57.000 I'm all-in energy.

00:22:59.000 We have to have everything.

00:23:00.000 The United States of America has to be energy independent.

00:23:02.000 Well, what they're proposing, is that going to decimate your industry?

00:23:04.000 Well, what they're proposing, the timing of what they're proposing would make it almost impossible to achieve that.

00:23:15.000 Again, 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.

00:23:22.000 The 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.

00:23:31.000 I think the Democrats are going to lose their seat in Georgia.

00:23:33.000 There's a very close race in New Hampshire.

00:23:34.000 It looks like Democrats are slated to lose that seat as well.

00:23:37.000 There'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.

00:23:43.000 He's been talking about how he might not want to run.

00:23:45.000 There are a bunch of other Republicans in Wisconsin who are pretty popular, like Representative Mike Gallagher.

00:23:49.000 He 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.

00:23:58.000 Joe Biden also understands he is in all likelihood the single-term president because, frankly, the man is in decline.

00:24:05.000 It is clear that he is in decline.

00:24:07.000 He cannot hold it together.

00:24:08.000 I mean, it is pretty incredible that the running gun battle with the teleprompter just it continues each and every day.

00:24:15.000 He's just incoherent.

00:24:16.000 He doesn't make any sense.

00:24:17.000 And 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.

00:24:28.000 It is just a fact.

00:24:29.000 And it is unbelievable.

00:24:30.000 It's an unbelievable fact, actually.

00:24:32.000 If 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.

00:24:39.000 Incredibly enough, if you look at how historians rank the presidents of the 1920s, the 1920s were an excellent decade for the United States.

00:24:46.000 The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties for a reason.

00:24:48.000 Yet, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, these were terrible presidents.

00:24:52.000 FDR, who presided over the worst depression in American history, with crappy economic policy pulled directly from his colon. 0.65

00:24:58.000 He is considered like the best president of the 20th century.

00:25:01.000 And 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.

00:25:16.000 But historians love the guy.

00:25:17.000 So Joe Biden knows this.

00:25:18.000 And 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.

00:25:27.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:25:28.000 Most Americans are not in on this.

00:25:30.000 So MSNBC, they did a swing voter panel the other day.

00:25:33.000 And remember, this is an MSNBC swing voter panel.

00:25:35.000 So this is not a right-wing panel.

00:25:37.000 The MSNBC swing voter panel was like, yeah, these spending plans are crazy.

00:25:40.000 We don't need that.

00:25:41.000 We're in the middle of an economic recovery that should be naturally occurring.

00:25:45.000 I want to give you some findings that really just get to the public's collective unease.

00:25:47.000 everybody about the Delta variant would be even more naturally occurring.

00:25:51.000 We'll get to the Delta variants in just one second.

00:25:53.000 But the swing voters are looking at Joe Biden's spending plans like this doesn't make any sense at all.

00:25:57.000 What are you doing?

00:25:58.000 I want to give you some findings that really just get to the public's collective unease.

00:26:04.000 Once you start getting to those numbers, we asked a question where we said, if there was that level of spending, what would concern you?

00:26:11.000 And here's what we got.

00:26:12.000 We 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.

00:26:25.000 Okay, those are terrible stats for Joe Biden.

00:26:29.000 Remember, that's a panel of swing voters, not Democrats and not Republicans, swing voters.

00:26:34.000 Those are huge numbers.

00:26:34.000 It's Ryan Clancy from No Labels talking about that.

00:26:37.000 So what are the Democrats doing?

00:26:38.000 They're pushing full head, full forward, ahead, all speed.

00:26:43.000 So Janet Yellen, who's the Treasury Secretary, she's, by the way, now changed her tune.

00:26:47.000 She cautioned on Thursday that prices could continue to rise for several more months.

00:26:52.000 Okay, so remember, at the beginning of the year, they were saying it'll be mild inflation, mild inflation.

00:26:56.000 Now the inflation is like 5%.

00:26:59.000 It's at a 5% rate over the prior year and it's increasing like every single month.

00:27:03.000 You can't get lumber, you can't get workers.

00:27:05.000 The unemployment rate's actually spiked.

00:27:08.000 They're actually going up.

00:27:08.000 More people are claiming unemployment now than they were before, like as of like last month.

00:27:14.000 And yet Joe Biden continues to push forward with his plans.

00:27:17.000 It really is an amazing thing.

00:27:18.000 Remember, 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.

00:27:26.000 Yeah, inflation is just a part of life now.

00:27:28.000 She said during a closing bell interview on CNBC, quote, we will have several more months of rapid inflation.

00:27:33.000 I'm not saying this is a one month phenomenon.

00:27:35.000 I think over the medium term, we'll see inflation decline back toward normal levels.

00:27:38.000 But of course, we have to keep a careful eye on it.

00:27:39.000 Well, 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?

00:27:51.000 It'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.

00:27:58.000 Once you start to superheat the economy, this is the problem with central banks taking control of economic policy.

00:28:02.000 Once 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.

00:28:09.000 If the economy just starts to stagnate, They really have no choice.

00:28:13.000 This is how you end up with stagflation, 1970s style stagflation.

00:28:17.000 And everybody knows it at this point.

00:28:19.000 That's what's truly amazing.

00:28:20.000 And you're starting to see the signs very, very early.

00:28:23.000 Like right now, you can see that the unemployment statistics are beginning to actually climb oddly enough.

00:28:30.000 There's no reason for that.

00:28:31.000 We have 10 million open jobs.

00:28:33.000 We have 10 million open jobs in the country right now, and not enough people to fill them.

00:28:37.000 People are just not even applying for the jobs.

00:28:40.000 And yet, according to CNBC, the U.S.

00:28:43.000 jobless claims showed a surprising gain.

00:28:45.000 This is just a couple of days ago.

00:28:47.000 Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly moved higher last week, despite hopes that the U.S.

00:28:51.000 labor market is poised for a strong recovery heading into the fall.

00:28:54.000 Initial 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.

00:29:09.000 Government bond yields edged lower.

00:29:11.000 Wall Street pointed to a negative open.

00:29:14.000 The jobless count was the highest weekly count since May 15th.

00:29:18.000 Again, remember, we're supposed to be getting people back to work.

00:29:21.000 Now, even Joe Biden is having to admit some truths here.

00:29:24.000 So Biden admitted the other day that, yeah, unemployment benefits probably have kept people from working.

00:29:29.000 There'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.

00:29:43.000 There's not much distinction between not going back to work in a restaurant and not going back to work at a factory.

00:29:50.000 So people are looking to change opportunities, change what they're doing.

00:29:56.000 Okay, but meanwhile, Joe Biden is also just lying about his own policy.

00:30:00.000 So 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.

00:30:11.000 Like, what's his favorite flavor of ice cream?

00:30:12.000 Here is Joe Biden being asked about his spending bills and inflation.

00:30:16.000 Again, his own treasury secretary says, we're going to look at many more months of rapid inflation.

00:30:20.000 Here 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.

00:30:26.000 Moody'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.

00:30:37.000 Reduce inflation.

00:30:39.000 Reduce inflation.

00:30:40.000 Because 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.

00:30:50.000 Driving down prices, not raising prices.

00:30:55.000 Um, no.

00:30:55.000 Moody's did not say that, by the way.

00:30:57.000 He's not even telling the truth there.

00:30:58.000 What 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.

00:31:06.000 Okay, 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.

00:31:13.000 There is no way that works.

00:31:15.000 The definition of inflation is more money chasing fewer products.

00:31:19.000 If you create the more money, you create the inflation.

00:31:22.000 Everyone understands this.

00:31:23.000 Everybody 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. 0.98

00:31:30.000 I remember when he debated Paul Ryan, he just would say things in 2012 that were overtly untrue. 0.53

00:31:35.000 I mean, clearly untrue.

00:31:36.000 But he would say them with the weird Joker smile, the Cesar Romero, and everybody would go, oh, it must be true.

00:31:41.000 Well, what he just said there makes no sense at all.

00:31:42.000 It is absolutely incoherent.

00:31:44.000 But it's okay, we don't expect coherence from this president.

00:31:47.000 Here is the President of the United States also oddly bragging about Delaware's corporate record.

00:31:51.000 He's talking about how he knows how business operates because a lot of businesses incorporate in Delaware.

00:31:57.000 You know why businesses incorporate in Delaware?

00:31:59.000 I know, because I had businesses incorporated in Delaware.

00:32:01.000 You know why businesses incorporate in Delaware?

00:32:03.000 Because Delaware, for many businesses, does not have corporate tax.

00:32:07.000 Also, Delaware has very predictable rules of the road, which is why people incorporate in Delaware in the first place.

00:32:13.000 In 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.

00:32:21.000 Here'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.

00:32:28.000 We have more corporations registered in Delaware than all the rest of America combined.

00:32:35.000 Combined.

00:32:37.000 Combined.

00:32:38.000 I represented for 36 years.

00:32:41.000 I've never seen a time when we have the middle class growing that the wealthy didn't do very, very, very well.

00:32:52.000 Okay, I noticed his new mode of communication, because the brain is not working all that fast, is just to repeat.

00:32:59.000 Repeat.

00:33:00.000 Repeat.

00:33:01.000 Words.

00:33:04.000 Over.

00:33:04.000 And over.

00:33:06.000 And over.

00:33:08.000 Right? It's going inflation is going to be reduced, reduced, reduced.

00:33:13.000 OK, dude, no matter how many times you say it, it just ain't true.

00:33:18.000 It just ain't true.

00:33:19.000 I 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.

00:33:33.000 One 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.

00:33:41.000 Thank you.

00:33:42.000 So they're very scared of Bitcoin.

00:33:44.000 They'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.

00:33:58.000 But 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?

00:34:05.000 That's the same thing as investing in the dollar.

00:34:07.000 Why would I do that?

00:34:07.000 I'm not going to invest in anything that can be manipulated by the central bank.

00:34:11.000 It's precisely for that reason that Bitcoin was created in the first place, that cryptocurrencies were created in the first place.

00:34:16.000 There will be flight like you've never seen to crypto if the Democrats keep this sort of stuff up.

00:34:21.000 It really is an amazing thing that the solution to failed government policy is always, what if we just manipulated the government policy more?

00:34:27.000 In 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?

00:34:34.000 Wait until we offer the same thing to you, but digitally.

00:34:37.000 Hell of a pitch there.

00:34:38.000 Okay, in just a second, we'll get to the radical democratic COVID policy, which continues to be utterly disconnected from reality.

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00:37:51.000 Well, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to pursue radical policy with regard to masking.

00:38:02.000 I mean, it truly is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:38:04.000 So here are your latest stats with regard to vaccinations and COVID.

00:38:10.000 Because what you're hearing from the media is that COVID breakthroughs With regard to vaccination, they're happening all the time.

00:38:14.000 And not only are they happening all the time, people are getting super sick or dying from COVID, even after they've been vaccinated.

00:38:20.000 And all this does, it's amazing.

00:38:22.000 The same media are screaming at Republicans, why don't you get vaccinated?

00:38:25.000 Are 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.

00:38:34.000 Now, the reality is, statistically speaking, you are Extraordinarily unlikely to get seriously ill or die from COVID after you've been double vaxxed.

00:38:42.000 Once you've been double vaxxed, you're in pretty good shape.

00:38:45.000 I'm going to give you the stats right now.

00:38:46.000 This is according to the New York Times.

00:38:48.000 As of July 12th, more than 159 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

00:38:55.000 Of those 159 million people, just 5,492 had breakthrough cases that resulted in serious illnesses, including 1,000 who died.

00:39:05.000 That is less than 0.0007% of the vaccinated population.

00:39:06.000 0.007% of the vaccinated population.

00:39:10.000 Meanwhile, 99% of deaths from COVID-19 are among the unvaccinated.

00:39:15.000 So what that means is that vaccination is extraordinarily powerful.

00:39:20.000 It has done really well.

00:39:21.000 And masking ain't gonna change the trajectory of this thing.

00:39:23.000 Vaccination is gonna change the trajectory of this thing. 0.98

00:39:26.000 Because once you're vaccinated, you're pretty much done.

00:39:28.000 I've been saying this for a long time.

00:39:30.000 And if you're a kid, right now, they're talking about masking kids up again, which is nuts.

00:39:35.000 Okay, I'm sorry, it's crazy.

00:39:36.000 I have small kids, they should not be masking.

00:39:38.000 The reason they should not be masking is because number one, they can't wear masks properly.

00:39:41.000 Number two, Wearing a mask for a small child is actually kind of damaging.

00:39:44.000 It restricts their oxygen intake.

00:39:46.000 Number three, they're dirty. 0.99

00:39:48.000 They're gross. 0.93

00:39:49.000 Have you seen a kid wear a mask? 0.99

00:39:50.000 Kids are dirty and gross anyway. 0.98

00:39:52.000 I have three of them. 0.99

00:39:53.000 And now they've got a piece of cloth over their face they're spitting into all day.

00:39:56.000 Okay, you're talking about, for kids, a disease that is not extremely dangerous.

00:40:00.000 You're talking about a disease that has killed 340 kids nationwide under the age of 18.

00:40:03.000 40 kids nationwide under the age of 18.

00:40:05.000 That is a cohort of 75 million people.

00:40:08.000 And with a much wider diagnosis of COVID than you get in a typical flu season.

00:40:14.000 So when people say, well, yeah, fewer people die of the flu each year if they're kids than die of COVID.

00:40:18.000 That's because fewer people get the flu than get COVID.

00:40:20.000 Because COVID is much more transmissible than the traditional influenza that people have in the winter, for example.

00:40:27.000 Bottom line is, the real reason they're telling kids to mask up is to protect adults.

00:40:31.000 Here's the thing.

00:40:32.000 If you're an adult and you didn't get the vaccine, my kids should not have to mask because you didn't get the vaccine.

00:40:36.000 That's your decision.

00:40:37.000 You're free to make it.

00:40:38.000 And by the way, I have lots of friends.

00:40:40.000 I know lots of people who have not gotten the vaccine.

00:40:42.000 Their reasons range from the spurious to the somewhat understandable, right?

00:40:47.000 Some of them are like, well, you know, the vaccine is going to kill.

00:40:49.000 No, it's it's in all likelihood not going to kill you.

00:40:52.000 Also, and when I say in all likelihood, I mean vanishingly small numbers of people.

00:40:56.000 Is there evidence that vaccines have killed them?

00:40:58.000 Okay, not a million people.

00:41:00.000 Very, very few people.

00:41:02.000 And then there are people who say something else, which is, I'm young.

00:41:05.000 I'm healthy.

00:41:05.000 COVID is not likely to kill me.

00:41:07.000 The vaccines are not likely to kill me.

00:41:09.000 The vaccines don't even have full FDA authorization at this point.

00:41:12.000 There's still emergency use authorization.

00:41:14.000 I'm 21.

00:41:15.000 I've weighed the balances, and I think that the risks of taking the vaccine long term maybe outweigh the risks of me even getting COVID.

00:41:20.000 All right, if that's your decision, that's your decision. 0.98

00:41:22.000 But the point is, my kids should not have to mask for your decision, because that's really dumb. 1.00

00:41:26.000 That's really, really dumb. 0.97

00:41:27.000 Okay, so for example, you have CNN's Dr. Liana Nguyen, and she is saying the mask mandates will have to come. 0.98

00:41:32.000 Here is Dr. Liana Nguyen saying this on CNN.

00:41:35.000 The CDC in the first place made the right decision when it comes to the science, but they didn't take into account human behavior.

00:41:41.000 And 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.

00:41:48.000 And that's to use proof of vaccination.

00:41:51.000 If they could say, get the vaccine, you have a proof of vaccination, you can take off your mask.

00:41:56.000 That would be really key.

00:41:59.000 And I also think that vaccine mandates are something that will have to come.

00:42:04.000 So 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.

00:42:12.000 And it's not our job to save you.

00:42:14.000 Right?

00:42:14.000 It's not our job to construct all of society so that we can make an excuse for the decision you made.

00:42:19.000 And most people, by the way, who don't get the vaccine are perfectly willing to live with that decision.

00:42:22.000 It's really, by the way, amusing to watch the left shift on this.

00:42:24.000 So 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.

00:42:30.000 If you don't get the vaccine, and then you get sick from COVID, we shouldn't have to pay your bills.

00:42:34.000 And I think to myself, all right, that's fair enough.

00:42:36.000 How about that for the entire health system?

00:42:39.000 Glad to see you here on the Libertarian Side Gang. 0.97

00:42:41.000 Because it turns out a lot of people have heart disease because they ate crap for 50 years. 0.96

00:42:46.000 How about you pay for your own?

00:42:47.000 It 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.

00:42:53.000 So I'm actually not even opposed to that.

00:42:55.000 But 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.

00:43:03.000 It is amazing to watch the Biden administration shifting back toward all of the masking policies.

00:43:09.000 Again, they've made it political.

00:43:10.000 The notion that the right wing has made it political is just crazy.

00:43:13.000 Ron DeSantis has been as pro-vaccine as any governor in America.

00:43:16.000 Right now, I'm looking at the vaccination rates in Florida.

00:43:20.000 The vaccination rates in Florida, if you're 85 years old or older, 76% of that population has gotten one dose.

00:43:27.000 63% of that population has been fully vaccinated.

00:43:29.000 If you're 75 to 84, 84% of that population has gotten at least one dose.

00:43:33.000 The fully vaccinated constitutes 72% of the population.

00:43:36.000 If you're 65 to 74, 89% of that population has gotten one dose.

00:43:42.000 77% of that population is fully vaccinated.

00:43:43.000 And then it starts to decrease by age.

00:43:45.000 So that by the time you get to, say, 25 to 34, only about 36% of that population has gotten a dose.

00:43:51.000 Because people are making decisions based on their age.

00:43:51.000 Why?

00:43:54.000 In 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.

00:44:04.000 Here is Ron DeSantis saying Florida is not going to require kids to mask because there is no rationale for this.

00:44:10.000 There's been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level, imposing compulsory masks on kids.

00:44:20.000 We're not doing that in Florida, OK?

00:44:22.000 At the end of the day, We gotta start putting our kids first.

00:44:25.000 We gotta look out for their education.

00:44:28.000 Is it really comfortable?

00:44:29.000 Is it really healthy for them to be muzzled and have their breathing obstructed all day long in school?

00:44:35.000 I don't think it is.

00:44:36.000 And I look to think, I have a three-year-old son.

00:44:38.000 You got people like Fauci saying he should be muzzled, that you should be throwing masks on these three-year-old kids.

00:44:45.000 It's totally unacceptable.

00:44:48.000 He is exactly correct about this, but this drove the White House and Jen Psaki to say DeSantis is putting kids at risk.

00:44:54.000 If I were a parent in Florida, that would be greatly concerning to me because kids under the age of 12 are not vaccinated.

00:45:01.000 They're not eligible yet.

00:45:02.000 As the president said last night, obviously it's going to be led by the FDA, but certainly we hope that will be soon.

00:45:08.000 But that puts kids at risk.

00:45:09.000 It's not aligned with public health guidelines.

00:45:12.000 We know masks are not the most comfortable thing.

00:45:15.000 I will say my kids are quite adjusted to them as I know many kids are.

00:45:19.000 So 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.

00:45:28.000 Maddening and insane.

00:45:29.000 Maddening and insane.

00:45:29.000 Puts people at greater risk?

00:45:30.000 Who?

00:45:31.000 The kids?

00:45:31.000 The kids have been getting this throughout the pandemic.

00:45:33.000 And the kids are okay.

00:45:35.000 By and large, kids are okay.

00:45:36.000 Much more okay with this than they are, by the way, from pneumonia.

00:45:39.000 But in the end, here's the thing about the radicalism of the Democratic public policy. 0.94

00:45:44.000 It's all justified because Republicans are bad.

00:45:46.000 There was Joe Biden yesterday being asked a tough question and then saying, well, you know what? 0.98

00:45:49.000 It doesn't matter because after all, Republicans think we're going to suck the blood out of children. 0.73

00:45:54.000 Man, oh, man. 0.95

00:45:56.000 Are there people in the Democratic Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?

00:46:05.000 I'm not sure.

00:46:06.000 Are there people in the Democratic Party who want this?

00:46:10.000 In 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.

00:46:19.000 Okay, guys, you're gonna pay the price for this in 2022.

00:46:21.000 Go for it. 0.99

00:46:22.000 Seriously, embrace the suck, because it's coming, and it's coming for you. 0.95

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Joe Biden Embraces The Radicals | Ep. 1303

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