The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden’s Presidency is Collapsing | Ep. 1333

00:00:00.000 Senator Joe Manchin says it's time to hit pause on Joe Biden's spending plans as Biden's approval ratings crater.

00:00:05.000 The Afghanistan debacle has destroyed Biden's credibility and the Biden economy is flailing.

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00:01:29.000 Alrighty, well, we are very early on in the Joe Biden presidency, and it seems like this thing could be theoretically kind of over already.

00:01:36.000 It is pretty obvious that next year, Republicans have a solid leg up when it comes to the possibility of taking the House.

00:01:42.000 It now looks as though they have a very solid shot of taking the Senate, if polls are to be believed from places like New Hampshire, where John Sununu is now up something like seven or eight points on his Democratic opponents.

00:01:52.000 If Republicans take back Congress, Joe Biden effectively gets nothing done for the next couple of years, which means he has a very short window of time to ram things through.

00:02:00.000 Here is the problem.

00:02:01.000 In order for him to ram things through, he needs complete solidarity, particularly in the Senate, where he has a 50-50 split with the Republicans, with Kamala Harris, his vice president, breaking the tie.

00:02:10.000 Again, that wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump had not intervened in the Georgia Senate races and talked all about how Georgia's voting system was a complete waste of time and all of this.

00:02:18.000 Put that, be that as it may, put that aside.

00:02:22.000 The bottom line here is that he still has a very, very narrow pathway to getting things done in the United States Senate, and that requires solidarity among Democrats.

00:02:31.000 In order to cudgel people like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin into doing what Joe Biden wants, He really needs to have some coattails.

00:02:39.000 Joe Biden himself needs to have coattails.

00:02:41.000 Because here's the thing.

00:02:43.000 When it comes to things like budget reconciliation, you can do this thing with 50 votes.

00:02:46.000 Pretty much everything else, you require 60.

00:02:47.000 Mansion and cinema, who are both from red states.

00:02:50.000 Cinema you might say is from a purple state, but one of the reddest states in the country is West Virginia.

00:02:55.000 Neither of them are going to break the filibuster.

00:02:57.000 They've made this very clear over and over and over, no matter how many times the activist media asks them about it.

00:03:01.000 So that means that basically everything has to get done through budget reconciliation.

00:03:06.000 Well, the giant omnibus packages that are being pushed by Joe Biden are not, on their face, particularly pleasant for either of those senators, for either Sinema or for Manchin.

00:03:16.000 They're not popular in Arizona.

00:03:17.000 They're not popular in West Virginia.

00:03:18.000 And remember, senators are not answerable to the quote-unquote national polling.

00:03:22.000 They are answerable specifically to the people who are in their own states.

00:03:25.000 So the chances are that Manchin and Sinema are not going to be super happy with these giant policy proposals, which means the only reason why they would do what Joe Biden wants is if they believe that Joe Biden's coattails are strong enough to carry them through, even in red slash purple states, that he's overwhelmingly popular, and therefore they will be able to go back to their voters and say, we did all of these things because Joe Biden told us to do all of these things, and therefore it is good that we did all of these things.

00:03:50.000 If Joe Biden's popularity craters, therefore, His chances of being able to ram through his agenda completely fall apart.

00:03:57.000 If he had a broader majority, maybe his approval ratings wouldn't matter so much.

00:04:00.000 But his approval ratings matter an awful lot, especially because waiting in the wings, and everybody knows this, is Kamala Harris, who's a deeply unpopular politician. 1.00

00:04:07.000 So if you're Joe Manchin, charting your political future, and thinking to yourself, am I still here in four or five years?

00:04:12.000 Do I get reelected?

00:04:12.000 Are you gonna hitch your wagon to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?

00:04:15.000 Or are you gonna chart your own course?

00:04:17.000 Same thing for Kyrsten Sinema over in Arizona. 0.99

00:04:19.000 She has pretty good approval ratings.

00:04:21.000 The reason she has pretty good approval ratings is because she's seen as a sort of democratic version of John McCain. 0.81

00:04:25.000 She's sort of a maverick character willing to buck her own party and say tough things to the people inside her own party about, for example, the filibuster or about too much spending. 1.00

00:04:34.000 So this now puts enormous power in the hands of Joe Manchin, and that power only grows when Joe Biden is not good at his job.

00:04:42.000 So that means it matters an awful lot whether Joe Biden is liked or whether he is disliked on the national stage.

00:04:47.000 And that's why it matters that his poll numbers have been absolutely cratering.

00:04:51.000 Now, they're cratering for basically one specific reason and then one general reason.

00:04:56.000 So the specific reason is because of Afghanistan.

00:04:58.000 The general reason is because Joe Biden is a houseplant.

00:05:01.000 So he was elected because he was a houseplant, right?

00:05:03.000 But he was a houseplant who's supposed to provide stability.

00:05:06.000 The thing about houseplants is that they are barely alive, they cover the water stain, and they don't move around a lot.

00:05:09.000 You don't have to worry about the houseplant.

00:05:11.000 You leave the house for work in the morning, you come back, the houseplant's in exactly the same place.

00:05:16.000 Maybe it's grown a little bit.

00:05:17.000 That's pretty much it.

00:05:19.000 But Joe Biden, elected as a houseplant, is actually turning out to be the plant from Little Shop of Horrors, right?

00:05:24.000 He's eating everything else.

00:05:26.000 In terms of policy, he's very much alive, even though in terms of sentience, he is not.

00:05:30.000 And so if you voted for Joe Biden, or if you are somebody in the middle who's kind of warm to Joe Biden, you're kind of getting the worst of both worlds.

00:05:36.000 You're getting the non-sentience, non-charismatic president.

00:05:39.000 He's not like Obama in any of the Areas of charisma or magnetism or personal draw.

00:05:44.000 And you're getting the radical policy of Barack Obama, except on steroids, because actually Joe Biden's policies are way more radical than Barack Obama's were at this point, even in his presidency.

00:05:53.000 And Obama was really radical on policy this early on in his presidency.

00:05:57.000 And so every time Joe Biden now appears and seems to be doddering his way through a press conference, it hurts him rather than helping him.

00:06:03.000 If you were a moderate and you were doddering his way through, people would be willing to say that that's kind of a feature, not a bug.

00:06:08.000 All right, he's doddering, but the reason he's doddering is because we elected somebody to dodder.

00:06:12.000 The whole point is we wanted somebody who moved slowly, incrementally, somebody who is not going to be threatening.

00:06:17.000 But if he's threatening and also doddering, now it just seems like things are spinning out of control.

00:06:21.000 And so every press conference that he has where he seems incapable of holding it together is a serious problem for him.

00:06:26.000 That's why the Afghanistan debacle made so clear that he is just not in control, right?

00:06:32.000 Even when he makes a call, those calls are so incapable of meeting with any sort of good policy that this seems like an administration where the brakes have been taken off and you literally have an octogenarian in charge of the car driving directly at a crowd.

00:06:47.000 And everybody's kind of freaking out about that.

00:06:49.000 Which means that if you're a moderate on the fence, if you're Joe Manchin or if you're Kyrsten Sinema, you're like, I don't want to be in this car.

00:06:55.000 The future of this car is not good.

00:06:57.000 So let's go to the dottering of Joe Biden, and then we'll get to the policy of Joe Biden.

00:07:02.000 So when it comes to the dottering of Joe Biden, he just continues to lie and futz around.

00:07:07.000 It really is not good for him.

00:07:08.000 All of these things add up.

00:07:09.000 The way that people make decisions about politicians typically is that over and over and over, their preconceived notions about those politicians are either rejected or reinforced.

00:07:18.000 Joe Biden every day is reinforcing the fact that he is not with us.

00:07:22.000 That he is not with us.

00:07:24.000 That his policies are radical and he's not in control.

00:07:25.000 That this is a car careening out of control, no brakes, octogenarian at the wheel who should have had his license revoked at least five years ago.

00:07:32.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday.

00:07:33.000 He was doing a kind of meet and greet.

00:07:37.000 with a bunch of so-called Jewish leaders.

00:07:41.000 I say so-called because a lot of the Jewish leaders that he was meeting with aren't particularly Jewish in any sort of religious sense.

00:07:49.000 And they kind of lead reconstructionist synagogues that don't reflect any of the principles of the Torah, that are not particularly interested in Jewish philosophy, but put that aside.

00:07:58.000 Joe Biden is speaking to them, and he starts just telling lies about visiting the Tree of Life Synagogue.

00:08:02.000 It turns out that he did not.

00:08:03.000 The Tree of Life Synagogue, of course, was the site of the white supremacist shooting a couple of years ago.

00:08:07.000 And he said he visited.

00:08:08.000 He absolutely did not.

00:08:10.000 He's just making things up.

00:08:12.000 I remember spending time at, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with them.

00:08:23.000 Just as amazing, these things are happening.

00:08:26.000 Happening in America.

00:08:30.000 Okay, and then he started doddering through a story about his daughter's wedding.

00:08:34.000 He couldn't remember what was going on.

00:08:35.000 It's very awkward.

00:08:36.000 I mean, your grandpa is wandering off script.

00:08:40.000 It's reminiscent, I think it's a Mitch Hedberg joke, or a Jack Handy joke, that when I go, I want to go like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep, not like the passengers in his car screaming.

00:08:52.000 That's the Democratic Party at this point, right?

00:08:55.000 Here's Joe Biden, again, kind of wandering off script into the cornfield.

00:08:59.000 My daughter married a Jewish young man.

00:09:03.000 And I, you know, dream of every Catholic father that she marry a Jewish doctor.

00:09:10.000 But all kidding aside, he did, he's a great surgeon.

00:09:14.000 And they played, and my mind's going blank now, what's the song that is played where everybody is on the chair, everybody, you know, I can't remember it anyway.

00:09:25.000 And that's the song that was played.

00:09:27.000 So, you know, I don't know what the hell's going on here.

00:09:31.000 Inspiring stuff there from the President of the United States.

00:09:34.000 Very, very, very inspiring stuff.

00:09:37.000 And then he added on top of this, he says, you know, he starts talking about never again.

00:09:42.000 Now, this is where you move from the senile to the rather unforgivable.

00:09:47.000 Here's Joe Biden talking about never again, which of course is verbiage that is used surrounding the Holocaust, that we as the world will never allow this sort of stuff to happen again.

00:09:54.000 I have some questions for Joe Biden about this particular perspective coming out of his face, his doddering old collapsing face.

00:10:01.000 Here's the president of the United States.

00:10:04.000 I guess the point I want to make is that it just shows that if we walk away from never again, it's going to happen again.

00:10:17.000 It can't happen again.

00:10:18.000 And so I guess the point I'm making is that the attack in Pittsburgh, those attacks All anti-Semitic attacks aren't just a strike against the Jewish community.

00:10:29.000 They're a strike against the soul of our nation.

00:10:33.000 Okay, I'm just going to point out, when he says we cancel on Never Again to happen, this is the same president who is currently attempting to cut a deal with the genocidal Iranian regime to allow them a pathway to nuclear weapons. 0.91

00:10:44.000 Hey, this is the same president of the United States who is currently talking about opening a Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem, reopening the wounds of a process that has completely failed and incentivizing terror attacks in the region against Jews.

00:10:58.000 This is the same president of the United States who, on another front, you want to talk about never again, just abandoned 38 million people to today's Nazis, the Taliban, who are literally going to go around just murdering everybody they don't like. 0.73

00:11:08.000 This is already happening in Afghanistan right now.

00:11:10.000 This is the same president who's been making kind overtures to China, which has become increasingly aggressive.

00:11:16.000 Meanwhile, holding in Shenzhen 1 million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps.

00:11:21.000 So when this guy says, I'm anti, you know, never again means something to me, no, it doesn't.

00:11:26.000 It absolutely 100% is not.

00:11:28.000 It's a bunch of words that he thinks he has to say in front of people.

00:11:30.000 And here's the thing.

00:11:31.000 He has no credibility on these issues.

00:11:32.000 He just doesn't.

00:11:34.000 His own administration has completely... Afghanistan is a perfect case in point. 0.95

00:11:37.000 He literally just said, we're for human rights when we have to say things about it, but when we actually have to, you know, do something basic like leaving 2,500 troops there with no actual combat casualties, In a support role?

00:11:49.000 Then I won't do that.

00:11:50.000 He's so unwilling to stand up for human rights.

00:11:52.000 I mean, don't talk the language of human rights if you're literally unwilling to make even the most minute sacrifices on behalf of human rights.

00:12:01.000 Not just human rights, by the way, American interests in Afghanistan, but as long as he's going to be saying never again.

00:12:07.000 In the Jewish community, there's been talk for decades about why it was that the Allies didn't bomb the rail lines during the Holocaust.

00:12:15.000 Why didn't the Allies send a few planes and just bomb the rail lines that were connecting various cities to the concentration camps?

00:12:22.000 And the defense has always been, it was the middle of a war, you have to use those bombs where they are best utilized, namely against Nazi troops in more strategically necessary areas. 0.86

00:12:30.000 That's an open argument, historically speaking.

00:12:32.000 Hey, but here we are not even talking about even that kind of sacrifice.

00:12:36.000 We are talking about the United States of America leaving in place people who are already there doing the things they were already doing to prevent people from being shot in the face for walking in the street without a veil. 0.72

00:12:47.000 And Joe Biden wasn't even willing to do that.

00:12:49.000 So no, I'm not particularly interested in hearing about never again from this doofus.

00:12:54.000 It's just his credibility is shot. 0.67

00:12:57.000 It's shot.

00:12:58.000 Speaking of Afghanistan, The administration just has no defense for itself at this point.

00:13:05.000 Ned Price, for example, the State Department spokesperson, he was freely admitted yesterday that the United States left several hundred U.S.-funded journalists in Afghanistan.

00:13:13.000 How many of those USAGM employees were there, or contractors rather, and how many family members are there?

00:13:20.000 So I don't have a firm figure with me.

00:13:24.000 It has been reported publicly that there are several hundred involved in that group.

00:13:31.000 You must have some estimate of LPRs who are still there, who want to get out.

00:13:34.000 And if you don't, why not?

00:13:35.000 I'm just asking about green card holders.

00:13:37.000 are stuck over there. You just don't care about those people anymore, apparently.

00:13:39.000 You must have some estimate of LPRs who are still there, who want to get out. And if you don't, why not?

00:13:48.000 Well, Matt, let me first start with this issue of the 100 to 200.

00:13:54.000 I'm just asking about green card holders. Was there a decision made at some point?

00:14:01.000 To forget about those people and only allow U.S. 1.00

00:14:05.000 passport holders into the airport through your checkpoints and onto planes.

00:14:11.000 they'll eventually be through your checkpoints and onto planes because a lot of them feel like they frankly got screwed here and that they were lied to.

00:14:22.000 And of course they were screwed and they There are parades, by the way, of Taliban fighters who are walking around in suicide vests.

00:14:31.000 So these are our new allies over in the Middle East. 0.80

00:14:34.000 One reporter slammed the Pentagon's John Kirby, who again has become the Baghdad Bob of this particular operation, saying, you know, you keep saying this is a strategic success.

00:14:42.000 I'm wondering exactly how.

00:14:44.000 How can the Department of Defense go before the American people, those military service members, and those veterans and say that the mission was accomplished when people were left behind?

00:14:55.000 I think, Therese, that we've been very clear that we don't believe the effort has concluded.

00:15:02.000 The military mission of evacuation is over.

00:15:05.000 We know there are people that didn't make it out.

00:15:08.000 American citizens as well as special immigrant visa applicants.

00:15:12.000 And the U.S.

00:15:13.000 government is going to continue to look for ways to try to help them find safe passage out of the country.

00:15:20.000 Now the media predictably are beginning to spin on behalf of the Biden administration throughout all of this.

00:15:25.000 There's an entire piece in the New York Times today talking about how the Taliban are going to be pragmatic.

00:15:29.000 They're going to be awesome.

00:15:30.000 According to the New York Times' Max Fisher, as Taliban commanders exchange their guns for the reins of power, some 38 million Afghans can do little but hold their breath and wait to see how their latest conquerors will rule.

00:15:39.000 That uncertainty, also palpable in foreign capitals from Washington to Beijing, is compounded by the deep contradiction between the group's record of extremism and brutality during its prior reign, from 1996 to 2000, and its promises of moderation today.

00:15:51.000 There's no uncertainty.

00:15:52.000 They're lying.

00:15:53.000 They're not going to be moderate.

00:15:53.000 They're going to do exactly what they want to do.

00:15:55.000 By the way, Beijing has already said they're going to recognize the Taliban regime.

00:15:59.000 But, says Max Fisher, the Taliban are, depending on how one counts, something like the 6th or 7th rebel group to take over a country in the modern era.

00:16:07.000 While no two are exactly alike, certain patterns have emerged in how rebels rule.

00:16:11.000 Some learn to govern effectively, even to modernize.

00:16:13.000 Others collapse in chaos or renewed war.

00:16:15.000 Some grow crueler in power, lashing out at their subjects in fear and insecurity.

00:16:18.000 Others moderate, though mostly in search of legitimacy and foreign aid.

00:16:21.000 But all seem to share a few traits.

00:16:23.000 A tightly bureaucratic authoritarianism, albeit sometimes allowing a degree of political opening.

00:16:28.000 A focus on controlling or coercing elements of society seen as tied to the old order and a quest for foreign support and recognition as they strain to overcome the pariah status that tends to greet militants who shoot their way into power.

00:16:40.000 So we can we can expect them that probably they're going to be, you know, eventually they're going to turn into like regular ruling people seeking pragmatic Relations with the rest of... Or, alternatively, they are going to continue being the bunch of drug-running, which is how they supported themselves from 1966 to 2001, drug-running, Beijing-supported terror group that they've always been.

00:17:02.000 But, gotta swing that support back behind Biden.

00:17:05.000 By the way, the fact-checkers are doing yeoman's work on this.

00:17:07.000 It's amazing.

00:17:08.000 Like, if you just want to see what the Biden administration-assigned fact-checkers are doing today, check the right-hand side of the Twitter feed.

00:17:16.000 The Twitter feed every single day has some sort of fact check targeting a minor fact that was put out there that was wrong while ignoring the far broader narrative.

00:17:25.000 So there'll be a fact check about how, you know, there was a helicopter and it was flying a guy around who was a member of the Taliban wearing a harness and it looked like maybe a guy was hanging from underneath and people mentioned this.

00:17:33.000 That was not true.

00:17:34.000 That was not true.

00:17:35.000 Of course, the idea there is this is a very important fact check, super important.

00:17:38.000 We're not going to fact check the president of the United States saying he always had a plan for this.

00:17:42.000 We're not going to fact check the president of the United States saying no one expected that this thing was going to collapse as fast as it was.

00:17:47.000 You're not going to fact check the president of the United States when he says this is historic success.

00:17:50.000 Like none of those things are worthy of a fact check, but it is worth a fact check.

00:17:54.000 That the person hanging from underneath the helicopter this time was not the body of an enemy, it was just a Taliban fighter.

00:17:59.000 Which means now it's good that they have our Blackhawk helicopters, obviously.

00:18:02.000 The other fact check that made the rounds yesterday is the media attempting to defend Joe Biden for checking his watch repeatedly at the ceremony for the fallen at Dover Air Force Base.

00:18:14.000 The USA Today actually had to change its own claim.

00:18:16.000 They actually claimed it was outright false that Joe Biden checked his watch during the ceremony.

00:18:21.000 Originally, they claimed it was outright false.

00:18:22.000 Then it turns out there were multiple Gold Star family members who said, no, Joe Biden kept checking his watch over and over and over.

00:18:28.000 I checked it 5, 10, 13 times during the actual ceremony honoring the fallen.

00:18:34.000 So what did USA Today do?

00:18:35.000 Did they revise their fact check?

00:18:37.000 They only changed it to missing context.

00:18:40.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:18:41.000 They didn't say now that it's true that Joe Biden was checking his watch.

00:18:43.000 They literally changed it to missing context.

00:18:46.000 Here is their correction.

00:18:48.000 This story was updated September 2nd to note that Biden checked his watch multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself.

00:18:56.000 The rating on this claim has been changed from partly false to missing context.

00:19:00.000 I was missing context, you see.

00:19:03.000 It's amazing.

00:19:04.000 They'll never just say Joe Biden checked his watch.

00:19:05.000 By the way, the White House didn't even deny he checked his watch.

00:19:08.000 Jen Psaki was asked about it.

00:19:09.000 She avoided the question.

00:19:10.000 But the media are in full spin mode for Biden because this has been very, very damaging for him.

00:19:14.000 Don Lemon, who can always be counted on to defend the worst members of the Democratic administration, he said, you know, Biden's getting beat up too much on Afghanistan.

00:19:21.000 Man, it's not that big a deal.

00:19:22.000 I mean, it's not like he's unvaccinated or something.

00:19:25.000 You know, I think people should stop beating up on the administration so much because no matter how it ended, everyone wasn't going to be happy with the way it ended.

00:19:34.000 So...

00:19:37.000 If there's any silver lining in this, it's going to be what happens going forward.

00:19:42.000 You can't change the past.

00:19:44.000 You can't bring those lives back, as awful as that is.

00:19:47.000 And so, you know, I just think that sometimes, I think the administration is getting beaten up on this a little bit too much because there's a lot of blame to go around from four different presidents and who actually didn't have the guts to get us out of Afghanistan because they were afraid of this moment and what an exit might look like.

00:20:05.000 Man, that guy is just journalism-ing everywhere, all over the Biden administration, all over their head.

00:20:09.000 I mean, it's just wild, the levels of journalism that are going on right now there from Don Lemon.

00:20:13.000 It's really, really well done.

00:20:15.000 AOC, by the way, also defending the administration.

00:20:17.000 So when AOC is defending Biden, you know things have gone wildly wrong for the administration.

00:20:22.000 I don't know what the measure or expectation is of what a quote unquote successful withdrawal is.

00:20:33.000 But I hope people understand that this is what war looks like.

00:20:42.000 It is not neat and it is not pretty.

00:20:47.000 It is violent.

00:20:50.000 It is brutal.

00:20:54.000 And we're out here And we're out here expecting like this is supposed to be a cakewalk.

00:21:02.000 I mean, this this is war.

00:21:05.000 OK, this is the same person who will condemn the Israeli government every time a civilian is killed when you have terrorists hiding behind civilians.

00:21:14.000 This is the same person who will make light of riots in American cities.

00:21:17.000 But, you know, war is war, man.

00:21:19.000 If we got to leave a bunch of Americans behind in Afghanistan, that's what we'll do. 1.00

00:21:21.000 This is famed women's rights advocate AOC, who basically is just Okay, so we pulled out and there are 19 million women, most of whom are under the age of 25, living in Afghanistan.

00:21:32.000 They're just going to be subjected to vicious rape repeatedly. 0.96

00:21:35.000 But you know, it was rough. 0.99

00:21:36.000 It was rough.

00:21:37.000 So the defenses are not working.

00:21:38.000 And herein lies the problem for Joe Biden.

00:21:40.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:22:54.000 So all of this is having a pretty dire effect on Joe Biden's approval rating.

00:22:58.000 Because again, easy to be a houseplant when you're not doing anything.

00:23:01.000 When you're, as I mentioned, the elderly gentleman who should have had his license revoked 10 years ago driving a car directly into a crowd, this is a lot less charming.

00:23:10.000 And you can see it reflected in the approval ratings.

00:23:13.000 So according to a new NPR poll, Joe Biden's net approval rating is down 13%.

00:23:19.000 There is a new poll from NPR, PBS NewsHour, and Marist.

00:23:22.000 It shows that his approval rating is all the way down to 43.

00:23:24.000 So remember, Donald Trump was widely considered one of the most unpopular presidents while he was president in American history.

00:23:31.000 Joe Biden is now at those levels.

00:23:32.000 Joe Biden is down in the low 40s.

00:23:33.000 The problem is, Joe Biden ain't got a basement.

00:23:36.000 Okay, so Donald Trump had a floor.

00:23:39.000 His floor was a solid 40%.

00:23:40.000 No matter what he did, he was never going below 40%.

00:23:43.000 And probably no matter what he did, he was never going above about 48%.

00:23:45.000 Joe Biden has no ceiling, and he has no floor.

00:23:50.000 Right, so Joe Biden could be 60% approval, 70% approval.

00:23:54.000 Because there are times when he has been.

00:23:56.000 Or he could be 25% approval.

00:23:58.000 Because no one loves Joe Biden.

00:24:01.000 People merely tolerate the existence of Joe Biden.

00:24:04.000 He is a stand-in.

00:24:05.000 He was only voted for because he was running against Donald Trump.

00:24:08.000 The only person that Joe Biden could probably beat was Donald Trump.

00:24:11.000 Because he has never run a successful campaign for anything other than senator of a very small state.

00:24:15.000 He has run for president 83 times.

00:24:17.000 He lost all 83 times.

00:24:18.000 The only reason he is a famous person is because he was plucked from relative obscurity by young Barack Obama, who needed an elderly white man to accompany him on the ticket.

00:24:27.000 So now Joe Biden is president of the United States and nobody is a Joe Biden fan.

00:24:32.000 No one is out there being like, this guy is a great thinker.

00:24:34.000 He's a great speaker.

00:24:36.000 He has great ideas.

00:24:38.000 Everybody's just kind of watching him toddle over to the to the lunch counter at Denny's.

00:24:45.000 And they're like, that guy?

00:24:46.000 All right.

00:24:48.000 Let's see what he does.

00:24:49.000 Well, when he does bad stuff, that means that his approval rating is going to continue to crater.

00:24:52.000 And chances are that if things continue to go poorly for Biden, it'll get worse.

00:24:58.000 So he could now be in a cycle, right?

00:25:00.000 He could now be taking a nosedive because on the domestic front, his basic idea was, OK, well, we'll bring all the troops home.

00:25:06.000 I'll get a big boost from that.

00:25:07.000 And then because I get a big boost from ending the Afghan war, which was a big issue.

00:25:11.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:25:12.000 He misread the room.

00:25:12.000 It was not a big issue for anybody in America.

00:25:14.000 Democrats think that because in their cocktail parties, they themselves spend a lot of time talking about how the Afghan war is America's endless war.

00:25:22.000 Americans may agree that we should get out of Afghanistan, but that is not a top 175 priority for Americans.

00:25:28.000 Americans generally only care about foreign policy when there are serious losses attached.

00:25:33.000 If you ask Americans right now, what are your opinions on troop levels in South Korea?

00:25:37.000 Americans may have an opinion on that.

00:25:39.000 Maybe, in fact, they want some of the troops removed from South Korea.

00:25:42.000 Is that anything that has crossed their mind in the last 25 years?

00:25:44.000 Probably not.

00:25:46.000 The same thing was true about Afghanistan.

00:25:48.000 It had become another one of just America's protracted conflicts where we had troops on the ground and where we weren't suffering serious casualties and serious losses.

00:25:57.000 Joe Biden made it a top priority and he misinterpreted because he thought that by doing this he would be garnering some sort of public support and earning political capital he could then expend at home.

00:26:06.000 The problem is he actually lost political capital and now he's running a political capital deficit and he has no place to borrow from.

00:26:12.000 The bank is closed.

00:26:15.000 According to that poll, 71% of U.S.

00:26:17.000 citizens deem the U.S. 0.80

00:26:18.000 role in Afghanistan a failure.

00:26:20.000 61% disapprove of the president's handling of the withdrawal.

00:26:24.000 56% disapprove of his foreign policy as a whole.

00:26:27.000 Those are brutal ratings.

00:26:28.000 The president's approval rating dropped by six percentage points from Marist's August poll, in which Biden earned a rating of 49%.

00:26:34.000 His support from Democrats has dropped by five points by 10 among independents.

00:26:38.000 His approval rating has also dropped since July's approval rating of 50%.

00:26:42.000 His net approval rating was plus five in August, plus seven in July.

00:26:45.000 He is now at minus eight.

00:26:48.000 Since the U.S.

00:26:49.000 withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden has lost the support of the majority of independents, a key voting group Biden won in 2020.

00:26:57.000 So that is a disaster area for Joe Biden.

00:27:01.000 Meanwhile, in polls that are even worse for him, there's a poll out from ABC News, and it shows that a huge percentage of Americans now believe we are less safe.

00:27:12.000 So Americans believe many things simultaneously, some of which conflict with each other.

00:27:16.000 So, for example, a majority of Americans believe it is good to get out of Afghanistan, but then a huge majority of Americans also believe that we are now less safe because we got out of Afghanistan.

00:27:24.000 Now, maybe that's a risk they're willing to take.

00:27:26.000 I highly doubt it.

00:27:27.000 I think that Americans only respond to the question that is put in front of them.

00:27:30.000 This is one of the problems with polling.

00:27:32.000 It is also true that when people answer polls, It's true in every social science study.

00:27:37.000 Social science studies demonstrate that the worst kind of social science study is when people do a self-assessment.

00:27:43.000 This is why, for example, there was polling recently on how many people had taken the vaccine, and it went racial group by racial group, and it said in the poll that a huge number of black Americans had taken the vaccine.

00:27:54.000 Well, the CDC has actually measured who has taken the vaccine by race, and it turns out that black Americans are far less likely to have taken the vaccine.

00:28:00.000 Very often people self-assess in self-flattering ways.

00:28:03.000 This also happens with regard to foreign policy.

00:28:05.000 So if you ask people, Do you think that we are less safe now that we're out of Afghanistan?

00:28:09.000 People will say yes.

00:28:10.000 And if you ask them also, should we have gotten out of Afghanistan?

00:28:13.000 They might also say yes.

00:28:15.000 There's no obligation for them to be ideologically consistent.

00:28:18.000 Consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds.

00:28:22.000 Only 36% of Americans say the war was worth fighting.

00:28:24.000 There were 77% who support America withdrawing, but 60% of Americans disapprove of the way that Joe Biden actually handled this thing.

00:28:34.000 Now, the most I think important thing here is that when asked exactly whether they feel safer because of Joe Biden, which is the question for presidents, right?

00:28:45.000 It is not whether they think that what he did is quote unquote right or wrong.

00:28:49.000 44% of Americans think the withdrawal left the United States less safe from terrorism.

00:28:54.000 8% think the country is safer as a result.

00:28:58.000 I mean, that's pretty shocking, right?

00:29:01.000 44 to 8.

00:29:03.000 44% of Americans think that us withdrawing means that we are now less safe.

00:29:10.000 8% think we are safer.

00:29:11.000 All of those are immediate members of Joe Biden's family and Tony Blinken's family.

00:29:15.000 The rest see no difference, which means they don't care about the issue.

00:29:17.000 Because if you care about the issue, it's pretty obvious we're not as safe as we were when we had those troops on the ground and the Taliban hadn't just provided a new terrorist safe haven.

00:29:23.000 Okay, so what does this mean?

00:29:24.000 It means, again, Joe Biden has no leverage over his own membership.

00:29:28.000 None.

00:29:29.000 Which means that Joe Biden could be in some serious trouble here, which is why yesterday Jonathan Chait was writing angrily.

00:29:36.000 about how Joe Biden's presidency might be ended by Joe Manchin.

00:29:40.000 Why?

00:29:40.000 Well, Joe Manchin put out an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled, Why I Won't Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion.

00:29:47.000 He says, the nation faces an unprecedented array of challenges and will inevitably encounter additional crises in the future.

00:29:53.000 Yet some in Congress have a strange belief there's an infinite supply of money to deal with any current or future crisis and that spending trillions upon trillions will have no negative consequence for the future.

00:30:02.000 I disagree.

00:30:03.000 An overheating economy has imposed a costly quote-unquote inflation tax on every middle and working class American.

00:30:09.000 At $28.7 trillion and growing, the nation's debt has reached record levels.

00:30:14.000 And by the way, it is amazing what the levels of national debt were going back historically.

00:30:19.000 I mean, I remember when George W. Bush was blowing out the national debt and everybody was freaking out about it.

00:30:26.000 And this is back in You know, 2000, 2003, we were spending tons and tons of money.

00:30:33.000 The federal debt held by the public as a percentage of GDP in like 2003, 2004 was about 30%, 35%.

00:30:38.000 Today, the U.S.

00:30:38.000 2004 was about 30%, 35%. Today, the US national debt as a percentage of the federal GDP is approaching it's well over 80% now it's approaching 90 or 100%. It's a these are shocking statistics, And if you look at kind of the 150-year view of the U.S.

00:30:58.000 national debt, you can see that we are now up to actually 98.2% of GDP.

00:31:06.000 Right, which is pretty unbelievable because of the amount of massive spending that we did last year and that we are about to do now.

00:31:12.000 So we are entering really dangerous territory in terms of the national debt.

00:31:16.000 Now, people on the left don't care because they think we can just print money forever.

00:31:19.000 Here's the reality about what you are doing when you continue to sell debt, which is basically what you have to do and inflate the currency in the process.

00:31:27.000 There's only a few ways out of this.

00:31:28.000 One is you pay people back with inflated currency.

00:31:30.000 You actually start digitally generating dollars and then handing those dollars to bondholders.

00:31:35.000 The second is that you just radically raise taxes on people, including middle class people.

00:31:39.000 There just are not enough tax dollars at the top of the income spectrum.

00:31:42.000 The United States has one of the most progressive tax systems on planet Earth.

00:31:45.000 People in the top 1% are paying a huge percentage of the taxes.

00:31:49.000 People in the top half are paying all of the taxes.

00:31:52.000 People in the top 10% of income earners in the United States are paying all net taxes, meaning they get no government benefits and they're paying all the taxes.

00:31:58.000 So you can't tax those people much more.

00:32:00.000 So if you really want to spend the money that we're spending right now, you really have to broaden the tax base, which of course is going to hamper economic growth.

00:32:08.000 So you can theoretically inflate the currency, you can theoretically raise your taxes, or you can get into a situation where you are defaulting.

00:32:16.000 Now the United States is basically hoping that we're still the best relative bet compared to the rest of the market, but this is also why the United States is not going to be in the future in favor of a lot of economic innovation, like Bitcoin being used as an alternative currency, because it debases the United States currency and makes it less likely that Americans are going to invest their money in things like bonds.

00:32:34.000 They're afraid that they're going to be paid back with inflated dollars.

00:32:36.000 So why would I want to be paid back in inflated dollars?

00:32:39.000 Why would that be something worthwhile?

00:32:42.000 All of this is... We are cruising for a financial bruising, I guess is the story here.

00:32:45.000 And Joe Manchin is correct about this.

00:32:48.000 He says...

00:32:49.000 Over the past 18 months, we've spent more than $5 trillion responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

00:32:53.000 Now, Democratic congressional leaders propose to pass the largest single spending bill in history with no regard to rising inflation, crippling debt, or the inevitability of future crises.

00:33:02.000 Ignoring the fiscal consequences of our policy choices will create a disastrous future for the next generation of Americans.

00:33:08.000 Those who believe such concerns are overstated should ask themselves, what do we do if the pandemic gets worse under the next viral mutation?

00:33:14.000 What do we do if there's a financial crisis like the one that led to the Great Recession?

00:33:17.000 What if we face a terrorist attack or major international conflict?

00:33:20.000 How will America respond to such crises if we needlessly spend trillions of dollars today?

00:33:23.000 This is right.

00:33:24.000 I mean, obviously, if you're going to fire financial bullets at crises, you should wait for an actual crisis.

00:33:30.000 We are now at the tail end of the pandemic.

00:33:32.000 There was a study came out today, it says probably upwards of 80% of Americans have some form of immunity to COVID, whether it's natural immunity or vaccine immunity.

00:33:40.000 So what exactly are we talking about spending $5 trillion for right now?

00:33:45.000 Says Joe Manchin, again, because he is a Senator from West Virginia and not a Senator from New York, instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget reconciliation legislation.

00:33:58.000 A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic.

00:34:02.000 It will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not.

00:34:05.000 While some of us have suggested this reconciliation legislation must be passed now, I believe making budgetary decisions under artificial political deadlines doesn't lead to good policy or sound decisions.

00:34:14.000 I've always said, if I can't explain it, I can't vote for it.

00:34:16.000 I cannot explain why my Democratic colleagues are rushing to spend $3.5 trillion.

00:34:22.000 Also, we must allow for complete reporting and analysis of the implications a multi-trillion dollar bill will have for this generation and the next.

00:34:28.000 Such a strategic pause, says Joe Manchin, will allow every member of Congress to use the transparent committee process to debate.

00:34:33.000 What should be fun?

00:34:34.000 What can we simply not afford?

00:34:36.000 He says, I, for one, won't support a $3.5 trillion bill or anywhere near that level of additional spending without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs.

00:34:47.000 This is even more important now as Social Security and Medicare trustees Have sounded the alarm that these life-saving programs will be insolvent and benefits could be reduced as soon as 2026 for Medicare and 2033, a year earlier than previously projected for Social Security.

00:35:02.000 Establishing an artificial $3.5 trillion spending number and reverse engineering the partisan social priorities that should be funded isn't how you make good policy.

00:35:11.000 Undoubtedly, some will argue bold social policy action should be taken now, says Manchin.

00:35:14.000 While I share the belief we should help those who need it most, we must also be honest about the present economic reality.

00:35:20.000 Inflation is rising.

00:35:21.000 It is bleeding the value of Americans' wages and income.

00:35:23.000 More than 10 million jobs remain open.

00:35:25.000 Our economy has reached record levels of quarterly growth.

00:35:27.000 This positive economic reality makes clear the purpose of the $3.5 trillion in new spending is not to solve urgent problems, but to re-envision America's social policies.

00:35:36.000 While my fellow Democrats will disagree, I believe spending trillions more dollars not only ignores present economic reality, but makes it certain America will be fiscally weakened when it faces a future recession or national emergency.

00:35:48.000 As many in Washington have convinced themselves we can add trillions of dollars more to our nearly $29 trillion national debt with no repercussions, regardless of political party, elected leaders are sent to Washington to make tough decisions and not simply go along to get along.

00:36:02.000 For those who dismiss my unwillingness to support a $3.5 trillion bill as political posturing, I hope they heed the powerful words of Admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who calls debt the biggest threat to national security.

00:36:13.000 So, Manchin is basically saying that Joe Biden needs to wait.

00:36:17.000 Well, if this thing waits, Do you think the conditions are going to get riper for people to vote for a $3.5 trillion bill?

00:36:23.000 This thing needs to happen now.

00:36:25.000 Everybody knows that it needs to happen now.

00:36:27.000 This is why Democrats are freaking out.

00:36:28.000 This is why Jonathan Chait has a piece titled, Joe Manchin has put Biden's presidency in mortal danger.

00:36:34.000 He says the mercurial senator calls for a pause when Democrats desperately need to move fast.

00:36:41.000 He says this is the most bearish indicator for Biden.

00:36:44.000 He says Manchin's rationale for demanding a pause is farcical, etc, etc, etc.

00:36:49.000 And it's really bad and it's super terrible.

00:36:52.000 But, he says, the compromise negotiated in the House requires an expedited schedule with an infrastructure vote by the end of the month.

00:36:57.000 The sequence is still workable because all of the factions have an understanding of what they'll include in the social spending bill.

00:37:02.000 Without that understanding in place, progressives have every incentive to vote down the infrastructure bill, which will in turn contribute to the impression of dysfunction and chaos.

00:37:08.000 So, in other words, There's a deal in place.

00:37:11.000 The deal basically was that Joe Manchin and Sinema would vote for the infrastructure bill and then Nancy Pelosi would immediately ram through a reconciliation bill.

00:37:19.000 Manchin is now saying hit pause.

00:37:21.000 So that means the timeline just got blown up.

00:37:23.000 This is what Jonathan Shade is pointing out.

00:37:25.000 He says, He helped create a demand for a fast infrastructure vote, which necessitates the scramble to speed up the second bill.

00:37:35.000 Indeed, the most reasonable demand House Moderates have is to not be forced to vote for a larger bill than Manchin ultimately agreed to.

00:37:41.000 His insistence on waiting freezes everything in place.

00:37:44.000 The danger is this pause sets off a cycle of failure.

00:37:47.000 Wealthy interests are belatedly mobilizing against the bill now.

00:37:50.000 The Democrats' best chance is to move as fast as possible.

00:37:53.000 Delay creates the impression of dysfunction, making Biden and Congress less popular, in turn reducing the popularity of any bill they pass, in turn making Congress more reluctant to support it.

00:38:01.000 Joe Biden has no coattails.

00:38:02.000 He can't force this thing through.

00:38:03.000 This is a serious problem for the Democratic Party.

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00:41:42.000 Alrighty, so in breaking news, by the way, the August jobs report is out.

00:41:51.000 Complete fail.

00:41:52.000 Complete, absolute, utter failure.

00:41:54.000 Which, of course, is not surprising because we are paying people to stay home.

00:41:57.000 And then we're talking about inflating more.

00:41:59.000 We're talking about more stimulus.

00:42:00.000 We're talking about, by the way, telling people that they must stay home because of the pandemic, when that is obviously not true.

00:42:05.000 If you're vaccinated, you should not be afraid of other people who are unvaccinated because you're vaccinated. 0.77

00:42:10.000 It's the whole damned point of getting vaccinated in the first place.

00:42:13.000 So, the reality, there's a reason why the states that are doing best in terms of the unemployment rate are all red states, and the states that are all doing the worst are the blue states. 0.95

00:42:23.000 There's a reason for that.

00:42:24.000 The August jobs report, how bad was it?

00:42:26.000 Economists had forecast 725,000 jobs being created.

00:42:29.000 Remember, there are 10 million open jobs in the United States right now.

00:42:34.000 725,000 jobs is what the economists had been forecasting.

00:42:36.000 The actual number of jobs created was 235,000 jobs.

00:42:39.000 They were off by a factor of three.

00:42:44.000 They're off by a factor of three.

00:42:46.000 That is a disaster area for the Biden administration.

00:42:49.000 And again, they keep missing the mark.

00:42:50.000 They keep missing it over and over.

00:42:51.000 They'll have like one good month, and then they'll have three terrible months.

00:42:55.000 That is because you have completely destroyed all of the incentive structures causing people to go back to work.

00:43:01.000 You've destroyed supply lines.

00:43:03.000 You're artificially boosting demand by pouring money into people's pockets.

00:43:07.000 But you can tell, by the way, that that sort of inflation is not actual price inflation.

00:43:12.000 It's not economic heating.

00:43:14.000 You know how you know?

00:43:15.000 Because if you look at the loan numbers, like whether people are actually taking out loans, the answer is no.

00:43:19.000 People are not taking out loans under these circumstances because they're afraid they're not going to be able to pay them back.

00:43:24.000 And that is because the underlying fundamentals that are being created by the regulate and spend and tax Biden economy are a lot weaker than the fundamentals of an economy that was much more laissez-faire under Donald Trump.

00:43:38.000 This is wild.

00:43:41.000 The Fed is now saying that the August jobs report was a failure, but because of that, they're going to keep buying assets.

00:43:48.000 Did it ever occur to them that the reason the jobs report is a failure is because you keep inflating the currency?

00:43:51.000 Is it because you keep paying people to stay home?

00:43:54.000 Is it because of unemployment benefits?

00:43:55.000 Is it because you're creating enormous pressure for businesses to spend more money than they are actually taking in on employees?

00:44:04.000 Like, this is all causing inflation, of course, but they're saying it's transitory, which is fine.

00:44:09.000 Terrible news for the economy.

00:44:11.000 Not a shock.

00:44:11.000 The unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in August from 5.4% before, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:44:18.000 There's a reason why Bitcoin, by the way, just rose past $50,000 per Bitcoin.

00:44:23.000 The reason for that is because people are now investing in some form of more solid asset than the United States dollar, given what the federal government is doing right now.

00:44:32.000 By the way, according to the Economic Report, there were job losses in certain sectors.

00:44:39.000 In the retail sector, almost 30,000 jobs lost.

00:44:42.000 In the restaurant sector, 42,000 jobs lost.

00:44:47.000 There were 36,000 jobs picked up in the entertainment sector.

00:44:49.000 That's probably going to take a nosedive considering that Joe Biden continues to shut down the economy.

00:44:53.000 That's amazing.

00:44:54.000 People in the media, they're going to attribute this to the Delta spike.

00:44:59.000 The reality is that the only reason that you are seeing shutdowns right now and tremendous fear right now is because the media have made it seem as though even if you are vaccinated, you should be afraid.

00:45:09.000 This goes back to a point I was making yesterday about COVID, which really is the salient point.

00:45:13.000 If you had to draw a chart of the worried and the unworried when it comes to COVID, I'm actually going to do it for you right now, okay?

00:45:22.000 Here we have a circle.

00:45:23.000 It's the worried.

00:45:23.000 Here we have a circle.

00:45:24.000 It is the unworried, okay?

00:45:28.000 These are the two circles of the American population.

00:45:31.000 Hey, the unworried contain some people who are vaccinated, right?

00:45:37.000 I'm unworried and I'm vaccinated.

00:45:38.000 So, some part of this circle Are the vaccinated, okay?

00:45:43.000 But the rest of the circle are the un-vaxxed.

00:45:46.000 The entirety of the people who are un-vaxxed are un-worried.

00:45:49.000 I say that because if they were worried, they would go get vaxxed.

00:45:52.000 It is the best solution to your worry is to get vaxxed.

00:45:56.000 Okay, but then if you look at the circle of the worried, the entire circle, the entire circle is vaccinated of the worried.

00:46:04.000 Okay, the entirety of the circle is vaccinated.

00:46:08.000 So right now, you have the Biden administration basically telling the vaccinated to shut down the economy, worry about the vaccinated, worry, worry, worry, worry.

00:46:17.000 Okay, but those are the people who shouldn't be worried.

00:46:20.000 We're now at the point where if you are a sentient adult in the United States and you don't have some unbelievably severe pre-existing condition in which your doctor says you shouldn't get a vaccine, you now have the option to do whatever the hell you want.

00:46:33.000 If the economy is shutting down, it's because of Joe Biden.

00:46:35.000 Joe Biden's credibility is shredded.

00:46:36.000 He said he was going to stop the virus.

00:46:38.000 He has not.

00:46:38.000 He said that he wasn't going to kill the economy.

00:46:40.000 He has.

00:46:41.000 He said that he was going to shore up our credibility on the international stage.

00:46:44.000 Not only has he not done that, he's destroyed our credibility on the international stage.

00:46:49.000 And now all the big hopes that he had for restructuring the nature of American government, they ride on Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

00:46:57.000 This is an unsuccessful failed presidency, and we are not even a year in.

00:47:01.000 That house plant is beginning to wilt in serious fashion.

00:47:04.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 03, 2021

Joe Biden’s Presidency is Collapsing | Ep. 1333

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