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00:01:29.000Alrighty, well, we are very early on in the Joe Biden presidency, and it seems like this thing could be theoretically kind of over already.
00:01:36.000It is pretty obvious that next year, Republicans have a solid leg up when it comes to the possibility of taking the House.
00:01:42.000It 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.
00:01:52.000If 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.
00:02:01.000In 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.
00:02:10.000Again, 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.
00:02:18.000Put that, be that as it may, put that aside.
00:02:22.000The 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.
00:02:31.000In order to cudgel people like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin into doing what Joe Biden wants, He really needs to have some coattails.
00:02:39.000Joe Biden himself needs to have coattails.
00:02:43.000When it comes to things like budget reconciliation, you can do this thing with 50 votes.
00:02:46.000Pretty much everything else, you require 60.
00:02:47.000Mansion and cinema, who are both from red states.
00:02:50.000Cinema you might say is from a purple state, but one of the reddest states in the country is West Virginia.
00:02:55.000Neither of them are going to break the filibuster.
00:02:57.000They've made this very clear over and over and over, no matter how many times the activist media asks them about it.
00:03:01.000So that means that basically everything has to get done through budget reconciliation.
00:03:06.000Well, 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.
00:03:18.000And remember, senators are not answerable to the quote-unquote national polling.
00:03:22.000They are answerable specifically to the people who are in their own states.
00:03:25.000So 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.
00:03:50.000If Joe Biden's popularity craters, therefore, His chances of being able to ram through his agenda completely fall apart.
00:03:57.000If he had a broader majority, maybe his approval ratings wouldn't matter so much.
00:04:00.000But 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.
00:04:07.000So if you're Joe Manchin, charting your political future, and thinking to yourself, am I still here in four or five years?
00:04:21.000The reason she has pretty good approval ratings is because she's seen as a sort of democratic version of John McCain.
00:04:25.000She'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.
00:04:34.000So 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.
00:04:42.000So that means it matters an awful lot whether Joe Biden is liked or whether he is disliked on the national stage.
00:04:47.000And that's why it matters that his poll numbers have been absolutely cratering.
00:04:51.000Now, they're cratering for basically one specific reason and then one general reason.
00:04:56.000So the specific reason is because of Afghanistan.
00:04:58.000The general reason is because Joe Biden is a houseplant.
00:05:01.000So he was elected because he was a houseplant, right?
00:05:03.000But he was a houseplant who's supposed to provide stability.
00:05:06.000The thing about houseplants is that they are barely alive, they cover the water stain, and they don't move around a lot.
00:05:09.000You don't have to worry about the houseplant.
00:05:11.000You leave the house for work in the morning, you come back, the houseplant's in exactly the same place.
00:05:26.000In terms of policy, he's very much alive, even though in terms of sentience, he is not.
00:05:30.000And 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.
00:05:36.000You're getting the non-sentience, non-charismatic president.
00:05:39.000He's not like Obama in any of the Areas of charisma or magnetism or personal draw.
00:05:44.000And 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.
00:05:53.000And Obama was really radical on policy this early on in his presidency.
00:05:57.000And 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.
00:06:03.000If 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.
00:06:08.000All right, he's doddering, but the reason he's doddering is because we elected somebody to dodder.
00:06:12.000The whole point is we wanted somebody who moved slowly, incrementally, somebody who is not going to be threatening.
00:06:17.000But if he's threatening and also doddering, now it just seems like things are spinning out of control.
00:06:21.000And so every press conference that he has where he seems incapable of holding it together is a serious problem for him.
00:06:26.000That's why the Afghanistan debacle made so clear that he is just not in control, right?
00:06:32.000Even 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.
00:06:47.000And everybody's kind of freaking out about that.
00:06:49.000Which 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.
00:07:09.000The 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.
00:07:18.000Joe Biden every day is reinforcing the fact that he is not with us.
00:07:24.000That his policies are radical and he's not in control.
00:07:25.000That 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.
00:07:33.000He was doing a kind of meet and greet.
00:07:37.000with a bunch of so-called Jewish leaders.
00:07:41.000I 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.
00:07:49.000And 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.
00:07:58.000Joe Biden is speaking to them, and he starts just telling lies about visiting the Tree of Life Synagogue.
00:08:36.000I mean, your grandpa is wandering off script.
00:08:40.000It'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.
00:08:52.000That's the Democratic Party at this point, right?
00:08:55.000Here's Joe Biden, again, kind of wandering off script into the cornfield.
00:08:59.000My daughter married a Jewish young man.
00:09:03.000And I, you know, dream of every Catholic father that she marry a Jewish doctor.
00:09:10.000But all kidding aside, he did, he's a great surgeon.
00:09:14.000And 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.
00:09:37.000And then he added on top of this, he says, you know, he starts talking about never again.
00:09:42.000Now, this is where you move from the senile to the rather unforgivable.
00:09:47.000Here'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.
00:09:54.000I have some questions for Joe Biden about this particular perspective coming out of his face, his doddering old collapsing face.
00:10:01.000Here's the president of the United States.
00:10:04.000I 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.
00:10:18.000And 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.
00:10:29.000They're a strike against the soul of our nation.
00:10:33.000Okay, 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.
00:10:44.000Hey, 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.
00:10:58.000This 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.
00:11:08.000This is already happening in Afghanistan right now.
00:11:10.000This is the same president who's been making kind overtures to China, which has become increasingly aggressive.
00:11:16.000Meanwhile, holding in Shenzhen 1 million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps.
00:11:21.000So when this guy says, I'm anti, you know, never again means something to me, no, it doesn't.
00:11:34.000His own administration has completely... Afghanistan is a perfect case in point.
00:11:37.000He 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?
00:11:50.000He's so unwilling to stand up for human rights.
00:11:52.000I 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.
00:12:01.000Not just human rights, by the way, American interests in Afghanistan, but as long as he's going to be saying never again.
00:12:07.000In 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.
00:12:15.000Why didn't the Allies send a few planes and just bomb the rail lines that were connecting various cities to the concentration camps?
00:12:22.000And 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.
00:12:30.000That's an open argument, historically speaking.
00:12:32.000Hey, but here we are not even talking about even that kind of sacrifice.
00:12:36.000We 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.
00:12:47.000And Joe Biden wasn't even willing to do that.
00:12:49.000So no, I'm not particularly interested in hearing about never again from this doofus.
00:12:58.000Speaking of Afghanistan, The administration just has no defense for itself at this point.
00:13:05.000Ned 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.
00:13:13.000How many of those USAGM employees were there, or contractors rather, and how many family members are there?
00:13:20.000So I don't have a firm figure with me.
00:13:24.000It has been reported publicly that there are several hundred involved in that group.
00:13:31.000You must have some estimate of LPRs who are still there, who want to get out.
00:13:35.000I'm just asking about green card holders.
00:13:37.000are stuck over there. You just don't care about those people anymore, apparently.
00:13:39.000You must have some estimate of LPRs who are still there, who want to get out. And if you don't, why not?
00:13:48.000Well, Matt, let me first start with this issue of the 100 to 200.
00:13:54.000I'm just asking about green card holders. Was there a decision made at some point?
00:14:01.000To forget about those people and only allow U.S.
00:14:05.000passport holders into the airport through your checkpoints and onto planes.
00:14:11.000they'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.
00:14:22.000And of course they were screwed and they There are parades, by the way, of Taliban fighters who are walking around in suicide vests.
00:14:31.000So these are our new allies over in the Middle East.
00:14:34.000One 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.
00:14:44.000How 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?
00:14:55.000I think, Therese, that we've been very clear that we don't believe the effort has concluded.
00:15:02.000The military mission of evacuation is over.
00:15:05.000We know there are people that didn't make it out.
00:15:08.000American citizens as well as special immigrant visa applicants.
00:15:30.000According 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.
00:15:39.000That 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.
00:15:53.000They're going to do exactly what they want to do.
00:15:55.000By the way, Beijing has already said they're going to recognize the Taliban regime.
00:15:59.000But, 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.
00:16:07.000While no two are exactly alike, certain patterns have emerged in how rebels rule.
00:16:11.000Some learn to govern effectively, even to modernize.
00:16:13.000Others collapse in chaos or renewed war.
00:16:15.000Some grow crueler in power, lashing out at their subjects in fear and insecurity.
00:16:18.000Others moderate, though mostly in search of legitimacy and foreign aid.
00:16:23.000A tightly bureaucratic authoritarianism, albeit sometimes allowing a degree of political opening.
00:16:28.000A 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.
00:16:40.000So 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.
00:17:02.000But, gotta swing that support back behind Biden.
00:17:05.000By the way, the fact-checkers are doing yeoman's work on this.
00:17:08.000Like, 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.
00:17:16.000The 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.
00:17:25.000So 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.
00:17:35.000Of course, the idea there is this is a very important fact check, super important.
00:17:38.000We're not going to fact check the president of the United States saying he always had a plan for this.
00:17:42.000We'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.
00:17:47.000You're not going to fact check the president of the United States when he says this is historic success.
00:17:50.000Like none of those things are worthy of a fact check, but it is worth a fact check.
00:17:54.000That the person hanging from underneath the helicopter this time was not the body of an enemy, it was just a Taliban fighter.
00:17:59.000Which means now it's good that they have our Blackhawk helicopters, obviously.
00:18:02.000The 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.
00:18:14.000The USA Today actually had to change its own claim.
00:18:16.000They actually claimed it was outright false that Joe Biden checked his watch during the ceremony.
00:18:21.000Originally, they claimed it was outright false.
00:18:22.000Then it turns out there were multiple Gold Star family members who said, no, Joe Biden kept checking his watch over and over and over.
00:18:28.000I checked it 5, 10, 13 times during the actual ceremony honoring the fallen.
00:18:48.000This story was updated September 2nd to note that Biden checked his watch multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself.
00:18:56.000The rating on this claim has been changed from partly false to missing context.
00:19:10.000But the media are in full spin mode for Biden because this has been very, very damaging for him.
00:19:14.000Don 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.
00:19:22.000I mean, it's not like he's unvaccinated or something.
00:19:25.000You 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.
00:19:44.000You can't bring those lives back, as awful as that is.
00:19:47.000And 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.
00:20:05.000Man, that guy is just journalism-ing everywhere, all over the Biden administration, all over their head.
00:20:09.000I mean, it's just wild, the levels of journalism that are going on right now there from Don Lemon.
00:21:05.000OK, this is the same person who will condemn the Israeli government every time a civilian is killed when you have terrorists hiding behind civilians.
00:21:14.000This is the same person who will make light of riots in American cities.
00:21:19.000If we got to leave a bunch of Americans behind in Afghanistan, that's what we'll do.
00:21:21.000This 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.
00:21:32.000They're just going to be subjected to vicious rape repeatedly.
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00:22:54.000So all of this is having a pretty dire effect on Joe Biden's approval rating.
00:22:58.000Because again, easy to be a houseplant when you're not doing anything.
00:23:01.000When 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.
00:23:10.000And you can see it reflected in the approval ratings.
00:23:13.000So according to a new NPR poll, Joe Biden's net approval rating is down 13%.
00:23:19.000There is a new poll from NPR, PBS NewsHour, and Marist.
00:23:22.000It shows that his approval rating is all the way down to 43.
00:23:24.000So remember, Donald Trump was widely considered one of the most unpopular presidents while he was president in American history.
00:24:18.000The 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.
00:24:27.000So now Joe Biden is president of the United States and nobody is a Joe Biden fan.
00:24:32.000No one is out there being like, this guy is a great thinker.
00:25:12.000It was not a big issue for anybody in America.
00:25:14.000Democrats 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.
00:25:22.000Americans may agree that we should get out of Afghanistan, but that is not a top 175 priority for Americans.
00:25:28.000Americans generally only care about foreign policy when there are serious losses attached.
00:25:33.000If you ask Americans right now, what are your opinions on troop levels in South Korea?
00:25:37.000Americans may have an opinion on that.
00:25:39.000Maybe, in fact, they want some of the troops removed from South Korea.
00:25:42.000Is that anything that has crossed their mind in the last 25 years?
00:25:46.000The same thing was true about Afghanistan.
00:25:48.000It 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.
00:25:57.000Joe 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.
00:26:06.000The problem is he actually lost political capital and now he's running a political capital deficit and he has no place to borrow from.
00:26:49.000withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden has lost the support of the majority of independents, a key voting group Biden won in 2020.
00:26:57.000So that is a disaster area for Joe Biden.
00:27:01.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:27:12.000So Americans believe many things simultaneously, some of which conflict with each other.
00:27:16.000So, 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.
00:27:24.000Now, maybe that's a risk they're willing to take.
00:27:27.000I think that Americans only respond to the question that is put in front of them.
00:27:30.000This is one of the problems with polling.
00:27:32.000It is also true that when people answer polls, It's true in every social science study.
00:27:37.000Social science studies demonstrate that the worst kind of social science study is when people do a self-assessment.
00:27:43.000This 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.
00:27:54.000Well, 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.
00:28:00.000Very often people self-assess in self-flattering ways.
00:28:03.000This also happens with regard to foreign policy.
00:28:05.000So if you ask people, Do you think that we are less safe now that we're out of Afghanistan?
00:28:15.000There's no obligation for them to be ideologically consistent.
00:28:18.000Consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds.
00:28:22.000Only 36% of Americans say the war was worth fighting.
00:28:24.000There were 77% who support America withdrawing, but 60% of Americans disapprove of the way that Joe Biden actually handled this thing.
00:28:34.000Now, 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?
00:28:45.000It is not whether they think that what he did is quote unquote right or wrong.
00:28:49.00044% of Americans think the withdrawal left the United States less safe from terrorism.
00:28:54.0008% think the country is safer as a result.
00:29:11.000All of those are immediate members of Joe Biden's family and Tony Blinken's family.
00:29:15.000The rest see no difference, which means they don't care about the issue.
00:29:17.000Because 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.
00:29:40.000Well, Joe Manchin put out an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled, Why I Won't Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion.
00:29:47.000He says, the nation faces an unprecedented array of challenges and will inevitably encounter additional crises in the future.
00:29:53.000Yet 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.
00:30:38.0002004 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.
00:30:58.000national debt, you can see that we are now up to actually 98.2% of GDP.
00:31:06.000Right, which is pretty unbelievable because of the amount of massive spending that we did last year and that we are about to do now.
00:31:12.000So we are entering really dangerous territory in terms of the national debt.
00:31:16.000Now, people on the left don't care because they think we can just print money forever.
00:31:19.000Here'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.
00:31:28.000One is you pay people back with inflated currency.
00:31:30.000You actually start digitally generating dollars and then handing those dollars to bondholders.
00:31:35.000The second is that you just radically raise taxes on people, including middle class people.
00:31:39.000There just are not enough tax dollars at the top of the income spectrum.
00:31:42.000The United States has one of the most progressive tax systems on planet Earth.
00:31:45.000People in the top 1% are paying a huge percentage of the taxes.
00:31:49.000People in the top half are paying all of the taxes.
00:31:52.000People 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.
00:31:58.000So you can't tax those people much more.
00:32:00.000So 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.
00:32:08.000So you can theoretically inflate the currency, you can theoretically raise your taxes, or you can get into a situation where you are defaulting.
00:32:16.000Now 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.
00:32:34.000They're afraid that they're going to be paid back with inflated dollars.
00:32:36.000So why would I want to be paid back in inflated dollars?
00:32:39.000Why would that be something worthwhile?
00:32:42.000All of this is... We are cruising for a financial bruising, I guess is the story here.
00:32:45.000And Joe Manchin is correct about this.
00:32:49.000Over the past 18 months, we've spent more than $5 trillion responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
00:32:53.000Now, 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.
00:33:02.000Ignoring the fiscal consequences of our policy choices will create a disastrous future for the next generation of Americans.
00:33:08.000Those who believe such concerns are overstated should ask themselves, what do we do if the pandemic gets worse under the next viral mutation?
00:33:14.000What do we do if there's a financial crisis like the one that led to the Great Recession?
00:33:17.000What if we face a terrorist attack or major international conflict?
00:33:20.000How will America respond to such crises if we needlessly spend trillions of dollars today?
00:33:24.000I mean, obviously, if you're going to fire financial bullets at crises, you should wait for an actual crisis.
00:33:30.000We are now at the tail end of the pandemic.
00:33:32.000There 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.
00:33:40.000So what exactly are we talking about spending $5 trillion for right now?
00:33:45.000Says 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.
00:33:58.000A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic.
00:34:02.000It will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not.
00:34:05.000While 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.
00:34:14.000I've always said, if I can't explain it, I can't vote for it.
00:34:16.000I cannot explain why my Democratic colleagues are rushing to spend $3.5 trillion.
00:34:22.000Also, we must allow for complete reporting and analysis of the implications a multi-trillion dollar bill will have for this generation and the next.
00:34:28.000Such a strategic pause, says Joe Manchin, will allow every member of Congress to use the transparent committee process to debate.
00:34:36.000He 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.
00:34:47.000This 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.
00:35:02.000Establishing 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.
00:35:11.000Undoubtedly, some will argue bold social policy action should be taken now, says Manchin.
00:35:14.000While I share the belief we should help those who need it most, we must also be honest about the present economic reality.
00:35:21.000It is bleeding the value of Americans' wages and income.
00:35:23.000More than 10 million jobs remain open.
00:35:25.000Our economy has reached record levels of quarterly growth.
00:35:27.000This 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.
00:35:36.000While 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.
00:35:48.000As 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.
00:36:02.000For 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.
00:36:13.000So, Manchin is basically saying that Joe Biden needs to wait.
00:36:17.000Well, if this thing waits, Do you think the conditions are going to get riper for people to vote for a $3.5 trillion bill?
00:36:25.000Everybody knows that it needs to happen now.
00:36:27.000This is why Democrats are freaking out.
00:36:28.000This is why Jonathan Chait has a piece titled, Joe Manchin has put Biden's presidency in mortal danger.
00:36:34.000He says the mercurial senator calls for a pause when Democrats desperately need to move fast.
00:36:41.000He says this is the most bearish indicator for Biden.
00:36:44.000He says Manchin's rationale for demanding a pause is farcical, etc, etc, etc.
00:36:49.000And it's really bad and it's super terrible.
00:36:52.000But, he says, the compromise negotiated in the House requires an expedited schedule with an infrastructure vote by the end of the month.
00:36:57.000The sequence is still workable because all of the factions have an understanding of what they'll include in the social spending bill.
00:37:02.000Without 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.
00:37:08.000So, in other words, There's a deal in place.
00:37:11.000The 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.
00:37:21.000So that means the timeline just got blown up.
00:37:23.000This is what Jonathan Shade is pointing out.
00:37:25.000He says, He helped create a demand for a fast infrastructure vote, which necessitates the scramble to speed up the second bill.
00:37:35.000Indeed, the most reasonable demand House Moderates have is to not be forced to vote for a larger bill than Manchin ultimately agreed to.
00:37:41.000His insistence on waiting freezes everything in place.
00:37:44.000The danger is this pause sets off a cycle of failure.
00:37:47.000Wealthy interests are belatedly mobilizing against the bill now.
00:37:50.000The Democrats' best chance is to move as fast as possible.
00:37:53.000Delay 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.
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00:41:42.000Alrighty, so in breaking news, by the way, the August jobs report is out.
00:42:00.000We're talking about, by the way, telling people that they must stay home because of the pandemic, when that is obviously not true.
00:42:05.000If you're vaccinated, you should not be afraid of other people who are unvaccinated because you're vaccinated.
00:42:10.000It's the whole damned point of getting vaccinated in the first place.
00:42:13.000So, 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.
00:43:15.000Because if you look at the loan numbers, like whether people are actually taking out loans, the answer is no.
00:43:19.000People are not taking out loans under these circumstances because they're afraid they're not going to be able to pay them back.
00:43:24.000And 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.
00:44:11.000The unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in August from 5.4% before, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:44:18.000There's a reason why Bitcoin, by the way, just rose past $50,000 per Bitcoin.
00:44:23.000The 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.
00:44:32.000By the way, according to the Economic Report, there were job losses in certain sectors.
00:44:39.000In the retail sector, almost 30,000 jobs lost.
00:44:42.000In the restaurant sector, 42,000 jobs lost.
00:44:47.000There were 36,000 jobs picked up in the entertainment sector.
00:44:49.000That's probably going to take a nosedive considering that Joe Biden continues to shut down the economy.
00:44:54.000People in the media, they're going to attribute this to the Delta spike.
00:44:59.000The 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.
00:45:09.000This goes back to a point I was making yesterday about COVID, which really is the salient point.
00:45:13.000If 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?
00:45:38.000So, some part of this circle Are the vaccinated, okay?
00:45:43.000But the rest of the circle are the un-vaxxed.
00:45:46.000The entirety of the people who are un-vaxxed are un-worried.
00:45:49.000I say that because if they were worried, they would go get vaxxed.
00:45:52.000It is the best solution to your worry is to get vaxxed.
00:45:56.000Okay, but then if you look at the circle of the worried, the entire circle, the entire circle is vaccinated of the worried.
00:46:04.000Okay, the entirety of the circle is vaccinated.
00:46:08.000So right now, you have the Biden administration basically telling the vaccinated to shut down the economy, worry about the vaccinated, worry, worry, worry, worry.
00:46:17.000Okay, but those are the people who shouldn't be worried.
00:46:20.000We'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.
00:46:33.000If the economy is shutting down, it's because of Joe Biden.