The Ben Shapiro Show - The Biden Who Stole Christmas | Ep. 1353

00:00:00.000 The White House acknowledges there may be Christmas shortages as the economy stagnates, Nancy Pelosi chides the media for not selling her big spending package, and the Feds go to war with Florida and Texas over vaccine mandates.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:12.000 The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN.

00:00:20.000 You have a right to privacy.

00:00:21.000 Defend your rights at expressvpn.com.

00:00:24.000 Slash Ben.

00:00:24.000 We'll get to all the news in just one moment.

00:00:26.000 First, here is the deal.

00:00:27.000 You think that you need to be with one of the big carriers in order for you to have great cell phone coverage.

00:00:31.000 This is untrue.

00:00:32.000 You could have the same exact cell phone coverage, except without paying the big bucks.

00:00:36.000 You don't have to be with Verizon or AT&T and T-Mobile because they're just spending all of your money on overhead and on those stores you never visit.

00:00:43.000 Instead, why not switch over to Pure Talk USA? 0.97

00:00:45.000 Pure Talk is not going to charge you for any of that garbage.

00:00:47.000 Instead, they give you killer 5G coverage on the same 5G network as one of the big guys for about half the cost.

00:00:53.000 The average family is saving over $800 a year.

00:00:55.000 So what exactly is your excuse?

00:00:57.000 You can too.

00:00:57.000 I made the switch.

00:00:58.000 You can keep your number, keep your phone, or get huge discounts on the latest iPhones and Androids.

00:01:03.000 You can get unlimited talk, text, and 6 gigs of data for just $30 a month.

00:01:06.000 And listen, if you still want unlimited data, you can get it and save a fortune.

00:01:09.000 Go to puretalk.com, shop for the plan that is right for you.

00:01:12.000 They have a 30 day risk-free guarantee, so you literally have nothing to lose.

00:01:16.000 Go to puretalk.com, enter promo code Shapiro.

00:01:18.000 You will save 50% off your very first month of coverage.

00:01:21.000 That's puretalk.com, promo code Shapiro.

00:01:24.000 Pure Talk is simply smarter, wireless.

00:01:26.000 Again, head on over to puretalk.com, enter promo code SHAPIRO and save 50% off your very first month.

00:01:31.000 Okay, so first off, if you didn't come to the Daily Wire backstage last night, live at the Ryman, or if you didn't watch it, you missed out.

00:01:37.000 We made a bunch of big announcements here at Daily Wire.

00:01:39.000 We've got a brand new show that is going to be coming out with Adam Corolla, so we're getting into the comedy.

00:01:43.000 We're getting into the comedy game.

00:01:45.000 We also premiered the trailer for our new movie, Shut In, which will be out early next year.

00:01:50.000 We also gave you an update from Gina Carano's new film that is now filming up in Montana.

00:01:54.000 So lots going on here at The Daily Wire, and we are very excited to bring all of it to you.

00:01:59.000 Alrighty, so here is the latest in the news.

00:02:03.000 The economy is now in a serious state of stagnation.

00:02:07.000 And Joe Biden, apparently this is all according to plan.

00:02:09.000 I mean, they wanted fundamental change in the economy.

00:02:11.000 This is according to the White House.

00:02:12.000 They wanted fundamental change in the economy.

00:02:14.000 They're about to get fundamental change in the economy.

00:02:16.000 Here is Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, saying that Joe Biden's agenda is to make fundamental change in the economy, which is strange because most people just want to go back to work and, you know, have a job and have food on the table and be able to buy things for less than they bought them for yesterday.

00:02:31.000 But apparently not the White House.

00:02:34.000 The president wants to make fundamental change in our economy, and he feels coming out of the pandemic is exactly the time to do that.

00:02:41.000 And if we don't do it now, if we don't address the cost of childcare, to go back to Josh's question earlier, if we don't address the climate crisis, if we don't ensure that universal pre-K is a reality now, we're not going to have the same opportunity to do it for some time.

00:02:59.000 This is insane.

00:03:00.000 This is her saying, no good crisis goes to waste.

00:03:03.000 And this is a crisis entirely of the administration's own making at this point because everybody should be back to work.

00:03:08.000 See, it is very strange how democratic logic goes.

00:03:11.000 When everything is going swimmingly, now is a great time for us to restructure everything because everything is going swimmingly, right?

00:03:16.000 We've got the money to do it.

00:03:17.000 Everything is great.

00:03:18.000 We should be able to do what we've always wanted to do and pursue utopia.

00:03:22.000 And then when things go poorly, they're like, Now is the greatest time ever for us to restructure this economy and things are going so poorly.

00:03:28.000 I mean, when are we ever going to have the opportunity to do this again?

00:03:31.000 I feel like the first part of the sentence has nothing to do with the second part of the sentence.

00:03:34.000 It doesn't matter what the preconditions are.

00:03:36.000 Your solution is always, what if we just restructure the economy in socialistic, redistributionist, big government ways?

00:03:43.000 Because that's kind of what we want to do.

00:03:44.000 And we're going to use whatever is happening right now as the excuse.

00:03:47.000 The thing is, the taste of the American public for completely restructuring the American economy is not there.

00:03:53.000 The American public is not into this stuff.

00:03:55.000 And they shouldn't be into this stuff because the consequences of Joe Biden's policies are already being felt.

00:04:00.000 I'll be the first to admit.

00:04:02.000 I was wrong.

00:04:03.000 I thought that Joe Biden was going to have two years of sailing economic growth because I didn't think that even Joe Biden was capable of screwing things up this bad.

00:04:09.000 Truly, if you go back to his inauguration, I said this guy is the luckiest SOB to take the office of the presidency, maybe ever, because he was taking over in the wake of a pretty unpopular president by the poll numbers.

00:04:20.000 He was taking over, having control of both the Senate and the House.

00:04:23.000 He was taking over with a vaccine already ready to go, already being trenched out at a million vaxes a day.

00:04:29.000 In the middle of a pandemic, expectations were low.

00:04:33.000 There was an artificial economic coma that the entire American economy had been put into.

00:04:38.000 And all he had to do was just step back and let the vaccines roll out, and that's it.

00:04:42.000 That's all he had to do.

00:04:43.000 And he couldn't just do it.

00:04:44.000 Instead, he had to toss money at things.

00:04:46.000 He had to Blow money into the economy, creating inflation.

00:04:49.000 He had to encourage the vaxxed to stay home and the unvaxxed to get fired.

00:04:53.000 He had to tell everybody that they somehow owed it to themselves not to go back to work and we would take care of you if you didn't go back to work and we're going to restructure the economy such that your decision-making process would have no impact on whether you got a payment from the federal government.

00:05:07.000 And in the course of just nine months, Joe Biden has been able to take what was the rosiest, most optimistic vision of what was going to happen to the United States post his inauguration and completely turn it on its head.

00:05:20.000 Right now, the stats are devastating.

00:05:22.000 Okay, here's the inflation rates right now.

00:05:25.000 The inflation rates are out of control right now.

00:05:28.000 According to the Associated Press today, inflation has now risen 5.4% from a year ago.

00:05:33.000 It matches a 13-year high.

00:05:35.000 That's the consumer price index rising 5.4% in September from a year ago, up slightly from August gain of 5.3%, matching the increases in June and July, excluding the food and energy categories.

00:05:45.000 And they do this in order to artificially lower the inflation rate.

00:05:49.000 But food and energy is where people actually spend most of their money.

00:05:51.000 Core inflation, Rose 0.2% in September and 4% compared with a year ago.

00:05:56.000 Core prices hit a three-decade high of 4.5% in June.

00:06:00.000 The unexpected burst of inflation this year reflects sharply higher prices for food and energy, but also new and used cars, hotel rooms, airplane tickets, and furniture, among other goods and services.

00:06:10.000 Now, they're gonna try and blame everybody else.

00:06:12.000 They're gonna try and blame the COVID problem in Asia and factories and all of this.

00:06:17.000 But what we really are seeing, and this is the big thing, is a massive shortage of labor.

00:06:22.000 According to CNBC, and this is the stat that matters, right now, there's over 10 million jobs in the United States that are open.

00:06:28.000 And that means that everybody is clamoring for workers right now.

00:06:32.000 And according to CNBC, people are not only not going back to work, they are dropping out of the workforce.

00:06:36.000 There's only one way that you can make that possible, and that is by lying to the American people that they can stay home and we will pay for it.

00:06:43.000 It turns out that to acclimate the American people to basically sitting home and waiting for the government to take care of them takes only about a year.

00:06:52.000 I thought, and I think a lot of people thought, that Americans would not give up their personal liberty and work initiative quite that fast, and most Americans still haven't.

00:07:01.000 But a significant percentage of Americans are.

00:07:03.000 A huge percentage of Americans were like, you know what?

00:07:05.000 I'm kind of comfortable with this.

00:07:06.000 I'm kind of comfortable with the idea that the government is just going to pay me to stay at home.

00:07:10.000 How else do you explain the fact that 4.3 million people left their jobs in August?

00:07:18.000 That's unbelievable!

00:07:20.000 4.3 million people left their jobs in August.

00:07:23.000 How?

00:07:23.000 Right, don't they have to put food on the table?

00:07:24.000 The answer is, they're waiting for Joe Biden to pay them.

00:07:27.000 The quits rate rose to 2.9%, an increase of 242,000 from the previous month, which saw a rate of 2.7%, according to the department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, according to CNBC.

00:07:38.000 The rate, which is measured against total employment, is the highest in a data series that goes back to December 2000.

00:07:43.000 Going all the way back to December 2000, this is the highest quit rates we have seen.

00:07:47.000 Right?

00:07:48.000 In two decades.

00:07:49.000 Quits have been seen historically as a level of confidence from workers who feel they are secure in finding employment elsewhere.

00:07:55.000 The labor dynamics have changed during the COVID-19 crisis.

00:07:57.000 Workers have left their jobs because of health concerns and childcare issues unique to the pandemic's circumstances.

00:08:03.000 Or, alternatively, workers have left their jobs not because they are deeply worried about childcare.

00:08:07.000 They left their job because Joe Biden is telling them that if they stay home, he is going to pay them.

00:08:11.000 And Democrats are saying the same exact thing.

00:08:14.000 And they are blaming the unvaxxed for all of that.

00:08:17.000 A total of 892,000 workers in the food service and accommodation industries left their jobs.

00:08:23.000 721,000 retail workers departed, along with 534,000 in healthcare and social assistance.

00:08:28.000 By the way, I would bet many of those people are the unvaxxed. 0.94

00:08:31.000 I bet a lot of those people are unvaccinated people, particularly in the healthcare industry, who said, I would rather lose my job by not getting vaxxed than take the vaccine.

00:08:41.000 So the mandate probably created some of that unemployment.

00:08:44.000 So they're going to keep blaming the idea that people are afraid to go to work because they're afraid they're going to get COVID at work.

00:08:50.000 That is not true.

00:08:51.000 People are not deeply afraid they're going to get COVID at work.

00:08:51.000 It is not true.

00:08:53.000 at the Economic Policy Institute.

00:08:55.000 So they're gonna keep blaming the idea that people are afraid to go to work because they're afraid they're gonna get COVID at work.

00:08:59.000 That is not true.

00:09:01.000 It is not true.

00:09:02.000 People are not deeply afraid they're going to get COVID at work. 1.00

00:09:04.000 If they are, and they are vaxxed particularly, they're being stupid. 0.93

00:09:08.000 And if they're unvaxxed, they've had every opportunity to get vaxxed at this point. 0.98

00:09:11.000 If you are afraid to go back to work, that is a you problem, as I am fond of saying.

00:09:15.000 Because you have all of the solutions at your fingertips.

00:09:18.000 You can mask up if you'd like.

00:09:19.000 You have a vaccine if you'd like.

00:09:21.000 You have therapeutics now.

00:09:22.000 You should not be afraid to go back to work at this point in the pandemic.

00:09:25.000 And if you are, it is probably because you have been convinced by the media and by Joe Biden that number one, you will get paid even if you don't go back to work.

00:09:31.000 And number two, you have something gravely to fear while Joe Biden restructures the entire economy.

00:09:37.000 Employment vacancies fell slightly to 10.4 million during the month.

00:09:42.000 10.4 million.

00:09:45.000 I mean, that's an enormous labor shortage.

00:09:48.000 You wonder why there are bottlenecks right now?

00:09:49.000 That's why there are bottlenecks.

00:09:51.000 These stats are absolutely stunning.

00:09:54.000 At least the Washington Post is being a little more honest about this.

00:09:58.000 Eli Rosenberg says the number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors that include Americans sensing ample opportunity and better pay elsewhere.

00:10:06.000 Some 4.3 million people quit jobs in August, according to the monthly survey.

00:10:09.000 About 2.9% of the workforce, according to new data released Tuesday from the Department of Labor.

00:10:14.000 The phenomenon is being driven in part by workers who are less willing to endure inconvenient hours and poor compensation, quitting at this stage in the pandemic to find better opportunities elsewhere.

00:10:23.000 Okay, except that the people who are quitting, many of them are not finding better jobs elsewhere.

00:10:27.000 They're not taking up those 10.4 million open jobs.

00:10:30.000 That's why there's still 10 million open jobs in the country.

00:10:33.000 The reality is that many of them believe that if they quit, the government is going to pick up after them.

00:10:39.000 The high level of people quitting their jobs is likely due in part to people leaving jobs to take other positions, but the data does not specify why people are quitting and where they are ending up.

00:10:48.000 There's a lot of demand.

00:10:49.000 People are seizing that opportunity and quitting their jobs, say some of the experts.

00:10:53.000 But again, what we are seeing right now is that workers are feeling confident that they will be okay if they quit their jobs.

00:11:00.000 And maybe that is because we sent them free money for a year.

00:11:03.000 Maybe that is because the Democrats would like to spend another $5 trillion sending them free money.

00:11:10.000 Maybe it's because they see that the Build Back Better agenda is really about the no-work agenda for a lot of people.

00:11:15.000 This is true in everything from the earned income tax credit, which really has very little to do with earned income, to the restructuring of how welfare programs work in this country, which is what happens under Joe Biden's plans.

00:11:26.000 Now, the predictable results of this is when there are not enough people working, you do get price inflation.

00:11:30.000 There's a shortage of product.

00:11:32.000 The pipelines are broken.

00:11:33.000 People are not able to ship the products where they need to go.

00:11:36.000 This is why you are seeing rising prices.

00:11:38.000 So the same people who are being celebrated for quitting the workforce are also having trouble actually paying for all of this stuff.

00:11:44.000 By the way, many of them have savings built up over the last year because the government was sending them these exorbitant checks every week to shut everything down.

00:11:52.000 According to Yahoo News, steaks could soon become a champagne-like luxury thanks to the failures of the supply chains.

00:12:00.000 We shouldn't have supply chain failures at this point.

00:12:02.000 We really should not.

00:12:03.000 There was a lot of talk about this during the pandemic, supply chain failures.

00:12:06.000 Now that we are pretty much past the worst of this, there really should not be these concerns.

00:12:12.000 However, says Bloomberg, the boss of Europe's top meat processor said beef will become a luxury like champagne because of the climate impact of producing it.

00:12:21.000 Beef is not going to be super climate friendly, said Danish Crown Chief Executive Officer Scheisse Veljours in an interview with Danish newspaper Berlinski.

00:12:28.000 It will be a luxury product we eat when we want to treat ourselves.

00:12:31.000 Oh, good.

00:12:32.000 Also, the White House is warning of Christmas shortages.

00:12:36.000 Oh, good.

00:12:38.000 Okay, so it's amazing how fast this administration went from Santa Claus to the Grinch.

00:12:44.000 They went real fast from, guys, we're just going to hand you free money and everything's going to be great.

00:12:48.000 We're going to build back better.

00:12:50.000 They went real fast from that, too.

00:12:52.000 Also, you're not going to be able to get toys for your kids on Christmas because, let's face it, we have jacked this economy so bad, it is beyond recognition.

00:12:59.000 According to Reuters, White House officials scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S.

00:13:04.000 ports, highways, and railways warn that Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.

00:13:09.000 The supply crisis, driven in part by the global 19 pandemic, not only threatens to dampen U.S.

00:13:13.000 spending at a critical time, it also poses a political risk for President Joe Biden.

00:13:18.000 The White House has been trying to tackle inflation-inducing supply bottlenecks of everything from meat to semiconductors, and formed a task force in June that meets weekly and named a bottleneck czar to push private sector companies to ease snarls.

00:13:28.000 Well, as long as you appoint a czar, man, we know that the history of czars in American federal government, wildly successful.

00:13:35.000 You remember that Barack Obama had a czar for pretty much everything, and none of those czars were much more successful than the czar who was executed by the Russian Revolution.

00:13:43.000 All of those czars were basically failures.

00:13:45.000 Biden himself plans to meet with top executives from Walmart and Home Depot and with unions and other stakeholders on Wednesday to discuss efforts to relieve transportation bottlenecks before delivering a speech on this.

00:13:54.000 Well, if he talks, we know that when Joe Biden talks, number one, words barely make it out of his face.

00:13:59.000 But number two, the world changes in magnificent ways when Joe Biden talks, probably the entire labor shortage that we're experiencing in the country.

00:14:07.000 If he just jabbers at Walmart and Home Depot, probably they'll be relieved.

00:14:11.000 I know that if there's one group of people who are not worried at all about the supply chain bottlenecks, it's probably Home Depot and Walmart.

00:14:15.000 They're probably doing nothing.

00:14:16.000 But then Joe Biden, that man, that great, glorious man, he will jump on them and he will spur them to new heights.

00:14:25.000 He will force them to really get enthusiastic about getting products to their customers.

00:14:28.000 Because if there's one thing Joe Biden knows, it's how things ought to run, making sure that things get there on time.

00:14:34.000 If there's one thing Joe Biden knows, it's how to make the trains run on time.

00:14:40.000 Yeah, and if you believe that, then I don't know what to tell you. 1.00

00:14:44.000 You're the sucker. 0.99

00:14:45.000 Okay, in just a second, we'll get to more of this, because Joe Biden's plans are going to exacerbate all of this. 1.00

00:14:45.000 You're the sucker. 1.00

00:14:51.000 Things are going to get worse before they get better, because Joe Biden has absolutely screwed the booch. 1.00

00:14:55.000 I mean, from every perceivable angle.

00:14:57.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:14:59.000 First, let us talk about your sleep quality.

00:15:01.000 So, I am on the road, and I'm staying at a very nice hotel.

00:15:03.000 I'll be honest with you, it's a great hotel, but there's one thing that I miss more than anything else except for my family, and that, of course, is my Helix Sleep Mattress.

00:15:11.000 Helix has a quiz.

00:15:12.000 It takes just two minutes to complete.

00:15:13.000 It matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you.

00:15:16.000 Why would you buy a mattress made for someone else?

00:15:18.000 With Helix, you're getting a mattress you know will be perfect for the way you sleep.

00:15:22.000 Helix knows that, so they have several different mattress models to choose from.

00:15:22.000 Everybody's unique.

00:15:26.000 They have soft, medium, and firm mattresses.

00:15:28.000 Mattresses great for cooling you down if you sleep hot.

00:15:30.000 Mattresses great for spinal alignment to prevent morning aches and pains.

00:15:32.000 Even a Helix Plus mattress for plus-sized sleepers.

00:15:35.000 So, if you're looking for a mattress, you take the quiz, you order the mattress you're matched to, the mattress comes directly to your doorstep for free.

00:15:40.000 You don't ever need to go to a mattress store again.

00:15:42.000 They've got a 10-year warranty.

00:15:43.000 You get to try it out for 100 nights risk-free.

00:15:45.000 They'll even pick it up for you if you don't love it, but you absolutely will.

00:15:47.000 Helix has financing options and flexible payment plans, so a great night's sleep is never far away.

00:15:51.000 Just head on over to helixsleep.com slash Ben, take their two-minute sleep quiz.

00:15:55.000 They'll match you to a customized mattress that gives you the best sleep of your life.

00:15:59.000 Helix is offering up to 200 bucks off all mattress orders and two free pillows for our listeners at helixsleep.com slash Ben.

00:16:05.000 Go check them out right now.

00:16:07.000 Alrighty, so the consequences of Joe Biden's crappy policy are being seen pretty much everywhere.

00:16:12.000 Shoppers are upset with the fact that the Dollar Tree has been raising its prices. 0.60

00:16:16.000 And you know, people in the media, they laugh at this because only rubes shop at the Dollar Tree. 0.99

00:16:21.000 Of course, only these middle class and lower class people shop.

00:16:25.000 I mean, the people who write your news, they go to Whole Foods.

00:16:28.000 Excuse me.

00:16:29.000 They drive their Teslas to Whole Foods like AOC. 0.63

00:16:31.000 But If you are like a regular person who goes to Dollar Tree and you're worried about the fact that now stuff costs more than a buck, that's just because you don't understand.

00:16:39.000 We're building back better, guys.

00:16:41.000 One of the last true dollar stores, Dollar Tree, is about to give in to inflation and rising shipping costs.

00:16:48.000 And many longtime shoppers are not happy about it.

00:16:52.000 Willa Davenport has been shopping Dollar Tree for years.

00:16:55.000 We found her picking up some paper towels and some birthday cards.

00:17:00.000 At a time when drugstore greeting cards can cost six bucks, here they're still a dollar.

00:17:05.000 As are wrapping paper and gift bags, food, home decor, even Halloween and Christmas items.

00:17:11.000 I don't think it's right for them to raise the prices.

00:17:14.000 You go in there to get for a dollar, then they tell you it's a dollar fifty.

00:17:19.000 Are they going to change all their signs?

00:17:21.000 Maybe this lady ought to start chanting, let's go, Brandon, because it's very clear who is responsible for all of this. 1.00

00:17:27.000 You think Dollar Tree is desperate to raise its prices on its customers so that they have to put the lie in the front of their store that it's the Dollar Tree?

00:17:27.000 And it ain't Dollar Tree.

00:17:35.000 And meanwhile, over in Minneapolis, they're reporting that shoppers are going to see empty shelves on Black Friday.

00:17:39.000 So you're going to go out for the sale.

00:17:40.000 There ain't going to be nothing there.

00:17:42.000 Holiday shoppers are already being warned to hit the stores early.

00:17:47.000 Marissa Silva, a toy expert, says the industry is being hit hard by the shipping crisis.

00:17:53.000 Silva says there's a delay of about six to eight weeks for a lot of toys.

00:17:57.000 She also warns by Black Friday there may not be much on the store shelves.

00:18:02.000 Ongoing supply chain disruptions and that microchip shortage will both cut down on inventory and drive up the costs of toys that are available.

00:18:11.000 Okay, so all of this you can lay at the feet of the current President of the United States.

00:18:15.000 The IMF, for its part, is warning of inflation and a slowing recovery as it lowers its forecast.

00:18:21.000 According to the IMF, the economic growth forecast for the United States was pared back to 6% from the 7% growth projected in July because of softening consumption and a large decline in inventory caused by supply chain bottlenecks.

00:18:33.000 The IMF lowered its entire 2021 global growth forecast to 5.9% down from the 6% projected in July.

00:18:38.000 Remember, there were people who were projecting that the GDP in the United States was going to grow by double digits this year.

00:18:43.000 And now we're down to 6%, which is strong, but doesn't nearly make up for the fact that we completely destroyed our entire economy last year.

00:18:50.000 Meanwhile, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Rafael Bostock, he said on Tuesday that things are going to get worse.

00:18:58.000 He says, it's becoming increasingly clear that the features of this episode that has animated price pressures Mainly, the intense and widespread supply chain disruptions will not be brief.

00:19:07.000 He said data from multiple sources point to these lasting longer than most initially thought.

00:19:11.000 By this definition, the forces are not transitory.

00:19:14.000 Not transitory.

00:19:17.000 Well, maybe.

00:19:19.000 Maybe I'm getting this wrong.

00:19:20.000 Maybe this isn't a mistake by Joe Biden.

00:19:23.000 Maybe this is part of the plan.

00:19:25.000 Maybe this is the feature, not the bug.

00:19:26.000 Because if you look at the way that the media are reporting, for example, so many people dropping out of the labor force, instead of saying, well, this is driving up prices and it's creating supply chain bottlenecks.

00:19:33.000 And it means that we are borrowing money from the future to pay people to stay out of work right now.

00:19:38.000 Instead of doing all of that, so many people in the media are cheering because what this is really showing is just showing that our workers have leverage.

00:19:46.000 They have leverage over their companies.

00:19:49.000 This goes all the way back to last year, when the irrepressible, highly intelligent, let me tell you, she is so smart, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, so fresh, so unbelievably face, from New York.

00:20:01.000 She said, this is last year, April of last year, there's a lot of talk about people getting back to work.

00:20:05.000 There's only one problem, of course, which is that it takes two to tango.

00:20:07.000 doesn't think people should go back to work.

00:20:09.000 They shouldn't go back to work.

00:20:10.000 They should use the opportunity of the government paying them to stay home to demand, quote unquote, more of their employers.

00:20:15.000 There's only one problem, of course, which is that it takes two to tango.

00:20:19.000 And if the employers go under because there is a stagnation that is driven by inflation, then those jobs are gonna disappear.

00:20:26.000 Right now there's 10 million open jobs.

00:20:29.000 But if the workers stay out of work, then eventually the prices get too high.

00:20:32.000 And then people stop buying things.

00:20:34.000 And then you have full-scale economic stagnation.

00:20:36.000 And when you pay people to stay home, then maybe it's not about leveraging their employers.

00:20:42.000 Maybe it is about them having an unrealistic expectation of how the world is supposed to work.

00:20:46.000 But this is the deal for Democrats.

00:20:47.000 A lot of Democrats truly believe that the way you restructure work is you pay people to stay home.

00:20:53.000 Only in America does the president, when the president tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work?

00:20:59.000 When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot of people should just say no.

00:21:07.000 We're not going back to that.

00:21:09.000 We're not going back to working 70 hour weeks just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.

00:21:21.000 Okay, so question, who pays for all this?

00:21:23.000 Really, who pays for all this?

00:21:25.000 Well, the answer for the Democrats is nobody.

00:21:28.000 The answer for the Democrats is that we just keep spending.

00:21:30.000 And it doesn't matter if we have no actual ability to spend more, or this is going to do long-term damage to future economic prospects.

00:21:37.000 The idea is that in order to rethink, reimagine work, reimagine reality, all we have to do is just wishcast it.

00:21:45.000 We can stay home from work pretty much forever and we can leverage our employers into paying us all $100,000 a year for a job that really on the market is probably worth $40,000 a year.

00:21:54.000 We can do that so long as the government just pays us to stay home and then we have leverage.

00:21:58.000 So if the government artificially creates leverage and leverages private industry in order to do all this stuff and then taxes private industry to pay for all of that, then magically this Ouroboros of economic idiocy will somehow generate prosperity.

00:22:11.000 That is the basic idea here.

00:22:14.000 And Democrats are pushing this very hard.

00:22:16.000 I don't think that at this point they like, I don't think that Joe Biden sees this as a crisis.

00:22:20.000 I think that again, Jen Psaki and Joe Biden might see this as kind of an opera.

00:22:23.000 It's a political crisis, but it is also an opportunity for them to reimagine, like just reimagining policing meant get rid of the cops and then let people die in the big cities.

00:22:31.000 Reimagining economics means tell people not to go back to work and they shouldn't go back to work.

00:22:36.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

00:22:37.000 until those employers are paying them outsized wages, driving up the prices of goods and services, forcing people to pay more, forcing people to go without, and that will somehow cure things.

00:22:45.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

00:22:47.000 First, let's talk about the simple fact that if you have a medical problem, you really ought to get it solved.

00:22:52.000 That's particularly true for a nagging medical problem like erectile dysfunction.

00:22:55.000 When something is off in the bedroom, a lot of people try not to think about it.

00:22:58.000 Well, what are you waiting for?

00:22:59.000 Just go get it taken care of.

00:23:00.000 You can do it quickly and easily at GetRoman.com slash Ben right now.

00:23:04.000 With Roman, you get a free online evaluation and ongoing care for AD all the way from the comfort and privacy of your home.

00:23:10.000 A U.S. 0.66

00:23:11.000 licensed healthcare professional will work with you to find the best treatment plan.

00:23:14.000 If medication is appropriate, it ships to you free with two-day shipping.

00:23:17.000 The whole process is straightforward and discreet.

00:23:19.000 Getting started is simple.

00:23:20.000 Just go to GetRoman.com slash Ben, complete an online visit.

00:23:23.000 Take care of your ED without leaving your home.

00:23:25.000 Complete an online visit today to connect with a healthcare professional and get it taken care of.

00:23:28.000 Go to GetRoman.com slash Ben right now.

00:23:30.000 You'll get 15 bucks off your very first month.

00:23:33.000 It is really time to get your ED taken care of.

00:23:35.000 Remember, Get started today.

00:23:36.000 You'll save 15 bucks on your first order of ED treatment.

00:23:39.000 Again, that's GetRoman.com slash Ben right now.

00:23:41.000 You get 15 bucks off your first month of ED treatment at GetRoman.com slash Ben.

00:23:46.000 Don't let a nagging medical problem worry you to death.

00:23:49.000 Instead, head on over to GetRoman.com slash Ben and get it taken care of right now.

00:23:53.000 So again, the idea from the Democratic left seems to be That it is good that people aren't going back to work because finally workers have leverage.

00:24:00.000 Okay, so here is the problem.

00:24:02.000 The prices continue to rise because when you have shortages, too many dollars chasing too few goods, you get inflation.

00:24:07.000 Right now, rises in wages that are being celebrated by the media as, wow, workers have leverage now.

00:24:13.000 Those rises in wages are being outpaced by inflation.

00:24:15.000 So real wages are actually down at this point because those wildly increased wages are being outpaced by the price of goods and services.

00:24:24.000 So who's going to make up that gap?

00:24:25.000 Presumably the government is going to make up that gap.

00:24:27.000 Now where's the government going to get all that money?

00:24:29.000 According to the Democrats, they're going to get it from exactly the private industries they are seeking to extract money from right now for the employees.

00:24:38.000 So basically, the people who are producing in the society are not only going to be paying the people who are not producing to stay home, they're also going to be paying additional artificially high wages to people because the government is paying people to stay home.

00:24:50.000 And they're going to be paying high additional taxes as well.

00:24:52.000 No way that this is going to go wrong in any particular way.

00:24:55.000 No, it's all going to go right.

00:24:58.000 Now, you might think at this point that if Joe Biden had any semblance of political acumen, he might rethink what he is doing here.

00:25:06.000 He might use what Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are doing here as an opportunity to pare back his expectations, as an opportunity Not to go for broke like an idiot, but instead to say, okay, what if we did a little spending here and a little spending there, walk back that 3.5 trillion, I get to let Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema be the bad guys to the progressive base, but I get to be a hero to the progressives for fighting Manchin and Sinema, and then I get what I really want, which is some spending, but not like an unbelievable amount of spending, and maybe the economy goes back to normal.

00:25:32.000 That is not what this administration is doing.

00:25:34.000 They are so committed to their ideological vision of how the world should work, that they are neglecting how the world actually does work.

00:25:41.000 And so you got Nancy Pelosi continuing to push forward the notion that we should have trillions and trillions in spending, and they're just going to lie to you about it. 0.53

00:25:49.000 Democrats are struggling to come together on this Build Back Better agenda, and they're trying to figure out exactly how they pair things back to meet the requirements of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

00:25:58.000 And one of the things that Nancy Pelosi is pushing forward is the question of whether they need to cut full programs, which is what Manchin and Sinema want, or whether Pelosi is mostly interested in shrinking the term of the deal.

00:26:14.000 She said that she's not going to say what proposals will be dropped from this giant boondoggle of a package, but her biggest interest is in shortening the length of time the proposals will be in effect.

00:26:25.000 So what that means is that instead of budgeting out $3.5 trillion over 10 years, we'll budget a trillion and a half bucks over three years, and we'll put all those programs in place, and then we'll dare the Republicans to let those programs die.

00:26:38.000 Which is usually the Democratic game, right?

00:26:40.000 Because once you get people on the heroin of government money, it is very hard to get people off the heroin of government money.

00:26:45.000 People like to vote themselves money.

00:26:46.000 It's just a simple fact of reality, which is why the government continues to grow.

00:26:49.000 So Nancy Pelosi's plan is just to lie to you, right? 1.00

00:26:52.000 That they're not actually going to make the package smaller.

00:26:55.000 They're just going to lie to you by making the term shorter.

00:26:58.000 Democrats, by the way, I mean, it really does show that Democrats want to make everybody dependent because it should not even be a battle.

00:27:04.000 As to whether these programs should be means-tested, for example.

00:27:07.000 So Democrats' entire shtick is, we gotta help the poor, right?

00:27:09.000 This is their public shtick.

00:27:10.000 We gotta help the poor.

00:27:11.000 It's the poor who are really suffering.

00:27:12.000 We need redistributionist policies, because the people at the bottom rungs of economic society are the ones who suffer the most.

00:27:17.000 Now, the reality is, in the United States, we spend an awful lot of money on the people in the bottom quintile.

00:27:22.000 Our social services are extremely expensive.

00:27:22.000 We do.

00:27:25.000 Tens of thousands of dollars per family are spent every year by the federal and state governments on people who are at the bottom level of the economic ladder.

00:27:37.000 Forget all of the propaganda about how we leave the poor to die in the United States.

00:27:39.000 We absolutely do not.

00:27:40.000 We have a very solid social safety net system.

00:27:43.000 We spend an awful lot of money.

00:27:43.000 It is very large.

00:27:45.000 It is in fact comparable to many Western European countries in terms of how much we spend.

00:27:48.000 We are not a full-scale, gung-ho, capitalist, don't-take-care-of-the-poor country.

00:27:53.000 We are a capitalist country with a very strong social safety net, which has been built up over many years.

00:27:58.000 Has not done nearly what it was promised to do.

00:28:01.000 But here's the thing, Democrats aren't even telling the truth.

00:28:05.000 Because when they say they want to help the poor, what they really mean is they want to make more people up to and including middle class and upper middle class people more dependent on government programs.

00:28:13.000 It is an ideological goal to have the government take the place of private initiative in American life.

00:28:19.000 Which is why there's a debate right now among Democrats over means testing.

00:28:22.000 Many programs.

00:28:24.000 Now, means testing just means that if you are richer and you can afford something, the government won't pay for it.

00:28:28.000 And if you are poorer and you can't afford something, the government will help you pay for it.

00:28:32.000 Now, you would think, okay, that's at least, according to Democratic lights, logical, right?

00:28:36.000 I mean, I thought that was the whole shtick, is that we're trying to help people who are poor.

00:28:39.000 But Democrats are debating this.

00:28:41.000 Because again, the real goal is not to help the poor.

00:28:44.000 The real goal is how many people can we get hooked on our government programs so then they vote for us in the future.

00:28:50.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, choosing which Americans should be eligible for benefits in a proposed expansion of the social safety net is one of the main challenges vexing Democrats, who are attempting to slim down their health care education, child care and climate bill in the coming weeks.

00:29:03.000 On one side of the debate over means testing are Democrats like Senator Joe Manchin, who wants to target the government aid to low-income Americans, arguing that narrowing eligibility for the programs to those most in need will be a cheaper and more efficient use of taxpayer funds.

00:29:15.000 On the other side are both progressive and centrist Democrats, who want to make programs like subsidized child care, free preschool, and two years of free community college available to Americans up and down the income ladder.

00:29:25.000 Invoking the legacies of Social Security and Medicare, each decades old and broadly available to Americans, these Democrats view universal programs as both more effective at helping Americans in need, and better at winning enduring political support.

00:29:36.000 And that last part of the sentence is the part that matters.

00:29:39.000 Because here's the thing.

00:29:41.000 You make these programs available to the poor, then the rest of the population might have an interest every so often in looking in and seeing on what the programs work and maybe we should shift them.

00:29:49.000 But if you just helicopter cash to everybody, then everybody goes, oh, I'm going to vote for the helicopter cash too.

00:29:54.000 One thing this article does not note is that Medicare and Social Security have essentially been bankrupt for years and will continue to be bankrupt as the country gets older.

00:30:03.000 Because they are giant Ponzi schemes essentially.

00:30:06.000 Pelosi has not indicated where she stands on income eligibility.

00:30:09.000 She said this week Democrats could pare back the number of programs while also looking at reducing the number of years funded to bring down the price of the bill.

00:30:16.000 She said, mostly we'd be cutting back on years and something like that.

00:30:19.000 Again, it's all games, but this is all about electoral.

00:30:21.000 They want the massive shift in how Americans think of the government.

00:30:25.000 If you think Democrats hated the last year, Democrats have loved the last year.

00:30:28.000 It's their favorite thing that has ever happened in the history of mankind.

00:30:31.000 The government came in and they shut down every private business in the country, essentially.

00:30:31.000 It is great.

00:30:35.000 And everybody who's a keyboard warrior got to stay home and work in the safety of their own homes.

00:30:40.000 Everybody else became a ward of the government.

00:30:43.000 Democrats are like, how do we prolong this?

00:30:45.000 How do we make this happen?

00:30:47.000 And for everybody else who has not bought into the newfangled democratic line that work is bad and that everybody must be freed of the burdens of work in order so we can all become pottery artists and painters and poets, people who don't buy into that are like, why don't you just let things go back to the way that they were and Democrats are like, nope, gotta build back better.

00:31:05.000 So this has led to the bizarre spectacle of Nancy Pelosi claiming that this bill, which is not, like, Americans are not up for this.

00:31:11.000 They are not.

00:31:12.000 If you ask Americans, would you like free money in polls, they will say yes.

00:31:16.000 If you ask Americans whether they are ready to take on trillions of dollars more in costs and incentivize people not to work in the middle of an inflationary spiral and a stagnating economy, most Americans are not up for it.

00:31:27.000 Nancy Pelosi, she gives away the game here. 1.00

00:31:31.000 So she says a couple of things that are really incredible.

00:31:33.000 She had a press conference yesterday.

00:31:34.000 First, she says, Americans support the bill, even if they say they don't, which is a hell of a take on public opinion.

00:31:40.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi.

00:31:42.000 One of the things in the bill is the continuation of the Biden tax credit, that is child tax credit that is in the was in the rescue package.

00:31:52.000 That has great appeal.

00:31:54.000 Do people know where it springs from, though?

00:31:57.000 But it is a vast bill.

00:31:59.000 It has a lot in it, and we'll have to continue to make sure the public does.

00:32:03.000 But whether they know it or not, they overwhelmingly support it.

00:32:07.000 Whether they know what's in the bill or not, then they support it.

00:32:11.000 Which goes really well with her old-fashioned statement about Obamacare, that we'll have to pass it to know what's in it.

00:32:17.000 I'm sensing a pattern here, which is that so long as she can be completely opaque about what exactly she's about to do to the American people, she can do whatever she wants and then declare that the general, the Russoian general will has somehow empowered her to do these things. 0.56

00:32:30.000 By the way, she is gonna get a, it's gonna be hard for her next year when she's in the minority in the house again because of all of this sort of stuff.

00:32:36.000 Okay, then she's very angry because she says, yeah, well, members of the press are like, well, it's not that popular.

00:32:42.000 A lot of Americans are having doubts about this.

00:32:45.000 Like, you're really not making a strong case for this bill.

00:32:48.000 And Nancy Pelosi's like, why don't you make a case for the bill?

00:32:52.000 Now this really gives away the game.

00:32:53.000 Because the way Democrats view the press is as their lackeys.

00:32:56.000 The press are just the Democratic PR operatives.

00:32:58.000 And Nancy Pelosi basically just says that. 0.94

00:32:59.000 She's like, go do your job.

00:33:01.000 Here she goes.

00:33:02.000 Dentures a-clackin'.

00:33:04.000 Only about 10% of Americans describe themselves as knowing a lot of specific things that are in the reconciliation package and that the majority don't know anything at all.

00:33:14.000 So do you think you need to do a better job at messaging and going forward, how do you sell this if ultimately you have to tear it down?

00:33:21.000 Well, I think you all could do a better job of selling it, to be very frank with you, because every time I come here, I go through the list.

00:33:27.000 Family medical leave, climate, the issues that are in there.

00:33:32.000 You could do a better job of selling it.

00:33:34.000 Maybe the American people aren't deeply worried right now about climate change, which might affect the GDP of the globe by a slight percentage over the course of a century.

00:33:45.000 Maybe they're more worried about the fact that they're having trouble buying a house, that they're having trouble paying rent, that they're having trouble putting food on the table or paying their gas bill.

00:33:53.000 Maybe that's what Americans are most concerned about right now, and it's your job to sell it, and you suck at your job, and so you're blaming your PR machine. 0.98

00:33:59.000 I do love that Democrats just assume that it's the press's job to sell their garbage. 0.94

00:34:04.000 Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is pushing forward the idea that there should be no debt limit. 0.94

00:34:07.000 The House is trying to raise the debt limit again.

00:34:09.000 Because, of course, debt doesn't matter.

00:34:11.000 Because money's imaginary to these people anyway.

00:34:14.000 And seriously, how many of these Democratic leaders have ever run a business?

00:34:17.000 Like, actually run a business?

00:34:19.000 I know that that's become a passé question since the Mitt Romney days, but it turns out that running a business is kind of hard.

00:34:23.000 And that you actually have to have some know-how to do it.

00:34:25.000 And yet Democrats think that not only should they be running a business, they should be running your business.

00:34:31.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi saying that, you know, the debt limit, getting, let's just get rid of it.

00:34:34.000 Because we don't need responsibility.

00:34:35.000 There are all kinds of, um...

00:34:39.000 Suggestions that members have, one that really was endorsed a while back by Mitch McConnell, but who knows, you know, who knows.

00:34:49.000 But it was to, the manifestation of it now, Mr. Yarmuth and Mr. Boyle have put forth, puts the responsibility on the Secretary of the Treasury to make the determination to lift the debt ceiling.

00:35:07.000 That decision could be overruled by the Congress.

00:35:11.000 Are you in favor of that idea?

00:35:13.000 I think it has merit.

00:35:14.000 Yes, I do think it has merit.

00:35:16.000 Of course she thinks it has merit, because anything that relieves Congress of the responsibility of hemming in its spending has merit, according to Nancy Pelosi.

00:35:23.000 And if you think this isn't going to be intrusive for you, it is going to be intrusive.

00:35:26.000 All of this is going to be intrusive.

00:35:27.000 It is all about controlling your life.

00:35:28.000 It's all about controlling.

00:35:29.000 But don't worry.

00:35:30.000 If you give them ultimate, it's just like COVID.

00:35:32.000 If you give them ultimate power, they'll fix all your problems.

00:35:34.000 They'll hit that magic government button, and then all of your problems will be solved.

00:35:37.000 You can stay home.

00:35:38.000 You'll never have to go to work.

00:35:39.000 All you have to do is just sit at home and wait for the government checks to arrive, and the government will take care of all your needs.

00:35:44.000 Now, all they're gonna need in return is for you to just give them pretty much everything.

00:35:50.000 Access to all your records.

00:35:51.000 You're gonna need to give them access to pretty much all of your life decisions.

00:35:55.000 They're gonna have to control how you educate your kids.

00:35:56.000 They're gonna have to control how you take money out of the bank.

00:35:59.000 One of the provisions of this bill Is that the IRS is going to be able to essentially audit any transaction from a bank over $600.

00:36:09.000 If you take $600 out of the bank, the IRS is going to be staffed up so that they can check into every transaction you do over $600 in the United States, which is unbelievable.

00:36:18.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi being very enthusiastic about it.

00:36:21.000 She says, absolutely, we need to keep that.

00:36:22.000 It's crucial we keep that.

00:36:25.000 Yes.

00:36:25.000 Americans are starting to be worried about this.

00:36:27.000 Do you think that this pay-for of giving the IRS more money to crack down on unpaid taxes is going to stay in the reconciliation?

00:36:36.000 What do you say to Americans who are concerned about that?

00:36:39.000 Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:36:41.000 Okay, so why?

00:36:43.000 Why?

00:36:43.000 Well, the answer is control.

00:36:45.000 Now, the excuse they're making for why they need to audit your $600 withdrawals from the bank is because they're going after billionaires, which is just ridiculous on its face.

00:36:53.000 So Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, she literally said this.

00:36:56.000 Here she was explaining that the reason they need to audit $600 transactions from banks is to stop the billionaires from being tax frauds.

00:37:04.000 You want banks to report transactions of $600 or more.

00:37:09.000 That's what the IRS wants.

00:37:11.000 Does this mean that the government is trying to peek into our pocketbooks if you want to look at $600 transactions?

00:37:18.000 Absolutely not.

00:37:19.000 I think this proposal has been seriously mischaracterized.

00:37:23.000 If somebody reports an income of $10,000, Okay, I just have a question. 1.00

00:37:37.000 If you really think this is about billionaires, you're out of your damned mind. 0.99

00:37:41.000 This is crazy talk. 1.00

00:37:43.000 Okay, Janet Yellen says there's a lot of tax fraud and cheating that is going on.

00:37:48.000 And the tax fraud and cheating is happening at the $600 level.

00:37:51.000 And that we have to hold billionaires accountable.

00:37:53.000 Let me just say this.

00:37:54.000 If you somehow become a billionaire by withdrawing money from banks $600 at a time, you know, amazing job!

00:38:00.000 Because that would only take 1,666,666 transactions to make you a billionaire.

00:38:06.000 Literally about 190 transactions an hour.

00:38:10.000 Something on that order for a year.

00:38:12.000 Then you'd be a billionaire.

00:38:13.000 So probably, yeah, she's cracking down on billionaires.

00:38:15.000 It has nothing to do with monitoring your individual spending.

00:38:18.000 No, no, no.

00:38:19.000 They would never do that.

00:38:20.000 They would never do that.

00:38:21.000 They're not trying to control your life at all.

00:38:23.000 Meanwhile, speaking of trying to control your life, we'll get to Joe Biden and the big COVID battle that is breaking out right now.

00:38:28.000 First, I'm thrilled to announce an incredible app that everyone who buys gas needs to know about, and this makes a lot of sense for you right now considering the spiking gas prices.

00:38:36.000 The service is called Get Upside.

00:38:38.000 My listeners are making up to $0.25 for every gallon of gas every time they fill up.

00:38:42.000 You just download the free Get Upside app in the App Store or Google Play right now.

00:38:46.000 Use promo code SHAPIRO and you get a bonus $0.25 per gallon on your first fill up that is up to $0.50 cash back.

00:38:52.000 Don't pay full price at the pump anymore.

00:38:54.000 Get cash back using GetUpside.

00:38:56.000 So you download the app for free.

00:38:57.000 Use promo code Shapiro.

00:38:58.000 You get up to 50 cents a gallon cash back on your first tank of gas.

00:39:01.000 A lot of money considering how expensive gas is right now.

00:39:04.000 Some people who drive a lot are making as much as two to three hundred bucks a month in cash back.

00:39:08.000 There's no catch.

00:39:08.000 The cash back gets added directly to your account.

00:39:10.000 You can cash out anytime to your bank account.

00:39:12.000 PayPal, or an eGift card for Amazon and other brands.

00:39:16.000 Just download the free Get Upside app, use promo code Shapiro to get up to 50 cents per gallon cash back on your very first tank of gas.

00:39:24.000 That is code Shapiro.

00:39:25.000 There's never been a better time to save Hunkast than right now.

00:39:27.000 Go check them out right now.

00:39:28.000 Get that Get Upside app and use promo code Shapiro to get 50 cents a gallon cash back on your very first tank of gas.

00:39:34.000 Alrighty, if you didn't catch backstage last night, you missed the melodic Smokey Mike and the God King.

00:39:40.000 And so congratulations to you.

00:39:43.000 But actually the show was really good.

00:39:44.000 And more than that, you didn't hear all of our exciting news.

00:39:47.000 As I mentioned before, we have many new projects in the pipeline that are going to change the way you stream.

00:39:51.000 Here at The Daily Wire, we recognize the important role that entertainment plays in our world.

00:39:56.000 We have been working overtime to make sure that we are bringing you the non-woke content you can't find literally anywhere else.

00:40:02.000 So, we've got a brand new comedy series we are bringing you, featuring none other than Adam Carolla.

00:40:06.000 And we've got our brand new film starring the fearless Gina Carano.

00:40:09.000 It's titled Terror on the Prairie.

00:40:11.000 It's currently in production in Montana.

00:40:12.000 And last but definitely not least, we're dropping the teaser trailer for Shut In, our first original production.

00:40:18.000 It's a great movie.

00:40:19.000 The script is fantastic.

00:40:20.000 It's a 60-second look into a thriller you're not going to want to miss.

00:40:24.000 We seriously cannot wait to share the final products with you, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for updates on their release dates.

00:40:30.000 You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.

00:40:33.000 One of the ways that Joe Biden is crimping at the economy obviously is keeping the COVID Now, I can't say this enough.

00:40:45.000 I really cannot say this enough.

00:40:46.000 On an individual level, you now have the ability to prevent yourself from dying from COVID.

00:40:50.000 You can get a vaccine.

00:40:51.000 The vaccines are very effective.

00:40:53.000 Forget all of the propaganda that you're hearing from many people on the right and many people on the left.

00:40:56.000 The reality is the vaccines do prevent people from getting hospitalized and dying.

00:41:00.000 And when we talk about antibodies waning, I got a question about this this morning from a staffer actually, when we talk about antibodies waning from, for example, the Pfizer vaccine, that does not mean that you are now in exactly the same risk situation you were before you took the Pfizer vaccine.

00:41:12.000 It just means you might get a breakthrough infection because the way antibodies work is your body generates them when there is live virus in your body.

00:41:18.000 When the virus goes away, the antibodies go away.

00:41:20.000 But you still have T cell and B cell memory, which means your body remembers how to fight the virus if you get a breakthrough infection.

00:41:25.000 Which is why, if you get a Pfizer vaccine, and then you get a breakthrough infection, the infection is really mild, as opposed to what it might have been, had you not had the Pfizer vaccine.

00:41:33.000 That said, if you get vaxxed, you're good to go.

00:41:33.000 Okay.

00:41:36.000 If you're not vaxxed, you've chosen not to be vaxxed.

00:41:38.000 If you choose not to be vaxxed, and you want to wear a KN95, you can get those pretty much everywhere at this point.

00:41:42.000 So, for all intents and purposes, we are done now.

00:41:45.000 But, Joe Biden cannot let go of this.

00:41:48.000 The reason he cannot let go of this is because he set a standard.

00:41:51.000 The Democrats set a standard.

00:41:52.000 Okay, this is tied into their entire economic program as well.

00:41:55.000 The standard is, they were not only going to build back better, their building back better blala was going to be about the match button.

00:42:02.000 It's all that magic government button.

00:42:04.000 If you hit it, Everything is solved.

00:42:06.000 Joe Biden promised he was going to solve COVID.

00:42:08.000 And yet, there are still people who have COVID.

00:42:10.000 It turns out the government cannot eviscerate disease.

00:42:13.000 Disease will always be with us.

00:42:14.000 Government cannot eviscerate poverty.

00:42:16.000 Poverty will always be with us.

00:42:18.000 Doesn't mean there aren't things you can do to mitigate.

00:42:19.000 But in the end, government cannot solve overwhelming problems that just exist in humanity.

00:42:25.000 Government can't solve death.

00:42:26.000 Government can solve many of the things that make life risky.

00:42:29.000 Government cannot do all those things.

00:42:31.000 But Joe Biden came into office promising he would do all of those things.

00:42:33.000 And now when it turns out that what he really needs to do is say the same thing that Trump said last year, which is, we need to learn to live with the virus.

00:42:40.000 We need to go back to our regular lives and just deal with it.

00:42:43.000 Instead of Joe Biden saying that, and he can't do it.

00:42:45.000 He literally can't do it because he ran against Trump saying it last year.

00:42:48.000 Now Joe Biden is stuck in the situation of having to say, well, if I were, if only, if only the unvaxxed would do what I say.

00:42:56.000 It's not my fault.

00:42:56.000 It's not me.

00:42:58.000 It's not my fault for making a stupid promise that I never could have kept. 0.98

00:43:00.000 It's not my fault. 0.99

00:43:01.000 It's everybody else's fault.

00:43:03.000 It's everyone else's fault.

00:43:04.000 And so what I'm going to use, I'm going to use the mass power of the federal government to cram down my vision of what should happen with vaccines.

00:43:10.000 Now, he knows that that is not going to solve the problem.

00:43:13.000 He knows that.

00:43:14.000 But for all the people who are like, no, he thinks that the vaccine mandates, he knows the vaccine mandates aren't going to solve a damn thing.

00:43:19.000 He knows that because people are quitting.

00:43:21.000 He knows that because large swaths of the country are not going to comply.

00:43:24.000 He knows that because when he does this, he actually makes people less likely to comply.

00:43:30.000 The people who are the hardest core of the vaccine, the anti-vax folks, those folks are not going to be convinced by a doddering, senile old man yelling at them that they might lose their jobs.

00:43:40.000 Instead, they're just going to turn it into a liberty issue.

00:43:43.000 Because at that point, it does become a liberty issue.

00:43:46.000 And the vaccines didn't have to be a liberty issue.

00:43:47.000 They could have just been a science issue.

00:43:49.000 And then you choose to take them or you choose not to take them, but your liberty has not been infringed.

00:43:53.000 But once Joe Biden starts mandating at every level he can that you must take the vaccine, this doesn't become a science issue anymore.

00:43:58.000 It now becomes a liberty issue.

00:44:00.000 And once you make it a liberty issue, people see virtue in not being vaxxed.

00:44:03.000 So more people are going to not vax at this point.

00:44:07.000 And the predictable result of this, of course, is that you will get more infections.

00:44:10.000 You'll get some more death.

00:44:12.000 Now, I will note, it is incredible to see Michigan, which has a lower vaccination rate than Florida, is currently having 10,000 cases of COVID a day.

00:44:20.000 They're in the middle of a bit of a COVID spike.

00:44:21.000 It's going to get worse as the winter goes on because people go indoors.

00:44:23.000 When people go indoors, they breathe on each other and then COVID gets spread.

00:44:26.000 Watch for it in the Northeast this winter.

00:44:28.000 Right now, it is still nice and warm in most parts of the Northeast.

00:44:31.000 The weather in New York right now is in the 60s and 70s this week all the way up to the near 80s.

00:44:37.000 You have to wait for the weather in New York to drop to the 30s and the 40s and then people start going indoors and then you're going to see a bit of a COVID spike because that's just how this works.

00:44:45.000 Okay, but put aside the fact that the media are utterly unconcerned by blue states that have COVID spikes.

00:44:50.000 That doesn't matter to them.

00:44:51.000 That's why we got a lot of coverage of Florida but not Louisiana even though Louisiana was suffering a per capita problem that was worse than Florida's.

00:44:59.000 The real problem here for Joe Biden is that the American people don't trust him on this issue anymore.

00:45:04.000 According to a new Axios Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, only 42% of Americans trust the president a great deal or a fair amount on providing accurate information on the virus.

00:45:14.000 That is a 16 point decline from the inauguration.

00:45:17.000 According to Cliff Young, President of Ipsos U.S.

00:45:19.000 Public Affairs, he's basically losing the expectations game.

00:45:23.000 Once the Delta variant raised its ugly head, it affected people's lives. 1.00

00:45:25.000 Now they're adjusting their expectations, which is not good for him.

00:45:28.000 Now the reality is that The expectations that he set were never accurate.

00:45:34.000 But he has to blame somebody.

00:45:35.000 He must.

00:45:36.000 And this is why Joe Biden and the White House are cramming down these vaccine mandates.

00:45:40.000 And that is having downstream economic effects.

00:45:42.000 Because again, the only reason to issue vaccine mandates is because you're implying that the vaccines are not, in fact, protective.

00:45:50.000 So you need to mandate the un-vaxxed get it, to protect the vaxxed.

00:45:52.000 So you're telling the vaxxed that they're unsafe.

00:45:55.000 You're telling the un-vaxxed you're going to come to their house and inject them in the arm, basically. 1.00

00:45:59.000 And people are going to resist that.

00:46:01.000 And then people don't go back to war.

00:46:03.000 So the problem becomes worse.

00:46:04.000 But Joe Biden gets to pretend that it's everybody else's fault. 0.99

00:46:08.000 And this is what is happening right now, is this name and shame and go after everybody else to avoid the simple fact that Joe Biden is an incompetent rube who sucks at his job and is barely somnambulant. 0.99

00:46:19.000 The man can barely sleepwalk. 0.99

00:46:23.000 That's where we are.

00:46:23.000 OK, so speaking of the vaccine mandates, here is the current status.

00:46:27.000 So the OSHA rule has now apparently been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget.

00:46:32.000 This is the famous OSHA rule that is going to mandate that all companies with over 100 employees have to either vax the people who work for them or test them weekly.

00:46:42.000 That has now been submitted to the OMB.

00:46:43.000 The OMB has not made that rule public at this point.

00:46:46.000 So we don't know where the holes in it are.

00:46:47.000 We can't have our lawyers who are waiting on standby, ready to go to appeal this to a court like as fast as humanly possible.

00:46:53.000 They can't do anything yet because the rule has neither been released nor finalized at this point.

00:46:57.000 But the Democrats have a problem when it comes to this rule.

00:47:00.000 The biggest problem is how the hell are you going to enforce it?

00:47:03.000 You have hundreds of thousands of businesses in the United States.

00:47:06.000 Tens of thousands of businesses with over 100 employees.

00:47:08.000 How do you even enforce something like this?

00:47:12.000 According to NBC News, businesses not in compliance with the mandate could face fines from the government, but OSHA, which doesn't have the staff for this, will likely rely on voluntary compliance, focusing its resources on repeat offenders.

00:47:22.000 Now, we know that they're probably going to come out at us, obviously, because we've been very public about the fact that we have no intent of complying with this unconstitutional mandate.

00:47:29.000 It's a violation of liberty.

00:47:31.000 But for a lot of other businesses, That ain't gonna happen.

00:47:34.000 So the real point here is to make the rule.

00:47:37.000 The real point is this is Joe Biden just signaling to his base, who are disproportionately vaxxed, that he is a good man who is trying to do what they want him to do.

00:47:45.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:47:46.000 People who are vaxxed, if you're worried about whether your neighbor is vaxxed, you're doing it wrong. 0.73

00:47:51.000 They're not protected.

00:47:52.000 End of story.

00:47:53.000 There's still not a good excuse for why you are super upset with your neighbor for being unvaxxed and being in the same room as you.

00:47:59.000 That's just the reality, but it's not about solving the problem.

00:48:02.000 It's never about solving the problem.

00:48:03.000 It's always about the future agenda.

00:48:05.000 It's always about the thing that's behind what they are saying it's about.

00:48:09.000 For the Biden administration, it's not about making the economy stronger.

00:48:11.000 It's about completely reshifting the way that we do economics in this country to make people dependent on government.

00:48:16.000 When it comes to COVID, it is not about solving the problem by more people being vaxxed, which would require you to actually have conversations with the un-vaxxed.

00:48:23.000 Maybe take into account natural immunity, which this administration steadfastly refuses to do.

00:48:29.000 It's not about any of that.

00:48:30.000 It's about signaling to his base that he's doing his best, and it's just those other guys who are the bad guys. 0.99

00:48:34.000 I mean, how stupid are some of these mandates from the Biden administration? 0.93

00:48:40.000 So Biden does have the OSHA rule, which is private companies, but then he also has one rule that's in effect right now, which applies to federal contractors. 0.98

00:48:48.000 So any company that is a federal contractor already has a VAX mandate. 0.98

00:48:52.000 Here is how stupid this rule is. 0.98

00:48:54.000 According to the saferfederalworkforce.gov, I'm not kidding you. 1.00

00:49:00.000 You work in your own house.

00:49:01.000 The Vax Order applies to people who work 100% from home.

00:49:06.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:49:07.000 You work in your own house, and your company, if it contracts with the federal government, must vax you or test you.

00:49:13.000 Quote, an individual working on a covered contract from their residence is a covered contractor employee and must comply with the vaccination requirement for covered contractor employees, even if the employee never works at either a covered contractor workplace or a federal workplace during the performance of the contract.

00:49:28.000 A covered contractor employee's residence is not a covered contractor workplace.

00:49:32.000 So while in the residence, the individual need not comply with requirements for covered contractor workplaces, including relating to masking and physical distancing, even while working on a covered contract.

00:49:40.000 So in other words, if you're in your own house, The federal government will be kind enough to let you not mask in your own home, but you still have to be either vaxxed or tested every week to comply with the mandate and for a company to comply with the mandate.

00:49:54.000 Meanwhile, the Southwest CEO, Southwest has been plagued by massive flight cancellations.

00:49:59.000 They keep saying it's the weather or alternative issues.

00:50:01.000 We all know what this is.

00:50:03.000 We're all talking to people who work for Southwest.

00:50:05.000 People are sticking out.

00:50:06.000 They're saying they're not going to comply with the vaccine mandate.

00:50:10.000 Right now, Southwest is, because they do some work with the federal government, they're a federal contractor, which means that the deadline for them to comply with the VAX mandate is early November, early December, and they are suffering some pretty significant blowback from both the union of Southwest employees and also from just employees generally.

00:50:30.000 The Southwest CEO admitted yesterday, yeah, it really is Joe Biden.

00:50:32.000 We didn't want to do this airline mandate because we don't think it's necessary, but Joe Biden is pushing us, so we have to.

00:50:37.000 As I think you probably know, I've never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate.

00:50:45.000 I'm not in favor of that, never have been.

00:50:48.000 But the executive order from President Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal contractors, which covers all the major airlines, have to have a mandate and a vaccine in place by December the 8th.

00:51:02.000 So we're working through that.

00:51:06.000 It's funny how the current Southwest cancellations have nothing to do with the Biden mandate, but pretty much that's all everybody is talking about is the Biden mandate.

00:51:14.000 So this has come to a head in the states of Texas and Florida.

00:51:18.000 So Texas has now basically issued a law saying that private businesses are not going to be able to mandate That their employees get vaxxed or tested.

00:51:30.000 Now, here's my view of this.

00:51:32.000 Private businesses can do what they want because this is still a free country. 0.99

00:51:35.000 If you are dumb enough to mandate that your employees get vaxxed, your problem. 0.94

00:51:40.000 And those employees are perfectly welcome to walk across the street and find someplace else to work. 0.98

00:51:43.000 The state should not be telling private employers what to do on a general level.

00:51:46.000 I don't believe that private employers have to bake the cake.

00:51:48.000 I don't believe that private employers have to comply with vax mandates.

00:51:51.000 And I don't believe that private employers should be forced not to vax mandate. 0.71

00:51:54.000 Yeah, right?

00:51:55.000 Private employers are private employers.

00:51:57.000 With that said, I don't think that the federal government should be doing this either. 0.97

00:52:00.000 So now you have these companies who are sort of trapped in between because the federal government was stupid enough to try and push these VAX mandates. 0.61

00:52:08.000 And now Texas is saying, we'll fine you if you do do the VAX mandates. 0.74

00:52:11.000 So what do you do?

00:52:12.000 Right?

00:52:12.000 If you are an employer in the state of Texas, do you comply with the feds or do you comply with the state?

00:52:17.000 Which one do you do?

00:52:19.000 This is the current dilemma.

00:52:21.000 According to the AP, The details are still unannounced.

00:52:32.000 More conservative justices are on the bench, of course.

00:52:35.000 I love that the media keep trying to claim that the courts have long upheld vaccine mandates.

00:52:39.000 Yes, from states, not from the federal government and not via OSHA emergency rules.

00:52:44.000 Yeah, but again, this is not about making things better for this administration.

00:52:48.000 This is not what it's about posing.

00:52:49.000 Here's Jen Psaki from the White House explaining that they are going to implement these mandates across the country. 0.56

00:52:55.000 When the president announced his vaccine mandates for businesses that, of course, we're waiting on OSHA regulations for as a next step, that was pursuant to federal law and the implementation of federal law because it's an executive order.

00:53:11.000 So our intention is to implement and continue to work to implement these requirements across the country, including in the states where there are attempts to oppose them.

00:53:22.000 Meanwhile, she, of course, is attacking Texas and Florida and suggesting they're putting politics ahead of public health, which is an incredible statement from an administration that has shifted its opinion on every major area of this pandemic and openly admits it's using the pandemic in order to push forward political policies on climate change and health care.

00:53:38.000 Here's Jen Psaki going after Texas. 1.00

00:53:40.000 Again, this administration is far more angry at Texas and Florida and people who defy their unconstitutional mandates than they are at, for example, the Chinese government that unleashed this virus.

00:53:52.000 Or than they are at people who continue to violate the liberties of individual American citizens.

00:53:59.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:53:59.000 Here's Jen Psaki.

00:54:01.000 Governor Abbott's executive order banning mandates.

00:54:04.000 And I would also note announcement by Governor DeSantis this morning, essentially banning the implementation of mandates.

00:54:11.000 a fit of familiar pattern that we've seen of putting politics ahead of public health.

00:54:16.000 Over 700,000 American lives have been lost due to COVID-19, including more than 56,000 in Florida and over 68,000 in Texas.

00:54:25.000 And every leader should be focused on supporting efforts to save lives and end the pandemic.

00:54:29.000 I noticed that when she did her little litany of how many people have died from coronavirus in particular states, she didn't do the age-adjusted stats on per capita deaths per state.

00:54:41.000 I noticed she didn't do that. 1.00

00:54:43.000 It turns out there are a lot of people who live in Texas.

00:54:45.000 It turns out that there are just a ton of people who live in Florida.

00:54:48.000 These are very, very populous states.

00:54:50.000 But I did notice that she was not citing the actual number of total deaths by state.

00:54:56.000 Because if she did, she might have to mention that number one is California, which has 70,000 deaths.

00:55:02.000 Or that number four is New York, which has 56,000 deaths.

00:55:05.000 Or that the following states are Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New Jersey, which have 30,000, 28,000, and 27,000 deaths.

00:55:13.000 She's only going to cite the evil, evil, terrible, no good, very bad states of Texas and Florida, which defy the federal government.

00:55:21.000 What is this going to turn into?

00:55:22.000 It's going to turn into spy on your neighbor.

00:55:25.000 That is the next move.

00:55:26.000 According to NBC News, President Joe Biden says his sweeping COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandate will boost the economy and save lives.

00:55:33.000 But as businesses prepare for the new requirement, they're wondering not only what will be in the regulation, but how it will be enforced.

00:55:39.000 The mandate, which will apply to organizations with at least 100 employees and cover an estimated 80 million workers, has already drawn threats of lawsuits from two dozen Republican attorneys general and prompted some people to vow to quit their jobs.

00:55:51.000 The OSHA was already handling a broad mission prior to the new rule.

00:55:56.000 To stretch its resources, the agency typically prioritizes high-risk industries and targets repeat offenders.

00:56:01.000 But OSHA only has 862 inspectors in early 2020.

00:56:03.000 So you're talking about 80 million employees that have to be audited by 862 inspectors.

00:56:09.000 Experts say the agency's small size relative to its responsibilities means it cannot enforce the rule by deploying a large number of inspectors.

00:56:17.000 While OSHA is now hiring, training takes time.

00:56:19.000 David Michaels, who ran OSHA for seven years, says he doesn't think these new inspectors will be out in the field anytime soon.

00:56:25.000 According to former OSHA senior policy advisor Debbie Berkowitz, quote, it would take 160 years for OSHA to get into every workplace just once.

00:56:32.000 It's an understaffed, under-resourced agency to begin with.

00:56:37.000 So, according to one of these experts, OSHA is going to tell employers they have to make sure potentially infectious workers don't enter the workplace, and they can do that in a number of different ways.

00:56:47.000 That includes regular testing and close tracking of worker compliance by businesses, or even work-from-home requirements.

00:56:54.000 If businesses don't abide by the regulation, OSHA will have some levers.

00:56:57.000 They can impose heavy fines, publicize to workers that they can complain if their employer is not complying, and they can do spot inspections.

00:57:03.000 But a key aspect of enforcing this requirement, differentiating it from some other OSHA regulations, will be the reaction of employees at risk of catching COVID in the workplace, who will serve as a force multiplier, experts say.

00:57:14.000 Lawrence Gostin, professor of public health at Johns Hopkins says, quote, The vast majority of employees want everyone to be vaccinated.

00:57:20.000 It's only a small but vocal minority who don't.

00:57:22.000 What you have to do is capture the attention of the silent majority and have them blow the whistle on any employer.

00:57:29.000 Encouraging whistleblowing is an extraordinarily important part of it, he said, adding that OSHA doesn't have to set foot inside most employers.

00:57:36.000 For a minority of businesses that don't comply, OSHA could publicize the consequences.

00:57:40.000 They'll issue big fines.

00:57:41.000 They'll issue press releases, which will embarrass some employers while sending a message to others.

00:57:46.000 So the basic idea here is naming and shaming.

00:57:49.000 Naming and shaming all the people who refuse to abide.

00:57:52.000 Okay, the goal of that is not going to be to get people vaccinated.

00:57:54.000 The goal of that is to create an enemies list for this administration as per their usual arrangement.

00:57:59.000 That enemies list will now include businesses that refuse to fire their employees who don't want to vaccinate. 0.54

00:58:04.000 That enemies list includes the domestic terrorist parents who call out school boards.

00:58:09.000 That enemies list is anybody, basically, who opposes the top-down commands and control notions pushed by the democratic establishment here.

00:58:19.000 And then they wonder why the economy is going south.

00:58:22.000 Keep pushing, guys.

00:58:22.000 We'll see how it works out for you.

00:58:24.000 It is a bold plan indeed.

00:58:27.000 Now, if you want to stick to this ideology, if you want to stick to the notion that you aren't capable of fixing everything and it's just your enemies who are in the way, then watch while your enemies multiply, because that is going to be the predictable result, as well it should be in a free country.

00:58:40.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:58:42.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Molls Show.

00:58:44.000 That is available right now.

00:58:45.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:58:45.000 Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:58:55.000 Executive Producer Jeremy Boring.

00:58:56.000 Our Supervising Producer is Mathis Glover.

00:58:59.000 Production Manager Pavel Lydowsky.

00:59:01.000 Associate Producer Bradford Carrington.

00:59:03.000 Post Producer Justin Barber.

00:59:04.000 The show is edited by Adam Sajevitz.

00:59:06.000 Audio is mixed by Mike Koromina.

00:59:08.000 Hair and Makeup is by Fabiola Cristina.

00:59:10.000 Production Assistant Jessica Kranz.

00:59:12.000 The Ben Shapiro Show is a Daily Wire production.

00:59:14.000 Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:59:17.000 Superman gets a little light in the loafers, the Italian people chant, Let's-a-go-a-Brandon, or actually a little bit of a tougher variation thereof on the streets of Rome, and Rolling Stone magazine attacks a rock and roll legend for not blindly going along with authority.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 13, 2021

The Biden Who Stole Christmas | Ep. 1353

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript