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00:00:00.000The 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.
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00:01:31.000Okay, 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.
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00:02:12.000They wanted fundamental change in the economy.
00:02:14.000They're about to get fundamental change in the economy.
00:02:16.000Here 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.
00:02:34.000The president wants to make fundamental change in our economy, and he feels coming out of the pandemic is exactly the time to do that.
00:02:41.000And 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.
00:03:18.000We should be able to do what we've always wanted to do and pursue utopia.
00:03:22.000And 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.
00:03:28.000I mean, when are we ever going to have the opportunity to do this again?
00:03:31.000I feel like the first part of the sentence has nothing to do with the second part of the sentence.
00:03:34.000It doesn't matter what the preconditions are.
00:03:36.000Your solution is always, what if we just restructure the economy in socialistic, redistributionist, big government ways?
00:03:43.000Because that's kind of what we want to do.
00:03:44.000And we're going to use whatever is happening right now as the excuse.
00:03:47.000The thing is, the taste of the American public for completely restructuring the American economy is not there.
00:03:53.000The American public is not into this stuff.
00:03:55.000And they shouldn't be into this stuff because the consequences of Joe Biden's policies are already being felt.
00:04:03.000I 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.
00:04:09.000Truly, 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.
00:04:20.000He was taking over, having control of both the Senate and the House.
00:04:23.000He was taking over with a vaccine already ready to go, already being trenched out at a million vaxes a day.
00:04:29.000In the middle of a pandemic, expectations were low.
00:04:33.000There was an artificial economic coma that the entire American economy had been put into.
00:04:38.000And all he had to do was just step back and let the vaccines roll out, and that's it.
00:04:44.000Instead, he had to toss money at things.
00:04:46.000He had to Blow money into the economy, creating inflation.
00:04:49.000He had to encourage the vaxxed to stay home and the unvaxxed to get fired.
00:04:53.000He 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.
00:05:07.000And 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.
00:05:35.000That'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.
00:05:45.000And they do this in order to artificially lower the inflation rate.
00:05:49.000But food and energy is where people actually spend most of their money.
00:05:51.000Core inflation, Rose 0.2% in September and 4% compared with a year ago.
00:05:56.000Core prices hit a three-decade high of 4.5% in June.
00:06:00.000The 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.
00:06:10.000Now, they're gonna try and blame everybody else.
00:06:12.000They're gonna try and blame the COVID problem in Asia and factories and all of this.
00:06:17.000But what we really are seeing, and this is the big thing, is a massive shortage of labor.
00:06:22.000According to CNBC, and this is the stat that matters, right now, there's over 10 million jobs in the United States that are open.
00:06:28.000And that means that everybody is clamoring for workers right now.
00:06:32.000And according to CNBC, people are not only not going back to work, they are dropping out of the workforce.
00:06:36.000There'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.
00:06:43.000It 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.
00:06:52.000I 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.
00:07:01.000But a significant percentage of Americans are.
00:07:03.000A huge percentage of Americans were like, you know what?
00:07:23.000Right, don't they have to put food on the table?
00:07:24.000The answer is, they're waiting for Joe Biden to pay them.
00:07:27.000The 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.
00:07:38.000The rate, which is measured against total employment, is the highest in a data series that goes back to December 2000.
00:07:43.000Going all the way back to December 2000, this is the highest quit rates we have seen.
00:07:49.000Quits have been seen historically as a level of confidence from workers who feel they are secure in finding employment elsewhere.
00:07:55.000The labor dynamics have changed during the COVID-19 crisis.
00:07:57.000Workers have left their jobs because of health concerns and childcare issues unique to the pandemic's circumstances.
00:08:03.000Or, alternatively, workers have left their jobs not because they are deeply worried about childcare.
00:08:07.000They left their job because Joe Biden is telling them that if they stay home, he is going to pay them.
00:08:11.000And Democrats are saying the same exact thing.
00:08:14.000And they are blaming the unvaxxed for all of that.
00:08:17.000A total of 892,000 workers in the food service and accommodation industries left their jobs.
00:08:23.000721,000 retail workers departed, along with 534,000 in healthcare and social assistance.
00:08:28.000By the way, I would bet many of those people are the unvaxxed.
00:08:31.000I 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.
00:08:41.000So the mandate probably created some of that unemployment.
00:08:44.000So 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.
00:09:22.000You should not be afraid to go back to work at this point in the pandemic.
00:09:25.000And 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.
00:09:31.000And number two, you have something gravely to fear while Joe Biden restructures the entire economy.
00:09:37.000Employment vacancies fell slightly to 10.4 million during the month.
00:09:54.000At least the Washington Post is being a little more honest about this.
00:09:58.000Eli 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.
00:10:06.000Some 4.3 million people quit jobs in August, according to the monthly survey.
00:10:09.000About 2.9% of the workforce, according to new data released Tuesday from the Department of Labor.
00:10:14.000The 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.
00:10:23.000Okay, except that the people who are quitting, many of them are not finding better jobs elsewhere.
00:10:27.000They're not taking up those 10.4 million open jobs.
00:10:30.000That's why there's still 10 million open jobs in the country.
00:10:33.000The reality is that many of them believe that if they quit, the government is going to pick up after them.
00:10:39.000The 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.
00:10:49.000People are seizing that opportunity and quitting their jobs, say some of the experts.
00:10:53.000But again, what we are seeing right now is that workers are feeling confident that they will be okay if they quit their jobs.
00:11:00.000And maybe that is because we sent them free money for a year.
00:11:03.000Maybe that is because the Democrats would like to spend another $5 trillion sending them free money.
00:11:10.000Maybe it's because they see that the Build Back Better agenda is really about the no-work agenda for a lot of people.
00:11:15.000This 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.
00:11:26.000Now, the predictable results of this is when there are not enough people working, you do get price inflation.
00:11:33.000People are not able to ship the products where they need to go.
00:11:36.000This is why you are seeing rising prices.
00:11:38.000So the same people who are being celebrated for quitting the workforce are also having trouble actually paying for all of this stuff.
00:11:44.000By 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.
00:11:52.000According to Yahoo News, steaks could soon become a champagne-like luxury thanks to the failures of the supply chains.
00:12:00.000We shouldn't have supply chain failures at this point.
00:12:03.000There was a lot of talk about this during the pandemic, supply chain failures.
00:12:06.000Now that we are pretty much past the worst of this, there really should not be these concerns.
00:12:12.000However, 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.
00:12:21.000Beef is not going to be super climate friendly, said Danish Crown Chief Executive Officer Scheisse Veljours in an interview with Danish newspaper Berlinski.
00:12:28.000It will be a luxury product we eat when we want to treat ourselves.
00:12:52.000Also, 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.
00:12:59.000According to Reuters, White House officials scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S.
00:13:04.000ports, highways, and railways warn that Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.
00:13:09.000The supply crisis, driven in part by the global 19 pandemic, not only threatens to dampen U.S.
00:13:13.000spending at a critical time, it also poses a political risk for President Joe Biden.
00:13:18.000The 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.
00:13:28.000Well, as long as you appoint a czar, man, we know that the history of czars in American federal government, wildly successful.
00:13:35.000You 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.
00:13:43.000All of those czars were basically failures.
00:13:45.000Biden 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.
00:13:54.000Well, if he talks, we know that when Joe Biden talks, number one, words barely make it out of his face.
00:13:59.000But number two, the world changes in magnificent ways when Joe Biden talks, probably the entire labor shortage that we're experiencing in the country.
00:14:07.000If he just jabbers at Walmart and Home Depot, probably they'll be relieved.
00:14:11.000I 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.
00:14:57.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:16:29.000They drive their Teslas to Whole Foods like AOC.
00:16:31.000But 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.
00:16:41.000One of the last true dollar stores, Dollar Tree, is about to give in to inflation and rising shipping costs.
00:16:48.000And many longtime shoppers are not happy about it.
00:16:52.000Willa Davenport has been shopping Dollar Tree for years.
00:16:55.000We found her picking up some paper towels and some birthday cards.
00:17:00.000At a time when drugstore greeting cards can cost six bucks, here they're still a dollar.
00:17:05.000As are wrapping paper and gift bags, food, home decor, even Halloween and Christmas items.
00:17:11.000I don't think it's right for them to raise the prices.
00:17:14.000You go in there to get for a dollar, then they tell you it's a dollar fifty.
00:17:19.000Are they going to change all their signs?
00:17:21.000Maybe this lady ought to start chanting, let's go, Brandon, because it's very clear who is responsible for all of this.
00:17:27.000You 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?
00:17:35.000And meanwhile, over in Minneapolis, they're reporting that shoppers are going to see empty shelves on Black Friday.
00:17:39.000So you're going to go out for the sale.
00:17:40.000There ain't going to be nothing there.
00:17:42.000Holiday shoppers are already being warned to hit the stores early.
00:17:47.000Marissa Silva, a toy expert, says the industry is being hit hard by the shipping crisis.
00:17:53.000Silva says there's a delay of about six to eight weeks for a lot of toys.
00:17:57.000She also warns by Black Friday there may not be much on the store shelves.
00:18:02.000Ongoing supply chain disruptions and that microchip shortage will both cut down on inventory and drive up the costs of toys that are available.
00:18:11.000Okay, so all of this you can lay at the feet of the current President of the United States.
00:18:15.000The IMF, for its part, is warning of inflation and a slowing recovery as it lowers its forecast.
00:18:21.000According 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.
00:18:33.000The IMF lowered its entire 2021 global growth forecast to 5.9% down from the 6% projected in July.
00:18:38.000Remember, there were people who were projecting that the GDP in the United States was going to grow by double digits this year.
00:18:43.000And 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.
00:18:50.000Meanwhile, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Rafael Bostock, he said on Tuesday that things are going to get worse.
00:18:58.000He 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.
00:19:07.000He said data from multiple sources point to these lasting longer than most initially thought.
00:19:11.000By this definition, the forces are not transitory.
00:19:25.000Maybe this is the feature, not the bug.
00:19:26.000Because 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.
00:19:33.000And it means that we are borrowing money from the future to pay people to stay out of work right now.
00:19:38.000Instead 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.
00:19:46.000They have leverage over their companies.
00:19:49.000This 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.
00:20:01.000She said, this is last year, April of last year, there's a lot of talk about people getting back to work.
00:20:05.000There's only one problem, of course, which is that it takes two to tango.
00:20:07.000doesn't think people should go back to work.
00:21:09.000We'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.
00:21:21.000Okay, so question, who pays for all this?
00:21:25.000Well, the answer for the Democrats is nobody.
00:21:28.000The answer for the Democrats is that we just keep spending.
00:21:30.000And 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.
00:21:37.000The idea is that in order to rethink, reimagine work, reimagine reality, all we have to do is just wishcast it.
00:21:45.000We 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.
00:21:54.000We can do that so long as the government just pays us to stay home and then we have leverage.
00:21:58.000So 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.
00:22:14.000And Democrats are pushing this very hard.
00:22:16.000I don't think that at this point they like, I don't think that Joe Biden sees this as a crisis.
00:22:20.000I think that again, Jen Psaki and Joe Biden might see this as kind of an opera.
00:22:23.000It'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.
00:22:31.000Reimagining economics means tell people not to go back to work and they shouldn't go back to work.
00:22:36.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:22:37.000until 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.
00:22:45.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:23:53.000So 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.
00:24:25.000Presumably the government is going to make up that gap.
00:24:27.000Now where's the government going to get all that money?
00:24:29.000According 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.
00:24:38.000So 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.
00:24:50.000And they're going to be paying high additional taxes as well.
00:24:52.000No way that this is going to go wrong in any particular way.
00:24:58.000Now, you might think at this point that if Joe Biden had any semblance of political acumen, he might rethink what he is doing here.
00:25:06.000He 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.
00:25:32.000That is not what this administration is doing.
00:25:34.000They are so committed to their ideological vision of how the world should work, that they are neglecting how the world actually does work.
00:25:41.000And 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.
00:25:49.000Democrats 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.
00:25:58.000And 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.
00:26:14.000She 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.
00:26:25.000So 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.
00:26:38.000Which is usually the Democratic game, right?
00:26:40.000Because once you get people on the heroin of government money, it is very hard to get people off the heroin of government money.
00:27:25.000Tens 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.
00:27:37.000Forget all of the propaganda about how we leave the poor to die in the United States.
00:27:45.000It is in fact comparable to many Western European countries in terms of how much we spend.
00:27:48.000We are not a full-scale, gung-ho, capitalist, don't-take-care-of-the-poor country.
00:27:53.000We are a capitalist country with a very strong social safety net, which has been built up over many years.
00:27:58.000Has not done nearly what it was promised to do.
00:28:01.000But here's the thing, Democrats aren't even telling the truth.
00:28:05.000Because 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.
00:28:13.000It is an ideological goal to have the government take the place of private initiative in American life.
00:28:19.000Which is why there's a debate right now among Democrats over means testing.
00:28:41.000Because again, the real goal is not to help the poor.
00:28:44.000The real goal is how many people can we get hooked on our government programs so then they vote for us in the future.
00:28:50.000According 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.
00:29:03.000On 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.
00:29:15.000On 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.
00:29:25.000Invoking 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.
00:29:36.000And that last part of the sentence is the part that matters.
00:29:41.000You 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.
00:29:49.000But if you just helicopter cash to everybody, then everybody goes, oh, I'm going to vote for the helicopter cash too.
00:29:54.000One 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.
00:30:03.000Because they are giant Ponzi schemes essentially.
00:30:06.000Pelosi has not indicated where she stands on income eligibility.
00:30:09.000She 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.
00:30:16.000She said, mostly we'd be cutting back on years and something like that.
00:30:19.000Again, it's all games, but this is all about electoral.
00:30:21.000They want the massive shift in how Americans think of the government.
00:30:25.000If you think Democrats hated the last year, Democrats have loved the last year.
00:30:28.000It's their favorite thing that has ever happened in the history of mankind.
00:30:31.000The government came in and they shut down every private business in the country, essentially.
00:30:47.000And 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.
00:31:05.000So this has led to the bizarre spectacle of Nancy Pelosi claiming that this bill, which is not, like, Americans are not up for this.
00:31:12.000If you ask Americans, would you like free money in polls, they will say yes.
00:31:16.000If 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.
00:31:27.000Nancy Pelosi, she gives away the game here.
00:31:31.000So she says a couple of things that are really incredible.
00:31:42.000One 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.
00:31:59.000It has a lot in it, and we'll have to continue to make sure the public does.
00:32:03.000But whether they know it or not, they overwhelmingly support it.
00:32:07.000Whether they know what's in the bill or not, then they support it.
00:32:11.000Which goes really well with her old-fashioned statement about Obamacare, that we'll have to pass it to know what's in it.
00:32:17.000I'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.
00:32:30.000By 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.
00:32:36.000Okay, then she's very angry because she says, yeah, well, members of the press are like, well, it's not that popular.
00:32:42.000A lot of Americans are having doubts about this.
00:32:45.000Like, you're really not making a strong case for this bill.
00:32:48.000And Nancy Pelosi's like, why don't you make a case for the bill?
00:33:04.000Only 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.
00:33:14.000So 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?
00:33:21.000Well, 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.
00:33:27.000Family medical leave, climate, the issues that are in there.
00:33:32.000You could do a better job of selling it.
00:33:34.000Maybe 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.
00:33:45.000Maybe 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.
00:33:53.000Maybe 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.
00:33:59.000I do love that Democrats just assume that it's the press's job to sell their garbage.
00:34:04.000Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is pushing forward the idea that there should be no debt limit.
00:34:07.000The House is trying to raise the debt limit again.
00:34:09.000Because, of course, debt doesn't matter.
00:34:11.000Because money's imaginary to these people anyway.
00:34:14.000And seriously, how many of these Democratic leaders have ever run a business?
00:34:39.000Suggestions that members have, one that really was endorsed a while back by Mitch McConnell, but who knows, you know, who knows.
00:34:49.000But 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.
00:35:07.000That decision could be overruled by the Congress.
00:35:16.000Of 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.
00:35:23.000And if you think this isn't going to be intrusive for you, it is going to be intrusive.
00:35:51.000You're gonna need to give them access to pretty much all of your life decisions.
00:35:55.000They're gonna have to control how you educate your kids.
00:35:56.000They're gonna have to control how you take money out of the bank.
00:35:59.000One 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.
00:36:09.000If 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.
00:36:18.000Here is Nancy Pelosi being very enthusiastic about it.
00:36:21.000She says, absolutely, we need to keep that.
00:36:45.000Now, 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.
00:36:53.000So Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, she literally said this.
00:36:56.000Here she was explaining that the reason they need to audit $600 transactions from banks is to stop the billionaires from being tax frauds.
00:37:04.000You want banks to report transactions of $600 or more.
00:38:21.000They're not trying to control your life at all.
00:38:23.000Meanwhile, speaking of trying to control your life, we'll get to Joe Biden and the big COVID battle that is breaking out right now.
00:38:28.000First, 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.
00:40:53.000Forget all of the propaganda that you're hearing from many people on the right and many people on the left.
00:40:56.000The reality is the vaccines do prevent people from getting hospitalized and dying.
00:41:00.000And 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.
00:41:12.000It 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.
00:41:18.000When the virus goes away, the antibodies go away.
00:41:20.000But 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.
00:41:25.000Which 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.
00:41:33.000That said, if you get vaxxed, you're good to go.
00:42:26.000Government can solve many of the things that make life risky.
00:42:29.000Government cannot do all those things.
00:42:31.000But Joe Biden came into office promising he would do all of those things.
00:42:33.000And 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.
00:42:40.000We need to go back to our regular lives and just deal with it.
00:42:43.000Instead of Joe Biden saying that, and he can't do it.
00:42:45.000He literally can't do it because he ran against Trump saying it last year.
00:42:48.000Now 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.
00:43:04.000And 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.
00:43:10.000Now, he knows that that is not going to solve the problem.
00:43:14.000But 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.
00:43:19.000He knows that because people are quitting.
00:43:21.000He knows that because large swaths of the country are not going to comply.
00:43:24.000He knows that because when he does this, he actually makes people less likely to comply.
00:43:30.000The 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.
00:43:40.000Instead, they're just going to turn it into a liberty issue.
00:43:43.000Because at that point, it does become a liberty issue.
00:43:46.000And the vaccines didn't have to be a liberty issue.
00:43:47.000They could have just been a science issue.
00:43:49.000And then you choose to take them or you choose not to take them, but your liberty has not been infringed.
00:43:53.000But once Joe Biden starts mandating at every level he can that you must take the vaccine, this doesn't become a science issue anymore.
00:44:12.000Now, 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.
00:44:20.000They're in the middle of a bit of a COVID spike.
00:44:21.000It's going to get worse as the winter goes on because people go indoors.
00:44:23.000When people go indoors, they breathe on each other and then COVID gets spread.
00:44:26.000Watch for it in the Northeast this winter.
00:44:28.000Right now, it is still nice and warm in most parts of the Northeast.
00:44:31.000The weather in New York right now is in the 60s and 70s this week all the way up to the near 80s.
00:44:37.000You 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.
00:44:45.000Okay, but put aside the fact that the media are utterly unconcerned by blue states that have COVID spikes.
00:44:51.000That'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.
00:44:59.000The real problem here for Joe Biden is that the American people don't trust him on this issue anymore.
00:45:04.000According 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.
00:45:14.000That is a 16 point decline from the inauguration.
00:45:17.000According to Cliff Young, President of Ipsos U.S.
00:45:19.000Public Affairs, he's basically losing the expectations game.
00:45:23.000Once the Delta variant raised its ugly head, it affected people's lives.
00:45:25.000Now they're adjusting their expectations, which is not good for him.
00:45:28.000Now the reality is that The expectations that he set were never accurate.
00:46:04.000But Joe Biden gets to pretend that it's everybody else's fault.
00:46:08.000And 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.
00:46:23.000OK, so speaking of the vaccine mandates, here is the current status.
00:46:27.000So the OSHA rule has now apparently been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget.
00:46:32.000This 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.
00:46:42.000That has now been submitted to the OMB.
00:46:43.000The OMB has not made that rule public at this point.
00:46:46.000So we don't know where the holes in it are.
00:46:47.000We 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.
00:46:53.000They can't do anything yet because the rule has neither been released nor finalized at this point.
00:46:57.000But the Democrats have a problem when it comes to this rule.
00:47:00.000The biggest problem is how the hell are you going to enforce it?
00:47:03.000You have hundreds of thousands of businesses in the United States.
00:47:06.000Tens of thousands of businesses with over 100 employees.
00:47:08.000How do you even enforce something like this?
00:47:12.000According 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.
00:47:22.000Now, 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.
00:47:31.000But for a lot of other businesses, That ain't gonna happen.
00:47:34.000So the real point here is to make the rule.
00:47:37.000The 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.
00:48:05.000It's always about the thing that's behind what they are saying it's about.
00:48:09.000For the Biden administration, it's not about making the economy stronger.
00:48:11.000It's about completely reshifting the way that we do economics in this country to make people dependent on government.
00:48:16.000When 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.
00:48:23.000Maybe take into account natural immunity, which this administration steadfastly refuses to do.
00:48:30.000It's about signaling to his base that he's doing his best, and it's just those other guys who are the bad guys.
00:48:34.000I mean, how stupid are some of these mandates from the Biden administration?
00:48:40.000So 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.
00:48:48.000So any company that is a federal contractor already has a VAX mandate.
00:49:07.000You work in your own house, and your company, if it contracts with the federal government, must vax you or test you.
00:49:13.000Quote, 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.
00:49:28.000A covered contractor employee's residence is not a covered contractor workplace.
00:49:32.000So 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.
00:49:40.000So 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.
00:49:54.000Meanwhile, the Southwest CEO, Southwest has been plagued by massive flight cancellations.
00:49:59.000They keep saying it's the weather or alternative issues.
00:50:06.000They're saying they're not going to comply with the vaccine mandate.
00:50:10.000Right 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.
00:50:30.000The Southwest CEO admitted yesterday, yeah, it really is Joe Biden.
00:50:32.000We 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.
00:50:37.000As I think you probably know, I've never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate.
00:50:45.000I'm not in favor of that, never have been.
00:50:48.000But 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.
00:51:06.000It'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.
00:51:14.000So this has come to a head in the states of Texas and Florida.
00:51:18.000So 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.
00:51:55.000Private employers are private employers.
00:51:57.000With that said, I don't think that the federal government should be doing this either.
00:52:00.000So 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.
00:52:08.000And now Texas is saying, we'll fine you if you do do the VAX mandates.
00:52:49.000Here's Jen Psaki from the White House explaining that they are going to implement these mandates across the country.
00:52:55.000When 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.
00:53:11.000So 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.
00:53:22.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:53:40.000Again, 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.
00:53:52.000Or than they are at people who continue to violate the liberties of individual American citizens.
00:54:01.000Governor Abbott's executive order banning mandates.
00:54:04.000And I would also note announcement by Governor DeSantis this morning, essentially banning the implementation of mandates.
00:54:11.000a fit of familiar pattern that we've seen of putting politics ahead of public health.
00:54:16.000Over 700,000 American lives have been lost due to COVID-19, including more than 56,000 in Florida and over 68,000 in Texas.
00:54:25.000And every leader should be focused on supporting efforts to save lives and end the pandemic.
00:54:29.000I 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.
00:55:26.000According to NBC News, President Joe Biden says his sweeping COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandate will boost the economy and save lives.
00:55:33.000But as businesses prepare for the new requirement, they're wondering not only what will be in the regulation, but how it will be enforced.
00:55:39.000The 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.
00:55:51.000The OSHA was already handling a broad mission prior to the new rule.
00:55:56.000To stretch its resources, the agency typically prioritizes high-risk industries and targets repeat offenders.
00:56:01.000But OSHA only has 862 inspectors in early 2020.
00:56:03.000So you're talking about 80 million employees that have to be audited by 862 inspectors.
00:56:09.000Experts say the agency's small size relative to its responsibilities means it cannot enforce the rule by deploying a large number of inspectors.
00:56:17.000While OSHA is now hiring, training takes time.
00:56:19.000David Michaels, who ran OSHA for seven years, says he doesn't think these new inspectors will be out in the field anytime soon.
00:56:25.000According to former OSHA senior policy advisor Debbie Berkowitz, quote, it would take 160 years for OSHA to get into every workplace just once.
00:56:32.000It's an understaffed, under-resourced agency to begin with.
00:56:37.000So, 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.
00:56:47.000That includes regular testing and close tracking of worker compliance by businesses, or even work-from-home requirements.
00:56:54.000If businesses don't abide by the regulation, OSHA will have some levers.
00:56:57.000They can impose heavy fines, publicize to workers that they can complain if their employer is not complying, and they can do spot inspections.
00:57:03.000But 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.
00:57:14.000Lawrence Gostin, professor of public health at Johns Hopkins says, quote, The vast majority of employees want everyone to be vaccinated.
00:57:20.000It's only a small but vocal minority who don't.
00:57:22.000What you have to do is capture the attention of the silent majority and have them blow the whistle on any employer.
00:57:29.000Encouraging whistleblowing is an extraordinarily important part of it, he said, adding that OSHA doesn't have to set foot inside most employers.
00:57:36.000For a minority of businesses that don't comply, OSHA could publicize the consequences.
00:57:41.000They'll issue press releases, which will embarrass some employers while sending a message to others.
00:57:46.000So the basic idea here is naming and shaming.
00:57:49.000Naming and shaming all the people who refuse to abide.
00:57:52.000Okay, the goal of that is not going to be to get people vaccinated.
00:57:54.000The goal of that is to create an enemies list for this administration as per their usual arrangement.
00:57:59.000That enemies list will now include businesses that refuse to fire their employees who don't want to vaccinate.
00:58:04.000That enemies list includes the domestic terrorist parents who call out school boards.
00:58:09.000That enemies list is anybody, basically, who opposes the top-down commands and control notions pushed by the democratic establishment here.
00:58:19.000And then they wonder why the economy is going south.
00:58:27.000Now, 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.
00:58:40.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:58:42.000In the meantime, go check out The Michael Molls Show.
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