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00:00:03.000The Washington Post implodes over a retweeted joke, makes a total mockery of itself in the process, and California liberals get mugged by reality.
00:01:30.000Well, this is hilarious news out of my old home state of California.
00:01:34.000I abandoned California to its own predations just a couple of years ago and moved to a much better state in Florida.
00:01:40.000But it seems that even in California, where the liberals roam free, even the liberals are occasionally mugged by reality.
00:01:46.000And that is precisely what happened last night in San Francisco.
00:01:49.000According to the Daily Wire, San Francisco voters sent shockwaves throughout the political world on Tuesday night, removing Woke District Attorney Chase Bowden from office, ending his disastrous tenure in office.
00:01:58.000Bowden could not overcome a coalition of more safety-minded Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who were furious over the rampant property crimes, open drug use, persistent retail theft, and skyrocketing number of certain crimes.
00:02:07.000Voters strongly endorsed ousting the reform-minded DA, as partial returns showed about 60% of voters supporting the recall, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:02:14.000Since Bowden took office in January 2020, burglaries are up 45%, homicides are up 37%.
00:02:21.000Bowden was backed by George Soros, of course, who has backed far-left prosecutors all over America.
00:02:27.000And Bowden claimed that the embarrassing defeat was a victory saying, quote, we have already won because we've redefined the way people think about the role of the district attorney's office.
00:02:33.000Well, you certainly did that because it turns out that when you redefine prosecutor to mean just let people do whatever they want to do, criminally speaking, people don't like that.
00:02:42.000Even in San Francisco, the only people, if you look at the precinct by precinct breakdown in San Francisco, the only places that voted in favor of retaining Chase Bowden, Who again is the woke district attorney who basically decided not to prosecute any crime at all, particularly when it came to things like homelessness or when it came to robbing retail establishments.
00:03:01.000Which all bled up into higher-level crimes.
00:03:03.000He had feces on every street corner and heroin needles in every park.
00:03:07.000And people basically just walking into the local CVS, ripping open the razor cabinet and pulling everything off the shelves into bags and just walking right up.
00:03:16.000Because of Chasey Bowden, pretty much the only places in San Francisco that voted in favor of retaining Chasey Bowden were white, woke, liberal precincts.
00:03:28.000Everybody hates this guy and they wanted him gone.
00:03:30.000Which suggests that the Democratic Party is in a world of hurt because they have always counted on the San Francisco coalition going national.
00:03:37.000Their idea for 2022 and beyond has been white woke liberals combined with minority voters will boost us to victory.
00:03:44.000And it turns out that minorities are much more in touch with reality than apparently the privileged white woke liberals in San Francisco.
00:03:51.000The true white privilege lives in San Francisco, where a disproportionate number of white liberals are living absurd heights of privilege In downtown skyscrapers, while the rest of the city struggles to get by, rent is utterly unaffordable.
00:04:05.000The crime is relegated to specific neighborhoods.
00:04:08.000It is more prominent in specific neighborhoods that the white woke liberals who backchase about never have to set foot in.
00:04:14.000So the ouster of Chesa Bowden is obviously good news for the state of California.
00:04:21.000That wasn't the only piece of interesting news out of California.
00:04:24.000Although I have to say, the media's response to the ouster of Chesa Bowden, the left-wing media's cries to the heaven, it's really, really funny.
00:04:47.000The idea that you're now getting from left-wing media is that the reason that Chase Abaddon is no longer going to be the DA over in San Francisco is not because liberals got mugged by reality.
00:04:54.000It's because San Francisco was never that liberal to begin with.
00:05:03.000In the mayoral race, there is a runoff that is now going to happen between billionaire developer Rick Caruso and representative Karen Bass.
00:05:09.000Karen Bass, of course, is a longtime Democratic congresswoman from the area.
00:05:13.000She was considered as a possible VP pick for Joe Biden, although she was kind of one of the less known candidates.
00:05:21.000She's a black female, so that immediately put her in the top tier for Joe Biden, who wanted a black female vice presidential candidate.
00:05:26.000She's done nothing really of note as a congressperson in Los Angeles, other than continue to pander to her left-wing constituency.
00:05:33.000Rick Caruso, by contrast, actually built The Grove, which is one of the major shopping centers in Los Angeles.
00:06:20.000He has contributed to Republicans in the past.
00:06:22.000He is certainly not a far left Democrat who's in favor of homelessness, drug use, and burning down major areas of the city ranging from Melrose Boulevard to the Grove itself.
00:06:32.000According to Fox News, the candidates appear on the same ballot.
00:06:34.000The top two winners move on to the general election.
00:06:36.000Caruso One, 42% of the vote to passes 39 at the time the AP called the race.
00:06:41.000Caruso is a pro-business billionaire developer who's running a law and order type campaign.
00:06:45.000A former Republican who became a Democrat just before launching his mayoral bid, Caruso dished out tens of millions of his own money to finance his campaign and flood LA with ads that spotlight his pledges for quick action to stem what he calls a city in decay.
00:06:57.000Bass is backed by the entire Democratic establishment, ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Cory Booker of New Jersey and James Clyburn in South Carolina, as well as the Hollywood contingent, Steven Spielberg and J.J.
00:07:11.000He has some backing in the entertainment world, including Kim Kardashian and Snoop Dogg.
00:07:16.000The Democrats, of course, are pushing back against Caruso, suggesting that he is a closeted Republican.
00:07:20.000We can never have a closeted Republican in the city of Los Angeles, even to restore some form of order.
00:07:25.000But the fact that Caruso performed this well, again, I think that he is the underdog in this race for mayor.
00:07:33.000With that said, his performance is definitely a bright spot for people who are still interested In some sort of semblance of sanity in California.
00:07:43.000It turns out that the left can push too far.
00:07:46.000And when the left pushes too far, reality smacks them direct in the face.
00:07:50.000It's a bad bellwether for Democrats come 2022.
00:07:53.000Because the Democrats, again, nationally, have embraced a far-left program, and they've been unable to control any aspect of that program and implementation.
00:08:01.000So, if California is any sort of leading indicator, a bleeding edge indicator, it's a bad night for progressives.
00:08:06.000And that is going to continue throughout the year.
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00:09:20.000Meanwhile, one of the progressive's favorite media outlets is the Washington Post, and it is fun to watch the wokes just burn down the Washington Post.
00:09:28.000There are all these mainstream liberal institutions.
00:09:29.000This may be the story of liberalism in our time, is how mainstream liberalism was overtaken by progressives who just beat people's heads against curbs.
00:09:59.000Now the Democratic Party has been completely hijacked by its progressive base, and they have no comeback to the intersectional coalition, because the Democratic Party for so long built itself on the idea that its opponents were racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, that when those charges are hurled against the institutions of Democrats themselves, when those charges are hurled against liberal institutions, they have no defense mechanism, they have no immune system.
00:10:21.000And this is precisely what is happening right now at the Washington Post.
00:10:25.000So, the Washington Post has a couple of problems.
00:10:27.000One is that they employ really bad journalists.
00:10:29.000And the other problem at the Washington Post is that they've let the wokes take over.
00:10:47.000He is a person who likes to tweet all sorts of progressive memes all about how Benghazi was not a big deal, or how cancel culture is not really a thing.
00:10:55.000Well, there's always a great irony and a bit of sick enjoyment on my part when people who propose that cancel culture is not a thing then get cancelled by the progressive left.
00:11:04.000So, the apparently deep evil that Dave Weigel performed over at the Washington Post is he retweeted a joke.
00:11:11.000And it was a bad joke, it was kind of a stupid joke about how all girls are bi, either bipolar or bisexual.
00:11:16.000Which is a dumb joke, especially because, again, why not both or why not neither?
00:11:22.000It's just, it doesn't make any sense as a joke, but Dave Wagle found it funny, and so he retweeted it.
00:11:26.000Okay, not my taste in jokes, but is that the end of the world?
00:11:30.000Apparently, it is the end of the world, because Felicia Sonmez, who has an outstanding lawsuit against the Washington Post for discrimination that was basically thrown out of court, she immediately jumped on this and retweeted it, him, And then basically called for him to be suspended or fired.
00:11:44.000And now she has gone on this crusade to rid the Washington Post of all the sexist, racist, bigots, and homophobes.
00:11:51.000And really what she's doing, what it seems like Felicia Sonmez is doing, is she's begging to be fired so she can then claim retaliatory harassment.
00:11:58.000And then she can sue the Washington Post.
00:11:59.000So we now have an HR game of chicken over at the Washington Post over intersectional wokeness.
00:12:07.000Number one, because when you let your HR department completely run your company, you don't have a company anymore.
00:12:11.000Number two, when you have one bad apple who decides that they are going to basically turn the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion against the institutions that supposedly promote them, it's really enjoyable.
00:12:26.000Again, in the same way that you get a certain sick pleasure from watching San Francisco embrace and then have to run away from Chasey Bowden, you get a certain sick pleasure from watching the Washington Post destroy itself.
00:12:36.000The Washington Post slogan, democracy dies in darkness.
00:12:39.000Felicia Sondland just kind of walked in and turned off the light.
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00:13:55.000So Felicia Sonmez put out a massive long thread about how terrible the Washington Post is.
00:14:02.000She put out this long thread in which she cites Stephen Jay and Maria Montgomery, the post national and deputy national directors as of early 2020, an internal report with response to newsroom ride outrage over a suspension that she experienced in early 2020.
00:14:18.000There are recommendations for social media use on the national desk.
00:14:23.000She said the report, spearheaded by now national editor Mattia Gold, was based on interviews with more than 50 of my talented colleagues on the Washington Post National Desk.
00:14:30.000It was the result of weeks of hard work by nine of my colleagues.
00:14:32.000I was among those interviewed for the report.
00:14:35.000Among its findings, reporters use social media as an outlet when they feel their voice isn't heard in the newsroom.
00:14:39.000We were surprised by how defensive they were of the content that made many women in the newsroom uncomfortable.
00:14:43.000One colleague said of the leadership's response to staff concerns, the lesson many of the reporters took away from that was that going to management is a dead issue.
00:15:05.000said, it's from Sally Busby. Dear colleagues, in this newsroom, we share many important common values, a belief in the power of journalism, hatred of racist or sexist behavior, language or systems, a conviction that when people come together in good faith, with respect and trust, it creates an environment that enables each person to do powerful and important work. So already you're on the wrong track here.
00:15:25.000So, first of all, she is essentially admitting that the entire newsroom is built around Ibram X. Kendi principles, which is hatred of racist or sexist behavior, language, or systems.
00:15:34.000So, she's not so much worried about intent.
00:15:36.000She's not so much worried about behavior.
00:15:38.000Anything that has a possible racist or sexist outcome is against the principles of the Washington Post, by which she means any inequality is inequity.
00:15:47.000Then she says, we also occasionally disagree.
00:15:49.000We come from different backgrounds and experiences.
00:15:53.000That combination of shared values and diversity of viewpoints is our greatest strength.
00:15:57.000As you will see, diversity of viewpoint not big at the Washington Post.
00:15:59.000Today, in the strongest of terms, I want to reiterate the importance of the following policies, which we will enforce.
00:16:05.000We do not tolerate colleagues attacking colleagues, either face-to-face or online.
00:16:08.000Respect for others is critical to any civil society, including our newsroom.
00:16:11.000The newsroom social media policy points specifically to the need for collegiality.
00:16:16.000We also do not tolerate violations of our policy prohibiting workplace harassment and our policy on prohibition of discrimination, which further set forth our expectations for employees and are designed to create an inclusive environment where all post employees can perform their best work.
00:16:30.000Felicia Sonmez has spent the last several days attacking her post colleagues.
00:16:34.000They're not doing anything about it because what they are afraid of is that she's going to hit them with the second of those principles, right?
00:16:42.000They're afraid that if they punish her for harassing her own colleagues, then she's going to sue them for harassment, which is really funny.
00:16:48.000In the last year, says Sally Busby, we have enforced through conversations, mediation, and disciplinary measures, egregious violations of our social media policy, just as we have enforced our overall standards.
00:16:58.000As we have said, we plan to update the social media policy.
00:17:00.000Until then, the current policy remains in effect.
00:17:02.000It states, when it comes to your, when it comes to your colleagues, be constructive If you have a question or concern about something that has been published, speak to your colleague directly.
00:17:11.000We respect and do not wish to inhibit any employee's right to raise legitimate workplace issues.
00:17:15.000We know it takes bravery to call out problems.
00:17:16.000We pledge to openly and honestly address problems brought to us.
00:17:19.000We moved quickly to show our intolerance for a sexist retweet sent by an employee last Friday.
00:17:23.000To be clear, we will enforce our policies and standards.
00:17:26.000I am proud of each of you and your work.
00:17:32.000Because Felicia Sonmez has an outstanding lawsuit.
00:17:35.000So she doesn't mean that Felicia Sonmez should be cordial to her colleagues or anything remotely like that.
00:17:40.000She just means that everybody should basically do what Felicia Sonmez says.
00:17:43.000So the entire, that letter talks about diversity of viewpoint inside the Washington Post.
00:17:49.000Remember, this is your great objective journalism outlet.
00:17:52.000These are the people who must have their work promoted.
00:17:54.000According to Dan Pfeiffer, the former Obama official who recently appeared on MSNBC to declare that Daily Wire should essentially be shut down, and a co-host of Pod Save America.
00:18:06.000By the way, this does show you the radical imbalance between the perspectives on the right and the perspective on the left.
00:18:10.000I've told you, I've said on this show multiple times, probably at least once a month for the past several years, if you want to get a full range of opinion, listen to this show and then listen to Pod Save America.
00:18:19.000Meanwhile, the co-host of Pod Save America is calling For the Daily Wire and shows like this one to essentially be shut down by social media, which demonstrates the wild imbalance.
00:18:28.000Anyway, people like Dan Pfeiffer say that the Washington Post ought to be given broader purchase.
00:18:32.000It's really important because they're just such great journalismers.
00:18:35.000Well, they're such great journalismers that in the aftermath of Sally Busby sending this stern warning to Post employees, they all started sending what appeared to be hostage videos to translate it into text.
00:18:50.000And it looks like soldiers with a gun to their head in Vietnam now blinking out messages.
00:18:56.000So here are just some of the messages.
00:18:57.000And remember, this is from the diversity of viewpoint, free speech, free press.
00:19:01.000We have tolerance for each other's opinions, Washington Post.
00:19:06.000I'm going to read these to you straight because I think you don't get the effect of just how down the line and echo chamber the Washington Post is unless I read these to you consecutively.
00:19:15.000So you got Michael Scherer, he writes, quote, I know the Washington Post has a remarkably collaborative newsroom filled with journalists and editors who may stumble at times, myself included, but are always working toward being better.
00:19:28.000Nick Miroff writes, The collaborative newsroom culture built by the Graham family has survived plenty of tests and trials, and it'll survive Twitter.
00:19:34.000Thank you, Sally Busby, for making clear we're all in this together.
00:19:37.000I'm deeply proud to be a part of the Washington Post.
00:20:19.000Tweeted, the post is not perfect, no institution is, but I'm proud to work here.
00:20:23.000I love coming to work almost every single day knowing my colleagues are collegial, collaborative, and fun humans, not to mention talents and journalists who are always striving to do better.
00:20:31.000Well, I mean, if the message goes out for management and you parrot it that closely, I'm going to go with this echo, like again, so what exactly, you know what this says about the Washington Post?
00:20:41.000It says that it's such an unbelievably rich, Echo Chamber.
00:20:44.000I mean, on the order of the Manchurian candidate, Echo Chamber.
00:20:47.000Like, propagandistic beliefs being drilled into people's heads that they repeat them, like, verbatim.
00:20:54.000If you've never seen the original Manchurian candidate, there's this famous sequence where all of these soldiers who have been kidnapped and sent to Manchuria for brainwashing, they come back and there's a soldier among them who's been Essentially created as a plant to kill a presidential candidate.
00:21:10.000And they are all testifying on behalf of this guy, Raymond Shaw.
00:21:12.000And they all say, Raymond Shaw is the kindest, gentlest, most wonderful, warmest human being I've ever met in my life.
00:21:22.000What this says is that when it comes to the Washington Post, its management, its processes, there is no actual process of weeding out bad apples.
00:21:32.000The only people who are likely to be punished are the people who end up being yelled at on Twitter, and then the Post responds.
00:21:37.000And the way you can tell this is because their actual journalistic standards have declined markedly.
00:21:41.000The most obvious example being the ex-global Taylor Lorenz, the worst reporter in America.
00:21:46.000She used to work for the New York Times where she harassed people, then she moved to the Washington Post where she harasses people, and her journalism just stinks.
00:21:53.000According to the Washington Examiner, Stephen Miller, writing for them, The Washington Post has found itself embroiled in several dramas involving several of its reporters.
00:22:01.000Personal grievances spilled over onto Twitter and then some, resulting in the suspension of Dave Weigel for his retweet of an off-color joke.
00:22:07.000Still, the drama spurred by the Post's Felicia Sonmez and her own grievances have overshadowed yet more questionable reporting by technology reporter Taylor Lorenz.
00:22:14.000The post was forced to issue multiple corrections to a story written by Lorenz and engaged in some questionable stealth edits.
00:22:19.000These centered on a published claim that Lorenz had reached out to two subjects of her story.
00:22:23.000The subjects are YouTube influencers whom she labeled pro-Johnny Depp on the heels of the much-publicized defamation trial between Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard.
00:22:30.000Journalists like Lorenz had tried to use the trial to wedge in the topic of harassment and abuse in the MeToo movement.
00:22:35.000As it turns out, Lorenz did not attempt to gain a comment or respond, despite the post's original story claiming the opposite.
00:22:41.000Two YouTubers, LegalBytes host AlightMosaica and an anonymous user named ThatUmbrellaGuy, claimed at no point did Lorenz or any other reporter from the post reach out for comment.
00:22:49.000ThatUmbrellaGuy posted an email from Lorenz on his Twitter feed, in which Lorenz asked for comment after the story was published, contradicting the story.
00:22:56.000Lorenz blames her editor for what she calls a miscommunication, and she lashed out at the CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy as well.
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00:24:43.000Okay, meanwhile, the Biden White House continues to struggle.
00:24:47.000The 2020 polls look just awful for Joe Biden.
00:24:51.000And they have another problem, which is that the president is a walking corpse, and everyone knows this.
00:24:55.000The president of the United States, every night at about 4.30pm, they feed him a dinner from Denny's, they put a Matlock rerun on for him, he falls asleep in his chair, and then they wheel him into the crypt, and the door closes.
00:25:07.000And then, you know, once every couple of months, they bring him out, and they prop his body up on Jimmy Kimmel's couch, and Jimmy Kimmel talks to the body, and Joe Biden puts on his rictus grin, and then he goes back into the crypt.
00:25:23.000And then we all pretend that he's doing a great job if we are in the legacy media.
00:25:27.000Well, this provides sort of a problem, because if you're trying to mobilize the American public, if you're trying to change hearts and minds, a corpse is a bad way to do it.
00:25:37.000See, the thing about El-Sid, when you prop a corpse up on a horse to go into battle, is that that corpse better have, like, an enormous amount of goodwill built up, because they ain't building up goodwill being dead.
00:25:47.000And Joe Biden does not have an enormous amount of goodwill to spare at this point, considering that his approval ratings are down in the 30s.
00:26:37.000So the White House last week, they tried to bring in a K-pop band to talk about anti-Asian discrimination, an attempt presumably to get young Asian voters to vote for an old white man who's no longer alive.
00:26:49.000And now they're bringing in Matthew McConaughey.
00:26:52.000Now, Matthew McConaughey seems like a nice guy.
00:26:54.000I got nothing against Matthew McConaughey.
00:26:56.000I'm just wondering why Matthew McConaughey?
00:27:01.000Now they say it's because he's from Uvalde, Texas.
00:27:15.000There are a lot of people who have sort of popular followings in the acting community, and it does not translate over into, we now support your political agenda.
00:27:23.000Democrats seem to make this mistake an awful lot, and I'm not sure why.
00:27:28.000That if they grab a bunch of celebrities and put them on stage at the 2020 convention, for example, that magically this translates into popularity.
00:27:34.000Most famously, they did this in 2016 with Hillary Clinton, where they had an utterly stone-faced, charmless candidate, and they tried to kind of stick and move around the edges by bringing in Katy Perry and Elizabeth Banks and all of these celebrities.
00:27:48.000So now, the Biden administration is trying to do the same, because I guess you work with what you got.
00:27:52.000So they bring in Matthew McConaughey to lecture Americans on gun control.
00:27:58.000It's not particularly compelling other than the weird sight of watching a person who probably will play the president at some point actually standing in front of an actual White House emblem behind him.
00:28:15.000That's wrong about an administration where the president of the United States can't sit for an interview with anyone other than Jimmy Kimmel.
00:28:20.000So you have a president doing late night talk shows and you have an actor doing White House press conferences.
00:28:27.000Again, this is nothing against Matthew McConaughey, who again seems like a nice person, even if I disagree with him on gun control.
00:28:33.000But the fact that the White House is bringing Matthew McConaughey to do the press run for this in an attempt to gin up support for Joe Biden's various proposals is very strange.
00:28:41.000So here is Matthew McConaughey from the White House press room For no reason other than he's very famous and people like his movies.
00:28:48.000Uvalde is where I learned to master a Daisy BB gun.
00:28:55.000That took two years before I graduated to a .410 shotgun.
00:28:58.000Uvalde is where I was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun.
00:29:09.000Uvalde is where I learned responsible gun ownership.
00:29:14.000Okay, and thus, and again, Loved You and Interstellar have no idea why you're here.
00:29:20.000And then he continued by talking about the Second Amendment, and all of this is just, understand, Hollywood, the media, the Democratic Party, they are all one body.
00:29:31.000They are all just one osmosis-ridden body.
00:29:34.000And so if you don't have popularity over here, you squeeze the balloon and I get some Hollywood actors over here.
00:29:38.000And if that doesn't work, then the media come in and they prop up the actor.
00:29:41.000Here's Matthew McConaughey doing some more of this.
00:29:44.000Responsible gun owners are fed up with the Second Amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals.
00:29:52.000These regulations are not a step back.
00:29:56.000They're a step forward for a civil society and the Second Amendment.
00:30:05.000Again, I don't know why I'm being lectured by the all right, all right, all right guy.
00:30:22.000But why is the Biden White House is so pathetic that they are now going to the guy from Sahara and they're like, can you come talk about gun control to try to get somebody interested in this?
00:30:31.000Because the old man is back there sleeping it off.
00:30:34.000And then McConaughey says it's time to raise the age to purchase an AR-15.
00:30:37.000He calls this reasonable, practical, tactical, etc.
00:30:45.000We need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21.
00:30:52.000We need a waiting period for those rifles.
00:30:54.000We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them.
00:31:00.000These are reasonable, practical, tactical regulations.
00:31:05.000to our nation, states, communities, schools, and homes.
00:31:08.000I'm not sure why dazed and confused guy is lecturing us.
00:31:12.000But I guess that at a certain point, if the Hollywood of it isn't going to make things happen, you can just go over to MSNBC and they'll try to prop all of this up by pretending that anyone who opposes Joe Biden's gun control agenda is in favor of domestic abuse. If Mr. Whitfield's mother was killed by foreign terrorists, the Democrats and the Republicans on the committee would be promising him the moon.
00:31:35.000What is, I mean, is it as obvious as it seems that domestic violent extremists are an important part of the voting coalition on the right?
00:31:43.000I mean, what is the structural impediment to hardening the homeland against domestic violent extremism?
00:31:57.000The reason none of this is going to work is because the American people are still looking at the economy right now, and they're looking at Joe Biden's actual policy right now, and they're realizing that it's really, really bad.
00:32:08.000Janet Yellen, who is the Treasury Secretary after presiding over the Fed, She's now admitting that inflation is persistent.
00:32:17.000She's now admitting that it's not going anywhere.
00:32:19.000According to the Wall Street Journal, she warned that the United States is likely facing a prolonged period of elevated inflation.
00:32:25.000The World Bank sharply lowered global growth forecasts and flagged a risk of recession in many countries.
00:32:29.000Yellen said the White House would likely rise upward its U.S.
00:32:32.000inflation forecast, which already showed prices rising this year nearly twice the pre-pandemic rate.
00:32:37.000She said, I expect inflation to remain high, although I very much hope it will be coming down now.
00:32:40.000She says the numbers aren't locked in, but it's likely to be higher than the initial 4.7% forecast.
00:32:46.000Well, originally, the White House had suggested that inflation would average 4.7% this year.
00:33:16.000Secretary Yellen, if you admit that you are wrong about inflation being temporary, how can you be confident that government spending is not the cause of inflation?
00:33:26.000Did you ever warn the White House that increased government spending could have contributed to the inflation that we're seeing today?
00:33:34.000We're just heading to the car. Thank you very much.
00:33:51.000It's an amazing thing that the Treasury Secretary has been wrong about pretty much everything.
00:33:55.000And yet, she continues to maintain, for example, that we need to spend more money.
00:33:59.000Even the New York Times has a piece today titled, Yellen defends pandemic spending as inflation persists.
00:34:04.000The Treasury Secretary's recent comments about rising prices have put the Biden administration on the defensive.
00:34:08.000Yes, it turns out that when you acknowledge that inflation is now a permanent feature of American life, and yet you also continue to maintain that it's time to spend more money.
00:34:21.000So she, she's done a terrible job and yet she remains in control.
00:34:24.000By the way, how terrible is the job that she's doing?
00:34:26.000She's doing such a terrible job that her answer to high gas prices right now is that we need to invest in green energy.
00:34:31.000Again, this is the Biden administration's answer.
00:34:33.000So just to get this straight, you're spending $5 a gallon on average in the United States right now.
00:34:37.000The answer to this is to pour money into Chinese solar panels.
00:34:40.000Brilliant, brilliant stuff here from Jenny Ellen.
00:34:43.000What Congress can do and what the Biden administration would like to see is investments in programs like lowering prescription drug costs, investing in clean energy and renewables that would free our dependence on
00:35:03.000Global oil markets which are subject to geopolitical risk and could bring down utility bills, affordable housing, help for child care expenses that would enable higher labor force participation.
00:35:23.000This is all so disconnected from reality, but the entire Biden administration is disconnected from reality.
00:35:39.000I don't even care about gas prices because I passed a bunch of gas stations on the way here driving my electric vehicle.
00:35:45.000Well, good for you, Debbie, but how about the hundreds of millions of Americans who can't afford a $100,000 Tesla?
00:35:52.000I do have to say, just on the issue of gas prices, after waiting for a long time to have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle, I got it and drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station and it didn't matter how high it was.
00:36:11.000And so, I'm looking forward to the opportunity for us to move to vehicles that aren't going to be dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets.
00:36:25.000It's an opportunity for you to pay $100 every time you fill up your gas tank because eventually, in 10 years, you might be able to afford an electric vehicle.
00:36:32.000Sure, you'll be bankrupt and have no money by then.
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00:39:34.000So given the fact that the economy is in really dire trouble and the fact that Joe Biden's plans are really bad, by the way, how bad are Joe Biden's plans?
00:39:48.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden's plan here is to raise taxes dramatically.
00:39:52.000So you're in the middle of a teetering economy in which businesses are pulling money out of their investments because of the inflation.
00:40:03.000According to the Wall Street Journal, appearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen talked about Joe Biden's fiscal 2023 budget proposal and his plans to raise taxes on businesses and individuals.
00:40:13.000The goal, said Yellen, is to build a fair and stable tax system.
00:40:16.000What's most striking about the Biden tax agenda is not its fairness or its stability, but its sheer size.
00:40:20.000The tax foundations Erika York and Garrett Watson write today, quote, combined with the tax increases in the Build Back Better Act, which the budget assumes becomes law, Biden would raise revenues by $4 trillion on a gross basis over the next decade.
00:40:32.000How big is the planned tax hike on a net basis?
00:40:34.000There are a raft of new tax credits in the Biden plan, including a range of green energy credits totaling about $300 billion.
00:40:40.000Even accounting for all of them, the president's desired tax increase is still massive.
00:40:43.000It's about a $3.5 trillion tax increase over the next decade.
00:40:48.000According to the Tax Foundation, by the way, the tax increases in Build Back Better alone would reduce long-run GDP by 0.5%.
00:40:54.000The tax increases in the budget, including a higher corporate tax rate of 28%, up from 21%, and international tax changes would discourage domestic investment, reduce the productive capacity of the United States.
00:41:04.000Raising the corporate tax rate to 28% would reduce long-run GDP by 0.7% and eliminate 138,000 jobs.
00:41:43.000I know that you think we're not doing great, but we actually are doing amazing.
00:41:48.000What we're trying to say, what I'm trying to say to you, is that the economy is in a better place than it has been historically.
00:41:55.000And so we feel here at this administration, and other experts as well, is that we feel that we are in a good position to take on inflation.
00:42:03.000We are in a good position to really start working on lowering prices.
00:42:10.000Her serenity in the face of this sort of insanity is really, I mean, I will give her credit for that.
00:42:33.00061% are saying now, in this Wall Street Journal poll, they are generally pessimistic about people having an opportunity to achieve the American dream.
00:42:42.000How's that going to look on a bumper sticker?
00:42:44.000I guess what I'm trying to say, Peter, is that we understand that people are feeling this.
00:42:49.000They're feeling the increase of prices, with food in particular right now, and gas.
00:44:27.000Yeah, I mean, let me just say that the president is going to bed at night thinking about this and waking up and asking for all good ideas, including looking at gas tax, looking at everything possible.
00:45:18.000And the President is asking for Congress and others for potential ideas, but as you say, the reality is that there isn't very much more to be done.
00:46:00.000The bottom line here for the Democrats is that they are in serious trouble, which of course is why, once again, they're going to fall back on the January 6th narrative.
00:46:07.000And the media are doing their dirty work for them.
00:46:17.000I mean, it seems as though the guy who's president is not president and that he was impeached a second time over it, I noticed, even though he had like five minutes to go as president of the United States.
00:46:29.000The only president in American history twice impeached.
00:46:31.000And I seem to recall that there have been some prosecutions and a lot of people are in jail now for having invaded the Capitol building and tried to do harm to police officers.
00:46:40.000And I noticed there's some new charges against the Proud Boys.
00:46:42.000But apparently, according to the Washington Post, You know, the narrative is not complete until we hear the Democrats do a big piece of propaganda that's supposed to shift the election.
00:46:50.000Quote, the House committee probing the January 6th, 2021 Capitol attack will begin public hearings on Thursday, revealing the evidence that has gathered over 11 months of investigating, including firsthand testimony and information about President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
00:47:03.000Expect leading Republicans to argue that a committee is a partisan panel dedicated to harming Mr. Trump.
00:47:17.000What if we actually are concerned about January 6th and the security protocols, and we think that a lot of the things that President Trump said were untrue, and we think that people should not have believed them?
00:47:26.000What if we believe all that, but also understand that the Democrats are attempting to use this as an electoral ploy?