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00:00:00.000Failing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams lays out a wild conspiracy theory about ultrasound machines, and the media rushes to defend her.
00:00:07.000The culture war on traditional manhood continues, and the economy continues to stagnate as interest rates spike.
00:02:38.000Well, the other day, Stacey Abrams, the failing Georgia gubernatorial candidate, opened a can of worms when she decided to leap into the abortion debate.
00:02:46.000Now, Stacey Abrams has been failing in this gubernatorial race.
00:02:48.000She's down somewhere between six and eight points, according to most polls, to Brian Kemp, the person she supposedly beat last time around.
00:02:56.000And then the media decided to treat her as though she had actually won and made her the president of the universe in the Star Trek world and all the rest of this stuff.
00:03:05.000Democrats treated her as the legit governor of Georgia, despite no evidence that she was actually robbed of the gubernatorial mansion.
00:03:12.000Well, now she's out there running a terrible campaign.
00:03:15.000And the sad truth is that Stacey Abrams is actually not that great a politician.
00:03:19.000They keep trying to make Fetch happen, the Democrats.
00:03:21.000They have so many people that they've tried to make popular, but they just can't make popular.
00:03:25.000Whether you're talking about Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg or Stacey Abrams, there's just so many people out there that you try to promote as just world-beating candidates who it turns out fall flat, beta, or work.
00:03:43.000So during this gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, she has taken a photo of herself completely unmasked, while all the kids behind her are masked, and then had to apologize and explain that.
00:03:51.000And then, again, over the past 48 hours, she said that basically ultrasound machines are a hoax.
00:03:58.000That ultrasound machines make up fetal heartbeats at six weeks.
00:04:03.000So here she was explaining that the fetal heartbeat is actually not real, and therefore you don't have to worry about abortion now.
00:04:10.000In a second, we'll get to the science of what she's saying because it's just not true.
00:04:13.000But let's assume for a second that what she actually means is that a fetal heartbeat is when the valves open and close on the heart in a fetus.
00:04:20.000That starts happening around 10 weeks.
00:04:21.000Is she in favor of banning abortion beyond 10 weeks?
00:04:25.000So basically, as with most pro-choice rhetoric, it's all an excuse for, I feel like killing babies up until the point of birth.
00:04:31.000But here she was just misconstruing the science and adding on this very bizarre conspiratorial twist wherein ultrasound manufacturers are trying to deceive women into having their babies by showing them fetal heartbeat before a fetal heartbeat is actually present.
00:05:01.000It's a manufactured sound according to Stacey Abrams.
00:05:05.000And not just as a manufactured, it's all a conspiracy in order so that men can promote pro-life positions.
00:05:11.000So it's invented by pro-life men in order to fake the sound of the heartbeat.
00:05:15.000This is much more conspiratorial than anything Donald Trump has ever said about the 2020 election.
00:05:19.000This is really a wild, I mean, it's like up there with microchips are in the Vax conspiracy level stuff right here.
00:05:26.000Now, it happens to also be biologically incorrect.
00:05:28.000Put aside the conspiratorial side of it, just the biology of what she's saying is not true.
00:05:32.000Dr. Tara Sandler Lee, Ph.D., who studied heart development at Harvard Medical School and serves as Director of Life Sciences at Charlotte Lozier Institute, responded, Even now, all it takes is one quick search of the public database of scientific and embryology research to confirm the heart is the first functioning organ in a developing human being, with the first heartbeat just 22 days after fertilization.
00:05:52.000A baby's heart is actively beating at six weeks gestation and will have already beat nearly 16 million times by week 15.
00:05:58.000In fact, at six weeks, when Stacey Abrams says a heartbeat does not exist, the baby's heart is actually beating at about 110 beats per minute.
00:06:04.000Most American parents have seen their babies beating hard during prenatal ultrasound and discussed it with their obstetrician.
00:06:09.000The mainstream media can perform Olympic-level semantic gymnastics all they want.
00:06:13.000Most Americans instinctively understand a developing human organ which beats rhythmically and pumps blood throughout the body is, in fact, a heart.
00:06:20.000So, what the media have attempted to do, as we'll talk about in just a minute, is pretend that what Stacey Abrams is talking about is whether a valve in the heart, whether the valves in the heart open and close, because those develop slightly later.
00:06:30.000But, the early fetal form of the heart has already developed by the time she is talking.
00:06:36.000I mean, if you're going to pretend that what actually a heartbeat is, is not a prenatal heart that has not fully developed beating, Then you would also have to suggest, as they presumably do, that unless a brain is fully formed, which by the way happens when you're about 26 years old.
00:06:51.000That's when your brain really stops growing and changing.
00:06:54.000Up until that point, anything before that is just, you know, kind of pre-fulfilled brain function.
00:07:12.000Peer-reviewed science on babies at six weeks gestation shows the heart is actively beating at six weeks.
00:07:16.000Between fertilization and birth, the baby's heart will beat approximately 54 million times.
00:07:20.000The baby's average heart rate is 110 BPM.
00:07:22.000This will rise to 159 BPM by eight weeks gestation.
00:07:25.000The presence of a heartbeat at 68 weeks gestation correlates with a live birth rate of 98% in normal pregnancies without any sort of intervention.
00:07:33.000And there are a wide variety of sources that have talked about all of this.
00:07:36.000Now, the media have rushed to try to clean up for Stacey Abrams by pretending that actually there is no fetal heartbeat.
00:07:42.000So Twitter, which again is the most biased news source in America, Twitter will find a trend and then underneath the trend to explain the trend, they will basically just put something written by Media Matters.
00:07:52.000Here's what they wrote about what Stacey Abrams said, quote, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said there is no such thing as a fetal heartbeat at six weeks of pregnancy.
00:08:00.000And doctors agree one doesn't exist during this early stage of pregnancy.
00:08:03.000Reports from NBC News and NPR confirm Abrams appeared on a panel at an event on Georgia in Tuesday on Tuesday and discussed various state bans on abortion at six weeks. She said, quote, there's no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. Doctors and scientists speaking with NBC News and NPR confirmed that while a fetus has cardiac cardiac activity at six weeks, a functional heart does not exist yet at this stage. Well, I mean, if it has cardiac cardiac activity, that's pulsing. That's what we normally call a cardiac heart beat.
00:08:36.000You guys are working real hard to spin this one.
00:08:38.000Glenn Kessler over at the Washington Post also trying to clean this one up for Stacey Abrams, and he steps into a real pile of scientific horse manure.
00:08:46.000Quote, for what it's worth, fetal heartbeat is a misnomer.
00:08:49.000The ultrasound picks up electrical activity generated by an embryo.
00:08:52.000The so-called heartbeat sound you hear is created by the ultrasound.
00:08:54.000Not until 10 weeks can the opening and closing of cardiac valves be detected by a Doppler machine.
00:09:37.000He says the cardiac tissue is contracting, which is literally what a beat is, to say otherwise is scientific misinformation and cannot be treated otherwise.
00:09:44.000So, again, this bizarre notion that you can just spin this away, there's no such thing as a heartbeat.
00:09:50.000Literally, the National Institutes of Health, quote, baby's heart continues to grow and now beats at a regular rhythm, weeks six to seven.
00:10:00.000It was so bad that Planned Parenthood had to walk this one back.
00:10:03.000Okay, Planned Parenthood, on their own website, said just months ago, quote, a very basic beating heart and circulatory system developed during the fifth to sixth week of pregnancy.
00:10:11.000This is abortion mill Planned Parenthood.
00:10:14.000But Planned Parenthood later amended its website to more closely reflect the pro-abortion messaging against heartbeat laws, because again, people tend to think that if there's a beating heart there, then pretty obviously this is a human being that is not you.
00:10:25.000It's not just a polyp inside your uterus.
00:10:27.000Now the site says a part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity, which is a very roundabout way of saying that there is a fetal heartbeat.
00:10:38.000In May, reported that experts say the term fetal heartbeat is misleading and medically inaccurate, but the doctor, the article from NBC News months ago goes on to quote a doctor who says the heart does begin to develop at around six weeks, but says at this point the heart as we know it does not yet exist.
00:10:50.000Again, if the argument is that full development of the heart as in adults, Is necessary in order to count it as a fetal heartbeat?
00:11:00.000And presumably the same thing would have to be said about brain development.
00:11:03.000And we know very clearly that early brain development in children is a lot more rudimentary than it will be as an adult.
00:11:09.000Are you allowed to kill kids two years out of the womb unless you're Peter Singer from Princeton University?
00:11:24.000Of what Democrats have to do when reality runs in the face of their actual philosophical positions, reality must be ignored or called disinformation.
00:11:32.000So Kamala Harris yesterday, the vice president of the United States, she was out there again attacking crisis pregnancy centers.
00:11:38.000In other words, places that help women with their pregnancy, but encourage them not to kill the baby.
00:11:43.000Which, last I checked, is actually a good thing.
00:11:45.000Like, you're having a problem with your pregnancy, you don't have enough information, you need support, and these crisis pregnancy centers come and provide it for you.
00:11:51.000You go to them and they provide you the kind of support that you need health-wise, and tell you not to kill your baby.
00:11:56.000She'd prefer that you go to the place where they tell you to kill your baby, and none of it's really a big deal.
00:12:00.000That's not a fetal heartbeat, that's just some weird cardiac activity stuff happening over there.
00:12:06.000So here is Kamala Harris calling crisis pregnancy centers disinformation.
00:12:10.000Again, this is the same party that will suggest to you that basically a fetus is a cluster of cells up until a woman randomly chooses that it's not a cluster of cells, at which point it becomes the most beloved object in her life.
00:12:20.000I met with many of you in my office at the White House, and we discussed the innovative strategies that you have used to defend women's reproductive freedom.
00:12:30.000You are taking on rightly the crisis pregnancy centers.
00:12:35.000Launching public education campaigns because I don't think I have it here but I'll show you all a map of the United States right now in terms of the patchwork of different laws in different states on this issue and the confusion it is creating and the need then for some of the most trusted elected officials to clarify the state of the law and in the midst of the vast amount of confusion the need of you as the truth tellers
00:13:04.000To sort out fiction from fact and combat misinformation and disinformation, which we all know, often creates a situation that is ripe for predatory practices.
00:13:29.000And now they just say the two simultaneously, misinformation and disinformation.
00:13:32.000Typically, disinformation means there's some sort of foreign source promoting propaganda that is false.
00:13:36.000Now she's basically saying if there's purposeful misinformation and disinformation, they are the same thing.
00:13:41.000Essentially you're a traitor if you believe a pro-life point of view seems to be the implication here or you're a liar and it's just a good thing you have people like Kamala Harris out there nodding at you with a weird hand motion and her slightly nasal voice telling you what the truth is about fetal development.
00:14:02.000Speaking of people who are truly bad at this, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, Titha Klacken, she was out there explaining that if you actually believe in the pro-life position, this means this is like repealing the 19th Amendment.
00:14:11.000You know, the one that says that women can vote?
00:14:14.000If you say that women should not kill babies in their womb, That in fact, the height of human existence is bearing children, which it is.
00:14:22.000If you say that, then this means that you hate women and you want to repeal the right to vote, says this very, very good Catholic woman who's so Catholic.
00:15:27.000And she was wearing dentures at that point.
00:15:29.000Those wooden teeth are still in there.
00:15:31.000In any case, there is a great irony to the fact that it really is a striking irony to how the left likes to treat the unborn.
00:15:38.000The way that the left treats the unborn is they are completely disposable up until the point a woman decides that they are very valuable, at which point this is the most valuable thing in a woman's life.
00:15:46.000That switch just flips and suddenly, magically, we're also, again, this is all about the idea that you define reality within yourself.
00:15:56.000Reality is not an objective metric out there.
00:15:57.000It's not something for you to discover.
00:15:58.000It's not something for everyone to be able to agree on.
00:16:01.000Reality is just defined through the prism of you.
00:16:03.000So if you look at that baby and you say to yourself, that's not a baby, we're all supposed to go, you know what?
00:16:29.000The media have this split all the time, right?
00:16:30.000The same NBC News that is running segments explaining that there is no fetal heartbeat at six to seven weeks are also running segments on the Today Show admitting that the pre-born can react to things like flavor.
00:16:43.000They react to the flavor of food, which we've known, by the way, since like 2013.
00:16:45.000This is not new news for anyone who actually watches the science of embryology at all.
00:16:51.000I mean, we've known about how sophisticated fetal development is for decades at this point.
00:16:55.000The left just likes to ignore it because, again, if we ignore the reality out here, then we can pretend that you get to define reality from in here, from in your heart, which is fully developed because you're an adult.
00:17:04.000Here we go, NBC News admitting that the pre-born exists here.
00:18:08.000Now, they'll be walking this back as soon as possible, right?
00:18:10.000Because the baby and the woman, they don't actually give the age of that baby and the woman.
00:18:13.000That looks like that baby and the woman is maybe eight months, seven, eight months.
00:18:16.000Okay, but they all believe, I guarantee you, that entire panel believes that if a woman decides that's not a baby and wants to abort it, boom, you can do it.
00:18:26.000And so, you have seen this from the media.
00:18:28.000What they like to do is fact-check things that don't exist.
00:18:30.000So, for example, The Washington Post did a fact-check on the quote-unquote right-wing talking point that Democrats are fine with abortion until point of birth, which they are in their platform.
00:18:41.000The way they fact-checked this was by saying, Republicans imply that this happens all the time, a nine-month abortion.
00:18:47.000We said that ideologically speaking, you guys seem to be fine and you have said that you are fine with abortion up until point of birth, no restrictions whatsoever.
00:18:54.000And so they don't want to fact-check that because it's true.
00:18:56.000So instead they fact-check an implication that nobody actually said.
00:19:01.000By the way, they would never do the opposite, right?
00:19:03.000When the left says, well, you know, you, you Republicans, you, you say that, that in, in cases of rape, that a woman should, should bear the child.
00:19:15.000I mean, the pro-life position is that the evil of rape does not justify the evil of abortion.
00:19:19.000Two evils don't make the original evil go away.
00:19:22.000But you never see the left fact check that statement by saying, you seem to be implying that pregnancy from rape is a wildly common occurrence.
00:19:29.000And statistically speaking, as a matter of fact, it actually is not all that common.
00:19:50.000You're supposed to believe it when the experts would go out there and say, yeah, your child may die from COVID.
00:19:55.000Even though the stats were showing that children were more likely to die of pneumonia than COVID.
00:19:59.000You're supposed to believe it when they say that boys can be girls and girls can be... Hey, the experts say, the experts say that if you chop off a pubescent boy's penis and you form a fake vagina, he will be happy the rest of his life if he believes he's a girl.
00:20:12.000You're supposed to believe that despite lack of all evidence?
00:20:22.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
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00:22:30.000And again, this is part of a broader left-wing push that suggests that everything in life can be redefined.
00:22:36.000Reality itself can be redefined around what you feel.
00:22:40.000What you feel is the only thing that matters.
00:22:43.000And you have quote-unquote scientists who are promoting this crap on an ideological level, pretending that what they are saying is science.
00:22:52.000So for example, on the trans issue, You may have noticed that there's been a lot of talk recently about the transing of the children in places like Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
00:23:02.000It's something that my friend Matt Walsh has talked extensively about.
00:23:05.000There's lots of evidence showing that they are giving puberty blockers to minors, that they are performing surgeries, gender reassignment surgeries on minors, and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
00:23:14.000And then, if you question this, then you will see people say, well, you know, WPATH, WPATH, they are the ones who set the standard.
00:23:20.000WPATH knows, this is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
00:23:24.000Well, as you may have noticed, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health is a left-wing activist group, and they promote the most extreme versions of non-science on a routine basis.
00:23:37.000WPATH is not a scientific group, it's an ideological group masquerading as a scientific group.
00:23:41.000Which is why, for example, as Wesley Yang reveals, during their 28th annual symposium which was held between September 17th and 20th in Montreal, they had a presentation by Thomas Johnson, a professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, discussing a chapter in the new standards of care for WPATH.
00:23:59.000It designates those who identify as eunuchs, suffering from male-to-eunuch gender dysphoria, as subjects with a need for gender-affirming care, as part of a gender-diverse umbrella.
00:24:09.000Johnson did a full presentation for WPATH, he's an anthropologist, about why eunuch is a new sexual identity and there are people out there who just need their balls removed.
00:24:20.000That's what really needs to happen here.
00:24:22.000Johnson also happens to be the author of an op-ed published in the Washington Post in 2014 encouraging ISIS to actually promote eunuchism.
00:24:42.000He said in that particular piece, quote, all previous caliphates relied on a special class of bureaucrats to provide stability and statesmanship.
00:24:47.000Those were eunuchs who were unable to impregnate the women sequestered in the palace.
00:24:51.000Eunuchs were without family and dependent upon the caliph for support.
00:24:54.000For four millennia and through many different Asian empires and caliphates, eunuchs proved themselves to be efficient governors.
00:24:58.000Their presence was again a sign of power and authority of the rulers.
00:25:02.000This is while it's been less than a century since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, it's clear that a key concept for continuity with the great caliphates of the past has been lost.
00:26:50.000You may have noticed that the science and the activism here seem to be crossing streams.
00:26:54.000That science is now dictated by an extreme, atomistic individualism that denies the presence of outward reality, and if you notice, then they call you a bigot.
00:27:03.000This, by the way, is happening in schools.
00:27:05.000Did you notice how fast the movement for gay marriage went from, we just want to be left alone in the privacy of our own homes, to, we need to teach your children that all forms of sex are equally moral, and also that they can be members of the opposite sex?
00:27:38.000So Chris Ruffo has a report over at his Substack talking about a teacher's union nationwide titled the LGBTQ Plus Caucus.
00:27:46.000They have now created a website and badge for public school employees that promote non-binary identifies, not non-binary identities, a how-to guide for queer sex, and the idea that transgender men can get pregnant.
00:27:58.000According to local reports, the National Education Association and its local affiliate in Hilliard, Ohio, have been providing staff in the Hilliard City School District with the QR code-enabled badges, which point to the NEA LGBTQ Plus Caucus website.
00:28:10.000Is that part of the National Education Association?
00:28:12.000Which, along with the AFT, those are the two big teachers unions in America.
00:28:16.000And they include resources from gender activist organizations, including Scarlatine, Sex, etc., Gender Spectrum, The Trevor Project, and Teen Health Source.
00:28:23.000One of those linked resources, Teen Health Source's Queering Sexual Education, which promises to empower youth, includes a how-to guide for really important things for the youth, right?
00:29:00.000Well, it teaches students how to perform anal sex bondage, rimming domination, sadomasochism, muffing and fisting.
00:29:07.000The materials are extremely graphic, explaining how to, for example, put a fist or whole hand into a person's vagina or bum.
00:29:15.000The NEA is the largest teachers' union in the country, representing more than 3 million public school teachers in all 14,000 local school districts, and it has been captured by radical gender theory, says Chris Ruffo, and its perverse ideology.
00:29:29.000All of this, again, is about taking over cultural institutions and seizing them on behalf of an ideology that tears down traditional institutions and roles.
00:29:40.000And, you know, the best evidence of this is what's currently happening in the military.
00:29:45.000So, yesterday, John Kirby Who is the spokesperson for the Defense Department.
00:29:51.000John Kirby was asked on Dan Abrams Live about the quote-unquote woking of the military.
00:29:56.000The fact that there's now equity training being done in the military.
00:29:58.000The fact that we're now supposed to pretend that men can be women and women can be men in the military and public is supposed to fund those surgeries and all this.
00:30:06.000And John Kirby was like, there's no wokeness in the military.
00:30:13.000The military is by, and it should be, a diverse organization.
00:30:17.000We're supposed to represent and defend all Americans.
00:30:20.000And our diversity, and I've seen this myself firsthand, aboard ships at sea, the diversity of the United States military makes us stronger, makes us smarter, helps us make better decisions.
00:30:42.000But there's no wokeness in the military, says John Kirby before providing a pretty good definition of wokeness in the military.
00:30:48.000By the way, according to dailywire.com, Biden's military is now telling people in the Air Force to stop using words like mom and dad.
00:30:57.000Because after all, we wouldn't want to offend any- There's no wokeness in the military though, guys.
00:31:00.000No wokeness in the mil- These traditional roles, the traditional notion that mom and dad are a good thing, and that a child should have a mom and a- When did it become controversial to suggest that a child deserves a mother and a father?
00:31:10.000If you deprived a child of a mother or a father, this would make you a child abuser.
00:31:14.000But in our society, we've decided that mother and father are no longer words that can be said because there are too many kids who have been brought into families who don't have a mother or father.
00:31:23.000And after all, we can't pretend that there's a superiority of having a mother and a father over having two dads, two moms, three moms and a chicken.
00:31:35.000According to Daily Wire, in yet another indication of how wokeness has permeated the American military under the Biden administration, Air Force cadets have been instructed not to use gender-specific terms like mom or dad.
00:31:45.000They've been told to replace such terms with words like parent or caregiver.
00:31:50.000That instruction was featured at the Air Force Academy in Colorado as part of the Diversity and Inclusion Training.
00:31:55.000Yes, there's no wokeness in the military except for the DEI training over in the military.
00:32:00.000The New York Post reports that cadets were told our leaders have determined diversity and inclusion is a war-fighting imperative.
00:32:09.000Is a warfighting imperative pretending that moms and dads don't exist and that everybody's a parent or caregiver?
00:32:13.000Again, I make a joke every single Father's and Mother's Day.
00:32:16.000That it's either primary, caregiver of unspecified gender, or secondary, legal guardian of unspecified gender.
00:32:23.000Every single Mother's or Father's Day.
00:32:24.000People are like, why do you keep making that joke?
00:32:25.000I keep making the joke because you guys don't get to pretend that you care about Mother's Day or Father's Day when you don't actually believe that we can celebrate Mothers or Fathers qua Mothers or Fathers.
00:32:36.000Representative Mike Waltz Green Beret told Fox Digital, it's been a tradition in the military to get letters from mom or dad or your boyfriend or girlfriend for as long as there's been a military.
00:32:43.000Now we're instructing every cadet entering the Air Force not to say mom and dad, not to say boyfriend or girlfriend.
00:32:48.000Again, the idea that this somehow makes military readiness better is an absurdity.
00:32:53.000It's an absurdity because guess who tends to fight wars?
00:32:56.000The people who tend to fight wars are typically very patriotic, very male people.
00:33:02.000I mean, I'm sorry to break it to you, but this has been the truth about military warfare for literally all of human history.
00:33:07.000And the institution of traditional masculinity has been core to that idea.
00:33:11.000But we're a society that doesn't believe in traditional masculinity.
00:33:14.000Traditional masculinity is an opponent, because traditional masculinity requires roles.
00:33:18.000It says that men are supposed to protect, men are supposed to defend, men are supposed to be strong, men are supposed to be fathers and husbands.
00:33:25.000These are apparently very bad things now.
00:33:27.000You're not supposed to say these things because these things are restrictive.
00:33:30.000And as we all know, true human happiness is to be found without any restrictions.
00:33:36.000All cultural icons must be taken over.
00:33:39.000All traditional masculinity must be discarded in favor of a kind of eunuchized masculinity that denies the reality of duty, denies the reality of manhood itself.
00:35:48.000So meanwhile, central banks everywhere across the world, except for Turkey, because the Turks are trying to run directly into the teeth of financial pain, apparently.
00:35:58.000Everywhere, central banks are now raising the interest rates because they understand that if they don't, inflation is going to eat up their economies.
00:36:03.000According to the New York Times, a day after the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates sharply and signaled more to come, central banks across Asia and Europe followed suit on Thursday, waging their own campaigns to crush an outbreak of inflation that is bedeviling consumers and worrying policymakers around the globe.
00:36:17.000Central bankers typically move slowly.
00:36:18.000That's because their policy tools are blunt and work with a lag.
00:36:21.000Well, I'm glad that we finally realized that the central bank should not be the first Stage of policy should be the last stage of policy.
00:36:27.000But that only came after, you know, legislatures throughout the Western world decided to abdicate their responsibilities to central banks.
00:36:33.000The interest rate increases taking place from Washington to Jakarta will need months to filter out across the global economy and take full effect.
00:36:39.000Jerome Powell once likened policymaking to walking through a furnished room with lights off.
00:36:42.000You go slowly to avoid a painful outcome.
00:36:44.000But officials learning from a history that has illustrated the perils of taking too long to stamp out price increases have decided they no longer have the luxury of patience.
00:36:52.000So they are now radically and aggressively increasing those interest rates.
00:36:56.000The margin of error now is very thin, said Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance.
00:37:00.000A lot of this comes down to judgment and how much emphasis to put on the 1970s scenario.
00:37:04.000In the 70s, Fed policymakers did lift interest rates in a bid to control inflation, but they backed off when the economy began to slow.
00:37:10.000And this led to serious stagflation, significant levels of unemployment, significant levels of inflation.
00:37:16.000The misery index was put together during this time to measure exactly that, the unemployment plus the inflation rate.
00:37:23.000You could see something similar if the Fed moves too slowly, which is why they're now moving more aggressively.
00:37:29.000Democrats in the United States have helped bring all this about.
00:37:31.000They are just pretending that none of this is happening.
00:37:33.000So, for example, Corinne Jean-Pierre, the wildly untalented press secretary for the President of the United States, she was on The View to the applause of her sycophants.
00:37:41.000And she refused to acknowledge, for example, that the Inflation Reduction Act has nothing to do with reducing inflation, which it clearly does not.
00:37:47.000I mean, it has nothing to do with reducing inflation.
00:37:51.000While we are talking about lowering prices, we have Republicans out there who didn't vote for the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:38:51.000He went on 60 Minutes like a week ago and basically suggested that it was no big deal that inflation was up in the food markets like 13% year over year.
00:39:01.000But here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to walk back Joe Biden as sympathetic, empathetic leader.
00:39:15.000I mean, yeah, he's sniffing your hair, but he does give you nice toys and he's kind of like a decent old gent, even if he wanders into walls sometimes.
00:39:22.000That was kind of the pitch for Joe Biden.
00:39:23.000And then Afghanistan happened when it became absolutely clear he did not care how many Afghans were going to be shoved into black bags and into the basement if they were female or simply murdered if they'd once worked with the United States.
00:39:32.000And everybody went, oh, this guy's kind of a jackass.
00:39:35.000And they've never been able to quite get out of that.
00:39:37.000This is why Joe Biden's approval rating has plummeted, because the actual image of him among the American public changed radically during the Afghanistan debacle.
00:39:45.000And here, so here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to pretend that Joe Biden is some sort of sympathetic, empathetic figure.
00:39:51.000Going into the midterms, how can the president assure Americans he feels their pain and has a plan to help?
00:39:56.000So the president understands that when it comes to the economy.
00:39:59.000He understands how much that's crushing families.
00:40:02.000He gets it that people are sitting around their kitchen table and trying to figure out how are they going to pay for their groceries.
00:40:09.000And so that's why he's made that his number one economic priority.
00:40:13.000He's made it his number one economic priority.
00:40:14.000And the way he's going to fight this is by taking this giant sack of money and just pouring it all over the place.
00:40:21.000He's going to basically create one of those game show thingamajiggers, where it's essentially like a hurricane machine, but he's going to pour cash in it.
00:41:04.000And the biggest problems that we found were a country with a pandemic that was killing, you know, literally thousands of people a day.
00:41:12.000Hundreds of thousands of cases a day when we arrived.
00:41:15.000And so we had to ramp up the response to that.
00:41:17.000And then the economic consequences of that.
00:41:20.000It's easy to forget that when Joe Biden came to office, we'd turn on the TV at night, people were in line in football stadiums waiting for a box of food.
00:42:10.000She says inflation is going to go down in 2023.
00:42:12.000You should trust her because she's been so good at this in the past.
00:42:14.000And if it doesn't, it's somebody else's fault, probably.
00:42:18.000Do you see a possibility that inflation will be essentially under control by the end of next year before we are full on into the presidential race?
00:42:27.000Or is this something we're still going to be dealing with in a serious way into 2024?
00:42:31.000I believe it's going to come down certainly next year.
00:42:35.000Although, let's be clear, there are risks.
00:42:38.000The Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn't come to an end. We're seeing Putin weaponize oil and gas in fighting this war.
00:42:51.000So we remain vulnerable to supply shocks.
00:42:55.000Oh, so it'll heal, but if it doesn't, it's somebody else's fault.
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