The Ben Shapiro Show - We're Fighting The Tyrannical Biden Vaccine Mandate, And We Need Your Help | Ep. 1369

00:00:00.000 Alrighty, folks, this is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:01.000 You may have noticed that we are not opening as we normally do, and that's because today is a crucial day for our company, and I think, frankly, a crucial day for the country.

00:00:10.000 We, as a company, are doing the most important thing that we have ever done.

00:00:13.000 We do need your help.

00:00:14.000 Today, the Biden administration finally put out their long-awaited OSHA rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

00:00:23.000 They are promulgating a rule via an administrative agency that forces every company with over 100 employees to force their employees to either vaccinate or test or be fired.

00:00:35.000 This is the mandate.

00:00:36.000 It is coming from the Biden administration.

00:00:37.000 I'm going to go through all the details in one moment.

00:00:40.000 And just be aware, this is the emergency temporary standard.

00:00:43.000 They are already preparing a permanent standard that will extend to every company, not companies with over 100 employees, every company.

00:00:51.000 They are saying this openly.

00:00:53.000 They're preparing a standard that could apply not only to every company, but could force fully vaccinated people to be masked.

00:01:01.000 Could get rid of any exceptions for prior immunity.

00:01:02.000 There are no exceptions for prior immunity in this OSHA rule as it stands.

00:01:06.000 If you already had COVID, you had it three weeks ago.

00:01:08.000 If you're not vaccinated, you still have to vax, test every week, or be fired under this particular mandate from OSHA.

00:01:15.000 If made permanent, they would consider getting rid of testing as an alternative to vaccination.

00:01:19.000 So you wouldn't even be able to test out of it.

00:01:21.000 Or maybe making tests daily or bi-daily.

00:01:26.000 And making sure that you use higher standards of masks.

00:01:30.000 And maybe even at your workplace, you'd have to have social distancing.

00:01:33.000 There's no end date for this.

00:01:35.000 The Biden administration has no end date for this regulation.

00:01:38.000 It's supposed to fully kick into place as of early January to supposedly allow time for employers to force their employees to get vaxxed.

00:01:45.000 They're going to force millions of people out of work. 0.99

00:01:48.000 They're going to force millions of people to choose between quitting their jobs And getting vaccinated.

00:01:55.000 In a time when the pandemic is already ending.

00:01:58.000 And everybody who wants a vax has been able to get a vax.

00:02:01.000 And now even children can get a vax.

00:02:03.000 This is authoritarian. 1.00

00:02:05.000 It is garbage. 1.00

00:02:06.000 It is anti-scientific. 1.00

00:02:07.000 We need your help.

00:02:08.000 We've already spent tens of thousands of dollars on our lawyers.

00:02:11.000 We filed a lawsuit as of this morning.

00:02:13.000 We are taking them to court.

00:02:15.000 We'll fight this all the way to the Supreme Court, if need be.

00:02:18.000 Obviously, lawsuits cost a lot of money, and you have to have great legal partnership in order to win, and that's why we are working with the folks over at Alliance Defending Freedom and over at the Dillon Law Group.

00:02:28.000 We need your help to make that happen, obviously, because lawsuits cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of dollars, and this one will probably end up at the Supreme Court.

00:02:36.000 We're going to fight it tooth and nail on behalf of our employees.

00:02:40.000 This is how you fight.

00:02:41.000 You gotta fight them in court, you gotta fight them with every resource at your disposal.

00:02:44.000 Individual action here is great, but what really matters more, what really matters more is your employers standing up for you.

00:02:51.000 What really matters more is your state and local government standing up for you.

00:02:56.000 So we need your help, because again, this stuff is expensive, and we are taking a risk here, right?

00:03:00.000 We are not going to comply with these mandates.

00:03:03.000 And the risk of not complying with the mandates is tens of thousands of dollars for each violation.

00:03:09.000 If Biden got his way, he would bankrupt hundreds of companies, including companies like ours.

00:03:14.000 That is the goal.

00:03:15.000 And we're going to fight this all the way.

00:03:17.000 So we need your help.

00:03:18.000 Please subscribe.

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00:03:27.000 But really, more importantly, this is the time where we need to get together and fight this thing.

00:03:32.000 How's OSHA going to enforce this?

00:03:33.000 Apparently, OSHA is going to send out agents, I kid you not, to workplaces to check in on you and For willful violations, standard violations are like you make a mistake because you, oh, you just, oops, you didn't do the OSHA rule.

00:03:46.000 So you get a $14,000 fine.

00:03:48.000 For willful violations, right, we are saying we don't want to comply.

00:03:51.000 For willful violations, a single violation.

00:03:54.000 can amount to up to $140,000.

00:03:56.000 They're seeking to bankrupt anyone who is in favor of liberty here.

00:04:01.000 This is authoritarian, not just because of the content of it, but because of the form of it.

00:04:06.000 They're using an administrative agency that is acting outside the scope of its authority to force every major employer and midsize employer in the United States to force vaccines on their employees.

00:04:17.000 And their permanent standard is much more onerous than that, and it will extend to everybody.

00:04:20.000 They're openly saying this, okay?

00:04:22.000 They're not hiding the ball.

00:04:23.000 They put forward a 490-page regulation today.

00:04:27.000 I've gone through it.

00:04:29.000 It is more restrictive and more vicious than we thought it was going to be.

00:04:33.000 Our lawyers are already fighting it as of right now, okay?

00:04:37.000 On a procedural level.

00:04:38.000 It's insane to think that OSHA, which was not designed to do this, is going to be issuing vast regulations across the entire scope of American life, without regard for state and local rights, without regard to the rights of private property owners and private business owners or employees, who are the real targets of this, right?

00:04:57.000 It's not the employers who are the targets, it's the employees who are the targets.

00:05:00.000 This is the federal government trying to make employers, their policemen, In their vaccination efforts.

00:05:05.000 And listen, I'm vaccinated.

00:05:07.000 My wife is vaccinated.

00:05:08.000 My parents are vaccinated.

00:05:09.000 You know, because you listen to the show.

00:05:10.000 I'm a huge fan of the vaccines.

00:05:12.000 This isn't about that.

00:05:12.000 This is about the authoritarian mandate that is now being leveraged on the American people.

00:05:17.000 It's disgusting. 0.93

00:05:18.000 It's vile. 0.92

00:05:19.000 We're going to fight it every single step of the way.

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00:05:27.000 So another note here.

00:05:29.000 Today is the day you need to call your Republican representative, particularly a Republican senator.

00:05:34.000 And you're a Democratic Senator.

00:05:36.000 And you need a Congressional Review Act vote today on this OSHA regulation.

00:05:41.000 It will be officially promulgated tomorrow.

00:05:43.000 There is something called the Congressional Review Act.

00:05:45.000 The Congressional Review Act allows the Senate of the United States to reject an agency interpretation of an authorizing statute.

00:05:53.000 The Democrats have control of the Senate.

00:05:56.000 Republicans need to force them today. 0.63

00:05:59.000 To have a vote on whether or not they are in favor of this perverse and tyrannical regulation.

00:06:05.000 If Democrats all vote in favor, fine.

00:06:07.000 They get to own it.

00:06:08.000 But they need to be made to own it.

00:06:10.000 So call your senator today and tell them they need to vote on a Congressional Review Act review of this regulation.

00:06:18.000 They need to push the Democrats to do it.

00:06:19.000 Again, if the Democrats won't do it, then it's on them.

00:06:21.000 And they get to own the tyranny.

00:06:22.000 Okay, so what exactly is in this new OSHA regulation which will affect you?

00:06:28.000 In all likelihood, because the vast majority of employees in the United States work for businesses that have over 100 employees.

00:06:35.000 So, according to the OSHA Vaccination and Testing ETS Fact Sheet, the ETS is necessary to protect unvaccinated workers from the risk of contracting COVID-19 at work.

00:06:46.000 Okay, here is the problem with this, right off the bat.

00:06:49.000 You know what is supposed to protect unvaccinated workers from the risk of contracting COVID-19 at work?

00:06:54.000 Them.

00:06:55.000 You've had every ability for months and months and months and months to go get the Vax.

00:07:00.000 You don't want the Vax?

00:07:01.000 That's your problem.

00:07:02.000 We live in a free country. 1.00

00:07:03.000 The ETS is essentially saying that we are going to protect you from yourself because you're too stupid to make decisions. 1.00

00:07:10.000 This is un-American bulls**t. 1.00

00:07:13.000 The rule covers all employers with a total of 100 or more employees, with a few exceptions described below. 0.95

00:07:17.000 By the way, they're not cramming this down on all the public employees.

00:07:20.000 Or by the way, if they wanted to do this on a federal governmental level, you know what they could do?

00:07:24.000 They could cram this down on everybody who receives federal benefits.

00:07:28.000 You've noticed they're not doing that.

00:07:30.000 They're not attaching your vaccination status to your food stamps.

00:07:33.000 Interesting.

00:07:34.000 Covered employers must develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, with an exception for employers that instead adopt a policy requiring employees to either elect to get vaccinated or to undergo regular COVID-19 testing and wear a face covering at work.

00:07:49.000 This fact sheet highlights some of the additional requirements of the ETS.

00:07:52.000 Employers should consult the standard for full details.

00:07:55.000 So, who's covered?

00:07:56.000 Private employers with 100 or more employees, firm or corporate-wide.

00:08:01.000 Interesting.

00:08:01.000 The distinction between private and public right there.

00:08:04.000 Weird.

00:08:04.000 Maybe it has to do with public unions.

00:08:05.000 employers with 100 or more employees will be covered by state occupational safety and health requirements. Interesting. Interesting. The distinction between private and public right there. Weird. Maybe it has to do with public unions. Which workplaces are not covered?

00:08:20.000 Workplaces covered under the safer federal workforce taskforce COVID-19 workplace safety.

00:08:26.000 Settings where any employee provides health care services or health care support services, because they're already covered by the health care ETS.

00:08:32.000 Workplaces of employers who have fewer than 100 employees in total, which of course makes no sense.

00:08:36.000 Making the exception?

00:08:37.000 It's specifically designed to exempt the most sympathetic businesses.

00:08:41.000 But it has nothing to do with science.

00:08:42.000 It has nothing to do with logic.

00:08:43.000 If you have a small mom-and-pop shop with four employees and a small hole in the wall, just as good a chance you're gonna get COVID there as if you're working at a big open-air office like we have in Nashville with a couple hundred employees.

00:08:55.000 Also, public employers in states without state plans are not covered by the ETS.

00:09:01.000 Interesting.

00:09:03.000 If an employer is covered by the ETS, does that mean all of its employees must follow the provisions?

00:09:08.000 No.

00:09:08.000 The requirements of the ETS do not apply to employees who do not report to a workplace where other individuals are present, employees while working from home, or employees who work exclusively outdoors.

00:09:16.000 So basically, if you work in an office, you're screwed.

00:09:19.000 Or your employer has to make you work from home.

00:09:23.000 Or you gotta work in a park somewhere.

00:09:25.000 What does the ETS require employers to do?

00:09:28.000 Develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, with an exception for employers that instead establish, implement, and enforce a policy allowing employees to elect either to get vaccinated or to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing and wear a face covering at the workplace.

00:09:41.000 Again, this is nonsense.

00:09:43.000 The reason this is nonsense.

00:09:45.000 Number one, vaccinated people are passing COVID as well.

00:09:48.000 Not at the same rates as unvaccinated people, but they are passing it.

00:09:52.000 Two, what is protecting you is not the masks.

00:09:55.000 What is protecting you is the vaxxes.

00:09:56.000 Everybody has had the opportunity to get vaccinated.

00:10:01.000 Everybody.

00:10:03.000 Determine the vaccination status is what employers must do.

00:10:06.000 Determine the vaccination status of each employee.

00:10:08.000 Okay, so forget about Any sort of HIPAA rules.

00:10:12.000 It is now my job as an employer to determine whether you are vaxxed or not, obtain acceptable proof of vaccination from vaccinated employees, maintain records of each employee's vaccination status, and maintain a roster of each employee's vaccination status.

00:10:25.000 So we need all your information and we need it now.

00:10:27.000 And by the way, if OSHA decides a month from now that everybody needs a booster, I'll just push that too.

00:10:34.000 Support vaccination by providing employees reasonable time, including up to four hours of paid time to receive each primary vaccination dose, and reasonable time in paid sick leave to recover from any side effects experienced following each primary vaccination dose.

00:10:46.000 So I noticed that they don't do this with the flu vaccine.

00:10:48.000 only with COVID apparently.

00:10:50.000 Ensure that each employee who is not fully vaccinated is tested for COVID-19 at least weekly or within seven days before returning to work.

00:10:57.000 Require employees to promptly provide notice when they receive a positive COVID-19 test.

00:11:01.000 Immediately remove from the workplace any employee, regardless of vaccination status, who receives a positive COVID-19 test.

00:11:08.000 Ensure that every employee who is not fully vaccinated wears a face covering when indoors or occupying a vehicle with another person for work purposes.

00:11:15.000 So if you are unvaccinated, we are now going and you're testing, we're going to and we know you're testing.

00:11:22.000 We know you don't have it, right?

00:11:22.000 Because we're testing you.

00:11:23.000 Theoretically, that's the idea of the testing.

00:11:25.000 We're going to force you to wear a mask.

00:11:27.000 We'll force you to wear a mask knowing that you're not carrying COVID.

00:11:30.000 Presumably as some sort of stigma for the rest of the company.

00:11:34.000 So we can all... So we can all mask shame you for some such stupidity. 1.00

00:11:39.000 Hey, this is supposed to take effect. 1.00

00:11:41.000 Pretty much immediately.

00:11:42.000 Employers must comply with most provisions by 30 days after the date of publication in the Federal Register.

00:11:47.000 Employers must comply with the testing requirement by 60 days after the date of publication in the Federal Register.

00:11:52.000 So within a month, we have to be testing everybody once a week, and we have to gather your vaccination status.

00:11:56.000 And by 60 days, we have to force you to vaccinate, basically, or fire you.

00:12:01.000 And again, they are looking at getting rid of the alternative of testing, period.

00:12:04.000 Again, every single person who wants a vax can get a vax.

00:12:08.000 Freedom dictates that once you have gotten the vax, you leave everybody else alone, and that if you're un-vaxed, you take responsibility for that.

00:12:15.000 But the notion that the federal government can activate every employer in America as the health police against you, forcing you to get vaccinated, forcing you to mask up, shaming you if you don't do these things, or firing you if you refuse to do them, is insane.

00:12:30.000 To do this on the basis of a law from 1970, under an emergency temporary standard, is completely anti the Constitution of the United States.

00:12:38.000 For those who suggest, by the way, that the Supreme Court will approve this, this is because they are ignorant of law.

00:12:44.000 Okay, states are allowed to do things like bax mandates. 0.99

00:12:47.000 States are.

00:12:48.000 They have been since the founding.

00:12:51.000 The federal government was never given this sort of authority.

00:12:54.000 There is no case that gives the federal government this sort of authority, and particularly does not give the federal government this sort of authority under OSHA, for God's sake.

00:13:02.000 This isn't even a law passed by the Congress of the United States and the Senate and then signed into law by the President.

00:13:07.000 It is a broad regulation being interpreted by a workplace enforcement administrative agency in order to cram down these rules on, right now, 100 million Americans, but get ready, it will be everyone.

00:13:18.000 And this is only the start.

00:13:19.000 We gotta fight this now.

00:13:20.000 And the reason we gotta fight this now is because I promise you, they're gonna go further than this.

00:13:23.000 If they believe that they can get away with this, they'll go further.

00:13:26.000 They'll do it for employers who are under 100 employees, so everywhere.

00:13:29.000 No one will be able to work unless you get vaxxed.

00:13:32.000 Again, I am pro-vaccination.

00:13:34.000 This has nothing to do with whether the vaccines are good or not.

00:13:37.000 It has to do with whether freedom is good or not in a time when every single human has the capacity in the United States, if you are above the age of five, to get vaccinated.

00:13:47.000 And thus protect yourself, and then leave everyone the hell alone.

00:13:52.000 And it's not going to stop even there.

00:13:53.000 Because I promise you, now that the FDA and the CDC have cleared the vaccines for 5 to 11 year olds, you think this administration isn't going to push for mandatory vaccination of 5 year olds in public schools?

00:14:04.000 You think they're not going to push for that?

00:14:06.000 I have serious doubts.

00:14:09.000 This is an authoritarian administration.

00:14:11.000 This is tyranny.

00:14:13.000 It is tyranny.

00:14:13.000 And we'll challenge it in the courts.

00:14:15.000 We'll do whatever we must in order to prevent the implementation of this authoritarian nonsense.

00:14:21.000 And again, it's expensive.

00:14:22.000 We need your help to do it.

00:14:23.000 So please.

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00:14:38.000 It is just insane for me.

00:14:39.000 By the way, the way that they are justifying all of this is by saying that unvaccinated workers face grave danger.

00:14:45.000 Grave danger!

00:14:47.000 Really, my 20-year-old unvaccinated workers are facing grave danger, are they? 0.96

00:14:50.000 Truly?

00:14:51.000 By the way, if they were facing grave danger, don't you think that they would go get vaccinated?

00:14:55.000 And if they don't believe they're facing grave danger, but they have the ability to get vaccinated, isn't that their problem?

00:15:00.000 Isn't that their freedom?

00:15:01.000 Isn't that a liberty decision for them?

00:15:04.000 They're saying an ETS is necessary because workers are becoming seriously ill and dying as a result of occupational exposures to COVID-19 when a simple measure of vaccination can largely prevent those deaths and illnesses.

00:15:14.000 So what?

00:15:15.000 You know better than they do.

00:15:16.000 Therefore, you get to force them.

00:15:19.000 It's just, it's vile.

00:15:21.000 It's vile.

00:15:22.000 But what can you expect from a Biden administration that has become increasingly more authoritarian day by day?

00:15:30.000 And the authoritarianism here is the feature, not the bug.

00:15:34.000 It is the goal.

00:15:35.000 The goal is the control.

00:15:37.000 The goal is not curbing COVID at this point.

00:15:39.000 COVID has been curbed in terms of its reproductive number.

00:15:44.000 This is not about preserving the health of workers, all of whom have the choice as to whether they want to go get vaccinated or not. 0.99

00:15:50.000 This is simply about control and maintaining the illusion that if Joe Biden, a senile old bag of stupid, hits a button, he will magically fix all of your problems by forcing you to do what he wants. 0.99

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00:16:17.000 After taking a shellacking across the country, Joe Biden and the Democrats call for more spending and say they haven't done anything wrong at all.

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00:17:50.000 Alrighty, so...

00:17:52.000 Democrats are now responding to the shellacking that they took across the country.

00:17:55.000 It was not just in Virginia.

00:17:57.000 In New Jersey, for example, Phil Murphy barely pulled out a gubernatorial race.

00:18:01.000 He was supposed to win by 8 to 10 points.

00:18:03.000 And members of the New Jersey congressional delegation are looking cross-eyed at the results.

00:18:08.000 They're just confused by them.

00:18:10.000 They're not sure what to do with them.

00:18:11.000 According to Mediaite, one of the Congress people from Jersey said, quote, Effing disaster down ballot.

00:18:18.000 Way too close at the top.

00:18:19.000 Not enough excitement at the top of the New Jersey ticket.

00:18:21.000 Biden, COVID, etc.

00:18:22.000 No accomplishments.

00:18:23.000 Should have passed infrastructure a month ago.

00:18:25.000 As we'll see, this is going to become a recurring Democratic theme.

00:18:28.000 If only we had done more of that thing that we promised to do and that people hated us for, then things would have gone just swimmingly.

00:18:34.000 According to the Washington Post, the Democrats are reeling and they see a threat to the House and Senate control as Republicans crack their 2020 coalition.

00:18:42.000 This is the Washington Post, again.

00:18:44.000 Democrats reeling from the party showing on Tuesday night were sharply critical of its direction and agenda, already the subject of months of infighting on Capitol Hill, concluding it threatens to devastate their efforts to hold on to the House and Senate next year, much as it dragged down this year's candidates.

00:18:56.000 Now remember, in Virginia.

00:18:59.000 There were districts that shifted 10, 15 points.

00:19:01.000 In New Jersey, there were districts that shifted 16 points.

00:19:04.000 New Jersey basically went dead even after Joe Biden won the state by 16 points last time around.

00:19:09.000 Well, if you look at all the congressional districts that are within like 10 or 15 points for Democrats, you're talking upwards of 70 congressional districts for Democrats that theoretically could be in competition.

00:19:19.000 Even if you go conservative on that and you say everything that's within six or seven points, you're still talking about 40 to 50 seats for Democrats that are in serious trouble in the House.

00:19:27.000 It would get a swing that looks a lot like the 2010 swing for the Republicans.

00:19:30.000 In that particular election year, the Democrats lost upward of 60 seats in the House.

00:19:35.000 If that were to happen, Republicans would emerge with a vast majority, considering the House is pretty evenly split right now.

00:19:40.000 And when you look at the Senate map, Democrats actually had a pretty good year on their hands in the Senate, at least in an off-year election, right?

00:19:46.000 They had a Senate map that was very much tilted in their favor.

00:19:50.000 Not a lot of lean Democrat seats that were up, a lot of lean Republican seats that were up.

00:19:56.000 And that was a problem for the Republicans.

00:19:58.000 Well, now with the ground shifting under their feet, they have to be looking at the map and they have to be quite fearful.

00:20:04.000 According to the Washington Post, in Virginia, a state that has become reliably blue in recent years, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

00:20:10.000 According to an AP projection, in New Jersey, Democratic Governor Phil Murphy was struggling for his second term.

00:20:15.000 The circumstances in the two governors' races all but confirmed the collapse of the coalition that propelled Democrats to power during the Donald Trump administration and Joe Biden to the presidency in 2020.

00:20:24.000 In the election's wake, there are fresh doubts in the party about Biden's ability to push his domestic agenda across the finish line.

00:20:29.000 And to repel the new attacks Republicans have opened on culture fronts, especially over schools.

00:20:33.000 Again, remember the way that this works?

00:20:35.000 Is if Democrats do incredibly radical stuff.

00:20:36.000 That's not an attack on the status quo.

00:20:38.000 If Republicans notice, then it's Republicans who have started a culture war.

00:20:41.000 That's the way the media portray all of this.

00:20:43.000 A new round of upheaval, according to the Washington Post, over the party's priorities and strategies appeared imminent.

00:20:49.000 An estimated 3.3 million people turned out to vote in Virginia, easily outpacing the last two gubernatorial elections.

00:20:55.000 So again, the lie that Republicans need people to stay home in order to win?

00:20:58.000 It is just that.

00:20:58.000 It is a lie.

00:20:59.000 In the eyes of Democrats, that reflected alarmingly high enthusiasm in conservative strongholds and a disturbing shift in the kinds of suburban areas that powered their gains in 2018 and 2020.

00:21:10.000 What's actually happening here is that the United States is a 50-50 country.

00:21:10.000 So what exactly is happening here?

00:21:12.000 The United States has been a 50-50 country for a very long time.

00:21:14.000 Leopold, a former Democratic Governors Association spokesman.

00:21:17.000 I think the education piece was a big part of it.

00:21:19.000 Youngkin had a message about education that was framed in a positive way for parents.

00:21:22.000 So what exactly is happening here?

00:21:24.000 What's actually happening here is that the United States is a 50-50 country.

00:21:27.000 The United States has been a 50-50 country for a very long time. It is not a 60-40 country as Democrats would have it, nor is it a country where a durable Democratic majority is emerging demographically.

00:21:37.000 So this was the argument that Democrats continued to make basically every single day after 2012.

00:21:43.000 In 2012, Barack Obama broke all of the election models.

00:21:46.000 He broke the election models because he was supposed to lose.

00:21:48.000 He was not a good president.

00:21:49.000 He was not particularly popular.

00:21:51.000 He had lost some millions of votes from his victory in 2008.

00:21:54.000 He won a big victory in 2008.

00:21:55.000 He lost about 3 million votes between 2008 and 2012, and he still won re-election.

00:22:01.000 And political scientists like Roy Tishera over at The Atlantic were arguing that this is because Barack Obama had created a new, durable democratic coalition.

00:22:12.000 This was the pitch.

00:22:13.000 The pitch was that Barack Obama's new democratic coalition was going to fundamentally shift how politics was done in the United States.

00:22:20.000 Writing for the Center for American Progress, Tishera and a guy named John Halpin, they wrote, quote, Obama's strong progressive majority built on a multiracial, multiethnic, cross-class coalition in support of an activist is real and growing.

00:22:32.000 And it reflects the face and beliefs of the United States in the early part of the 21st century.

00:22:35.000 The Center for American Progress called the strategy, quote, the culmination of a decades-long project to build an electorally viable and ideologically coherent progressive coalition in national politics.

00:22:45.000 In other words, identity politics cobbled together enough minorities and college-educated white liberals to win election after election.

00:22:51.000 You don't have to pay attention to the suburbs.

00:22:54.000 If the suburbs come along with you, great.

00:22:55.000 If they don't, oh well.

00:22:56.000 You don't have to pay attention to the rural areas.

00:22:59.000 And then Trump came along and he narrowly eked out a victory.

00:23:01.000 And Democrats were able to blame that on basically the Russians and Facebook and claim that he cheated.

00:23:08.000 But they kept that utopian dream alive of this durable democratic coalition.

00:23:12.000 And then in 2020, Biden won and he recapitulated the Obama coalition.

00:23:15.000 But it turns out he didn't recreate the Obama coalition because that coalition is particularly durable.

00:23:22.000 He recreated it because Donald Trump was on the ballot and Trump had largely alienated suburban women. 0.65

00:23:27.000 That was the story of the 2020 election.

00:23:29.000 If Trump had performed in 2016 among suburban women the way that he did in 2020, he would have lost and vice versa.

00:23:35.000 If he had performed in 2020 the way he did in 2016, he would have won.

00:23:39.000 With suburban women in 2020. 0.89

00:23:40.000 Okay, so it was not really about Biden recreating the coalition, but Democrats have decided that that that utopian vision of the undefeatable coalition is real.

00:23:52.000 And so they keep doubling down on this stuff over and over and over and reality just keeps proving them wrong.

00:23:56.000 It turns out that Barack Obama was an electoral outlier.

00:23:59.000 He hadn't created a new, durable coalition.

00:24:02.000 He was an electoral outlier because he's a very talented politician and because he, in his own identity, was very attractive to the American people who wanted to move beyond race.

00:24:10.000 Obama then blew that opportunity for the United States, broadly speaking.

00:24:13.000 But that was the pitch.

00:24:15.000 If Obama was the outlier, then nobody should be particularly shocked at the results in Virginia.

00:24:20.000 Or in New Jersey.

00:24:22.000 The United States is not a hard-left country.

00:24:24.000 It is not a country with an emerging progressive majority that wants to become like Denmark.

00:24:28.000 That's not what the United States is.

00:24:29.000 We are a pretty moderate country.

00:24:31.000 We have some right-leaning views, particularly culturally speaking.

00:24:33.000 On economics, we tend to be somewhere in the middle.

00:24:36.000 This is not a hard-right country, nor is it a hard-left country.

00:24:39.000 And the left keeps misreading the tea leaves.

00:24:40.000 Now, the right would be mistaken to think that this means everlasting victory for the right, but so long as the left keeps cruising toward the left, they're opening up the middle for people like Glenn Youngkin.

00:24:50.000 They're opening up the middle for Republicans.

00:24:51.000 And all Republicans have to do is run down the middle and not be crazy.

00:24:55.000 Again, this is how low the bar is in American politics right now.

00:24:58.000 Whichever party is not crazy wins.

00:25:01.000 End of story.

00:25:02.000 Whoever is perceived by the American public as less crazy is going to win. 1.00

00:25:06.000 And Democrats right now have embraced a bunch of crazy crap. 0.99

00:25:09.000 And Republicans are basically just sitting there. 0.98

00:25:12.000 Republicans are now running the Biden campaign from 2020.

00:25:14.000 They are sitting in the basement doing nothing.

00:25:16.000 And just pointing their finger like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

00:25:22.000 And Americans are like, that's true. 0.99

00:25:24.000 OK, they're pretty crazy. 0.99

00:25:25.000 You don't want to vote for those guys.

00:25:26.000 I mean, the way you can tell this, by the way, is because literal anonymous people are winning office right now.

00:25:34.000 There is a guy who just won named Edward Doerr.

00:25:37.000 Over in New Jersey, he's a truck driver.

00:25:40.000 He spent $150 on his campaign.

00:25:43.000 $150, right?

00:25:45.000 Like a nice dinner for you and your wife.

00:25:47.000 $150 he spent on his entire campaign, and he defeated the sitting president of the state Senate in New Jersey by a couple thousand votes.

00:25:55.000 Was that because he was such an unbelievably attractive candidate?

00:25:58.000 No, all he had to do was just stand there and not be dead, but also not be super alive, right?

00:26:04.000 We are now in a political moment Where both parties seem to be increasingly kind of crazy, but the Democratic Party is going way more crazy right now than the Republican Party is and everyone can tell.

00:26:14.000 And so the entire map is now tilting to the right.

00:26:16.000 It's tilting red.

00:26:17.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:27:30.000 Alrighty, so what does this mean practically in terms of the map?

00:27:33.000 Well, Larry Sabato, who is, again, a left-leaning guy who runs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

00:27:43.000 He has something called the crystal ball.

00:27:44.000 The crystal ball is ratings for particular Senate races.

00:27:48.000 And right now, he has just moved a bunch of races away from the Democrats.

00:27:53.000 So Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada were lean D. I always thought, by the way, that that was a bit of an overstatement.

00:27:59.000 They're now considered toss-ups by Larry Sabato.

00:28:02.000 Colorado, which was a safe Democratic seat, is now being shifted to a likely Democratic seat.

00:28:07.000 Okay, so, if you look at the map right now, that means that lean Republican seats include Wisconsin, which remains a lean Republican seat, and Ohio, which remains a likely Republican seat.

00:28:17.000 Unclear who's going to emerge from that Ohio primary, whether it's J.D.

00:28:19.000 Vance or whether it's Josh Mandel.

00:28:21.000 It'll be interesting to see, because both of them are very Trumpy.

00:28:24.000 In the toss-ups, according to Larry Sabato and the Center for Politics over at the University of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada.

00:28:32.000 Republicans only need to pick up two of those in order for them to win control of the Senate.

00:28:38.000 Nevada looks pretty good for them.

00:28:39.000 Nevada is an ugly scene right now for the Democrats.

00:28:43.000 Georgia, I think Republicans just win back.

00:28:45.000 I think Republicans win back Georgia.

00:28:46.000 I think it was a fluke that they lost the last time.

00:28:48.000 I think it was largely driven by the fact that Donald Trump decided in the final days of the campaign that he was going to tell Republicans not to vote because of charges of voter fraud or some such other silliness. 0.98

00:28:58.000 The reason I call that silliness is because whatever you think of voter fraud, not voting is a really, really dumb and stupid solution to that, considering you handed two seats to the Democrats in Georgia, which is, in fact, a red state. 0.92

00:29:08.000 Hey, Arizona, it is not Kristen Sinema who's up in Arizona. 0.98

00:29:12.000 It's Mark Kelly who's up in Arizona.

00:29:13.000 But that state seems to be trending red again because of the nature of the political moment.

00:29:19.000 Pennsylvania is a harder state for Republicans, but a bunch of Pennsylvania appellate court judges were just elected as Republicans.

00:29:26.000 So if there is low turnout in some of the big cities and Democrats do not duplicate What they did in 2020 in Pennsylvania, that could go Republican, too.

00:29:34.000 So if all shifted to the Republicans, you'd be looking at 53 seats for the Republicans in the Senate.

00:29:39.000 Remember, all they need to do is pick up two.

00:29:41.000 They just need to hold in Wisconsin, and they need to pick up two more seats. 0.70

00:29:45.000 That's it.

00:29:46.000 And if they do that, they win the Senate.

00:29:47.000 So this is now, I would say, a likely Republican Senate map.

00:29:50.000 And Democrats are looking at that, and they realize that.

00:29:52.000 They are likely to lose both houses of Congress in the next election cycle.

00:29:57.000 It's a disaster for them.

00:29:58.000 And so, once again, they are presented with some choices.

00:30:02.000 And the choices for the Democrats are...

00:30:04.000 You can follow the moderates.

00:30:06.000 You can follow the progressives. 0.98

00:30:08.000 Or you can follow the crazies.

00:30:10.000 Now, I know that everybody in politics right now is separating the Democrats into two categories rather than three.

00:30:15.000 They're saying they're the moderates and they're the progressives.

00:30:17.000 And among the moderates, they are counting people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden.

00:30:21.000 This is incorrect.

00:30:22.000 Right now, the Democratic Party is divided in three ways. 0.85

00:30:25.000 It's divided between the crazies.

00:30:27.000 That would be on the spending side, Pramila Jayapal from Washington.

00:30:30.000 On the overall side, that would be the squad.

00:30:33.000 The moderates.

00:30:34.000 This would be in the House, people like Abigail Spanberger from Virginia.

00:30:38.000 And in the Senate, it would be Manchin and Sinema.

00:30:41.000 And then you have the progressives.

00:30:42.000 The progressives are actually Biden and Pelosi and Schumer.

00:30:46.000 The Democrats right now are heavily loaded toward the progressive side.

00:30:49.000 They could stop this.

00:30:51.000 They could do what Bill Clinton did after he got blown out in 1994.

00:30:54.000 He lowered capital gains taxes.

00:30:56.000 He signed on to welfare reform.

00:30:57.000 He started working with the Republicans on the other side of the aisle to come up with some sort of moderate policy.

00:31:02.000 Do you think the Democrats are really going to do that? 1.00

00:31:04.000 Or are the Democrats going to keep doubling down on stupid? 0.99

00:31:08.000 It's fascinating to see how this breaks out down media and across the Democratic side of the aisle, because this is a real open argument in the media and on the Democratic side of the aisle. 0.99

00:31:17.000 I think it's kind of hilarious that every time Democrats lose an election, they have this brief moment, this just brief moment, particularly the media.

00:31:23.000 They have a brief moment where they're like, What if we talked to people?

00:31:27.000 What if we got out of this little bubble that we live in here on Twitter and we actually went and talked to people who don't think like us and we tried to comprehend what they were saying.

00:31:34.000 Jim Acosta had this brief moment of clarity yesterday on CNN.

00:31:38.000 It was quite amusing.

00:31:40.000 If you look at what happened in those red counties, those bright red counties from the Shenandoah Valley all the way down to southwestern Virginia, that is Trump country.

00:31:49.000 And Democrats have not been able to make inroads in that part of Virginia and those kinds of rural areas around the United States for a very long time now.

00:31:56.000 And I suspect that Democrats may need to do a little less lecturing and more listening when it comes to those rural voters to help them get back into the good graces of those kinds of Americans.

00:32:08.000 Now I always laugh when I hear this sort of stuff from the media because they spent four years doing precisely the opposite, right?

00:32:13.000 After Trump won...

00:32:14.000 There was this brief moment in time where Democrats were like, maybe we should read Hillbilly Elegy.

00:32:18.000 Maybe we should actually send Selena Zito out to talk to these Trump voters as though she was like Jeff Corwin going into the wild or something. 1.00

00:32:25.000 And they'd wear like Australian hats and they'd be, who are these Trump voters?

00:32:28.000 What are they doing?

00:32:30.000 How do they think?

00:32:32.000 And then after five minutes, they're like, nah, they're all racists.

00:32:34.000 We're not going to pay any attention to them anymore.

00:32:35.000 Probably it was Facebook.

00:32:36.000 Probably it was the Russians. 0.98

00:32:37.000 So they have this brief moment of clarity.

00:32:39.000 And in that brief moment of clarity lies the possibility for democratic hope.

00:32:43.000 They're probably not going to take it.

00:32:45.000 I mean, there are other commentators who are providing sort of this moment of clarity as well.

00:32:48.000 For example, there's one former Obama advisor, Stephanie Cutter.

00:32:52.000 And she says, you know, what we're really scared of is that the Republicans are going to become the party of parents.

00:32:57.000 We tend to break Americans down by demographic group, by racial group, by age group.

00:33:01.000 But there is one group of people who actually are united by interests that pretty much nobody has taken advantage of yet.

00:33:06.000 And that, of course, our parents.

00:33:08.000 Right.

00:33:08.000 Once you have kids, your interests change.

00:33:10.000 There's a reason that married women with kids vote very differently than single women. 1.00

00:33:13.000 Here's Stephanie Cutter recognizing that reality.

00:33:16.000 The one thing that we need to make sure that Republicans in 2022 don't become is the party of parents because we need to be the party of parents.

00:33:27.000 We're the ones that care about school funding.

00:33:27.000 And we are.

00:33:29.000 We're the ones that care about making sure that parents can send their kids to school.

00:33:34.000 Because they have jobs to go to.

00:33:37.000 All of this, we need to own that agenda.

00:33:39.000 We cannot let it go.

00:33:40.000 And it's not just about critical race theory.

00:33:43.000 It's coming out of COVID.

00:33:44.000 It's parental frustration.

00:33:45.000 It's parents being involved in their kids' schooling.

00:33:47.000 We need to pay attention to all of it.

00:33:50.000 Okay, she's right about this.

00:33:51.000 Democrats have no capacity to shift.

00:33:53.000 They have no capacity to shift on this.

00:33:54.000 They're in hock to the American Federation of Teachers, which fought hard against kids going back to school.

00:33:59.000 They believe that the American Federation of Teachers should be able to determine solely how your kids are taught.

00:34:04.000 It's very hard to make the case that you're the party of parents when you're also the party of abortion.

00:34:08.000 That's a very difficult argument to make, just philosophically speaking.

00:34:11.000 So Democrats have a real problem on their hands with regards to this stuff.

00:34:14.000 The New York Times is recognizing that as well.

00:34:15.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:35:21.000 So, Stephanie Cutter is right, and Republicans are realizing that if they go after the parental vote, they're going to do much better, which prompts this hysterically funny headline from the New York Times.

00:35:33.000 Quote, Republicans pounce on schools as a wedge issue to unite the party.

00:35:37.000 Oh, so much pouncing.

00:35:38.000 It's not that Democrats have perverted the schools and Republicans are responding to it.

00:35:41.000 It's Republicans pounce, pounce, pounce, pounce.

00:35:44.000 It's like Simba as a cub in The Lion King.

00:35:47.000 Pounce! 0.98

00:35:49.000 So much pouncing.

00:35:50.000 According to the New York Times, after an unexpectedly strong showing on Tuesday night, Republicans are heading into the 2022 midterms with what they believe will be a highly effective political strategy capitalizing on the frustrations of suburban parents still reeling from the devastating fallout of pandemic-era schooling.

00:36:04.000 Seizing on education as a newly potent wedge issue, Republicans have moved to galvanize crucial groups of voters around what the party calls parental rights issues in public schools, a hodgepodge of conservative causes ranging from eradicating mask mandates to demanding changes to the way children are taught about racism.

00:36:18.000 Yet it is the free-floating sense of rage from parents, many of whom felt abandoned by the government during the worst months of the pandemic, that arose from the off-year elections as one of the most powerful drivers for Republican candidates.

00:36:29.000 Across the country, Democrats lost significant ground in crucial suburban and exurban areas, the kinds of communities that are sought out for their well-funded public schools that helped give the party control of Congress and the White House.

00:36:39.000 In Virginia, where Republicans made schools their central pitch, education rocketed to the top of voter concerns in the final weeks of the race, narrowly edging out the economy.

00:36:47.000 And a lot of credit there to Luke Rosiak again, our investigative reporter here at Daily Wire.

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00:36:58.000 According to the New York Times, the message worked on two frequencies.

00:37:01.000 Pushing a mantra of greater parental control, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, stoked the resentment and fear of some white voters who are alarmed by efforts to teach a more critical history of racism in America. 0.96

00:37:11.000 Gotta love how the New York Times is like, these stupid parents, duped by Glenn Youngkin into being white supremacists, attack critical race theory, a graduate school framework that has become a loose shorthand for contentious debate on how to address race. 0.97

00:37:25.000 No. 1.00

00:37:27.000 And he released an ad that was a throwback to the days of banning books.

00:37:30.000 So they're just doing propaganda work on behalf of the Democrats.

00:37:31.000 Like, keep doing this.

00:37:32.000 Seriously, Democrats.

00:37:33.000 New York Times, please.

00:37:34.000 Keep saying that parents who are concerned about their kids being taught racial essentialism in public schools, being taught that if you are white, you are inherently privileged, and if you are black, you are inherently victimized.

00:37:43.000 Keep telling parents that their kids being taught that stuff is good.

00:37:43.000 Please.

00:37:47.000 And they need to sit down and shut up. 0.98

00:37:48.000 And the Republicans who know this are pouncing.

00:37:50.000 Please, Democrats in the media, keep saying that public schools should be cramming down masks on children who are generally safe from COVID.

00:37:58.000 Again, the total number of kids who have died from COVID who are healthy prior to COVID is 10 to 20 across the entire United States, across the entire pandemic, according to Marty McCary of Johns Hopkins University.

00:38:08.000 Please keep telling parents they can't send their kids to school until they vaccinate their kids. 0.83

00:38:12.000 Let's see how well this works out for you.

00:38:14.000 That's not Republicans pouncing.

00:38:15.000 Again, that is Democrats going crazy and Republicans noting it.

00:38:18.000 That's all that Republicans are doing.

00:38:21.000 If you want to see some pretty devastating results for Democrats, forget about the gubernatorial race in Virginia.

00:38:25.000 Take a look at how the school board elections went the other night across the country.

00:38:28.000 They went very poorly for the Democrats.

00:38:32.000 As the New York Times notes, however, Youngkin and other Republicans tapped into broader dissatisfaction among moderate voters about teachers' unions, unresponsive school boards, quarantine policies, and the instruction parents saw firsthand during months of remote learning.

00:38:44.000 In his some speeches, Youngkin promised to never again close Virginia schools.

00:38:48.000 Terry McAuliffe and his party eagerly condemn the ugliest attacks, but they seem unprepared to counter the wider outpouring of anger over schools.

00:38:57.000 This is... Again, of course they can't counter it because they're in favor of the indoctrination.

00:39:02.000 That's the whole thing.

00:39:03.000 They're in favor of the indoctrination.

00:39:04.000 They like the indoctrination.

00:39:06.000 They like the top-down control.

00:39:07.000 This is embedded deep in the marrow of the Democratic Party at this point.

00:39:07.000 That's the point.

00:39:12.000 The public schools as indoctrination centers for left-wing policy.

00:39:15.000 So yes, this is a winning issue for Republicans now.

00:39:17.000 Democrats could turn away from it.

00:39:19.000 Are they going to?

00:39:20.000 Democrats could also turn away from their inflationary monetary policies.

00:39:23.000 They could turn away from unpopular spending policies.

00:39:25.000 They could turn away from all this stuff because, remember, it wasn't just education.

00:39:28.000 It was also economic policy.

00:39:30.000 It was Joe Biden being unpopular.

00:39:31.000 It was a lot of issues here.

00:39:32.000 Democrats are in trouble across the board.

00:39:34.000 That would generally necessitate a very sharp turn.

00:39:37.000 Are they going to make that turn?

00:39:39.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:39:40.000 First, let us talk about the fact that, you know, for me, I'm talking about Echelon.

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00:39:52.000 You put on a little bit of weight.

00:39:54.000 I'll tell you what has been super helpful for me.

00:39:56.000 I'm talking about Echelon.

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00:41:13.000 Get 800 bucks off. Alrighty, so are the Democrats going to actually start moving away from their radicalism?

00:41:22.000 No.

00:41:23.000 I mean, the answer, the quick answer is no.

00:41:26.000 Like Christopher Walken on SNL.

00:41:29.000 They've got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.

00:41:33.000 That is the, that's all they've got.

00:41:35.000 So, they have a few strategies here.

00:41:36.000 Strategy number one.

00:41:38.000 We're going to pretend that this didn't happen.

00:41:40.000 It didn't happen.

00:41:40.000 You know, what happened in Virginia was natural.

00:41:42.000 It was normal. 0.98

00:41:43.000 When there's a massive blowout in Virginia, where a former DNC head and former Virginia governor gets his ass kicked, that is not worth, it's not worthy of discussion. 0.88

00:41:52.000 Here was Joe Biden yesterday saying, well, you know, this sort of thing happens pretty much every, pretty much every election Virginia switches to the, the party of the, of the opposition. 0.83

00:42:01.000 Here we go.

00:42:02.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:42:04.000 I was talking to Terry to congratulate him today.

00:42:07.000 He got 600,000 more votes than any Democrat ever has gotten.

00:42:11.000 We brought out every Democrat about there was, more votes that ever has been cast for a Democratic incumbent.

00:42:18.000 I'm not incumbent, a Democrat running for governor.

00:42:21.000 And no governor in Virginia has ever won when he's of the same or he or she's the same party as the sitting president.

00:42:29.000 OK, well, I mean, that's that's sort of saying a lot, considering the fact that it's been a long time since Republicans have won statewide in Virginia.

00:42:39.000 Like Bob McDonnell was the last Republican governor of Virginia before this.

00:42:42.000 So I have a feeling that it actually does matter a little bit.

00:42:45.000 But this is going to be the Democratic talking point is that we're not doing anything wrong.

00:42:48.000 It's not us.

00:42:49.000 It's the children.

00:42:50.000 Right.

00:42:50.000 So you have this opinion piece from Perry Bacon in The Washington Post today titled An Abnormal Republican Party Was Treated Normally by Voters in New Jersey and Virginia.

00:42:59.000 He says that really, this is not a big deal.

00:43:01.000 It's just that the president's party generally struggles in off-year elections because there's a turnout gap that favors the party that's not in control.

00:43:07.000 And also, some voters swing away from the president's party because they don't like performance and because they want to balance the power in government. 1.00

00:43:13.000 And really, the big issue here is that voters are stupid. 0.99

00:43:15.000 So they don't realize that the Republican Party is so evil that they shouldn't have reacted as they normally do. 1.00

00:43:19.000 So this is just the normal course of affairs.

00:43:22.000 Now, listen, it is true that in off-year elections, the out-of-power party does better.

00:43:26.000 It is not true that you expect to see swings like you saw in Virginia.

00:43:29.000 That is not a true thing.

00:43:30.000 You do not expect to see the House of Delegates completely reverse itself.

00:43:33.000 You don't expect eight-point races in New Jersey to almost turn into dead heat or the Republican winning.

00:43:40.000 You do not expect the Virginia governor's race to turn into a fairly large blowout in favor of the Republican in a state that the Democrats just won by 10.

00:43:49.000 There are certain things that are outside the margin of error.

00:43:51.000 You might expect that in a state where Joe Biden won by four, that suddenly the governor goes red.

00:43:56.000 That you might expect.

00:43:57.000 But where Joe Biden won by ten?

00:44:00.000 You generally don't expect that.

00:44:01.000 That's kind of a rarity.

00:44:02.000 So the first strategy by Democrats here to deal with the fact that the American public have turned largely against their agenda is to pretend that that's not a big deal and play it down.

00:44:11.000 The second thing that they are doing is they're saying, well, the real thing that's happened here is that they just don't understand us.

00:44:17.000 They don't understand us.

00:44:19.000 This is the move that the Democrats routinely make when they lose.

00:44:21.000 When Al Gore lost to George W. Bush, it was, well, he was just too smart for the crowd.

00:44:25.000 When John Kerry lost to George W. Bush, it was, well, he was just too sophisticated.

00:44:28.000 John Kerry, too sophisticated.

00:44:31.000 Super convincing.

00:44:34.000 It's always some excuse or another.

00:44:36.000 So Joe Biden was asked about this.

00:44:37.000 Now, here's the thing about Joe Biden. 0.99

00:44:40.000 One of the big reasons that Terry McAuliffe got his ass kicked is because Joe Biden is a terrible president and everybody knows it. 1.00

00:44:45.000 Right? 1.00

00:44:45.000 Everybody knows that Joe Biden is a bad president. 1.00

00:44:47.000 He's down in the low 40s.

00:44:49.000 There is no excuse for him being down in the low 40s.

00:44:51.000 See, here's the thing about Trump.

00:44:52.000 Trump was never above 50% in the approval ratings.

00:44:55.000 The day he was elected, his approval rating was like 47%.

00:44:58.000 That's about as high as it ever went for Trump.

00:45:01.000 He never got above 50 in any serious way.

00:45:03.000 Joe Biden was up in the mid-50s, and now Joe Biden's in the low 40s.

00:45:07.000 And by some polls, he's down in the 30s. 0.93

00:45:09.000 He is a very bad, ineffective, and terrible president. 0.93

00:45:12.000 He is bad in that he has pursued bad policies. 0.98

00:45:14.000 He's ineffective in that he has not been able to pursue even anything remotely like a good policy.

00:45:20.000 And he's unpopular because he is verging on senility.

00:45:23.000 So there are a lot of bad things about the Biden administration.

00:45:27.000 So Biden was asked, OK, why exactly did you lose?

00:45:31.000 And Joe Biden says, because Americans are confused about what we do here.

00:45:35.000 The idea here from Democrats is going to be, as we will see, that the reason Democrats lost in Virginia is because they weren't radical enough.

00:45:44.000 Again, more cowbell.

00:45:45.000 Here's Joe Biden setting the predicate for that argument.

00:45:48.000 I just think people are at a point, and it's understandable, where there's a whole lot of confusion.

00:45:57.000 Everything from are you gonna ever get COVID under control?

00:46:01.000 To are my kids gonna be in school?

00:46:04.000 Are they gonna be able to stay in school?

00:46:06.000 To whether or not I'm gonna get a tax break that allows me to be able to pay for the needs of my kids and my family.

00:46:16.000 And they're all things that I'm running on, that we'll run on, and I think we'll do fine.

00:46:23.000 I think we'll do fine.

00:46:24.000 Yeah, good luck with that, Joe.

00:46:26.000 He also said it's not his fault.

00:46:27.000 He says, not me.

00:46:28.000 I didn't do it.

00:46:29.000 Stop blaming me.

00:46:30.000 Joe Biden, the top of the ticket.

00:46:33.000 All righty, Joe.

00:46:35.000 Do you take some responsibility, and do you think that Terry McAuliffe would have won if your agenda had passed before Election Day?

00:46:44.000 I think we should have, it should have passed before election day, but I'm not sure that I would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were Trump voters, but maybe, maybe.

00:47:03.000 I know we did, but I, we'd also, I was running against Donald Trump.

00:47:08.000 Boom, dirty little secret that he just let out of the bag right there.

00:47:11.000 No one likes his agenda.

00:47:12.000 Even Joe Biden realizes it ain't about his agenda.

00:47:14.000 It's about he was running against Trump in 2020, and Trump had really high negatives among suburban moms.

00:47:19.000 That's the reason why he won.

00:47:20.000 But he can't, it's gonna go down, really, it'll go down in history, Joe Biden will, as one of the worst political decisions of all time to take the tack he has taken.

00:47:28.000 It's really unbelievable.

00:47:29.000 He was elected on the basis of being a moderate.

00:47:31.000 He literally defeated Bernie Sanders in the primaries because he was not Bernie Sanders.

00:47:35.000 And then he turned around as president, and he embraced Bernie Sanders.

00:47:39.000 He was elected to not be divisive racially.

00:47:42.000 And then he turned around and he embraced the entire Ibram X. Kenney equity agenda.

00:47:46.000 It's bewildering.

00:47:47.000 Like, on a political level, it's bewildering.

00:47:49.000 Now, on an ego level, you understand why he's doing it because, again, this is a doddering old man who wants to go down in history alongside LBJ and FDR, and he's likely a one-term president, and he knows it.

00:47:57.000 But on a pure political level, he took whatever popularity he had based on the entire image that he was running as a moderate, and he flushed it down the toilet.

00:48:06.000 He basically ran as Joe Manchin and then he governed as like the Senate as like Ed Markey, right?

00:48:15.000 It's crazy.

00:48:16.000 That is it.

00:48:17.000 That is a and he's leading his entire party down this path.

00:48:20.000 Because again, he and the rest of the Democratic Party are they're infused with the notion that that 2012 Obama coalition is replicable.

00:48:28.000 And that all, they're just one big spending bill away from that becoming a permanent coalition.

00:48:31.000 They are not one big spending bill away from that becoming a permanent coalition.

00:48:34.000 In fact, their policies are not popular with a broad swath of the American people.

00:48:39.000 But Joe Biden has to keep doubling down because he has no other choice.

00:48:42.000 He has boxed himself in here.

00:48:43.000 So here he was yesterday saying, the thing here, the real problem is that people want us to get things done.

00:48:48.000 No, maybe, Joe, maybe it's that you did too much already.

00:48:51.000 Maybe it's that the things you want to get done are unpopular.

00:48:54.000 Maybe Republicans are being elected to stop your agenda. 0.63

00:48:58.000 Not to facilitate your, like, that's such a weird argument.

00:49:01.000 It's such a weird argument.

00:49:02.000 I'm promising to do X. I've been unable to get X done because I don't have enough Democrats in favor of what I'm doing.

00:49:08.000 The public then votes in a bunch of not Democrats and your response is, oh, well, you know, probably they love my agenda.

00:49:15.000 How does that make any sense?

00:49:15.000 What?

00:49:17.000 They're literally voting for people to stop your agenda.

00:49:20.000 That's literally what they are doing.

00:49:22.000 And then Joe Biden's like, yeah, but we need more.

00:49:25.000 People want them to get things done, apparently.

00:49:25.000 Here he is.

00:49:28.000 And no governor in Virginia has ever won when he's of the same or he or she's the same party as the sitting president.

00:49:35.000 What I do know is I do know that people want us to get things done.

00:49:41.000 They want us to get things done.

00:49:43.000 And that's why I'm continuing to push very hard for the Democratic Party to move along and pass my infrastructure bill and my Build Back Better bill.

00:49:56.000 They want us to do more.

00:49:57.000 That's what they want.

00:49:58.000 More, more, more. 1.00

00:50:02.000 And if this daughter-in-law fool isn't enough for you, I've got another daughter-in-law fool for you. 1.00

00:50:05.000 That's Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker. 0.99

00:50:07.000 So she was asked about this yesterday.

00:50:09.000 And she basically like, the people spoke.

00:50:12.000 And we heard them.

00:50:13.000 and we will ignore them.

00:50:15.000 Thank you.

00:50:31.000 No.

00:50:32.000 No.

00:50:34.000 Does he change the agenda for the House?

00:50:35.000 No.

00:50:37.000 No.

00:50:39.000 And this is the tactic they're going to pursue?

00:50:40.000 No.

00:50:41.000 Congressional Dems hurt Terry McAuliffe.

00:50:43.000 I mean, I'm going to be blunt.

00:50:45.000 Okay, and here's Tim Kaine yesterday saying, oh, the big problem here is that the congressional Democrats didn't pass the infrastructure bill.

00:50:51.000 That's the big problem here.

00:50:52.000 If we had passed the infrastructure bill, then Terry McAuliffe would have won.

00:50:54.000 Uh-huh, sure, sure, Tim.

00:50:56.000 Congressional Dems hurt Terry McAuliffe.

00:50:59.000 I mean, I'm going to be blunt.

00:51:01.000 It's humbling to say it, but if we had been able to deliver infrastructure and reconciliation in mid-October, he could have sold universal pre-K, affordable child care, infrastructure, creating jobs.

00:51:16.000 Democrats control both houses and they have to act like it, have to be disciplined, have to get results.

00:51:21.000 And our inability to come together and get a result hurt him.

00:51:30.000 Okay, Mark Warner saying the same thing again.

00:51:32.000 Senator from Virginia saying, no, no, this is what we need.

00:51:35.000 We need more, more of this.

00:51:36.000 It's astonishing.

00:51:37.000 It's astonishing.

00:51:38.000 None of them have the capacity, except for Joe Manchin, as we'll see.

00:51:40.000 It's actually saying, maybe we should wait on this for a moment.

00:51:43.000 Here's Mark Warner pushing the same gospel here.

00:51:47.000 You guys got the White House, the Senate, the House.

00:51:52.000 When do you get more things done?

00:51:53.000 I mean, only in Washington could people think that it is a smart strategy To take a once-in-a-generation investment infrastructure and prevent your president from signing that bill into law.

00:52:10.000 And that's somehow a good strategy.

00:52:12.000 Okay, so that's Warner actually ripping the congressional progressives.

00:52:16.000 Now what's hilarious about this is that you got Warner and Kaine saying, if the congressional progressives had gone along with infrastructure, we would have won in Virginia.

00:52:24.000 That's not true.

00:52:25.000 Pramila Jayapal is saying, well, if you guys had just gone along with us on Build Back Better, then we would have won. 0.98

00:52:30.000 How about none of that would have made a damn bit of difference because Americans aren't calling for any of this crap. 0.95

00:52:34.000 You're already spending too much money. 0.94

00:52:36.000 No one is desperate for the infrastructure plan.

00:52:37.000 No one is desperate for Build Back Better.

00:52:39.000 No one's desperate for any of it.

00:52:41.000 That's why Republicans just won.

00:52:43.000 Here's Pramila Jayapal saying, yeah, you know, it really isn't about the infrastructure bill.

00:52:47.000 It was really about Build Back Better.

00:52:48.000 Again, the conversation here, in reality, is not a two-way conversation between the moderates and the progressives.

00:52:55.000 The conversation right now is between the moderates, the progressives, and the radicals.

00:53:00.000 And the progressives and radicals are going at each other.

00:53:02.000 But in reality, the only people they should be listening to are the moderates.

00:53:05.000 They're not going to.

00:53:06.000 Here's Pramila Jayapal.

00:53:08.000 There is no way that you can blame a 12-point swing on one bill.

00:53:14.000 The reality is that voters do want us to deliver.

00:53:17.000 I think Youngkin appealed to parents and education.

00:53:21.000 I think we have the formula to appeal to parents even more by passing a bill that provides childcare, that provides pre-K, that provides jobs.

00:53:34.000 So again, this is the agenda.

00:53:35.000 Okay, so they're not pushing this thing forward.

00:53:37.000 We'll get to how they're pushing this forward in a second because it's crazy.

00:53:39.000 It's crazy.

00:53:41.000 This is a party with a death wish, apparently.

00:53:43.000 We'll get to more of this in one second.

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00:55:54.000 So Democrats in the aftermath of what's happened are ramping up the spending, ramping it up.

00:55:58.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, House Democrats are adding back in provisions to the Build Back Better plan that are big spending provisions.

00:56:07.000 Nancy Pelosi wants to vote on it like today or tomorrow.

00:56:10.000 Now, the Senate is not going to vote on it.

00:56:12.000 Manchin and Sinema don't support this bill.

00:56:14.000 She wants to add in a bunch of stuff and then ram it through so that she won't be blamed for what happened in Virginia the other day. 0.99

00:56:21.000 They're crazy.

00:56:21.000 This is crazy talk.

00:56:23.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, House Democrats released an updated version of the party's social spending and climate package, adding back in a paid leave program that had previously fallen out of the bill, including a measure sharply raising the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction.

00:56:36.000 The House bill, which top Democrats want to bring up for a vote in the chamber, is the latest proposal in the months-long negotiation among Democrats over Biden's agenda.

00:56:44.000 It's set to face changes in the Senate, where Joe Manchin has objected to the inclusion of a paid leave benefit.

00:56:48.000 The bill includes a variety of measures proposing a universal pre-K program for three and four-year-olds, subsidies for child care and health care costs, tax credits for reducing carbon emissions, among other measures.

00:56:57.000 The White House, the House text leaves many of those items largely unchanged from the White House $1.85 trillion framework released last week.

00:57:05.000 I mean, I'm sorry, but this is crazy.

00:57:08.000 And the fact that Nancy Pelosi is pursuing it just shows she's thrown up her hands and she's basically like, F it.

00:57:12.000 I'm just going to, I'm going to throw out whatever I feel like throwing out.

00:57:14.000 I'm going to get, somebody's going to vote for something around here.

00:57:17.000 I'm just going to throw out a big bill and make Democrats vote for that bill.

00:57:19.000 Now here's the problem.

00:57:20.000 What if all the moderates in the house are like, no.

00:57:22.000 What if Abigail Spanberger in Virginia says, nah, not into it.

00:57:28.000 They are having a serious issue right here.

00:57:31.000 Again, there are enough of the mansion cinema-style moderates in the House and in the Senate to say, maybe we should hold up on the big spending bill.

00:57:38.000 And now Nancy Pelosi has reversed the order. 1.00

00:57:40.000 Before it was, we'll pass bipartisan infrastructure because there's more support for that, and then we'll pass Build Back Better.

00:57:46.000 Now Nancy Pelosi wants to pass Build Back Better before bipartisan infrastructure. 1.00

00:57:50.000 That's not going to work.

00:57:51.000 None of this is going to work.

00:57:53.000 But the idea is you just throw more crap at the wall and hope that something sticks because this is desperation point for the Democrats and they cannot pull out of the tailspin.

00:58:01.000 They're already over the cliff. 0.89

00:58:02.000 This isn't Thelma and Louise headed for the cliff.

00:58:05.000 They're already over the cliff.

00:58:06.000 They just haven't hit the ground yet.

00:58:07.000 This is Wile E. Coyote.

00:58:08.000 He's over the cliff.

00:58:09.000 It's that moment in the cartoon where he realizes and he looks down and gravity has not yet applied and you see his eyes get real wide and then it's That is what this is Democrats just haven't hit the ground yet.

00:58:25.000 According to the Washington Post, a new sense of political urgency swept over restive Democrats from the White House to Capitol Hill on Wednesday as they raced to resolve the final issues stalling President Biden's roughly $3 trillion economic agenda in the aftermath of a stinging election defeat in Virginia.

00:58:40.000 With a loss in that state's gubernatorial race, along with a slim win in New Jersey, party lawmakers found themselves anxious, exasperated, newly ready to try to advance two spending initiatives that have been bogged down in Congress for months.

00:58:50.000 Now, here is the problem.

00:58:51.000 Again, there are enough moderates in the House and the Senate.

00:58:54.000 True moderates to say no, not super into it.

00:58:57.000 For example, Joe Manchin yesterday, he came out.

00:58:59.000 He's like, you know, you guys are saying we need to speed this up.

00:59:02.000 I'm saying I think we need to slow this down.

00:59:04.000 Here is Joe Manchin, the actual president of the United States.

00:59:08.000 I just think the message was really saying if we're going to do something, let's take time and do it right.

00:59:13.000 Let's make sure that people know what's in it.

00:59:15.000 And I've said that before.

00:59:17.000 Sometimes the and it's not intentionally the games being played.

00:59:20.000 It's where the system is very convoluted.

00:59:22.000 People need to know that what we're getting for it, what you're going to expect, how much you're going to pay for it and go on and on and on.

00:59:28.000 But, you know, we're talking about revamping the whole entire tax code.

00:59:34.000 That's mammoth.

00:59:35.000 Totally.

00:59:37.000 OK, he's saying Americans are concerned about inflation.

00:59:40.000 He is not wrong. 0.53

00:59:41.000 He's not wrong. 0.53

00:59:42.000 I mean, by the way, Americans are so concerned about inflation that the Fed just announced yesterday that they are tapering their buys.

00:59:47.000 They're buying.

00:59:48.000 They're dialing back their bond purchases.

00:59:50.000 They're starting to taper now because they're afraid of inflation.

00:59:52.000 In fact, the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, he said yesterday that temporary inflation had become not so temporary.

00:59:58.000 It's not permanent, which is always very reassuring.

01:00:02.000 Transitory is is a word that people have had different understandings of.

01:00:09.000 For some, it carries a sense of short-lived.

01:00:14.000 And that's, you know, there's a real time component measured in months, let's say.

01:00:18.000 Really, for us, what transitory has meant is that if something is transitory, you will not leave behind it permanently or very persistently higher inflation.

01:00:30.000 Okay, so yes, it turns out that the vast majority of people think of transitory as it's going to end.

01:00:35.000 That is what transitory means.

01:00:36.000 I love that.

01:00:37.000 We're now in Clintonian, what does is mean?

01:00:40.000 What is the definition of is?

01:00:41.000 The definition of transitory is like, well, if it lasts for like two years, I guess it's still transitory.

01:00:45.000 Okay, so they're starting to taper the buy.

01:00:47.000 Americans are worried about this.

01:00:48.000 They're paying more for everything.

01:00:50.000 And Joe Biden wants to blow more money into the economy, which is leading people like Abigail Spanberger from Virginia again.

01:00:55.000 She's a Virginia Blue Dog Democrat. 0.77

01:00:57.000 She says, Mr. Biden must not forget that for many voters, his mandate was quite limited to remove former President Donald Trump from their television screens and to make American life ordinary again.

01:01:06.000 Nobody elected him to be FDR.

01:01:08.000 They elected him to be normal and stop the chaos.

01:01:12.000 OK, points to Abigail Spanberger right there. 0.99

01:01:15.000 And yet the Democrats won't stop.

01:01:17.000 Can't stop, won't stop.

01:01:20.000 Nancy Pelosi wants to hold the vote according to Punchbowl News. 1.00

01:01:23.000 They do a good job summarizing everything going on in DC.

01:01:26.000 They want to hold a vote on both Build Back Better and the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill today or tomorrow in the House.

01:01:34.000 You read that correctly, they say, a vote sometime in the next few days on legislation calling for nearly $3 trillion in federal spending that's been delayed for weeks.

01:01:42.000 They said when you look at the dynamics, it doesn't make any sense.

01:01:45.000 When looking at House Democratic strategy, you begin and end with Pelosi.

01:01:48.000 She wants to vote on Build Back Better first, and then infrastructure.

01:01:52.000 Pelosi's had an interesting journey during this Build Back Better process.

01:01:55.000 First, she said the House would only vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill after the Senate passed the reconciliation package.

01:02:01.000 Then she caved on that.

01:02:02.000 Then she tried to pass the infrastructure bill twice, and that failed.

01:02:06.000 And here we are with the House on the brink of considering a massive $1.5 trillion plus reconciliation package that won't pass the Senate.

01:02:12.000 So Pelosi has been forced to give a lot of ground process-wise as well as policy-wise.

01:02:18.000 And now she's saying, you know what?

01:02:19.000 I'm just going to throw it in Schumer's lap.

01:02:21.000 I don't know what to do here.

01:02:21.000 I'm just going to go with it.

01:02:23.000 Pelosi's biggest hurdle, according to Punchbowl, is the moderates.

01:02:26.000 Five Democratic moderates have publicly declared they want a budgetary score before they vote for Build Back Better.

01:02:30.000 That's not going to happen.

01:02:32.000 Here's the top eight to a moderate Democrat.

01:02:34.000 At this point, so many members are bewildered by leadership's latest strategy.

01:02:37.000 It appears we've given up on pre-conferencing and there's no way to know the full cost and repercussions of all the newest additions and changes.

01:02:43.000 I think frustration is growing by the lack of a strategy to get this into law.

01:02:46.000 And that it appears we are doubling down on the wrong lessons from Tuesday.

01:02:50.000 Also, where is the president?

01:02:53.000 He's sleeping in an office where the president is.

01:02:55.000 Meanwhile, the progressives are like, yeah, you know, build back better. 0.93

01:02:58.000 Let's let's just cram a bunch of crap in there and then we'll send it over to Manchin and see what we can do on this. 0.76

01:03:02.000 It's amazing. 0.97

01:03:03.000 So the Democrats are going to try and ram this thing through. 0.94

01:03:06.000 They do not have the they do not have the capacity to do this.

01:03:09.000 Kathleen Rice of New York.

01:03:11.000 Again, one of the Democratic moderates in a purple district.

01:03:14.000 She said, I don't understand some of my more progressive colleagues.

01:03:17.000 Saying Tuesday night shows us we need to get both of these bills done and shove even more progressive stuff in.

01:03:22.000 What we're talking about is not resonating with voters.

01:03:25.000 Correct.

01:03:27.000 Correct.

01:03:28.000 So.

01:03:29.000 The Democrats are going to tear each other apart all because they cannot let go of this notion that their ideas are right.

01:03:35.000 It's the American people who are wrong. 0.98

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