The Ben Shapiro Show - What If Biden Stabs Kamala Harris In The Back First? | Ep. 1376

00:00:00.000 CNN puts out a hit piece on Kamala Harris.

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00:01:49.000 He made a big boo-boo.

00:01:51.000 During the campaign, he was faced with the prospect of having to pick a vice president.

00:01:55.000 And he had a lot of choices in front of him.

00:01:57.000 He could have picked somebody like Amy Klobuchar. 0.97

00:01:58.000 He could have tacked it to the center.

00:02:00.000 He could have picked somebody like Elizabeth Warren, who made the hearts of progressives flutter.

00:02:05.000 Or he could try to please the intersectional coalition by picking a black lady. 0.98

00:02:08.000 And he decided that he was going to please the intersectional coalition by picking a black lady. 0.88

00:02:11.000 But not just any black lady. 1.00

00:02:13.000 A black lady could attack him as a racist, as a possible sexual assaulter, and also had been so terrible as a campaigner that she had flamed out completely before even her home state of California could take a primary vote. 1.00

00:02:25.000 Kamala Harris is a complete failure as a politician. 0.96

00:02:27.000 She's Senator from California, essentially because any Democrat who is a warm body can win in California. 1.00

00:02:33.000 And the only reason that she's Vice President of the United States right now is because Joe Biden plucked her off the ash heap of politics and decided to make her Vice President supposedly because he needed somebody of color on the ticket, which of course is not true, considering that he had blown away Bernie Sanders in the primaries, specifically on the basis of the black vote in places like South Carolina.

00:02:51.000 So, he made a boo-boo.

00:02:52.000 He essentially signed Blaine Gabbert to a backup role, and then realized that Blaine Gabbert was Blaine Gabbert.

00:02:58.000 And now the leaks are coming because here is the thing.

00:03:00.000 Joe Biden is doing a terrible job as president.

00:03:02.000 Everybody knows he's doing a terrible job as president.

00:03:04.000 He's in the low 40s, high 30s in terms of approval rating.

00:03:07.000 And so normally, if you're a Democrat, you'd be thinking, OK, fine.

00:03:10.000 So Joe Biden is going to take the hit.

00:03:12.000 He's going to do all these very progressive, transformative things.

00:03:15.000 And once he does these progressive, transformative things, he's going to step out of the way.

00:03:18.000 He will take all of the cannon fire.

00:03:20.000 And then the next person will step up into glory because they will have this track record Of Joe Biden's pushing them forward.

00:03:28.000 They will have this new remade American economy that already exists.

00:03:31.000 They won't get blamed for it.

00:03:32.000 They'll be walking into a new status quo, shiny and ready to go.

00:03:36.000 There's only one problem.

00:03:37.000 The person who is set to fill Joe Biden's shoes once Joe Biden shuffles off the stage on his walker with the tennis balls on the bottom.

00:03:45.000 Once Joe Biden actually does that, the person standing behind him is Kamala Harris.

00:03:49.000 And Kamala Harris has currently a 28% approval rating.

00:03:53.000 Meaning everyone hates her.

00:03:54.000 It's basically her and Doug Emhoff are the Kamala Harris fan club.

00:03:57.000 That's the entirety of it.

00:03:59.000 No one likes her. 0.99

00:04:00.000 And so now you're starting to see left-wing media turn on Kamala Harris, realizing that they've got a dud on their hands. 0.97

00:04:05.000 And that if Joe Biden does not run in 2024, and Kamala Harris does, that's actually somehow a downgrade.

00:04:10.000 Do you understand how bad a candidate you have to be to be a downgrade from essentially a vegetable?

00:04:16.000 You have a president of the United States who cannot get through a full paragraph without stumbling all over himself and or urinating in his own pants.

00:04:24.000 And the person who is backing him up is even less popular than that.

00:04:28.000 And by the way, not less popular because she's out in the public eye doing unpopular things. 1.00

00:04:33.000 Less popular because every time she pops up her head in even the most minute circumstance, she alienates everyone. 0.99

00:04:39.000 She is somehow less genuine than Hillary Clinton.

00:04:42.000 She is somehow less authentic than Harry Reid.

00:04:46.000 She is somehow more produced than a Busby Berkeley musical.

00:04:51.000 And everyone senses it.

00:04:52.000 I mean, it's not like he's been trotting her out and she's been out there doing all sorts of important things.

00:04:56.000 Remember, he promised he was going to be co-president with her.

00:04:58.000 And then after the first three weeks, when they realized how bad she is at this, they're like, why don't you go co-president over here in this closet under the stairs?

00:05:08.000 Like Harry Potter.

00:05:10.000 We'll just keep you there for a few years.

00:05:12.000 We'll lock you in Matilda's chokie.

00:05:14.000 And then later we'll take you out and maybe we'll run you for president. 0.99

00:05:16.000 But it turns out that even that is not enough to shield her from the harsh glare of reality.

00:05:20.000 Because every time she comes out and says something, she looks terrible.

00:05:23.000 And so now, the knives are out.

00:05:25.000 And Democrats are realizing that they have to get rid of her and they have to supplant her with someone else.

00:05:28.000 Now, they have a really thin bench.

00:05:31.000 They've been trying to promote Pete Buttigieg.

00:05:32.000 The problem is that Pete Buttigieg just humiliated himself by going completely M.I.A.

00:05:37.000 For two full months, in the middle of a supply chain crisis, as the Secretary of Transportation, so he could take paternity leave.

00:05:45.000 Which, again, does not resonate, I think, with middle Americans the way that it resonates with upper class urban elites who went to Princeton.

00:05:53.000 I just, I don't think that most middle Americans are like, hold up, hold up a second.

00:05:57.000 I understand why my wife gets maternity leave, she had to push a baby out of there, but me getting paternity leave for two full months, on the government dime, in the middle of a supply chain crisis?

00:06:06.000 No.

00:06:07.000 And especially because, like, if my wife had to push something out of there and then I had to care for her physically because she actually had physical damage, that is a different thing than I get to take two months off with brand new babies when no one has any physical damage. 1.00

00:06:17.000 Because again, Peabody Judge is married to a man and they had these kids without any physical damage being done.

00:06:23.000 The purpose of paternity leave, traditionally speaking, is so that dad can take care of mom while mom takes care of baby.

00:06:29.000 That is the actual purpose of paternity leave if you're going to have paternity leave in the first place. 0.68

00:06:33.000 It's not just because you have to have bonding time with the child.

00:06:37.000 It is because it's a very, if you've ever, if you've married, if you have kids, you understand it's a physically damaging process to a woman to actually have the baby. 0.90

00:06:45.000 And then she needs help afterward.

00:06:46.000 But if nobody needs help, then why are you taking off two months on the government dime, not telling anybody?

00:06:52.000 And then we realize you're gone.

00:06:53.000 So Pete Buttigieg has had a world of hurt.

00:06:55.000 And so he's been attempting to now buy it back by explaining That really, he's a hero for taking paternity leave for two months.

00:07:02.000 And then if everybody had paternity leave for two months, the economy would be better off. 0.85

00:07:06.000 Even though right now we have a massive labor shortage in the country and inflation up the wazoo and a supply chain crisis in part facilitated by people like Pete Buttigieg.

00:07:15.000 Okay, so their bench is super thin.

00:07:17.000 I think Kamala Harris, who everyone hates, Pete Buttigieg, who is a lightweight, And who else?

00:07:22.000 Who else?

00:07:23.000 Now the Biden administration is trotting out like Mitch Landrieu.

00:07:26.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:07:27.000 Like the former governor of Louisiana.

00:07:28.000 They're like, we'll put him in charge of infrastructure.

00:07:30.000 Maybe we'll prop him up by having him stand in front of a bridge or something.

00:07:33.000 Maybe he'll run.

00:07:34.000 They are in such serious trouble.

00:07:35.000 So one thing they do know, though, is that Kamala Harris has to go.

00:07:39.000 Kamala Harris cannot be the person who runs in 2024.

00:07:41.000 We'll get to the CNN hit piece in a second because it's so wonderful and so telling.

00:07:46.000 It really is hilarious.

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00:09:11.000 Okay, so this brings us to CNN's hit piece.

00:09:14.000 Now, I don't think that CNN runs pretty much anything without someone from the White House being behind it.

00:09:19.000 I just don't think that's the way CNN operates.

00:09:21.000 CNN is an adjunct wing of the Democratic press.

00:09:24.000 Press spokesperson, essentially.

00:09:26.000 So there's a piece there by Edward Isaac DeVere and Jasmine Wright.

00:09:29.000 It is titled, Exasperation and Dysfunction, Inside Kamala Harris's Frustrating Start as Vice President. 0.54

00:09:36.000 Oh, it's going to be good, guys.

00:09:37.000 Do you see how the turnabout is fair play here?

00:09:39.000 Everybody was thinking, man, I was not ready for this surprise ending.

00:09:43.000 Everybody thought that when Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris, he would need a food taster because You wouldn't want Joe Biden standing at the top of the stairs of Air Force One and Kamala Harris standing anywhere within like a three foot radius, right? 0.71

00:09:54.000 Because just one slip and Kamala Harris is president. 1.00

00:09:58.000 But what if it turns out that Joe Biden has put out the preemptive political hit on Kamala Harris?

00:10:04.000 Wouldn't that be kind of glorious and hilarious?

00:10:06.000 Well, that may be what's happening.

00:10:08.000 And yeah, I'm here for it.

00:10:10.000 It's enjoyable.

00:10:11.000 Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff, deciding there simply isn't time to deal with them right now, especially at a moment when President Joe Biden faces quickly multiplying legislative and political concerns.

00:10:25.000 The exasperation runs both ways.

00:10:27.000 Interviews with nearly three dozen former and current Harris aides, administration officials, Democratic operatives, donors, and outside advisors who spoke extensively to CNN reveal a complex reality inside the White House.

00:10:37.000 Many in the Vice President's circle fume she's not being adequately prepared or positioned and is instead being sidelined. 0.99

00:10:43.000 And the VP herself has told several confidants she feels constrained in what she's able to do politically. 1.00

00:10:50.000 Yeah, they keep saying every time you go out and get in front of a camera, you look like an idiot. 0.95

00:10:53.000 Those around her remain wary of even hinting at future political ambitions, with Biden's team highly attuned to signs of disloyalty, particularly from the vice president. 0.99

00:11:01.000 She's a heartbeat away from the presidency now. 0.98

00:11:03.000 She could be just a year away from launching a presidential campaign of her own, given doubts throughout the political world that Biden will actually go through with the re-election bid in 2024, something he's pledged to do both publicly and privately.

00:11:13.000 Yeah, here's the other thing.

00:11:15.000 Joe Biden doesn't want Kamala Harris around because he sees her as a threat.

00:11:19.000 And old Joe still has the idea that he's going to run for re-election.

00:11:22.000 And by run, I mean hobble toward re-election.

00:11:25.000 Few of the insiders who spoke with CNN think she's being well-prepared for whichever role it will be.

00:11:29.000 By the way, you shouldn't have to well-prepare the VP.

00:11:32.000 I thought the entire idea was that the VP is ready day one in case, God forbid, the president goes down.

00:11:36.000 I'm sorry, this is not a tutoring class.

00:11:38.000 You don't get, like, remedial vice-presidenting once you become vice-president of the United States.

00:11:43.000 You should not be selecting somebody for vice-president of the— I mean, this is Joe Biden's fault, honestly.

00:11:47.000 You shouldn't be selecting somebody for vice-president who needs, like, remedial math.

00:11:52.000 This is not you went to high school, and then they just kept passing you through, and then finally you graduated, like, 57th in your class of 75, and then you get to a community college, and Jill's there teaching you how to do 2 plus 2 equals 4.

00:12:04.000 That's not what the VP slot is supposed to be here.

00:12:07.000 Few of the insiders who spoke with CNN think she's being well prepared for whichever role it will be.

00:12:11.000 Again, I just, I love the image of just Kamala Harris sitting there and somebody standing in front of a blackboard explaining to her what the VP role is and how she's going to fulfill it. 1.00

00:12:20.000 Harris is struggling with a rocky relationship with some parts of the White House, while longtime supporters feel abandoned and see no coherent public sense of what she's done or been trying to do as vice president.

00:12:29.000 Being the first woman and the first woman of color in national elected office is historic, but has also come with outside scrutiny and no forgiveness for even small errors, as she will often point out.

00:12:40.000 Oh, by the way, always a great look.

00:12:42.000 It doesn't look peevish or whiny at all to sit around as vice president of the United States talking about how everybody's mean to you.

00:12:49.000 Oh, it's so sad.

00:12:51.000 I mean, she doesn't get any forgiveness for small errors.

00:12:54.000 Now, small errors like saying that she's been to the border when she hasn't been to the border ever and not understanding why she should go to the border, for example, or being charged with getting COVID under control and then completely failing at that.

00:13:06.000 Literally everything she's tasked with, she fails at.

00:13:08.000 Defenders and people who care for Harris are getting frantic, says CNN.

00:13:11.000 Remember, this is CNN.

00:13:12.000 This is not Fox News.

00:13:13.000 This is coming directly from Biden.

00:13:15.000 Okay, there's only one way that this piece gets run, and that is the White House is looking out there and they are saying she needs to go.

00:13:21.000 Get rid of her now. 1.00

00:13:22.000 We need another shot at this.

00:13:23.000 Defenders and people who care for Harris are getting frantic.

00:13:26.000 When they're annoyed, some pass around a recent Onion story mocking her lack of more substantive work.

00:13:30.000 One with the headline, White House urges Kamala Harris to sit at computer all day in case emails come through.

00:13:36.000 When they're depressed, they bat down the Aaron Sorkin-style rumor that Biden might try to replace her by nominating her to a Supreme Court vacancy.

00:13:43.000 That chatter has already reached top levels of the Biden orbit, according to one person who's heard it.

00:13:46.000 Oh yeah, good luck with that.

00:13:48.000 Good luck with that.

00:13:49.000 Nominating Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court of the United States based on her extensive experience being terrible at everything? 0.99

00:13:55.000 Man, talk about just failing upward.

00:13:56.000 This would be the greatest example of failing upward I've ever seen.

00:13:59.000 She fails as AG in California.

00:14:02.000 By the way, pushing the totally unconstitutional and ridiculous notion that the AG of a state can simply refuse to defend a law in a given state, and then courts can simply refuse to adjudicate the law.

00:14:12.000 This is what she did with Proposition 8.

00:14:13.000 She said, I'm an AG of the state.

00:14:15.000 I don't like traditional marriage.

00:14:16.000 The voters in my state like traditional marriage.

00:14:18.000 I don't.

00:14:18.000 I refuse to challenge those.

00:14:20.000 I refuse to stand up for that law in court.

00:14:22.000 And then the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is like, well, if the state of California isn't standing up for its own law, I guess we won't even adjudicate it. 0.85

00:14:28.000 It's ridiculous on its face. 1.00

00:14:29.000 She was a garbage AG. 1.00

00:14:30.000 She was a garbage senator. 1.00

00:14:31.000 This is when I was in California, so I know. 1.00

00:14:33.000 And now she's a garbage VP. 1.00

00:14:34.000 And now they're like, what if we put her on the Supreme Court? 0.99

00:14:36.000 Are you gonna just, if she keeps failing, will she eventually become a deity?

00:14:40.000 Like seriously, we all have to sacrifice to Kamala Harris?

00:14:43.000 We throw virgins into volcanoes for Kamala Harris if she keeps failing this way? 1.00

00:14:46.000 We'll just keep moving her up the food chain until we all genuflect at the actual altar of Kamala Harris based on her sucking at her job royally? 1.00

00:14:54.000 It's unbelievable.

00:14:55.000 By the way, apparently this is like a thing in Democratic Party politics.

00:14:59.000 Terry McAuliffe just lost his Virginia governor's race, which is nearly impossible to do.

00:15:03.000 You know how hard you have to work as a Democrat to lose a Virginia gubernatorial race?

00:15:06.000 You have to work super hard at it.

00:15:08.000 And I'll say this for Terry McAuliffe.

00:15:10.000 He worked super hard at losing.

00:15:11.000 That dude was dedicated to losing.

00:15:13.000 He lost to Glenn Youngkin.

00:15:14.000 First thing that happened, the Biden administration came around knocking on his door saying, do you want to be in the Biden administration?

00:15:18.000 Like the failure upward is just astonishing.

00:15:20.000 Joe Biden is a great story of this, right?

00:15:22.000 Joe Biden ran for president 173 times.

00:15:24.000 He's been running for president since William Jennings Bryan was challenging him in primaries.

00:15:29.000 And now Joe Biden is president of the United States.

00:15:31.000 You can just keep failing upward, presumably.

00:15:34.000 According to CNN, Harris is perceived to be in such a weak position that top Democrats in and outside of Washington have begun to speculate privately, asking each other why the White House has allowed her to become so hobbled in the public consciousness, at least as they see it.

00:15:45.000 Again, I love that her own failings are now Joe Biden's fault. 0.97

00:15:49.000 Joe Biden is a doddering old fool, and the Biden team's like, why can't, why can't he help her? 0.99

00:15:54.000 And Joe's like, and then he falls over and clonks his head. 1.00

00:15:58.000 We'll continue on this because it's glorious.

00:16:00.000 It really is.

00:16:02.000 Talk about dysfunctional.

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00:17:42.000 All right, so CNN story.

00:17:44.000 This hit piece on Kamala Harris continues.

00:17:47.000 She's very honored and very proud to be Vice President of the United States.

00:17:50.000 Her job as the number two is to be helpful and supportive to the President and to take on work that he asks her to take on, said Eleni Kounalakis, the Lieutenant Governor of California, a longtime friend.

00:17:59.000 Kounalakis spoke with the VP last Monday morning before Harris departed for a diplomatic mission to France.

00:18:04.000 It is natural that those of us who know her know how much more helpful she can be than she is currently being asked to be, said Kounalakis.

00:18:10.000 That's where the frustration is coming from.

00:18:12.000 An incumbent vice president, says CNN, should be a shoe-in the next time the party's presidential nomination is open.

00:18:17.000 But guessing who might launch a theoretical primary challenge to Harris has become an ongoing insider parlor game.

00:18:22.000 Other politicians with their own presidential ambitions have started privately acknowledging they're trying to figure out how to quietly lay the groundwork to run if and when Harris falters as they think she might.

00:18:31.000 The reality is more complex and looks different to people more familiar with how any White House actually works.

00:18:36.000 Harris is the first VP in decades to come into office with less Washington experience than the president.

00:18:41.000 Finding her footing was always going to be hard.

00:18:43.000 Oh, so sad.

00:18:45.000 Presidents and vice presidents and their staffs often clash.

00:18:47.000 Barack Obama's West Wing tended to be dismissive of Biden's staffers.

00:18:50.000 And Biden himself had a number of stumbles early in that job.

00:18:53.000 Republicans and right-wing media turned Harris into a political target from the moment she was picked for the ticket. 1.00

00:18:58.000 And implicit racism and sexism have been constant.

00:19:09.000 Yes. 0.98

00:19:11.000 It's not that she sucks at her job. 1.00

00:19:12.000 It's racism and sexism. 0.99

00:19:14.000 That's the solution.

00:19:15.000 And by the way, Joe Biden picked her for racism and sexism. 0.90

00:19:18.000 Why he picked her?

00:19:19.000 Openly. 0.97

00:19:20.000 I need a black woman for the job, he said. 1.00

00:19:21.000 And thus he picked a black woman. 0.99

00:19:23.000 I don't know who's being the racist and the sexist other than the guy who literally said he's selecting on the basis of race and sex.

00:19:28.000 But, says CNN, it's a conundrum, unique to her.

00:19:31.000 People are expecting their historic vice president to make history every day, when in fact she's trying to carry the duties of a secondary role. 1.00

00:19:37.000 Harris is being judged, not just by how she's doing and the traditional duties of a vice president, said Minyon Moore, a longtime Democratic operative, who's become Harris' most important outside advisor.

00:19:47.000 It's a little more subliminal, but it's real.

00:19:49.000 What's her playbook in history, said Moore.

00:19:52.000 Harris has emerged as a quiet force in the administration, said Moore.

00:19:55.000 Oh, is that?

00:19:55.000 And she focuses attention on different issues, sometimes just by her very presence in the room.

00:20:02.000 Oh, that's a good way of putting, stand in the corner and say nothing and wear the dunce cap, please.

00:20:08.000 She's a quiet force in the administration. 0.53

00:20:09.000 That's amazing.

00:20:10.000 You know, this Kleenex box right here, it's a quiet force on my show.

00:20:14.000 It's been sitting right here on the table this whole time, doing pretty much nothing.

00:20:17.000 But you know, really, this Kleenex box right here, I think it's been having a market impact on the quality of the show.

00:20:23.000 It doesn't have to have any Kleenex in it, by the way.

00:20:25.000 I think it's empty.

00:20:26.000 I think we need a new Kleenex box.

00:20:27.000 But it's been doing a, it's doing a, it's a quiet force.

00:20:31.000 It focuses attention on different issues just by its very presence in the room.

00:20:35.000 Love it.

00:20:36.000 That is a hot take right there from Minion Moore.

00:20:36.000 Love it.

00:20:39.000 Her quiet presence in the room.

00:20:41.000 Just standing there. Like a thing.

00:20:43.000 I love this too.

00:20:50.000 It's so good!

00:20:51.000 Okay, this story just gets better from CNN.

00:20:53.000 With many sources speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the situation more frankly, they all tell roughly the same story.

00:20:58.000 Harris's staff has repeatedly failed her and left her exposed.

00:21:02.000 Stalin has never failed. 0.50

00:21:03.000 Only Stalin's staff has failed him.

00:21:06.000 To the Lubyanka with you!

00:21:09.000 Yes.

00:21:13.000 Harris cannot fail.

00:21:14.000 Harris can only be failed.

00:21:17.000 Even some who have been asked for advice laments Harris's overly cautious tendencies and staff problems, which have been a feature of every office she's held from San Francisco DA to U.S.

00:21:25.000 Senate.

00:21:27.000 CNN continues, Biden aimed to model his relationship with Harris on his own vice presidency and directed aides early in his presidency to employ her in similar fashion.

00:21:34.000 He arranged weekly lunches, just as he's held with Obama, and invited Harris to join him for his morning classified intelligence briefing.

00:21:41.000 Harris, meanwhile, threw herself into proving her commitment to the president and the administration, using his relationship with Obama as her guide.

00:21:47.000 Even then, some White House aides questioned whether Biden's experience as VP would easily translate to someone with far different qualifications and skills and to a much different moment.

00:21:57.000 After Harris became known in the first few months for often standing by Biden's side in the frame as he made big speeches, even after she'd introduced him herself, the West Wing appears to have overcorrected so she's been with the President noticeably less, not just in public.

00:22:09.000 A week and a half ago, as Biden and his aides and multiple outside allies rattled through calls all day trying to lock down wavering lawmakers ahead of the House infrastructure vote, Harris spent the afternoon touring a NASA space flight center in suburban Maryland.

00:22:21.000 We weren't going to cancel her schedule just because of the House's foolishness, a Harris aide explained.

00:22:25.000 Um, well, alternatively, the White House is like, yeah, we don't need you in the room making calls to people.

00:22:29.000 If you'd like to go see the spaceships and the nice telescope and we can hire some kids so they look excited.

00:22:35.000 They literally hired children to be in the room with her. 1.00

00:22:35.000 That happened. 1.00

00:22:38.000 That's how popular she is. 1.00

00:22:39.000 That's that's exciting stuff.

00:22:40.000 They're like, actually, that was reported.

00:22:43.000 So good times over there with Kamala Harris.

00:22:46.000 The next morning, Biden singled her out saying, a lot of this has to do with the lady right here, the vice president. 0.99

00:22:50.000 But that's not how things have played out.

00:22:52.000 No, indeed, it is not.

00:22:53.000 We'll get to more of this in a moment.

00:22:54.000 Yes, we're going to go through the complete collapse of Kamala Harris in excruciating detail, because this is the hit.

00:23:01.000 OK, the Democrats, it's so funny.

00:23:03.000 They're trying to buy it back.

00:23:04.000 They're trying to be like, no, they keep saying that it's really about others failing her.

00:23:09.000 But no, it is not. 0.97

00:23:12.000 It is that she is a complete failure. 0.99

00:23:14.000 And this is Joe Biden's fault.

00:23:15.000 And it's just wonderful to watch.

00:23:16.000 We'll get to more of it in just one second.

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00:24:22.000 Okay, so, back to this CNN hit piece on Kamala Harris.

00:24:25.000 So, apparently Joe Biden had basically shuffled her off to NASA to hang out with the children.

00:24:31.000 And then he brought her back and he's like, she, she contributed a lot.

00:24:33.000 She, she, you know, she, she really helped me out.

00:24:37.000 But, says CNN, that's not exactly how things had played out.

00:24:40.000 While she had attended some meetings Biden hosted with key lawmakers, there were many more she didn't attend, to the point it was noteworthy she made an unscheduled drop by one session in the final stretch.

00:24:49.000 Harris had only been in Washington four years, to the White House just one time, before being sworn in as VP.

00:24:55.000 So, in other words, she didn't know any of the senators, and no one cared about her, and no one liked her, so sending her to the Hill was completely pointless.

00:25:03.000 Harris's aides cite how much of what's in the infrastructure bill connects back to legislation she worked on while in the Senate, including accessible broadband, wildfire defense, water cleanup, and clean energy school buses.

00:25:12.000 Ooh, school buses!

00:25:14.000 Perhaps one Harris aide offered.

00:25:17.000 The issue is that some in the West Wing don't have constant knowledge of what the VP's team is doing.

00:25:20.000 We feel like a central component of the effort overall, another said.

00:25:24.000 Harris has also complained to Confidence about not being a greater part of the president's approach to the Afghanistan withdrawal, despite telling CNN at the time she was the last one in the room when he made the decision, leaving her without more to draw on when she defended him publicly.

00:25:36.000 Wait, so she's so politically incompetent, she wanted to be closer to the center of the Afghanistan withdrawal?

00:25:41.000 That is something... That line right there tells you everything you need to know about Kamala Harris's political instincts.

00:25:46.000 Joe Biden destroyed his presidency on the shoals of Afghanistan.

00:25:49.000 He decided to precipitously withdraw from Afghanistan, leave hundreds of American citizens behind, leave tens of thousands of SIV holders behind, leave 19 million women to the predations of the Taliban, and Kamala Harris is like, why can't I be in the room for that?

00:26:02.000 Why can't I be at the center of that?

00:26:05.000 Man, this lady has the political instincts of a badger trying to cross the I-5. 1.00

00:26:08.000 Like, very bright, bright.

00:26:12.000 When Biden picked Harris as his running mate, he was essentially anointing her as the future of the Democratic Party, says CNN.

00:26:19.000 Now many of those close to her feel like he's shirking his political duties to promote her, essentially setting her up to fail.

00:26:24.000 Her fans are panicked.

00:26:25.000 By her fans, we mean her and Doug Emhoff again, watching her poll numbers sink even lower than Biden's, worrying that even the base Democratic vote is starting to give up on her.

00:26:34.000 Says a top donor to Biden and other Democrats, quote, Kamala Harris is a leader but is not being put in positions to lead.

00:26:38.000 That doesn't make sense.

00:26:39.000 We need to be thinking long term.

00:26:41.000 We need to be doing what's best for the party.

00:26:42.000 You should be putting her in positions to succeed.

00:26:45.000 On the one hair on one issue, Harris is actually asked to be assigned voting rights.

00:26:48.000 Progress has been slow because Biden is focused on passing his own domestic agenda.

00:26:53.000 Even though Harris has said privately, the filibuster must be scaled back if real progress can be achieved.

00:26:58.000 And though Harris has told Confidence she's been enjoying a good working dynamic directly with Biden, those who work for them describe their relationship in terms of settling into an exhausted stalemate.

00:27:07.000 Suspicion, says CNN, has sprouted out of bitterness.

00:27:10.000 Last month, White House aides leapt to the defense of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

00:27:14.000 Harris loyalists tell CNN they see in that yet another example of the unfair standard at play, wondering why she didn't get similar cover any of the times she's been attacked by the right.

00:27:23.000 It's hard to miss the specific energy the White House brings to defend a WHITE MAN knowing that Kamala Harris has spent almost a year taking a lot of the hits the West Wing didn't want to take themselves instead of former Harris aid. 0.76

00:27:36.000 So, now, Kam- It's gonna be so much fun, guys.

00:27:38.000 Because Buttigieg is gonna run against her, and it's gonna be Kamala Harris being like, You only like Buttigieg because he's white! 1.00

00:27:44.000 And Buttigieg's gonna be like, You only like Kamala Harris because she's straight! 1.00

00:27:47.000 It's gonna be intersectional joy all the way down.

00:27:49.000 It's gonna be lots of fun.

00:27:52.000 White House aides say they weren't pitting one against the other.

00:27:55.000 The difference in the responses, those aides think, was that Buttigieg hadn't done anything wrong.

00:27:59.000 Buttigieg's leave was a conveniently timed reminder that Biden is pushing for a national paid leave law.

00:28:03.000 That's different from when Harris has created problems for herself, White House aides believe, such as when she didn't push back on a student who accused Israel of ethnic genocide.

00:28:11.000 West Wing aides weren't going to clean up after that. 0.99

00:28:15.000 But even when White House has faced her own manufactured outrage from the right, like when an innocuous tweet about enjoying the long Memorial Day weekend was said to be insulting dead veterans, White House aides also remained virtually silent.

00:28:26.000 And then CNN continues along these lines.

00:28:29.000 Harris' team is mad Biden assigned her to handle diplomatic relations with the Northern Triangle nations in the hopes of addressing root causes of migration, but gave her no role on the southern border itself.

00:28:39.000 As CNN has previously reported, Harris herself has said she didn't want to be assigned to manage the border, aware that it was a no-win political situation that would only sandbag her in the future.

00:28:46.000 But Biden's team was annoyed that Harris kept fumbling answers about the border, as some around heresy at the White House failed to come to her defense.

00:28:55.000 Biden aides have repeatedly told Harris aides they'd love to have her doing more, and asked the VP's office to come up with plans for how to get her involved, according to people familiar with the conversations.

00:29:04.000 Though the staffs are on multiple calls per week, West Wing aides are often left wondering why there's not more follow through.

00:29:10.000 Aware of her stumblings and the ticking political clock, Harris' Chief of Staff Tina Florina went to Ron Klain over the summer.

00:29:16.000 They were drowning and they needed more help.

00:29:18.000 Klain is known as a Kamala Harris defender in the West Wing, this is the Chief of Staff, and does a weekly one-on-one meeting with her in the West Wing office to help her strategize. 0.50

00:29:25.000 As a former Chief of Staff to two VPs, Klain knows the dynamics well.

00:29:29.000 Clain, in a statement provided to CNN, downplayed any criticism of the VP, saying Harris and her team are, quote, off to the fastest and strongest start of any VP I have seen.

00:29:39.000 Harris's aides point that Biden was never subjected to the kind of attacks she regularly endures or to a toxic social media culture.

00:29:47.000 And then they say it's because she's too loyal to Biden.

00:29:49.000 That's the big problem.

00:29:50.000 She is too loyal to Biden.

00:29:53.000 And then she starts blaming her aides.

00:29:55.000 In and around Harris' circle, they speculate there must be someone getting in her way.

00:29:58.000 Some think it's the president himself, leaving her out in the cold.

00:30:01.000 Some blame specific West Wing aides, whom they feel sure are out to undercut her.

00:30:08.000 Some fear the vice president is leaning heavily on her sister, Maya, brother-in-law Tony West, and niece, Mina Harris, whom they sense exerting influence over everything from staff hires to political decisions.

00:30:18.000 Several people familiar with the operations of the VP say that after a spike in involvement earlier in the year, the family has now been pushed further out again recently.

00:30:25.000 Do you expect that to remain the case?

00:30:28.000 So again, she's blaming her operation.

00:30:30.000 You have everybody in the White House blaming her.

00:30:33.000 You have her falling apart on the public stage.

00:30:38.000 And she's just falling apart.

00:30:40.000 She's falling apart.

00:30:41.000 Donna Brazile, one of seven, several prominent black women who urged Biden advisors to put Harris on the ticket, agreed that it's time to retool after a rough first year. 0.99

00:30:49.000 Brazile wants to see the VP on the road almost constantly.

00:30:52.000 Keep Air Force Two gassed up and ready to go, she joked, whether talking about replacing lead pipes in Flint or expanding broadband in rural America.

00:30:58.000 She's a wonderful messenger, but it has to be clear, concise and consistent, said Brazile.

00:31:02.000 Don't make her a creature of the Beltway.

00:31:04.000 Let her out. 0.99

00:31:05.000 Yeah, that's the issue is that they've been, we haven't seen enough of Kamala Harris. 0.95

00:31:07.000 So here's the funny part.

00:31:09.000 The Biden administration is desperately trying to downplay this.

00:31:11.000 How do we know?

00:31:12.000 So Jen Psaki, who is back from her COVID bout, she was fine.

00:31:17.000 She tweeted out, there's a direct quote.

00:31:19.000 For anyone who needs to hear it, VP is not only a vital partner to POTUS, but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country, from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband.

00:31:32.000 Oh yes!

00:31:38.000 There's that energy.

00:31:39.000 Gotta love that energy.

00:31:41.000 We are so happy we picked up that Blaine Gabbard to be our backup quarterback now that Tom Brady is injured.

00:31:47.000 This is gonna go just great.

00:31:48.000 We love her.

00:31:49.000 We love her.

00:31:50.000 Yeah, things are going great over here.

00:31:52.000 Blaine Gabbard, we're not gonna pick up anyone from the waiver wire.

00:31:54.000 Blaine Gabbard is definitely gonna be our long-time starting quarterback.

00:31:58.000 Yeah.

00:31:59.000 Hmm.

00:32:00.000 Chensaki really trying to tweet through it.

00:32:02.000 Ron Klain doing the same thing.

00:32:03.000 So Ron Klain, Chief of Staff.

00:32:05.000 And just retweeted something from a person named Robert Garcia.

00:32:07.000 And that's the tweet.

00:32:08.000 TP Kamala Harris just finished a highly successful trip where she strengthened diplomatic relationships.

00:32:12.000 She takes on the most complex assignment because she's capable and smart.

00:32:16.000 She's a great leader who also happens to be funny and kind. 0.72

00:32:20.000 And that's the tweet.

00:32:21.000 And Ronald Klain retweeted that.

00:32:24.000 So Team Biden is like, OK, we're OK.

00:32:26.000 We're going to pretend that we like her. 0.61

00:32:27.000 Yeah, we hate her.

00:32:28.000 We're going to pretend.

00:32:29.000 Okay, sure.

00:32:30.000 So the fact that Kamala Harris is in a complete state of implosion and that you have a giant several thousand word long story at CNN about the complete implosion of Kamala Harris demonstrates the Democrats are in such serious trouble.

00:32:41.000 They are in the biggest trouble right now.

00:32:43.000 And they know it.

00:32:45.000 I mean, they're in serious.

00:32:46.000 How serious is the trouble the Democrats are in?

00:32:49.000 According to a brand new ABC News Washington Post poll, Republican congressional candidates in the generic ballot currently hold their biggest lead in 40 years.

00:32:59.000 In four decades, is the biggest lead since before I was born in the congressional generic ballot.

00:33:07.000 The Democratic Party's difficulties, according to ABC News, are deep.

00:33:09.000 They include soaring economic discontent, a president who's fallen 12 percentage points underwater in job approval, and a broad sense the party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans.

00:33:18.000 62% say so.

00:33:21.000 And this is the worst number for the Democratic Party.

00:33:24.000 They're down at 41% in the history of the poll.

00:33:27.000 In the history of the poll.

00:33:31.000 About as many people see the Republican Party as out of touch.

00:33:34.000 President Biden's keystone policy initiatives might be more popular than he is, but he's getting no credit for it.

00:33:40.000 Only 31% of Americans say that Biden is keeping his major campaign promises.

00:33:44.000 35% think he is accomplishing much overall.

00:33:48.000 59% worry he'll do too much to increase the size and role of government.

00:33:51.000 That's up 6 points since the spring.

00:33:54.000 As things stand, if the midterms were around today, 51% of registered voters say they would support the Republican candidate in the congressional district.

00:34:01.000 41% say the Democrat.

00:34:03.000 By the way, that's among registered voters, not likely voters.

00:34:06.000 In the midterms, likely voters are going to tend more Republican.

00:34:09.000 That lead is smaller than what the vote will end up being, if that holds.

00:34:14.000 55% of Americans disapprove of Biden's economic performance.

00:34:16.000 That is 6% higher than any approval rating for Donald Trump.

00:34:21.000 6% higher than any disapproval rating for Donald Trump.

00:34:25.000 And remember, in September 2017, Donald Trump's disapproval rating on the economy was 49%.

00:34:30.000 And then, he lost 40 seats in the House.

00:34:34.000 So what's going to happen to the Democrats?

00:34:35.000 Will there be Democrats in the House at all if these polls hold?

00:34:38.000 Because Joe Biden is wildly unpopular.

00:34:40.000 And the Democrats were betting.

00:34:41.000 Okay, fine.

00:34:42.000 He'll do the wildly unpopular thing.

00:34:43.000 He'll restructure the American economy.

00:34:45.000 And then he'll hand it over to Kamala. 0.68

00:34:46.000 Except now they're looking and they're like, uh oh.

00:34:48.000 They're doing the Kamala Harris face.

00:34:53.000 It's, it's not, yeah, it's not going to be good.

00:34:55.000 And somewhere Kamala Harris laughs super duper awkwardly. 0.99

00:35:00.000 There is no bump for Joe Biden from the infrastructure bill.

00:35:03.000 They keep trying to make infrastructure a thing.

00:35:05.000 Fetch is not going to be a thing.

00:35:07.000 70% of Americans rate the economy as not so good or poor.

00:35:13.000 This is just bad news for the Democrats.

00:35:16.000 Like really bad news.

00:35:18.000 And the economic news continues to be underwhelming.

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00:37:01.000 All righty, so while Joe Biden is flailing in the polls, the economy continues to flounder.

00:37:11.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, a record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September.

00:37:17.000 Apparently they were doing so to fill other positions, but what this means is that people aren't really getting back into the workforce at the rate they need to be.

00:37:22.000 People are leaving some jobs and they're filling other jobs, which means the jobs they just left are now open.

00:37:27.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September, in many cases for more money elsewhere, as companies bump up pay to fill job openings that are close to an all-time high.

00:37:37.000 The US Department of Labor announced on Friday that 4.4 million people, about 3% of the nation's workforce, quit their jobs in September.

00:37:43.000 That's up from 4.3 million in August, far above the pre-pandemic level of 3.6 million.

00:37:48.000 There were still 10.4 million job openings.

00:37:51.000 The figures come on the heels of Wednesday's Consumer Price Index, which revealed the cost of living, up 6.2% in October 21, from one year prior, is at its highest level in 31 years.

00:38:01.000 Thank you.

00:38:02.000 So Joe Biden is celebrating all of this, but people are quitting jobs to go to other jobs.

00:38:06.000 They are not getting back into the workforce.

00:38:08.000 We are going to create for ourselves a permanent underclass. 0.99

00:38:10.000 And at some point, by the way, if you can't fill the jobs, you're going to be unable to keep your business open.

00:38:17.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, the slow return of prime age workers is threatening the recovery.

00:38:22.000 The share of people working or looking for a job has stagnated in recent months.

00:38:25.000 The participation rate was 61.6% in October, up from a steep decline at the onset of the pandemic, still well below 63.3% in February of 2020, just before COVID-19 hit the U.S.

00:38:33.000 economy.

00:38:37.000 Roughly 1.4 million fewer adults age 25 to 54 are working or looking for a job than in the month before the pandemic hit.

00:38:44.000 The labor force participation rate for these so-called prime age workers was 81.7% this October down from 82.9% in February 2020.

00:38:52.000 And if people keep staying out of the workforce, it's going to be very difficult to ramp up production necessary to curb inflation.

00:38:59.000 Now, you got the Biden administration.

00:39:01.000 Again, they just keep trying to tweet through this stuff.

00:39:02.000 What I mean by that is that it's like Baghdad, Bob.

00:39:05.000 None of people are going back into the workforce and a lot of people are quitting.

00:39:09.000 And so you have the White House economic advisor, Jared Bernstein, saying, you know, people quitting is probably a good thing.

00:39:15.000 Like, like, why shouldn't we be positive about that?

00:39:18.000 Well, I'm glad you asked, because it's often misinterpreted as a bad sign, when from a worker's perspective, it's actually a good sign.

00:39:25.000 The reason it's a good sign is because at a time of very strong labor demand, 5.6 million jobs created since this president got here, 620,000 per month.

00:39:35.000 Historical records.

00:39:37.000 The unemployment rate falling faster than it has in over 50 years.

00:39:42.000 So, those kinds of conditions mean that there are lots of good, higher-paying opportunities for workers to engage in upward mobility.

00:39:50.000 And that's what the quit rates are telling us.

00:39:52.000 At a time like this, people are not quitting and leaving the labor market.

00:39:56.000 They're mostly quitting so that they can move up the scale to a better job.

00:40:00.000 Okay, and you know what else is happening?

00:40:02.000 The jobs they just left are unoccupied and people aren't going back into the workforce at the rate that they need to be going back into the workforce.

00:40:08.000 All of which is creating a shortage of supply.

00:40:10.000 The reason they get inflation is because you have too much money that is chasing too few goods.

00:40:15.000 So yes, you have a supply chain bottleneck, but you don't have people getting back into the workforce fast enough because we incentivize them to stay home, because we paid them to stay home, because we blew money into the system at an overwhelming rate for the last two years.

00:40:27.000 And a lot of people are still living off that money at this point.

00:40:31.000 OK, and it's going to get even worse if the Democrats get what they want, which is heavy regulations and heavy taxation.

00:40:37.000 So there is a formula that is quite famous about Prices and inflation.

00:40:44.000 The formula goes something like this.

00:40:46.000 It is MV equals PT.

00:40:48.000 This is brought to us by our friend, David Bonson, who has a brand new book out.

00:40:52.000 He's an economist.

00:40:52.000 You should go check it out.

00:40:54.000 MV equals PT.

00:40:56.000 M is higher money supply.

00:40:58.000 V is velocity, meaning how fast is the money passing through the economy.

00:41:02.000 So when you multiply those together, that gives you the price Times the supply.

00:41:07.000 So price times supply equals the amount of money in the system times the velocity.

00:41:12.000 So what that means is that if you have really, really high money supply, the prices are going to go up.

00:41:17.000 The only way they won't go up is if you have tremendous generation of supply.

00:41:21.000 If you've got high money and high velocity, you better have really, really high supply or you're going to get increased prices.

00:41:28.000 That's just the way the formula works.

00:41:29.000 The problem right now is that the Biden administration is doing two things.

00:41:32.000 One, they're blowing more money into the economy with M.

00:41:35.000 And two, they're lowering the amount of supply.

00:41:38.000 How are they lowering the amount of supply?

00:41:39.000 First of all, you have the supply chain crisis.

00:41:40.000 But second of all, the supply of product is dependent on investment in the economy.

00:41:44.000 Are people hiring?

00:41:45.000 Are people going to continue to hire even when the taxes kick in and the regulations kick in?

00:41:51.000 Joe Biden wants to tax the living hell out of everything that moves.

00:41:55.000 The idea is regulate it while it lives and tax it until it dies.

00:41:58.000 That is the Biden administration philosophy.

00:42:02.000 That is going to create serious economic blowback, including increased stagflation.

00:42:07.000 That is why you are getting inflation right now is because of lack of supply.

00:42:10.000 So what are they doing?

00:42:11.000 They're trying to restrict supply, apparently, by saying that it is good that there are not enough people in the workforce.

00:42:17.000 It's an act of good.

00:42:18.000 Not only that, they're trying to pass more regulations and more taxation, which is going to cut down on the ability of people to invest in the economy, thereby generating the new supply.

00:42:28.000 But again, the Biden administration keeps on trying to tweet through it.

00:42:30.000 So you got Biden economist Jared Bernstein saying the Build Back Better, which is all taxes and all regulation, is going to put downward pressure on inflation.

00:42:36.000 In what magical world is this going to happen? 0.97

00:42:38.000 Are you an insane person?

00:42:40.000 When it comes to building back better, when it comes to the infrastructure plan, these are measures, and this is as well understood as it needs to be, that will put downward pressure on inflation. 0.88

00:42:51.000 That's not just me talking.

00:42:53.000 You have economists like Larry Summers saying this, Mark Zandi from Moody's Economics saying this.

00:42:57.000 We have 17 Nobel laureates signing a letter that says, and I'm going to quote here, that these bills will enhance the ability of more Americans To participate productively in the economy, it will ease longer-term inflationary pressure.

00:43:13.000 Okay, no one thinks, really, this is going to ease longer-term inflationary pressure.

00:43:17.000 Not if you are restructuring the economy with regulation and taxation, while blowing money into the economy.

00:43:22.000 It's like the worst available policy.

00:43:23.000 But again, they're going to keep tweeting through it.

00:43:25.000 You got the White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese saying, we need Build Back Better.

00:43:29.000 More Cowbell.

00:43:30.000 More.

00:43:31.000 How concerned are you and the President about inflation, and what specifically are you doing to fix it?

00:43:36.000 Well, inflation is high right now, and it is affecting consumers in their pocketbook and also in their outlook for the economy.

00:43:43.000 But those concerns underscore why it's so important that we move forward on the Build Back Better legislation, this legislation that the House is going to consider this week. 0.99

00:43:54.000 These people are out of their damn minds. 0.99

00:43:55.000 They're out of their minds. 1.00

00:43:56.000 Again, the administration's solution to too little supply and too much money in the system is more money supply and let's tax anybody who seeks to invest in the system. 0.57

00:44:05.000 It's crazy.

00:44:06.000 It's crazy.

00:44:07.000 I mean, they're nominating people like their new treasury, their new treasury nominee, Selma Romerova, who's supposed to oversee banking. 0.65

00:44:13.000 This is a person who has openly said in the past she wants to get rid of bank account deposits.

00:44:18.000 Yeah, nothing is going to gin up investment in the economy, like getting rid of bank account deposits, which the banks then use in order to do fractional reserve banking, right?

00:44:26.000 Lend out the money so that people can actually invest.

00:44:28.000 Get rid of that.

00:44:28.000 It'll be great.

00:44:29.000 Here's Saul Omroma.

00:44:30.000 Again, this is a person who's been nominated by the Biden administration to oversee banking in the United States.

00:44:35.000 It's crazy.

00:44:37.000 Imagine what would it be like if instead of being just a public option for deposit banking, this would be actually the full transition.

00:44:46.000 In other words, There will be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the Fed.

00:44:55.000 They're totally crazy. 0.95

00:44:56.000 They're out of their minds. 0.99

00:44:57.000 Larry Summers, again, a Democrat, former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, who now looks like a moderate Republican by today's standards.

00:45:03.000 Larry Summers was lighting up the Biden White House on inflation as well he should.

00:45:08.000 Look, they forecast that inflation would be 2% this year in the president's budget.

00:45:13.000 It's three times that.

00:45:16.000 They said in the summertime, after they'd been initially wrong, that inflation would be back to normal by the end of the year.

00:45:26.000 Then they said early in the fall that inflation would subside early next year.

00:45:32.000 Now they're saying that it's going to subside in the second half of next year.

00:45:40.000 That does not sound transitory, gang.

00:45:42.000 That sounds like that is a permanent feature of American public life.

00:45:46.000 I don't know what the borderline between transitory and permanent is in American politics.

00:45:49.000 I can tell you that it ain't two years.

00:45:51.000 Okay?

00:45:52.000 Like, come on.

00:45:53.000 Come on.

00:45:55.000 And meanwhile, the good news is the media are going to tweet through it with them.

00:45:57.000 So MSNBC's Stephanie Rule, she says, here's the good news.

00:46:00.000 You guys can afford inflation.

00:46:01.000 It's fine.

00:46:02.000 You're fine.

00:46:03.000 Stop whining.

00:46:04.000 But you have to put all this in perspective.

00:46:06.000 This inflation is not in isolation.

00:46:09.000 And the government predicted it was going to be a challenging recovery.

00:46:13.000 Recovery all tied to COVID.

00:46:16.000 So it's why you see things like that expanded child tax credit.

00:46:19.000 You've got the families of over 60 million kids on average getting $430 a month for people on fixed incomes, older people on Social Security.

00:46:29.000 They're getting those fixed payments adjusted next year up 5.9% For inflation.

00:46:35.000 And the dirty little secret here, Willie, while nobody likes to pay more, on average, we have the money to do so.

00:46:43.000 Okay, on average, we don't.

00:46:45.000 Wages are not rising as fast as inflation is.

00:46:47.000 Everyone knows it.

00:46:49.000 But you know what?

00:46:50.000 When you gotta push the agenda, you gotta push the agenda.

00:46:52.000 Okay, so there are unforeseen consequences to the kind of democratic behavior that we are seeing right now.

00:46:58.000 Hilariously, there's only one group of people who are really benefiting from the inflation, and it's state and local governments.

00:47:03.000 Okay, so state and local governments are raking in the tax dollars.

00:47:05.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, One irony of inflation is that while it's bad for working Americans, it's great for the government.

00:47:11.000 Tax revenues soar as nominal profits and incomes rise.

00:47:13.000 And for evidence, simply look at the boom in state and local government coffers.

00:47:16.000 They've rarely had it so good, but don't expect them to be frugal spenders.

00:47:20.000 Overall, state and local government receipts, including federal aid, were 23% above pre-pandemic levels in the third quarter through September, thanks to Congress's gusher of spending and the strong economic recovery, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

00:47:33.000 Property corporate sales and individual tax revenue from the third quarter of 2020 through the second quarter of this year is running 18.3% above the same period two years ago.

00:47:43.000 How many Americans have seen their incomes rise almost 20% over the last two years?

00:47:47.000 Like a lot of us?

00:47:49.000 Progressive states are doing especially well.

00:47:51.000 They're whining about how they don't have enough money.

00:47:52.000 They have plenty of money.

00:47:54.000 State and local tax revenue in New York is running $13.3 billion.

00:47:57.000 That's 21.3% higher for the current fiscal year that began in April over the same period in 2019.

00:48:00.000 for the current fiscal year that began in April over the same period in 2019.

00:48:04.000 And by the way, 2019 was a good year.

00:48:06.000 California continues to report record of monthly tax collections.

00:48:11.000 And these rich states are receiving plenty of welfare from Washington.

00:48:14.000 Congress has now given states and local governments $885 billion in direct aid through various COVID bills for schools, public transit, Medicaid, and more.

00:48:22.000 And now, they're about to get another helping from the infrastructure deal.

00:48:24.000 Remember last year the states were saying they were going to go bankrupt?

00:48:27.000 Yeah, it was all a lie.

00:48:29.000 It's not true.

00:48:30.000 And, of course, the federal government is about to dump $4 trillion more in if they get Build Back Better pass.

00:48:36.000 You can see why so many Democrats are in favor of all of this.

00:48:39.000 There's only one problem.

00:48:40.000 It completely destroys economic innovation.

00:48:43.000 It completely destroys the ability of people to invest.

00:48:45.000 It's a great exchange, hilarious exchange, between Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk on Twitter yesterday.

00:48:50.000 So Bernie Sanders did his usual thing.

00:48:52.000 Bernie Sanders does this thing on Twitter where he says, The world is full of unfair things that happen all the time.

00:48:58.000 I like fair things, and I don't like unfair things.

00:49:01.000 Unfair things are bad.

00:49:02.000 Bad things are bad.

00:49:04.000 And then everybody in his- they go, yay, Bernie!

00:49:06.000 Woo! 0.99

00:49:07.000 Okay, so, that is Bernie's Twitter account.

00:49:09.000 So Bernie tweeted out, We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share.

00:49:13.000 Period.

00:49:14.000 And bring me pudding.

00:49:16.000 We must demand the extremely wealthy pay their fair share.

00:49:18.000 Now, we've discussed ad nauseum on this program, how much the wealthy pay in the United States, and it's all in the income taxes in the United States.

00:49:24.000 Like, all of it.

00:49:25.000 Okay, but, There's only one problem.

00:49:28.000 When you tell people they have to pay their fair share, and when Bernie Sanders says fair share, he means pretty much everything, everybody knows.

00:49:32.000 So Elon Musk tweeted out, I keep forgetting you're still alive.

00:49:35.000 Harsh stuff there from Elon Musk.

00:49:46.000 Boom.

00:49:47.000 Okay.

00:49:47.000 And then he follows up there.

00:49:49.000 He follows up on that one.

00:49:51.000 And he says, would you like me to sell some more of my stock?

00:49:54.000 Because this is what he did.

00:49:56.000 He says, want me to sell more stock, Bernie?

00:49:58.000 Just say the word.

00:50:00.000 He says, Bernie is a taker, not a maker.

00:50:02.000 This is correct.

00:50:03.000 Okay, so the Bernie Sanders economic agenda, the democratic economic agenda, hurts the economy.

00:50:08.000 It makes inflation worse.

00:50:10.000 It creates economic stagnation.

00:50:12.000 They know this, by the way.

00:50:14.000 So they have to come up with an excuse.

00:50:15.000 The excuse they're coming up with for their own failed economic policy is alternatively, apparently, Kamala Harris is just being taken and sacrificed to the great gods of Joe Biden's political ambition.

00:50:25.000 Or COVID, right?

00:50:26.000 They keep blaming COVID.

00:50:28.000 So you have the White House National Economic Council Director, Brian Deese, saying, you know what?

00:50:32.000 All the problems we're seeing right now, they're not Joe Biden's fault.

00:50:35.000 They're COVID's fault.

00:50:36.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:50:37.000 They're not COVID's fault.

00:50:39.000 I know because I live in a state where everybody is going about their daily business like everything is normal because it's normal now.

00:50:44.000 But apparently it's all COVID's fault.

00:50:46.000 Certainly we saw, just as the Delta variant posed real health challenges to the economy, it also had economic impacts. 0.99

00:50:53.000 More people were consuming goods at home, watching TV rather than buying a new television, rather than going out to the movies and spending on services.

00:51:03.000 And so that's added to some of the supply chain challenges that we face.

00:51:06.000 But we're seeing these price increases, this inflation globally, because of the supply chain challenges associated with COVID.

00:51:13.000 That's why we're going right at attacking those issues right now as well.

00:51:16.000 So great, it's all COVID. They're going directly at the COVID issue. So how are they going to solve COVID? So they said they were going to solve the economy and they proceeded to basically act like a monkey scoring a basketball. That is the Biden economic policy.

00:51:31.000 A monkey just going to town on a basketball.

00:51:34.000 So now, they've done the same thing on COVID.

00:51:36.000 Remember that time that Joe Biden said he wasn't going to shut down the economy, he was going to shut down the virus?

00:51:39.000 Remember that time?

00:51:40.000 And he shut down the economy and not shut down the virus?

00:51:42.000 So his plan has been that he's going to force every employer in America to force their employees to get vaccinated.

00:51:49.000 That's only one problem.

00:51:50.000 You're looking at countries all over the world.

00:51:53.000 And they have very high vaccination rates.

00:51:55.000 And they are still having breakthrough cases.

00:51:57.000 And people who are unvaccinated are still getting sick.

00:51:59.000 That's just the way life is.

00:52:01.000 You've got to make your choice and then live with it and go back to work and live your life.

00:52:05.000 End of story.

00:52:06.000 But Joe Biden wants to be seen as the guy who can fix all of these problems, even though, again, monkey basketball.

00:52:14.000 That does not make for a successful mating strategy. 0.93

00:52:18.000 So he's done that again on the economy.

00:52:20.000 Now it's a monkey screwing a basketball on COVID.

00:52:24.000 And it's a complete failure.

00:52:25.000 But I think that he means for it to be a complete failure because all he wants is just not to be blamed.

00:52:29.000 So over the weekend, a federal appeals court in New Orleans, according to the Washington Post, halted the Biden administration's vaccine or testing requirement for private businesses, delivering another political setback to one of the White House's signature public health policies.

00:52:40.000 A three-judge panel of the U.S.

00:52:42.000 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, helmed by one judge appointed by President Reagan and two others appointed by Trump, issued the ruling Friday after temporarily halting the mandate last weekend.

00:52:51.000 Calling the requirement to mandate, the court said the rule, instituted through the Labor Department, quote, Rather than a delicately handled scalpel, the mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces and workers that have more than a little bearing on workers' varying degrees of susceptibility to the supposedly grave danger the mandate purports to address.

00:53:15.000 The mandate imposes a financial burden upon them by deputizing their participation in OSHA's regulatory scheme, exposes them to severe financial risk if they fail to comply, and threatens to decimate their workforces and business prospects by forcing unwilling employees to take their shots, take their tests, or hit the road.

00:53:31.000 We have our lawsuit here at Daily Wire against the Biden administration in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:53:31.000 And that's in the Fifth Circuit.

00:53:36.000 And the Biden administration is going to fail here.

00:53:38.000 It's just going to fail.

00:53:40.000 According to the Air Force Times, the new commander of the Oklahoma National Guard has now declared the organization will not enforce DOD's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its troops.

00:53:48.000 Army Brigadier General Thomas Mancino was announced as the state's new adjutant general Wednesday, but he has not yet been confirmed by the state Senate.

00:53:55.000 On November 2nd, Stead is the governor of Oklahoma.

00:54:00.000 Kevin said he formally requested the DOD not enforce the mandate on the state's army and air National Guard members in the letter which his office posted online he said that 10 percent of the state's troops had refused the vaccine and that the mandate was irresponsible.

00:54:11.000 So the Pentagon has said that they will respond appropriately.

00:54:17.000 The state's former top general army Major General Michael Thompson told local reporters Thursday he learned who his replacement was via social media that after taking the range from Thompson Mancino issued a policy memo declaring the state would not enforce the mandate on its troops when they are under state control.

00:54:33.000 So, they are not going to be deputized by the federal government to do Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.

00:54:39.000 Meanwhile, over in Florida, Ron DeSantis is bringing back Florida lawmakers to crack down on pandemic mandates.

00:54:45.000 According to the Washington Post, a special legislative session dubbed Keep Florida Free begins today at the behest of Governor DeSantis, who wants lawmakers to pass more measures to block COVID vaccine mandates by public and private employers.

00:54:55.000 The four bills being considered would ratchet up the penalties for businesses, local governments, and other entities that require workers to be vaccinated against the virus and students to wear masks in schools.

00:55:04.000 According to DeSantis, the session will strengthen as well as augment rules already in place, in part, through his own executive orders.

00:55:10.000 He said, at the end of the day, we want people to be able to make informed decisions for themselves, but we've got to stop bossing people around.

00:55:16.000 We've got to stop the coercion.

00:55:18.000 We've got to stop trying to browbeat people.

00:55:20.000 He said, we're going to be striking a blow for freedom.

00:55:24.000 So, some Republicans are saying that they're not super happy with this, but the bottom line is that the breakdown, red to blue, is that red states wish to be free and go about their daily business, and blue states, apparently, wish to lock down forever and be subject to the whims of people like Joe Biden.

00:55:39.000 And it's complete failure.

00:55:40.000 Okay, all of this is really unpopular.

00:55:43.000 It's really unpopular.

00:55:44.000 The Democrats, by the way, have settled on their midterm strategy.

00:55:46.000 So you might be looking at all of this and thinking to yourself, my God, they're just going to get shellacked.

00:55:49.000 What exactly is their plan here?

00:55:50.000 Like, what is their plan for 2022-2024?

00:55:54.000 Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg for 2024?

00:55:57.000 Inflation, economic stagnation, and VAX mandates for 2022?

00:56:00.000 Like, what exactly is the plan here?

00:56:02.000 Well, the good news is that Politico now has a copy of the Democratic playbook for 2022-2024.

00:56:06.000 You ready for this?

00:56:09.000 Quote.

00:56:10.000 Most measures suggest that Democrats are very likely to lose control of the House next year.

00:56:13.000 So we were eager to get the first look at a memo the DCCC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is releasing this morning on the state of play a little less than one year out from Election Day.

00:56:23.000 The positive case for turning Democrats to power is their legislative agenda.

00:56:26.000 The passage of the American Rescue Plan to tackle the pandemic.

00:56:29.000 Fail.

00:56:30.000 The infrastructure bill.

00:56:31.000 Meh.

00:56:32.000 And they hope the Build Back Better agenda.

00:56:33.000 It's going nowhere.

00:56:34.000 But there is a ton of data in history that make it clear new presidents often don't get rewarded by voters for their legislative achievements in their first midterm.

00:56:42.000 Do Democrats have a backup plan? 0.72

00:56:44.000 They do, according to Politico.

00:56:45.000 So wait for it.

00:56:46.000 What's their backup plan?

00:56:47.000 Let's see if you can guess.

00:56:47.000 I'm going to give you three seconds to think of it.

00:56:50.000 Correct!

00:56:51.000 They're going to shout about January 6th.

00:56:53.000 This is their backup plan.

00:56:55.000 Quote, they do rip the bark off House Republicans as quote, too dangerous for American families by focusing on GOP support for Trump, the January 6th riot and COVID-19 conspiracies.

00:57:05.000 Here's the key portion of the DCCC memo.

00:57:08.000 The moment Washington Republicans felt their grip on power loosen, they unleashed a full assault on American democracy, culminating in a murderous assault on the Capitol and the introduction of anti-voter legislation around the country.

00:57:18.000 Every day, Republicans demonstrate how unserious, cynical and dangerous their return to power would be.

00:57:24.000 Since January 6th, Republicans have attempted to block investigations of the assault, cover up their alleged involvement, and have even defended and celebrated the rioters.

00:57:32.000 Really, this is the law you're going back to?

00:57:33.000 January 6th.

00:57:34.000 So by the time we hit November of 2022, you think voters are still going to be focused in on January 6th of 2021?

00:57:41.000 Man, they are cruising for a serious bruising come 2022.

00:57:46.000 And here's the thing. 0.98

00:57:47.000 You can say that there are so many, look at these Republican crazies, these crazy Republican Congress people. 0.95

00:57:53.000 Most people in their districts know they're Congress people. 0.95

00:57:56.000 Most of them have already voted for those Congress people.

00:57:58.000 It's the Democrats who are gonna be on the defensive right here.

00:58:00.000 And so they have a secondary strategy.

00:58:02.000 They're gonna yell about COVID.

00:58:03.000 Quote, since day one of this pandemic, they've been hell-bent on making it longer and more disastrous.

00:58:08.000 Denying the seriousness of COVID, lying about the effectiveness of masks, social distancing, and vaccines, blah, blah, blah.

00:58:14.000 Encouraging Americans to consume horse dewormer.

00:58:16.000 They're really gonna go with this line.

00:58:17.000 Even as hundreds of thousands died and children filled up ICU beds.

00:58:20.000 Okay, first of all, again, the number of kids who have died over the course of the entire pandemic.

00:58:23.000 10 to 20 healthy children have died, according to Marty McCarry of Johns Hopkins.

00:58:28.000 So this is their pitch.

00:58:30.000 Their pitch is that they are going to yell about January 6th and COVID.

00:58:34.000 Man, they are going to get skunked and they are going to deserve it.

00:58:37.000 They're going to get it so hard from the American public and they have it coming.

00:58:41.000 But don't worry, they'll have the media backing their play every step of the way.

00:58:43.000 So SNL, capped off. 1.00

00:58:46.000 It's season of stupidity with another one of their brilliant, brilliant little sketches. 1.00

00:58:52.000 This one starring Pete Davidson. 1.00

00:58:54.000 Again, I will never understand the Pete Davidson thing.

00:58:57.000 I'm just never gonna get it.

00:58:58.000 I don't think he's funny.

00:58:59.000 I don't think he's talented.

00:59:00.000 Somehow, I will say his dating age range is quite astonishing.

00:59:04.000 It goes all the way down to like 18 at the low end and up to apparently like 85 at the upper end.

00:59:09.000 Like, there will be a movie, a remake, of Harold and Maude starring Pete Davidson at some point.

00:59:14.000 In any case, he did a sketch on SNL with Big Bird, right?

00:59:17.000 Because Democrats have been using Big Bird to push vaccinations for children.

00:59:22.000 Playing Joe Rogan.

00:59:23.000 Now, first of all, let me just say this, okay?

00:59:27.000 Pete Davidson as Joe Rogan is not good casting.

00:59:30.000 Like, Pete Davidson is one pound and about six foot nine.

00:59:34.000 He looks like a beanpole.

00:59:35.000 So bad casting there.

00:59:36.000 Also, he can't act.

00:59:37.000 There's that.

00:59:38.000 So he plays Joe Rogan.

00:59:39.000 And of course, we're just going to hear the same Democratic talking points on Horsey Warmer from SNL.

00:59:44.000 You have to wonder, why are Democrats so out of touch?

00:59:46.000 The reason is because their cheerleaders in the press keep telling them that they are doing a wonderful job.

00:59:51.000 Here's SNL just mirroring false Democratic talking points Joe Rogan already destroyed them on.

00:59:56.000 Can you help me, Joe?

00:59:58.000 Oh, sure thing, Big Bird.

00:59:59.000 You see, I took Carlos Mencia down.

01:00:01.000 I can take COVID.

01:00:04.000 Here's some zinc, an ayahuasca, and some horse medicine.

01:00:09.000 But why would a bird take horse medicine?

01:00:12.000 I'm a human, and I took horse medicine.

01:00:15.000 And I'm speaking of things that are horse-like.

01:00:19.000 Today's two sponsors are the letters S and D, as in I can S my own D.

01:00:29.000 Okay, um, I have no idea who wrote this or why they thought it was funny in any way.

01:00:34.000 It's just... The decay of the Republic is upon us.

01:00:38.000 Even our comedians are no longer capable of doing comedy.

01:00:40.000 Our basic skill sets have completely faded into oblivion.

01:00:44.000 By the way, as Joe stated, he can afford people medicine.

01:00:48.000 MF'er. 1.00

01:00:51.000 All right, but guys, really, keep doubling down on it.

01:00:53.000 Keep doubling down on the Kamala of it. 0.70

01:00:54.000 Keep doubling down on the Joe Biden of it.

01:00:56.000 Keep doubling down, really.

01:00:57.000 And the realities of life are about to hit Democrats square in the face.

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What If Biden Stabs Kamala Harris In The Back First? | Ep. 1376

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