The Ben Shapiro Show - Year One: Biden Already The Worst President Ever | Ep. 1415

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden is one year into his presidency and it is a full-fledged disaster on every single level.

00:00:05.000 Can he pull out of the tailspin?

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00:01:25.000 Alrighty, so folks, year one of the Biden administration is now in the books.

00:01:31.000 One year ago, the President of the United States was inaugurated.

00:01:35.000 He was handed a working vaccine.

00:01:38.000 He was handed a distribution plan for that.

00:01:41.000 He was handed peace in the Middle East.

00:01:43.000 He was handed a fairly stable situation in Afghanistan.

00:01:46.000 He was handed a Russia and Chinese move that had been largely blocked.

00:01:52.000 Russia and China were at least somewhat stagnant.

00:01:54.000 And all of this was really easy.

00:01:57.000 Like if you go back and you listen to my predictions for Joe Biden, here's what I said when he was inaugurated.

00:02:01.000 I said that for the first two years, we'd have a pretty easy time of it because the economy was going to go into a natural recovery.

00:02:07.000 We had had an artificial coma for the economy.

00:02:10.000 We were already coming out of it by Q4 of 2020.

00:02:12.000 And certainly 2021 was going to be a massive boom year followed by 2022, which would also be a massive boom year.

00:02:18.000 And almost nothing Joe Biden could do could stop that.

00:02:21.000 Well, wrong I was.

00:02:22.000 It turns out that Joe Biden could, in fact, stop that.

00:02:25.000 Joe Biden was handing peace in the Middle East.

00:02:26.000 And I said, I'm not sure how he can really screw that up because it's not like the Iranians are on the verge of signing a deal with the United States.

00:02:32.000 How can you screw that up?

00:02:33.000 Well, he has somehow managed to screw that up as well. 1.00

00:02:38.000 I said, you know, Joe Biden, even Joe Biden, isn't stupid enough. 1.00

00:02:43.000 To be weak with China and Russia. 0.99

00:02:45.000 I mean, at least Joe Biden is going to be somewhat tough.

00:02:49.000 Yeah.

00:02:50.000 So here is the thing.

00:02:52.000 Joe Biden has had the worst first year of any president in American history.

00:02:57.000 Any president in American history.

00:02:58.000 There are only two exceptions.

00:02:59.000 William Henry Harrison, because he was dead after 40 days because he went out in the rain and then got pneumonia and died.

00:03:04.000 And James Garfield, who was shot to death.

00:03:05.000 Those are the only two dudes who had a worse time of it than Joe Biden in his first year.

00:03:10.000 There are other presidents who have had bad first years.

00:03:12.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:03:13.000 Herbert Hoover was hit with the Great Depression in 1929.

00:03:16.000 And then his response was bad.

00:03:19.000 But that was an extraneous circumstance that impacted his presidency.

00:03:23.000 That was something unexpected.

00:03:25.000 Right?

00:03:25.000 That was a circumstance that sort of fell on him.

00:03:27.000 Same thing with Abraham Lincoln.

00:03:29.000 Abraham Lincoln's first year, half the country seceded.

00:03:31.000 That really wasn't because of Abraham Lincoln.

00:03:33.000 That wasn't his fault.

00:03:34.000 He was handed a really bad situation.

00:03:36.000 Year one of the George W. Bush administration, you get September 11th.

00:03:40.000 Joe Biden hasn't had any of those things.

00:03:42.000 Joe Biden was handed peace.

00:03:44.000 Joe Biden was handed a track, a natural track to prosperity.

00:03:48.000 All he had to do was be what he already was, which was a dead person.

00:03:52.000 That's all he had to do.

00:03:53.000 Ironically, if Joe Biden had had William Henry Harrison's first year, he'd still be a popular president.

00:03:58.000 Because Joe Biden was elected to be not alive.

00:04:01.000 He was elected to be a houseplant, as I say, a barely alive thing that doesn't speak very much and blocks the water stains.

00:04:08.000 That's pretty much all he was there to do, president houseplant.

00:04:11.000 And somehow he's managed to blow this in historic fashion.

00:04:14.000 It is the greatest self-inflicted wound I have ever seen a president commit.

00:04:19.000 And that includes President Trump.

00:04:21.000 President Trump spent several years completely undermining the accomplishments of his own administration because he couldn't stop his fingers from hitting buttons on Twitter.

00:04:28.000 Okay, but here's the thing.

00:04:29.000 Trump was unpopular the day he came into office.

00:04:31.000 Joe Biden was wildly popular when he came into office.

00:04:34.000 And somehow, Joe Biden has managed to make himself an extraordinarily unpopular president.

00:04:40.000 To the point where Quinnipiac polls, yeah, they're slight outliers, but only slight.

00:04:43.000 Have them in the low 30s.

00:04:46.000 I mean, let's look at the presidential approval ratings for, for example, Donald Trump.

00:04:48.000 Okay, we'll use Trump.

00:04:50.000 That's the contrast point because of course, according to the left, Trump was the worst president in America.

00:04:54.000 Okay, so right from the outset, Donald Trump did not have one day of his presidency where he was in the black in his approval rating.

00:05:03.000 He did not have one net positive day in his presidency where he was on top in the approval rating.

00:05:10.000 Day one, Day one, he was almost even.

00:05:14.000 He was like 45% positive, 45% negative.

00:05:17.000 And immediately, within like the first couple of weeks, he had shifted to 49% negative and like 46% positive.

00:05:26.000 And then he just kind of stayed there for his entire presidency.

00:05:29.000 He had some ups, he had some downs.

00:05:31.000 When it was really bad, he had up to 58% of people disliking him and 39% of people liking him.

00:05:37.000 But by the end of his first year, he was riding about 54% disapproval and 42% approval.

00:05:42.000 He was underwater by 10 points, 12 points by the end of his first year.

00:05:48.000 And now, here is Joe Biden's approval rating.

00:05:52.000 This is unbelievable.

00:05:53.000 It really is.

00:05:54.000 It's incredible.

00:05:55.000 So he starts off with a 55%, 56% approval rating.

00:05:59.000 Only 36% of Americans say they disapprove of Joe Biden.

00:06:03.000 And pretty quickly, you start to see these lines narrow.

00:06:06.000 But they're not narrowing to the point where he's anywhere near negative territory.

00:06:10.000 By the time you hit the end of July, he's kind of around 45% disapproved, but he's still got 51% approval rating.

00:06:19.000 There's a swing of about three points on average.

00:06:22.000 A mild decrease in his approval rating.

00:06:25.000 And then comes Afghanistan. 0.95

00:06:27.000 Which is when the President of the United States decides to shoot his entire administration directly in the face. 0.94

00:06:33.000 And when I say shoot his administration in the face, what I really mean is get 13 American service people killed, abandon 19 million women to abject sex slavery, and allow a bunch of 8th century barbarian cavemen to overrun a country and take all of America's leftover military equipment. 0.59

00:06:48.000 It turns out Americans don't like that sort of thing. 0.52

00:06:50.000 And so Joe Biden's disapproval rating now spikes into the plurality position of the American people.

00:06:57.000 By the time you hit September, which is exactly when this happens, right?

00:07:00.000 The end of August, the beginning of September, you see this giant spike in the disapproval rating over the course of late August.

00:07:06.000 By the time you hit the beginning of September, Joe Biden is now at 48% disapprove and 48% approve.

00:07:13.000 And then it just gets worse.

00:07:14.000 It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse for Joe Biden.

00:07:17.000 So this is the thing.

00:07:18.000 Donald Trump started off bad and he ended bad in terms of the disapproval rating. 0.84

00:07:22.000 Joe Biden started off really popular and is really, really unpopular right now because he's crappy at this job. 1.00

00:07:29.000 He is just garbage at this job. 0.99

00:07:31.000 As Barack Obama once famously stated, don't underestimate Joe's ability to F things up. 1.00

00:07:36.000 Don't underestimate it.

00:07:37.000 Again, look back at the Trump chart for just one moment because the swing is what matters here.

00:07:43.000 The swing here is from about 45% approve and 45% disapprove to 52% disapprove.

00:07:50.000 So that is about a seven point swing, right?

00:07:53.000 45 to 52 over the course of year one.

00:07:55.000 Seven point swing in the negative direction for President Trump over the course of year one.

00:07:58.000 Now look again at the Joe Biden chart.

00:08:01.000 This Joe Biden chart shows a swing from 56% approve to 42%, a 14 point negative swing.

00:08:10.000 So Trump got 7 points less popular over the course of his first year.

00:08:14.000 Joe Biden got 14% less popular over the course of his first year.

00:08:20.000 That's how bad this guy is at this. 0.93

00:08:22.000 He's just awful.

00:08:23.000 And we're going to go through where things stand.

00:08:25.000 Year one of the Biden.

00:08:26.000 And all of this is self-inflicted, guys. 1.00

00:08:28.000 This is all because Joe Biden is an incompetent buffoon. 0.99

00:08:31.000 It's because, as Nate Silver suggests, it's not that Joe Biden was ever a moderate. 0.99

00:08:35.000 It's just that Joe Biden was always dead center of the Democratic Party.

00:08:38.000 And the Democratic Party has gone completely nuts.

00:08:40.000 The Democratic Party's entire theory of politics is that everything was crazy because of just Trump.

00:08:45.000 If it weren't for Trump, we'd be back to normal. 0.98

00:08:47.000 Trump was insane, and it was all about the affect. 0.99

00:08:50.000 It was all about the tweeting, and all about the attitude, and all about the crazy jokes, and all about the bleeding from whatever, and all that kind of stuff. 0.97

00:08:58.000 And this led them to believe that so long as the President of the United States didn't say things like that, they could do anything they wanted, and people would just be like, well, I guess things are still sane.

00:09:09.000 No.

00:09:10.000 Wrong.

00:09:11.000 It turns out there are two forms of political crazy. 0.95

00:09:13.000 One form of political crazy is going out there and ripping on Mexican judges for no reason. 0.99

00:09:17.000 And that's kind of like mildly political crazy because most people are just like, that's it.

00:09:21.000 You know, that's kind of nutty behavior, but it has no impact on my life.

00:09:24.000 Then there's true political craziness, which is boys should be girls and girls should be boys.

00:09:29.000 Everybody who disagrees with me wants Jim Crow.

00:09:32.000 What if we pour money onto a gasoline fire of inflation?

00:09:36.000 And what if we just surrender to China and Russia? 0.92

00:09:39.000 What if we just give Afghanistan to the Taliban? 0.96

00:09:41.000 Just give it to them.

00:09:42.000 For no reason.

00:09:43.000 Here, have Afghanistan. 0.98

00:09:45.000 That's a form of crazy that has real impact on people's lives as opposed to, you know, the bad tweets.

00:09:49.000 And Democrats failed to recognize that.

00:09:51.000 They thought so long as they slapped a kindly old face on an insane agenda, everything would be fine.

00:09:57.000 Wrongo! 1.00

00:09:58.000 And it turns out all that happens is that people begin to realize that the kindly old face ain't so kindly when the agenda is really nefarious.

00:10:05.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:11:25.000 Okay, so.

00:11:26.000 Joe Biden is having a terrible, terrible first year.

00:11:29.000 Mark Thiessen has a very good column over at the Washington Post all about this.

00:11:33.000 He says, this is the lived reality millions of Americans are facing a year after a year of Biden's presidency.

00:11:38.000 Inflation has reached a 40-year high, and we have a massive labor shortage with more than 10 million unfilled jobs.

00:11:43.000 Biden signed a partisan $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill in March.

00:11:46.000 And when Omicron arrived, there weren't enough coronavirus tests or therapeutics.

00:11:49.000 Schools are closing again.

00:11:51.000 Emergency room visits for suspected suicide attempts by adolescent girls have jumped 51% from 2019 to 2021.

00:11:57.000 At least 12 major cities broke annual homicide records in 2021.

00:12:01.000 We are experiencing the worst border crisis in American history, and a surge of deadly fentanyl crossing the southern border has helped fuel an increase of 30% in overdose deaths in the past year.

00:12:11.000 The disastrous retreat from Afghanistan projected weakness on the world stage and emboldened Russia to amass troops along its border with Ukraine, putting us on the knife's edge of a land war in Europe.

00:12:19.000 And while Biden promised in his inaugural address to put his whole soul into uniting the country, he just gave a speech comparing millions of Americans to segregationists and traitors.

00:12:29.000 Yeah, that's that's a pretty bad record.

00:12:32.000 That's a pretty bad record.

00:12:33.000 Now, Biden is trying to happy talk his way through this thing.

00:12:36.000 He's doing the Obama routine, which is the people just don't understand him.

00:12:39.000 This is Obama's routine.

00:12:40.000 Every time he did something unpopular, like, well, I just didn't explain it well enough.

00:12:44.000 The American people, if they understood what I was doing, they would love it.

00:12:47.000 And the American would be like, no, we, we understand just what you were doing and we do not love it as it, as it turns out.

00:12:52.000 And then you get the same routine from Biden.

00:12:54.000 Well, if I just, ah, come on, you know, you know, ma'am, if you help me explain these policies, then shabba shabba.

00:13:03.000 Come on up here, Kamala. 1.00

00:13:04.000 Like, oh, yeah, this is, that's going to work.

00:13:09.000 Even Elizabeth Warren, who is full-fledged terrible at this, the chief Biden critic from the left in the Senate, even Elizabeth Warren. 0.56

00:13:19.000 How bad is she?

00:13:20.000 She, she, um, even she can't answer if Joe Biden is up to the job.

00:13:24.000 She's asked like, is Joe Biden up to the job, up for the job?

00:13:27.000 And she had reservations.

00:13:29.000 Let me ask you about 2024.

00:13:31.000 Do you believe that President Biden is up for the job?

00:13:34.000 President Biden is running for re-election.

00:13:35.000 I expect to support him.

00:13:37.000 His approval ratings are some of the lowest that they've been for a very long time.

00:13:41.000 I understand that.

00:13:43.000 But remember, we've just finished the first quarter.

00:13:45.000 We're just starting into the second quarter here.

00:13:48.000 So we've got a lot of time, a lot of work in front of us.

00:13:51.000 I love that.

00:13:51.000 So you think he's up for the job?

00:13:53.000 Well, he is running for re-election.

00:13:55.000 So is he good at this?

00:13:56.000 Well, There's time.

00:13:59.000 And time exists.

00:14:01.000 I like how they flash his approval rating on the screen there.

00:14:02.000 According to that CBS News poll, by the way, he's gone from 61% approval to 44%.

00:14:06.000 Oww-wee! 1.00

00:14:08.000 D'oh!

00:14:12.000 Yeah, those are not good numbers, gang.

00:14:13.000 Those are really bad numbers.

00:14:14.000 So, the good news is, the White House has found a reason to pivot.

00:14:18.000 They want to pivot.

00:14:19.000 Pivot! 0.84

00:14:20.000 They're like Ross in the stairwell with the couch.

00:14:22.000 Pivot! 0.84

00:14:23.000 We have to pivot!

00:14:25.000 According to NBC News, White House plots public reset as Biden's agenda fails.

00:14:29.000 I love this.

00:14:29.000 I love it so much.

00:14:31.000 Every time the newspapers start talking about how a politician needs to reset, how a politician needs to rejigger their comms, what they really mean is this politician is super bad at it.

00:14:40.000 This is what you hear from Kamala Harris's team every 20 minutes. 0.89

00:14:43.000 Like, almost on the dot.

00:14:44.000 They just set a timer on their watch.

00:14:45.000 Like, oh, it's been 20 minutes.

00:14:46.000 Time to reset Kamala's comms strategy.

00:14:49.000 And Kamala's over in the corner saying, it is time to do what we have always done, and time is with a clock.

00:15:01.000 And her team's like, okay, it's been 20 minutes.

00:15:03.000 Time to reset that comms.

00:15:04.000 She's over in the corner like, ah! 0.96

00:15:08.000 Guys, it isn't the comms!

00:15:09.000 You're bad at this!

00:15:11.000 It's not your communication strategy. 1.00

00:15:13.000 It's that your policies suck! 1.00

00:15:15.000 They're bad! 1.00

00:15:16.000 They're bad!

00:15:18.000 I mean, Joe Biden's entire comms strategy during his campaign was, what if I sit in a basement and eat oatmeal and watch Matlock and he won?

00:15:25.000 Okay, so, like, it's not about the comms. 0.99

00:15:27.000 It's about you sucking at this. 0.99

00:15:30.000 I'm not sure you could be worse at this if you tried to be bad at it. 1.00

00:15:33.000 It's incredible.

00:15:34.000 We'll get to that story in a second about the attempted rejiggering of the Biden's comms strategy.

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00:16:52.000 Okay, so according to NBC News, it's time for a reset!

00:16:54.000 It's a reset, guys!

00:16:56.000 Biden's reset plan, senior administration officials said, is to make his conversations with members of Congress less of a public priority, and to emphasize spending more time communicating directly with Americans.

00:17:06.000 Yeah, that's going to go well, because he's done a great job of that so far.

00:17:08.000 You know, every week he gets on your TV and falls asleep.

00:17:13.000 He gets on your TV, he's like, uh, COVID is, and the unvaxxed are, let's, let's hit them with my, with my walker. 0.96

00:17:20.000 I'm going to hit them with my walker.

00:17:23.000 And America's like, that's not, he didn't, that's not good. 0.93

00:17:26.000 He's like, well, if you don't, you don't like that, here I am on your TV again.

00:17:29.000 And I think that you want to re-enslave black people. 1.00

00:17:33.000 And it's a, nope, not doing it.

00:17:38.000 Not that that's, that's not helping Joe.

00:17:40.000 What if I, what if I say that, that you guys are basically Hitler?

00:17:45.000 No, this isn't going to work.

00:17:47.000 Joe Biden is a bad communicator.

00:17:48.000 He's very, very bad at this.

00:17:50.000 This is the part that's so funny.

00:17:52.000 He's a master communicator.

00:17:53.000 The dude ran for president 83 times.

00:17:56.000 He lost all of the times. 0.78

00:17:58.000 The only reason anyone even knows Joe Biden's name right now, other than as the foolish, plagiaristic senator who had to drop out of a presidential race once and got shellacked every other time he ran, and was a senator from a state that is mainly run by credit card companies. 0.97

00:18:13.000 The only reason anyone has ever heard of Joe Biden is because Barack Obama needed a buffoonish old white man to be his vice president. 0.97

00:18:20.000 And sometimes I say that that Kamala Harris was an affirmative action pick because she was because Joe Biden said I need a black woman. 1.00

00:18:26.000 Joe Biden was also an affirmative action pick.

00:18:27.000 Barack Obama was like, what if I just take a staid old white man said I look moderate.

00:18:32.000 That was pretty much his agenda.

00:18:34.000 And Joe Biden continued to fail upward.

00:18:37.000 The only reason that Joe Biden is president right now is because Barack Obama picked him for his vice president.

00:18:41.000 And then his main competition in a Democratic primary was a senile old communist.

00:18:47.000 And then his main competition in the presidential race was a guy who just blurred all over Twitter every two minutes. 1.00

00:18:54.000 Like that is the only reason that this idiot is president of the United States. 1.00

00:18:57.000 And they're like, well, what if he talked more to the American? 1.00

00:18:59.000 You go for it, man.

00:19:00.000 Put him on the TVs every day.

00:19:02.000 More of him.

00:19:03.000 He does a spectacular job.

00:19:05.000 First rule of holes.

00:19:06.000 Stop digging.

00:19:07.000 But Joe Biden is out there with a spade digging just all the way to China.

00:19:12.000 There is a recognition we need to change the dynamic, a senior administration official told NBC News, adding that Biden has told aides and lawmakers he intends to make the shift.

00:19:20.000 There's nothing that Joe Biden does better than sticking and moving.

00:19:23.000 That's what he's great at.

00:19:24.000 Part of the goal is to shed the growing image that Biden is approaching the presidency like a member of the Senate, where he spent more than three decades.

00:19:30.000 He's mindful he doesn't want to send the message his role is to be legislator-in-chief, another senior administration official said.

00:19:35.000 Biden's advisors are looking at a variety of ways for him to engage more with Americans, officials said.

00:19:39.000 There's no agreement yet about what the alternatives might entail.

00:19:42.000 He can only eat ice cream so many times.

00:19:44.000 He can only run naked after his dog from the shower, like, so many times.

00:19:48.000 While there is unity among advisors about having Biden talk to more people directly, another official said, there's no agreement about whether the effort will work.

00:19:55.000 No, there is.

00:19:56.000 I'm just going to put it.

00:19:56.000 It's not going to work.

00:19:57.000 It's not going to work.

00:19:59.000 Spoiler alert, Joe Biden talking to humans, not a thing that works.

00:20:04.000 Changing the White House strategy to engage more directly with Americans is an evergreen reset plan that has been activated by previous presidents who have found themselves in politically precarious moments.

00:20:12.000 For Biden, that moment has arrived earlier than his team expected after early momentum from his sweeping safety net bill.

00:20:18.000 Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said, Yeah, the problem is that Biden can't talk anymore.

00:20:22.000 has frustrations and drops in the polls, the president will say, it's now time for me to talk over the heads of the elites and talk directly to the people to convince them that what I'm trying to do is right. Yeah, the problem is that Biden can't talk anymore.

00:20:33.000 He just grunts and makes noises.

00:20:34.000 Biden has struggled to gain his footing on the coronavirus pandemic, which he promised to get under control and ultimately defeat.

00:20:46.000 He's also been hampered by the collapse of Build Back Better.

00:20:49.000 While some of Biden's aides have expressed concern, they're very concerned that he has seemingly bogged down at the White House, giving too many one-dimensional speeches from Washington instead of showcasing what they see as his greatest political strength, empathy, and an ability to connect with ordinary Americans.

00:21:02.000 That is gone.

00:21:03.000 He blew it up.

00:21:03.000 It's over for him.

00:21:04.000 And this is why he's not going to recover.

00:21:06.000 The reason he's not going to recover is because once you blow the empathy line, it ain't coming back.

00:21:11.000 Once it has been revealed that you care less about American soldiers dying in Afghanistan than you reaching a pullout by an arbitrary date so that you can celebrate yourself as some sort of grand peacemaker, which is what happened in Afghanistan, that ain't coming back.

00:21:24.000 Joe Biden, Captain Empathy was always bullcrap, but it certainly is not coming back now.

00:21:28.000 And when he started defending his action in Afghanistan, And dead service members in Afghanistan?

00:21:33.000 By citing the fact that his son died of brain cancer?

00:21:35.000 Like, no.

00:21:36.000 None of that works, and it ain't coming back, and it is over for him. 0.98

00:21:39.000 He's still gotta be president for three years, but that guy is a lame duck right now. 0.95

00:21:43.000 And by the way, that lame duckery has consequences, as it turns out. 0.95

00:21:47.000 He is failing on every single front.

00:21:49.000 Remember, Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2012 suggested when Mitt Romney said that the greatest geopolitical threat the United States faced was Russia.

00:21:57.000 Joe Biden said that the 1980s called and they wanted their foreign policy back.

00:22:01.000 Well, now Russia is about to invade Ukraine.

00:22:03.000 Russia has 100,000 troops on the borders of Ukraine.

00:22:05.000 They're openly threatening Ukraine. 0.77

00:22:07.000 And Joe Biden's own White House is like, yeah, they could invade at any moment.

00:22:09.000 We really have no plans.

00:22:11.000 Do you think the threat of invasion is getting higher or lower?

00:22:16.000 Well, I think as I noted a few minutes ago, we believe we're now at a stage where Russia could at any point launch an attack on Ukraine.

00:22:23.000 I would say that's more stark than we have been.

00:22:26.000 More stark?

00:22:27.000 Well, I mean, now that you've said it, problem solved, right guys?

00:22:29.000 Tony Blinken is being sent to meet his Russian counterpart as the White House is warning that Moscow could attack Ukraine at any point.

00:22:35.000 And given Antony Blinken's stellar record of being terrible at literally everything he touches, I'm sure this will end really, really well.

00:22:42.000 I'm sure he's going to do a great job.

00:22:45.000 Yeah, not so much.

00:22:47.000 Again, every wound that this administration is suffering from is a wound they inflicted themselves.

00:22:47.000 Not so much.

00:22:52.000 They made all this happen.

00:22:54.000 This is not, again, some sort of extraneous circumstance that crashed down upon their heads like the Civil War upon Lincoln or like the Great Depression on Herbert Hoover.

00:23:03.000 Every single thing that has happened right now that is damaging this administration is the fault of this administration.

00:23:08.000 It's unprecedented.

00:23:09.000 It really is incredible.

00:23:10.000 We'll get to more of it in just one second.

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00:24:19.000 OK, so Tony Blinken, the greatest of all secretaries of state, has now been deployed over to talk with the Russians.

00:24:26.000 According to The Washington Post, Secretary of State Blinken will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Friday in an effort to resolve the standoff over Ukraine, with U.S.

00:24:34.000 officials warning a Russian invasion could be imminent.

00:24:36.000 The meeting will follow a week of intense diplomacy as the top U.S.

00:24:39.000 diplomat heads to Ukraine and Germany for discussions on the crisis, the State Department said.

00:24:43.000 Adding urgency to Blinken's talks is Russia's fresh deployment of troops to Belarus to conduct major military exercises that will further strengthen the number of Russian forces along Ukraine's border.

00:24:52.000 The troop movements, coupled with statements from Moscow that it was unsatisfied with meetings held with the United States, European and NATO officials last week, have had some officials in Washington fearing the worst.

00:25:02.000 Despite the troubling developments, a senior State Department official said the meeting between Blinken and Lavrov in the Swiss city indicated that diplomacy is not dead.

00:25:10.000 The official said, we are prepared to continue to engage with Russia on security issues in a meaningful reciprocal dialogue.

00:25:15.000 We'll see this Friday if Russia prepares to do the same.

00:25:19.000 The official declined to say if the US or Russia first proposed the meeting.

00:25:22.000 The reason he declined is because the answer is the United States.

00:25:25.000 And the answer is that the United States is going hat in hand to the Russians to say, what can we do to prevent you from simply walking into Ukraine?

00:25:31.000 See, here's the thing.

00:25:32.000 Maybe we'll have some sort of response to Russia invading Ukraine.

00:25:35.000 But the reason Russia is invading Ukraine is because when you surrender on the world stage to, you know, a bunch of barbarians, From the 8th century, all of your political opponents look at you and go, hey, maybe we should do something too. 0.90

00:25:47.000 Hilariously enough, we still have members of the Biden administration defending the administration's activities in Afghanistan.

00:25:53.000 UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she still thinks that we fixed things in Afghanistan, which is kind of incredible considering that, you know, the entire country is now under the purview of a massive terror group. 0.78

00:26:06.000 We ended a 20-year war.

00:26:08.000 The President committed to doing that, and he followed through on that commitment.

00:26:15.000 It was a challenging withdrawal, but I can tell you that I have met with our Afghan allies who are here in the U.S., including just as recently as yesterday, and people are proud of the support that the U.S.

00:26:31.000 government has provided to them and proud of their So now everybody in the Biden administration is just singing songs from South Pacific.

00:26:49.000 Keep on happy talking, happy talk, talk about things you like to do.

00:26:53.000 I mean, my goodness, just the happy talk.

00:26:56.000 It was a wild success, guys.

00:26:58.000 And if they say it over and over enough, then probably you'll believe it.

00:27:01.000 Meanwhile, China, Russia, and Iran are teaming up for joint naval exercises, so this is going great.

00:27:05.000 According to Newsweek, Russia has said it will take part in joint naval exercises with both China and Iran, as scrutiny grows over Moscow's military maneuvers following a buildup of troops next to the Ukrainian border.

00:27:15.000 The announcement comes only days after Moscow said it will conduct a snap combat readiness inspection of its troops in the Russian Far East amid growing alarm in world capitals over the prospect of an invasion of Ukraine.

00:27:24.000 So things are going great on foreign policy.

00:27:26.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is completely failing on COVID.

00:27:29.000 Like utterly and completely failing on COVID.

00:27:31.000 Now, the reason that he's failing on COVID is because no one succeeds on COVID.

00:27:35.000 What I mean by this is the only people who succeed on COVID are the people who protect the most vulnerable and leave everybody else alone.

00:27:40.000 And you know who's starting to pick up on this?

00:27:41.000 Everyone else on Earth.

00:27:43.000 Literally all of them.

00:27:44.000 So, for example, Boris Johnson of the UK said earlier this morning, quote, I'm saying it's over.

00:27:58.000 Go back to your lives.

00:27:59.000 That is Boris Johnson in the UK.

00:28:01.000 Meanwhile, in Israel, which has been hyperactive on COVID, right?

00:28:04.000 Everybody in Israel is supposed to get 87 straight shots until the majority of their body tissue is composed of the vaccine.

00:28:11.000 Now they're leading vaccine expert.

00:28:13.000 He's like, yeah, you know what?

00:28:13.000 We're not doing that anymore.

00:28:15.000 He says the Green Pass vaccine passport is no longer relevant in the Omicron area and should be phased out.

00:28:20.000 Meanwhile, I got Washington, D.C.

00:28:21.000 locked down and Jen Psaki telling you, you should slap an N95 on your child. 0.97

00:28:26.000 Professor Cyril Cohen is the head of immunology at Bar-Ilan University.

00:28:30.000 He's a member of the advisory committee for vaccines for the Israeli government.

00:28:34.000 He says that he was surprised and disappointed that the vaccines did not prevent transmission as they had originally hoped.

00:28:40.000 He apologized for closing schools.

00:28:43.000 He says that widespread infection is now an inevitable part of future immunity.

00:28:46.000 He says we're not shooting for herd immunity.

00:28:48.000 That is just the result of the simple fact that Omicron is going to hit everybody.

00:28:51.000 And he says that Omicron has now accelerated the pandemic into the endemic phase in which COVID will be like the flu.

00:28:57.000 So all over the world, people are starting to realize that you got to let this go.

00:29:01.000 But Biden won't let it go.

00:29:03.000 He keeps trying to grip it harder.

00:29:07.000 So here is the Washington Post reporting on Biden's first year, quote, a year ago, Biden unveiled a 200 page plan to defeat COVID.

00:29:13.000 He has struggled to deliver on some key promises.

00:29:16.000 Boy, howdy, ain't that an underestimation of how badly he has failed?

00:29:20.000 The president declared in its pandemic strategy, released January 21, 2021.

00:29:25.000 Businesses are closing, hospitals are full, families are saying goodbye to their loved ones remotely.

00:29:29.000 Our nation continues to experience the darkest days of the pandemic.

00:29:32.000 Yet after a period when Biden's vaccination focus appeared to be paying off, many of those problems have roared back.

00:29:37.000 As the Delta variant and then Omicron tore across the country.

00:29:40.000 Once again, doctors and nurses are pleading for relief as hospitalizations set new daily records and more facilities move to rationing care.

00:29:46.000 By the way, many of these facilities are rationing care specifically because of things like the Joe Biden vaccine mandate, which has taken a crapload of doctors and nurses offline.

00:29:55.000 And the simple fact is that the number of hospitalizations in the United States right now has been fairly steady.

00:29:59.000 It really has not risen supremely dramatically in terms of long-term hospitalizations.

00:30:04.000 In fact, people who are going to the hospital with Omicron very often, they're not going because of Omicron.

00:30:09.000 They're going because they broke their leg and they were tested for Omicron, they have it, and they're asymptomatic.

00:30:13.000 And even if they are going for Omicron, the average hospital stay is now down from like four days to 1.6 days.

00:30:18.000 Omicron is way less severe, thank God, than Delta is.

00:30:22.000 But everybody on the left is unhappy with Biden for not doing enough, and everybody on the right is unhappy with Biden because he just won't let this thing go.

00:30:32.000 The Washington Post says, as he prepared to take office, Biden oversaw a 200-page pandemic plan that promised to restore trust in the federal government, protect essential workers, and slow COVID spread.

00:30:41.000 But as president, he has struggled to execute key parts of it.

00:30:44.000 Page 59 promised predictable and robust federal purchasing of COVID test kits.

00:30:48.000 WRONG! 0.86

00:30:49.000 Page 81 pledged to support schools in implementing COVID-19 screening testing.

00:30:53.000 WRONG! 0.86

00:30:54.000 Page 103 vowed to ensure patient safety in nursing homes by boosting staffing and vaccinations.

00:30:59.000 WRONG! 0.86

00:30:59.000 So here's the bottom line. 0.86

00:31:01.000 Dude has failed.

00:31:02.000 And everybody knows that he has failed.

00:31:05.000 So how is he dealing with this?

00:31:06.000 He's planning to give you a free N95.

00:31:10.000 Yay?

00:31:13.000 Is that really?

00:31:13.000 Really?

00:31:14.000 With Omicron?

00:31:15.000 That's your plan.

00:31:16.000 Your plan is what the government should have done in, like, May of 2020.

00:31:18.000 This is what the government should have done in May 2020, by the way.

00:31:22.000 The government should have sent everybody an N95 in May of 2020, April 2020, like, as soon as humanly possible, and they should have said, if you feel that you are at risk, then you should wear an N95.

00:31:31.000 And if you are young and you are healthy, you probably shouldn't.

00:31:34.000 That's what Sweden did.

00:31:36.000 And everything was okay.

00:31:37.000 The big mistake in Sweden is that they didn't shield the elderly enough.

00:31:41.000 But now they're sending 400 million non-surgical N95s to people from the strategic national stockpile?

00:31:47.000 How is this going to be effective?

00:31:50.000 No one thinks this is going to be effective, is the reality.

00:31:53.000 And so, this has reduced the... Even Democrats are now throwing Biden under the bus on this stuff.

00:31:58.000 Here's Democrat Tim Ryan from Ohio.

00:32:00.000 And moderate Democrats realize that 2022 is going to be an anti-Biden wave year.

00:32:04.000 And so, some of them are starting to dissociate from Biden.

00:32:08.000 They're like, I'm going to stand... They're like Homer Simpson with the bush.

00:32:10.000 They're just kind of drawing back into the bush away from Biden.

00:32:13.000 Here's Tim Ryan.

00:32:15.000 We need the president.

00:32:16.000 We need the administration to lead the way.

00:32:19.000 They're in charge.

00:32:19.000 The buck stops there.

00:32:20.000 There's no doubt about that.

00:32:22.000 And we need to get things done.

00:32:23.000 We're not doing good enough.

00:32:25.000 We're two years into this thing, and I think that the frustration level is getting to people here.

00:32:29.000 And do you blame President Biden for that frustration?

00:32:32.000 Well, I mean, the president is the president, and there's no question that he bears some responsibility for it.

00:32:38.000 Yeah, I think maybe just a little bit.

00:32:41.000 The media, for their part, they're continuing to try to spin on behalf of Biden, and it's just failing.

00:32:45.000 Joe Biden's actual job approval rating, according to Gallup today, dropped again to 40%.

00:32:48.000 So he is now 16 points under one, according to Gallup, on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.

00:32:55.000 It's just that Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:32:57.000 So the media trying to do their best to spin for Biden still.

00:33:01.000 And so here is Don Lemon, ever the good soldier on behalf of the Biden administration.

00:33:05.000 I have to say, Don Lemon is not a smart human.

00:33:08.000 Wow, is he not a smart human.

00:33:11.000 When I tell people, they'll say, well, I've been doing my own research and last week I was in Miami.

00:33:16.000 I said, how did you get to Miami?

00:33:18.000 I flew.

00:33:18.000 That's science!

00:33:20.000 So if you don't believe in science, why didn't you walk?

00:33:23.000 Right?

00:33:25.000 Because I can't always follow the science.

00:33:27.000 That's the reason that you're here.

00:33:28.000 That's the reason that you don't have polio.

00:33:30.000 That's the reason we don't see polio cases.

00:33:32.000 That's the reason why we don't see smallpox cases.

00:33:35.000 You can't do your own research, man.

00:33:36.000 If you did your own research, would you get on a plane, man?

00:33:39.000 to get you vaccinated as a child.

00:33:41.000 So I don't understand.

00:33:42.000 I was told that they had to.

00:33:43.000 That you had to, because what? 1.00

00:33:45.000 We have to start doing things for the greater good of society and not for idiots who think that they can do their own research. 1.00

00:33:52.000 You can't do your own research, man. 1.00

00:33:53.000 If you did your own research, would you get on a plane, man?

00:33:56.000 Would you get on a...

00:33:57.000 I would, because you know what doesn't happen with a plane?

00:34:00.000 Okay, let's say that planes, they took off and like every 200 miles or so they broke down and you had to get on a new plane.

00:34:08.000 Let's say that you got on a plane and some of those planes just kind of crashed randomly and you're like, why?

00:34:13.000 I don't understand.

00:34:14.000 What if they told you that every time you took a plane, it was going to be a one, a nonstop all the way cross country.

00:34:21.000 But as it turns out, it ran out of gas every 150 miles.

00:34:24.000 Would you be a little more skeptical about it?

00:34:26.000 Maybe you would take a train?

00:34:27.000 Maybe you might consider taking a train?

00:34:29.000 By the way, Joe, Don Lemon, speaking about science and planes, he has picked a poor example, Don Lemon.

00:34:36.000 I'm old enough to remember when you suggested that maybe a plane was eaten by a black hole on national television.

00:34:41.000 What if it was hijacking, or terrorism, or mechanical failure, or pilot error, but what if it was something fully that we don't really understand?

00:34:48.000 A lot of people have been asking about that, about black holes, and on and on and on, and all of these conspiracy theories.

00:34:53.000 Let's look at this.

00:34:55.000 Noah says, what else can you think about?

00:34:56.000 Black hole, Bermuda Triangle.

00:34:57.000 And then Desi says, huh, just like the movie Lost.

00:35:00.000 And of course, they're also referencing the Twilight Zone, which is a very similar plot.

00:35:06.000 That's what people are saying.

00:35:07.000 I know it's preposterous.

00:35:08.000 Is it preposterous, you think, Mary?

00:35:10.000 It's preposterous, but is it preposterous that a black hole might have eaten a plane?

00:35:13.000 Because science! 0.94

00:35:14.000 Science, Captain Science over here.

00:35:17.000 Yeah.

00:35:19.000 When you're relegated to having Don Lemon defend you, you have a real problem on your hands.

00:35:22.000 Okay, in one second, we'll get to Joe Biden's failures on the economy.

00:35:25.000 Because we've talked about foreign policy, and we've talked about COVID.

00:35:28.000 We'll get to the economy in just one second, because it just keeps getting worse for Joe Biden.

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00:37:52.000 So you're one of the Biden presidency, a giant fail.

00:37:59.000 Foreign policy, fail.

00:38:01.000 COVID, fail.

00:38:02.000 Economy, massive fail.

00:38:04.000 How do you know that the economy is massively failing?

00:38:06.000 When CNN is now running pieces titled, should the government control the price of food and gas?

00:38:11.000 So we went from inflation doesn't exist.

00:38:14.000 It's all in your mind.

00:38:14.000 You shouldn't worry about it at all.

00:38:15.000 It hasn't been a problem in America for 40 years.

00:38:18.000 To, well, inflation is happening, but it's transitory.

00:38:20.000 It'll go away soon.

00:38:22.000 To, build back better is probably going to help the inflation.

00:38:24.000 To, well, inflation isn't transitory and it's here, but it's good because it just, it demonstrates how much demand there is.

00:38:31.000 So inflation is actually a positive and we should view it that way.

00:38:34.000 To, what if the government actually just controls prices now because inflation is really bad and scary.

00:38:39.000 It's amazing that evolution, right?

00:38:40.000 We went all the way from inflation is not happening to inflation is permanent and also the government should control food and gas prices.

00:38:47.000 That's a pretty wild transition, is it not?

00:38:49.000 According to CNN, people are paying a lot more for food, gas, cars, and services.

00:38:53.000 Inflation isn't over yet, as pandemic continues to distort the economy.

00:38:57.000 So, should governments consider setting the price of essential goods?

00:39:00.000 It's been done before, typically during times of crisis.

00:39:03.000 But for most mainstream economists, the answer to this is a resounding no.

00:39:06.000 Limiting how much companies can charge will distort markets, causing shortages and exacerbating supply chain problems, while only temporarily reducing inflation.

00:39:13.000 Well, yeah.

00:39:14.000 Duh.

00:39:15.000 Just stop, seriously, said Austin Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago.

00:39:26.000 Just stop, seriously, is the best response.

00:39:28.000 That is a good response by Austin Goolsbee.

00:39:29.000 Goolsbee previously served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under Obama.

00:39:34.000 The attitude toward price controls appears to be similar in Washington, where policymakers have shown little enthusiasm for even targeted or temporary measures, despite growing pressure on middle-class families that feel the pain of price increases more than the rich.

00:39:45.000 Still, says CNN, with annual inflation running at a four-decade high of 7%, price controls could feature in future debates over how to reduce prices.

00:39:52.000 See, here's the thing. 0.98

00:39:53.000 When you create price controls, You are, you are being an idiot because a price control does not increase the manufacturing. 0.99

00:40:01.000 It doesn't actually mean that there is more of the product. 0.99

00:40:03.000 It just means that there is more demand for less of a product.

00:40:07.000 That's all that happens.

00:40:08.000 It radically distorts markets.

00:40:11.000 I love that CNN then tries to debunk this.

00:40:14.000 Economists who are skeptical of price controls often point to basic economic concepts.

00:40:18.000 Yes, they argue that capping prices encourages companies to produce less of the product, while making it more attractive to consumers.

00:40:24.000 Supply goes down.

00:40:25.000 Demand goes up.

00:40:25.000 Yes.

00:40:26.000 But that doesn't stop governments around the world from resorting to price controls.

00:40:30.000 There's plenty of precedent for price controls in the U.S.

00:40:32.000 Like, CNN is now actively arguing on behalf of price controls the single most ridiculous and counterproductive economic policy that any government can take.

00:40:40.000 Look at rent control, which radically reduces the amount of supply in housing.

00:40:45.000 Also, the quality of housing leads landlords to simply abandon things and leads to housing shortages.

00:40:52.000 Control of prices and wages is a terrible, terrible idea, but when you box yourself into a corner, what exactly are you supposed to do?

00:40:58.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is trying to politicize the Fed.

00:41:01.000 According to Jeb Hensarling, writing for the Wall Street Journal, During Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's reconfirmation hearing last week, there was an understandable focus on inflation. Led by Republican Senator Pat Toomey, several senators expressed concern that politicization of the Fed is hampering its effectiveness in dealing with inflation and could lead to an erosion of monetary policy independence.

00:41:20.000 If such concerns are left unaddressed, the American economy will suffer.

00:41:22.000 Congress should resist the temptation to use the Fed to advance social policy or fund its favorite programs off budget. 0.51

00:41:28.000 In turn, the Fed should halt its mission creep into fiscal policy and stay out of unrelated partisan congressional debate.

00:41:35.000 However, the Fed has become thoroughly ensconced in fiscal policy, specifically credit policy, by backstopping practically every credit market in the United States.

00:41:45.000 And now, the Democrats wish to make this worse.

00:41:49.000 And the Fed wishes to thoroughly politicize the Fed.

00:41:53.000 By basically declaring that all monetary policy is emergency policy.

00:41:59.000 The Fed is losing its independence to the executive branch, and that is a problem.

00:42:03.000 And Joe Biden wants that problem.

00:42:06.000 He wants more control.

00:42:08.000 The solution for Joe Biden to a lack of ability is more control.

00:42:13.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden can't even control his own party.

00:42:16.000 So the internal democratic war continues apace.

00:42:19.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden, Joe Biden is now seeing that the American public paid his guts and are not interested in his party controlling Congress.

00:42:26.000 His new answer is just a plain old conspiracy theory.

00:42:30.000 If we lose, it's because they rigged the elections.

00:42:32.000 Again, it is incredible to me that we have spent A couple of years here talking about how Donald Trump perverted American elections and he's undermining faith in American elections.

00:42:41.000 Meanwhile, the president of the United States is literally going around to places like Georgia and saying that if votes take place under current rules, it will have been rigged.

00:42:51.000 Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things.

00:42:52.000 that takes place in a Republican state can effectively be questioned and thrown out because the procedures are rigged.

00:42:59.000 What he is saying is no different than anything Trump said, except he has even less evidence of voter suppression than Trump had of election fraud.

00:43:05.000 And yet the media are just on top.

00:43:07.000 This is what Joe Biden tweeted yesterday.

00:43:08.000 He tweeted this.

00:43:09.000 Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things, voter suppression and election subversion.

00:43:17.000 It's about making it harder to vote.

00:43:18.000 Who gets to count the vote?

00:43:20.000 And whether your vote counts at all.

00:43:23.000 We have to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis voting rights.

00:43:26.000 Everyone else win.

00:43:29.000 Okay, so Jim Crow 2.0. 0.93

00:43:31.000 So he's immediately saying that every election security law in America is about preventing black people from voting.

00:43:38.000 It's Jim Crow 2.0. 0.82

00:43:40.000 He says it's about voter suppression.

00:43:41.000 Name the voter who has been suppressed, Mr. President.

00:43:43.000 A voter.

00:43:44.000 One.

00:43:45.000 Just one.

00:43:45.000 Who's been suppressed.

00:43:46.000 Who's been prevented from voting in the United States.

00:43:48.000 Name a human.

00:43:50.000 One.

00:43:50.000 It shouldn't be hard.

00:43:51.000 You're saying it's happening millions and millions and millions of times over.

00:43:54.000 In Republican states.

00:43:54.000 Right now.

00:43:55.000 Name them.

00:43:56.000 Name one.

00:43:56.000 You can't.

00:43:57.000 It's a lie.

00:43:58.000 Election subv... He's saying that not only are you preventing people from voting, you are then subverting elections by literally changing the counts, right?

00:44:05.000 He's saying who gets to count the vote is the real question.

00:44:09.000 You're changing the- he's accusing Republicans of not only rigging who gets to vote, but then rigging how the votes are actually counted.

00:44:16.000 That is a full-fledged conspiracy theory.

00:44:18.000 It's madness.

00:44:19.000 Okay, so he's failed on every front, and so his new solution is to suggest that votes are being stolen in the United States, and that everyone who opposes him is a vicious racist in favor of Jim Crow.

00:44:31.000 Meanwhile, he's trotting out Jen Psaki to explain that, you know, when he says that you love segregation and that you're with Bull Connor, that's not divisive.

00:44:38.000 That's just the truth.

00:44:40.000 The president delivered a powerful speech about the protection of people's fundamental rights in this in this country, which is their right to vote, their right to to vote for anyone they choose, whether it is him or someone else.

00:44:53.000 It was not a partisan speech.

00:44:55.000 It was intended to lay out for the public exactly what's at stake and lay out for elected officials.

00:45:01.000 What's at stake.

00:45:02.000 And he stands by everything he said in that speech.

00:45:05.000 Yeah, I'm sure he does.

00:45:06.000 I'm sure he does.

00:45:07.000 He's got nothing else.

00:45:08.000 When in doubt, if you're a Democrat, call everybody a racist.

00:45:11.000 And the person who probably is best placed to call everybody a racist is an 80-year-old white man who used to hang out with George Wallace in the Senate.

00:45:17.000 Probably that guy.

00:45:19.000 That one.

00:45:20.000 Good call there.

00:45:20.000 By the way, he's destroying his own party.

00:45:22.000 This idiot is so bad at this. 1.00

00:45:23.000 He's destroying his own party right now. 1.00

00:45:27.000 He has Chuck Schumer up on the hill proposing a vote on this voting rights bill, this nonsense garbage federalization of elections bill.

00:45:37.000 And he doesn't even have full Democratic support for it.

00:45:40.000 Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema don't even support it.

00:45:43.000 Like, this is crazy.

00:45:46.000 He's so out of control and so incompetent at this that he's not content with destroying his own executive branch leadership.

00:45:52.000 He's destroying his own Senate majority in real time at the behest of Chuck Schumer, who's simply trying to avoid a primary from like AOC.

00:45:59.000 It's unbelievable.

00:46:00.000 So in synopsis, is this guy a good president?

00:46:03.000 This guy is the worst single president in American history after one year.

00:46:08.000 Man, I cannot wait to see what the next few years bring.

00:46:10.000 My goodness.

00:46:11.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 19, 2022

Year One: Biden Already The Worst President Ever | Ep. 1415

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