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00:03:13.000Inflation, as described by people that actually know what they're talking about, is when prices go up and productivity stays the same or goes down.
00:03:23.000The simple definition is when there is sustained upward movement in the overall price level of goods and services in the economy.
00:03:34.000Holding all else constant, this corresponds in the most basic way with a loss of purchasing power for regular and working people.
00:03:45.000Now, inflation does benefit some people.
00:03:48.000If you have massive debt burdens or you have borrowed a significant amount of money, inflation helps you because then all of a sudden there's more dollar bills.
00:04:01.000So if you're $100,000 in debt, that stays constant.
00:04:05.000But all of a sudden, if there's more dollar bills out there, then you are able to use those new dollar bills to pay off an old debt because it was 8% or 10% or 12% more valuable the prior year before.
00:04:21.000Now, inflation is a tax on the middle class.
00:04:26.000We on this program did repeated podcasts, did repeated broadcasts warning about how Washington, D.C.'s addiction to multi-trillion dollar spending bills, while shutting down the entire economy immorally and unconstitutionally, will result in unexpected and chaotic price increases.
00:04:49.000We have seen this over the last six months, but now all of a sudden we're seeing something even more dramatic.
00:04:55.000We are seeing a slowdown of economic activity.
00:04:59.000People are hitting the breaks and the prices are going up.
00:05:05.000We have made the argument here in this program that many Democrats want inflation.
00:05:14.000It allows them to pay off their debts.
00:05:18.000Did you know that U.S. corporations expanded their balance sheets by borrowing $600 billion in the last year?
00:05:26.000They knew that interest rates will never get this low again.
00:05:29.000And so everyday companies, and especially the Fortune 100 companies, they went on a borrowing spree.
00:05:38.000They borrowed more money than they have in recent memory because they knew that all of a sudden, if inflation is going to kick in, if inflation is going to occur, you want to have as much debt as you possibly can manage or almost more than you can manage because then the 8% inflation rate a year or the 6% inflation rate a year will actually minimize the debt burden you have.
00:06:06.000You might as well live it up while you can.
00:06:09.000Rich people do very well when inflation comes.
00:06:13.000If you own physical assets, land, gold, silver, or you were able to move money quickly, especially liquid, you'll do fine in the midst of inflation.
00:06:24.000The people that inflation hurts the most are young people, students, and middle-class workers.
00:06:30.000In fact, it makes you more dependent on the government.
00:06:34.000Inflation is a big government scheme to try and expand the social welfare state.
00:06:46.000Now, in an unexpected turn of events, not unexpected for us because we have also been following this very closely, the Biden regime's entire legislative agenda in Washington, D.C. has been put into turmoil.
00:07:04.000Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, he's actually doing what a United States Senator should be doing.
00:07:17.000I disagree with Joe Manchin on plenty.
00:07:20.000I think he can kind of be a swarmy, slimy, transactional D.C. politician.
00:07:26.000But I actually think deep down he understands that West Virginia has become a deeply conservative state.
00:07:32.000And he knows that if he continues to pass these multi-trillion dollar spending bills, it's everyday people in West Virginia that are going to be crushed.
00:07:40.000West Virginia is losing population, one of the few states that is.
00:07:44.000West Virginia has already been under attack by the federal regulatory agencies of the EPA and the environmental green groups that have crushed coal development all across West Virginia.
00:08:00.000And therefore, Joe Manchin is pushing pause.
00:08:04.000He's calling timeout on what the Democrats are trying to do, which is pass a $3.5 trillion spending bill alongside a debt limit increase alongside a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.
00:08:19.000Now, Joe Biden and Jen Psaki and others have said that this $3.5 trillion bill costs nothing.
00:08:28.000It adds zero dollars to the national debt.
00:08:35.000Now, if that was the case, then why is it you have to raise the debt ceiling then?
00:08:39.000If it doesn't cost anything, then why do you have to raise the debt ceiling to keep on spending money?
00:08:45.000Well, Joe Manchin is now speaking out against the crisis of inflation.
00:08:51.000Finally, we are seeing somebody in the Democrat Party start to brush off a simple economic textbook and realize that the addiction to cheap money thanks to the Federal Reserve and the unconstitutional way that we actually fund our government and the oligarchy of the monetary regime that we have been living under, yeah, it's actually hurting normal people.
00:09:13.000Rich people are going to be just fine.
00:09:15.000Corporations will find a way to navigate this.
00:09:19.000But for the carpenter in Wheeling, West Virginia, earning $51,000 a year with two kids, inflation will crush him.
00:09:30.000Democrats, except Joe Manchin, actually want this because they say that's a perfect opportunity for that once self-reliant carpenter who works with his hands to now get an extra government check.
00:09:41.000That makes a perfect potential Democrat voter.
00:09:45.000It makes someone who is more subservient, more obedient.
00:09:48.000You see, self-reliance, the spirit of producing for oneself, is at direct odds with everything the dominant Democratic regime wants to see for your family and for the country.
00:14:12.000Maybe we're all being played for a game and Manchin and Cinema are going to pull it underneath us.
00:14:17.000Or maybe, just maybe, these two Democrats either want some sort of political future, Kirsten Cinema absolutely does, or they have just a small, an inch, a smidgen of concern for their constituents, not for the fundamental transformation of the nation.
00:14:34.000Now, we must understand that the goal of these massive spending packages is to remake man himself.
00:14:42.000Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Baines Johnson, they spoke extensively, whether it be FDR's second Bill of Rights speech, Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society speech, or Woodrow Wilson's repeated addresses about how man cannot attain their highest level of existence if they still have material wants, needs, or concerns.
00:15:11.000You see, rooted in the progressive belief, this came post-Darwin, is that the founding fathers did not fully understand what it meant to be man.
00:15:22.000I mean, come on, for example, the founding fathers didn't have TikTok, Twitter, airplanes, or Priuses.
00:15:28.000How could the Founding Fathers possibly understand the full dynamic range or spectrum of what it means to be a human being?
00:15:38.000Now, we as conservatives, we reject this.
00:15:40.000And this really is the debate that's going on right now.
00:15:42.000We as conservatives believe in the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:15:49.000We believe that there are things that do not change.
00:15:52.000Regardless of having TikTok and Twitter and airplanes and Priuses, we believe that massive deficit spending will lead to a nation gone to chaos.
00:16:02.000We believe the rule of law needs to be a centerpiece for organizing society.
00:16:06.000We believe that telling the truth and a properly good-souled individual is the way to live.
00:16:13.000Now, Manchin and Cinema, they might be game for part of the social redefinition and reconstruction of the new man, which of course was a phrase that was used many times in the Soviet Union.
00:16:30.000He called this the overman or the Das Ăśbermensch.
00:16:34.000Now, Manchin and Cinema might be game for part of this, but they also have their own self-interests that they're looking out for.
00:16:43.000This is the brilliance of checks and balances and separation of powers.
00:16:48.000Now, mind you, there's plenty of problems with the legislative system as we have it now.
00:16:52.000But Schumer and Pelosi are getting incredibly impatient with these two senators from red states or once red states.
00:17:00.000Arizona is, I still think, a red state and will show itself as such in 2022.
00:17:04.000West Virginia is now one of the most conservative states in the country where Donald Trump won every single county in the state of West Virginia.
00:17:25.000Or are we U.S. senators of the individual states?
00:17:29.000You see, until we passed the 17th Amendment, which is one of the most destructive and disastrous amendments ever passed in the history of the country, which got rid of the state legislature appointing of senators, and we got into the populist movement, which I do generally support of direct election of senators, senators became more interested in public opinion nationally than what their states actually worried about.
00:17:54.000But what I'm hearing from Manchin, and by the way, I am perfectly prepared to be let down and disappointed.
00:18:00.000I am bracing for impact for the treachery, the deceit, the backroom deals.
00:18:08.000What I am saying is that what I'm seeing in front of me is a stalled, delayed, and almost dead on arrival legislative package that does not seem that it's going to proceed in its current form anytime soon.
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00:21:45.000They are more concerned to bulldoze and capture and take advantage of this moment for fundamental transformation of the American country and nation.
00:21:56.000They don't care about public approval ratings.
00:21:59.000They certainly don't care about the Constitution.
00:22:02.000Separation of powers, consent of the governed, independent judiciary.
00:22:05.000They will not be stopped as they focus on their socialist locomotive agenda to run you over.
00:22:19.000Panama's government has warned that thousands of more illegals are coming to the border.
00:22:24.000Estimates are more than 60,000 people are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:22:28.000Of course, as we well know, Haitians have been released into the interior of the United States and they will most likely never leave.
00:22:37.000These are just more future voters for the Democrats as they look at this.
00:23:12.000We consider open borders in 65,000 Panama people, Panamanians, that's probably the rest were Panamanians, coming into America as a detriment and as a problem, an issue.
00:24:04.000They think getting people on government assistance is admirable and good.
00:24:11.000Now, many of you know that we are no friends of many Republican senators.
00:24:18.000Now, there are some phenomenal ones out there, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, just to name a few.
00:24:25.000But I have been, I've been pleased to see how Senate Republicans have been holding the line on this con job that is being cooked up by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
00:24:40.000In COTE 106, Senator Barrasso from Wyoming, who I know, I wish he would fight harder on certain things, but he's been very good on this.
00:24:50.000You know, we complain quite often, where is the opposition party?
00:24:54.000I will say, thankfully, not one Republican is playing ball with any of this nonsense or this garbage.
00:25:02.000I will say, though, too many of them are playing ball with the infrastructure package.
00:25:06.000And their reasoning is like, well, since we agreed with the infrastructure package, then it puts pressure on the reconciliation bill.
00:25:14.000I don't buy that for a second, but let's put that aside.
00:26:36.000Now, just so you know, the size of that monstrosity, it's bigger than some human beings.
00:26:45.000It is at least two to three feet tall.
00:26:50.000Now, I just want to make sure that we're being very clear about this.
00:26:54.000That the reason why the Democrats are trying to spend as much money as they possibly can on every program imaginable is not because they actually want to help people.
00:27:09.000They believe that the state can actually be a critical ingredient or instrument in fundamental transformation of the human being itself.
00:27:27.000That human beings can reach a higher plane of existence if they are free from material wants, needs, and desires.
00:27:34.000John Dewey, who is the founder of American public education, educated at Johns Hopkins University, had a famous quote, and I'm paraphrasing where he said that true freedom will be the freedom from necessity.
00:27:52.000That it's not freedom to speak, freedom to create, freedom to flourish, freedom to marry, freedom to have children, freedom to worship your creator.
00:28:01.000He called those basically, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but he thought he was indifferent towards that.
00:28:08.000Instead, the progressive project that started with Woodrow Wilson was this belief system that freedom meant that you had nothing that you wanted in the physical or material world.
00:28:19.000Lyndon Baines Johnson was the main president who really embraced this, specifically when it came to health care.
00:28:32.000They want to try to get us closer to what they believe is a utopian, technocratic, scientifically driven society.
00:28:42.000This should terrify every single person listening to this.
00:28:50.000And Joe Manchin has basically said this.
00:28:53.000Joe Manchin has said he'll do a very basic spending bill, but he's not going to get into the mass social engineering project of the progressive statist regime.
00:29:18.000My top line has been 1.5 because I believe in my heart that what we can do and what the needs we have right now and what we can afford to do without basically changing our whole society to an entitlement mentality.
00:29:31.000Now, let me just first say, do you notice how intense the reporters are versus Joe Manchin versus Joe Biden?
00:29:39.000Do you notice how direct the questions are?
00:29:49.000Joe Manchin is annoying and he's a threat.
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00:31:30.000The Democrats are in disarray without any question.
00:31:33.000Whether it's the border, whether it's the incredibly messy, messy exit from Afghanistan, which was a debacle by any definition, or whether it's what's happening on the floor right now.
00:32:50.000They're enemies of democracy is what Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema are being called.
00:32:56.000Now I know I really have respect for both of them.
00:32:58.000Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema seem to be making life miserable for congressional Democrats.
00:33:04.000For that, they should be applauded and they should be thanked.
00:33:08.000Joy Behar explodes into one of her unhinged rants in between being realized that her co-hosts get test positive for the Fauci virus despite being fully vaccinated.
00:33:20.000She says, you don't understand the enemies of democracy.
00:33:52.000Anytime that Joy Behar loses her mind.
00:33:56.000So let's go to, okay, so last night was the congressional baseball game, and Republicans almost always lose.
00:34:01.000Now, one of the reasons why Republicans always lose is because Democrats, they tend to be a younger party than Republicans, and so they just tend to have younger people play baseball.
00:34:13.000Now, despite the fact that they had like a 14-year-old pitching, how old is John Ossif?
00:35:56.000So there's this video of Nancy Pelosi, and she's grasping her phone.
00:35:59.000Do you notice how she holds her phone?
00:36:01.000She holds it like she's reporting from some sort of a bunker in World War I, like a trench, holding it right up here, screaming into the phone.
00:36:11.000Doesn't look like things are going well for her.
00:36:32.000All right, here's Nancy Pelosi just going at it.
00:36:36.000It was Rodney Davis at the top of the lineup.
00:36:40.000Speaker, no doubt happy about that play, but she is known as a big sports fan.
00:36:44.000And often, after dealing with a lot of really difficult reporter questions related to what's going on in now, I think, again, we got to get an expert lip reader because I want to know exactly what's going on there.