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Biden’s New World Order | Ep. 1229

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	The Biden administration pushes global corporate tax increases while ramping up spending and taxation at home.
	The White House signals more bullying of corporations to come, and Republicans are optimistic about 2022.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	Alrighty, so Joe Biden's world-changing plans are apace.
	Democrats are now preparing a wide variety of tax increases.
	See, there's this weird idea out there that Democrats raise spending and then they have to raise taxes.
	That is incorrect.
	Democrats want to raise taxes.
	They like raising taxes.
	Higher taxes are part of the goal.
	They think that higher taxes lead to redistributive equality.
	Equity can only be achieved through redistribution of income, even if it means that overall people make less money.
	Barack Obama said this very openly in 2008.
	He was asked in the middle of a Democratic primary debate, if you raise the corporate tax rate, and if that results in less revenue to the government because the economy shrinks, would you still be in favor of raising the corporate tax rate?
	And Barack Obama said, I would, for purposes of fairness.
	It is not about maximizing economic growth.
	It is not about making America a better place to live.
	It is simply about punishing people for earning, and punishing corporations, and punishing anybody who runs a business.
	Because the idea is that the government is supposed to take care of you.
	The government is God in this iteration.
	And because the government is God, the government is there to provide you with a fair and just outcome, even if that means that some people have to get punished unjustly in order to achieve that fairer outcome.
	According to the New York Times, The Biden administration and top Democrats in Congress began detailing plans for significant changes to how the United States and other countries tax multinational corporations as they look for ways to raise revenues and finance President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal.
	Now remember, this infrastructure proposal is a complete boondoggle.
	5% of it is about roads and bridges.
	The rest of it is about a bunch of giveaways to unions.
	The rest of it is a bunch of waste, fraud, a bunch of nonsense that the government wants to pay for.
	They've been lying.
	They've been saying that it's going to create 19 million jobs.
	That is not true.
	According to CNN, Moody's did not estimate the infrastructure proposal will create 19 million jobs.
	They estimated the economy will add about 19 million jobs between Q4 2020 and Q4 2030 if the infrastructure proposal gets passed and 16.3 million jobs if it does not get passed.
	So in other words, it's going to add theoretically about 3 million jobs, but that's assuming that there isn't a massive economic downturn due to inflation because you keep pumping money into the economy.
	And everybody understands here that when you blow out the debt the way that Joe Biden is doing, I mean, we are spending more money than has ever been spent in human history.
	It is that simple.
	More money than has ever been spent in the entire history of humanity.
	When you do that, somebody is going to have to foot the bill.
	Typically, the people who foot the bill are people with savings, because you inflate the currency, and people who earn more money who are going to have taxes raised upon them.
	And then they simply will not hire people.
	They simply will not grow their business.
	How much money are we spending?
	Congress has doled out, according to Reason Magazine, $4 trillion in response to the COVID pandemic.
	The U.S.
	national debt held by the public is currently $22 trillion, about $67,000 per citizen, that surpasses the country's annual GDP for the first time since World War II.
	On the current path, the CBO predicted in March the debt would grow to 102% of GDP by the end of 2021.
	All of that was before Joe Biden signed a nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill and before he started pushing another $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
	What is the risk to the U.S.
	It also predicted that by 2051, the federal government will be spending more than a quarter of the annual budget just to pay interest on the principal.
	All of that was before Joe Biden signed a nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, and before he started pushing another $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
	What is the risk to the US economy?
	According to Reason Magazine, in 2010, midway through the first term of President Barack Obama and on the heels of the Great Recession, the national debt was skyrocketing.
	It had exploded under President Bush, who engaged the US.
	in two foreign wars and expanded elder care entitlements, which are the biggest drivers of U.S.
	debt.
	The Tea Party rose to prominence.
	Riding a wave of public concern over debt levels that they said would hinder economic progress and stick future generations with the bill, Republicans claim to be renewing their commitment to fiscal responsibility post-Bush.
	After Democrats lost, President Obama established the Simpson-Bowles Commission, which concluded that disaster was inevitable unless the federal government started cutting the spending and raising taxes and reforming entitlements.
	Then they just ignored all of this.
	Well now, say a couple of scholars, now they say that the situation is significantly worse, significantly worse than it was then.
	Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama, he says, he and Lauren Summer, they now say they've co-authored a paper together questioning past assumptions about the national debt.
	He says the debt hawks of the 2010s were wrong to worry that America's balance sheet endangered the economy.
	But, as the industrialized world racked up debt through the 2010s, inflation and interest rates stayed low.
	The situation, said Furman and Summers, implies the U.S.
	government has much more leeway to borrow.
	Furman says the story is still the same here.
	But John Cochran at the Stanford University Hoover Institution disagrees.
	He says if you wait until the crisis comes, everything is much, much worse.
	So, in other words, people are starting to believe that we can just suspend the laws of economics permanently.
	That is not correct.
	Even Lawrence Summers, who helped author that study, saying that we're not spending too much money, now he says we're spending too much money.
	Debt projections, right now, are probably too low.
	They're probably significantly too low.
	So they're going to raise taxes, and they're going to raise taxes massively, and this is what they're interested in doing.
	Here's the problem.
	The minute that you start raising taxes, you start driving corporations out.
	Multinational corporations simply move out of the United States.
	We had a bunch of reverse organizations of major American companies during the Obama administration, when companies that were sort of partially organized here and partially organized abroad simply reversed course and organized abroad instead, because the tax rates were lower there.
	So, the Democratic Party simply denies this.
	They simply deny economic realities.
	You can spend money endlessly through modern monetary theory, and also, if you raise taxes on people, they won't leave.
	Now, obviously this is untrue.
	If you raise taxes on people, they will leave.
	One of the reasons people have been leaving California or places like Florida and Texas is because there's no state income tax in Florida and Texas.
	I speak as somebody who left California in large measure because of the state income tax in California.
	But Joe Biden is out there saying things that are abjectly untrue.
	He says there's no evidence that high taxes drive corporations out, which is just insane.
	Are you afraid that the highest tax will drive corporations?
	Not at all.
	Not at all.
	Why not?
	Because there's no evidence of that.
	The tax was 36%.
	It's now down to 21%.
	And the idea that that's bizarre.
	We were talking about a 28% tax that everybody thought was just fair enough for everybody.
	61 or 52 corporations of the Fortune 500 haven't paid a single penny in tax for three years?
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man, is Joe Biden's go-to when he has no actual logical counterpoint to the fact that corporations will react in their own economic self-interest to protect themselves if he radically increases the corporate tax rate.
	So they have decided that they're going to come up with a new solution, the Biden administration.
	They're not just going to raise taxes at home.
	They are now going to create a new world order in which the United States works with other European countries to artificially boost tax rates around the world.
	So if we can't get other countries, if we can't beat other countries on the tax front, we'll get them to join us on the tax front and artificially increase the price of doing business.
	Which, of course, is not going to avail anybody because corporations will then move to other parts of the world.
	They've already been doing this.
	They'll offshore to places that are not in Europe.
	They will offshore to countries that do offer them tax havens.
	The notion that you can just change all the economic incentives and nobody changes their behavior is completely crazy.
	But the goal here is to organize, essentially, a United Nations of economics.
	If you wanted a New World Order, the way that the Biden administration is talking is the New World Order.
	And here's the thing.
	Right now, Biden is quote-unquote leading the New World Order, but what happens when other European countries raise their corporate tax rates above the United States' corporate tax rates and demand that we raise our corporate tax rates as well?
	And what happens when all of our corporations decide, you know what?
	We're out.
	We're just going to go to Singapore.
	We're just going to organize somewhere where the tax rates are not exorbitant.
	The fact that we are even talking about this shows how ridiculous Biden's economic policy is.
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	Alrighty, so...
	The new proposal from the Biden administration is not just to radically increase taxes on corporations, which by the way, they keep talking about multinational corporations and we're going to punish giant corporations.
	A huge percentage of small businesses are incorporated.
	A huge percentage of small businesses are LLCs or inks.
	When he says he's not going to raise taxes on people making under $400,000 a year, you know how many small businesses in the United States have people who own them who don't make $400,000 a year?
	A lot.
	When you raise the corporate income tax, what you end up doing is raising taxes on all the people who make the money from that corporation.
	This is going to impact economic development.
	Right now, Biden can do whatever he wants because, again, right now we are in an artificial recovery because we're in an artificial depression.
	Last year, we had the greatest economy in the last 50 years running up into COVID.
	Then COVID happened.
	We had an artificial depression.
	And now, because of an artificial depression, we're going to have an artificial boost of economic growth when everybody goes back to work.
	Everybody on the Democratic side of the aisle knows that.
	And so what they feel like is, okay, well, we've got this tsunami of economic growth coming.
	That means that we can simply float our taxation boat on top of that economic tsunami.
	Well, here is the problem.
	When you change the economy structurally, there are long-term impacts to that.
	By the way, the tax increases that they're proposing are not real.
	They're proposing tax increases that materialize over 15 years and spending that materializes over 8.
	Well, what happens 10 years from now when nobody wants to raise those taxes?
	The debt just goes up.
	But, more broadly, Janet Yellen, who was supposed to be this moderate.
	Janet Yellen was supposed to be this apolitical figure at the head of the Federal Reserve.
	All she wanted was sort of moderate, slow inflation, slow growth in terms of the Federal Reserve boosting the economy, and instead has essentially put the Fed rate down at zero and left it there forever.
	Janet Yellen has a solution to the big problem here, which she's tacitly acknowledging, which is that if you raise the tax rates in the United States, people leave.
	Corporations organized elsewhere.
	What is her solution?
	Her solution is a global tax A global tax!
	We can have a global tax regimen whereby all the industrialized countries decide to set a minimum tax rate for corporations, thereby forcing corporations to pay that tax no matter where they organize.
	By the way, first of all, you think countries are gonna do this?
	You really think countries are gonna do this?
	No one's gonna do this.
	It's ridiculous.
	If you are a smaller country and your only draw is your tax rate, why would you sacrifice that because Janet Yellen wants you to?
	You wouldn't.
	Beyond that, if you artificially increase the price of doing business, that has some pretty mainstream effects in the economy.
	If you boost the amount of tax that corporations pay no matter where they locate, all that's going to do is lead to price inflation.
	That will lead in turn to job loss.
	It will lead to a lack of demand.
	You want to create a global depression, a pretty good way of doing that is raising the global tax rate.
	Beyond that, once you establish the basic notion of a global tax, who do you think is going to run that global tax?
	You're assuming it's always going to be the United States making those rates.
	But what happens when all the rest of these countries, they say, listen, you want a global tax?
	What we really need to do is we need to set up a council, a global economic council, and we are collectively going to decide the tax rates for the entire Western Hemisphere.
	We're going to do it for all the industrialized countries.
	So we'll just give up the autonomy to set our own tax rates here in the United States because of a global tax.
	How does she think this is going to work?
	And yet here she is proposing it, all to justify a crappy, bad economic idea from Joe Biden that is going to offshore jobs.
	We're working with G20 nations to agree to a global minimum corporate tax rate that can stop the race to the bottom.
	Together, we can use a global minimum tax to make sure the global economy thrives based on a more level playing field in the taxation of multinational corporations and spurs innovation, growth, and prosperity.
	Okay, the notion of increasing a global minimum tax as increasing innovation and prosperity is nuts.
	I mean, it's nuts.
	It's taking the money away from the people who do the innovation and the prosperity and giving it to governments who just blow it on random crap.
	But this is her big idea.
	And again, there's no way that once you set up the G20 as a global taxing body, that that is a one-way ratchet.
	You think that the G20 in the future is going to ratchet the taxes back down?
	So you're talking about giving up American autonomy in the long run because that's the only way this works.
	Other countries are not just going to go along with us because we wish them to.
	They're going to do so if they gain leverage.
	And the way they gain leverage is by saying we needed a new economic structure in which we all get together and set a tax together.
	We set a tax together.
	Basically, we are going to reverse Brexit here.
	We are going to increase the interconnection of all economic policy with a bunch of countries who have completely different social structures, completely different spending structures.
	It's wild.
	I mean, but don't worry.
	Don't worry.
	The blue states in the United States will get off easy.
	This is the part that's so incredible.
	It really is.
	Democrats are all for increasing taxation, except for their friends.
	This is the part that's truly astonishing.
	We'll get to that in just one second.
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	Alrighty, so Joe Biden and company proposing a massive tax increase in the United States.
	Also, Democrats in Congress releasing their own proposal to add teeth to the de facto minimum tax the United States already imposes on income earned abroad, one that would apply to American multinational companies regardless of what the rest of the world does.
	The proposal could raise as much as $1 trillion over the next 15 years from large companies.
	Well, weird, because, you know, $1 trillion over the next 15 years, you know what that doesn't amount to?
	$4 trillion that we're going to spend over the next eight.
	And those are just the two bills that Biden is trying to pass in the first four months of his administration.
	Utterly wild.
	Yellen, her support for a global minimum tax, according to the New York Times, could help catalyze an agreement being worked out through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which seeks to reduce companies' practice of booking profits in low-tax haven countries to avoid higher tax bills elsewhere.
	Negotiators are discussing a range of possibilities for such a plan, but they have not settled on several crucial details, including the rate of the minimum tax.
	The focus on raising taxes for large companies comes as Biden begins to push to sell a $2 trillion infrastructure plan and finance it with higher taxes.
	Democrats in the White House say their goal is to ensure companies pay their fair share and don't move jobs and profits abroad to avoid paying taxes in the United States.
	But of course, we are already taxing corporations at a higher rate than most European countries, so we're now encouraging all those European countries to come along with us.
	The only way that works is if they also get to control some of our policy.
	Senator Pat Toomey said that Yellen's call for a global minimum tax is an admission that Biden's plan to raise the corporate tax makes American companies less competitive, which of course is exactly true.
	The moment that you say we need a global minimum tax, what you're actually saying is that the United States is no longer competitive, so we have to bully other countries into doing what we want them to do.
	Yellen says that the many developing and middle-income countries are struggling financially because of insufficient tax revenue.
	And that they have to tax more.
	Yes, that is definitely what developing countries need to do.
	Tax more.
	Just the unbelievable ridiculousness of this.
	That's the big problem.
	Developing countries don't have centralized enough governments and they need more tax revenue.
	That'll definitely fix the problem.
	You know, that was the big problem with the Soviet Union.
	Their taxation levels weren't high enough.
	Okay, but what is this really about?
	What this is really about is punishing enemies and helping allies.
	Because the same administration, the same exact Biden administration that is currently pushing to raise taxes on corporations and raise taxes on multinational corporations and raise taxes on the top tax brackets, they are trying to carve out exceptions for their friends.
	So one of the little noticed things about the Trump tax bill is that if you lived in a blue state, it absolutely jacked you.
	The Trump tax bill lowered taxes overall for some 80% of Americans who pay taxes.
	But what the Trump tax bill also did is if you were paying a state or local tax, it was not counted as a deduction against your federal tax.
	These are called SALT deductions.
	They were not counted against your federal tax.
	So I lived in California.
	That meant that before, state and local taxes were taken out of my income, and then, based on the remaining income, I paid federal income tax.
	Those were taken as a tax deduction against my federal income tax.
	After the Trump bill, they weren't.
	My gross income was taken as the basis for both the state and local taxes and the federal taxes.
	So they're basically stacked on top of each other.
	That creates a counter-incentive for states to raise their own taxes, because now, citizens of those states are actually paying higher taxes.
	Now, what the Democrats would like to do is raise the federal taxes and punish states that have very little tax.
	Why?
	Because they now want to basically exempt states and localities with high taxation from their citizens paying higher tax rates overall.
	The idea is that the federal government is going to subsidize states and localities with high tax rates.
	So, just to get the math wrong, but give a brief example, let's say that you have $100,000 income, and let's say that you pay $10,000 in state and local taxes.
	You now have $90,000 left over to pay your federal income tax, and you can take the $10,000 as a tax deduction against that, right?
	That was the old system.
	Under Trump's bill, the $100,000 was used as the basis for the $10,000 state tax, and as the basis for the $20,000 federal tax.
	You paid $30,000 in federal tax, as opposed to paying 20% of $90,000, which is $18,000, right?
	So instead of paying $30,000 in tax, you're paying like $26,000 in tax, $28,000 in tax.
	It lowered your basic tax burden.
	Well, the Biden administration wants to go back to the old tax system, whereby if you're in a blue state with a higher tax rate, you are not punished for being in a blue state with a higher tax rate.
	Now, what's weird about this is that these are the same people who say that they want to fill in the debt gap.
	They want to punish the rich unless the rich happen to live in a blue state, in which case those rich should be treated better than rich people living in red states because those red states are better run.
	And the last thing we would want is for people to move from blue states to red states for purposes of saving on tax money.
	So Jen Psaki over at the White House says, well, you know, maybe we will reinstate the blue state tax deductions.
	There's some that are proposing, as you all know, SALT deductions in other areas that are not revenue raisers.
	So this will be all a part of the discussion.
	And absolutely, our economic team and number data crunchers will be crunching numbers as we proceed.
	But we're kind of in the early stage of these discussions at this point.
	So again, they want to carve out exceptions for all of their friends, just like they want to carve out exceptions in campaign finance reform for big labor.
	And just like they want to carve out exceptions when it comes to when it comes to You know, virtually every other area of COVID, they want to exempt all their friends.
	The same thing is happening here.
	They want to exempt all their friends from the new tax laws as long as they live in blue states.
	Why?
	Well, because those states want to raise their taxes too.
	And they want to reward those states for raising their taxes.
	New York is currently set to raise taxes on people earning over a million dollars.
	So welcome to Florida.
	All you New Yorkers who are about to move down, please leave your politics back where they came from.
	The purpose here is they know that all the taxes are going to rise in California and New York because blue states want to raise taxes.
	So Biden is trying to make it easier for states to raise taxes, just like Biden is trying to bully other countries into raising their taxes.
	The goal here is to build back better.
	And what do they mean by build back better?
	They mean more top-down government control.
	They mean more government confiscation of private property and then use for random payoffs to all of their friends.
	It is a new American order and it is a new world order that is currently being pursued.
	A world order in which if you are an ally of the Biden administration and the left, then you get special goodies, and if you are not, then you simply get punished.
	Meanwhile, speaking of punishment, The Biden administration continues trying to unofficially punish corporations for not doing what they want.
	So there is some funny blowback here, but the reality is that the Biden administration basically pushed major companies based in Georgia and doing business in Georgia into breaking up with Georgia by lying about this Georgia voting law.
	As I've said before, it was all lies.
	The Georgia voting law broadens the voting hours.
	The Georgia law broadens the ability to vote.
	You now have more time to vote in advance of an election.
	It opens alternative Sundays to voting.
	The Georgia law does not restrict voting.
	More people will be able to vote in Georgia more easily, thanks to the new Georgia voter law.
	But the Biden administration was lying about it for political gain, because they want to make it seem like Georgia's red nature, meaning that it's more a Republican state than a Democratic state, despite the last two Senate races, that that Republican state is actually discriminating against black Americans.
	This is the lie Stacey Abrams has been telling for years.
	It's a lie that Joe Biden has been telling for years.
	And they tripled down on that with their lies about the Georgia voting law, which we've discussed extensively on the show.
	Jen Psaki at the White House was asked about the fact that Joe Biden is a damned liar about this Georgia law.
	And she just doesn't care.
	That's the answer, she doesn't care.
	The Washington Post gave that claim for Pinocchios because that part of the law gives counties the option to extend voting hours.
	And so I'm just curious if the president is going to change the way they talk about it.
	Well, fundamentally, the president doesn't believe it should be made harder to vote.
	But the thing he said has been determined by election law experts to be not true.
	So I'm just curious if he's going to stop saying that.
	Well, again, I think we can.
	The fact checkers will also tell you that this bill does not make it easier for people across the state of Georgia to vote.
	And that's where he has concerns.
	OK, that is not true.
	First of all, there are fact checkers who have said that it makes it easier for people to vote as in general over prior election law in Georgia.
	Beyond that, the fact checkers have said that Biden is lying, but they don't care about lying.
	It doesn't matter.
	The goal here is to punish people who are not like Joe Biden, who don't think like Joe Biden, who don't think like Democrats.
	Hey, Psaki said that when Biden encouraged the Major League Baseball All-Star Game to move from Georgia, he didn't even care about the economic consequences in Georgia.
	After all, Georgia's a red state.
	Why should he care?
	Here is Jen Psaki saying she won't even say if Biden considered the economic consequences.
	Apparently Cobb County is going to lose about $100 million in this deal.
	By the way, worth noting that Georgia is a heavily black state, and MLB is moving to a county in Colorado that's like 75% white.
	So, yeah, here is Jen Psaki.
	Before the president said that he would strongly support moving the all-star game out of Georgia, did he consider the economic impact?
	Because the Cobb County tourism CEO is saying they're going to lose $100 million in lost business activity, 8,000 hotel rooms.
	Did he think about that before he said he would strongly support the move?
	Again, he was doing an interview.
	He was given the context, as I just read out to you in full detail of how the question was asked.
	He answered the question.
	Okay, so what's amazing here, and we'll get to this in a second, is Biden is trying to back off this slightly because the backlash is coming, guys.
	The backlash is coming to all of us, to the New World Order nonsense.
	The backlash is coming.
	To the COVID hysteria nonsense.
	The backlash is coming to spending more money than God.
	The backlash is coming to the racial equity bullcrap being promoted by the Biden administration.
	The backlash is coming and it is coming strong.
	But Psaki says, we are going to punish our enemies, right?
	There will be more efforts like this and there should be more efforts like this to go after corporations and force those corporations to get involved in politics.
	And if they don't mirror our politics to punish those corporations.
	Should we believe that if PGA Tour players who are arriving in Augusta this week or today to register for the tournament, if they got together and decided or talked about not participating, that is something he would strongly support?
	I'm sure you will ask me that question or him this question, but our focus is on doing what we can to advocate for making voting easier and more accessible around the country.
	And that's where our efforts are going to be from the White House.
	So the answer is going to be yes.
	The White House is going to militarize against corporations and against anybody doing business with states we just don't like.
	Now, of course, the people who actually benefit from doing business in these states, they're not going to actually stop doing business in these states.
	As Marco Rubio points out, the senator from Florida, He said to Rob Manfred, the head of MLB, you know, it's weird because I noticed that you are a member of Augusta National.
	Are you going to give up your membership at Augusta National?
	He said, I'd write to ask you whether you intend to maintain your membership at Augusta National Golf Club.
	As you're well aware, this exclusive members-only club is located in the state of Georgia.
	So you are a hypocrite.
	By the way, speaking of baseball's hypocrisy here, so they moved the game from Georgia to Denver.
	There's only one problem.
	Georgia's new law gives you 17 days of early voting.
	Colorado's law gives you 15 days of early voting.
	Not only that, according to Ed Morris, you're writing it hot air, Colorado also requires government-issued ID for in-person voting the same way that Georgia does.
	Also, it turns out that Georgia actually prevents people from giving you stuff within a certain distance of the ballot box.
	Guess what?
	So does Colorado.
	It prevents campaign workers from giving food and water to voters within 100 feet if they are wearing campaign apparel.
	Also, you are signature required in Colorado for mail-in ballots.
	There's signature verification for mail-in ballots.
	Also, again, the state population in Georgia is 31.2% black, and they moved the $100 million business opportunity to a state where 4.1% of the population is black.
	Or if you look at Atlanta, Atlanta is 51% black.
	And Denver is 9.2% black and 76% white.
	So, so yes, none of this makes any sense, but it's not meant to make sense.
	It's meant to be a punishment.
	Everyone must be punished.
	Everyone must be punished.
	And the media are full in on this.
	The Biden administration is full in on this.
	NBC is now openly targeting corporations to try and force them to disassociate from any state they don't like.
	It's not just Georgia.
	Brian Schwartz over at CNBC, a political finance reporter, he put out a piece yesterday Saying that Disney, Geico, Expedia, and other corporations backed Florida lawmakers who are now sponsoring restrictive voting bills.
	Since 2018, thousands of dollars have flowed from these corporations into the campaigns of Florida lawmakers sponsoring the bills.
	Now the idea here is that all of these corporations are supposed to cut off business with the state of Florida or giving donations to any Republican who supports anything that the left does not like.
	This is all a bully tactic.
	It is all designed to militarize private industry against people with whom the left disagrees.
	And it's really, really gross.
	And this is going to have consequences, as we'll talk about in just one second.
	Because it turns out that there is a momentum building and it is not on the left side of the aisle.
	It is not on the left side of the aisle.
	The worse the left gets, the more there will be a backlash.
	Right now, people are pretty sanguine about what Biden is doing because they're not following it because he's a houseplant.
	Because all he's there to do is hide the water stain.
	He's a non-threatening Nearly senile old gentleman who doesn't seem particularly mean, and the media just cover him with this sycophantic slobber.
	And everybody kind of goes, okay, I guess things are all right.
	I mean, the economy is recovering.
	We're going back to work.
	There will be consequences to this stuff politically.
	We'll get to that in just one second.
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	Okay, in just a second, we are going to be getting to COVID insanity and the left's continued focus on generating A sort of panic feel about COVID, even though the statistics just do not justify that sort of panic.
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	♪♪ Okay, other factors that are going to lead So we've already talked about the economic policies of Joe Biden, which are going to put an artificial damper on what should be a rip-roaring economic recovery here.
	We're talking about inflation, inflation of prices.
	We're talking about spending money we don't have.
	We're talking about raising taxes to ungodly levels, and then trying to basically build an economic Berlin Wall to keep companies here at home.
	All of this is bad.
	Then you have the insane bullying of a White House trying to force corporations into doing what they want them to do politically.
	And you have corporations going along with it.
	Then you have the White House continuing to promote this COVID insanity, this notion that COVID is not on the way.
	We have over 100 million Americans who have already been vaccinated out of a population of 330 million.
	That is mostly the most vulnerable who have been vaccinated because we started with everybody over the age of 65 in rational states.
	And the vaccine is now available in places like Florida to everybody over 18 years of age.
	So we are near the end of this thing.
	And yet we are still seeing the symptoms of COVID insanity everywhere.
	And it's being treated as some sort of normal.
	Like the new normal is COVID insanity.
	This has some real world consequences and people are quite sick of it.
	The tape that was making the rounds yesterday is from Spirit Airlines, where they kicked a family off because a two-year-old would not wear a mask.
	By the way, this is a family.
	You can tell it's an Orthodox Jewish family because he's wearing a yarmulke.
	And he not only has a two-year-old who's eating and not wearing a mask, which is okay, but also a special needs child sitting in that row.
	And the stewardess suggests that this family has to be kicked off.
	She calls the cops and clears the plane.
	I'm complying with the mask.
	I'm wearing a mask.
	She's not wearing a mask.
	A baby?
	I'm wearing a mask.
	I keep putting it on.
	Tyler wants you off.
	You have to get off.
	Who wants me off?
	Tyler wants you off.
	She's a baby.
	She's a baby.
	I fixed my brain.
	How old is she?
	She's just turned 2 months ago.
	I understand.
	It's 5 and up.
	She's been trying to wear it.
	She keeps calling the aircraft.
	Stop the speeding.
	She's well there.
	We have to exit out of the aircraft, or I will have to deplane the aircraft and call the police.
	They deplaned the entire aircraft.
	OK, this stuff is crazy.
	It's crazy.
	And you know what?
	It's unnecessary.
	Planes have not been a vector for transmission the entire time.
	The entire time.
	People are not getting this thing on planes.
	OK, that's been true since the beginning of the pandemic.
	Now that everybody is getting vaccinated or everybody's already had COVID.
	I mean, because remember, millions and millions of Americans have already had COVID and not had the vaccine.
	Again, I was at an event over Passover where people weren't wearing masks.
	And if a reporter had walked in, they would've been, oh my God, surely this will be a hotspot.
	Except that I asked the crowd at one of my speeches, how many of you have already had COVID or have had a vaccine?
	Every single hand in the audience goes up except for a couple of parents brought like a five-year-old and the five-year-old didn't put his hand up.
	Okay, this country is not in the middle of another COVID pandemic.
	And yet if you read the media, what you get is that the country is in the middle of a COVID pandemic, which is why we should all be panicked about people not wearing masks around us.
	And the media are lying to you about COVID, right?
	They just openly lie.
	60 Minutes openly lied about Ron DeSantis.
	They suggested that Governor DeSantis here in Florida took a $100,000 bribe from money into his super PAC in order to get Publix to distribute the vaccine, which is insane because Publix is the number one grocery store with 800 outlets in the state of Florida.
	They've given 1.5 million people COVID shots in the state of Florida.
	That's a bad thing, apparently, according to your mainstream media.
	By the way, a Democratic mayor of Palm Beach County, he said that this is nonsense.
	He says, I watched the 60-minute segments on Palm Beach County last night and feel compelled to issue this statement.
	The reporting was not just based on bad information.
	It was intentionally false.
	I know this because I offered to provide my insight into Palm Beach County's vaccination efforts and 60 minutes declined.
	They know the governor came to Palm Beach County and met with me and the county administrator, and we asked to expand the state's partnership with Publix to Palm Beach County.
	We also discussed our own local plans to expand mass vaccination centers throughout the county, which the governor has been incredibly supportive of.
	We asked.
	He delivered.
	They had that information.
	They left it out because it kneecaps their narrative.
	That is the Democratic mayor of Palm Beach County, Dave Kerner.
	He's a Democrat.
	The media are so focused in on the Biden administration narrative that the pandemic is endless, which is why we have to spend oodles and oodles of money and build back better.
	They're so focused on that that they're just completely willing to override reality.
	It's amazing.
	By the way, what are the real world impacts of this?
	How about this?
	Yesterday, the Los Angeles Public Health Division issued their daily update from April 5th.
	There were 366 new cases in L.A.
	County, which is a county of 10 million people.
	How many new deaths were there?
	One.
	One new death in L.A.
	County, which is, again, a county of 10 million people.
	They closed outdoor dining in L.A.
	County.
	This is crazy.
	And there is going to be a backlash.
	And the backlash is going to be severe.
	It's going to be real, and it's going to be severe.
	Which is why Harry Enten got himself in all sorts of trouble yesterday for pointing out the obvious.
	He had a piece over at CNN pointing out the early signs are very good for the GOP in 2022.
	He says President Joe Biden's first two and a half months in office have been far better received than former President Donald Trump's.
	Biden's been able to maintain an approval rating north of 50%.
	Yet, a look at the data also reveals that Biden's Democratic Party has likely not picked up any support since the election.
	If historical trends hold, Democrats are likely going to face a rough political environment in the midterms.
	One of the best ways to judge the political environment is through the generic congressional ballot.
	The generic ballot asks respondents some form of the following question.
	If the elections for Congress were held today, would you vote for the Democrats or the Republicans?
	Democrats are ahead on that measure by about four points in the average poll taken since the beginning of Biden's administration.
	That lead is about the same as the final margin in the 2020 presidential race and in the 2020 House popular vote.
	This tends to line up with what we have seen in terms of party identification.
	Remember, the 2020 polls tended to underestimate the Republican position, which means Republicans are actually doing better on the generic ballot now than they were heading into the 2020 election.
	Additionally, the types of voters who will be casting a ballot in 2022 will likely be more favorably disposed to the GOP than the overall voting population.
	The reason is that when there's a Democrat in the White House, Republicans have a turnout advantage.
	A study I did back in 2018 says Harry Enten, who's formerly a 538, reveals that voters who turned out in midterms with Democratic presidents were more Republican-leaning than registered voters at large in every single midterm since 1978.
	On average in these midterms, the gap between the registered voter and the actual electorate had been about five points more Republican among the actual electorate.
	Just applying that shift to the polling now, it's not hard to imagine that Republicans may already have an advantage with the voters who will turn out next year.
	Of course, it's possible the cycle could be different.
	It's likely, however, there will be some movement toward the Republicans in the national political environment between now and next November.
	The party not in control of the White House has done worse in the National House vote than they have, than they were doing on the generic ballot at this point, in 12 of 14 midterm elections for which we have polling at this point.
	The only exceptions were 1974, when Democrats already had a large lead, and 2002, when polling didn't take into account September 11th.
	Once you control for who controls the White House, there's a surprisingly strong correlation between the generic congressional ballot 19 months before the midterm elections and the eventual House results.
	If trends hold, the likely national House results in 2022, given the current generic ballot, is Republicans winning by between 4 and 5 points.
	So it would be a historical anomaly for Republicans not to win back the House in the next election cycle.
	So this notion that Democrats are always and forever going to be on the move here is just not true, in the same way that it was not true in 2008, after Barack Obama won a sweeping victory.
	And you can tell the Democrats are starting to run scared here.
	One of the ways that you can tell the Democrats are starting to run scared is that Joe Biden is now backing off of his own push for MLB to move the All-Star Game.
	So you remember, he went on ESPN with the reporter, Sage Steele, and Sage asked him about, by the way, she put out a tweet saying she disagreed with him on this.
	So just worth noting, Sage Steele asked him, should MLB move the All-Star game?
	He said, I would back that.
	Well, now that Stacey Abrams was pointing out to Joe Biden and company that you just alienated a huge percentage of Georgians with this nonsense.
	Now Biden's trying to back off of it.
	According to Politico, when Biden was asked last week what he thought of Major League Baseball moving its all-star game, he told ESPN he would strongly support them doing that.
	On Friday, the league announced it would hold the game elsewhere and, by the way, invoked Biden in their actual press release.
	Okay, that is just revisionist history.
	whether Biden supported the league's decision.
	Psaki re-read Biden's remarks and distanced the president from the boycott.
	She said, he wasn't dictating what major league baseball should do.
	He supports them being able to make that decision.
	Okay, that is just revisionist history.
	The Democrats might be starting to realize that it's a bad idea to be this crazy.
	They might be beginning to realize that there will be a backlash to all of this.
	And by the way, the backlash might be much stronger in terms of both the law and in terms of politics than anybody on the left is willing to contemplate.
	One of the areas of backlash could theoretically be going after Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
	Justice Clarence Thomas had a concurrence in a recent Supreme Court case on Monday in which the Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling in finding that President Trump had acted unconstitutionally by blocking people on Twitter.
	That case, which the justices deem moot, hinged on the idea that the Donald Trump account was a public forum run by the president of the United States.
	In his concurrence, Justice Thomas agreed with the decision that the case was moot because Trump is no longer president.
	But he argued that Twitter's recent ban of Trump's account suggests it's the platforms themselves, not the government officials on them, that hold all the power.
	So in other words, if you are going to treat Donald Trump's Twitter account as though it is a public utility, you have to treat all of Twitter like it's a public utility.
	Thomas wrote, as Twitter made clear, the right to cut off speech lies most powerfully in the hands of private digital platforms.
	The extent to which that power matters for purposes of the First Amendment, and the extent to which that power could lawfully be modified, raise interesting and important questions.
	Thomas said, some digital platforms basically ought to be treated like common carriers.
	Thomas says, a traditional telephone company laid physical wires to create a network connecting people.
	Digital platforms lay information infrastructure that can be controlled in much the same way.
	Thomas argued that while private companies aren't subject to the First Amendment, common carriers are unique in that they don't have the right to exclude.
	He suggests that large tech platforms with substantial market power should be bound by the same restrictions.
	He says if the analogy between common carriers and digital platforms is correct, an answer may arise for dissatisfied platform users who would appreciate not being blocked.
	Laws that restrict the platform's right to exclude.
	So Thomas is overtly now stumping for Republicans to pass a law Maybe with some Democrats that basically say that Twitter and Facebook and Google can no longer exclude people on the basis of political bent.
	Thomas describes the sheer scope of Facebook and Google's market power, citing Facebook's 3 billion users and Google's 90% market share in search.
	He says it changes nothing that these platforms are not the sole means for distributing speech or information.
	A person could always choose to avoid the toll bridge or train, and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail.
	But in assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable.
	For many of today's digital platforms, nothing is.
	Here's the bottom line.
	The backlash is coming.
	It's going to come strong.
	that it would be a legislature that does this.
	But he says, we'll soon have no choice but to address how our legal doctrines apply to highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructures, such as digital platforms.
	Here's the bottom line.
	The backlash is coming.
	It's going to come strong.
	People on the right are not gonna sit by for this stuff.
	They are not.
	They're not going to sit by and watch Joe Biden unilaterally redraw the lines of division and demarcation between the government and the individual.
	They're not going to sit by and watch social media redraw the lines of the First Amendment.
	They're not going to sit by and watch Democrats redraw the nature of American freedom of association and freedom of speech.
	They're not going to do any of that.
	And they're not gonna go along with the corporations that go along with this.
	There will be a backlash.
	The backlash is coming.
	And I am pleased to see that backlash coming because nothing could be more timely than a massive backlash against the wild leftist overreach we are currently seeing.
	All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.
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