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	Five Senate Republicans play the willing suckers for Joe Biden's big infrastructure plan.
	And Biden continues to frighten everyone with bizarre public performances as Kamala Harris waits in the wings.
	Literally.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	So yesterday afternoon, Joe Biden came out and announced a deal had been reached on infrastructure.
	Yay!
	Okay.
	First of all, let me just note, America's infrastructure is not in serious trouble.
	The notion that America's infrastructure is just awful and bad in every way, and it's just horrifying, it's not true.
	The vast majority of America's roads and bridges are pretty okay.
	And the vast majority of the ones that are really not doing well are ones that are in particular states, which means they really should be state costs, not federal costs.
	Like the notion that we have much worse infrastructure than anywhere else on earth or that we really need to pour like a trillion dollars, minimum, two trillion dollars into infrastructure is just not correct.
	But this has become sort of the go-to whenever you are a member of government and you just want to blow money into things.
	All you do is you just say infrastructure because this is something people on a basic level understand, right?
	We all sort of understand that the government has a hand in building roads, for example.
	Because the roads connect all sorts of different communities, and so you want the government to shoulder the cost of what is, in effect, a non-excludable, non-rivalrous good.
	Right?
	We all sort of get that roads are, at the very least, a public good.
	Right?
	Something the government does.
	We understand that the government helping to foment the placing of broadband, even, is something that benefits a lot of Americans.
	Although, if you just deregulate it, the truth is a lot of these companies can pay for it themselves.
	But we all sort of get the idea that the government should be involved to a certain extent in the infrastructure project because public goods are typically, again, non-excludable, non-rivalrous goods in which private people sometimes can't agree.
	OK, so does that mean that the federal government needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars right now on this stuff in the middle of a giant inflationary spiral in which we have a shortage of materials and a shortage of labor?
	Of course not.
	Of course not.
	But this has become Joe Biden's big bipartisan push because he figures that if he can get Republicans on board for infrastructure, then he can pretend that he is a bipartisan president when in fact he's an extremely partisan president.
	Now, they already passed fairly recently a bipartisan bill that was supposed to Send a bunch of money toward, quote-unquote, research and development directed at fighting against China.
	And it passed with wide bipartisan support, even though, again, it is a giant pork bill.
	So this is another giant pork bill.
	Now, Republicans, if they had any brains, would be like, nope, not interested.
	Right?
	Because the reality is that you aren't going to spend a lot more money than we would like you to spend.
	And if you're going to do that, you can do that on your own.
	Truly, if you just want to blow out the deficit for no appreciable gain, then you can just do that on your own.
	Right?
	Make you use reconciliation for it.
	If you want to break the filibuster, then you're going to have to do it through the budget process because you only have two or maybe three of those per year.
	Waste a bullet on this infrastructure package and let you own it.
	But no, we have to have the quote unquote moderate wing of the Republican Party, including people like Susan Collins and Mitt Romney, who decide that it's important to lend bipartisan cover to Joe Biden.
	Now, here's the thing.
	They're being played.
	They're obviously being played.
	I'll explain how in just one minute.
	According to the New York Times, President Biden struck an infrastructure deal on Thursday with a bipartisan group of senators signing on to their plan to provide about $579 billion in new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities, and other projects in hopes of moving a crucial piece of his economic agenda through Congress.
	Biden's endorsement marks a breakthrough in his efforts to forge an infrastructure compromise.
	But here's the thing.
	It was far from a guarantee the package would be enacted.
	Both the president and top Democrats say the plan, which constitutes a fraction of the $4 trillion economic proposal Biden has put forth, can only move together with a much larger package of spending and tax increases Democrats are planning to try to push through Congress unilaterally over the opposition of Republicans.
	So here is what Biden is doing.
	And this is why these Republicans are just adults.
	What he is doing is he's bifurcating this package.
	He's saying, what if we pass this part here with bipartisan support, but I'm only going to sign the bipartisan part if you guys allow me to vote on and sign this giant other package.
	Well, that's the same thing as just putting it all in the same package.
	What are you talking about?
	And so, in other words, he's going to get pretty much what he wants and he's going to get the veil of bipartisanship at the same time.
	So here is Joe Biden announcing we have a deal.
	We had a really good meeting, and to answer your direct question, we have a deal.
	And I think it's really important.
	We've all agreed that none of us got all that we wanted.
	I clearly didn't get all I wanted.
	They gave more than I think maybe they were inclined to give in the first place.
	But this reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done up in the United States Congress.
	We actually worked on it.
	We had five parts of the deal.
	We got a bipartisan deal, except they didn't get a bipartisan deal, as we'll explain in just a minute.
	Now, Biden is using this, again, to pretend that he is a bipartisan president with wide public support.
	He is not.
	He's got 52% public approval rating right now.
	Now, that is pretty much the exact same percentage of the popular vote that he won last time around.
	Out of the popular vote, he won like 51, 52%.
	He has not increased that.
	He has not decreased that.
	It's a pretty hard base of support, but it's also a hard level of support on the ceiling.
	So as things start to accrue, as the crime rates continue to remain high, as the economy continues to flounder more than it is soaring, as all of that happens, he's likely to feel some economic pain, some sort of popular pain from that.
	But Republicans are providing him a cover for no appreciable gain.
	It makes no sense at all.
	Here is Biden, however, saying, I'm not going it alone.
	I'm not doing it.
	I don't have to go alone anymore.
	I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone.
	To them, I say this.
	I've already shown in my young presidency that I'm prepared to do whatever it needs to get done to move the country forward.
	That's what I did with the American Rescue Plan, which is $1.9 trillion.
	Let me say this.
	We can find common ground, though.
	Working across party lines, that is what I will seek to do.
	Except he's not looking for common ground, as we will see.
	What he's looking for is the veil of bipartisanship so he can ram through 95% of what he wants.
	We'll get to that in just one second.
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	Okay, so Mitt Romney playing the willing dupe as per his usual arrangement.
	Here is the senator from Utah announcing how happy he is with this bipartisan compromise.
	One of the big surprises I had coming to Washington was the sense that while everybody was fighting with each other, you know what, we get along really well.
	This group gets along very well.
	My colleagues in the Senate, we work together.
	And it's been years and years, people have been talking about the infrastructure needs of our country.
	We know that.
	We recognize the crumbling infrastructure.
	And this group came together and actually got a job done.
	Oh my God, look what we got a job to do.
	Except you didn't!
	You didn't.
	Quote, from the New York Times.
	So, in other words, we will definitely sign on to this compromise package.
	So long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with.
	a second, much larger reconciliation package.
	So in other words, we will definitely sign on to this compromise package, so long as you also accept this giant pile of manure that we've got right here for you that we're gonna hit you in the face with.
	It really is an amazing thing.
	And by the way, this is Joe Biden agreeing with this plan.
	So Joe Biden is like, we came to a compromise.
	And then with one hand, he's like, here's the compromise.
	With the other hand, say, and here, right here.
	What's in this hand?
	Boom!
	And he hits him with the other hand.
	Not in a really strong punch.
	There's not a lot of power behind Joe Biden's punches at this point.
	But, at the same, I mean, here is Joe Biden saying, I support Nancy Pelosi's plan to hold the bipartisan infrastructure bill hostage until the Senate passes a big reconciliation bill.
	Right?
	Here he is saying that I'm going to, I'm not going to sign this bill alone.
	Now, normally when you say I've reached a compromise with somebody, like if you've ever done a contract negotiation with somebody else, You do the contract negotiation.
	You finally come to some sort of agreement.
	Everybody breaks out the wine and cigars and you're lighting up.
	And then if somebody in the room says, oh yeah, by the way, I'm not signing that unless you also sign this agreement that pays me X dollars.
	That's not an agreement.
	Okay, so to pretend this is an agreement, a triumphant moment of bipartisanship is a lie.
	Here is Joe Biden pretty much making the lie clear.
	Do you support Senator Pelosi's stated plan to hold the bipartisan bill in the House until the Senate also passes reconciliation?
	Do you support that sequencing on her part?
	Yes.
	The bipartisan bill from the very beginning was understood.
	There's going to have to be the second part of it.
	Not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest that I proposed.
	I proposed a significant piece of legislation in three parts.
	And all three parts are equally important.
	OK, so in other words, all three parts are equally important.
	I put all the stuff that Republicans are OK with in one part so we can pretend they agree with it.
	And then I'm going to ram through the other two pieces of the agreement that they don't agree with.
	Pretty amazing stuff.
	Now, here's the reality.
	Joe Biden is not the president of this particular process.
	Joe Manchin is the president of this particular process.
	So here is Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia, who is signaling, well, I'm not so sure about this whole Nancy Pelosi, let's hold the bill hostage idea.
	To say that one's being held hostage to the other doesn't seem to be fair to me, but they're going to make those decisions.
	But we have to see what's in the other plan before I can say, oh, yes, you vote for this and I'll vote for that.
	That's not what I have signed up for.
	OK, so maybe Joe Manchin doesn't go along with what Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are planning here.
	Okay, that's really the only holdup.
	Maybe Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, maybe to their credit, maybe they think that they can rely on Joe Manchin to be the man in the gap here.
	And Joe Manchin is going to be like, no, we're going to pass this bipartisan compromise bill on its own.
	And also, I'm not going to kill the filibuster or vote for this particular bill if the reconciliation process is used in order to ram it through.
	Maybe they're counting on Joe Manchin.
	Let me just say, I don't think that that is a particularly wise move.
	Instead, it looks much more like Joe Biden gets 99% of what he wants.
	Plus, he gets this patina of Republican of Republican bipartisan notions to go along with it.
	So Alipundit over at Hot Air writes about this.
	He says, if the GOP had managed to negotiate Biden down to a much less expensive infrastructure bill with no tax hikes, that might be a worthy compromise.
	But they haven't.
	There are two parts to the Democrats' infrastructure plan.
	One, a bipartisan bill that deals with roads and bridges, and the other, a party-line reconciliation bill that covers quote-unquote human infrastructure like climate change, spending, paid leave, and so on.
	Spending that doesn't end up in the bipartisan bill will likely just be lateraled over to the reconciliation bill, which means Republicans aren't achieving much in terms of spending.
	Essentially, they're pressing on one end of a water balloon, shrinking that end, but causing the other end to swell as the water is displaced.
	The volume of the balloon is the same, whether they're pressing or not, it's purely a matter of distribution.
	And frankly, if that's the case, maybe Republicans should have done the opposite of what they did, arguing to put more money into the True Roads and Bridges infrastructure component and thereby hopefully shrinking the Human Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill.
	That would have been risky because Democrats could pass that human infrastructure bill, irrespective of how big the true infrastructure bill gets.
	But maybe if the latter were bigger, Manchin would get nervous about blowout spending and be more inclined to shrink the other component.
	Now, Biden and Pelosi are both nervous about being double-crossed by Manchin, who's been dogged about trying to compromise with Republicans.
	So today, both the President and Speaker issued an ultimatum.
	Unless and until both bills pass the Senate, they won't even move on the bipartisan bill.
	So they're basically saying to Manchin, we're not even going to vote in the House on the bipartisan bill that Joe Biden just endorsed until you vote using reconciliation processes for these other blowout spending bills.
	So essentially, they're going to hold that Roads and Bridges bill hostage in order to make sure that Manchin does what they want on the giant spending bill.
	Well, except here's the problem.
	Manchin was asked about Pelosi's strategy.
	He says there's going to be a reconciliation bill, we just don't know what size it's going to be.
	Manchin also said he was open to a reconciliation bill that changes the 2017 GOP tax law to raise taxes to pay for new spending programs.
	He said reconciliation is inevitable because of Republican opposition to raising taxes, and he's open to it.
	He said if it's the only strategy we have that's two-track, he says reconciliation is inevitable.
	So maybe he's able to shrink it a little bit, But maybe Manchin, again, this just shows you that if Joe Manchin caucuses with the Democrats, he's still a Democrat.
	And so you can count on Joe Manchin for one thing and one thing only, and that is not ending the filibuster for non-reconciliation bills.
	But for reconciliation bills, a reconciliation bill is defined as a budget bill, basically.
	For any budget bill, which is spending and taxation bill, he will just go along with the Democrats.
	Which means Republicans got nothing here.
	It means that, depending on which way Manchin goes, Mitt Romney and Susan Collins and the rest of these jokers got played.
	So Manchin is the obvious winner.
	He now gets to claim that he forged a bipartisan deal.
	And Biden gets to claim that he forged a bipartisan deal.
	Republicans get nothing.
	Republicans get nothing.
	OK, so it's just it's an amazing failure by these Republicans like Mitt Romney.
	Again, there is a an aspect of conservatism that is institutionalist in structure, right?
	The sort of the John Roberts constitutionalism in which John Roberts suggests that the key role that he plays on the Supreme Court to take an example of this sort of conservatism is to uphold the It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite Obamacare in order to make it comply with the Constitution.
	It doesn't matter if I have to rewrite Obamacare in order to make it comply with the Constitution.
	It doesn't matter if I am constantly forging 9-0 unanimous votes that are far smaller in scope in protecting American rights than a 6-3 majority decision would be.
	John Roberts has upheld the institution.
	And you get the same thing here from Mitt Romney.
	Now, there is something to upholding the institution, right?
	You want to uphold the institution of the filibuster even when you're in control.
	This is what Mitch McConnell was saying.
	He was saying, if you get rid of the filibuster here, then when Democrats take control, you're really going to regret it.
	And I think he is right about that.
	But what Mitt Romney is doing is beyond that.
	What Romney and Collins are doing is they're saying, it is so important that the American people think that we can forge compromise here, that I will provide the lie that compromise was actually had here, even when it wasn't, so that you think, the American people, that the Senate can work.
	Now, here's the thing.
	When it comes to actual popular policy, the Senate does actually vote overwhelmingly.
	You'll remember that just last week, the Senate voted 100-0 to make Juneteenth a national holiday, for example.
	You'll remember that, again, there was a bipartisan bill that went forward to spend some hundreds of billions of dollars on research and development, supposedly.
	They're basically going to be just subsidies to particular friends of the government to fight Chinese innovation.
	So it's not that bipartisanship is dead.
	It's that you have to be a not moron.
	But unfortunately, there are too many Republicans who want to appear back home.
	I understand Susan Collins.
	I really do.
	Susan Collins is from Maine.
	Maine is a purple to blue state.
	I understand why Susan Collins is doing it.
	Mitt Romney is from the reddest state in America outside of West Virginia.
	Utah is an extremely red state.
	There is no reason why Mitt Romney has to sign on to a bill like this.
	Mike Lee isn't.
	He's from the same exact state.
	There's no reason why Mitt Romney feels he should have to forge compromise in this way.
	But for some reason, again, this goes to Mitt Romney's perception of himself.
	And so much of politics really is how politicians perceive themselves.
	Mitt Romney perceives himself as a deal maker and a person who brings people together in the same way that John McCain used to perceive himself this way, right?
	You wanna be part of that gang of eight or that gang of 10 or that gang of four, whatever the gang is, because this means you're a very important person, a person who gets things done.
	What if the goal of checks and balances is to prevent things from getting done, however?
	What if we need to completely shift our mindset with regard to why are we bothering to get things done if they are bad things?
	And let's face it, in the end, what Joe Biden is relying on to do what he wants to do here is the basic fist inside the velvet glove, which is the possibility of just killing the filibuster altogether, right?
	Joe Biden is figuring that at a certain point, Manchin is going to cave one way or another, or Sinema is going to cave one way or another.
	Or maybe, if he can just castigate Republicans enough, they'll kill the filibuster.
	Bill Clinton I mean, it's amazing how far the Democratic Party has moved.
	Bill Clinton's presidency was successful entirely because of bipartisan compromise.
	Bill Clinton's first couple of years, he had a Democratic Congress, and he was an awful failure.
	He tried to pass Hillary Care.
	It bombed.
	He raised capital gains taxes.
	He raised income taxes.
	And by 1994, Republicans had won back Congress for the first time in like 30 years.
	So Bill Clinton's rest of his presidency was negotiating with Newt Gingrich in order to do things for the American people, like welfare reform, like a 1994 crime bill that actually were effective on behalf of the American people.
	And now you have Bill Clinton and he has revised his opinion.
	Now the filibuster must be murdered.
	I understand the president's reluctant to get rid of it altogether.
	And I sympathize with Joe Manchin who's trying to, you know, stand up for the right thing and represent people that voted more than two to one for President Trump.
	But I think when it comes to preserving democracy, you know, I would suspend the filibuster because I think it's essential.
	I don't think that we should be in the business of going backwards and trying to drive down voting rights.
	I think we need to expand it.
	Okay, so again, in the end, it's pure power politics for these Democrats to don't fall for the bipartisan trap.
	It remains a source of amazement to me that so many Republicans are willing to fall for this sort of stuff.
	The Romney's getting played.
	Collins is getting played.
	And they're getting nothing out of this.
	They're getting nothing out of this.
	Now, meanwhile, all they really have to do is just stand there.
	That's all they have to do.
	Because Joe Biden is not with us.
	Joe Biden is not a strong president.
	He is, in fact, a very weak president.
	What he is capable of getting done under these circumstances, it's very limited.
	Because, let's face it, Joe Manchin is not upholding the filibuster because he's a nice guy.
	Joe Manchin is upholding the filibuster because he is a blue state senator from a red state.
	Because he's a Democrat in a state that Donald Trump won by, I believe, 39 points in the last election cycle.
	Kyrsten Sinema is not, I think, congenitally predisposed to loving the filibuster.
	She just recognizes that she's got John McCain's old seat, basically, in Arizona, a very purple state, with a red governor and a red legislature.
	And so she, I think properly and understandably, knows where her bread is buttered.
	So with that said, Joe Biden can't get a lot done here.
	So why are Republicans helping him to get things done here?
	Why?
	He's going to do it anyway.
	Make him own it.
	If he's going to do it anyway, make him own it.
	I don't understand for the life of me what Mitt Romney and Susan Collins think that the Republican Party, broadly speaking, gets out of it.
	Now, the reality is that this because of the Democrats trying to link these two things, that they're only going to vote on a bipartisan deal.
	If they also get to ram through this reconciliation bill?
	Because of that, I think that this thing will probably get filibustered anyway.
	Remember, you need 60 votes to overcome the filibuster.
	Getting 5 Republicans ain't enough.
	You need 10 Republicans to kill the filibuster.
	Where are they going to get those other 5 Republicans who go forward with the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan if they're simultaneously linking it with a piece of legislation that they're going to ram through in a 50-50 vote with one extra ding from Kamala Harris, who is sitting as the presiding officer in the Senate?
	So I think all the talk about bipartisanship is a little bit too early.
	I don't think this is going to actually go to a bipartisan vote on this particular bill.
	And I and you watch the media will then call the Republicans obstructionist.
	They'll then say it's the Republicans' fault.
	So Republicans lose on both ends.
	They give Joe Biden the veneer of bipartisanship, and then they themselves are called partisan when they obstruct the bill because it turns out that Joe Biden has already linked it to another bill that is in fact not bipartisan.
	That is the stupid, play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the Republican Party.
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	Joe Biden, just, I don't know what to say about this anymore other than Joe Biden is, he's a crazy person, guys.
	He's a crazy person.
	He's addled.
	He's not with us.
	He's crazy.
	There's a reason why you don't see clips regularly of Joe Biden being played in the media.
	Instead, they'll sort of print what he says, right?
	You see it in the print.
	But you'll never see these clips circulating anywhere but sort of oppo sources, right?
	You'll see it, you'll hear it on my show.
	You'll see it on Fox News.
	You're never going to see this clip.
	I got them $1.9 trillion in relief so far.
	So they sort of got it, but you're not gonna see it repeated. Okay, so this is a live press conference yesterday at the White House and And here's the president of the United States Being like this is so weird. He's just a weird old dude, man. I mean like this is alright. Here we go They're gonna be getting checks in the mail that are consequential this week
	I wrote the bill on the environment pay them more This is an employees Employees bargaining chip now Bye.
	What's happening?
	Um, okay, put aside what he's saying, which is insanely stupid.
	I mean, what he's actually saying there is that if you want people to come back to work, you have to pay them more because the government is paying them to stay home and somehow this is good for the economy.
	And then he says inflation is not the predictable result, which is stupid.
	Okay, so put aside the content.
	Why is he channeling the clown from it?
	I just don't understand.
	Why?
	Because he's not with us, gang.
	He's a weird old man.
	He's like, Georgie, would you like your boat back?
	It's worth 1.9 trillion dollars.
	Pay your employees more, Georgie.
	Come down and here's a balloon.
	And what the eff is that?
	I'll be honest.
	That's like if you have nightmares at night about monsters hiding under your bed, that's the voice right there.
	That that's what's going on.
	OK, and then he just says like addled things all the time.
	He just says addled things all the time.
	So he was asked.
	So he finishes a press conference yesterday.
	And there's this horrifying situation in Surfside, Florida.
	And our prayers go out to the folks over in Surfside.
	There's been this horrifying condo collapse in Surfside, like half the building collapsed.
	It appears likely that there were structural defects in the building that were revealed over time as maybe the building was sinking into the ground because it was built on the beach.
	Very scary stuff.
	100 people missing.
	Really tragic.
	And by the way, just gonna put this out there for folks who do want to give.
	There is a website that has been set up by one of the big synagogues over there where you can give money to help out the families of the people who are suffering.
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	It's thechesedfund.com.
	That's a long web address, but they're trying to raise like a million bucks for the people who are suffering from that tragedy.
	In any case, Joe Biden finishes his press conference yesterday and he just starts wandering out of the room and Kamala Harris has to remind him that this thing happened and he's just like, Oh my gosh, it's so awkward.
	Here we go.
	Will you travel to Florida, sir?
	Can we ask you about Florida?
	What you've learned?
	Oh yes, I apologize.
	Yes, thank you.
	And he just starts laughing at himself.
	It's so awkward to watch.
	He's still my president, right?
	He's your president too.
	It is awkward to watch.
	I mean, just a couple of days ago, he threatened to nuke Americans.
	So there was that.
	He also said yesterday that if he had his way, there would be no private contributions to campaigns at all.
	All campaigns would be publicly funded.
	What in the actual?
	What?
	What?
	Okay, here we go.
	There's a lot of ancillary pieces of this legislation I strongly support.
	I strongly support the idea that there's no, if I had my way, there'd be no private contributions to see who gets elected, how much money you raise.
	No private contributions to political candidates.
	Okay, what he's talking about there is the supposed voting rights bill that sets up public funding for candidates.
	So your taxpayer dollars should go to Joe Biden to run for office.
	This is what he would prefer.
	That's good.
	Also, he's been using the term Latinx, which is a good indicator that you've never met a Latino or Latina person, right?
	Because there's not a single Latino person on planet Earth who calls themselves Latinx.
	It's only a bunch of upper-crust white idiots who took critical race theory studies who think that Latinx is an actual term that is used.
	By the way, you know the origin of Latinx, right?
	Latinx is because Spanish is a gendered language.
	Okay, and Latino is for males and Latina is for females.
	And so we wouldn't want to say Latino because we won't want to say Latinos because that inevitably includes women.
	What?
	So instead they set up Latinx.
	That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
	It's unbelievably dumb.
	Okay, Hebrew is also a gendered language, right?
	When you say, for example, people, the word in Hebrew for people is anashim.
	Okay, the suffix in English would be YM, but it's yudmem.
	The suffix em.
	is for males, but it includes females.
	Just as when in English you say human, it includes the word man and not woman.
	And when you say mankind, it includes man, but it includes women.
	So now we are going to do this with foreign languages.
	This is the stupidest thing I've, here he is being an idiot.
	There's a reason why it's been harder to get African-Americans initially to get vaccinated.
	Because they used to be an experimented on.
	The Tuskegee Airmen and others.
	So...
	People have memories.
	People have long memories.
	It's awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated as well.
	Why?
	They're worried that they'll be vaccinated and deported.
	That, um, what?
	OK, so first of all, what he's saying there right there is that the the What he is saying there is racist.
	He's saying that the reason that the Latino people are not getting vaccinated is because they're all afraid they're going to get deported.
	Now, 18% of the American population is Latino.
	I'm fairly certain the vast majority of those people are not illegal immigrants and are not afraid of being deported.
	So, no on that.
	And also, I fail to understand how it is good logic that because Between 1932 and 1972, there were Tuskegee experiments, racist experiments that were conducted that allowed essentially the syphilis to grow in black people to see how it was going to affect their minds.
	I failed to see how an experiment that was first conducted in 1932 is a good excuse for not getting a vaccine in 2021.
	Nonetheless, the It's weird.
	It's a weird thing.
	Also, I like how he calls it the Tuskegee Airmen Experiment.
	No, those are two separate things.
	Those are two separate things.
	Okay.
	The Tuskegee Experiment was a cruel and vicious racist policy.
	Tuskegee Airmen were the black men who flew in jet fighters, who flew in fighters during World War II.
	Not the same thing.
	He's not with us.
	Well, the good news is that we at least have Kamala Harris waiting in the wings.
	Literally in the wings.
	So yesterday, during this bipartisan press conference, things got really, really awkward.
	We'll get to that in just one second.
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	Meanwhile, you got Kamala Harris waiting in the wings, which is not... If you thought that it was creepy when Joe Biden was whispering at you just a few moments ago, how creepy is it what was going on in the background of this particular bipartisan photo?
	So, you got Joe Biden, you got Kyrsten Sinema.
	By the way, I just have to compliment Kyrsten Sinema's sense of style.
	Like, it actually is kind of fabulous.
	I am not a fashion reviewer, although I will say that I found it very odd and still find it odd that Nancy Pelosi has a face mask to match every outfit.
	But Kyrsten Sinema really brings it.
	I mean, that's a pretty cool outfit.
	I kind of like that.
	Kyrsten Sinema shows up wearing this red thing, and it's cool, and you've got this entire bipartisan group of senators, and then lurking in the background, There's something happening behind Mitt Romney's shoulder.
	There's a white pillar, and then behind that pillar, in front of the White House, someone is waiting.
	Someone is watching.
	My God.
	Oh, man.
	Ain't that just a metaphor for what's happening in the country right now?
	Kamala Harris just waiting off to the side.
	Waiting, waiting.
	Man, worst job in America, Joe Biden's food taster.
	Do not walk down a set of stairs with Kamala Harris if you are Joe Biden.
	That is for damn sure.
	By the way, if you're Kamala Harris, you gotta be pissed at this point, right?
	Because Joe Biden has basically put you in charge of all the most popular parts of his agenda, unpopular parts of his agenda.
	So Joe Biden's like, you know, Kamala, why don't you like do the border thing?
	And we won't change any of our policies, but you're in charge now.
	And then she's like, And she doesn't go down to, by the way, she is headed down to the border.
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	Feet don't fail her now.
	So good things happening over in the Biden-Harris administration.
	This is why, guys, if you're a Republican, why are you providing them cover?
	Make them own it.
	First rule of politics, do not stop your opponents when they are making mistakes.
	But again, everyone in politics apparently is stupid.
	And meanwhile, The Democrats continue to double down on the Trump of it all.
	Because here is the thing.
	Without Trump, their policies become the issue in 2022 and 2024.
	So we're going to continue to focus in on January 6th.
	Now, no one on the right was harsher on January 6th than I was.
	I thought it was a bunch of idiots and droogs for not only no reason, for counterproductive purposes, assaulting The center of our legislative branch attempting to do active physical harm to legislators.
	I said all those people should be arrested and they should be prosecuted for having violated the law.
	If you committed a crime, you get arrested, you get prosecuted.
	I hold that standard whether you are rioting and looting in Kenosha, Wisconsin or whether you're doing it in the halls of Congress.
	But the notion that this is some sort of cataclysmic occurrence that requires a much deeper look at the heart of America.
	Well, not by Congress.
	Nancy Pelosi, however, is launching a select committee.
	The reason that she's announcing the select committee is because what she hopes is that when you get to your 2022 ballot, you think of January 6th as opposed to all the crappy policy that the Democrats are pushing.
	They don't want you to be thinking about critical race theory.
	They don't want you to be thinking about their subjugation of the police and destruction of law and order in our cities.
	And they don't want you to be thinking about inflation.
	They don't want you to be thinking about slow job growth or your inability to hire workers or higher prices at the supermarket.
	They don't want you to be thinking about any of that.
	They want you to be thinking solely and completely about Donald Trump.
	Because Donald Trump is the worst person ever to walk the earth.
	So here is Nancy Pelosi announcing a select committee.
	Now, here's the thing.
	What do we have to find out in the select committee?
	Really, we already have a Senate committee that did a full investigation into the security failures.
	And that really is the story.
	Because it turns out there are lots of people all over the United States who in small groups believe unbelievably stupid and dangerous things.
	It's a country of 330 million people.
	In fact, it would be pretty difficult to find a single stupid Idiotic, insane cause for which you could not rally a couple of thousand people in the United States.
	Because again, 330 million people.
	It's a lot of people.
	With the internet, not hard for those people to get together.
	But the real goal here for the Democrats, of course, is to suggest that January 6th was a natural outgrowth of conservatism and right-wing thought.
	Now, there is a certain irony to the fact that the Democrats, who full-scale embrace Ibram X. Kendi, and full-scale embrace Robin DiAngelo, and full-scale embrace Kimberly Crenshaw, they say that critical race theory has nothing to do with the indoctrination into wokeness of your nation's schoolchildren.
	Right?
	These are distinct fields of thought, but January 6th is indicative of the entire right-wing mindset in the United States.
	That's the whole goal of this.
	The whole goal of this is just to carry out this investigation for as long as possible, try and lump everybody in with January 6th.
	I don't think it's going to work out for the Democrats.
	Really, I don't.
	But here's Nancy Pelosi announcing it anyway.
	This morning, with great solemnity and sadness, Nope!
	I'm announcing that the House will be establishing a select committee on the January 6th insurrection.
	Again, January 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation's history.
	I've said it now three times.
	It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all.
	Okay, you know what one of the causes was?
	The fact that the Capitol Police weren't properly staffed up.
	Wait, who's in charge of the Capitol Police again?
	Interesting.
	So in just one second, we'll get to what Nancy Pelosi's actually doing with the Select Committee, of course, which is to try and connect January 6th with a broader ideology.
	Because again, Democrats have to misdirect.
	It's all sleight of hand at this point.
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	Meanwhile, look, Nancy Pelosi, when she's pushing this Senate select, this House select committee rather on January 6th, we know what it's really all about, right?
	It's not about getting to the bottom of the security failures.
	It's not about actually trying to fix the problem.
	What it really is about is trying to pin the droogs of January 6th on everybody.
	And so we just end up with mad libs, like left-wing mad libs.
	So here is Nancy Pelosi trying to explain the origins of January 6th with reference to her favorite mush words.
	There are two actual paths.
	One is about the root causes of it, the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all the rest of it that was so evident when you see a sweatshirt on one of the people saying, camp Auschwitz.
	The other is the security of the Capitol and what it means to be ready for such an insurrection.
	It's about white supremacy and anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
	There were people in the building who were anti-Semitic.
	She mentions one guy who's a white supremacist.
	I'm sure there were white supremacists in the building.
	January 6th, generally speaking, As far as I'm aware, has not been explicitly linked to, for example, Islamophobia.
	Last I checked, what January 6th was about was people who thought that the election was fraudulent and wanted to stop the certification of the election.
	I'm pretty sure if you're looking for like the approximate cause, it is that, like ideologically.
	It's pretty specific.
	And there's plenty to indict people for on that score with regard to rhetoric.
	But you can't just stop there.
	Instead, it's all things.
	It's all the things.
	Because this is what Democrats do.
	You see, all of their opponents are the worst people in the world.
	It is not just that the people who invaded the Capitol building are bad people or did a bad thing.
	It is that everybody who's associated with a political cause that Nancy Pelosi doesn't like is in league with those people.
	And you can see Democrats do this all the time.
	So the most predictable move in American politics really was, and I predicted it openly on November 6th and on January 20th, I said, as soon as it becomes clear that there's another Republican in the Republican Party who may win the 2024 nomination, if Trump doesn't run or even if Trump does run and he just doesn't have the steam that he had in 2020 and many Republicans decide, you know, like the guy, but we want to move on.
	As soon as that happens, as soon as there appears to be any sort of air appearance of the Republican nomination, that person will become worse than Hitler, i.e., worse than Trump.
	Right?
	Most predictable move in American public life.
	Because it's happened every single time.
	Right?
	George W. Bush was, I mean, he is even worse than Ronald Reagan.
	Just the worst.
	I mean, just absolutely the worst.
	Remember the good old days of, like, George H.W.
	Bush?
	George W.' 's so much worse than his dad.
	And H.W.' 's so much worse than Reagan.
	And Reagan's so much worse than Nixon.
	And then Donald Trump is so much worse than Bush in every way.
	He's worse than everyone.
	And now Donald Trump, literally Hitler, it turns out that Ron DeSantis is even worse than Donald Trump.
	And there are people who are skeptical of this.
	They're like, no, the left won't do this.
	I mean, they hate Donald Trump so much.
	Probably.
	And here's the thing.
	Donald Trump used to make the point repeatedly, still does on occasion.
	That it's not that the left hates Donald Trump.
	Hate you because you like Trump.
	Right?
	No.
	It's that they hate Trump because Trump likes you.
	Okay?
	They hate Trump because they hate you.
	And you can replace Trump with another figure and they will hate you just as much.
	All they will do is they will start downplaying Trump in order to play up the idea that whoever succeeds inside the Republican Party is worse than Trump.
	They even did this in 2016, frankly.
	There were a bunch of people like Jonathan Chait who were like, oh, well, you know, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are way worse than Trump.
	OK, guys, be careful what you wish for.
	So now you have Samantha Bee, who, honest to God, there was a running gun battle for, like, least funny comedian for a long time.
	And it's still going, right?
	Stephen Colbert is just not funny anymore.
	He hasn't been funny for years.
	He basically just exists as a Democratic prop.
	And you have Jimmy Kimmel, who, again, used to be funny.
	And is not anymore.
	You got Trevor Noah out there.
	But I think the person who easily takes the cake is Samantha Bee, who's not even trying at this point.
	There's a phenomenon in the comedy world that is now known as claptor, where instead of people laughing at your supposed jokes, they just clap because they agree with you, which normally we would just call like a political speech.
	How Samantha Bee's writers get paid to write for her is beyond me.
	I don't understand.
	There are certain things in life I just don't understand.
	How Samantha Bee is a fully employed human, and people find her entertaining apparently, like a very small subset of the population, is beyond me.
	So she did an entire hit on Ron DeSantis.
	And of course, the premise of the hit was, wait for it, wait for it, worse than Trump.
	That wasn't the most predictable move ever.
	Because again, it's not about Trump.
	It's about you.
	They hate you.
	You like DeSantis.
	Therefore, DeSantis is bad.
	They hate you.
	If you like a company like Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A is bad.
	They hate you.
	It was never about Trump.
	It's not about DeSantis.
	It's about you.
	Samantha Bee disdains you.
	And if you like Ron DeSantis and you think he's a good governor, which by the way, he's an excellent governor.
	He's the best governor in the country.
	If you like Ron DeSantis and how he's handled in Florida, it's because you are a bad person.
	Because Ron DeSantis is Hitler.
	He's even worse than Trump, according to Samantha Bee.
	DeSantis was also one of the first governors to attempt removing critical race theory from his state's education system.
	And last month, he signed a restrictive voting rights law that racially discriminates against Black and Latino voters.
	Of course DeSantis is doing whatever he can to pass racist laws—he's racist!
	He's accepted money from a rich tapestry of racists, refused to return their donations, and after President Biden dared to talk about systemic racism, DeSantis couldn't wait to share his own nuanced opinion.
	This proposition that we are a systemically racist country.
	Your reaction?
	Well, it's a bunch of horse manure.
	Ron DeSantis is so racist, he refers to separating his white laundry from his colors as segregation.
	Okay, that's the joke.
	What?
	No?
	Somebody got paid to write that joke.
	Well, understand that she's provided no evidence that Ron DeSantis is actually racist.
	If you actually parse what she is saying there, at no point does she actually provide any hard evidence.
	These are just a bunch of scurrilous slurs.
	But, that's not the point.
	The point is really not about DeSantis.
	The point is about you.
	Nancy Pelosi, the rest of the Democratic Party, they think that you're a bad person.
	They think that you're a bad person and whoever you support becomes even worse than the person that you supported before.
	Because your party is moving in only one direction.
	So, here's my question to the quote-unquote moderates in the Republican Party who want to cut bipartisan deals with these folks.
	Why?
	Why not just let them own it?
	Just let them own it.
	Like really, try to paint Ron DeSantis as quote-unquote worse than Trump and see how that works out for you.
	Keep calling every Republican and every American who opposes critical race theory a racist.
	See how that works out for you.
	It's a bold move, Cotton, and I very much look forward to seeing Democrats reap the whirlwind so long as Republicans stand out of the way and let them do it.
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