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Biden Shoots The Horses | Ep. 1342
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The Biden administration bans horse patrols at the border, the Democrats struggle to put together their giant budget, and AOC cries about Jews defending themselves.
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The Biden administration is faced with this crisis on the border.
They're apparently trying to empty this thing out as fast as possible.
It's like Gavin Newsom emptying out all the freeway underpasses right before the recall election.
And all the homeless people are back, by the way.
I'm in California right now, and I just went and checked under the freeway underpasses.
They are all back because Gavin Newsom was not, in fact, recalled.
So Joe Biden is doing the same thing at the southern border.
Apparently, a lot of the southern border area under this Del Rio Bridge was cleared, but there's still about 5,000 people who apparently are staying there, according to Politico. A report from Renuka Rayasam over at Politico saying that things There's still 5,000 people in the camp.
That's much lower than the 15,000 person peak.
Mexico has cracked down on the Acuna side, so it'll be difficult for more people to show up.
I guess maybe by the beginning of next week, there'll be very few people left, if any, but it's still a zoo because there are so many people, it's hard for volunteers to keep up.
He said, I met some asylum seekers at the airport.
They said they would be sleeping on the bench.
I gave them the number to the Haitian Bridge Alliance to see if they could help them find accommodations.
They said, there's nothing in a hundred mile radius.
They have the money to buy a hotel room, but no options.
So they've been sleeping on the streets.
So things are obviously going really, really well over at the southern border and the Biden administration has come up with a solution.
They're going to blame it on the horses.
So you remember over the past several days, there's been this myth that Border Patrol is going around and whipping Haitian migrants, like whipping them, like taking whips and hitting them with the whips.
Like slave patrols or something.
Well, as it turned out, those are called horse reins, and you use them when you are riding a horse.
As I said yesterday, I may not be much of a cowboy, but I've seen enough cowboy movies to know what it looks like when you hit a horse on the flanks with the reins of the horse.
Apparently, the Biden administration, however, has fallen full scale into the narrative that the border patrol here are the bad guys.
And so they've decided there will be no more horse patrols.
They're actually suspending one of the parts of the border patrol that actually polices the border in the middle of a border crisis in order to satiate the idiotic media who don't know how horses work.
Nick Miroff over at the Washington Post reports, the Biden administration has now directed U.S.
border officials to suspend patrols by agents on horseback in the Del Rio, Texas migrant camp.
Saki said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told civil rights leaders Thursday morning we would no longer be using horses in Del Rio.
Here was Saki announcing just this.
We feel those images are horrible and horrific.
There is an investigation the president certainly supports overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, which he has conveyed will happen quickly.
I can also convey to you that the secretary also conveyed to civil rights leaders earlier this morning that we would no longer be using horses in Del Rio.
So that is something, a policy change that has been made in response.
They shoot horses, don't they?
Just blame the horses.
So here you have a bunch of people trying to hoof it across the border, and the Biden administration is unable to rein it in.
So finally, Biden just said, nay!
Well, the main point is all of this is just horse s***, because there is no rationale for it whatsoever.
Okay, they literally took the people who are police— what, are they gonna put them on segways out there?
Like, this is rough terrain in the middle of a river.
So you're just gonna have Paul Blart, border patrol agent, wandering around there out on his segway, trying to stop people from crossing the border illegally.
This is their solution.
Because, of course, it is never about actually solving the problem.
It is just about the political spin of the moment.
This administration has no long-term vision, other than just spending oodles of money and making lots of people dependent.
They have no long-term strategic vision.
Everything is just news cycle of the moment.
And honestly, some of this is due to social media and just the nature of things, which is that if you just wait long enough, it will get out of the news, right?
We still have thousands of green card holders stuck behind enemy lines thanks to the Taliban and the Biden administration, and no one cares anymore.
We just forgot about them.
They don't matter.
It's not even the end of September yet, okay?
We only left like a little over three weeks ago, and everyone just forgot about the tens of thousands of SIV holders and the thousands of green card holders in Afghanistan, and the Taliban are taking over, and their leadership is saying, we're chopping off heads.
Once again, they're back and better than ever.
The boys are back and they're ready to chop off some hands.
And the Biden administration is like, well, the news cycle moved on.
And you know what?
That was the plan.
Their plan is always, can we delay long enough for people to forget about what's going on and move on to the next short-lived news cycle?
That's always what this is.
And so every answer from Jen Psaki is not directed at actually providing information.
It's all directed at kind of these snarky little comebacks that don't make any sense if you think about them for 10 seconds.
So for example, Peter Doocy is asking about the fact that there are a bunch of people who are being deported into the inter- not deported, they're being shipped into the interior of the United States.
There have been reports now from the Associated Press, from NBC News, that people are literally just being released into the interior of the United States, and all women have to do to be released is claim that they are pregnant.
Which means that the border is not actually under control.
So Peter Doocy asks Psaki about this, and listen to her answer.
And the entire media's like, SLAY QUEEN!
SLAY QUEEN!
Because all that matters is the headline of the moment.
This is what, by the way, the media couldn't stand it when it was Trump.
When it was Trump, Trump figured that too.
He figured, okay, I'll just do whatever I do, and five minutes later, the news cycle will move on.
But Biden is taking advantage of the exact same effect.
And because the media are a bunch of squirrels, and they just want to run after the next nut they see, they will...
By this time next week, no one will be talking about the border crisis anymore.
We'll be on to whatever the next thing is.
Saki knows that, so she can do these Slay Queen idiotic little lines that make no sense.
Here we go.
Are you suggesting you don't believe when women say they're pregnant?
Is that a big issue, we think, at the border?
I am not in charge of keeping the border secure.
You guys are.
Do you think pregnant women are posing a big threat to the border?
You tell me.
To the border communities?
Is that a big issue?
You tell me.
I'm not aware of pregnant women being a big issue of concern to people at the border.
That's not even what Ducey was talking about. What Ducey was saying is you obviously don't have control of the border. You're letting people in. You're not testing people for COVID.
You're not testing people who claim they're pregnant so that they can just come into the country. So why exactly would we believe that you have any significant standards for how the border is being policed? And instead, Psaki's like, what? What do you have against pregnant women?
You don't like pregnant women? Are you saying these women are lying about their pregnancy?
Don't you know, believe all women? What in the hell are you talking about? That's not even the question. Like if you ask her a question that doesn't fit into the neat little intersectional box, just rams it into the intersectional box and the entire media cheers like a bunch of crazy people.
Meanwhile, you got this administration ripping its own Haiti envoy.
So there's a special envoy to Haiti.
The special envoy to Haiti quit because they looked at the Biden administration policies and they said, this is idiotic.
Either you gotta let people in or you gotta not let people in, but you can't do this sort of half-assed routine.
So Psaki just starts ripping her own Haiti envoy.
Imagine if the special envoy to Haiti under Donald Trump had quit and then Trump had gotten up and admit that guy's an idiot, he doesn't know anything, he's the worst.
It'd be like, look at him, disrespecting members of his own administration.
Look at that.
Violation of norms.
Here's Jen Psaki just doing this and everybody going, okay.
The special envoy Foote had ample opportunity to raise concerns about migration during his tenure.
He never once did so.
Now, that wasn't his purview.
His purview was, of course, being the Special Envoy on the ground.
His positions were and his views were put forward.
They were valued.
They were heard.
Different policy decisions were made in some circumstances.
Oh, well, I guess then it's okay.
There's no big deal anymore.
In just a second, we'll get to the fact that Democrats on the border who actually have to live in these areas are still pretty ticked about all of this and it has not, in fact, been solved.
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Okay, so even Democrats are looking at the Biden administration and saying, this is ridiculous.
Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson, who until now was most famous for wearing crazy hats, she says, Haitian immigrants are showing up because they hear that the border is open.
There are cottage industries that have grown around the border where we have people, smugglers, who are passing information to Haitian refugees, Haitian immigrants that come.
The border is open so they have saved their money.
They have paid That is Frederica Wilson, a Democrat from Florida.
Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar is saying the same thing.
He's saying, listen, remember that time when they sent Kamala Harris down here and she was supposed to solve everything?
It turns out Kamala Harris has never been able to solve a single thing.
You point out these tens of thousands of Haitian migrants that we know about in Latin America, possibly making their way north, hoping to get to the border between Mexico and the U.S.
In the wake of Vice President Harris's trip to Latin America, what do you think the impact has been?
Has anything changed?
Without due respect, no.
Um, no.
Without due respect.
Very harsh words there from Henry Cuellar.
Of course nothing has changed.
Because the Biden administration has no actual policy, they just have, what can we do at this moment to just get beyond what exactly is the issue?
Whatever we can do at this moment to get beyond the issue.
Okay, so what is the actual long-term vision here?
As I've said, there's no actual strategy here.
There is a long-term vision.
The long-term vision is, what if we just tax the living hell out of everything that moves?
Tax it until it dies, and then we use the roadkill.
What if we just do that?
We'll just tax everything that moves, and we'll spend ungodly amounts of money, effectively nationalizing half of American industries through regulation.
Either overtly nationalizing industries, or by expanding things like Medicaid and Medicare, or actively using regulations to the extent that effectively the government has prevented you from all of your property rights being exercised.
The right to property is not merely the right to own anything.
It is the right to dispose of that thing.
It is the right to use the thing.
If the government gets rid of many of the sticks in the bundle of property rights, effectively, it is no longer your full property.
This is part of Joe Biden's actual proposal, right?
You will not be in control of your own economic freedom.
You will not be in control of your own economic life.
And he justifies all of this with just pure, idiotic, envious class warfare.
So he tweeted out again today.
This is his, it's just his shtick.
He is just Bernie Sanders now.
Quote, folks, I don't want to punish anyone's success, but those at the top have been getting a free ride for far too long.
We're going to change that.
It's just pure envy.
It's pure class warfare politics.
Now, none of this applies to Joe Biden himself.
According to a report in the New York Post, quote, Republicans say a new nonpartisan report indicates President Joe Biden improperly avoided paying Medicare taxes before he took office, raising eyebrows and the possibility he now owes the IRS as much as a half million dollars in back taxes.
Biden is leading a Democratic push for a $3.5 trillion bill to subsidize childcare, education, and healthcare by targeting tax avoidance.
But a House Ways and Means Committee draft of the bill would end an accounting trick apparently exploited by Biden and boost IRS funding for audits.
According to Jim Banks, who is the chairman of the Conservative Republican Study Committee from Indiana, Joe Biden wants to raise taxes by $2.1 trillion while claiming the rich need to pay their fair share.
But in 2017, multimillionaire Joe Biden skirted his payroll taxes, the very taxes that fund Medicare and Obamacare.
According to the criteria provided by the congressional research to my office, he owes the IRS and the American people hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.
Every American should know about Joe Biden's tax hypocrisy.
By the way, it doesn't just apply to Joe Biden.
It also applies to Hunter.
Remember, Hunter Biden is only rich because daddy is Hunter, is Joe.
That's the only reason anyone has ever heard of Hunter Biden, who's a derelict and a terrible person.
And I know, a wayward child.
We're supposed to treat him like a wayward child, even though he is like 15 years, 16 years older than I am.
We're supposed to treat him like he's a wayward child.
He's well into his fifties at this point.
Okay, but apparently Hunter Biden, when he's not trying to sell his finger paint things for millions of dollars in a pretty obvious bribery operation, when he's not doing that, apparently, according to Business Insider, he's attempting to leverage his daddy's job in order to make money.
And this goes all the way back to when his daddy was VP.
According to Business Insider, two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of Hunter Biden indicate the president's son requested an annual retainer of two million bucks.
To help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration.
The emails obtained by Insider during reporting on an unrelated matter are not connected to the controversial emails from Hunter Biden's laptop.
While it appears from the new emails that the Libya deal was never consummated, the document offers a window into the mechanics of Beltway influence peddling and the stock that was put in Biden's political connections, particularly his relationship with his daddy, who was VP at the time.
The first email, dated January 28, 2015, was sent from Sam Jawari, a Democratic donor with businesses in the Persian Gulf who has helped spearheading a Libya project.
It was addressed to Sheikh Mohammed al-Rahbani, another Obama campaign donor, involved in the proposal.
In the email, Jahauri is frank about what Biden would bring to the table and what he says Biden wants it in return.
Quote, per phone conversation I met with number two son.
He wants two million bucks per year retainer plus success fees.
He wants to hire his own people.
It can be a close circle of people for confidentiality.
His dad is deciding to run or not.
His positives are he is chairman of the UN World Food Program, son of number two who has Libya file, access to state treasury business partners, secretary of state John F. Kerry, son, and since he travels with dad, he's connected everywhere in Europe and Asia.
He has said he has access to the highest levels in PRC and can help there as well.
His negatives are that he is an alcoholic, drug addict, kicked out of the U.S.
Army for cocaine, chasing low-class hookers, constantly needs money liquidity problems, and many more headaches.
We should meet in G-Strad or London to decide next steps.
Accurate summing up of everything related to Hunter Biden.
But again, the rule is, you can be rich, and you can influence Petal, and you can be corrupt as all hell, as long as you proclaim that you are for the socialist ideal of complete redistribution of income.
And that's the whole shtick.
Because the more the Democrats claim that they are for redistribution of income, the more they hope to change the nature of how American government is done.
Which brings us to the budget.
We'll get to that in just one second.
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Okay, so.
Meanwhile, the White House is still struggling to iron out its budget differences.
According to Politico.com today, Democratic leaders' efforts to infuse momentum into turbulent negotiations over President Joe Biden's social spending plans are falling flat so far with key players on Capitol Hill.
As Congress hurdles toward a crucial week that could make or break Biden's agenda, centrists and progressives remain largely unmoved from their entrenched positions.
That leaves Speaker Nancy Pelosi days away from a vote on a $550 billion Senate-passed infrastructure bill without a clear path to passage.
So you remember that there is this bipartisan infrastructure bill.
The kind of bare-bones infrastructure bill passed by the Senate is $550 billion.
Moderates are demanding that she hold the vote because she promised she was going to do that.
Progressives are calling for delay and they're vowing to tank the legislation as long as they don't get their giant social spending bill, the $3.5 trillion spending bill.
Representative Lou Correa, Democrat of California, says, you're witnessing democracy in full bloom.
Everyone wants to be heard and acknowledge Nancy's a magician.
Well, we're gonna find out.
Pelosi and her team hope that projecting progress in the talks, both with a framework of financing mechanisms announced Thursday and plans for the House Budget Committee to mark up the still-unfinished package this weekend, will satisfy progressives enough to back off their threats.
Pelosi says, But of course, there's no guarantee that in the Senate, the giant $3.5 trillion bill is going to pass if infrastructure does pass.
Right now, the progressives are saying, we will hold up infrastructure to get our $3.5 trillion bill.
And the moderates are saying, pass our infrastructure, and we're still not going to vote for your $3.5 trillion bill.
So, that is an impasse.
Senator Manchin says, we don't have any idea what they're talking about.
It sounds good if they're all working towards something to present to us after all the conversations yesterday.
I haven't seen it.
In aid to Senator Kristen Sinema of Arizona, she said, unclear what Chuck Schumer is referring to.
We've seen nothing.
We haven't signed off on anything.
So basically Pelosi and Schumer are trying to just ram this through with happy talk.
Even with next week's vote looming, Democrats path forward is murky at best as Politico with moderates and progressives locked in a public standoff over Biden's two spending priorities.
Earlier in the day, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delivered a cryptic announcement that they, along with the White House, had agreed to a framework of options to pay for their social spending ambitions.
An effort meant to show forward momentum in these stalled negotiations.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, I think having a framework will add more confidence to people as to what we're planning on doing.
One of the big problems is people aren't sure what's going on.
House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth later announced Democrats' plans to mark up the massive package on Saturday, admitting it would be more procedural than substantive because the bill isn't even done yet.
Republicans can force symbolic political votes, which would drag the process out for hours, but the budget panel can't make any binding changes.
There's still no budget scorecards from the Congressional Budget Office, which are necessary in order to even pass this thing through reconciliation.
The framework announcement came after Pelosi and Schumer emerged from a meeting with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and White House advisor Brian Deese and Congress' top tax writers.
Democratic leaders were mum on the details, refusing to say whether a spate of financing ideas will allow them to move forward next week with either their up to $3.5 trillion spending package or the bipartisan infrastructure plan.
So it looks like kind of a mess at the moment.
Right now, again, the moderates are saying, we are not spending this much money.
And progressives are saying, we're not going to vote for the bipartisan bill.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is cheering this framework that still has not been revealed.
He says Democrats could pay for this whole thing and absolutely make sure they follow through on Biden's promise to not increase taxes on families making under $400,000 a year.
He says the truth is, it's not hard to come up with approaches to do away with the tax cap and to demand the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
You could do a lot more than $3.5 trillion Once again, Bernie only cares about spending other people's money.
He himself has that third lake out, so he's pretty secure.
So what exactly is this framework on tax hikes that we are talking about right now?
According to the Washington Post.
The first word of a potential compromise arrived earlier Thursday when Pelosi and Schumer said the party had worked with the White House on a menu of options, but the reality is a little bit more complicated.
Reflecting instead, the talks continue on some of the thorny issues.
In some areas, Democrats have already agreed.
They want to raise the top tax rate to almost 40% from 37%.
But on corporate tax increases, lawmakers want to raise rates, but don't see eye to eye on the amount.
And of course, they want to radically increase the capital gains tax, which is something that Joe Biden is pushing really hard and then is lying about.
Even by Thursday afternoon, Democrats in the House and Senate said, we really have not seen any details here.
You just keep saying things and you're not actually showing us anything.
So this has forced Joe Biden to just lie about stuff.
So we'll get to Joe Biden's latest lie with regard to taxes in just one second.
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This is according to a new analysis from the Biden administration.
Well, um, there's only one problem with that, which is just, it's not true.
Like, it's not true at all.
How did they come to that 8.2% number?
Well, they lie.
The analysis estimated billionaires paid 8.2% of their income between 2010 and 2018, including on forms of income that go largely untaxed.
So in other words, they are saying that billionaires paid 8.2% of their income.
They're defining income as stocks, as bonds, as capital gains.
Now, as anyone who knows anything knows, capital gains are not, in fact, income.
By this metric, you can pretty much skew any stat ever.
Right?
You can say that Bob, down the street, who's paid no capital gains on the incremental increase of the value of his home, he's paying a far lower income tax rate than you thought he was paying.
The analysis by economists from the OMB and the White House Council of Economic Advisors drew from publicly available data and said the disparity is driven largely by how the tax code treats income generated from wealth, such as income from stocks, whose worth increases over time, rather than wages, which are immediately taxed.
Yes, that's correct.
Because we do tax income from wealth and investment differently than we tax income from wages.
Why?
Because wages become wealth.
You already paid tax on that.
So we're already double taxing you.
You got paid by your company.
You then took your money and you put it in your 401k or you went out and you got an E-Trade portfolio and you bought a bunch of stock.
Now Nancy Pelosi and Biden and Schumer, they're saying, well, you haven't really been taxed enough on that, have you?
It's like, well, wait a second.
I already paid tax on that.
I haven't even sold my stock yet.
What are you talking about?
If I never sell my stock, by the way, I have not realized the gain or the loss.
Of course, you shouldn't be taxed the same way on income that you are on investment.
Now, one thing that Joe Biden is attempting to cash in on is the fact that most people in the United States are wage earners as opposed to people who are entrepreneurs or investors.
But if you remove the incentive for entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurs and investors to invest, you'll get less investment and less entrepreneurialism and more wage base.
There's more security in not taking the risk than there isn't taking the risk.
Nobody ever thinks about the sort of unforeseen economic consequences of this sort of stupidity.
Okay, so let's talk about this for a second.
Why we tax these two forms of income differently.
The reason we tax capital gains differently from how we tax, for example, employment income is because employment income is very secure.
You're taking no risk.
You get paid a wage.
The people who work at my company know that the check is coming every two weeks, right?
They know the check is coming.
They've taken no risk because they're walking into work and they are doing their job and they are getting paid.
On the other end of the spectrum, those of us who are owners of The Daily Wire have taken a significant amount of risk.
We've put our own money in, for example, or we took lower salaries in order to start the company, or we took out mortgages on our homes, or we went and we got somebody else to take the risk by putting money in, but then we took on the burden of having to pay those people back over the course of time.
None of my employees have to pay back our investors over the course of time.
They're employees.
So, of course, it's amazing.
People will talk about the excess profits to be earned, for example, from investment and innovation and entrepreneurialism.
No one ever talks about the excess losses.
Hey, most people who take risks fail.
A huge majority of people who start in the restaurant business end up not in the restaurant business.
Their restaurants go under.
Nobody ever talks about the fact that when you talk about the average profit of investors, the average profit, those are the people who stay the investors in a business.
Or the entrepreneurs, right?
Oh, look at the rate of return for entrepreneurs who succeed.
You never talk about the people who go bankrupt.
Okay, we try to incentivize risk-taking because if it were not for the risk-takers, if it were not for the entrepreneurs, if it were not for the people who invest their money, if it weren't for you investing your money in the stock market, right?
And providing capital so that businesses can use that to hire people, no one gets hired.
Employees do not exist without employers.
Employers do not exist without risk-taking, and investment, and innovation.
And if you cut all of the benefits of innovation and investment, you may as well turn everybody into a wage earner.
The problem is, then there's no one left to pay the wages.
This is why we tax these two forms of income differently.
So Biden wants to conflate the two.
He says, how is it possible for millionaires and billionaires that can pay a lower rate of tax than teachers, firefighters, or law enforcement officers?
Again, teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers are wage earners.
This is not any sort of degradation of what wage earners do.
They do unbelievably important work.
They also are not the people who own the company and take the risk of having to forfeit their house if something goes wrong on the job.
The worst that happens to somebody who's a wage earner.
I've been a wage earner in my career also, right?
I've worked for companies where I was not an owner in the company.
And the risk that I took is that the company went under, but that risk didn't attach to me.
It was just, I would have to go find another job or that I screw up at my job.
But if I've leveraged my entire life in order to start a business, that's a bit more of a gamble, is it not?
So Biden is hoping that because so many people are employees as opposed to employers, then we can have the employee base tax the employers.
And it was often said in the 18th century, 19th century by political philosophers that the moment that you could essentially have people tax other people to pay for their benefits, then the entire system would collapse.
That's what Biden is betting on.
The more he makes people dependent, and then that dependency is paid for by people who are not those people, the more you can get people to vote for that kind of stuff.
And it's all well and good until the entire system collapses.
It's all well and good until there is no one left to do the innovation.
The Biden administration says they want the wealthiest Americans to quote, pay their fair share.
Their proposal includes raising the income tax bracket for the wealthiest Americans back up to almost 40% from 37%.
By the way, the United States has one of the most progressive income tax rates in the world.
The rich pay way more taxes than people at the bottom of the spectrum.
The bottom 50% of incomers in the United States essentially pay zero income tax.
The top 10% of income earners in the United States pay virtually all of the income tax in the United States.
The top 1% pay something like 40% of all of the income tax in the United States.
So Democrats agree that we'll raise the taxable income, but they also want to include capital gains for households making more than a million bucks each year at the same tax rate, 39.6 instead of 20%, doubling the tax rate on capital gains.
However, among Democrats, there's still some disagreement.
In a bill unveiled last week, House Democrats proposed raising the top capital gains rates from 20% to 25%, which is a lot less than Biden wanted.
Instead, they wanted a 3% surtax on individuals making more than $5 million.
It didn't address wealth passed from generation to generation.
Democrats want to tax you for passing on your wealth to your children, which is one of the reasons you care about earning additional wealth.
You think that if I didn't care about passing on wealth to my kids, I would continue working as hard as I do?
I want to pass on wealth to my kids.
I want to give charity.
I want to invest in my employees.
I want to invest in our business and grow it.
I think it's important.
Remove all the incentives.
And hell, I mean, if you're maxing out what I can give to my kids, I may as well take them on vacations and spend all the money now before I die.
Biden has vowed not to raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year.
He's lying about that too.
He's already raising all sorts of quote-unquote sin taxes.
All of this comes as the White House is gambling with a government shutdown.
They are so committed to the idea that they can spend us into a new way of life that they are preparing for a government shutdown.
Because let's face this, the government shutdown is entirely avoidable.
All the Democrats have to do is not vote on a $3.5 trillion package at the same time that they raise the debt ceiling.
That's all.
According to the Washington Post, the White House Budget Office notified federal agencies on Thursday to begin preparations for the first shutdown of the U.S.
government since COVID.
Administration officials stress the request is in line with traditional procedures seven days ahead of a shutdown and not a comment on the likelihood of a congressional deal.
Both Democrats and Republicans have made clear they will fund the government before the funding expires on September 30th.
But time is running out.
Lawmakers are aiming to resolve an enormous set of tasks in a matter of weeks.
House Democrats earlier this week approved a measure to fund the government, suspend the debt ceiling, and approve emergency aid such as disaster relief.
But that plan is expected to die in the Senate because GOP is not going to support Democratic attempts to lift the debt ceiling so long as the Democrats immediately plan to ram through a $3.5 trillion budget plan.
With the first of two major deadlines looming next week, Democrats publicly maintain current course.
They have pledged to put the House-backed bill before the Senate that would fund the government into December and allow the country to borrow freely throughout most of 2022.
of 2022. Senate Majority Leader Schumer said, quote, every single member of this chamber is going to go on record as to whether they support keeping the government open and averting a default or support shutting us down and careening our country toward a first ever default.
Well, I mean, the Democrats could avert the default by not pledging to spend more money than God has ever seen. Privately, Democrats are beginning to acknowledge they're unlikely to prevail in the face of a GOP blockade.
Democrats have started discussing the mechanics of how to sidestep Republicans as soon as next week.
We're looking at all the options, but a government shutdown is not acceptable, says Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
Many government functions are financed through spending bills that must be approved by Congress, including things from the military to education programs before one fiscal year ends and the next begins.
Alternatively, lawmakers can pass short-term measures that sustain existing funding to buy themselves time.
Absent those actions, the money runs out, resulting in a full or partial shutdown.
Now, missing the deadline doesn't bring all government operations to immediate halt.
Every time there's a bit of a government shutdown, and this has happened several times in the last 10 years, everybody acts as though the world is going to end and nothing happens.
Like, really nothing happens.
In fact, so little happens that Barack Obama has to shut down national parks to pretend that anybody cares.
He has to shut down, like, open-air World War II memorials so that he can cudgel World War II veterans into being upset.
Many of the people who are government employees, they just continue working because they are essential employees.
The implications for a shutdown during a public health crisis could be very different, supposedly, according to the Washington Post.
Democrats are struggling to advance multiple spending measures all at once.
They don't have to do this.
They are laboring to advance $4 trillion in economic initiatives backed by Biden.
The proposal is tied to a second, roughly $3.5 trillion bill to expand Medicare, boost education and child care programs, combat climate change.
In a sign of a new scramble to avoid a shutdown, the Senate's two top appropriators, Chairman Pat Leahy of Vermont, Democrat and top Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama, huddled Thursday to discuss potentially including a short-term agreement to keep the government funded.
That could be done without an increase in the debt ceiling.
Right now, however, the Democrats seem to want to play chicken.
Well, good luck playing chicken.
Well, the reason that we are playing chicken in the first place is because you want to spend money on programs that are relatively unpopular.
Nobody's interested in blowing out the debt this way.
And by the way, I will note here that it is really impressive how many people on the left have used China as a model of how we should grow in the future, meanwhile ignoring the fact that China basically is destroying its own economy through debt.
China's had multiple debt crises over the past five years alone, and now they're in the middle of another debt crisis.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the current 2021 Evergrande crisis Puts the Chinese in a very bad situation.
Because the Chinese have invested too heavily in housing for too long, through housing subsidies, so they're experiencing their own 2008 over there.
It turns out that debt-led growth is generally a prescription for failure if you never rein in the spending.
Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest with regard to funding priorities, because it turns out that AOC's crying again.
We'll get to that in a second.
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Alrighty, meanwhile, just a reminder that the squad is garbage.
It's filled with terrible people.
So, over the past 48 hours, there was an attempt by the Democrats to push Republicans to basically push forward spending bills by including in spending bills things like funding for Iron Dome, which is the Israeli defense system.
And the Squad voted it down.
Members of the Squad who were in favor of increasing the spending, Republicans voted against it because they didn't want to increase the spending period.
Democrats were in favor of increasing the spending, they just didn't like Israel, at least members of the squad.
So, Rashida Tlaib, who's just the D. Hamas in the, like, she's just a terrorist representative, apparently, in the American Congress, because that's all she does, just stand for Hamas.
So, she went out there and she said she was very upset that now the Democrats brought up, correctly, a separate funding bill for $1 billion for Iron Dome, which is a purely defensive technology, and Rashida Tlaib said she didn't want any funding for war crimes.
I will not support an effort to enable and support war crimes, human rights abuses, and violence.
We cannot be talking only about Israelis' need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system and are dying from what Human Rights Watch has said are war crimes.
Okay, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was like, um, the hell are you talking about?
Iron Dome is a purely defensive system designed to safeguard all civilians living in Israel.
The system was co-developed by the United States and Israel and has saved thousands of lives.
So whatever subsidy we are paying to Israel, we're getting back in terms of the technology.
Um, and pretty much everybody voted for it, right?
Everybody, the final vote on this thing had, I think, nine people who did not vote for it.
Uh, Ted Deutch, the representative from Palm Beach, he, uh, he came out.
He's a Democrat.
And finally, Slim, Rashida Tlaib is the anti-Semite.
She is.
He's only two years late on this.
I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and label the Jewish democratic state of Israel an apartheid state.
I reject it.
Let's be clear.
It's consistent with those who advocate for the dismantling of the one Jewish state in the world.
And when there is no place on the map for one Jewish state That's anti-Semitism.
Yes, it most certainly is.
And the anti-Semites include representatives Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, no shock there.
I mean, they're just openly allied at this point with Hamas.
Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo star of the squad.
Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Missouri.
That's also not a shock because the BLM organization is openly anti-Semitic.
Andre Carson, Marie Newman, Jesus Garcia, and Raul Grijalva.
And one Republican, Representative Thomas Massey, who voted against because he votes against pretty much every funding bill.
That is why Massey voted against it, not because he's anti-Israel, just because he doesn't like pretty much any funding.
AOC is the one we should focus on here.
So originally, the vote came around, and AOC voted against funding Iron Dome.
Then, AOC backed off of it because, as always, she is just cosplaying the revolution.
That is all.
She wants to be seen as radical, but then, when it comes right down to it, she just wants power and money.
That's all she wants.
AOC.
She wants to run for Senate in New York.
You ain't getting far running for the Senate in New York being overtly anti-Semitic the way that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are.
Ilhan Omar can get away with it because she's from a district in Minnesota that is extraordinarily far-left and radical against Israel.
And the same is true for Rashida Tlaib.
That is not true for AOA.
It may be true in her district.
It is certainly not true statewide.
So whatever hope she has for statewide office rests on her abstaining.
So she actually abstained from this.
But you know, she did have to cry some crocodile tears.
So no tears for the people who are attempting to cross the border down in Del Rio, Texas.
No tears about that.
But she broke out the sobbing again after switching her vote.
So she knew where the cameras were, because she always knows where the cameras are.
I mean, she's like a moth to a flame when it comes to cameras.
AOC made her way down while somebody else was speaking, and then Pretty overtly started dabbing at her eyes because she was so sad that she had abstained from this particular bill.
So terrible that Israel has defensive technology to prevent its citizens from being slaughtered en masse by a terrorist group firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas.
You can see her approach when she walks up to a fellow congressperson, and she's so sad.
She's upset.
And she removes her glasses.
She knows exactly where the camera is this whole time, right?
She removes her glasses, and she starts dabbing at her eyes.
Oh!
Oh, the sadness.
Oh!
The pain, ah, she is just terrible.
So the squad proving itself once again.
I'm so glad the future of the Democratic Party rests with these jokers.
All right, we're gonna finish the week with a piece of good news here.
So I know that the Democrats would love to have you continue to panic about COVID for the rest of time.
And in fact, you have the education secretary who just came out and said we should actually mandate COVID-19 vaccines in schools.
This is Miguel Cardona.
He said, not only do I support it, I'm encouraging states to come up with a plan to make sure it happens.
I would like governors who hold those decisions to make decisions now that vaccines are FDA approved.
There is a reason we're not talking about measles today.
It was a required vaccination.
We put it behind us.
I do believe at this point we need to be moving forward.
Yes, the reason that we are not talking about measles is because measles is a childhood disease.
It was not endemic among the population.
The basic notion that if you mandate vaccinations for small children with regard to COVID that you're going to wipe out COVID is silly.
There's not a single scientist who believes this is the case.
No one believes we are getting to zero COVID.
But now we're talking about mandating for small children these vaccines, which again, it is one thing to say for adults who have a higher risk that they ought to be thinking about taking the vaccine because the risks from COVID outweigh the risks from the vaccine.
But when you're talking about the risks of COVID to small children, the risks are so unbelievably minute that you're talking about gradations of risk and maybe a little bit of long-term testing might be a little bit better.
Like we can barely get the CDC and the FDA to agree on who should get booster shots at this point who are adults.
And here you have government actors suggesting that we are going to mandate vaccines for children with regard to COVID-19.
Again, with regard to a disease that kids are just not dying from in large numbers.
And in many years, there have been more deaths, like half of the past 10 years, there have been more deaths from the flu than there have been from COVID over the period of COVID.
And yet you have the Democrats continuing to push this stuff.
Gavin Newsom, the once and future governor of California, he says that a vaccine mandate is still on the table for kids.
We want to continue to be vigilant.
We want to continue to lean in.
We still have a lot of work to do.
I worry about a winter surge.
And so, yes, it's now back on the table to get our kids vaccinated 12 to 17.
We're not seeing the numbers we're seeing for other age cohorts.
The decision will be made over the course of the next few days.
We have a lot of partners with 1,050 school districts in the state of California, the largest school system.
I'm sorry, this is ridiculous.
This is ridiculous.
But I told you I'd end with some good news.
Here's the good news.
According to the latest UK data, you know, other countries actually have data.
We don't bother to do data in the United States.
We just have our FDA and CDC pretty much just pull s*** out of their ass.
And they don't have any rationale for it.
Okay, here's the data from the UK.
You ready?
Long COVID symptoms are higher in the control group than in the COVID positive group for young children at 12 to 16 weeks post-infection.
So you're more likely to have long COVID symptoms in a control group than in the COVID positive group for kids post-infection.
Not only that, the woman who created the Oxford vaccine now says that COVID is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant and will eventually just cause something that looks like the common cold.
So there's your good news, is that we are pretty much at the end of this thing, but they're not gonna stop the panic because the panic is how they get things done.
Alrighty, we will be back here next week.
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