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Kyle Rittenhouse Shouldn’t Even Be On Trial | Ep. 1370

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	Joe Biden rolls out his vaccine mandate.
	Democrats struggle for answers after the Virginia election nightmare.
	And the prosecution's case against Kyle Rittenhouse simply does not exist.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	Well, we have a lot of news and a lot of different areas to get to today.
	Why don't we begin?
	With the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, which has finally opened.
	This, of course, is the trial of the 17-year-old, she was 17-year-old at the time, young man who was in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
	He was there to help with medical care for people on the ground and also to prevent rioters from burning down businesses and burning cars and such.
	And the entire situation ended with three people shot and two people dead.
	Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged now with murder.
	There's one problem.
	There's no case against Kyle Rittenhouse.
	I mean, there really is no case at all against Kyle Rittenhouse.
	They brought up a sort of minor gun charge.
	That one is a little more controversial, but the murder case just, it never existed.
	And the fact that this was ever brought to trial just demonstrates how political our judicial system sometimes is.
	It demonstrates that if a prosecutor gets it in their head that they must prosecute somebody regardless of the facts on the ground, they will do so even when the case just simply does not exist.
	And we know that the case against Rittenhouse doesn't exist.
	Because the prosecution yesterday brought forth a bunch of witnesses, and they all promptly testified to Rittenhouse's self-defense case.
	And so Rittenhouse's argument is that he shot the people who were threatening him in self-defense.
	And the prosecution really, really struggled.
	Because it turns out that we knew from the very first day, right, as soon as the video footage emerged, we knew exactly what was going on in the Rittenhouse case, and it was that he had shot people in self-defense.
	So for example, This entire incident, the timeline of the Kyle Rittenhouse incident started when Rittenhouse essentially was chased down the street by some people who were threatening him.
	And a gunshot was fired in the air.
	He turned around and there was a guy who was lunging for him.
	And so he shot the guy.
	Here is video.
	This is courtesy of ABC News.
	This is video from that night.
	This is the first shooting.
	A man who police identified as Rittenhouse runs across the parking lot of an auto service shop, followed by a shirtless man who was later identified as Joseph Rosenbaum.
	Moments later shots ring out.
	Gunshots Okay now, you can stop it right there.
	You heard a shot before the narrator says, moments later shots ring out.
	Okay well, that first shot was actually not written house.
	That was somebody who's chasing him, firing a shot into the air.
	Rittenhouse is running away, has no idea where the shot's coming from.
	Then it turns out that Rosenbaum, who it also turns out was a career criminal, is chasing him down and is lunging for his gun.
	Okay, so that is shooting number one.
	Okay, so now we move on to shooting number two.
	Rittenhouse is now being chased down the street by a bunch of ne'er-do-wells, and they physically assault him.
	One person comes at him with a gun.
	He shoots that guy in the arm.
	Another person tries to hit him in the face with a skateboard.
	He shoots him and kills him.
	Here is that video.
	Again, this is all on video, guys.
	He falls down.
	You can see he raises the gun.
	There's somebody trying to hit him with the skateboard.
	He shoots the guy.
	And then there's a guy who approaches him.
	He has a pistol in his hand, right?
	The guy approaching him has a pistol in his hand.
	Hey, so.
	All of that is on video.
	Right?
	Uncontroverted.
	It's on video.
	Pretty clearly and obviously a case of self-defense.
	The prosecution is trying to argue the Rittenhouse started the fight.
	The Rittenhouse essentially insulted a guy or tried to initiate conflict with Rosenbaum, who was originally chasing him.
	And the big problem is that it's pretty clear that's not what happened.
	And there's FBI-inferred video.
	So it turns out the FBI has eyes on nearly everything happening in the United States, apparently.
	We never saw this video until now.
	And you can see from the video exactly how this went down.
	So, you have Person of Interest 1 and Person of Interest 2.
	And you see that they're having some sort of conversation between the cars.
	And then, Person of Interest 2 starts running away, being chased by Person of Interest 1.
	So what the prosecution is attempting to claim is that Person of Interest 1, who is Rosenbaum, was confronted by Rittenhouse.
	But that's not what the testimony of the prosecution's own witnesses said.
	They said that it's precisely the opposite.
	So, there's a witness named Ryan Balch, and he was called, again, he was called by the prosecution.
	This guy was not called by the defense.
	And Ryan Balch says, in open testimony, that Rosenbaum had said earlier that if he caught Rittenhouse alone, he would kill him.
	Okay, that's not, the prosecutors called this guy.
	This is their case?
	The prosecutors?
	There we go.
	When I turned around, Rosenbaum was right there in front of my face, yelling and screaming.
	And I said, dude, back up.
	He said, chill.
	I don't know what your problem is.
	And he goes, you know what?
	If I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I'm going to kill you.
	And he said that to you?
	Correct.
	Did he say that to the defendant as well?
	The defendant was there, so yes.
	That's the prosecutor's witness.
	Whoops, that's not good.
	Now again, this is all undercut.
	The entire prosecution case here was undercut by all the footage from the evening of.
	In fact, the prosecutors tried to bar testimony and bar actual video of Rittenhouse talking before any of this happened, because there's video from Rittenhouse earlier in the night talking about why he was there in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the first place.
	This does not sound like a guy who went out to shoot some people in the middle of a riot.
	So people are getting injured and our job is to protect this business.
	And part of my job is also helping people.
	If there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way.
	That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself, obviously, as well as have my med kit.
	We're protecting from the citizens, and I just got pepper-sprayed by a person in the crowd.
	So you had non-lethal, but you didn't respond?
	We don't have non-lethal.
	So you guys are full-on ready to defend the property?
	Yes, we are.
	Now, if I can ask, can you guys step back?
	Medical!
	EMS right here!
	Okay, so then the prosecution, and I think it goes in this video, he's trying to help one of the rioters.
	Then the prosecution tries to bring a second witness.
	This is a guy named Richie McGinnis, who's a reporter for the Daily Caller, who you can see in the original video, who is following after Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum as they are running down the street.
	And after Rosenbaum is shot, you can see Richie McGinnis take off his shirt and try and provide some sort of medical care for Rosenbaum.
	And so the prosecutor tries to ask Richie McGinnis, so he was falling over Rosenbaum when he was shot, right?
	Like, he tripped, and then he was wrongfully shot by Rittenhouse.
	And he was shot for no reason, because he was just falling over.
	And then Rittenhouse wanted to kill him, so he killed him, so it's not self-defense.
	And Richie McGinnis is like, well, no, actually, let me explain.
	I kind of caught up to them.
	I was running a bit faster and so at the time initially I was probably 30 feet back when the first when everybody first started running but then by the time I arrived in the lot I was 15 feet.
	And you continue to be behind Mr. Rosenbaum at the time that the defendant shot and killed him, correct?
	Um, I did alter my trajectory a little bit, um, when I saw Mr. Rittenhouse turn around and saw Mr. Rosenbaum, um, lunging for the front portion of the rifle.
	Lunging for the front portion of the rifle.
	And the prosecutor tries to push him.
	And tries to say, well, was he falling over?
	And, uh, and the witness says, no, he said F you and reached for the weapon.
	So, yeah, not great.
	Not great, Bob, for the prosecution.
	Now, the way the media are trying to portray this is as though it's just a sort of a conflict of visions.
	The Associated Press says jurors heard starkly different portrayals of Kyle Rittenhouse, instigator or victim, in opening statements at his trial on Tuesday on charges of shooting three people on the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest against racial injustice. A prosecutor said Rittenhouse set the bloodshed in motion when he triggered a confrontation with a man that night and then killed him with a bullet to the back.
	Rittenhouse's attorney told the jury his client acted in self-defense after the man tried to grab Rittenhouse's gun and others kicked the teen in the face and clubbed him in the head with a skateboard.
	And one of those stories is true and one of those stories is not.
	And the prosecution's story is not true.
	And then they called a bunch of witnesses who ripped apart their own case.
	This thing never should have been in front of a jury.
	So in a second, we're going to discuss why it was in front of a jury in the first place.
	And what this says about, again, institutional trust in the United States, which is now at all time lows.
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	Alrighty, so given the fact that the prosecution case is just a complete crap show here, why exactly was it brought in the first place?
	And the answer is, because we live in a society where the media will not allow a case not to be brought so long as the purported victimizer is of the wrong political persuasion.
	There is no way that if this were a left-wing person who had shot a couple of Proud Boys in the streets and the video were available like this, that this prosecution is ever brought.
	It is just too weak a case.
	Politics, unfortunately, is now telescoped into individual cases of justice.
	We're no longer a country where individual cases are seen for what they are, judged on their fact patterns, judged on their merits.
	Instead, the outside politics of the players are telescoped into the proceedings.
	And that is exactly the wrong way to do this, right?
	Due process of law requires precisely the opposite.
	We saw this a lot with the Derek Chauvin trial in Minnesota.
	Regardless of what you think of Derek Chauvin's activities that day, and now the man has been convicted of murder, and regardless of what you think of the activities, there is still no evidence in the Derek Chauvin case that anything he did was motivated by racism.
	It didn't matter.
	It turned into a giant national referendum on whether police across the country were racist, despite the fact there was no evidence that Chauvin himself was racist or had done anything racist, as opposed to just egregiously wrong, in the confrontation with George Floyd.
	Everything is used as a stand-in for politics these days, and the Rittenhouse trial is just a perfect example of that.
	Because again, the prosecution has so little a case that they are calling witnesses who are rebutting the prosecution case.
	And they can't stop it.
	If somehow Rittenhouse is convicted here on the basis of the evidence that's being presented, you can only chalk that up to politics because there's literally no way to watch the testimony that's being given and not see that that's a self-defense case.
	Well, this goes to a broader issue in the American public mind, and that is institutional trust.
	So another major story that is undermining institutional trust these days is the case of Igor Danchenko.
	So now, according to the Washington Post, an analyst who is a primary source for a 2016 dossier of allegations against Donald Trump has been arrested on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI about where and how he got his information, officials said on Thursday.
	Igor Donchenko's role in providing information to British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the accusations about Trump in a series of reports, has long been a subject of scrutiny from internal Department of Justice investigators and special counsel John Durham, according to people familiar with the investigations.
	Steele presented that dossier to the FBI.
	It was part of the basis for secret surveillance court orders targeting former Trump advisor Carter Page, as the FBI investigated possible ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
	So remember, the Steele dossier was used as the basis to target Carter Page, You remember that in January of 2017, before Trump's inauguration, or right after Trump's inauguration, James Comey approached Donald Trump and told him about the Steele dossier.
	And that mere telling him about the Steele dossier was used as the predicate for BuzzFeed then breaking the dossier wide on its website without vetting any of the details.
	And this became the basis of the Trump-Russia investigation.
	Trump had deep ties to Russia and for four long years, all we heard was that Trump was a Russian plant.
	The Steele dossier was still being trotted out as possibly true as late as like a few weeks ago.
	ABC News' George Stephanopoulos sat down with Christopher Steele and Steele was maintaining that much of the data in there was still probably true.
	Well, it turns out that since 2017, like since the beginning of the saga, since the early days of 2017, the FBI knew that the key source for the Steele dossier was lying to them.
	They didn't know that in 2018, not 2019.
	In 2017, no prosecution, no attempts to quash, no public statements about why the Steele dossier was a load of crap.
	None of that.
	They just kept investigating, right?
	The Mueller investigation just kept going.
	A 2019 report by the Justice Department Inspector General found major problems with the accuracy of Danchenko's information.
	But the 39-page indictment unveiled on Thursday paints a more detailed picture of claims that were allegedly built on exaggerations, rumors, and outright lies.
	The indictment is likely to buttress Republican charges that Democrats and FBI agents intentionally or accidentally turned cheap partisan smears into a high-stakes national security investigation of a sitting president.
	It doesn't just buttress it, it proves it.
	And the Democrats wandered a bunch of dirty, probably Russian-provided misinformation through the FBI and then into the media, and then back into law enforcement hands, where it was used as the basis for large swaths of the Mueller investigation.
	The indictment suggests Danchenko may have lied to Christopher Steele and others about where he was getting his information.
	Some of the material came from a Democratic Party operative with long-standing ties to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the charges, rather than even a well-connected Russian with insight into the Kremlin.
	So it turns out that some of the information wasn't even coming from Russia.
	It was coming from inside the House, from somebody who's just working with Hillary Clinton.
	The Washington Post admits the allegations cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organizations, including the Washington Post.
	Well, it's too late.
	Everybody won their Pulitzers.
	And Donald Trump is no longer president.
	So victory achieved, gang.
	Zanchenko appeared briefly Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where his lawyer tried to enter a plea of not guilty on his behalf for five counts of making false statements.
	The judge didn't accept the plea because the hearing was not an arraignment and Zanchenko was released.
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	Alrighty, so Andy McCarthy, who's been all over this since the very beginning for National Review, now he has a piece in the Washington Post about the prosecution of Danchenko.
	He says Denchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in interviews during 2017, as the bureau struggled in futility to verify outlandish allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign were clandestine agents of the Kremlin.
	Those allegations were compiled in the so-called Steele dossier, which the FBI relied on in obtaining surveillance warrants from a secret federal court.
	The dossier was generated by the Clinton campaign.
	Its principal author was former British spy Christopher Steele.
	Steele's main source was Danchenko, a Russian native based in the United States who worked at the Brookings Institute, a Washington think tank whose former president, Strobe Talbot, is a college friend of Bill Clinton's who worked in the Clinton State Department.
	At Brookings, Danchenko worked with Fiona Hill, later a member of Trump's National Security Council and a key witness in the first Trump impeachment over the unrelated Ukraine controversy.
	It was through Hill that Danchenko became acquainted with Steele, who ran a London-based intelligence firm.
	Durham's indictment alleges that Denchenko lied about two major points.
	First, he fabricated the claim that the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce informed him that, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump was involved in a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation with Putin.
	In reality, that conversation never happened.
	The chamber president is not identified by name in the indictment.
	After the Steele dossier became public, however, there was intense speculation that the chamber's founder, Sergei Millian, was a Steele dossier source.
	As I recounted in my book on Russiagate, says Annie McCarthy, Millian denied being a source that trashed the dossier as fake news created by sick minds.
	Danchenko is also alleged to have concealed that one of his sources for the information he was getting to steal was a longtime Dem Party operative who was close to the Clintons, having worked on both of Bill Clinton's successful presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
	That source was revealed on Thursday to be Chuck Dolan, a public relations executive who had Russian contacts referred to as PR Executive One in the indictment.
	The FBI interviewed Danchenko because it was desperately trying to corroborate the Steele dossier claims.
	One question Durham must be pressing is, what took the Bureau so long?
	The Obama DOJ brought the FBI's sworn claims to the secret Federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in October 2016.
	The FBI is supposed to verify the allegations before going to court, but it didn't interview Danchenko, who was the main source, until January 2017.
	It was already obtaining its second 90-day spy warrants on Carter Page by that point.
	It appears that Durham theorizes the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a political attack manufactured by the Clinton campaign.
	Relying on Tsanchenko, Steele compiled the reports for Glenn Simpson, co-founder of an intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which specializes in digging up political dirt.
	Fusion GPS was retained by Perkins Coie, the Clinton campaign's law firm.
	In September, Durham indicted former Perkins Coie Michael Sussman for making a false statement to the FBI while peddling Trump-Russia allegations the bureau eventually found to be unsubstantiated.
	Durham, his charging instruments suggest the Clinton campaign used its agents to peddle the Trump-Russia rumors to the government and the media, and used the fact Trump was being investigated as part of the campaign messaging.
	So in other words, if you are talking about Russian interference in the election, it's really Democratic interference in the election by suggesting that a chief issue in the election is whether Trump was a Russian cat's paw, which as you'll recall was trotted out by the Clinton team throughout the election cycle.
	It turns out that the Russian probe, very likely, was just a piece of FBI manipulation by the Democratic Party, and then the FBI had to cover its own ass, and so refused to actually investigate all of the people, thoroughly, who had given it the information in the first place until now.
	It's unbelievable.
	Eli Lake writes for Bloomberg.
	It's been clear for two years that Steele's dossier was garbage.
	That's mainly thanks to the work of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who released a report in 2019 skewering the FBI.
	Durham's investigation has taken a different approach.
	His last two indictments suggest the FBI was not a villain but a victim, conned by Democratic operatives to pursue bogus investigations into the Trump campaign.
	Danchenko is charged with hiding his relationship to a prominent Democrat in interviews with the FBI about the dossier.
	Of course, that is Charles Dolan, as we were discussing.
	The real victim of these Democratic Party deceptions was not the FBI, however, says Eli Lake, but the American public.
	That's why Durham's investigation, now in its third year, remains not only relevant but vital.
	It is an incredible thing.
	So what we have here, if we got this right, what we have here is that the Steele dossier, which was used as the basis for the FBI opening an investigation, into Donald Trump's campaign, which ended up splashed across the front pages of every major newspaper in 2016.
	And then after the election ended up being the basis of the Mueller investigation, which dogged Trump for four years.
	And in frustration at which, Trump started making bizarre phone calls and getting himself in all sorts of legal hot water.
	It turns out that all of that was because the media and the FBI decided to work along with the Democrats in order to take Trump down.
	That's all that we're seeing here.
	And it took years for any of these prosecutions to take place.
	The FBI, it's amazing.
	The FBI knew Dankchenko was lying in 2017.
	In 2017.
	The calendar now said, according to my calculations, that it is 2021.
	What was the FBI doing all of this time?
	Institutional trust with the FBI has been broken for quite a while.
	It should be broken even further.
	These institutions, they are motivated by politics.
	Politics have infused them.
	When Donald Trump talked about the so-called deep state, people took that to mean that there was an active conspiracy of people working inside these departments.
	Sometimes that may be true.
	There are a lot of these people who are working together, obviously.
	If you're looking at, for example, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, if you're looking at that coupling, those people clearly had similar priorities.
	In reality, all this means is that there is a feedback loop of people who share the same political echo chamber.
	And you can apparently retail any piece of garbage to the FBI.
	And so long as it is coming from a democratic source, they won't even check into the sources of the original dossier.
	They won't even check into it.
	And then they will launder it.
	This is what James Comey did.
	They will launder it through the press to the public and help to destroy the presidency of a sitting president of the United States.
	That is an amazing, amazing thing.
	Listen, I was loathe to believe a lot of the early charges.
	There are some people who are on this way earlier than I was.
	That is for damn sure.
	That's because I have a certain level of baseline American trust in these institutions.
	That trust has been deeply shaken.
	If it hasn't been shaken for you, it's because you're not watching this closely enough.
	Already coming up, we're going to get to Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.
	Again, these institutions lose trust.
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	They decide to double down and try to control every area of your life.
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	Alrighty.
	So, meanwhile, the Biden administration, never at a loss for authoritarian crackdowns, is released.
	They've released, as we mentioned yesterday at length, this OSHA vaccine mandate.
	It kicks into place on January 4th formally.
	There's some speculation that the reason the Biden administration is doing this is because they don't want it legally challenged.
	We at The Daily Wire have said we will not comply with this.
	We are not going to force our employees to get vaccinated.
	This is so anti-science.
	It is stupid all the way through.
	If you are vaccinated, you are good to go.
	If you're unvaccinated, you have chosen to be that way.
	And now, by the way, Pfizer is about to come on market with a pill that after COVID diagnosis lowers your rate of death and hospitalization by 90%.
	So, if we weren't already done then, we are done now.
	We have been done for months, by the way.
	And if you're in a southern state, you know this.
	If you're in an uptight northern state, a northeastern state, where they're still suggesting that you can be quadruple vaxxed and still be subject to the predations of COVID-19, even if you're not immunocompromised, then it's still going on for you.
	But if you're down here in Florida, it's pretty much done, and it's been done for quite a while because we're not crazy down here.
	Well, the Biden administration is crazy.
	And now they're saying that every employer of more than 100 people in the United States must force their employees to vax or test weekly and wear a mask indefinitely.
	Presumably, forever.
	And if you refuse to do this, an unwillful violation costs you $14,000.
	A willful violation, if you just say, no, I'm not doing that.
	It's not my business whether my employees are vaxxed at this point because everybody's had the opportunity to get vaxxed.
	If you say that, they will send an OSHA agent to your place of work, and then they will attempt to fine you up to $140,000 per violation.
	They're aiming at small business.
	They're attempting to bankrupt companies they don't like.
	And by the way, I promise you that because we are filing a lawsuit, first day that this thing goes formally into effect in January, there will be an OSHA inspector at our door.
	I'm sure that is the case.
	Again, one of the reasons that they're delaying it is because what they're hoping is that if we file a lawsuit, a court will say it's not ripe because there's been no harm yet.
	The case hasn't actually, you can't adjudicate it yet because there's been no harm.
	We filed for a preliminary injunction against this.
	Many states are doing the same.
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	We need your help with that, but The goal of the Biden administration, I don't even think it's for this thing to take effect.
	I think this is all bullcrap.
	I think that their goal here is essentially to pretend that they've done all they can do, get this thing struck down, and then move on with their lives.
	Sort of like their CDC eviction moratorium.
	You remember that Joe Biden said he didn't have the constitutional power to issue a further eviction moratorium because the Supreme Court had said he didn't?
	And then he did it anyway?
	And the reason he did it, knowing the Supreme Court was going to stay that particular order, is because he wanted to be able to say to his people, I did all I could.
	I did all I could.
	That's what he wanted to say.
	Well, I feel like this is very much the same thing.
	See, Joe Biden has put himself in a box.
	The box is, he said he could end COVID.
	He cannot end COVID.
	The only thing that Joe Biden could do is leave us alone.
	But he doesn't want to leave us alone.
	Because he requires COVID in order to ram through these giant spending bills.
	In order to maintain control.
	And so now he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.
	The longer COVID goes on, the worse it is for the economy.
	The more these crackdowns go on, the worse it is for the economy.
	And as long as people are dying, COVID is not over from the perspective of Democrats.
	So long as infections are happening, even if they're happening because you chose not to get vaccinated, Democrats can't just say, well, you know, you made your decision and now it's on you.
	Instead, they have to say, no, no, no, we said we were going to fix it.
	And so Joe Biden is kind of stuck.
	What that means is he needs someone else to blame.
	So he'll he's going to put this regulation out there.
	We're going to get it struck down.
	I have very little fear about that, really.
	And when that happens, he's gonna throw up his hands and he's gonna say, we did the best that we could.
	And by the way, it's not, they're all hypocrites anyway.
	They really are.
	I mean, the number of Democrats who are vaccinated but unmasking in public places when they've been told by the CDC not to, it's astonishing, right?
	The rules don't apply to the special people.
	I mean, Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, was asked yesterday how many CDC employees, employees of the CDC were vaccinated.
	And she said she had no idea.
	What percent of CDC employees Um, so yeah, of course she doesn't have that.
	actively encouraging vaccination in all of our employees and doing a lot of education and outreach in order to get our agency fully vaccinated.
	But the percent?
	I don't have that for you today.
	So yeah, of course she doesn't have that.
	By the way, I've noticed that the OSHA Vax requirements, the federal government isn't trying to attach, for example, strings to federal aid.
	So if you are a person who receives food stamps or welfare via the federal government, I'm noticing that they're not forcing you to act.
	Interesting how that works.
	Only employers.
	They're trying to turn employers into essentially the policemen of the state.
	Which is a complete violation of both private property and state sovereignty.
	Because this is not a federal issue.
	This is a state issue.
	There's nothing in the Interstate Commerce Clause that gives OSHA the power to override the basic health powers of the states.
	The OSHA?
	OSHA?
	Come on.
	There's nothing in the OSHA regulations that says that they can regulate, literally until the end of time, how you do your work at your business based on a virus that is not going to kill you if you are vaccinated, by all statistics.
	And by the way, again, everyone's had the opportunity to get vaccinated.
	Joe Biden used to acknowledge he didn't have the power to do this.
	Now he just doesn't.
	Because he's an authoritarian.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, employers have until January 4th, 2020 to ensure their employees are vaccinated.
	After that date, employers have to verify that unvaccinated employees test negative for COVID-19 at least once a week.
	Employers need to show they are fully vaccinated, meaning they either received two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one Johnson & Johnson shot.
	Acceptable documents include a record of immunization from a health provider or pharmacy, a copy of a COVID-19 vaccination card, medical records, etc., etc.
	The agency plans to inspect some workplaces.
	A former OSHA official said the agency will likely not rely primarily on in-person inspections, but on company recordkeeping and worker reports of potential violations.
	Businesses that don't comply can face fines, as we say, of up to $14,000, and that is if there is a mistake.
	If you are found to be unwilling, it can be up to $140,000.
	What will happen to unvaccinated workers who object to getting vaccinated or tested?
	It's possible employers would fire them.
	Some workers may choose to quit.
	About 40% of workers who are unvaccinated say they will leave their jobs rather than do this sort of stuff.
	So the entire OSHA rule here is being promulgated in idiotic fashion.
	It is not designed to be upheld, but it's going to have some pretty significant downstream effects.
	This is why I don't think that it's actually ever going to be implemented.
	I think what it's going to be done, what's going to happen here is that it's going to be used as an excuse by big businesses to say that they have to do it.
	And then Biden is just going to lose his court case and that's going to be the end of it.
	Because here's the problem for Democrats.
	If this thing actually goes into effect, it's going to absolutely cripple the economy.
	I mean, it's just going to be horrible for the economy.
	For example, truckers are not exempted from this.
	Truckers are not exempted from these regulations.
	If you lose 20% of truckers, you think you've got supply chain problems right now?
	Just wait.
	The White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, she says, don't worry, the VAX mandate isn't going to affect the supply chain.
	Yeah, you're just forcing people to fire their employees.
	That's not going to affect the supply chain at all.
	If you're asking, like, if we think the rules impact supply chain, the answer is no, we don't think that it will.
	First of all, vaccine requirements work.
	We have talked about that.
	We've given examples, like earlier adopters have seen strong compliance, 99%.
	At United Airlines, 99% at Houston Methodist, 99.5% at Rutgers University.
	Recently, Tyson's Food announced that 96% of its workers got vaccinated ahead of its deadline.
	So the emergency temporary standard is an even playing field across all employers with 100 or more workers.
	Okay, one of the reasons, by the way, these percentages are so high is because when you fire everyone or force them to quit, if they're not vaccinated, your percentages go up.
	Amazing how that works.
	When somebody is no longer an employee, they don't get counted in your percentage.
	Governors or attorneys general from more than a dozen states have begun filing legal challenges already.
	This includes the Iowa governor who vowed immediate legal action on Thursday.
	Kristi Noem in South Dakota, she says that they're joining a lawsuit as well.
	Today, I'm announcing to you that we are joining several other states In filing litigation against this unconstitutional mandate, we will be taking actions to ensure that the federal government remembers that the Constitution does not give them the authority to take this type of action.
	And that people have freedoms, and they have personal responsibility over their health, and that here in South Dakota, that will be protected and defended.
	Okay, now, here's the thing.
	This is all gonna kick in in January.
	Can we now have this Pfizer pill, which, it's apparently just an oral pill you take after you get diagnosed, and it takes your hospitalization and death rate down 90%.
	It was already down 90% if you took the vaccine.
	So if you do that, and then you get a breakthrough, and then you take the pill, then basically you're immortal, I think, is the way that the math works there.
	And even if you don't take the vaccine, we now have a therapeutic that is effectively as effective as the vaccines.
	The vaccines are about 90% effective against hospitalization and death.
	Pfizer says you can now take a pill and that is just as effective as a vaccine in terms of preventing hospitalization and death.
	So what in the world are they doing here?
	Again, it is not about stopping the COVID pandemic.
	It is simply about control.
	It's simply about control.
	And the backlash is coming, man.
	The backlash is absolutely coming for the Democrats.
	It's going to come hard.
	We'll get to that in just one moment because it's already begun.
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	The blowback to Democrats' command and control beliefs about the United States.
	That blowback is strong and it already has teeth.
	And the Biden administration knows it.
	And they are flailing around over it.
	So, honestly, the best story of election night was not even what happened in Virginia.
	It was the fact that a truck driver defeated the New Jersey State Senate leader.
	Like, that is hysterical.
	A truck driver named Ed Durr.
	He spent, I kid you not, about $153 on his campaign.
	$153 on his campaign.
	$66.64 of that went to Dunkin' Donuts.
	That's a campaign, my friends.
	Yes.
	$153 spent on the campaign.
	$66 to Dunkin' Donuts.
	And he defeated one of the most powerful people in New Jersey, the state senate president.
	Steven Sweeney.
	He beat him by about 2,000 votes.
	And so it turns out that the reason that the guy ran for office in the first place is he was denied a concealed carry permit in a may-carry jurisdiction.
	Meaning that if the government allows you, you may carry.
	And then he was denied a permit, which is perverse.
	I mean, I lived in a may-carry jurisdiction in Los Angeles.
	And basically, unless you knew somebody, you weren't getting a concealed carry permit.
	So it's a ridiculous law.
	New Jersey has those kinds of laws.
	He got rejected, so he ran for office.
	And here is what he said about what he plans to do.
	Ed, what's the first thing you're going to do when you get to the Capitol in Trenton?
	I really don't know.
	That's the key factor.
	I don't know what I don't know, so I will learn what I need to know.
	And I'm going to guarantee you one thing.
	I will be the voice and people will hear me.
	Because if there's one thing people will learn about me, I got a big mouth and I don't shut up.
	When I want to be heard, I'm going to be heard.
	Okay, so honestly, I wish more of our legislators had this feeling.
	What's the first thing you're gonna do?
	I have no idea, because I don't know what is going to confront me when I get to this place.
	Like, it's not bad that regular people are part of our legislature.
	In fact, I think that most of the experts in our legislature suck at their jobs.
	They're doubling down on the idea that all Republicans are racist.
	We got this.
	It's sort of a microcosm of what happened right after Trump won.
	lacking, everybody knows that leading up to 2022, their prospects are really, really poor.
	So what are they doing?
	They're doubling down on the idea that all Republicans are racist.
	We got this, it's sort of a microcosm of what happened right after Trump won.
	So right after Trump won, there was a brief moment in time where Democrats in the media were like, who are these Trump voters?
	Maybe we should go and talk to them.
	And then after about 32 seconds, they said, oh, they're a bunch of racists.
	We don't need to talk to them.
	It's about Russia and racism, of course.
	Well, they just skipped right over that 32 seconds of self-reflection over at the White House and then went right to, yeah, everybody's a racist.
	It's because the Republicans are racist.
	So here is Karen Jean-Pierre talking about Kareem Jean-Pierre, the deputy White House press secretary, talking about how Republicans only won in Virginia because they lied about critical race theory.
	Good luck with this one.
	Republicans are lying.
	They're not being honest.
	They're not being truthful about where we stand.
	And they're cynically trying to use our kids as a political football.
	They're talking about our kids when it's election season, but they won't vote for them when it matters.
	You know, Republicans did not vote for the American Rescue Plan.
	The American Rescue Plan, in that plan, it had funding to make sure that schools were open.
	To make sure that our kids got back to school.
	Okay, this is a joke.
	This is a joke.
	It's ridiculous.
	One of my favorite things Democrats are saying right now, it's actually a headline over at the Huffington Post right now.
	And I want to read it verbatim because it really speaks to what Democrats believe about how politics are supposed to work.
	Quote, Republicans want parents to be angry.
	Democrats are trying to give them money.
	That's what Democrats think about politics.
	That all parents want is just to be handed money by the government.
	That's all they want.
	They don't want control over their kids' lives.
	They don't want control over their kids' education.
	They just want to sit down and shut up and be paid off.
	Good luck with that message.
	It turns out that most parents are concerned mainly with raising their children.
	And if there are strings attached to the cash, or we're supposed to sit by and let crappy school boards decide what our kids learn in schools about racial essentialism, the answer is no.
	So Democrats, instead of saying maybe we should move away from this critical race theory nonsense, instead they're doubling down.
	They're saying they're lying about critical race theory.
	It doesn't exist.
	It's a bugaboo.
	Simultaneously, they're saying it's super important and your kids have to be taught it.
	You can see this conflict between, for example, Stephen Colbert and Michael Eric Dyson.
	So, here is Stephen Colbert last night, mimicking the White House, saying that CRT doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination.
	Claims about what's being taught in history classes have become the latest racist dog whistle.
	For instance, on Monday, Youngkin made this promise.
	Let me be clear, on day one we will not have political agendas in the classroom and I will ban critical race theory.
	Here's the thing.
	Critical race theory is not taught at the K-12 level in Virginia.
	Wow, that was fast.
	Promises made, promises kept.
	It doesn't exist.
	Okay, obviously this is a semantic game that people on the left like to play.
	So what they do is they say critical race theory.
	Really, it doesn't exist, critical race theory.
	It's just that when you dumb it down and you turn it into Ibram X. Kendi racial essentialism about how Privilege exists in all the institutions of American life, and white kids should know that they benefit from that privilege, and black kids are inherently victims.
	That does make it into the classroom.
	It makes it into the classroom all the time.
	So they'll simultaneously say CRT doesn't exist, and then they will say that CRT is deeply vital to teach to kids.
	So here is Michael Eric Dyson yesterday saying, we have to make kids uncomfortable.
	We must make kids uncomfortable.
	We gotta face some uncomfortable truths, and the white comfort cannot be the predicate for making sure that race is not a strategy that shouldn't be used.
	Discomfort is a critical tool to make people learn.
	Agreed, yeah.
	When I go to class, I'm talking about my white students, my black students, my Latino students, my Asian students, across the board. I am trying to make you uncomfortable enough with the ignorance that you've inherited so that you can begin to engage in some serious thinking about the way the world works.
	We have to make kids uncomfortable. And what he means by that, Michael Eric Dyson, is pretty clear, because Michael Eric Dyson is a proponent of Abram X. Kendi-style anti-racism, which is an offshoot of critical race theory.
	I mean, this is the same guy who's telling you that he wants to teach your kids is also saying that the brand new black lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia is actually secretly white.
	She's secretly white.
	So he wants to teach racial essentialism to your kids.
	That's who this is.
	This is the person saying that he wants to teach your kids to feel uncomfortable.
	What kind of stuff do you think he's teaching?
	Why don't we ask him?
	Here's Michael Eric Dyson.
	The problem is here, they want white supremacy by ventriloquist effect.
	There is a black mouth moving, but a white idea through the running on the runway of the tongue of a figure who justifies and legitimates the white supremacist practices.
	We know that we can internalize in our own minds, in our own subconscious, in our own bodies, the very principles that are undoing us.
	So to have a black face, Speaking in behalf of a white supremacist legacy is nothing new.
	Don't worry.
	They're not teaching critical race theory.
	They just have to make your kids uncomfortable.
	Also, critical race theory doesn't exist.
	And if you oppose it, too bad.
	We want to give you money.
	And Republicans are bad.
	Good job, guys.
	It's gonna be a winning message.
	I can see how this is gonna work out real well for you.
	The other winning message Democrats are pushing, of course, is what if we spend more money?
	Now, there are a few problems with this.
	Number one, Americans are not clamoring for more government spending at this point.
	Build Back Better is not popular.
	Even the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan, it might be sort of like, okay, but it's not blowing the doors off.
	Nobody's clamoring for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan to pass at this point.
	CNN did report, but the disconnect is that if you complain about inflation, Then this means that you are out of touch with the people.
	So this is kind of an incredible story.
	So yesterday, Brianna Keillor over at CNN, she did a report about a family.
	Okay.
	This family is a family of 11.
	They have nine kids.
	They're feeding nine kids.
	Seven of those kids are adopted or fostered.
	Okay.
	So honestly, these people sound like saints.
	I mean, to adopt or foster seven kids and you have two of your own.
	Pretty incredible behavior.
	Okay, so Brianna Keeler does a report on them, and she talks about how inflation is really taking a chunk out of their pocketbook.
	Here's what the report said.
	We have two biological kids, and then my wife and I have a big heart for adoption, so we adopted a sibling group of two, then three, then one, and then we have a kid living with us right now who's kind of in a foster situation.
	It feels like money isn't going as far as it used to.
	Okay.
	Let's see what we can do.
	I think probably in June, it was about a dollar is worth a dollar.
	So now that dollar is worth about 70 cents.
	All right.
	Now we're moving on to dairy, which is right there.
	We started seeing everything going up.
	Grocery prices went up.
	Gallon of milk was $1.99.
	Now it's $2.79.
	Well, when you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, you know, that's a lot of money.
	Okay, and what did this prompt?
	Did this prompt anybody on the left side of the aisle, the blue checks on Twitter, to say, actually, that sounds pretty damaging, right?
	I mean, she's right.
	No, instead, you got Jamel Bui, a man who's in touch with the people.
	He tweeted out, I'm sorry, 12 gallons of milk?
	Well, yes, I mean, there are 11 people in the house, including nine kids, many of whom apparently are teenagers.
	He says, like, if every member of a family of six had one 8-ounce glass of milk for every meal on every day of the week, you'd still only need about 8 gallons of milk a week.
	They have 12 people in the house.
	He says, fair enough.
	Even then, this is an exceptional family.
	Not sure they should be used as emblematic.
	Well done there, Jamel Bouie.
	Just massive self-own right there.
	And Jonathan Chait does the same thing.
	Blue check.
	12 gallons of milk a week may sound like a lot, but they've actually had to cut out their milk baths on alternate days.
	They're not taking milk baths.
	I love this.
	So just sneer at people who are hurting at the checkout counter.
	Just sneer at them.
	Because who needs 12 gallons of milk a week?
	Now again, basic math suggests they need 12 gallons of milk a week, right?
	I have three kids.
	We certainly go through at least three gallons of milk a week.
	And these are little kids.
	So the notion that a bunch of teenagers, like a family of 11, they're not going to go through 12 gallons of milk a week.
	It's crazy.
	But then you got the whole blue checkmarks going, milk doesn't even cost $1.99 anywhere.
	Okay, well, in certain parts of the country, it used to.
	Like it did.
	But these are, they are all George, remember they said in 1992 that George H.W.
	Bush didn't know how to use one of those, one of those checkout guns at the, at the checkout counter, and they mocked him for it.
	He didn't know how they worked.
	And it really wasn't true.
	These people are that.
	They actually are that.
	They don't, they're all the old lady from Arrested Development.
	What does a banana cost?
	Like $7?
	That's what they are.
	And then they're telling you how they're going to fix the economy?
	Good luck with this, guys.
	I mean, this is what you really want to run, but apparently they do.
	Apparently they do.
	Apparently they think more cowbell, as always, doubling down on stupid.
	We're going to talk racism.
	We're going to pretend that the American people don't know what they're talking about.
	We have to boss them around in every possible way.
	Our elites are just morons.
	OK, speaking of which, I have to bring you this because it's just astonishing.
	So there is some tape that has now emerged from a presentation for Microsoft.
	Hey, all of your intellectual betters, all the people who run the world, who design the products that you use, who want to run your political life.
	These people have been indoctrinated in woke tropes, and then they're cramming them down on you.
	And they sound like idiots.
	They sound like morons.
	And if I were going to have somebody babysit my kids, it would certainly be the couple that adopted the nine and have to buy 12 gallons of milk a week, and not the people who are acting as project managers for these particular sections at Microsoft.
	And I will show you why.
	So a couple of clips from this Microsoft session.
	Again, it shows you who the elites are in our society.
	They are completely out of touch with everyday Americans.
	Completely out of touch with everyday Americans.
	So, here is a Microsoft project manager introducing herself to all the people who are interested in learning about what Microsoft is doing, their new products.
	Okay, here we go.
	My name is Allison Wines.
	I'm a senior program manager in our developer tools division.
	I'm an Asian and white female with dark brown hair wearing a red sleeveless top.
	Okay, and it continued along these lines.
	Here are a couple of marketing managers introducing themselves.
	Hello everyone, I'm Nathalie Godilla.
	I'm a Caucasian woman with long blonde hair and I go by she-her.
	I'm a product marketing lead here at Microsoft and co-host of the podcast Security Unlocked with this guy.
	Yes, that would be me.
	Hello everyone, I'm Nick Fillingham.
	I'm a Caucasian man with glasses and a beard.
	I go by he-him and I'm a security evangelist here at Microsoft.
	I go by he-him.
	And she her.
	Okay, so apparently the reason they were describing their races is for the blind people.
	Really, for the visually impaired in the audience.
	So I have a question.
	You're literally saying to the literally colorblind that color matters.
	This is your pitch.
	Your pitch is that people who are literally incapable physically of seeing color must be told what your race is.
	Why, exactly?
	Unclear.
	Also, we can't just assume from your voice whether you're a she-her or a he-him.
	Instead, you have to name it.
	Honestly, that wasn't even the worst part of this.
	That Alison Wines lady, she actually began her little riff by explaining that Microsoft's headquarters sat on stolen Native American land.
	I kid you not.
	First, we want to acknowledge that the land where the Microsoft campus is situated was traditionally occupied by the Sammamish, the Duwamish, the Snoqualmie, the Suquamish, the Muckleshoot, the Snohomish, the Tulalip, and other Coast Salish peoples since time immemorial.
	So, if Microsoft wants to, they could just surrender their headquarters to the local tribe.
	They could do that.
	They could just give the building over.
	It's worth a lot of money.
	And it seems like they're sitting on stolen land, from what I've been told.
	Okay, so these woke idiots are the people who run our society.
	They're the elites who believe they should control every institutional area of American life.
	And the predictable outcome of this is that even when the people speak up, they will just ignore them.
	This holds true in the Democratic halls of power.
	So Nancy Pelosi, right now, as we speak, is attempting to ram through a Build Back Better plan that they ran out the bill like late last night.
	It's 2,000 pages.
	No one has read this thing.
	They're trying to run this out despite the fact that the American people, again, are not clamoring for it.
	And the Democrats just took a massive fist to the jaw, electorally speaking. And what's her excuse for doing this? Her excuse is, well, I haven't seen the election analysis. I don't know. I don't know.
	Do you think Democrats were penalized for having not gotten these things done?
	I again, I haven't seen that and all of the analysis. And I know from my own experience that I've said to you before, the plural of anecdote is not data.
	Let's see what the data is as it comes out.
	Oh, she doesn't know the data.
	I'm pretty sure that she knows the data.
	She just doesn't care because she has to ram this through.
	Now, the problem for her, of course, is that the politics don't actually favor ramming it through.
	It looks as though the Democratic Party is split almost revocably at this point between the Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema wing of the party and the AOC wing of the party.
	AOC's takeaway yesterday from the Virginia loss, by the way, is that they weren't progressive enough in Virginia.
	Which is a hell of a takeaway considering that the candidate she endorsed in Buffalo, India Walton, was the only Democrat actually on the ballot and proceeded to lose by 20 points to a writing candidate.
	So yeah, clearly Americans are desperate for more progressivism.
	But Democrats keep hunting for the votes.
	They keep trying to cram this thing through.
	What's amazing about this, by the way, is that basically it is kind of incredible that the progressives are caving this way.
	Truly.
	So what the progressive plan was, was we are going to hold up infrastructure until Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema sign off on Build Back Better.
	Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are not signing on to anything that the House is going to pass today.
	It's not happening.
	They have no interest in passing this thing.
	The actual number on the bill is not $1.85 trillion.
	It is more like $4 trillion, according to Wharton Business School.
	is they're not signing on to it.
	And the House Democrats know this in the progressive caucus.
	So they could hold up infrastructure or they could just vote for infrastructure and surrender.
	It looks like they're about to do the latter.
	Nancy Pelosi, for her part, she keeps saying that Build Back Better is not going to increase inflation.
	Weird, because I think that it probably is.
	The other piece was about inflation and we had the expert opinions and in fact, very recent today from Moody's that the bill was paid, since it is paid for, it would not increase inflation.
	And in fact, it would add to our economy because of childcare enabling many more women to fully participate.
	Oh, so it's gonna it's gonna be better.
	It's getting better.
	So again, they took a they took a hit right to the jaw and they just keep they keep trucking because they know better than you.
	They know more than you.
	And that's all that matters because they are the specials and you are not one of the specials.
	They are the specials.
	According to Politico's playbook.
	Democratic leaders are still facing resistance from centrists who have raised procedural concerns, such as a lack of cost analysis with the push for a vote on the sprawling social policy package this week.
	Pelosi circulated a letter Thursday night that included budgetary details from White House staff.
	Several Democrats say they want the details from Congress's independent scorekeepers, not a partisan one.
	Now, Democrats are going to try and ram this thing through today.
	One of the problems, of course, is that the caucus goes on vacation next week.
	Members of the caucus are set to embark on overseas trips ahead of next week's recess, so they're hitting a deadline.
	But party leaders failed to corral the votes they needed on Thursday.
	So it's going to be interesting to see how they accomplish ramming this thing through, if they can even do it.
	Joe Manchin, for his part, he's like, you can pass whatever the hell you want.
	I didn't say I'm going to vote for it.
	People are concerned.
	They're concerned about inflation.
	They're concerned about the debt.
	We don't talk about it, but they are concerned.
	I can tell you back home in West Virginia, gas prices are enormous.
	People are having a hard time driving to work and paying $20 or $30 more to fill up.
	They're going to the grocery stores and getting 30% less.
	They're about ready to face a very bad winter, we're told, at much higher prices.
	So yes, I think we should be upfront, honest, and transparent with American people and do what we can afford to do.
	Okay, so here's the problem.
	The Biden administration has every incentive never to be upfront and transparent with the American people.
	Because if they were, they'd have to acknowledge that they've lied to the American people since the election.
	The election was all about Joe Biden being moderate.
	He lied.
	He's not a moderate.
	End of story.
	So he continues to lie.
	The lies just come fast and furious.
	Yesterday, Joe Biden ripped Peter Doocy over him asking a question about paying off illegal immigrants to the tune of $450,000 a pop.
	And now this was a report from the Wall Street Journal that the DOJ was going to sign a settlement with families who had been separated to pay families, each member of the family had been separated, $450,000.
	So like almost a million bucks.
	If you're an illegal immigrant dad and you crossed with your kid and then you were separated because you illegally immigrated and under the Flores settlement, if we held you, we had to separate your kid from you, we're going to pay them nearly a million bucks.
	Thanks to the ACLU and the Biden DOJ.
	Here was Biden ripping on Peter Doocy for even asking the question.
	As you were leaving for your overseas trip, there were reports that were surfacing that your administration is planning to pay illegal immigrants who are separated from their families at the border up to $450,000 each, possibly a million dollars per family.
	Do you think that that might incentivize more people to come over illegally?
	If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah.
	But it's not true.
	So this is a garbage report?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	$450,000 per person.
	Is that what you're saying?
	That was separated from a family member at the border under the last administration.
	That's not going to happen.
	That's not going to happen.
	The ACLU then put out a statement and said, it's already happening.
	And then CNN, CNN was like, yeah, that's not true.
	Daniel Dale making a rare appearance on CNN these days to critique a Democrat.
	And he's like the man on the side of the milk carton that that that family of 11 is buying.
	He just he completely disappeared from CNN's airwaves for large swaths of time.
	Remember, he used to go out there and fire hose how much Trump was lying.
	And now only occasionally does he does he come out and note that Joe Biden is a horrible liar.
	The Wall Street Journal was correct not reporting garbage when it reported that the Biden administration is in discussions to settle lawsuits brought on behalf of families affected by the family separation policy.
	And the Wall Street Journal was correct in reporting that these settlement discussions include talks of possible financial compensation.
	In fact, White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said today at the White House briefing that President Biden is comfortable with financial compensation as long as it ends up saving taxpayers money and helps people turn the page from the horrors Okay, so that means Biden was lying.
	And by the way, the White House acknowledged it.
	Like, he's so out of it.
	He's not even a part of his own administration.
	Here's Corine Jean-Pierre saying this.
	The president is perfectly comfortable with the Department of Justice settling with the individuals and families who are currently in litigation with the U.S.
	government.
	You know, DOJ can obviously speak more to that process.
	The president was, what he was reacting to was the dollar figure that was mentioned, that you mentioned to him yesterday.
	As press accounts to date indicate, there's been press accounts on this, DOJ made clear to the plaintiffs that the reported figures are higher Okay, so there is the White House basically acknowledging that Joe Biden is full of it.
	Man's not in control of his own administration, but these are the elites, and so they must be in control of you.
	So a man who's not in control, as I've said, of his own bowels is going to be in control of every aspect of your life.
	And then you're supposed to trust the institutions, because they've demonstrated such fealty to principle over the past several years.
	Yeah, the blowback is coming and it's coming hard.
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