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Chris Cuomo is suspended from CNN indefinitely after new revelations about how he used his position to help his brother.
CNBC's Jim Cramer says Joe Biden should force vaccines on everyone.
And the Democrats still won't pay their bills.
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Alrighty, so the most trusted name in news has now, at long last, suspended Chris Cuomo.
And what's weird about the suspension of Chris Cuomo is it's not like we didn't know this stuff.
We've known for months and months and months that Chris Cuomo was basically advising his brother while simultaneously covering his brother on television with regard to COVID.
Again, we got the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with the governor, the LoveGov.
He literally called him his own brother, the LoveGov, on national TV while his brother was shipping COVID-positive elderly people back into nursing homes, killing all of them, and then suggesting that they had not died, or at least if they had died, they had not died inside nursing homes.
Underestimating the number of nursing home deaths by thousands in the state of New York.
He was not ousted from that position because he had killed all the old people in New York.
He was ousted from his position as governor because Letitia James, the very aggressive attorney general who had her eye on his gubernatorial mansion, decided to issue a report without a prosecution suggesting that he likes to play grab ass with every woman within a 32-mile radius.
And Chris Cuomo was trying to help his brother cover that up, track down some of the women who were making the accusations, spin the media on his behalf.
So there were new revelations that came out on this. Thanks again to Letitia James, whose unbridled ability to simply throw out chum in order to smear the guy so she can grab a seat.
It's pretty, it's pretty spectacular.
I will say it's pretty naked in its ambition.
Well, now Chris Cuomo is on the outs at CNN.
Why?
Because presumably he has smeared the level of trust you once held in CNN.
Now, let me just say this about trust, my trust in CNN.
Wait, you guys thought that, like, I trusted you guys?
Like, you think that this undermines my- Like, you- Really?
You think that for a huge number of Americans, their trust in CNN was shaken by Chris Cuomo hobnobbing with his brother?
Really?
Like, Don Lemon follows that guy on TV.
Anderson Cooper is on your network.
Jim Acosta is your White House reporter.
I'm pretty sure that our trust in CNN was relatively gone by the time we got to Chris Cuomo hanging out with his bro.
But you have to at least maintain appearances over at CNN.
And so now, CNN has suspended Cuomo over new details that were revealed this week about the amounts of help he allegedly provided to his brother.
They pretended these were all new revelations.
They really were not.
Here is CNN releasing its statement via Anderson Cooper, the wolf husky, who appears on that network nightly.
Here's a statement released tonight from a CNN spokesperson, quote, The New York Attorney General's Office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo's involvement in his brother's defense.
The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions.
The spokesperson continued, quote, when Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother's staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledge that publicly.
But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second.
However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother's efforts than we previously knew, the spokesperson added.
As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely pending further evaluation.
Okay, so they're just lying.
I don't believe them at all.
My guess is that they are lying even about this.
The baseline idiocy that they had no idea.
How involved Chris was is really, really silly.
They probably knew on a general level how involved Chris was.
The only thing that happened here is that it embarrassed them.
It embarrassed them, and so they decided to suspend him indefinitely.
For his part, Chris Cuomo has a radio show on SiriusXM.
He said, the game has rules.
One of the general principles is you can fight against the other party.
You can fight against the media, but only if you have your party.
Andrew had his party enforcing a rule against him that if you have accusations, you have problems.
You don't really get to vet the accusations.
You don't get to go against your accusers.
And Chris Cuomo said that his brother's resignation was forced in part because he had Republicans hating him and because the media never really liked him.
He said that was too much.
That's why he had to resign.
Yes, I'm sure it was the Republicans who forced it, Chris.
So it seems to me that there is only one way back into the good graces of CNN for Chris Cuomo.
He has to masturbate on a Zoom call in front of his colleagues.
That is the pathway back to glory, as we know from Jeffrey Toobin.
So, good news.
I feel like Chris Cuomo doesn't have tons of limits on that sort of stuff.
So, you never know.
You never know.
You might see him back on CNN sooner rather than later.
Meanwhile, other members of the media coming out in sort of quasi-defense of Chris Cuomo.
Sunny Hostin over on The View doing her best to try and rehabilitate the guy.
Do you think he did anything illegal?
I mean, does it feel... That I don't know.
You're the lawyer.
You tell me.
You know, that's the thing.
I think it comes down to it doesn't feel right.
It seems unseemly, right?
But is it illegal?
I don't think so.
I think he's a brother.
He wanted to help his brother.
I think certainly there is an ethical issue when it comes to journalism.
Oh, okay.
So yeah, he didn't commit a crime, so I guess it's okay now or something.
Remember, CNN spends every waking moment watching Fox News and covering the media malfeasance on Fox News.
So I wonder if last night they covered Fox News covering CNN completely imploding over Chris Cuomo, who again, they put on the air covering his own brother for like months and months and months in the middle of a pandemic where his brother was completely botching it in the state with the biggest outbreak in the country at the time.
Really impressive, impressive stuff.
And this again goes to the level of trust that Americans have in the media, which is to say almost none.
And that distrust is well justified at this point.
We'll get to more on that in just a moment.
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All righty, so again, the level of systemic distrust that we have in the media is well justified at this point.
Jason Reilly has a good piece over at the Wall Street Journal talking about how the media has suddenly discovered colorblindness again when it comes to walk-a-shop.
He says, in the aftermath of George Floyd's death last year, employers offered black workers time off to deal with the news.
UCLA suspended a professor who refused to grade his supposedly traumatized black students more leniently than their non-black peers.
Such gestures may have been well-meaning, but they were also nonsensical and reeked of condescension.
Are black psyches really this fragile?
Are blacks so starved for exemplars that miscreants must be treated like martyrs?
Should Floyd's death matter more to them than the huge number of black homicides that don't involve police?
And why would people who aren't black Be any less disturbed by a video showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of a defenseless suspect for nine minutes.
The protests that followed Floyd's death rested on two assumptions.
The first is that Floyd, a career criminal and drug addict, was somehow representative of Black America, which is not only false, but deeply insulting.
The second, says Jason Reilly, is that police acted out of racial animus, which has never been proven.
This is what happens when racial identity becomes the centerpiece of politics and public life in a multiracial democracy.
The political left often pretends to pine for a post-racial America, but that's the last thing it really wants.
People who are interested in a post-racial America don't name their organization Black Lives Matter or welcome racial propaganda like the 1619 Project into elementary schools.
They don't advocate racial preferences.
They don't call for white people who are never slaveholders to pay reparations to black people who are never slaves.
The Biden administration, says Jason Reilly, has picked up where Obama left off.
The unwarranted racialization of the Kyle Rittenhouse saga, which concerned one white man shooting three other white people, was a clumsy attempt by President Biden and his allies to further a narrative about bias in the criminal justice system.
The same press outlets that portrayed Rittenhouse as a white supremacist have had remarkably little to say about the racial identity of Daryl Brooks, the black suspect in Wisconsin who was accused of plowing his car through an annual Christmas parade last month and killing six people, including an eight-year-old boy, all of whom were white.
Given the suspect's history of posting messages on social media that called for violence against white people and praised Hitler for killing Jews, you'd think his race and the race of his victims would be relevant to reporters.
Race is all anybody would be talking about if a white man had slammed his vehicle into a parade full of black people.
Yet suddenly, the left has gone colorblind.
Liberals want us to believe that racial disparities in police shootings and incarceration rates stem from a bias system and have little to do with racial disparities in criminality.
They want to talk about so-called hate crimes that involve white assailants and black victims, but not those involving black assailants and white or Asian victims.
They want headlines to read, white cop shoots black suspect, even when there's no evidence the encounter was racially motivated.
This is playing with fire.
Says Glenn Lowry, the Brown University economist.
Once we go down this road and get into the habit of racializing such events, we may not be able to contain that racialization.
This, of course, is exactly right.
But this is why nobody trusts the media.
Because we can all see the agenda.
The agenda is absolutely crystal clear at this point.
Okay?
And the fact that it is so crystal clear is why it doesn't really matter if you get rid of Chris Cuomo.
You can get rid of all the Chris Cuomos.
It's not gonna matter.
We all know the game at this point.
It is not as though there is anything hidden here.
Meanwhile, transparency in the media is getting worse.
Twitter announced yesterday that they are going to ban sharing of private people's photos or videos without consent.
The social media platform says it will remove private media when it is reported by a person depicted or authorized representative.
We used to call that, in some cases, reporting.
Because what happens if you videotape some sort of incident in public that involves a private person?
And that incident is actually newsworthy.
So a lot of the video is not.
A lot of it's like, here's a Karen.
And the Karen isn't actually a Karen, it's just a lady who is walking her dog in Central Park or something.
And then calls the police because a guy is acting weird and threatening.
But some of these videos actually are kind of relevant.
But according to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter said users will no longer be able to share private media such as photos and videos of another person without their permission.
Twitter said the misuse of private media can affect everyone.
It can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.
So now we are now to believe that the widespread dissemination of videos that are newsworthy must be suppressed on behalf of women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.
This is not an unbiased free exchange of ideas public town hall.
Now it is just the elites at Twitter deciding what you should and should not see.
Twitter said it can take enforcement action when private media is posted without the consent of someone included in it.
It said the change is part of its work to align its safety policies with human rights standards and better prevent so-called doxxing the publishing of private information with malicious intent.
But this policy seems to be too broad.
Now, they are saying that the policy wouldn't apply to images or videos taken from large public events, like sporting events or protests, but how much newsworthy stuff happens that's not a sporting event or protest?
A lot.
Emerson Brookings, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, tweeted it's basically an anti-doxing rule, which is fine, but it's written so broadly, most anyone can lodge a complaint against anybody.
So, should you be concerned about the bottlenecking of information?
I am.
Especially because, again, all this does is it just means whoever has the biggest loudspeaker is the person who wins.
And if you control who can use that loudspeaker, it makes it very difficult to challenge the legacy media's narratives, which sort of seems to be the point.
Meanwhile, the media doing their best to rehabilitate the Biden administration, So the New York Times published a piece, I'm not kidding, called Jill Biden's White House Christmas Looks Very Normal.
You won't find any blood red trees this year.
This is the important stuff according to the media because remember that Melania Trump had put up some red trees and this of course was it showed that she was basically a child of the devil because of course the devil likes red and the Christmas trees were red and this means that she's very very bad but Jill Biden Who is a doctor, let me tell you.
She has put up regular Christmas trees and this means that she is an amazing person.
According to the New York Times, gone are the blood red trees, gone are the icy sparkling boughs and the imagery of a woman isolated in a winter wonderland or horror story Depending on your point of view.
In their place, white and red striped knit stockings with green heels dangling brightly from a hearth, family photos, handwritten thank you notes, and an arch of presents in bright red boxes.
The Biden White House Christmas decor unveiled on Monday isn't nearly as stylized or surreal as the Trump-endorsed looks that preceded them.
Oh, it's plenty cheerful and sparkly, but in the context of recent White House holiday styles, it's positively Accessible?
They're people of the people, don't you see?
Jill Biden is a person of the people.
She's one of you, the little people.
And her stylistic choices are a return to normalcy as opposed to the evil Trumps.
Remember when we had a booming economy and pretty much everybody was free to do what they wanted without masks and vaccine mandates and all that?
Yeah, that was bad because there were red Christmas trees.
Now there are green Christmas trees and everything is great.
According to the New York Times, in this, the White House is fully in line with the tactile, unpretentious image that the current first couple likes to project.
That's what they are.
They are tactile and unpretentious.
When I think about Jill and Joe Biden, I think about accessible people who are definitely people of the people, not People who got very wealthy off their political background and or sending their bagman hunter to trot around the globe picking up cash.
No, no, no.
They're like us.
They're like us.
Celebrities, they're just like you.
The president and first lady, just like us.
That's literally what it says.
I swear to God, I had not read that line, and now I just did, in the New York Times.
The President and First Lady, just like us, their home is your home, only a little more so.
It did, after all, require 6,000 feet of ribbon, over 300 candles, more than 10,000 ornaments, and about 78,750 holiday lights to dress the White House for the holidays, according to the Office of the First Lady.
That may sound extravagant, but like Dr. Jill Biden herself, I'm never going to get over the fact that the media acquiesce to Jill Biden's demand that they call her Dr. Jill based on her doctorate in education.
I'm never going to get over that.
Honest to God.
Can you imagine if Melania Trump had said, I need you to call me by X title, and the title was just something that had nothing to do with the actual role of, say, a doctor?
You think the media would have gone along with that?
Did they do with Dr. Sebastian Gorka?
Is that something they liked to do with Dr. Gorka?
But now it's like, oh, you know, Jill Biden insists we call her doctor, even though, man, if you're having a heart attack and Jill Biden approaches you, To give you a community college lecture, you are in serious trouble, my friend.
I love how they just go right along with it.
The propaganda, the Pravda wing of the Democratic Party here.
The New York Times says, that may sound extravagant, but like Dr. Jill Biden herself, whose unofficial job it is to oversee the declaration, the effect was rather homey.
Social media categorized it as normal.
Whether the response was complimentary or pejorative, it nodded to part of her husband's campaign self.
A return to normalcy after the turbulence and extremes of the Trump years.
Since his election, it's been an underlying theme, a foundational element of Build Back Better.
For the holidays, it's gifts from the heart.
Trillion dollar gifts from the heart.
That's why Christmas at the White House is such a useful moment of pageantry, says the New York Times, especially at a time when the usual communicative ceremonies of office, state dinners, White House tours are on hold.
I love the fact that they're telling you the substitute for things being normal, which they totally are, by the way, in large swaths of the country.
Down here in Florida, guess what?
Life's normal.
We ain't running things like Joe Biden's White House.
But up at the White House, everything is closed, and Joe Biden is still masking up occasionally in front of the cameras to demonstrate that he loves masks and then taking off cameras when he's actually not in camera view, he thinks.
But things are very abnormal there, but at least we have the look of normalcy inside the White House, says the New York Times.
Dr. Biden's office said she had been working on the decorations since late May.
Really?
Late May?
It's like November, man.
Really, it took you, it took you like, just counting the months here, it took you June, July, August, September, and October.
It took you five months, and most in November.
So it took you like six months to come up with decorations that just look like normal Christmas decorations?
Between this administration delegating their Secretary of Transportation in the middle of a supply chain crisis, To paternity leave.
To care for, I guess, his ailing husband who had suffered no actual physical harm in the birthing of the child.
And Dr. Joe Biden spending six months on Christmas decorations.
What do they do around there?
Aside from Joe Biden, like Edith Wilson, sort of I guess manipulating her husband's hand into signing papers.
Well, what exactly do they do around the White House?
That's useful.
Most people can relate.
one of the few widely shared or at least widely recognized rituals we have," says the New York Times.
That's useful.
Most people can relate.
It's why Melania Trump's choices caused so much controversy.
Some, especially late-night TV hosts, found her alley of unnatural trees alienating.
Others saw them as aspirational, if unachievable.
And it's why the fact that the Biden look is so unremarkable is itself worth remarking on, apparently over the course of several thousand words.
It's a hard balancing act to pull off, walking the fine line between fancy and folksy, between representing the Republic to the most polished degree and relating to the Republic, not just politically, but visually.
Yet it's a look that has come to define Dr. Biden's style.
As a person who has a wife, who went through medical school, I'm just gonna say it drives me up a wall.
I'm not gonna get over it, guys.
I'm just not.
They keep calling her Dr. Biden over and over and over in this article.
They've called her Dr. Biden more than I call my wife a doctor on this show, which is a hell of a lot.
The difference is my wife's an actual f***ing doctor.
It's a look that has come to define Dr. Biden's style, which can pretty much be summed up in the dress she wore to her Christmas hostess duties.
A short-sleeved, full-skirted, forest green, Oscar de la Renta number splashed with white magnolias.
That is a Woman of the People dress.
A similar style is available for $3,900 at Saks.
Woman of the People, $4,000 dress.
at Saks.
Woman of the people, $4,000 dress.
$4,000 dress.
Okay, we do well in my family, my wife being an actual doctor and all, and my wife has never worn a $4,000 dress unless we were talking about like her wedding.
And I'm pretty sure her wedding dress did not cost $4,000.
So she's just what, people of the people here.
They're, they're just, these are, the media are working overtime to try and spin and massage this administration into something worthwhile and they're having a hard time doing it.
But again, this is why When Chris Cuomo gets suspended at CNN, it's like, OK, what about all the rest of you?
All the rest of you?
It's like all the unbiased journalists who are not Chris Cuomo take one step forward.
Sorry, not so fast.
Any of you take one step back again.
Seriously.
Says the New York Times.
Like them, Dr. Biden understands the decoration of her house, of her person, is a tool at her disposal.
But unlike them, she's using it to normalize what is, by any account, an abnormal time.
Just like the way she's using tinsel and turtle doves.
They are secular expressions of the faith, family, and friendship described in the welcome letter of the commemorative 2021 White House Holiday Guide.
Everyday examples of the things, sometimes as simple as favorite shirt dresses and poinsettias.
Yes, nothing unites us like spending six months planning Christmas decorations while people can't get actual gifts for their kids for Christmas because of your supply chain crisis, can't pay for gas at the pump, are suffering from another round of COVID lockdowns.
But here's the thing, it's a return to normalcy because Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest of all doctors other than Dr. J, She has a $3,900 Oscar de la Renta dress, so she is a woman of the people.
Now, here's the thing.
None of this is going to play with the American public.
You can try to massage this into reality, media, but you're going to have a real problem because people are still feeling the fact that the country is in serious and dire trouble.
You know who knows this?
The White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain.
No matter the media's attempts to spin this administration into normalcy, they just can't do it.
Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, he admitted yesterday, we have a lot of problems on our hands.
Remember that time that Joe Biden promised to return to normalcy and then decided to govern like Bernie Sanders and wreck everything?
Yeah, that's not been good.
Joe Biden was elected to deal with the pandemic, to get the economy moving again.
We have work to do on both.
I'm not saying this is far from mission accomplished.
We still have too many people dying from COVID.
We still have problems with inflation, prices, gas prices.
We have a lot of work to do on both fronts, but we have made significant progress already, and we're going to make a lot more progress in the months ahead.
No, nobody believes this.
So what we've got right now is the media attempting to spin the Biden administration back into the realm of normalcy and completely failing at it.
And the way that they're going to try and spin the Biden administration back into normalcy is not the only way that you possibly could, which is, Joe, take your hands off the steering wheel.
Like really, your hands on the steering wheel are worse than no hands on the steering wheel.
Just let it go.
People are going to be okay.
If you just allow people to live their lives and go back to normal, everything will go back to normal.
You know how I know?
Because I live in a normal place.
Again, it's so funny because this show, you know, is listened to all over the country and internationally.
I get letters from different parts of the country and different parts of the globe.
And everybody who's living in a red state right now is going, I don't even know what Joe Biden and his chief of staff are talking about.
They're talking about shutting everything down.
They're talking about lockdowns.
They're talking about how everything is in crisis mode.
Where we are, it isn't.
The only crisis we see is at the pump.
The only crisis we see is in the supply chains.
The only crisis that we see is not enough people getting back into the workforce, all of which are the direct results of Joe Biden policies.
But when it comes to, like, everyday life?
Like, I went to a wedding last night.
Nobody was masked.
Nobody cares.
Everybody who wanted to vax is vaxed.
Everybody who's not vaxed is not vaxed.
End of story.
We all had a great time.
It was a fantastic wedding.
Everybody was dancing.
Everybody was eating.
It was wonderful.
We're all back to normal, and we don't care what Joe Biden has to say about it.
But because the media are invested not only in Joe Biden as a president, they don't care about Biden per se, because they're invested in a picture of top-down elite control solving all of your problems, they have to, every solution is a top-down elite control solution.
Which is why, as Omicron supposedly threatens the globe, you're having media members who are coming out and saying, I want top-down control, more top-down control.
Last night, for example, on CNBC, Jim Cramer started ranting about how Joe Biden should force every person in the United States to get vaccinated.
Yeah, good luck with that, dude.
The federal government needs to require vaccines, including booster shots, for everyone in America.
This charade must end.
The government must require vaccinations, not of this group or that group, not company by company, not cruise ship by cruise ship, or airline by airline, or governor by governor.
The buck stops at the White House.
So it's time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID.
Require vaccination universally.
Have the military run it.
If you don't want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your conscientious objector status in court.
And even then, you need to help in the war effort by staying home until we finally beat this thing.
Okay, what does beat this thing constitute to you, Jim Cramer?
Because you know what I noticed about this variant?
It didn't start in the United States.
It started in, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, South Africa.
Which, as it turns out, is quite far away from the United States, where they have a vaccination rate of something like 27%.
There are vast swaths of Earth right now where people don't have the vaccine.
In fact, one of the controversies over the booster is why we are boosting 18-year-olds when we could actually be using those doses to vaccinate people in the third world.
And by the way, all of this panic is completely overwrought.
It is completely 100% overwrought.
I'm gonna read you two stories now, demonstrating how overwrought it is.
One is from Dr. Angelique Koetze, who's the chair of the South African Medical Association and a GP of 33 years standing.
She says this, nothing has prepared me for the extraordinary global reaction that met my announcement this week.
I had seen a young man in my surgery who had a case of COVID that turned out to be the Omicron variant.
This version of the virus had been circulating in Southern Africa for some time, having previously been identified in Botswana.
But given my public-facing role, by announcing its presence in my own patient, I unwittingly brought it global attention.
Quite simply, I've been stunned at the response, and especially from Britain.
Let me be clear.
Nothing I have seen about this new variant warrants the extreme action the UK government has taken in response to it.
No one in South Africa is known to have been hospitalized with Omicron, nor is anyone here believed to have been fallen seriously ill with it.
This is the person who discovered it.
And she's like, no one's ill.
No one's in the hospital.
What the F are you all talking about?
She says, yet Britain and other European nations have reacted with heavy travel restrictions on flights from across southern Africa, as well as imposing tighter rules at home on mask wearing fines and quarantines.
The simple truth is we don't know anywhere near enough about Omicron to make such judgments or to impose such policies.
We've been accustomed here to new COVID variants.
So when our scientists discovered yet another, nobody made a huge thing of it.
Many people didn't even notice.
This is the person who discovered it.
She's the head of the South African Medical Association.
And she's like, um, guys, no one's sick.
It doesn't matter.
Our media and the Western media in general have to incentivize politicians toward control.
It is about the control at this point.
By the way, here's another story.
This one from Israel.
Okay, there are indications that individuals fully vaccinated against Corona within six months or with the booster are also protected against Omicron, according to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
Another two cases were identified in Israel, bringing the total caseload to four.
By the way, they've not released data so far on whether if you've had two doses, you're also safe.
But here's what we know.
If you are young and you've had two doses, generally speaking against Delta, for example, the booster only very, very mildly increases your protection against the virus in terms of hospitalization and death.
It increases your non-infection rate, but you weren't going to die or get hospitalized anyway.
If you had two doses in your 20, you're pretty much good to go.
And there's no evidence to suggest that Omicron is somehow so much more deadly or hospital worthy than Delta when it comes to people who have had two doses and who are young.
If you're over 60, you should have gotten boosted anyway.
If you're under 40, you should probably get the vaccine.
If you are between the ages of like 18 and 40, if you're like five.
Okay, but again, Omicron is not the issue here.
The issue here is when you have a problem in the world and you have suggested, it's your own damn fault, when you guys keep suggesting over and over, you have the solutions, and then it turns out you can't solve the problem, you've made a George H.W.
Bush, read my lips, no new taxes pledge, except about everything.
You've done, read my lips, no new lockdowns, read my lips, no new mandates, read my lips, no new disease, read my lips, economic recovery.
You're not making any of those things happen, my friends.
And no matter how much the media try to spin in favor of you having more control, we don't want to give you more control because you're a failure.
You guys are failures.
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Okay, so you've got CNBC's Jim Cramer calling for the authoritarian notion that we are going to force every person in the United States to vax.
That is not going to do it.
It's not going to happen.
Okay, again, Omicron does not change the ballgame so far as we know.
And it's still not clear whether young people need a booster at all.
Again, former FDA officials are still not convinced.
They wrote in the Washington Post yesterday, they said, quote, the data does not show every healthy adult should get a booster.
Indeed, the push for boosters for all could actually prolong the pandemic.
First, such a campaign diverts focus away from the goal of persuading the unvaccinated to get their shots.
Second, and relatedly, exaggerated descriptions of the waning efficacy of the vaccines undermine public confidence in them.
Some people may be less likely to accept vaccines they regard as less effective than originally advertised.
That happens to be true.
Also, if you keep extending fully vaccinated to, like, third booster shots, fourth booster shots, you're gonna get a drop-off rate.
Like, I was number one in line to get the vaccines.
Yeah, I love the vaccines.
I think that they are a medical miracle.
I got the vaccines, like, as soon as I possibly could.
Back in February, like, I got the vaccines.
And, um, am I all that interested in getting a booster?
Not particularly.
Because I don't see a real necessity to do it.
I'm 37 years old, thank God, in excellent health, and, um, my parents are already triple-vaxxed.
So I feel no great necessity to go get boosted.
But, again, it's about the control.
It's about the idea that they can control something that they can't control.
And they must have the panic.
So you have the NIH director calling for greater alarm over Omicron.
Who hired these doo-fi?
I'm reading these South African doctors who said that these are mild cases.
They cause fatigue and that's about it.
A lot of people being treated at home.
I see no great cause for alarm based on that early reporting.
What am I missing about this story?
So I've been on Zoom calls with the leaders of the South African public health system.
They're worried that that may have been a premature declaration of mildness of the illness because most of the early cases were in college students who tend not to get very sick anyway.
So let's hold off on that before concluding that this is not a virus that can cause people to get sick enough to be in the hospital.
Okay, I just want to pause for a moment on the fact that he says college students don't really get sick from this.
He's right.
But are you allowed to say that now?
Are we allowed to say that?
Because I've been told that we're not allowed to say that, even though that's 100% true.
So he's saying we need to worry more, worry more.
The Biden administration is worrying more because, again, they have to keep that implicit promise that they can control all bad things in life.
According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration is preparing stricter testing requirements for all travelers entering the United States, including returning Americans, to curb the spread of potentially dangerous Omicron, according to three federal health officials, as part of an enhanced winter COVID strategy.
It's like pumpkin spice latte or something.
It's an enhanced winter cup strategy.
So if you go abroad as an American, they will force you to get a test, even if you're vaxxed.
everyone entering the country to be tested one day before boarding flights regardless of Vax status or country of departure. So if you go abroad as an American they will force you to get a test even if you're vaxed and by the way even if you come up negative they're gonna force you to quarantine.
Administration officials are considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival and it would require all travelers including US.
citizens, to self-quarantine for seven days, even if their results are negative.
And if you flat the requirements, you would be subject to fines and penalties.
So if you are an American and you travel abroad for business, you have to get tested before you get back on the plane.
If you end up positive, you can't get on the plane.
If you end up negative, they will still force you to quarantine when you come back into the United States for seven days after getting the vaccine.
And this is their way of doing what exactly?
Seriously, what?
Nothing that you guys have done in this entire pandemic has stopped the spread of the virus.
It's endemic.
There is no herd immunity for it.
It's endemic.
It's changing.
There are new variants.
It's like the flu.
Have we done any of this crap for the flu?
No, because it's ineffective.
It's not useful.
But again, the promise of the media is that these people can solve all your problems and they cannot solve all your problems.
This is the problem.
And so what do you have?
Now you have the media trying to gin up enthusiasm for this stuff by suggesting that Americans are all deeply worried.
Here's the thing.
We're not.
We're not, okay?
Most of us are just not.
We're ready to go back to life.
Virtually all Americans who are not living under the thumb of blue governments are ready to go back to real life and already have, months ago.
My family and I, we've been living free and easy here in the state of Florida since we moved here.
That was October of 2020.
And we've been living super free and easy since February, March, when everyone in my family was fully vaxxed.
Since then, four sheets to the wind, man.
And guess what?
That is most people who are of any rational mind at this point.
But it is so much about the media.
It's so much about the media.
The message is always that we, the elites, must control you.
And so you end up with pieces like this, quote.
This is from the Washington Post.
Children five and older now have a coronavirus vaccine, but many parents of younger children are still anxiously waiting.
Are they, though?
Are they?
So I have three children, seven, five, one and a half.
Um, have I been anxiously waiting for the vaccine?
Again, I'm a huge fan of the vaccines.
Have I been anxiously waiting?
No, because I can read data.
You think I'm, like, anxious to jab my one-and-a-half-year-old with a COVID vaccine that has not been sufficiently tested on small children, that has no longitudinal data whatsoever to prevent my tiny baby from getting a disease that will do nothing to her by the stats?
Like, who are these people?
So this is what the media do.
They find a couple of anecdotes of paranoid crazies, and they're like, these people have been desperately waiting for a vaccine, and until these people can get vaccinated, you must mask up, and your children must mask up, and we must all panic.
According to Lindsey Bever at the Washington Post, even with the recent authorization of a COVID vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, many parents and grandparents are still in limbo, anxiously awaiting shots for younger children.
When's the last time in human history, seriously, that parents and grandparents were like, you know what we have to do?
We have to jab our babies to protect us.
You know how ridiculous that sounds?
It should sound ridiculous because it is ridiculous.
All you guys have been able to get the vax.
The hell are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
Although children are less likely to suffer disease, says the Washington Post, they can still contract and transmit the virus to others.
Those who test positive must quarantine, and children may even have to stay home from daycare or preschool when their classmates become ill after exposure to the virus.
This forces parents to find alternative child care or take time off from work to care for them, which some families say has become common.
Well, there's only one problem.
Even if you get the vax, people are still passing the virus.
And by the way, that decision that if you, if a kid in your class tests positive, everybody has to go home, that is a policy decision.
It is not a realistic science-based decision.
No one does this with the flu.
No one does this with colds.
And when you're talking about diseases that affect kids are sick all the time.
I have three of them.
They're always sick.
The chances at any given time during a year that one of my kids is sick is 193%.
This is true for every parent, but we're supposed to act like crazies.
Why?
Because you got a bunch of paranoid parents who will talk to the Washington Post.
Diana Joaquim, a 31-year-old in Columbus, Ohio and mother of a 2-year-old said, quote, It's nice that 5 to 11-year-olds have this option, but we're just sort of sitting here and twiddling our thumbs and thinking, when are we going to be protected?
When can we keep our son safe and ourselves safe?
Now.
Now is when you can do it.
Because your kid is too.
Your kid is safe.
What in the?
If you generate enough panic among people, you can control them until the end of time.
You can control them and control them and control them.
And this is the theme.
The media will do this on everything from COVID to finances.
We'll get to finances in just one second.
They're doing the same routine.
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All righty, so meanwhile, the media, which again, they have a vested interest in the idea that the government solves all of your problems.
They are fighting mad that there are members of the government who actually would like the government to butt out of your business.
So right now, the Republicans are considering the possibility of pushing the Democrats to get rid of the VAX mandate in order so they can pass their new debt ceiling increase.
Hey, this is a good idea because frankly, Democrats need to have their feet held to the fire on this.
The Democrats have been embracing these VAX mandates via OSHA.
They've not been forced to a vote on it yet.
And so the Democrats who had like pretty much six weeks to figure out this whole reconciliation debt ceiling thing, and then they just didn't do it.
They waited until the last minute, again.
And now Republicans are holding them.
They're squeezing them.
No, no, no.
They're not plotting to force a government shutdown.
They're plotting to force the end of the vaccine mandate.
down Friday in an effort to defund the Biden administration's vaccine mandate.
No, no, no, they're not plotting to force a government shutdown.
They're plotting to force the end of the vaccine mandate.
And Biden can choose.
Capitalizing on a last minute scramble to fund the government, a group of Senate conservatives is planning to object to quick consideration of a stopgap measure to extend funding into early 2022, unless Democratic leaders agree to deny money to enforce the mandate.
Because of the tight schedule and Senate rules that require unanimous consent to move quickly, the Senators believe they will be able to drag out the process well past midnight Friday when funding officially expires.
Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah.
Full disclosure, I'm friendly with Senator Lee because he's a terrific senator, because I'm sure we would all like to simplify the process for resolving the CR, but I can't facilitate that without addressing the VAX mandates.
Given that federal courts across the country have raised serious issues with these mandates, it's not unreasonable for my Democratic colleagues to delay enforcement of the mandates for at least the length of the continuing resolution.
It's unclear how many Senate conservatives are willing to follow through on the shutdown threat, but apparently, 15 Republicans have signed a letter spearheaded by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas in early November, vowing to use all means at our disposal to block passage of a continuing resolution that doesn't stop implementation of a VAX mandate.
Now, here's the thing.
If Democrats had started on the continuing resolution three weeks ago, they'd be fine.
They didn't.
They waited until the last moment.
again, because Democrats have no intention of actually preventing a government shutdown.
They just want to spend all the money and rope Republicans into approving it.
They did this last time.
Republicans gave them another, another stay of execution.
And then Mitch McConnell said, we're not doing this again.
And Democrats were like, well, what if we just push it to the last minute again?
The strategy, according to Politico, means the government will likely shut down for several days, even if appropriators strike a bipartisan agreement to extend funding by the end A Senate Democratic leadership staffer told Playbook, without an agreement to truncate the timeline, the Senate would need at least five days to process the continuing resolution.
That would mean a brief shutdown ending Sunday at the earliest, but possibly dragging into next week if a deal is not reached today.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared to nod to the possibility of trouble, seeking to preemptively blame the GOP.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell predicted Tuesday we won't shut down, arguing, quote, nobody should be concerned about a government shutdown.
The issue came up in the Senate GOP lunch on Tuesday.
So here's the thing.
The Democrats control both houses of Congress.
So all they have to do to prevent a government shutdown is they could initiate the continuing resolution today and use reconciliation.
Use one of the bullets in their chamber to simply pass the continuing resolution.
You'd have a government shutdown that lasts about 24 hours without Republican approval.
Yeah, they could do that.
Or they could try to drag this out on behalf of a VAX mandate that is increasingly unpopular with the American public.
So Chuck Todd, of course, you know which side he's going to come down on.
He's going to come down on the side of, I love VAX mandates, and I also love Democrats.
And so Republicans are the problem here, even though Democrats run both the House and the Senate.
Here is Chuck Todd over on MSNBC.
Aren't all members of Congress, folks, come on members of Congress, aren't you embarrassed by the silliness of this debt limit thing that we go through, this shenanigan?
Just shame on all of you.
Shame.
Come on.
Particularly Republicans.
You're playing games this time.
I know the Democrats play games, but enough of this.
This is stupid.
Enough of it.
Enough.
It's so stupid.
It's stupid.
Really because the Democrats did it when Republicans were in office.
They also negotiated over the debt ceiling.
It's pretty common, politics, at this point.
And Democrats can move forward with this anytime they want.
But they were the ones who decided to delay all of this.
Specifically so they can then try and blame Republicans for it.
Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, says, oh, we have to pay our bills.
We have to pay our bills.
Oh, I have an idea how you could pay your bills, you know, a great way.
Not spending trillions more dollars all the damn time.
That would be a good way to start paying your bills.
There are two decisions facing Congress that could send our economy in very different directions.
The first is the debt limit.
I cannot overstate how critical it is that Congress address this issue.
America must pay its bills on time and in full.
If we do not, we will eviscerate our current recovery.
Um, so I, again, would recommend a little fiscal responsibility would go a long way here.
At no point has Janet Yellen suggested perhaps we should spend a little bit less money.
In fact, Janet Yellen lies.
She says the Build Back Better won't increase the national debt, despite the fact the CBO says precisely the opposite.
Build Back Better is the right economic decision for many reasons.
It will, for example, end the child care crisis in this country, letting parents return to work.
These investments we expect will lead to a GDP increase over the long term without increasing the national debt or deficit by a dollar.
Okay.
These people lie.
They lie, they lie, they lie.
And then they're like, oh yes, by the way, we need to pay our debts.
They're just liars.
They're just liars.
But here's the thing.
The media continue to lie for them, continue to cover up for them.
These are the normal people.
These are the people who should be in control of your life.
It ain't about Chris Cuomo.
It's about all of you.
All of you.
And you know what?
Keep doing it.
Because frankly, we here at The Daily Wire, we are happy to eat your lunch as more and more people continue to look elsewhere for better sources of news.
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