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Year One: Biden Already The Worst President Ever | Ep. 1415
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Joe Biden is one year into his presidency and it is a full-fledged disaster on every single level.
Can he pull out of the tailspin?
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Alrighty, so folks, year one of the Biden administration is now in the books.
One year ago, the President of the United States was inaugurated.
He was handed a working vaccine.
He was handed a distribution plan for that.
He was handed peace in the Middle East.
He was handed a fairly stable situation in Afghanistan.
He was handed a Russia and Chinese move that had been largely blocked.
Russia and China were at least somewhat stagnant.
And all of this was really easy.
Like if you go back and you listen to my predictions for Joe Biden, here's what I said when he was inaugurated.
I said that for the first two years, we'd have a pretty easy time of it because the economy was going to go into a natural recovery.
We had had an artificial coma for the economy.
We were already coming out of it by Q4 of 2020.
And certainly 2021 was going to be a massive boom year followed by 2022, which would also be a massive boom year.
And almost nothing Joe Biden could do could stop that.
Well, wrong I was.
It turns out that Joe Biden could, in fact, stop that.
Joe Biden was handing peace in the Middle East.
And I said, I'm not sure how he can really screw that up because it's not like the Iranians are on the verge of signing a deal with the United States.
How can you screw that up?
Well, he has somehow managed to screw that up as well.
I said, you know, Joe Biden, even Joe Biden, isn't stupid enough.
To be weak with China and Russia.
I mean, at least Joe Biden is going to be somewhat tough.
Yeah.
So here is the thing.
Joe Biden has had the worst first year of any president in American history.
Any president in American history.
There are only two exceptions.
William Henry Harrison, because he was dead after 40 days because he went out in the rain and then got pneumonia and died.
And James Garfield, who was shot to death.
Those are the only two dudes who had a worse time of it than Joe Biden in his first year.
There are other presidents who have had bad first years.
Don't get me wrong.
Herbert Hoover was hit with the Great Depression in 1929.
And then his response was bad.
But that was an extraneous circumstance that impacted his presidency.
That was something unexpected.
Right?
That was a circumstance that sort of fell on him.
Same thing with Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's first year, half the country seceded.
That really wasn't because of Abraham Lincoln.
That wasn't his fault.
He was handed a really bad situation.
Year one of the George W. Bush administration, you get September 11th.
Joe Biden hasn't had any of those things.
Joe Biden was handed peace.
Joe Biden was handed a track, a natural track to prosperity.
All he had to do was be what he already was, which was a dead person.
That's all he had to do.
Ironically, if Joe Biden had had William Henry Harrison's first year, he'd still be a popular president.
Because Joe Biden was elected to be not alive.
He was elected to be a houseplant, as I say, a barely alive thing that doesn't speak very much and blocks the water stains.
That's pretty much all he was there to do, president houseplant.
And somehow he's managed to blow this in historic fashion.
It is the greatest self-inflicted wound I have ever seen a president commit.
And that includes President Trump.
President Trump spent several years completely undermining the accomplishments of his own administration because he couldn't stop his fingers from hitting buttons on Twitter.
Okay, but here's the thing.
Trump was unpopular the day he came into office.
Joe Biden was wildly popular when he came into office.
And somehow, Joe Biden has managed to make himself an extraordinarily unpopular president.
To the point where Quinnipiac polls, yeah, they're slight outliers, but only slight.
Have them in the low 30s.
I mean, let's look at the presidential approval ratings for, for example, Donald Trump.
Okay, we'll use Trump.
That's the contrast point because of course, according to the left, Trump was the worst president in America.
Okay, so right from the outset, Donald Trump did not have one day of his presidency where he was in the black in his approval rating.
He did not have one net positive day in his presidency where he was on top in the approval rating.
Day one, Day one, he was almost even.
He was like 45% positive, 45% negative.
And immediately, within like the first couple of weeks, he had shifted to 49% negative and like 46% positive.
And then he just kind of stayed there for his entire presidency.
He had some ups, he had some downs.
When it was really bad, he had up to 58% of people disliking him and 39% of people liking him.
But by the end of his first year, he was riding about 54% disapproval and 42% approval.
He was underwater by 10 points, 12 points by the end of his first year.
And now, here is Joe Biden's approval rating.
This is unbelievable.
It really is.
It's incredible.
So he starts off with a 55%, 56% approval rating.
Only 36% of Americans say they disapprove of Joe Biden.
And pretty quickly, you start to see these lines narrow.
But they're not narrowing to the point where he's anywhere near negative territory.
By the time you hit the end of July, he's kind of around 45% disapproved, but he's still got 51% approval rating.
There's a swing of about three points on average.
A mild decrease in his approval rating.
And then comes Afghanistan.
Which is when the President of the United States decides to shoot his entire administration directly in the face.
And when I say shoot his administration in the face, what I really mean is get 13 American service people killed, abandon 19 million women to abject sex slavery, and allow a bunch of 8th century barbarian cavemen to overrun a country and take all of America's leftover military equipment.
It turns out Americans don't like that sort of thing.
And so Joe Biden's disapproval rating now spikes into the plurality position of the American people.
By the time you hit September, which is exactly when this happens, right?
The end of August, the beginning of September, you see this giant spike in the disapproval rating over the course of late August.
By the time you hit the beginning of September, Joe Biden is now at 48% disapprove and 48% approve.
And then it just gets worse.
It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse for Joe Biden.
So this is the thing.
Donald Trump started off bad and he ended bad in terms of the disapproval rating.
Joe Biden started off really popular and is really, really unpopular right now because he's crappy at this job.
He is just garbage at this job.
As Barack Obama once famously stated, don't underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.
Don't underestimate it.
Again, look back at the Trump chart for just one moment because the swing is what matters here.
The swing here is from about 45% approve and 45% disapprove to 52% disapprove.
So that is about a seven point swing, right?
45 to 52 over the course of year one.
Seven point swing in the negative direction for President Trump over the course of year one.
Now look again at the Joe Biden chart.
This Joe Biden chart shows a swing from 56% approve to 42%, a 14 point negative swing.
So Trump got 7 points less popular over the course of his first year.
Joe Biden got 14% less popular over the course of his first year.
That's how bad this guy is at this.
He's just awful.
And we're going to go through where things stand.
Year one of the Biden.
And all of this is self-inflicted, guys.
This is all because Joe Biden is an incompetent buffoon.
It's because, as Nate Silver suggests, it's not that Joe Biden was ever a moderate.
It's just that Joe Biden was always dead center of the Democratic Party.
And the Democratic Party has gone completely nuts.
The Democratic Party's entire theory of politics is that everything was crazy because of just Trump.
If it weren't for Trump, we'd be back to normal.
Trump was insane, and it was all about the affect.
It was all about the tweeting, and all about the attitude, and all about the crazy jokes, and all about the bleeding from whatever, and all that kind of stuff.
And this led them to believe that so long as the President of the United States didn't say things like that, they could do anything they wanted, and people would just be like, well, I guess things are still sane.
No.
Wrong.
It turns out there are two forms of political crazy.
One form of political crazy is going out there and ripping on Mexican judges for no reason.
And that's kind of like mildly political crazy because most people are just like, that's it.
You know, that's kind of nutty behavior, but it has no impact on my life.
Then there's true political craziness, which is boys should be girls and girls should be boys.
Everybody who disagrees with me wants Jim Crow.
What if we pour money onto a gasoline fire of inflation?
And what if we just surrender to China and Russia?
What if we just give Afghanistan to the Taliban?
Just give it to them.
For no reason.
Here, have Afghanistan.
That's a form of crazy that has real impact on people's lives as opposed to, you know, the bad tweets.
And Democrats failed to recognize that.
They thought so long as they slapped a kindly old face on an insane agenda, everything would be fine.
Wrongo!
And it turns out all that happens is that people begin to realize that the kindly old face ain't so kindly when the agenda is really nefarious.
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Okay, so.
Joe Biden is having a terrible, terrible first year.
Mark Thiessen has a very good column over at the Washington Post all about this.
He says, this is the lived reality millions of Americans are facing a year after a year of Biden's presidency.
Inflation has reached a 40-year high, and we have a massive labor shortage with more than 10 million unfilled jobs.
Biden signed a partisan $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill in March.
And when Omicron arrived, there weren't enough coronavirus tests or therapeutics.
Schools are closing again.
Emergency room visits for suspected suicide attempts by adolescent girls have jumped 51% from 2019 to 2021.
At least 12 major cities broke annual homicide records in 2021.
We are experiencing the worst border crisis in American history, and a surge of deadly fentanyl crossing the southern border has helped fuel an increase of 30% in overdose deaths in the past year.
The disastrous retreat from Afghanistan projected weakness on the world stage and emboldened Russia to amass troops along its border with Ukraine, putting us on the knife's edge of a land war in Europe.
And while Biden promised in his inaugural address to put his whole soul into uniting the country, he just gave a speech comparing millions of Americans to segregationists and traitors.
Yeah, that's that's a pretty bad record.
That's a pretty bad record.
Now, Biden is trying to happy talk his way through this thing.
He's doing the Obama routine, which is the people just don't understand him.
This is Obama's routine.
Every time he did something unpopular, like, well, I just didn't explain it well enough.
The American people, if they understood what I was doing, they would love it.
And the American would be like, no, we, we understand just what you were doing and we do not love it as it, as it turns out.
And then you get the same routine from Biden.
Well, if I just, ah, come on, you know, you know, ma'am, if you help me explain these policies, then shabba shabba.
Come on up here, Kamala.
Like, oh, yeah, this is, that's going to work.
Even Elizabeth Warren, who is full-fledged terrible at this, the chief Biden critic from the left in the Senate, even Elizabeth Warren.
How bad is she?
She, she, um, even she can't answer if Joe Biden is up to the job.
She's asked like, is Joe Biden up to the job, up for the job?
And she had reservations.
Let me ask you about 2024.
Do you believe that President Biden is up for the job?
President Biden is running for re-election.
I expect to support him.
His approval ratings are some of the lowest that they've been for a very long time.
I understand that.
But remember, we've just finished the first quarter.
We're just starting into the second quarter here.
So we've got a lot of time, a lot of work in front of us.
I love that.
So you think he's up for the job?
Well, he is running for re-election.
So is he good at this?
Well, There's time.
And time exists.
I like how they flash his approval rating on the screen there.
According to that CBS News poll, by the way, he's gone from 61% approval to 44%.
Oww-wee!
D'oh!
Yeah, those are not good numbers, gang.
Those are really bad numbers.
So, the good news is, the White House has found a reason to pivot.
They want to pivot.
Pivot!
They're like Ross in the stairwell with the couch.
Pivot!
We have to pivot!
According to NBC News, White House plots public reset as Biden's agenda fails.
I love this.
I love it so much.
Every time the newspapers start talking about how a politician needs to reset, how a politician needs to rejigger their comms, what they really mean is this politician is super bad at it.
This is what you hear from Kamala Harris's team every 20 minutes.
Like, almost on the dot.
They just set a timer on their watch.
Like, oh, it's been 20 minutes.
Time to reset Kamala's comms strategy.
And Kamala's over in the corner saying, it is time to do what we have always done, and time is with a clock.
And her team's like, okay, it's been 20 minutes.
Time to reset that comms.
She's over in the corner like, ah!
Guys, it isn't the comms!
You're bad at this!
It's not your communication strategy.
It's that your policies suck!
They're bad!
They're bad!
I mean, Joe Biden's entire comms strategy during his campaign was, what if I sit in a basement and eat oatmeal and watch Matlock and he won?
Okay, so, like, it's not about the comms.
It's about you sucking at this.
I'm not sure you could be worse at this if you tried to be bad at it.
It's incredible.
We'll get to that story in a second about the attempted rejiggering of the Biden's comms strategy.
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It's a reset, guys!
Biden's reset plan, senior administration officials said, is to make his conversations with members of Congress less of a public priority, and to emphasize spending more time communicating directly with Americans.
Yeah, that's going to go well, because he's done a great job of that so far.
You know, every week he gets on your TV and falls asleep.
He gets on your TV, he's like, uh, COVID is, and the unvaxxed are, let's, let's hit them with my, with my walker.
I'm going to hit them with my walker.
And America's like, that's not, he didn't, that's not good.
He's like, well, if you don't, you don't like that, here I am on your TV again.
And I think that you want to re-enslave black people.
And it's a, nope, not doing it.
Not that that's, that's not helping Joe.
What if I, what if I say that, that you guys are basically Hitler?
No, this isn't going to work.
Joe Biden is a bad communicator.
He's very, very bad at this.
This is the part that's so funny.
He's a master communicator.
The dude ran for president 83 times.
He lost all of the times.
The only reason anyone even knows Joe Biden's name right now, other than as the foolish, plagiaristic senator who had to drop out of a presidential race once and got shellacked every other time he ran, and was a senator from a state that is mainly run by credit card companies.
The only reason anyone has ever heard of Joe Biden is because Barack Obama needed a buffoonish old white man to be his vice president.
And sometimes I say that that Kamala Harris was an affirmative action pick because she was because Joe Biden said I need a black woman.
Joe Biden was also an affirmative action pick.
Barack Obama was like, what if I just take a staid old white man said I look moderate.
That was pretty much his agenda.
And Joe Biden continued to fail upward.
The only reason that Joe Biden is president right now is because Barack Obama picked him for his vice president.
And then his main competition in a Democratic primary was a senile old communist.
And then his main competition in the presidential race was a guy who just blurred all over Twitter every two minutes.
Like that is the only reason that this idiot is president of the United States.
And they're like, well, what if he talked more to the American?
You go for it, man.
Put him on the TVs every day.
More of him.
He does a spectacular job.
First rule of holes.
Stop digging.
But Joe Biden is out there with a spade digging just all the way to China.
There is a recognition we need to change the dynamic, a senior administration official told NBC News, adding that Biden has told aides and lawmakers he intends to make the shift.
There's nothing that Joe Biden does better than sticking and moving.
That's what he's great at.
Part of the goal is to shed the growing image that Biden is approaching the presidency like a member of the Senate, where he spent more than three decades.
He's mindful he doesn't want to send the message his role is to be legislator-in-chief, another senior administration official said.
Biden's advisors are looking at a variety of ways for him to engage more with Americans, officials said.
There's no agreement yet about what the alternatives might entail.
He can only eat ice cream so many times.
He can only run naked after his dog from the shower, like, so many times.
While there is unity among advisors about having Biden talk to more people directly, another official said, there's no agreement about whether the effort will work.
No, there is.
It's not going to work.
I'm just going to put it.
It's not going to work.
Spoiler alert, Joe Biden talking to humans, not a thing that works.
Changing the White House strategy to engage more directly with Americans is an evergreen reset plan that has been activated by previous presidents who have found themselves in politically precarious moments.
For Biden, that moment has arrived earlier than his team expected after early momentum from his sweeping safety net bill.
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said, Yeah, the problem is that Biden can't talk anymore.
has frustrations and drops in the polls, the president will say, it's now time for me to talk over the heads of the elites and talk directly to the people to convince them that what I'm trying to do is right. Yeah, the problem is that Biden can't talk anymore.
He just grunts and makes noises.
Biden has struggled to gain his footing on the coronavirus pandemic, which he promised to get under control and ultimately defeat.
He's also been hampered by the collapse of Build Back Better.
While some of Biden's aides have expressed concern, they're very concerned that he has seemingly bogged down at the White House, giving too many one-dimensional speeches from Washington instead of showcasing what they see as his greatest political strength, empathy, and an ability to connect with ordinary Americans.
That is gone.
He blew it up.
It's over for him.
And this is why he's not going to recover.
The reason he's not going to recover is because once you blow the empathy line, it ain't coming back.
Once it has been revealed that you care less about American soldiers dying in Afghanistan than you reaching a pullout by an arbitrary date so that you can celebrate yourself as some sort of grand peacemaker, which is what happened in Afghanistan, that ain't coming back.
Joe Biden, Captain Empathy was always bullcrap, but it certainly is not coming back now.
And when he started defending his action in Afghanistan, And dead service members in Afghanistan?
By citing the fact that his son died of brain cancer?
Like, no.
None of that works, and it ain't coming back, and it is over for him.
He's still gotta be president for three years, but that guy is a lame duck right now.
And by the way, that lame duckery has consequences, as it turns out.
He is failing on every single front.
Remember, Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2012 suggested when Mitt Romney said that the greatest geopolitical threat the United States faced was Russia.
Joe Biden said that the 1980s called and they wanted their foreign policy back.
Well, now Russia is about to invade Ukraine.
Russia has 100,000 troops on the borders of Ukraine.
They're openly threatening Ukraine.
And Joe Biden's own White House is like, yeah, they could invade at any moment.
We really have no plans.
Do you think the threat of invasion is getting higher or lower?
Well, I think as I noted a few minutes ago, we believe we're now at a stage where Russia could at any point launch an attack on Ukraine.
I would say that's more stark than we have been.
More stark?
Well, I mean, now that you've said it, problem solved, right guys?
Tony Blinken is being sent to meet his Russian counterpart as the White House is warning that Moscow could attack Ukraine at any point.
And given Antony Blinken's stellar record of being terrible at literally everything he touches, I'm sure this will end really, really well.
I'm sure he's going to do a great job.
Yeah, not so much.
Not so much.
Again, every wound that this administration is suffering from is a wound they inflicted themselves.
They made all this happen.
This is not, again, some sort of extraneous circumstance that crashed down upon their heads like the Civil War upon Lincoln or like the Great Depression on Herbert Hoover.
Every single thing that has happened right now that is damaging this administration is the fault of this administration.
It's unprecedented.
It really is incredible.
We'll get to more of it in just one second.
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OK, so Tony Blinken, the greatest of all secretaries of state, has now been deployed over to talk with the Russians.
According to The Washington Post, Secretary of State Blinken will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Friday in an effort to resolve the standoff over Ukraine, with U.S.
officials warning a Russian invasion could be imminent.
The meeting will follow a week of intense diplomacy as the top U.S.
diplomat heads to Ukraine and Germany for discussions on the crisis, the State Department said.
Adding urgency to Blinken's talks is Russia's fresh deployment of troops to Belarus to conduct major military exercises that will further strengthen the number of Russian forces along Ukraine's border.
The troop movements, coupled with statements from Moscow that it was unsatisfied with meetings held with the United States, European and NATO officials last week, have had some officials in Washington fearing the worst.
Despite the troubling developments, a senior State Department official said the meeting between Blinken and Lavrov in the Swiss city indicated that diplomacy is not dead.
The official said, we are prepared to continue to engage with Russia on security issues in a meaningful reciprocal dialogue.
We'll see this Friday if Russia prepares to do the same.
The official declined to say if the US or Russia first proposed the meeting.
The reason he declined is because the answer is the United States.
And the answer is that the United States is going hat in hand to the Russians to say, what can we do to prevent you from simply walking into Ukraine?
See, here's the thing.
Maybe we'll have some sort of response to Russia invading Ukraine.
But the reason Russia is invading Ukraine is because when you surrender on the world stage to, you know, a bunch of barbarians, From the 8th century, all of your political opponents look at you and go, hey, maybe we should do something too.
Hilariously enough, we still have members of the Biden administration defending the administration's activities in Afghanistan.
UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, she still thinks that we fixed things in Afghanistan, which is kind of incredible considering that, you know, the entire country is now under the purview of a massive terror group.
We ended a 20-year war.
The President committed to doing that, and he followed through on that commitment.
It was a challenging withdrawal, but I can tell you that I have met with our Afghan allies who are here in the U.S., including just as recently as yesterday, and people are proud of the support that the U.S.
government has provided to them and proud of their So now everybody in the Biden administration is just singing songs from South Pacific.
Keep on happy talking, happy talk, talk about things you like to do.
I mean, my goodness, just the happy talk.
It was a wild success, guys.
And if they say it over and over enough, then probably you'll believe it.
Meanwhile, China, Russia, and Iran are teaming up for joint naval exercises, so this is going great.
According to Newsweek, Russia has said it will take part in joint naval exercises with both China and Iran, as scrutiny grows over Moscow's military maneuvers following a buildup of troops next to the Ukrainian border.
The announcement comes only days after Moscow said it will conduct a snap combat readiness inspection of its troops in the Russian Far East amid growing alarm in world capitals over the prospect of an invasion of Ukraine.
So things are going great on foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is completely failing on COVID.
Like utterly and completely failing on COVID.
Now, the reason that he's failing on COVID is because no one succeeds on COVID.
What I mean by this is the only people who succeed on COVID are the people who protect the most vulnerable and leave everybody else alone.
And you know who's starting to pick up on this?
Everyone else on Earth.
Literally all of them.
So, for example, Boris Johnson of the UK said earlier this morning, quote, I'm saying it's over.
Go back to your lives.
That is Boris Johnson in the UK.
Meanwhile, in Israel, which has been hyperactive on COVID, right?
Everybody in Israel is supposed to get 87 straight shots until the majority of their body tissue is composed of the vaccine.
Now they're leading vaccine expert.
He's like, yeah, you know what?
We're not doing that anymore.
He says the Green Pass vaccine passport is no longer relevant in the Omicron area and should be phased out.
Meanwhile, I got Washington, D.C.
locked down and Jen Psaki telling you, you should slap an N95 on your child.
Professor Cyril Cohen is the head of immunology at Bar-Ilan University.
He's a member of the advisory committee for vaccines for the Israeli government.
He says that he was surprised and disappointed that the vaccines did not prevent transmission as they had originally hoped.
He apologized for closing schools.
He says that widespread infection is now an inevitable part of future immunity.
He says we're not shooting for herd immunity.
That is just the result of the simple fact that Omicron is going to hit everybody.
And he says that Omicron has now accelerated the pandemic into the endemic phase in which COVID will be like the flu.
So all over the world, people are starting to realize that you got to let this go.
But Biden won't let it go.
He keeps trying to grip it harder.
So here is the Washington Post reporting on Biden's first year, quote, a year ago, Biden unveiled a 200 page plan to defeat COVID.
He has struggled to deliver on some key promises.
Boy, howdy, ain't that an underestimation of how badly he has failed?
The president declared in its pandemic strategy, released January 21, 2021.
Businesses are closing, hospitals are full, families are saying goodbye to their loved ones remotely.
Our nation continues to experience the darkest days of the pandemic.
Yet after a period when Biden's vaccination focus appeared to be paying off, many of those problems have roared back.
As the Delta variant and then Omicron tore across the country.
Once again, doctors and nurses are pleading for relief as hospitalizations set new daily records and more facilities move to rationing care.
By the way, many of these facilities are rationing care specifically because of things like the Joe Biden vaccine mandate, which has taken a crapload of doctors and nurses offline.
And the simple fact is that the number of hospitalizations in the United States right now has been fairly steady.
It really has not risen supremely dramatically in terms of long-term hospitalizations.
In fact, people who are going to the hospital with Omicron very often, they're not going because of Omicron.
They're going because they broke their leg and they were tested for Omicron, they have it, and they're asymptomatic.
And even if they are going for Omicron, the average hospital stay is now down from like four days to 1.6 days.
Omicron is way less severe, thank God, than Delta is.
But everybody on the left is unhappy with Biden for not doing enough, and everybody on the right is unhappy with Biden because he just won't let this thing go.
The Washington Post says, as he prepared to take office, Biden oversaw a 200-page pandemic plan that promised to restore trust in the federal government, protect essential workers, and slow COVID spread.
But as president, he has struggled to execute key parts of it.
Page 59 promised predictable and robust federal purchasing of COVID test kits.
WRONG!
Page 81 pledged to support schools in implementing COVID-19 screening testing.
WRONG!
Page 103 vowed to ensure patient safety in nursing homes by boosting staffing and vaccinations.
WRONG!
So here's the bottom line.
Dude has failed.
And everybody knows that he has failed.
So how is he dealing with this?
He's planning to give you a free N95.
Yay?
Is that really?
Really?
With Omicron?
That's your plan.
Your plan is what the government should have done in, like, May of 2020.
This is what the government should have done in May 2020, by the way.
The government should have sent everybody an N95 in May of 2020, April 2020, like, as soon as humanly possible, and they should have said, if you feel that you are at risk, then you should wear an N95.
And if you are young and you are healthy, you probably shouldn't.
That's what Sweden did.
And everything was okay.
The big mistake in Sweden is that they didn't shield the elderly enough.
But now they're sending 400 million non-surgical N95s to people from the strategic national stockpile?
How is this going to be effective?
No one thinks this is going to be effective, is the reality.
And so, this has reduced the... Even Democrats are now throwing Biden under the bus on this stuff.
Here's Democrat Tim Ryan from Ohio.
And moderate Democrats realize that 2022 is going to be an anti-Biden wave year.
And so, some of them are starting to dissociate from Biden.
They're like, I'm going to stand... They're like Homer Simpson with the bush.
They're just kind of drawing back into the bush away from Biden.
Here's Tim Ryan.
We need the president.
We need the administration to lead the way.
They're in charge.
The buck stops there.
There's no doubt about that.
And we need to get things done.
We're not doing good enough.
We're two years into this thing, and I think that the frustration level is getting to people here.
And do you blame President Biden for that frustration?
Well, I mean, the president is the president, and there's no question that he bears some responsibility for it.
Yeah, I think maybe just a little bit.
The media, for their part, they're continuing to try to spin on behalf of Biden, and it's just failing.
Joe Biden's actual job approval rating, according to Gallup today, dropped again to 40%.
So he is now 16 points under one, according to Gallup, on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.
It's just that Amazing, amazing stuff.
So the media trying to do their best to spin for Biden still.
And so here is Don Lemon, ever the good soldier on behalf of the Biden administration.
I have to say, Don Lemon is not a smart human.
Wow, is he not a smart human.
When I tell people, they'll say, well, I've been doing my own research and last week I was in Miami.
I said, how did you get to Miami?
I flew.
That's science!
So if you don't believe in science, why didn't you walk?
Right?
Because I can't always follow the science.
That's the reason that you're here.
That's the reason that you don't have polio.
That's the reason we don't see polio cases.
That's the reason why we don't see smallpox cases.
You can't do your own research, man.
If you did your own research, would you get on a plane, man?
to get you vaccinated as a child.
So I don't understand.
I was told that they had to.
That you had to, because what?
We have to start doing things for the greater good of society and not for idiots who think that they can do their own research.
You can't do your own research, man.
If you did your own research, would you get on a plane, man?
Would you get on a...
I would, because you know what doesn't happen with a plane?
Okay, let's say that planes, they took off and like every 200 miles or so they broke down and you had to get on a new plane.
Let's say that you got on a plane and some of those planes just kind of crashed randomly and you're like, why?
I don't understand.
What if they told you that every time you took a plane, it was going to be a one, a nonstop all the way cross country.
But as it turns out, it ran out of gas every 150 miles.
Would you be a little more skeptical about it?
Maybe you would take a train?
Maybe you might consider taking a train?
By the way, Joe, Don Lemon, speaking about science and planes, he has picked a poor example, Don Lemon.
I'm old enough to remember when you suggested that maybe a plane was eaten by a black hole on national television.
What if it was hijacking, or terrorism, or mechanical failure, or pilot error, but what if it was something fully that we don't really understand?
A lot of people have been asking about that, about black holes, and on and on and on, and all of these conspiracy theories.
Let's look at this.
Noah says, what else can you think about?
Black hole, Bermuda Triangle.
And then Desi says, huh, just like the movie Lost.
And of course, they're also referencing the Twilight Zone, which is a very similar plot.
That's what people are saying.
I know it's preposterous.
Is it preposterous, you think, Mary?
It's preposterous, but is it preposterous that a black hole might have eaten a plane?
Because science!
Science, Captain Science over here.
Yeah.
When you're relegated to having Don Lemon defend you, you have a real problem on your hands.
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So you're one of the Biden presidency, a giant fail.
Foreign policy, fail.
COVID, fail.
Economy, massive fail.
How do you know that the economy is massively failing?
When CNN is now running pieces titled, should the government control the price of food and gas?
So we went from inflation doesn't exist.
It's all in your mind.
You shouldn't worry about it at all.
It hasn't been a problem in America for 40 years.
To, well, inflation is happening, but it's transitory.
It'll go away soon.
To, build back better is probably going to help the inflation.
To, well, inflation isn't transitory and it's here, but it's good because it just, it demonstrates how much demand there is.
So inflation is actually a positive and we should view it that way.
To, what if the government actually just controls prices now because inflation is really bad and scary.
It's amazing that evolution, right?
We went all the way from inflation is not happening to inflation is permanent and also the government should control food and gas prices.
That's a pretty wild transition, is it not?
According to CNN, people are paying a lot more for food, gas, cars, and services.
Inflation isn't over yet, as pandemic continues to distort the economy.
So, should governments consider setting the price of essential goods?
It's been done before, typically during times of crisis.
But for most mainstream economists, the answer to this is a resounding no.
Limiting how much companies can charge will distort markets, causing shortages and exacerbating supply chain problems, while only temporarily reducing inflation.
Well, yeah.
Duh.
Just stop, seriously, said Austin Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago.
Just stop, seriously, is the best response.
That is a good response by Austin Goolsbee.
Goolsbee previously served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under Obama.
The attitude toward price controls appears to be similar in Washington, where policymakers have shown little enthusiasm for even targeted or temporary measures, despite growing pressure on middle-class families that feel the pain of price increases more than the rich.
Still, says CNN, with annual inflation running at a four-decade high of 7%, price controls could feature in future debates over how to reduce prices.
See, here's the thing.
When you create price controls, You are, you are being an idiot because a price control does not increase the manufacturing.
It doesn't actually mean that there is more of the product.
It just means that there is more demand for less of a product.
That's all that happens.
It radically distorts markets.
I love that CNN then tries to debunk this.
Economists who are skeptical of price controls often point to basic economic concepts.
Yes, they argue that capping prices encourages companies to produce less of the product, while making it more attractive to consumers.
Supply goes down.
Demand goes up.
Yes.
But that doesn't stop governments around the world from resorting to price controls.
There's plenty of precedent for price controls in the U.S.
Like, CNN is now actively arguing on behalf of price controls the single most ridiculous and counterproductive economic policy that any government can take.
Look at rent control, which radically reduces the amount of supply in housing.
Also, the quality of housing leads landlords to simply abandon things and leads to housing shortages.
Control of prices and wages is a terrible, terrible idea, but when you box yourself into a corner, what exactly are you supposed to do?
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is trying to politicize the Fed.
According to Jeb Hensarling, writing for the Wall Street Journal, During Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's reconfirmation hearing last week, there was an understandable focus on inflation. Led by Republican Senator Pat Toomey, several senators expressed concern that politicization of the Fed is hampering its effectiveness in dealing with inflation and could lead to an erosion of monetary policy independence.
If such concerns are left unaddressed, the American economy will suffer.
Congress should resist the temptation to use the Fed to advance social policy or fund its favorite programs off budget.
In turn, the Fed should halt its mission creep into fiscal policy and stay out of unrelated partisan congressional debate.
However, the Fed has become thoroughly ensconced in fiscal policy, specifically credit policy, by backstopping practically every credit market in the United States.
And now, the Democrats wish to make this worse.
And the Fed wishes to thoroughly politicize the Fed.
By basically declaring that all monetary policy is emergency policy.
The Fed is losing its independence to the executive branch, and that is a problem.
And Joe Biden wants that problem.
He wants more control.
The solution for Joe Biden to a lack of ability is more control.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden can't even control his own party.
So the internal democratic war continues apace.
So yesterday, Joe Biden, Joe Biden is now seeing that the American public paid his guts and are not interested in his party controlling Congress.
His new answer is just a plain old conspiracy theory.
If we lose, it's because they rigged the elections.
Again, it is incredible to me that we have spent A couple of years here talking about how Donald Trump perverted American elections and he's undermining faith in American elections.
Meanwhile, the president of the United States is literally going around to places like Georgia and saying that if votes take place under current rules, it will have been rigged.
Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things.
that takes place in a Republican state can effectively be questioned and thrown out because the procedures are rigged.
What he is saying is no different than anything Trump said, except he has even less evidence of voter suppression than Trump had of election fraud.
And yet the media are just on top.
This is what Joe Biden tweeted yesterday.
He tweeted this.
Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things, voter suppression and election subversion.
It's about making it harder to vote.
Who gets to count the vote?
And whether your vote counts at all.
We have to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis voting rights.
Everyone else win.
Okay, so Jim Crow 2.0.
So he's immediately saying that every election security law in America is about preventing black people from voting.
It's Jim Crow 2.0.
He says it's about voter suppression.
Name the voter who has been suppressed, Mr. President.
A voter.
One.
Just one.
Who's been suppressed.
Who's been prevented from voting in the United States.
Name a human.
One.
It shouldn't be hard.
You're saying it's happening millions and millions and millions of times over.
In Republican states.
Right now.
Name them.
Name one.
You can't.
It's a lie.
Election subv... He's saying that not only are you preventing people from voting, you are then subverting elections by literally changing the counts, right?
He's saying who gets to count the vote is the real question.
You're changing the- he's accusing Republicans of not only rigging who gets to vote, but then rigging how the votes are actually counted.
That is a full-fledged conspiracy theory.
It's madness.
Okay, so he's failed on every front, and so his new solution is to suggest that votes are being stolen in the United States, and that everyone who opposes him is a vicious racist in favor of Jim Crow.
Meanwhile, he's trotting out Jen Psaki to explain that, you know, when he says that you love segregation and that you're with Bull Connor, that's not divisive.
That's just the truth.
The president delivered a powerful speech about the protection of people's fundamental rights in this in this country, which is their right to vote, their right to to vote for anyone they choose, whether it is him or someone else.
It was not a partisan speech.
It was intended to lay out for the public exactly what's at stake and lay out for elected officials.
What's at stake.
And he stands by everything he said in that speech.
Yeah, I'm sure he does.
I'm sure he does.
He's got nothing else.
When in doubt, if you're a Democrat, call everybody a racist.
And the person who probably is best placed to call everybody a racist is an 80-year-old white man who used to hang out with George Wallace in the Senate.
Probably that guy.
That one.
Good call there.
By the way, he's destroying his own party.
This idiot is so bad at this.
He's destroying his own party right now.
He has Chuck Schumer up on the hill proposing a vote on this voting rights bill, this nonsense garbage federalization of elections bill.
And he doesn't even have full Democratic support for it.
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema don't even support it.
Like, this is crazy.
He's so out of control and so incompetent at this that he's not content with destroying his own executive branch leadership.
He's destroying his own Senate majority in real time at the behest of Chuck Schumer, who's simply trying to avoid a primary from like AOC.
It's unbelievable.
So in synopsis, is this guy a good president?
This guy is the worst single president in American history after one year.
Man, I cannot wait to see what the next few years bring.
My goodness.
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