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| Day 88, since Joe promised he'd never abandon our fellow Americans. | |
| What a day this has been starts off with uh the ever weak, frail cognitive mess of a president that even pretty much everybody's now finally saying what we bravely were saying be way before everyone else, and that he's a mess, especially a cognitive mess. | |
| Anyway, so Biden goes to Capitol Hill and then off to this climate summit. | |
| Where's that? | |
| In Glasgow, I assume. | |
| Uh anyway, so he's he goes and he makes this pitch before the Democratic caucus. | |
| It did not go well. | |
| Now let me backtrack 61% of registered voters say America is seriously gotten off on the wrong track. | |
| It's not going well at all. | |
| By the way, even Al Sharpton is slamming Biden and saying that he needs to give Harris more positions of power. | |
| Um so they go in there. | |
| None of this worked out well by any definition today. | |
| None of it. | |
| And on top of it, then you've got the White House chief propagandist Jen Saki faulting you, the American people and your spending habits for economic woes and the root cause of the supply chain problem. | |
| What's your still so worried about getting their Christmas gifts on time? | |
| Halloween, is this going to be happening at a fast enough pace? | |
| Well, I think our message is uh that one, what's happening right now, uh, and I wish I had the chart, but we'll give it to all of you afterwards, is that uh so many people across the country are purchasing more goods online. | |
| Maybe some of it is from habits that developed during the pandemic when people weren't leaving their homes. | |
| Some of it is because we've seen an economic recovery that has been underway. | |
| Okay, she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. | |
| So I we don't have time for this. | |
| But she's blaming you, just like Jimmy Carter. | |
| Well, just lower our thermostats and put our sweaters on. | |
| I mean, it's it's this is madness. | |
| Uh anyway, so the Democratic infighting. | |
| Now, I brought this up yesterday. | |
| I said, Well, it looks like because Pelosi Schumer and Biden, they they were courting the whole time. | |
| They were spending most of their time trying to persuade Senator Cinema of Arizona and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to go along with this deal. | |
| You know, and that remember yesterday, we have we have the framework for a deal. | |
| I think we have the framework for a deal. | |
| That was their big pitch. | |
| Well, Fox News just reported a few minutes ago that as of this after this morning, they now have nine hard no votes in the House against this spending bill. | |
| And I kept saying, Oh, is it is it possible that the squad that has controlled the agenda for the Democratic Party is now given in and capitulated uh to you know, I I can't even muster it up with inside of me to say that there's any moderate democrats because they're not. | |
| I mean, you got the hardcore, you know, really crazy Bernie Sanders, I what's honeymoon in the former Soviet Union wing of the party, which is the most dominant, that's the Biden Burney Manifesto. | |
| But the squad was always been in charge. | |
| Nancy Pelosi knows it. | |
| She gave a I mean, this this was a disaster of a press conference she had today. | |
| What do we play more of some of that later? | |
| I can't believe the encyclopedic knowledge of Joe Biden. | |
| I'll play that coming up. | |
| Um, but now as a result, this meeting turned out to be an unmitigated failure and a disaster. | |
| Now Joe's left town. | |
| And now Joe is not going to be met with a warm reception either, because all this climate stuff that he's been promising the world is going to get done, it isn't gonna get done either. | |
| On top of America basically rolling over and and abandoning its position as the world leader on everything. | |
| Uh so unless Pelosi now can make a difference uh with Republican votes, which ain't gonna happen, both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the reconciliation bill have now, for the moment at least, crashed and burned, which is a huge humiliation to Biden. | |
| And and this isn't it they've tried they have now boxed themselves in a corner. | |
| They b they bought into and they have emboldened and empowered the most radical socialists up in Washington. | |
| And that being in the Senate, that's Bernie Sanders. | |
| In the House, that's the squad. | |
| I mean, I could see a scenario. | |
| I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but I could see one where Nancy Pelosi's out at as speaker of all of this. | |
| Biden wouldn't even take a question after his you know, he presents the the framework of what this bill is going to be about. | |
| But, you know, let's just start Bernie Sanders the first to react. | |
| Fox News.com, he's not satisfied with the climate provisions and the president's reconciliation framework. | |
| He said there's got to be major improvements, and he wants to see the text before making any final decisions. | |
| So right now he's on the fence. | |
| And then to top it all off, everyone thinks, well, cinema and mansion must be on board. | |
| They're not on board. | |
| You know, senior administration officials said uh or just about an hour or two ago, they're extremely close to a deal, despite the fact Sanders, Cinema, Mansion are all explicitly saying that they not explicitly saying that they backed the president's framework. | |
| Still work to do, but huge progress said an administration official. | |
| That's not progress. | |
| Remember, the self-imposed deadline is come and it is gone. | |
| And the people that are now reeling. | |
| Now, this was the test, because if you know, with with all of the courting and and all the calls and all the invitations and all the White House meetings and come to Joe Biden's house and Schumer Pelosi and Biden and Mansion and Cinema. | |
| Well, there's this whole whole other wing that actually controls the Democratic Party that have been trying to say uh we're not gonna go along with this. | |
| Now, one of two things were gonna happen. | |
| They they were gonna become full-on swamp creatures in DC and just go along to get along because they like being called Congresswoman or Congressman or whatever their their gender, whatever they want. | |
| But the reality is now they're mad. | |
| And the Democrats, for example, you know, one quote, one liberal dream was sacrificed in the cause of saving Joe Biden's presidency. | |
| That's how fake news CNN even put it. | |
| The Democrats ditched paid family leave as part of this quote negotiation. | |
| It's supposed to be 1.75 million. | |
| Uh but that's gone, apparently from any final deal. | |
| That that is, you know, that's squad 101. | |
| That's that's AOC 101. | |
| Those are the things they've said they must have. | |
| Well, they're not getting it, at least as of now. | |
| Uh, but anyway, I mean, the bill that was they were trying to make draw draw comparisons with FDR's new deal. | |
| Oh, and they're still trying to say, well, it's still twice what we paid for the new deal. | |
| Okay, what year was that? | |
| Good grief. | |
| Uh, how do you say the name of this who this woman that chairs the Progressive Caucus? | |
| What's her name? | |
| Uh Jaipal. | |
| What did he say her name? | |
| Do you know? | |
| You're gonna look it up, you don't blanking no. | |
| Did anyone hear you say you don't blank you know? | |
| I just want to do that. | |
| Do we need to have this conversation on air? | |
| I know. | |
| She chairs the congression. | |
| I'm I don't like to mispronounce people's names. | |
| I will try to be respectful. | |
| Anyway, question whether there was any point now Biden showing up if he can't build a solid framework and for sp for for the spending plan that the Senate would stick to. | |
| If there isn't a deal, which is what I'm still hearing, then I'm not sure what the president is gonna present us. | |
| I mean, that that none of that is good for Joe Biden. | |
| Now it even gets worse. | |
| You have uh Missouri, what is it called? | |
| Say it out loud. | |
| So we can GiaPall. | |
| Giant Paul. | |
| Giant Paul. | |
| All right, so now I gotta write it to Gi uh Paul. | |
| Okay, got it. | |
| Anyway, so Corey Bush is weighed in on this on the social spending framework. | |
| I feel bamboozled because this is not what I thought was coming today. | |
| She says she is now a no on infrastructure. | |
| We need both of the bills to ride together. | |
| Congresswoman Taleb. | |
| She actually walked out of the Progressive Caucus meeting saying, hell no, on the on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, not happening. | |
| Uh and And Congresswoman Jayapel telling reporters that this framework is not enough to secure a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. | |
| But of course, by the way, nobody knows what's in this bill anyway, because even the people over at MSDNC are guessing what's in, what's out, what's not in, what's not out. | |
| They don't know. | |
| Because you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. | |
| The famous Pelosi line. | |
| So now every major powerful radical leftist new Green Deal socialist, they are pissed off. | |
| And in the meantime, you got Nancy Pelosi goes out there in this. | |
| She was she seemed visibly shaken to me. | |
| And she seemed like she had no clue what to do. | |
| But anyway, as these it's now hanging by a thread, and she's now had to resort to don't embarrass the president. | |
| That's the way to sell this thing. | |
| Because that's what she said. | |
| Democrats are so divided over this legislation. | |
| She's actually begging the House Democrats, don't embarrass the president by not passing these bills. | |
| She told House Democrats that that was her line. | |
| That's all she's got. | |
| Don't vote down the one trillion dollar infrastructure bill ahead of Biden's trip overseas, warning that underscores the high stakes of the moment for the divided party as the president's agenda is hanging in the balance. | |
| You know, the other thing is they can't figure out how to pay for any of this. | |
| Now they've come up with a billionaire tax that would have impact anywhere from 10 to 700 Americans. | |
| That's never going to be viewed as constitutional. | |
| Then the millionaire surge tax, but then you're not going to get, you know, people that actually understand what capitalism is, and you want people with money to invest money because that creates goods and services and jobs for Americans. | |
| That's where capitalism does its best work, actually. | |
| North Korea, it's funny. | |
| You know, look at, for example, the resources of Venezuela, uh, the energy resources that they don't tap into. | |
| Everybody in Venezuela could be rich except the government so corrupt. | |
| America, it's not, we're not that far off being that dumb. | |
| Because we have more energy resources than they have. | |
| And Gensaki says that Joe Biden is going to make a another attempt to beg OPEC to increase production. | |
| You don't have to beg Texas, Joe. | |
| You don't have to beg Oklahoma. | |
| You don't have to beg Alaska. | |
| You don't have to beg North Dakota either. | |
| And North Korea, just like in a place like Cuba, Venezuela, you know, where they shouldn't have such poverty. | |
| I mean, if Cuba opened up to tourism, for example, if they treated their citizens their citizens the way they should, it would be one of the most beautiful places on earth. | |
| Venezuela could be one of the richest countries on earth. | |
| North Korea is asking starving citizens to eat less as food shortages now are expected to continue. | |
| And I'm thinking, oh, that's like Gensaki faulting the American people and their spending habits for the economic problems we have and the supply chain woes we have. | |
| New York Democrats are working to drive energy costs even higher as AOC and the environmental left and this new governor Hochel, you know, literally killing two proposed natural gas-powered projects in Queens and one in upstate New York. | |
| I mean, they're doing everything they can do to kill the economy. | |
| But that's what socialism always does. | |
| That's why I wrote socialism, it's history of failure, live free, die, chapter four. | |
| Whatever name, whatever manifestation it is ever taken on. | |
| You always get the promise, the false hope that every need will be taken care of. | |
| And then it becomes an unfulfilled promise, and it results in more poverty and a loss of freedom. | |
| Every single time. | |
| The most honest system of an economy is the one we've got, capitalism, the greatest wealth-producing system ever designed by mankind, where people have a ladder to success if they want to work hard. | |
| That works. | |
| That keeps everybody honest. | |
| Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not guaranteed Results. | |
| But I want everybody to be successful. | |
| First, you've got to have a good education and safety and security, and Democrats don't have a great track record on that either. | |
| Anyway, it's getting fascinating to watch all this. | |
| We'll go through more of the details on the other side. | |
| 800-941 Sean is our number. | |
| Now just got an update from a polling friend of mine. | |
| And I've now talked to two polls that I know, like, and trust that are telling me it looks like Virginia late voters are breaking really hardcore for Yuncan and abandoning McCullough. | |
| That's what they're telling me. | |
| But let's see, we have five days to go till that race. | |
| You know, one of the things the New York Post pointed out today, Democrats are using what they called the gimmick Olympics, where these leftists are using these classic accounting tricks to hide the true cost of the bill. | |
| You know, for example, they'll craft four trillion dollars worth of new initiatives, but then use fake expiration dates to score only a few years of each proposal. | |
| But the plan is to spend much, much more. | |
| Like, for example, the March Stimulus Bill temporarily expanded the child tax credit from two to three thousand a child. | |
| 3,600 for children under age six, expanded eligibility to higher incomes. | |
| Democrats have made clear they want this policy permanent at the cost of 1.3 trillion over a decade. | |
| Yet the initial reconciliation proposal expanded the policy for only four years. | |
| And now the White House is calling for just a one-year extension. | |
| So in other words, they've just using accounting tricks to hide the facts. | |
| So this framework is a disaster. | |
| Biden's meeting apparently met with fierce resistance, especially among the hardcore leftists of the Democratic Party. | |
| This is a humiliating moment for Biden, regardless of whatever spin fake news, CNN, Nancy Pelosi and everybody else would want to put on this. | |
| And, you know, for a couple of slightly moderate voices in the Democratic Party, it you know, we all thought the power was with the progressive caucus, with the squad. | |
| Apparently it's not. | |
| And now Biden heads off, you know, abroad, and you know, things are in a total state of disarray. | |
| You know, Senator Gillibrand insisting paid family leave is on the table when in fact it's saying no it's not. | |
| And nobody's gonna have any opportunity at all to look at any of this. | |
| But Jen Saki says the bill will be paid for. | |
| 3.5 trillion will cost you zero. | |
| It'll cost you zero. | |
| Joe says zero. | |
| It won't cost you a penny. | |
| Not a penny. | |
| We'll continue. | |
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| All right, 25 till the top of the hour. | |
| Um so now Nancy Pelosi's reduced to don't embarrass the president, please don't embarrass the president. | |
| This was this was probably I mean, she's not the most articulate person to begin with. | |
| Let's be honest. | |
| She's got her own cognitive struggles going on there too. | |
| But anyway, so she has this press conference. | |
| She is just obviously nervous and obviously frazzled by all the developments today. | |
| Now, keep this in the back of your mind here. | |
| Because this this civil war in the Democratic Party is now white out uh uh in the wide open for everyone to see. | |
| The Democrats put this self-imposed deadline to pass this reconciliation bill. | |
| They They set the timetable for this. | |
| The president quote looked us in the eye. | |
| I need this before I go represent the U.S. in Glasgow. | |
| According to Roe Connor, Democrat, California. | |
| Stenny Hoyer was confident, but nothing good is coming out of this. | |
| So where do they begin to build back? | |
| What's the foundation for this? | |
| Because they spent all their time, Schumer, Pelosi, Biden trying to persuade a framework with Manchin and Cinema, and now the progressive caucus, which dominates the Democratic Party, the socialists, they feel rightly slighted. | |
| And so how do they get out of this mess? | |
| Joe's gone now. | |
| And when do they get out of this mess? | |
| Anyway, there's no deal. | |
| They have tons of stumbling blocks. | |
| Medicaid expansion, immigration, billionaire tax, millionaire tax, IRS, bank accounting reporting requirements, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| They're going to put a mileage tax on this too. | |
| Now you have one Democrat, more moderate, saying it's the effing progressives. | |
| That's a quote on Fox News.com, accusing progressives of asking for unreasonable things. | |
| It seems almost every sensible progressive revenue option that the president wants, the American people want, that I want, seems to have been sabotaged, says Bernie Sanders. | |
| Bernie Sanders is pissed. | |
| Pelosi scheduled the reconciliation hearing without bill text or even a framework. | |
| I mean, she literally instructed the House Rules Committee to hold a hearing on Democrats' reconciliation spending bill. | |
| They don't have a bill. | |
| Never mind having written text and anybody could actually read. | |
| So there's there's no consensus on any of this. | |
| AOC has come out against the bipartisan infrastructure bill. | |
| We've had frameworks for six months. | |
| So I was beginning to wonder if the squad would go full on DC swamp and just capitulate. | |
| I think we got our answer today. | |
| AOC saying we have a framework for six months. | |
| This is where I think the nervousness of Nancy Pelosi is because the squad, they decide she's not speaker. | |
| She's not going to be speaker anymore. | |
| Congresswoman Debbie Dingle on Biden's bill. | |
| I'm not even sure the speaker knows what's in the bill. | |
| She doesn't know what's in the bill. | |
| That's the whole point of this. | |
| Nobody knows what's in the bill. | |
| Anyway, so the president went from 3.5 to 1.75, yet Manchin still is saying that he's only willing to go to 1.5. | |
| So they can't even agree on a framework, which is an actual number that they say they're going to work with. | |
| But again, go back to the New York Post article. | |
| It's all smoke and mirrors because they they use every accounting trick imaginable, and they'll only count one year of spending when they really intend for 10 years of spending. | |
| So, you know, now some House Republicans, are they going to bail out Biden on the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan bill? | |
| Because I don't think they should. | |
| Now, especially we got in five days this election now taking place in the Commonwealth of Virginia for governor. | |
| And every polster that I know and trust, all they're telling me, they're not saying who's going to win, although they're leaning now towards Yunkin, but they're saying that late deciders are breaking hard. | |
| That's what the exact words that were used to me for Yunkin. | |
| And that basically it's this final three-week stretch of bringing in every Democratic celebrity and attacking family, you know, m fa uh families and uh you know on issues involving schools, and it's just a phony trumped up cultural issue and and on and on and on. | |
| It's all now Joe Biden didn't bring Terry McCulliff over the finish line yesterday when he was there. | |
| And that was another disastrous appearance. | |
| You know, Wall Street Journal had a great analysis. | |
| Democrats are writing tax policy for a $22 trillion economy on the fly. | |
| Think about that. | |
| One day it's an increase in tax rates on corporations and the affluent. | |
| But wait, they don't have the votes. | |
| How about a carbon tax? | |
| Oh, wait, that won't fly either. | |
| Uh Let's go after the top 700 billionaires in the country, like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. | |
| Uh poles well, everyone hates billionaires. | |
| Oh, yeah, that might be unconstitutional. | |
| We still need money. | |
| Let's try the 15% corporate minimum tax, though be sure to exempt investments in green energy and other pet progressive projects. | |
| I mean, this is how I mean they're taking paper, toilet paper, and just throwing it up against the wall, seeing if anything sticks. | |
| As long as it's new Green Deal socialism at the bottom of this. | |
| And how do Democrats communicate when they have no idea what's in going to ever be in this bill right now? | |
| How do they sell this new Green Deal? | |
| You know, build back better monstrosity of socialism and the spending orgy if they if they keep cutting even their biggest best selling in their minds talking points. | |
| And you know, it's not making Biden look pretty look strong in any way either. | |
| You know, Nancy Pelosi actually said that he had an encyclopedic memory. | |
| Listen to this. | |
| This is quite remarkable. | |
| And if you took any one piece of it, it would be transformative in historic. | |
| Taking together, it's quite a spectacular vision that President Biden has put forth. | |
| I salute him for it. | |
| And when I try to, shall we say, make a case for this or that, he said you don't have to tell me. | |
| I wrote it. | |
| I know the particulars. | |
| And that was what was so demonstrated this morning. | |
| His his write the bill. | |
| Meticulous attention to detail his encyclopedic knowledge of everything that was in the bill. | |
| We're really blessed with his leadership. | |
| Meticulous. | |
| Encyclopedic knowledge, Joe Biden. | |
| No, that doesn't actually go together. | |
| So now the whole thing is blown up. | |
| It's not doing well. | |
| Democrats are fighting each other. | |
| There's no text. | |
| Now we have hard no's on the infrastructure bill. | |
| Only ones that can bail them out now are stupid Republicans. | |
| Don't ever underestimate their stupidity and weakness. | |
| Senate Democrats cut paid family leave and family and medical leave from the spending package. | |
| That's angered other Democrats. | |
| They're trying as we speak to invent fresh methods of leveraging the IRS against Americans. | |
| This is something they really want. | |
| They really want to know every single thing in your life that you do. | |
| And here's something else to think about. | |
| This was in the Wall Street Journal today, too. | |
| Now we don't have the money to pay for this, you know, build back better new Green Deal socialism, even though they lie and tell us it's not going to cost us a single penny, nothing. | |
| It'll cost you zero. | |
| Well, apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, the United States is in talks to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to families that were separated at the border. | |
| Get this. | |
| Radical Democratic Socialists want to consider payments of four hundred and fifty-five four hundred and fifty thousand dollars per person if they can prove they've been affected by Donald Trump's zero tolerance policy for asylum seekers that entered the country illegally. | |
| How do you possibly afford that? | |
| And that's where the Democrats, this this is the nuttiest party. | |
| The most radical extreme party. | |
| This is why I think there's such volatility here. | |
| There's no telling. | |
| Nancy Pelosi could be out before all is said and done. | |
| Now one thing they seem to have stuck to so far is $500 billion in carve outs to appease the new Green Deal socialists and these climate carve outs. | |
| We can't afford that either. | |
| And Joe Biden admitting that he's going to be begging OPEC to increase production of the lifeblood of our economy. | |
| We don't need OPEC. | |
| We've got more energy than the entire Middle East combined. | |
| We need Texas. | |
| We need pipelines built. | |
| We need Alaska. | |
| We need Oklahoma. | |
| We need North Dakota. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| It is uh this is unlike a time I've seen. | |
| I've seen a lot of crap over the years with Democrats in particular. | |
| Anyway, and then you got Jen Saki out there. | |
| Well, it's America's spending habits for the that's to blame for the economic woes. | |
| Oh, and we're not UPS, and we're not FedEx, and we're not the Postal Service. | |
| Oh, you might not get 15 colors to choose from, but you at least get something. | |
| Oh, we should be so thankful. | |
| Well, if you really want to get the proper gifts for people for Christmas, you need to order by Halloween. | |
| Okay, let me let me get on my computer and start ordering. | |
| Gensaki faulting America's spending habits for the economic woes and claiming it's the root cause of supply chain problems. | |
| No, that's not the answer. | |
| It's just a lie, blaming consumer spending habits. | |
| Oh, they're spending too much money. | |
| They don't really care. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| Because remember, to radical leftists, you know, people spending money, capitalism, the economy, they're not on the same page. | |
| They want equal results, pure and simple. | |
| They want this fundamental shift philosophically into how America is governed economically. | |
| And it is one that is based on pure raw redistribution, wealth confiscation, socialism, collectivism, whatever you want to call it ism. | |
| And it's one thing I can guarantee is whatever ism it is will fail. | |
| The same people that can't keep law and order, the same people that give you crappy schools for your kids, the same people that are rated the lockbox for Social Security and Medicare and are rendering it insolvent, the same people that promise to keep your doctor plan and save money, are the same idiots now promising everything's gonna be free. | |
| It doesn't work that way. | |
| Give you an example. | |
| I mean, a lot of good this is doing. | |
| McDonald's has to raise the menu prices to keep up with the growing cost. | |
| This is why, what do I tell you about corporations? | |
| They don't pay taxes, they pass it on to us. | |
| I like McDonald's. | |
| I wish I could eat more than I do. | |
| But anyway, they they're struggling to recruit workers to serve customers. | |
| You know, Coca-Cola CEO is warning that you could see sporadic product shortages now throughout the entire year next year. | |
| More pain at the pumps. | |
| San Francisco gas prices are set to hit an all-time high. | |
| Over five bucks a gallon. | |
| Top oil CEO set to testify on Capitol Hill. | |
| You have top executives from Exxon, Mobile, BP, Chevron, Shell, two industry groups testifying. | |
| You know, we're now up on average about a buck fifty a gallon. | |
| By the way, wait, wait, wait till you get your heating bills this winter. | |
| People, who's going to be impacted? | |
| Poor people. | |
| The middle class. | |
| Durable good or goods orders tumbled in September. | |
| Sale of automobiles. | |
| Transportation, airplane, everything's costing more. | |
| Homeowners now expected to take a major hit this winter in heating costs. | |
| This was in the hill. | |
| Low-income families may be forced to choose between heating their home this winter and paying for food, medicine, and other essentials. | |
| I mean, they said last year the a home that used natural gas paid about 573 bucks in heating cost for the winter. | |
| This year, they're going to pay almost twice that. | |
| Heating oil costs will be up at five or six hundred bucks a year, depending on how warm you want your home. | |
| All of this impacting every aspect of our life. | |
| As the GDP, we got numbers today, plunge to a disastrous 2% as Biden's policies put the economy in a stranglehold. | |
| All of this is predictable. | |
| And the U.S. economy grew by 2% last quarter with the Delta variant supply issues dampening gains. | |
| That is not robust economic growth. | |
| This is now, we're now heading into recession land. | |
| Which everybody knows. | |
| We already have inflation. | |
| But Biden claims we're on the right track despite record inflation and record high gas prices and record shortages. | |
| Well, Joe Biden's lie of the day, claiming more Americans are working now than before the pandemic. | |
| Lie. | |
| Fact check, sorry. | |
| Verdict false. | |
| I mean, New York Times, rising prices once seen is temporary, now threatens Biden's threatens Biden's agenda. | |
| The supply chain crisis could threaten rural America's internet access. | |
| We're only at the beginning of this. | |
| Greg Abbott, Green New Deal policies driving up oil prices. | |
| It doesn't even have the flexibility. | |
| They've got resources in Texas. | |
| Oh, and then of course, Democrats suck up to labor unions, and the labor unions are opposing quickly moving containers from cargo ships. | |
| There is an option. | |
| Ron DeSantis said, take your ship to Florida. | |
| We'll get it unpacked for you. | |
| By the way, if you want to go to Disney, it's gonna be a 9% increase. | |
| Everything's costing more. | |
| Plunge in export shipments sparked U.S. GDP downgrades. | |
| Economy on the verge of contraction. | |
| Zero hedge column. | |
| This this is an unmitigated disaster. | |
| Now, I'm gonna add one other thing to the list. | |
| I've been warning you about the military and about teachers and about nurses and EMT frontline medical workers. | |
| Here's the front of the New York Post today. | |
| Vax emergency. | |
| Deadline just days away. | |
| 37% of beat cops, 35% of firemen refuse jabs. | |
| They have the same number of nurses, military, teachers. | |
| Now, wait, you want to talk about supply chain woes? | |
| Oh, wait till that kicks in. | |
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