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Day number 79.
79.
79 days 79.
Yep, Joe abandons Americans, and that's 92 days after promising he wouldn't do it.
If you don't, when you think it can't get any more humiliating on the world stage, you know, we've talked about China.
We've talked about them flying their fighter jets all over Taiwan.
We've talked about how they talk about reunification with Taiwan.
They're all in this is a hostile regime emboldened by Joe Biden.
And I also believe that the Biden family syndicate is owned by countries like China and Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan and elsewhere.
I mean, if the Libyan assessment of Hunter Biden is just their assessment, compare that to what the Chinese know about the Bidens.
So, you know, no wonder why Joe won't stand up to President Chi.
Now we've got Vladimir Putin, hostile actor that he is.
Now he's saber rattling along the border with Ukraine again.
I would imagine probably both Ukraine and Taiwan are in deep, deep, deep trouble because if Joe Biden will abandon his fellow Americans and the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan, what makes anybody think he's going to lift a finger for Ukraine or Taiwan?
He's not.
Another embarrassment today.
You know, Joe Biden repeatedly dozing off during the opening speeches of this 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
I mean, do you understand that this is insanity?
All the private jets to the climate change conference, can somebody please add up all the carbon emissions and the big footprint to talk about climate?
Have any of these people ever heard of a Zoom call?
By the way, I don't do Zoom calls.
I just phone in.
Linda, true or false.
I refuse to be videotaped the whole time.
Oh, yeah.
You do four.
You do four hours a day, one of them's video, you're done.
That's it.
One video, that's it.
You get to see me one hour a day, and then the rest of the day I'm hiding in my sweatpants and my firemen or policemen t-shirts and uh my favorite hat of the day.
Uh Biden dozing off.
You gotta understand, Joe Biden now is go it part of his mission after he's already been denied by OPEC, begging them to increase production of oil, goes to this climate conference, climate change conference, and dozes off.
By the way, is anyone ever thought an inch deep about this question?
If climate change is the real essence of the problem, and Joe Biden's begging OPEC to increase production, what difference does it mean for the globe, for the world if the oil is produced in the Middle East or in the United States?
But isn't it have the same net impact on the economy?
Because remember, liberals, I'm telling you, though they're not gonna say it pri they're not gonna say it publicly.
Biden uh Obama once said it publicly.
They want higher gas prices.
They want because they think that will result in less use of fossil fuels.
Well, how big is the carbon footprint for all these billionaires and all these countries to make their way over to the climate change conference?
Biden sits there with his arms crossed, drifting in and out of sleep, you know, during the opening spening speeches.
It wasn't even there an hour.
I mean, after I'd fall asleep probably in five minutes too, but he's the president, and supposedly it's the most important issue in his mind.
The Federalist co-founder, Sean Davis says, Can you blame him?
I kind of agree with him.
Huffington Post reporter noted the video was taken during a speech on the climate's impact on disabled people.
Many others joking on social media they would fall asleep too, but they're not the president of the United States.
And it looks like Biden fell asleep at the climate change thing, and an aide had to hustle over to wake him up.
Congressman Ralph Norman joked, sweet dreams, Mr. President.
Joey, wake up.
Political pundit Steve Stephen Miller respond.
I mean, can it get any more embarrassing than this?
If we instead of begging OPEC, why don't you beg Texas?
You don't even have to beg them, just ask them.
Just ask Oklahoma to increase production.
Just ask a lot open up Alaska like Trump did.
We had achieved something this country didn't have in 75 years, energy independence.
You want to limit the impact of inflation on poor and middle class Americans that are disproportionately negatively impacted by this?
Lower the cost of energy.
How do you lower the cost?
You increase production.
Joe Biden artificially reduced the world supply of energy, abolishing the Keystone XL pipeline.
Now, Vladimir Putin got a waiver.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, um, some really scary news.
Even Chucky Todd was warning Democrats that this polling on Biden is scary.
71% of the American people say we're on the wrong track.
My only question is where are these 29% of people that think we're on the right track?
It's actually 22%.
The number of Americans that believe the country's on the right track is down 14%.
How could anyone think this is the right track?
By the way, Biden was shoved to the sidelines for the G twenty photo.
You know, he's saying, yeah, America's back.
I am telling you from people that I know that know these people in other countries.
They are laughing at Joe Biden.
Everybody in the world knows he's a cognitive mess.
Everybody knows him saying America's back is a joke.
Everybody sees, and and frankly, our allies are afraid of what's happening.
Our allies are scared to death at what's happening.
And back here at home, things aren't going any better for Joe either.
By the way, Mansion, we told you last week all the accounting tricks that the Democrats were trying to use for their new Green Deal socialism to keep the real cost of what their plans are down on paper only.
Well, finally, uh Joe Manchin refused to back the 1.75 trillion dollar measure.
He says he's open to supporting it, depending on the details of the bill.
Manchin's announcement threatens a planned vote uh on the package later this month.
They can't get their act together, and they think they're going to use what?
Accounting tricks on Joe Manchin?
And Joe Manchin's gonna say, oh, okay.
You're well, you're only charging for one year, but you're planning on spending, you know, trillions for for this program for five years.
He's not stupid.
Most Americans now think America is heading into a recession under Biden.
That's all true.
Now we have this genius.
I'll play it later in the program today.
Uh Gina uh Reamondo, the commerce secretary, you know, she gave us another Gen Sockey line.
I'll go, you know, are Christmas gifts going to get there on time?
Call FedEx.
Wow.
Call FedEx?
You fire, you know, guys on the Keystone XL pipeline, giving Vladimir Putin a waiver, and you say, well, we want you to get another high-paying career uh union job.
Well, where is that job?
Where is it?
And Janet Yellen is about as clueless as I've ever seen any Treasury secretary.
For Lawrence Summers, Obama's chief economic guy to keep coming out and correcting her.
He's doing it for a reason because she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about.
And he sees real danger here for the economy.
And who's going to get hurt the most in all of this?
Hannity, are you going to get hurt?
Yeah, I'm going to get killed.
Sure, they're going to try and take, you know, the gold out of my teeth by the time I croak one day.
And tax anybody that has anything, you know, as high as they possibly can.
But when you have 71% of the country saying we're headed in the wrong direction, it's time to start paying attention.
When the president's approval rating is in the mid thirties, it's time to start paying attention.
You know, nobody thinks Joe Biden has it together.
Nobody.
Because he doesn't have it together.
And the Democratic Party is now ruled by radicals.
And oh, and Biden had to apologize for being late to the G20 press conference.
We were playing with the elevators.
If it couldn't get any more humiliating.
Let's go, Brandon and F. Joe Biden chanting football stadiums all across the country, especially at the Georgia Florida game.
Did you see the Georgia Florida game this weekend?
Whoa.
It's pretty loud.
So tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.
And that is we've got the gubernatorial race, Commonwealth of Virginia, and we also have one in New Jersey.
You know that we trust Robert Cahaley of Trafalgar.
He came in with a final poll, which it's actually interesting in New Jersey.
It's it's within the margin of error.
4945.
That's New Jersey.
I'm just wondering if there could be a sleeper there.
I don't think so, but it's remotely, I'm hoping.
But Virginia's real, but Virginia is also a very hard race to win.
McCaulf was busted, by the way.
I don't know if you saw the ugly, horrific uh uh race baiting that took place over the weekend.
You know, it's that started on Friday.
He had five young Democratic operatives toting tiki torches, attempting a white supremacist hoax on Glenn Yuncan, who is now leading it in most polls by about two points, so we expect a very close race in the Commonwealth for governor tomorrow.
And anyway, they stood in the pouring rain next to a Yuncan campaign busing, you know, suitably ashamed in their neo-Nazi disguises.
Uh it turns out that the tr the anti-Trump Lincoln project isn't well, isn't Steve Schmidt a part of that?
I'm pretty sure he was, if he's not still.
And George Conway, wasn't he a part of that?
Anyway, I'm not sure if he is anymore.
Anyway, it looks like the McCulliff operation, two members of the group have been identified online as Virginia Democrats.
Oh, let's play dirty tricks.
Let's use the race card in the final hours of a campaign.
You know, uh McCulloff got nailed this weekend on lying about education.
Remember, one of the things the biggest stories out of the Commonwealth of Virginia is education and McCulloch's comments about education.
That, you know, parents, you know, have we should leave it to the teachers, and they shouldn't have any impact on what what their kids are learning in school.
And we have this issue in Loudoun County.
We'll talk to investigative reporter Luke Rosiak about this, this rape that took place in the bathroom.
It's not credible or believable to me that the supervisor didn't know or the superintendent didn't know.
The police knew all about it.
And then knowing about it, and in the middle of investigating it, they transfer the kid to another school where another incident occurred.
And then McCulliff is out there denying to anybody that will listen that critical race theory is not taught in Virginia.
Well, now Fox News.com found out that in fact in 2015 when McCulliff was governor, he encouraged teachers to embrace critical race theory.
So he's caught in another lie.
McCullough referenced raising five children in Virginia by touting public school.
The only problem is four of the five kids went to private high schools.
We have a grade school system in Virginia.
Dorothy and I raised our five children.
Yeah, four of them went to private school.
I'm sure there were great schools that you sent them to.
You know, Glenn Yunkin has embraced the idea that parents matter in education and said he would eliminate CRT on day one.
You know, if you look at the rankings of school systems around the country, it's become an unmitigated failure and a disaster.
Anyway, so it's getting very, very interesting and very hostile, and it's going to be, you know, we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Um I am cautiously optimistic that we're really have a chance here, but it's going to be up to the people in Virginia.
And it is a blue state.
The fact that the polls are this close means it is real.
And bringing in Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and Barack Obama and Joe Biden didn't turn out to be to work as well as planned.
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Could it get any more embarrassing?
Joe nodding off all morning at this summit, this climate summit.
There was a MPR, PBS News Hour, Maris poll that shows a plurality of Democrats say that their party will have a better chance of keeping the White House in 2024 if they nominate someone other than Biden.
This just came out today.
And Democratic-leaning independents believe that a new nominee will give them their best shot at victory.
Because everybody can see that Joe is a mess.
I mean, it's, you know, we were one of the very few that would say publicly, It's now mainstream.
And you can see that our enemies, hostile regimes everywhere, are taking full advantage of it.
You know, another pathetic moment over the weekend as Biden again says, I'm not supposed to take any questions or anything on Sunday.
He tells report, I'm not supposed to.
They're going to yell at me.
And then he appears to use the prepared list of reporters when he finally got to questions after the G20 summit in Rome.
Um I'm told we should start with the AP.
What do you mean you're told?
Told by who?
Who tells you I'm not allowed?
I'm going to get in trouble.
They're going to yell at me.
What is this?
Joey, you're the president.
You're allowed to make decisions.
But that's the point, isn't it?
Nobody thinks he is making the decisions.
Then the great question and mystery becomes well, who is making the decisions.
The big climate summit wokened up to 30,000 officials all flying in on a lot of private aircraft.
30,000.
How's that carbon footprint?
Let's see.
We have Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post and Amazon and his girlfriend, you know, discussed climate change with Prince Charles over a cup of tea at the palace after uh he took 50 guests after 50 guests took helicopters to Bill Gates' birthday party on a super yacht.
Oh, well, I guess we should really give a damn what they think about us driving our SUVs and our minivans.
I'm not against private aircraft.
I'm not against any aircraft.
They're the ones lecturing us on our consumption.
But they're so important.
They're the ones flying around on their private planes and then lecturing you, all of us on what we drive and the cars we drive.
It's a good thing in their mind that oil prices go up.
Oh, okay.
It's not a good thing.
G20 nations agree to new limits on coal-burning power plants.
Uh calling Joe Manchin.
Hey, Joe, are you paying attention to what your party's doing to your state of West Virginia?
Unbelievable.
Let me go back to Virginia for a second here.
The political acknowledged independent voters in Virginia now breaking for Yuncan.
If you look in particularly, I like to watch Robert Cahalea Trafalgar, and I like to watch Matt Towery Insider Advantage and John McLaughlin.
Scott Rasmussen does a good job too.
And even John Zogby does a pretty good job.
But what we're seeing is consistent.
And that is people that have decided late in Virginia are breaking hard for Glenn Yuncan, who will be with us on Hannity tonight.
Anyway, three surveys released this week.
Yuncan had 722 and 18 point leads among independent voters.
That's a big deal.
The other thing that came out is Yuncan leading Terry McCullough by double digits on the issue of education.
And you can see how big Loudoun County has become as an issue.
It's now a nationwide issue.
The third metric that you look at that I saw...
I forgot who wrote this article.
I apologize for this.
Whoever wrote it.
I think it was on Breitbart.
Anyway, 2020 Biden voters.
Oh, here it is.
The Washington Post poll revealed McCullough is only winning 90% of 2020 Biden voters.
Juncan is winning 99% of Republican voters and 6% of Biden voters.
Now, that more than makes up for the 10-point deficit that Trump had in 2020 in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Another metric, according to the Washington Post poll, is Yuncan had nearly double the lead, 6133 in rural Virginia.
Yunkin's numbers in this category are even better than Trump's were in 2020.
So in other words, this is polls are showing that Yuncan is winning virtually every Trump voter who says they're planning to participate this week.
And lastly, the issue of coronavirus, you know, had favored the McCullough campaign, but as time has gone on, um, it's not ranking very high in terms of where people's priority is.
And McCullough now outright getting caught in lies about his own kids in school, calling the CRT lying about critical race theory and his previous tenure as governor.
You know, then saying that this battle over CRT is a dog whistle, claiming, you know, it's never been taught in Virginia when in fact it has been.
So he's just outright lying.
Then you've got to look at the economy.
Joe Biden desperately wanted to get this deal done before he went abroad.
Hang on, somebody just wrote me something.
Robert Cahaley just wrote me, he goes, I have this within the margin of error.
He gives me his numbers on New Jersey.
He says New Jersey's tightening.
He says it's tightening really, really closely.
It's something to watch.
Um, so if you're in New Jersey, don't give up on this.
Anyway, Manchin got pretty pissed off today.
He's now publicly threatening to torpedo Biden's legislation.
I spent a lot of time explaining on this program last week how they're using every accounting trick imaginable and even going beyond the usual Washington accounting practices.
In other words, they're only counting one year of a program when they're really funding it for 10 years, but they only add up the cost of one year.
So in other words, a 1.75 trillion dollar bill instantly becomes a $7 trillion bill.
There's a great article I referred to last week in the New York Post about this.
Anyway, so Manchin is refusing to back this measure if they keep with the accounting tricks.
He said, quote, when I see shell games and budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the 1.7 trillion dollar bill estimated to be at least twice that amount.
He says, I'm not going to support it.
I'm open to supporting it.
Stop playing accounting games.
Most Americans, CMBC think that we're now heading into a recession.
Pete Buda judge even having to admit the supply chain chaos will continue as long as the pandemic lasts.
Well, how long is the pandemic going to last?
I know we went through the Delta variant.
I don't know what the next variants are going to be the Moo variant, the R.1 variant, the Lambda variant.
I don't know.
Anyway, Biden on high gas prices, you know, why not allow the middle class around the world to pay more for gasoline and Biden says, well, because they have to get there to work and an automobile, Joe, you artificially reduced yourself.
You made this decision on day one to shut down high paying career jobs on the Keystone XL pipeline and stop exploration in Alaska.
Stop begging OPEC and kissing their ass and start kissing the ass of the governors of Oklahoma, Texas, North Dakota, and Alaska.
You don't even have to kiss their ass.
All you have to do is say it's open.
Good grief.
Call FedEx.
That's what I'll call FedEx.
Shop in October.
That's their answer.
Put on a sweater and lower your thermostat.
Here we go again.
Lower your standards.
America doesn't have to lower its standards.
I'm not sure they're going to get this bill through at all.
I'm really not.
We'll have to see over time, but I'm I'm hoping for sure we're not.
Now, on top of all of this and all of the spending, can somebody in this audience explain to me why Joe Biden and his administration have prioritized paying over a billion dollars or more in the form of individual payments to members of families, quote, separated at the U.S. Mexico border during President Trump's administration.
Now pause here.
$450,000 for an individual.
A million dollars of family.
They were not respecting our law, our borders, or our sovereignty.
At a time when we're running massive deficits and a huge debt.
Who's the genius that thought of this idea?
And why is Joe supporting that?
$450,000 a person to illegal immigrants separated from their families during the Trump administration.
I would say that is their fault.
They know we have laws.
They chose not to respect the law or follow the law.
They chose to break the law.
It's not Donald Trump's fault.
Good grief.
What do we gonna compensate all the people you put in cages in the middle of a pandemic that might have gotten COVID-19?
Or dispersing people that didn't get a COVID test around the entire country.
Oh, because they're not going to be here very long.
It's it's you know, these are things that I just never thought I'd see in my lifetime.
I really never thought I'd see it.
But here we are.
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Um, let me go to oh, well, one thing that's happening at a Jason Aldean concert.
Man, everyone burst into F. Joe Biden chant.
Anyway, country music fan were seen at this Jason Aldean concert.
And um the video appears to have been originally posted on TikTok.
Al Dean Al Dean was on tour in Florida.
People were chanting this during, and it's happening all over the country.
And it's getting, or let's go, Brandon is happening all over the country.
There's people are just fed up with being lectured by their government.
I mean, this is the socialist build back better new Green Deal Socialism.
By the way, that this poor woman was getting married, tearfully begging with anti-Christian cinema protest to leave her wedding where the senator was officiating.
Now you're going to ruin somebody's wedding day?
Man.
A single mom could end up paying thousands more for daycare if she marries, according to these new plans.
The latest draft of Build Back Better released on Thursday would create a large new federal child care program for each year that a couple has children under five.
Being unmarried would easily save them over $10,000 annually in child care costs compared to being married.
Thank you.
That's called the marriage penalty on star on steroids.
Welfare is encouraging, according to a study.
Able-bodied men and women to stay Voluntarily out of work, a new analysis, joint economic committee.
Many point to a growth and technical change, which dropped from 97% in 1959 to 89% in 2020.
The joint economic committee is arguing in their reconnecting Americans to the benefits of work report that a significant share of young men that receive handouts from the government are voluntarily disconnected from work.
Oh, and after he got paternity leave, Pete Boudigud says nobody gets everything they want.
As the Dems have backed away from paid family leave.
Biden vows to protect Taiwan.
Now, to everybody that believes that, I would remind you it's 79 days since Joe abandoned Americans in Afghanistan.
And it's 92 days since he promised Americans he wouldn't do that.
So that's how much you can trust Joe Biden.
Now, if you think the economy's bad now, look at the look what's happening in New York.
Because they started their vaccine mandate.
It's now forced dozens of New York City firehouses to completely shut down.
By the way, in Brooklyn, a convenience store was firebombed in broad daylight.
We now have, you know, if you look at the list of workers, it is staggering.
I love to, they're going to come up with a new digital driver's license that will include your vaccine status, your vaccine passport from the same people that don't want voter ID.
Tell me how that makes any sense.
But if you look at, you know, the number of people, you're, you know, you have 27% of firemen can't go to work in New York City that are firemen.
If you look at the NYPD, it's like 20%.
If you look at emergency medical workers, it's 16%.
They can't go to work.
They're not, they're willing to give up their pay, their benefits, and their pensions because they believe so strongly in their position.
Whether you agree or disagree, the vaxx don't vax debate, forget it.
It's over.
If you're willing to leave a job that pays well, that has great benefits, and you're on your way to a great pension.
I think you kind of have made up your mind.
And I don't think there's a single thing any government uh official is going to say that's going to change your mind on these things.
By the way, ambushes of cops are up 139% since Democrats started to defund the police movement.
The other area where they're having a lot of problems is in our prisons.
They don't have enough guards now because the guards have decided they don't want to get the jab for whatever reason.
You say, Hannity, it's your job to talk them into it.
Tell them to go talk to Fauci, the CDC.
Tell them to talk to the NIH, Joe and Kamala.
They're the ones giving mixed messages on pretty much everything, and they're the same people that have gotten so much more wrong than they ever got right.
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