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Jan. 31, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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America In The Middle - January 31st, Hour 2
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Kind of amazing.
It's 170 days since Joe stabbed Americans in the back in the back and abandoned them.
And uh it's actually 183 days when he promised he would never do that.
Uh then over the weekend on Sunday, Joe called for the release of a U.S. hostage in Afghanistan or a U.S. Navy veteran uh Mark Frankes is his name.
He was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.
Here's the problem.
He didn't mention all the other Americans he abandoned, or military family members, or the thousands of people with green cards eligible to live legally in the U.S., never mind our Afghan allies or the billions in military equipment.
Uh you you can't even make this stuff up.
It's it's pretty unbelievable.
Now, a lot of people are, you know, Democrats are saying they're coming up with a plan for sanctions against Russia if Russia invades Ukraine.
All right, well, this weekend the Biden administration, you know, keeps saying, oh, there's gonna be consequences.
Just well, it reminds me a lot of Joe Biden suggesting that he we have all the leverage with Afghanistan.
No, they have all the leverage.
They have Americans that are hostages.
Listen.
There will be enormous consequences if he were to go in and invade as he could, the entire country.
Or a lot less than that as well.
For Russia, not only in terms of economic consequences and political consequences, but it'll be enormous consequences worldwide.
The president has been very clear, and we as the United States are very clear.
If Putin takes aggressive action, we are prepared to levy serious and severe costs.
Period.
We've been clear.
If any Russian military forces move across Ukraine's border, that's a renewed invasion.
It will be met with swift, severe and a united response from the United States and our partisan allies.
In terms of sanctions, what we have laid out uh is a very clear message to the Russians.
And we've done so in concert and unison with our allies, that if they do further invade Ukraine, there will be severe economic consequences and a price to pay.
Uh, okay.
This is the same guy that uh used the word minor incursion into the disastrous press conference.
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Uh, Mr. Speaker, welcome back.
Um there's only one way that I can tell that you can have a real impact with Putin.
Um, first you'd need a strong leader that believes, okay.
We if you understand that Vladimir Putin, 50% of his economy is rooted in energy, oil, and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline exemption waiver that Biden gave Putin while simultaneously firing Keystone XL pipeline workers.
Um that's 50% of his economy.
If I were president, which I'll never be, uh my approach would be, okay, I'm gonna bankrupt you.
And the way I'm gonna bankrupt you is I'm gonna outproduce energy.
I'm gonna pull back the waiver, and I'm gonna supply our Western European allies all their energy needs so they don't ever have to go to Russia again.
Well that that is exactly what Reagan did to the Soviet Union.
He understood going in in 1981 that the only major source of foreign earnings was oil.
And so he set out on a strategy with the Saudis, who were very mad at the Russians for having invaded Afghanistan.
And uh they deliberately drove down the price of oil.
I think it got as low as two dollars a barrel.
Uh and they literally cut off all of the hard currency that the Soviet Union counted on to be able to buy weapons and to be able to invest in research and development, and within five years they had bankrupted the country.
And I think if we had followed President Trump's policy of energy independence, and if we were right now producing all the oil and gas we could, Putin would be a lot poorer.
The Germans would have American natural gas to rely on to offset the Nord Stream 2.
And we'd be in a much stronger position.
So you know, it's it's it's very ironic to me that you have Biden and his team pleading with Russia and with Saudi Arabia to produce more gas and oil at the very time that they're talking about bringing pressure to bear on Russia, whose biggest single pressure point is the sale of oil.
Well, as a matter of fact, the Biden administration is digging in deeper.
They they're going further into more restrictions on energy production in the country.
In other words, they're really doubling down on inflation stupid.
And and I don't really see any way out of it short of getting a new Congress and a new president.
But a lot of what he's doing, he's doing by executive action and executive orders, he's not even going to Congress.
So we should not be confused.
These are deliberate policies.
These aren't accidents, they're not examples of incompetence.
You have a bunch of very left-wing big government socialists who are very woke in their social values.
And for example, somebody made the comment to me earlier today that they worried a lot more about the American border with Mexico than the Russian border with Ukraine.
And I just had to make the point that, you know, this is not this is not because they're incompetent.
This is because the Biden Pelosi Schumer team want to have open borders.
They want to have millions of people entering the U.S. illegally.
They're happy to see them not get a uh criminal record check, not get a COVID check.
Uh and so we shouldn't be confused that this is some mistake.
This is their policy.
Well, what they're saying is, and if you listen to any of the left-wing commentators on any program over the weekend, you know, that they're all saying, Oh, this is a great opportunity.
Now he gets to pick a Supreme Court justice, and and this is exactly what he needed.
He needed a win.
And meanwhile, they're kind of ignoring the fact that uh a poll comes out showing that what nearly seventy-six percent, actually seventy-six percent of Americans don't think he should have gender race um qualifications as as the reason to pick a Supreme Court justice, and they would prefer that that Joe Biden, in fact, you know, open himself up to maybe any qualified candidate.
So well, in other words, Americans are rejecting identity politics.
Sure.
But this is this has been very steady.
I mean, well when we did a survey on big government socialism versus free market capitalism, it was fifty-nine percent for free market capitalism and sixteen percent for big government socialism.
If you do if you do a survey, for example, on whether or not kids ought to be taught the truth about American history.
It's overwhelming.
Uh, if you ask them whether the Martin Luther King's position that the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin, that's 91 to six.
Uh what you have is a hard-left minority trying desperately To use the power of government to force the rest of us to do things we profoundly don't believe in.
And it's all, of course, crumbling down, and they have a chance of having the worst election for Democrats since 1920.
I mean, I I just you can feel the tsunami building, and it's a combination of both performance failure.
You know, just go to the gas station or the grocery store.
I mean, Clista and I were in a store at a grocery store yesterday, and there were entire shelves that were empty uh because no product was there.
She was trying to buy something this morning online.
It's not available.
Uh and I'd so you have a whole just plain out performance failure, and you have an ideology failure.
And if the Republicans are smart, they'll spend a lot of energy tying the two together.
We did a little video at at uh American Majority Project.com where we we have big government socialism just doesn't work or isn't working, and we showed you case after case after case after case, and in three minutes you get sort of tired of hearing it, but you're pretty well convinced it's true.
And this is, I think, a huge problem for the left that their ideas don't work, they can't get rid of them, they're stuck with them, and they're stuck with them no matter what the public thinks.
All right, so they're not going to change the policy on COVID.
Uh I mean, running out of the tests is unforgivable for me.
Uh running out of monoclonal antibodies is unforgivable, especially Omicron specific ones.
We got a super uh variant of Omicron, apparently is made its way into the U.S. now.
We're watching it closely.
Uh they've now not mass produced the antivirals that every doctor I talk to praises.
Um then we've got the issue of the border.
Uh then we've got energy dependence issues, which Donald Trump had gotten rid of.
Now we've got you know inflation at a 40-year high, seventy plus percent of Americans blame Biden for inflation.
If he doesn't adjust his energy policies, tell me how is it ever possible to get out of inflation?
Uh with the Fed raising interest rates and cutting down money supply.
I I actually think now we're headed towards stagflation with those policies.
Well, I I think it's very likely you're going to end up with crippling the economy and trying to defeat inflation.
Remember, when when Jimmy Carter's inflation got way out of control, they had to come in and raise interest rates so high that they crushed the economy for two years.
It was only when the Reagan tax cuts finally began to uh return money to the American people that they began to pull out of a very deep recession in 1982.
Uh and I think that we have the same thing going on here.
The the the inflation's out of control, it's going to get worse.
Uh all of their policies and energy guarantees are going to get worse.
Uh the crises building around the world, and remember, uh the price of oil translates into uh the price of a series of things in agriculture.
So now agriculture prices start going up and you begin getting food shortages.
I mean, literally, you know, you you you wouldn't have thought five years ago it was possible to so mismanage the American economy that there are shortages of beef or of chicken or of pork, but that's what's coming down the road.
I mean, it's it's just astonishing to watch and to watch prices going up.
I mean, if you go out to eat for dinner, you now very often are paying 20% more than you used to uh because all the different factors that go into a restaurant are driving the prices up.
I tell my audience all the time I do my own grocery shopping.
I don't know why people are so surprised at that, but uh, you know, I'm like I like to go ro grocery shopping.
I know exactly what I want to buy.
And I'm now I'm on a pretty much a paleo diet, and I'm from my own experience, it is a dramatic increase in beef prices in pork prices and chicken prices.
Uh you now have instances where restaurants are adding chicken thighs to the menu, not the most popular part of the chicken because it costs less to produce.
So I mean, I'm seeing it with my own eyes how real this is.
The cost of produce is through the roof if you if you're buying produce, whatever you buy, fruits and vegetables.
And then, of course, they don't have a clue, and on top of all that, they're following George Soros' radical pro-criminal anti-police policies all across the country.
And so, in addition to all the shortages, in addition to all the inflation, you have a rising murder rate, carjacking rate, uh robbery rate that's that really takes us back to the 1970s.
I mean, it's we haven't seen anything like this in the last 50 years.
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How does this end and is there maybe I'm missing something?
Is there a way that Joe Biden is able to get out of this malaise?
I'll I'll use a term from the Carter years.
Uh because I I if he adheres to the rigid leftist neat gren New Deal policies of his base, which he seems to be doing, I don't see how he gets out of this situation.
Well I doubt if he does get out of it.
I think it just gets steadily worse and and these things tend to compound.
It's it's it's like watching a team that once it begins to fumble and it begins to throw interceptions, they just get more and more and more and and uh gradually one one of the I always used to tell people governing is at least ten times harder than campaigning because things come at you all day every day.
You never know what the next crisis is going to be and you never know you know you have much weaker tools to change it than people think.
And so I think they've they've got themselves uh a gradual slide all summer and fall to an election which I think literally could be the biggest uh when you won anything party since 2020 in in the first midterm of Obama he lost I think sixty eight house seats and some what seven eight nine Senate seats when you became speaker how many house seats did you win that year?
We we we picked up uh 54 house seats in uh and some Senate seats all right but you started with how many only how many we were much lower we were probably about 190 so McMcarthy's starting with almost a majority I think he's virtually guaranteed and it's it's hard for me to imagine a circumstance where you don't end up with Speaker McCarthy next year.
And you know and I think the same is going to happen in the Senate because when you get these tsunamis what what happens is not necessarily your Canada does much better but the other team gets killed.
So this is what happened in New Jersey in that state Senate president race where the most people didn't know who the Republican was.
He only spent 2300 and he was an independent trucker and he didn't have any big name ID but what they did know was who the state Senate president was and they walked in and said not him.
Well they elected a guy who in a normal year wouldn't have had a chance suddenly wins a decisive victory.
That's going to happen all across the country this year and you're gonna see people who nobody thinks can win suddenly showing up as an incumbent we could have won New Jersey's governorship we nobody paid enough attention to it.
We tried but we came in too late.
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All right 25 to the top of the hour 800 nine four one Sean you want to be part of the program I would ask Linda this question but she has zero knowledge of any of it Jason is uh a huge NFL fan you've got to admit the last two weekends um these playoff games and the championship games you know yesterday have the the probably the best two weeks back to back every single game was phenomenal if I had to pick a favorite it probably would have been the Bills and Kansas City.
What do you think Jason?
No I agree.
I mean even going back to week eighteen where the the Sunday night game went down to the very last second, and that decided if the 49ers even got into the playoffs or not.
It w it's been it's been a wild, wild time.
Um we had a cool moment in Kansas City, and I'm a I'm a fan of Mahomes like everybody else.
I think he's you know just young, gifted, talented, and he's got got got it all.
Um anyway, he um he lost yesterday in a really close another close game.
Uh they won the the coin flip again.
If he would have gotten a touchdown, like the Bills never got to touch the ball in overtime the week before because they got a touchdown.
That's the rule, which by the way, I think there's an argument for it.
No, you gotta give both teams at least one shot at the ball.
Um, and uh anyway, but that's up to the NFL.
But anyway, at the start of the game, and this had happened in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs last year, and it wasn't the who started it what wasn't the Islanders who started it.
That's right, it was the Tampa Bay Lightning started this.
And then the Islander fans picked up on it, and it really became like a very cool movement.
So before the game started yesterday, uh you had can't the uh a woman was singing the national anthem.
I don't remember her name.
Um beautiful voice, but the mic kept cutting out.
So then the Kansas City Chiefs fans, well, they just took over and started singing it themselves.
by the dawn by the dawn What so round me at the twilight swat whose was the bright star through the perilous light
Oh smoke and the roll is arrested.
Oh,
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave In the home of the
world I, I, I, but it was a shante, wasn't it?
Correct uh Jason who sang that, right?
Yes, it was the shanty.
So then they confirmed that she had technical issues.
What a beautiful voice she has.
And how cool is it when the crowd gets involved?
It's um you know what it's it it reminds me of, and I'm not making a comparison to to Nazis, but when people just automatically love their country, and I think a lot of this is a backlash to wokeness, and I'm not making any comparisons, but w remember the scene in the sound of music, and the Von Trapp family singers, and they had this plan to escape.
And anyway, Mr. Von Trapp, they had Nazi soldiers ready to take him away, and he has an encore started singing the Austrian national anthem.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, Linda.
I'm going from memory here.
And it was just such a powerful movement because Austria knew You know, what the Nazis were all about.
Now, there's no comparison here to what I just love when when countrymen, you know, I think America is now had it with wokeness, very different from what they were dealing with in Austria.
Okay, to be clear.
But it's just at moments, certain anthems take on special meaning.
Like kid ro rock rocks news song has just gone viral.
Um, you know, being anti-vaxx, anti-mask, anti-evody, and f you and drop dead, and it's like the number one.
I'm gonna disagree gently with you.
I have two things to disagree on.
I don't think her mic was that bad.
I don't understand what everybody's talking about.
I think the crowd was just moved and wanted to be patriotic.
I mean, her she sounded just fine to me.
I could hear her just fine.
Even if she heard a little bit.
I heard a couple.
She sounded fine.
I heard a couple of blips in the sound list.
Yeah, but it wasn't like the islanders were like the forget about it.
They took over.
You know, that girl, she just needed to stand there and let them sing.
This was like they were singing together, which is awesome.
I'm happy to see patriotism wherever we can get it.
As far as what's happening with Kid Rock, it's not that he's anti-vaxxed, is that he's anti-mandate.
He doesn't want people to have you know acquiesce to anything, which I love.
He's pro-freedom, and I think that's the reason.
Exactly.
He said Exactly.
By the way, did I make clear enough that I'm not making an analogy?
I just think any moment.
It makes me sad that you have to.
I'm like, is that really?
I'm like, clearly, we're just talking about but that was people have moments.
You know, yeah, like that's uh the comparison is only on this level, specifically and only that at that moment the anthem meant something.
I think as a backlash to all of wokeism and and everything politically correct.
Now crowds are saying basically let's go Brandon to everybody.
And by singing loudly and proudly the national anthem, I think they're sending a loud message.
I was shoveling in the snowstorm on Saturday.
Yeah.
And I was out there shoveling, and my neighbor came over to help me because it was a lot of snow when I was by myself, and uh he came over and uh we started talking.
And I've never talked to this man in my life about what his politics are.
The person talk about your accent and you started talking when you were.
Well, I mean, everybody in the neighborhood knows I'm from New York, so it's not a secret.
Um, but we started talking and and he was like, he's like, Yeah, all I need is a shovel that says let's go, Brandon.
And I'm like, Oh, hello.
Now you speak.
I got a nice neighbor here, right?
I'm like, hey, I'm like, you know, I liked you before.
No, I really like you.
You're not just helping me shovel.
Now we're talking politics.
And it was it was interesting, you know.
Just he's like a regular guy.
He's not in politics, but he's just like, I can't stand to see my country torn apart over just complete and total ideology.
He's like, where are the freedoms?
Where's the freedom to disagree?
And I'm like, Yeah, I hear you, man.
It was pretty interesting, you know.
Listen, I don't really care what other people's views are.
I don't care how left or woke people want to be.
If you that's your if that's your thing, you go be left, you go be woke.
But I think the country's had it with all of it.
And all of the misinformation and all of the shifting uh standards and and d demands for testing, all the government incompetence with COVID.
There's nobody I know in my life that trusts Fauci, Biden, Kamala, the NIH, the CDC.
Nobody.
And by the way, they've earned our distrust.
They've earned all of it, in my opinion.
All right, let's get to the point.
I think you're right.
Yeah, I think I'm right too.
For once in my life, I'm actually really right.
Can you believe it?
No, you are.
You're right.
Uh anyway, uh, let's go to let's say hi to Barbara's in Maryland.
Hey, Barbara, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
How are you today?
You sound great.
Thank you.
I feel good.
Life is life is good except for all the people I can't help with COVID because there's no there's nothing, there's no therapeutics available for anybody.
There's not something, but you know what?
God is good, and we're gonna get through this.
First of all, I just like to say, I love speak again, Richard to say.
I I'm just very pumped up about this, the upcoming 2022 election.
Um, he talked about people who maybe uh you never thought they could win before.
I know here in Baltimore, we've got people who have uh had very low profile, who are real America first candidates that have been kind of pushed aside.
Um and I want if you know, people who hear me uh here in Baltimore County.
I I I say all the incumbents, a lot of these incumbents that have been around these throwbacks and retreads.
Um it's we need new blood and people who are going to really put our our uh county and our country first.
So with that said, I would like to tell you what has really been bothering me about President Biden's decision to insult the black women on his list of Supreme Court nominee.
I am so disappointed.
But he first said it, I couldn't believe my ears that he actually said that.
Now I'll tell you this about me, Sean.
I went to college.
I was a very competitive person.
I wanted good grades.
I worked real hard for my grades.
I graduated right at the top of my class.
Not number one, but pretty close.
And and I went at night working a full-time job during the day.
But I was competitive and I did well and I wanted to do well.
And it just made me start to think.
What would the person anyone how how can you take this nomination?
How can you accept it after him saying that?
Uh look, whoever gets it's gonna accept it.
There are qualified people of any race, background, etc.
Here's the bottom line.
But you want to be selected for your qualifications even if that was his intention and and Democrats over the weekend were saying, Well, Reagan said he wanted to appoint the a woman to the Supreme Court, so um I don't r I hadn't remembered that.
I guess it's true.
I don't know.
I just think this the standard ought to be the single best most qualified person you can find and the one that fits your judicial philosophy and and views.
Well, I wish he had said that because you know it made me start thinking as a black woman.
Uh you know, what do you what do you tell people?
Like, yeah, well, he you know, they picked you because you were black anyway.
You think that that people won't say that to her or think that of her?
Yes.
And I think what he did was poisoned the well is what he did.
He he just he didn't have to say it.
He he's such a racist that everything he does, see you know, when he starts talking about uh race, it just comes out, and this is to me an instance of it.
Uh you know, when you start talking, what do you tell your kids my qualifications were good, but the president of the United States picked me because I'm black?
Come on.
I I honestly well, in this case, uh gender and African American woman.
I really uh the bottom line is he's only gonna pick somebody that has you know a radical view that kind of dismisses coequal branches of government, believes in legislating from the bench, that is a judicial activist, and uh uh that we just know what philosophically he's gonna look for.
Democrats interestingly Well, I think all of that is true, Sean.
All of that's true, but I think the first what he was thinking very selfishly about was choose using this issue to stop the flood of black people who are leaving the Democrat Party because of his lousy policies.
Well that's what I think his number one goal was here.
I think you got a talk showing you, Barbara.
Thank you for a good call.
We appreciate it.
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Mark, Indiana, next Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Mark?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, it's an honor to speak with you as always.
Thank you, my friend.
What's going on?
Hey, uh, I've been a I've been involved in the trucking industry my entire life and been my passion since I was a kid, and sadly, sixteen and a half years ago I was involved in an accident um on my motorcycle, not at a truck, which left me legally blind.
And as a result of that now, you know, uh yeah, it makes it hard because I can't get a job.
Most companies are afraid to hire me because of my vision impairment, which is not saying much, but um about them.
Um but as a result of that I get disability, and you know, it drives me nuts because you know, Joe Biden and his inflation is I live on a fixed income for the most part, and it's not helping him that he's running all the prices of all the food, and as you've been talking up, and it just doesn't make my life easier, and and uh it makes it tough on people like myself, and uh it's frustrating when I see him talking and Pete Butterdish talking about everything from supply chain to whatever, and I've forgotten more about supply chain and trucking than they'll ever know.
You know, by the way, if if American truckers, this is how we paid back frontline medical workers.
We said, Yeah, you better get a booster, we're gonna fire you.
People that were diving on COVID grenades and working in COVID petri dishes, you know, for two years.
Um, and the same with truckers.
If truckers ever stopped, we see this this trucking rebellion.
We're gonna talk to some of them, uh, these truckers at the bottom of this half hour.
You see what's happening in Canada if that happens here.
If truckers didn't truck, New York would have died uh during the beginning of this pandemic.
They kept trucking.
And you know what?
We weren't asking them if they were had a vaccine or a booster.
They bravely went out there, they did their job, and now this is how we repay them.
The people that you know are so critical to our daily life.
And every every product we buy is thanks to them.
Now, in terms of people like yourself that are on a fixed income and have a disability, it sucks.
I I I I've lived there at the point of my life where I could barely pay my rent.
It sucks.
And now, you know, I go in and I do my grocery shopping.
You can't afford the stuff you used to get.
So if you maybe if you like protein, well, now maybe you're getting uh, you know, uh beans and rice instead of uh, you know, chicken and pork or whatever you happen to like.
And those are real choices that real people are making.
Uh it's sad, and it's all preventable.
That's the whole point of this.
But anyway, my friend, God bless you and hang in there.
If we can ever help you with a job search or anything, let us know.
Um, we try to help people whenever we can.
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