Joe Biden makes excuses for protesters following a Democratic senator into a bathroom,

and Facebook goes down for six hours while the media prepare a full frontal assault on the company,

in order to suppress conservative information, of course.

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smarter wireless. Already, so as I have suggested, the Democrats eventually will get to some

sort of agreement on spending here. I think it is very unlikely they come to no agreement

with regard to spending, but that agreement is going to look a lot more like what Joe Manchin

wants than like what the squad wants. It's going to end up being about $2 trillion. This is something that President Biden is now saying. According to Politico, Biden summoned progressives to a virtual meeting to deliver a simple message per a senior White House official. He told them the endpoint would be about $2 trillion. He wanted their input on what that should look like. And so he's saying I'm going to go with Sinamon Manchin because I really have no choice, but I'm going to let you guys write large swath of the bill. It was part of a week-long project by Biden Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to gradually let it sink in with liberals. The reconciliation bill really will be dramatically scale back. Now remember, we're still talking about spending over $3 trillion, right? Between this $2 trillion spending bill, which undoubtedly will be closer to $3 trillion when you kick in all of the perks and you get rid of all of the games, the course, sort of gaming of the accounting systems, when you add that together with the $1.2 trillion that's going to be spent on this infrastructure boondoggle package. We're talking about spending, again, $3 trillion.

That's after Joe Biden earlier this year spent $2 trillion on the so-called American Jobs

plan.

So that is a lot, a lot, a lot of money.

But it's being treated as though it's sort of a moderate concession to go to $2 trillion.

I'm old enough to remember when it was a big deal of the federal government every year

we're spending $4 trillion.

Now we're spending $5, $6, $7 trillion.

And everybody's like, wow, look how moderate we are.

Look how much we've slowed this train.

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