{"id":1066010,"date":"2021-11-29T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066010"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T00:45:29","slug":"that-sounded-like-drunk-history-geraldo-mocks-jesse-watters-for-claiming-bidens-economy-was-high-on-fiscal-amphetamines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/that-sounded-like-drunk-history-geraldo-mocks-jesse-watters-for-claiming-bidens-economy-was-high-on-fiscal-amphetamines\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That Sounded Like Drunk History\u2019: Geraldo Mocks Jesse Watters For Claiming Biden\u2019s Economy Was High On \u2018Fiscal Amphetamines\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthat-sounded-like-drunk-history-geraldo-mocks-jesse-watters-for-claiming-bidens-economy-was-high-on-fiscal-amphetamines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066010&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fox News host Jesse Watters said Monday that the United States\u2019 economy only appears to be doing well because President Joe Biden dumped $2 trillion into businesses that were just reopening after lengthy shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Watters joined his cohosts on \u201cThe Five\u201d to discuss the economy, continued supply chain issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/dana-bash-asks-if-biden-deserves-credit-for-the-positive-parts-of-economy-asa-hutchinson-says-he-deserves-credit-for-inflation\/\">inflation<\/a>, and a planned address on those topics that Biden had postponed until later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden bailing on a speech about inflation today as Democrats begged Joe to take action. Vulnerable liberals are reportedly worried the supply chain crisis is going to bite them in \u2014 next year\u2019s midterms. Biden was supposed to reassure Americans after meeting with top CEOs about this issue earlier, but he abruptly scrapped those plans and rescheduled the speech where Wednesday,\u201d cohost Greg Gutfeld began. \u201cJesse, what does this mean, this rescheduling? Not one day but two days?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sources say Hunter relapsed. I\u2019m kidding. I don\u2019t have any sources. You think I have sources in the Biden White House?\u201d Watters joked, prompting laughter from the others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the thing with the supply chain crisis, I\u2019m surprised we still have one,\u201d Watters continued. \u201cDidn\u2019t Joe Biden fix it when he said he was gonna keep the ports open? What happened to that great fix two months ago?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watters went on to note that even after the Biden administration had promised to alleviate pressures on the ports by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-24-hour-port-operation-mandate-has-done-next-to-nothing\/\">keeping them open<\/a> 24 hours a day, but that the trucks had not showed up to unload anything from the cargo ships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he solve that truck issue?\u201d Gutfeld asked, and Watters said that the Biden Administration had imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/supply-chain-be-damned-biden-will-require-canadian-truck-drivers-get-vaccinated-to-cross-border\/\">vaccine mandates<\/a> on truck drivers \u2014 who spend most of their time on the road not contacting anyone anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so the reason we have this also, besides moving the factories to China, is because Fauci shut down this economy,\u201d Watters continued. \u201cNo one\u2019s ever done that, in the history of the world, shut down the economy because of a pandemic. Why did he do it? Because it mostly affects old people. Who runs the country? Old people! Old people don\u2019t want to die. They run things, so they\u2019re like, all right, no one get near me. So no one got near old people, but then the old people wouldn\u2019t let anybody else get near themselves, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo everybody stayed home, and so as we came back up, Joe dropped $2 trillion in like \u2013 I don\u2019t know, the same month as the economy reopened the pier that is like fiscal methamphetamines and we go just \u2014 right to the moon and then inflation, the economists are like, \u2018Oh, my god, I didn\u2019t see this coming. It\u2019s like the only profession they get paid to not see things coming. Always unexpected when you\u2019re an economist,\u201d Watters concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are more entertaining than drunk history,\u201d Gutfeld laughed.<\/p>\n<p>That sounded like drunk history,\u201d cohost Geraldo Rivera jabbed at Watters.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera went on to argue that certain aspects of the economy were getting better \u2014 that more people were getting jobs and businesses were beginning to expand \u2014 but that the good news often escaped media attention because \u201cwe don\u2019t do stories about processes working.\u201d He also warned that another COVID spike could cause the economy to drop off if people started to get scared again or there were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/prepare-for-the-worst-fauci-says-travel-bans-wont-stop-omicron-too-early-to-say-if-more-lockdowns-are-coming\/\">additional shutdowns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">LAST CHANCE to SAVE 50% on memberships to The Daily Wire with code DW50. Without our members, none of this would be possible. Join us to keep the mission alive.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Jesse Watters said Monday that the United States\u2019 economy only appears to be doing well because President Joe Biden dumped $2 trillion into businesses that were just reopening after lengthy shutdowns.Watters joined his cohosts on \u201cThe Five\u201d to discuss the economy, continued supply chain issues, inflation, and a planned address on those topics that Biden had postponed until later in the week.\u201cPresident Biden bailing on a speech about inflation today as Democrats begged Joe to take action. Vulnerable liberals are reportedly worried the supply chain crisis is going to bite them in \u2014 next year\u2019s midterms. Biden was supposed to reassure Americans after meeting with top CEOs about this issue earlier, but he abruptly scrapped those plans and rescheduled the speech where Wednesday,\u201d cohost Greg Gutfeld began. \u201cJesse, what does this mean, this rescheduling? Not one day but two days?\u201d\u201cMy sources say Hunter relapsed. I\u2019m kidding. I don\u2019t have any sources. You think I have sources in the Biden White House?\u201d Watters joked, prompting laughter from the others.\u201cHere\u2019s the thing with the supply chain crisis, I\u2019m surprised we still have one,\u201d Watters continued. \u201cDidn\u2019t Joe Biden fix it when he said he was gonna keep the ports open? What happened to that great fix two months ago?\u201dWatters went on to note that even after the Biden administration had promised to alleviate pressures on the ports by keeping them open 24 hours a day, but that the trucks had not showed up to unload anything from the cargo ships.\u201cDid he solve that truck issue?\u201d Gutfeld asked, and Watters said that the Biden Administration had imposed vaccine mandates on truck drivers \u2014 who spend most of their time on the road not contacting anyone anyway.\u201cAnd so the reason we have this also, besides moving the factories to China, is because Fauci shut down this economy,\u201d Watters continued. \u201cNo one\u2019s ever done that, in the history of the world, shut down the economy because of a pandemic. Why did he do it? Because it mostly affects old people. Who runs the country? Old people! Old people don\u2019t want to die. They run things, so they\u2019re like, all right, no one get near me. So no one got near old people, but then the old people wouldn\u2019t let anybody else get near themselves, right?\u201d\u201cSo everybody stayed home, and so as we came back up, Joe dropped $2 trillion in like \u2013 I don\u2019t know, the same month as the economy reopened the pier that is like fiscal methamphetamines and we go just \u2014 right to the moon and then inflation, the economists are like, \u2018Oh, my god, I didn\u2019t see this coming. It\u2019s like the only profession they get paid to not see things coming. Always unexpected when you\u2019re an economist,\u201d Watters concluded.\u201cYou are more entertaining than drunk history,\u201d Gutfeld laughed.That sounded like drunk history,\u201d cohost Geraldo Rivera jabbed at Watters.Rivera went on to argue that certain aspects of the economy were getting better \u2014 that more people were getting jobs and businesses were beginning to expand \u2014 but that the good news often escaped media attention because \u201cwe don\u2019t do stories about processes working.\u201d He also warned that another COVID spike could cause the economy to drop off if people started to get scared again or there were additional shutdowns.LAST CHANCE to SAVE 50% on memberships to The Daily Wire with code DW50. Without our members, none of this would be possible. Join us to keep the mission alive.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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