PEAK COVID PASSED? Britain Gives Up on Vax Passports. “We’re seeing a particularly stark contrast in style between the leaders of the two nations in the “special relationship.” In the United States, President Joe Biden is hurriedly churning out new mandates to force everyone to be vaccinated and show proof of their status if they even want to go to work, to say nothing of going out to socialize. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, restrictions are being rejected, with the government instead choosing to rely on voluntary participation in the vaccination rollout and broad availability of testing.”

PAULA BOLYARD: I’m Glad George W. Bush Was President on 9/11. Just Imagine the Alternatives.

DON SURBER: “Five years ago, Hillary showed up drunk at the annual 9/11 commemoration and had to be escorted to her van. Today, Biden said hold my ice cream and topped that ignoble moment.”

Plus:

But why are they wearing masks? They have all been vaccinated.

This Pandemic Panic theater is the silliest thing in American political history.

And what is with the baby blue ribbons? Never forget? 364 days a year they forget. But once a year, they dress up like adults and get all solemn (except for the Barking Biden part). They talk about resolve and how the lives lost were not in vain.

But where was 9/11 when Biden gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban with $90 billion in cash and war materiel?

2,448 American lives did not matter to this monster.

Make that 2,461 because he killed 13 more in his dreadful retreat.

Bark, mongrel. Bark.

The Taliban won 9/11 because the Swamp won last November.

Yep.

DON’T GET COCKY: Without drastic changes, Dems are on track to lose big in 2022.

THE PANDEMIC ECONOMY’S WEALTH TRANSFER FROM THE WORKING CLASS TO THE WELL-OFF: “Many people in white-collar jobs fared quite well due to government stimulus payments, increased saving and a boom in the price of many assets, including homes, while many folks with service-sector jobs suffered.”

Related: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse U. professor: 9/11 was an ‘attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems.’ Yes, radical Islamists are known for their hatred of heteropatriarchy.

The notion of higher education as an industry that produces a prohibitive quantity of intellectual toxic waste seems pretty compelling to me.

OLD AND BUSTED: The One Percenters.

The New Hotness? The Two Percenters! CNN Poll: 2% Think America Is Doing ‘Very Well’ Under Joe Biden.

That large a number, huh?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Merit system is unjust because it rewards productive individuals, professors argue.

Inevitably:

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: More children in Chicago have been shot than died from COVID. Blue-city Democratic governance is the deadlier plague, and harder to eradicate.

HOLMAN JENKINS: Lumping 75 million unvaccinated into one category is partisanship, not science.

His approach is wedge politics. It will provoke confrontations with red-state governors and old-school civil libertarians. It will rile up anti-vax nuts, who will be portrayed as ordinary GOPers. It does not faintly resemble any strategy you would adopt if your goal was to improve Covid outcomes quickly and efficiently.

It’s long past time to stop lying about the Biden administration. The political calendar, with the midterms still a year away and 2024 three years off, is why he wanted a fast-and-dirty Afghan exit while he could still exploit his honeymoon privilege of putting all blame on his predecessors.

His vaccine announcement is more of a piece with his recurrent practice of whipping up the “white supremacist menace” to distract the left than any useful approach to improving Covid outcomes.

In regard to political cynicism, the Biden administration is not more meritorious than average; it is perhaps slightly less so, as you might expect from a politician with Mr. Biden’s history and character.

The people who supported him should be ashamed.

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin wins MMA debut.

Alana McLaughlin, the second openly transgender woman to compete in MMA in the United States, won her debut Friday night via submission at the Combate Global prelims in Miami, Fla.

The 38-year-old used a rear-naked choke against Celine Provost to end the match 3 minutes, 32 seconds into the second round.

McLaughlin, who began her gender transition after leaving the U.S. Army Special Forces in 2010, said she hopes to be a pioneer for transgender athletes in combat sports.

As Sohrab Ahmari of the New York Post tweets, “Here, finally, is the telos of the open, enlightened, liberal society: a hulking man pummeling a woman and calling it victory.”

SUPPLY CHAINS: Record Number of Ships at Southern California Ports. “The Marine Exchange of Southern California on Friday reported a new record of 134 ships in port, including 74 total ships at anchor and 60 at berth. This sets a new all-time record for the number of ships in port. Among them, 86 are containerships and 55 are at anchor, both of which are also new records. Thirty-one containerships were at berth Friday. The Marine Exchange reports that all anchorages are full and a number of ships (15 by our count) are drifting.”

IT’S A NATIONWIDE PHENOMENON:

FUCK JOE BIDEN CHANT IN DEATH VALLEY 🗣 @OldRowLSU pic.twitter.com/wS1yzbl7Yq

— Old Row Sports (@OldRowSports) September 12, 2021

Earlier examples here.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Revealed: 26 out of the 27 Lancet scientists who trashed theory that Covid leaked from a Chinese lab have links to Wuhan researchers.

Related: Fauci Lied: Documents Showcase U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research at Wuhan Lab.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: American Homeschooling Goes Boom: Meet the parents yanking their children — some five million of them — from schools that they say aren’t working.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

GLENN GREENWALD: The Indictment of Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer is an Indictment of the Russiagate Wing of U.S. Media: The DOJ’s new charging document, approved by Biden’s Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russiagate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key.

Well, yes.

Related: Jonathan Turley: Clinton Lawyer’s Indictment Reveals ‘Bag of Tricks.’

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Unlikely Heroes: AOC and Bernie Sanders Could Sink Multi-Trillion-Dollar Spending Plans. “Finally, some good news for taxpayers! (For once.) And the most surprising part? Ironically, it’s the most socialist members of Congress who may accidentally prevent our country from going broke.”

AS I KEEP NOTING, THE “VARIANTS” HAVE BEEN OVERSOLD: Vaccines effective against Delta variant.

WHILE BIDEN JOINS ‘DRONE CLUB’ AT 9/11 CEREMONIES, TRUMP HITS STREETS OF NY. “While President Biden joined former presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton at 9/11 services held at the World Trade Center and Shanksville, Pennsylvania – a group which presided over the deaths of countless Middle Easterners over 20 years of undeclared “wars on terror” that benefited the US Homeland Security-Industrial Complex and a few others, former President Trump took to the streets of New York to shake hands with first responders. It was quite the juxtaposition to say the least — with former President Bush pushing the ‘domestic terrorism’ and ‘angry America’ narrative during a speech in Shanksville (echoing Klaus Schwab), and images of Biden pulling down his mask to shout at someone…”

GREAT MOMENTS IN AMNESIA: White House says it didn’t expect such ‘vehement opposition’ to Trump-approved COVID-19 vaccine.

The White House said it was surprised by the strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines approved under former President Donald Trump.

“We didn’t anticipate that when there was a vaccine approved under a Republican president, that the Republican president took, that there would be such hesitation, opposition, vehement opposition in some cases, from so many people of his own party in this country,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday. “We didn’t anticipate that.”

Flashbacks:

● Biden: ‘I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don’t trust Donald Trump.’

—ABC News, September 16th, 2020.

● Kamala Harris says she will be ‘first in line’ for a coronavirus vaccine if health experts approve it, but ‘if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.’

—Business Insider after the debate between Harris and Mike Pence, October 7th, 2020.

● Here’s a montage of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Andrew Cuomo saying not so long ago that you shouldn’t trust the feds, the FDA, and the vaccine.

—Not the Bee, yesterday.

Also, note how Psaki (on the eve of 9/11) is portraying this as a red state/blue state issue, when it’s nowhere near clear-cut:

● “They’re Experimenting On Us” — Why Black New Yorkers Don’t Trust The Vaccine.

● Why Don’t They Believe Us?

And then there’s this guy, and the White House decision making that led to his video: Tax Dollars Smolder After White House’s Most Asinine Vaccine Push Yet.

Finally, why would anyone trust Psaki’s reaction, when it’s obvious what the Biden administration is doing is “stray voltage” to help shift the media narrative away from their Afghanistan debacle, border debacle, and inflationary debacle, and back to those icky Trump voters in flyover country.

Or as Jim Treacher wrote on Friday, “if these clowns are trying to make me angry at unvaccinated people to distract me from being angry at the White House, it’s not going to work. I’m vaccinated, and therefore, because of that, I don’t care if you get vaccinated. I think you should, but that’s all my opinion is: my opinion. It’s not gonna work, Mr. President. Rogan isn’t the bad Joe here, you are.”

FIGHT THE POWER: Libertarians Call for ‘Mass Noncompliance’ With Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate.

STARLINK SPURS COMPETITION: Hughes and OneWeb announce Agreements for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Service in U.S. and India.

A MODEST TINGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Capitol Police Inquiry Into Jan. 6 Riot Recommends Disciplining Six Officers.

But this is the modified limited hangout. Keep drilling. And in particular, aske these officers what they were told to do.