SO YOU’RE SAYING BAN PRIVATE JETS? Experts: To curb climate change, get wealthy people to enact reforms.

At the next Davos conference, I expect Green activists to wreck all the private jets lined up at the airport. To set an example.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DR. FAUCI! Fauci: ‘Too Soon to Tell’ if We Can Get Together for Christmas.

Related: Time for Fauci To Go. “Apparently nothing short of being carried out feet first will get Fauci out of the federal bureaucracy and out of the public eye, which he appears to crave more than anything.”

FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT: Trump Files Motion Asking Judge to Force Twitter to Restore His Account.

PARDON ME IF I PUT LITTLE TRUST IN STUDIES OUT OF WUHAN: Half of severe COVID-19 patients have symptoms after a year, Wuhan study finds.

WHY AM I HAVING FLASHBACKS TO THE WHO’S FIRST* FAREWELL TOUR? David Lee Roth Announces Retirement: ‘I’m Throwing in the Shoes.’ The former Van Halen frontman, 66, will play five final shows in Las Vegas before retiring.

* Of many.

NEO: The social costs of left-to-right political change.

I’ve spent about seventeen years chronicling, among other things, the social costs of such political change. It was nearly twenty years ago (!) that I made my own political transition – which, by the way, was from relatively moderate Democrat to somewhat-libertarian conservative – and the political climate was different then. It was already hostile and bitter, but not even close to as extreme as it is now.

Would I have done the same in the current climate? Yes. But I understand that one reason it’s so difficult to do, and one reason a person might adopt a stance of not wanting to hear information contrary to the beliefs that person already holds, is that it is now extremely threatening to make that particular change.

Read the whole thing.

TAKE IT TO THE BANK: Biden’s pick for currency comptroller shows his love affair with socialism.

Saule Omarova was named by the White House in September as the ideal for comptroller of the currency in part, because she would be the “first woman and person of color” to serve in that role.

Unfortunately, she also brings a lot of communist baggage to the spot.

As The Wall Street Journal reported, Omarova wants to outright eliminate banks.

“She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship,” the news outlet wrote. “Thirty years later, she still believes the Soviet economic system was superior, and that U.S. banking should be remade in the Gosbank’s image.”

She’s tweeted about the deficiencies of the free market in terms of guaranteeing gender equity — something that capitalism doesn’t even concern itself with, at least not on ye olde profit and loss statements, the standard-bearer of corporate successes. And she’s outright hostile to the idea of supply and demand determining the likes of salaries and product prices, preferring instead to see the federal government — the state — set such values.

So just to get this straight: Biden wants a flaming unapologetic communist in charge of America’s banking industry.

As if the proudly socialist, loudly petulant Squad in Congress weren’t bad enough.

I don’t really blame John Gill for Omarova, but it is some crew that President Klain is assembling:

● Senate Confirms Radical Eco-Terrorist as Chief of the Bureau of Land Management.

● Kamala Harris doing damage control after encouraging student who accused Israel of genocide.

● Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden, Is a Conspiracy Theorist Who Pushed False and Disputed Election Information on Twitter.

Tanden eventually withdrew her OMB nomination, but: Neera Tanden lands in the White House, after all. “The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden had appointed Tanden to be a senior adviser. She will start on Monday. The move came two months after the veteran Democratic policy adviser, known for her combative Twitter feed and in-your-face politics, withdrew her bid to become Biden’s budget director — Biden’s first, and, to this point, only failed nominee and one of his few political setbacks thus far.”

Flashback: The Mark of Klain. “[A]ll in all, things have worked out pretty darn well for Ron Klain. For America? Not so much.”

HIDE THE DECLINE: Biden Puts the Radicals in the Driver’s Seat: What Could Go Wrong?

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: Chants of ‘F— Joe Biden’ rain down from NASCAR stands during interview with Talladega winner.

Chants of “F*** Joe Biden” rained down from the crowd at Alabama’s  Talladega Superspeedway after Brandon Brown captured his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race victory.

The anti-Biden chants came during Brown’s post-race interview and after telling the reporter that his victory was a “dream come true” the crowd began to loudly shout in unison their displeasure with the president.

The reporter acknowledged the chants and claimed the fans were shouting “let’s go Brandon!”

NASCAR initially posted video of the interview with the chant but later deleted the tweet.

Fox News reached out to NASCAR to inquire why the post was taken down but did not immediately receive a response.

As Glenn wrote on September 11th, the “f**k Joe Biden” chants “seems to be happening all over. It’s amusing to see Democrats respond by demanding respect for the office, and the separation of politics and sport. Too late guys. Enjoy the new rules you made.”

UPDATE: The NBC “Let’s Go Brandon” sports reporter is apparently Kelli Stavast based on multiple reports.

(Updated and bumped.)

GOODER AND HARDER: NYC Restaurateurs: Business Down 40 to 60 Percent Due to Vaccine Mandate.

Pre-pandemic, O’Donoghue’s Pub and Restaurant was a successful business that has been open for 10 years in Times Square, Manhattan.

Fergal Burke, the owner of O’Donoghue’s noticed that his business has seen “a massive drop,” since the vaccine mandate came into effect.

“We don’t have the money here to survive without the help of our landlord, [who] has been very supportive and has been giving us breaks on the rent, but without our landlord, we would not be in business,” Burke told The Epoch Times.

He said that he needed to hire another person to be at the door checking for vaccination proof, which increased his expenses.

Comparing the clientele from pre-mandate to when it kicked in about two weeks ago, “Our business is definitely down 50, I’m going to say 60 percent,” Burke said with a somewhat downhearted tone. “There’s just not people coming into the restaurant, they have the fear of being asked for vaccines.”

Burke and his staff have had to refuse a lot of customers for not having the passes.

“They’re being refused and they get a resentment against us, they don’t get a resentment against Bill de Blasio or Biden, or whoever is mandating us to check for this.”

“It comes as a personal rejection,” he said, further stressing that it’s not O’Donoghue’s that wants this. “We don’t want this mandate, we want nothing to do with this.”

He also noted how the subway is full of people but there’s no requirement to show vaccination proof.

Earlier: ‘A disaster:’ How San Francisco’s office mask mandate is impacting restaurants, bars.

“We finally reopened in June when the [COVID] numbers looked good and when we looked at return-to-office plans for Salesforce and other companies,” Chun said. “In July, things picked up, but then delta hit, plans got delayed and August was just a disaster.”

“We reopened at the end of July, and it’s cost us $30,000 just to be open in that time,” said Leilani Mason, the owner and operator of Southside Spirit House, a SoMa bar that often serves Salesforce, LinkedIn and Yelp employees. “We heavily depend on the happy hour crowd, that’s our bread and butter. But a week after we reopened, the city said, ‘Just kidding, the pandemic isn’t over even if you’re vaccinated and we all need to wear masks,’ and then offices pushed back their reopening plans. We have no customers at happy hours, and we’re having our staff come in but there’s no one for them to serve.”

In New York, there’s also the BLM versus Bill de Blasio war: Why Bill de Blasio’s COVID Passport Edict Is About to Backfire Hard. “Black Americans remain the demographic that’s least likely to be vaccinated in the city. I’m just shocked it took this long for the liberals to shoot themselves in the foot on this one. Why would Mayor Bill de Blasio pass such a racist edict? You think you know someone, huh? No, but seriously, he chucked this boomerang and it’s about to break his face. So much for being part of those BLM murals over the summer, huh, Bill?”

SCIENCE! Leading ‘reproductive justice’ professor insists fetal heartbeats do not exist.

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN MUSICIANS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE EDGY AND CONTROVERSIAL: Country Star Jason Aldean’s Family Wears Anti-Biden Clothing in Controversial Posts.

This is sort of thing is guaranteed to lose Aldean a fan:

SPACE: NASA plans careful restart for Mars helicopter after quiet period.

THINK OF THE PRESS AS A BUNCH OF DEMOCRATIC-PARTY OPERATIVES AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG:

HMMM: Federal Reserve Vice Chair Clarida Traded Into Stocks on Eve of Powell Pandemic Statement. “Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida traded between $1 million and $5 million out of a bond fund into stock funds one day before Chair Jerome Powell issued a statement flagging possible policy action as the pandemic worsened, his 2020 financial disclosures show.”

IT’S FUN WATCHING BILL MAHER BEING SLOWLY RED-PILLED: Bill Maher defends Manchin and Sinema from furious progressives saying ‘they might have their thumb on the pulse of the average Democrat:’ Slams Congress for playing ‘chicken’ with shutdown deadline.

Maher opened his panel discussion of Friday night with journalists Matt Taibbi and Katherine Mangu-Ward by discussing the chaos on Capitol Hill between the warring Democrat factions.

Progressives are threatening to tank Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which centrists support, if the moderate faction does not also back the broader $3.5 trillion social spending bill that is packed with their priorities.

Maher noted that House progressives are ‘very mad’ at Sinema and Manchin for blocking the broader bill.

‘They’re mad at them because they’re not progressive enough — forgetting that they only got elected because they’re not progressives! They’re moderates,’ Maher said.

‘Here’s my question: Does spending more money make you a better person?’ Maher asked.

‘And maybe these two, Sinema and Manchin, do they might have their thumb more on the pulse on the average Democrat in the country?’ he asked.

I’m not sure why anyone should really be worried though, based on this recent headline at America’s Newspaper of Record: Biden Says We Can Afford $3.5T Bill Because China Just Gave Him This Cool New Visa Card With A Low Introductory Rate.

OH, THAT LIBERAL FASCISM: The green movement flirts with violent sabotage.

What actions are you recommending for the pro-life movement?’ the New Yorker Radio Hour host asks his guest, a tenured university professor and author of How to Blow Up an Abortion Clinic.

‘Well,’ the guest replies, ‘I am recommending that the movement continue with the March for Life and crisis pregnancy centers but also open up for property destruction. We need to step up because so little has changed and so many babies are still being killed. So, I am in favor of destroying machines and property, not harming people. I think property can be destroyed in all manner of ways. It can be neutralized in a very gentle fashion, or in a more spectacular fashion as in potentially blowing up an abortion clinic.’

‘Do you yourself plan to be involved in such actions?’ the host asks, scandalized and titillated like a 16-year-old girl whose prom date just whispered his untoward intentions in her ear.

If I were planning things, I wouldn’t tell you, but I’m prepared to be part of any kind of action of the sort that I advocate in the book.’

God, he’s so cool.

And scene.

Of course, this interview never happened. Not only would the author never have been booked on that particular podcast, he’d have been fired from his university, blacklisted by every major publisher, denounced as a terrorist, stripped of his bank account, and placed under federal surveillance.

But replace ‘pro-life movement’ with ‘climate movement,’ and you’ll find that this interview did happen, less than a week ago, with Andreas Malm, whose very real book is called How to Blow Up a Pipeline.

Read the whole thing.

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WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Inflation Hits 30-Year High According to This Key Metric.

Left-leaning media coverage has in recent weeks pushed the narrative that inflation is fading. But shocking new inflation numbers released today blow that media spin to smithereens.

The Labor Department just released the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures index (PCE), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred metric for monitoring inflation. It shows a 4.3 percent rise in consumer prices from August 2020 to August 2021, with prices rising 0.4 percent last month alone. That’s the biggest annual surge recorded since January 1991—roughly three decades ago.

1991, you say? I remember another Democrat who dubbed that era “the worst economy in 50 years.” Presumably Mr. Biden’s competitors to the White House will be using similar language to gauge his own handling of the economy.

Flashback: Milton Friedman’s Revenge.

SEN. TOM COTTON: Democrats’ Criminal-Leniency Policies Sparked an Undeniable Crime Wave.

The numbers are in, and the debate is over. Our nation is in the midst of one of the worst crime waves in American history.

New nationwide data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that last year the number of murders rose by 29 percent, drug overdose deaths increased 30 percent, and the number of gang-related killings skyrocketed more than 55 percent. To put this carnage into context, a 29 percent increase in murder isn’t simply bad, it’s the worst single-year increase in American history. Similarly, the drugs flooding into our communities aren’t only deadly, they are the deadliest drugs ever sold. For the first time ever, over 100,000 Americans lost their lives to drugs and homicide in 2020.

The number of assaults rose by 12 percent last year and criminal assailants committed nearly 75,000 more violent crimes than they committed in 2019. Although the total number of property crimes fell, the total cost of those crimes rose by nearly $2 billion. Recorded cases of arson also rose by nearly 35 percent, a trend that is likely associated with last summer’s BLM riots, which were the most destructive in American history.

In Democrat-dominated cities, violent crime rose far more than the national average. Last year, murder rose 50 percent in Chicago, 44 percent in New York, and 38 percent in Los Angeles. The murder rate in Baltimore was higher than El Salvador’s or Guatemala’s — nations from which citizens can claim asylum purely based on gang violence and murder.

Read the whole thing, from the man who owns the New York Times.

FROM C. V. WALTER:  Wed to the Alien Prince.

HMM: Researchers question role of insulin-boosting drugs in Type 2 diabetes.

THE HARDER THEY PUSH THE MORE I NOPE IT:  “Why are you pressing this so hard?”: Fully vaccinated Draymond Green speaks out on his teammate’s decision to not get vaccinated and I don’t think this is what the media wanted to hear.

DOCTORS ADVISE A LOT OF STUPID STUFF THAT NOBODY IS GOING TO DO:  Vax-to-ride? Docs say taxis should require shots for drivers, riders.

GEE, I CANOT IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT BE CAUSING THIS:  Nursing programs struggle to keep up amid a nationwide shortage of nurses.