ALL THE MASKS ARE OFF:  Did Psaki just admit that Biden’s high gas prices help Dems push their crazy green agenda?

And that’s good, because we can see what we’re fighting.

WE GROW NEW ONES. AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT INFINITE WHEELS:  When The Wheels Come Off.

THESE ARE THE DEATH THROES OF MARXIST INSANITY:  The Left’s Bungled Revolution.

It’s dying ugly. It’s going to take vast portions of our institutions with it. Innocents will be hurt. But it is dying.

Keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. And truck on!

THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND LEFT IN THIS:  VIDEO: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity.

It is impossible for the right to be completely isolated in a bubble. Completely impossible. Since the left conquered the overculture, their opinions, views and bizarre ideas of reality come at us via everything: the media, corporate communications, our kids schools, entertainment, MSM, and of course, aunt Millie who watches the view.  The left can isolate itself relatively easily. We can’t. And we’re healthier for it. Even if it often feels like we’re shouting in a hurricane.

BEHOLD, THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF MY SHOCKED FACE!  FDA Playing Deadly Political Games.

THIS WOMAN AIMS TO KILL THE REPUBLIC:  When Looking at Treasury Nominee Saule Omarova, Do Not Forget Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

And civilization.

WELL, YOU KNOW, BIDEN CANNOT HIRE ANYONE SMARTER THAN HIMSELF:  Biden Admin Reportedly Looking For WH Spot For Terry McAuliffe After He Lost State Biden Won By 10 Points.

IT’S TIME TO SAY NO TO THESE PEOPLE:  Teacher Union Head Randi Weingarten Shamelessly Touts the Left’s New CRT Straw Man.

Abolish the Teacher’s Union. Abolish Education Colleges. Set Certification Boards for Teachers out by their ears. Destroy this system of indoctrination and let parents build education systems.

THERE IS A WORD MISSING. THE WORD IS SCATHINGLY:  Appeals Court Halts Biden OSHA Employer Vaccine Mandate Pending Consideration of Permanent Injunction.

THIS IS NOT A BABYLON BEE HEADLINE: Liberals Triggered By Rittenhouse Trial Judge “God Bless The USA” Ringtone.

Fine, they hate the US so badly? Let’s send them to China. Heck, we might even punch air holes in the containers. Maybe.

AND IT’S TIME TO JUST SAY NO:  Scottsdale School Board President Accused of Assembling Personal Info Dossier On Anti-CRT Parents.

BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:  California School Board Votes To Refuse Compliance With Newsom’s COVID Vax Mandate.

I’D THINK TRUST WAS PULVERIZED BY NOW:  “Breakdown in Trust”: Loudoun County Parents File Court Petitions to Remove School Board Chair.

OPEN THREAD: Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition. And we’ll all stay free.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese rocket firms make new moves toward launch.

WELL: Is a Lush Beard a Signal of Having More Testosterone? Not So Fast, Says New Study.

WELL: CDC: No Record of Naturally Immune Transmitting COVID-19.

IT’S RACIST TO CRITICIZE CHINA BECAUSE THEY GIVE U.S. COLLEGES MONEY: Emerson College Conduct Board Finds “China Kinda Sus” Stickers to Be Forbidden “Discriminatory Conduct.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN KREMLINOLOGY: Nothing to see here, folks. Just Chris Dodd questioning if Biden runs in 2024.

Dodd, of “waitress sandwich” infamy, was co-chair of Biden’s vice presidential selection committee last year.

UH OH: Volcanoes hastened Chinese dynasties’ collapse, researchers call it a warning. A robust, rich, high-technology civilization spanning multiple planets is much more resistant to catastrophes.

GOODER AND HARDER: Bay Area Private Security Company Says They Can’t Keep Up With Demand.

SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD:

● Psaki on skyrocketing gas prices: “Our view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options.”

● Joe Biden’s nominee for the Comptroller of the Currency Saule Omarova on oil, coal and gas industries: ‘We want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change.’”

Earlier: Great Moments In Self-Awareness: Biden Shocked by Price of Gas During Biden Administration: ‘Did You Ever Think You’d Be Paying This Much?’

“People have a little more breathing room than they did last year, and that’s a good thing. But it also means you’ve got higher demand for goods at the same time we’re facing disruptions in the supplies to make those goods,” he continued. “This is a recipe for delays and for higher prices. And people are feeling it. They’re feeling it.”

He then brought up an example that, generally speaking, politicians have been loathe to mention out loud unless the other guy’s party is the one in power.

“Did you ever think you’d be paying this much for a gallon of gas?” Biden asked. “In some parts of California they’re paying four dollars and fifty cents a gallon!”

Does Biden know at the point in his life that he’s an Obama-era retread? Why would anyone be shocked by skyrocketing gas prices in 2021?

● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?

Well, it’s a start, as Steven Chu, former President Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

Seen in Glen Rose, TX last week:

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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Aaron Rodgers Beats Fiancée, Murders A Few Guys On The Street So NFL Will Embrace Him Again.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, AT LEAST IT’S A CAREER EDITION: Should universities be offering sex work advice to their students? “It’s not the first time that a university has extended support to students involved in the sex industry. Last month, Leicester University was criticised for its online ‘tool kit’, a landmark resource introduced to support student sex workers.”

And clients usually leave happy, which is more than lawyers can say.

ERIC CLAPTON IS AGAINST VACCINE MANDATES SO OF COURSE HE’S BEING CALLED A RACIST NOW:

Last year Eric Clapton really came out strongly against vaccine mandates, writing a song about it called “Stand & Deliver.” Since then he has refused to play concerts where vaccination was required. Today the Washington Post has published a lengthy investigation titled “What happened to Eric Clapton?” The story opens with Clapton’s friend Robert Cray describing an email conversation in which he didn’t like Clapton’s answers and decided to stop talking to him. Cray, who is black, specifically objected to a line in Stand & Deliver which said, “Do you wanna be a free man/Or do you wanna be a slave?”

And that really sets the tone for the rest of the piece which is basically made up of two things: 1) friends speculating why Clapton has gone all in against vaccine mandates and what that is doing to his reputation and 2) people speculating Clapton is a racist.

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What they can do is elevate this into the Washington Post and do their best to discredit Clapton and make his statements radioactive and claim that his reputation is collapsing. Collapsing with who? Some of his progressive friends? I bet he can still fill a large hall with fans almost anywhere in the world.

Clapton just completed a successful tour of the US (I saw him in September in Fort Worth, and can attest that his voice and guitar chops are both as strong as ever), and has a tour of Europe and Russia planned for next year, so yeah, he’s a very difficult guy for the left to cancel. And of course, it doesn’t matter that Clapton specifically renounced his infamous Enoch Powell-inspired meltdown uttered on stage at the depths of his 1970s-era alcoholism, in his 2017 documentary, Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars, stating, “When I realized what I said, I just was so disgusted with myself. I was so f***ing angry. And I thought, I needed to apologize to the people that I said that to, because it was shocking, and unforgivable, and I was so ashamed of who I was. I was becoming, not only chauvinistic, but fascistic, too. I was kind of a semi-racist – which didn’t make sense. I mean, half of my friends were black. I dated black women. And listened to black music – and championed black music. But it didn’t matter at all. They could all have gone to the wall, as long as I had the bottle. I hated everything – everything.”

As John Sexton writes, “Calling him racist or suggesting he might be is just a cheap shot way to punish anyone who fails to toe the line. It’s tiresome but not really surprising the Washington Post would pick this up this from Rolling Stone and run with it.”