Archive for 2021
August 28, 2021
THIS KAMALA HARRIS IMPERSONATION is both cruel and accurate.
COVID POLICY IS DRIVEN BY FRIGHTENED KARENS, AND THE FRIGHTENED KARENS WANT BOOSTERS: Booster Overkill: Getting more people vaccinated remains far more important than additional Covid shots for those who have already gotten them.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? The coming Afghan refugee crisis: “If you attempted to remove every person from Afghanistan who has worked with and for the US government and their families, [former Trump advisor Stephen Miller] said, ‘you’re looking at probably somewhere in the realm of a million people. I don’t know many people who think the United States can accept a million people on airplanes from Afghanistan into our communities, and there won’t be any second- or third-order effects of that,’ Miller said.”
WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Key inflation gauge rises 3.6% from a year ago to tie biggest jump since the early 1990s.
An inflation measure the Federal Reserve uses to set policy rose 3.6% in July from a year ago, meeting Wall Street expectations but also tying the highest level in about 30 years.
The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which the Fed sees as the broadest measure of inflation, was unchanged from June, which was revised up one-tenth of a percentage point, the Commerce Department reported Friday. That 3.6% reading equaled the Dow Jones estimate and appeared to be the highest level since May 1991.
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.
OUT ON A LIMB: Rasmussen: Majority Of Americans ‘Don’t Trust Biden Administration Reports About Afghanistan.’
Related: It’s Dawning on the Democrats: Biden-Harris Will Drag Them Down. “If you look more closely, however, you’ll sense something else: fear — that, in a desperate attempt to remove President Trump from office, the Democrats tailored themselves a straitjacket from which they will struggle mightily to escape. This fear is well-founded. Joe Biden is an aging, incompetent mediocrity whose main claim to fame, like the Delta Tau Chi fraternity from Animal House, is his long tradition of existence. Kamala Harris, his vice president, is a widely disliked authoritarian whose last run for the White House was stymied by her inability to garner support from more than 3 percent of the Democratic-primary electorate. If, prior to the disaster that was the last fortnight, the Democrats hadn’t sensed that they’d tied their party to a pair of losers, they sure as hell must have now.”
(Bumped.)
Biden’s second hundred days have been an unmitigated disaster.
It was then that inflation soared above 5%. It was on Aug. 9, Biden’s 199th day, that Democrats released their fiscally reckless and culturally destructive $3.5 trillion budget plan, drafted by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders with the intention of reshaping American life with a big expansion of the ballooning welfare state.
It was in Biden’s second 100 days that illegal immigration turned from a mere fiasco into a national crisis. The number of illegal migrants doubled in January to 78,417 compared to the same month of 2020, as Latin Americans accepted Biden’s invitation to come north, no questions asked. The numbers jumped again each month, and by his 100th day, the March numbers were out at a shocking 173,283, five times what they’d been a year earlier. Yet it was only in his second hundred days that it became clear there’d be more than 2 million illegal border crossings this year, that there’d be no decline in arrivals during the intensely hot summer months as the administration has promised, and that Biden had created the worst immigration crisis in more than 20 years.
Then came the worst disaster so far, America’s collapse in Afghanistan. It was on Aug. 10, Biden’s 200th day in office, that the Taliban overran three provincial capitals and it became obvious that their barbarian blitzkrieg would consume the entire country, ending America’s 20-year efforts against them in a humiliating rout.
Why, it’s as if, “The Joe Biden–Kamala Harris ticket was well-placed to run against Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. History may show that, beyond that, it turned out to be fit for no other purpose.”
August 27, 2021
KURT SCHLICHTER HAS A GENTLE MESSAGE FOR GEN. MARK MILLEY AND THE REST OF OUR TOP BRASS: Resign. “Rip those stars off your pathetic nostalgia costumes and resign. Quit. Tell that crusty Pinocchio in the White House and the faculty lounge Geppettos tugging his strings that you will have no more to do with his human centipede of failure in Kabul.”
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
Related (From Ed): Biden Was the Best Democrats Had to Offer, and Now He Has to Go.
(Bumped).
OPEN THREAD: Beware the tears of the gods.
YOU KNOW IT’S A DEBACLE WHEN THEY’RE GOING AFTER DISSENTERS LIKE THIS: Active Duty, Retired Naval Intelligence Members Told They Cannot ‘Disrespect’ Biden Over Afghanistan Debacle.
This policy was certainly not enforced during the Trump years.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: All future Starlink satellites will have laser crosslinks.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Afghan Evacuees on U.S. Military Bases Won’t Be Forced to Take the COVID Vaccine—Unlike Our Soldiers.
OUR CURRENT MILITARY LEADERSHIP IS GARBAGE: Marine officer relieved of duty after calling out senior leaders about Afghanistan: “I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, ‘I demand accountability,'” Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller said in a video message. “Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?”
Where’s “warrior monk” Jim Mattis in all of this?
More here.
OUT: We must vaccinate everyone to prevent the rise of new variants. IN: “As the Delta variant continues its global surge, experts are questioning whether the long-held goal of achieving herd immunity from COVID-19 through vaccination is still viable.”
SPACE: Astra plans small-rocket launch for Space Force. Nobody compares to what SpaceX is doing, but I’m glad that there are other competitors entering the field.
UPDATE: Launch aborted.
FRUITS OF LOCKDOWNS AND MEDIA HYSTERIA: Fatal overdoses from illicit tranquilizers jumped 6-fold during pandemic.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN SUBORNED BY CHINA: Our institutions are failing us on China.
SAME GOVERNMENT THAT GAVE BLACKHAWK HELICOPTERS AND MACHINE GUNS TO THE TALIBAN: ATF Targets Stabilizing Braces. “In June, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would make nearly all firearms configured with a pistol stabilizing brace subject to the National Firearms Act, requiring taxation and registration of millions of lawfully acquired firearms. The proposal represents a dramatic shift in ATF treatment of pistol-stabilizing braces.”
JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: Joe Biden Has Been Derelict In His Duty. He Is Unfit To Lead. He Should Be Impeached. “Biden’s bizarre behavior at the press conference, although deeply disturbing, does not alone justify impeachment. Rather, it’s his fecklessness and incompetence, his failure to protect Americans in the evacuation of Afghanistan, and his inability to speak clearly and honestly about the situation, that justifies impeachment at this point.”