FORMER STAFFER FOR ELECTION-DENIER GOES TO FEC: Biden picks ex-Stacey Abrams staffer for FEC.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Cuero DHK 18 Inch Vintage Handmade Leather Travel Bag Laptop Briefcase Computer College Satchel Bag.(DARK BROWN). #CommissionEarned

COLLUSION: ‘Paying The Arsonist’: Biden’s COVID Test Contract With China Draws Ire on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.) compared the Pentagon’s decision to award a $1.3 billion contract to iHealth, a subsidiary of China’s Andon Health Co. Ltd. that will supply millions of COVID-19 tests to the United States, to “paying the arsonist for helping put out the fire.” Waltz said he was concerned that the deal further endangers America’s supply chains and that the United States cannot be reliant on a hostile country such as China, where the virus originated.

Biden’s confused. “Hostile? How can they be hostile? They gave Hunter $31 million!”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (CONT’D): Politico: Sure looks like Biden botched FDA pick — thanks to the Left.

More than a year after taking office in a pandemic, Joe Biden still hasn’t gotten his pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration confirmed. What’s more, Politico reports, it doesn’t look like the White House is doing much about it. Robert Califf’s limbo has less to do with Republican intransigence and more to do with Biden’s progressive allies. . . .

What in the world does Politico’s team mean by GOP support being a “first public sign of trouble”? Republicans don’t have too many reasons to pull Biden’s chestnuts out of the fire, but they’re not the reason Califf can’t get confirmed. Technically, Democrats don’t need any Republican votes to confirm a nominee as long as Vice President Kamala Harris is in town to cast a tie-breaking vote. Having four Republicans support a Biden nominee in committee isn’t a “public sign of trouble” — it’s a green light, especially for someone who served in the same position in the Barack Obama administration. The real trouble is coming from the Left, and for the reasons you’d imagine, but you have to scroll down a bit from Republicans pouncing® to learn it. . . .

The key question here isn’t Republican pouncing® or progressives’ ongoing hysteria over the corporations, man. It’s that the White House apparently didn’t care what happened to Califf after nominating him in mid-November, almost ten months after Biden took office in the middle of a pandemic. Califf had to have been on Biden’s Rolodex almost from the beginning, so why did it take so long to nominate him to run the one agency in charge of all the vaccines and therapeutics necessary to deal with the COVID-19 scourge? Or anyone, for that matter? This should have been one of the first appointments Biden made outside of Cabinet officials.

The sort of leadership we’ve come to expect.

PEOPLE NOTICE THINGS AFTER A WHILE: Anthony Fauci Loses Trust With Americans as Confidence in CDC Plummets—Poll.

HIPPIES WERE ALWAYS OVERRATED: Hippies for censorship: Neil Young’s grumpy war on Joe Rogan is a betrayal of everything he once stood for.

Hippies are the most disappointing subculture, aren’t they? They always let you down. They cut their hair, become therapists or corporate sustainability advisers, and before you know it these people who wanged on about Woodstock for 50 years are being paid a fortune by The Man to badger me and you. Just look at Neil Young. The one-time cocaine-stained hero of LA’s alternative scene, singer of angry songs about Vietnam and the Kent State massacre, participant with Crosby, Stills and Nash in the Freedom of Speech Tour of 2006, is now basically pleading with a huge corporation to silence people he doesn’t like. From protest singer to agitator for capitalist censorship? What a fall.

Related: Frampton comes a-cropper. “I laugh at their virtue signaling over Joe Rogan. They want to bankrupt him. What’s it cost them? 1,700 bucks? Heck, even I can afford that.”

FROM AMANDA S. GREEN:  Fire Striker (Tearing the Veil Book 1).  #CommissionEarned

Some say monsters aren’t real. Others say the only monsters are those people who aren’t fully human: the witches and shapeshifters, elves and dwarves, and all the others who one day stepped out of the realm of fairy tales and into “real life”. Morgan Walsh knows the truth. Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, and some of the worst are human.

She didn’t start out life as Morgan Walsh. Once upon a time, her name was Adriana Grace Hensen. Everything, including her name, changed the day she turned thirteen. That day she learned several lessons she’d never forget. The first was that monsters were real. The second was that her parents were two of the worst “monsters” alive. The third was that those you trust the most can and will turn on you.

Morgan’s parents betrayed her because she wasn’t “human”. Now she’s back with one goal in mind: vengeance.

Never, ever conspire against a Fire Elemental, especially one with other “talents” as well. When you do, you’d best be prepared to get burned.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: WSJ: Get ready for a new wage-price spiral as retail sales fall.

Consider this a confirmation of similar data from the Census Bureau two weeks ago. Retail sales retreated in December when the holiday season should have provided a boost to retailers, according to a Bureau of Economic Analysis report this morning. While nominal wages rose last month, inflation actually reduced worker buying power as expressed in real DPI. . . .

Inflation is eroding buying power even accounting for wage gains, a point that Joe Biden keeps avoiding while touting the nominal numbers. Keep this in mind, because we will come back to it in a moment.

This comes after a better-than expected Q4 advance report yesterday, but even that showed some signs of creakiness. Consumer spending was tepid at best in the final two quarters of the year, and final sales of domestic product nearly at a flatline. Reuters sees this new data as a signal that economic growth may have slowed down coming into 2022, too.

It’s only a “return to normalcy” if you consider the Carter years normal.

MOST ‘PRIVILEGES’ ARE THE ONES YOU CAN MAKE:  Privilege Bingo.

Or your parents worked and sacrificed for. Or– you know? In fact privilege means “private law” and the idiots screaming privilege at everything are the ones trying to create their own private law, in which we are all guilty of not giving them everything. I have two functioning middle fingers to hold in their direction. Now, that’s privilege.

THEY HATE US AND THEY WANT US TO DIE:   DHS Makes Excuses While “Betraying The American People”.

It’s the Junta. And all its works.

THE CONTINUING WAR ON THINGS THAT WORK, TO APPEASE LIBERAL DEITIES:  Gas stoves worse for climate than previously thought: study.

GOOD:  Widow Of NYPD Officer Jason Rivera Calls Out DA Bragg During Eulogy.

SINCE HIS WORK IS DIVISION AND MIRROR-IMAGE-RACISM, YEAH. IT’S TRUE:  “Antiracism” Promoter Ibram X. Kendi: Critical Race Theory Is “Foundational” To My Work.

Lies are critical to my work, too. But since my work is in fiction, I don’t try to convince people they’re real. And they’re, by and large, not poisonous. CRT fails both of those.

WE HAVE ALLIES WHERE WE DON’T EXPECT THEM:  10th Circuit Denies Native American Request To Halt Colorado “Mascot” Ban Pending Appeal.

Every tea party and protest I attended, there would be tribal buses, and people in traditional attire. Remember just because the left claims someone, it doesn’t mean it’s true.

SURE BUT WHAT IT REALLY NEEDS IS TO BE KILLED WITH FIRE FROM ORBIT:  State Legislators Are Mounting A Stand Against “Critical Theory’s Long March”.

Because unlike the overplayed “racist” card, it is truly racist. And evil.

AND CASTRO JUNIOR*  TRUDEAU TRIES TO PLAY IT LIKE IT’S JANUARY 6TH:  Trudeau Claims Proactive Victim Status, Says Violent Extremist Truckers Descending on Ottawa to Destroy Democracy.

*Yes, I do realize the claim is probably not true, but imagine having a mother who gloried in that claim. Think about it.

SO, ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE THEM, OR YOUR LYING EYES?  Not a Joke, U.S. Govt Takes the Official Position There Is No Food Inflation.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE!  Superman Going From Super Woke To Super Broke?

Hey, if they want to make it a saleable property again, call me. I have the know how and the track record!

YEP:   First Wave of Canadian Freedom Convoy Arrives in Ottawa.

YOU WILL, I DID:  You’ll stand up and cheer after seeing these Canadian trucker convoy videos.

And note there are some American flags. Whenever people fight for freedom, our flag is there. Be the America oppressed freedom lovers think you are.

AND SPEAKING OF:  Games Journalists Play.

HE’S RIGHT ABOUT THE MECHANISM. THAT’S WHY THEY WANT YOU TO AFFIRM THEIR LIES:  the dangers of propaganda to propagandists.

Yeah, proofing is…. wonky (like I can talk) and punctuation seems optional, but the mechanism described is 100% correct.

AND THEN YOU FIND YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE GETTING ANGRY:  Let’s Face It: You Like It Salty.

SOMETIMES IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO YELL:  Level Setting.

SURE. THAT’S HOW THEY THINK IT WILL PLAY:  The coming SCOTUS fight: those racist and sexist Republicans, that noble Biden.

They don’t realize how sick and tired of the race card the rest of the country is.