I POSTED ON THIS STORY THE OTHER DAY, BUT NOW IT’S GONE NATIONAL: ‘Fairly shocking’: Secret medical lab in California stored bioengineered mice laden with COVID. “Zieba said officials called in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after about 30 freezers and refrigerators were found, with some set to negative 80 degrees. The CDC detected at least 20 potentially infectious agents, according to court documents.”
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August 1, 2023
BIDENOMICS IN ONE LESSON: Biden Gaslights Americans With Fake ‘Manufacturing Boom’ As US Production Plunges.
Biden appears to be basing his assertions on one stat in particular, factory construction. And yes, if you look at that stat alone then it might seem like domestic manufacturing is experiencing new life. But, where are these new factories coming from?
The majority are government subsidized green tech factories as part of Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act.” Meaning, they are jobs created using your tax dollars through socialist programs, not free market demand. Not only that, but a number of these factories are being built by foreign companies, not American companies. For example, JA Solar, a Chinese company, plans to build factories in Arizona while benefiting from Biden’s subsidies. Meyer Burger Technology, a company out of Switzerland, is also building solar factories in Arizona.
And what happens when the government props up an industry without equal market demand? What happens when a manufacturing “boom” siphons American cash to foreign interests? It ends up destroying wealth, not creating wealth. In other words, Biden is using billions in taxes to falsify economic numbers in the short term as a means to get re-elected.
In other news, water remains wet.
More seriously, Biden’s wealth destruction comes at the expense of profitable and innovative investments that would (but now won’t) generate the growth necessary to get out of our debt spiral.
BROKEN PROMISE: Students At LeBron James’ School All Fail State Math Exam. “LeBron James’ I Promise school is under scrutiny after it was recently reealed that no eighth-grade student has passed the state math test since third grade. While some students improved, others regressed, with black students and those with disabilities testing in the bottom 5% in Ohio. School board president Derrick Hall expressed disappointment, questioning the impact of the provided resources.”
As the overfunded and nonperforming DC schools demonstrate, the problem isn’t resources.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Surprise—Joe Biden Was His Idiot Son’s Calling Card and Closer. “If one takes a close look at Joey Scranton’s boy Hunter, it doesn’t take long to figure out that the kid wasn’t headed for anywhere but a taxpayer funded state hoosegow if he didn’t have a famous and connected daddy.”
THINK OF OUR ENTIRE RULING CLASS AS A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: Deception by Redaction: More FBI FISA Abuses, This Time Using Fake News in the Washington Post.
CDR SALAMANDER: What Does Taking the PRC Threat Seriously Look Like? Japan isn’t playing.
Here at home, it means recognizing the extent of Chinese subversion and infiltration across many institutions. Our biggest hope of salvation may be that our politicians and institutions are too corrupt to stay bought.
WELL, OF COURSE. EVERYTHING FROM THE LEFT IS ABOUT POWER. DEI has always been about power.
THE DISAPPOINTMENT THAT IS CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS: “The Chief only speaks out when it serves his interests Again, whenever the Chief Justice speaks of the Court’s ‘legitimacy,’ he is actually speaking about himself–the man cannot separate himself from the Court. No Justice has done more to undermine the Court as a institution that follows law in a dispassionate fashion that Roberts himself. But so long as we avoid 5-4 conservative-liberal splits, he is happy, no matter what the opinion says. . . . For the Chief, voting with the progressives is more important that reaching the best legal conclusion. I’ve long written that the Chief’s judicial lodestar is not the Constitution, but the Gallup Poll. The only issue that gets his dander up is any perceived intrusion about the Judiciary (read John Roberts’s) powers.”
OUR SOVIET PRESS IN ACTION:
This is creepy. pic.twitter.com/oyebYpAWiQ
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) August 1, 2023
Just like the USSR’s Pravda and Izvestia, the intent is not to inform the public but to dispirit any potential opposition.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES EVER: “There is little reason to believe that this socialism will mean the advent of the civilization of which orthodox socialists dream. It is much more likely to present fascist features. That would be a strange answer to Marx’s prayer. But history sometimes indulges in jokes of questionable taste.” Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942).
DON SURBER: Biden’s crime family is all of DC.
There is no way Joe will be impeached or Hunter will do any jail time because if they go down, all of Washington will go with them. Washington protects its own because they fear if one goes to jail, he will bring them all down. . . .
Congressional fortunes are made through book deals and stock purchases. Congressmen and senators are amazing lucky when it comes to timing stock purchases and dumping stocks. In fact there are ETFs (exchange-traded funds) that track congressional stock purchases and sales, which allows mere mortals to trade like a pro — the pros being Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz.
Hunter & Joe’s only crime was to do everything crooked with a meth-fuled intensity.
NYT, THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT YOU: Biden Spoke With Son’s Associates, but Not About Business, Former Partner Says.
Mary Katharine Ham found this gem buried in the 20th paragraph (out of 22) in the New York Times report on Monday’s congressional hearing:
It has long been known that the elder Mr. Biden at times interacted with his son’s business partners.
Long been known, eh? Winston Smith couldn’t have rewritten history any more smoothly.
These are the Crazy Years. And our ruling class has taken to heart Rhett Butler’s dictum that there’s as much money to be made in tearing down a civilization as in building one up.
But in a strange sense, both gun control and prohibition grow out of softness. A system with the moral courage to harshly, swiftly, and surely punish violence would have little need of gun control. A system with the moral courage to harshly, swiftly, and surely punish abusers for stealing, trespassing, vandalizing, and defiling would have little need of prohibition. In both cases, we haphazardly punish millions of innocents because we refuse to decisively punish thousands of clear-cut criminals.
Yep.
THAT’S WHY DEMOCRATS WANT TO BE ABLE TO REGULATE EVERYTHING: Virginia Postrel: The Power to Regulate Is The Power to Destroy. “The president is head of the executive branch of government. If Congress doesn’t want him to enforce regulations, it shouldn’t pass them—doubly so if they’re vague. The 20th-century conceit that a technocratic elite should replace politically accountable appointees is based on the myth of disinterested agreement about the ‘right kind of civilization’.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: John Kerry Wants You Dead (and Several Billion Other People, Too). “John Kerry’s servants can’t make him an omelet without breaking a few billion eggs.”
GOVERNMENTS CAN’T BE TRUSTED, PERIOD: This is why governments can’t be trusted to regulate “misinformation”.
We let ours run rampant way too long.
IT’S BAD ALL OVER BUT SOME THINGS ARE BEYOND PLANNING NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WRITE, OR HOW MANY DAY JOBS YOU TAKE: Helping Kortnee Bryant Bridge the Medical Gap.
NATE SILVER: Twitter, Elon, and the Indigo Blob. “Within the comfort of the Indigo Blob, it’s easy to forget about the other 30 percent of the country. That was particularly true on Twitter, at least until Elon Musk took over the platform.”