YOU’LL OWE EVERYTHING AND YOU’LL LIKE IT: Under Biden, You’re 4 Times More Likely to Face an IRS Audit.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 25, 2022
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Trevor Noah’s Cancel Culture Critique Rings Hollow. “Why? He’s less than willing to use his platform to be part of the solution. Noah should be making his Cancel Culture case in front of his small but loyal ‘Daily Show’ crowd.”
Maybe he’s afraid to test their loyalty.
Over 3.8 million Russians left from January to March this year, according to the Federal Security Services’ own estimates. Some left for work or travel reasons, but many also left because of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Other estimates put the number of people who left because of the war at 300,000 to 3.8 million. The exact number is still unknown. A recent survey from non-governmental organization OK Russians says that the average age of Russians who left the country after Feb. 24 is 32 years old, while 80% of them have a higher education degree.
And as the war approaches its six month anniversary, the country is experiencing a second wave of outward migration, as individuals and families who needed more time to wrap up their lives are now leaving. And although the estimates vary widely, this year’s mass exodus from the country is comparable to the initial emigration out of Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed and 1.2 million Russians left in 1992 and 1993. Russia’s current, large-scale brain drain of young, skilled and educated citizens, could decimate sectors from journalism, to academia, and technology, experts say.
Maybe the most interesting angle is that record (or at least near-record) numbers of people are leaving Russia even though the Russian economy seems to be weathering the sanctions reasonably well.
OFFICIAL LAWLESSNESS: Biden Tries Again to Legalize Illegal Aliens Without Congressional Authorization.
IT WAS NEVER THE GOAL: What Happened to Reducing Inflation?
When Sen. Joe Manchin and Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed the legislative deal they’d negotiated in secret, they called it the “Inflation Reduction Act.” But when NBC News’ pollsters asked voters about it last week, here’s the language they used:
“Democrats recently passed legislation supported by President Joe Biden that addresses health care and prescription drug prices, climate change, taxes for corporations, and the federal budget deficit. Do you think it was a good idea or a bad idea?”
Notice what words are missing: “Inflation” and “reduction.”
It’s not just NBC. The New York Times’ coverage featured the headline, “What’s in the Climate, Tax and Health Care Package?” At NHPR it was “Biden Signs Sweeping Climate, Health Care, Tax Bill Into Law.” The Concord Monitor had a similar headline: “Biden Signs Massive Climate and Health Care Legislation.”
Inflation? Barely a mention, other than to note that independent analysts like the Congressional Budget Office and the Wharton School say the new law won’t have a significant impact.
The goal was to raid the treasury: Mission Accomplished.
AN UNNECESSARILY GENEROUS DESCRIPTION: Biden’s Student Loan Giveaway Is ‘Unconstitutional Flimflammery.’
UNEXPECTEDLY! Canada Is Euthanizing Its Sick and Poor. Welcome to World of Government Health Care. “Roger, this is not my show. My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”
VIDEO: Ukraine’s Attrition Strategy. “Anders Puck Nielsen, a military analyst at the Royal Danish Defence College, has some answers. What Ukraine is doing right now is not a traditional counteroffensive, but a prolonged attrition strategy to degrade Russian logistics and forces.”
Once again, if you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the video, Lawrence Person has done a fine job of breaking out the bullet points.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Village Idiot Biden Puts Another Nail in America’s Coffin. “Fatalism doesn’t really look good on me but I swear that the commies who run Joe Biden’s brain are beginning to convince me that they might just be able to destroy this great Republic before Christmas this year.”
HMM: U.N. atomic agency chief warns Iran may have dealt the nuclear deal a ‘fatal blow.’
The development comes a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s board of governors censured Tehran for failing to provide “credible information” over manufactured nuclear material found at three undeclared sites in the country.
It also follows months of deadlocked over stalled talks aimed at restoring the Islamic Republic’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Tensions remain high across the wider Middle East over the accord’s collapse as U.S. sanctions and rising global food prices choke Iran’s ailing economy, putting further pressure on its government and its people.
“This, of course, poses a serious challenge to our ability to continue working there,” warned Rafael Mariano Grossi, the IAEA’s director-general. He added that if an agreement cannot be reached to restore the cameras in three to four weeks, “this would be a fatal blow” to Iran’s nuclear deal.
Already, Grossi warned that without the cameras, Iran could make centrifuges and divert them to unknown locations.
I, for one, do not underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up and make a deal even on this basis.
CHANGE: As ‘college for all’ fades, schools build career pathways. “What we learned is the same skills that students need to successfully complete high school, they need to access trade programs.”
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Kevin Downey Jr: ‘Anti-Science Nutjobs’ Right Again: Majority of COVID Hospitalizations, Deaths in 25 States Were Vaxxed. “Specialists from both sides of the discussion are already debating the findings.”
Lincoln Brown: Are You a Racist? Take the Quiz Below to Find Out! (You Won’t Believe #7!) “What if a resident is mixed and has a white parent. Can the white parent visit, help them move in, etc?”
Yours Truly: Let’s ‘Burn Straight White Male Librarianship to the Ground,’ Shall We? “Maybe it’s the Dewey Decimal System that set her off. Sounds white. Possibly phallic. Somehow. I guess.”
August 24, 2022
RUSSIA: Who Murdered Darya Dugina? “While I’m not quite (yet) prepared to agree fully with Kamil Galeev’s take on the matter, he makes some good points. One not raised directly is that the Kremlin was ready to roll with the propaganda even before the smoke cleared. That means advanced planning, which means she was sacrificed. Think the maskirova of the children in Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising.”
Lots of interesting thoughts here, check it out.
THEIR DISINFORMATION IS SATIRE, OUR SATIRE IS DISINFORMATION: Snopes declares fake Florida ‘Anti-Woke banned book list’ to be ‘satire’ instead of admitting it’s ‘false.’
DUMB: California, the Brownout State, Will Mandate Electric Cars by 2035. “Curiously, California made no announcements today regarding increased electricity production.”
THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING: Nobody seems to miss KJP’s press briefings.
Did you notice any unusually provocative questions during the White House press briefing this week? Your answer is almost certainly “no,” because there was no briefing for the White House Press Corps yesterday. And there wasn’t one all of last week. In fact, there hasn’t been a press briefing since August 9th, more than two weeks ago. Has anyone even noticed the complete absence of Karine Jean-Pierre (whose name you should always say in an exaggerated French accent) from the lectern where she is supposed to keep the media up-to-date on what Joe Biden is up to? As Jim Geraghty points out at National Review, nobody seems to be complaining. In fact, the silence from nearly all of the mainstream media is rather jarring. If there can be such a complete vacuum in terms of media correspondence from the Biden administration and all we hear is the sound of crickets, are these briefings really worth the time we invest in them?
Yes, part of what we’re seeing here – or more correctly, not seeing – may simply be a silent admission that the White House press briefings under the tenure of KJP simply aren’t worth very much. After all, the most common answer that reporters receive includes the phrase “I don’t have anything for you.” It’s as if people inside the Biden administration don’t really bother telling her much about what’s going on.
To be fair, there doesn’t seem to be any one person in the White House who actually knows what’s going on.
DENAZIFICATION, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 23.
Russian government sources confirmed that Russia is bringing Ukrainian children to Russia and having Russian families adopt them. Russian federal subject (region) Krasnodar Krai’s Family and Childhood Administration posted about a program under which Russian authorities transferred over 1,000 children from Mariupol to Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerov, and Altay Krai where Russian families have adopted them.[1] The Administration stated that over 300 children are still waiting to “meet their new families” and that citizens who decide to adopt these children will be provided with a one-time bonus by the state.[2] Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) additionally reported that Russian officials transferred 30 Ukrainian children from Khartsyzk, Ilovaysk, and Zuhres in occupied Donetsk Oblast to Nizhny Novgorod under the guise of having the children participate in youth educational-training programs.[3] The forcible transfer of children of one group to another “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group“ is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.[4]
Russia has scrubbed the page and claims it was hacked.
EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Hold Up: The Orange County NAACP Is Racist?
WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, JOE OR YOUR OWN LYIN’ WALLET? Voters Don’t Buy Biden’s Claims on Recession. “Nearly 70 percent of respondents told Hart Research Associated/Public Opinion Strategies, which conducted the poll for NBC, that the U.S. economy has fallen into a recession. The finding comes after Biden has insisted that the country is not in a recession, which most sources define as two consecutive quarters of GDP drops. The Commerce Department reported last month that the GDP dropped for two consecutive quarters.”