The governor of Virginia says that it’s none of a parent’s business what their kids are learning in school.
I agree with the author: this is why I no longer teach. I just could not play politics with your kids.
Cancel Culture
No longer American enough
Lee Greenwood is no longer American enough for Joe Biden. After 16 years on the arts council, the Biden administration alerted him via email- not a phone call or letter, an email- that he was no longer welcome on the arts council.
So here is the song, because Fuck Joe Biden
Police State
Informants
A US Capitol Police officer’s friend of 40 years worried he’d “fallen into a cult” and reported the officer to the FBI for telling Trump supporters where the secure locations of lawmakers were.
You’d think you’d know someone after 40 years of friendship. Turning him in was for his own good, you see. To save him from the cult.
Economy
Welcome to the Kubuki Theater
Every couple of years, the Democrats and the Republicans engage in this stupid play. The plot is always the same: The country has borrowed to its supposed “debt ceiling,” and the Democrats want to raise it. The Republicans “refuse” to do so unless they get some concessions. The government gets “shut down” while they argue about it, until the Democrats eventually make some sort of deal, then the Republicans declare victory, raise the debt ceiling, and everyone pats themselves on the back.
Except the debt ceiling, concessions, the shut down, refusal, all of it, is fake. None of it actually exists, nor did anything actually change. It’s all theater.
COVID
Flipping the numbers
In the UK, the BBC runs a story stating that a third of COVID cases are among the unvaccinated. Doesn’t that also mean that two thirds of cases are vaccinated? It goes on:
- Nearly 13% of hospital patients with confirmed Covid were unvaccinated.
- 80% of patients have been double-dosed with a vaccine
- 99% of people who tested positive for Covid in the past week in Wales were under 60
- 84% of those under 60 are vaccinated
So let’s look at the numbers. If 16% of those under 60 are unvaccinated, and 13% of those who are hospitalized are unvaccinated, then that would mean that the vaccine has little to no statistical impact on COVID hospitalization.
Purge opposition
Is it time yet?
Just because reading one Salon article today wasn’t enough to piss me off, I decided to read a second one. How about this one? Trump fans are overdue for a lesson in consequences
The article includes this quote:
New York’s newly appointed governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul is calling the unvaccinateds’ bluff. Rather than caving in and letting them keep their jobs, she is prepared to call the National Guard to fill in the shortages left by the upcoming firings.
Got that? Obey, or we will fire you and then call in the military. Every liberal idea always starts with disarmament of civilians and ends with military firing squads.
Antigun
Projection
Salon magazine published an article, claiming that gun manufacturers are somehow evil and targeting young boys as future customers. How do they do this, according to Salon? By sponsoring youth shooting clubs and shooters, by creating a “link” to “false machismo” by associating their products with military and police through such tactics as calling their product lines “Military and Police,” or by offering what customers want by selling guns in colors other than black, like “Pink Platinum, Purple Platinum, and Harvest Moon Orange.”
They do this even as they themselves groom kids to be victims of their sick, perverted pedophile tendencies by publishing article about encouraging transgender children or pushing for laws to allow trannies to use bathrooms alongside their intended victims in elementary schools.
As for me? I’d rather teach kids to shoot, so they can defend themselves from these fucking sick child rapists. I want my grandchildren to be able to shoot these sick fuckers in the face.
The Collapse
Continued Warning Signs
The warning signs of worsening shortages continue. Things like Christmas trees, sneakers, chicken tenders, alcohol, Lunchables, coffee, and pet food are all reported to be in short supply.
Companies including AMC theaters, KFC, Starbucks, General Mills, Nike, FedEx, and Costco are all reporting shortages that will last at least through the end of the year and into the next. With the decrease in supply, there will be price increases, the law of supply and demand predicts it.
In fact, FedEx has already announced a 6% increase in shipping rates.
To complicate shortages, trillions in government stimulus during the pandemic has increased personal wealth, with household net worth up 4.3% in the second quarter while the debt carried by Americans rose by 7.9%. So not only decreased supply, but increased demand- more money chasing fewer products. Lovely.
The Fed will have to acknowledge all of this and make some drastic changes in monetary policy. When that eventually happens, everyone will claim that this new policy “caught them by surprise,” which will cause a decrease in stock prices.
The Fed can’t raise interest rates too much, because the US government simply doesn’t have the money to pay the extra interest on the $28.5 trillion that is already owed.
Things are going to get much, much worse.