If someone had told you 20 years ago, as you watched the towers fall, that our military would flee from Afghanistan, leaving their weapons and Americans civilians behind, and there would be a Muslim woman on television, telling our nation’s teachers to teach children that the 9-11 attackers were not terrorists, and avoid promoting American exceptionalism, would you have believed it?
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Quote of the Day
This one goes to Larry Correia, who as usual, hits one out of the park:
[The Biden Administration] can’t even guard an airport from a bunch of goat rapists, but by golly, they’re going to swagger back to America, say fuck you Separation of Powers, fuck your Three Branches of Government, tear off a big chunk of the Constitution and wipe their ass with it on TV, all in the name of “the greater good”. That’s sure to be a hit!
Go read the whole thing. This rant is epic!
Presidency
Money making opportunity
Here is how the governor of Florida has an opportunity to get billions of dollars in free Federal money:
Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that those whose pay is threatened by Governors for refusing Federal COVID mandates, “I promise you, I will have your back.”
So here it is: Governor DeSantis should immediately stop sending money to every single entity who refuses to follow the Biden vaccine mandate. Then Biden will use Federal money to completely fund all of those entities and Florida will be free to keep the money they held back.
economics
Inflation
There are those who think that I am being alarmist. They claim that inflation isn’t so bad right now, if you only ignore housing, food, and energy. Ignore the three largest expenses in every household, expenses that are more than 62 percent of the average household budget, and things aren’t so bad.
In 2020, Housing was 33% of the average American household budget. Energy was 16% of the budget. Food uses up another 13%. Nearly two thirds of the average American household budget was spent on those three items- items that the government doesn’t consider when calculating inflation.
Housing is increasing. New home prices are skyrocketing (up 16 percent in the past year). With rentals, it gets more complicated. States like New York, California, Illinois, and Washington are seeing decreases in rent. Florida, Texas, Nevada, and Colorado are seeing massive increases. The largest is Henderson, Nevada, which has seen a 49% increase in rental costs in the past year. Orlando rents are up more than 25 percent in the past year, with most of that (20 percent) since January. Still, overall rents are skyrocketing with there being a nationwide 15% increase in rents over the past 8 months.
Food costs are rising, but in order to see that, you have to look past the official government statistics. (Hint: the government’s inflation numbers are no more realistic than the results of the 2020 election) According to Bloomberg (hardly a right wing source), food prices in July were up 31% from the same month last year.
What about energy? The average price of a gallon of gas was $2.11 in December, but that has risen to $3.09 as of last week. That is a 46% increase in 9 months. Other energy costs are also rising. The average cost of electricity has risen from 13 cents to 14 cents per kilowatt hour in the past year, a 7% increase. Overall, energy is costing Americans about 23 % more than it did last year.
So to sum things up: The weighted average of the increases in those three expenses is enough to put the actual rate of inflation at more than 12 percent, but that is area dependent. Some areas of the country are seeing inflation rates of 30 percent, and others are as low as 8 percent. Much of the variation is due to varying costs of housing and gasoline.
No matter what, the government reported inflation rates are far too low.
The Collapse
The Dark Ages
CVS announces that they will no longer have education requirements for jobs that don’t require a government license. They will also be increasing wages by 36 percent for the uneducated morons they will be hiring. Those who DID get an education? Not so much.
Power Grab
Crazy World
So now it is Constitutional for the President to order people to undergo a medical treatment, but not Constitutional to stop people from rioting and destroying property, nor is it Constitutional for a governor to prohibit a medical treatment.
The collapse will accelerate.
economics
Inflation and rent
For months, I have been telling you that the eviction moratorium is killing the rental market. The US dollar is taking a beating. These two factors are coming together to increase rents more than they ever have before.
The central Florida area has seen rental prices increase by more than 20 percent in the past 8 months. This is a housing inflation rate of 30 percent. At this rate, rents will double every 2.5 years. To put this in perspective, the average rent increase seen before COVID was 7%, but this year is seeing rents increase at three times that rate.
This means that our inflation is far, far higher than what we are being told. I am guessing that overall inflation is somewhere near 25% or so. The wheels are coming off.
COVID
More equal than others
So the workers of the US Postal Service are exempt from Biden’s mandatory vaccine requirement. Can’t be pissing off the people who are redirecting your fraudulent ballots.
This entire thing is an outrage, but let’s keep things in perspective. We haven’t even begun to see how bad things will get. Things are going to get worse. A lot worse, and that is even before the killing starts.
