Ohio weather clown show: Let's go Brandon!

Of course.

 

Joe Biden's America two days before Christmas is a third world patchwork of power outages all over the place

About 1.04 million without power this morning.

It's going to be a rough Christmas Eve without power with forecast real lows in the single digits.

 

Why Sam Bankman-Fried of Alameda/FTX isn't in jail already

 

Data here.

Biden chooses England over New England

 

U.S. pledges to ramp up supplies of natural gas to Britain as Biden and Sunak seek to cut off Russia

 

 

 

The dollar buys 12.5% less after two years of Joe Biden: The damage was already done by June when the Fed first hiked by 0.75

 

Before the election Biden declared the pandemic over, then he declared it on again afterwards but WaPo just ignores that

Biden still hasn't "shut down the virus".

 

 

Liberal Republicans in the Senate and the House again betray the Republican base, work with Democrats to advance same-sex-marriage rights but delayed action to avoid election consequences

Same-sex marriage protections clear critical Senate hurdle

Twelve Republicans voted with all Democrats to move forward on the bill, after negotiators reached a bipartisan deal to include protections for religious liberty.

 

In a 62-37 vote, 12 Republicans voted with all Democrats to move forward on the bill, after negotiators reached a bipartisan deal to include protections for religious liberty. The vote on final passage could occur as soon as this week. ...  

Wednesday’s vote showed Majority Leader Chuck Schumer might get what he hoped for when he delayed the bill to protect same-sex marriage rights from coming to the floor in September, agreeing to Republican requests that the chamber take it up after the election. ... negotiators bet that waiting would help solidify support and allow senators to vote without considering the midterms. ...

While the House passed its same-sex marriage bill in July with support from nearly 50 House Republicans, the process in the Senate has taken more time amid GOP concerns about religious liberty. If the Senate does pass its version, the legislation will need another vote of approval from the House to head to President Joe Biden’s desk. ...

It also would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act signed in 1996, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman under federal laws. 

Housing has never been more unaffordable than under Joe Biden and the Democrats

 

Meanwhile Joe Biden and the Democrats who cut and ran from Afghanistan fell far short of military recruitment even after cutting goals

 The US Army was 25% short, while all the other branches had to dip into delayed-entry recruits to make their goals for this cycle. 

Active duty military fell to 1.347m in 2020 from 1.388m in 2019.

In 2021 we're down to 1.195m, a year over year decline of 11.3% and 13.9% from 2019.

Look at this fearsome lot. These supposedly still meet US Army standards.

I'm sure our enemies tremble with fear.

 

Meanwhile Joe Biden and the Democrats get in your face by installing people like this in important federal jobs

 

Crime has soared in Democrat strongholds under Biden, but the FBI is working hard to hide the data and protect their boy

The BBC reports:

There are questions about the reliability of the FBI's crime report as it excluded data from some of the biggest US cities, including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

It's important to point out that last year, the FBI switched to a new data collection system. According to one analysis, nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies have failed to report their 2021 crime figures - so we may only have a partial picture of the most recent crime rates.

Under Joe Biden and the Democrats, border encounters are soaring since 2019 because illegal immigrants know they will likely be released into the US

 Encounters have exploded by 2.4 times under Biden.

It is estimated that well over 1 million of these illegal immigrants have simply been released into the US by the Biden administration using phony interpretations of immigration law.

This does not count the illegal immigrants who have snuck in because they were missed by the border authorities overwhelmed by the consequences of the Biden administration's lax border policies.

 

Joe Biden promised to shut down the coronavirus but in 2022 it is still killing over 800 people per day and remains the third leading cause of death in the United States

 

The dollar buys 12.2% less after two years of Joe Biden and the Democrats running the show: Runaway inflation

 

Gasoline is up to $3.79/gallon nationally, 81%, after two years of Joe Biden and Democrats running the show

 

The US Treasury crash is epitomized by what's happened to Vanguard's long term Treasury mutual fund VUSTX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fund is down to $8.36 tonight, 2 cents away from its all time low set on October 19, 1987 at $8.34. That was 35 years ago last night, when the stock market fell 20% in one day.

The 30-year US Treasury back then paid 10.25% on that date. Tonight it pays just 4.24%.

This Vanguard fund, which invests in such securities, year to date has returned -33%. Given the yield discrepancy, it would seem foolhardy to believe that the bottom is in. I wouldn't be surprised if the fund makes dramatic new lows, never before seen.

Meanwhile imagine losing money like that on America's safest of investments.

It's truly appalling and ranks right up there with America losing its AAA status under Barack Obama. I guess it's fitting that it's happening under his former Vice President.

The COVID-19 emergency continues to Jan 11 despite Biden saying the pandemic's over in September on 60 Minutes: They keep kicking the can down the road to avoid implications for vaccines

 The FDA would have to use the normal process for approving the vaccines, and based on the corners cut to get the vaccines to market, that looks unlikely.

Furthermore, removal of the emergency authorizations would then expose the manufacturers to lawsuits.

I agree with the guy in the last paragraph below.

Expect indefinite emergency use authorization, at least until Republicans take over the federal government in 2025.

The FDA’s ability to issue emergency authorizations for vaccines, drugs and medical devices would not necessarily end when the Covid public health emergency is lifted. These authorizations rely on a separate determination made by the U.S. health secretary under the law that governs the FDA.

But it could become increasingly difficult for HHS and FDA to justify clearing vaccines and treatments through an expedited process that shortcuts the normal system of approval when the emergency declaration is no longer in place.

Trump administration Health Secretary Alex Azar activated the FDA’s emergency authorization powers in March 2020, about two months after first declaring the public health emergency.

“It could affect emergency use authorization, where you couldn’t give these EUAs and so the FDA would have to fully approve the drug,” Gostin said. “It could have enormous knock-on effects that need to be very carefully thought through,” he said of ending the public health emergency.

But James Hodge, an expert on public health law at Arizona State University, said the PREP Act declaration that supports Covid vaccinations at pharmacies and the FDA’s power to grant emergency use authorizations will probably remain in place for years to come.

More.

Hey look, Biden throws another last minute Hail Mary to buy votes with less than 3 weeks to Election 2022!

 

Biden to announce release of up to 15 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve

 

Biden has cut the emergency reserve from 33 days supply to 20 days, with more cuts to come. 

"Wouldn't be prudent". -- Bush 41

 

 

 

Food and energy are bad enough, which core inflation would you rather have?

 

Joe Biden's nuclear war comments are completely irresponsible, but so is just about everything that comes out of his pie hole

 He's making matters worse, not better.

He's attributing statements to Putin which Putin did not make, which is the default practice for Democrats when speaking of their opponents.

A lot more is at stake than losing control of the US House and Senate in a few weeks.

Joe's irresponsible remarks risk real catastrophe from a deadly opponent.

Think what you will about Putin, Biden is a fool. 

Nobody fucks around with a Biden, he says, the day after Saudi Arabia does just that, telling him to go pound sand.

The whole world knows he's a fool, which is perilous for the rest of us.

Biden: Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ risk highest since ’62 crisis

 

BIDEN WARNS OF NUCLEAR 'ARMAGEDDON'