Dr. Fauci’s retirement pension ($414,667) will exceed President Joe Biden’s salary ($400,000), the largest federal retirement package in history

 Fauci Annual Pension Payout Exceeds POTUS Salary... ^ 

Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid isn’t effective for people who are vaccinated and healthy

Pfizer says Paxlovid doesn’t help COVID-19 patients unless they are high risk

Biden finished his five-day course of Paxlovid on Monday, and experts said he should know whether his symptoms have rebounded in the next few days

 As more people report Covid rebounds after Paxlovid, experts insist cases are rare

Fauci finished the Paxlovid and tested negative for Covid, but about three days later a test came back positive again ... runny nose, sore throat and fever resurfaced, too

 As more people report Covid rebounds after Paxlovid, experts insist cases are rare

You first, assholes

 Dems introduce bill to enact term limits for Supreme Court... 

This NYTimes poll headlined by Drudge on July 12th is complete and utter fake news: Just 849 people were polled, 65% of whom were either Democrats or Independents, not Republicans

Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll Finds

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 Biden administration is considering forgiving the student debt for millions of Americans. Here’s why

Institutional investors have bought up 20% of mobile home parks and jacked up the rents on the low income residents, devouring widows' houses

 The plight of residents at Ridgeview is playing out nationwide as institutional investors, led by private equity firms and real estate investment trusts and sometimes funded by pension funds, swoop in to buy mobile home parks. Critics contend mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are fueling the problem by backing a growing number of investor loans. ...

Driven by some of the strongest returns in real estate, investors have shaken up a once-sleepy sector that’s home to more than 22 million mostly low-income Americans in 43,000 communities. Many aggressively promote the parks as ensuring a steady return — by repeatedly raising rent. ...

George McCarthy, president and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, said about a fifth of mobile home parks, or around 800,000, have been purchased in the past eight years by institutional investors.

He was among those singling out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for guaranteeing the loans as part of a what the lending giants bill as expanding affordable housing. Since 2014, the Lincoln Institute estimates Freddie Mac alone provided $9.6 billion in financing for the purchase of more than 950 communities across 44 states. ...

Soon after investors started buying up parks in 2015, the complaints of double-digit rent increases followed.

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If this level of inflation keeps up, the value of your nestegg will be cut in half in less than 9 years

 72 / 8.29336 = 8.68 

 

Do you want to know how inflation impacts your savings? The ‘rule of 72’ may help

 

 

A Devil's Dictionary definition of "happy ending"

 HAPPY ENDING noun phrase: a) archaic, now little used, description for the conclusion of a story where all's well that ends well, which of course is never the case; b) the fortune in the cookie which always comes with your Chinese takeout and is always made better by supplying the words "in bed" at the end; c) male sexual orgasm coming at the end of a session at a massage parlor, especially if there's no extra charge; d) description emphasizing the Schadenfreude you felt when you saw Max in Mad Max 2 permanently reunite Wez with his lover Lord Humungus in the final crash scene.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wackadoodle progressive Democrat Walter Bujak of Kent County, Michigan, crosses over to become part of the Republican Blue Wave!

I kid you not!

If this guy wins in the Michigan Kent County Republican 21st Commissioner District race on Aug 2, I might just check in to a mental institution myself and ask Alan Bolter for help!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe the greatest challenge we face is unifying the citizens of both the Republican and Democratic parties. ...  It is time for Democrats to wake up and cross over to the Republican Party!

-- Walter Bujak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seen here:

 

 

 

Holy cow, Republican candidate for Michigan State Senate says inflation is a good thing

 If there is a bigger nincompoop running for office this year, I don't know it.

Seen here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He reminds me of the ding dongs who signed Mark Dice's inflation petition back in 2009:

 

 

The idea that Trump is going to get personnel right in a second term, and on a massive scale, is just preposterous

 Axios reports, in laborious detail, here.

The grifters are lining up from sea to shining sea, including Demented Jim, and Trump retreads Stephen Miller, Mark Meadows, and Michael Rigas who didn't get it right the first time.

Who the hell wants to go to work for just four years for a lame duck?

These people think we are fools.

Michigan's Republican US House members Jack Bergman, Peter Meijer, and Fred Upton vote to turn on immigration magnet, give citizenship to the adult children of H-1B visa holders, the 1.5 million foreigners who already take jobs from Americans

The Roll Call vote is here.

The story is here.

AmodeiRepublicanNevadaYEA

BairdRepublicanIndianaYEA

BaldersonRepublicanOhioYEA

BarrRepublicanKentuckyYEA

BergmanRepublicanMichiganYEA

BradyRepublicanTexasYEA

BucshonRepublicanIndianaYEA

CammackRepublicanFloridaYEA

Carter (TX)RepublicanTexasYEA

CawthornRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA

CheneyRepublicanWyomingYEA

ColeRepublicanOklahomaYEA

Davis, RodneyRepublicanIllinoisYEA

Diaz-BalartRepublicanFloridaYEA

DunnRepublicanFloridaYEA

EmmerRepublicanMinnesotaYEA

FallonRepublicanTexasYEA

FitzpatrickRepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA

FloresRepublicanTexasYEA

FoxxRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA

Garcia (CA)RepublicanCaliforniaYEA

GibbsRepublicanOhioYEA

GimenezRepublicanFloridaYEA

Gonzales, TonyRepublicanTexasYEA

Gonzalez (OH)RepublicanOhioYEA

Gooden (TX)RepublicanTexasYEA

GrangerRepublicanTexasYEA

Graves (LA)RepublicanLouisianaYEA

GuthrieRepublicanKentuckyYEA

Herrera BeutlerRepublicanWashingtonYEA

IssaRepublicanCaliforniaYEA

Jacobs (NY)RepublicanNew YorkYEA

Johnson (OH)RepublicanOhioYEA

Joyce (OH)RepublicanOhioYEA

KatkoRepublicanNew YorkYEA

KellerRepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA

Kim (CA)RepublicanCaliforniaYEA

KinzingerRepublicanIllinoisYEA

LongRepublicanMissouriYEA

MaceRepublicanSouth CarolinaYEA

MalliotakisRepublicanNew YorkYEA

McCaulRepublicanTexasYEA

McHenryRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA

MeijerRepublicanMichiganYEA

Miller-MeeksRepublicanIowaYEA

Moore (AL)RepublicanAlabamaYEA

NewhouseRepublicanWashingtonYEA

ReschenthalerRepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA

Rice (SC)RepublicanSouth CarolinaYEA

Rogers (AL)RepublicanAlabamaYEA

RouzerRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA

SalazarRepublicanFloridaYEA

SimpsonRepublicanIdahoYEA

SteelRepublicanCaliforniaYEA

TaylorRepublicanTexasYEA

TenneyRepublicanNew YorkYEA

Thompson (PA)RepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA

TurnerRepublicanOhioYEA

UptonRepublicanMichiganYEA

ValadaoRepublicanCaliforniaYEA

WagnerRepublicanMissouriYEA

Wilson (SC)RepublicanSouth CarolinaYEA

LOL, after one month the Fed has reduced its balance sheet by a whopping 0.37%, only $8.899 trillion to go!

 

 

 

At this rate it will take only 22 more years and Jerome Powell will be 91.

Land of the sooty, home of the knave

 In those countries that pretend to freedom, princes are subject to those laws which their people have chosen.

-- Jonathan Swift

We live in a pretend world where everyone is pissing down our backs while telling us it's raining

Men pretend to be women.

Doctors pretend jabs stop spread of disease.

Know nothings pretend masks don't work because mandates don't.

Bankers pretend low interest rates will bring down high inflation rates.

Politicians pretend they had nothing to do with causing inflation.

Scientists pretend the world has never been hotter and we're all going to die if we don't do something.

Policy makers pretend the future is electric while shutting down power plants.

Women pretend their fetuses aren't alive.

Catholics pretend the pope is infallible.

Muslims pretend Muhammad was illiterate.

Jews pretend to be chosen above all the races of the earth.

The Chicoms pretend they're not committing genocide in Xinjiang.

The Russkies pretend Ukraine had it coming.

White people pretend to be anything but white.

Americans pretend we're all good and everything is awesome.

 

 

 

 

Wow, the fierce inflation fighters of the European Central Bank have raised their key interest rate to 0%!

The ECB, the central bank of the 19 nations that share the euro currency, surprised markets by pushing its benchmark rate up by 50 basis points, bringing its deposit rate to zero. Traders had expected a smaller hike of 25 basis points. ... The ECB had previously signaled it would be increasing rates in July and September as consumer prices keep surging, but it was unclear whether it would go as far as bringing rates back to zero.    lololololol

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Where will the shocking inflation-fighting developments end?!

Like almost every other public official who has come down with COVID-19 this year, who are now too numerous to list, Joe Biden was fully vaxxed and boosted twice

 

Joe is taking Paxlovid even though the new drug has been shown to work best on older individuals who have not been vaccinated at all.

Before Joe Biden came down with COVID-19, he was at Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, where 1530 MW of electricity used to be produced from cheap, plentiful coal

 Torn down starting in 2019, the former coal power plant will become a hub for just 804 MW of offshore wind energy, 52% of what used to come from that location.

Biden was accompanied by the usual suspects.

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