Friday, November 11, 2022
Clearly the interest rate beatings will have to continue until stock market morale improves
It's a small point, but the stock market cheerleaders, who are ubiquitous, consistently report year over year inflation as 7.7% when it's 7.8%.
Nothing must get in the way of the narrative, especially convention.
Meanwhile, the inflation regime is a giant wealth transfer scheme from you to them. But student loan forgiveness was the anesthetic to make young skulls full of mush forget on Tuesday.
Thursday, November 10, 2022
The end is near: The majority increasingly uses the referendum to get what it cannot get from a legislature, and now to vote itself largess out of the public treasury
Soon it will vote quite literally to redistribute wealth from those who have it to those who have it not.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Michigan House, Senate, Governor's mansion, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Supreme Court all under Democrat control for first time since 1980s
This is what happens when you get 1.8 million votes by mail: a record turnout to surpass the 2018 record turnout.
For the first time in four decades, Democrats are waking up to a state in which their party controls the House and Senate – a feat not done since the early 1980s.
More.
It takes a special kind of stupid Republicanism to screw things up this bad: libertarian Republicanism, for which Michigan is famous.
The key: legislation by referendum of the people instead of by representative government; which yielded 1) easy voting by mail, instead of on election day, for which libertarians are all-in, as they are for abortion, immigration, and free-trade, same as Democrats; and 2) "nonpartisan" redistricting.
Michigan was never a conservative state, and is finished as a Republican state.
Michigan has been irretrievably Californicated in the span of four years.
Trump failed to deliver in 2018 and 2020, now his party fails to deliver in 2022
This should have been a massive wave election. Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and given the favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, this should have been a plus-five wave in the Senate and a plus-30 wave, or bigger, in the House. It also should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates like Katie Hobbs, Kathy Hochul, and Gretchen Whitmer. ... Trump didn’t play the net positive role he should have, and that might be the real takeaway. ... Objectively, it’s clear that DeSantis is the future of the GOP.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Insurrectionists don't answer the phone, lol
Republicans this cycle are practicing the art of being ungovernable, and the progressives at The Daily Beast are frustrated as hell that no one can predict today's outcome from data:
Republicans seem less and less inclined to answer poll questions. ... It’s hard to get a truly random sample online the way you can with phone numbers. ... According to Dave Wasserman, the U.S. House editor at the Cook Political Report, the big problem is that “response rates suck. We’re down to 1 percent of people on a good day who are willing to talk to a pollster for free,” he told The Daily Beast.
Monday, November 7, 2022
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.
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.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Full time employment averaged a surprisingly strong 50.1% for the first ten months of 2022 in Friday's report
Still lower than 2019 but pretty good given the circumstances.
Friday, November 4, 2022
The people allied with those who wanted to put you in jail for vaccine skepticism now want fOrGiVeNeSs and AmNeStY
LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY
We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. ... we need to learn from our mistakes and then let them go. We need to forgive the attacks . . ..
Get bent, lady economist from Brown University.
Despite FDA approval of mRNA COVID vaccines, you still can't sue the pharmaceutical companies, and the only government program adjudicating cases is hopelessly overwhelmed
This story is outrageous.
The bastards.
You are already completely out of luck if you received a jab more than one year ago and haven't filed a claim for an injury.
Some excerpts, but make sure to read the whole thing.
Reuters (June 16, 2022):
Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the CICP was designed to be “the payer of last resort” for people who suffered injuries from treatments or “countermeasures” related to “a declared pandemic, epidemic or security threat” like Ebola or anthrax. Payouts are limited to unreimbursed medical expenses and up to $50,000 a year in lost wages, with no provisions for pain and suffering or legal fees. A death benefit of $370,376 is also available.
The CICP is the only option under current law for people seeking damages for COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries.
Per a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, the federal government indemnified the vaccine makers, which are not party to CICP proceedings. A Pfizer spokesman declined comment. Media representatives from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.
Until March 2020, the CICP attracted little attention, deciding fewer than 500 cases in its entire history. It’s now drowning in a 16-fold spike in claims, with more than 5,400 COVID-19 vaccine injury cases pending. Another 2,990 allege injuries or death from other COVID-19 countermeasures, such as being placed on a ventilator. ... At the current rate of adjudication – 18 cases a month, by my calculation – it will take 38 years to get through the backlog. That’s not much help for claimants who are unable to work or pay rent right now. ...
Without exception, the CICP requires claims to be filed within one year of vaccination.