Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine mandate for private firms, allows mandate for healthcare workers
Sinema doubles down on filibuster support, dealing likely fatal blow to Dems’ election bills
Eleven Oath Keepers including leader charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot
Producer Price Index (PPI) surged to 9.7%
Baltimore’s top prosecutor Democrat Marilyn Mosby is indicted on perjury charges
RNC mulls requiring candidates to avoid debates hosted by Commission on Presidential Debates
Federal government caused monoclonal antibody shortage, says medical supplies CEO
Kamala Harris Spits Out A Word Salad When NBC Reporter Presses Her On COVID Strategy
That’s all I got for the day, I’ll leave you with some songs and move along with my day.
“Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine mandate for private firms, allows mandate for healthcare workers”
The big woke companies that wanted legal cover are now screwed. If they mandate it (not two guys going on a date) they now run the risk someone will sue them if things go bad because of the clot shot.
Interesting point. I wonder if it will fly.
They lost their government provided protection from the mandate. So now they are worried which event will be worse for them,. Enforce the vaccine requirement anyway and risk the legal shit from that, or not enforce it and risk the legal shit from that. There will be no principled stance, but just a guess at which effort is less costly/risky, and we will all pay for it.
And some companies are still going forward with it anyways.
I hope it all starts winding done now. The OMGcron exposed the vaxes as dangerous fakes. Now that there is no legal cover, any smart company will just drop it rather than get sued for groundless firings or vax side-effects.
My company has been saying they will follow OSHA. So I guess now, that means nothing. My gut feeling from his comments is the CEO wants to mandate it (his wife nearly died from covid), but we are manufacturing and having staffing shortages on the lines already, so he won’t push anything that isn’t required.
Got the same vibe from my bosses. They were willing twist arms – but only if it was at no risk to them.
My employer has actually been reasonable on this. Surprising for a fairly large, New York based company, that projects wokeness wherever it can. They’ve not mandated anything even though we are a retail operation. They’ve been offering vaccines and boosters for free and encouraged everyone to get one, but that’s it. At least until a couple days ago when they started requiring us to put our vaccination status on our work profile (only management and HR can see it). We are allowed to put “decline to answer”. Even still, I’m going to drag my feet on this as much as I can. As a middle manager, they’re going to ask me to tell my employees to put that info up, and I really don’t want to get involved with that.
Figuring out who they would lose/could get rid of, is the first step.
How about “Fuck off”?
mandate it (not two guys going on a date)
Back in college in 1980 one of the guys in our fraternity was found to have a hidden copy of Man Date magazine, apparently gay porn. It led to a lot of of jokes (the world 42 years ago was quite different) but that was all, surprisingly enough. He decided to come out of the closet as a result, and ended up being elected VP of our house not long after. Nice to know that even flyover country rubes back then were pretty tolerant, despite what the Left today insists they still are.
“Eleven Oath Keepers including leader charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot”
People to government/FBI: “Who is Ray Epps and was the FBI inciting what happened?”
Government/FBI: “Look over there!”
I think it was Rebel Scum yesterday that expressed my thoughts:
Congress / Repubs: “Insurrection, huh? Yet no one has been charged with sedition or insurrection in over a year of investigation…”
Left: “QUICK! Charge someone with sedition!”
Pretty much the only thing that makes sense on timing.
“RNC mulls requiring candidates to avoid debates”
Free speech is gonna go up 9.7%
Did you pick that number randomly, or because that is the inflation number for 2022 so far?
Sinema doubles down on filibuster support, dealing likely fatal blow to Dems’ election bills
One person shouldn’t be able to thwart democracy. – Dems
The left has clearly made the point that they want the minority to be able to block the majority when THEY are in the minority, but that when they are in the majority, this favor should NOT be returned. See Schumer when they were in the minority vs. Schumer today when they desperately need a bill to fortify elections so they don’t end up getting buttfucked in the 2022 midterms.
Dems have clearly made the point that they want an autocrat from their party.
Anything else is just window dressing.
“Federal government caused monoclonal antibody shortage, says medical supplies CEO”
The tone in that heading kind of gives you the impression this was incidental/accidental, but the reality is that the Biden people did this on purpose and by design. My belief is that was done because they are all in cahoots with big pharma and the money they are raking in forcing people to take shots into perpetuity and that they need this crisis to continue longer so they have excuses to keep fucking fortifying elections.
It doesn’t make much sense. Monoclonal antibodies were developed as part of Operation Warpspeed along with the vaccines. I can understand big pharma wanting to slander ivermectin and HCQ+zinc because they can’t make money on it, but as of now there is literally no treatment protocol for Covid until you are on deaths door and then they will finish you off with a ventilator.
Rhodes put out a call on the group’s website in the days before the attack for “all patriots who can be in DC” to travel to Washington for a “security mission” to “stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight,”
///FightLikeHell
Epps was there and is under no threat, Rhodes wasn’t there and is indicted.
That word, justice, I don’t think it means what you think it does. You must’ve put too many modifiers on it and drained it of all meaning.
D00d. Epps testified that he is totally not an FBI asset. And he totally is not on camera committing incitement on multiple occasions.
I worry about that guy’s bar glassware. All the things it heard when Ray was crying in his beer has put it in jeopardy.
If it suddenly “falls” and breaks, I’ll be the first one shouting “Epp’s stein didn’t kill itself!”
How long have you been brewing that little gem?
Just beer with me and my puns.
Only if you hop to it and keep us amused, good Pope.
Threads like this are why I love this place. Worts and all.
It’s a tun of fun around here.
You drained every drop out of that pun, Jimbo.
He’s a right barrel of laughs, that one.
Oh, pils, you have been holdstein that in for a while.
*tapers stare*
They’re missing the lager point of all this.
FTFY
Slips just to the side of that one; it wasn’t me for once.
You used the wrong word there. This isn’t about any sort of justice. See 6 months of rioting and some $20 billion plus in damages, over 30 bodies, and absolute chaos supported by a apolitical party for more details.
This is about political theatre and helping team blue and the deep state thwart the people’s attempts to stop them from only allowing the people to pick from candidates that are compromised and owned by the deep state so the deep state can continue to be inept, corrupt, and evil without impunity.
Dealmed CEO Michael Einhorn told NTD News that “relying on the government to determine who gets what… can be very lengthy in terms of time and oftentimes you have surpluses in certain areas and nothing in other areas.”
“The process that we have now, which is practically a government takeover of these products, is not the solution and isn’t working,” Einhorn said.
Private shipments of Regeneron and Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibody treatments were paused by the Biden administration. Eventually, the federal government took over distribution, but Florida Gov. Ron Desantis accused President Joe Biden of having a “stranglehold” on the treatment by controlling shipments to the state.
That’s crazy. Everybody knows government bureaucrats are omniscient, and perfectly aware of all aspects of the supply and demand for every product and service.
Maniac left: WE WANT GOVERNMENT HELALTH CARE BECAUSE IT IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
Reality: They want to break the healthcare system to punish people and really and most importantly use the power of government to force the people they hate to comply with the evil shit they want to do no matter how destructive and divisive that shit is.
How is this even a thing that we allowed to happen?
I see your problem…
You assume the people that should have known better and would have objected were either informed or against the shit in the first place. You can’t object to something, to prevent it at least, if you only find out about it after the fact. It’s too late. Too many people have jigh stakes they have to play for, and what is good for the people isn’t on any of those lists…
See: Keystone
Approved project under construction stopped by the admin. ///FYTW
Commerce Clause. What *can’t* it do?
“Kamala Harris Spits Out A Word Salad When NBC Reporter Presses Her On COVID Strategy”
If it works for Joe……
KH has a new budding career on TV. A show called “Guess What I’m Saying”
I expected her to swallow.
Only if it means a promotion.
RNC mulls requiring candidates to avoid debates hosted by Commission on Presidential Debates
And miss out on having to debate the opponent AND the moderator? This is just part of the ongoing slow motion insurrection.
In the era of multiple communication platforms, we need to schedule times for the candidates to spout talking points in response to tangentially related questions. Otherwise Democracy dies.
Well I for one don’t want to have to listen to a candidate’s video where they take a deep dive into a particular issue and explain why they are the one who can help fix the problem.
I want to listen to no more than 30 seconds on any issue. And 28 seconds of that should be them calling their opponent a liar.
That is what the electorate demands and deserves.
Put the debate on at 3 AM and see how many people really care.
Politicians don’t fix things. There is no power and/or ability to get reelected in that shit. I want a candidate that says their sole focus will be to tear down the bureaucratic behemoth and reduce the system that allows the people in power to collude with the wealthy at our expenses to rubble. It is a fascist system that socializes private loss and privatizes private profit, and our power cabal has managed to enrich themselves beyond their wildest dreams by making the little people pay for the massive mistakes they have straddled us with.
Failure is success
A good thing about being on covid leave is the tastier breakfasts. Corned beef hash and eggs this morning. Except I didn’t have any corned beef so I used sausage. And I didn’t have any potatoes so I used broccoli.
Sausage, ok. Broccoli?
Big fan of that combo, especially on pizza.
Works well with orzo in a skillet for a quick dinner too.
Needs more hot sauce…
I thought you lost your sense of taste.
That’s how he is able to substitute broccoli for potatoes.
She’s no Frederick Douglass.
Hell, she’s no Helen Keller.
I’ll give her some credit. She’s half a Ghandi.
Are you cracking dot Indian jokes?
Sorry for the non-links link a little early, Banjos (and good morning!) — but this flabbergasted me:
45% of polled Democrats favor *camps* for the unvaccinated. And other bits of totalitarian goodness.
See also: They hate you, and they want you dead. There’s just a lot more of them than I would have suspected in the US. Thanks, Deptartment of Education.
FWIW, I recently participated in a Rasmussen poll. I identified as a Hispanic female against illegal immigration.
“Deptartment of Education” — yeah, I speel gud… sheesh.
Public school much?
Finally, I may get a chance to go to camp that I missed as a kid.
Time to buy some more ammo.
It’s not over. It’s only beginning.
Some of the other stats are chilling, too. 54% of the left support forcibly locking unvaxxers in their homes. Hitler didn’t have that level of support before he started strapping stars to semites.
Goebbels could have learned a thing or two from CNN and NPR.
“Other polling from Rasmussen shows that Democrats have higher rates of fear related to COVID and new variants.”
Their news sources are telling them to panic, and it’s still working.
The problem is that you can’t just turn the panic off.
When 2 years in you still think you have a 50/50 chance of being hospitalized what do you expect. Or that the rate of death is like 90% if you catch it.
They did it to the Japanese…and also Republicans are fascists.
To put a finer point on that:
A healthy majority, 78%, of Democrats support COVID vaccine mandates, which would force people out of their jobs if they choose not to receive a vaccination. Three-quarters have a favorable opinion of Dr. Fauci. A majority of Republicans and unaffiliated voters oppose the mandate and have a dim view of President Biden’s chief medical advisor.
In addition, a majority of Democrats support harsher measures for those who decide not to receive a vaccine that can’t prevent transmission or illness:
55% support fines for those who do not receive the vaccine.
59% support a policy that would keep the unvaccinated confined to their homes except for emergencies.
48% think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.
45% favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
47% favor a government digital tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine to ensure that they socially distance and quarantine.
At this point, I’m hoping they self-destruct by continuing to vaccinate until they are dead.
It may be the least violent way out of this.
I thought you had to swallow to advance as far as she has.
Morning Banjos.
Solstice.
Well, except for the ones that were chicken apparently.
President Affirmative Action strikes again
A source familiar with the president’s plans said Biden will tap former Fed governor Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as Vice Chair for Supervision — a key regulatory role. In addition, Biden plans to nominate academic economists Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson to fill the remaining vacancies on the Fed’s seven-member governing board.
If confirmed, Cook and Jefferson would be two of only five African American Fed governors in the central bank’s 108-year history, and the first since 2006.
Qualifications? Skin color.
So if it is now precedent that employees of health care facilities can be forced into medical choices, can the next GOP-er mandate that any employee who gets an abortion is fired?
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
Mandatory Norplant and PrEP.
It’s clearly in the Constitution that abortion be treated entirely differently from literally every other medical procedure out there, just as the Founders wanted when they wrote it.
Not Thomas Jefferson though.
They expressly stated their desire for a Living Document that changes with the times.
Yes, they did – Article FUCKING FIVE.
The process of amending the Constitution is tedious because it has great import. It literally is changing the rules by which our government is expected to operate. So, obviously, politicians and government agents look for ways to slide right up to (and over) the line where a change becomes so major as to require an Amendment. There are multiple problems with this, but the one I want to point out here is that the faster you can make changes, the less stable a system becomes.
In any feedback control system, be it a modern computerized control system in a chemical plant, something as simple as a guy standing there watching a gauge with his hand on a valve, or even a pilot flying an airplane, it is possible to take a closed loop control and drive the system to instability and potentially destruction by changing parameters that determine how fast the controller reacts to changes in the output of the process. The faster it reacts, and the higher the gain it applies to the information it receives from the process, the more quickly the system can be driven to failure.
There’s a common problem in aviation called “pilot induced oscillation” wherein a pilot controlling an aircraft cannot react quickly enough at a low enough level of gain to keep an aircraft stable in pitch in flight or while landing. Because the pilot is limited in his ability to apply fine control inputs, the inputs result in an exagerrated and excessive counter response to the system, driving it too far in the opposite direction. So now the pilot reacts again, this time with greater force, causing the aircraft to deviate even further from stability in the opposite direction.
The same thing can happen with an industrial control system that is out of tune, or has been tuned for a normal range of operation but now finds itself outside the regime where the specific tuning parameters work for that combination of system and controller.
In these cases, the only way to get the system back into stability is to completely remove the controller from the loop–go back to open loop, and if the system has a natural stability or equilibrium, it will return to that on its own (doing this when landing an airplane is not recommended because of the proximity to the ground–the better way in that case is to apply power and go around for another try).
Political systems work in the same ways, but their oscillations are measured with periods of years or decades, maybe even centuries. Making excessive changes to the inputs or rules of the system rapidly can cause extreme failures, and it’s possible that once the oscillation is set in motion, it will be either impossible to remove the controller from the system until it’s too late, or the direness of the situation will not be noticed for a long time, after which it can no longer be corrected safely.
AKA: Death Wobble
Damn, wall of text there. All that to say that people are impatient and will try to get around the slow process of Amendment, throw the system out of stability, and wreck it all eventually if they are not held to that process.
It’s like a rookie pilot falling for the ground loop.
Or me adjusting the hot water in the shower, even with years of experience
It was a big improvement over the AoC, with the requirement for unanimity. We’d still be electing the Vice President as the second highest electoral vote claimant. On the other hand, we’d have never had Prohibition, the income tax or the direct election of senators.
We’d probably also be part of the British Commonwealth or a French Territory.
It’s not a Living Document, it’s just a fetus document. It can be aborted at any time.
Maybe they can mandate abortions for women who become pregnant during their most economically productive years. Commerce Clause + “it’s a simple medical procedure.”
Raskin is a former financial regulator from Maryland, who served an earlier stint on the Fed board during the Obama administration. She left that post to take a job with the Treasury Department. Raskin is married to Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who led the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Sounds legit.
Sarah Bloom Raskin has been outspoken in arguing that bank regulators should consider the financial risks posed by climate change.
That’s Job Number One.
Hey, maybe they’ll realize how much energy needs to be produced to run the printing press nonstop and try to stop printing for a bit to save the climate.
More likely they’ll push to outlaw bitcoin because of the needless energy consumption.
” bank regulators should consider the financial risks”
…should consider the financial opportunities for their friends…
Goodness… she’ll be so busy fighting Climate Change that I hope she finds time to root out Systemic Racism – which is after all central to every government job because Biden said so.
It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is everyday
And that my friends is how we’re going to do it.
And so right now we know we still have a number of people, that is in the millions of Americans, that have not been vaccinated and could be vaccinated and we are urging them to get vaccinated because it will save their life.
Fuck off.
The politics of failure have failed. We must make them work again.
Holee shit! Just watched the entire Sinema speech. She’s good, she’s very good. Hold onto your nards, America. If people like her gain the reins of power it will be all over but the crying. I can’t remember watching someone lie so convincingly since I caught eldest Daughter sneaking out of her bedroom window. This one is trouble.
She’s thicc, which some of you seem to prefer. I can’t get behind Senator Hooker-Boot’s fat arms though.
If you can’t do her from behind, then double bag her so you can still do her?
When you get bored do the arm pit.
Now you are talking bud…
And aim for the eyes as you finish…
Go for the eyes Boo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lLruVR2zQ
(for those that might not understand)
I’m deadly serious, though. That was a powerful speech delivered with emotion and resolve. Run for the hills because she is lying through her teeth.
Is that a spellcaster with a gerbil familiar?
Paging Richard Gere!
I don’t get the reference, but on this sub-thread there is no way in hell I’m clicking on a link.
You just didn’t Minsc words at all there….
Public Enemy Number One
Novak Djokovic faces possible deportation from Australia after the country’s immigration minister canceled the unvaccinated tennis star’s visa for a second time on Friday, citing public health.
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In a decision likely to have broad sporting and diplomatic consequences, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said in a statement early Friday that he had used his discretionary powers to cancel the visa again “on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.”
The government is “firmly committed to protecting Australia’s borders, particularly in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Hawke added.
“I am the LAW.”
*makes jack-off motions, realizes that he is locked in a cell*
The Australian government needs someone to blame, and tennis guy is the perfect villain.
I doubt it will have any consequences whatsoever. The people there want it to happen, the other players are happy to wave goodbye to him, and nothing else happens. The clapping seals that support him in Serbia will raise a stink but who gives a shit about Serbia.
What’s it going to take for whatever org runs the tennis tournaments to kick Australia off it’s list of high profile opens? My guess is even if one of the players just fucking died of a heart attack on television during the finals, they wouldn’t do shit.
The narrative is breaking?
Mid-Terms a’comin!
Midterms coming, yo!
That sentence presumes there are people who have had a previous COVID infection and still caught Omicron. I’m betting they don’t have evidence of a single example.
Anecdotal, but I had the Kung Flu back in February 2019, before anyone even really got worried about it, and my symptoms were so minor I only found out I had had it from the Red Cross calling me to ask me to donate blood again as soon as possible because of antibodies in April.
While on vacation recently outside the country min December, I attended a dinner with old pals and a bunch of others (17 people total) where someone brought the Omicron to dinner with us. All but two of us at that table got the Cron. My girlfriend and I did not. And I have told her that I was pretty sure I had given her my Kung Flu as I ended up visiting her when I was supposed to be rocking the Alpha or Beta version.
Pretty sure we had it in November 2019.
Oops was 2020. Not 2019.
definitely 2020, March for me,
#MeToo
For me, mid-to-late October 2019, before we even had a name for it.
We were in northern Italy at that time.
Yep, Jan 2020 here in VA, fever that didn’t break, splitting headache, weird muscle soreness, severe fatigue, and of course a cough that lasted weeks. Have been in close proximity to multiple fully vaccinated covid positive cases within the last year, and haven’t had more than maybe a runny nose or sore throat.
There was an article in the NY Times from march of 2020 i believe that looked at influenza like illnesses in NYC in fall winter 2019 and it was off the charts. In early march NYC hospitals were turning people away who could breathe because it was def covid and there wasn’t much they could do. The blip on the case chart for coof in march April 2020 is absolutely the end of a giant bell curve of cases. I’m convinced the CDC altered how they measure excess deaths beginning march 2020, because the chart I saw in that NYTs article when coof was likely raging does not add up to the excess death numbers provided.
This is the most depressing set of morning lynx I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Oh come on, we’ve actually spoken in real time. Nothing can be more morose than that.
Wait ’til tomorrow, OMWC says “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet”
His links are always nothing but a gateway for me. Soma.
Perfectly sane: Ferris State University Professor Throws Tantrum on Zoom
The academic bubble can’t pop soon enough.
Yeah, these people are worried their racket is going to go down in flames as society has finally realized they are no better than con men. Only they rip you of to the tune of $45-$90K a year with the help of the Fedgov.