Scattershots – 23jan21 (updated 27jan21)

When intellectuals and journalists of the left use the word “democracy,” they typically are not referring to elections and decision-making by popularly elected officials. For the left, “democracy” is another word for progressive policy aims, especially the widening of special political rights and welfare-state provisions to new constituencies. By that definition any Republican president is carrying out an “assault on democracy.” – Barton Swaim

George Rebane

California hides C19 data to insulate Newsom’s disastrous pandemic response policies from criticism.  Surprisingly, AP broke this story (more here), and the rest of the lamestream immediately clammed up about it.  As usual with the Left, this practice is well-established in all autocracies wherever they are implemented.  Don’t let the public discover that their government is wrongheaded, stupid, pernicious, or a sordid amalgam of all three.  Newsom is an established idiot with a penchant for control.  For almost the entire past year his stratagems against C19 have been totally ineffective or markedly underperformed those of almost all other states.  You have to be idiots-on-steroids like Cuomo and DeBlasio to outperform Newsom in governance.  (It takes a union-educated progressive not to know that California is well on its way to becoming a full-fledged one-party autocracy.  And California has them by the millions.)

Speaking of Newsom and the nationalization of California’s failures, here is a compendium of them by CA Assemblyman Kevin Kiley in a 21jan21 letter that he sent to President Biden.  In it he responds to Newsom’s plea to Biden to implement the Golden State’s disasters nationwide.  Have you signed the petition to recall Newsom?

Higher wages increase profits – well, at least “at times”, according to a 23jan21 piece (here) by Ray Fisman and Michael Luca in which they describe ‘efficiency-wage theory’.  This theory by some prominent leftwing economists proposes that paying workers more will increase retention and productivity.  And the cost benefits from these increases, for certain industries, primarily the 'shag and stack' kind, it may boost the bottom line for a while.  However, the special cases in which this may be true are few and far in between, and most certainly don’t recommend a national minimum wage policy.  Leftists who believe that some arbitrary amount, today $15/hr, will result in workers happy dancing in the streets are the same ones who still believe in perpetual motion, and that the moon is 1/49^th the size of earth, even though it is further away.  Henry Ford’s raising assembly workers' wages by almost double and reducing work from 9 to 8hrs/day did indeed increase productivity and retention enough to more than pay for itself.  But that was primarily due to the long lines of applicants outside the factory gates to replace those Ford would fire for not working their butts off for the firm.  This is not today's labor market.  Everything has its market price, and no matter how much governments attempt to mangle those prices, in the end reality will rule.  Biden’s Bunch knows none of this, and will do its damnest to show all how levitation by bootstraps will work.

[24jan21 update]  On vaccine distribution and administration, under its disastrous Democrats California now ranks dead last in getting the stuff out to the people who need it.  And double-dummy Newsom writes Biden to have the nation start following California's lead on public policies a bit more closely.  I guess he figgers that if the rest of the country gets as crappy as we are, then Californians won't notice the difference, and they won't have anyplace else to go, and maybe we'll even stop the recall petitions now circulating around the state.

[25jan21 update]  Bumblebrain’s latest Big Lie is one that is attributed to his victory over Trump, and also the ONLY thing the Dems could claim was his mandate from the electorate – to demonstrate how Trump was derelict in responding to C19, and to demonstrate how his administration will finally get the pandemic under control.  Well, as pointed out @914am below, he has no plan of his own that is better than what President Trump achieved with both the historically rapid development of multiple vaccines (Project Warp Speed), and the meticulously planned distribution of the vaccines to the states using military logistics.  What did the states do?  The Dem governed ones loudly declared that they didn’t trust Trump, and sat on their collective asses instead of preparing their states’ distribution plans.  Today most of their vaccines are still sitting on shelves and some are spoiling instead of saving lives.  But the bottom line for Bumblebrain is that his handlers have finally explained the matter to him, which is that he can do no better than Trump.  He admitted his Big Lie with “there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months”. So, on what he got elected, he can’t deliver.  Compare that to the share of promised accomplishments by his predecessor. (more here)

For Sale - White Privilege Card.  I'm selling my white privilege card.  It's over 70 years old and still in mint condition. It has never been used.  Full disclosure - reason for selling is that it hasn't done a damn thing for me! No free college, no free food, no free housing, etc.  Prefer cash but would be willing to do an even trade for a different race card that is much more widely accepted!  Interested?  Contact me on my non-Obama cell phone that I pay for every month…  Serious buyers only!  (H/T to correspondent seeking a similar transaction.)

[26jan21 update]  Dr Fauci has an intimate connection with the development of the Corona virus, a relationship that calls into question his continuing role in the Biden administration as the head of its task force to develop national response policies.  This was reported Sunday night by FN’s Steve Hilton, and comes as a shock/surprise to most of the country. (more here)  It will most interesting to see how the current administration handles what normally would be a politically hot potato, and, of course, how the lamestream lackies then subsequently report on it.  (H/T to reader.)

[27jan21 update] ‘The 1776 Report’ by the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission arrived yesterday in the mail. (download report here)  This is a magnificent document that successfully counters the fanatically anti-American 1619 Project’s version of our country’s history and what our nation represents to the world. (more here) ‘1619’ forms the basis for a perverse curriculum that the country’s Left, supported by the Democratic Party, is injecting into our public schools as the main plank of its program to re-formulate our educational system according to the worldview and mandates of ‘critical race theory’ (full text pdf here).  For that reason, one of Biden’s first EOs was to shut down the 1776 Commission, and bury its work.  To those for whom the survival of the United States as a sovereign nation-state is paramount, ‘1619’ and CRT are manifestations of pure political evil.  Their intent is to fill the ranks of American citizens with people ‘educated’ to accept and comply with our collectivist elites, ensconced in the Democratic Party, whose aim is to meld what was America into a global amalgam of centrally-controlled satraps under a one-world government.  These are the times we live in.

Comments

[scenes]

"Leftists who believe that some arbitrary amount, today $15/hr, will result in workers happy dancing in the streets are the same ones who still believe in perpetual motion,..."

The whole deal is rather peculiar. Even assuming that a minimum wage makes sense at all, $15/hr is more than any Western country that I'm aware of.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/minimum-wage-by-country

...doesn't account for state or local differences in wage market and living costs.

The most likely result is two-fold.

. Redoubling of efforts to automate.
. Increase in wage black market (well, 'brown' really).

The first is going to get a big boost from work-at-home efforts as the interface between person and work becomes more measurable and goes through a simple bottleneck, the second due to a huge increase in basically unrestricted immigration from Latin America.

None of this is helped by a job contraction that is going on right now. Turns out a lot of people didn't do essential jobs.

[George Rebane]

scenes 843am - "... a lot of people didn't do essential jobs." That is one of the prime harbingers of advancing systemic unemployment, only to be made worse by Biden's immigration inhibitions and illegal alien amnesty policies. (Recall, on this site we understand the difference between immigration - a two-party contract - and illegal entry.)

[scenes]

" a two-party contract"

Which, to me at least, implies that both parties benefit.

Thing is, the American people generally are not one of the parties.

Given a long enough time horizon, which none of us personally have, the Left's need to construct a world-favela should be interesting.

(the infamous graph)
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/goldstone_africa_2050_demographic_truth_and_consequences_revised1-20.jpg

A big story going forward will be the emergence of stronger ethno/cultural immune systems, that's the big difference between a nation and an empire. Will Japan or Iceland be allowed to have borders in 2080? USA as metastasized Yugoslavia? Kumbaya for everyone?

Back to the OP, advancing systemic unemployment can certainly lead you down interesting roads, whether it's social unrest or bread lines in the form of guaranteed minimum income. It's best to stay out of the way of the shake-up. Those Democrats moving from LA to Idaho have the right instincts even if there aren't any good coffee shops.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 24 January 2021 at 09:49 AM

Borlaugs Revenge: or African Mouse Utopia

I can’t imagine the Chinese will tolerate the presence of all those Africans in their African natural resource reservoir.

[Scott O]

scenes 9:49 - "Those Democrats moving from LA to Idaho have the right instincts even if there aren't any good coffee shops."
If there are any Dems moving in around here, I haven't seen or heard of them. Most Dem ex-Kalis are moving to other states. The Dems relocating to TX are going to keep their jobs. ID isn't even in the top 5 states Kalis are fleeing to. I suppose the CDA area would be attractive to affluent Dems wanting a Tahoe vibe, but around here it's Rs and Libertarians and independents.
1 source of many:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ramona-sentinel/our-columns/story/2020-11-11/top-5-places-californians-are-moving-to

[Walt]

Trump had a plan... Biden,, not so much... But his BS got him in.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-coronavirus-trajectory-nothing-we-can-do-reaction

"President Biden has drawn backlash for providing a pessimistic view of his administration's ability to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the near future.

Biden's campaign featured harsh criticisms of former President Trump's approach to COVID-19, and in his first speech as president-elect he said his administration's work "begins with getting COVID under control." On Friday, however, he indicated that the trajectory of the pandemic can't be changed in the coming months, no matter what Americans do."

[Bill Tozer]

@ 9:14 am

President Biden said, concerning CHINA-19 and his 190 page plan, that wearing masks is better than the vaccine. More effective. If I hadn’t heard the clip myself, I would have missed that one.

First thing China did when Biden was sworn in was fly jet fighters over Hong Kong. They know Biden ain’t going to stand up to them and they are the real winners of the election.

Megan Kelley was right. She said the Dems have woken the sleeping giant. And she was no taking about the Red Chinese Commie Bastards.

[paul emery]

Yeah Walt Trump had a PLAN that promised 20 million inoculations by the end of the year. Only 4 million were actually enacted. Another Trump lie. That was the plan you bragged about in your 9:14.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-promised-millions-vaccinations-end-year-truth-far-worse-n1252735

[Walt]

Trump was doing just fine.. Then your idiot showed up.
You don't really read the news,,,, DO you Emery?
But keep posting from FAKE NEWS.. No wonder you keep making a fool out of yourself.

Now how bout all those LOST JOBS Emery?,,,NO??? All the illegals set loose on out streets? Maybe the border not being the border anymore?

OK,,, run and hide. May I suggest the pile of sand to bury your head in?

[George Rebane]

Those kind of hopeful promises by a president achieving historical accomplishments is all that the lame Left has to hang their hat, what a shame that there are grassroots Americans who can always be bamboozled by such astute observations and accusations. And, unfortunately, that share of our population is growing, thanks to our unionized propaganda mill that the Dems are trying to pass off as our public school system.

[Walt]

How's your memory Emery? Recall what I said about the virus?
A little reminder. " By the time a vaccine is found, the virus will have mutated." I stated that back in June.
Now that it has,,, NOW WHAT??????

[Paul Emery]

Walt

So you disregard another lie by Trump before he was booted out the door as the only President since the 1800's to have LOST RE-ELECTION, THE HOUSE AND SENATE ALL IN HIS FIRST TERM.

What a loser and he's still your guy.

[Paul Emery]

So George you don't consider Trumps not even near achievement of his promise to be a lie? At least he could attempt to explain to the American people why it failed.

[RXCross]

"a president achieving historical accomplishments". LOL, Now that is a real knee slapper..

"grassroots Americans who can always be bamboozled". are you speaking of the goons who believe the election was fraudulent?

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 January 2021 at 12:05 PM

At least he could attempt to explain to the American people why it failed.

You wanted him gone and he's gone Punch.....time to move on with your life.

[fish]

Posted by: Wine Aunt | 25 January 2021 at 12:15 PM

Wine Aunt whines......

[Bill Tozer]

If I am not mistaken, the local News Redirector:

1) Has TDS
2) setting the stage for ‘Trump told more lies than Joey Wife Licking Fingers Good and by doing so will rationalize and justify situational ethics and relative morality.
5) ex-President Orange Man Bad.
6) Has an empty quiver.

(Re: update: Buttcreambrain’s lastest Big Lie)...and it’s a Whooper.

Liar! Liar! Liar!

It is human nature to exaggerate the lies of an adversary and minimize the lies of one’s own.

[Don Bessee]

Who cares about the workers when you can get illegals -

https://www.foxnews.com/media/laid-off-keystone-xl-worker-biden-order-hurt-people

;-)

[paul emery]

Can you explain to me how I " exaggerate the lies of an adversary" ?

Promise of 20 million vaccinations delivery of 4 million. That is not exaggeration Bill it's factual.

[Don Bessee]

What a maroon, what's a goal oh great pony tail of ignorance???
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Bad day for the TDS set -

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/01/25/supreme-court-dismisses-emoluments-cases-against-former-president-trump/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/25/nolte-joe-biden-lied-about-having-a-coronavirus-plan/

;-)

[George Rebane]

re 1215pm - apparently our leftwingers never heard of low unemployment rates for minorities, or fastest time to develop vaccines, or the increase in middle-class wage purchasing power in decades, or ...

[Bill Tozer]

Well, Don, if Biden has a plan, nobody told him what’s in it. He held up a binder, got his sea legs steady, and thumbed through to the last page to see where it ended and how many pages it was. 190 was his final answer.
The Biden binder wasn’t huge in the least,. About two inches, but decrepit Joe sure looked weak and small trying to hold it up. He couldn’t put it back down soon enough. Probably a binder of people who let Joe sniff their hair. Anyway, the lid was called after that strenuous activity by Crime Family ‘Big Guy’ Joe. He had an exhausting twenty minutes.

[Walt]

I see Emery ain't going anywhere NEAR the damage Biden has already done. Not even going to look at the video of Biden NOT KNOWING WHAT HE WAS SIGNING.
New Mexico has buyers remorse, Biden screws over American Indians.

Do we need to repost ALL those facts Emery? Or will be Emery as usual?

How come you can't sing the praises of the POS you voted for Emery?

How bout the Kung flu BOGUS plan? Biden LIED !!!
Nope won't go THERE will ya'??!!

Sorry I ran over your squirrel Emery,(not really)n You know, with the truck the Hick don't like.

[Paul Emery]

George

Thats's a clumsy diversion from the question at hand. Why did Trump lie about the gross difference in his promise to deliver vaccines and the actual number he delivered. He only delivered 20% of what he assured the American people would be available. Was it out of ignorance that he made that prediction or did he simply lie and why did he think it not worthy of an explanation after the4 facts became known?

[Don Bessee]

How are we producing kids like this -

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/15-year-old-girls-killing-shown-on-social-media

;-)

[Walt]

Oh... Look.. Emery wants HIS question "answered".😂🤣🤣
Refuses to even go near the ones directed at him.(for days)
Face it Emery, Trump did SOO much better that the dodard YOU voted for.

[fish]

Poor Punch.....holding on to the former President like Heath Ledger held on to Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain.

.......I wish I could quit you Donald!

[Walt]

Reload for Emery.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/25/nolte-joe-biden-lied-about-having-a-coronavirus-plan/

"His Fraudulency Joe Biden admitted on Friday that throughout his campaign he lied about having a plan to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

“There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” His Fraudulency said Friday during a press conference where he signed a couple more executive orders."

[George Rebane]

PaulE 127pm - My 109pm citations were material, your endless citations of Trump's "lies" are really inconsequential and an attempt to foster some kind gotcha dialogue. We've gone over this countless times. Do you really think this attempt at discourse is profitable on RR. Neither side accepts nor respects the other's worldview. Why don't you try working on some ways that the 'unification' your hero spoke of (and then immediately abrogated) could be achieved. Since you're one of his believers, how do you think that he is now going to attempt to unify us? That's a real conversation.

[Walt]

This kangaroo court of an impeachment trial gets better and better.
No Chief Justice?? Just rewrite the rules again!
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/25/patrick-leahy-preside-donald-trump-impeachment-trial-john-roberts/
"Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy will preside over former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate instead of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts."

Yup,, just put your OWN "judge" up there... I'm sure he will be "impartial"..
The good ol' "we will give him a good, fair trial, THEN hang'm.

[Walt]

Back to "It's OK when we do it" When Trump did it it was xenophobic.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/25/jen-psaki-biden-trump-china-travel-ban-coronavirus-xenophobic/
" multiple statements made by then-candidate Biden suggested he opposed the Trump administration’s China travel ban. Biden also made references to the former president’s alleged “xenophobia” and “fear-mongering” when talking about the restrictions."

"“I don’t think that’s a fair articulation,” Psaki responded. “[Biden] has supported steps, travel restrictions, in order to keep the American people safe, to ensure that we are getting the pandemic under control. That’s been part of his policy."

[Barry Pruett]

George. This will be the second or third time Paul was asked to find common ground. He can’t

[Paul Emery]

The reason I was referring to Trumps lies is because Walt has been endlessly ragging about Biden's lies for the past month. Curious about why you don't castigate him like you do me about the same topic?

[Paul Emery]

George, Barry

Okay lets talk about unification. First of all do you accept that Biden legitimately won the election over Trump? Then we can start looking for common ground.

[I know Joe Peyote]

The excuse I was using to refer to Trumps lies is because Walt has been endlessly ragging about Biden's lies for the past month and I do not wish to discuss Bumblebrain’s latest Big lie, Gavin hiding C-19 data, the nationalization of California’s failures, California ranks dead last in vaccine distribution and administration, nor do I wish to discuss the minimum wage. I do not wish to discuss anything but Trump’s lies and I feel exempt from addressing any topic under Scattershots. We are only to discuss Trump’s lies, nothing more and definitely nothing else.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 340pm - Biden sailed through all of the legitimizing steps to a victory, so we must acknowledge that the establishment has accepted his legitimacy as president. However, what does that have to do as a prerequisite for finding common ground? Can I not also ask you in a similar manner if you accepted Trump as legitimately winning the 2016 election before we can proceed?

[paul emery]

Joe

How long do we have to hear about Hillary's lies years after she lost the election? The lie I'm referring to just happened and affected the lives of the other 16 million Americans that were expecting a vaccine based on our Presidents promises. Who knows ow many lives would have been saved had Trump fulfilled his pledge to the American people.

[Gregory]

Paul... 340pm

No on the election being legitimate. Hey, you and your buddies kept up the illegitimacy of Trump for four years despite the election being fair and square, and the Putin Pissing story a fraud paid for by Hillary for Pres.

I didn't vote for Trump either time, but he won the first time and I think he won the second time, too.

Perhaps if you keep the pissing and moaning down to a minimum in 2022, after which the Congress and the Senate can start funding a real investigation. Subpoena power and all that. Maybe if you'd stop acting guilty..

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 25 January 2021 at 04:50 PM

So in your view it's wrong for politicians to lie? Is that correct Punch?

[I know Joe Peyote]

Who knows ‘ow’ many lives would have been saved had Gavin fulfilled his duty to the residents of CA and pulled his head out of his ass instead of not delivering and administrating the Wuhan Virus? Last in the nation. Gavin twitted his thumbs as people are dying in the streets. Send him to The Haige and try him for crimes against humanity. Better yet, send that stink-ass back to Berekely to chew leather to soften other people’s riding chaps.

[Don Bessee]

The pony tail of ignorance seems to forget that the States are the end line distributors of shots and they had a lot of micromanagy policies that slowed rolled like cali. What a maroon -

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I am the only one with buyers remorse -

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/01/25/dr-anthony-fauci-the-highest-paid-employee-in-the-entire-us-federal-government/?sh=3aa2a6dc386f

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Am i not i am DOH!

;-)

[George Rebane]

PaulE 450pm - Your question, "Who knows ow many lives would have been saved had Trump fulfilled his pledge to the American people." ranges from being baseless to totally illogical. There is nothing anyone could have done or would have done differently based on Trump's hopeful schedule, which BTW he did not historically miss by much. No one was basing life/death decisions on Trump's prognostication (not a lie intended to deceive). If you want to put a metric on a politician's statement being a lie or not, use the decisions among the electorate that it may reasonably invoke. If those decisions taken were harmful to the people, then you MAY have a case to make about lies, if not then simple ignorance or bravura would serve. But those considerations are not germane to the points you want to make.

[Walt]

Emery.. Notice how the talking point is "widespread" election fraud? Never is NONE, NADA, NYET. NO DICE ever said.
So Pointed and narrow would be enough to "F" up the works.

You deni DEAD voters cast ballots? You deny illegal votes were cast? So "just enough not to change the results" is just fine?

"Just a little" cheating is fine with you. And since Not one judge had the balls to to hear the evidence,, EVEN BETTER!!!

Illegal votes WERE counted in Virginia. (Evidence posted)
The court just said so. Laws were broken.. Do you actually give a shit?( Nope, because Chanslor Biden will stay put)
Will anyone go to jail? HELL no.. Proggys can CHEAT and it's OK!

[Don Bessee]

Screw your neighborhood and like like like history or property values you nazi scum -

Some alleged that the landmark effort reeked of NIMBY-ism, in an effort to preserve neighborhood exclusivity and property values.

“We can no longer afford to say no to housing because some guy did something maybe at this place 100 years ago," resident Steven Buss said during the meeting, as reported by the Daily Cal.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Berkeley-feud-rules-historic-home-to-be-razed-15896818.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

;-)

[paul emery]

I never questioned Trumps winning the election George. The national security agencies had concerns that the Russians interferred in the election in Trumps favor however that left a lot of u unanswered questions. I do believe that the American voters elected a mentally ill crook who was and is a disgusting human being for President but he was the Repups choice and he won the Electoral College so there you have it.

Here's a link to the assessment of interference.

Senate Intel Releases New Report on Intel Community Assessment of Russian Interference

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-new-report-intel-community-assessment-russian-interference

[Walt]

Prove it Emery,, Dig up all your old posts from just after Trump's election. You just made the claim... PROVE IT!!!!!
(isn't that what you DEMAND of others?)

[Walt]

Emery... When can someone get a picture taken holding Biden's severed head?(fake of course) It was all fun and games when that LIB bitch did it with Trump.

[Don Bessee]

A handful of facebook posts hardly amounts to the hyperventilating rancid russian dressing lies in the shrillarys totally discredited dossier and claims of putin cuddling.
ROFLOL

;-)

[paul emery]

Prove what Walt? I accepted the election. Prov that I didn't? I did support impeachment but that had nothing to do with winning the election. By the way, I didn't vote for Hillary.

[Bill Tozer]

Lol. Punchy’s link is from Tuesday, April 21, 2020. That report has been discredited since then, with the release of docs through the Freedom on Information Act. They made the report on the information they had at the time and what was spoon fed to them....or hidden from them. Somebody lied to the Senate Committee, but it wasn’t a Trump lie so that don’t count.

A report that has not been debunked and has stood the test of time today more than ever was the Nunes Report, Minority House Report. You know Devin Nunes. He’s that Latino from California. The guy who just got the Presidential Metal of Freedom Award. A true Profile in Courage.

Let’s see what politifact has to say on the matter

https://youtu.be/05wT5p7bULw

I am beginning to think Corn Pop was his imaginary friend.

[Walt]

No,, I don't believe you did. My memory is plenty better than yours. You were regurgitating everything queen Nan was saying.
Hillary really won, Trump's an illegitimate President,ETC ETC.... Then when the sham investigation got going you were right there with'm. Spare us your denial of a denial.

Not once did you give Trump an inch nor acceptance of all the good he has done. It's been one Emery bitch after another.

[Walt]

So Emery,, how bout the march to destruction of the U.S. by Biden? One exec. order. One signature at a time.

Hear the news? 5000 workers got their walking papers TODAY!!!
Give Biden a good pat on the back.
In contrast days after Trump got elected thousands got hired, more got pay raises, and paid less TAXES.

Now don't you fret Emery,, the TAX HIKES will be here soon enough!

[Walt]

Yup,, Biden know how to pick the most inept for the job.
First Harris, (one of the first to go in the prez run) Now this joke of a pick from Ca.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/01/25/biden-picks-ca-labor-sec-julie-su-responsible-for-10b-in-fraud-losses-for-deputy-dol-n316284

"Yet another California Democrat with a record of failure might be headed to Washington if Joe Biden gets his way. Biden has already announced the nomination of Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who spent more time suing Trump than doing his actual job, for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed (now former) Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who completely ignored court orders to clean up the voter rolls and botched the implementation of both the motor voter law and the Real ID rollout, to fill Kamala Harris’ Senate seat. Today Biden announced the nomination of California Secretary of Labor Julie Su for Deputy Secretary of Labor, the number two position in the department, a move that has Californians in both parties scratching their heads."

[Bill Tozer]

Before I leave this topic of the Russian Hoax Coup Attempt and return to the topic at hand (Dr. Rebane’s White Privilege Card), I will simply say that the FBI and Intel had no other proof to open an investigation on Trump besides the Steele Dossier. And Steele did not write the all the Steele Dossier(s) as evidenced by his testimony that he was unaware of things in his dossier. Important stuff like the Trump Towers that our local News Redirector went ape shit over and over and over again. The Greaser! Jail to the Greaser!
Steele wrote his dossiers, but not all in the Steele Dossier was written by him. Glen Simpson is a better writer than Steele away, but Steel is better than Cody S and Sidney Blumenthal

And we were told by the Lying Lefties that there was other information on Trump’s treasonous deeds besides what was in the discredited Dossier paid for by Trump’s political opponent and the political opponent’s Democrat Party. There is other information! That other information was not in the FICA requests or in the Mueller Report.

And Punchy will NEVER vote for a major party candidate again! Let’s not talk about 2015, 2016, 2017, shall we. Agreed. Unity!
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BACK ON TOPIC: The Kalifornication of America, formerly land of the free

https://www.city-journal.org/biden-touts-california-as-model-for-america

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 25 January 2021 at 04:50 PM

So in your view it's wrong for politicians to lie? Is that correct Punch?

Posted by: fish | 25 January 2021 at 04:58 PM

????

[Walt]

C'mon Fish,, it all depends on who's do'n the ly'n.
If it's one Emery voted for,, it's for the greater good, and perfectly acceptable. You know,, the end justifies the means.
It got Biden elected,, not one word about that ly'n.
But Emery has the 275,000 lies* Trump supposedly said in a shrine near the record player Biden told him to stay tuned to.

[paul emery]

Gill

What should Trump say to the 16 million Americans who didn't get a vaccination because Trump lied?

[Don Bessee]

Ask the the socialist dem govs. why they played the well documented games in CA , NY, MI and so on. Oh great pony tail of ignorance @724! LOL

;-)

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 25 January 2021 at 07:24 PM

Don't know Punch....Trump is a private citizen now and has no effect on Federal Government policy. I know it hurts Punch....there's an empty Trump shaped hole in your heart! But you're going to have to let him go!

C'mon...buck up soldier.....they'll be another republican who comes along any day now who you can hate every bit as much as Trump and you can hate them while completely ignoring the democrat who does exactly the same things.

Anyway vaccine distribution has been delegated to the states so you should probably inquire there.

[Walt]

Ahhhh... Another manufactured lie by the buzzard of Broad St.
Think you can do better Emery? Think you can get the nation vaxed by Friday? A vile and hypodermic in every mailbox?
Maybe a prefilled dose? With picture instructions and all?
Your Proggys managed to do it with ballots!

Your politicians jumped to the head of the line.. Who else is "special?"

[Walt]

Seems Emery believes real life is supposed to be like TV.
I watched plenty of those "virus" flicks too. Where a cure is found in hours. And the WORLD is SAVED...

[Barry Pruett]

Paul. Are you interested in policy discussions or just trolling trump and everyone else. I expect more serious analysis and discussion from you. You’re a smart guy.

[Walt]

So Emery,, not going to get the vax because Trump "did it"?
Or are you going to wait for the Biden regime to end it, repackage it, slap their name on it, and call it THEIRS!!?
Since it now has the Biden label,, it's all good.

[Walt]

Barry... I always respect your opinion, BUT......
If Emery was "smart",, he would have never voted for Biden.
Just say'n.......

[Don Bessee]

So what does the pony tail of ignorance say about this? You know the socialist dems will just double down on crazy which will be their demise in the next cycle, remember you have more senate races to worry about next time and then those vulnerable dems in the house. -

Democrats need an autopsy to figure out why 74 million Americans voted against them

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/democrats-autopsy-figure-why-74-120058963.html

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Trump can’t say anything. He’s been banned for life on his Twitter Machine.

Slow Joe is the President now. Joe has the experience with pandemics.. So much so that Obama appointed Slow Joe as the point man on the H1N1, the swine flu. Vaccine came out years later. Biden was so great at putting out the pandemic that after 69 million Americans caught the swine flu, they stopped trackers cause it was no use. Runnawy, got away from them.

‘Biden has fought a pandemic before. It did not go smoothly.’

“It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019. “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck. If anyone thinks that this can’t happen again, they don’t have to go back to 1918, they just have to go back to 2009, 2010 and imagine a virus with a different lethality, and you can just do the math on that.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/04/joe-biden-contain-h1n1-virus-232992

Too bad Obama did not replenish the stock pile. He probably diverted the money to send to the Mullah Mullah Mullahas billions in cash (US and Euros) and host BLM for dinner at the White House after they chanted, “What do we want? Dead pigs! When do we want it? Now!”
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Hmmm. What would I tell the 16 million who were promised the vaccine? I would tell them that the first 100 million Pfizer makes in it’s MI plant goes to Americans, and only Americans first. Canada has to buy the vaccine from a Pfizer plant in Europe and Justin is weeing in his hot pants. Europe is behind in it’s delivers and only tiny partial shipments out of the promised allotments are coming in. Don’t eat yellow snow.

I would tell those 16 million to hang on a little bit longer. In your case, in about two weeks. If you lived in other states, you would be sitting pretty. My older broker, his wife, and their entire circle of friends got theres two weeks ago. Maybe three. See, in other states, Governors have a slogan. Quite simple. “Needles in arms, needles in arms.” They know how to get ‘er done.

I would also tell those 16 million that there is good news! The mayor of NYC, Bill deBlasio, the artist formerly known as Warren Wilhelm Jr, has devised NOT to put the homeless skin poppers ahead of the elderly like you. He had our seasoned citizens waiting in the old folks home after Health care workers and addicts got there’s first. Now, you are number two! A big #2 I might add. Same for the mayor of Frisco. Well, maybe the homeless deserve to ahead of the productive, judging by the Lefty freaks down there wallowing in the Shithole By The Bay.

Tell the16 Million to hold their horses. If you live in a Blue State, there first had to be a Committee, a very woke Committee, appointed and set up to decide politically who goes first. Poor people, then illegals, then Tranny Babies (dickless or not) lesbian women of color, then all POCs, and finally, the racist white dudes like Punchy. Tell those 16 million to drive to a Red State where they chant, “needles in arms, needles in arms.

“First come, first serve, open to all comers.”
“Hurry, hurry, hurry. Step on up and get a needle in your arm.”

Hey, wasn’t the USSR and the Cultural Revolution run by committees?

[paul emery]

OK Barry lets start here. Do you accept that Biden legitimately won the election ? We'll start with agreement (or not) on that.

[Bill Tozer]

Opps. My 8:09 pm was in response to the News Redirector’s question to someone named Gill. Gill. Opps, maybe the old bag of bones pushing his walker down the street talking to street signs and lampposts was asking Fish. Gill, fish, I get it now. Or maybe Jig Wiggles. I dunno.

“Gill

What should Trump say to the 16 million Americans who didn't get a vaccination because Trump lied?”

Posted by: paul emery | 25 January 2021 at 07:24 PM

Skunk smells his own first.

[paul emery]

Bill

What should Trump say to the 16 million Americans who didn't get a vaccination because Trump lied?”

[Walt]

Emery is running away again. questions too tough?
Can't even back up your own BS!
How bout all those illegal votes Emery? How come you refuse to admit to those?

[Don Bessee]

The campaigns are already warming up with his blood in the water but OH NO, what i said a few weeks ago is officially in the memory hole. But hey i had a wonderful Christmas because i am the emperor of cali -

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/newsoms-critics-allege-he-is-lifting-stay-at-home-order-because-of-recall-threat

;-)

[Gill]

Bill

“What should Trump say to the 16 million Americans who didn't get a vaccination because Trump lied”

Why, I would tell them to whip out their White Privilege Card and all is well. If you know someone who needs one, Dr. Rebane is selling his.

PaulEeeeee: I would also them that vaccine or not, they have a 99.6 % chance of surviving (general population, and if they are 59 years old and you get, a 99.9% of survival. So, quit yer belly-aching and learn to code.

I would also remind them that Biden just said that masks are no important than vaccines. So, all you chomping at the bit (the instant gratification crowd) for a vaccine, take Biden’s words to heart and mask up. Also, wash your hands after picking your butt.

I can believe Joe. Like Carter, he will never lie to us. If Joe says to mask up since donning a mask is more effective than a stupid ole vaccine anyway, I would tell them to mask up (cheap, simple, easy, and no lines), then bend over and kiss their small businesses and livelihood goodbye..

I would also tell the 16,000 million billion trillion quadrillion that they should read Gill’s response.
Hey, those 16 million billion folks....are they part of the 12 million souls who will die on the streets in the evil Repubs stopped Obamacare?

I would also ask those 16 million souls that if 12 million would die in the streets for lack of healthcare, then why were there not 12 million souls dying in the streets months before The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act?

[paul emery]

Walt
No illegal votes of any importance according to the DOJ, FBI, 60 court hearings, at least a dozen recounts on and on and on. Show me ONE legal proceeding or report from a law enforcement entity that claims to have found any fraud or manipulation of votes that in any way could have effected the election..

[Gilbert]

“Trump can’t say anything. He’s been banned for life on his Twitter Machine.“ and other quotes.

Insight: “Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Good question: “As soon as [Biden] entered the Oval Office, he promptly signed more than a dozen executive orders and every one was a finger in the eye of conservatives. … Where is the comfort in telling people that he is going to be the president of those who didn’t vote for him when he has devoted his presidency to relentlessly attacking their values?” —Gary Bauer

Upright: “I don’t see how we can reduce racial tension in this country when the left is constantly pointing fingers and agitating. Everything is race, race, race. This exploitation might not be as toxic if Democrats, including Biden, hadn’t been trying to cast all conservatives as bigots, but sadly, they have. It also might not be as toxic if Democrats weren’t using race to villainize conservatives and as a Trojan horse to usher in their socialist agenda.” —David Limbaugh

For the record: “Memo to Joe and Kamala: Waiting on your unequivocal condemnation of inaugural day riots in Seattle and Portland, where leftist cadres attacked police, ransacked private and public buildings, and burned flags. Still waiting…” —Mark Alexander

Unity! “If Biden really wanted unity, he’d lynch Mike Pence.” —NY Times opinion writer Will Wilkinson, who subsequently tweeted, “I made an error of judgment and tweeted this. It was sharp sarcasm, but looked like a call for violence. That’s always wrong, even as a joke. It was especially wrong at a moment when unity and peace are so critical. I’m deeply sorry and vow not to repeat the mistake.”

D'oh! “Senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection [sic] against the United States.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Flip-flop: “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” —Joe Biden, who said this on October 15, 2020: “We’re eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. I do.”

And last… “Are Americans who express their political views on the internet really abusing a ‘loophole,’ or are Big Tech companies who censor them at the behest of the powerful abusing a ‘loophole’ in the First Amendment?” —David Harsanyi
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https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157993265750914/

https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157993994605914/

[George Rebane]

What again is the reason for bringing some "16 million" who supposedly didn't get a shot because "Trump lied"????? Where is there any reason or logic behind such a question?

[Walt]

"NO voter fraud" Emery... ONE is too damned many. So thousands of illegal votes is no reason to call for an investigation? No reason to overturn an election?
Can you tell us how many states went against their own election laws? (But that OK in the Emery line of thinking)
Do explain in that worn out mind how that constitutes a "free and fair" election.

Answer up Emery. You started this,, care to backup your warped reasoning with some real facts?

[Walt]

Well,, Emery can't come up with a plan to give those shots out any faster. He's caught Lie-itosis.(hears and sees lies from anyone he don't agree with. Accepts lies as acceptable from those he likes and backs) Sad to say it's terminal.

[paul emery]

Simple George

Trump promised 20 million vaccinations by December. I assume we can agree on that. He only delivered 4 million therefore 16 million didn't get the Trump promised vaccine.

[Barry Pruett]

Paul @ 0553. Ummm. What?! 😂😂

[Barry Pruett]

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

“Vaccinations in the U.S. began Dec. 14 with health-care workers, and so far 23.5 million shots have been given, according to a state-by-state tally by Bloomberg and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the last week, an average of 1.25 million doses per day were administered.” Trump did this. He got a vaccine out, and we have over 7% of the population already getting shots. All in less than 10 months. That is incredible and if you can’t acknowledge the overwhelming success of Trump’s action, you are truly a sad soul. DTS

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 26 January 2021 at 05:53 AM

Well Punch.....I guess you and your 15,999,999 best friends are going to die!

Think of it as Trumps final revenge.

[fish]

As timely as todays headlines......

"Biden to impose travel bans......

I thought this was the worstest most racisty thing ever?!?!....

Punch??? Is it.....well?!?! Punch?!?!

tap...tap...tap...this thing on?

[Walt]

Emery.. Name a vaccine that was found faster.
The only thing that was done faster was the ballot box stuffing.
Now how come Herr Gavin (another one of your heros) is the worst offender of piss poor management of vaccinations?

Oh... You still have yet to answer.. You getting the Trump vaccine? It may even counteract with the LIB gene.
You HAVE heard about the LIB gene,,, right?

[Walt]

So before you do your morning "your a liar" tirade,,
Here is proof of my assertion.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027161452.htm
And from LIB news
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39891927

And just as deadly and contagious as Covid.
I give you Calif. and New York as proof.

[fish]

And only a week in!

Here’s The Full List Of Every Lie Joe Biden Has Told As President

We do know how much you hate lying politicians Punch!

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president/

[Walt]

Care to explain Emery?
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/25/virginia-late-ballots-postmark-illegal-court/
"The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal, a state judge ruled.

Virginia Circuit Court Judge William Eldridge ruled the state’s late mail-in ballot law violated state statute and permanently banned the law in future Virginia elections,"

[Walt]

It's not just pipeline jobs that have been lost.
The mass genocide of jobs is now at 60,000.
https://richmond.com/business/more-than-60-000-jobs-disappear-in-a-single-day/article_14fc38f7-1608-55cc-8081-49b739c0aca1.html
"Caterpillar Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Home Depot Inc. led companies announcing plans yesterday to cut more than 60,000 jobs as sales withered and construction slowed amid the global economic decline.

The biggest layoffs were at Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar. The world's largest maker of construction equipment said it is cutting 20,000 jobs after its fourth-quarter profit fell by almost one-third. Most of those cuts already have been made. They include 5,000 new layoffs of white-collar workers, which will occur globally by the end of March.

Pfizer Inc., the leading drugmaker, said it's acquiring competitor Wyeth for $68 billion and will close five factories and eliminate 19,000 jobs, or 15 percent, of the combined company's work force."

And all because of Biden.

[Bill Tozer]

Quote from @ 8:04 am

Senator John Cornyn
@JohnCornyn
·
Jan 22, 2021
Joe, the campaign is over. Time to govern.
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That’s what I fear the most. At least when Joey Fingers was campaigning, we knew Biden was home in his basement for months on end doing no harm. Now that his deteriorating mellon has gotten worse, it’s time to govern. Go figure.

[scenes]

"Well Punch.....I guess you and your 15,999,999 best friends are going to die!"

With their declining faculties, I wouldn't expect anything less. It would be cooler if Paul knew absolutely anything at all about the COVID timeline, COVID public policy at the federal or state level, the biology of COVID, or could string together more than two sentences at a time. I normally wouldn't care, but if you're going to pretend to be a 'news director' at a bonafide media source at least look up something now and again. It's a betrayal of public trust and is a little offensive as a result.

I ran into a news example of Minitrue in action. The (D) party HQ in Portland got vandalized, police attacked, car flipped, by you-know-who and this is their response:

https://www.facebook.com/ordems/posts/10159045408124002

The cause was, of course:

"Years of relentless Republican attacks on our Democratic values and the very foundations of our democracy have not stopped our work, and neither will this senseless vandalism. We are undeterred."

The dozen or so remaining party Democrats with some sanity are like an abused wife with a couple of black eyes. No doubt their hubby has been under a lot of pressure at work.

[fish]

Posted by: scenes | 26 January 2021 at 08:46 AM

"Years of relentless Republican attacks on our Democratic values and the very foundations of our democracy have not stopped our work, and neither will this senseless vandalism. We are undeterred."

The democrat cries out in pain as he strikes you!

[Bill Tozer]

“The dozen or so remaining party Democrats with some sanity are like an abused wife with a couple of black eyes.”

That’s just an old school Democrat Party born female who told the Leftinistas “No” twice.
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The Gavin recall and magic...and other loose ends from this time in space.

LOOSE ENDS (122)
• News item: Recall drive against California Governor Gavin Newsom nears threshold to qualify for a special election.

• News item: Gov. Newsom abruptly lifts statewide lockdown order, even though the infection rate remains little changed from a month ago.

Gee—I wonder if these two stories might be related?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/loose-ends-122.php

Hmmm. I am for out of touch. Had a conversation with a contemporary last week. It’s been over 5 weeks and she still has not received her CA unemployment check. I thought how could this be? I don’t do unemployment, food stamps, health care via Covered California, but she has no problem getting everything she can grab plus, plus, plus. After a few questions, she did indeed have a valid claim for unemployment (laid off due to Gavin’s lockdown) and been waiting weeks for a check. Guess CA ran out of unemployment money. After reading the above article, now I know why:

‘Unemployment fraud during COVID has cost California $11 billion’

California has paid out a staggering $11 billion worth of fraudulent unemployment claims since the COVID-19 pandemic began last spring, California Labor Secretary Julie Su said Monday.

The fraudulent payments represent about 10% of all payments for pandemic era unemployment benefits, Su said. The percentage is likely to go higher. Another 17% of the dollars that have been paid out — more than $19 billion — are considered suspicious and “a large number of that could be confirmed fraud as well,” she said. “There is no sugarcoating the reality,” Su told a news conference. “California did not have enough security measures in place.”

California is in the very best of hands.

• Big surprise

[paul emery]

Yeah the last California recall ended up with the Swartz. Only toe Republicans could come up with something like that. The Swartz then Trump. Way to go pubbers.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 541pm - "The national security agencies had concerns that the Russians interferred in the election in Trumps favor however that left a lot of u unanswered questions." The national security agencies (and Congress) have been shown to have acted with politically motivated fraud and incompetence in pursuing baseless anti-Trump allegations. Today, only progressives continue to believe that those fruitless anti-Trump investigations were motivated by anything material. And the continued public expression of this belief now constitutes fraud on a national scale.

[Walt]

Why are you complaining Emery? Arnold lied to get the job, and and progressed your Progressivism in the state.
Yes, we got bamboozled by the son of a bitch.. Being married to a Kennedy should have been our first warning sign.

A LIB will "bait and switch" every time.Just like Biden claiming he had a plan. (Nope,, NO he didn't... And still doesn't.) So do you have the undertaker reserved?

[fish]

<>Posted by: paul emery | 26 January 2021 at 09:53 AM

Yes....a tragedy that California was denied the bold and innovative governance of Gray Davis.

[Walt]

Here we go again.. Emery just can't fathom the great things Trump accomplished..
Trump created the atmosphere to bring unemployment to near ZERO. Deni that Emery?
Under Trump people were paid better wages...Deny that Emery
Under Trump we paid less taxes.. Deny that Emery?
Trump reduced regulations.. Deny that Emery?
Trump brought down drug prices... Deny that Emery?
Trump brokered better deals and results from foreign nations.
Deny that Emery?

All that just came to an end with the rat bastard YOU voted for.
Trump kicked terrorist's asses Deny that Emery

[Bill Tozer]

@ 10:04 am

I got my burn pile all ready to go. Only thing missing is Punchy’s rotting carcass to put on top. All of Punch’s friends are welcome here for the Celebration of Life (have the space and parking) to gather around, do their poems and prayers to watch the Punchy smoke rise up to the gods of the air. It’s the least I can do. I will even kick down and put some overripe squash on top. Maybe some of the local growers can bring their old pot plant leafless sticks and trunks to throw on the fire to please the gods.

Or, I can make some calls and have a refrigerated truck park in front of his humble abode standing by so he don’t stink up the neighborhood. Gotta think of others when one lives on the altruistic plane. When the time comes we can open the rear doors and have folks stop by for a cold one.
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Dr.Rebane @ 10:01 am

‘Declassified! The Russia informant transcript the FBI didn't want Americans to see‘
In secretly recorded talks with informer Stefan Halper, Carter Page dispelled key Russia collusion allegations before FISA warrant was even approved

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/declassified-russia-informant-transcript-fbi-didnt-want
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‘FBI feared foreign power was targeting money to Clinton before 2016 campaign, memos show’
Bureau delayed FISA warrant and instead gave candidate defensive briefing, in stark contrast to Trump, declassified memos show.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/holdfbi-feared-foreign-influence-targeting-clinton-2016

[Walt]

Nice thought Fish,, but global warming and all,,,..... well
it will be hole dig'n time. I hear those "green burials" are the new thing. No box, no preservatives, no marker.
As toxic as he is, will the weeds even grow above?