2020 brought us plague, murder hornets, and Biden. Could this year be worse?
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Someone up there is really pissed off
Of course it could: trillions of locusts are heading our way.
I guess he wasn't kidding after all
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Yesterday I posted about one Will Wilkinson, a NYT contributing editor and Vox columnist’s call for the lynching of Mike Pence. A reader assured me that the man was just kidding. I accepted the explanation, although many times in the past couple of years the very word “lynching” even when used by white people calling for the lynching of another white, has been deemed by Leftists as racist, as it supposedly evokes triggering memories of southern Democrats’ lynching parties of the last century. Humor’s a funny thing, and I myself have posted things that I thought would obviously be recognized as sarcastic, only to have (some) readers miss the tone. Wilkinson says his tweet was intended to be “sharp sarcasm”, and I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
But not everyone dd. Yesterday, Wilkinson was fired. Not everyone got the joke.
Gee, you mean it was all political theater?
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fickle heart
Thousands of national Guardsmen evicted from Capitol, crammed into parking garage
One unit, which had been resting in the Dirksen Senate Office building, was abruptly told to vacate the facility on Thursday, according to one Guardsman. The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet, and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops, the person said. Temperatures in Washington were in the low 40s by nightfall.
The outcry has been so loud, the optics so bad, that at midnight this morning it was announced that they could return.
“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed,” a National Guardsman told Politico.
In the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6, Washington, D.C., has effectively been shut down, with bridges from Virginia blocked and National Guard occupying most streets in the capital. While authorities had reportedly picked up on chatter of threats before the Inauguration, those threats failed to materialize.
While Pelosi had condemned federal law enforcement in the harshest of terms when President Donald Trump deployed them to Portland — comparing them to stormtroopers — she happily shared photos of herself with the National Guard in D.C. after January 6.
I'm tempted to say they're getting exactly what they deserve
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Goodbye to al that
Which is exactly what he promised to do, so where’s the surprise? Wait til they feel the effects of his reneging on his promise that “I’m not going to ban fracking”; pipe fitters had jobs there, too.
Breaking
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Biden outlines plan for final 100 days in office
"I always pledged to be a president for all Americans," said Biden as he outlined his plan. "Foghorn laid an egg on my cabeza and the henhouse needs to close down before the noodle-boat falls in the gravy."
Oh! Well that's okay, then.
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What, do we look like the little people?
Biden and friends defied his mandatory mask rule yesterday “because they were celebrating”.
And then they all flew out to California to continue the party at the French Laundry.
Hard hitting journalism returns
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No more Mr. Nice Guy – the gloves are off
Forget Californication of America, we're going full Germany
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Fools who like heated homes, manufacturing, plastic for iPhones, and clothing
Biden “pauses” all permitting for oil and gas exploration on federal land.
Germany-weighs-electricity-rationing-scheme-to-stabilize-its-now-shaky-green-power-grid
Germany [once] had one of the most stable and reliable power grids worldwide.
Green energies destabilized the German power grid
Then in the 1990s, environmental activists, politicians, climate alarmists and pseudo-experts decided they could do a better job at generating power in Germany and eventually passed the outlandish EEG green energy feed-in act and rules. They insisted that wildly fluctuating, intermittent power supplies could be managed easily, and done so at a low cost.
Blackouts threaten
Fast forward to today: The result of all the government meddling is becoming glaringly clear: the country now finds itself on the verge of blackouts due to grid instability, has the highest electricity prices in the world, relies more on imports and is not even close to meeting its emissions targets.
To deal with the power grid problems, Germany’s Economics Minister Peter Altmaier presented a draft law that would allow electric utilities “to temporarily cut off charging power for e-cars when there is once again too little electricity available”, an idea known as “peak smoothing”.
“Shutdowns due to power shortages have been practiced for some time. Aluminum smelters, for example, have to put up with having their power cut off for limited periods of time,” reports Tichys Einblick. “These, like refrigerated storage facilities, consume great amounts. It’s a dangerous game because after three hours the molten metal has solidified and the factory is ruined.”
Situation now “too critical”
The situation in the German power grid has deteriorated so much that Tichys Einblick also comments: “The situation in the power grids has become too critical. ….
In the proposed draft law, which has since been recalled because it was deemed so embarrassing, it was written that “controllable consumption facilities” would be able to receive no electricity for up to two hours per day if there was a threat of overloading the grid.
“This includes charging stations for e-cars as well as heat pumps, which can already be temporarily disconnected from the power supply,” reports Tichy.
More burden on power grid
Currently there are only 33,000 electric car charging points in Germany, a country with over 50 million cars, and the government plans a vast expansion in the future, yet isn’t sure what that infrastructure should look like. It’s a policy of going full speed in total blackness and hoping there won’t be a brick wall in the way.
Government admits it’s not going to function
Tichy comments further: “The German government has recognized that in the future electricity system, it will no longer be possible to satisfy every demand at all times. Therefore, the control of the consumer side should be put on legal feet.” […] “Controllable consumers such as heat pumps, electric heaters and wall-boxes, i.e. charging stations for e-mobiles, would then be switched off variably at times.”
Funny how corporate America teamed up with other leftists on this issue
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Migrant Caravan, January, 2021
Cesar Chavez was a virulent foe of illegal immigration.
As Biden decorated his office with a bust of Chavez, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce celebrated his dismantling of our southern border.
The changes proposed in President Biden’s legislative plan would help many businesses meet their critical workforce needs. Having the world’s most talented and industrious people contribute to our economy drives growth, and in turn, creates jobs for hardworking Americans.
“Nobody believes that,” responded Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. The chamber’s companies have shown they want to bring in lower-skilled compliant migrants to take the support jobs created by higher-skilled migrants, even though millions of creative, hard-working, and outspoken Americans are ready to fill both categories of jobs, she said.
The Chamber’s support for Biden’s labor importation bill was explained by Tom Collamore, a former vice president at the chamber. “This is key to stimulating investment of capital [money] that has been sitting on the sidelines, and which would lead to new jobs and economic growth,” Collamore said in a January 19 New York Times article.
“They’re hoarding [the sidelined capital] because they want to invest in [low wage] foreign workers … instead of using it to advance productivity, technology, or wages for American workers,” Vaughan responded. “It is a pretty straightforward admission that what they’re concerned about is their own profits, not the well-being of workers or [technological] modernization.”
“The chamber thinks that Americans who are out of work are not industrious or talented and should be consigned to subsidiary jobs, welfare, and the dole for the rest of their lives,” she added.
In the 2020 election, the U.S. Chamber backed numerous Democratic candidates, largely because the Democrats promised to inflate the labor supply with cheap foreign workers.
“If you have ten people for every job, you’re not gonna have a drive [up] in wages,” Tom Donohue, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, explained to Breitbart News in January 2020. “If you have five people for every ten jobs, wages are going to go up,” he complained.
Silicon Valley has the same complaint; 90% of its campaign contributions went to Biden.