Temporarily Unexpected
In his podcast, Peter Schiff talks about the latest price data: You have to really go back to the 1970s to see this type of inflation data.
First, They Came For The Twitter Accounts
The Democratic National Committee and other White House allies want wireless carriers to scrutinize phone and social media messages for alleged misinformation about the Biden administration’s push to vaccinate more Americans against the coronavirus, Politico reported Monday.
According to the outlet, the White House is pushing back harder against critics of its messaging after failing to reach the goal of having 70 percent of American adults receive at least one vaccine dose by July 4.
Part of that effort, Politico reported, is “planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS [Short Message Service] carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines”.
You’ll like being Chinese. You really will.
I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Help
Imagine this scenario: You’re at home, enjoying a leisurely summer evening when there’s a knock on the door. You walk over and open it to see a young smiling Leftist apparatchik who says, “Hello! I’m here with the government. We understand from our records that you have not yet been vaccinated. Could you please tell me why not?”
How precisely would you respond?
This is going to get very weird, very quickly. More here.
LEAKER’S FIRST NAME IS “JILL”. STILL HUNTING DOWN A LAST NAME… developing
Why Is the Buttoned-Up Biden White House Leaking Dirt on Kamala?
When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Still up to their old tricks.
The Truth Hurts
Temporarily Unexpected
Eighty-five percent of the registered voters had said they were “at least somewhat concerned about inflation.” This includes the 45 percent who have said they feel “very concerned.” It was reported that the “consumer price index rose 0.6 percent last month as the economy continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.”
But that’s ok, most have confidence that Biden and the Federal Reserve can stop it.
Temporarily Unexpected
The authors warned that “neglecting inflation leaves global economies sitting on a time bomb.”
“Few still remember how our societies and economies were threatened by high inflation 50 years ago,” David Folkerts-Landau, Deutsche Bank chief economist and head of research, wrote in a paper co-written by his colleagues Jim Reid and Peter Hooper. ”The most basic laws of economics, the ones that have stood the test of time over a millennium, have not been suspended. An explosive growth in debt financed largely by central banks is likely to lead to higher inflation.”
“We worry that the painful lessons of an inflationary past are being ignored by central bankers, either because they really believe that this time is different, or they have bought into a new paradigm that low interest rates are here to stay, or they are protecting their institutions by not trying to hold back a political steam roller,” Folkerts-Landau added. “Whatever the reason, we expect inflationary pressures to re-emerge as the Fed continues with its policy of patience and its stated belief that current pressures are largely transitory.”
Don’t worry, it’s temporary: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May came out this morning. At 5 percent, it was higher than expected.
The Affirmative Action Vice President
Kamala’s Korrupt Kingdom
Here are some photos taken in Washington, DC yesterday. It’s still a beautiful place but the security around the White House is depressing and [should be] offensive to every American citizen. The access to their democratically elected dear leaders’ office is now tightly locked down with the nearest access MUCH further away than it used to be. One day, when the BIG LIE about January 6, 2021 is long past, perhaps this ridiculous fortification will be removed.
Say It Isn’t So, Qiáo!
Report: Biden team shut down State Dept. inquiry probing possible lab link to COVID
But, not so fast! IS THE COVERUP ENDING? OR JUST ENTERING A NEW PHASE?.
Comrade! Comrade! Comrade!
That the Kremlin had taken over American political institutions through its blackmail control of former President Donald Trump was a media conspiracy theory as pervasive as it was deranged. This once-exciting script was excavated from the CIA’s Cold War basement, dusted off by their operatives, and then kicked off by the intelligence community’s purposeful dissemination of the now-debunked Steele Dossier. And once this fairy tale was launched, there were seemingly no limits on the depths to which media figures would sink to promote it.
Journalists published best-selling books and column after column hyping this melodrama of international intrigue. In what was just one of many low points, MSNBC’s host Chris Hayes earnestly interviewed New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait about the latter’s 2018 cover story speculating that Trump may have been groomed as a Russian intelligence asset since 1987. “Unlikely but possible” declared the on-screen cable graphic as Hayes spoke, summarizing the media’s Trump-era renunciation of all standards of rationality and evidence for disseminating unhinged conspiracies to their audience, at great profit for themselves but great harm to everything and everyone else.
[…]Just imagine what would be happening right now if it were Trump, rather than Biden, who just handed Putin his underwater natural gas pipeline just days after Russian hackers allegedly caused serious gas shortages in the U.S. Jingoistic op-eds would fill the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post warning of Kremlin control of the U.S.; CNN and MSNBC would convene panel after panel of their former FBI and CIA operatives to accuse Trump of treason for subordinating U.S. interests to Russian interests; Rachel Maddow would be on the verge of righteous and indignant tears as she devoted her 20-minute monologue to decrying the tragedy that we were all living under Putin’s rule; and Nancy Pelosi would be holding a press conference to spread more innuendo about Putin’s blackmail control over Trump while demanding a DOJ investigation.
Biden: Russia Can Have a New Pipeline, but America Can’t
Say It Isn’t So, Qiáo!
Global Test: John Kerry admits the solar panels that will save us from the climate end times are being produced by Uyghur slaves
America In Rerun
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“This is why these people sound so weird.”
They’ve never held a real job in their lives.
They have barricaded themselves behind razor wire and armed men because they are absolutely sure the crackpot theories are true. Again, people are most certain of the things they least understand. The Cloud People know so little of the Dirt People, they will believe anything about them, because they have no way to know otherwise. It is why we find ourselves ruled by increasingly foreign fanatics spouting bizarre conspiracy theories.
Margin Of Fraud
For people who believe they won an election, they sure don’t act like they won the election;
Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to stop the 2020 election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to a report from the Washington Post.
In a letter to the president of the Arizona State Senate, Pamela S. Karlan, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, suggested that the recount is illegal.
Related: Robert Barnes at Hillsdale College. (h/t johnnyonline)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Margin Of Fraud
There is something very fishy about the new 2020 Census Bureau data determining which states picked up seats and which states lost seats.
Most all of the revisions to the original estimates have moved in one direction: Population gains were added to blue states, and population losses were subtracted from red states. The December revisions in population estimates under the Biden Census Bureau added some 2.5 million blue-state residents and subtracted more than 500,000 red-state residents. These population estimates determine how many electoral votes each state receives for presidential elections and the number of congressional seats in each state.
Move along folks, nothing here to see.
Russia, Russia, Russia
The Biden administration on Thursday walked back one of the biggest bombshell campaign-season revelations of last year: that the Russian government had put bounties on the heads of US troops in Afghanistan.
Oh, how convenient.
A senior official told The Daily Beast that the administration had only “low to moderate” confidence in a story Team Biden was more than happy to use against former President Donald Trump for months. Candidate Joe Biden cited the Russian bounties on the campaign trail, calling Trump’s failure to act a “dereliction of duty.” […]
The easy marks who fell for it on the Republican side are a little harder to forgive, like Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Dan Crenshaw and the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul.
“We need answers,” Crenshaw said at the time, retweeting Liz Cheney.
McCaul, during the Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the bounties story, admitted that the intelligence community was still doing a “deep dive” but nevertheless treated the allegation as if it was true, calling for further sanctions against Moscow and asking if the likely untrue story called into question the good-faith negotiating of the Taliban.
One more detail is worth considering here: The New York Times reported days after its initial story that the bounties intelligence had been inserted into President Trump’s written briefing on Feb. 27. Two days later, the peace deal with the Taliban was signed.
Given the Biden administration’s disavowal, this now looks like an effort to sabotage the peace process. The most charitable reading is someone let low-quality intelligence rise up the chain of command much too quickly. At worst, someone put it in there intending to damage Trump. It wouldn’t be the first time.
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