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Biden breaks out the Fake White House set again and puts fake container ships in the background outside of the fake windows.
This Administration is so weird. pic.twitter.com/AutF1esCMk
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 22, 2021
And the fake set seems apropos for the fake message he delivered:
President Biden, at his supply chain meeting: "We heard a lot of dire warnings about supply chain problems leading to a crisis around the holidays, so we acted."
"The much-predicted crisis didn't occur. Packages are moving, gifts are being delivered, shelves are not empty." pic.twitter.com/1lhvtnfc7z
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) December 22, 2021
“…Omicron is here, and with it comes death and destruction — unless, that is, you cancel Christmas, hide in your homes, get all the boosters, double mask, and demand to see negative Covid tests and proof of vaccination for anyone who darkens your doorstep. Any precautions, no matter how seemingly outlandish, are seen as justifiable to protect yourself from this new and terrifying variant.
So it is, anyway, with a disturbingly large number of reporters and commentators in the corporate press, whose coverage and individual responses to Covid have become increasingly divorced from that of the rest of America. To watch CNN or read The New York Times, you’d think omicron was the most deadly strain of the virus to date, poised to overwhelm hospitals and leave a trail of death behind it.
The reality, which most Americans have readily grasped, is just the opposite: Omicron appears to be the least dangerous strain of the virus yet. After five weeks of omicron’s spread in South Africa, where the variant first appeared, the news is encouraging: mild to nonexistent symptoms, hospitalization rates nine times lower than previous surges, and extremely low rates of severe illness and death even though only about a quarter of the population is vaccinated. Here in the United States, only one person has died from the omicron variant thus far, even though omicron cases accounted for nearly three-quarters of new infections nationwide last week…”
https://twitter.com/SicarioScott/status/1421127307608141829
The race is on… pic.twitter.com/5mqbgkIx9L
— Treasure Tails (@TailsTreasure) December 18, 2021
“…It’s unwise to try to force consumer spending habits in defiance of the market.
As part of its recently passed infrastructure bill, the Biden administration plans to spend $7.5 billion building 500,000 chargers for electric vehicles. But will drivers actually want to use those chargers?
The two biggest impediments to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles are the vehicles’ range and their upfront cost. Right now there are only five varieties of electric vehicles with a range of more than 350 miles per charge, and none of them retail for a base price of less than $47,000. And while the Build Back Better Act passed by the House last month contains tax rebates for new electric vehicle purchases, none of the five qualify for the full amount. For comparison, a base model Ford Focus costs considerably less and can go further on a full tank of gas.
Conveniently placed vehicle chargers could mitigate the range issue: Ideally, a trip to a charger would simply replace a trip to the fuel pump. But the Biden plan is unlikely to fix this problem. There are two types of public vehicle chargers, Level 2 and Level 3. (Level 1 uses a standard power outlet.) Level 2 chargers produce around 25 miles of range per hour, meaning that a full charge from empty could take five hours or longer. Level 3 chargers produce considerably more power, and can charge some vehicles from empty to 80 percent in as little as 15 minutes. But while Level 2 chargers cost less than $3,000 apiece, Level 3 chargers cost as much as $140,000 each to build. There is no indication which the administration prefers, but if it plans to build 500,000 for $7.5 billion, it’s almost certainly going to have to settle for Level 2 chargers.
With or without the Biden plan, electric vehicles are becoming more attractive: While they still cost more at purchase, they seem to cost less to maintain. With further competition among automakers bringing prices closer to what it would cost to buy a gas-powered car, many consumers will surely welcome the prospect of skipping trips to the pump—provided the charging technology advances as well. But if the long-term goal is to get more people to make the switch, then those cars have to function like the gas-powered cars people have now. Spending billions on chargers that take an entire afternoon to charge a vehicle is not the way to do that…”
“…A crime wave haunts blue-state America, and nowhere more so than in super-blue California. Los Angeles police chief Michel Moore is trying to assure residents and tourists that violent crime is not out of control, which is not at all reassuring. Police departments statewide are stressed, and finding able recruits is a struggle. Faced with surging gun violence and a dwindling number of police officers, Oakland has proposed $50,000 signing bonuses to veteran cops.
Since 2014, California voters have unshackled a fast-expanding criminal class that rolls expertly with the dice. Starting with Proposition 47, the state penal code has reduced many felonies to misdemeanors. Shoplifting and petty theft have been effectively decriminalized. Serious crimes go unprosecuted. Elected officials and residents alike prefer virtue theater to civic management.
One eighth of the nation’s residents live in the economic and cultural colossus of California, so what direction the state takes matters. Why its progressive leaders and their constituencies condone violence against persons and property, car break-ins, prostitution, open-air drug dealing, and aggressive begging remains puzzling.
Many woke California voters believe in unicorns for everyone tomorrow. The predatory, insane and wayward have rights — and inner nobility — that prevail over the interests of taxpayers, retailers, the socially adjusted, and global visitors. The deranged and homeless provide living proof of capitalism’s moral failure. Hollywood’s penchant for redemption, happy endings, and dreamy causes hastens this political voyage to nowhere.
Junkies living in a battered SUV with out-of-state license plates might prowl through your dumpster and trashcans, throwing garbage in all directions. Should you object, a Karen with death-ray eyes will pop up to scream how dare you blame the victim? Karen slips the vagabonds a ten-dollar bill in a Saint Teresa-like state of rapture. Her angelic charity is a beacon and model for the world to see and admire. The police can only shrug.
When Defund the Police was in vogue last year, San Francisco mayor London Breed cut $120 million from police and sheriff’s budgets. Breed reversed herself last week, announcing an emergency request to the city’s Board of Supervisors for a police crackdown on crime, including open-air drug dealing, car break-ins, and retail theft…”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1473519562071048192
Democrats.
.@JamaalBowmanNY: "It's an example of Joe Manchin, as a White man, showing that he doesn't care about Black people, he doesn't care about Latinos, he doesn't care about immigrants, he doesn't care about women, and he doesn't care about the poor." pic.twitter.com/rizsscRle4
— The Hill (@thehill) December 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1473316049424633856
https://twitter.com/telefeminism/status/1473310212249554946
Psycho? You decide. Somebody should make a movie about this. You can see that shit-ton of Xanax in her eyes. Hoo-boy! She’s a tinder box.
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You got that? Double vaxxed and boosted. Masked, but not cloth masks. Cloth masks are facial decorations. This from a leading lefty TV medico.
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