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Democrats as Captain Ahab. Taking care of the important business of government.

Democrats introduce bill to stop Trump from becoming House Speaker

Clowns.

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Democrat governance – St. Louis style (gross incompetence/negligence edition)

Accused murderer set free after St. Louis County prosecutors fail to show up, but found time for McCloskeys

“…A judge has set a murder suspect free after St. Louis County prosecutors failed to show up to court on three separate occasions, though the same department found the time to go after an area couple who defended their property with firearms after a Black Lives Matter mob broke into their gated community last summer.

Last week, Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser dismissed charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful gun possession against Brandon Campbell, 30, when prosecutors from the Circuit Attorney’s Office did not attend hearings for the case in May, June, and July, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

“The court does not take this action without significant consideration for the implications it may have for public safety,” Sengheiser wrote in kicking the case.

“Although presumed innocent, (Campbell) has been charged with the most serious of crimes. While the court has a role to play in protecting public safety, that role must be balanced with adherence to the law and the protection of the rights of the defendant,” the judge continued.

Sengheiser then took aim at Kim Gardner’s office.

“The Circuit Attorney’s Office is ultimately the party responsible for protecting public safety by charging and then prosecuting those it believes commit crimes,” he wrote.

“In a case like this where the Circuit Attorney’s office has essentially abandoned its duty to prosecute those it charges with crimes, the court must impartially enforce the law and any resultant threat to public safety is the responsibility of the Circuit Attorney’s Office.”

Gardner’s office issued a statement as well on Monday appearing to blame the abandonment of the case on “family medical leave.”

“Upon review of our internal policies and procedures regarding family medical leave, we have determined that corrective measures are needed to further prevent any future repeat occurrence of the incident in question,” Gardner’s statement said.

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Bad flooding in China. I wish the people the best.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1417569329500065792

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1417532439451348994

This is not climate change. This is bad engineering.

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Two dams in China’s Inner Mongolia collapse after torrential rain

The Reuters story is a mix of poor maintenance, no safety inspections, age of infrastructure, and climate change. Every disaster includes some mention of climate change. No evidence for the claim is necessary. Media mention climate change so often that it is expected.

Preliminary estimates reported in media indicate the storms that have caused the flooding are the worst in 60 years. Most major structures should be designed for that level of event or higher. This is poor engineering.

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Hulunbuir: a very serious double dam failure in China on 18 July 2021

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American heroes

Three Apollo 11 astronauts in spacesuits without helmets in group portrait in front of Moon background

Left to right are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot.

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Social media is garbage. Facebook is top of the heap.

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If you’re American you have government imposed restrictions, if you’re an illegal alien the skies the limit. Cockamamie Democrat policy.

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The confused nonsense of self-hating racists

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Biden’s border policies are an absolute disaster

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Mask nonsense. Democrats can’t let go.

The Doomed Return of Mask Mandates

Noah Rothman:

“…Amid a comparatively modest new surge of COVID infections, and without the accompanying rates of hospitalization and death that typified such deluges before the advent of COVID vaccines, Los Angeles has reimposed a city-wide indoor masking mandate without regard for individual vaccination status (a move Joe Biden’s surgeon general applauded). Las Vegas followed suit, strongly recommending the resumption of indoor mask mandates. And while outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected a new mask mandate, other powerful city officials, such as the chair of the city council’s health committee, Mark Levine, are calling for a reversion to the status quo ante. But a cursory overview of how renewed mask mandates are being received in Los Angeles, as well as the application of a little common sense, suggests this strategy is doomed to failure.

The reintroduction of mask mandates in Los Angeles seems to be a welcome development only among those who are already highly educated and affluent; in other words, those who are most likely to have already been vaccinated. Surveying the landscape, the New York Times compiled a variety of anecdotes among those tasked with enforcing these mandates, and most accounts suggest the project is not being warmly received. “I’m too scared to tell people to put them on,” one art gallery staffer told the Times. “They will scream at you.” Another entirely shirked any responsibility to enforce masking at all. “I’m not the mask police,” he said. The patrons of these local establishments who spoke with Times reporters, many of whom were either vaccinated or had contracted COVID and recovered, didn’t understand what the masking mandate was intended to accomplish. The days of masking as a self-reinforcing social norm are long behind us.

And if masking is not a self-perpetuating social norm, it’s is certainly not a matter for police. Los Angeles County’s sheriff has already said he will devote no resources to enforcing the new masking ordinance. Compliance will be voluntary, he continued, adding that the city should instead pursue “mandates that are both achievable and supported by science.” Outside of LA’s poshest enclaves, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone obeying the mask mandate at all. Another Times dispatch datelined Beverly Hills outlined the “challenge of reinforcing the masking mandate” even in establishments as amenable to such interventions as “cafes, patisseries, and brunch spots.” Meanwhile, at Marci’s Sports Bar & Grill in the more conservative Santa Clarita, no one even bothered to observe the city’s burdensome new mandates, much less to police violations of the new edict.

This isn’t just a predictable response to mitigation measures that contradict the best practices advocated by both Sacramento and the Biden administration’s public health bureaucracy. It’s intuitive.

Polling routinely indicates that the unvaccinated are far less concerned about the prospect of COVID infection than the fully immunized, which makes sense given the lack of risk-aversion inherent in refusing immunization. And reimposing mask mandates only confirms the wisdom of their decision to abstain from vaccination. For them, there are few incentives to get vaccinated beyond their own health and the wellbeing of their family and neighbors—inducements that haven’t proven compelling enough to force them to abandon their skepticism yet. Indeed, the only logic that justifies the reimposition of mask mandates seems to be the psychological comfort it affords the already vaccinated…”

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Just another Democrat grievance hustle…

Antifa (Which Is Just Plain Fa) Literally Fights Against Women’s Rights

Jim Treacher:

“…This has nothing to do with accepting people who are different. This is about abusing women under the guise of wokeness. This is about using force and intimidation to push a political agenda. This is about “anti-fascists” who are too stupid and/or dishonest to admit they’re just plain fascists.

As I noted the first time this happened a couple of weeks ago, the mental gymnastics are amazing: Men are evil, unless they identify as women, in which case their rights supersede those of genetic females, who are bigots for wanting to go to the spa without seeing naked men, who are evil, unless they identify as women, in which case…

These are not good people. These are not sane people. You don’t have to do what they demand, no matter how loudly they scream at you…”

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Commentary on Democrat fleebaggers from the American philosopher Catturd

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Democrats worst nightmare – Republican immigrants

Doug Santo