Which insurrections bothers you more? (Continued)

 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2022/01/which-insurrection-concerns-you-more.html

Poland Leads. Biden not so much

At least Poland is not afraid of provoking Putin. 

I have long felt that the US and the rest of the West should have provided more military support sooner, first to deter, than to defeat Putin.

But since the beginning, Biden has been afraid of provoking Putin and his dithering is allowing the destruction of Ukraine. 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2023/01/afraid-to-escalate.html?m=1

Commander Incompetent

 

On December 16 at Delaware Veterans Summit and PACT Townhall in New Castle Delaware Biden says that when he was VP his father requested and, based on the request, he got his Uncle Frank a Purple Heart and then presented it to his Uncle (1).

But it NEVER HAPPENED (2)

Biden became VP 2009..
His father died in 2002.
His uncle died in 1999. 
No record his Uncle awarded Purple Heart. 

 

You know, I — my dad, when I got elected Vice President, he said, “Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.”   He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle of the Bulge.  But he said, “And he won the Purple Heart.  And he never received it.  He never — he never got it.  Do you think you could help him get it?  We’ll surprise him.”

So we got him the Purple Heart.  He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge.  And I remember he came over to the house, and I came out, and he said, “Present it to him, okay?”  We had the family there.

 I said, “Uncle Frank, you won this.  And I want to…”  He said, “I don’t want the damn thing.”  

(1) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/16/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-delaware-veterans-summit-and-pact-act-town-hall-new-castle-de/

(2) https://www.verifythis.com/amp/article/news/verify/joe-biden/joe-biden-awarded-uncle-frank-purple-heart-during-vice-presidency-story-fact-check/536-f9d78fe0-38a8-4756-8037-2da8b8ef24f6

Holdouts Saner than you think

Actually, the Republican holdouts aren’t as crazy as you might think. The below article has a great review of what is being asked for. Below are the highlights. It’s hard to argue with most of these, and number 12 is an outstanding idea.

Under the proposed new rules package:
1. Committees are back in charge of legislation, with rules designed to ensure that bills address single subjects—rather than catch-all legislation. 
2. Members can challenge amendments that aren’t related to the topic at hand. 

3. It revives “Calendar Wednesday,” whereby any committee chairman can bring a bill straight to the floor.
4. Ends proxy voting, 
5. Ends virtual committee meetings.
6. Requires a 72-hour rule to give members time to read legislation. 
7. Requires any mandatory spending increases be offset with equal or greater mandatory spending cuts. 
8. A three-fifths supermajority vote will be required for tax increases. 

9. Allowing appropriations bills to defund the salaries of specific executive-branch officials or specific programs.
10. Hold a vote on a proposal to secure the border put forward by Texas Republicans, 
11. Vote to place congressional term limits, 
12. A tax bill that would replace income, payroll and other taxes with a consumption tax.
13.  Any "earmark," or funding projects specific to a members' district that get tacked onto legislation, to be approved with a two-thirds vote 

14. Anytime an amendment to cut spending is proposed it be brought to the floor.

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2023/01/strassel-insight-and-cheers-for-long.html

Dems Conveniently Forget

 

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Which insurrection concerns you more?

Two movements

One was the BLM protests.  Other was the Trump Protest.  Which one looks more like an insurrection?

There were over 1000 BLM riots in hundreds of cities, with repeated riots in multiple cities, causing billions of dollars of damage resulting in over 50 deaths. These riots were fomented by Democrat false narratives and encourages by Democrats to politically hurt President Trump. Some, i.e. Kamala Harris, even bailed out violent protester. 

Over 70 million people voted for Trump. Tens of thousands of supporters went to Washington to support him on January 6. Thousands march to the capital. Hundreds broke into the capital. Tens had evil intent. This was wrong. It is condemned by all.   It wasn’t a significant threat to our Democracy. It wasn’t an armed insurrection.  The protesters did not kill anybody. 

[UPDATE  August 20, 2021 - FBI concludes The events of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol were not "the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, no evidence that President Trump or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/29/new-congress-should-investigate-black-lives-matter-riots/

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/09/realclearinvestigations_jan_6-blm_comparison_database_791370.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/29/report-reveals-shocking-double-standards-for-bringing-u-s-rioters-to-justice/

Afraid to escalate?

Russia is using all of its conventional forces to destroy Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting for their lives, trying to repel an invading force. How in gods name is providing Ukraine their needed weapons, escalating the war.

Russia has invaded Ukraine with its entire military force, save its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It has used tanks, infantry, artillery, missiles, bombers, fighter jets, and attack helicopters to kill soldiers and civilians,  attacking hospitals, power generation facilities, water treatment facilities and other civilian infrastructure. They are destroying Ukraine. 

Despite Ukraine’s heroic efforts, Ukraine is not capable of forcing Russian out of Ukraine with significantly more military aide. They continue to ask for tanks, jets, more anti air weapons and longer range artillery.  However, due to Biden’s concern of “escalating” the war, Biden has continued to constrain military aide to Ukraine, only slowly increasing the quantity and capabilities, asking Ukraine to fight with essentially one arm tied behind their back. 

We need to help Ukraine kick Russia out of Ukraine.

Looming Fiscal Disaster

While the conclusion is that a combination of dramatic tax increases and/or dramatic spending cuts are absolutely going to happen, there is a third factor that is also almost certain: Inflation which reduces the relative value of the debt and means higher interest rates. 

An analysis from economists at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found that American fiscal policy is in "permanent imbalance as current debt plus projected future spending outstrips future tax revenue," demanding a substantial decrease in expenditures or a substantial rise in revenues.

The economists forecasted that the fiscal imbalance would equal 7% of the present value of all future gross domestic product over the next 75 years. Restoring order to the federal budget would require across-the-board cuts to programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, across-the-board increases to payroll taxes, individual taxes, and business taxes, or some combination of tax hikes and spending cuts.

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/12/19/long-term-implications-of-current-budget-policies

Biden’s 2023 Tax Increases

Biden’s 2023 tax increases, over $300 Billion, will affect all of us including all of those he promised (lied) that he wouldn’t tax:

$6.5 Billion Natural Gas Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills 

$12 Billion Crude Oil Tax Which Will Increase Household Costs

$1.2 Billion Coal Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills

$74 Billion Stock Tax Which Will Hit Your 401(k)s, IRAs and Pension Plans

$225 Billion Corporate Income Tax Hike Which Will Be Passed on to Households (higher prices, fewer jobs and lower wages)

US Delay and Dithering Destroying Ukraine

While Biden is busy patting himself on the back for his efforts related to Ukraine I think it is important to remind everyone about the situation. 

In 2014, Russia invaded the Ukraine and Obama and Biden did little.

Trump stopped Nord Stream 2, dramatically increased financial sanctions on Russia and began supplying anti-tank weapons to the Ukraine in December 2017.  

In 2021 as Russia threatened and began massing troops on Ukraine's border, Biden immediately told Putin that he wouldn't use US military force to stop Putin. In late 2021 Biden actually stopped providing anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to avoid "provoking" Putin. In February, right before the current invasion Biden tried to persuade Zelensky to leave Ukraine.  Zelensky's reply: "I don't need a ride I need bullets."

Biden has continued to limit and slow walk the military support for Ukraine (see chart below) only increasing the capabilities of the support as Ukraine nears total catastrophe.  Despite the heroic efforts of the Ukrainians they still need significantly more military support capabilities.

They need tanks, longer range artillery, jets and more anti-air weapons.  

How much more devastation and how much longer does Biden expect the Ukrainians to continue to fight with one hand tied behind their back.

The US goal should be to provide significant more support to help Ukraine regain its territory, its freedom and its security.

FDA continues to fail

Rapid antigen tests like we all have been using for Covid could have been available much sooner and could be available for many other things. It’s amazing how risk-averse the FDA is and how much harm the delay causes. 

These tests are widely available in Europebut have not been approved by the FDA. 

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/12/combination-rapid-tests.html

What Border?

Biden’s border policies continue to be a mess, put many innocents at risk AND allow Mexican cartels to get rich.

I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based  (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead). 

(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended) 

xy ≠ xx

Dr. Rachel Levine, the Biden administration’s trans-woman assistant health secretary called for health workers to pressure tech companies to combat misinformation about “the health equity of sexual and gender minorities.”

While on the surface it sounds fine to protect the health equity of everyone and anyone including the minuscule fraction of babies born with true ambiguous gender (intersex.)

The problem is that the Biden Administration is promoting and encouraging irreversible medical treatment for children (1) while the sane world recognizes that the majority of children need mental health care (2) (3) (4)

xy ≠ xx

Every egg is x. Sperm is y or x. At conception (save exceedingly rare cases), the baby human is xy (male) or xx (female). Nothing changes reality. Embrace the science.

(1) - https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/biden-doj-letter-pushes-transgender-misinformation-and-implies-gender-dysphoria-is-a-disability/

(2) - https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/exclusive-nhs-drafts-stricter-oversight-trans-youth-care-2022-10-14/

(3)  https://segm.org/Sweden_ends_use_of_Dutch_protocol

(4) https://www.nationalreview.com/news/norwegian-medical-watchdog-encourages-country-to-ditch-gender-affirming-care-guidelines/

FBI-becoming federal bureau of indoctrination

The FBI has transformed itself from one of the most trusted law-enforcement agencies of this country into one that is becoming one of the of the most powerful tools of the Democratic Party. 

No wonder people are losing trust in them

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3787443-when-the-fbi-attacks-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-its-time-to-reform-the-bureau/

Merry Christmas!

 

Sweden protects kids, Biden- not so much

Sweden gets another thing right. 

Just as Sweden managed COVID better by keeping schools open and avoiding lockdowns they seem to be better at managing children’s mental health issues. 

Unfortunately, this is opposite of Biden’s woke policies that are pressuring health care to quickly promote non-reversible treatments to children with mental health issues regarding their gender. 

And, by the way, I felt the need to include a short lesson on what cis and trans mean, as over the holidays I learned that teachers, at least 2 liberal ones related to me, are actively “learning” and teaching their students woke material that are factually incorrect. For anyone interested: 

What is the difference between cis and trans?

Cisgender, or cis, means that the gender you identify with matches your biological sex while Transgender, or trans, means you the gender you identity with is the opposite of your biological sex.

And for those who claim or believe their is a large number of people who actually have unclear biological sex, the actual data would say that there are only about 0.05% of humans that have a genetic defect, a gene transcription issue or a protein or hormonal biochemical processing issue that they may have unclear genitalia. (1)

(1) https://isna.org/faq/frequency/

Biden butchers women’s rights

 We are seeing how well Biden’s botched withdrawal from Miss Janice. Dan is affecting women in Afghanistan

https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistans-taliban-ban-all-education-for-girls-11671642870

https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/biden-to-address-end-of-afghan-war/amp/

Colorblind not Racist

“But color-blindness is neither racist nor backwards. Properly understood, it is the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race in our personal lives and in our public policy.” 

https://www.thefp.com/p/actually-color-blindness-isnt-racist

Woke Norway Nightmare

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11545859/amp/Gay-Norwegian-filmmaker-faces-three-years-prison.html

Weingarten a risk to America?

Spring 2022 California Test Scores are in.  Looking at overall Math and English scores compared to the scores in 2015 we see that there was a dramatic drop (loss of learning?) especially among black and Hispanic students. 

We know that countries like Sweden and health experts in the US like Dr. Jay  Bhattacharya recognized early on that COVID was not a significant threat to/through children and that remote schooling would have a significant harmful effect (Great Barrington Declaration).

We know that teachers' unions and Democrats worked to keep schools remote.

Maybe Randi Weingarten was (is) a significant risk to America.

Consumer Price Increases Still High

CPI, Consumer Price Index, released today, shows that while the rate of price increases has slowed down, we are still seeing significantly higher price increases than were seen in the previous two administrations.