[FOX] Loudoun County, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. was for a very long time, for generations, a reasonable place. It was orderly and calm and well maintained. Loudoun County famously worked. Certainly in contrast to the city nearby. Then two things happened to Loudoun County. First, lots of federal money flowed in. All those government contracts in Washington made Loudoun County rich. In fact, Loudoun County is now the single richest county in the entire United States. And that’s been a problem, because any place you find easy money, you’ll also find large numbers of unhappy white liberals, those brittle neurotics with masks on, screaming at everyone else to get in line.
Loudoun County has a whole bunch of those people now. It also has a huge number of immigrants. One out of every four people in Loudoun County was born in another country. In general, most immigrants are not very liberal, at all, actually. In fact, many of them have what would now be described as extreme right-wing positions on social issues. If you ever have the chance, ask a Salvadoran what he thinks of transgenderism. It’ll make you laugh, probably nervously, you’ll look around and see if anyone heard it. But as a practical matter, it doesn’t matter at all what immigrants, what Salvadorans or Pakistanis, think of social issues or how they organize their own families.
[Highwire] The origins of #Covid19 are becoming increasingly clear, and Dr. Richard Fleming, cardiologist and researcher walks Del through a shocking paper trail surrounding the SARS-CoV2 virus and its link to Tony Fauci and US funded gain-of-function research.
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An alternate theory is that a virus jumped from bats to Tasmanian tigers, from where to the Dodo, from there to mammoths, from there to pterodactyls, and from there to humans.
[Gatestone] On May 8, 1945, men and women rushed to the streets of New York, London and Moscow to hug, kiss and dance. Germany had just surrendered. The war against Nazi Germany was over. The killing had stopped. A great evil had ended. Yet many had mixed feelings of joy and grief. More than 100,000 US soldiers had given their lives and almost another 450,000 had been wounded. In all, 15 to 20 million Europeans had been killed. May 8 is still celebrated in our times as Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day.
In 1930, my father moved as a young boy from Holland to Germany with his parents and brothers. My grandfather hoped to earn some money there during the Great Depression. He said that nobody had foreseen what would develop in the next fifteen years. Until 1930, there were only a few hundred Nazi Stormtroopers (SA), or "Brownshirts," in German streets intimidating voters, opponents and Jews. Many of the stormtroopers wanted socialism. In the following years, their number escalated quickly to thousands, and even hundreds of thousands. In 1933, when Hitler took power, there were two-to-three million SA Stormtroopers in Germany. It went amazingly fast, my grandfather always said.
The Nazis were obsessed with race. They suppressed dissent, controlled the dissemination of news and controlled culture. In 1933, the German Student Union started to burn books in an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas. Books of authors such as Hemingway, Helen Keller and Jack London were considered dangerous and had to be canceled. The students did not see themselves as suppressing culture; they saw themselves as advancing a just culture.
The intimidations by the Brownshirts peaked on Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass"). It was a night of looting, arson and public humiliation -- solely on the basis of ethnicity. More than 90 Jews were murdered. Then the Blackshirts (SS entities) 'finished it off'. That night, they brought tens of thousands of Jews to concentration camps.
Nazi officials disguised the organized nature of the pogrom. They described the actions as spontaneous and justifiable responses of the German population to the assassination by a Jew of a German diplomatic official, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris.
There are Good Whites -- they cringe and cower and confess their evil ways -- and Bad Whites, who are conservative (=rayciss) patriotic (=rayciss) and pro-traditional family (=rayciss).
Good Whites must convert.
Bad Whites must be bullied, beaten, persecuted, stripped of their jobs and their wealth.
[Red State] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers were just released and — in a bit of bad news for the Biden administration — they indicated inflation rose faster in April 2021 than it had in 12 years.
The Consumer Price Index, which measures a basket of goods as well as energy and housing costs, rose 4.2% from a year earlier. A Dow Jones survey had expected a 3.6% increase. The month-to-month gain was 0.8%, against the expected 0.2%.
The increase in the annual headline CPI rate was the fastest since September 2008, while the monthly gain in core inflation was the largest since 1981.
Energy prices overall jumped 25% from a year earlier, including a 49.6% increase for gasoline and 37.3% for fuel oil. That came even though most energy categories saw a decline in April.
Gas consumers don’t need to see those numbers to know they’ve been paying more at the pump. Nor do people looking to buy a used car or a new home.
But that bad news didn’t stop White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki from telling Americans that the rising prices were simply a sign of the Biden administration’s "successful economic strategy" in a word salad answer to a reporter’s question Thursday.
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"But that bad news didn’t stop White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki from telling Americans that the rising prices were simply a sign of the Biden administration’s "successful economic strategy" in a word salad answer to a reporter’s question Thursday."
...Ms. Psaki,
For you, intelligence, logic, and reasoning are just things that happen to other people, aren't they?
Mike
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Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is out as Republican conference chair in the House of Representatives. The story has dominated American news outlets over the past week. Most Americans are probably hard-pressed to care about the story, but to the political press in the United States, the story has mattered deeply.
This past Tuesday night, as rockets rained down on Tel Aviv from Gaza, the press was focused on Cheney's pending ouster, which happened Wednesday morning. On Wednesday afternoon, while President Joe Biden was holding a press conference about the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, MSNBC was holding a panel discussion about Cheney and the future of the Republican Party. Chris Cillizza, CNN's regurgitator of convention hot takes, wrote, "The maneuvering to get Cheney out on Wednesday bodes very poorly for House Republicans." One would think the House GOP conference chair was an important position. It is not. One would assume Americans care. They do not.
...[Therein lies] the reason for the press's obsession with Liz Cheney. In the absence of the press's obsessive coverage, they might have to focus on the calamitous effects of the first five months of the Biden presidency. The border is overrun with illegal aliens. Inflation is on the rise above initial Federal Reserve estimates. The number of available jobs in the private sector grows as unemployment increases. The free market, it turns out, cannot compete against the government using taxpayer dollars to subsidize unemployment. There are gas lines and energy price increases. As the humor site The Babylon Bee headlines, "Biden Continues Rollback of Trump Policies Like Peace In The Middle East." There is also a crime wave in major urban and suburban areas around the country.
...Given the current state of affairs, the press has concluded it is better to amplify supposed divisions in the GOP as a way to turn off voters than cover what filled the American power vacuum in the absence of Donald Trump.
Pat Buchanan at TownHall
On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had dealt him a pair of aces.
The COVID-19 pandemic had reached its apex, infecting a quarter of a million Americans every day. Yet, due to the discovery and distribution of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the incidence of infections had crested and was about to turn sharply down.
By May, the infection rate had fallen 80%, as had the death toll.
Thanks to the Operation Warp Speed program driven by President Donald Trump, the country made amazing strides in Biden's first 100 days toward solving the major crises he inherited: the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918-1919 and the economic crash it had engendered.
But Biden's pace car has hit the wall.
...April's combination of inflation and near-stagnant job growth recalls the "stagflation" of the Jimmy Carter years, which led to the Democratic rout of 1980 at the hands of Ronald Reagan.
And while we may not be suffering from stagflation just yet, the present symptoms in the U.S. economy are certainly consistent with it.
The bad news from the inflation front also sent the Dow and other markets plunging and raised fears of future Fed intervention to raise interest rates to choke off the inflation.
Moreover, rising prices, driven in part by our historic federal deficits, stiffened the spines of Republicans in their resistance to Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs program, his $1.8 trillion in added domestic spending and his $4 trillion in taxes to pay for it all.
Sen. Mitch McConnell came out of Wednesday's White House meeting with Biden to say that any tampering with the Trump tax cuts crosses a "red line" for him and Senate Republicans.
The odds on Biden getting any of his taxes has just fallen dramatically. And he may be forced to come down closer to the GOP proposal if he hopes to get any of his infrastructure package through.
At present, Biden does not have a single sure Republican vote for his spending proposals -- and even some Democrats in the evenly divided Senate oppose his plans for social spending and higher taxes.
Added to this economic news was a stunning ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, which feeds fuel to states from Texas to New Jersey.
Within days, the shutdown of the pipeline had induced panic buying of gas at the pumps, resulting in a sweeping closure of gas stations from Delaware to the Gulf Coast.
...But the defining crisis of the Biden presidency may be the crisis on America's southern border, where another 170,000 illegal immigrants entered the country in April after an equally high number in March.
That is an annual rate of 2 million people walking into our country uninvited, the advance guard of a Third World invasion that will change the character and composition of the United States.
The America we grew up in is disappearing -- without our consent.
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Does the NY Times article today about Bidet and his temper, attention span, profanity and obsession with details and inability to make a decision open the floodgates? We are four months in and the damages that could be done in the first 100 days has happened. The salting of the leadership and senior manager levels of the entire federal bureaucracy and military continues unfettered, birthing deeper and deeper levels of the deepstate mindset not only at State, Defense, DHS, DoJ, but Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, HHS, and Transportation. Kamelahaha has been taught how easily she can be ruined by the border assignment (she knows enough to know it cannot be solved unless them embrace controls, thus a perpetual failure and tar-baby). Has she acknowledged the Kalorama Kompound Central Committe as the true power center, and get to sit in the big chair? SO is this the new chapter for the 25th Amendment propaganda justification for JoJo moving on to the basement again in Wilmington? Inquiring minds want to know...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Red State] The Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers were just released and — in a bit of bad news for the Biden administration — they indicated inflation rose faster in April 2021 than it had in 12 years.
