Welcome to the Forever Pandemic

Welcome to the Forever Pandemic:

Now, every adult in America—every person over age 12—has had the ability to get vaccinated. Well over 75% of all Americans aged over 65 have been double-vaccinated. A majority of people in the United States have been double-vaccinated. And yet we are still told that mask mandates are necessary—presumably to prevent those who have already had the opportunity to be vaccinated from contracting COVID-19, since the vaccinated are at extremely low risk of hospitalization and death even if a breakthrough infection occurs.

How can this be justified?

On simple logical grounds, it can’t.

They're coming 'em! Companies that produce jobs and profits in the crosshairs!-----Beware Democrats’ big tax-hike plans in infrastructure bill

Beware Democrats’ big tax-hike plans in infrastructure bill
"House Democrats are now writing their version of the $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” bill, detailing all the wish-list items they mean to ram through with zero Republican votes — including a host of economy-killing tax hikes...

• The Senate blueprint for the bill, for example, moves the corporate income-tax rate to 28 percent from the 21 percent level set by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. 
• It also follows President Joe Biden’s call to double the federal capital-gains tax.
• Meanwhile, many smaller, unincorporated biz (and middle-class taxpayers) would get hit by increases in the top personal-income-tax rate...
• The House might also take up Sen. Liz Warren’s push for a special 7 percent surtax on corporate profits above $100 million or embrace new “green” taxes on the fuels that still provide nearly all of America’s power...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 27

History for August 27 - On-This-Day.com

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770

• 1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.
• 1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.
• 1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)
• 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
• 1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.

Peter Doocy Asks Jen Psaki 'What's So Funny' About Kabul - Louder With Crowder

Peter Doocy Asks Jen Psaki 'What's So Funny' About Kabul - Louder With Crowder: 

Had Donald Trump done the same thing, Psaki would have gone on CNN — which she worked for at the time — and called for the president to be impeached. Instead, her job is to clean up Biden's messes. There is a silver lining, though. At least her job is to clean up the mess he makes in front of the press and not the one he makes in his underpants.

Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip abroad | TheHill

Dozens of California students, parents stranded in Afghanistan after summer trip abroad | TheHill: 

Dozens of California students and parents are stranded in Afghanistan after taking a summer trip to the country. More than 20 students and 16 parents from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, Calif., visited Afghanistan on summer vacation. Now they are among thousands of people who are waiting to leave the country amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal that has caused political unrest across the nation, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The way we were-----The history of Afghanistan summarized

Epic Fail! Ratings CRASH For WOKE Nickelodeon! Over 60% Of Viewers Have ABANDONED The Channel!

"Get woke go broke Nickelodeon Ratings Drop Dramatically "

12 US Troops Killed, 15 Injured In Kabul Attacks, Pentagon Confirms | The Daily Caller

12 US Troops Killed, 15 Injured In Kabul Attacks, Pentagon Confirms | The Daily Caller: 

“It’s a hard day today,” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of the U.S. Central Command, told reporters during a Thursday briefing. “Two suicide bombers assessed to have been ISIS fighters detonated in the vicinity of the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport and in the vicinity of the Baron hotel, which is immediately adjacent.”

The Cruelty Is the Point, Folks

The Cruelty Is the Point, Folks

• President Biden and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear

"It's easy to forget that Joe Biden has only been president for seven months. 

The Biden era is such a whirlwind of cruelty it can be hard to keep track. 

• The unfolding human rights disaster in Afghanistan is merely one of several catastrophes to arise in the month of August alone.
  
• U.S. Border Patrol encounters surged to a 21-year high, further straining the overcrowded immigrant detention facilities that have become breeding grounds for COVID-19...
• The New York attorney general's office found that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) had "sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law" and received damage control advice from his brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo, and several leading members of the #MeToo movement...
• These acts of unspeakable Democratic cruelty have, for obvious reasons, been overshadowed by the botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the tragic scenes of human suffering outside the airport in Kabul, where toddlers are being trampled to death and tossed over barbed-wire fences to escape the Taliban's reign of terror....Much more!

President Biden, who has been credibly accused of sexual assault, does not seem to care about the suffering Afghan women will be forced to endure under Taliban rule. Asked if he bore any responsibility for the cruelty Taliban militants plan to inflict upon the country's female population, Biden was unequivocal. "No, I don't," he told Margaret Brennan of CBS News. "Do I bear responsibility? Zero responsibility."...

To paraphrase Adam Serwer, award-winning staff writer at the Atlantic: "It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Biden, in a shared scorn for those they hate and fear."...Read all.

Delta will charge unvaccinated employees $200 per month

Delta will charge unvaccinated employees $200 per month
"Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline’s top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $50,000.
...The airline said Wednesday that it also will stop extending pay protection to unvaccinated workers who contract COVID-19 on Sept. 30, and will require unvaccinated workers to be tested weekly beginning Sept. 12, although Delta will cover the cost. 

...Delta stopped short of matching United Airlines, which will require employees to be vaccinated starting Sept. 27 or face termination...Read all.

Private sector team organizing flights out of Afghanistan blasts Biden admin for standing in the way: 'This is a massive f*** up,' 'morally reprehensible' - TheBlaze

Private sector team organizing flights out of Afghanistan blasts Biden admin for standing in the way: 'This is a massive f*** up,' 'morally reprehensible' - TheBlaze: A team assisting the Afghanistan evacuation effort by coordinating privately chartered flights out of the country for American citizens and foreign nationals is excoriating the Biden administration for "impeding" its efforts.

Billionaire Progressives Fund Weather Underground Terrorist’s Ivy League Think Tank

Billionaire Progressives Fund Weather Underground Terrorist’s Ivy League Think Tank

• Andrew Cuomo granted clemency to Kathy Boudin's partner, David Gilbert
  

"Former Weather Underground member David Gilbert may be poised for a jailbreak thanks to former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.), but progressives have long supported his terrorist wife, who has for the past seven years operated a criminal-justice reform think tank at Columbia University.
The Center for Justice, Kathy Boudin's think tank at Columbia, is bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, including George Soros, Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, and Peter Buffett, the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. 
Boudin and several Weather Underground members were convicted in 1983 on murder charges for their role in a robbery of a 1981 Brinks truck in Nyack, N.Y. 

Two police officers and a security guard were murdered during a shootout that followed the robbery. Cuomo, who resigned Tuesday in the wake of sexual harassment charges, granted clemency to Boudin's partner Gilbert, who is serving a 75-year sentence for second-degree murder connected to the robbery.
Boudin and Gilbert are the parents of San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin (D.), who called on Cuomo last year to commute his father's prison sentence.
...Soros has backed progressive prosecutors across the country, many of whom have come under fire amid crime spikes in their cities...Read all.

Get Woke, Go Broke: New Orleans Saints Are Selling Tickets for Less than $1 After Team Requires Fans to be Vaccinated or Tested before Games

Get Woke, Go Broke: New Orleans Saints Are Selling Tickets for Less than $1 After Team Requires Fans to be Vaccinated or Tested before Games
"The New Orleans Saints are giving away tickets to their game with the Jaguars after implementing their plan to force fans to be vaccinated or provide a negative test prior to the game.
They’re giving away tickets online.

The Daily Caller reported:

TRENDING: BREAKING: State Department Warns US Nationals to Avoid Traveling to Kabul Airport -- Disperse from Airport Grounds IMMEDIATELY!

Tickets to the Saints/Jaguars game are outrageously cheap.

The Saints are playing the first game in the NFL to require fans to be vaccinated or provide a negative PCR COVID-19 test. What has that done to ticket prices for Monday night? Driven them straight into the ground.

According to Darren Rovell, some tickets on the secondary market are selling for less than $1 before fees.

Lunch video-----A Short History of Slavery

Noon-toon

 

Joe Biden: Mask You Kids Whenever They Leave the House - Louder With Crowder

Joe Biden: Mask You Kids Whenever They Leave the House - Louder With Crowder: 

Joe Biden has a sick obsession with you covering your kids' faces with fabric. It makes a person wonder how much of this is actually about the Delta variant and how much of it is the people who control Biden knowing he has no self-control around children. But our puddingheaded president is out of control. We're falling into two groups. One is the Ron DeSantis side that believes, while parents need to make the best decision for their family, politicians obsessed with putting masks on five-year-olds are batsh!t crazy. The other is the Joe Biden side that demands parents mask up their kids every time they leave the house.

Would be funny is it wasn't true.

 

61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Tax In 2020 (Up From 44% In 2019)

TaxProf Blog
Bloomberg, U.S. Households Paying No Income Tax Hit 61% of Total Last Year:
...The number of households owing nothing came in at 106.8 million, up from 75.9 million in 2019, the study, released Wednesday, showed. 

The 60.6% proportion for last year compares with 43.3% over the five years before the pandemic struck....Read all.

Why are they silent?

 

The Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates in Schools Is Weaker Than Biden Pretends by Jacob Sullum

The Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates in Schools Is Weaker Than Biden Pretends by Jacob Sullum
"Wading into the bitter debate about face mask mandates in schools, President Joe Biden is threatening

civil rights lawsuits against states that ban such requirements.

...Yet the evidence that the public health benefits of "universal masking" in K-12 schools outweigh its costs is far less impressive than the president suggests.
Other governments seem to recognize that fact. As David Zweig noted in New York Magazine, "many of 

America's peer nations around the world -- including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy -- have exempted kids...
...But the studies the CDC cited to justify that stance generally were not designed to test the effectiveness of mask mandates....Read all!

#1 This day 1963-----My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels 1963 {Stereo}

If they don't report it, it didn't happen!-----Biden’s Border Crisis Worse than Ever; TV Coverage Drops 96 Percent

Biden’s Border Crisis Worse than Ever; TV Coverage Drops 96 Percent

"The illegal immigration influx along the U.S. southern border has worsened every month since President Biden took office, but the liberal broadcast networks have essentially stopped covering the crisis. According to the latest statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Security, encounters along the southern border rose to a 21-year high of 212,672 in July.

...But while the reality along the border is worse than ever, coverage of the crisis on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts has slowed to a trickle: Just four minutes and 20 seconds for the entire month of July (including weekends), down an astonishing 96 percent from the Biden-era peak of 113 minutes in March...Read all.

Clueless.

 

Rep. Garcia: Thousands of Americans in Afghanistan Is 'a Hostage Crisis'

Rep. Garcia: Thousands of Americans in Afghanistan Is 'a Hostage Crisis': 

Thousands of American citizens in Afghanistan amount to a “hostage crisis,” Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) stated on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

“It is a hostage crisis at this point,” Garcia said. He added, “This needs to be treated like a hot war… The Taliban doesn’t care about words. They care about actions. They are fearful of our military might, they’re just not fearful of this president.”

Afghanistan: $2.26 Trillion of Your Money Spent, Much Squandered on Lavish Palaces for Corrupt Officials

Afghanistan: $2.26 Trillion of Your Money Spent, Much Squandered on Lavish Palaces for Corrupt Officials
"Over the last twenty years in Afghanistan, 2,443 Americans were killed and 20,666 were wounded, as $2.26 trillion were spent in the quixotic and foredoomed hope of transforming the graveyard of empires into a stable, Western-style republic.
But if you were to go to Afghanistan today to try to see the effect of all this profligate spending (which I wouldn’t actually advise, under the circumstances), you’d have an easier time spotting how American money was put to use in the luxury homes of former Afghan government officials rather than, obviously, in actual successes in pushing back the Taliban.
...residence of General Abdul Rashid Dostum in Mazar-i-Sharif...served as first vice president of Afghanistan...from 2016 until February 2020. 

He was a vociferous foe of the Taliban and a key U.S. ally when the first Taliban regime was toppled...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com

Christopher Isherwood 1904

• 55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.
• 1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.
• 1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
• 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.

Maybe add "Biden's cooked"?----The One Tweet That Every American Would Probably Agree on Regarding Afghanistan by Matt Vespa

The One Tweet That Every American Would Probably Agree on Regarding Afghanistan by Matt Vespa

"...Trende wrote, "It can simultaneously be true that (a) the initial invasion of Afghanistan was justified, (b) it was time to withdraw and (c) this withdrawal has been managed atrociously."

 

I think most Americans would agree with that sentiment. 

...Oh, and they're also blaming Trump. What else is new? 

But that's not the point, and not even the liberal media went along with the "it's Trump's fault" line. 

There are many reasons why Biden's botching of our withdrawal of Afghanistan can't be pinned on the former president. 

• For starters, the White House knew throughout the summer that Afghanistan was very much sliding toward collapse. 
• The intelligence community knew it. 
• The State Department memos sent days after Biden's "this ain't going to be like Saigon" speech on July 8 stated it. 
• Biden also promised our European allies that Kabul would remain secure and stable, 
• adding that there would be sufficient security personnel to make that happen....Read all.

Sec. Blinken Asked: 'Does POTUS Not Know What's Going On?' - Louder With Crowder

Sec. Blinken Asked: 'Does POTUS Not Know What's Going On?' - Louder With Crowder: 

If you are someone with functioning eyeholes and a brain not made of pudding, you could reasonably think that Joe Biden has no idea what's going on. When he speaks on Afghanistan, he says things that are not true and easily proven not to be true. Whether he knows he's speaking untruths or he isn't being told the truth in the first place is open for debate. There is a good chance that instead of intelligence briefings, Joe Biden is handed a coloring book and a Crayola box of 64. One of the people whose job it is to make our president seem competent is Secretary of State Anthony "Hey" Blinken.