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Biden Announced Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach Would Remain Open 24/7 to Relieve Bottleneck of Container Ships Waiting to Unload – But No One Listened
Last Wednesday Joe Biden promised the ports in LA and Long Beach would remain open 24/7 to relieve the bottleneck of container ships anchored offshore waiting to unload.

He said they’d be open, not operating. If he wanted them operating, he probably should have met with the shipping companies, not just the landlords.

Who knew? Oddly, my personal bank account doesn’t reflect that status.

Psaki Doubles Down on Democrats Wanting the IRS to Spy on Bank Accounts
Speaking to reporters at the White House Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended the Democrat proposal, tucked into President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better spending plan, that would allow the IRS to monitor all bank transactions of $600 or more. She also claimed the “loudest” opposition to more IRS funding for snooping is from big banks, not small business owners or individuals worried about taxpayer rights.

Well, these are the psychos who think inflation is driven by people buying too much, and that having stiff competition in a war is good.

Fuck you, bitch.

New Climate Models Show Much Of Southern California Underwater
Strauss’s nonprofit Climate Central did the research and created startling images of landmarks around the world, including a few parts of Southern California like Long Beach and Huntington Beach, being impacted by rising sea levels.

And the problem with that is…?

Meanwhile at the Babylon Bee.

Support For Climate Change Skyrockets After Computer Models Show It Will Flood California
A new climate model shows that much of southern California will be underwater in the future as a result of uninhibited climate change. These stark images have had a profound effect on public opinion, causing a huge spike in support for climate change.

“You mean, just by driving around in my gas guzzler, I could flood all the homes of those coastal elites?” asked Greg Butler, who lives in rural Kansas. “Cool! Why am I still talking to you? I should be driving!”

Drivers, start your engines. (Let’s go, Brandon!)

A reporter asked WH Press Liar Psaki about the Chinese nuke-capable hypersonic missile test that seemingly caught mil and intel flat-footed.

“I’m not going to comment on the specific report…We’ve made clear our concerns about the military capabilities that the PRC continues to pursue and we’ve been consistent in our approach with China. We welcome stiff competition, but we do not want that competition to veer into conflict and that is certainly what we conveyed privately as well,” Psaki told AP reporter Alexandra Jaffe.

Generally, when fighting a war, I’d rather not have stiff competition. I suppose Psaki’s unconcerned, because she’ll be a nuclear-hardened bunker.

These people are insane, and are going to get — more — people killed.

The feds supposedly caught a big break, and Brian Laundrie in the Gabby Petito case. An alert hotel employee along the Appalachian Trail reported that Laundrie had checked in.

Feds immediately responded, broke down the guy’s door, rushed in with drawn guns and riot shields, and handcuffed him.

Only it wasn’t Laundrie. Seemingly, no one did any investigative work before making demonstrating that they are complete fuckups.

It’s pretty standard these days to show some kind of ID when checking into hotels; it’s required by law some places.* If that employee thought the guest looked like Laundrie (looking at the photos, I don’t see much resemblance beyond the scruffy beard), he could call the cops and give them the guest’s ID info (and note that the victim here had booked that room in advance). The police could run it through their systems, and determine that the persona appears to be legit and not Laundrie. They could then go to the hotel and politely knock on the guy’s door, and tell him that there’s a little confusion that they’d like to sort out. ID confirmed, the cops thank him and leave.

Oh, that’s not nearly as fun and exciting as letting the feds make a dynamic entry to arrest a…

…well, unless there’s a secret warrant out there, the only thing Laundrie is officially wanted for is unauthorized use of a bank card.

The hotel generously offered the traumatized couple a free night’s stay and a complimentary breakfast. One hopes in a new room with a functional door.

I’d sue the shit out of them.

* I think about the only time I’ve checked into a hotel/motel in the past 25 years when I did not have to show some kind of ID was that one time… Special circumstances: I ended up overnighting in a dump that normally charges by the hour; maybe half hour. I barricaded the door, slept on my own bedding, and with my gun. That kind of place.

I ran across a great 2:13 video on Twitter. A collection of Fauxci and headlines showing the precipitous fall in efficacy claims for the ChinCOVID pseudo-vaccines. Set to “Hall of the Mountain King.” You might not expect it, but it’s actually funny, in a morbid way.

So naturally one of the next news stories I saw after viewing it was Fauxci babbling about the Janssen/J&J pseudo-vax.

“I think that they should feel good about it,” Fauci said refferring to the general public, “because what the advisors to the FDA felt, is that given the data that they saw, very likely, that this should have been a two-dose vaccine to begin with.”

If this is what all the sciencey experts thought to begin with, why wasn’t the EUA for a two dose regime to begin with?

But we only hate Dr. Genocide because he’s all about “science, data, and hard facts”.

Yesterday, WH Press Liar Psaki’s bizarre claim that high prices were merely cause by people buying too much stuff, prompted an economics lecture. It seems that’s going to be the Admin excuse now.

Secretary of Nontransportation Buttigieg took a break from his exhausting maternity leave to explain that… well, this:

“Certainly, a lot of the challenges that we have been experiencing this year will continue into next year. But there are both short-term and long-term steps that we can take to do something about it. Part of what’s happening isn’t just the supply side. It’s the demand side. Demand is off the charts. Retail sales are through the roof. If you think about those images of ships, for example, waiting at anchor on the west coast, every one of those ships is full of record amounts of goods that Americans are buying, because demand is up, because income is up, because the president has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession.

Yes, the supply chain woes have nothing to do with the shortage of truck drivers or dock workers. Nothing to do with container ships that can’t get unloaded, and goods transported. It’s all because senile Gropin’ Joe did such a great job of getting America “out of the teeth of a terrifying recession” that people are buying shit so fast that our perfectly functioning supply system simply can’t keep up.

Fuck Joe Biden. And I’d say fuck Buttigieg, but he’d enjoy that too muuch.

Reading about the situation with Southwest Airlines, I keeping seeing claims like this tweet.

The CEO is of course lying. Biden has not even issued an executive order for private companies. The “mandate” is just theatrics, it was designed to look like policy but isn’t because even an executive order would get challenged in the courts.

Not exactly… and it’s complicated. I’m pretty sure this person is talking about the announcement Biden made about mandating companies with 100+ employees require everyone to get pseudo-vaxed. It’s true that no such executive order has been issued.

But this one, dated September 9, 2021, has; and it is the one that the Southwest CEO has been invoking. This one applies to federal contractors, which Southwest is (mail, and likely other stuff).

This order promotes economy and efficiency in Federal procurement by ensuring that the parties that contract with the Federal Government provide adequate COVID-19 safeguards to their workers performing on or in connection with a Federal Government contract or contract-like instrument as described in section 5(a) of this order.

And how does the order enforce that? Here’s where it’s tricky, and the Southwest CEO is either an asshole or a liar.

(a) Executive departments and agencies, including independent establishments subject to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 102(4)(A) (agencies), shall, to the extent permitted by law, ensure that contracts and contract-like instruments (as described in section 5(a) of this order) include a clause that the contractor and any subcontractors (at any tier) shall incorporate into lower-tier subcontracts.

This isn’t a retroactive, unilateral change to existing contracts. It covers future contracts. The only way it could apply to existing contracts would be to renegotiate them with the contractor.

In the case of Southwest, either Southwest voluntarily renegotiated their contract and allowed the clause to be added (making the CEO an asshole putting his employees’ lives on the line), or it did not renegotiate. The clause would not be there, the mandates for employee jabs is nonexistent, and the CEO is a liar claiming the mandate exists and blaming the feds to deflect criticism and lawsuits.

Southwest can make this a condition of employment on its own, especially in right-to-work states, but then Southwest would be on the hook for any pseudo-vax adverse effects. That is what I think the CEO is trying to hide.

Added: Note that Delta isn’t doing the mandate crap.