Month: August 2021

Yes, our own Representative Seth Moulton, never one to say no to a moronic publicity stunt, flew into Afghanistan with an idiot friend and, according to him, saved lives! What a guy. Of course, it is critical in this debacle that we have Congresspersons on the ground at the Kabul airport “overseeing” evacuations since the military is obviously incapable of doing their job as well as Superman Seth. Yes, let’s have some attention-seeking politicians just appear on the scene to, as they put it, conduct Congressional “oversight.” Yeah, and we’ve got a bridge to sell you. For those doing some actual evacuation work at the airport, it must have been even worse than having the kids pestering you with stupid questions while you’re in the middle of something. Superman Seth retorts that he was thanked for not giving any notice of his visit because, he claims, someone told him it was better that way since they didn’t have to prepare anything. So now the lack of even basic courtesy is a good thing! And so now it’s OK for any big shot to just show up at hot-spots anytime and anywhere to provide “oversight”? That’s the logical end point for Superman’s thinking, if you can call it that. Is that what we want?

With all due respect to Superman Seth’s war experience and decorations, those unfortunately for him don’t equate to having intelligence and common sense. It’s really amazing how many Harvard grads lack both, most of whom seem to end up in government making policy, alas. We propose a new law – that Harvard graduates (and professors) should be barred from any kind of government employment or influence of any kind. We’d all be better off. The “best and brightest,” right. Maybe instead all these brainiacs should have to actually work for a living. Just a thought.

But Superman Seth has gone to the well of relying on his military experience as justification for doing stupid things too often, and any respect for him on that account is now dried up and there is no benefit of the doubt for him anymore. Sigh…there just aren’t enough words to describe this kind of arrogant cluelessness, although several choice ones come to mind as a start…

Biden Says He Will Get Americans Out of Afghanistan, but Warns of Possible Losses – WSJ

OK, so we’re finally out of Afghanistan…sort of. We’ve abandoned the whole country except for the airport, but there’s still 10-15-18,000 Americans still left (the numbers are vague but substantial). So how do we get them out? Of course, let’s send troops back into the country to find Americans! Though Biden warns about “losses” as a result. Duh.

Yes, there’s nothing like putting the cart before the horse. What a marvelous plan Biden had here. Let’s get all the troops out first (and leave all our armaments behind so the Taliban can use them to murder everyone who might have smiled at an American), just so we can say we’re out, and then worry about who’s left behind. And then decide to go back in when the eminently foreseeable public/media pressure gets to be too much.

Wouldn’t you think someone would have thought this out a little better? If this was a movie it’d get a Razzie. If this debacle was a cadet’s answer to a West Point essay exam, it’d get an F. We’d say Biden should be impeached for this colossal screw-up, but with Kamala Harris as the backup, well, we can’t really go there seriously, can we, though it’s fun to talk about. Remember George Bush the Elder, who had Dan Quayle as his VP so no one would either assassinate or impeach him. Pretty foolproof, isn’t it? Biden certainly took a lesson from that playbook.

Anyway, this all would be a terrible joke if it wasn’t for the thousands of Americans who lost their lives or were wounded and maimed, and those surely yet to come as long as a moron like Biden is making decisions.

The ironic part is that Biden is 100% correct to get out since Afghanistan historically is a morass for any occupier and we never should have stayed once bin Laden was killed, but obviously not a lot of thought went into figuring out how to do it in a sensible way. One hopes he at some point has the common decency to apologize for this mess and for letting down all those who served.

                First, as everyone knows by now, the Bernie Sanders-run Democratic party is pulling out all the stops on stopping climate change in its tracks by mandating reductions in carbon emissions in various ways, including elimination of coal-fired power plants and requiring electric vehicles.  Of course, no one’s got answers for two critical problems.  One, that an electric car has to last at least 100,000 miles BEFORE it becomes carbon “neutral” or saves energy overall simply because of the energy needed to produce its electric batteries.  Two, that unless something pretty amazing happens, the charging of all these cars (assuming you can find a charging station, and assuming you can wait the hours needed for a charge, as opposed to five minutes at the gas pump, and assuming that there’s enough electricity during the night to charge these cars notwithstanding the fact that the sun doesn’t power solar panels during the night) is going to be way more than a mere inconvenience.  In any event, Biden and the Sanders crowd want non-renewable energy today. And of course on his first day in office he cancelled the Keystone oil pipeline.

                On the other hand, today the price of gas is rising rapidly due to OPEC production cutbacks during the pandemic.  So what does Biden want to have happen?  He’s pressing OPEC to increase production so americans can have cheaper gas and use more!  HA!  HA!  You can’t make this stuff up.  Where does this action come into the climate-change-busting plan?  Not to mention that putting the “progressive” Democrats in charge of anything is a recipe for disaster, as they have proven time and time again.

                Second, Biden and lots of others supposedly are “surprised” that the Taliban is so quickly taking over Afghanistan.  Duh.  The British couldn’t subdue Afghanistan.  Then the Russians tried and failed.  Now the Americans have tried and failed and finally are waving the white flag.  The political cover for that was years of negotiations with the Afghans and the Taliban about America exiting the country.  As if any “agreement” with the Taliban is worth the paper it’s on.  Only an moron believes anything other than that the Taliban, like cockroaches, would simply hid out in their caves and wait for the Americans to leave, and then they would take over.  This ass-covering “negotiations” business was all for show.  No sane person would “negotiate” with the Taliban with any hope that they would comply with any agreement once the Americans were gone.  To at any point in the last 20 years believe that the Afghans themselves were capable of defending against the Taliban (or the local Girl Scout troop, for that matter), or to believe that the Taliban would not take over the country the instant the Americans left, is the height of folly and self-deception.  And so it has come to pass…

Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Afghans, are going to suffer and die because of American stupidity, cupidity and disingenuousness, just like Vietnam. And the poor Afghan women, they’re just totally screwed, it’s back to the 13th century for them. It didn’t have to be this way.

Why is no one clamoring for Biden’s resignation or impeachment for authorizing an action he himself said is illegal and unconstitutional and would lose in court, but was justified only because it would buy more time to get already appropriated money to renters and landlords? Is there a more blatant example of consciously and intentionally violating the law and the Constitution?

Although we suppose the simple answer is look at the spineless nonentity who would replace him…

References:       bHgIEcGkQNGSg4rKZT97-WSJNewsPaper-8-6-2021.pdf; Elizabeth Warren laid into Amazon and Facebook for trying to sideline new FTC chair Lina Khan. Both companies ‘fear’ Khan’s antitrust expertise, she said. (msn.com)

                First, a federal court ruled that the CDC’s eviction moratorium was unconstitutional and beyond its regulatory authority.  Then the Supreme Court said if it is going to be extended, Congress has to extend it, the CDC lacks the authority to do so.  Then the CDC agreed that it lacked legal authority to extend it.  Then the President – who is a lawyer, by the way – said both he and the CDC lacked authority to both extend it and do it in the first place.  Then the woke left protested.  Then suddenly the CDC says, and the President agrees, OK the CDC can implement a new moratorium because this one is “targeted” rather than the prior elephant-gun-to-kill-a-mouse approach.  And then the President expressly says that he doesn’t think this approach is legal, but what the hell, he’s going to do it anyway.  Because of the woke political pressure, is what he didn’t say but is obvious. 

                And all this unnecessary nonsense is notwithstanding the fact that the supposed bill for late rent nationwide is about $21 billion, yet over $43 billion previously appropriated and available to the states precisely for the purpose of paying rent for people who couldn’t pay during the pandemic goes unused.  That pot of money is just sitting there while Washington and state clowns twiddle their thumbs and point fingers at each other rather than getting off their asses and doing their job, which isn’t a hard job, by the way.  It’s not a hard job to write checks to people from a full bank account, is it?  Instead the President decides to admittedly violate the law and the Constitution by implementing yet another moratorium.  “Disconnect” is the word that comes to mind, as well as a host of others less neutral. 

                Second, the shenanigans around this supposed “bipartisan” “infrastructure” bill get curiouser and curiouser.  Obviously most of the Senators negotiating this thing flunked math, since the verbal gymnastics these clowns have to go through to claim that this bill is “paid for” already would earn any of them a 10 at the Olympics.  Even their own Congressional Budget Office rejects their claims and says the current bill would increase the national deficit by about $256 billion over the next ten years.  Only in Washington (aka Bidenland), and wherever the emperor got his new clothes, can everyone in power look at a watermelon, agree among themselves that it is an orange and then go out and try to convince the rest of Congress, and all of us, that it is indeed an orange despite the fact it is a watermelon.  They certainly seem to think that the rest of us are every bit as stupid as they are.

                Third, Lina Khan is the new Chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission.  She was named by the President basically to bring “big tech” to heel via the anti-trust laws.  She is famous for wanting to do so, so we all expect that she is going to pull the anti-trust regulatory reins as tight as she possibly can, all with the President’s express support.  So famous is she in fact that Amazon and Facebook have already asked that she be recused from any issues involving them. 

                Meanwhile, according to today’s WSJ, “the U.S. government is enlisting the help of tech companies, including Amazon.com, Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google, to bolster the country’s critical infrastructure defenses against cyber threats after a string of high-profile attacks.  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency [“CISA”] unveiled the initiative Thursday, called the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.” 

                OK, so on the one hand, Biden’s FTC is going to go after “big tech” and break it up, while on the other hand, at the same time Biden’s CISA is begging “big tech” for help corraling an issue that the government cannot deal with itself.  Think of it as your neighbor using the local zoning laws to force you to tear down the $1 million dream house and deck and ornate yard and gardens you just built too close to his property line, while at the same time he’s asking you if he can use the house, deck and garden for his daughter’s wedding reception before you tear it down AND help him with the decorations AND bake the cake.  What’s your answer going to be? 

                Geez, do we smell an unholy deal here?  You lay off the anti-trust attacks and we’ll help you all you want.  Think that’s in play?  Remember this article in a few months when the rubber starts to hit the road on these issues.