The Government Has Tried To Do Something About Inflation Or Something

By William Teach July 14, 2022 – 7:00 am

Even though there are a few points where this The Hill piece softly slaps the Biden administration, it mostly seems to be taking the position of “well, Los Federales tried, but, you dumb citizens aren’t helping.” Now, if this were happening under Trump, the headline and Blamestorming would be much different, including the headline

The government has tried to stop inflation. Why isn’t it working?

Biden Brain SuckerNo matter what the federal government does, inflation keeps rising with no clear end in sight.

Consumer prices jumped 1.3 percent higher in June and a whopping 9.1 percent over the past 12 months, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department, despite the best efforts of the Biden administration and Federal Reserve to bring inflation down.

While a June surge in gas prices was responsible for much of the overall increase in inflation, prices grew across almost every sector. That’s a troubling sign for the U.S. economy after the federal government scrambled to stop the highest annual inflation in more than four decades from getting worse.

“It’s going to be a long and tough road ahead. This is not going to come down very quickly,” said Derek Tang, co-founder and economist at research firm Monetary Policy Analytics.

After waiving off the threat of inflation for much of 2021, the Biden administration and Fed pivoted sharply toward bringing prices down.

In other words, Biden and his people were ignoring the issues. They weren’t engaged. Manufacturers knew issues were going to happen all the way back in mid-2020. A lot of Asian car manufacturers saw the shipping and cost issues, and moved a lot of the manufacturing to North America. So many who make and sell other products saw the shortages and price increases, and adjusted accordingly. Did you wonder why there really weren’t that many sales when stuff started opening in certain areas in 2020, or for Christmas 2020? Yeah, they projected everything out, because they understand economics, supply chains, etc and so on, things that most in the Biden admin do not. Most haven’t worked in the private sector anytime recently. Biden hasn’t since the early 70’s. So many might know teaching and law, but, not much else.

The Fed began raising its baseline interest rate in March in a bid to slow the economy enough to bring down inflation without causing a severe economic downturn.

But as inflation has steamed ahead, the Fed has hiked rates at an even faster pace. The bank in March boosted rates by 0.25 percentage points, followed by a 0.5 percentage point hike in May and a 0.75 percentage point hike in June — the largest single increase since 1994.

The Fed also ceased its monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage bonds and will soon allow its holdings to expire, which will pull billions of dollars out of financial markets and into the central bank each month.

That’s literally all the government has done. What has the Biden admin done? The story really doesn’t say. Because there’s not much of consequence to discuss. They really have hurt more than helped.

“There is still a lot of pent-up demand in the economy, especially around leisure, hospitality and tourism, as people appear prepared to run down accumulated savings and pay higher prices to do things they missed out on over the past couple of years,” wrote James Knightley, chief international economist for ING, in a Wednesday analysis.

“To get inflation meaningfully lower quickly we need demand to better match the supply capacity of the economy. Ideally this would come via the supply channel,” Knightley added.

High inflation is often caused by a mismatch between the goods and services that consumers and businesses want to buy and the economy’s ability to supply them.

Demand is normal, has been normal post COVID, and actually dropping because of the lack of goods. There was a short period of demand, especially in the travel sector, but, what we’re seeing now is demand destruction, where people are just not buying a lot of things.

In a Wednesday statement, President Biden dismissed the June inflation report as “out-of-date” given the steady decline of gasoline prices throughout the last month. Even so, those supply shocks are far from settled as long as the war in Ukraine rages on.

Yet, gas is still way, way above where it was when he took office, and it’s still a nationwide average of $4.65, and the higher gas and diesel prices are baked into the cost of goods for months. He has no real idea what’s going on, and doesn’t seem interested in asking those in the private sector who know. And should have asked early in 2021.

Of course, maybe his people wanted this to happen.

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Biggest Reason People Don’t Want And EV Is Charging Logistics

By William Teach July 13, 2022 – 3:00 pm

It’s actually surprising, I would have thought it would be cost

Electric car survey finds this as the biggest reason preventing people from buying them

Electric vehicleA survey of U.S. adults has found that the logistics of where and when they would be able to charge an electric car is the largest barrier preventing them from owning such vehicles.

The revelation emerged in a recent poll of around 8,000 people conducted by Consumer Reports, in which a combined 36% said they would “definitely” or “seriously consider” choosing an electric-only vehicle as their next auto purchase.

When asked about the top concerns preventing them from making the jump from gas to electric, 61% cited charging logistics, followed by 55% saying the number of miles the vehicle can go per charge and 52% saying the costs of buying and maintaining an electric-only vehicle.

The U.S. Department of Energy reports that there are currently around 49,000 public charging stations across the country.

There are around 145,000 gas stations around the country, and they generally only take a few minutes for you to fill up and be on your way.

Interestingly, only 36% are really interested in buying one

“The survey shows that there is clear interest among Americans in reducing costs for transportation and lowering their environmental impact,” said Quinta Warren, Consumer Reports’ associate director of sustainability policy. “It underscores some key concerns, but fortunately, many of these barriers to owning a battery-electric vehicle EV can be addressed through experience and education.”

Right, right, experience and education. Not price, charging logistics, range anxiety, cost to purchase.

Meanwhile, this is a bummer (hopefully the tweet will show)

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 13, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible carbon pollution driven Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on leftism being a ideology of perpetual victimhood and misery.

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Josh Hawley Says Democrats Have Lost Their Minds After “Transphobic” Debate

By William Teach July 13, 2022 – 10:30 am

Well, yes, they have lost their minds. They lost them back when George W. Bush was president, which is when the term barking moonbat came about. They were worse when Bush won in 2004. Then they started getting very weird when Obama was president, and then pure bat-guano insane with Trump as president. And even wonkier now

Josh Hawley says Democrats ‘have lost their minds’ after tense exchange with progressive law prof goes viral

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley says the Democrats “have lost their minds” after his tense exchange with a progressive pro-choice California law professor went viral.

Hawley torched the Democrats in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital, calling the party “extremists” and saying the Democrats’ descent into madness is on display for the whole country.

“The Democrats have become such extremists. Now their official line is men can get pregnant — and if you disagree, you’re violent,” Hawley said on Tuesday after the exchange went viral online. “They have lost their minds and the whole country can see it.”

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the impact of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the subject of abortion back to be decided at the state level.

The University of California at Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges, a pro-choice witness on a panel before the Senate, accused Hawley of endangering transgender Americans by asking if only women can get pregnant.

Here’s the exchange

It really is insane

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States Step With Climate Crisis (scam) Action After Court Ruling

By William Teach July 13, 2022 – 7:00 am

Well, yes, they can. What the WV v EPA ruling said was that Los Federales shouldn’t be passing massive regulations from the Executive Branch, they should come from the Legislative Branch. Which includes state legislatures

After Supreme Court limits federal ability to combat climate change, states step in

electric vehicleThe Supreme Court’s restriction of the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions has led to calls for governors in blue states to launch initiatives to combat climate change.

“We’ve got to double down, quadruple down, here in California and in blue states all across America,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said on June 30, in response to the ruling handed down that day in West Virginia v. EPA, which held that the EPA may not require electric utilities to move away from coal-fired power plants.

And in fact states do have considerable power to reduce the emissions causing climate change, since they are actually the primary regulator of the companies that deliver electricity to consumers.

“Constitutionally, states can do a lot of things within their own boundaries to address greenhouse gases,” Barry Rabe, a professor of environmental policy at the University of Michigan, told Yahoo News. “We’ve seen this now for about a quarter-century — some states have tried a pretty wide range of efforts, for the most part working on their own, although in a few cases working together across state borders or boundaries. So I would say the sky’s the limit.”

Go for it, climate cult states. Let’s see how that works out for your economies and energy sector. If only there was a way to restrict the people who vote for this to be forced to stay in their states, rather than escaping.

One major option that states possess to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is the power to dictate the sources of energy used by their electric utilities.

Do it! I triple dog dare you. Every experiment needs experimental groups.

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Apparently, Americans Can’t Handle Their Guns, So We Need To Repeal The 2nd

By William Teach July 13, 2022 – 6:45 am

The elites, and those who think they are elites, like the USA Today’s Carli Pierson, a member of their editorial board, really think that law abiding citizens can’t handle their guns (you can also read at Yahoo News, not behind a paywall)

Americans can’t handle their guns. Time to repeal the 2nd Amendment.

We must repeal the Second Amendment if we want this country to ever be safe again.

Whether it’s killings by police, like the 60 bullets fired into Jayland Walker, or by civilians like in Highland Park, Illinois, Uvalde, Texas, or Buffalo, New York our national record on gun violence is an international embarrassment. It can’t be reformed without doing away with guns entirely.

Hmm, people acting criminally (and we don’t have all the facts on Walker yet) is a reason to disarm law abiding citizens? Are cops to be disarmed?

States like California and New York that have tried to set restrictive gun laws can do little when guns are trafficked in from other states. What’s more – legislative attempts at restricting gun rights were recently shot down by a Supreme Court gone rogue.

We’re way beyond what the framers ever had in mind for gun rights already. And for a selective originalist Supreme Court conservative majority, it’s hard to justify glossing over the history behind the Second Amendment.

Much like we did away with the 18th (prohibition) when it no longer served us, it’s time to do away with the archaic constitutional amendment holding Americans hostage in their own country.

It’s time to say, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the Second Amendment’s gotta go.”

Give it a shot, chumps. See if you can do it. And, how many do you think will get turned in? What’s the rate after Australia did this, 25% or so turned in?

Americans can’t handle their guns. There were a whopping 692 mass shootings in the United States last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as having “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.”

The vast majority of them occured in the Democratic Party run cities which are so often soft on crime.

In order to get rid of the Second Amendment we’d use Article V of the Constitution, which sets out two options: Congress, through a joint resolution passed by a two-thirds vote, or by a congressional convention after petitions from two-thirds of the state legislatures, could propose the amendment.

Good luck with that. You won’t get 2/3rds of state legislatures to propose, nor 2/3rds of the House or Senate. And, she forgot to mention that it then requires a 3/4ths vote of the states, either via the general assemblies agreeing or having a state convention. Good luck with 38 states. Democrats only control around 16 state assemblies. Do they think they can get 22 more?

Meanwhile, California is looking to get sued

(Stockton Record) Gun makers and dealers in California will be required to block firearms sales to anyone they have “reasonable cause to believe is at substantial risk” of using a gun illegally or of harming themselves or others, under a new law that Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he had signed.

It’s a subjective requirement that goes farther than current background checks or prohibitions on selling guns to people prohibited from owning them.

The regulation is part of the new law creating a good conduct code for gun makers and dealers that also allows anyone who suffers harm from violations to sue.

In most cases, how would they know? Gun makers mostly do not sell directly. It’s an attempt to make dealers afraid to sell, and put them out of business, denying citizens their 2nd Amendment Right.

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Unhinged Warmists Take Fossil Fueled Trip To Hamptons To Protest

By William Teach July 12, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Nothing says “Do Something about the climate emergency” more than taking fossil fueled trips to protest. Where were they all when Obama was having a fancy party, with lots of big shots flying in on private fossil fueled jets?

Screaming Activists Occupy Ritzy Beach Towns

Left-wing activists affiliated with New York Communities For Change (NYCFC) launched disruptive protests over the weekend in several beach towns as part of the organization’s “#OccupyTheHamptons” demonstrations.

NYCFC protested on behalf of “climate action & green, social housing for all,” according to its Twitter page. Activists criticized wealthy Hamptonites as “directly responsible for the results of climate change” while sporting banners calling for governments to “tax the rich,” footage posted to Twitter shows.

First, protesters blocked off Southampton’s Main Street on Friday afternoon, when many weekenders travel to the Hamptons.

And then

How gauche, wearing jeans and sneakers on the beach. Then they drove over to the “billionaires row” homes to annoy them. And then

The group erected a wooden structure in the airport’s main entrance and placed one of its activists on top of it. They also blocked the entrance with seated protesters so that cars could not circumvent the structure, NYCFC Twitter footage appeared to show. Others participated in “tax the rich” chants and held signs, one of which read “the 1% is stealing everyone’s future,” other footage posted to the NYCFC account shows.

Overall, 16 were arrested. And, they simply show that the climate crisis scam is a scam. It’s hardcore leftist policy masquerading as environmentalism.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 12, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution lawn, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on feel good stories.

Yes, lawns are bad in Warmist World, as the First Street Journal points out.

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53% Of Democrats Want Supreme Court Abolished

By William Teach July 12, 2022 – 10:30 am

They should take the poll when Democrats get a big win, see how that goes, because Democrats seem to blow in the wind on how they support the way our system of government is set up

Majority of Democrats, young people want to abolish Supreme Court: poll

A majority of Democrat voters believe the Supreme Court is a racist, sexist institution that ought to be abolished, according to a new poll commissioned by the Heartland Institute. And in a clear threat to the court’s future, almost as many young people aged 19 to 39 feel the same way.

The national survey of 1,025 US voters split strongly down party lines, with 53% of Democrats in favor of abolishing the current Supreme Court and replacing it with a “new, democratically elected . . . court with justices chosen by the American people directly,” and 33% “strongly” in favor. Just 21% of Republicans and 38% of independents favored the proposition.

A majority (54%) of young people aged 19 to 39 wanted the court abolished. Overall, just 37% of total voters agreed, according to the Rasmussen poll conducted on July 6 and 7, almost two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade decision on abortion.

And 100% of these people are idiots. If they want to do this, try passing a Constitutional amendment. Of course, if they lose at the ballot box, they won’t like electing Supreme Court justices, either. Democrats say they love “democracy”, except when they lose, and then they caterwaul since 2000 about losing the election, and make up a BS narrative about Russia Russia Russia in 2016.

While 67% of Democrats believe the court is a “fundamentally sexist institution that favors men over women,” just 18% of Republicans and 36% of independents agreed.  (snip)

On the question of race, 56% of Democrats believe the court is “a fundamentally racist institution” compared to 14% of Republicans, 29% of independents and 34% of total voters.

Of course they do, because this is the world they live in. Everything is like this for them.

On the radical proposition of a constitutional amendment to give the United Nations the power to reverse Supreme Court decisions on decisions it believes violate human rights, fewer than half (47%) of Democrats were opposed, with 39% in favor with 11% undecided.

Among Republicans, 77% were opposed to UN oversight and 17% were in favor. Just 37% of total voters favored the idea, but young voters aged 19 to 39 were more positive, with 48% in favor, compared to 27% of those aged 40 to 64 and 9% of those aged over 64.

So, 39% of Democrats, 17% of Republicans, and 48% of young people are morons.

“What this poll shows is that a majority of Democratic voters are utterly delusional about public policy and completely out of step with the vision most Americans have of their country,” said Justin Haskins, the Heartland Institute’s Editorial Director.

“Not only do most Democrats now have radical opinions about alleged racism and sexism at the Supreme Court, but they also want to substantially pack the court and even abolish it in its existing form–reforms opposed by the vast majority of other demographics.” (snip)

“More than a half-century of liberals running America’s K-12 schools and colleges has clearly paid off,” said Haskins.

It’s just like the Talking Point about doing the Senate differently, because it’s not fair that small states have the same representation as large states. They do not understand the Constitution, and why the federal government, and the Legislative Branch, are set up that way. Schools failed them, as do news outlets, talking heads, and elected Democrats.

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Duck Speak: Hotcoldwetdry Is White Colonization Or Something

By William Teach July 12, 2022 – 7:15 am

Written by an uber-white woman, Erin Fitz-Henry, the Deputy Coordinator – Anthropology, Development Studies & Social Theory, The University of Melbourne. She’s pale enough to have a joke written about her not being able to be seen in the snow. Just another loony tunes white elitist white-knighting for minorities, because, let’s be honest, these people do not think much of “minorities”, particularly black people, and do not think they can survive without the helpful hand of white elites and government

Climate change is white colonisation of the atmosphere. It’s time to tackle this entrenched racism

“Climate change is racist”. So reads the title of a recent book by British journalist Jeremy Williams. While this title might seem provocative, it’s long been recognised that people of colour suffer disproportionate harms under climate change – and this is likely to worsen in the coming decades.

However, most rich white countries, including Australia, are doing precious little to properly address this inequity. For the most part, they refuse to accept the climate debt they owe to poorer countries and communities.

In so doing, they sentence millions of people to premature death, disability or unnecessary hardship. This includes in Australia, where climate change compounds historical wrongs against First Nations communities in many ways.

This injustice – a type of “atmospheric colonisation” – is a form of deeply entrenched colonial racism that arguably represents the most pressing global equity issue of our time. Several upcoming global talks, including the Pacific Islands Forum this week, offer a chance to urgently elevate climate justice on the global agenda.

This is totally about science, though, right? They want climate reparations and so much more. It’s all very insane. I wonder if these Warmists are willing to give up their own money and modern lifestyles?

(climate duck speak)

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