Dementia Joe Puts Pressure On Companies To Implement Vaccine Mandates

By William Teach October 3, 2021 – 8:56 am

It’s actually interestingly difficult to find front page stories about Joe Biden at major media outlets. The NY Times has a whopping 2 mentions of Biden’s name for their Sunday edition. One is about who’s playing Biden on SNL, the other is actually hidden. The Washington Post has the most, with 7 mentions, but, only a few are about Biden. There are 6 mentions of Trump. The dude is the president, right? No mention of Biden escaping to Delaware for the weekend yet again, even with his agenda in chaos and freefall. Anyhow, digging deeper, we find the big point of Biden’s vaccine mandate

Biden presses companies to get ahead of vaccine mandate

President Biden is pushing companies to get ahead of the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate by imposing their own mandates amid simmering concerns that some employees will quit when the national requirement takes effect.

Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers is still being crafted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), prompting the administration to fill that time by encouraging more employers to implement their own vaccination rules beforehand.

Companies taking that step are getting a shout-out from the White House.

“We’re touting companies as far reaching as United Airlines to Tyson’s Foods who are leading their industries on putting forth requirements that are going to help keep their workplaces safe and their business strong and consistent. Economists from across the board agree that requirements will help in our recovery,” a White House official told The Hill.

When asked why the administration would rather see companies come out now with their own mandates instead of waiting until the OSHA ruling, the official said, “There is no reason to wait to put forth these requirements and we encourage every company to do what will boost vaccinations.”

OK, so, it’s not actually Biden doing this, since he’s barely lucid. It’s White House staff.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain has praised United Airlines, AT&T and other companies for their vaccine mandates. He tweeted an article that said United had less than one percent of employees refuse to get the vaccine following its mandate. (snip)

“There have been — some of these companies have been much bigger, larger companies, where they have effectively implemented these mandates and requirements. And for the most part, we have not seen a mass exodus of employees,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday. “Yes, individuals have decided not to get vaccinated and then have therefore not, no longer been employed. That’s nobody’s preference.”

It’s very strange that there’s no mention of Biden actually reaching out to any companies to thank them or congratulate them or something. No quotes, no direct mentions. Where is this guy? What does he actually do? Anyway, there a plenty of mentions of companies worried about losing more employees while they’re already shorthanded during the #BidenEconomySucks.

“If employers know OSHA is going to issue a standard requiring certain safety measures, employers start to comply ahead of the requirement. You see this with most OSHA standards — that often by the time it is issued, many employers have complied or are on their way,” said Debbie Berkowitz, chief of staff and senior policy adviser for OSHA during the Obama administration.

And therein is the point, which I believe I mentioned when Surrender Joe first announced this: to get as many employers to implement a mandate before OSHA’s rule (nice that Biden announced it before the rule was even written. Heck, do they even know if they have the authority to do this?) is rolled out, and the lawsuits start, and you know there will be judges who put it on pause. Seriously, how will OSHA even enforce it?

Given how small and chronically understaffed OSHA is, the idea of snitching on someone in your office is actually not that far from reality.

Employee complaints are an important part of enforcement given how few inspectors the government has, says Rich Fairfax, a safety consultant with the National Safety Council who spent 36 years at OSHA, including as head of enforcement.

According to OSHA, there are about 1,850 federal and state inspectors covering some 8 million worksites nationwide.

In addition to responding to complaints, Fairfax thinks inspectors will simply add Covid-related tasks to their to do lists — looking to see if a company is keeping vaccination records and running a testing program — when they’re already inside the workplace checking up on safety hazards or incidents.

So, even if rolled out and allowed to stand, OSHA will pretty much be relying on snitches.

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Nations Urged To Heed Climate Activists Demands To Do Stuff The Activists Won’t Do

By William Teach October 2, 2021 – 6:50 pm

How about nations listen to all those who do not want higher taxes, higher cost of living, higher energy prices, and more government control over our lives rather than those who refuse to practice what they preach?

Nations urged to heed climate activists’ demands for bold action

climate cowThe world’s major economies must do more at the upcoming United Nations COP26 climate summit in Scotland to show they are serious about wanting to tackle global warming and heed the warnings of young activists, policymakers said on Saturday.

COP26 President Alok Sharma said there was renewed urgency in the climate debate following preparatory talks in Milan where thousands of youth activists, including Greta Thunberg, urged governments to match words with action and stump up billions of dollars to wean the world off fossil fuels.

“We had a very constructive set of discussions and there was a real sense of urgency in the room,” Britain’s Sharma told reporters after the meeting in Italy’s financial capital.

“The energy that came forward from the [youth] did galvanise the ministers,” Sharma said. “As we go forward in the next few weeks and into the COP, we must always keep [their] voices … in our minds.”

Blah blah blah. People who are massive climahypocrites yammering about forcing Other People to do something. Show us you believe this is real, as in “mostly/solely caused by Mankind”, but massively changing your own lives, and I might believe you, rather than think you have ulterior motives.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 2, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle, you just might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Dissecting Leftism, with a post on how COVID poses a tiny threat to school kids.

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This Is Insane: Staff Stops Dementia Joe From Taking Questions From Fellow Democrats

By William Teach October 2, 2021 – 10:30 am

This is not normal. Seriously, Joe barely took questions during the campaign. Since taking office, he has taken fewer and fewer questions from reporters, usually walking away as of late. And now

Report: WH Staff Veto Joe Biden, Keep Him from Taking Democrat Lawmakers’ Questions

President Joe Biden’s staff members prevented the president from taking questions during a Democrat caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, amid high-stakes negotiations that have imperiled his multi-trillion-dollar agenda and exasperated the schism between the party’s corporatist and socialist factions.

Politico reporter Sarah Ferris said Biden offered to take questions from Democrat lawmakers upon concluding his remarks, but his staff members “jumped in.”

“He didn’t take any questions,” she said.

Sources told Ferris and a second Politico reporter, Heather Caygle, that Biden discussed a topline range between $1.9 trillion and $2.3 trillion in spending.

“Even a smaller bill can make historic investments,” the president reportedly told Democrats, saying that the infrastructure bill “ain’t going to happen until we reach an agreement on the next piece of legislation.”

Joe was talking to fellow elected Democrats, including the leadership, in a closed door meeting, and his staff would still not let him take questions. Remember this?

It’s normal for Joe to not take questions, but, it’s becoming more and more prevalent for him to not take them, and for his people to stop anyone from asking him questions. Something is wrong with him.

Meanwhile

America thinks the unthinkable: More than half of Trump voters and 41% of Biden supporters want red and blue states to SECEDE from one another and form two new countries, shock new poll finds

Many breathed a sigh of relief when President Biden was elected, not for policy but for a reunification of the country after four years of tumult and fiery division under President Trump. But eight months into the new presidency, America’s deep disunity might not be letting up.

A new poll has revealed that political divisions run so deep in the US that over half of Trump voters want red states to secede from the union, and 41% of Biden voters want blue states to split off.

According to the analysis from the University of Virginia‘s Center for Politics, 52% of Trump voters at least somewhat agree with the statement: ‘The situation is such that I would favor [Blue/Red] states seceding from the union to form their own separate country.’ Twenty-five percent of Trump voters strongly agree.

I’m actually surprised that the numbers are so low. I would have expected them to be higher. And, lest any Dems caterwaul, remember, they were talking about succession while Bush43 and Trump were president. But, this is getting a lot more serious. It’s moved from the realm of conspiracy theory to “there’s no reconciliation, we are just too different.” During lockdown I read a serious of zombie books (love a good zombie book) by BD Lutz called The Divided America Zombie Apocalypse. The background was America going through what was called The Big Split, leading to Blue States United (BSU) and Right America (RAM). Kinda hit home. Good series. Liberals won’t like it, but, Lutz doesn’t overdo the politics, which would distract from the storyline. It does seem possible now, though. Not the zombies, but, the split.

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Surprise: Big Tech Companies Trying To Kill Climate (scam) Legislation

By William Teach October 2, 2021 – 7:30 am

This is very interesting. So many of these companies are pushing all sorts of “green” measures, both for their own companies and publicly by government. They yammer about green servers and using electric vehicles for operations and reducing their carbon footprints. Yet

Apple, Amazon and others back groups trying to kill US climate legislation

electric vehicleApple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney are among the major companies backing corporate lobby groups and organizations that are battling a US climate bill, according to a report. That’s despite those companies all making pledges to reduce their impact on the environment.

The United States Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and the Rate Coalition are three of the lobbyist and business groups that oppose the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget bill, which includes measures to fight climate change. The Guardian reports that watchdog Accountable.US analyzed the groups to learn which companies have connections to them.

The Chamber of Commerce, the biggest lobbying group in the US, has said it would “do everything we can to prevent this tax-raising, job-killing reconciliation bill from becoming law.” The group’s board includes executives from the likes of United Airlines and Microsoft.

The board of the Business Roundtable includes Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google and Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. The group has said it’s “deeply concerned” about the bill and the increased taxes it would lead to for the rich. Google has also made political contributions in the past to individuals and organizations that have denied climate change.

Now, see, the thing is, if these companies want to do “green” things in their own business operations, that’s their choice. And it should be their choice, not by Force of Government. But, again, publicly they have been very supportive of government Doing Something

The support of lobbying groups that are attempting to kill the bill conflicts with the tech companies’ attempts to tackle the climate crisis. Apple, Google and Microsoft have all backed the Paris Agreement, for one thing. Apple and Microsoft promised to become carbon neutral and carbon negative respectively by 2030.

By backing Paris they are showing their support for Government dominance and requirements, rather than personal/business responsibility.

On Friday, Amazon expressed support for the infrastructure bill and the climate aspects of the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. A spokesperson provided the following statement to Engadget:

Amazon believes both private and public sector leadership is required to tackle the global issue of climate change. That’s why we actively advocate for policies that promote clean energy, increase access to renewable electricity, and decarbonize the transportation system. In addition to advocating for these issues on a local, state, and international level, we have a worldwide sustainability team that innovates sustainable solutions for both our business and customers, as well as co-founded The Climate Pledge – a commitment to be net-zero carbon 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.

There’s a bit more to the statement, but, you get the idea: support in public, opposition in private. Because it looks good in public, but, they know that all these climate scam regulations will cause a lot of economic issues, both for their companies and for consumers.

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California Becomes 1st State To Mandate Vaccination Of Children

By William Teach October 2, 2021 – 7:19 am

There is a big caveat, though

California pushes 1st US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren

California is poised to impose the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren, a move announced Friday that could push other states to follow as many did after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.S. during the early days of the pandemic.

Newsom said the mandate won’t take effect for all children until the U.S. government has finished fully vetting the vaccine for two age groups — 12 to 15 and 5 to 11. That means those in seventh to 12th grades probably will have until July to get their shots. It will be even longer for children in kindergarten through sixth grades because the government has yet to approve any COVID-19 vaccine for that age group.

California law requires all children enrolled in public and private schools to have 10 immunizations, with exceptions for medical reasons. For the coronavirus vaccine, California will grant exemptions for medical reasons, plus religious and personal beliefs. The rules for those exemptions will be written after the state hears comments from the public. Any student without an exemption who refuses to get the vaccine would be forced to do independent study at home.

The mandate eventually will affect more than 6.7 million public and private school students in the nation’s most populous state. California already has a mask requirement for schoolchildren.

Now, call me crazy, but, I find that this is within the power of the state to require vaccination. It’s mostly not the federal government which mandates vaccines for schoolkids, it’s the states. That power was assigned to them by the Constitution and 10th Amendment, so, this is a lot more Constitutional than Joe’s federal mandate. Of course, if we go by the Gun Grabbers argument, these vaccines weren’t around back then, so, they shouldn’t be mandated now.

That said, why announce it now, when it won’t be till next summer, at the earliest, when there will be full vetting of the Chinese coronavirus vaccines? What is the point of doing this so early? And, it is certainly not vetted, like, say, the smallpox vaccine, which requires 5 shots and gives almost 100% protection against the disease, which means that smallpox has been eradicated from Earth. And, if someone with the smallpox vaccination is around someone with smallpox, they won’t catch it. Not have light symptoms, they won’t catch it.

Regardless, once fully vetted (usually, this takes years, though), I’m not against safeguarding kids.

There’s also a second caveat

Newsom hasn’t backed all vaccine mandates, however. He recently opposed a requirement for prison guards that a federal judge imposed. Critics used that example to say Newsom is driven more by politics than science, noting the labor union of corrections officers had donated to his campaign to defeat the recall.

Hmm, so no vax mandate for prison guards?

California’s largest teachers unions back the vaccination mandate, as does the California Association of School Boards.

“This is not a new idea. We already require vaccines against several known deadly diseases before students can enroll in schools,” said Dr. Peter N. Bretah, president of the California Medical Association. “The Newsom administration is simply extending existing public health protections to cover this new disease, which has caused so much pain and suffering across our state, our nation and the entire globe over the last 18 months.”

There’s actually a 3rd caveat

Kids don’t donate to Newsome’s election chest. They are required, though, to get the vaccine or take COVID tests. And

The vaccine mandate also would apply to teachers and staff in K-12 public and private schools. Newsom already had required them to either get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing, but once the mandate for students takes effect, the testing option won’t be available for teachers anymore.

So, he won’t require teachers to be vaxxed or axed till basically the next school year.

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Your Fault: Coffee Prices To Skyrocket From Climate Created Frost

By William Teach October 1, 2021 – 3:00 pm

See, because you ate a burger the world is getting super warm which also causes Bad Weather cold

Coffee bean price spike just a taste of what’s to come with climate change

Scientists have long warned climate change is coming for our morning coffee and a recent spike in global bean prices could be the first sign it’s actually happening.

Global coffee prices are forecast to jump to $4.44 a kilogram this year, according to IBISWorld, after a July cold snap in a major arabica coffee-producing region of Brazil wiped out a third of the crop.

Tom Baker, the founder of Sydney-based Mr Black Roasters and Distillers, noticed the spike when the first shipment this year arrived with a heavy price tag.

“The feeling was almost despair. We were expecting it because everything’s gone up. All our costs on every line item,” Baker said. “Glass, coffee, paper costs, label costs. It’s all gone up – and not just a small couple of percentages.”

Farmers in coffee-producing regions of Brazil have been grappling with a string of droughts in recent years and while frosts are common in July and August, the suddenness and severity of the most recent event caught producers by surprise.

Freezing temperatures struck in late July after an unprecedented Antarctic front resulted in snow falling in the hills and frost spreading across coffee trees in the Cerrado Mineiro region of Minas Gerais state.

Similar frosts hit farmers in the state of Paraná 40 years ago, forcing many to seek out more stable conditions closer to the equator in Minas Gerais, which is why recent events have come as a shock as the area was thought safe.

The increasing volatility and frequency of extreme weather events in Brazil are attributed to climate change.

Definitely not a cult

I see, after writing this, that Eric Worrall has written on this at Watts Up With That?

I don’t believe the determination to blame any unusual event on CO2 has reached peak absurdity.

In the fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes, all it took was one child to puncture the mass delusion that the emperor was wearing clothes, when he was actually stark naked. In real life, defenders of the catastrophic global warming narrative are utterly determined to continue, well beyond all reason and evidence.

It never ends. The cultists will always blame everything on CO2, including cold weather.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 1, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on how many were killed by Black Lives Matter.

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USA Today Wants Supreme Court To Strike Down Qualified Immunity For Police

By William Teach October 1, 2021 – 10:30 am

I wonder if the editorial board of the USA Today realizes that if SCOTUS kills off qualified immunity for police they would be doing the same for politicians and government employees? Nah. This is really about some cop hatred

Not above the law: Supreme Court can protect citizens by striking down qualified immunity

Even before bipartisan Senate negotiations on advancing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act recently broke down after months of negotiations, a key reform of police accountability was off the table: qualified immunity.

The judge-invented notion protects police officers from civil suits even if they violate someone’s constitutional rights, unless those rights have been upheld by the relevant federal appeals court in a similar case.

Reform of qualified immunity is key to holding police officers responsible for misdeeds on the job. Cops can kill, rape and steal and never face accountability in civil court as long as the Supreme Court continues to enforce this misguided legal doctrine.

Actually, that is not correct. They can face criminal and civil penalties for certain misconduct that is not covered. But, the editorial board doesn’t want you to know that.

Fortunately, the court has several cases before the justices that offer the chance to reshape qualified immunity or to abolish it and related rulings that give federal officers even stronger protection from civil suits.

Among those waiting for the Supreme Court to decide whether to hear arguments are:

The piece gives a few examples of some misconduct, conveniently forgetting that the vast majority of officers are good people who do not do wrong, but, will be accused and sued personally for bullshit of QI is removed. How many hate hoaxes do we see? How many people are accused of misconduct that never occurred, which destroys their life? Some gets pulled over, given a ticket, and then will get accused of racism or sexual misconduct or something.

The Supreme Court should take these opportunities to overrule its misguided decisions that shield police officers from lawsuits when they violate citizens’ constitutional rights.

No one, especially the police, should be immune from accountability when they harm another person.

Well, that’s interesting, because papers like the USA Today hide behind their 1st Amendment shield when they’ve done wrong. And a major national newspaper can ruin someone in a heartbeat, and, even if that person manages to win their case, it’s too late. And, the editorial board forgets to make a case as to why the Supreme Court should kill off QI. Not one shred of Constitutional qualification. Zip. Nothing. And, they’re trying to say that QI is a creation of the court. Nope

(NCSL) The doctrine of qualified immunity protects state and local officials, including law enforcement officers, from individual liability unless the official violated a clearly established constitutional right.

The evolution of qualified immunity began in 1871 when Congress adopted 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which makes government employees and officials personally liable for money damages if they violate a person’s federal constitutional rights. State and local police officers may be sued under § 1983. Until the 1960s, few § 1983 lawsuits were successfully brought. In 1967, the Supreme Court recognized qualified immunity as a defense to § 1983 claims. In 1982, the Supreme Court adopted the current test for the doctrine. Qualified immunity is generally available if the law a government official violated isn’t “clearly established.”

Created by Congress. And, officers can be sued. It’s just difficult. Same with government employees. Even harder with elected officials. Why do groups like the USAEB always forget about those latter ones? If you do something dumb at your business, the business can be sued. It would be tough to go after you personally. Most states have their own laws about QI. Which means SCOTUS cannot rule them unconstitutional, especially when there is no argument that QI is unconstitutional.

This is all about cop hatred, though. Which is rather gauche, and so 2020’s.

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Hotcold Take: Politicians Can Raise The Birth Rate By Passing ‘Climate Change’ Legislation

By William Teach October 1, 2021 – 7:00 am

The ravings of a cult. This is what you get, blithering idiocy. Things that no one was thinking about turned into big productions, all based on the notion of more Progressive (nice Fascism) government

If Politicians Want to Raise Birth Rates, They Should Pass Climate Policy

Because of the climate crisis, other young people often ask Luisa Neubauer whether she would choose to bring children into the world. The fact that people are even asking this question, 25-year-old Neubauer said at a recent online panel, is “a tragic moment for humanity. I don’t think there yet exists in English a word to express how dramatic that is.” Neubauer, who founded Germany’s chapter of the global climate youth movement Fridays for Future, has a point: Surely, it’s a fairly monumental development when a species starts rethinking its most basic instinct to procreate.

It is tragic, because so many youngsters have been indoctrinated into a doomsday cult, and the people who should be doing interventions are actually the ones helping propagate the cult doctrine.

Once upon a time, environmentalists might have cheered falling birth rates. After all, babies born in wealthy countries, particularly, have a large carbon footprint. (Even though they look so innocent! It’s like the Christian doctrine of original sin.) Labeling procreation an ecologically destructive consumer choice—like buying an SUV—has at points been a staple of liberal guilt-tripping over climate.

There is that, because the same cult also pushes for lower numbers of humans and population control, and some of their more extreme even want population reduction (usually involving reducing the number of icky black and brown people in 3rd world countries, because the climate cult is rather racist and bigoted, preaching from their 1st World perches)

It’s not the first time in history that people have questioned the wisdom of bringing children into a screwed-up world. But this moment is unusual: People don’t usually forgo reproduction en masse out of apocalyptic fear. There is no evidence that Cold War anxieties around nuclear war shaped Americans’ family planning, for example.

One reason today is different is that although the idea of nuclear war was undeniably scary, it was only a possibility. Climate disaster, on the other hand, is a current reality with a grim trajectory: A study published in Nature this week found that if the planet keeps warming at its current pace, a child who was six years old in 2020 will live through 36 times more heat waves, twice as many wildfires, three times more river floods, and twice as many droughts as an adult born in 1960, all increasing the risk of crop failures, as well.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

The political implications and potential of the birth rate is a touchy subject, because we’re used to framing reproduction as a personal choice (except for the far right, which is happy to let the government force people in Texas into child-rearing labor). And low birth rates aren’t only a sign of anxiety and pessimism about the future, or poor social supports; when women are more educated and have more career options, they tend to have fewer kids. Having no children—or fewer than your foremothers—can be a sound life choice. But when almost two in five young people say they may not have children of their own because of the climate crisis, that’s not progress. It’s a sign of pain and distress—and a call for help. It may not move congressional Republicans and moderate Democrats into investing in sound climate policy this month—but it should.

It’s a cult. And it’s better if these people do not have children, so as to not infect their children with doomsday cult beliefs.

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