Obama Campaigns In NJ, Wonders Why COVID Mandates Became So Political

By William Teach October 24, 2021 – 8:39 am

Well, it’s easy to make this pronouncement when speaking to a friendly crowd of hardcore Democrats. He should try asking this to those who know

Obama: ‘I understand’ why Americans want to know when COVID-19 mandates will end

Former President Barack Obama traveled to New Jersey on Saturday to campaign for Gov. Phil Murphy and claimed that he understands why Americans are questioning when COVID-19 mandates will end.

“The science says it’s the right thing to do,” Obama said in reference to COVID-19 mask and vaccine requirements to a crowd of Murphy supporters in Newark. “You do it because you’re not just protecting yourself, but people you love, people who are vulnerable. But, you know, I don’t know how folks just decide everything’s got to suddenly be political.”

Political, huh?

Yeah, remember how Obama had a big birthday bash, and no one was wearing masks? Sure, it was supposedly required that people be vaccinated and get COVID tests …why were tests necessary if they were vaccinated?… but, they weren’t wearing masks, while us peasants are required to wear masks in similar situations. Same with other situations.

And it was primarily Democrats and Leftists, here in the US and around the world, who implemented draconian restrictions and mandates and rules and such. No need to regurgitate everything, you lived it. And it’s primarily Democrats who keep this stuff going

“But I understand why people want to know when this is all going to end,” Obama added.

Yeah, they do. We have masking here in Raleigh and Wake County. There’s no force of law in the order, but, companies will Comply, just to be safe from litigation. Supposedly, the mandate would be lifted when the city/county went below 5% positivity rate. Well, in Wake County it has been under 5% for the last 14 days. No idea on Raleigh because neither Mayor Mary Ann Baldwin (D) not anyone in the city says a damned thing. No updates at all. Wake County’s order would end in November, unless extended. Raleigh’s is open ended. None of the Democratic run major news outlets (WRAL, WNCN, ABC11, News and Observer) ask any questions. So, why are we masking? When does it end? Why no answers? Looks more like control, and Obama wonders why this is political?

Forced vaccination? I’m pro-vax but anti-mandate. People should not lose their jobs over not wanting to get a vaccine which was implemented under emergency order, which had little testing, and we have little data about short and long term effects, nor side effects. Democrats were against the vaccine prior to Let’s Go Brandon taking office. Now they’re into forcing compliance. Not political at all. We were told if we got to a certain herd immunity/vaccination percent this could end. That goalpost keeps moving. We were told if we got the vaccine we could resume our lives. Then they took that back.

Joe’s out there saying cops should be fired for refusing to get vaccinated. He sometimes wears a mask in compliance with his order, doesn’t at other times. He mandates vaccinations for all federal workers, yet, leaves the Postal Service workers out of the mandate. Not political at all.

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The 1% Trick You Into Thinking ‘Climate Change’ Is Your Fault Or Something

By William Teach October 23, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Y’all are getting duped, you know!

How the 1% tricks you into thinking climate change is your fault

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Climate change isn’t a problem caused by all people equally; it is caused mostly by the rich, and since we live in a capitalist world, the suffering will fall disproportionately on the poor. Climate scientists, sociologists and economists are largely in agreement on this point. And it presages the way that things will need to change in order to stave off the extinction of humanity.

“The problem is structural and systemic,” Dr. David Fasenfest, an American sociologist and associate professor at Wayne State University, told Salon by email. “Capitalist society is geared towards waste and destruction in order to promote consumption while producing at the lowest cost. That requires power and that means without strict restrictions most of the time we use ‘dirty’ forms of energy like coal that pollutes and promotes climate change.”

Sounds like this has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics

In this sense, there is no individual or group of individuals who can be accurately described as the single “culprit” behind climate change. Everyone is acting according to their self-interest within the system of incentives established by our neoliberal economic system. Cumulatively, these led to social developments that exacerbate climate change. For example, if a business uses a more expensive form of energy rather than a green one, their production costs will rise and consumers will probably respond to the likely price increase by rewarding their customers.

“We are all both culpable and not,” Fasenfest observed. People who can afford and use air conditioning during hot weather, or continue to eat beef even though it exacerbates climate change, all contribute to a system that is destroying the planet. As Fasenfest observed, most people have no practical alternatives to participating in this system on a day-to-day basis; they can make lifestyle alterations which make teensy dents in the greater problem, but that is about it. If you are fortunate enough to live in a society that prospers under capitalism (relatively speaking), the chances are that you fall into the category of major climate perpetrator in one way or another.

And the Warmists hate capitalism (for others, not themselves, of course).

In a sense, then, global warming is the story of how industrialized nations put humanity on a collision course with disaster in a capitalist system. It is a global problem, albeit one that wealthier nations have exacerbated the most. To quote Howard Beale from “Network”: “We’re just the most advanced country, so we’re getting there first.”

They never quite want to say that capitalism needs to go and 1st World nations need to be reduced to 3rd world shitholes. And the article, if you’d like to read it in full, never quite backs up the headline. But, they are onto something a bit, because it is the Elites who are tricking the braindead Warmists that they should let government take their money and control their lives. Like

Prince Charles warns of narrow window to face climate change

Prince Charles issued a warning to the world days before leaders gather in the U.K. for crucial United Nations climate talks, saying there is a “dangerously narrow” window to tackle global warning.

The heir to the British throne said Saturday that the summit, which starts Oct. 31 in Glasgow, showed that “after far too long,” climate change and biodiversity loss are at last “of paramount importance to the world.”

In a recorded message to the Saudi Green Initiative Forum, 72-year-old Charles — a long-time environmentalist — said the coronavirus pandemic “has highlighted that human health, planetary health and economic health are fundamentally interconnected.”

“We now have a dangerously narrow window of opportunity in which to accelerate a green recovery, while laying the foundations for a sustainable future,” he said.

He may not be a 1%er by money, but, certainly by stature, and he’s happy to implement all sorts of stuff that will hurt your money and freedom, while refusing to give up his own Elite lifestyle.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 23, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a giant arena using lots of energy causing the seas to rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a failure of the victim selection process.

Double shot below the fold, check out Chicks On The Right, with a post on the COVID statistics in un-masked Florida.

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Bummer: Texas Abortion Case At SCOTUS Could Give States More Power

By William Teach October 23, 2021 – 10:30 am

This has seemed to make Time Magazine’s Abigail Abrams rather upset

The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Case Could Give States More Power Than Ever

Bill Of RightsThat’s the way it’s supposed to be. Any powers not expressly assigned to the federal government are reserved for the States and the People.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined for the second time to immediately block Texas’ six-week abortion ban, but said it will hear two separate challenges to the law from the Biden Administration and Texas abortion providers on Nov. 1.

The high court will not examine the question of whether the Texas law, known as SB 8, violates the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. Rather, it will consider the legality of the law’s unusual private enforcement mechanism and whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) and abortion providers can sue to challenge the law.

Except, there is no constitutional right, as it is not written in the Constitution. Further, no one in Texas is being blocked, they just need to do it early or go to another state.

If the Supreme Court rules that DOJ and abortion providers cannot challenge the Texas law, the outcome would be “earth shaking,” says Mary Ziegler, a Florida State University law professor and author of Abortion and the Law in America. “If there’s no way to challenge SB 8-style laws, then there’s no reason for other states not to try to use a similar model.”

Los Federales need to stay out of state decisions that do not violate the U.S. Constitution.

Until the Supreme Court weighs in, SB 8 will remain in effect in Texas, severely limiting abortion access for millions of people. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only member of the Court to dissent from her colleagues’ decision to leave the law in place on Friday. “There are women in Texas who became pregnant on or around the day that S. B. 8 took effect,” she wrote. “Women seeking abortion care in Texas are entitled to relief from this Court now. Because of the Court’s failure to act today, that relief, if it comes, will be too late for many.”

Wait, there are millions of women in Texas who want abortions? Huh?

The article itself rather fails to substantiate the headline. Regardless, the power should be in the states except where assigned by the federal constitution. Period.

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Poll: Majority Of Republicans And Independents Do Not View ‘Climate Change’ As Existential Threat

By William Teach October 23, 2021 – 7:38 am

Thirty plus years of spreading awareness, scaremongering, prognostications of doom, constant articles and broadcasts in the media which fail to take a skeptical eye, and are simply cheerleaders, all to go with Warmists refusing to practice what they preach, and this is the best they can do

Poll: More than two-thirds of Republicans say climate change is ‘not an emergency’

As President Biden pushes Congress to pass his climate agenda just days before world powers gather in Scotland to hash out a new international accord, more than two-thirds of Republicans (67 percent) continue to insist that climate change is “not an emergency,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

Coming on the heels of a summer that featured record-setting heat waves, wildfires and floods — all exacerbated by climate change — the result is a stark example of how U.S. politics imperils global progress on the issue.

The survey of 1,704 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Oct. 19 to 21, found that nearly all Democrats (78 percent) and a plurality of independents (45 percent) view climate change as “an existential threat that must be addressed now with major legislation.”

Yet less than one-quarter of Republicans (24 percent) agree. Instead, more than 6 in 10 believe, falsely, that global warming is either “not a real threat” (38 percent) or a threat that “the government has already done enough to address” (24 percent).

Plurality is a strange word to use, meant to obscure that a majority of Independents do not find ‘climate change’ to be an existential threat. And, really, for all the yammering from Joe and other Warmists, their actions in their own lives show they do not think it is an existential threat.

The poll underscores the challenge facing Biden as he aims to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to half of 2005 levels by the end of the decade and set an example for other countries to follow. Both the public at large and all but one Democrat on Capitol Hill — centrist West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin — favor Biden’s plan to transition the economy to sustainable sources of energy. But Republicans do not.

We do? Huh. Joe sure doesn’t seem to believe, since he jumps in a fossil fueled helicopter to the airport for a fossil fueled flight, then a large fossil fueled convoy, almost every weekend, either to his Delaware home or Camp David. Later in the article, you read that the numbers to Do Something to do not rise above 48% for any measure

In little more than a week, leaders and representatives from nearly every country in the world will gather in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has called the conference the world’s “last best hope” of keeping global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels in an effort to avert a cascade of devastating consequences for the planet.

Ten thousand plus taking fossil fueled trips to Scotland, quite a few in private jets.

Yet even that fact is disputed by Republicans. According to the Yahoo News/YouGov poll, more Republicans continue to believe that human activity is not causing climate change (47 percent) than believe it is (34 percent). In contrast, just 4 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents deny the role of human activity in global warming.

The question is never asked in terms of how much Mankind contributes. I, and most skeptics, will say that humanity contributes, just not mostly/solely. Most say 50% or less. And a goodly chunk is simply land use and the Urban Heat Island effect. Here’s where it gets really fun

There are limits to how much Americans are willing to personally spend to combat global warming. Without a rebate, support for a carbon tax falls (to 36 percent) and opposition rises (also to 36 percent). When asked to select “changes you would be willing to make” to help solve the problem, far more say they’d be willing to buy an electric car or solar panels with a government rebate (35 percent and 42 percent, respectively) than without (15 percent and 18 percent). And the most popular changes are the ones that require others to pay more, such as raising taxes on Americans earning more than $400,000 a year (42 percent) or on corporations earning more than $5 million (40 percent). Very few Americans are ready to pay more for gas (14 percent) or meat (15 percent).

We’ve seen this again and again, Americans aren’t willing to pay more themselves, nor make changes in their own lives. They want Other People forced to bear the brunt of their beliefs.

The message seems to be that government, not individuals, should bear the brunt of climate action — which is why Biden has proposed rebates for most Americans, along with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. Yet while a majority of Democrats (73 percent) and a plurality of independents (40 percent) agree with the president that “the U.S. cannot afford to wait any longer to pass major climate change legislation,” most Republicans (59 percent) say “the U.S. cannot afford to pass major climate change legislation right now.”

Those in support fail to realize that if government is bearing the brunt then they themselves will be bearing the brunt. But, that’s what indoctrination and brainwashing does.

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Irony: Let’s Go Brandon Builds Taxpayer Funded Fence Around His Delaware House

By William Teach October 23, 2021 – 7:20 am

Wait, fences work? Huh

Report: Joe Biden Builds ‘Wall’ Around His Delaware Beach House, Makes America Pay for It

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly shelled out $456,548 to a construction company in Delaware to install a fence around President Biden’s Delaware beach house, according to newly-released records.

A federal contract, reported by the local Cape Gazette on Thursday and by the New York Post on Friday,  shows that DHS awarded $456,548 to the recipient, Turnstone Holdings, LLC, according to USA Spending, a website that tracks federal spending.

The description of the contract reads, “PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF SECURITY FENCING AT 32 FARVIEW, REHOBOTH DELAWARE.”

The contract’s “start date” is September 21, 2021. The “potential end date” and “current end date” are both listed as December 31, 2021.

This is a property Surrender Joe paid $2.7 million for (that’s a lot of money for a career politician, eh?). He couldn’t buy the fencing himself? And that is one hell of a fence for $456k, eh? It’ll be interesting to see how big it is and what it’s made of, and what kind of electronic security is present.

Also on Friday, White House press secretary called former President Donald Trump’s wall project on the southern U.S. border “feckless,” noting that it cost “billions of dollars for taxpayers.” She struggled to explain why Biden had not visited the border since the 2008 presidential campaign, 13 years ago, on a road trip in which he simply “drove through.”

See, fencing at the border, which is required by federal law, is bad. Fencing at Biden’s house, not required by law, but because Joe spends a lot of weekends there, including this one, is good.

Of course, most of the border wall would be unnecessary if the immigration law and rules was revamped to discourage illegals, rather than how it, and Democrats, encourage people to come illegally/just show up demanding “amnesty”, knowing that even if they don’t get it they will be released into the U.S.

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Tech Stuff: New Firestick 4K, TV Helpers

By William Teach October 22, 2021 – 6:00 pm

I’ve had my regular Firestick for quite some time now, but, when it comes to certain broadcasts, I’ve been using my uber-smart Hisense TV for more and more. For some programming, especially TV shows from IMDB, I get these little stutters, and then have to restart and restart because the audio gets out of sync with the video. This will also happen with stuff from Amazon, Tubi, Peacock, and others. The NHL app would be a mess, with lots of buffering, even though I have a cable running straight from the modem to the Firestick. I do not have these issues with the TV itself.

And the ESPN app, which I have for the NHL package (the NHL moved the broadcasts to ESPN from NHL.tv in the US, and it’s less expensive), while it loads quick, still buffers. Further, you can’t switch from what you are watching on the Android TV to a video input and back, because the app from the TV will close. So, if I wanted to switch back and forth between the Devils game and the Dodgers game (I did), that would not work. But, will work between the Firestick, using the ESPN app, and the cable box. So, was time for a new Firestick.

I purchased the 4K, which was on sale for $34.99, down from regular price of $49.99. I couldn’t see the value of the 4K Ultra, mostly just getting a 1.8mhz processor vs 1.7 in the 4K (other firesticks run around 1.5. My old one may have been a 1.3), for $54. Nor the Cube, which is a 1.9, but, does have 16gb of memory, vs 8 in other Firesticks, for the sale price of $95. The speed and memory is nice, but, not that nice, and I have zero need of another Alexa device, since I have a Dot in the living room. The remote is nice, as it now can turn the TV on and off, plus control the volume. The Hisense remote can also control the Firestick.

Nice thing is it has Dolby Vision, so, it attempts to upscale the video, much like a Bluray attempts to upscale regular DVDs, even when there is no DV (few programs use it). Stuff with HDR10+ will switch to that, which I’m noticing in the picture settings for the TV. The TV will do this, as well. Those are video codecs, haven’t tried something with Dolby Atmos for audio yet, there’s no more than 10, probably less, shows/movies on Amazon that have that. Netflix is reportedly about the same. I’ll leave it up to you to see what those mean.

Interestingly, I did notice that stuff that claims to be 4K is not really 4k. I picked 47 Meters Down Uncaged to check 4k on the Firestick, and was wondering why it was 1920×1080, not 3840×2160, which is the resolution for 4k. Sure, it looked better, especially with HDR10+, but, not 4k like, say, The Expanse and the 2006 The Omen, among others.

How do you tell? Many TVs will have an “info” button which will let you see. Switching between inputs will often pop up a message on a TV (for instance, you’ll notice most ESPN is in 720p, not 1080). Some, like Hisense, require you to go into the Help menu, or About, and look for something like Signal Information.

If this matters to you. It’s information I like to know, because that’s the techie in me. Heck, I sat there comparing Pirates of the Caribbean 2 between the Bluray and regular DVD. Yes, it makes a big difference.

Also, I’ve had my JVC receiver since the late 80’s, with Bose 301 speakers. Friends, my mom, also ask why I don’t replace it. Why would I? I don’t use it that much, and, it works. But, the TV, like so many, doesn’t have an RCA output. It does have a 3.5mm headphone jack, but, that sounds not good, overly bassy. Since I use HDMI ARC to run audio from TV to soundbar, I have a free Optical cable output. I ran that to a Mosou Digital converter, can convert either optical or coaxial cable to RCA. Now I get great sound from receiver, can use Bluray as a DVD player (one of the people who’ve done work on my AC in the attic to my CD player). Problem solved. I try to avoid using the stereo with horror movies with lots of screaming, at least while my neighbor is at home.

More: was playing around, and I could have sworn I was getting 4k on the Firestick, but, anyhow, went into some settings, and you are supposed to change some video settings to get 4K. It would be nice if the setup or instructions would tell you. Hit this link for it. Only difference is the 4k Firesticks can do 12 bit color setting, might as well save that.

I also noted that some programs take longer to flip into 4k. The aforementioned 47 Meters did flip into 4K after about 20 seconds.

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Climate Crisis (scam) Is Damaging US Military Readiness Or Something

By William Teach October 22, 2021 – 3:00 pm

See, now, I was going to go with this laugh-riot

After Manchin nixes clean energy budget provision, youth climate change activists go on hunger strike in front of White House

Five young activists began a hunger strike in front of the White House on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to preserve the most important measures to combat climate change in President Biden’s Build Back Better infrastructure investment proposal.

The protest arose in response to recent news that Democrats are reluctantly scrapping a plan that would have set a national standard for utilities transitioning to clean energy sources, in order to win the support of Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a centrist Democrat from a coal- and gas-heavy state whose vote is key to passing the budget bill in the evenly divided Senate.

What’s the over/under on their mom or dad dropping them off in a fossil fueled vehicle? I say, let the little buggers practice what they preach. Start with taking away their smartphones, Internet, and sweets like cookies and cakes.

But, I ran across this insane bit of cult moonbattery

Climate Change Is Damaging Troop Readiness, Pentagon Official Says

Climate change is already affecting the combat readiness of the U.S. military and providing opportunities for China to exploit, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said on Friday.

“Climate change and extreme weather events caused by climate change affect everything from the number of days we can be flying in the air and training” to the ability to use military installations as sea levels rise or drought sets in, Kathleen Hicks, the deputy defense secretary, said in an interview with host Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg Radio’s “Sound On” program.

Climate change could affect the military’s fuel lines and even the ability of its planes to “loiter in the air,” she said.

Hicks’ commented after the Pentagon published a new climate risk analysis, which warned of “worsening implications” for U.S. national security, including the danger that China will try to take advantage of climate hazards in the Indo-Pacific region.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

This actually looks more like the Let’s Go Brandon admin is blaming ‘climate change’ to deflect from how Democrats are destroying the US military, turning it into an effeminate SJW virtue signaling organization, which empowers China, which is ramping up their own military. We never used to have to worry about the military preparedness, eh? One which has fought in hot and cold areas and periods.

Hicks said that in areas such as the Arctic, “we’re starting to see much more competition from Russia and China in and around strategic minerals and strategic reserves and resources.” She said there was a need to protect scientific missions in these areas and to manage potential “conflicts and miscalculations” with China and Russia.

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Democrats being weak on nation defense, could it? That Russia and China see Biden, with his dementia and bad policies (see Afghanistan), as weak, during his short time in the White House and his 8 years as VP, could it?

Victor David Hansen is asking what happened to our military. He makes some interesting points, but, misses something integral that I’ve mentioned before. Progressive have very long term plans of control. Early on in the 1900’s they went after education. Then government bureaucracies. The news and entertainment sectors. Unions. Over time things like the sports figures (who rarely practice what they preach). Lawyer and medical guilds, though, again, few practice what they preach. AARP. During the late 60’s into 70’s they wanted to eliminate the FBI, CIA, and military. That was not going to happen. So, they infiltrated, changing the organizations from the inside. That’s how we end up with the military letting in transgenders, who are a danger to themselves and the people are them, as they have a much higher level of self harm, depression, and suicide. That the military worries more about ‘climate change’ than protecting the U.S. Lowering training standards. You name it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 22, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a big sports team which uses lots of energy and fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on Kellogg’s going Woke.

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COVID Today: Boosters And Supply Chain

By William Teach October 22, 2021 – 10:30 am

Despite what you might think from posts, I’m very much pro-vaccine. I’m anti-mandate. I got the vaccine the minute I was eligible to protect myself. And I will get the booster to continue protecting myself, so, this is good news, as I’d like something different from Pfizer if possible

Pick any vaccine: CDC OKs COVID boosters – even mixing and matching – beginning as soon as Friday

Americans are now free to get a free booster dose of all three COVID-19 vaccines, and can even choose to mix and match their vaccines, after the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on new recommendations Thursday night.

At the same time, CDC recommended boosters for certain people who got Moderna vaccine and all 15 million Americans who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Clinics, doctors and pharmacies can begin giving boosters as soon as Friday.

“The evidence shows that all three COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States are safe – as demonstrated by the over 400 million vaccine doses already given. And, they are all highly effective in reducing the risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, said in a statement.

Pfizer seems low at 88.8% effectiveness, so, perhaps a Moderna, if they have it in my area. I’m going to check with Wake County next week, see what’s possible. Lest people go “I thought all it would take was the 1 or 2 shots required, depending on vaccine? No? It doesn’t work?”, many vaccines require more than 1 to 2 shots. Smallpox is like 5 shots over a period of time, and then you are virtually 100% safe.

Get the vaccine because it protects you.

Oh, then there’s

Biden’s vaccine mandate has cargo giants in a pre-holiday panic

A trade group for air cargo giants like UPS and FedEx is sounding the alarm over an impending Dec. 8 vaccine deadline imposed by President Joe Biden, complaining it threatens to wreak havoc at the busiest time of the year — and add yet another kink to the supply chain.

“We have significant concerns with the employer mandates announced on Sept. 9, 2021, and the ability of industry members to implement the required employee vaccinations by Dec. 8, 2021,” Stephen Alterman, president of the Cargo Airline Association, wrote in a letter sent the Biden administration and obtained by POLITICO.

The letter, sent to the Office of Management and Budget , asks the administration to postpone the deadline until “the first half of 2022.” At issue is the requirement by the Biden administration that federal workers be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8. Unlike private businesses, companies that act as federal contractors cannot opt out by instead submitting their workforces to frequent Covid testing.

So, great, Let’s Go Brandon is going to make the supply chain issues even worse. It also goes to show that the federal government is way, way, way to involved in the economy and the workforce.

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