Hot Take: CNN Blames Weakening Economy On Unvaccinated

By William Teach September 9, 2021 – 9:10 am

Well, Excitable Jill Filipovic certainly wouldn’t want to blame the policies of Biden and his Democratic Comrades, would she? She’d be the first to Blame Trump, though

Let’s be clear on why the US economy is weakening

The American economy is weakening. And we know who is responsible.

On Monday, Goldman Sachs economists downgraded their projections for economic growth in 2021. (“The Delta variant is already weighing on Q3 growth,” wrote Goldman economist Ronnie Walker.)

August’s job growth was sluggish. The Delta variant continues to ravage the unvaccinated and sicken so many, with the country hitting the dark milestone of 40 million Covid cases. And about 1,500 Americans are dying every day — almost all of them not fully vaccinated.

The people who are refusing the vaccine and refusing to mask up aren’t just killing themselves and infecting their neighbors. They’re destroying the American economy. (snip)

The fault doesn’t lie with the people who are choosing life over potential illness. It lies with the people who are pouring gasoline on the current outbreak, and who are refusing to take commonsense steps to get Covid under control.

See, it’s the fault of the people who refuse a vaccine which never truly went through clinical trials, which hasn’t been around long enough to actually know all the effects. It’s not like Israel was a vaccination poster child and now is watching Delta rampage through the nation, with people getting 3rd and even a 4th shot (in fairness, most people who get the China flu aren’t getting it that bad). And all you people who refuse to wear masks, even though most studies show that most cloth masks barely help at all.

Jill would be Blaming Trump were he still president. Perhaps she should be blaming Fauci and China

(NY Post) Powerful people are going to a lot of effort to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reputation, despite mounting evidence of his role in funding dangerous research on bat coronaviruses in the Chinese laboratory believed to be the most likely source of the pandemic.

It is clear that Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, misled Congress when he denied that US money had paid for “gain-of-function” research in the ­Wuhan lab.

Grant documents published this week by The Intercept show that the organization Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded research in Wuhan on a number of novel (new) bat coronaviruses.

The aim of the research is spelled out in one 600-page grant proposal, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” signed off on by Fauci: to force mutations on the coronaviruses to see if they would infect mice with “humanized” lungs.

Fauci lied to Congress. Wuhan screwed around with coronavirus, and it got out, either intentionally or unintentionally. Why aren’t Democrats blaming them?

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Surrender Joe Plans To Reopen Jerusalem Consulate

By William Teach September 8, 2021 – 10:36 pm

This is a big difference from having the embassy in Jerusalem, which Donald Trump finally moved after U.S. law stated was supposed to happen. This has the chance of causing big problems, and simply shows that Democrats hate Israel and Jews, and love the terrorists who attack Israel civilians. Of course, it’s surely Biden’s people pushing him to do this, because Joe has little clue what’s going on

Biden reiterates plan to reopen Jerusalem consulate despite Israeli objections

President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during their White House meeting that he will not abandon his plan to reopen the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, setting up a major point of contention between the administrations.

Why it matters: The consulate handled relations with the Palestinians for 25 years before being shut down by Donald Trump. Senior officials in Bennett’s government see the consulate issue as a political hot potato that could destabilize their unwieldy coalition.

Between the lines: Several right-wing ministers, including Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar, say the reopening of the consulate would be an infringement on Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. It’s also a prime point of attack for Benjamin Netanyahu, who is now opposition leader.

The Israeli government would have to give its approval for the consulate to be reopened. And if even one member were to defect over the issue, the government could collapse.

“If the Biden administration wants to see Netanyahu abandoning his Pilates classes and going back to the Prime Minister’s Office, this is the best way to do it,” one senior official quipped to me.

Why the need for a consulate when the embassy is right there? A consulate is “a satellite office to an embassy located outside the capital city of a country, one that exists almost exclusively to provide visas and passports to people for whom a trip to the embassy is too far a distance.” That’s from this piece by Ambassador David Friedman, who writes

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo closed the Jerusalem consulate in 2019 for several reasons, one of which is foundational and unrelated to policy. With the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in 2018, there was no basis for a consulate to exist. The Jerusalem embassy provides consular services on a non-discriminatory basis to all Israelis and Palestinians — equal treatment for Jews, Christians and Muslims. The consulate thus became obsolete and a waste of taxpayer dollars. I know of no other country where the United States maintains an embassy and a consulate in the same city.

Some argue for the reopening of the consulate in Jerusalem just for the purpose of engaging in diplomacy with the Palestinians and signaling a willingness by America to recognize, in the future, a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem. That would be illegal and unwise.

It would be illegal because the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, passed overwhelmingly by both the U.S. House and the Senate, provides that “Jerusalem should remain an undivided city.” A U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to a foreign body clearly runs afoul of American law.

It would also cause a lot of friction and cause confusion with U.S. policy, but, we know this really is all about pandering to the Palestinians, who are run by Hamas, who’s stated goal is to wipe Israel off the map. As if Joe didn’t have enough problems right now, he wants to create more. Seriously, he didn’t cause enough problems with giving Afghanistan to the Taliban, along with all the weapons?

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Your Fault: Animals Are Shape Shifting From Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach September 8, 2021 – 4:04 pm

I thought Darwin preached about this stuff and that Leftists were big believers in Darwinism, because those icky Conservatives discuss Intelligent Design and God? Oh, right, only when it helps their screeds

Animals are ‘shape shifting’ in response to climate change

Some warm-blooded animals are experiencing shifts in their body shapes, likely as a response to the pressures of climate change, according to a new review of existing research.

Animals are getting larger beaks, legs and ears that allow them to better regulate their body temperatures as the planet gets hotter, with birds particularly affected, said Sara Ryding, a researcher at Deakin University in Australia and one of the authors of the research that published on Tuesday in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

The biggest shifts in appendage size in the more than 30 animals they looked at in the review were among some Australian parrot species, which saw their beak size increase by 4% to 10% on average since 1871.

This is a review of other research, many of them statistical studies, computer models, and other limited to non-observational studies. This is exactly what part of what Darwin saw, namely, that quick changes can and will occur in species based on local conditions. Things that have been going on since the multi-celled life evolved. But, now, it’s your fault for that burger you ate the other day.

“We also don’t know whether these shape-shifts actually aid in survival (and therefore are beneficial) or not. This phenomenon of shape-shifting shouldn’t be seen as a positive, but rather it is alarming that climate change is pushing animals to evolve like this, under such a relatively short timeframe.”

So, they’re going to evolve traits that hurt their survival? What are these people smoking? Of course, this is all meant to push Doom, because in Warmist world the Earth and the environment are never supposed to change.

Meanwhile, Dementia Joe is at it again

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 8, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on Larwyn’s Linx.

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What’s The Chance Of Getting A Breakthrough COVID Infection?

By William Teach September 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

You’ve done what you were supposed to do and got the COVID vaccination, for whatever reason. You may have wanted it (that’s me), you may not but done it anyway, could be force from your employers, whatever. What’s the chance of getting COVID?

One in 5,000: The Real Chances of a Breakthrough Infection

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a terrifying fact in July: Vaccinated people with the delta variant of the COVID virus carried roughly the same viral load in their noses and throats as unvaccinated people.

The news seemed to suggest that even the vaccinated were highly vulnerable to getting infected and passing the virus to others. Sure enough, stories about vaccinated people getting COVID — so-called breakthrough infections — were all around this summer: at a party in Provincetown, Massachusetts; among the Chicago Cubs; on Capitol Hill. Delta seemed as if it might be changing everything.

In recent weeks, however, more data has become available, and it suggests that the true picture is less alarming. Yes, delta has increased the chances of getting COVID for almost everyone. But if you’re vaccinated, a COVID infection is still uncommon, and those high viral loads are not as worrisome as they initially sounded.

How small are the chances of the average vaccinated American contracting COVID? Probably about 1 in 5,000 per day, and even lower for people who take precautions or live in a highly vaccinated community. (snip)

The chances are surely higher in the places with the worst COVID outbreaks, like the Southeast. And in places with many fewer cases — like the Northeast, as well as the Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco areas — the chances are lower, probably less than 1 in 10,000. That’s what the Seattle data show, for example. (These numbers don’t include undiagnosed cases, which are often so mild that people do not notice them and do not pass the virus to anyone else.)

Here’s one way to think about a 1-in-10,000 daily chance: It would take more than three months for the combined risk to reach just 1%.

I live in an area that is highly vaccinated. I take lots of precautions still, like stepping back and washing the heck out of my hands (which I’ve always done.) No shaking hands (I’ve always hated that, I see what people do with their hands). So why do I have to mask up? Besides cloth masks making almost no difference, the area is highly vaccinated. And we’re seeing the same in many Democrat run areas, where some are even pushing masks outdoors. It’s almost like this is more about politics than science. If the unvaccinated want to take their changes, let them. Let the rest of us take our chance at 1 in 10K.

I will confess to one bit of hesitation about walking you through the data on breakthrough infections: It’s not clear how much we should be worrying about them. For the vaccinated, COVID resembles the flu and usually a mild one. Society does not grind to a halt over the flu. (snip)

But at least one part of the American anxiety does seem to have become disconnected from the facts in recent weeks: the effectiveness of the vaccines. In a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, nearly half of adults judged their “risk of getting sick from the coronavirus” as either moderate or high — even though 75% of adults have received at least one shot.

In reality, the risks of getting any version of the virus remain small for the vaccinated, and the risks of getting badly sick remain minuscule.

Exactly, so how about f’ing off with your restrictions? The problem is that a lot of businesses will Comply with government mandates. Some don’t, like my gym.

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Climahysteric Medical Journals Warn Of Catastrophic Harm To Health From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 8, 2021 – 8:29 am

Another day, another prognostication of Doom from the Cult of Climastrology

Medical journals warn climate change will cause ‘catastrophic harm to health’

More than 200 of the world’s leading health journals banded together over the weekend to release a joint statement imploring global leaders to cut greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change, which they say is the greatest threat to public health.

Published Saturday in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Medical Journal of Australia, the Chinese Science Bulletin and the National Medical Journal of India, among other publications, the statement warns that the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere will lead to “catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.”

“Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world, a state of affairs health professionals have been bringing attention to for decades,” the joint statement reads. “The science is unequivocal: a global increase of 1.5° C above the pre-industrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse. Despite the world’s necessary preoccupation with Covid-19, we cannot wait for the pandemic to pass to rapidly reduce emissions.”

Well, have at it. All you Warmists who believe in this can easily do a lot of things to reduce your own carbon footprints. Funny that the statement fails to show that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the current Holocene warm period, fails to mention how the members have reduced their own carbon footprints, nor mentioned the benefits of a warmer climate than a cooling one. Mankind has never progressed as fast as during the current warm period, and has tended to do much better during the warm ones than the cool ones.

The joint statement comes a little over a month before the representatives of world governments are scheduled to converge in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations climate summit known as COP26.

“Ahead of these pivotal meetings, we — the editors of health journals worldwide — call for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5° C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health,” the joint statement says.

In other words, they want Government to force compliance on citizens. I wonder how surprised they’ll be when the government restrictions hit their own lives?

Global average surface temperatures have risen by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. If no further action is taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures are predicted to rise by as much as 3.1 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

As the new statement from the health journals attests, for those in the medical profession the effects of climate change are being felt today and show the urgent need to prevent further warming.

“Health professionals have been on the frontline of the Covid-19 crisis and they are united in warning that going above 1.5C and allowing the continued destruction of nature will bring the next, far deadlier crisis,” Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of the British Medical Journal, said in a statement. “Wealthier nations must act faster and do more to support those countries already suffering under higher temperatures. 2021 has to be the year the world changes course — our health depends on it.”

More bull cookies. Also, these 1st World warmists thinking that 3rd world nations full of black and brown people cannot take care of themselves without the helpful hand of government. Rather racist thinking.

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Bummer: Surrender Joe’s Two Mistakes Ruined His Summer

By William Teach September 8, 2021 – 8:17 am

I’m not sure that Biden is cognizant that it is summer, except for the brief times they feed him ice cream

The two mistakes that ruined Biden’s summer

Biden Brain SuckerThe disappointing employment figures that arrived last Friday were in some ways a symbolic capstone to a summer of disappointments for President Biden, most notable among them the force with which the Delta variant swept across the nation and the speed with which the Taliban swept across Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdrew.

Biden’s apparent miscalculations on the coronavirus and the Taliban have hurt his standing with the American public, sapping his administration of the upbeat, can-do spirit it had been hoping to carry into the fall.

“Biden’s Cruel Summer,” blared one recent headline. A “summer of freedom” from the coronavirus and a tidy conclusion to the war in Afghanistan never came to pass, and though it is debatable how much blame the White House deserves, there is little debate about where ordinary people place responsibility. For the first time since Biden assumed office, fewer Americans approve of the president than disapprove.

Miscalculation? How about total f***up, at least when it comes to Afghanistan, where Americans are still stuck? How about leaving Afghans who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan while bringing in ones who were completely unvetted? As for COVID, he promised to end it, but, what has he done? And, no, it is not debatable that Joe Biden gets the blame for Afghanistan, he’s the president. Any plan he approved. The buck stops at Joe’s desk napping lounger. But, how dare you ordinary people blame Joe!

And, as pollster Frank Luntz warned, “Biden’s polling numbers are not done falling.”

The president, his top advisers and outside supporters believe that refocusing on the economy will not only lift the president’s standing but resound in real ways with real people. “He came into office wanting to show people that government could work for them again,” a senior administration official, who asked not be named, told Yahoo News.

He’s going to focus on spending a lot of money on unnecessary things while raising the cost of living and forcing people to spend money they don’t have on things like solar panels, refitting their homes, and electric vehicles. It’ll be the same playbook as Obama. Sure, he was playing the guitar, but, it was the difference between a couple hundred dollar Squier Stratocaster and a $1400 Fender version. If you aren’t familiar, they both play music, and you can put the same strings on them. The wood may be the same. But, the tuners are better on the Fender, as are the frets, the pickups, the electronics, better care in crafting the fretboard, and more, making the Fender sound better with no buzz, being a faster playing guitar.

“The public always believes that Presidents can control more than they can and sometimes punish them for things they can’t control,” wrote Dan Pfeiffer, who served as a top adviser to Biden’s former boss Barack Obama, in an email to Yahoo News. “The good news for the Biden White House is that they have a huge opportunity to reclaim the narrative and assuage any concerns by passing their hugely popular economic agenda later this month.”

Oh, suddenly we’re back to “why blame Joe for things he can’t control” when Trump was blamed for everything.

Already, public approval of Biden’s pandemic response has dropped 10 percentage points since late June. Even though the Delta surge appears to have peaked, new variants are on the way. As in the earliest days of the pandemic, Americans are stockpiling toilet paper in fear of looming shortages.

The guy looks out of it. His COVID speech which will now be some time this week (maybe) will most likely be more of the same of a guy half awake barely able to read his teleprompter.

On July 4, the White House had a party on the South Lawn. Some had advised against the affair, since the coronavirus pandemic was not over. Having hundreds of people gathering in the presidential backyard for burgers and blues music might make it seem like it was. (snip)

“We’ve gained the upper hand against this virus,” he added a few moments later. The pandemic, he said, “no longer controls our lives.” Then music began to play and the party began.

Four days later, Biden made another promise, this one on a very different topic. Trump had made an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to pull U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan by 2021; but Biden, a longtime critic of the conflict, not only embraced that goal but accelerated the timeline. Now he was defending that decision, vowing that when the last American troops left, the government of Ashraf Ghani would assert his rule, with the help of the U.S.-trained Afghan National Army.

Just two mistakes, why are you mean people blaming him?

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Who’s Ready To Piss Off Your Relatives With COVID Talk On Thanksgiving?

By William Teach September 7, 2021 – 7:51 pm

Seriously, the moonbat CJWs (COVID Justice Warriors) couldn’t even wait till November for this (via Dana Pico)

That should go well with the conversation with the Republican uncle, right? They can’t whine about Trump, but, here’s just one of the gems

Let’s assume your uncle brings up your political views right off the bat. “Hey [INSERT YOUR NAME HERE], you still a know-nothing Democrat?” he might say. Rather than informing him of the dehumanizing and corrupt nature of the current administration, try changing the narrative using your inside voice. You could say, “Yes, I do believe in quality universal healthcare, equal rights, good neighborhood public schools, tuition-free college, and a fair shot for all. I also believe we could enjoy our cranberry sauce and talk instead about all these Texas cold fronts.”

This could go one of two ways: 1. Your uncle could agree and tell you about some weird weather-related story, like the time his rottweiler chewed holes in his Carhartt jacket, or 2. Your uncle could begin denying climate science.

In the second scenario, if you choose to engage, you could tell your Republican relative that climate change threatens our economy, our national security, and our children’s health and futures. Dear uncle, Texans deserve real solutions to environmental challenges facing us in the 21st century, not fear-mongering and fake science.

And now we have vaccination. Sigh.

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Climate Cult Groups Call For Postponing Climate Scam Conference

By William Teach September 7, 2021 – 3:00 pm

The groups are being called “environmental groups”, but, they have little to do with the environment, and everything to do with a doomsday cult scam

Environmental groups call for postponement of climate talks

A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday called for this year’s climate summit to be postponed, arguing that too little has been done to ensure the safety of participants amid the continuing threat from COVID-19.

The Climate Action Network, which includes more than 1,500 organizations in 130 countries, said there is a risk that many government delegates, civil society campaigners and journalists from developing countries may be unable to attend because of travel restrictions. The U.N. climate conference, known as COP26, is scheduled for early November in Glasgow, Scotland.

“Our concern is that those countries most deeply affected by the climate crisis and those countries suffering from the lack of support by rich nations in providing vaccines will be left out of the talks and conspicuous in their absence at COP26,’’ said Tasneem Essop, the network’s executive director. “There has always been an inherent power imbalance within the U.N. climate talks and this is now compounded by the health crisis.’’

Oh, I thought it would be about concerns about 10,000+ people taking fossil fueled trips to Scotland, eating meat, using lots of electricity when they can do this all virtually. I guess not. They’re going all COVID SJW. And they pretty much continue their belief that people of color cannot do anything without the helpful hand of government.

The British government, which is hosting the event, quickly rejected calls for postponement, saying a recent scientific report shows the urgency for leaders to tackle the issue without further delay.

COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma said the conference had already been delayed a year because of the pandemic, but “climate change has not taken time off.’’

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 7, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible bricks laid with terrible concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on not being able to get rid of Afghan refuges who fail vetting.

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