Jul062021

Episode 375 – Happy Independence Day!

Independence Day brings out the best in us. It is showing that it also bring out the worst in us.

Let’s talk about it.

 

A Whole $.16 Cents?

The Biden administration made probably the dumbest statement that has been uttered by this administration so far. They claimed in a tweet that this years prices for BBQs would be substantially lower than it was last year. In the tweet they said:

OK. That sounds…good. I guess. But I don’t believe it.

Turns out the Biden administration calculated that $.16 cents could be saved in the average BBQ. But there has been some deep dives by the media when the White House released that crazy-ass statement. The statement was based on things like baked beans, ketchup and hot dogs. Here’s theproblem that the Biden administration is ignoring:

  • Fresh fruit is substantially increased.
  • Hamburger and hot dog buns have gone up substantially.
  • Fresh vegetables have gone up moderately but they have gone up.
  • Hamburger, steak and chicken have gone up substancially. Steak at Costco is up 66%.
  • Cole slaw and potato salad have gone up.
  • Hot dogs were the only thing that went down and that’s because there was a shrtage of them last years due to the China virus.

We also can’t forget that:

  • Gas has gone up a dollar a gallon across the country.
  • Lumber is up 300%
  • Cars have increased due to the prices of steel.
  • Houses have gone up causing a shortage of available housing.
  • All meat has gone up due to the ransomware attack earlier this year.
  • Charcoal has gone up.
  • The Fed is projecting inflation through 2024 and is planning to raise interest rates.

Yeah…no. Your July 4th celebration has not gone down in price. Well, it will if you don’t drive anywhere and have hot dogs with no buns or onions, no sides, no sodas, no beer and cook them in a microwave.

As you might imagine, Twitter exploded at the stupid claim:

This crazy claim was brought up to Jen Psaki by, you guessed it, Steve Duecy of Fox News. Her weak-ass answer was also mocked by the Twitter-verse as it deserved.

That is a week frigging answer. How about this: I like hot dogs and I’m concerned about $5 a gallon. I also don’t eat hot dogs every day. But I do drive every day. Saving $.16 on hot dogs ain’t going to change my life much.

The Skinny

This is a propaganda mission. Saving a couple of cents on one commodity (for now) and spending 66% more on everything else is not much of a propaganda attempt. Eventually, the Biden administration is going to have to address the inflation, dare I say it, crisis. This is going to be the real crisis. It’ll cost the Democrats 2022 and 2024.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-admin-mocked-july-4th-cookouts-cost-16-cents-less
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9751863/Jen-Psaki-gives-flippant-answer-grilled-tone-deaf-White-House-tweet-16-cent-saving-BBQs.html
https://www.foxnews.com/media/psaki-balks-at-16-cent-bbq-tweet-being-compared-to-gas-prices-if-you-dont-like-hot-dogs-you-may-not-care

 

The New York Times Hating on the Flag

The New York Times decided to show their love for the United States on Independence Day by pissing on the American flag.

An article titled The Fourth of July Symbol of Unity that May No Longer Unite by Sarah Maslin Nir basically said the United States flag is…wait for it…racist.

“Today, flying the flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person’s political affiliation in a deeply divided nation. What was once a unifying symbol — there is a star on it for each state, after all — is now alienating to some, its stripes now fault lines between people who kneel while ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ plays and those for whom not pledging allegiance is an affront.

“Politicians of both parties have long sought to wrap themselves in the flag. But something may be changing: Today, flying the flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person’s political affiliation in a deeply divided nation.

“Supporters of former President Donald J. Trump have embraced the flag so fervently — at his rallies, across conservative media and even during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol — that many liberals like Mr. Treiber worry that the left has all but ceded the national emblem to the right.”

.She points out that 66% of Republicans support the flag while only 34% of Democrats do.

We talked about this before. The flag is a symbol of unity. If one doesn’t see it as that, they choose not to see it as that. They probably see the Antifa flag, the BLM flag and the Diversity flag (the LGBTQ flag) as unifying when their development was actually to divide. So it’s kind of hard to by the New York Times serious because they support those flags.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-blasted-for-piece-suggesting-american-flag-is-divisive-to-some-they-hate-america

 

NPR Hates America

National Public Radio (NPR) denounced the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July because of terms it deemed offensive.

They tweeted:

“245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence. It says ‘that all men are created equal’ — but women, enslaved people, Indigenous people and many others were not held as equal at the time.”

“The document also includes a racist slur against Indigenous Americans. Author David Treuer, who is Ojibwe, says there is a lot of diversity of opinion and thought among Native Americans — a community of more than 5 million people — about the document’s words.”

NPR continued, adding a quote from Treuer: “We remain committed to forcing this country to live up to its own stated ideals.”

Couple of things here:

  • National Public Radio is a public company. They get tax payer money. If they hate the country so much, why don’t they stop taking money from the government.
  • The slur they are talking about is the term “savages” that is in the Declaration. There are a couple of things that needs to be pointed out:
    • The Indians were at war with each other and the Americans in 1776.
    • The Indians were known to scalp and skin those who were defeated.
    • The Indians were cannibals back then.
    • The Iroquois were known to do this stuff.
    • The term “cannibal” comes from the Spanish term “Caribs” which is the term the Spanish used for the Indians in the Caribbean because they were eating each other!
  • The final line of the tweet probably should have been put in as the first line of the tweet. The Founding Fathers knew we were not living the values of the Declaration.
    • It’s in the Federalist Papers.
    • The abolitionist movement blossomed less than ten years after the Declaration was signed.
    • Former slave Fredrick Douglas thought the Declaration and Constitution were great but we needed to live our values.
    •  Martin Luther King thought the same thing when he tried to end Jim Crow Laws.
    • And we’ve also done a couple of things since the Declaration was signed to bring us closer to those values:
      • The North outlawed slavery in the northern states and new states
      • We had the Civil War that killed 700,000 people, mostly white.

This is why history has to be destroyed by the Left. Because our history has shown the attempt by this country to do the right thing and live by our values.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-trashes-declaration-of-independence-on-fourth-of-july-adds-editors-note-to-warn-of-racist-slur

 

These People Shouldn’t Be In Congress

I can’t even believe these people.

Cori Bush, a Congressional Representative and a BLM supporter, tweeted this:

This is so dumb:

  • She is a Congressman. Not only is the system free, she is running the system.
  • This land wasn’t stolen. It was conquered, yes but most of it was gained through negotiation:
    • New York.
    • The Louisiana Purchase.
    • Texas, we won from Mexico but we ended up paying for.
    • Alaska.

So this is just a dumb statement. I also want to point out that she thinks the system is racist. Cori Bush is part of the system so I guess she’s racist.

Maxine Waters also added some more idiocy to Twitter. She tweeted:

Jeez:

  • She’s a Congressman and black. 
  • We’ve had a black President for eight years.
  • We have a black woman as Vice President.
  • Lumping all those dead black people together is just stupid. All those cases were very different. Some were innocent, some weren’t.
  • Look at everything I wrote about before about American history.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/stolen-land-reps-maxine-waters-cori-bush-complain-about-america-declaration-of-independence-on-fourth-of-july

 

It Ain’t All Bad

Need to Buy a New Forman Grill

George Forman has always been kind of special. He’s happy and appreciative of everything that he has. He is also an example of the American Dream. He took advantage of every opportunity given to him to create an empire outside of boxing.

He has also taken criticism because he loves this country and makes no bones about it. He tweeted on the Fourth of July:

He’s an American hero.

 

Figures That It Is Texas

In a Walmart in Texas, someone started singing the National Anthem right out of the blue. Well, this happened:

These are the real Americans. These are the majority of this country. Remember, it’s people like these that are going to give Leftist ideology a run for its money.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/walmart-shoppers-star-spangled-banner-fourth-of-july-weekend

 

Just Beautiful

A seven year old by the name of Malea Emma sang the National Anthem at the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer game this weekend. Let’s just close out with that.