You’ve got to feel sorry for Joe Biden.

Our economic future is looking worse than we thought.

And the attacks on religion continue with no barriers in sight.

 

Biden Loses His Temper

One of the funnier interactions with Joe Biden on Wednesday’s “Summit” with Vlad Putin was his reaction from an unsolicited question from CNN reporter Caitlan Collins.

What a piece of crap.

• Little news flash: He does this all the time.
  • He called a reporter that asked a tough question a fatty.
  • He almost got into a fight with a union worker over gun control.
  • He challenged an 80-year-old man to push-ups because he asked a hard question.
• Joe Biden is a grouchy old man and he has been his entire career when he is challenged.

He knew he messed this up and he tried to back away from it later. He has the media on his side, especially CNN. If he had attacked Steve Duecy of Fox News, who I thought asked a much harder question about the Chinese virus and the lab leak theory, everyone would have been fine with it and he would have looked like a hero putting in place the right wing racist media. But he attacked his people. He needed to make things better.

His bowing down to the media at the airport made him look weaker and more pathetic. Unlike other times, I mean this with sympathy. Joe knew the trip this week was bad. Nothing was accomplished, he had given ground and got nothing. He had a meeting with a tyrant whose country has the economy of Italy. He gave him the pipeline Putin wanted and got nothing. The CNN question was interesting because she was asking if Biden was so naïve that he trusted a murderous tyrant. He didn’t like this and reacted.

I feel sorry for him because his age is really showing. His insecurities are really showing. I’m getting the impression he is hearing how he has declining mental fitness and want to prove that he doesn’t. But this trip really did prove that he does. I’m sure his staff, who is making all the moves for Old Joe and steering him in the “right” (or Left) direction. I think he is beginning to feel the strain. It’s just really sad to see this guy, who I don’t like, obviously suffering through this.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-reporter-slams-biden-for-losing-temper-over-question-maybe-youre-in-the-wrong-business
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-erupts-at-reporter-for-asking-about-putin-where-the-hell-what-do-you-do-all-the-time
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-screams-at-cnn-reporter-who-questioned-him-youre-in-the-wrong-business

 

The Outlook is Looking Bleak

The Federal Reserve has significantly increased its expectations for inflation this year following massive government spending from Democrat President Joe Biden.

According to CNBC:

On Wednesday, The Federal Reserve “considerably raised its expectations for inflation this year and brought forward the time frame on when it will next raise interest rates. However, the central bank gave no indication as to when it will begin cutting back on its aggressive bond-buying program, though Fed Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged that officials discussed the issue at the meeting.”

There is a thought that inflation could grow another 4% by next year which would be a record high.

So now, the fed is afraid that this inflation, which they said should be short term is now looking more like it could be long term. The Feds need to raise the interest rates to keep up and that’s not even considering we could be seeing an overheated economy, which will create another round of inflation that could take us to 2024.

Jimmy Carter all over again. But, I’m not panicking. We ended up with Reagan.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-reserve-delivers-bad-news-about-expectations-for-inflation-raising-interest-rates-report

 

Split Decision on Religion

The courts are getting pummeled with religious freedom cases. There were a couple of rulings this week. One was good and one not so much.

So, do you want the good news or the bad news first? I believe religious people should do whatever they need to do to keep with their religious

Just Get the Cake from Somewhere Else

You probably know this story because it’s been around for like…you know…forever.

• There is a bakery called Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado owned by a guy named Jack Phillips.
• Jack Phillips is a Conservative Christian and he runs his business, for better or worse, under the Christian principles.
• When gay marriage was made legal, a gay couple walked into his store, knowing who he was and what he would do, and asked him to create a custom wedding cake for their gay marriage.
• He said he couldn’t do it because of religious reasons but they could by any pre-made cake.
• They said no and walked out of the store.
• They two went straight to the courthouse and filed a lawsuit so everyone could see that these two gals were actually activists.
• The Colorado Civil Rights Commission (that doesn’t sound Orwellian) ruled against the Phillips.
• This thing went all the way to the Supreme Court where they ruled that the Commission was biased against religion and threw out against the case.
• The Court never ruled on the real issue, Free Speech vs. Religious Freedom.
• Right after he won that case, the guy was harassed left and right.

Another case went up to the Civil Rights Commission and, again he lost. This time he wouldn’t design a coming out cake for a trans person. Ugh!

Phillips is being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) General Counsel Kristen Waggoner. She gave an overview:

“Jack Phillips serves all people but shouldn’t be forced to create custom cakes with messages that violate his conscience

“In this case, an activist attorney demanded Jack create custom cakes in order to ‘test’ Jack and ‘correct the errors’ of his thinking, and the activist even threatened to sue Jack again if the case is dismissed for any reason. Radical activists and government officials are targeting artists like Jack because they won’t promote messages on marriage and sexuality that violate their core convictions.

“This case and others — including the case of floral artist Barronelle Stutzman, whose petition is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court — represents a disturbing trend: the weaponization of our justice system to ruin those with whom the activists disagree. The harassment of people like Jack and Barronelle has been occurring for nearly a decade and must stop.

“We will appeal this decision and continue to defend the freedom of all Americans to peacefully live and work according to their deeply held beliefs without fear of punishment.”

So this poor bastard, who has been harassed for the last ten years and the state of Colorado supports it. This is going to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Good news, the Supreme Court made a ruling yesterday that went to protect the religious freedom. Bad news, it was a very muddled ruling.

Not A Great Ruling

The Supreme Court defied expectations on Thursday, issuing a unanimous — but limited — ruling in favor of a Catholic foster care agency that was targeted by Philadelphia authorities for refusing to consider same-sex couples as adoptive parents.

CNN reported:

“Philadelphia violated the First Amendment when it froze the contract of a Catholic Foster Care Agency that refused to work with same-sex couples as potential foster parents because the agency believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

“The dispute arose because Catholic Social Services — which was receiving taxpayer funds — was unwilling to work with LGBTQ couples as foster parents out of religious objections to same sex marriage. The policy was brought to the attention of the city in 2018 after inquiries from a local newspaper, and soon after the government put a freeze on the contract. The group, led by long-time foster parent Sharonell Fulton who has fostered more than 40 children over 25 years, brought suit.”

Now, to be clear: If a gay couple walked into Catholic Social Services and wanted to adopt or foster a child, the service would say they couldn’t help them but would recommend other companies that could. There are nineteen other services in Philadelphia who will work with gay couples. Also, the Catholic Social Services will not work with single people because they believe that a child needs a father and mother.

This thing went all the way to the Supreme Court where it ruled 9-0 in favor of Catholic Social Service. Yay, right? Maybe not.

Chief Justice John Roberts is garbage. The court was already prepared to rule 6-3 on the case and giving a solid definition of freedom of religion. But Roberts wanted a unified court which means Sotomayor, Kagen and Breyer needed to come along because they weren’t going to go with religious freedom. So he came up with a very watered down version of the ruling that leaves that issue open.

Roberts wrote:

CSS “seeks only an accommodation that will allow it to continue serving the children of Philadelphia in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs; it does not seek to impose those beliefs on anyone else.

“The refusal of Philadelphia to contract with CSS for the provision of foster care services unless it agrees to certify same-sex couples as foster parents…violates the First Amendment.

“Certification as a foster parent…is not readily accessible to the public. It involves a customized and selective assessment that bears little resemblance to staying in a hotel, eating at a restaurant, or riding a bus.”

Essentially, what Roberts is saying is that restrictions on contracting with CSS stating that they must help anyone must be written into the law in Philadelphia. It was not so they cannot stop the contract because it violates the First Amendment.

Jeez! John Roberts is so ball-less. Essentially, all the Philadelphia City Council has to do is update the law allowing for prejudice against religion and we start this whole thing over again. But Judge Roberts got a 9-0 ruling.

Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote a concurrence opinion, stated just that:

“The Court has emitted a wisp of a decision that leaves religious liberty in a confused and vulnerable state. Those who count on this Court to stand up for the First Amendment have every right to be disappointed — as am I.” 

I was real excited by this ruling when I saw the headline but when I read about it, I was disappointed. This is how the Constitution will be changed by the Left. They will incrementally change the Constitution, one ruling at a time, until our freedoms are gone. John Roberts, intentionally or not, is helping the Left do this with these weak-ass rulings. This is how religious institutions will lose tax exempt status. This is how religious schools will lose accreditation.

I’m glad CSS won the case but it’s only a matter of time before they find themselves right back in front of the Supreme Court and why Jack Phillips is going through his crap again. Until we have a Chief Justice who’s going to stop being such a puss and make a stand, this crap is just going to keep going on.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/baker-jack-phillips-targeted-for-christian-beliefs-still-fighting-in-court-after-trans-activist-asks-for-trans-celebration-cake
https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-9-0-in-favor-of-catholic-foster-care-agency-that-refused-to-work-with-same-sex-couples