Nov062021

Episode 442 – That’s Good News!

The jobs report is out and it’s good news.

Democrats have apparently learned nothing from Tuesday’s massive defeat.

And who’s running the country anyway?

 

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

The jobs report for October is out and it’s not bad. Good for us. I’m going to try not to throw too much salt on this garden because of my hatred for Comrade Joe Biden but there are realities we are going to need to discuss that will put a wet blanket on it.

Here’s the news:

  • Adjustments for the last two months.
    • August employment went up from 366,000 to 483,000.
    • September unemployment went up from 194,000 to 310,000.
    • This is irritating but normal because employment stats are based on some projections.
    • Though the increase in both months is still well below estimates, this explains why the unemployment rate has gone down and really eases the sting from those lousy months.
  • In October, we added 531,000 (most since July).
    • 604,000 jobs added in the private sector.
    • 73,000 jobs lost in the public sector.
    • That’s a good thing. Less government is always a good thing.
  • Unemployment fell to 4.6%.
  • Hourly wages have increased 4.9%. That’s because employers are having a tough time getting workers and are willing to pay more. The other caveat is a lot of companies are giving signing bonuses. That’s a good thing.
  • Bad news, the wage increase isn’t a real increase. Inflation is up 5.4%. People are making more but are spending more than their wage increase.
  • The labor participation rate is at 61%. We have to watch that one over the coming months because that down over 2% from 2019.
  • There are 2.3 million who have been out of the workforce for 27 weeks or more though that is down. That’s still not great.

There are lots of reasons why a lot of people are refusing to look for work. The main reasons is extra money in the bank ($2 trillion has been spent) and people used the pandemic to change careers and they’re just not ready to join. It will be interesting to see what the job numbers are going to be when the savings run out.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/jobs-nonfarm-payroll-report-october-2021
https://www.wsj.com/articles/october-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-2021-11636061282?mod=hp_lead_pos1
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

 

They Learned Nothing

The Democrats haven’t learned a damn thing after Tuesday’s disaster elections. You would think Biden might decide to moderate a bit after that thrashing. But nope. I even thought he might mellow out even though he, twice, said the elections on Tuesday didn’t have anything to do with him.

He could’ve waited, at least, a week before going back to full tyrant.

The Biden administration, through OSHA, has released its vaccine mandates which will be implemented on January 4, 2022. Let’s go over the some of the provisions:

  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be responsible for implementing and monitoring compliance. They will be actually sending agents to verify compliance.
  • It will apply to companies of 100 employees or more. There are discussions to apply it to all businesses in the future.
  • It requires any employee who chooses not to get vaccinated to submit to weekly testing for COVID-19 and to “wear a face covering” while on the job (anti-vaxx shaming).
  • The rule also allows employees seeking an exemption for medical reasons, or who have a sincerely held religious objection, to apply for an exemption. OSHA instructs employers to deal with these requests on a case-by-case basis.
  • The government considers anyone fully vaccinated who has received two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccinations, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccination (no word on boosters yet but it’s coming).
  • The OSHA regulation requires employers to give unvaccinated workers paid time off to receive the shot(s) — which are available at no charge — as well as to recover from any side effects the vaccine may produce.
  • Who pays for weekly COVID-19 tests is less clear. The Biden administration allows employers to force employees to get their own tests. Testing kits currently run between $11 and $15 each, so a worker could spend a minimum of $572 a year to remain in compliance with the Biden administration’s edict.
  • If employers of 100 employees refuse to comply with the OSHA mandate, the Biden administration may impose fines of $13,653 per violation—and $136,532 for “willful or repeated” violations.
  • Remote workers and people who work outdoors or in isolation are exempted.
  • Private businesses of the scale discussed in the ETS employ an estimated 84 million workers, according to the Biden administration.
  • “The ETS preempts any state or local requirements that ban or limit an employer’s authority to require vaccination, face covering or testing.” This is unconstitutional.

This has already started lawsuits from states and private businesses. Chances are this is going to be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. I know we hear about Jacobson versus Massachusetts as a reason that the federal government can implement a vaccine mandate. This is a bad ruling to use because it was the individual against state law not federal law versus the state or individual. States have authority over federal laws.

But this law is going to have a severe backlash. It is going to affect the economy and it is a real burden on businesses. Employees and employers are going to get pissed about this. I’m vaxxed and I think this is a terrible idea. Half my family of vaxxed and they think it is a terrible idea. People will also just start quitting. Next year’s elections are going to be a disaster for Democrats because they are going to have to answer for this.

But this is a time we must apply the Give A Mouse A Cookie Principle. This is going to lead to federal vaxx mandates for school children including for 5-year-olds. The we will be mandated It will also lead to being required to be vaxxed to go into a grocery store. Does any of this seem far fetched now?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/oshas-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-private-employers
https://www.dailywire.com/news/donotcomply-trends-on-twitter-as-daily-wire-files-suit-challenging-biden-vax-mandate

 

The Shoe is Dropping

For three years, I wondered what John Durham was doing during this investigation into the Crossfire Hurricane spying investigating into the Trump administration. It seemed that nothing was getting done and we would never get any information about it. All we knew was that Durham was looking into the genesis of the Steele Dossier, the debunked document that led to the Mueller investigation.

A huge arrest happened about a month ago with the indictment of Michael Sussman, a lawyer for Perkins Coie which was the law firm for the Clintons. He was also involved with Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity company that dealt with Hilary Clinton’s E-mail scandal.

Well, it looks like that little pickup is going to start an avalanche of indictments.

On Wednesday, a guy named Igor Danchenko was arrested as a part of special counsel John Durham’s investigation. Danchenko has been charged with “with five counts of making false statements to the FBI” related to sources he used to provide information for Steele’s dossier, Durham’s office said.

According to Durham’s office:

“The June 15, 2017, false statement count alleges that Danchenko denied that he had spoken with a particular individual about material information contained in one of the Company Reports when he knew that was untrue. The March 16, 2017, May 18, 2017, Oct. 24, 2017, and Nov. 16, 2017, counts involve statements made by Danchenko on those dates to FBI agents regarding information he purportedly had received from an anonymous caller who he believed to be a particular individual, when in truth and in fact he knew that was untrue. The information purportedly conveyed by the anonymous caller included the allegation that there were communications ongoing between the Trump campaign and Russian officials and that the caller had indicated the Kremlin might be of help in getting Trump elected.”

I think there will be more and bigger fish than this guy including the author of the Steele Dossier, himself, Christopher Steele and possible some higher sources that requested the FISA warrants. I do not know if they will catch whales like Hilary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe or James Brennen. McCabe actually lied to Congress and was able to retire from the FBI with his full pension.  But I do expect more in the coming weeks.

I also find it hysterical that the media refuses to cover what was the greatest spying conspiracies against and American president in history. All the time, they called Trump a Russian stooge based on this Steele Dossier. They called Trump a conspiracy theorist when he said this was a mission of the deep state. Turns out it was all true.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-the-arrest-of-the-man-behind-the-phony-dossier-underscores-the-many-lies-of-the-russia-hoax
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-top-steele-dossier-source-arrested-charged-with-making-false-statements-to-fbi
https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/arrest-illustrates-how-steele-dossier-was-political-dirty-trick-by-hillary-clinton/

 

Who Is Running the Government?

Remember a long time ago, last week, I talked about how Biden’s DOJ was negotiating a $450K payout to illegal aliens who were separated in 2018 Zero Tolerance Policy implemented by Trump. Now, mind you, what Trump did wasn’t illegal. There is a law in the books that states that imprisoned illegal aliens must be separated from their children because children can’t be housed in the same jails than adults. This was voted on by Congress. Congress could appeal it. Seems like it’s their fault.

When asked about it in Glasgow, Scotland, Joe Biden looked confused and didn’t know what the reported was talking about. Then, the administration said that the negotiations were under way without denying the numbers they were running.

Peter Doocy got to ask a question of Joe Biden about those reports. His answer wasn’t great according to his Leftist administration:

OK, remember that. That would be the answer of a guy who wants to be president in 2024 and is a truly good political answer.

Now, listen to Peter Doocy asking the same question the next day to Deputy Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. She’s replacing Jen Psaki because, even with to shots and a booster, she still managed to get the China Virus. But that’s another story. Here’s Jean-Pierre:

Oops.

Did she just contradict the president of the United States? Biden said the payout was garbage…twice. Now it’s not.

But Doocy wasn’t done with her:

Some things:

  • Biden is incapable of any independent thought.
  • She doesn’t answer the question, she just bitches about Trump. This is a big thing. Trump is no longer president, so blaming him is irrelevant. People just don’t want people who entered the country illegally getting tax payer money because Trump’s policies followed the law.
  • Families are separated from their families all the time when they break the law. If I steal a car and am sentence to jail, I’m separated from my children. Why do illegal aliens get better treatment and then rich off of breaking our laws?

This brings up two questions:

  • Who is running the country? It doesn’t seem like Biden is. He didn’t know about any of this stuff, said it wasn’t going to happen and then his administration says it is. Would Trump have tolerated being contradicted like that?
  • Do the Democrats really think this is going to be embraced by voters in 2022?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-biden-is-perfectly-comfortable-with-giving-massive-payouts-to-illegal-aliens-who-were-separated-at-border

 

Still Waiting

The House of Representatives was suppose to vote on the Build Back Better plan and the infrastructure plan. What a shocker: it didn’t happen. What a shock.

The Dems just can’t get out of their own way.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-pushes-for-infrastructure-spending-bill-votes-this-week