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The Stupid, It Burns! Failed Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs Wants you to Vote "No" on the Recall and "Yes" to Progress
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
Michael D. Tubbs is the failed former Mayor of Stockton, CA. One of those bright, rising stars in the Democrat Party, he instituted the first-ever universal basic income in the city, but still lost to Republican Kevin Lincoln, who was a military veteran and had never held political office. According to reports, despite the UBI-boon, Lincoln received 56 percent of the vote. The post-mortem of Tubbs’ campaign reflected that voters felt Tubbs lacked focus on the homelessness, crime, and poverty in the city he was supposed to be running, and was more focused on flying around the country to play the rising star for national party events and Democrat concerns.
Sound familiar?
Failing up, this is what Democrats do, so our failure of a Governor Hair Gel appointed him to the inglorious position of special adviser for economic mobility and opportunity.
Seriously…
Tubbs has also penned a memoir, which appears to still be the strategy before making a bigger political move.
So this tweet to prop up his boss explains much:
Notice he didn’t invoke Arnold Schwarzenegger? Probably because it would be too much of a reminder of how the “Guvernator” ended up in office in the first place. Too close to the vest.
Instead he threw it back to Pete Wilson, who ended his run as California Governor before Tubbs was even born. So, yeah, someone else wrote this tweet as Tubbs probably knows little about the Pete Wilson days. And a throwback wouldn’t be a horrible thing, as they would be an improvement on our current situation.
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SENILITY ALERT:
How bad is Joe Biden?
It’s gotten to where there’s something virtually every day.
Yesterday was awful — with Biden calling Fox “Fax,” lying and snapping at Peter Doocy, then completely wrecking his own new argument on mandating vaccinations and masks.
But today is really bad, too.
Joe Biden was at a virtual Zoom meeting from the White House with governors in regard to wildfires.
His brain broke again while he was talking about wildfires and Delaware.
“You know, I come from the state of Delaware,” Biden said. “We had more acreage burn last year than the state of Delaware and Maryland combined. COMBINED.” Wait, what? How does that make any sense? Of course, it doesn’t.
I think that he was trying to talk about how wildfires in the United States have burned nearly three million acres so far this year — that’s the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. But he didn’t seem to be able to say it coherently.
But it gets worse.
More at the link: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/07/30/joe-bidens-brain-breaks-again-and-then-it-gets-really-bad-n419010
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CDC Scrambles to Find Delta Data and Gets Egg on Their Face
Weeks of increasingly apocalyptic statements by CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci, accompanied by little to no evidence, finally came to a head in the last few days. Their concerns and statements regarding the Delta variant of COVID-19, coupled with reversing health policy and guidance, were finally met with calls to see the data leading to these conclusions. On Tuesday, Dr. Walensky made a statement urging a return to mitigation by masking, citing data – which she did not cite or release at the time – that the Delta variant resulted in a higher viral load, more severe disease than the original strain, and caused vaccinated individuals to be just as infectious as the unvaccinated.
Late last night, the internal CDC slide deck, including the source material for these new determinations, was leaked. Most of the slides focus on vaccine effectiveness, with only seven slides examining the new data on the Delta variant – presumably the data the CDC had used to reverse course on mitigation. Of these seven slides, one is a comparison of transmissibility between the Delta variant and ancestral strains on one hand, and a variety of other infectious diseases of various and broad transmission types on the other. Two of the slides cover an internal model the CDC has generated attempting to predict future Delta transmission rates and the effect of masking and vaccines on those rates.
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What the data shows is that – contrary to the CDC’s clumsy messaging – vaccines work, and while this new increased risk to young adults should encourage vaccinations among that age group, there is no need to advocate for extreme mitigation based on overstated evidence and exaggerated risks.
More at the link: https://redstate.com/katepauldillon/2021/07/30/cdc-scrambles-to-find-delta-data-and-gets-egg-on-their-face-n418936
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‘…seems like quite a stretch’: Nate Silver breaks down the CDC data from Provincetown, MA that’s being used to justify the new mask guidance
The CDC finally released some of the data behind its new mask guidance and as many suspected, it’s a study based on a cluster of infections that happened in Provincetown, Mass. during July.
First up, the study “includes several major caveats, most of which are almost completely missing from the hyperbolic news coverage around this”:
There is also one major caveat that the study authors don't mention: they are only looking at *people who chose to be tested*,
which is a lot different than *all breakthrough infections*.
Presumably people with symptoms are much more likely to be tested.
Finally I'd note that the sample sizes here are tiny, leading to very wide confidence intervals.
And the "real life" confidence intervals are likely even wider given that (as the study authors say) the sample isn't very diverse. (P-town = mostly affluent middle-aged gay men.)
In summary, “To take a self-selected, not-statistically-significant sample of ~200 nondiverse people during a party weekend that was an outlier in many respects, and use it to conclude that breakthrough infections are just as likely to transmit the virus, seems like quite the stretch”:
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CNN Business reports:
Schneider said he believes that inflation is transitory. But the owner of brands including Nescafe, Gerber and Cheerios said it would need to raise prices by roughly 2% to offset cost increases of 4%. Nestlé hiked prices by 1.3% in the first half of 2021.
The company can hedge against some cost increases, such as rising coffee prices, said Schneider. But it can’t avoid the rising cost of things like transportation, which puts pressure on the company’s margins.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/investing/nestle-food-prices-inflation/index.html
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18 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
NY TIMES OP-ED REVEALS ENDGAME OF BORDER CRISIS: Let Illegals Vote.
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The South Florida Sun Sentinal framed an order signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this way:
DeSantis will sign order to ban masks in Broward schools https://t.co/FRMRoDDEBq pic.twitter.com/SQwpC3IkSX
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) July 30, 2021
As you can see, the tweet that read “DeSantis will sign order to ban masks in Broward schools” been deleted. One reason is that DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw dropped another “fake news” hammer on some media spin:
No correction, they just took it down when caught.
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BIDENFLATION:
World’s Largest Food Company Will Raise Prices Amid Inflation.
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YES SHE IS:
From the ‘Secret War’ Against Communism to Olympic Gold: Sunisa Lee is a Hmong American Champion.
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You will pay for others abortions, here and overseas, whether you want to or not ------Today's Democrat Party.
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Release the Videos Showing Capitol Rioters Calling the Crying Police Officer the ‘N Word.’
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/some-dare-call-it-infrastructure.php
SOME DARE CALL IT INFRASTRUCTURE
I don’t think we have a text to go to yet, but I have absolutely no doubt that the editors of the Wall Street Journal correctly assess the so-called bipartisan infrastructure deal as “not so grand.” If the Journal has these details right, that is a grand understatement. They highlight “an epic binge of green subsidies and more handouts for states and localities.” To wit:
Consider mass transit, which received $70 billion in pandemic relief. Only about $20 billion of that has been spent. Yet Congress now will dole out another $90 billion over five years.
This is the “largest Federal investment in public transit in history,” a White House fact sheet boasts. Taxpayers in Little Rock are again subsidizing New York City’s subway and its fat union contracts. The deal includes an additional $66 billion for rail, $30 billion of which is earmarked for Amtrak’s northeast corridor—a subsidy for political commuters.
Rail has long been an obsession of President Biden, though he’s lately become fixated with electric cars. He scored $7.5 billion for a “national network” of electric-vehicle charging stations. Even FDR didn’t get a New Deal program to build gas stations.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is also a big winner. She’ll run a green venture capital fund rivaling Kleiner Perkins with tens of billions to throw around at carbon capture, hydrogen, electric flying taxis, buses and high-speed mass-transit hyperloop. She will also be in charge of creating a “smart” grid with no less than $73 billion for transmission lines and batteries to back up heavily subsidized wind and solar power.
One of the worst parts of the deal is the $65 billion government intrusion into broadband markets. States—i.e., politicians—will get $40 billion to build out broadband in “underserved” areas. The nation’s broadband networks have been built by private companies, which invest tens of billion dollars each year, including $67 billion in a government spectrum auction that Senators plan to use to pay for their deal.
Some 99% of American households have access to high speed fixed or mobile broadband. But liberals complain about phantom “digital redlining,” so the deal creates a $30 monthly broadband subsidy for low-income households. According to a White House summary, internet providers will have to abide by rules in Mr. Biden’s competition executive order. Could the return of Barack Obama’s net neutrality rules be coming by this back door?
Sickening, with worse yet to come.
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THE STATE THINKS YOUR KIDS BELONG TO IT:
Schools Trying To Get Critical Race Theory Into Classrooms Under Parents’ Noses.
And the democrats want to make them as racist as the democrats themselves are.
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/schools-trying-to-get-critical-race
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PLAINLY ILLEGAL RACE DISCRIMINATION:
The City of Portland, Oregon plans to spend millions in federal funds on “struggling artists of color.”
Note that Portland isn’t talking about giving money to just any struggling artist. Whites don’t count, no matter how much they are struggling and no matter how artistically gifted.
This kind of blatant race discrimination isn’t going to stop until lawsuits—lots of ‘em—are brought. To do that here, we need a struggling artist of pallor in Portland who might be willing to be the plaintiff.
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Yeah, Nobody Really Likes Kamala Harris.
“Biden ended up picking Kamala Harris as a running mate because he’d been studying the Book of Things Democrats Say and barfed up a diversity promise during a debate.
Apparently, his entire team hadn’t paid any attention to the primary season that their boss had just triumphed in and was unaware that even Democrats don’t like Kamala Harris.”
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Nope, I Won’t Mask Up Again
by David Catron
Last March, I followed the CDC’s advice and got fully vaccinated against COVID-19. I did so more out of a sense of civic duty than any actual fear that I might contract the virus. It was just an easy and scientifically sound way to help slow its spread. Naturally, I was delighted when the CDC finally announced that fully vaccinated people could safely participate in indoor and outdoor activities without wearing inconvenient and clinically useless face masks. Now, the CDC has reversed itself and issued new guidance telling 163.6 million fully vaccinated Americans to put our masks back on. Sorry, no sale.
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Yesterday:
10 weeks ago:
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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So, you can't find anything wrong with the article to point out, and default to name-calling..............
Good thing I was sitting down.
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