December 3, 2024

11 thoughts on “Asses&Villains: Dec 5 2021

  1. Joe Biden lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land, where all kinds of things that aren’t really true, like Joe going to Israel to act as a liaison to their high military staff, are really true to Joe.

    And since they are true to Joe, even if they aren’t really true, Joe will accept them as true, because they are his delusions, and he can’t be convinced otherwise.

    So yes, in Cloud Cuckoo Land, Joe Biden really did go to Israel during the six-day war, where he laid out the military strategy that enabled the Israelis to win.

    And now, we are stuck with him as our leader thanks to 140 million deluded people in America who thought because Joe helped the Israelis to win the six day war, he would be a great leader for us.

  2. Yes, indeed, Cloud Cuckoo Land where Joe Biden lives and everything is very neat and nice, the way Joe likes it to be.

    Take Joe’s “Remarks by President Biden on the Nation’s Supply Chains” on December 1, 2021, where we had Joe broadcasting from his home in Cloud Cuckoo Land as follows:

    Tax cuts and rising wages for middle-class families mean that Americans, on average, have about $100 more in their pockets every month and — than they did last year — about $350 more each month than they did before the pandemic, even after accounting for inflation.

    Let me repeat that: Even after accounting for rising prices, the typical American family has more money in their pockets than they did last year or the year before that.

    In fact, we’re the only leading economy in the world where household income and the economy as a whole are stronger than they were before the pandemic.

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    That is Joe’s version of reality.

    What is our version of reality, those of us who do not live in Cloud Cuckoo Land with Joe, where life is beautiful all the time?

    How about the CNBC article entitled “Inflation has taken away all the wage gains for workers and then some” by Jeff Cox on November 10, 2021, where we have our reality laid out as follows:

    What looked like a big jump in workers’ wages during October turned into just another gut punch after accounting for inflation.

    The Labor Department reported Friday that average hourly earnings increased 0.4% in October, about in line with estimates.

    That was the good news.

    However, the department reported Wednesday that top-line inflation for the month increased 0.9%, far more than what had been expected.

    That was the bad news – very bad news, in fact.

    That’s because it meant that all told, real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation, actually decreased 0.5% for the month.

    So an apparent solid paycheck increase actually turned into a decrease, and another setback for workers still struggling to shake off the effects of the Covid pandemic.

    “For now, inflation is going to continue to run above very solid wage growth,” said Joseph LaVorgna, chief economist for the Americas at Natixis and former chief economist for the National Economic Council during the Trump administration.

    “This is why when you look at consumer confidence, it’s really taking a beating.”

    “Households do not like the inflation story, and rightly so.”

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    And that is Joe’s own Labor Department giving us those figures, so one must wonder where Joe gets his opposite numbers from that do not agree with what his own Labor Department says.

    So who is the liar?

    Who is it that doesn’t know what he is talking about?

    Joe Biden?

    Or the Labor Department?

    Or how about Moody on the Market where we have as follows:

    INFLATION WIPING OUT WAGE GAINS

    By WSJM.com | Posted November 11, 2021 |

    Inflation spiked in October, sinking Washington’s hopes that price gains would slow down.

    Michigan News Network Business Editor Murray Feldman says the increase is taking a bigger bite out of paychecks and family budgets more than many people have seen in a lifetime.

    “The new figures out today show inflation took its biggest jump in more than 30 years,” Feldman said Wednesday.

    “The cost of goods and services rose 6.2% compared to one year ago.”

    “That’s about 1% in just the past month.”

    Energy, shelter, and vehicle costs led the gains.

    They more than wiped out the wage increases workers received for the month.

    end quote

    Ah, they probably are closet Trump supporters just making up fake news to make Joe Biden look bad in the eyes of the one hundred sixty million people who voted him into office in the biggest landslide in American presidential history.

    Disgruntled losers.

    So how about the Washington Post story “Inflation is wiping out wage increases for many workers” by Eli Rosenberg on November 10, 2021, where we had as follows:

    Stagnant wages haunted the country for years until the coronavirus pandemic blew the old economy away and ushered in an era of labor scarcity, giving workers more leverage.

    Since then, earnings for rank-and-file workers have grown at the fastest pace in four decades.

    But new data released Wednesday shows how price inflation is eating into many of those higher wages.

    Prices rose 6.2 percent in the past year, threatening to completely negate gains.

    Average hourly earnings are up 5.1 percent on the year, a significant increase after years of middling growth.

    But inflation is more than wiping out those gains; when adjusted for the costs of rising prices, earnings are down 1.1 percent on the year.

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    More fake news!

    Everybody knows the Washington Post loves Trump, so that is the type of fake news you could expect from them, for no other purpose than to make Joe Biden look like he doesn’t know what he is talking about.

    So what about the New York Post article “Biden says ‘disposable income’ is up as he tries to spin soaring inflation” by Steven Nelson on November 22, 2021, to wit:

    President Biden tried to put a positive spin on soaring inflation Monday, saying that “disposable income” has increased due to government aid — but not mentioning that wages are actually losing purchasing power due to spiking prices.

    Biden offered the rosy take while announcing his decision to nominate Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chairman.

    “After years of wages being flat or falling behind, we’re also seeing something else.”

    “Things are getting better for American workers: higher wages, better benefits with flexible schedules,” the president said.

    “Balance sheets for American families are better as well: savings are up, home equity is up, credit card balances are down,” Biden added.

    “And if you continue and combine the wage increases we’ve seen with the direct relief my administration’s provided to middle class families, the typical middle class family’s disposable income has actually gone up 2 percent this year, even after accounting for higher prices.”

    The president continued: “America is the only major economy, the only one in the world, where the economy is bigger today and families have more money in the bank today than before the pandemic hit.”

    “That’s even after accounting for inflation.”

    But the value of money earned by workers — without including government subsidies — is down this year due to the highest inflation in 31 years, according to official data.

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics said earlier this month that although wages are increasing, they aren’t rising fast enough.

    “Real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.5 percent from September to October, seasonally adjusted …”

    “This result stems from an increase of 0.4 percent in average hourly earnings combined with an increase of 0.9 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers,” the BLS said.

    Inflation took an even bigger bite out of wages when measured over a 12-month period.

    The Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index jumped 6.2 percent in October from a year earlier, erasing wage gains and reflecting the highest bump since 1990 in the cost of goods and services.

    “Real average hourly earnings decreased 1.2 percent, seasonally adjusted, from October 2020 to October 2021,” according to the BLS report.

    “The change in real average hourly earnings combined with a decrease of 0.3 percent in the average workweek resulted in a 1.6-percent decrease in real average weekly earnings over this period,” according to the report.

    Biden was able to argue that real disposable income is up due to subsidies included in a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that passed in March.

    The bill temporarily boosted the child tax credit, which formerly was $2,000 per child before being bumped to $3,000, or $3,600 for kids up to 6 years old.

    Earlier this month, the president surprisingly admitted that the COVID-19 stimulus bill helped fuel the declining buying power of the US dollar by giving most people $1,400 checks and hiking child tax rebates.

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    And then we have an NBC News story entitled “‘I can’t even afford to buy a cart of groceries’: Spiraling inflation leaves some grocery workers struggling
    The gap between hourly wages and the cost of food means many grocery workers often face the daily experience of being around food they can’t afford” by Leticia Miranda on Dec. 2, 2021, the day after Joe’s speech, where the reality we American citizens who don’t live in Cloud Cuckoo Land with Joe Biden is laid out as follows:

    Two weeks ago, Mendy Hughes used $4 from her thinning bank account to pick up a family dinner from McDonald’s on her day off as a cashier at Walmart, the country’s largest grocery store chain.

    After 12 years with the company, Hughes makes $12.85 an hour as a full-time employee, which leaves about $200 every two weeks after monthly rent and utilities to cover essentials and food for herself and her three kids.

    “Food — it’s stressful,” said Hughes, 47, of Malvern, Arkansas.

    “I think all day: ‘What am I going to buy when I get off [work] that I can afford?'”

    “‘What am I going to get?’”

    “It’s just hard.”

    As prices have skyrocketed because of pandemic-driven price inflation, Hughes has found that her grocery budget has essentially dropped to zero, leaving fast food as the only affordable option to survive.

    The cost per pound of ground beef, for example, rose by about 19 percent nationwide from January to October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS.

    But the last time Hughes got a raise was last year, when Walmart bumped her hourly pay by $1, which amounts to about an 8 percent increase.

    Walmart’s new wage increases, introduced in September, put her at just 85 cents above the company’s standard starting salary.

    “It’s worse now because things have gone up so much,” Hughes said.

    “I can’t even afford to buy a cart of groceries.”

    Over the 12 months through October, consumer prices increased by 6.2 percent, according to the BLS.

    But according to the department’s latest figures, wages and salaries grew by only 4.2 percent in the 12 months that ended in September.

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    So what kind of dope is Joe Biden smoking then when he tells us how well off we are economically thanks to this administration?

  3. Inside the carefully constructed bubble of “reality” in Cloud Cuckoo Land known as “Joe Biden World” where Joe Biden lives and everything is very neat and nice, the way Joe likes it to be, this is what his “reality” looks like to him on the teleprompter as we see from Joe’s “Remarks by President Biden on the Nation’s Supply Chains” on December 1, 2021, to wit:

    Now, on to the economy.

    If you’ve watched the news recently, you might think the shelves in all our stores are empty across the country, that parents won’t be able to get presents for their children on holidays — this holiday season.

    But here’s the deal: For the vast majority of the country, that’s not what’s happening.

    Because of the actions the administration has taken in partnership with business and labor, retailers and grocery stores, freight movers and railroads, those shelves are going to be stocked.

    To help relieve congestion, I brought together labor and management and asked them to step up and cooperate more — to move toward operating those ports not five days a week, 40 hours a week; but 24 hours a day, seven days a week by adding more shifts at night and on the weekends.

    Then we had to make sure people could transport those goods from the ports to stores and homes across the country.

    We’ve broken up logjams there as well.

    Paired with the — these important safety measures, all of them are going to help move goods more quickly and get products that people want onto store shelves all across the country.

    And that has translated into shelves across our country being well-stocked.

    You don’t have to take my word for it.

    I’ve also spoken with the CEOs of UPS and FedEx, which are on track to deliver more packages than ever.

    Now, I can’t promise that every person will get every gift they want on time.

    Only Santa Claus can keep that promise.

    But we’re heading into a holiday season on very strong shape.

    And it’s not because of luck.

    We averted potential crisis by figuring out what needed to get fixed and then we brought people together to do the hard work of fixing it.

    end quotes

    Meanwhile, outside of Cloud Cuckoo Land where I live, this is the reality I am facing:

    Shipped with USPS

    Your package may be lost

    We’re very sorry your delivery is so late.

    end quotes

    Where’s my package, Joe?

    I thought you had everything fixed!

    So where is my package?

    Why is it lost?

  4. And Joe just modernized his slogan, or updated it to more properly reflect reality as we common folks experience in Uhmureeka in the Reign of Joe, the autocratic dictator, so that it is now BBAB, instead of just BBB, which appeals to a more intellectual group in America, as it was before, so it is no longer BIZARRE BEYOND BELIEF, which was deemed too limiting.

    Now it is BIZARRE BEYOND ALL BELIEF, and we are talking about the autocratic dictator Joe Biden calling a world conference with him in charge to discuss “saving democracy from democracy’s tendency to end itself by committing suicide” by setting democracy aside for a while until a dictator can get things all sorted out to save it, like Joe is saving democracy in America by getting rid of enemies of democracy.

    To make sure Joe isn’t upstaged, he has not invited those world leaders like Putin and the Chinese dude who he is scared of.

    As I say, BIZARRE BEYOND ALL BELIEF!

  5. And on another note here in the Land of WTF, as we head for a regime of daily booster shots for COVID, which itself continues to study these vaccines so it can mutate itself to defeat them one by one by one, we have the future as it is going to be:

    CNBC

    “Pfizer CEO says fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected due to omicron”

    Spencer Kimball

    December 8, 2021

    Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Wednesday that people might need a fourth Covid-19 shot sooner than expected after preliminary research shows the new omicron variant can undermine protective antibodies generated by the vaccine the company developed with BioNTech.

    “When we see real-world data, will determine if the omicron is well covered by the third dose and for how long.”

    “And the second point, I think we will need a fourth dose,” Bourla told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

    Bourla previously projected that a fourth shot would be needed 12 months after the third dose.

    He also said that treatments such as Pfizer’s oral antiviral pill, Paxlovid, will help prevent hospitalizations and control Covid during the winter.

    Pfizer submitted its application to the Food and Drug Administration last month for emergency authorization of the pill.

    The Pfizer CEO said the company has already shipped pills to the U.S. and can begin rolling out the product this month if the FDA approves it for emergency use.

    President Joe Biden said last month that the U.S. has bought 10 million courses with delivery slated to start by year-end.

  6. The AUTOCRAT Joe Biden has turned America into a third-world socialist ****hole with rampant inflation and inept, incompetent, unreponsive government:

    CNBC

    “Inflation surged 6.8% in November, even more than expected, to fastest rate since 1982”

    Jeff Cox

    December 10, 2021

    Inflation accelerated at its fastest pace since 1982 in November, the Labor Department said Friday, putting pressure on the economic recovery and raising the stakes for the Federal Reserve.

    Energy prices have risen 33.3% since November 2020, including a 3.5% surge in November.

    Gasoline alone is up 58.1%.

    Inflationary pressures have been hitting workers hard.

    Though gross pay has increased 4.8% over the past year, real average hourly earnings accounting for inflation declined another 0.4% for November and are down 1.9% for the 12-month period, the Labor Department said in a separate release.

    President Joe Biden has been paying a political price for surging prices: A recent CNBC survey showed his approval rating stuck at just 41%, due in large part to 56% of respondents who disapprove of his economic record, compared to just 37% who approve.

  7. For a demonstration of just how far out of touch with OUR reality Joe Biden really is, as he hunkers in his “safe” place in Cloud Cuckoo Land, first consider Exhibit A where the old goofball is talking about a “blue collar jobs bill”:

    REUTERS

    “Republicans argue Biden’s $1.75 trillion social plan would add to deficit”

    By Susan Cornwell

    December 10, 2021

    Still, inflation is now the central economic concern voiced by American consumers, far more so than unemployment, which could make Democrats’ jobs harder in selling what Biden has billed as a “blue-collar jobs bill.”

    “When directly asked whether inflation or unemployment was the more serious problem facing the nation, 76% selected inflation while just 21% selected unemployment,” Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan’s widely followed Consumer Sentiment Index said on Friday in a statement accompanying the series’ latest reading for early December.

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    And then consider Exhibit B:

    REUTERS

    “U.S. job openings jump to 11 million; fewer workers voluntarily quitting”

    By Lucia Mutikani

    December 8, 2021

    WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.S. job openings surged in October while hiring decreased, suggesting a worsening worker shortage, which could hamper employment growth and the overall economy.

    “Under normal circumstances, a near record number of job openings would be something worth celebrating,” said Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

    “But no employer is in a celebratory mood.”

    “It is difficult to fill orders or meet customer demands if there are not enough people to do the actual work.”

    Job openings, a measure of labor demand, increased by 431,000 to 11.0 million on the last day of October.

    This was the second-highest on record.

    There were about 1.5 job openings per unemployed worker in October.

    end quotes

    So, faced with an economy with eleven million jobs already waiting for someone to come fill them, what is Joe Biden’s solution to the problem?

    That’s right, borrow a bunch of money to create a bunch more jobs to be filled.

    By who, Joe?

  8. Believe this old fool Biden at your peril, is my thought and it is a wonder his approval rating is as high as 40%:

    REUTERS

    “U.S. inflation sizzles as consumer prices post biggest annual gain since 1982”

    By Lucia Mutikani

    December 10, 2021

    WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices rose solidly in November as Americans paid more for food and a range goods, leading to the largest annual gain since 1982, posing a political nightmare for President Joe Biden’s administration and cementing expectations for the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates next year.

    The increased cost of living, the result of shortages caused by the relentless COVID-19 pandemic, is hurting Biden’s approval rating.

    The White House and the Fed have characterized high inflation this year as transitory.

    “There’s not much room to explain away this inflation from pandemic or reopening anomalies,” said Will Compernolle, a senior economist at FHN Financial in New York.

    “Inflation is a tax, gas and food are among the most regressive aspects of it.”

    “Lower-income Americans spend disproportionately on both.”

    The price of food consumed at home gained 6.4% over the past 12 months, the most since December 2008.

    Rising inflation is eroding wage gains.

    Inflation-adjusted average weekly earnings fell 1.9% on a year-on-year basis in November.

    Biden acknowledged the increased burden on household budgets from the high inflation, while trying to reassure Americans that the country was pushing ahead with efforts to ease supply bottlenecks.

    “We are making progress on pandemic-related challenges to our supply chain which make it more expensive to get goods on shelves, and I expect more progress on that in the weeks ahead,” Biden said in a statement.

  9. And talk about the extreme surreal and the exceptionally bizarre beyond all possible belief (BBAPB) both being captured in just one short sentence, let us simply go to the Newsweek article “White House Discreetly Amends Biden Speech Transcript After He Referred to ‘President Harris'” by Aila Slisco on 17 December 2021, where we have Joe Biden apparently losing it, while the white house covers for him, to wit:

    The White House was forced to amend the text of its official transcript after President Joe Biden referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “President Harris” during a speech on Friday.

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    Yes, people, it’s getting to be 25th Amendment time for Joe, and his white house is doing everything in its power to keep that from happening – the long walk to the shower room after the pitcher’s throwing arm has turned to rubber so the last several pitches barely reached the plate on the roll.

    Getting back to that story of the continuing mental decline of Joe, we have as follows:

    The president made the mistake while addressing students at South Carolina State University, one the country’s over 100 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

    He referred to the vice president as “President Harris” while pointing out that she had graduated from Howard University, an athletic HBCU rival of Delaware State.

    “I’ve got to put Delaware State up there — the president of Delaware State used to work for me,” Biden said while wearing a black gown during the December commencement address.

    “But, all kidding aside, of course, [Vice] President Harris, who’s a proud Howard alum, she might have something to say about Delaware State.”

    The White House corrected the mistake by adding “[Vice]” to the official transcript.

    end quotes

    And my goodness, of course they would – that is what Joe’s minders are there to do in the first place – mind Joe and keep him from getting too far into trouble in his senile moments, which takes us back to that article on Joe’s rapid mental decline, to wit:

    The same correction was made in the official transcript of a speech Biden delivered on the COVID-19 vaccination from March, when the president also referred to the vice president as “President Harris.”

    “When [Vice] President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that — on that tour, injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope,” Biden said from the White House in March.

    “‘A dose of hope.'”

    “That’s how she phrased it.”

    end quotes

    Who’s on first, Joe?

    Do you have a clue?

    1. And what is scary as hell, given that Karmela Harris already has been president after she took old Joe out on 25th Amendment grounds when he was undergoing some kind of cognitive test of his brain functions, as we hear Jen Psaki telling us in this video of her news conference, is the thought that she still is president, until Joe can prove to her that he is mentally competent:

      Biden ‘knew he was making history’ with Harris as VP: WH

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdjIvfGS8INov 19, 2021

      As an aside, the old folks confined to nursing homes up this way love to watch endless steams of Jen Psaki press conferences on a wide-screen TV with the sound tuned off.

      They’re fascinated by it.

      The head bobbling around, the hand making its own gestures seemingly unrelated to what the head is doing, they find it highly entertaining as they try to figure out by lip reading what it is she could possibly be on about with all the gesticulation, and actually, so do I.

  10. And talk about “isn’t that just rich,” how about the Fox News story “Pelosi slams ‘attitude of lawlessness’ in San Francisco, says ‘I don’t know’ where it comes from” by Tyler Olson on 15 December 2021, where we have Nancy Pelosi engaged in mindless whining, as follows:

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday decried recent crime waves, including organized retail theft, in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. as “outrageous” and decried “an attitude of lawlessness” she said is behind it.

    Pelosi, D-Calif., made the comments when asked about recent comments from San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is pushing a renewed effort to “change course on how we public safety” and crack down on crime.

    “It’s absolutely outrageous.”

    “Obviously it cannot continue,” Pelosi said.

    “But the fact is that there is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from I don’t know where… and we cannot have that lawlessness become the norm.”

    end quotes

    An attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from Nancy Pelosi doesn’t know where”

    How about from decades of coddling criminals going back at least to the famous Willie Horton case, and coddling that illegal immigrant who shot and killed the woman if SF and on and on, defending the BLM rioters and the ANTIFA, while vilifying the police?

    Might that be the problem, Nancy, you and your pack of Democrats along with J0oe Biden instilling a belief in the criminals who are your base that it the police who are in the wrong?

    Could that be where this attitude of lawlessness springs from?

    Getting back to that story, we have more whining from Nancy as follows:

    “These people coordinate with each other and they plan traffic patterns and the rest so they can reach their goal and depart very quickly,” Pelosi added of the brazen retail thefts that are grabbing nationwide headlines.

    “This isn’t like somebody stealing something to go home because they don’t have money to buy.”

    “This is about stealing for profit.”

    The House speaker said an upcoming bill in the chamber could include multiple provisions that address the source of income for those “stealing for profit,” which is often online.

    “Within that bill, the Energy and Commerce Committee has something called INFORM… legislation that would require those who are selling online especially is to establish their legitimacy as to where these products came from.”

    “Because what people do is they steal things and they sell them online,” Pelosi said.

    “The Judiciary Committee has a bill, Save Shopping, which addresses the same problem in of a different way in terms of holding platforms accountable and those selling things accountable for the prominence of those goods,” she added.

    “Out of the question that people should be able to think that they can just steal things, profit from them and not have accountability.”

    Pelosi also in her press conference touted the passage of a bill in the House to combat Islamophobia and a separate one condemning Chinese oppression of Uyghur Muslims.

    “That’s genocide,” Pelosi said of how the Chinese Communist Party is treating that ethnic minority.

    The speaker also said she hopes the Senate will pass Democrats massive reconciliation spending bill soon.

    She specifically touted the child care provisions in the bill and child tax credit checks – the last of which is being sent out Wednesday unless Congress passes legislation to renew it.

    But she did not address criticism of the child care provisions in the bill that many are warning could nearly double the annual price of child care for many middle class families by imposing costly new regulations and salary requirements on child care facilities.

    And WEIRD TALES FROM THE EXTREME BIZARRE will be right back with more weirdness from Nancy Pelosi and her pack of lawless Democrats right after this pause for station identification.

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