Category: Society

Banana Republic Economics

The Ongoing Failures of the Biden Administration and the Federal Reserve

Picture courtesy of bibliotecapleyades.net

Citing inflation, the United States Federal reserve has raised its base interest rate by 0.5% in addition to selling off its balance sheet of trillion of dollars.

This rate hike has been the biggest since May of 2000 under the fantasy that it will tackle the current, and upward going, inflation rate of 8.5%. If you believe this I have a bridge to sell you.

Fed chairman Jerome Powell was quoted as saying, “Inflation is much too high.” Really Mr. Powell? Is the failed economic policy of the Biden administration that has pushed inflation to an all time high, this is not rocket science.

Powell’s comments come with a caveat. He stated the policies “can only impact the demand side of things and not supply disruptions.” Yes, because supply disruptions are also the result of the Biden administration lack of planning and their ridiculous shutdown of our economy over a virus with a mortality rate lower than the seasonal influenza.

Powell went on to blame the supply issues on China’s Covid-19 lockdowns and the Ukrainian conflict. First, we have been living with Covid for the last two years, secondly, supply chain issues were in place long before the start of the Ukrainian conflict.

He admitted the rate hike may cause short term unemployment, but the fact is people are quitting their jobs. After two years of sitting at home and working remotely, employees are refusing to return to work and instead are resigning.

When government pays you better wages to sit at home than to actually produce something to earn it, some people are going to abuse it.

He stated, “the labor market is extremely tight.” Folks, the labor market is tight because people are refusing to return to work, period. With 11.9 million jobs available and only 6 million Americans looking for work, even with Common Core mathematics the numbers do not lie.

“There may be some pain for Americans.” That is an understatement.

Americans have been in financial pain since the Biden administration took over. The proof is clear, from higher energy prices to empty shelves at the grocery stores. Americans have been put in a position to choose between feeding their families or filling up their vehicles to go to work.

What this rate hike is going to do? Nothing! Is going to put more stress on everyday Americans. By raising interest rates on credit cards, making it harder for first time home buyers to afford a home, and food prices skyrocketing as supplies continue to shrink, choices are going to be tight.

The Federal Reserve will continue to raise interest rates until they hit their target of 2% inflation. We are at 8.5% and rising, this goal is unrealistic and actually will cripple American families even more so.

Meanwhile the democrats believe abortion is the thing that keeps Americans awake at night. This is Banana Republic economics, and it is going to get worse before it gets better.

The Disinformation Governance Board

Controlling the Truth by Curtailing Free Speech

‘You can’t handle the truth; my truth that is’ Photo courtesy of wiredailynews.com

I am not surprised the Biden administration would concoct such a battering ram against freedom of speech and freedom of opinion and ideas. After all, this is the same administration who thrives on misinformation.

Remember, Joe Biden got more than 80 million votes, concerned parents are domestic terrorists, January 6th was an insurrection, despite the fact nobody has been charged with such a crime, the economy is great, gas prices and the inflation are Russia’s fault, and the list goes on and on.

You would think the creation of such of board would be to keep the government from spreading misinformation, but that does not seem to be the plan. Sounds more like a tool to silence us, the American citizen.

The democrats understand Covid-19 woke a sleeping monster inside the American people, the monster of curiosity. Covid-19 exposed the reality of our failed government run education system, the long arm of government overreach, the curtailment of constitutional rights under the guise of ‘health’, and the dangers of an unaccountable government.

From Critical Race Theory to transgender indoctrination of little children, the democrats have attempted to change our societal norms by force. The people have rejected those changes as they understand they are divisive in nature and spoon fed by a minority who wants to impose their will upon the rest of us.

Facing this American ‘awakening’, the democrats have to produce something to control the left-wing narrative and to silence any opinion or discussion that can expose their backwards policies; enter the Disinformation Governance Board.

What is the purpose of such a department? The Department of Homeland Security claims is to combat ‘foreign misinformation and disinformation.’ I do not buy it; we have a Central Intelligence Agency to do just that.

Curiously, the announcement came days after Elon Musk purchased social media platform Twitter with the promise of ‘more freedom of speech’, and after former president Obama went on a speaking spree pleading his case that more government was necessary to provide oversight and regulation for these platforms.

Freedom of speech is a protected constitutional right, and I do not believe a bureaucracy like DHS have the authority to create a misinformation bureau to control such speech. We have law enforcement agencies tasked to track foreign adversaries, so I have to deduct this is nothing more than a silencing tool for domestic consumption.

DHS claims is a tool of national security, but our own government can declare anything a ‘matter of national security,’ and without the proper oversight can become a tool of suppression for those voices who happen to disagree with the government’s position.

To make matters worse, DHS Secretary Majorkas has designated the ‘Queen of Misinformation,’ Nina Jankowicz, as its executive director.

She was one of the biggest advocates against the Hunter Biden’s computer fiasco, going along with the nonsense that it was Russian misinformation.

This woman used a Mary Poppins song to create a video about so-called disinformation. The word on the internet is that she is a frustrated actress, well, I can see why.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/biden-disinfo-czar-nina-jankowicz-ripped-over-tiktok/

She definitely fits the bill for such a position in the Biden administration, it seems spreading misinformation is her best asset, plus she does not seem to have all her marbles upstairs.

Many Americans, including members of congress, have questioned the legitimacy and purpose of this board. I believe it is time to have hearings, and if the government wants to create a new bureaucracy, it should be done through the legislative process.

George Orwell wrote about the ‘Ministry of Truth’ in his science fiction novel “1984”, let us keep it that way, a work of fiction.

Not the Disney I Grew Up With

These “grown-ups” have some serious issues. Disney employees protest against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, in Glendale, California, U.S., March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu

Time to Stop Corporate Indoctrination

I remember growing up and going to the movie theater with my parents to watch Disney animated movies. Be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, or Dumbo, it was always fun to go and watch these movies.

Unfortunately, those days and the days of Walt Disney are gone. Today, it seems, the Walt Disney Corporation is not about entertaining your children, but about indoctrinating them, breaking them and molding them into whatever they feel.

Topics such as sexual orientation and gender identity have no business in children programing, but it seems the Walt Disney Company thinks otherwise and they do not want parents to have a say in what their children should and should not watch.

Why would the adult LGBTQ employees of the Walt Disney Company be against legislation protecting children from kindergarten to third grade?

Why would the adult LGBTQ employees of the Walt Disney Company think instructing little kids about sexual orientation and gender identity is the responsibility of the public school system?

What would the adult LGBTQ employees of the Walt Disney Company want with innocent children, your children?

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed into law the Parental Rights in Education bill, banning teachers from giving classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade.

To normal people this is common sense, unless you are a member of the LGBTQ community who happens to work for the Walt Disney Company.

Democrats and leftwing lunatics dubbed the bill, “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which is nothing more than ignorant propaganda spread by the same people who think your kid is their property to bend and break as they please. They did not read the bill, I did, and the bill in no way, shape, or form, suggest such a thing.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/er/PDF

I do not have a problem with adults living whichever or whatever type of lifestyle they choose to live, but going after little kids is problematic to say the least.

Listening to the leftwing media and the Walt Disney Company employees complain about the legislation is telling.

It tells me how perverted and sick our society has become when a grown-up thinks it is acceptable to instruct a kindergarten student about sexual orientation and gender identity.

When I was growing up, that type of thought and attitude would have been considered a crime against children.

If I went home and told my parents that my school teacher was talking to us about sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender reassignment issues, my parents would have called the police, that is just the way it was. This type of talk in schools would have been considered child abuse.

Today? Today, total strangers want to influence your children in matters that should be taught at home, by parents, and at time they feel is proper to do so. The only sex education acceptable to be taught at a public-school level should be the scientifically proven and biologically correct.

The LGBTQ employees at the Walt Disney Company should be ashamed of themselves. In my eyes they are nothing more than a bunch of sick sociopaths and a danger to any child.

The Walt Disney Company CEO, Robert Chapek, who claims he is all about the children, should also be ashamed for bending to the will of a minority that does not share the values most Americans live by.

The Search for The Truth About Bucha

Do they Really Want to Find It?

Joe Biden continues to go on national television calling Vladimir Putin names and playing the tough guy for everyone to see. In reality, Joe Biden is weak and is using the Ukraine conflict as a smoke screen to camouflage a crippling economy, his own son’s criminal activities, and a dismal approval rating here at home.

With his drug addicted son, Hunter Biden’s investigations and possible indictments, the fixers in the White House are trying to keep the American people in the dark by downplaying the story and by blaming Putin for our energy and economic woes.

As I have written before, all our problems were already here, long before Putin realized Biden was an incompetent fool with a big mouth. Instead of acting, Biden has chosen to play a game of words while the rest of Europe continues to buy gas and oil from Russia because they cannot afford not to.

Enter the Bucha massacre, allegedly perpetrated by the Russian Army. Joe Biden goes on calling Putin a “war criminal,” which it may be true, but coming from a country who refuses to recognize the International Criminal Court as a legitimate entity, it is laughable.

The Russians asked for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, but Britain, who is in charge of the Council, refused to grant such a request, instead telling the Russians they could wait until the regularly scheduled meeting on April 4th.

Why would the British not want to listen to the Russians and their defense against the accusations leveled by Joe Biden and Zelensky?

It is obviously politically motivated and not a search for the truth of what happened in Bucha and who actually did it.

You would think the International Criminal Court would be dispatching an investigative team to the region, but the court’s chief prosecutor, who happens to be British, has not moved a finger despite the fact he announced back in March that he was going full force investigating war crimes allegations.

I guess by the time chief prosecutor Khan decides to send a team, the alleged crime scene will completely be disturbed, bodies moved, and possible witnesses gone. Very convenient if you ask me.

I have a different theory. Could it be the Ukrainian National Police committed these atrocities in retaliation for possible cooperation with the Russian forces by the citizens of Bucha? It is easy to accuse the Russians when nobody is looking for the truth.

Of course, Biden screams “You saw what happened in Bucha,” and Vladimir Putin “is a war criminal.”  Joe Biden is not seeking peace, he does not want peace, instead he is advocating for more weapons deployments to Ukraine to keep the war going. The longer this goes on, the longer he can try to hide his incompetency from the American people.

If we really want to honor the memory of those who perished in Bucha, we deserve, they deserve for the truth to be told. Unfortunately, Joe Biden, Zelensky, and the bellicose west do not feel the same way.

Desperation at The Oscars

The Irrelevancy Continues…

‘Go on Will, slap me now, like we rehearsed it’ Photo courtesy of naijanewsvibes.com

I have not watched The Oscars in probably a decade. Ever since the Hollywood ‘Woke’ movement decided to quit making entertaining films, instead becoming a fifth column for social decay and moral lecturing, my interest, along with millions of Americans have been one of tuning to something else.

The road to the 2022 Oscars was a rocky one. First, actor Sean Penn, our man in Ukraine, demanded the Academy Awards allowed Ukrainian comedian Zelenski to speak remotely at the Oscars. He threatened to smelt his two best actor Oscars, in public, if the Academy didn’t allowed the comedian to speak.

Sean Penn is a self absorbed buffoon, let us see if he goes through with it, but I highly doubt it. These Hollywood types have lived the lives of so many people other than their own, they have difficulty adjusting to the real world and they think the are living in a perpetual role.

I understand The Oscars is a failed business and they need to do anything possible to garner some attention, but using Will Smith and Chris Rock to do so was such a cheap shot.

The ‘Slap Heard Around the World’ became the #1 media story, even sending the Ukraine conflict into temporary obscurity.

Without going into full details, host Chris Rock made a joke about Will Smith’s wife, when Smith made his way up to receive his Best Oscar award for his portrayal of infamous tennis coach, and father of the Williams sisters, Richard Williams, he slapped Chris Rock in the face and went on an irrational tirade.

The next day it became the story and all the usual media suspects began their guessing games developing their own story lines.

If you believe what happened between Rock and Smith was an spontaneous act, then you have been living in a make believe world yourself.

The Oscars have been a failed product for quite some time. Most people have quit watching and the Academy needed something to spark renewed interest.

In my opinion, after watching the incident, this was staged by the Academy in an effort to bring relevancy to a show not many people care to watch.

The way Smith slapped Rock was laughable and Rock’s reaction even more so. I love my wife to death, and if someone would say something offensive about my wife, my reaction won’t be one of a ‘bitch slapping’, they won’t be able to get up, period.

I was surprised the Academy would use Will Smith as their pawn. After all, Smith lives a pretty private, and for the most part, scandal free life. It was hard to watch the “Fresh Prince” acting like the ‘angry black man’ on stage.

But it seems Hollywood loves to trash every Black role model available. If you watch black oriented television shows, 99% of them portrait black people as drug dealers, killers, gang bangers, pimps, etc.

The days of the Cosby Show, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, 227, Sanford & Son, Amen, and Rock, to name a few, are long gone and Hollywood should be ashamed of themselves and black people even more so for allowing it to happen.

I knew Hollywood and the Academy were a sick and shameless group of people, but this was as, Will Smith would say, a slapped in the face, “Big Willie Style.”