Sunday's Stampede of Absurdities: The Democrat Party Woke Social Model is Collapsing
Before we proceed to the absurdities, we should note the passing of former Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.
Sen. Hatch was a truly great American, and we should keep his family in our prayers. RIP.
Now, onto the absurdities…
If this surprises you, you haven’t been paying enough attention:
Shocking, I know, but states whose governors and legislatures provide the people a great deal of economic freedoms and which didn’t follow the Fauci orthodoxy during the COVID pandemic, i.e., Red States, are recovering far more rapidly than the authoritarian Blue States.
Who could’ve ever guessed that might happen?
Here’s an excerpt from the story:
The employment situation is not as rosy as it may seem. There is a wide disparity among the states that can be explained by how much economic freedom they allow, including how severely each state shut down its economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Consider that the U.S. remains 1.6 million jobs short of our February 2020 high, just before the pandemic came to our shores. Since then, our population has grown by 3.8 million people but the labor force shrank by 174,000 workers.
The picture diverges for states. As demonstrated in our 2021 study, the states with the worst job recovery also imposed the harshest COVID-19 measures.
For example, two states with the severest lockdowns — California and New York — are also experiencing two of the worst job recoveries, with unemployment rates at least a full percentage point above the national average of 3.6% based on the newly released March 2022 data.
Conversely, Utah and Nebraska, who are among the states with the least severe lockdown policies, are tied with the lowest unemployment rate of 2.0%, well below the national average.
In measuring how states have rebounded, a better metric than the unemployment rate is the recovery in private employment. Only 16 states have recovered all the private jobs lost due to the shutdowns compared to February 2020. But if we account for each state’s pre-pandemic job growth trajectory, our analysis shows that Montana and Utah stand above the rest for exceeding our forecast of their private employment.
Idaho follows closely behind Montana and Utah, and then Wyoming, North Carolina, Mississippi, South Dakota, Arkansas, Maine, and Georgia to round out the top 10 performing states. Except for Maine and North Carolina, each one has a Republican trifecta (GOP controls both chambers of the legislature and the governor’s office).
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Meanwhile, in Texas…
America continues to be divided by authoritarian Democrats into the free states and the not-free states, and this growing divide in comparative job growth and economic progress is just one symptom of that reality. This is how mass migration between states and civil wars come about.
The Democrat-pandering media are dying. Netflix has lost 200,000 subscribers and $50 billion in market cap over the last couple of weeks, CNN+ got cancelled entirely and Disney has dropped $41 billion in shareholder value. Meanwhile, here’s what is happening with Joe Rogan and Spotify:
Excerpt from that story:
In Friday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the comic and UFC commentator was asked by his guest, British political commentator Douglas Murray, about the uproar.
“You have been put through the wringer since we last met,” Murray says. “They did a number on you. Wow.”
“It’s interesting, my subscriptions went up massively — that’s what’s crazy,” Rogan replies. “During the height of it all, I gained two million subscribers … Yeah, [the media] went for it. It’s also fortunate that the people who went for it were CNN. They’re so untrustworthy and people know how biased they are and socially weird their anchors are.”
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We have a great cultural shift happening in our country in response to all the woke nitwittery happening in our schools, government and entertainment industry. The Democrats were ok until they got caught abusing children in the public schools. Once that was revealed, all bets were off. You don’t get to do that, folks.
Here is how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis put it on Saturday:
Again, Democrats: You don’t get to do that. You just don’t.
Here’s another aspect of the Democrat agenda that gets no traction in the general public today, and frankly never has:
When the economy is good, people will put up with Democrats spending their money chasing their green fantasies. But when the Dems print so much money that inflation gets out of control, the public’s patience for such foolishness grows very thin very fast. This isn’t complicated.
The public is also running thin on patience for Democrat activist hacks in the corrupt news media like MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhl, who tweeted this on Friday:
Ok, so, to be clear, Ruhl’s hit job on Gov. DeSantis is that he is not a corrupt politician who uses his office to get special privileges for his kids.
Am I missing anything here? Didn’t think so. This is really how these mental midgets think.
Finally, the New York Times carries an expose’ today on former German Chancellor Helmut Schroder, the predecessor to Angela Merkel who sold his influence to the Russians and rendered his country dangerously dependent on Russian oil, gas and coal:
Here’s an excerpt:
“He took advantage of the reputation and influence of the chancellor’s office and offered himself up as an agent for Russian interests to get rich,” said Norbert Röttgen, a conservative lawmaker, former minister and longtime Russia hawk.
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Huh. Sounds just like someone named Clinton or Biden, right?
Right.
That is all.
The Dimocrats always, always push their insane ideas too far & end up shooting themselves in the head.
RIP Senator Hatch. You were a great one for our times.