Ten Piece Nuggets

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by thependulumswings staff

You’ve waited far too long. Nuggets, all ten, are spiced just right for your consumption below.

During a portion of an interview with CBS News aired on Monday’s edition of “Red and Blue,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warned that while abortion is an important issue, Democrats “have got to do more” on the economy. How much more? Haven’t they done enough? That Inflation Reduction Act should have done the trick by now.
In a quickly-reversed policy move, the web’s leading payments processor, PayPal, announced it would NOT deduct $2,500 from users who violate its acceptable use policy, which includes bans on spreading “misinformation,” “hate,” or anything else the company deemed “unfit for publication.” Wall St. and Main St. took notice of the nonsense. Apparently, free speech would have cost $2500 until smarter people got involved.
Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian Automotive said on Friday that it is recalling nearly all of its vehicles because the company had improperly installed fasteners, which could cause the loss of steering control. It is their third recall since launching in 2020. Wall St and Main St took notice of the incompetence. The start-up’s stock is off 67% year to date after soaring in 2021.
The Chicks who used to be called The Dixie Chicks endorsed Beto O’Rourke Saturday night at a concert north of Houston. It didn’t go over too well. O’Rourke. who trails incumbent Greg Abbott by nearly double digits. was audibly booed louder than a smattering of claps. Isn’t “The Chicks” an offensive name as well?
During an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Sunday,” Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams said she opposed restrictions on abortion. She stated that “arbitrary standards of timelines ignore the medical reality that it is a fallacy we know exactly when a pregnancy starts.” If she fails again at running for office, maybe she can enter the field of medical research as she has a bit to learn.
Sixty-two percent of voters say President Joe Biden’s economy is deteriorating just 29 days from the midterm elections, a Civiqs poll found Monday. People, we are told over and over, vote with their wallets first and foremost. Maybe Bernie is right. But, he’s too far left to do what is right by the government to help the economy. What is that? Stay the hell out and stop printing money would be a great start.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon agrees. He stated that he believes that the U.S. is “likely” to enter a recession “six, nine months from now” in a Monday CNBC interview. Was the Fed too late getting started and will they be too late slowing down? BBR has no economists on staff, but we’re guessing that the answers are yes and yes.
Twitter didn’t want to be outdone by PayPal. It took down a tweet posted by the Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, “Today, we released an analysis on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines the public needs to be aware of. This analysis showed an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39. FL will not be silent on the truth.” Twitter wanted the good doc to be silent. But, then it reversed its course and reposted it later Monday. Maybe Stacey Adams could go to work for Twitter if her medical research career doesn’t work out.
Across the pond, The Telegraph, the country’s best-selling broadsheet(the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages), published an article by Associate Editor Camilla Tominey suggesting that “Biden’s qualities for the Oval Office are almost non-existent.” They called old Joe “useless and nasty.” Ouch. Deceased Rep. Jackie Walorski would have objected to such harsh words. Where’s Jackie? Two words.
Five years after women’s stories about him made the #MeToo movement explode, sexy Harvey Weinstein, the bad actor, is going on trial in the city where he once was a fixture at the Oscars. Already serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York, the 70-year-old former movie mogul faces four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts involving five women. What a low-life guy he was, and always will be.

Robin Hood Rides Again

Posted on April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 by thependulumswings staff

Politicians make strange bedfellows. What’s old is new.

Do you know what you get when you cross-breed two old-school famous sayings? You get Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez(AOC).

Old Bernie turns 80 this coming September. He’s been doing all of the Vermont people’s business since 1991 in one or the other Halls of Congress. That’s a smooth 30 years.

**NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 19: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) endorses Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a campaign rally.**

Young AOC turns 32 this coming October. She’s been doing some of the New York people’s business since 2019 in the House of Representatives. That’s two years and counting.

President Joe Biden revealed his $2 trillion-plus infrastructure plan late last week shortly after the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill two weeks prior. Never mind that the relief bill only had 9% of the money earmarked for direct money to the citizens nor that that infrastructure plan (dubbed the American Jobs Plan) has only about 25% for traditional (roads, bridges, airports) infrastructure repair or improvements.

A BBR staffer bumped into a U.S. Rep Saturday who will remain nameless. That Congressperson summed the giveaways up perfectly, “you can sell anything you want when you use the words ‘Covid relief.’ And who can possibly be against ‘jobs’?” Indeed. Sounds like a chicken in every pot and pork for all.

But wait, there’s more! Or at least AOC and Bernie wish it to be so.

AOC applauded Biden’s “vision” on the infrastructure plan but exclaimed that it is not sufficient and “needs to be way bigger.” She went on, “we’re the richest country in the world, it should be $10 trillion.”

Senator Sanders said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he was working to include “human infrastructure” into President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package. “One of the areas that I am working on right now is the need to expand Medicare in order to provide dental care and hearing aids and eyeglasses for the elderly. Is that infrastructure? I think it is. Look, Jake, the truth is, in so many ways, we are behind many other countries throughout the world in providing for working families and the elderly and the children. And I think now is the time to begin addressing our physical infrastructure and our human infrastructure.”

Who knew infrastructure had so many definitions? And, if you can’t hear people blowing horns at you nor see the red light in front of you how can you take advantage of all that new infrastructure? We digress.

Is it any wonder that AOC backed Sanders’s latest failed bid to reach the Democratic nomination for President?

AOC called us rich and therefore we snap our fingers and can afford it. Oh, to be young and naive all over again.

Sanders makes it overtly simple. He is a Socialist.

Biden said no one making under $400k will have to pay for any of it. Well, the corporate tax of currently 21% recommended returning to the previous 28% might cost the consumer a titch we suppose.

“No president has ever raised business taxes to recover from an economic crisis,” Rep. Kevin Brady, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said. “This couldn’t come at a worse time.” Details, details.

In 13th Century England, Robin Hood robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Supposedly.

Robinhood.com, the investor website, got in trouble playing games with GameStop stock a few weeks back.

And now this young (AOC) and old(Sanders) Robin Hood duo are playing a different game that needs to stop.

Margaret Thatcher knew as much many, many moons ago. She said, “the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”