Bullet Points

It’s a Sticky Wicket

Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime Minister, refused to meet with old Pedo Joe, who is visiting Hungary. Orban thinks that Europe has been weakened in the past year, partly because the FJB regime imposed its interests in Brussels at the expense of European interests, and that the response to the war, the “tsunami of sanctions,” had begun to weaken the European economy, while America, rich in cheap energy, was unaffected. Moreover, the prime minister is reported to have said that Europe’s military strength had also begun to weaken, because the war had reduced the European armies’ stocks, and they had not been replenished.

On the flip side,  Russia, the principal enemy, has also been significantly weakened and degraded both in terms of personnel and equipment.

Bullet Points:

** Federal Workers want to stay home. It is much easier to do nothing when you are not being watched. If you thought that government was inefficient before, wait until they all stay home. Then again, maybe if they all stay home and unplug their phones, it will limit the harm that they do. Your tax dollars at work.

** Regardless of the intermittency of the weather, the electrical grid is expected to deliver continuous and uninterrupted electricity no matter what the weather. Power grid blackouts are driven by the rapid retirement of small acreage coal and natural gas power plants.

Wind and solar electricity generation require vast amounts of pristine acreage, but due to the intermittency and variability of breezes and sunshine being a significant deficiency, wind turbines and solar panels do not work most of the time.

This is illustrative of why a myopic focus on renewables for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions through a deepening dependence on the intermittency of wind and solar electricity must ultimately come to terms with the laws of physics and the high financial and environmental cost of achieving a reliable electrical grid with these technologies.

** (NY Post) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer became the latest Democrat to condemn House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol Building. “The speaker is needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11,” Schumer said in a Wednesday letter to Senate Democrats.

** When you are the “spare”, you seem to have a need to call attention to yourself.  In the former prince’s memoir he regales his readers with the body count that he racked up. Yeah. I’m sure that the royal brat was the only one shooting. And when he writes of killing Afghans, I can’t help but wonder whose side they were on. More likely a platoon of ANA Commando Corps types coming back in from patrol.

** Just another empty suit –archetype [ahr-ki-tahyp], noun: the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.

If there is one thing all Americans now know about transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, it is that he is massively, moronically incompetent but thinks he is the smartest, most impressive person on the planet.  As Victor Davis Hanson has noted, he is “the epitome of the empty résumé class.”  He had no qualifications for the job beyond the fact that he ticks a couple of identity politics boxes, he’s gay and proud of it, and he’s a mind-numbed leftist.  He is, therefore, the perfect book cover for the Biden Cabinet catalog.

Like Biden and the rest of his Cabinet, Buttigieg was hired for all the wrong reasons and is thoroughly incompetent for the job he holds.  Chosen for reasons other than expertise or competence, it explains the utter failure of the Biden regime on every issue that matters: national and border security, health and safety, military readiness, food and energy security, inflation, economic management, and dangerous involvement in a foreign war that may well lead to WWIII.  Perhaps that is the goal, given this regime’s failure on every front.  Distraction from our $31T in debt?  Distraction from the fact that the mandated vaccines are killing young people at a 40% excess mortality rate?  Distraction from the open border that has ushered into the country five million unvetted migrants and tons of fentanyl that is killing 100K people a year?  All of the above?  It’s a good article.  You can read it all at American Thinker.

** Politization of BATFE – “We did not become ATF agents so we could collect data, ensure firearms are in compliance, seize trigger groups, argue about what a firearm is or is not, seize firearms for reasons other than prosecuting criminals or spend countless hours inputting data to justify someone else’s existence in HQ,” he wrote. “We became ATF agents so we could work the streets and smack evil in the mouth. We took this job because we are willing to risk it all and hope that we can make the streets just a little bit safer for the law-abiding, upstanding citizens of the USA.”

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