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LinkSwarm for January 21, 2022

Friday, January 21st, 2022

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! Biden’s vaccine mandate receives another blow in court, Biden stumbles his way through another press conferences, and a Joe Rogan podcast lays bare social justice perfidy.

  • Federal judge blocks Biden’s employee mandate.

    After SCOTUS last week rejected the administration’s attempt to force corporations to abide by the mandate via OSHA, a federal court in Texas has issued an injunction against Biden’s jab mandate for federal workers, the other part of his administration’s attempts to force vaccines on reluctant Americans – a strategy that Biden has already abandoned in favor of providing at-home COVID tests to all Americans.

    Biden issued both mandates by executive order back in September.

    Trump-appointed Judge Jeffrey Brown of the US Court for the Southern District of Texas said the case was not about whether individuals should be vaccinated or even about federal power more broadly. Instead, he said it’s about “whether the president can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment,” Brown wrote.

    “That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”

  • James Lindsay (AKA @Conceptual James) did an interview with Joe Rogan that may be as devastating to Social Justice Warriors as Rogan’s McCullough and Malone interviews were to the Official Flu Manchu Narrative. Some excerpts:

    How Ibram X. Kendi unwisely picked a Twitter fight with Jack Posobiec:

    How CNN destroyed CNN:

    On How Google lies to you and DuckDuckGo doesn’t:

    On the impossibility of telling parody from reality:

    Including a shout-out to the Babylon Bee.

  • Biden had a press conference where he mixed some lies in with the usual rambling.

    ‘My plan cuts the deficit, and it boosts the economy by getting more people into the workforce’

    Biden and his aides received intense scrutiny in the fall after they clung to a line that claimed the president’s spending plans would cost zero dollars — even after multiple analyses found that was not the case.

    Biden seemingly recycled that line during his press conference Wednesday when he claimed more than once that his proposals would not add to the deficit.

    The Congressional Budget Office found that the Build Back Better Act would add $3 trillion to the deficit by 2031 if its programs were permanent rather than allowed to expire on what critics have described as artificially short time frames designed to give the bill the appearance of costing less.

    If the programs expired as written by Democrats, the Build Back Better Act would still add $367 billion to the deficit by 2031, according to the CBO.

    Experts have also debunked Biden’s claim that the bill would boost the economy overall.

    The Penn-Wharton Budget Model from the University of Pennsylvania found that Biden’s plan would reduce America’s gross domestic product over several decades and would even slightly lower hourly wages over the same time period.

  • Focus group shows that independents (people who vote for both Obama and Trump) hate Biden’s America.

    these independents are “resigned rejecters” — deeply pessimistic about the state of the country, deeply disappointed by President Biden, and about as dissatisfied with the status quo as one can get.

    Alice, a 60-year-old Latina from New York who works as a supervisor for homeless services, described her community as returning to an almost-lawless Hobbesian state* of the strong dominating the weak through force, violence, and intimidation: “I think they’ve taken us back to cave-man time, where you would walk around with a club — ‘I want what you have.’ You’re not even safe to walk around and go to the train station, because somebody might throw you off the train, okay? It’s a regression.”

    Dickie, a 38-year-old white financial analyst from Texas concurred: “When Alice was talking about the cave-man thing, I can agree with that. I’ve had my bike stolen here in Austin, in a very gentrified neighborhood, four different times in the last seven, eight months. Things are kind of chaotic. I feel like there’s no rules, really.”

    Twelve of the 14 said the level of crime is up in America today compared to a year ago.

    If statements like that aren’t a flashing neon sign declaring “DO SOMETHING ABOUT CRIME!” I don’t know what is.

  • “How well do the SARS-CoV-2 shots work against the Omicron virus variant? The Danish study results shown in the graph found the Pfizer and Moderna shots provide some protection for a couple months, followed by a higher risk of infection than no shots at all. I don’t call that ‘working.'” (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
  • An exiting resident laments the decline of Portland:

    

  • Speaking of Democrat-run hellholes in the Pacific northwest: “Meet The Seattle Schools Woke Indoctrination Czar Who Married A Child Molester.”

    Despite decades of the most aggressive equity programs anyone could ask for, Seattle’s racial disparities are among the worst in the nation – and they’re getting worse, not better.

    At the forefront of Seattle Public Schools’ (SPS) initiatives was Tracy Castro-Gill, until recently its director of ethnic studies, who represented herself as a fierce Chicana who overcame homelessness and was willing to take on racism no matter who she had to battle, turning schools into vehicles for social change.

    Castro-Gill, it turned out, was a perennially unhappy toxic liar, one who misrepresented her background to the point that her own father compared her to Rachel Dolezal, and who was ultimately pushed out of her job for repeated misconduct. A focus on racial oppression did not create resiliency, but rather despondency, with Castro-Gill and three other racial justice leaders going on paid leave from SPS for mental health issues in 2019 alone.

    As Castro-Gill used children for politics in the workplace, her personal life also raised questions about the costs that can incur. She married a convicted child molester and moved her young daughter in with him. Then, her previous ex-husband told me, she pressured her child, who had serious mental impairments, to become gender-nonbinary.

    The academic achievement of Seattle’s youth plummeted as she implemented initiatives like replacing math instruction with courses on “power and oppression.” But in this world, there was no such thing as failing: Those gaps were used to justify still more jobs and efforts like hers.

  • FBI raids home and office of Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar. Hmmmm…
  • “Texas Secretary of State Finds Over 11,000 Potential Non-Citizen Voter Registrations.”
  • “Texas has regained all lost pandemic jobs while New York trails far behind.”
  • Related: New York City fines wrong woman $259,000 for violations by her neighbor. Bonus: They couldn’t correct the record for 20 years.
  • Criminal tries to rob a house in Arlington, Texas, where he wins stupid prizes. (Hat tip: 357 Magnum.)
  • Jordan Peterson resigns from professorship at University of Toronto. What are the odds he ends up at the University of Austin?
  • Heh:

  • The Sex in the City reboot characters are the same age as The Golden Girls were in Season One.
  • Meatloaf, RIP. For a guy I thought of more as a singer, he had a long, active, and actually pretty impressive acting career. (“His name is Robert Paulsen!”) Only a small number of you will get this:

  • “Biden Outperforms Nation’s Expectations For First Year By Still Being Alive.”
  • “In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN.”
  • “The whole thing sounds sketchy.”

    (Hat tip: Instapundit.)

  • Our canine friend lays down the law:

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