And thank goodness they did. Red State does like to get overexcited, so here are just the key bits:
[RedState] In the aftermath of the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021, American companies governed by woke executives and boards fairly fell over one another to appease the left. In a flurry of virtue signaling rarely seen, company after company declared that they would no longer contribute to the campaign funds of anyone who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
As the Biden bunch began to demonstrate they were not only corrupt to the core but hopelessly inept in the bargain, some companies started pulling back from the precipice of waging an electoral war against the people who were probably going to run Congress in 2024. The Hill reported the companies that pledged to punish Republicans for acting in accordance with their oath of office have slowly been backing off that promise, either directly or indirectly:
Six months after the Capitol attack, only a small number of powerful corporations have made good on their pledge to suspend PAC donations to the 147 Republican politicians who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
Among the 10 biggest corporate PAC donors that pledged to pause their contributions to election objectors, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Verizon have followed through on their promises, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission filings.
Other top PACs that vowed to withhold contributions, such as AT&T, Comcast, General Electric, Home Depot, Pfizer and Walmart, have been bankrolling party committees or leadership PACs that can easily funnel campaign cash to election objectors. Those company PACs have not made direct donations to the politicians’ campaigns.
Now the most significant sign has arrived that the whole benighted effort to blame Republican senators and members of Congress for doing what they are paid to do as well as what they believe is right has come to a screeching halt comes from a whining, mewling article in Rolling Stone titled Big Law Firms Promised to Punish Republicans Who Voted to Overthrow Democracy. Now They’re Donating to Their Campaigns. This is strictly a "reader beware" situation, as Rolling Stone is famous for just making crap up and portraying it as fact;
[Big Law firms] weren’t alone in reacting swiftly to the events of Jan. 6. Major corporations and their lobbying front groups in Washington called the insurrection "appalling," an "assault on our democracy," and "an attack on all those things that people cherish and associate with America." Numerous major corporations from Pfizer to Chevron made pledges to freeze financial contributions to the House and Senate Republicans who had voted against certifying Biden’s election, many of them citing vague or baseless claims of election fraud. But by the fall of this year, those corporations have resumed donations to members of the so-called Sedition Caucus as well as party committees that work to reelect Republican members.
Now, the same pattern is playing out with Big Law.
Why companies are backing away from their intemperate declarations earlier in the year is not a mystery.
Nothing is going Biden’s way.
Like major corporations, Big Law can see what is coming. They can either remain true to their wokeness and find themselves totally shut out when a new Congress takes the reins, or they can quietly renege on their virtue signaling and move on. It is increasingly apparent that sane people don’t consider January 6 an "insurrection," and they don’t care about the silly little "commission" pretending to investigate that event. Voters aren’t going to cast their vote based on a senator or member of Congress having the foresight to try to keep Joey SoftServe out of the White House, and there is no downside to stop play-acting like the Republic was in danger on January 6.
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It's a parliament of whores and you ignore the whores at the top of the heap at your own peril. Always remember that these woke corporate CEOs are just slimy johns.
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^ "So many women will have their hijabs ripped off on public transit, because of the example that Leader McCarthy and Republican caucus is setting right now," she said. "We have a responsibility to show this country that bigotry is unacceptable."
Howls lawmaker (D, Al-Shabob),
"Yo, Po-lice! A MAGA-hat mob
[pix of underserved yeeth
rocking locks and gold teeth]
Has just stolen my Holy Hijab!"
"Well at least they didn't get yer dirty drawers, ma'am, er, peace be upon 'em."
Originally observed in the Dallas Morning News. It's all supply-chain issues and staffing issues. That's all!
[Ay Pee] Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets. I wish I could be 'full of hope' Consumer prices rose 6.8% for the 12 months ending in November, a 39-year high. Many economists expect inflation to remain near this level a few more months but to then moderate through 2022 for a variety of reasons. And they don't see a repeat of the 1970s or early 1980s, when inflation ran above 10% for frighteningly long stretches. Plenty of time until a new regime takes over!
Households could even see relief in some areas within weeks. Prices have dropped on global markets for crude oil and natural gas, which is filtering into lower prices at the pump and for home heating. That should keep inflation somewhat in check, even if prices keep rising elsewhere in the economy.
"This is not going to be an easy fix," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. "Just because inflation will eventually moderate doesn’t mean that prices are going to go down. They’re up. We’re just lowering the rate of change, not the level of prices."
One reason for the moderation, he said, is improving supply chains. They had become ensnarled when the global economy suddenly returned to life following its brief shutdown, and economists hope increasing availability of everything from computer chips to shipping containers will help inflation to ease. That'll put more stuff on the shelves, not more money in pockets to purchase stuff.
"It’s in no one’s interests to have the supply chain as disruptive as it has been," Price said.
Then there's the Federal Reserve. Wall Street expects the Fed to say this upcoming week that it will accelerate its exit from a monthly bond-buying program meant to support the economy. That would open the door for it to begin raising short-term interest rates. How long has the Fed been 'supporting the economy", I wonder?
The U.S. government will also potentially offer less aid to households in 2022, whether that's through child tax credit payments or beefed-up unemployment benefits. That could also lead to fewer purchases by Americans, further lessening the pressure on inflation. Potentially.
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Is this breaking news from 1974 by any chance?
The amount of wishful thinking about inflation never ceases to amaze me. Has no one ever read an economics textbook? Or is everyone just living in Fantasyland nowadays?
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economists hopeincreasing availability of everything from computer chips to shipping containers will help inflation to ease
"Economists hope": This would be comical if these incompetent assholes weren't destroying our country.
Sure, energy prices can temporarily whipsaw based on a meeting in Vienna or a remark by a Gazprom official or a sheik. But there is zero evidence that the supply chain mess is easing. Literally every piece of hard evidence we have -- container ships at sea, scarce inventories, time to market data, depleted store shelves -- everything says the opposite.
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No end in sight. Suppliers already say next year more of the same. Red Bull, Pepsi, and Coke. Democrats never fix anything but will always ask for more money.
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I hear that where historically international shipping prices were $500, they now are $20,000. That will certainly encourage creative answers, answers that do not include China, after which supply chain-induced inflation will fall. But government spending-induced inflation is a good deal less tractable.
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Not gonna stop until the extra money is siphoned off. The way they did that at the end of the 70s was to jack up interest rates. It hurt, but worked. With everyone so in debt to the hilt, it will hurt even worse this time and might actually collapse everything. But this won't stop until balance is once again restored to the books.
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Oil reserves were drained to keep pump prices down until January 1 so 1)Biden and the Dims can enjoy Christmas without catching hell, and 2)the Dims can ramp up the Blame Trump message 3) the DimJanuary 6 (Brownshirt) Commission can lock up any opposition leadership.
After January 1 when winter cold kicks in so will hellish energy prices and energy shortages and Venezuelan style hyper-Inflation.
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Also interest rates will accelerate because of the bill just past pushing the government debt/borrowing through the stratosphere meaning capital will be scarce.
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It already annoys me how the ATM mainly spits out $50 bills unless you ask for just $80. Then you go everywhere and hear "Got anything smaller?" like a broken record. Wait till it's all hundreds, bubbie.
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No. They'll just change how it's calculated -- again -- so they can report prettier numbers.
Due to the fact that Biden gave out way too much free money and nobody wants to work anymore. We are forced to reduce our hours during this week,' the sign on the iHop in Arkansas read
The sign was posted as the Biden administration said employers had added just 210,000 jobs in November which fell short of economists' forecasts
The sign garnered mixed reactions, with some applauding iHop management for being blunt and others saying that frustration is misplaced and inappropriate
One person tweeted they to support the chain for their honesty: 'Kudos to iHop for being truthful and not freaking woke. Think our family of 6 will stop by.'
[IsraelTimes] PowerPoint handed to US House investigation reportedly suggests several options for then-president to pursue to derail Congress’s January 6 certification of Biden’s election win
Former US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s then-chief of staff has reportedly turned over a PowerPoint presentation to the US House committee investigating the January 6 Reichstag Capitol
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Trump was put in to drain the swamp. That includes the whole swamp, Dems and RHINOS. But the swamp had gotten too big because of vast Deep State corruption. Tucker Carlson is going to have several episodes on Senator McConnell's RHINO incompetence. He just had his intro on the subject and it is going be brutal. McConnel failed miserably as a pilitical leader in the aftermath of the massively corrupt 2020 election.
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So apparently:
This did not originate within the White House since this guy only received it via an email.
Was not presented to Trump (they would have mentioned that!)
Was not acted upon.
Did not detail any sort of 'Insurrection' as the star chamber claims.
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Preventative impeachment. Had Trump simply announced his retirement and bought a mountainside villa in Gimmelwald, none of this would be taking place.
Because that's "being prepared." Prepared to use voter fraud and determined to rig the election "by any means necessary."
With preposterous lies about totally-fabricated Russkie plots. With suppression of the genuine and vast evidence of the deleaved Biden family's influence-peddling and money-laundering for the Chinese Communist Party's front organization and half a dozen other foreign state bandits.
With software that allows floating-point tallies of votes.
With four partisan Oligarchs spending over $900 million to teach their paid foot soldiers the arts of "vote harvesting" and "curing" invalid ballots.
With midnight suitcases of ballots and mysterious white vans appearing in only the tipping-point states and only the big city precincts where a swing of 40,000 ballots -- all of them conveniently marked for the retard candidate Biden and no down-ballot candidate at all!
The suppression of the Biden evidence trove -- far more extensive and more horrifying than anything heard in the Watergate tapes -- suppression by the Democrats' media laptops of this prima facie evidence of Joe Biden's blatant lies about not being involved in his son's selling access to the Vice Presidency is sufficient and necessary evidence that the election was thrown.
19% of Democrats who voted for Biden told pollsters that they would not have voted for the muppet had they simply had normal access to normal news reporting on Hunter's laptop and its trove of evidence of Biden's lies about the family's corruption and depravity. Even if that figure's overstated, a swing of just a couple of percentage points in Phoenix, or Atlanta, or Philadelphia, in those cities alone, would have given Emmanuel Goldstein an easy, incontrovertible victory last November.
This kind of massive news suppression and blatant election-rigging -- at the national level -- has never happened in this country. In shabby banana republics or authoritarian states, or corrupt big-city rotten boroughs in this country (cf Cook County IL in 1960), sure.
But never coordinated across multiple states by a national American political party. Until now.
So of course our shit-smeared Congress-liars try to deflect their own wickedness, lies and cheating onto Emmanuel Goldstein with this ridiculous Star Chamber proceedings.
He writes a letter to Queen Elizabeth, apologies for the Ruckus' of 1776 and 1812, inviting the British back to their stolen colonies, re-institutes British Law, vacates the Capitol Building, for the New Parliament and voila no more democrat party to take the blame for all the deep bull manure we are in...fresh new beginning
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd and his Sunday show's guests blamed President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... 's abysmal polling numbers on former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... and warned the American public of "Trump's next coup."
The segment Sunday began citing The Atlantic's cover story, titled "Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun," by staff writer Barton Gellman.
"By way of foundation for all the rest, Trump and his party have convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can thwart their victory at the polls, that tyranny has usurped their government, and that violence is a legitimate response," Todd quoted, asking "hyperbolic or fact?"
MSNBC analyst John Heilemann responded, "fact." He then supported The Atlantic piece's claims. "This is 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms," Heilemann stated on-air. "You put that together with what the president, the former president I should say, and his allies are doing in the political realm, state houses, state legislatures, and the party apparatus to be able to engineer a situation where they are in a stronger position to pull off a coup in 2024 than they were in 2020. That's not hyperbolic at all. These are all facts."
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"You put that together with what the president, the former president I should say"
Freudian slip?
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The UniParty seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in flattening the curve, or slowing the spread, or saving Grandma. We do not seek equal opportunity or equality or diversity or inclusion.
We are interested solely in power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know that no Governor or Mayor or District Attorney or Cabinet Secretary or Congressional Committe Chairman or Assistant Undersecretary to the Secretary of the Vice-Undersecretary ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
There will be no herd immunity. There will be no end to the contagion. There will be no reckoning or restitution or reparations that finally settles the account and closes out the obligation.
Power is here, forever, everywhere, for Power's sake alone.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of lockdowns is lockdowns.
The object of freeing criminals to burn loot and murder is to burn loot and murder.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.
[IndependentSentinel] The House bill is progressive [regressive really] with an "escalating tax on methane emissions by oil and gas producers," according to a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The tax will hit $1,500 per ton by 2025 and the fee is supposed to be a contribution to recent promises made in Glasgow to curb methane emissions.
The cost of the fee will obviously get passed along to the consumer. It will mean even higher energy prices. The Left wants to make fossil fuels so expensive that only the rich can pay for them. About 180 million Americans use natural gas to heat their homes, the report says.
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Methane's a lot more effective greenhouse gas than CO2, so when we capture it and burn it instead of letting it get loose into the atmosphere naturally we are saving the planet... (BTW, one hydrocarbon prospecting tool is to map 'natural' natural gas seeps.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Consumer prices rose 6.8% for the 12 months ending in November, a 39-year high. Many economists expect inflation to remain near this level a few more months but to then moderate through 2022 for a variety of reasons. And they don't see a repeat of the 1970s or early 1980s, when inflation ran above 10% for frighteningly long stretches.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
