Biden Claims He's Seen No Evidence that Unemployment Benefits are Discouraging People from Returning to Work

Biden Claims He's Seen No Evidence that Unemployment Benefits are Discouraging People from Returning to Work

Frequent viewers of cable news television have heard repeated claims that the reason why unemployment numbers remain at the very high level of six percent, is that unemployment benefits are discouraging people from returning to work. President Joe Biden aimed to squash that idea, however, during a midday address about jobs and government assistance to help a cratered economy emerge from the ill effects of Covid-19.

Let's fire all these Republicans so they can see how good unemployment benefits really are. - Tea Pain tweet

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• There were at least 9 mass shootings across the US this weekend
• DeSantis signs bill banning gun regulations by local governments
• Far-right using COVID conspiracy theories to lure young -UK police 
• Russian Criminal Group Suspected Over Cyberattack That Forced Shutdown of Top U.S. Pipeline
• Brian Kilmeade Calls For Retaliation After Russia-Suspected Cyberattack: 'Next Thing It's Gonna Be the Hoover Dam'
• Queen's first cousin allegedly trading on links to Putin and monarchy, UK media report

She gave a recon tour of the Capitol a day before the armed insurrection.

She declared it was 1776 the morning of the armed insurrection.

She live-tweeted Nancy Pelosi’s whereabouts during the armed insurrection.

How is Lauren Boebert still a member of Congress? - Andrea Junker

 

Queen Agrees With GOP On Photo Voter IDs. 

Britons will have to show photo ID to vote in future general elections, ministers are poised to confirm this week, as a means of tackling fraud which critics claim could deter poorer and ethnic minority voters from taking part in democracy.

The proposal is to be included in Tuesday’s Queen’s speech, which will set out the government’s post-pandemic priorities and the laws it intends to pass in the forthcoming parliamentary session.

Nancy Pelosi will be live tweeting Lauren Boebert's location when Lauren goes to prison. - BlackKnight10K

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Kevin McCarthy Confirms Support for Stefanik Bid to Replace Liz Cheney: 'We Need a Conference That's United'
• Trump amplifies attacks on Cheney ahead of key vote
• Distortions in census numbers give a boost to Team Trump
• Former AG Bill Barr Reportedly Threatened to Resign Over Trump's Push to Fire Chris Wray
• Arizona Republicans are getting nervous about ballot audit as they become a laughingstock: report
• South Carolina will close state government offices and some local government offices Monday to mark Confederate Memorial Day

Republicans to Liz Cheney (with fingers in ears): "La-la-la, can't HEAR you! Can't HEEEAR you!" - Stephen King

 

This Republican May Be A Witness In Kevin McCarthy's Trial

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Monday said he warned House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that his words would lead to violence on Jan. 6 but that his concerns were brushed away.

“A few days before Jan 6, our GOP members had a conference call. I told Kevin that his words and our party’s actions would lead to violence on January 6th,” Kinzinger wrote in a tweet.

Right now, it's basically the Titanic. We're in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it's fine. Meanwhile, Trump's running around trying to find women's clothing and get on the first lifeboat. - GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger

 

 Trump Demands To See Liz Cheney’s Birth Certificate. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden hits 63 percent approval rating in new AP poll
• Exclusive: Pro-Biden group launches family reunification campaign
• Biden administration to protect LGBT people against healthcare bias
• Symone Sanders 'hurt' at being passed over for press secretary: report

Fauci Says That Despite Loosening Covid Restrictions He Will Still Distance From Rand Paul. - Andy Borowitz

 

What Will Manchin Do?

President Biden is having a one-on-one meeting with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday to discuss his infrastructure proposal, the White House said, a discussion that is likely to cover disagreements over the corporate tax rate.

G.O.P. Claims Biden Is Artificially Inflating Job-Approval Rating By Displaying Competence. - Andy Borowitz

 

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Business/Tech News

• Pipeline shutdown prompts gas price fears
• Chipotle raising pay, resulting in $15 average hourly wage
• Norwegian Cruise Line threatens to keep ships out of Florida over Ron DeSantis’ lax COVID-19 vaccination standards
• Jeff Bezos Building $500 Million Superyacht (Twice What He Paid for the Washington Post): Report
• California man bought Lamborghini, luxury cars with PPP loan, prosecutors say

Conservatives Panicking After Every Member Of Republican Party Ousted For Insufficient Loyalty To Trump. - The Onion

 

Why Is California Having A Recall Election for Governor?

California’s budget is in the black — by a staggering amount.

A state that expected perhaps the most severe budget crunch in American history instead has a more than $75 billion budget surplus, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Monday, after a booming stock market and better-than-anticipated tax revenues over the pandemic-plagued year.

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Odd News

• Michigan UFO Sightings Have Increased
• Rare calico lobster rescued by Red Lobster workers in Virginia
• Ohio man allegedly posed as CIA, FBI, and DEA in a single traffic stop
• Illinois 12-year-old builds ventilator using Lego parts
• Mississippi school seeks world record for jambalaya

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The Art of balancing.

Peace.

Fox News made me do it: Capitol attack suspect pulls ‘Foxitis’ defense

Fox News made me do it: Capitol attack suspect pulls ‘Foxitis’ defense

Anthony Antonio, who faces five charges over role in January riot, ‘started believing what was being fed to him’, lawyer says

Can’t one of these billionaires just buy Fox and throw it away? - Jay Arnold

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Sixth grade girl opens fire at middle school in Idaho, injuring 3
• Derek Chauvin and three other ex-officers are indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the death of George Floyd
• Birmingham police officer calls Joe Biden, Democratic Party the ‘enemy of the United States of America’
• True U.S. Death Toll From Covid is More Than 900,000, Study Finds

IDEA: If you incite an attempted overthrow of the U.S. government, you lose your Secret Service protection. - Middle Age Riot

 

The Former Guy Gets Caught By FEC
After a New York Times investigation highlighted how former President Donald Trump’s campaign used a shady fundraising tactic — prechecked recurring donation boxes — the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has taken a rare unanimous vote to recommend to Congress that they pass a law banning the practice.

Wouldn't it be ironic if that Chinese Rocket landed on Mar a lago? - Peter Chan

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Liz Cheney secretly organized key move to block Trump from using military to overturn election: report
• Texas House Approves GOP-Backed Election Law
• Lindsey Graham: GOP can't 'move forward without President Trump'
• Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp Losing Ground Among His Party's Voters: Survey
• Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Batsh** Vaccine Fearmongering, Blames Biden For His Inability to Understand Facts
• Chuck Todd BURIES Push to Oust Liz Cheney, Says It Will Destroy GOP: Trump Will ‘Bankrupt' Republicans Like He Did His Hotels
• GOP Rep. Mo Brooks is dodging Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell's attempts to serve him with a lawsuit over the Capitol riot, attorney says
• Missouri House passes bill to create 'Rush Limbaugh Day'
• How Elise Stefanik – Liz Cheney's likely GOP leadership replacement – went from moderate to MAGA

Elise Stefanik is relentlessly sucking up to Trump because that really paid off for Mike Pence. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

The Feds Need To End This Comedy of Errors

The Maricopa County vote recount has taken a surprising turn, with UV lights and high-tech cameras being deployed as workers comb through ballots, checking for traces of bamboo fibers in the paper.

The reason? To investigate a new theory that 40,000 ballots for Joe Biden were flown in from Asia and smuggled into Arizona's polls.

Has anyone checked on Caitlyn Jenner’s hangar neighbor? 

Did he make it to Sedona, Arizona?

Has he avoided seeing the homeless? - Jo

 

 

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"The truth shall set you free.”

The modern Republican Party: “Hold my beer.” - Dan Rather

 

Rock The Voter News

• Democrats on FEC blast decision to drop probe into Trump hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels: ‘Defies reality’
• Trump signed off on last-minute Medicaid changes. Now Biden faces the legal challenges
• Psaki signals she'll step down next year

The Republicans are out of control because they have paid no price for their evil. - David W. Pippy tweet

 

 

Apparently, Gov. DeSantis' Former Staffers Are Suffering From PTSD
A number of former staffers for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) have reportedly formed a “support group” in which they reflect on their hardships and difficult experiences from their time working for the governor...

Trump keeps comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln.  Really?  Well, I would like to point out that none of Lincoln's followers carried Confederate flags. - Stephen Colbert

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Business/Tech News

• Chamber calls on states to scrap $300 boost to jobless benefits
• Yellen taps former Fed official as acting comptroller
• Washingtonian Staff Revolts After CEO Seems to Threaten Their Jobs if They Don't Return to Office
• Elon Musk could make fireworks on 'SNL.' Investors are betting on it

I hope after the red states secede from the Union, we’ll still have an open-door immigration policy for all their best and brightest to move to the good states, like we do now. - Jay Black

 

 

What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein's Relationships Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Melinda Gates met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alongside her husband Bill in New York City and soon after said she was furious at the relationship between the two men, according to people familiar with the situation.

If they really did find fungi on Mars, can they please call them Marshrooms. - George Takei

 

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Odd News

• Alabama Legislature votes to legalize medical marijuana
• Man faces federal charges for organizing 153-person trip to Grand Canyon
• Man sets Guinness record for fastest time to build Lego's largest set
• Sharks are among a group of animals with a 6th sense that humans don't have - they use Earth's magnetic field to navigate
• 'He wouldn't let go': Florida woman bitten by shark speaks out after terrifying encounter
• Sherpa guide scales Mount Everest for record 25th time

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The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of democracy.

Peace.

South Carolina House votes to add firing squad as execution method

South Carolina House votes to add firing squad as execution method

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs — a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation.

Again, Republican "Christians" are not following the teachings of Christ.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Fox News Hosts Praise Firing Squads: Now You Can ‘Shoot ’Em, Stick ’Em Or Fry ’Em’
• LA sheriff's deputies accused of harassing relatives of people killed by deputies
• Officer who responded to Capitol mob urges leaders to recognize 'courage' of law enforcement
• Grandma gossip helped lead FBI to Capitol riot suspect, officials say
• Blinken: US stands with Ukraine in face of Russian aggression

Happy 4-month anniversary to Lauren Boebert live-tweeting Nancy Pelosi's whereabouts during a f*cking insurrection. how is this noxious gun-worshiping bobblehead still a member of congress. - Jeff Tiedrich

Young Guns Are Going To Mess Up Texas, Even More.
The Texas Senate has voted to advance a bill that will allow people to carry handguns in the state without a license, setting up the state to be the largest in the country to allow permitless carry.

Let’s be honest: The toxic blight of Fox News can’t keep going on like this if we’re going to keep our democracy. - Steven Beschloss 

Republican Shenanigans

• McConnell says he's '100 percent' focused on 'stopping' Biden's administration
• Jim Jordan: ‘The Votes Are There’ to Oust Cheney from House GOP Leadership
• Colorado House chamber erupts after member calls another 'Buckwheat'
• Ron DeSantis Signs Controversial Election Bill in Fox & Friends Exclusive Surrounded by Cheering Fans
• Pence takes 1st steps in potential White House race
• Tucker Carlson's Wild Vaccine Speculation Draws Contempt: 'Dangerous Misinformation and Disgusting'
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta Torches 'Reckless' Tucker Carlson: We Could Be in 'Much Better Position' Without Him
• Brianna Keilar Brutally Mocks Josh Hawley's Cancel Claims: Getting Away from Him is 'Like Trying to Escape the Kardashians'
• Giuliani allies press Trump team to help foot his growing legal bills: report
• Caitlyn Jenner tells Hannity friends are fleeing California because of homeless people

Caitlyn Jenner to Hannity: "My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, where are you going? And he says, 'I'm moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can't take it anymore. I can't walk down the streets and see the homeless'"

Voting Rights Group Sue Florida
Voting rights groups on Thursday filed a pair of lawsuits targeting a restrictive GOP-crafted voting bill, just moments after it was signed into law by Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. 

Imagine being so out of touch you go on national television to talk about how you feel bad for your rich friends because they have to look at poor people. - Ida Skibenes

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden to push his big infrastructure plan in GOP stronghold
• The DNC is reportedly preparing for a potential 2024 presidential run from MyPillow's Mike Lindell
• Feinstein Says 82-Year-Old Breyer's Retirement Would be a 'Great Loss' for Supreme Court
• Majority of Americans still wear masks at all times despite loosened restrictions in states: poll

Liz Cheney is urging Republicans not to abandon the rule of law. Unfortunately, for the past decade, she’s portrayed the rule of law as an mere inconvenience invoked by weaklings, and the Trumpified party that now exists is the one she helped build. - Adam Serwer

 

It Would Be Nice If The Arizona Private Vote Counters Get Raided By The Feds

The U.S. Department of Justice expressed concern Wednesday about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate’s unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County.,,, (the) contractor may run afoul of federal law requiring ballots to remain in the control of elections officials for 22 months.

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I'm a small business owner. We've received 300 applications per job opening this year. We pay a living wage with benefits.

There is no labor shortage. There's a shortage of people willing to work for $7.25/hour with no benefits for power-hungry bosses. - Dan Price

Business/Tech News

• Millions Are Unemployed. Why Can’t Companies Find Workers?
• Chicken sandwich wars, labor shortage send poultry prices higher
• Defense contractor Honeywell fined $13M for sharing documents with China, other countries
• 1 in 6 US workers say they keep unwanted jobs for health insurance
• Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is auctioning a seat on a summer space trip

If a bakery can deny a wedding cake to a gay couple, then Facebook can deny anyone an account. See how this works? - Mohamad Safa

This Is The Result When Critical Thinking Skills Are Absent

A Twitter account reportedly created by the staff of former President Donald Trump has been suspended a day after its creation.

The account, @DJTDEsk, was believed to have been established to post statements from Mr Trump and broadcast updates on his new website ‘From the Desk of Donald Trump’.

‘Care To Explain?’ Ask Conservative Parents After Finding Vaccine Card In Son’s Underwear Drawer. - The Onion

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Odd News

• Woman from Mali gives birth to 9 babies in Morocco
• Goats return to Reagan Library to eat and create a firebreak
• Flock of giant California condors trash woman's home
• Divers discover massive thigh bone from Ice Age mammoth in Florida river
• Spanish confectioners recreate Picasso's 'Guernica' in chocolate
• Kids quickly wear down armed school bus hijacker by ‘asking lots of questions’

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Lómagnúpur Mountain in Iceland sure knows how to make a statement.

Peace.