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1/8/22… 14,723.68
1/1/22… 14,718.28
6/27/13… 15,000.00 |
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(THE DOW JONES
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36,211.66; 1/1/22… 36,359.56; 6/27/13… 15,000.00) |
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LESSON for January 8,
2022 – “AMERICA’S PAPER ANNIVERARY! (Part One – Let the Big Dawgs Eat!)”
One year ago, January
6th, 2021, one hundred Senators gathered at the United States Capitol – there to
ratify the election of Joseph R. Biden as President by virtue of his November
electoral victory over incumbent Donald J. Trump.
Also gathered were some
three hundred thousand of MAGA’s bestest (if not
necessarily brilliant)... die-hard Trump supporters who believed that they had
been ordained by God and Djonald Unchained to protest
the electoral “steal” and save America from itself. Personally invited to the convocation by the
lame duck himself, many were out for a lark on a brisk, sunny afternoon in D.C.
but more than a few had come to this rallying point determined to stop the
steal by any means necessary. They wore
flak jackets, helmets and military garb, firearms were passed around to a
designated few and many others... seeing what was going down after the
President ordered them to follow him to the Capitol and “fight like Hell!”...
gathered broomsticks and bedknobs, fire extinguishers
and American flags and, even after Mister Trump slipped away to return to the
White House and watch the proceedings on television, they pressed onward to the
building where Djonald’s own, anointed Vice, Michael
Pence... a Godly, very Godly man, all agreed... would be expected to confirm
the vote of the Electoral College, confirming the vote of the public, to
inaugurate the former Vice, now civilian, Joe Biden as President.
Or maybe not, they
hoped.
When Vice Mike betrayed
his President and refused to stop the process, up to 3,000 Party of Trump POTheads stormed the Capitol, battled the outnumbered
police and scurried hither and thither looking for Senators to kill. They chanted: “Hang Mike Pence!”, brought out
the nooses and smashed through the Capitol windows, flooding into the building
to search for the perpetrators of the steal; failing to find and punish the
evildoers only through the agency of a Capitol Cop who led them on a wild goose
chase up and down the stairs, through the corridors of power and into and out
of the offices of the elite while the politicians slithered away through back
alley channels.
No politicians were
stabbed, shot or hanged that day, but one protestor, Ashli Barrett, and one
policeman, Brian Sicknick, were killed in the line of
duty. Other law enforcement officers
subsequently committed suicide – and medical professionals alleged that it was
consequential to the PTSD (post-traumatic-stress-disorder) that the day had
invoked
Biden, duly confirmed,
took office two weeks later and a Congressional Riot Committee began sorting
through extensive video footage... much of it gathered by the mob... to identify
and prosecute the traitors. To date, the
Committee reports 735 rioters, give or take a few, have been indicted... some
tried and sentenced to up to five years imprisonment... and sources say they
are still working on a “most wanted list” variously estimated at about 350 more
suspects, which would bring the toll of the active Capitol occupiers and
occupants to over a thousand. (By contrast, 668 were taken into custody during
the streetfighting in Chicago one Mexican calendar
round of 52 years previously, at the Democratic Convention which saw Hubert
Horatio Humphrey succeed Lyndon Johnson as nominee on a pro-Vietnam War
platform, only to face an independent candidacy from George Wallace, the
Governor of Alabama and lose to Richard Nixon.
According to tradition,
a couple so wedded in infamy as the January 6th and Constitution
must celebrate their first Anniversary with gifts of paper.
After rounding up a few
hundreds of Trump’s sheeple, the prosecutors jumped the gun (or shark,
broomstick) with their plenty of their own paper presents... issuing warrants,
subpoenas, indictments and voluminous press releases to, about and upon some of
their Bad Shepherds... which process continues through today and probably will
for months, if not years to come.
Assorted Trump lackies and hangers-on have been served, including the
Three Stooges of MAGA... former aide Steve Bannon, conspiracy theorist Alex
Jones and top hat dandy Roger Stone,
Mark Meadows, another Trump aide who was with the President on the day
in question and who reportedly confessed details of the plot in order to save
his scalp, but reneged and has since lawyered up, even though his testimony
remains out there in public, for the scrutinization of Commission Chair Adam
Schiff, a Star Chamber of angry Democrats... including a couple of RINOs (Republicans in Name Only as Trump and
his followers designate them), Elizabeth Cheney of Wyoming, daughter of George
H. W. Bush’s former Vice, Dick, and one Adam Kinzinger,
a boy from Illinois who apparently enjoys the publicity attendant to his role
(but not enough to run for re-election in November, after a punitive
redistricting)
Also on the probers’
go-list as the New Year opens are Fox newsies like Sean Hannity, assorted
Congressmen and women (apparently saved from themselves by Capitol Police),
some of the deep pockets culpable in organizing the putsch and, at the top of
the heap…
Well, you know... that guy...
Sifting through
thousands of pages of documents, tweets and transcripts, scrying hundreds of
hours of professional and amateur video footage and hauling the same poor
wretches up again and again for debriefings and interrogations as needed, the
aforesaid Star Chamber... a select gathering appointed by Pelosi that, aside
from Kinzinger and Cheney, consisted of seven rarin’-to-rock liberal Democrats with the scent of big and
tasty game in their nostrils. Certain
facts and similarities emerged from these labors...
At least three quarters of the malfeasors, including both the violent and the merely loud,
were clueless wonders... Party of Trump POTheads who made their way to Washington (some, the
investigators continue to investigate, given free bus rides to the insurrection
on buses paid for by... well, investigations have been ongoing.) A study by Robert A. Pape of the Foreign Policy
journal fingered only 14 percent of those who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6
as “members of militias such as the Oath Keepers or extremist groups such as
the Proud Boys; 86 percent had no affiliation.”
Further, Time Magazine reported that the mob
included plenty of the so-called “Christian Nationalists” whose vision of the
nation does not include the usual suspects... minority black, brown and yellow
races, Jews, Muslims, other religions, atheists and, in some cases, heretical
sectarians like Roman Catholics, Episcopals and
assorted other disbelievers in the emergence of Trump as Living God. Also on hand were followers of the Q-Anon
cult like de-Twitterized Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene
(R-Ga) and, according to Michael Rothschild (“The Storm Is Upon Us”) includes
fellow travelers like Roger Stone and Gen. Michael Flynn as well as
thousands... perhaps millions... infatuated with the Q: “... a cult, a popular
movement, a puzzle, a community, a way to fight back against evil, a new
religion, a wedge between countless loved ones, a domestic terrorism threat,
and more than anything, a conspiracy theory of everything.”
The “Q drops”,
well-cloaked messages from its mysterious High Priest, have not been heard from
since the month after the 2020 election and a month before the riots, but...
while they were active and titillating the neurons of the People Who Say No!...
were most notorious for accusations that high government, industry and cultural
poohbahs (including, of course, the ubiquitous Bill Gates and George Soros)
regularly gathered in pizza parlor to have sex with infants, after which they
chopped them up, roasted them and enjoyed a cannibal banquet.
“(N)o conspiracy theory
more encapsulates the full-throated madness of the Donald Trump era than
Q-Anon,” is Rothschile’s conclusion.
After Vice President
Harris manifested and mixed a trough of tributes with appeals to a constituency
of two... rebellious Gemocrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema... to pass a tough
voting rights bill (See Attachment One), the Big Dog took the podium at 9 AM
Tuesday, give or take a few minutes, and commemorated, if not celebrated, the
occasion by barking out a loud, long and vitriolic speech at the previously
defaced Statuary Hall in Washington... pointedly refusing to call his
predecessor by name in the manner that terrified Hogwartians
refuse to even whisper the name of the vile Voldemort or reckless Muggles who
utter the name “Candyman” are duly snatched and dispatched by that monstrous
being.
Candyman and Voldemort, however fictitious (and, to be
sure, egotistical in the way that villains are), were capable of legitimate
murder and mayhem in their own spheres of influence, but Trump fell short.
"Those people who stormed this Capitol,” the President
dismissed with disgust (and not a little contempt at their meek acquiescence to
authority several hours after further instructions from their toob-entranced God in his White House tomb failed to
manifest) "didn't come here out of patriotism or principle...
(CNN)... (T)hey came here in rage, and those who instigated and incited, and
those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America.”
Even in Joe Manchin’s own West Virginia, the
Wheeling Intelligencer paid due diligence to the address... “...(h)is voice
booming at times, reverberating in the ornate Statuary Hall where rioters had
laid siege, the president called on Americans to remember what they saw Jan. 6
with their own eyes: the mob attacking police and breaking windows, a
Confederate flag inside the Capitol, gallows erected outside amid calls to hang
the vice president — all while Trump sat at the White House watching on TV.”
“He’s not just a former president. He’s a defeated former
president,” Biden said, twisting the knife (or dagger)
into his conquered rival. “[B]ecause his bruised ego
matters more to him than our democracy, or our Constitution…he can’t accept he
lost.”
President Joe further engaged in what Matt Lewis of the Daily Beast called “malice
toward one”, mocking the “Candymort” that most
hateful of Trumpifistic epithets… a loser.
Here’s the whole of what he said... (Transcribed
January 6, 2022 12:48 PM ET by NPR STAFF)
“Without uttering
former President Donald Trump’s name, President Biden issued a scathing critique of his
predecessor on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Biden condemned
the attack on the U.S. Capitol, undertaken by Trump supporters one year ago,
and said Trump himself spun a “web of lies” about the 2020 presidential
election that fueled the violence.”
Madam Vice President,
my fellow Americans: to state the obvious, one year ago today, in this sacred
place, Democracy was attacked. Simply attacked. The will of the people was
under assault. The Constitution, our constitution faced the gravest of threats.
Outnumbered in the face of a brutal attack, the Capitol Police, the D.C.
Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard and other brave law
enforcement officials saved the rule of law. Our democracy held. We the people
endured. We the people prevail.
For the first
time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to
prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol.
But they failed. They failed. And on this day of remembrance, we must make sure
that such attack never, never happens again.
I’m speaking to
you today from Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. This is where the
House of Representatives met for 50 years in the decades leading up to the
Civil War.
This is – on this
floor is where a young congressman from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, sat at desk
191. Above him, above us over that door, leading into the rotunda is a
sculpture depicting Clio, the muse of history.
(Or, in Alabama, the birthplace of Gov. George
Wallace, above – DJI) In her hands, an open book, in which she records
the events taking place in this chamber below. Clio stood watch over this hall,
one year ago today, as she has for more than 200 years. She recorded what took
place: the real history, the real facts, the real truth, the facts and the
truth that Vice President Harris just shared, and that you and I and the whole
world saw with our own eyes.
The Bible tells
us that we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free. We shall know
the truth. Well, here is the God’s truth about January 6, 2021. Close your
eyes. Go back to that day. What do you see?
Rioters
rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag
that symbolized the cause to destroy America, to rip us apart. Even during the
Civil War, that never, ever happened. But it happened here in 2021.
What else do you
see? A mob, breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol, American
flags on poles being used as weapons as spears, fire extinguishers being thrown
at the heads of police officers. A crowd that professes their love for law
enforcement assaulted those police officers, dragged them, sprayed them,
stomped on them.
Over 140 police
officers were injured. We all heard the police officers who were there that day
testified to what happened. One officer called it quote “a medieval battle” and
that he was more afraid that day than he was fighting the war in Iraq.
They’ve
repeatedly asked since that day, how dare anyone, anyone diminish belittle or
deny the hell they were put through? We saw with our own eyes rioters menace
these halls, threatening the life of the Speaker of the House, literally
erecting gallows to hang the vice president of the United States of America.
What do we not
see? We didn’t see a former president who had just rallied the mob to attack,
sitting in the private dining room off the Oval Office in the White House,
watching it all on television and doing nothing for hour, as police were
assaulted. Lives at risk. The nation’s capital under siege.
This wasn’t a
group of tourists. This is an armed insurrection. They weren’t looking to
uphold the will of the people. They were looking to deny the will of the
people. They were looking to uphold – they weren’t looking to hold a free and
fair election. They were looking to overturn one. They weren’t looking to save
the cause of America. They were looking to subvert the Constitution. This isn’t
about being bogged down in the past. This is about making sure the past isn’t
buried.
That’s the only
way forward. That’s what great nations do. They don’t bury the truth. They face
up to it. It sounds like hyperbole, but that’s the truth. They face up to it.
We are a great nation.
My fellow
Americans in life, there’s truth. And tragically, there are lies. Lies conceived
and spread for profit and power. We must be absolutely clear about what is true
and what is a lie. And here’s the truth: the former president of the United
States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.
He’s done so because he values power over principle.
Because he sees
his own interest as more important than his country’s interest and America’s
interest. And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or
our constitution. He can’t accept he lost. Even though that’s what 93 United
States senators, his own attorney general, his own vice president, governors
and state officials in every battleground state have all said: he lost.
That’s what 81
million of you did as you voted for a new way forward. He has done what no
president in American history, the history of this country has ever, ever done.
He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American
people.
While some
courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it,
trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming
that party into something else. They seem no longer to want to be the party,
the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Reagan, the Bushes.
But whatever my
other disagreements are with Republicans who support the rule of law and not
the role of a single man, I will always seek to work together with them, to
find shared solutions where it possible.
Because if we
have a shared belief in democracy, that anything is possible. Anything.
And so at this
moment, we must decide, what kind of nation are we going to be? Are we going to
be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a
nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally
expressed will of the people?
Are we going to
be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth but under the shadow of
lies? We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation. The way forward is
to recognize the truth and to live by it.
The Big Lie being
told by the former president and many Republicans who fear his wrath is that
the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day, Nov. 3,
2020.
Think about that.
Is that what you thought? Is that what you thought when you voted that day?
Taking part in an insurrection, is that what you thought you were doing, or did
you think you were carrying out your highest duty as a citizen and voting?
The former
president’s supporters are trying to rewrite history. They want you to see
Election Day as the day of insurrection. And the riot that took place there on
January 6th as a true expression of the will of the people.
Can you think of
a more twisted way to look at this country, to look at America? I cannot.
Here’s the truth.
The election of 2020 was the greatest demonstration of democracy in the history
of this country. More of you voted in that election than have ever voted in all
of American history. Over 150 million Americans went to the polls and voted
that day in a pandemic. Some at great risk to their lives. They should be
applauded, not attacked.
Right now in
state after state, new laws are being written. Not to protect the vote, but to
deny it. Not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it, not to strengthen or
protect our democracy, but because the former president lost. Instead of
looking at election results from 2020 and saying they need new ideas or better
ideas to win more votes, the former president and his supporters have decided
the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our
elections.
It’s wrong. It’s
undemocratic, and frankly, it’s un-American. The second Big Lie being told by
the former president’s supporters is that the results of the election 2020
can’t be trusted. The truth is that no election, no election in American
history has been more closely scrutinized or more carefully counted.
Every legal
challenge questioning the results and every court in this country that could
have been made was made and was rejected, often rejected by
Republican-appointed judges, including judges appointed by the former president
himself from state courts to the United States Supreme Court. Recounts were
undertaken in state after state. Georgia – Georgia counted its results three
times, with one recount by hand.
Phony partisan audits
were undertaken long after the election in several states. None changed the
results. And in some of them, the irony is the margin of victory actually grew
slightly.
So let’s speak
plainly about what happened in 2020. Even before the first ballot was cast, the
former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. He
built his lie over months. It wasn’t based on any facts. He was just looking
for an excuse, a pretext to cover for the truth. He’s not just a former
president. He’s a defeated former president. Defeated by a margin of over seven
million of your votes. In a full and free and fair election.
There is simply
zero proof the election results are inaccurate. In fact, in every venue where
evidence had to be produced and oath to tell the truth had to be taken, the
former president failed to make his case.
Just think about
this, the former president and his supporters have never been able to explain
how they accept as accurate the other election results that took place on
November 3rd. The elections for governor. United States Senate.
House of Representatives. Elections, in which they closed the gap in the House.
They challenged none of that. The president’s name was first. Then we went down
the line, governors, senators, House of Representatives.
Somehow, those
results are accurate on the same ballot. But the presidential race was flawed?
And on the same ballot, the same day, cast by the same voters? The only
difference, the former president didn’t lose those races. He just lost the one
that was his own.
Finally, the
third Big Lie being told by a former president and supporters is that the mob
who sought to impose their will through violence are the nation’s true
patriots. Is that what you thought when you looked at the mob ransacking the
Capitol, destroying property, literally defecating in the hallways? Rifling
through the desks of senators and representatives? Hunting down members of
congress. Patriots? Not my view.
To me, the true
patriots for the more than 150 Americans who peacefully expressed their vote at
the ballot box. The election workers who protected the integrity of the vote
and the heroes who defended this Capitol. You can’t love your country only when
you win. You can’t obey the law only when it’s convenient. You can’t be
patriotic when you embrace and enable lies.
Those who stormed
this Capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them
to do so held a dagger at the throat of America, at American democracy.
They didn’t come
here out of patriotism or principle. They came here in rage. Not in service of
America but rather in service of one man. Those who incited the mob, the real
plotters who are desperate to deny the certification of this election, and defy
the will of the voters. But their plot was foiled; congressmen, Democrats,
Republicans stayed. Senators, representatives, staff, they finished their work,
the Constitution demanded. They honored their oath to defend the Constitution
against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Look folks, now
it’s up to all of us — to We the People — to stand for the rule of law, to
preserve the flame of democracy, to keep the promise of America alive. The
promise is at risk. Targeted by the forces that value brute strength. Over the
sanctity of democracy. Fear over hope. Personal gain over public good.
Make no mistake
about it, we’re living at an inflection point in history, both at home and
abroad. We’re engaged anew in a struggle between democracy and autocracy,
between the aspirations of the many and the greed of the few. Between the
people’s right of self-determination and self-seeking autocrat. From China to
Russia and beyond, they’re betting the democracies’ days are numbered – they’ve
actually told me democracy is too slow, too bogged down by division to succeed
in today’s rapidly changing, complicated world.
And they’re
betting, they’re betting America will become more like them and less like like us. They’re betting in America is a place for the
autocrat, the dictator, the strongman. I do not believe that. That is not who
we are. That is not who we have ever been. And that is not who we should ever,
ever be.
Our founding
fathers, as imperfect as they were, set in motion, an experiment that changed
the world, literally changed the world. Here in America, the people would rule.
Power would be transferred peacefully. Never the tip of a spear or the barrel
of a gun. They committed paper and idea that couldn’t live up to – they
couldn’t live up to, but an idea it couldn’t be constrained.
Yes, in America,
all people are created equal. Reject the view that if you, if you succeed, I
fail. If you get ahead, I fall behind. If I hold you down, I somehow lift
myself up.
The former
president who lies about this election and the mob that attacked this Capitol
could not be further away from the core American values. They want to rule or
they will ruin. Ruin when our country fought for at Lexington and Concord at
Gettysburg and Omaha Beach, Seneca Falls, Selma, Alabama. What – and what we
were fighting for: The right to vote. The right to govern ourselves. The right
to determine our own destiny.
With rights come
responsibilities. The responsibility to see each other as neighbors. Maybe we
disagree with that neighbor, but they’re not an adversary. The responsibility
to accept defeat, then get back in the arena and try again the next time to
make your case. The responsibility to see that America is an idea. An idea that
requires vigilant stewardship.
As we stand here
today, one year since January 6, 2021, the lies that drove the anger and
madness we saw on this place, they have not abated. So we have to be firm,
resolute and unyielding in our defense of the right to vote and have that vote
counted.
Some have already
made the ultimate sacrifice in this sacred effort. Jill and I have mourned
police officers in this Capitol rotunda not once, but twice in the wake of
January 6th. Once to honor Officer Brian Sicknick,
who lost his life the day after the attack. The second time to honor Officer
Billy Evans, who lost his life defending the Capitol as well.
We think about
the others who lost their lives and were injured and everyone living with the
trauma of that day. From those defending this Capitol to members of Congress in
both parties and their staffs to reporters, cafeteria workers, custodial
workers and their families.
Don’t kid
yourself. The pain and scars from that day run deep. I’ve said it many times
and it’s no more true or real when we think about the events of January 6th.
We are in a battle for the soul of America. A battle that by the grace of God
and the goodness and greatness of this nation, we will win.
Believe me: I
know how difficult democracy is. And I’m crystal clear about the threats
America faces. But I also know that our darkest days can lead to light and
hope. From the death and destruction as the vice president referenced in Pearl
Harbor can the triumph over the forces of fascism. From the brutality of Bloody
Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came a historic voting rights legislation.
So now let’s step
up. Write the next chapter in American history, where January six marks not the
end of democracy but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play.
I did not seek
this fight right to this Capitol year ago today, but I will not shrink from it
either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, and I will
allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. We will make sure
the will of the people is heard. That the ballot prevails, not violence. That
authority of this nation will always be peacefully transferred. I believe the
power of the presidency and the purpose is to unite this nation, not divide it.
To lift us up.
Not tear us apart. It’s about us, not about me. Deep in the heart of America,
burns a flame lit almost 250 years ago of liberty, freedom and equality. This
is not the land of kings or dictators or autocrats.
We’re a nation of
laws of order, not chaos, of peace, not violence. Here in America, the people
rule, through the ballot. And their will prevails. So let’s remember together,
we’re one nation under God, indivisible, that today, tomorrow and forever, at
our best, we are the United States of America.
God bless you
all. May God protect our troops. My God bless those who stand watch over our
democracy.
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Saturday, January 1, 2022 Infected:
54,859,986 Dead:
825,816 Dow: 36,359.56 |
The New Year begins with the sound
of America... random and not so random gunfire in the streets. Being as what goes up must come down, 2021
bows out with record levels of murder and mayhem... Philadelphia takes the
trophy with eight shot.
While media attention pivots to the customary reviews, remembrances,
summaries and prognostication, a combination of plague sickouts and bad
weather strands would-be passengers at airports and in freezing, stalled and
jammed traffic: 2,600 flights are grounded, spoiling holiday reunions for
many. Spirit offers double pay to
overworked and tired pilots and crew... United tops that with triple compensation.
COVID also limits the funeral gathering for Bishop Desmond Tutu to one
hundred select guests (not including President Joe, nor Pope Frank) while
accolades and tributes pour in for “Golden Girl” Betty White, spirited away
by 2021 a few days short of her 100th birthday. |
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Sunday, January 2, 2022 Infected: 55,114,057 Dead: 826,063 |
As
the reality of the super-spreading, super-contagious Big O (omicron) plague variant
sinks in, much of the world goes back into lockdown after the final (mostly
masked and socially distanced) debauches of 2021. Schools in Atlanta and New York will go
back to virtual learning tomorrow (Gotham’s new Mayor, Eric Adams tells the
vaccination refuseniks and paranoid parents: “Stop it!”), but Massachusetts
refuses to take the knee... other school policies are devolved to states and
localities. Data from South Africa and the U.K.
trickles in showing that the hyper-contagious Big O may be less lethal than
the fading Delta Variant, Doctor Fauci proposes
that plague quarantines be cut (from 2 weeks to 10 days, to 7, then five) so
long as the diseased go masked and tested for the next week or so. But surprise! – there’s a shortage of home
testing kits and persons to administer public testing required for an
increasing work and travel subjects – TV Dr. Jah admits: “Getting a test can
be difficult.” Another TV Dr. Patel
(from Stanford) just gets it (the plague, not the test) as do an estimated
20% of Floridians. DefSec Lloyd
Austin also gets it as President Joe calls President Zelensky
of Ukraine, promising we’ll have their back if Russia invades... by imposing
more sanctions! Mad Vlad Putin is not
impressed. |
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Monday, January 3, 2022 Infected: 56,190,946 Dead: 827,753 Dow: 36,585.06 |
Back-to-work
week begins with a deep freeze, chaotic test-to-work protocols and a
rampaging Big O against which, doctors admit, cloth masks are more or less useless
but there is hope that smart pills and what Fox factotum Brian Kilmeade “monocolonial antibodies” will lessen the toll of deaths,
if not infections. ATT and Verizon refuseniks tell the FAA to
go to hell, as they roll out their 5G smart smartphones that can interfere
with airplane instruments and cause an epidemic of deadly crashes. Not to be outdone in the Fuck You Year,
Apple becomes the first 3 trillion dollar company. Canadian provider drops support of its
old-fashioned BlackBerri phones, leaving the poor
and the elderly without a means to communicate as winter closes in. Twitter, for its part, cancels Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Qa) after five warnings
about spreading social disinformation.
MTG calls the app “an enemy to America.” |
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Infected: 57,077,565 Dead: 830,112 Dow: 36,799.85 |
Third
wicked witch, Liz “Theranos” Holmes, convicted on 4
of 11 fraud charges, with four more acquits and three jury hangings. She faces 20 years per... 80 if applied
consecutively and joins Cryin’ Kim Potter and
pedophile procuress Ghislaine Maxwell in the slammer. Putative soulmates Bannon, Stone and Jones
pondered for weirdest of weird dating show as American attention pivots to
the upcoming “Bachelor” series. Time’s Ian Bremmer chooses his ten Evil
Dangers of 2022. Number One is a
growing incidence of plague in China that will hinder production of goods and
toys for greedy Americans. (Further
down the list are the cancel culture, global warming and nuclear war with
Russia.) For its part, the Big O takes aim at the
lowest hanging fruit... children under five for whom the regulators still
refuse to allow vaccines. Plague
swipes Celebrity Island... talk show icon Jimmies (Kimmel and Corden),
Trevor, Seth, Whoopi, Geraldo and Kelly (but not Ryan) get it. Unmasked Aaron Rogers hugs an unmasked
female sportscaster. Bucs’ Antonio
Brown melts down in freezing New York... tears off jersey and quits
football. The talking heads agree he
needs “help”. |
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Wednesday, January 5,
2022 Infected: 57,619,841 Dead: 832,117 Dow: 36,407.11 |
The
Big O now comprises 95% of new U.S. cases.
Testing shortage causes drive-by lines with waits of 24 to 48 hours,
and China goes into lockdown to save the Winter Olympics. The Grammys are postponed, the Golden
Globes hanging by a thread. More
famous faces get it... Whoopi and Geraldo, Hoda Kotbe and, from the Fox family, dad Steve and son Peter Doocy get it too. 4.5M Americans quit their jobs in
November, prompting the stay behinds to deride us as “a nation of
quitters.” There are over ten million
jobs available, three for every two unemployed, but most don’t pay a living
wage. State and local governments
argue school closings – Chicago goes virtual, new Gotham Mayor Adams says
that schools are safer than homes. A Philadelphia house fire kills 13, including
seven children. Over in L.A., another
house fire kills a fireman. |
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Thursday, January 6, 2022 Infected: 58,487,665 Dead: 833,987 Dow: 36,236.47 |
Politicians
roll out the speeches for the Jan. 6th (see above). Booster shots finally approved for 12 to
15 year olds, but the younger children are still caught in the web of
bureaucracy and are dying like January flies.
AMA battles CDC over whether positive testers must quarantine for five
days or seven. Vaxxing
refusenik Novak Djokovik kicked out of Australian
Open, competitor Rafael Nadal says he should have obeyed the rules. Ghislaine Maxwell attorneys petition for
new trial after a juror says that he talked about his childhood sex abuse
with other jurors. New York drops sex
prosecution of Andrew Cuomo, but opens case against Don Junior and Ivanka in
Daddy’s tax case. (They don’t bother
with Eric.) |
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Friday, January 7, 2022 Infected: 59,388,529 Dead: 835,603 Dow: 36,231.66 |
The
Big O (laughing and beaming as SCOTUS... with all the right-wing justices
except Gorsuch masked... preps for eviscerating the Federal mask mandate) and
evil weather (Pacific Coast landslides, minus 50 Midwest windchills, Gulf
Coast tornadoes, a year of snowfall in one week in Atlantic City) cripples
holiday travel by road and by air while, by sea, aimless “Flying Dutchman”
cruise ships wander; their passengers starving on bread and butter, if that. Russian troops invade Kazakhsistan
(and round up Borat), inch closer to Ukrainian border, fire on British
warships and respond to President Joe’s threat of “sanctions” with comedic
disbelief. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards pardons
Homer Plessy of the pro-segretationist Plessy v.
Ferguson case of 1892. His descendents are appreciateive. Edwards is, of course, a Democrat. |
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A tepid post-Christmas bounce masked insanity within... personal
income went down, but so did consumer and government debt, upturning the
normal order of things like a snowglobe (and there was
lots of snow, too, after a warm December).
Rising consumer imports... those Christmas baubles from China... and a
sharp drop in official unemployment (but the unofficial stats were up) more
or less cancelled each other out, but next week will probably bring inflation
stats – and more misery for the Joneses. |
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THE DON JONES INDEX CHART of CATEGORIES w/VALUE ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000 (REFLECTING… approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013) See a further explanation of categories here… ECONOMIC INDICES (60%) |
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DON JONES’ PERSONAL
ECONOMIC INDEX |
|
(45% of TOTAL INDEX
POINTS) |
|
CATEGORY |
VALUE |
BASE |
RESULTS |
SCORE |
SCORE |
OUR SOURCES and
COMENTS |
||
|
24% |
6/17/13 |
LAST |
CHANGE |
NEXT |
1/1/22 |
1/8/22 |
SOURCE
|
|
|
Wages (hourly, per capita) |
9% |
1350 points |
12/10/21 |
+0.53% |
1/15/22 |
1,503.28 |
1,503.28 |
|
|
Median Income (yearly) |
4% |
600 |
1/1/22 |
-0.30% |
1/15/22 |
676.93 |
674.89 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 35,661 |
|
*Unempl. (BLS – in millions |
4% |
600 |
1/1/22 |
-7.69% |
1/15/22 |
477.95 |
514.72 |
|
|
*Official (DC – in millions) |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
+0.66% |
1/15/22 |
578.27 |
574.44 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 6,798 |
|
*Unofficl. (DC – in millions) |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
-0.94% |
1/15/22 |
496.23 |
491.47 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 11,792 |
|
Workforce Participtn. Number Percent |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
+0.04% +0.041% |
1/15/22 |
324.37 |
324.40 |
In 154,280 316 495 out
99,963 959 934 Total: 254,429 |
|
WP %
(ycharts)* |
1% |
150 |
1/1/22 |
+0.16% |
1/15/22 |
152.72 |
152.98 |
https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate 61.90 |
|
OUTGO |
(15%) |
|||||||
|
Total Inflation |
7% |
1050 |
12/10/21 |
+0.8% |
1/15/22 |
956.88 |
956.88 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.8 |
|
Food |
2% |
300 |
12/10/21 |
+0.7% |
1/15/22 |
268.22 |
268.22 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.7 |
|
Gasoline |
2% |
300 |
12/10/21 |
+6.1% |
1/15/22 |
224.50 |
224.50 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +6.1
nc |
|
Medical Costs |
2% |
300 |
12/10/21 |
+0.3% |
1/15/22 |
282.77 |
282.77 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
+0.3 |
|
Shelter |
2% |
300 |
12/10/21 |
+0.5% |
1/15/22 |
284.46 |
284.46 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.5
nc |
|
WEALTH |
(6%) |
|
||||||
|
Dow Jones Index |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
-0.35% |
1/15/22 |
387.88 |
386.52 |
|
|
Home (Sales) (Valuation) |
1% 1% |
150 150 |
1/1/22 |
+1.89% +0.31% |
1/15/22 |
205.17 178.11 |
205.17 178.11 |
https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics
Sales (M): 6.46
Valuations (K): 353.9 |
|
Debt (Personal) |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
-0.05% |
1/15/22 |
264.06 |
264.24 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 63,851 |
|
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AMERICAN ECONOMIC INDEX (15% of TOTAL INDEX POINTS) |
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|
NATIONAL |
(10%) |
|
||||||
|
Revenue (trilns.) |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
+0.012% |
1/15/22 |
346.70 |
346.74 |
debtclock.org/ 4,055 |
|
Expenditures (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
-0.07% |
1/15/22 |
217.92 |
217.76 |
debtclock.org/ 6,881 |
|
National Debt tr.) |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.74% |
1/15/22 |
311.91 |
309.61 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 29,701 |
|
Aggregate Debt (tr.) |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
-0.10% |
1/15/22 |
370.86 |
371.25 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 85,160 |
|
GLOBAL |
(5%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foreign Debt (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
+1.29% |
1/15/22 |
273.73 |
270.20 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 7,759 |
|
Exports (in billions) |
1% |
150 |
12/3/21 |
+0.27% |
1/15/22 |
198.47 |
199.00 |
|
|
Imports (bl.) |
1% |
150 |
12/3/21 |
-4.44% |
1/15/22 |
114.06 |
109.00 |
|
|
Trade Deficit (bl.) |
1% |
150 |
12/3/21 |
+16.33% |
1/15/22 |
100.04 |
83.70 |
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html 80.2 |
|
SOCIAL
INDICES (40%) |
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|
ACTS of MAN |
(12%) |
|||||||
|
World Affairs |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
-0.3% |
1/15/22 |
374.92 |
373.80 |
Revolution breaks out in Sudan as President
resigns. Insurrection in Kazakhstan
put down by gunfire from Russian troops... dozens killed, some beheaded. Australian Open kicks out refusenik icon
Novak Djokovic now in Melbourne quarantine his family calls prison. Various
government regulators now fighting each other. |
|
Terrorism |
2% |
300 |
1/1/22 |
+0.5% |
1/15/22 |
217.70 |
218.79 |
Incarcerated Boston Marathon Bomber gets paid...
$1,400 in Covid Relief check from American taxpayers
confiscated to give all of his victims about a dime each. Post 1/6 commemoration arson strikes
Planned Parenthood in Knoxville but the FBI snuffs out bomb threats to
historic black colleges. |
|
Politics |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.3% |
1/15/22 |
442.99 |
444.32 |
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Ca) joins the ranks of quitters
to take job with Trump’s media group “Secure The Vote”. With voting rights a hot issue, nationwide
and cold, cold civil rights cases heating up, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards
posthumously pardons the Harold Plessy in Plessy
v. Ferguson, 130 years ago. |
|
Economics |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.1% |
1/15/22 |
406.21 |
406.62 |
Apple’s Tim Cook struts and stammers for having
collected only a $100M salary as his baby celebrates becoming first $3T
company – take that, you Musk-rat!
(But Elon’s still the richest individual.) WalMart will
deliver groceries to exponentially lazy and trusting – not just to your door
but they’ll break in and stock your fridge! |
|
Crime |
1% |
150 |
1/1/22 |
+0.3% |
1/15/22 |
236.58 |
237.29 |
Fed. Reserve
authorizes more money to build more prisons as over 300K cases of Biden
bailout money found fraudulent. U.S.
marshals rescue five girls from perv-o in New O. New York subway turnstile jumper falls and
breaks his neck. |
|
ACTS of GOD |
(6%) |
|
||||||
|
Environment/Weather |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
-0.2% |
1/15/22 |
376.43 |
375.67 |
New Years’ celebrations end, January begins and
Americans go back to work in a deep freeze.
Blizzards finally arrive in Colorado,
burned-out residents ask why they couldn’t have come a day earlier. |
|
Natural/Unnatural Disaster |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.7% |
1/15/22 |
218.40 |
219.93 |
Holiday awwws: skiers free
cute dog and numerous humans from various blizzards and avalanches. Holiday whew!... 21 rescued from defective
tram near Albuquerque. (They get out
quicker than drive-through testing wannabees, stuck in lines for two days or
more as food and gas runs out but a kind, stranded truck driver gives them bread
rather than letting it go moldy and other Good Samaratans
pass out bottled water.) Coast Guard
rescues (mighty thirsty) man lost at sea for nine days. |
|
LIFESTYLE/JUSTICE INDEX
(15%) |
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|
Science, Tech, Education |
4% |
600 |
1/1/22 |
+0.2% |
1/15/22 |
408.52 |
409.34 |
Schools go back to virtualicity
in Atlanta, Chicago and (some parts of) New York, but Massachusetts holds the
line on in-person. High Tech
breakthroughs – CES introducing massage (parlour?)
robots while Low Tech troubles include
Apple abandoning Blackberri and their poor and
elderly users just as Verizon/AT&T airplane killing 5G radiation upheld
on Monday, then reversed Tuesday. |
|
Equality (econ/social) |
4% |
600 |
1/1/22 |
+0.3% |
1/15/22 |
410.88 |
412.11 |
Eric Adams sworn in as 2nd NYC black Mayor
in front of Times Square ball drop... tells the refuseniks and paranoid
parents: “Stop it!” |
|
Health Plague |
4% |
600 |
1/1/22 |
-0.3% -0.3% |
1/15/22 |
396.86 - 103.65 |
395.67 - 103.96 |
Abstinencers and Prohibitionists tout
Dry January... a month without alcohol.
Drugs? Nah! U.S. News declares #1 diet to be
Mediterranean (salads and fish with lots of olive oil) and the CDC Food
Police admonish Don Jones to eat more fruits and vegetables. TV Dr. Jen Ashton warns of snow shoveling
increasing the number of heart attacks and an Alzheimer’s spike by 2050 due
to a new normal of isolation and depression so severe that Bill Gates starts
another foundation to combat it.
|
|
Freedom and Justice |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.2% |
1/15/22 |
465.04 |
465.97 |
Three white Arbury murder defendants get life... two
without parole, one with. Black family
members celebrate. Final wicked witch
Liz Holmes guilty on 4 of 11 fraud counts... faces 80 years in jail. But Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers petition
for new trial because a juror told other jurors stories about his own sexual
abuse (as abusee); TV lawyers Don Abrams and Molva Penza agree she has a case. |
|
MISCELLANEOUS and TRANSIENT INDEX (7%) |
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|
Cultural incidents |
3% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.1% |
1/15/22 |
535.76 |
536.30 |
David Bowie catalog sells to Warner for 250M (half
of what Bruce got). Bowie will spend
his windfall... nowhere, he’s dead!
Georgia and Alabama prep for Big Bowl Monday night. “Melt Down” Brown kicked off Bucs, blames
coach Bruce Arians for forcing him to play hurt. Giant schnauzer “Bayou” wins Best Dog in
Show at Westminster. People with
nothing else to do agitated over Hillary Duff’s uncarseated
kid. RIP former Denver coach Dan
Reeves, iconic Oscar winners: actor Sidney Poitier (“In the Heat of the Night”)
and director Peter Bogdanovich (“Paper Moon”), 112
year old Lawrence Brooks, oldest US WW2 vet. |
|
Miscellaneous incidents |
4% |
450 |
1/1/22 |
+0.3% |
1/15/22 |
489.83 |
491.30 |
Don Jones welcomes in traditional New Years’ “firsts”...
first baby, first snow, first murders, first EZ Money. Two lucky lotto winners split $600M
jackpot! |
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ATTACHMENT ONE – Also From
NPR
VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS CALLS ON THE SENATE
TO PROTECT VOTING RIGHTS
By Rachel Treisman,
Lisa Lambert
Vice President Harris marked the
anniversary of Jan. 6 by noting both the strength and fragility of American
democracy and by calling on lawmakers to pass voting rights legislation to
protect it.
Harris compared the attack on the Capitol
to other infamous events like Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and described the
lawlessness, violence and chaos as "what our nation would look like if the
forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful."
She urged lawmakers and constituents
alike to stand up for democracy.
“Let’s be clear: We must pass the voting
rights bills now before the Senate," she says. "But we, the American
people, must also do something more. We cannot sit on the sidelines. We must
unite in defense of our democracy.”
The Freedom to Vote Act and the John
Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act are intended to ensure access to voting in
all states and to limit discrimination.
Harris will travel with President Biden
next week to Atlanta to press for the legislation. As president of the Senate,
she could cast a tiebreaking vote in the evenly divided chamber, but the bill
may never reach that point as fellow Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is resisting
changing the filibuster so that the two bills could pass along party lines.
She said that when young people ask her
about the events of that day, she tells them that Jan. 6 reflects "the
dual nature of democracy." On the one hand, she said, it means rule of
law, equal treatment for everyone, free and fair elections and empowering the
people. On the other hand, it is at risk of faltering without protection.
“The violent assault that took place here
— the very fact of how close we came to an election overturned — that reflects
the fragility of democracy," she said. "Yet, the resolve I saw in our
elected leaders when I returned to the Senate chamber that night, their resolve
not to yield, but to certify the election, their loyalty, not to party or
person but to the Constitution of the United States, that reflects its
strength.“
The heroism of the law enforcement
officers who responded to the attack also reflects the strength of democracy,
Harris said, noting those who succumbed to wounds "both visible and
invisible."
Harris also reflected on her own
experience that day, noting she had left a Senate Intelligence Committee
hearing at the Capitol hours before it was breached, but that her staff sought
refuge in her office using filing cabinets as makeshift barricades.
Her predecessor, Vice President Mike
Pence, was also there and was an intended target of the violence.