As the violence between Israel and Hamas continues, President Biden's being criticized...for not being more engaged in demanding a cease fire. He's getting it from the left which wants him to pull away from Israel and support the Palestinians....but I'm going to give it to him for the mess the Middle East has become since he took office! Under Trump, peace deals were being struck between Israel and one country after another, and Trump's strong support for Israel kept the likes of Hamas at bay. Worse yet, today, Jen Psaki had the gall to downplay Trump's Middle East successes and his Abraham Accords and to say he really didn't do anything of note to bring peace to the Middle East !
Locally, we'll update the worker shortage by focusing on today's big job fair at OIA. 55 companies all together offering jobs. Channel 9 reports about 300 RSVP'd and it looked to me like few than that showed up.
We'll discuss that and whether the changes coming June 1st will force people to look for work. As of then, in order to keep getting unemployment benefits you'll have to prove you've applied for 5 jobs per week...and businesses will be reporting interview no-shows. Will this change end the worker shortage plaguing so many businesses...or not?
Under the heading of "Mask Madness", we'll look at reports that people are being shamed now for wearing masks. Is this really happening? And that Biden's comments about masks and vaccines seem threatening to some. We'll also hear from Dr Fauci admitting he kept wearing a mask after being vaccinated...just for show. This sound cut will tick off a lot of our listeners.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/nyregion/vaccinated-masks-cdc.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-covid-warning-unvaccinated-paying-the-price
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/05/14/biden-mask-tweet/
Looney Left File - 3 entries:
*Texas just had it's first zero death day during the pandemic after Biden said lifting their COVID restrictions was "Neanderthal thinking".
* I heard MSNBC show hosts Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid talking about their fear that if they take off their masks now, people might mistake them for being Republicans! I wonder how many on the left have the same bizarre angst?
* CNN's Don Lemon, host of "CNN Tonight With Don Lemon"...which regularly has the lowest prime time ratings in cable news....signed off saying his show was ending. Everyone thought he was being fired or had resigned, which would be fine with me. Turns out they had just renamed his show "Don Lemon Tonight"....apparently to copy "Tucker Carlson Tonight". Tucker's got great ratings. Think the change will help Don?
Congress will vote Wednesday on green lighting a bi-partisan commission to investigate all aspects of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. There would be 5 Republicans and 5 Democrats on the commission...the same political balance as the 9-11 commission had. I would like to know everything there is to know about the Capitol attack, wouldn't you? My problem is...I think this will wind up degenerating into a huge "Let's get Trump!" exercise....and I think that's why House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is refusing to support the commission. What do you and our listeners think.
A very reliable reporter from Axios.com is running with a story about Trump....on the day after the November 8th election....writing an order for the U.S. military to pull all our troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Germany and all of Africa. Reportedly Trump waffled and never went through with it....but my question is this: what if he had gone through with it. Would Trump supporters have backed the move...and would would the consequences have been? I could actually have supported this ! What about you and our listeners?
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