Federal employee benefits are pretty sweet. Buttigieg is supposedly our transportation secretary, but has been taking paternity leave since mid August. So... he started his job in the Biden administration on Jan 20, and 7 months later takes 2 months off and counting? Pretty sweet gig, if you can get it.

LOL, I really am shocked that someone at such a high level would take MONTHS off immediately after starting their job, especially as as a small town mayor he probably didn't know a whole lot about national transportation issues to start with. I guess now we know why there's such a mess at our nation's ports and goods not getting to stores - the people who are supposed to be leading the country... aren't.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-paternity-leave-supply-chain-infrastructure

He does fit well in the Administration, though. Biden leads the way as the President in His Basement, why should I be surprised that Buttigieg wants to follow his example and stay home, too? It's too bad he wasn't elected President. He could have been the first president in history to take a few months off in his first year for paternity leave. And while we're on the subject, wasn't Sec. of State Blinken in the Hamptons on vacation while Afghanistan was collapsing? Man, this administration is the worst.

 

The new(ish) meme out there is "Let's go, Brandon", heard by an NBC reporter at a NASCAR event after the driver Brandon Brown won the race. The crowd behind him pretty clearly seemed to be chanting something else...

Anyway, the next time you are told to lower your expectations, or how criminals and illegal aliens should take precedence over taxpaying American citizens? Remember, "let's go, Brandon".




It's kind of nice in that it makes a G-rated version of a strong sentiment.

 

I agree completely! Children do not understand the implications of something like this and should be allowed to be children, not some tool in the parents' political games. There was a song about this that apparently went to the top of some hip hop list, although it's sunken back down now.

I think there's a larger point about this song, btw, and that is Biden and the Dems count on the monolithic support of the black community. I don't remember there ever being a song like this about Trump, and clearly a decent amount of the black community isn't happy with what Biden's doing now or such a song wouldn't gain such traction. Possibly bad things ahead for them in the next election.

 

There have been 1.7 MILLION detentions of illegal aliens at our border this year. 1.7 MILLION! Ol' Biden putting out the welcome mat really did the trick -- people came. Great job, Welfare Joe.

Arrests by Border Patrol have soared to the highest levels since 1986, according to Customs and Border Patrol data.

U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September, according to CBP data obtained by the Washington Post.

 

Hope is a wonderful thing. "Hope" isn't really the word I would pick for letting anyone who wants in to the country in and saying that the people who are already here are the ones responsible for paying for them. There aren't enough people working here to support the people that already ARE here, much less an unending flood of newcomers. Nope, inviting people you can't afford to feed but obligate the country to do so isn't hope, it's cruelty.

 

We *could* make our borders secure if we had the political will to do so. We don't, yet, though.

 

Well, if the left wing gets its way and they start giving welfare to illegals then they won't want to work either. Cut off ALL the free money and see how productive people become.

 

With Trump you knew it was a lie, but with Biden? Is it a lie or is it dementia? You decide.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-telling-bizarre-amtrak-story-debunked

 

Well, Biden, I've got to hand it to you, you are making your agenda a reality. Let's go, Brandon!

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The price of regular unleaded gas at a station in Gorda, California, hit $7.59 on Thursday as gas prices jump across the country to a 7-year high, according to a report.

The Gorda station is known to have some of the highest prices in the country because the next nearest station is 12 miles away, ABC 7 reported. The price of premium hit $8.50 at the central coast station.
The price of regular unleaded gas at a station in Gorda, California, hit $7.59 on Thursday as gas prices jump across the country to a 7-year high, according to a report.

The Gorda station is known to have some of the highest prices in the country because the next nearest station is 12 miles away, ABC 7 reported. The price of premium hit $8.50 at the central coast station.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/...aded-hits-7-59-in-california-town-report-says

 

It was there during Trump's presidency, too. I wonder why gas prices weren't so high then?