As you might expect, from the article, “Some supporters of the higher minimum wage expressed skepticism at the initial report”.
Earlier studies on the effects of minimum wage increases, pointed out that thousands of those workers, collecting welfare, actually asked to have their hours reduced or outright quit, so they wouldn’t lose those payments.
If the extremely partisan left wing Build Back Better slush fund bill passes, it will be interesting to see if anyone does a study on the tax effect related to AGI pans out for everyone getting any or all of the freebies that are in it. I’m willing to bet that at least 4 million people will be pushed into a higher income tax bracket. We all know that when Brandon or any DemoCommie tells you that their spending policies “won’t cost a thing”, you can rest assured that it’s bullshit.
Minimum wage increases only affect restaurant workers because they’re the only ones left who work for those wages. Waitresses, dish washers, and burger flippers are hard for Mom and Pop operations to automate.
Gas station attendants; grocery store baggers; newspaper delivery boys; kids baling hay; McDonalds order takers; gone.
The largest benefit of all this spending — it has altered the employer/employee dynamic in favor of the employee in a manner which hasn’t been seen since the post-war ascendency of labor unions. Democrats need to take credit for this as it is really huge.
Emery’s argument is similar to “all these kids living with mom and dad until they’re 30 alters the tenant/landlord dynamic in faor of the tenant and this is a good thing.”
Meaning it ignores everything about the issue of children living with their parents until they are 30 except something that maybe, might be, something he sees as favoring his politics.
Here is how the economics of restaurants works: people will pay the least possible for the value that they receive. Retaurants are difficult to automate, labor is a large part of the value that they provide.
More people will pay $5 for a Big Mac than $6 for a big mac. When you increase the price from $5 to $6 you will sell fewer Big Macs. Revenue will decline.
In real terms this means that, all things being equal, when retaurant labor costs rise, you will see fewer restaurants and/or restaurants open for fewer hours, with the changes most visible on the margins.
On the labor side of all industries, you will see increased auotmation and fewer workers hired. Again, the change will be most visible on the margins. There are people who may be worth hiring at $10/hr, but are definitely not worth hiring at $15/hr.
The largest benefit of all this spending
What spending? And how does this apply to minimum wage law? Which is a mandate as far as I know.
Speaking of automation, my brother lives in Dayton, Ohio. He says that there are pilot programs going at three of the fast food burger chains. You pull up to a drive through box, punch in your order, then swipe your charge card and drive to a window where they hand you your order. He said that once people get used to it, it’s just as fast as or faster than if you verbally placed your order, then had the person at the window swipe your card.
Whether one wears shorts or long pants, jdm will still hump your leg.
bosshoss429 on November 18, 2021 at 9:53 am said:
. . .
He said that once people get used to it, it’s just as fast as or faster than if you verbally placed your order, then had the person at the window swipe your card.
This is probably the future of fast food, bosshoss. I rarely do fast food. Where the labor shortage affects me is bare or underpopulated shelves at stores. Some of this is due to the permanent crisis of supply chain problems, but a lot of it is due to a lack of personnel to stock shelves.
I retired in June of last year in the middle of the pandemic. I had been planning my retirement for several years. I gave my employer six months notice back in January of 2020.
But since I have retired, I have two close friends who have also retired while in their late 50s. One was a commercial painter, the other did technical work with micro chips. Both told me that the difficulties of working under covid protocols heavily influenced their decision to retire.
You cannot avoid concluding that the non-economists, non-businessmen who were the architects of the lockdowns and covid restrictions believed that the world economy, at all scales, could be stopped and started like a stop watch.
In fact the world economy should be looked at as an engine that responds to pricing information as feedback. What the lockdowns and arbitrary covid restrictions did was introduce random negative feedback at all scales into the world economic system. A market economy wants to grow, but at somepoint I suppose that it is possible to set up a self sustaining negative feedback loop that will be difficult or impossible to break out of. Or maybe a positive feedback loop that will drive everything off the rails much faster.
Emery translated; laws that put minimum wage workers out of work adjust the employer/employee relationship in favor of the employee.
My response; can I have some of what you’re smoking, dude? It must be good.
Whether one wears shorts or long pants, jdm will still hump your leg
What does this even mean? All I asked was what the spending was. And how it applies to minimum wage law. You’re not able to explain the context of what you wrote and instead invoke some weird non-sequitur?
You’re not able to explain the context of what you wrote and instead invoke some weird non-sequitur?
Par for the course.
Emery’s tactics are to first try and change the subject, and if that doesn’t work to “respond” with non-sequitors.
Jen Psaki, on twitter: Q: Why, when Americans are seeing higher prices, are Republicans united against a bill to lower core costs on prescription drugs, health care, child care, and elder care?
This is delusionary. I can’t think of a single conservative who is “rooting for inflation.” Republicans who are “rooting for inflation” are imaginary Republicans.
Seriously, how stupid does a person have to be to work for the Biden administration? Psaki could pick up a phone and talk to dozens or hundreds of republicans about why they oppose certain legislation or Biden policies. She would never hear any of them say “because I want inflation.”
Compare this with the common call for boosting energy costs from Dems.
remember the Emerys are here to introduce incoherence to any discussion – it is intentional, the Emerys aren’t stupid.
Mac;
As I have posited before, I continue to believe that the Emerys are ChiCom bots and they support it more on a daily basis.
The Biden White House, facing collapsing polls, has come up with a strategy to lift its numbers.
That strategy, according to Byron York and other DC people, is to work on their messaging. Emery’s 8:50 should be read in that light.
There is a phrase, in Latin, that translates in English to be “In shit there is gold.” This means that the greatest value can be had from doing that which you least want to do.
Team Biden’s “messaging” strategy is its opposite. We don’t need to do anything we don’t want to do, like change our policies and legislative goals, we just need to explain our unpopular actions and policies more!
This won’t work because, of course, it does not address the real issue, which is the increasingly bizarre and chaotic actions of the Biden White House.
Supposedly the back up plan is to make Harris the scapegoat and replace her with someone more popular.
Since the “better messaging” plan is doomed to fail, I’d say that Harris’s days are numbered.
^ Explain harder!
Supposedly the back up plan is to make Harris the scapegoat and replace her with someone more popular.
I don’t know the answer, perhaps one of the Emerys could answer, but amongst the DNC-reliable voters does Harris have any standing? I mean, are there voters, a lot of voters, who think Harris’ qualities as reliable foot-soldier, as a “colored” woman, outweigh her apparent incompetence and disastrous lack of personal appeal?
I also read in the last couple of days that Jill Biden (the reincarnation of Edith Wilson) hates Harris for her performances during the primaries and especially the debates. She and her hatred are supposed to be behind much of the push to get rid of Harris.
The ditch Harris plan seems crazy to me. Know one knows who would replace, but Buttgieg’s name has been mentioned, because he is marginally more popular than Harris, but he is a white guy & that would fracture what little unity remains in the Dem base. Biden might dream that Michelle Obama would sit as his veep, but I don’t think that she wants to be number two in the Biden Dumpster Fire.
they could replace Harris with Dr Jill Biden – whoever they choose to appoint to replace Harris doesn’t have to be an elected official.
The US is no longer a capitalist economy. Not since 2008. The US is now a command economy. I’m surprised that you are commenting like this Woolly — and with all due respect — your complete dismissal of the law of diminishing returns.
they could replace Harris with Dr Jill Biden
Ooh, indeed. Nice theory.
More blather from Emery.
Look at his comment. What argument is he making? What point is he making?
It’s either painfully obvious or needlessly obscure.
“The US is no longer a capitalist economy. Not since 2008. The US is now a command economy.”
Then I want to go back to the last Commander, the one under whose wise leadership the nation prospered. I want the economy Commanded by someone whose policies benefit people like me – ordinary hard working Americans of every race and creed – not illegal aliens, criminals and our enemies abroad.
If it’s a Command economy where everything is decided from central authority, then it’s pretty clear the change in central authority has been a disaster. Change it back.
The United States was a not a command economy until March of 2020. That was when the government began to take extra constitutional means to dictate which businesses could open, and how many customers they could serve.
They couldn’t replace Harris with Jill Biden, because she’s from the same state President Brandon’s from. Given that her “doctorate” is for a thesis that described why community college students don’t graduate while ignoring the fact that a huge portion of community college students don’t belong there or at anything else besides remedial school, I think we’re dodging a bullet here.
Regarding being a command economy, I’ve yet to receive my directives from the Politburo while waiting in the bread lines. There is too much socialism in our country, to be sure, and regulation is far too onerous, but we are not yet a command economy in the classic sense.
Are you trying to tell us you’re a few fries short of a Happy Meal, Emery? If you aren’t, I’m at a loss to figure out what you would do differently.
All of these so-called jobs that nobody wants, will eventually be filled by these millions of illegal immigrants, after they burn through their $450,000 windfall.
bikebubba on November 18, 2021 at 2:57 pm said:
. . .
Given that her “doctorate” is for a thesis that described why community college students don’t graduate while ignoring the fact that a huge portion of community college students don’t belong there or at anything else besides remedial school, I think we’re dodging a bullet here.
A graduation rate of 30% after three years for a two year degree is not unusual in community colleges.
This is because you have to expend more and more resources to graduate ever more reluctant or unsuitable students. Going from 0% graduating to 10% is easy, 10% to 20% is more difficult, 20% to 30% is really difficult, 30% to 40 is almost impossible.
In other words, the problem is the law of diminishing returns 🙂
“Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune”
Seems unlikely that Plato was thinking of Hayduke when he wrote that, but still…
“Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune”
Seems unlikely that Plato was thinking of Hayduke when he wrote that, but still…
“(CNN) A new Quinnipiac national poll has some dire news for Joe Biden. His approval has hit a new low at 36%, with 54% disapproving.”
Maybe things will turn around when more people lose their jobs after Pedo’s mandate takes affect, eh Hayduke?
How on earth can 36% of the people poled think that Joe Robinette
Biden is doing a good job? Based on what?
AllenS.
They obviously polled nothing but true believers that are too lazy to do some homework on what’s really happening as a result of Brandon’s policies. You know; people like the Emeries.
It’s gotta be panic time in the Biden White House. They thought that the infrastructure porkullus bill would raise his numbers, but they went down instead. Psaki’s statements and tweets have been bizarre lately, praising higher gas prices, saying that republicans are “rooting for inflation.”
Next year’s midterms are probably out of sight for the Dems, Lord only knows what their internal polling is showing.
Hard to see how they can improve things. The economic problems caused or exacerbated by Biden’s policies ain’t going to turn around in the next year. The border ain’t going to fix itself, and no one on Team Biden is going to fix it either. Afghanistan will not become a model nation. The vax mandate is going down in flames.
I am going to guess that the plan will be to get BBB through congress. I don’t think that will work, Manchin’s voters oppose it by about 3:1. Sinema is holding firm, so if it fails to get out of the senate, it will be the Dems fault.
If Biden was a quarterback, he would be a not very good quarterback whose only play was Hail Mary.
Also I am beginning to see hints that Biden will not run in 2024 and may not even complete his first team.
It is simply unbelievable that Biden hasn’t had a physical in over a year. He turns 79 tomorrow. He is not the picture of health and vitality. They are hiding something.
MP:
They have been hiding Brandon’s health since he announced his candidacy. The fact that the same morons that declared Trump was mentally unfit (like they did John McCain when he ran in 2008), insisting that he take a cognitive test, yet won’t push Brandon to get one, tells smart people all they need to know.
I see Manchin caving around the last minute of passage. There’s a reason that he stays a Democrat.
The health issue is one of the things that his supporters lie about. Anyone can see Biden’s mental and physical decline over the last decade. All you have to do is find a youtube of Biden’s debate with Ryan in 2012. The difference between Biden 2012 and Biden 2021 is shocking. Biden supporters can see that as well as anyone else.
On the light side, Comrade Brandon is having his colonoscopy, but I’d have sworn there’d be nothing left after a course of GoLytely. Are they sure?
Regarding the question of how 36% of voters still support him, similar proportions of people never really thought that Communism was that bad, either. As they say in German, “Dumm bleibt dumm, da halfen keine Pillen.” (dumb stays dumb–no pill will help)
Oops, “da helfen keine Pillen”.
Speaking of Brandon’s health, he’s apparently undergoing brain surgery (actually, it’s a colonoscopy, but same thing in his case) today. Power has been transferred to Kamala.
Your prayers are appreciated.
Having lost his brains, Biden has assumed his role again. Whew. Yikes. Hopefully a big bowl of oatmeal restores his massive intellect soon.
As you might expect, from the article, “Some supporters of the higher minimum wage expressed skepticism at the initial report”.
Earlier studies on the effects of minimum wage increases, pointed out that thousands of those workers, collecting welfare, actually asked to have their hours reduced or outright quit, so they wouldn’t lose those payments.
If the extremely partisan left wing Build Back Better slush fund bill passes, it will be interesting to see if anyone does a study on the tax effect related to AGI pans out for everyone getting any or all of the freebies that are in it. I’m willing to bet that at least 4 million people will be pushed into a higher income tax bracket. We all know that when Brandon or any DemoCommie tells you that their spending policies “won’t cost a thing”, you can rest assured that it’s bullshit.
Minimum wage increases only affect restaurant workers because they’re the only ones left who work for those wages. Waitresses, dish washers, and burger flippers are hard for Mom and Pop operations to automate.
Gas station attendants; grocery store baggers; newspaper delivery boys; kids baling hay; McDonalds order takers; gone.
The largest benefit of all this spending — it has altered the employer/employee dynamic in favor of the employee in a manner which hasn’t been seen since the post-war ascendency of labor unions. Democrats need to take credit for this as it is really huge.
Emery’s argument is similar to “all these kids living with mom and dad until they’re 30 alters the tenant/landlord dynamic in faor of the tenant and this is a good thing.”
Meaning it ignores everything about the issue of children living with their parents until they are 30 except something that maybe, might be, something he sees as favoring his politics.
Here is how the economics of restaurants works: people will pay the least possible for the value that they receive. Retaurants are difficult to automate, labor is a large part of the value that they provide.
More people will pay $5 for a Big Mac than $6 for a big mac. When you increase the price from $5 to $6 you will sell fewer Big Macs. Revenue will decline.
In real terms this means that, all things being equal, when retaurant labor costs rise, you will see fewer restaurants and/or restaurants open for fewer hours, with the changes most visible on the margins.
On the labor side of all industries, you will see increased auotmation and fewer workers hired. Again, the change will be most visible on the margins. There are people who may be worth hiring at $10/hr, but are definitely not worth hiring at $15/hr.
The largest benefit of all this spending
What spending? And how does this apply to minimum wage law? Which is a mandate as far as I know.
Speaking of automation, my brother lives in Dayton, Ohio. He says that there are pilot programs going at three of the fast food burger chains. You pull up to a drive through box, punch in your order, then swipe your charge card and drive to a window where they hand you your order. He said that once people get used to it, it’s just as fast as or faster than if you verbally placed your order, then had the person at the window swipe your card.
Whether one wears shorts or long pants, jdm will still hump your leg.
bosshoss429 on November 18, 2021 at 9:53 am said:
. . .
He said that once people get used to it, it’s just as fast as or faster than if you verbally placed your order, then had the person at the window swipe your card.
This is probably the future of fast food, bosshoss. I rarely do fast food. Where the labor shortage affects me is bare or underpopulated shelves at stores. Some of this is due to the permanent crisis of supply chain problems, but a lot of it is due to a lack of personnel to stock shelves.
I retired in June of last year in the middle of the pandemic. I had been planning my retirement for several years. I gave my employer six months notice back in January of 2020.
But since I have retired, I have two close friends who have also retired while in their late 50s. One was a commercial painter, the other did technical work with micro chips. Both told me that the difficulties of working under covid protocols heavily influenced their decision to retire.
You cannot avoid concluding that the non-economists, non-businessmen who were the architects of the lockdowns and covid restrictions believed that the world economy, at all scales, could be stopped and started like a stop watch.
In fact the world economy should be looked at as an engine that responds to pricing information as feedback. What the lockdowns and arbitrary covid restrictions did was introduce random negative feedback at all scales into the world economic system. A market economy wants to grow, but at somepoint I suppose that it is possible to set up a self sustaining negative feedback loop that will be difficult or impossible to break out of. Or maybe a positive feedback loop that will drive everything off the rails much faster.
Emery translated; laws that put minimum wage workers out of work adjust the employer/employee relationship in favor of the employee.
My response; can I have some of what you’re smoking, dude? It must be good.
Whether one wears shorts or long pants, jdm will still hump your leg
What does this even mean? All I asked was what the spending was. And how it applies to minimum wage law. You’re not able to explain the context of what you wrote and instead invoke some weird non-sequitur?
You’re not able to explain the context of what you wrote and instead invoke some weird non-sequitur?
Par for the course.
Emery’s tactics are to first try and change the subject, and if that doesn’t work to “respond” with non-sequitors.
Jen Psaki, on twitter:
Q: Why, when Americans are seeing higher prices, are Republicans united against a bill to lower core costs on prescription drugs, health care, child care, and elder care?
A: They’re rooting for inflation.
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1460758392004304900?s=20
This is delusionary. I can’t think of a single conservative who is “rooting for inflation.” Republicans who are “rooting for inflation” are imaginary Republicans.
Seriously, how stupid does a person have to be to work for the Biden administration? Psaki could pick up a phone and talk to dozens or hundreds of republicans about why they oppose certain legislation or Biden policies. She would never hear any of them say “because I want inflation.”
Compare this with the common call for boosting energy costs from Dems.
remember the Emerys are here to introduce incoherence to any discussion – it is intentional, the Emerys aren’t stupid.
Mac;
As I have posited before, I continue to believe that the Emerys are ChiCom bots and they support it more on a daily basis.
The Biden White House, facing collapsing polls, has come up with a strategy to lift its numbers.
That strategy, according to Byron York and other DC people, is to work on their messaging. Emery’s 8:50 should be read in that light.
There is a phrase, in Latin, that translates in English to be “In shit there is gold.” This means that the greatest value can be had from doing that which you least want to do.
Team Biden’s “messaging” strategy is its opposite. We don’t need to do anything we don’t want to do, like change our policies and legislative goals, we just need to explain our unpopular actions and policies more!
This won’t work because, of course, it does not address the real issue, which is the increasingly bizarre and chaotic actions of the Biden White House.
Supposedly the back up plan is to make Harris the scapegoat and replace her with someone more popular.
Since the “better messaging” plan is doomed to fail, I’d say that Harris’s days are numbered.
^ Explain harder!
Supposedly the back up plan is to make Harris the scapegoat and replace her with someone more popular.
I don’t know the answer, perhaps one of the Emerys could answer, but amongst the DNC-reliable voters does Harris have any standing? I mean, are there voters, a lot of voters, who think Harris’ qualities as reliable foot-soldier, as a “colored” woman, outweigh her apparent incompetence and disastrous lack of personal appeal?
I also read in the last couple of days that Jill Biden (the reincarnation of Edith Wilson) hates Harris for her performances during the primaries and especially the debates. She and her hatred are supposed to be behind much of the push to get rid of Harris.
The ditch Harris plan seems crazy to me. Know one knows who would replace, but Buttgieg’s name has been mentioned, because he is marginally more popular than Harris, but he is a white guy & that would fracture what little unity remains in the Dem base. Biden might dream that Michelle Obama would sit as his veep, but I don’t think that she wants to be number two in the Biden Dumpster Fire.
they could replace Harris with Dr Jill Biden – whoever they choose to appoint to replace Harris doesn’t have to be an elected official.
The US is no longer a capitalist economy. Not since 2008. The US is now a command economy. I’m surprised that you are commenting like this Woolly — and with all due respect — your complete dismissal of the law of diminishing returns.
they could replace Harris with Dr Jill Biden
Ooh, indeed. Nice theory.
More blather from Emery.
Look at his comment. What argument is he making? What point is he making?
It’s either painfully obvious or needlessly obscure.
“The US is no longer a capitalist economy. Not since 2008. The US is now a command economy.”
Then I want to go back to the last Commander, the one under whose wise leadership the nation prospered. I want the economy Commanded by someone whose policies benefit people like me – ordinary hard working Americans of every race and creed – not illegal aliens, criminals and our enemies abroad.
If it’s a Command economy where everything is decided from central authority, then it’s pretty clear the change in central authority has been a disaster. Change it back.
The United States was a not a command economy until March of 2020. That was when the government began to take extra constitutional means to dictate which businesses could open, and how many customers they could serve.
They couldn’t replace Harris with Jill Biden, because she’s from the same state President Brandon’s from. Given that her “doctorate” is for a thesis that described why community college students don’t graduate while ignoring the fact that a huge portion of community college students don’t belong there or at anything else besides remedial school, I think we’re dodging a bullet here.
Regarding being a command economy, I’ve yet to receive my directives from the Politburo while waiting in the bread lines. There is too much socialism in our country, to be sure, and regulation is far too onerous, but we are not yet a command economy in the classic sense.
Are you trying to tell us you’re a few fries short of a Happy Meal, Emery? If you aren’t, I’m at a loss to figure out what you would do differently.
All of these so-called jobs that nobody wants, will eventually be filled by these millions of illegal immigrants, after they burn through their $450,000 windfall.
bikebubba on November 18, 2021 at 2:57 pm said:
. . .
Given that her “doctorate” is for a thesis that described why community college students don’t graduate while ignoring the fact that a huge portion of community college students don’t belong there or at anything else besides remedial school, I think we’re dodging a bullet here.
A graduation rate of 30% after three years for a two year degree is not unusual in community colleges.
This is because you have to expend more and more resources to graduate ever more reluctant or unsuitable students. Going from 0% graduating to 10% is easy, 10% to 20% is more difficult, 20% to 30% is really difficult, 30% to 40 is almost impossible.
In other words, the problem is the law of diminishing returns 🙂
“Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune”
Seems unlikely that Plato was thinking of Hayduke when he wrote that, but still…
“Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune”
Seems unlikely that Plato was thinking of Hayduke when he wrote that, but still…
“(CNN) A new Quinnipiac national poll has some dire news for Joe Biden. His approval has hit a new low at 36%, with 54% disapproving.”
Maybe things will turn around when more people lose their jobs after Pedo’s mandate takes affect, eh Hayduke?
How on earth can 36% of the people poled think that Joe Robinette
Biden is doing a good job? Based on what?
AllenS.
They obviously polled nothing but true believers that are too lazy to do some homework on what’s really happening as a result of Brandon’s policies. You know; people like the Emeries.
It’s gotta be panic time in the Biden White House. They thought that the infrastructure porkullus bill would raise his numbers, but they went down instead. Psaki’s statements and tweets have been bizarre lately, praising higher gas prices, saying that republicans are “rooting for inflation.”
Next year’s midterms are probably out of sight for the Dems, Lord only knows what their internal polling is showing.
Hard to see how they can improve things. The economic problems caused or exacerbated by Biden’s policies ain’t going to turn around in the next year. The border ain’t going to fix itself, and no one on Team Biden is going to fix it either. Afghanistan will not become a model nation. The vax mandate is going down in flames.
I am going to guess that the plan will be to get BBB through congress. I don’t think that will work, Manchin’s voters oppose it by about 3:1. Sinema is holding firm, so if it fails to get out of the senate, it will be the Dems fault.
If Biden was a quarterback, he would be a not very good quarterback whose only play was Hail Mary.
Also I am beginning to see hints that Biden will not run in 2024 and may not even complete his first team.
It is simply unbelievable that Biden hasn’t had a physical in over a year. He turns 79 tomorrow. He is not the picture of health and vitality. They are hiding something.
MP:
They have been hiding Brandon’s health since he announced his candidacy. The fact that the same morons that declared Trump was mentally unfit (like they did John McCain when he ran in 2008), insisting that he take a cognitive test, yet won’t push Brandon to get one, tells smart people all they need to know.
I see Manchin caving around the last minute of passage. There’s a reason that he stays a Democrat.
The health issue is one of the things that his supporters lie about. Anyone can see Biden’s mental and physical decline over the last decade. All you have to do is find a youtube of Biden’s debate with Ryan in 2012. The difference between Biden 2012 and Biden 2021 is shocking. Biden supporters can see that as well as anyone else.
On the light side, Comrade Brandon is having his colonoscopy, but I’d have sworn there’d be nothing left after a course of GoLytely. Are they sure?
Regarding the question of how 36% of voters still support him, similar proportions of people never really thought that Communism was that bad, either. As they say in German, “Dumm bleibt dumm, da halfen keine Pillen.” (dumb stays dumb–no pill will help)
Oops, “da helfen keine Pillen”.
Speaking of Brandon’s health, he’s apparently undergoing brain surgery (actually, it’s a colonoscopy, but same thing in his case) today. Power has been transferred to Kamala.
Your prayers are appreciated.
Having lost his brains, Biden has assumed his role again. Whew. Yikes. Hopefully a big bowl of oatmeal restores his massive intellect soon.