Liberals are people who oppose conservatism; that is, they are not bound by traditional values and beliefs and work toward the elimination
of many of the moral standards that have been expected by civilized society for centuries. Calling someone a liberal is usually
disparaging, because liberalism is a system of beliefs with which most people disagree. For that reason, liberal politicians do not
refer to themselves as "liberal."
Liberals are sometimes called "progressive", but they appear to make progress in a direction that most people don't want to go. In other
words, liberals are out of step with America.
The Democratic Party platform contains a number of features that most people would find objectionable — in addition
to the obvious. Allow me to bring some of them to light.
Related topic:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal
Background, overview and recap articles:
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From
the L Word to Cultural Marxism. During the 1988 presidential campaign, then
vice-president George H.W. Bush labelled his counterpart Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts
in pejorative fashion with the 'L' word, or 'liberal.' [...] In the same fashion, throughout the
20th century in the United States, to be labelled a 'Socialist' would have been political suicide
and would virtually automatically preclude such a candidate from winning any national office.
That was the case until 2007, when Bernie Sanders won the Senate seat in Vermont as an avowed
'Socialist.' [...] Today, some sixteen years after Sanders' election to the Senate, we have five
members of Congress and over 150 state legislature officeholders nationally who describe their
political delineation as that of 'Democrat-Socialist,' which is not a classic political
party — yet. Most contemporary democrats of any stripe do not appear to reflect
the democrats of previous generations. Not too many democrats of today are espousing "Ask not
what your country can do for you," and likely advocate the opposite. But adding the term
'Socialist' to Democrat is not simply a play on words. It is arranged that way to soften the
impact of the term 'Socialist.'
America
needs a new GOP. You can't have a Republican Party if you don't have a coherent and
cohesive agenda. What do Republicans stand for? We can't answer that question and get
all Republicans to agree, judging by the way they vote with Democrats sometimes. But with
Democrats, you ask them what they stand for and they will all agree: Climate change mandates,
avoidance of fossil fuels, trans rights, gay rights, drag rights, abortion, "social justice",
pedophilia, free stuff, socialized medicine, anti-capitalism, dissolution of the Constitution, gun
confiscation, the abolition of private property, defunding police, liberality in prosecuting
criminals, legalizing all recreational drugs, DEI, SEL, ESG, CRT. Democrats are all in for
lewdness, looseness, and loudness. The Left have a concrete agenda and it does not involve
freedom, liberty, and self-sufficiency. It does not involve being left alone and leaving
others alone to pursue happiness except when it is they doing the pursuing of said happiness.
Republicans are not allowed to pursue happiness if Democrats have anything to do with it.
Critically
thinking about what's happening to America. Let's briefly step back and see several examples
of where America's opponents are attacking, and what successes they have had to date.
Target: Standards. Strategy: Promote relativism., where all points of view are equally valid, and that all truth is relative to the individual.
Target: Religion. Strategy: Undermine Judeo-Christian beliefs and morality.
Target: Men. Strategy: Emasculate, feminize and weaken men. Specifically, this is mostly about "de-privileging" white men.
Target: Women. Strategy: Defeminize women, dilute the role of mothers, corrupt the definition of "woman," allow men to compete in sports as women, etc.
Target: Families. Strategy: Redefine what a conventional family is, and undercut its importance. Promote pornography to undermine healthy adult relationships.
Target: Education. Strategy: Propagandize children. Emphasize conformity instead of critical thinking.
Target: Initiative. Strategy: Undermine by awarding participation instead of accomplishment.
Target: Citizens. Strategy: The collective's rights take priority over individual rights. Additionally, the planet's rights supersede those of humans.
Target: Economy. Strategy: Waste enormous sums on foolish political agendas, driven by lobbyists, which are not in the best interest of citizens or the country.
Target: Financial System. Strategy: Undermine the Dollar on a variety of fronts from bitcoin to CBCD.
Target: Industrialization. Strategy: Corrupt the electric grid with unreliable, expensive renewable energy, while opposing fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Target: Science. Strategy: Use apostate "scientists" or "experts" to misdirect real Science analyses, and to confuse the public about what Science is.
Target: Unity. Strategy: For example, inflame racism to incite discord and distrust among fellow citizens.
Target: Patriotism. Strategy: Inject WOKE, DEI, CRT, etc. ideologies in our education system to sabotage citizen support for their country.
Target: Propaganda. Strategy: Utilize mainstream media as a major source of disinformation on societal topics ranging from COVID to climate change.
Target: Free Thought. Strategy: Trick citizens into questioning their own thoughts by normalizing non-sensical situations (e.g., there are more than two genders, etc.).
Target: Elections. Strategy: Corrupt the election process so that key legislators are not always elected by citizens. Resist meaningful audits to avoid exposing this.
Target: Border Security. Strategy: Allow essentially anyone who chooses, to come into the country — including criminals, spies, etc.
Target: Military. Strategy: Use many of the above tactics to weaken our military.
Stop
Calling Them Democrats. They're Communists. We've been conditioned to believe that communism is just a myth,
that it isn't real, or even if it is real, it only exists in faraway places like China, and anyone who mentions it is a
conspiracist who deserves ridicule. But let's review a few basics:
• They're raiding and jailing their political opponents.
• They're turning the FBI, CIA, and IRS against American citizens.
• They've come out against freedom of speech, religion, press, the Second Amendment, and other core American ideals.
• They've abandoned the rule of law, and now have one set of laws for themselves and another for the rest of us.
• They're deliberately trying to bankrupt us — sometimes directly (through shutting down businesses), sometimes indirectly (through wasting trillions of our dollars.)
• They're indoctrinating our children with radical ideologies.
• They celebrate infanticide.
• They're making secret deals with foreign entities against our interests.
• They're deliberately keeping our borders wide open to erase our national identity.
• They mandate groupthink and conformity and punish anyone who doesn't parrot their chosen narratives, however absurd.
• They're purging the best from our military and converting what's left into a tool of Wokeism.
• They've transformed our once-great American cities into crime-ridden hellscapes.
• They relentlessly stoke division between everyone and never miss the slightest opportunity to accuse someone or something of being racist, sexist, phobic, supremacist, etc.
• They constantly work to slander, cancel, and erase our Founding Fathers, American heroes, and America itself. (E.g., they removed the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History.)
• They want to defund the police, release criminals from prisons and disarm the rest of us.
• They defend terrorists. (Joe Biden: "Antifa is an idea, not an organization.")
• They've ignored the first principle of the Nuremberg Code, which was written in the aftermath of WWII, and which explicitly prohibits coerced consent for experimental medications.
• They've tried to corrupt elections on a national scale.
• They've openly stated their desire to abolish the family structure itself.
• They've threatened to abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and dismantle the electoral college system.
• They're criminalizing normality on multiple fronts.
• They've taken down American flags and raised other flags in government buildings and city streets, symbolizing their stealth political takeover.
• Their leaders have literally kneeled to one form of the cause they actually serve in the Capital building.
This list could go on, yet they accuse us of turning against America.
Our
government's executive branch is deliberately destroying liberty. How are they destroying us? Let me count the ways.
1. Electoral Fraud.
A. 2000 Mules.
B. Electoral Insurrection (treason).
2. Destruction of the Economy
A. Funding COVID development ("gain of function") in the Wuhan Lab; deliberate exaggeration of the COVID crisis; and COVID lockdowns.
B. Elimination of fossil fuels; creation of energy dependency; intentionally driving up gasoline prices; and pushing for electric cars.
C. Deliberately enhancing inflation.
D. Inviting unlimited immigration for cheap labor and Democrat voters.
E. Climate change hoax.
3. Destruction of the Family
A. Promoting abortion
B. Promoting sexual perversion and transgenderism.
C. Using public education as a platform for sexual grooming and turning children against their parent's values.
4. Establishment of Federal Police State
A. FBI persecution of Mama Bears as "domestic terrorists."
B. Property destruction by government brownshirts.
C. COVID lockdown, so the US is becoming "democracy with Chinese characteristics."
D. Corrupting the legal system by mob intimidation of the Supreme Court.
E. Government censorship of speech; classifying truth as "misinformation".
F. Breakdown of law and order.
G. Government efforts to disarm the public.
5. Destruction of the US Military
A. Wokism
B. Seeking war with Russia and China
C. Mandated vaccinations
Eight
Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party. The
Democrat Party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist
president, Andrew Jackson. It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated
racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws. It unabashedly
aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism,
religious persecution and xenophobia. Over the past sixty-years the Party has embraced and
promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and
society. The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as
well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point of birth and what was once considered
deviancy. The Democrat party's two most exalted figureheads are the fervently racist Woodrow
Wilson who set the Party on the path of undermining the Constitution in order to remold the United
States into a "modern administrative state" (i.e., socialist) and Franklin Roosevelt who was
enamored with and utilized Fascist principles in his "New Deal" thus permanently embedding them in
the Party's psyche.
They're Not Insane,
They Have a Plan. Is it just deranged thespians and virtue-signaling politicians who have been driven
mad? Not quite. The ideological infection has spread all the way to the White House, with outgoing White House
Press Secretary Jen Psaki breaking down at the prospect of the excellent Florida Bill becoming law. I could go
on. Just consider the organized indoctrination in our schools by delightful teachers parading their trans agenda on
TikTok. But at least the lunacy can't affect the real world that you live in, where 2 + 2 = 4.
The empirical world of real jobs, free markets, and concrete bottom lines will remain apart from this nonsense, right?
Wrong. Thanks to the investigative journalism of Christopher Rufo, we now have internal videos from one of the biggest
for-profit, capitalist entities in the world, the Walt Disney Co. These videos show their perverse agenda to sexualize
their young viewers. Where did this all come from, and what do we do about it? Well, as with most diabolical
movements in Western Civilization today, the radical transgender project can be traced back to the Frankfurt School of
neo-Marxists. Whether it's environmentalism, globalism, open-borders policies, or just systematic anti-Americanism,
it can usually be traced back to that motley crew of malcontents.
Biden
thinks 'ultra-MAGA people' are extremists? He should look in the mirror. President Biden is saying that "ultra-MAGA" people are
the most extreme political party in recent memory. [...] Who are the extremists:
• The party that wants babies to be killed no matter what stage of pregnancy or the party that wants limits?
• The party that wants energy independence or the party that is seeking to destroy America by destroying the fossil fuel industry, despite no scientific evidence that fossil fuel consumption controls temperatures?
• The party that is for no bail or the party that believes that career criminals should be treated harshly?
• The party that wants to enforce immigration laws or the party that wants open borders?
• The party that believes that males should be able to compete with women or the majority of us?
• The party that believes that people should use restrooms and locker rooms based on how they feel or the rest of us, who think body parts and science should control what facilities we use?
• The party that wants to move toward socialism or the rest of us, who believe that capitalism has created the greatest country that ever existed?
• The party that believes that requiring photo IDs to vote is racist or the rest of us who understand that adults of all races can easily obtain a photo ID and that common sense tells us voter verification is important?
• The party that believes that children age five to eight should be encouraged to analyze their sexual identity or the rest of us, who believe that that is nuts and dangerous?
From
Massachusetts, 10 talking points to counter Democrat positions. A Democrat vote means you favor:
[#1] No fossil fuel production. Like the price of gasoline, heating oil and natural gas these days?
[#2] Inflation at a 50-year high. The government prints money and hands it out, and it becomes worthless.
[#3] No freedom of speech. Say the "incorrect thing," and you're sued. Or fired. No opinions allowed.
[#4] No civil liberties. Don't think the vaccine is right for you or truly safe? Sorry — you have no say.
[#5] De-funding the police. Smash and grab. No bail for criminals. Policemen being shot. Feel safe?
[#6] A weakened military. Our top generals are more concerned with "equity" than winning wars.
[#7] Higher taxes. You think the government spends your money more wisely than you do, right?
[#8] Unrestricted illegal immigration. Your taxes support their education, health care, and housing.
[#9] Choosing your gender. Do you like 45-year-old men in the girl's room with your daughter?
[#10] Woke corporations. Everything is racist all of a sudden. Color and sex far outweigh qualifications.
The
2020 Democratic Party Platform — Understanding the Opposition. As a historical perspective, why not
compare to the 1960 Democratic Party platform on which John Kennedy was elected President? The 1960 platform celebrated
the party of Jefferson, instead of the movement today to remove, deface, or destroy his national monument in Washington D.C.
and rename hundreds, even thousands, of public schools. It promoted a strong military and economy to defend against the
Soviet Union and Red China, rather than replacing the superiority of American military and economic strength with ineffectual
diplomacy. It promised housing for everyone and the end of urban blight, as consequences of a strong economy, instead
of government handouts and welfare. It recognized God rather than claiming that government is the only hope. It
established the need for the end of pollution and the wise use of resources instead of the blind religion of environmentalism
and climate change. It blamed previous Republican administrations for not accomplishing what the Democrats claimed they
could only achieve, but without hatred. It understandably was political propaganda, but it was strikingly different
than what the Democratic Party states they believe today.
The
Philosophical Background of Our Anti-Social Democratic Party. For almost two centuries, we have seen various
attempts to overthrow the assumptions, beliefs, premises, and conclusions of Christian ethics, sometimes called
Judeo-Christian ethics. The Christian worldview and its underlying belief system have been challenged by
transcendentalism, Marxism, Darwinism, pragmatism, Freudianism, and existentialism. These anti-Christian schools of
thought in turn have spawned subcategories of "answers" [sic] to the human dilemma — namely, what is the purpose
of life and how shall I live in order to fulfill that purpose? These subcategories advanced by that part of the
political class known as Democrats include globalism (explicit and implicit rejection of Western civilization); embrace of
non-binary sexuality (the nuclear family is an artificial construct); critical race theory calling for repudiation of
"whiteness"; ecumenicalism in religion (i.e., we all worship the same god); and ownership of all means of production by the
state (but the state is to be perceived as a global village — i.e., as an extended family, not as a people led by
an elected government). Let us now consider three of the above post-Christian philosophies and briefly view their
application to the ideological program of the Mobocratic Party: [...]
A
Blueprint for a Pacifist, Socialist Republic. The Democratic Party is now committed to a far more radical
socialist platform than has ever been remotely hinted at by a serious American national party. This includes open
borders, and effectively the full right of undocumented residents to the benefits of the American welfare and education
systems as well as the right to vote. They are also intent on the seizure of firearms in private hands. All those
without comprehensive health insurance will be offered a "platinum" federal government health plan covering all contingencies
which will soon be "free" healthcare for up to 150 million people. Minimum wages and taxes on anyone earning above the
average income will be sharply increased. Most of the liberalizations of business and corporate regulations enacted by
the Trump regime will be reversed, and unionization of the workforce heavily favored. The Democratic socialist caucus'
Green New Deal will be enacted, banning as quickly as possible (or even more swiftly than that) fossil fuel production and
use, the internal combustion engine on land and in the air, and discouraging the consumption of beef to spare the environment
the challenge of bovine flatulence with which it has coexisted for all of known history. More than $1 trillion of
student loans gradually will be forgiven over 20 years, university education will be guaranteed to be available and free to
all families with incomes below $150,000 a year, and private, chartered, separate, and home schooling will all be discouraged
to promote the monopoly of the underperforming, heavily unionized state school systems. Abortion, including the
disposal of newly born children, will be available without cost to everyone.
Trump
Derangement Syndrome: A Misdiagnosis. From the beginning of its "long march through the institutions,"
the Left has been playing the long game. That hasn't changed. Leftists are playing it today. Why did they
take over the media? The universities? Hollywood? To get their hands on the key levers of propaganda.
Add to this the leftward tilt of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and we're looking at a virtual lockdown on the primary
sources of information and public influence. [...] This is why the Democrats absolutely must keep their charades going full
force. This is strategy, not lunacy. They are playing the long game. They are constantly feeding their
minions the narrative that Trump is an illegitimate and dangerous president, that he's tyrannical, racist, and
xenophobic — that he's a crook who lies continually, etc.
Who's
the Radical? On Confidence and Common Sense. I just heard a fellow on CNN say that Donald Trump has
radicalized the Republicans. Let's be clear on what is and isn't radical. A well-patrolled border is not a
radical policy. An open border is a radical policy. To believe in two genders is not radical. To insert
gender identity into Title IX is. To praise Western Civilization as a legacy of political freedom and artistic genius
is not a radical opinion. To regard it as promotion of white supremacy is a radical opinion. To love America as
an exceptional creation is not radical. To see America as founded on slavery and imperialism is radical.
How
do you know you are no longer a Democrat? You believe and respect the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of
Rights. The founding documents of the United States still matter and must not be set aside. You believe the right
to free speech applies to everyone, regardless of political party affiliation. You believe in the sanctity of human
life and abortion is murder. You believe in the Second Amendment and the right to own guns. You believe that the
United States is a sovereign nation with recognized borders; which must be respected, guarded, and protected. You know
there are only two biological sexes. Men pretending to be women and vice-versa is make-believe. There is no such
thing as being born in the wrong body. You believe that men pretending to be women should not be allowed to use women's
bathrooms, nor should men be allowed in women's dressing or locker rooms.
Open Borders Equals Abortion.
As of say, 1960, and even 1970, the Democrats were still a mainstream, patriotic political party. They still defended
traditional marriage. And gun rights. And property rights. Even a mostly free economy. The party
still held enough socially conservative members that you could be a Democrat and a Christian. I don't think that's
possible today. If you watched the Democratic presidential debate, you understand why. Not one candidate
proposed the slightest restriction on killing unborn kids for our sexual convenience. And not one supports natural
marriage. Not one spoke up for our Second Amendment rights. Each of them to one degree or another
supports the poisonous, anti-Christian ideology of socialism.
Can
California Be Saved, or Is It Too Late? How did this state, once the envy of all others, become the pathetic,
indebted loser state it is today? The answer is simple, single-party Democratic rule. [...] They want to control how we
all live our lives by pretending we are causing global warming, as if we mere humans are more powerful than the sun!
They seek to destroy capitalism, the one economic system that has elevated more people out of poverty and tyranny than any
other in human history. They have successfully indoctrinated two generations of malleable young people with the false
notion that America is a racist nation, illegitimately founded by white men so it must be destroyed and rebuilt according to
their monstrous, failed progressive policies. They loathe our founding documents, our anthems, our families, our
traditions. They want to do to the nation what they've already done to California. They must be stopped.
The Anatomy
of a Self-Annihilating Political Party. The Democrat Party has lost its mind. [...] There's a word that
describes the Party's behavior: nihilism: "a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence
is senseless and useless, a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially moral truths." That
definition fits the current Democrat Party. The Party and the left place little or no value on tradition, the
Constitution, the sanctity of life, borders, private property rights, voting-law enforcement, election outcomes, standards of
behavior, or free speech. These are all fundamentally different kinds of rules or systems of rules. The left does
not like rules (at least not for themselves). If you do not like rules, you do not like order, and the alternative to
order is chaos. The Democrat Party is attempting to lead the country into chaos.
The
Real Game Is To Distract You, Fool You, And Bring Communism. Of course the media lies all the time. They
do it to inculcate stated Democrat goals of implementing world-wide socialism and control by any means necessary. By
any means at all. [...] Democrats seem to embrace as holy anything that undermines America, Americans, or the American
Way. They want America gone — in order to replace it with some imagined, socialist fantasy world.
The devil is using the
Democratic Party to destroy America. 21 areas reveal Democratic Party positions:
[#1] Radical redistribution of wealth;
[#2] Aggressive climate change initiatives;
[#3] Complete takeover of health care by federal government plus inclusion of all illegal immigrants;
[#4] Open immigration policy with full acceptance of all children and relatives; no border walls, entrance requirements, E-verify or penalties for those refusing deportation; disregarding the rule of law and full support for "sanctuary cities"; neglecting national security and allowing George Soros funded anarchy to "crash" our immigration system;
[#5] Government control over corporate profits;
[#6] Progressive taxes on the upper middle class and above;
[#7] Legalization of recreational marijuana;
[#8] Implementation of comprehensive LGBTQ agenda — including indoctrination of children in schools, transgender initiatives, gender reassignment surgery and removal of any "sexual discrimination" in the workplace and schools, disregarding conscience objections;
[#9] Taxpayer-financed abortion-on-demand until birth with full-funding of Planned Parenthood;
[#10] Major defense spending cuts with money redistributed to entitlements;
[#11] Comprehensive gun control;
[#12] Liberal, not originalist, judges on the Supreme Court and federal courts;
[#13] Alignment and support for radical feminist agenda and marches;
[#14] Increased censorship of "hateful" conservative thought on social media;
[#15] Liberalized voting standards to include fraudulent practices and everyone the party deems as "disenfranchised";
[#16] Partnership with Palestinians;
[#17] Alignment with United Nations and European Union transnationalism initiatives promoting "One World" globalism, rather than nationalism with international cooperation;
[#18] Euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide;
[#19] Taxpayer-funded child-care and college tuition;
[#20] Elimination of the Electoral College; and
[#21] Re-establishing the Iranian "nuclear deal" alongside increased protection for Islamic "rights" in America and abroad at the expense of Israel's safety.
What
a Socialist Really Wants. Socialists are passionately concerned with making sure the right people have the
power — that is, themselves. Democracy, on the other hand, is all about distributing power and making sure
the worst people don't get it. How do we know they are the worst people? Because they are obsessed with grabbing
power and using it to stifle other people, an arrangement they call socialism or communism.
From
Russian Bolsheviks to American Socialists. In December 1991, the world watched in amazement and trepidation as the communist
empire spectacularly collapsed. The jubilation proved to be premature. Marxism adapted to a new reality and, in one of the most
dramatic reversals of history, comfortably relocated to the United States, where it acquired a new life and malignancy within the Democratic
Party. In 2008 this ferment culminated in the election of Barack Obama who by 2016 had successfully transformed the Democratic Party
into the de facto Social Democratic Party. [...] As the aspirations of the Bolshevik Revolution were being reincarnated in Vermont and
exported to New York and California, the country inured to the world of unsustainable populist demands. The barrier separating utopia
and reason is crumbling; growing embrace of free education, free health care, and a guaranteed minimum income by young people is an obvious
indication of the rise of the socialist movement.
Socialism Violates the Ten Commandments.
The very first commandment states, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Right there, socialism violates the very
first commandment. Socialism is essentially atheistic. After all, Karl Marx did say, "Religion is the sigh of the
oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the
people." In a socialist system, the worship of God is replaced with the worship of government. The state
basically becomes God. We look to the state to give us our rights, our freedoms, our livelihood, our wages, our jobs,
our meals, our education, and our healthcare — that is, if there's any of it to go around once the government
takes over! There is no appealing to a higher authority because the state is the final authority. But as
Christians, we don't serve the government, we serve God. God is our Heavenly Father and our ultimate authority.
Our inalienable rights come from him and the state should conform to His natural law.
Timely news and commentary:
US
Joins New Climate Pact to Shut Down All Coal Plants. The United States has "proudly"
committed to not build any new coal-fired power plants and to get rid of existing ones entirely,
John Kerry, special presidential envoy on climate matters, said on Dec. 2. "To meet our goal
of 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, we need to phase out unabated coal," he
said in a statement, in which he announced at the annual United Nations COP28 climate change summit
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates that the United States had officially joined a coalition of 56 other
countries who all plan to ditch coal in the name of climate change. "We will be working to
accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient
communities. The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new
unabated coal power plants."
The Editor says...
Carbon dioxide is not carbon, and carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. So, technically,
we already have "100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity."
Biden
to phase out American (coal) power. Reports indicate that the United States has
committed to phasing out coal power plants, and sooner rather than later, though no specific date
has yet been given. The U.S. joins 56 other nations who have similarly pledged to rid
themselves of coal power. U.S. "special envoy" John Kerry recently announced that Washington
has agreed to join something called "the Powering Past Coal Alliance" which means the Biden
administration has effectively vowed to build no new coal plants and to phase out existing
plants. Kerry said the U.S. and other PPCA nations "will be working to accelerate unabated
coal phase-out across the world," and added, "the first step is to stop making the problem worse:
stop building new unabated coal power plants." Due to other Biden administration "regulatory
actions" and "international commitments" already in the works, there is some speculation that it
may target 2035 as a coal-free date.
US
commits to shutting down its coal plants during COP28. The Biden Administration is
forging ahead with its green agenda by committing the United States to not building any new coal
plants and phasing out existing plants. U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry announced
at the annual United Nations climate change summit, known as COP28 and which is being held in
Dubai, although no date was given for when the existing plants would have to go. "We will be
working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and
more resilient communities," Kerry said in a statement. "The first step is to stop making the
problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants." Kerry said America was
joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a pact of nearly 60 countries that have promised to
accelerate the phasing out of coal-fired power stations, except the very few that have carbon
capture and storage.
The Editor says...
Nobody voted to outlaw the combustion of coal, which would certainly lead to widespread blackouts.
Nobody voted for John Kerry to have that kind of authority, either.
Putting
oil spills into perspective. I am 70 years old. My electricity has been
provided by a coal-fired power plant my entire life. I have been privileged to have AC for
around 60 years. My heat has been provided by natural gas almost all my life. I have
lived within one mile of the coal plant, with scrubbers, for 44 years. I raised three
children in this close proximity. Not once, that I can remember, did I worry about the air
quality or worry about opening the doors and windows. We are all very healthy. Our
current power plant was updated in 2005, at the cost of several hundred million. It passed
all environmental standards yet now, Democrats want to put it out of existence to claim they can
change the climate. It is a shame they care so little about the poor and middle classes that
still have to pay off the plant, and now a replacement. The choice for president gets easier
every day — either choose the party that wants to dictatorially take away freedom of
choice like what kind of car to drive and appliances to use, or choose the party that wants
people to have freedom and lower costs.
Victor
Davis Hanson: Biden 'pandering to Hamas' could turn off voters ahead of 2024.
Victor Davis Hanson detailed why President Joe Biden's "hopeless" bid to engender positive
sentiment among pro-Hamas sympathizers has proven to be a "losing proposition."
[Video clip] [...] "Why are we bringing in people who hate us and why are we allowing our
campuses to fuel this hatred of us?" he asked fill-in host Lisa Boothe Friday [11/24/2023] while
calling out the latest protests that featured chants of "Bombs are dropping, why are you
shopping?" When asked about the specific "political impact" for Biden seemingly acquiescing
to the "pro-Hamas caucus," Hanson laid out, "He has a choice between something bad and
something worse." "The more he panders to Hamas to get a measly 250,000 votes and maybe
Michigan, the more that he's turning off people on an issue that they're already overwhelmingly
angry about and that's open border and the ingratitude of people who come in here
whether — sometimes legally, but illegally — and then they use our
magnanimity and they reciprocate with disgust for the very institutions that help them," he
said. "And that's a losing proposition."
What's
Extreme? Some intrepid reporter should ask Joe Biden to name one federal program that
could be eliminated, not that he would receive an answer. Not only does Biden refuse to
eliminate a single program, but he refuses to reduce his ever-larger budget requests for nearly
every program. Job Corps is a good example of what should be eliminated in entirety.
Established in 1964, Job Corps has received a grade of "F" from the GAO every year of its
existence. And yet every year, its budget grows: in 2022, $1.755 billion compared to
$1.701 billion in 2010. The average cost per graduate (2017 figures) was well over $50,000 —
and this for very basic job skills that could be acquired for free by working at McDonald's or any
number of businesses. And yet Biden continues to request more money for Job Corps
every year.
A
Monstrous Conundrum in the Middle East. Rather than be filled with joy that some of
the hostages in Israel are released, I'm sick to my stomach at the monstrous nature and sheer
audacity of the "deal." Biden is squarely on the backs of the Israelis, who know better than to
become handmaidens of Hamas. Dozens more, perhaps hundreds more of Israel's soldiers and
thousands more civilians in Gaza will be killed as a result of this "kindness." Seven-plus
weeks into what history may eventually consider one of the most sadistic, cruel, and calculated
terrorist events in world history, the Free World's common sense will continue to be in question.
[...] Examine for a moment the crazy reversal of priorities and strength we are witnessing:
• Israel values life; Hamas does not.
• Israel is a pluralistic, democratic country, and Hamas is a Hitler-like
autocracy. Copies of Mein Kampf have been found in the tunnels under Gaza.
• Israel grants the same rights and responsibilities to its Arab citizens,
while Hamas kills Arab collaborators, whether Arab citizens in Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank.
• Israel provides free advanced medical care for Arabs, from the West Bank,
Gaza, and from within Israel. Hamas kills any Jews it gets its hands on and will often prevent
its people from accessing hospitals and medical care in Israel.
• Israel teaches its children (including Arabs) about the world at large
and without hate. Hamas teaches the destruction of Israel and the Jews from birth. [...]
• Israel is Western-facing and life-affirming. Hamas is a death cult.
Did the Congress declare war? I must have missed it.
Biden's
Using Wartime Powers to Kill Off Many Gas Appliances. On November 17th, Sentinel
reported that Biden and his Obama staff were spending money on electric heat pump factories
no one needed. No one is asking for it, except perhaps recipients of government's
largesse. Biden used wartime powers to do it, with almost no one in the media
questioning it. The White House utilized the Defense Production Act to mobilize the
production of heat pumps. The government is choosing winners and losers using tax dollars
from a bill that increases inflation — the Inflation Reduction Act. It's going to
affect all of our gas appliances. In addition to consumer furnaces, over the last several
months, the DOE has unveiled new standards for a wide variety of other appliances, including gas
stoves, clothes washers, refrigerators, and air conditioners. According to the DOE, its past
and planned appliance regulations will save Americans $570 billion and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by more than 2.4 billion metric tons over the next 30 years.
The Editor says...
[#1] No war has been declared, so the (acting) president has no wartime powers. That's just common
sense, so it's probably not the way things work in Washington. [#2] Emissions of carbon
dioxide by natural gas appliances have never hurt anybody. Carbon dioxide is not something to
be afraid of. [#3] If any changes are needed in the household appliance business, the
customers will make those changes without encouragement from the government. Free market
capitalism works really well. Big government does not.
Spaniards
Aren't Afraid To Protest, So Why Are American Conservatives? The problems faced by
Spaniards are strikingly similar to those facing Americans. The American left hates our
heritage so much they torched American cities and destroyed historical statues and monuments for an
entire summer. Our corrupt president, Joe Biden, was able to take power thanks to a rigged
election, and his administration has weaponized the federal government against his most prominent
political adversary, former President Donald Trump, and anyone in ideological opposition to the
Democrats. The Biden administration's disregard for border security encourages mass illegal
immigration at the Southern Border, exposing the public to dangerous criminals and additional
economic burdens while the middle class struggles to stay afloat amid increasing taxes, inflation,
and gas prices. And despite the public's rapidly increasing suffering, Biden prioritizes
sending billions of tax dollars to foreign wars and international green energy projects. All
these things, but particularly the federal government's targeting of conservatives and its assault
on election integrity, should be sparking massive protests. Yet they aren't. Unlike
Spain, America was founded on the idea that human beings have God-given, inalienable rights.
Freedom of speech and assembly are not just First Amendment givens in the United States, but part
of our culture. So why aren't conservatives protesting?
Biden's
illegal invasion is an unfunded mandate killing US cities and he's planning to expand it.
Recently Joe Biden bragged about his intention to allow more massive amounts of illegals to flood the
country and it's frightening. [Tweet with video clip] Reparations for migrants?
What I never heard talked about is the fact that this is an unfunded mandate. Biden does
everything he can to keep the borders open for illegal invasion, to keep fentanyl flowing across the
border, keep money pouring into the coffers of Mexican cartels and keep human trafficking flourishing.
This has a human horrible cost. Young females are being abused on their travels to here.
Over 100,00 [sic] are dying every year from opiate overdose, most from fentanyl. Then there is
a gigantic financial cost to America. We have seen how big-mouth politicians have devolved into
mealy-mouthed politicians when their boasts of being sanctuary states and cities have their words
shoved down their throats. One is tempted to simply say "They asked for this. Their
constituents voted for this" and that's a fair assessment. Eric Adams, the mayor of New York
City, is one such idiot. He repeatedly boasted of being a sanctuary city. Now that NYC
has taken 142,000 illegals, the cost is becoming onerous. To accommodate the illegals, Adams
is punishing Americans. He plans to slash the budget by $4 billion across the board by
eviscerating the police force and education for his constituents.
My
Journey from Frustration to Outrage to Seething Anger. I am enraged that our US
Congress continues to pile debt upon debt, with no consequences because it isn't the politicians'
money (Cloward-Piven). And they can't be held accountable. They just keep increasing the
debt limit. I am outraged that Washington absconded with the power vested in the federated
structure of our Constitution, which intends for most power to be issued from the states, and then
assigned that power to an administrative state, where bureaucrats' regulations are enforced like
laws. [...] I am enraged that America's city streets are filled with trash, needles, open drug use,
human waste, and people living in massive tent cities — something the left has
purposefully created as one way to collapse society (Cloward-Piven). We're told the solution is
difficult, if not impossible, to fix, yet San Francisco just proved it could be done in a
week. I am enraged that the "defund the police" movement, which included releasing dangerous
prisoners back onto the streets, is a by-design policy to increase societal unrest and make life
dangerous for normal citizens (Cloward-Piven).
America
on the Edge of the Cliff. The most obvious problem is out-of-control government
spending. The interest on the national debt is pushing toward a cool trillion dollars,
clocking in at $659 billion for fiscal 2022, gobbling up ever more American tax dollars.
While wise politicians should be sobered by that number, they instead are pushing the ship to
ludicrous speed in search of Mad Max. It is forcing ever higher deficit spending since it is
mathematically impossible to bring in enough tax revenue to buy off voting blocs, meaning that it
will skyrocket in the years ahead. It's a serious problem that demands serious politicians in
both parties. But you first need a serious electorate, something in short supply these
days. The "ask not what your country can do for you" ethos of yesterday has transformed into
the "give us more free stuff and we'll take some reparations on the side" grievance ethos of today.
Follow
the Science — Except for Sex and Gender. Throughout the real-life science
fiction movie called COVID, we have been told to "follow the science." The face of COVID,
Dr. Anthony Fauci, condescendingly proclaimed, "I am the science." It comes to light now that
most of his assertions turned out to be incorrect. Gender and sex are the latest battlefront
in the realm of "science," and this, too, is turning out to defy actual science and common
sense. But as both COVID and gender are now political and advocacy issues rather than the
science once taught in biology class, we are no longer following science and instead engaging in
magical thinking. What's the difference between sex and gender? Once upon a time they
were interchangeable terms. But that changed. Did the science change or did these terms
become politically charged?
Why
Governments Have Replaced God with Global Warming. An adept government will never
solve a problem unless it has a new problem prepackaged and ready to mass-produce for the
public. That's why Joe Biden didn't mind bungling America's exit from Afghanistan when he and
other Obama administration alumni were already working on the next forever-war in Ukraine for the
upcoming spring. That's why the CDC and other government scientists owned and operated by the
pharmaceutical industry never batted an eye when their miracle elixir COVID "vaccines" proved to be
neither safe nor effective — because there is always some new exotic disease ready to be
released from a Chinese bio-lab tucked away in an abandoned California factory that will require
billions in taxpayer funds, too. Any government worth its salt has an endless supply of boogeymen
and a limited supply of expensive solutions that coincidentally require total citizen compliance.
Experts
raise alarm after Biden strikes agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels. U.S.
energy experts are warning of the economic and national security implications of President Biden's
pact with China this week to move towards shutting down fossil fuel production in favor of green
energy. The State Department announced this week it had struck a deal with its Chinese
counterparts pledging to "accelerate the substitution for coal, oil and gas generation" with green
energy sources like wind and solar power. The nations, which account for nearly half of
global greenhouse gas emissions, also agreed to "deepen policy exchanges" on reducing carbon
emissions in various sectors, like power, industry, buildings and transportation, across their
economies. But the agreement — in which the nations further pledged to
"sufficiently accelerate renewable energy deployment in their respective economies through
2030" — was criticized over its potential impact on U.S. consumers. Experts also
noted that China has rarely followed through on international accords and stands to financially
benefit from such an agreement since it controls much of the world's green energy supply chain.
Two
Words Describe Biden's Presidency: Reckless Endangerment. This week we've been
treated to three government reports that all point in the same direction: Disaster.
Interest payments are through the roof. Real wages continue to fall. And a record
number of illegals crossed the border. That's just the domestic news. As of this
writing, Americans are being held hostage by Iran-supported Hamas terrorists who killed nearly two
dozen other Americans when they invaded Israel. Our military forces face increasing
Iranian-sponsored attacks in Iraq and Syria. While President Joe Biden lets Iran off the
sanctions hook for another four months. The worry isn't just whether Biden — the
architect of these disasters — will be voted out of office next year. It's whether
the U.S. can survive until then.
Boston
Democrats Look to Extend Voting Rights to Foreign Nationals. Democrats on the Boston
City Council are looking to extend local voting rights to foreign nationals in the United States on
visas, green cards, and other forms of legal status. Councilwoman Kendra Lara (D) introduced
the measure, which would allow foreign nationals on green cards, visas, and other forms of legal
status to vote in Boston municipal elections. The measure is likely to gain widespread
support from the council, which is made up of 12 Democrats.
Biden
Admin Pushing Coup in Israel. The Biden administration keeps talking about the urgent
need for Israel to have a post-war plan for Gaza. What that really means is that it wants the
PLO to take over Gaza. Netanyahu has opposed that for now. The Palestinian Authority is
run by Fatah, the body behind the PLO, and is just another Islamic terrorist group. And parts
of it claimed to have taken part in the Oct 7 massacres. But none of that is stopping the
Biden administration from its obsession. The thinking is that if the Palestinian Authority
takes over Gaza, it can force negotiations on a Two-State Solution and finally bring peace by
empowering terrorists. A policy that has brought nothing but terror for 30 years. And
now that Israel's government is in the way, it's time to get it out of the way.
Green
Agenda Driving Inflation and Hurting Economic Growth, Admits Central Banker. Leftist
green agenda policies are driving up inflation, raising the cost of consumer goods and depressing
economic production, a top policy advisor to the Bank of England has admitted. Net Zero
agenda items pushed by the so-called Conservative party in the UK such as taxes on carbon and
emissions trading schemes are increasing inflation and worsening the wallet crunch for Britons as
companies pass along the costs onto average consumers, Catherine Mann, a member of the Bank of
England's Monetary Policy Committee has acknowledged. In comments reported by The
Telegraph from an address delivered at Oxford University, Mann said that economists have
concluded that green "carbon taxes, public investments, and subsidies are all inflationary".
If
This Is True, Biden's Incompetence Cost American and Israeli Lives. While this
question has become peripheral, it's still relevant and needs answers. There have been pieces
here and there pointing to the intelligence failures that occurred leading to Hamas' barbaric
October 7 terrorist attack against Israel. That invasion, which saw over 1,000 Hamas
terrorists invade the Jewish state, killing 1,400 men, women, and children, was probably the worst
intelligence failure Israel has suffered since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Israeli intelligence
has much to explain, but so does the United States. With the serial incompetence of Joe
Biden, this story isn't shocking. This man's foreign policy blunders are almost by default
supported by a long history of being exceptionally poor at international affairs. Also, his
executive orders and public record provide concrete evidence for this emerging story about how the
US intelligence community slept on Hamas because they were too busy focusing on global warming.
While
Hamas Planned Its Attack on Israel, Biden's Intel Community Was Focused On Climate Change.
While the Hamas terror group was working with Iran to launch its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the Biden
administration's intelligence community was ramping up efforts to combat climate change, raising
questions about America's failure to detect the terror attack. As the Israel-Gaza conflict
enters its second month, congressional leaders are beginning to examine whether the Biden
administration's intelligence shift — which included adding a climate scientist to his
Intelligence Advisory Board, a task force that tracks national security issues, and executive
orders that required the intelligence community to assess security threats posed by climate
change — may have contributed to America's failure to spot Hamas's planning
beforehand. Hamas had been planning the attack for over a year, according to reports. "The
world faces unprecedented threats from Communist China, the Iran regime, and Russia yet the Biden
administration is shifting intelligence and defense assets to focus on climate change,"
Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
told the Washington Free Beacon.
It's
not about Israel: We are the target. Let's apply Occam's Razor to the question,
"what is the motive behind Biden's actions as president?" Biden's first steps were to
systematically dismantle everything Trump had accomplished during his presidency. Using the
"global warming emergency" as his excuse, Biden ended drilling for oil and natural gas and moved us
from energy independence to having to rely on our enemies to obtain dirtier oil. His
appointees to the military focused on wokeness, not readiness, and ended up with weakness.
His support of Ukraine, to the tune of $60 billion, with another $53 billion allocated, has
depleted our military of the supplies and ammunition we need to defend our own country. He
spent money we didn't have for projects we didn't need, and has run up the national debt to
$33.7 trillion -- fueling massive inflation that is ruining the lives of the "average Americans"
he claims to represent. He immediately began ignoring the law and opened our borders to all
comers — terrorists, drug dealers, human traffickers, and common criminals.
Fentanyl is now killing over 110,000 Americans per year, the equivalent of a Boeing 757-300
crashing every single day. Biden has done everything in his power to support Iran.
The
Wind is Always Blowing Somewhere Fallacy. I have followed the Climate Act since it
was first proposed, submitted comments on the Climate Act implementation plan, and have written
over 350 articles about New York's net-zero transition. I have devoted a lot of time to the
Climate Act because I believe the ambitions for a zero-emissions economy embodied in the Climate
Act outstrip available renewable technology such that the net-zero transition will do more harm
than good by increasing costs unacceptably, threatening electric system reliability, and causing
significant unintended environmental impacts. [...] The Climate Act established a New York "Net
Zero" target (85% reduction and 15% offset of emissions) by 2050. It includes an interim 2030
reduction target of a 40% reduction by 2030 and a requirement that all electricity generated be
"zero-emissions" by 2040. The Climate Action Council is responsible for preparing the Scoping Plan
that outlines how to "achieve the State's bold clean energy and climate agenda." In brief, that
plan is to electrify everything possible using zero-emissions electricity.
How
about some hearings on human disinformation and electoral interference instead of so-called AI
disinformation? The media routinely uses adjectives like extreme and controversial to
describe Republican policies while calling Democrat policies progressive. [...] Which of the
following policies are actually extreme and controversial: Having limits, not bans, on
abortions like most countries in the World, or supporting abortions at all stages of a pregnancy,
like a few countries such as North Korea and China. Enforcing immigration laws that Congress
passed or essentially having open borders. Continuing to use the natural resources the Earth
has been blessed with or destroying oil, gas, natural gas, and coal companies which have greatly
improved our quality and length of life. How many people in underdeveloped countries die very
young because green pushers tell them they will destroy the Earth if they modernize? [...] The
reason Biden is unpopular is not his age, it's the Democrat policies. Replace Biden with
Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, or any other Democrat and you get the same policies to destroy the oil
companies and to make the government more powerful.
Joe
Biden's menthol cigarette ban poised to open a huge new market for Mexican cartels.
We already have wide-open borders with welcome signs and promises of "free" healthcare, food,
living accommodations, and college, a situation which has spurred more than ten million crossings
during Biden's tenure alone (a devastating and unprecedented record). Naturally, this equates to
record revenue for the honchos raking in coyote fees and recurring payments; sometimes, the
crossers reimburse the cartels by allowing the abuse of their own children. With the
decriminalization of drugs, we've seen open-air drug markets spring up and devour urban centers;
expectedly, this demands a product, and more job security for criminal enterprises that deal in
fentanyl and illicit drugs. Read below, from the New York Post this past July:
["]Honduran migrants have taken over San Francisco's drug market with the aid and blessing
of Mexican cartels, according to a new report.["] Assault after assault against the
Second Amendment has disarmed peaceable citizens; but as always, those intent on harming the
innocent can still procure a firearm no problem. Now add to the list, menthol
cigarettes, because Biden and the federal government really cares about your health...
which is also why they promote bugs as food, plant-based diets, GMOs, "cross-sex" hormones for
children, forced the jab, etc.
The
US Spent $4.1 Billion on Global LGBT Initiatives. During the past three fiscal years,
$4.1 billion in federal money from taxpayers has flowed to LGBT initiatives in the United States
and around the world, an Epoch Times investigation has revealed. From Oct. 1, 2020, through
Sept. 30, 2023, the U.S. government issued more than 1,100 grants to fund LGBT-promoting projects
around the world, according to a review of a federal spending website. The scope of projects
varies widely. Plans to create a "safe space for LGBTQ youth and adults to seek support and
resources" earned a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. government in 2022 for the LGBT Life Center in
Norfolk, Virginia. A proposal for encouraging "diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's
workplaces and business communities by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for
LGBTQI+ people in Serbia" was also a winning plan. To fund it, the U.S. government awarded
Serbian activist group Grupa Izadji a grant of $500,000.
You
Have Paid $4.1 Billion to Support LGBTQ Initiatives in Other Countries Thanks to President
Biden. You're paying quite a bit of money to fund LGBTQ initiatives in other
countries. According to a recent report, the Biden administration has been quite generous with
your hard-earned cash over the past three years. The White House has given about $4.1 billion
in taxpayer dollars to LGBTQ endeavors in countries like Serbia, Armenia, and several others.
American
Jews on the Left Are Just Shocked by Their Fellow Leftists. Progressive American Jews
are shocked by their fellow progressives. But the only thing that is shocking is their
shock. The Left wing has been calling for an economic boycott of Israel for decades and has
labeled Israel an "apartheid" state. The Left labels America, the most tolerant, multiethnic
society in history, "systemically racist." The Left called for "defunding the police,"
supports attorneys general who abolish bail for violent criminals, and praised demonstrations
against America — including many that included vandalism and violence — for
more than half a year. The Left supports all-black dorms and all-black graduations on college
campuses. The Left has almost destroyed every liberal ideal regarding race. The
University of California, among many other left-wing institutions, has labeled "racist" the liberal
ideal of being color-blind, and labeled "racist" the beautiful anti-racist sentiment, "there is
only one race, the human race."
Was
October 7 an Earthquake for the Democrats? I see the drag queens, black-masked
thugs, and [pink] hat wearing spinsters at every Democrat party event. I know the Dems are
the party of radicals, community organizers, and the occasional posse-organizing bartender.
But there are also a great many average Joes who habitually vote Democrat. The average Joe is
a law-abiding, churchgoing family man who votes Democrat because he wants to make the world
better — and has been led to believe that the Dems want that also. The average Joe:
• Wants some social safety nets — but not over $33 trillion of debt.
• Wants clean air and water — but not at the expense of worldwide destitution.
• Believes that immigration has been good for America — but doesn't support open borders.
• Believes in showing tolerance to others — but not the destruction of Judeo-Christian values.
• Believes we can improve our society — but not by abandoning our founding principles.
So why does Joe vote for the party of debt, invasion, racism, socialism, and moral relativism?
Carbon
Dioxide: Vital Plant Food. [Scroll down] It is bad enough that many
of these programs have been built on a false foundation. In truth, many of them have not been
really beneficial. Large solar farms are built in the desert, but in just a few years, the
projects have failed. Wind turbines wear out, catch fire, and break down totally. They
presently cannot be recycled and must be buried. The only parts that can be recycled are in
the generator. One city bought several electric buses but in just a short time quit using
them as impractical. Electric vehicles may be practical to drive from home to office and back
again, but they are not practical on long trips. It is necessary to stop every few hours and
charge the batteries, and sometimes it is difficult to find a proper charging station. Those
who have lived near the coast have seen their cars flooded with sea water, then their cars caught
fire as their batteries shorted out. Not only that, but the driving range is radically
reduced when driving in summer (air-conditioning) or winter (heater).
Carbon
Dioxide: Vital Plant Food. Carbon dioxide has been called a poison, yet it is
actually the sustainer of all life on Earth. Plants grow from the carbon in carbon dioxide in
the air, and animals grow from the carbon in the plants they eat. So carbon dioxide cannot be
a poison. Turn on the television any day of the week, and there is likely to be some
discussion or news about some aspect of energy use.
• Everyone needs to buy an electric vehicle.
• End the use of fossil fuels by 2035.
• Every home with a solar panel (California).
• Cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline.
• No more coal.
• Eliminate the use of natural gas.
• No gas stoves.
• No gas furnaces.
• Battery-powered trucks and buses.
All these programs are based on one important foundation: the belief that as carbon dioxide
levels rise, the earth will get warmer, and will continue to warm until, with positive feedbacks, it
burns up with us on it. Few have ever taken the time to see if the foundation upon
which they are operating is actually true. Few even dare to ask a working scientist for the
truth in the matter. The truth is that carbon dioxide is needed by every plant on the Earth.
Trees, bushes, and plants of all kinds are made mainly of carbon and hydrogen, and the carbon comes
from the tiny amount of carbon dioxide that is in the air.
Would
The 'Woke' Movement Please Hurry Up And Die Already? What do we mean by "woke"?
It's the extreme-left mindset encouraged by the "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion" movement, the ugly
offspring of Marxism and critical race theory. Its intent is all-inclusive, covering the
entirety of culture, social interactions, and commerce. Indeed, the movement's ultimate goal
is to plant a permanent flag of ideological conquest in your brain so you'll be frightened to
transgress even a little bit of the thought boundaries they've set for you. It's
working. From once-sensible cops in Britain tearing down posters of Israelis kidnapped by
Hamas, to Hollywood's awful woke remakes of classic entertainment, to drag queens parading in
children's classrooms and events, to our own woke military, "woke" now seems culturally pervasive,
almost inescapable.
The
DNC Con Job to Come. Our problems are caused by policies. These are not
Biden-Harris-specific policies; they have become standard-issue, party-platform, shared official
policies. To advocate anything else would get one kicked out of the party. Both our
nation and the entire Western world are suffering from a reduction in current and future output of
petroleum, natural gas, and coal — concurrent with a costly explosion of notoriously
inefficient wind and solar farms. That's a shared Democrat policy. Both our nation and
the entire Western world are suffering from an explosion of crime, caused in part by foolish
criminal justice policies (denying self-defense to the law-abiding, refusing to execute convicted
violent criminals, refusing to control the entry of international crime gangs such as MS-13 and
Islamofascist terrorists). These too are shared Democrat policies.
Joe
Biden Isn't 'Managing' Or Confronting Problems. Joe Biden Is The Problem.
There's a simple pattern that the media follow when covering each new crisis that pops up during
Joe Biden's catastrophic presidency: A calamity occurs either domestically or abroad, and
rather than examining the cause, the media instantly frame Biden as a hero at battle. [...] But
back to Biden. He's not confronting or managing a series of events that happened to
him. He and his party actively created them. Or, at minimum, they created an
environment that anyone could have predicted would lead to them. Russia has long insisted
that NATO stop expanding along its border. The second Biden got into office, he pushed for
Ukraine's membership. Israel had its country under relative control for years right up until
Biden's team gifted Iran, the Jewish state's greatest threat, $6 billion worth of goodies.
We were energy independent until Biden said we couldn't be. The economy was working itself out
until Biden and his party thought it would be a good idea to pump hundreds of billions of dollars
more into Covid-era welfare ("childcare" and "living assistance"). And let's not start on the
electric vehicle scheme, wherein car companies grabbed another round of multi-billion-dollar
taxpayer funds, courtesy of Biden, for a product that barely works (and for which manufacturers are
now rolling back their production of).
Consequences
of American Communism. My position is quite clear: this nation is done for.
[...] It should be obvious that nearly two-thirds of this nation cannot stand to live with the
other third. There is no compromise on pedophilia, illegal immigration, corruption, spending
the people into poverty, controlling the use of gas stoves and etc., but bigger issues are on the
horizon and the federal government will not be able to deal with them. The federal government
has become a form of mafia that doesn't put one moment's energy into what the people or the nation
want or need. They see profit for themselves and make laws to satisfy those who will pay them
off. That's a nation with an expiration date and that date is rapidly approaching.
Biden
Wants Another $56 Billion in 'Emergency' Spending. Under the guise of responding to
natural disasters, the White House is pushing Congress to approve $56 billion in additional
borrowing to fund a wide range of nonemergency spending like broadband internet and humanitarian
aid. Less than half of the $56 billion requested by the Biden administration would be
directed toward disaster relief — and only $9 billion would "address ongoing
disaster response and recovery efforts," according to a breakdown published by the White
House. The majority of the new spending would be aimed at what the White House calls
"critical domestic priorities" like welfare programs, the war on drugs, and government-funded
broadband internet. In other words: nonemergency line items that could — and
should — be decided as part of the regular budget process, not as a supplemental funding bill.
Joe
Biden touted as a 'key' figure and a 'wartime' leader? Ever since Joe Biden took
office, he has idiotically said climate change is the greatest existential threat to the U.S. and
the world. Not Iran with its "death to America" pledges, not China with its dystopian
communism, American farmland grabs, and land acquisitions near military bases, not North Korea
with its nuclear bombs under the control of an unstable leader, not the Mexican cartels and their
human butchery. Nope, the greatest threat is a hypothetical and miniscule temperature
increase in the next hundred years or so. The Biden administration then pretends they can
prevent this from happening if they could just stop Americans from using crude oil and gas-powered
vehicles and equipment, which greatly rewards China. Iran and Russia also love this abject
ignorance and arrogance, and appreciate Biden's generosity as he has greatly increased the demand
for their oil, thus driving up their revenue, which they use to wage war against their enemies.
Phrases that aren't that great:
Phrases
that grate. The phrase "you can't make this up" has become a tiresome incantation,
often reflecting bemusement at Biden's petulant policies. Instead, how about "inexplicable,"
or "incomprehensible," to succinctly capture his compunction to reverse Trump's America First
policies? Unfortunately, one can make this up because Biden is malevolently mad.
His unfathomable DEI and ESG imperatives are impervious to rationality.
Now
All Americans Can See the Insanity of the Biden Energy Strategy. We've been warning
regularly on these pages that the Biden war on American fossil fuels is not just an economic
calamity, but a national security threat as well. We have known for fifty years that
terrorist organizations like Hamas are primarily financed with petro-dollars. Just as Biden
has aided and abetted the Russian war machine in Ukraine, he has enriched Middle East oil-producing
nations like Iran as well. Our latest CTUP analysis finds that the reduction in US oil output
under Biden from the Trump trend has cost the U.S. roughly $500 million a day. Much of that
money has been transferred week after week from American producers to nations hostile to the U.S.
and Israel.
Joe
Biden has blown up the world. On day one of the Biden administration, he canceled the
Keystone Pipeline, putting thousands of skilled workers out of work. Over the ensuing months,
he canceled oil leases, stopped fracking, and drained our strategic oil reserve. All this was
surely intentional; he means to starve the American people of energy, making what is available more
expensive by the day. Like Obama, he means to transform America, and not in a good way.
The most catastrophic stunt Biden pulled was the tragically ill conceived withdrawal from
Afghanistan. He left billions in state-of-the-art military equipment to the Taliban along
with the Bagram Air Base, which sits close to China. Thirteen young American patriots were
killed by the sheer ineptitude of their leaders. This tragic maneuver telegraphed Biden's,
and thus America's, weakness to every leader in the world. Russia thought taking Ukraine's
Russian-speaking border regions would be a cakewalk. Our careless warmongers in the Biden
administration thought their puppet-of-the-oligarchs Zelensky would easily defeat Russia with
billions of U.S. dollars. The military complex wanted that war. All of that went
awry. Here we are a year and a half later; Ukraine has lost half a million people and is
still begging for billions more in aid. None of this would have happened if Trump had been in office.
Obviously Obama never "left off." He's still pulling the strings.
On
Israel, Biden Picks Up Where Obama Left Off. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
contends that Hamas would gain no "greater" victory "than allowing its brutality to send us down a
path of terrorism and nihilism. We must not let it." You can hear echoes of Barack
Obama's insufferable moral equivalencies imbued in that statement. The contention is a
not-so-subtle warning to Israel, who will almost surely enter Gaza and try to dismantle the Hamas
terror state — which has been indirectly and directly funded not only by Iran, the
European Union, and the United Nations but also by the Obama and Biden administrations. The
insinuation, of course, is that Israel needs to temper its inclination to engage in "terrorism and
nihilism." It is a blood libel. It is not "terrorism" to seek justice for the pregnant
woman who had her baby cut from her body or the elderly couple who was burned alive. And
eliminating those who committed Nazi-like atrocities against your citizens is no more nihilistic
than tracking down Eichmann or demanding Emperor Hirohito unconditionally surrender. Yet,
only days after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Biden was already lecturing
Benjamin Netanyahu on how "democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more
secure when we act according to the rule of law." The insinuation, again, is that there is
something nefarious about winning a war against those who massacre your citizens.
White
House Would Rather Discuss Islamophobia Than Antisemitism. [Scroll down]
But then there are times when the Biden administration demonstrates all the moral assurance of a
blind man on a tightrope. An exchange of this latter sort occurred on Monday, when White
House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to a reporter's question about President Joe
Biden's "level of concern right now about the potential rise of antisemitism in light of everything
that's going on in Israel." "Look, we have not seen any credible threats," replied
Jean-Pierre. "I know there's been always [sic] questions about credible threats. And so,
just want to make sure that that's out there." Having disposed of antisemitism in 27 words,
Jean-Pierre pivoted: "But, look, Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a
disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. And certainly President Biden understands
that many of our Muslim, Arab Americans, and Palestinian American loved ones and neighbors are
worried about the hate being directed at their communities. And that is something you heard
the president speak to in his address just last Thursday." Jean-Pierre spent three more
paragraphs morally equating antisemitism and Islamophobia, noting that Biden has directed the
Department of Homeland Security "to prioritize prevention and disruption of any emerging threats
that could harm the Jewish, the Muslim, Arab Americans or any other communities."
The Editor says...
The White House is firmly on the side of the Muslims because [#1] We are witnessing
Obama's third term as president,
and [#2] Obama is a Muslim.
In
the Mouth of Marxist Madness. Americans [are] under siege from an Orwellian deep
state that manipulates the public by distorting history and undermining the meaning of words.
In a nation that celebrates George Floyd as a hero, clings to the "Hands up, don't shoot" lie as a
sacred "truth," and blames Hillary's election loss on Russian bots, propaganda is king. The
U.S. government fights racism by institutionalizing racial preferences. It supports Black
Lives Matter and Antifa domestic terrorists while locking up American patriots as "domestic
enemies." It replaces impartial justice with "social justice" and equality under the law with
"equitable" special privileges. "Climate change" communism kills property rights.
Meme-makers are imprisoned, but Russia collusion hoaxers are not. Gene-altering serums are
called "vaccines." And generations of judges have replaced the U.S. Constitution with their own
postmodern revisions.
How
the Inflation Reduction Act Bankrolls EPA Overreach. The Inflation Reduction Act
(IRA) offers a master class in implementing expensive, counterproductive, and highly partisan
energy policy. In previous posts, I discussed 1) how the electricity generation
subsidies in the IRA could cost taxpayers $2.5 or $3 trillion and 2) why
policymakers should remove those subsidies before expanding the high-voltage transmission
system. As we count the reasons why repealing the energy subsidies in the IRA is a good idea,
let's also consider their interaction with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed
power plant rule. It is technically true that, as Senator Joe Manchin has said, "[n]either
the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law nor the IRA gave new authority to regulate power plant emission
standards." However, the IRA did provide the foundation upon which the EPA has built its
power plant regulation by subsidizing the technologies that enable the new standards.
Consequently, lawmakers who oppose the EPA's overreach should consider repealing the energy
subsidies in the IRA.
James
Biden receives $200k from a failing hospital, then immediately writes a check to Joe for the same
amount. [Scroll down] I see a lot of efforts from Biden and his party to
destroy America, which no one could consider "working for the American people." Here is a
sample: As soon as Biden took office, he started his war on oil companies. That sent
prices skyrocketing, greatly helping Iran and Russia while greatly harming the American
people. Biden also canceled an American pipeline while lifting sanctions on a Russian
pipeline. Communist China loves the fact that politicians in the U.S. issue diktats, telling
their subjects that they will be required to junk their reliable gas-powered vehicles in favor of
vehicles powered by minerals that China substantially controls. Biden reversed President
Trump's substantially successful border policies in favor of allowing millions of illegals to flow
in every year. It is not working for Americans to flood the U.S. with mostly unvetted
illegals. It is lawless. As Fox also reported, the "high migrant numbers" broke
multiple records.
Paying
for our own destruction. Democrats want to embark on The Green New Deal, which would
likely destroy the economy and fatally bankrupt the nation, all while doing next to nothing to
counteract "global warming" or "climate change." Uncle Sam is paying to fly illegal aliens
around the country and put them up in fine hotels — or set them up in apartments and homes, replete
with a starter allowance for furnishing them. The Biden administration left billions and
billions of dollars worth of top-shelf military equipment in Afghanistan, to the amazement and
delight of the Taliban. Some of which has apparently now been funneled to the likes of Hamas
and Hezbollah. It has deliberately devastated our domestic energy sector and drained down our
strategic oil reserve at a time when multiple conflicts rock the world. Incredibly, we now go
begging for oil from the hated Russians (who are at war with Ukraine) — and Saudi
Arabia — when we were energy independent just three short years ago.
Where
There is No Respect for Life, Evil Flourishes. The loss of respect for life has also
begun to dramatically infiltrate the American ruling elites and the overall society as over the
past two decades the following, previously unthinkable, changes have occurred within the United
States:
• Unfettered abortion up to the point of birth and post-birth
infanticide has become a policy position of the Democrat Party.
• Euthanasia
is openly discussed and supported by an ever-growing (73%) segment of the population.
• Sexually confused teens are being coerced into mutilation and permanent disfigurement
in order to appease the gods of transgenderism, accompanied by an unabashed campaign to legalize
pedophilia.
• A significant plurality of Americans is demanding the
censorship, imprisonment, and persecution of their political adversaries while they, and recent
Islamic immigrants, are openly supporting and justifying the slaughter of Jews by Hamas.
• Tribalism has been mainstreamed and with it the belief that certain ethnicities
or races are inferior to others and also responsible for society's ills, therefore, they are deserving
of disrespect, abuse and discrimination.
The path the United States is presently traveling will inevitably lead to the darkening shadow of
unfettered evil descending upon the land leading to national self-destruction.
The
Cult of Personality Will Destroy This Country. We like to blame what Elon Musk calls
the 'Woke Mind Virus' for most of our ills, and surely 'defund the police,' 'open the borders,'
'make it legal to poop on sidewalks,' 'decriminalize crime,' and other loony woke ideas are causing
great harm, but understand that the 'woke' represent a very small percentage of the public.
The woke like to pretend that the word 'woke' is something the political right highjacked, but that
has no real meaning. Let me define the term. Woke is the ability to see oppression
where it does not exist. The woke then wish to eliminate oppression, even where there is
none, leading to all kinds of horrendous policies. Ask yourself how it is that policies
supported by a small fraction of the public — not even supported by the majority of
the party pushing them — are rapidly becoming the laws of the land.
Absolutely not. But if he wants billions to fly them all to Argnetina or New Guinea, I'm all for it.
Joe
Biden Demands Billions to Fly, Bus More Migrants into U.S. Communities. President Joe
Biden's deputies are asking Congress for $14 billion extra to help bus illegal migrants up to the
U.S. border and onward into hotels in many cities and towns around the nation. The request is
being touted as "border security" even though very few funds would be used to exclude economic migrants.
For example, Biden's deputies have ushered more than 300,000 economic migrants through the U.S. border in
September alone. The 2023 inflow has added up to roughly 2.5 million, not counting legal
migrants and temporary workers.
The road ahead
for Israel, America, and everyone else. President Biden left Israel Wednesday [10/18/2023] after
publicly instructing Jerusalem to show restraint in their expected ground invasion of Gaza, while
privately reportedly giving the Israelis more wiggle room to get the job done. Now, even
meaningless moral virtue signaling is pretty rich coming from the guy whose administration is
responsible for the horrendously botched withdrawal from Afghanistan (despite it being absolutely
necessary), the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, and other incidents that helped to spark a
variety of global crises. Nonetheless, it appears pretty clear that despite the Biden "bear
hug" smothering routine, Israel intends on following through with its mission to severely limit the
operational capability of Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for the October 7 massacre of over
1,300 Israelis.
Biden
Administration Now Wants to Ban Furnaces. In an attempt to force Americans to
conserve energy, the Department of Energy is banning a whole class of popular furnaces, eventually
raising heating costs and reducing product choices for families and businesses alike. And it
is using an outdated law to give itself the authority to do so. While the DOE did recognize
many of the comments that I submitted arguing against its attempt to regulate gas furnaces, it did
little more than brush them off. Unfortunately, higher costs and less choice won't be so easy
for American families and businesses to ignore. Furthermore, the DOE relied on outdated
congressional authority to devise its final rule, and the law itself doesn't require the department
to tighten standards for gas furnaces when there is no good reason for it to do so (and there
isn't). The new rule does not simply alter standards; it would effectively remove a
technology from the marketplace and reduce competition.
If
you're tempted to think the government cares about you... Does anybody really
believe that Biden cared whether the taxpayers have to pay $60 or $100 per barrel to refill the
strategic petroleum reserve that he tapped to buy votes? After all, it was his energy
policies that jacked up the cost of gas and diesel, not the Russians or the supply chain
disruption. Does anyone believe that Biden cares whether taxpayers have to pay off $100
billion or one trillion in debt that he dictatorially is forgiving? The government didn't
care when colleges jacked up their costs much faster than inflation and now wants other people to
pay off the debts that students ran up. Is that fair? The Democrats intentionally lied
when they passed the falsely named inflation reduction act that they pretended would not only be
paid for, but would reduce the deficit and reduce inflation. The goal of the act was to buy
votes and establish a slush fund for radical green pushers.
Report:
Biden's HHS Imposes Gender Identity Pronoun Mandate on Employees. President Joe
Biden's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ordering its employees to defy biological
reality by referring to transgender coworkers by their "preferred pronouns." The HHS, which
employs approximately 80,000 people in the United States and abroad, imposed its new "Gender
Identity and Non-Discrimination Guidance" late last week, which outlines "employee rights and
protections related to gender identity," according to an alleged HHS email sent to employees and
obtained by Catholic News Agency (CNA).
New
York gas stove ban heats up as gas and construction groups file federal lawsuit. A
group of gas and construction trade groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the
legality of New York's ban on gas stoves and furnaces in new residential buildings in a move to
challenge Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul's push for green energy. The case was filed by
the National Association of Home Builders and the National Propane Gas Association, among others
and names the New York Department of State as a defendant on the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges
that New York does not have the legal ability to enforce the gas stove ban because a preexisting
federal law, called the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975, already regulates energy
use policies.
Federal
Lawsuit Filed Over New York State Ban on Gas Stoves That Democrats Said Wasn't Happening.
Remember the stupid ban on gas stoves? The one that Democrats insisted wasn't happening? Two
professional groups have just filed a federal lawsuit over the ban in New York, claiming that the state
doesn't have the authority to put such a ban in place. There needs to be more legal action like
this. Democrats are out of bounds on this issue.
A
gander at Joe Biden's executive orders tells us a lot about his presidency. As of May
9, 2023 President Biden has signed 115 executive orders. Here a few of them: Executive
Order 13985 — Advances racial equity and support for underserved communities through the federal
government. This is unconstitutional discrimination based on racial identity and not
character and competence of the individual so it is a blatantly unconstitutional racist executive
order. Executive Order 13988 — Designed to prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of
gender identity or sexual orientation. It is one thing to tolerate adult gays, bisexuals, and
transgenders but it is another to prove discrimination by heterosexuals and punish them for
it. Who will determine whether the discrimination was based on character and competence and
not gender identity or sexual orientation? Thus, this is an unenforceable order which may
sound O.K. in theory but in practice is not enforceable.
Democrats'
extremism, incivility, gaslighting precludes civil response. Many people wonder why
today, as opposed to even the recent past, the political parties can no longer be civil
to — or even tolerate one another. Well, the reason for that is that the Democrat
party has become so extreme and moved so far left that it is no longer possible for a sane person
to agree with them. Today's Democrats bear little resemblance to those of the Truman or even
Kennedy eras. They are not just economic Marxists believing in equality of outcome,
but cultural Marxists who wish to deny and/or destroy all that came before them, including the very
concept of men and women. Not content with even this, they boldly attempt to impose their
ideas — and will — on everyone else. They want equity of beliefs and
values, as long as those beliefs and values are their own. It is one thing to believe in
somewhat bigger government and higher taxes, quite another to believe that baby-killing should be
enshrined as the law of the land and that men can become women just by saying so.
Joe
Biden is adamant that you pay other people's student loans. Hey there, hardworking
plumber, auto mechanic, nursing aide, dutiful married couple parents, and others of your ilk
struggling to live within your income while faithfully paying your bills, your debts, maybe even
loans — President Joe Biden (Democrat) thinks you're a fool! A sucker! Okay,
okay, he didn't actually say that today, but that was definitely implied as he triumphantly
announced a further expansion of canceling college student loan debt.
The
'McHenry Kicks Pelosi out' Story Gets Even More Amusing. We wrote earlier about how
one of the first orders of business for speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) in the
aftermath of the House's ousting of Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker was to notify former House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that she needed to immediately remove her things and vacate her
hideaway office. Also, according to reports, an email sent from a House Administration
Committee aide indicated the room was being redesignated "for speaker office use." Naturally,
the move prompted some wailing from Pelosi, who proclaimed that the decision was "a sharp departure
from tradition." It was kind of an ironic statement to make considering, as my colleague
Bonchie noted, ousting a House Speaker — which Pelosi's fellow Democrats ultimately supported even
after she allegedly told McCarthy prior to him becoming Speaker she would push back against such a
move — is quite a departure from tradition as well.
The Editor says...
Let's review: A wide-open Mexican border, multi-trillion-dollar deficits, abortion on
demand, forced vaccinations, men pretending to be women, men in the women's restrooms, mail-in
ballots (with no evidence they were really mailed) counted days after election day, legalized
marijuana, assisted suicide, gun control, an obviously corrupt and venal president, crime without
punishment, a lesbian Senator who resides in Maryland representing California, electric cars,
windmills and solar panels instead of coal and natural gas, defunding the police —
nearly everything in the Socialist Democrats' platform is "a sharp departure from tradition."
Biden
Administration Forces Transgender Orthodoxy in Workplaces. The Biden administration
seeks to force transgender orthodoxy on ordinary Americans via its Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC). The EEOC aims to weaponize a federal law prohibiting harassment on the
basis of sex in the workplace by forbidding employers to believe that biological sex can not be
altered due to one's self-identification, according to a report by the Daily Signal. The
federal agency published a proposed rule for workplace harassment Monday, citing the Supreme
Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which states, "sex-based discrimination
includes discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity."
The
Specter of Permanent Democrat Rule. In today's House and Senate, nine members call
themselves socialists. Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution explicitly makes them
ineligible to serve. Another 15 members publicly lean socialist but do not declare
themselves, probably for electability reasons. In total, 102 representatives are members of
the Democrat Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). Might you think that many of these are
socialists in sheep's clothing? Read the following and decide for yourself:
["]The CPC advocates a universal, high-quality, Medicare for All health care system, living
wage laws, reductions in military expenditures, a crackdown on corporate greed, putting an end to
mass incarceration, supporting and implementing swift measures to start reversing climate change,
immigration policies that are humane, and reparations.["] [...] We are 35 years into the
takeover of the Democrat party by world socialism and the World Economic Forum. This Marxist
front organization guides the world within its many bodies toward one-world government.
Ultra-left Rep. Pramila Jayapal is their caucus leader.
Democrats
Use Issues to Push for Total Control. In polling, Democrat voters rank climate change
as an important issue, but less important than health care, education, and abortion rights.
Transgenderism is well down the list of voter priorities. Transgenderism and climate change
are problematic issues. Men cannot become women and women cannot become men. Gender is
not a social construct, but a physical reality. No matter how often you assert the opposite,
it will not become true. Likewise climate change. "Everyone" knows that man-made climate
change is destroying the planet. The "entire" scientific community is united in
agreement. Both of these statements are false, but they are never debated. The science
upon which climate catastrophe assertions are based is not settled. Just ask Nobel
Prize-winning scientist Dr. John Clauser, who was recently cancelled for undermining the
supposed monolithic climate orthodoxy. Why are these two issues, each with a questionable
foundation in reality, at the forefront of Democrat activism?
Joe
Biden's Inflation Reduction Act committed more than $100 million to promote 'tree equity'.
The "climate change" (uh huh, sure) picture is clear: the transfer of wealth (to them
and away from us), and an attack against nature and sensibility. [...] Leave it up to federal
bureaucrats to argue that high crime rates are simply because criminals don't have access to trees,
having nothing whatsoever to do with the procrime policies of the Democrat politicians in these
concrete jungles with minority neighborhoods. Who knew?
Biden
Forest Service Hands Out Over $100 Million To Advance 'Tree Equity'. "Tree Equity" is
a term first coined by American Forests, a conservation nonprofit, that blames the lack of trees in
minority neighborhoods on "redlining and other discriminatory policies," according to the
organization's website. The Forest Service argues on its website that planting trees will
reduce crime and improve health outcomes. The grants are funded through the Inflation
Reduction Act, Biden's signature climate law. While trees cover nearly half of Atlanta, the
most coverage in the nation according to Trees Atlanta, the Forest Service approved a grant to the
city for $10 million to "address issues related to tree equity" and develop a "sustainable, diverse
nature-based workforce." Similarly, San Francisco had 14,543 trees per square mile as of 2021, and
the Forest Service allocated $14 million to plant more trees this year, the Daily Caller News
Foundation reported.
Biden
Admin Releases Most Restrictive Offshore Oil And Gas Drilling Plan In US History. The
Biden administration on Friday unveiled the most restrictive offshore oil and gas five-year leasing
program in history. The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the plan, which allows for
three offshore oil and gas lease sales through 2029, with sales in 2025, 2027 and 2029. That
schedule represents the lowest number of sales that the administration could have pursued while
maintaining its ability to push offshore wind development under provisions in the Inflation
Reduction Act (IRA), and it is the "smallest number of oil and gas lease sales in history,"
according to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. "The Biden-Harris administration is committed to
building a clean energy future that ensures America's energy independence," Haaland said of the
schedule's release.
Dealing
with Consequences. [Scroll down] Consider the crime wave that is currently
ruining cities with Democrat mayors. Far-left Soros funded district attorneys such as Alvin
Bragg and Chelsa Boudin and George Gascón have made the decision to not prosecute
criminals. As a consequence, crime is rampant and 'Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance
Public Trust and Public Safety' are nonexistent. To say that Biden has removed our
opportunity to vote on his decisions concerning his policies would be a major understatement.
But that's only half the story. Biden is trying to create a consequence-free society.
Decisions have consequences in the real world, but not in Biden-world. Making decisions
without consequences is simply not possible. Every decision has consequences, be they
favorable or unfavorable, expected or not, intended or unintended, or some combination thereof.
Cloward-Piven
Strategy: Its hellish culmination is nearly here. The goal is to foist us into
an economic crisis leading to the collapse of the United States as well as capitalism. A
two-class system will then rise out of the ashes — one rich and one poor. The
devastation will lead to the poor begging for the rich-in-charge (also known as the government, the
global elites, the Democratic Party and the liberal left) to save them. Therein lies our
nation's conversion to socialism and enslavement. Simplified further, the three-step process
reads like this: Overwhelm the nation. Do it all at once. Then prepare for the
collapse of the United States. The strategy relies on uncontrolled spending, massive debt and
the distribution of entitlements. It is the reason the United States continues to financially
support Ukraine, leaving us with $30 trillion in debt while illegal migrants flood our border.
It was also the reason for the COVID lockdowns and unending state of fear that had many thanking the
federal government for the meager handouts they were given.
Slouching
Towards 1984. [Scroll down] Leftists seek to decarbonize the worldwide
energy system — thus intentionally destroying a highly effective, proven, and safe
energy production and distribution system that has lifted millions around the world out of
poverty. This system was refined and incrementally improved over time. The Left wants
to replace this system with technologies that are neither currently effective, proven, nor safe and
although inchoate are expected to emerge fully formed — meaning that once implemented
technological advancement will be more difficult and expensive. The U.S. already spends
billions in order to end up further behind where we are now from an energy, industrial output and
standard of living perspective. The planners are talking about required reductions in energy
consumption, automotive miles traveled, airplane miles traveled and consumption of energy intensive
foodstuffs — thus destroying our wealth and reducing the quality of life.
Radical
Democrats' greatest fears are religion, truth, honesty, and integrity. Our nation's
first president, George Washington, predicted what could happen. His fears described how an
unprincipled group of men and women would take over a political party and subvert the
Constitution. Radical "activists" including communists, socialists, Marxists, progressives,
LGBTQ++, and haters of religion and family, have adopted the Democrat party as their vehicle of
choice. They have coalesced with naive political leaders and the media. They are now
using this power to destroy America's culture. Deviant thinking seeks to replace absolute
truth with ever-changing concepts of identity, whims, and moods. News organizations, social
media, and politics have knowing or unknowingly spread their identity to create a godless culture.
House
approves bill striking down Biden's crackdown on hunting and archery in overwhelmingly bipartisan
vote. The House voted late Tuesday evening in favor of legislation striking down the
Biden administration's decision to block federal funding for school shooting sports courses.
In a 424-1 vote, the House approved the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act with 216
Republicans and 208 Democrats voting in favor, and just one lawmaker, Rep. Veronica Escobar,
D-Texas, voting against. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., introduced the bill on Aug. 1, days
after a Fox News Digital report in late July revealed the Department of Education was withholding
funds for school hunting and archery courses. "Hunters and fishers are the best
conservationists," Green told Fox News Digital after the vote Tuesday.
Synopsis: The government is creating 20,000 do-nothing jobs for minorities.
Biden's
climate corps will hire 'diverse generation' of 20,000 Americans to 'tackle climate change'; no
work experience required. President Biden is planning to sign an executive order
Wednesday to establish a federal workforce training and service initiative as part of his
administration's efforts to fight climate change. Biden's so-called American Climate Corps
will, according to the White House, mobilize "a new, diverse generation" of more than 20,000
Americans who will be trained and put to work on conservation, clean energy and environmental
justice projects. The ultimate goal of the program is to pave the way for members of the
corps to find jobs in the public and private sector. "The American Climate Corps is a new
initiative that will... work on a wide range of projects that tackle climate change —
including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding,
deploying clean energy, managing forests to improve health and prevent catastrophic wildfires,
implementing energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for hardworking families, and more,"
the White House said.
Biden
admin unleashes 50-year mining, oil drilling ban across thousands of acres in New
Mexico. The Biden administration proposed to block of thousands of acres from future
oil drilling or mining in northern New Mexico in an effort to protect Native American lands.
According to the Department of the Interior (DOI), the proposal would ban new mining claims and oil
and gas development across more than 4,200 acres in Sandoval County, New Mexico, located north of
Albuquerque. If finalized and implemented, the action would remain in place for up to 50
years. "Today we're responding to call from Tribes, elected leaders, and community members who
want to see these public lands protected," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
"We look forward to hearing more from the public to inform decisions about how activities, like
gravel mining, may impact these lands, including the important cultural and natural resources."
Biden Moves
Closer to Martial Law with Executive Order Creating a Civilian 'Climate' Army. When
Americans quickly needed to raise an army to fight the Nazis during World War II, the first place
they turned was to the young men who had been trained in discipline and military skills a decade
earlier as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps. With radical socialists now anticipating
the declaration of a "climate emergency" that will supersede the normal elections process next
year, likely triggering a massive public uprising and the declaration of martial law, the recent
failures of an F-35 stealth fighter may have the government worried that its fleet of
artificial-intelligence piloted drones may not be enough to get the job done. Meanwhile,
federal defense-spending dollars are all being rerouted to Ukraine or to helping military members
fund medical procedures like abortions and transgender surgeries. And recruitment in several
military branches may be at their lowest levels in decades, at least.
Joe
Biden to Announce Executive Level Gun Control Office. President Joe Biden will
announce the Office of Gun Violence Prevention on Friday and the new office will be coordinated
with Mike Bloomberg gun control proponents and others. According to the Washington Post, "The
new office will report up through Stefanie Feldman, the White House staff secretary and a longtime
Biden policy aide who has worked on the firearms issue for years." Coordination in the office
is expected between the "White House, the Community Justice Action Fund and Everytown for Gun
Safety." Shannon Watts, a Mike Bloomberg affiliate who founded Moms Demand Action, praised the
creation of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, saying, "If this announcement is, in fact, the
creation of a single point of leadership on gun violence in the administration, it's a very big
deal for the movement."
Why
are Democrats/Socialists/Communists pushing transgender ideology so hard, especially on
children? In short, it is because Communist countries already practice totalitarian
control over their people, while far-Leftists/wannabe — Communists in the West are
endeavoring to achieve that level of control. By brainwashing people, starting with very
young children, into questioning their gender and trying to eliminate the concepts of "Mother" and
"Father," "Boys" and "Girls," the Leftists in America are working to destroy the "nuclear family"
which is the basis for freedom and democracy, as well as free- market Capitalism. As German
socialist philosopher Friedrich Engles once said: "The male-dominated nuclear family is essential
for Capitalism."
RFK
Jr says he would ban fracking in 10-point plan to tackle plastics pollution.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while announcing his 10-point plan to
end the plastics pollution crisis, said he would ban fracking. The process of fracking
involves high pressure injections of liquid into underground rocks and layers to open fissures and
extract oil or gas. The United Nations says each year, 19-23 million tons of plastic
waste leaks into waterways, polluting rivers, seas, and lakes.
Markey,
Ocasio-Cortez ask Biden to create Civilian Climate Corps by executive order.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), two of Congress's
most vocal proponents for aggressive climate action, on Monday called for President Biden to
establish a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC). The CCC had been a key element in early versions of
the Build Back Better Act, the sweeping environmental and infrastructure bill. It was not
ultimately included in the slimmed-down Inflation Reduction Act, which nonetheless was the largest
climate bill in U.S. history. Biden was a vocal backer of the CCC early in his presidency,
comparing it to the Civilian Conservation Corps introduced during the presidency of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. The original legislation called for $10 billion to launch the program.
Joe
Biden to Announce Executive Level Gun Control Office. President Joe Biden will
announce the Office of Gun Violence Prevention on Friday and the new office will be coordinated
with Mike Bloomberg gun control proponents and others. According to the Washington
Post, "The new office will report up through Stefanie Feldman, the White House staff secretary
and a longtime Biden policy aide who has worked on the firearms issue for years."
Coordination in the office is expected between the "White House, the Community Justice Action Fund
and Everytown for Gun Safety."
Mark
Levin's The Democrat Party Hates America. Once again, Mark Levin has done a
great service to the Republic by writing a fully documented, highly pointed book on a topic of
vital national interest. Published today by the Threshold Editions imprint of Simon &
Schuster, The Democrat Party Hates America is required reading for anyone who follows
politics in America. That most assuredly includes those who identify as Democrats, though
most will shun the book because it is too much of a challenge to their sense of self-worth and
virtue. For the few who have the courage to read it, the book will be a revelation. I
make no secret that I was born into a family of active Democrats, and until reality intruded well
into adulthood, I shared that political attachment. I have since regarded it as a mistaken
affiliation, but after reading this book I now have a sense a shame. If it is widely enough
read, and I predict that it will be a runaway best-seller, the book will change the way the public
understands one of our two major political parties, forever tainting the Democrats for the racism,
hypocrisy, lack of principle, and sheer ruthless pursuit of power at any cost that have permeated
their party throughout its history.
The
Democrat Party Is Stripped Naked In Mark Levin's Astonishing Bestseller. Mark Levin
has authored 10 bestselling books over the past 16 years related to politics, current events, and
policy issues. His latest book, The Democrat Party Hates America lays out a devastating
argument that the Democratic Party is responsible for much of the division the country faces
today. But Levin demonstrates this is nothing new for the Democrats because its very origin
was predicated on hatred. Levin provides a detailed history of the Democratic Party since the
Civil War and its shifting positions and language over time. He observes party leaders like
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have mastered political tactics to gain power while attacking,
demonizing and even imprisoning critics. At its core, the book warns of the longstanding
Democrat embrace of hatred as its center, from Slavery to Marxism.
While
Using Drag Queens for Recruitment, Woke General Milley Hotly Denies That Military Is
Woke. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark "Thoroughly Modern"
Milley, who apparently wears a medal on his chest for every military disaster he's overseen,
bristles at claims that on his watch, the U.S. military has become woke, soft, and distracted from
its actual purpose. The uber-woke general claims that he's "not even sure what that word
truly means" — that is, "woke" — and that the United States military is
fearsome, powerful, and ready for anything. And it's true, as long as the Chinese or Russians
send an army of drag queens to confront us.
Biden
Will Veto Military Pay Raise Because It Doesn't Cater to Climate Change, Transgenders
Enough. Since day one in office, President Joe Biden has advanced policies that
weaken America's military and distract from its core mission of protecting the nation. Biden
has continually proposed cuts to the defense budget while sending hundreds of millions of dollars
in military aid to Ukraine. The president has also tried to politicize America's armed forces
and cater to those who are transgender, pro-abortion, or radical climate change activists.
This week, the White House announced Biden will veto a GOP bill that includes military pay raises
for soldiers should it pass. [...] "If the president were presented with H.R. 4365, he would veto
it.," the White House said in a press release, pointing to the lack of Left-wing agenda items such
as diversity initiatives, abortion, transgender issues, and climate change.
Gotham's
Airheaded Carbon Law. On Earth Day 2019, then-mayor Bill de Blasio signed the Climate
Mobilization Act (Local Law 97) into law, heralding a Green New Deal for New York City. The
measure, committing the city to full carbon neutrality by 2050, represented the most aggressive
urban climate-change plan in America. Its centerpiece provision seeks to cut greenhouse-gas
emissions from buildings, a source that constitutes two-thirds of the city's total emissions. "In
one of the great coastal cities of the world, there's a lot we have to do to make sure that life in
2050 will be livable," preached the mayor. Local Law 97 won't make life in New York more
livable in 2050. On the contrary, starting next year, when its harsh penalties take effect, the
law will further raise costs in the world's priciest housing market, force middle-income New
Yorkers to subsidize green industries, and — by discouraging newcomers and driving away
existing residents — displace emissions to less carbon-efficient jurisdictions. In
exchange for nearly three decades of New York sacrifices, LL97 will reduce global climate emissions
by an infinitesimal amount.
What
the Left Did to Our Country. [Scroll down] They launched a base attack on
the American legal system. Supreme Court judges are libeled, their houses swarmed, and their
lives threatened with impunity. The Left promised to pack the court or to ignore any decision
it resents. The media runs hit pieces on any conservative justice deemed too
influential. The prior Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer whipped up a mob outside the
court's doors, and threatened two justices by name. As Schumer presciently put it, they would
soon "reap the whirlwind" of what they supposedly had sowed and thus would have no idea what was
about to "hit" them. Under the pretense of Covid fears, balloting went from 70 percent
participation on election day in most states to a mere 30 percent. Yet the rates of properly
rejected illegal or improper ballots often dived by a magnitude of ten. Assaults now followed
on hallowed processes, laws, customs, and institutions — the Senate filibuster, the
50-state union, the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, Election Day, and voter IDs.
"Who
Is Biden Working For?" Admin Under Fire For 'Illegal, Reckless' Cancellation Of Alaska Oil
Leases. After canceling the Keystone XL pipeline project, draining the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve to dangerously low levels (some of which was sold to a Hunter Biden-linked
Chinese energy giant), and vowing "no more oil drilling" on US soil while America's geopolitical
adversaries — two of whom paid his family handsomely — beef up their own energy independence,
the Biden administration has done it again. Last week the regime confirmed that it will cancel
seven controversial oil and gas leases in an area of Alaska known as the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge (ANWR), which were legally awarded from a 2021 sale.
Are
You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago? Another metric is food inflation as
all Americans need to purchase and consume food. Food inflation currently sits at 4.9 percent
compared to 1.8 percent four years ago. It has more than doubled in the past four years, with
no sign of slowing down. At a macroeconomic level, is our national debt higher or lower
compared to four years ago? In 2022, the national debt was $30.8 trillion. Four years
ago in 2018 it was $21.4 trillion. In four short years it increased by almost $10 trillion.
It took America until 2008 to even reach $10 trillion in debt and in four short years we added
230 years' worth of debt to our ledger. That's what America owes. How about what
America spends? The annual U.S. budget deficit was $665 billion in 2017, rising to $2,772 [billion]
in 2021. This is more than a fourfold increase in spending money we don't have. Budget deficits
used to be measured in the billions. Under Biden they are in the trillions.
A gun
grab to test the waters. Democrats are testing the waters for a national gun
grab. On Friday in New Mexico, the governor, a Second Amendment foe, tried to take legal guns
away from one of her cities. [...] Let no one be fooled: This is Step One to see if
Americans are paying attention and if they have the stones to fight back. If they are not and
don't, this will go national and the Second Amendment will fall. Democrats are clever.
They won't try this in a large, populous city with national attention. They will try dying a
corner of the fabric first to see if the color is good for the whole garment. It seems the
Guv got national attention anyway, probably because of the outrageousness of the grab. Our
Constitution is a paper document with nothing to protect it from being burned to ashes.
Unless the People rise up against this gun grab, the rest of us will be forever unprotected
against what has become The Beast that is governmental overreach.
Democrats'
2024 Magic Bullet: Mass Mail-In Voting. What do you do, as a political
operative, when your party's candidate doesn't appear to be physically well enough to endure a
national presidential campaign? When your candidate struggles with prepared remarks, trips on
stairs, and cannot make it through a campaign event without uttering major gaffes? When your
candidate, simultaneous to the problems stated above, is unable to answer basic questions about a
myriad of family scandals that allegedly involve millions of dollars funneling into family bank
accounts from foreign entities? When your candidate is not even able to point to a track
record of success on the economy, the security of our southern border, or unifying the
nation? You find a bulletproof way to win, anyway. And the Democrats just may have
found it: mass mail-in voting.
White
House: Funds for Maui and Florida to be withheld unless Congress approves more money for
Ukraine. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested on Wednesday that
much-needed disaster relief for Florida's hurricane victims and those in Maui who were devastated
by the raging wildfire could be withheld unless Congress approves another $24 billion to aid
Ukraine's military. "[Republican Florida] Sen. Rubio, whose state is recovering from
[Hurricane] Idalia, says the $16 billion in additional disaster relief should be decoupled from
the additional funding [sic] for Ukraine. Of course, that's part of their request which seems
to be opposed by many Republicans," a reporter began during Wednesday's briefing. "Is the
administration willing to separate these requests and seek the FEMA disaster aid independently to
ensure it gets to the hurricane victims [and] Hawaii wildfire victims as quickly as possible or do
you see that these things have to be grouped together for the request?"
Biden
Launches Nationwide Workforce Initiative — for Illegal Aliens. President
Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a nationwide workforce initiative
that seeks to funnel millions of border crossers and illegal aliens into United States
jobs — even as the labor force participation rate for Americans continues to
decline. On Wednesday, Biden's DHS announced "a first-of-its-kind national campaign" to make
millions of border crossers and illegal aliens, who have been released into the U.S. interior,
aware that they are eligible for work permits to take American jobs.
Biden's
Declaration of War on Domestic Political Enemies. Taking a page from former Chinese
leader Mao Zedong's book about the suppression of political enemies in order to maintain control,
Joe Biden has declared war on his own domestic political enemies. Thanks to two decades of
Democrats corrupting the nation's intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies, the awesome
powers of the surveillance state have been turned from a focus on overseas threats to an
ever-evolving characterization (by Democrat prosecutors and the US Dept of Justice) of "domestic
terrorists." Meanwhile, the Democrats' Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs are the vanguard
of the American version of Mao's Cultural Revolution in the streets.
Biden's
brain, mind, behavior, and character. [Scroll down] Biden had campaigned
on green energy proposals toward America's shift to solar, wind, and electric-powered
vehicles. However, his abrupt, aggressive rejection of all fossil fuels, industries and
pipelines was impulsive. It hurt America because no gradual plan for such change to a higher
and effective percentage of renewable energy was implemented. In addition, gas and petroleum
products and energy sources are impossible to forever be shut down. Electric cars require
fossil fuels for electricity that supports their operation. Medical equipment and implements
require oil-based plastic products, as do fertilizers and wrappings for meats and other
foods. Cold winters require natural gas and heating oil. In addition, America has made
huge progress in clean fossil fuel energy production and utilization via internal combustion engine technology.
Team
Biden Continues Two-Pronged Assault on 2nd Amendment and Small Businesses. The commie
puppet masters who run Joe Biden's brain have made no secret of their contempt for the Second
Amendment and law-abiding American gun owners. They've had their senile mouthpiece babbling
about "assault weapons" almost from the moment he was installed in the Oval Office. Democrats
don't have a lot of luck with sweeping gun control legislation for a couple of reasons.
First, they keep passing laws that make gun owners who have adhered to the law criminals
overnight. These laws eventually find their way to a judge or a court that says, "Yeah...
no." The other reason — and this is the big one — is that there are a lot
of Democrats who own guns and are fond of their Second Amendment rights. Most of them are in
flyover country, which is why a lot of the D.C. Dems are out of touch with reality.
Biden
cancels more student debt: President wipes $72 million from 2,300 borrowers from online
Ashford University. The Biden administration is canceling $72 million in student
loans for 2,300 borrowers who say they were cheated by Ashford University, a former for-profit
college that was purchased by the University of Arizona in 2020. The Education Department
announced the action Wednesday, saying it will seek to recoup the money from the University of Arizona.
Biden
admin mulls more intervention in the market with new overtime pay 'rules'. Now, the
Biden administration is mulling more intervention in the market, and wants to hike the threshold
for overtime pay. [...] Does anyone truly believe that these regulations will help productivity, or
that costs won't spiral out of control? I am sure rising costs will help the poor and seniors
on fixed incomes be able to afford their necessities. It's as if we have a bunch of economic
illiterates running the asylum in D.C. who think they have to regulate everything. They must
be voted out or they will never stop.
What squirrely priorities these people have!
Pentagon
Officials Worked To Finalize Climate Plan During Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Emails
Show. In the midst of the Biden administration's disastrous military withdrawal from
Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials were working to get the Secretary of Defense to sign a major
climate change initiative, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire. In the two weeks
between the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, and the final U.S. military
flight out of Afghanistan on August 30, Pentagon officials were scrambling with the White
House to finalize the Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan, a document that declares
climate change a major national security risk. The emails indicate frustration from climate
change-focused Pentagon officials at the difficulty of getting the plan signed — but
that ultimately their determination to focus on climate change even during the Afghanistan
withdrawal paid off. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signed the climate initiative on
September 1, just six days after 13 Americans were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber.
A
Silly Scheme by Green Zealots to Appease the Global Warming Gods? As the Biden
administration moves toward vastly increasing carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems as a means
of reaching the chimerical goal of Net Zero America, that is, net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by
2050, the Satartia disaster should serve as a warning. The government has allocated $10 billion
for CCS projects, besides grants, funds, and tax credits. CCS involves capturing CO2 from
industrial and other sources, compressing it, and conveying it via pipelines for storage in
underground geological formations and disused oil wells. Or, it might be used for forcing out
more oil from active wells, as Denbury is doing. As you can imagine, this would involve a
huge grid: a Princeton study envisages 65,000 miles of pipelines carrying CO2 across America by
2050. The trunk lines will be four feet in diameter. Currently, there are 50
pipelines — about 5,000 miles — transporting 70 million tons of CO2 annually
for enhanced oil extraction. Developers are now seeking permits for multi-state CCS projects
that will ferry CO2 from ethanol plants in the Midwest through some 3,500 miles of pipeline.
All this could be at great risk to the ecology, besides exposing numerous human habitations to
Satartia-like accidents.
Colorado
Dems Go Full Commie, Choose Open Marxist Who Calls for Cultural Revolution for State House
Seat. Just in case you have any lingering doubt about what the Democrats plan to
inflict upon America, consider the case of Tim Hernández, whom Colorado party apparatchiks
have just selected to fill a vacant state House seat in the Denver area. The charming
Hernández is an open and proud Marxist, frequently rails against "Whiteness," and has called
for a "FORCEFUL Cultural Revolution." He is also, of course, a schoolteacher, busy raising up new
cadres of Bolsheviks to bring about the revolution he desires. Every Marxist revolution in
history has been accompanied by appalling bloodlust; if Hernández ever gets what he wants,
Coloradans can't say they didn't see it coming.
Barack
Obama the Vindictive Enforcer. [Scroll down] Let's face it: it is highly
unlikely Joe Biden came up with the idea to cut open Trump's border wall in Arizona. Nor is
it likely that the guy who couldn't find his way to a podium accomplished the goal of abandoning
U.S. soldiers Benghazi-style or haphazardly arming the Taliban with billions of dollars in military
war weaponry. Every policy decision, from the diminishing supply chain to destroying energy
independence to the economic crippling of the middle class to the devastating invasion at the
border to the vaccine mandates, hints at the forced exoneration of Obama's hurt feelings —
on steroids. Then add to the equation the travelers aboard Biden's clown car, which include
Giggles Harris, Sniffles Hunter, and the esteemed Dr. Jill. And if that motley crew being
within a mile of the nuclear codes isn't scary enough, what's even more disturbing is how everyone who
dared question the 2020 election is being tarred; feathered; disgraced, and primed for political,
professional, and in Trump's case literal gallows.
Quit
Aiming for the Ankles. On August 1, the Administration decreed it is illegal to sell
the incandescent bulbs which most of us use (and have used for 140 years) and which are
cheap. You can only sell LED bulbs or compact fluorescent light bulbs. Like Grant
running through Richmond, the administrative state is running though our homes, mandating more
expensive and less efficient household items. [...] [T]his week the administration added yet
another sacrifice to the Sky Dragon — ceiling fans. [...] Once again, the defenders of
this overreach pad the benefits to be obtained and minimize the cost to consumers. At the same
time, the beneficiaries are large corporations, you know, the kind of companies from whom —
like unions — the Democrats count on for political contributions.
The
Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis. Before the 1994 Republican takeover,
Democrats had sixty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress, with substantial majorities most
of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with
virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works?
Why are they chronically incapable? Why? One of two things must be true. Either
the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite
decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly
carry on anyway because they somehow benefit. I submit to you they understand the
consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted
constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his
job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent — the failure is deliberate.
Democrats
Have Broken America: Where's the Outrage? The Democrats have an ace in the hole
in their relentless war on the Constitution — conservative America's reverence for the
concept of the rule of the law. Only their steadfast commitment to this traditional ideal
explains why conservatives are allowing Democrats to flagrantly corrupt our judicial system to
destroy their opponents and protect themselves. For all their huffing and puffing,
conservatives have effectively taken a let the system play itself out attitude while Democrats
nakedly politicize that system through their partisan indictments of former President Trump and
their Potemkin Village probes of the Bidens. These are not statements of opinion. These
are facts. Part of me is glad that so many legal analysts have spilled so much ink exposing
these charades. But we degrade our country and ourselves when we treat this unspeakable
behavior with anything other than horrified contempt. Every good-faith critique normalizes
and legitimizes this profoundly un-American conspiracy.
Pot,
porn, and Planned Parenthood. Laura Ingraham managed to boil down the Democrat Party
platform into three little words: pot, porn, and Planned Parenthood. It's a bit simplistic, I
admit. I would probably throw in a bit more bits of degeneracy, but it captures something
essential about the fundamental message of the Left: living a hedonistic, consequence-free
lifestyle is the highest good. If it feels good, do it. [Tweet with
video clip] The funny thing about her alliterative description of the Democrats'
philosophy is how readily so many Democrats agreed with her.
The
Biden Admin Is Going After Another Common Household Item in the Name of Climate Change.
After attempts to ban gas stoves burned such proposals' Democrat proponents and proposed new
federal vehicle efficiency standards seek to force costs even higher, the Biden administration is
now going after (drumroll please) ceiling fans. Republicans in the House of Representatives,
however, are not fans of the proposal due to the impact it looks to have on America's small
businesses. In a new letter to the U.S. Department of Energy and its leader Secretary
Jennifer Granholm, members of the House Small Business Committee pointed out the problems with the
latest policy in the Biden administration's supposedly "green" energy crusade that's anything but.
Executive
Orders and the End of Liberty. [Scroll down] We are fighting for the
liberties with which we were born. The issue is no less than tyranny. It is no
coincidence that the same mayor (Michelle Wu) has been under fire for maintaining an "enemies
list." Those that would change our lives through executive order apparently have a much larger
"enemies list" than the one at issue in Wu's court battles. Wu advocates a "green new deal"
for Boston and beyond. The original program with that name would have required every building
in the U.S. to be torn down or completely renovated in the name of fighting "climate change."
It should be no surprise that the ideological successors to Pol Pot and Reverend Jim Jones would
pursue a policy that would displace the entire population. The most brutal of dictators have
relied on mass relocation of their people for various reasons. As in the case of Pol Pot and
Jones, those policies ended very badly. There is no way to remove/rebuild every building in
the U.S. without displacing each person that lives and works in those buildings. We feel safe
that no such policy will ever be enacted because it is so extreme. But we must remember that
the idea of a national consensus is now quaint and poses no obstacle to government
initiatives. Executives now act on their own without a legislative mandate.
How
America Becomes Zimbabwe. What is the difference between South African politician
Julius Malema, who led chants of "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" during a recent rally of the
Economic Freedom Fighters, the political organization that he chairs, and U.S. Air Force general
C.Q. Brown, nominated as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose goal as CJCS isn't
to increase the combat capability of the Armed Forces, but to ensure that white male officers
become a minority at the Pentagon? Same clown, different uniform. The
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense used to be interested in
improving the combat capability of America. Now it is putting dresses on men and calling them
admirals, hiring more refugees from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, and
mandating that troops take an experimental non-FDA-approved vaccine lest they be fired or
court-martialed for disobeying an obviously illegal order, all while demeaning the troops with
bogus accusations of racism and white supremacy.
Understanding
The Parasitic Cooperation Between Globalists And Leftists. Consider for a moment the
progressive "intersectional" narrative which we often refer to as "woke": It's not an activist
movement because they already have equal rights under the law. It's partially a political
movement but their goals go far beyond putting candidates in government — A large part
of the government is already on their side. They claim to stand against "capitalism" and
corporate power, yet their movement is primarily funded by the very money elites they say they
despise. No, this movement is something different — It's a system of blind belief
and the invasion of a cult that worships itself, that worships power and seeks to undermine the
truth whenever possible as a means to an end. We are witnessing history in the making; the
birth of a monstrous religion of moral relativism.
Biden
administration best understood as a junta. I have come to realize that the Biden
administration is nothing but a junta. Those who constitute it are the opposite of the
Founders. They don't believe in limited government — of, by, and for the
people. They do not believe in objectivity — or freedom of speech, religion, and
assembly. They do not believe in "the right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects," or in their right to be free from "unreasonable searches and
seizures." (Just ask Roger Stone or Donald Trump.) Nor do they believe in equality under
the law, the people's right to a "speedy and public trial" by a jury of one's peers (just
ask Donald Trump), natural law, etc., etc. And they certainly don't believe that "the
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In fact, in recent years, they
appear increasingly to disdain all these concepts...because they obviously increasingly
disdain those who disagree with them and/or who could stand in the way of the ever-increasing power
and control they have over others — power and control they revel in and believe they
richly deserve. They do believe in a Supreme Ruler. But they believe they
are that Supreme Ruler. They believe they have the right — indeed,
duty — to rule over the "deplorables" in rural areas and flyover country.
Preposterously, they purport to believe that their ideas and policies must be implemented, whether
the rest of us like it or not... if we are to "save our democracy." There is nothing
less democratic — or more deplorable — than that.
Biden
Declares War On Your Appliances. President Biden's unelected bureaucrats were never
going to stop at taking away your light bulbs. Your gas stove is next, followed by your
dishwasher and your water heater — then finally your car. And it's not members of
Congress who are doing this, so you can't vote them out of office. This isn't
conjecture. This year the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the
Department of Transportation have announced proposed rules that would force you to give up your
current appliances and cars. Additional regulations to pressure companies not to fund
American energy have come from the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Comptroller of
the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Biden's
new crackdown on another appliance will be worse than gas stoves. We have seen a big
consumer backlash in 2023 over Biden administration bureaucrats targeting gas stoves, but that
could pale in comparison to the coming anger over costly air conditioning regulations. In
fact, that has already begun, making this unusually hot summer even more unpleasant for homeowners
needing air conditioner repairs. And things could get downright ugly starting next
summer. The Environmental Protect Agency (EPA) just announced a 40% production cut in 2024
for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the widely used class of refrigerants being targeted for their
claimed contribution to climate change. As it is, the modest 10% cut in force today has already
caused many HFCs to triple in price, including HFC-410a which is used in most home air conditioners.
The
Push to Trade with Enemies. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's attempt in Beijing to
separate commerce from geopolitics, to promote private trade and investment even with nations that
present threats to American security which include control of strategic industry and resources is
an error at best. Secretary Yellen is not alone in pushing this notion based on classical
liberal sophistries backed by the influential business lobbyists who inhabit the Washington
swamp. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a major component of the
Establishment, heavily funded by corporations and liberal foundations. It has put out a paper
casting as illegitimate the U.S. stand that national security issues are exempt from World Trade
Organization rulings favoring "free trade" in all things.
We're
selling Putin our nuclear power future. Back when we first started waging economic
warfare on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, we slapped all manner of sanctions on Moscow
and various Russian businesses and oligarchs. (Unless they had business ties with Hunter and Joe
Biden, of course.) There were sanctions on Russian oil, vodka, caviar, and many other
exports. But there was one product that conveniently didn't get any sanctions. That
would be uranium. Why? Because we use a lot of uranium for a variety of things,
particularly in our nuclear reactors, and we didn't want to upset the apple cart. Russia is a
major exporter of Uranium, although Kazakhstan is far and away the biggest exporter, so dealing
with Kazakhstan is basically just dealing with Russia and the difference is subtle.
This is exactly what Barack H. Obama would have done:
The
$6 Billion Misunderstanding. Robert Gover wrote the cult classic One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding.
It might have been cutting-edge in 1962, when it was published, but not for long. Insofar as my
subject here is related to President Biden, I can note that Hunter Biden's misadventures have taken
reality far beyond Gover's satire. However, I have found Gover's title an irresistible source
of headlines for comments on the news. Today comes word via the New York Times that the Biden
administration has entered into a $6 billion arrangement with Iran for the return of five
imprisoned Americans. Fox News has posted an accessible story on the arrangement
[elsew]here. That's quite an increase over the $400 million non-signing bonus and future
considerations (more money) that the Obama administration paid the Iranian regime for the return of
four American prisoners and entry into the JCPOA. The astronomical increase might be a case of
Bidenomics in action or just a deeper descent into national abasement.
GOP
lawmakers barred from re-election in Oregon after 6-week walkout, state secretary says.
Oregon Republican leaders who orchestrated a six-week walkout from legislative sessions to stall
Democrat-led bills will not be allowed to run for re-election when their term ends in 2024, Oregon
Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade said Tuesday. Griffin-Valade, a Democrat, vowed to
uphold a 2022 law passed by Oregon voters known as Measure 113, which says lawmakers with more
than 10 unexcused absences from the legislative session will not be eligible for re-election.
"It is clear voters intended Measure 113 to disqualify legislators from running for re-election
if they had 10 or more unexcused absences in a legislative session," Griffin-Valade said in a news
release. "My decision honors the voters' intent by enforcing the measure the way it was
commonly understood when Oregonians added it to our state constitution."
The Editor says...
One party rule! There must be a name for that.
Biden
Descends Into Complete Incoherence in New Mexico. As we noted, he designated a new
monument which is raising a lot of questions about whether this move will harm our national
security. His move also helps the Russians by cutting off our ability to develop uranium
deposits within the ambit of the land blocked off by the national monument. The land in
question is almost a million acres, including land far away from the Grand Canyon, the area the new
monument designation was supposed to protect. There's also a question about how much land is
being taken from private citizens and how it may affect their rights. On top of that, he
didn't seem to understand what the number and nature of the wonders of the world were, and he
showed off some full-blown hypocrisy with a huge gas-guzzling motorcade while sermonizing about
climate change.
The Editor says...
Never mind the motorcade in the middle of nowhere — what about the multiple jumbo jets
needed to bring his limousine(s) out to the desert, and all of it just for show?
White
House Teases Climate Emergency: Says Every Big Storm a Result of Global Warming!
Is this really where we're headed? A national emergency for climate change? It's become
abundantly clear that the Biden administration is now considering COVID-style lockdowns with the
idea of exploiting weather conditions as a pretext for exerting more control over the American
people. During a recent CNN interview, John Kirby suggested President Biden treats the
supposed climate crisis with "all the due gravity and seriousness." What does that even
mean? Is it another clever way to prepare the masses for yet another assault on our freedoms,
this time under the guise of "climate emergencies"?
" 'Emergencies'
have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
Biden
Is Moving to a Climate Emergency with 130 New Powers. If Joe Biden declares a climate
emergency, he would have 130 new powers, including the power to lock us all down. He admits
he has declared a national emergency, "practically speaking." During an interview with The
Weather Channel on Tuesday aired on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said that "Practically
speaking," he's "already" declared a national emergency on climate change. [...] In light of the
Maui fires, the media is pushing Joe Biden to declare an official climate emergency. If Biden
declares a 'Climate Emergency,' he would seize 130 new powers. Among them would be
COVID-style lockdowns that bypass democracy and human rights.
The Editor says...
The Constitution does
not include the word emergency. And even if it did, bad weather is not a national
emergency. One fire in Hawaii is not a national emergency. This is a power grab on the
part of the anonymous commie puppeteers who operate Joe Biden.
If
Biden declares a 'Climate Emergency,' he would seize 130 new powers. "The Biden
administration believes that when democracy fails to achieve its climate goals, it's time to bypass
democracy and Congress and follow the COVID model. Climate activists have lusted after the
COVID lockdowns as the model for climate lockdowns. The plan is to declare a 'climate
emergency,' toss out elected representatives and follow China's one-party rule model by
implementing energy restrictions through the bureaucracy. They don't need no stinkin'
democracy. Throughout history, emergency declarations have been used and abused to crush
freedom. For those who loved how unelected officials ruled our lives under COVID lockdowns,
prepare for the attempts to make climate lockdowns permanent.
Hillary Clinton sold uranium to Russia, and now we depend on them for uranium. Brilliant!
Biden
just threw a wrench in efforts to reduce America's reliance on Russian Uranium. The
Biden administration announced Tuesday that it has designated nearly 1 million acres in Arizona
outside the Grand Canyon as a monument, a move that could further America's reliance on Russia for
sourcing uranium, according to the White House. The monument designation will permanently
prohibit new mining claims in the covered 917,618 acres, parts of which are known for having rich
deposits of uranium, an essential material for generating nuclear energy, according to E&E
News. The Biden administration is justifying the designation by pointing to the land's
cultural significance to local Native American tribes in accordance with its wider push for
"environmental justice," according to the White House.
Hardly a man is now alive who lived in New Mexico in '45.
Biden
wants to compensate New Mexico residents sickened by radiation during 1945 nuclear
testing. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he's open to granting assistance for
people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing, including in New Mexico,
where the world's first atomic bomb was tested in 1945. Biden brought up the issue while
speaking Wednesday in Belen at a factory that produces wind towers.
The Editor says...
Given his feeble state, one must question if Joe Biden meant to say this or he was just blithering incoherently.
Biden:
I Wanted 'to Stop All Drilling' on the Coasts and Gulf, Got Blocked by Courts. During
an interview with The Weather Channel that is set to air on Wednesday, a portion of which aired on
Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he "wanted to stop all drilling on the East Coast and the
West Coast and in the Gulf" but was blocked by the courts from doing so. Weather Channel
Meteorologist Stephanie Abrams asked, "Let's talk Gen Z, because they're going to play a big role
in the next presidential election, and many of them are angry about the 7,000 oil and gas permits
you approved since you've been in office. You promised no new drilling on federal land or
offshore. Can you tell Gen Z that you haven't broken your promise?" Biden responded,
"Yes, because the courts overruled me. The courts said I couldn't do it. I wanted to
stop all drilling on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Gulf. But I lost in court."
The Editor says...
If he really was blocked by the courts, there would be some record of it.
Biden:
I've Declared a Climate Emergency 'Practically Speaking'. During an interview with
The Weather Channel on Tuesday aired on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said that, "Practically
speaking," he's "already" declared a national emergency on climate change. He stated that, as
part of this practical emergency declaration on climate, "we've conserved more land," "rejoined the
Paris Climate Accord," and "we've passed a 368 billion-dollar climate control [initiative]."
Biden
interview from the Grand Canyon: He's already declared a national emergency for climate
change. Who knew? I sure don't remember Joe Biden declaring a national
emergency over climate change. It seems like I would have remembered that if it was
true. This is Joe Biden we're talking about here so take everything with a big ole grain of
salt. Guess where the habitual liar-in-chief gave his first sit-down interview in over a
month? He sat down with a longtime reporter for The Weather Channel. Yep, The Weather
Channel. He is rightfully being mocked for that decision. To be fair, he surely didn't
make the decision, his staff did. We all know Biden doesn't actually run the country.
Those around him do that. Joe Biden holds on to the climate issue for dear life —
his political life. Conservatives and other rational people are angry over the heavy-handed
push to increase regulations and restrictions on regular Americans in the name of saving the planet
while all it really is is a power grab by leftists. Far left environmental whackos are angry
that Biden's overreach isn't happening faster. So, Biden has latched on to the alleged
climate crisis as a top issue in his public remarks and speeches.
Down
goes Biden. According to the news story, the Biden rules are so vague that they give
the administration the power to grant universal into debt relief. Who gave the President such
powers? Don't we have enough government assistance programs already? Maybe we should
tell college students to major in something that makes you attractive to an employer running a
business. I remember the CEO of a company telling me that he asks job applicants a couple of
questions: How can you help me make a better product? Or sell more of them? Or
help me get customers to pay on time? I don't think that they cover those realities of life
in gender studies! We're back to square one: Down goes Biden, who does not have the
authority to do this. However, expect him to come back with a variation of this theme because
they need to mobilize the college vote.
What?
Biden Sold America's Oil Reserve to China. On and after January 20, 2021, [Joe] Biden
has issued punitive, increasingly restrictive executive orders, regulations, and expensive
legislation — passed by single-party government — intended to shut down big
parts of the US fossil fuel industry. Not satisfied to shut down supply, the federal
government has — with and without legislation — methodically perverted the
demand side of the curve, too. After making gas and heating oil prohibitively expensive, they
penalized makers of automobiles and countless gas-powered household appliances. Specifically,
they have punished makers of gas powered engines, cars, trucks, boats, lawnmowers, hammered the
energy, construction, transportation, and farm sectors, then turned to appliances, aiming to outlaw
everything from gas and wood stoves to refrigerators and water heaters. The Democrat idea,
fueled by activists, is to mandate everything by fiat. The Soviets dealt this way, Chinese
still do. Biden's "make it all electric" mandate sees wind turbines and solar panels covering
the Earth, powering the grid, now 80 percent fossil and nuclear. By magic, wind and sun will
run it all.
Biden
student loan cancellation plan for borrowers who were misled blocked by federal appeals
court. A federal appeals court blocked President Biden's administration from
implementing rules aimed at providing debt relief to student loan borrowers who were misled by
their colleges Monday [8/7/2023]. The ruling from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is the
latest defeat for Biden's efforts to forgive student loans across the country. The court
granted a request from a for-profit college in Texas seeking an injunction against the
administration's rule change. The block is temporary, and the three-judge panel will hear the
case in full later this year. The Biden administration's rule changes would have expanded the
number of student loan borrowers who are eligible for debt relief as well as facilitated the
application process for obtaining relief.
Democrats
demand 1,000% excise tax on 'assault weapons,' high-capacity magazines. More than two
dozen House Democrats put forward legislation Friday that would slap "assault weapons" and
high-capacity magazines with a 1,000% excise tax, a change that would raise the price of a $500
weapon to $5,000 in a bid to reduce access to guns across the country. Rep. Don Beyer,
D-Va., and 24 other House Democrats introduced the legislation Friday. It's the second time
Democrats have put forward the idea. Beyer and 37 Democrats proposed the same idea last year
when Democrats controlled the House, but it never moved.
The
USA's Turn toward Communism. [Scroll down] [T]he left-leaning but
non-communist mainstream of the Democrats retained their claim to being "liberal" or "left of
center" and managed to draw the line when it came to uniting with the extreme leftist wing of their
party. However, that boundary line collapsed 72 years later with the emergence of the
Biden-Sanders pact. The Dems are now the Demo-communist party with a few other elements of
cultural Marxism included that were not anticipated by or included in the writings of Karl Marx or
Friedrich Engels. For example, Marx and Engels understood the family to be a bourgeois
institution that they believed promoted selfishness, so they stood basically in opposition to the
nuclear family as the building block of society. However, knowledge of puberty-blockers and
genital-mutilating surgeries was not available in the 1840s, so they did not explicitly promote
"transitioning" as a legitimate albeit anti-family practice. Today's left is, of course,
totally on board with all this transgender-affirming ideology because it conforms totally with
traditional anti-bourgeois, anti-family values.
If a product is given away at no cost, what is its value?
Whitmer launches
new department in quest for 'tuition-free' Michigan. Michigan Governor Gretchen
Whitmer signed an executive order on July 11, creating a statewide department that will assist with
educational resources to ensure that K-12 students are on a path to "tuition-free" college.
In a state that already has an education department, the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education,
Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) will share Whitmer's goals of universal and state-funded pre-K
over four years, as well as tuition-free college. "I'm establishing MiLEAP today because we
need to get every kid started early, in pre-K, so they succeed in kindergarten, have paths after
graduation to get higher education tuition-free, and forge strong partnerships with our employers
so they can get a good-paying, high-skill, and in-demand job," Whitmer said.
Why
is Biden withholding funding for schools with archery and hunting programs? Even with
all of the troubling things that the Biden administration has been doing over the past two and a
half years, I'll confess that I didn't see this one coming. According to a recent report from
Fox News, the White House is blocking federal funding for public schools that have hunting and
archery programs for students. The excuse they are offering is that a provision in the
Democrats' "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" last year precludes federal funding for public
schools with these programs. Of course, that wasn't the actual intent of the bill, but as
we've learned by now, the names that Washington politicians give to bills rarely have much to do
with what's inside of them. For proof, look no further than the hilariously named "Inflation
Reduction Act" which was actually a climate change bill.
Enjoy
Your Water Heater — While You Still Can. Americans gave Joe Biden the Oval
Office, and now he is taking away their cars, dishwashers, gas stoves, and, most recently, their
water heaters. Biden's Department of Energy on July 21 released new proposed
energy-efficiency standards for water heaters. This is the latest round in the
administration's ongoing home-invasion campaign in the name of stopping climate change and saving
the world, all while actively making life harder for everyday Americans. If finalized as
currently written, beginning in 2029, this regulation would require new boiler installations to use
electric heat pumps, which pull heat from the surrounding air to bring water up to temperature,
instead of heating the water internally. Moreover, standards for traditional gas-fired water
heaters will become stricter, thus making them more costly, which is in line with the Biden
administration's push toward full home appliance electrification.
Biden's
Awful Plan To Raise Your Taxes To Support Global Socialism. The Biden administration
has just spent two years negotiating with a group of foreign countries to raise taxes on U.S.
companies operating overseas. Now we're being told it's been "delayed" for two more
years. But why delay a bad decision? It's an awful idea that should be rejected out of
hand. "Americans have already been crushed by inflation caused by the Biden administration,"
argued West Virginia congresswoman Carol Miller, in a recent op-ed. "But now, they want to add
fuel to the fire by giving American taxes to foreign countries, raising costs for Americans, and
sticking us with the bill for funding a global socialist agenda." Her analysis is spot
on. The U.S. Treasury and White House have no business negotiating a deal to subvert
America's sovereignty and erode its economic power, which the accord with the 38-nation
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), headquartered in the ultra-deluxe
Château de la Muette in Paris, is clearly meant to do.
GOP
lawmakers slam Biden administration's proposed clamp down on home water heaters.
Water heaters could soon be subject to much more stringent efficiency requirements if a recent
Department of Energy proposal that has been criticized by Republican lawmakers goes into
effect. In a draft rule unveiled Friday, the Biden administration is seeking to compel most
electric water heaters to deploy heat pump technology and gas-fired ones to use condensing
technology. It comes months after the Biden administration ignited a firestorm
over feared stove top regulations, after Albany lawmakers enacted a controversial
first-in-the-nation gas stove ban in New York. "Today's actions — together with our
industry partners and stakeholders — improve outdated efficiency standards for common
household appliances, which is essential to slashing utility bills for American families and
cutting harmful carbon emissions," Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
Orwellian
or Kafkaesque? Kafka's brainchildren are recklessly coughing up tyrannic edicts while
using for an excuse the artificial hysteria being generated over reasonably normal weather.
The Biden administration has recently announced that all military vehicles will run on
batteries as of 2030. Since the purpose of fighting a war is to not lose, vast
quantities of diesel-powered field generators will be needed to keep the caissons rolling
along. Governor Hair Gel of California has followed along by announcing a ban on the sale of
gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. The trick with this is to have enough lead time so the
victims of such nonsense will have forgotten the original announcement — and will be
more surprised than angry when they realize they've been screwed. As of next January,
California's already legislated ban on the sale of gas-powered gardening equipment will take effect.
Fighting
extreme climate policies must happen now. There's no need to make slippery slope
arguments when it comes to analyzing the policies pushed by climate alarmists. There's a
simple reason why: We are so far down the slope that past fears of the extremism to come are now
the real extremism of today, from limiting what cars people can drive to restricting the use of
natural gas stoves. [...] Pushing policies that restrict freedom, reduce economic growth, and
drive-up prices for Americans isn't a law of science required to address rising global
temperatures. Instead, they are efforts to use the force of government to impose personal
preferences and ideological objectives without regard for tradeoffs or costs. Even worse,
these policies would have little to no impact on global temperatures.
New
York City pushes the limits of green policies. New York City has embraced a set of
controversial policies that push the limits of green experimentation in seeking to reduce emissions
from buildings, kitchen appliances, and cars. Critics argue the new policies are likely to be
costly and burdensome for the city's millions of residents. New York City has drafted rules
to slash carbon emissions from its roughly 50,000 buildings by more than 40% by 2030 and reach
net-zero emissions by 2050 — an ambitious goal, especially considering buildings in the
city are the source of 70% of its total greenhouse gas emissions. Of particular note, the
rules would clamp down on gas stoves.
The Editor says...
There is no point in avoiding the emission of carbon dioxide as a byproduct of business and industry, for a
number of reasons, the biggest of which is that China and India have no such concerns, and they share the same
atmosphere. You may hold your breath or do whatever else you can to avoid emitting CO2, but it won't make
any difference to the makeup of the atmosphere. In addition, carbon dioxide is plant food, not air
pollution. If you are concerned about the carbon dioxide content of the air — about which
you can do nothing — it is probably because you watch too much television and/or you read the
New York Times. Also, here is my weekly reminder that carbon dioxide is not carbon, for the same
reason that water is not hydrogen, so please stop talking about "carbon emissions."
Subverting
the Court. It's important to keep in mind that the Biden administration still wants
to pack the Supreme Court, but they also want to compress it, and now more than ever, after it
found itself on the losing side of several rulings. By so doing, they seek to change the
nature of American government. Packing the Court, or adding more justices beyond the current
nine, is a progressive policy going back at least to Roosevelt and the New Deal. If the DNC
can run up the number of justices on the Court, then it can cement a near-permanent majority, using
the Court to legislate.
Dem
bill in House seeks to scrub words 'husband' and 'wife' from federal law. Democrats
understand the lessons of George Orwell's 1984 and treat it as an instruction manual, not a
warning. [...] The Dems are following Orwell's outline of the path toward totalitarian
control. Make no mistake, if they win both Houses of Congress and the Oval Office in 2024 (or
later), they will enact this bill. At first, federal code "including the Internal Revenue
Code, Social Security Act, and Family and Medical Leave Act" will be changed to eliminate "husband"
and "wife," but that is only the prelude to an all-out campaign to demonize the terms as "hate
speech" and "literal violence" and effectively forbid their use. Eventually, with people
afraid to utter the terms, and with media purged of their use, they will become anachronisms, soon
to be forgotten.
Joe
Biden Dreams Up [an] Illegal Federal Library Code For Public Schools. Just call him
the librarian-in-chief. In yet another gross abuse of executive authority, President Joe
Biden is wielding the power of his Department of Education to stop parental efforts to remove
sexually explicit books from public school libraries. It's his latest in a string of moves
meant to bully parents and other concerned citizens into silence when it comes to what kids learn
in public schools and, in this case, when they should be exposed to sexually explicit material.
But the notion that the federal government has any authority to veto a school district's decision to
protect students from pornographic content belongs in the library's fantasy section.
The
Classic Psychology Text That Predicted Today's Urban Decay. It's a question that most
Americans who follow the news ask themselves daily: "How can the residents of so many of the
nation's largest cities keep supporting local officials who tolerate the ongoing destruction of
their communities?" Why this May, for example, did the citizens of Chicago — a
city where 21,000 students cannot demonstrate a basic competence in reading, science, and
math — choose the teachers union-backed candidate, Brandon Johnson, for mayor?
Especially when Johnson's chief opponent, Paul Vallas, had promised the electorate sensible school
reforms? Why, a few years earlier, did San Franciscans elect a mayor, London
Breed, whose obvious reluctance to crack down on criminal behavior has since forced the city's
largest mall to close, two of its best hotels to declare bankruptcy, and tens of thousands of
high-earning taxpayers to move away? Why has there been no serious movement to get New York
Gov. Kathy Hochul to initiate proceedings to remove Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district
attorney who refuses prosecute "low-level" crimes, all while promising to downgrade felony charges
and to decriminalize resisting police arrest?
Chasing
a Green Chimera, Biden Has Put America in the Red Dragon's Grasp. No country would
ever depend on an out-and-out rival for something as vital as energy. Yet the Biden
administration, through its zealous, misguided pursuit of "net-zero emissions," is fast-tracking
America's dependence on Communist China for the minerals and components that back-end green
technology. The administration also is curbing the mining industry, again allowing China to
monopolize America and the world in minerals and ores. This strategic disaster is a complete
reversal of what President Donald Trump had achieved. [...] Biden, on assuming office, pledged to
eliminate the fossil fuel industry and pursue a radical climate agenda to replace carbon energy
with renewables. He has since called for replacing 50% of carbon-fueled automobiles with
electric vehicles (E.V.s) by 2030, creating a carbon-free electric grid by 2035, and having a
carbon-free economy by 2050. This push toward unstable solar and wind power will markedly increase
dependence on China, which dominates the market in materials required for E.V.s, batteries, and
other renewables.
10
Paradigm Shifts that Shatter Establishment Illusions. [#1] Now people understand that
the left's real mission is to reject reality. Castrating boys so that they can pretend to be girls
is not "healthy." Perpetuating racism as social policy is not "justice." Imposing a "woke"
State religion over personal conscience is not "moral." Aiding and abetting child sex-trafficking
and drug-smuggling at our borders is not "compassionate." Stealing property is not "equitable."
Just as with Leninism and Maoism before, today's leftism is evil.
Democrats:
Let's lower the voting age. Democrats are fond of aborting kids, sometimes even after
birth. They are also big fans of providing minors with hormone blockers and mutilating the
genitals of those they didn't abort. And, of course, they are engaged in an all-out effort to
groom our children — sexually and politically. For many Democrats, love of
unfettered abortion and gender dysphoria combine with their unshakeable belief in man-caused
climate change to become a surpassingly odd — and perverse — religion.
One in which doubters or dissenters, or even the insufficiently devout, are dealt with particularly
harshly. Democrats seem to have an unquenchable desire to sexualize children, and in the past
week have been attacking opponents of child sex trafficking and calling us "conspiracy theorists."
The California Assembly Public Safety Committee actually initially voted down a bill, on a
party-line vote, that would have enhanced penalties for child sex trafficking by making it a
"serious felony," a step up from merely being illegal. Hard to believe. Yet,
progressives also spent time trashing a movie chronicling and attacking child sex trafficking, even
though audiences loved it. They do, however, wish to garner kids' votes by... offering to let
them vote. And hold high office. But do we really want 14-year-olds to vote, and
16-year-old governors? What would this mean?
Dems
Attempt To Cram The ERA Amendment Through Congress. Democrats are attempting to resurrect the
ERA — or "Equal Rights Amendment" to push their radical ideology. It was not fully ratified by
1982, with only 35 states, and 3 more states ratified it AFTER the deadline. Now two Dems, Rep. Cori
Bush, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, want to push forward a bill that says it was ratified and force the
National Archivist to certify and publish it as law.
Biden
Proposal Would Give Foreign Climate Group Veto Power Over U.S. Military Contracts. A
new Biden administration rule aimed at reducing carbon emissions would give approval authority over
large U.S. defense contracts to a little-known British environmentalist group that just
incorporated two weeks ago. Under the White House's proposed rule change, a London-based
group called the Science Based Targets Initiative that is funded by the Democratic Party's main
dark money network would be responsible for approving the carbon emissions reduction plans of large
federal contractors. The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) is a fee-based service that
helps companies set emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Climate Agreement and
verifies their progress. But its foreign status and murky financial background raise
questions about the Biden administration's decision to outsource its vetting process to the
group. Critics say the proposal would give SBTi enormous veto power over American defense
contracts and access to potentially sensitive data about U.S. military suppliers.
Climate
change is just about the only change progressives don't like. Progressives/leftists/revolutionaries/Democrats
(but I repeat myself) always demand change. "Hope and change." "Fundamental transformation."
Change, change, change. Ergo, it is quite remarkable, upon reflection, that the one thing progressives
don't want to change is the one thing that cannot be prevented from changing: the
climate. The climate has always changed. Dramatically, profoundly, radically.
Climate
change is just about the only change progressives don't like.
[Scroll down] Here, too, it seems odd that the one thing these leftists
won't take on faith is the existence of God. They purport to believe
wholeheartedly in Dr. Fauci, global warming, Bidenomics, open borders, the Russia-collusion
hoax, and that the 2020 presidential election was the most secure in history. They believe
people can change genders on a whim and that men can menstruate. (That's putting the "men" into
"menstruation!") They think males should be able to breast/chest-feed infants. They believe
the Wuhan flu could not have come from the Wuhan lab where they were experimenting with
coronaviruses. They believe the subsequent lockdowns and mask mandates were effective.
They believe China is, in fact, a role model, and that a one-world government should be our goal.
They believe crime should be legalized, the unborn are simply non-viable tissue masses, Ukraine is
defeating Russia, 9/11 was an inside job, the government has our best interests in mind, Biden
is a nice man -- and that Jan. 6 was an "insurrection!" but the 2020 riots were "mostly peaceful."
Will
Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare? Biden has made it clear that he supports
going to zero carbon emissions which would eliminate all use of coal, and fossil fuels.
Natural gas is used to make fertilizer, which is very important to agriculture. And, over
6,000 things that we use on a daily basis are made from oil. Wind and solar will never take
the place of coal-fired, or natural gas-fired energy generation. Electric cars will soon be a
national disaster because they are useless during a time of disaster with no electricity
available. It is not possible to build batteries large enough to carry a city during times
when the sun does not shine or the wind blow.
Did the Congress vote on this?
Biden
Administration Announces $39 Billion in Student-Loan Forgiveness for Over 800,000 Borrowers.
The Biden administration announced Friday that it would forgive $39 billion in student loans for
804,000 borrowers, explaining it had pursued certain fixes to existing income-driven-repayment plans.
"For far too long, borrowers fell through the cracks of a broken system that failed to keep accurate track
of their progress towards forgiveness," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. These
income-driven plans set a forgiveness threshold of 20 or 25 years. Borrowers must make payments
that qualify over this period, either 240 or 300 in total. These payments can be as low as $0 based
on an individual's income and family situation.
Sanctuary
State Illinois: Gov. Pritzker Considers Allowing DACA Illegal Aliens to Police Americans as
Cops. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is considering signing legislation into
law that would allow illegal aliens, enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program, to become police officers in the sanctuary state. Democrat legislators, with a
supermajority in the Illinois House and Senate, passed legislation late last month that would allow
thousands of DACA illegal aliens living in the state to become police officers or deputy sheriffs.
Extremist
Democrats are openly calling for the destruction of the Supreme Court. When spoiled
toddlers lose a game, they often try to change the rules or otherwise throw a tantrum. That's
how former President Donald Trump handled losing the 2020 election. And it's evidently how
top progressive members of Congress — who endlessly criticize Trump — are
handling a slew of recent defeats at the Supreme Court. The conservative-majority Supreme
Court recently ruled against racial discrimination in college admissions, against President Joe
Biden's attempt to twist the law to spend $430 billion on a student loan bailout against Congress's
wishes, and against LGBT activists in a free speech case. Progressive Democrats are not
taking these decisions well. Indeed, they're responding by effectively calling to destroy the
Supreme Court as we know it.
Five
Storylines Overshadow Joe Biden's Summer Agenda. Media headlines in recent weeks
soured on President Joe Biden, as his agenda appears derailed by setbacks ranging from Supreme
Court rulings to economic pessimism to nagging scandals. While gearing up for his 2024
campaign, Biden launched an economic public relations scheme. He calls it "Bidenomics."
The plan is meant to reverse voters' negative perception of the nation's direction. According
to a recent Politico/Morning Consult poll, 78 percent of voters believe Biden's America
is on the wrong track, increasing over 25 points since Biden took office.
Understanding
Marxism Is Key To Understanding Today's Leftists. As Americans, we are being
assaulted by numerous alphabet ideologies we don't understand — from DEI to ESG to
LGBTQ+. We seek to understand through logic, but by doing so, we become only more confused.
The only way to understand what's happening is to recognize the ideology that underlies all of it:
Marxism. When Patrisse Cullors, BLM's co-founder, acknowledged that BLM leaders were "trained
Marxists," we failed to understand the significance. It is time to change that.
Marxism's central idea is that the world is broken down into two groups; or as Marx stated:
"in a word, oppressor and oppressed." This is from his opening statement in the
Communist Manifesto (published in 1848). If you remember nothing else, remember this.
To
Gain Power, the Left Seeks to Destroy the Supreme Court. Always remember: Any
institution the Left doesn't control, it will seek to destroy. The Supreme Court dealt a
series of serious blows to the Left's agenda this summer, and leftists aren't taking it well.
First, the high court ended racial discrimination in college admissions, which the Left views as
essential to upholding the diversity, equity, and inclusion regime. Then the court struck
down President Joe Biden's blatantly unconstitutional student loan bailout scheme, which was
unpopular with the general electorate but extremely popular with the base of his party.
Several other Supreme Court decisions have the Left pretty steamed at the moment, too.
Castrating
Kids to Win Elections. Biden's first campaign ad attacked conservatives for keeping
'Lawn Boy', a book featuring a 10-year-old performing sex acts, out of schools. The
Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation of a Georgia school district for
pulling books containing graphic sexual content from middle school shelves. At a Pride Month
event at the White House, it was announced that a special coordinator would be waging lawfare
against schools that try to shield children. The Biden administration sued Tennessee over the
'Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act'. Democrat judges have illegally blocked similar
measures in Florida, Arkansas and Alabama. In Washington and California, Democrat majorities
legalized the abduction of children by the state for transgender procedures. Similar
legislation is pending in other states.
Working
around Kamala. As the public wakes up to all of this malfeasance — since
they're already realizing that they really are getting screwed — all the old tricks of
the trade start falling flat. The drums of racism and homophobia are falling ever more on
deaf ears. The manufactured hysteria over imaginary weather events and trends, in an effort
to eliminate carbon-based energy along with the comfortable standard of living that comes with it,
is coming up against increasing skepticism. The tyrannical attempts at banning gas stoves,
furnaces, and water heaters is logically generating profound public anger. Never mind that
the electrical substitute for powering natural gas appliances is itself produced by over 75%
carbon-based and nuclear fuel.
Democrats
Revive Calls To Pack Supreme Court. Democrats revived calls to pack the Supreme Court
with liberals last week after the court's conservative majority decided several cases the wrong
way, as liberals view it. On Thursday and Friday, the Supreme Court handed down three
decisions on multiple closely watched cases. The court ruled against Harvard and the
University of North Carolina's race-based admissions processes, it ruled in favor of a Christian
graphic designer who did not want to make wedding websites for same-sex couples, and the court
struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness program. Democrats and liberals raged
at the high court, some calling to expand the court's bench to dilute the conservative majority,
which was cemented by former President Donald Trump's three conservative nominees.
Why
the Biden White House Will Try to Keep Their Latest Global Warming Study a Secret.
The wanton destruction of priceless art and heritage sites across Europe by climate change
activists is insane, and one would think we've reached peaked insanity with this unhinged
community, short of acts of eco-terrorism. Nope. Sometimes, even banal actions, like a
government study, can exhibit more ludicrousness than smearing paint on a Monet. The latest
Biden White House-endorsed study into curbing global warming is not just a case study in wasteful
spending; it's a Rorschach test on mental health. And there's a reason why they want to keep
it a secret: it deals with trying to bend sun rays to prevent the Earth's temperature from rising[.]
The
Biden Regime Is Doling Out Your Tax Money to Promote Trans Madness Worldwide. Why is
the Biden regime so obsessively preoccupied with promoting sexual deviance and transgender delusion
and fantasy? Not only is it aggressively promoting "Pride" inside the United States, but it
is also sending your tax dollars abroad to make sure that young Ecuadorians see their fair share of
drag queens, and that Polish boys can decide they're really girls after all. [...] The Washington
Free Beacon reported Friday [6/30/2023] that "the Biden administration has given nearly $4.6 million
to help foreign groups promote LGBT projects like drag shows and pride parades." This money comes
from hard-working Americans who logged long hours, often at physically taxing jobs, to provide for their
families, and dutifully forked over a significant percentage of their earnings to the U.S. government,
which saw fit to use it to corrupt and sexualize children in other countries. This is what
things have come to, and it's likely only to get worse.
Constitutional
cruelty: Democrats now oppose a democratic process on student loans. "Disappointing
and cruel." Those words from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the Supreme
Court's rejection of the Biden administration's loan forgiveness program may say more than the
opinion itself. The court's "cruelty" was in supporting Congress's core constitutional power
of the purse. Schumer's disappointment in having to address and vote on the forgiveness of
hundreds of billions of dollars in loans speaks volumes about the collapse of our constitutional
values. The court's decision on the merits of the case was hardly a surprise. President
Biden was using the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003 to
order the largest loan forgiveness program in U.S. history. The law is only a few pages long
and was intended to assist military personnel deployed abroad in combat zones. The idea of
using that law in order to avoid getting congressional approval for such a massive expenditure was
laughable. The Office of Legal Counsel considered the theory and issued a memo stating that
it would be unconstitutional. In his response to the court, Biden declared that "the
hypocrisy is stunning" and that the court had "misinterpreted the Constitution." However, during
the last presidential campaign, Biden himself acknowledged that this effort would be unconstitutional.
Supreme
Court tosses Biden's student loan forgiveness plan where it belongs: The trash. On
Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden and his administration a strong
rebuke. In a 6-3 decision, the conservative majority of the court struck down Biden's
controversial decision to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt based only on his say so
and without Congress' clear approval. "...this leads the Court to conclude that '[t]he basic
and consequential tradeoffs' inherent in a mass debt cancellation program 'are ones that Congress
would likely have intended for itself,'" wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the majority.
The president overstepped his authority in unilaterally declaring millions of Americans could
benefit from up to $20,000 in student loan forgiveness, without going through Congress. This
"generous" plan would have saddled taxpayers — the majority of whom have not gone to
college themselves — with at least $400 billion in debt.
Supreme
Court Kills Joe Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Scam. In a decision released on
Friday, the Supreme Court struck down Joe Biden's student loan "forgiveness" plan. Biden's
plan, which was unveiled last August, mere months before the midterm elections, sought to cancel
$10,000 of debt for individual student loan borrowers earning less than $125,000 per year (or
$250,000 for households) and $20,000 of debt for borrowers who received a Pell Grant. [...] Biden's
Education Department utilized the HEROES Act of 2003, which grants the U.S. secretary of Education
the authority to let military service members postpone their student loan payments during national
crises, previously used to postpone student loan payments during the COVID pandemic. But the
Biden administration attempted to use the HEROES Act to forgive debt.
'Bidenomics'
in layman's terms is foreign corruption and government control. The media and other
Democrats disparage trickle-down economics, but apparently they're big believers in what they're
calling "Bidenomics." [...] Democrat policies are striving towards socialism while not calling it
socialism, because socialism has never worked, and socialist ideations like the Soviet gulags
aren't exactly popular with mature Americans. Essentially, Biden and the rest of the reigning
Democrats consider the best economic plan to be one where they confiscate as much as they can for
the government, keep a lot for themselves and a massive number of bureaucrats, maybe sell some
state secrets, and then trickle out the remainder to special interest groups, like green fanatics
and others, in order to buy votes. They pretend that all the handouts, to keep more people
dependent on the government, are free.
In
Pennsylvania Democratic Party politicians just proved their fascist anti-first amendment
beliefs. When the parental rights organization Moms for Liberty arranged to have
their annual 2023 summit in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia beginning today,
six Democrats from the Pennsylvania state senate immediately proved to the world that Democrats no
longer believe in free speech, and in fact make their number one principle oppression and
censorship, by writing a joint letter demanding the museum cancel the event. These Democrats
also proved that their method for silencing also includes routine slanders and libels, based on
zero evidence.
Maine
Democrats Kill Amendment to Ban Trafficking of Aborted Baby Remains. Maine state
Senate Democrats blocked a proposed amendment on Tuesday to a late-term abortion bill that would
have placed a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of fetal remains leftover from late-term
abortions, the Maine Wire reported. Republican state Sen. Eric Brakey proposed the
amendment and stated that if the late-term abortion bill passes (LD 1619) "the least we can do it
to establish this moratorium on the trafficking of fetal body parts so that the legislature can
thoughtfully consider the issue in the coming years and develop more permanent policy." Trafficking
in fetal remains would have been a Class C crime under the amendment.
The
Democrats' Definition Of Democracy Is Like The Marxist Definition Of Peace. The
criminalization of politics is only one iteration of the left's doctrine that politics are war by
other means, though. The Democrats, with in-kind aid from the media, are also trying to bully
the Supreme Court into submission to their will. Their message to the Court's conservative
justices: Rule our way or we will harass you until you resign. In this war with
multiple fronts, the Democrats are attempting to establish a permanent majority through a direct
assault on elections. We're talking about far more than the "cabal" that was mobilized in
2020 to guarantee the presidency for Joe Biden. The party is determined to federalize
elections with rules that would put our voting system in the hands of Deep State bureaucrats and
political insiders rather than the locals we live among, and codify practices that are illegal in
most of the country. This would end our political system as we've known it, with its
crucial checks and balances, and eventually replace it with a Democratic Party dictatorship.
Senate
Democrats Take One More Step Toward Socialized Medicine. It's been less than a year
since Democrats enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, which gives Medicare the power to set the
prices of certain medicines. Those price controls have yet to go into effect. But
Democrats already want more. They've introduced new legislation that would amp up those price
controls — and even permit the government to refuse to cover drugs in order to drive a
harder bargain with pharmaceutical companies. As for the patients who would benefit from
those drugs — or may even need them to stay alive? They may end up being
collateral damage.
The
hill we will die on. In the decades during which I have followed politics and social
issues, I have seen passionate disagreements among Americans. The Vietnam War was the focus
of massive protests. Legalized abortion, after Roe v. Wade, was followed by
bombings. Racial integration was accompanied by murders by racist militants. Unenforced
laws, including immigration and retail theft, have left us feeling betrayed by our
government. The list goes on. Somehow, we survived. Then came the transsexual
movement, complete with "drag-queen story hours" for young children. Some of those children
have become the victims of surgical mutilation. This has occurred in the context of
politicians and educators telling us we have no right to know what our children are being taught in
school. We are being threatened with loss of custody of our children if we do not "affirm"
their "gender identity," if that identity does not conform with their biological sex.
Recently, during a so-called "pride march," the chanting marchers sang out, "We're coming for your
children." Even if this was chanted supposedly in jest, it was about as funny as joking that they
would rape our mothers. I doubt that all those who chanted this did so merely as a taunt.
Green
madness: You'd have to burn a pizza stove 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry's private
jet. Environmental bureaucrats are out to save you from pizza. The city
government is set to restrict emissions from coal- and wood-fired pizza ovens in restaurants in the
city. New Yorkers are once again suffering at the hands of the unelected food police in the
name of public health and climate change. New Yorkers have already endured former Mayor
Michael Bloomberg's attempts to ban soda sales of over 16 ounces for their own good and are facing
Gov. Kathy Hochul's gas stove and furnace bans in the state, all in the name of climate
change. And now, another one bites the crust as New York City officials are going after
pizzerias using the century-old cooking methods, citing the ovens' allegedly excessive carbon emissions.
The
end of the American Experiment? Radical leftist forces have been methodically
undermining the American Experiment in an attempt to replace it with their own. The grantors
behind the new experiment are not visionaries, but ego-challenged elitist control freaks who seek
power and retributive justice in a society of their own design. The problem, they aver, is
that the original experiment has failed. After nearly 250 years of hollow promises, we
continue to suffer systemic racism, white supremacy, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and economic
inequality. We can do better! In reality, they are engaged in a bloodless coup
requiring a methodical deconstruction of the existing social order, attainable via recruitment of a
sufficient number of malcontents to elevate its designers into their real goal of absolute
political power.
The
New Democratic Dictatorship and Transition of Power from Joe Biden to Gavin Newsom.
For his Twitter monologue episode 7, Tucker Carlson walks through the post COVID new authoritarian
model of 'western democracy', a system of dictatorial fiat and unilateral power intent on retention
of control. Within our new system of "western democratic norms" authoritarianism is embraced
by both wings of the UniParty vulture as it ensures power for those who benefit. From the
dual system of U.S. justice to the dictatorship now present in Ukraine, the common thread is power
by a select group of system operators with large control mechanisms. The retention of this
power structure requires the passing of the baton to the next loyalist of the regime. In the
case of Joe Biden, Tucker foresees the rise of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Michigan
is criminalizing opinions. To say that Michigan has lurched to the left under the
leadership of Gretchen Whitmer and the state's liberal majority would be a significant
understatement. But with a new bill passed in the state House this week, they are taking
things to a cartoonish level. If (more likely "when") House Bill 4474 is signed into law, you
will literally be able to be thrown into prison for hurting someone's feelings. This is being
hidden under the guise of protecting people from "hate speech," and includes standard liberal
online tropes about "feeling threatened." To be clear, you don't have to actually threaten someone
with violence. They simply need to "feel" threatened by something you say or post
online. There is no word from Governor Whitmer yet as to whether the State Police will be
directed to establish a new "thought police" unit.
Michigan
state legislature House passes censorship bill to make free speech a felony.
Democrats run the state government of Michigan, with majorities on the House and Senate of the
state legislature and Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer with the ability to sign bills into
law. That's why a bill already passed by the State Legislature's House and assigned to
committee in the State Senate is so dangerous. Can you believe five years in prison
for speech based on someone's feelings about it? HB 4474 has a good chance of becoming law,
despite its obvious unconstitutionality. [...] Yes, the bill is unconstitutional. But if it
becomes law, it will takes years and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to get it to
the Supreme Court for a finding. IF it makes it there. Meanwhile, left wing
agitation to weaken the Court and drive conservatives from its bench will only intensify. If
they succeed or if mortality intervenes and Democrats get to appoint more justices or even pack the
court by expanding it, the constitutional safeguards may crumble in the foreseeable future.
Michigan
can now censor you if you hurt someone's feelings. Michigan's Democratic House passed
legislation on Tuesday that enables attorneys to shut down "hate speech." The new House Bill
4474 is a vague and unconstitutional censorship law that determines "feeling threatened" as
reasonable grounds to prosecute offenders. The punishment for making someone "feel
threatened" in Michigan is five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. [...] The problematic language
about "feelings" can be found in the bill's definition of "intimidation" as "willful course of
conduct, involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a
reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or
molested, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened."
Wood-fired
pizza ovens are destroying the planet. First, the climate alarmists in the government
said they were coming for your gas stoves. Then they said they weren't coming for them.
Then they came after them anyway. So given this crowd's recent track record, we should
probably take them seriously when they say that they're going to crack down on wood-burning pizza
ovens. Oh, and coal-fired ovens also. Thus far this is only happening in New York City,
but a "great idea" like this will no doubt be spreading to liberal circles across the land in no
time. And if you run a pizza shop that uses such a stove, you can either spend an arm and a
leg for a new filtration system or the city will fine you huge amounts of money until you shut up
and comply.
New
NYC Mandate Threatens Future and Taste of New York Pizza. If you only ate Chicago
pizza, this would be not an issue. The city of New York is cracking down on pizzerias,
threatening their futures. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has
drafted new rules that would order pizza joints using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon
emissions by up to 75 percent, reports the New York Post. "All New Yorkers deserve to breathe
healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants
in neighborhoods with poor air quality," DEP spokesman Ted Timbers said. "This common-sense
rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of
whether installing emission controls is feasible." The rule would force pizzerias with such
ovens installed prior to May 2016 to buy [e]mission-control devices that could send local joints
over their budgets.
These are the same people who oppose natural gas appliances.
NYC
to Crack Down on Wood-Fired Pizza Joints to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Up to 75%. New
York City will be cracking down on wood-fired pizza joints to reduce carbon emissions by up to 75%.
"All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest
contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality," Department of Environmental
Protection spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement to the New York Post on Sunday. "This
common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional
review of whether installing emission controls is feasible."
The Editor says...
[#1] It isn't a "common-sense rule." The tail is wagging the dog, as usual. The "environmental justice
groups" are anti-capitalist troublemakers, solving problems that nobody has. Making pizza in a
wood-fired oven is not an "environmental [in]justice," whatever that is. [#2] While all this
nit-picking is underway in New York, China and India are building coal-fired power plants as if carbon dioxide is
not a problem. Because it isn't! [#3] The air in an overcrowded city may not be entirely
fresh, but it's not necessarily unhealthy, and if you don't like the air in a big city, you're free to move!
Crybullies
and Beyond: Four Additional Ways the Left Resembles Nazis. [#4] Democrats and Nazis
demand complete compliance - you will comply or else. You've probably seen the famous picture
from Nazi Germany in 1936, with one man later identified as August Landmesser standing with his
arms crossed, as the crowd raised their arms in unison in the Nazi salute. Today's Leftists
are similarly demanding that you submit to their agenda. You're a 'domestic terrorist' if you
refuse to shop at Target. They are in your face with their agenda and if you don't comply,
they complain crybully style to the nation's socialist media. This is how it all starts; they
indoctrinate your children behind your back and do whatever they can to be as invasive in your life
as possible. And then when you push back, they suddenly become the victim. Then when
you don't fully comply with their demands, they label you a 'domestic terrorist.' But
somehow, we're supposed to ignore all of this because it might hurt the feelings of the
leftists. Never mind that they've been lying about this for more than 90 years and still
haven't come up with a cogent explanation as to why National Socialism was 'far-right'.
President
Trump Did What Ross Perot Could Not. As Governor Mike Huckabee noticed during his
recent appearance on NewsMax, the affairs of the prevailing political regime are scandals that
dwarf Watergate. Those comprising the Obama-Biden cabal have abused their powers for years
with defining hallmarks like illegal surveillance and political persecution; but they've also
weaponized the most powerful departments and agencies of the federal government, all funded by your
tax dollars, against those (like President Trump) who stand in the way of the monopolization of
political power for which they have an insatiable desire. And, in a manner characteristic of
their communist mentality, they consider anything that obstructs their power grab as "evil" and
every detrimental action taken against their opponents as "good" — or, according to
standard Marxian terminology used by Soviet rulers and similar regimes elsewhere: "progress."
Biden's
Economic Program is Made in China. As reported by New York Times Magazine at
the time, Joe Biden's goal was to transform the economy from the get-go: "The Biden Team Wants to
Transform the Economy. Really." Nearly two-and-a-half years later, the damage and chaos of
that transformation process are obvious: continuing high inflation (especially energy, food, and
gasoline prices), rising interest rates, recession predictions, a stagnant economy, depleted
individual savings, sky-high credit card debt, and other indications of stagflation and
recession. Who has benefited from the Biden economy? Green new deal grifters benefit
from the gargantuan tax subsidies and federal spending on transitioning the US economy from
hydrocarbon energy sources to "clean" sources, especially solar and wind energy.
The communist Chinese are happy to benefit from Biden economic policies that ultimately mandate
and subsidize green products from Chinese companies at the expense of the US companies who produce
and use hydrocarbons.
Resistance.
I will hold the line, but very few others will. I've watched it over and over. They
won't even stop watching sports, regardless of how offensive the left is willing to be, how
calculating they used those programs to indoctrinate their audiences into the "acceptable"
beliefs. They just knuckle under and turn on the tube. Soon, it's going to get hard to
do the right thing. The American people are all too willing to allow the teachers union to
determine the gender of their children, allow scalpels to be used on their babies for fear of
taking social backlash. In California you can now be charged with child abuse if you don't
shake the pom poms for gender reassignment surgery. I guess it needs to get worse. It
will, it already is. There will be a break, a moment when they attempt to call our bluff, to
shove some means of transaction on us that will lead to our slavery.
The Green
New Deal is full of holes, with AOC leading the charge to fall into them. The New
York congresswoman plans to drastically "cut carbon emissions across the economy from electricity
generation to transportation to agriculture," to "create jobs" and "boost the economy."
Revealing the truth, her chief of staff stated the Green New Deal "wasn't originally a climate
thing at all," rather, "we really think of it as how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,"
"moving the U.S. economy entirely away from fossil fuels within 10 years, while simultaneously
providing federal jobs and health care guarantee," advancing "social, economic, racial, regional
and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative — and public ownership." So,
the Green New Deal is simply a Marxist-Leninist plan to destroy the U.S. economy and transform
America into a full-fledged socialist nation costing $93 trillion in new government spending
over a decade, while 2022 U.S. GDP was only $25 trillion.
Ramping
up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can't solve our energy problem.
Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more
electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don't agree with them. These devices,
plus the batteries, charging stations, transmission lines and many other structures necessary to
make them work represent a high level of complexity. A relatively low level of
complexity, such as the complexity embodied in a new hydroelectric dam, can sometimes be used to
solve energy problems, but we cannot expect ever-higher levels of complexity to always be achievable.
Report:
Biden Admin Forced Social Security Employees to Complete 'Mandatory' LGBTQ+ Training.
President Joe Biden's administration forced Social Security Administration (SSA) employees to
complete a "mandatory" training that lectured employees on respecting their coworkers' "sexual
orientation," and "gender identity," The Sentinel reported. The LGBTQ+ training warned that
using preferred pronouns is compulsory and threatened investigations for those deemed noncompliant,
according to audio recordings obtained by the Sentinel.
Biden
Announces $600 Million for 'The Most Aggressive Climate Action Ever' During California
Visit. Climate action projects across the nation, including in California, will get
$600 million more in federal funding, President Joe Biden announced during a tour of a nature
preserve in northern California on June 19. California's share — $67 million —
will help build power lines and transmission infrastructure, and support the state's transition to
100 percent clean energy, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's office. "We're taking the
most aggressive climate action ever," Biden said. "I'm here today to announce that we're
putting our critical climate investment to work." The U.S. Department of Energy is also
expected to announce a $2 billion investment to modernize the nation's electric grid.
The Editor says...
[#1] Where did Joe Biden come up with $600 million? [#2] No amount of spending will improve the weather.
The
left's assault on the United States military is picking up steam. One of the most
vital things for a successful dictatorship is military control. A politically neutral
military composed of people loyal to the country, rather than its leadership, represents an ongoing
threat to a despot. For centuries, America has had that politically neutral military, but the
Biden administration is accelerating a process begun under Obama, which is to weaken military
readiness while ensuring that both officers and troops hew to a specific political ideology.
In the first five years of his presidency, Obama fired almost 200 military officers, some of whom
felt very strongly that there was an ideological purge taking place. Certainly, the Pentagon
class's willing embrace of leftist ideologies (DEI, CRT and, especially, LGBTQ+++) seems to
indicate that those in charge of the military's strange new destiny are on board with all of this.
Maine
Lobstermen Get a Big Win Over Biden; Admin's Hypocrisy Faces Big Questions and Investigation.
There are a lot of people who have been suffering under the Biden regime, from being crushed by Bidenflation
to being oppressed by his overregulation. The lobstermen of Maine know all too well about that second
part. The Biden administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) imposed a rule that could gut
what is already a challenging industry. The lobstermen challenged Biden in court.
Ready
for even more medical shortages? Big Pharma giant Merck has emerged as an unikely
voice for freedom, which is what comes when one's ox is gored. They've got a lawsuit out to
overturn at least part of Joe Biden's odious "Inflation Reduction Act" which has an Orwellian
clause about forcing pharmaceutical companies to allow the feds to dictate their prices, which
amounts to constitutionally prohibited confiscation without compensation and sure as the sun comes
up, will lead to even more medical shortages. That's on top of the medical shortages we are
already seeing, thanks to Pete Buttigieg's latest supply chain failure.
We
should all give Biden great credit for what he has achieved in office. We should be
giving Biden credit for energy and spending policies that caused inflation to skyrocket from under
2%, despite COVID to over 9% or 4% in May. Oil is still around $70 per barrel, or up around
75% from when Biden was elected. I am sure people on fixed income, the poor, and middle class
are extremely happy that food and energy prices have leveled off at such a high level. When
Biden was running for office, he repeatedly said he was going to destroy the oil and coal industry:
"I would transition away from the oil industry, yes," Biden said. As soon as Biden took office,
he dictatorially halted oil and gas leases on US land and water. Biden also dictatorially cancelled
the permit for the Keystone pipeline the day he took office. [...] As a result of Biden's anti-domestic
oil policies, the price of oil skyrocketed from around $40 per barrel the day Biden was elected to $84 per
barrel in October 2021, less than a year later, which was long before Russia attacked Ukraine. When
the price of oil inflates by over 110% in one year, it causes overall inflation to also go up rapidly,
because energy prices affect everything. It is a simple concept. Russia, Saudi Arabia, and
Iran benefit greatly when the U.S decides it no longer wants to be a major oil market competitor.
Biden's
World Bank Head Promises To Spend 'As Much As We Possibly Can' On Climate Change.
Ajay Banga, the Biden-appointed president of the World Bank, promised to "push" the financial
institution to its limits to combat climate change in an interview with Reuters late Tuesday.
While Banga said he would not take any actions that would threaten the global financier's "AAA"
credit rating, he said that he would leverage the bank's balance sheet "as hard as you can" to
address climate issues, Reuters reported. Members of the Biden administration, notably
including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and President Joe Biden himself, and climate activists
have — at times over the objections of developing nations — called for Banga
to shift the bank's focus from combating poverty to additionally combating climate change.
Law
soon requires new Illinois homes to include electric vehicle charging capabilities. A
new law in Illinois soon requires electric vehicle charging stations in the garage of new or
renovated homes. Critics say this will increase costs. State Sen. Sara
Feigenholtz, D-Chicago, filed Senate Bill 40 to keep Illinois on its path to having one million EVs
on the roads by 2030. The bill was signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker Friday with an
effective date of Jan. 1, 2024. In 2021, Pritzker signed the Reimagining Electric Vehicles in
Illinois Act into law, which incentivizes EV production across the state. There are also
state tax incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles.
The Editor says...
What's next? Why not require every new house to have a basketball goal in the driveway, a dog house
in the back, and built-in Christmas lights? The answer is obvious: If the home wants that stuff,
he will buy it later. Not everyone will buy an electric car — unless the Democrats rig every
future election, which isn't out of the question.
State
Senator Tells Parents to Flee His Own State Amid Law That Would Take Kids Away From Non-'Affirming'
Parents. A California state senator told a gathered crowd of parents at the
California Senate Judicial Committee to flee the state on June 13 during a hearing on a bill which
would put parents who don't affirm their child's "gender transition" in danger of child abuse
charges. Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, is the lone Republican on California's Senate
Judiciary Committee, and he has served in the California Legislature for 11 years. He was
also the lone voice warning against language in AB 957, which a Democratic senator had amended on
June 5 to rewrite the California Family Code to list "gender affirmation" alongside a child's need
for "health, safety, and welfare."
Who
is Driving the Train? American Leadership is in Full Retreat. How would John
Kirby spin the following US retreats (strategic debacles) on the world scene in two interminable
years of the Biden administration?
• The Biden administration has committed to a legally binding agreement that
"will give the World Health Organization (WHO) control over U.S. pandemic policies," as reported here.
How is giving up US sovereignty to foreigners a demonstration of US world leadership?
• Then there was the Biden administration helplessly standing by and watching
the communist Chinese facilitate a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Losing geopolitical
leverage to the Chinese in the Middle East is more US world leadership?
• How about the gifting of Afghanistan's natural resources to China?
Afghanistan holds lithium deposits estimate to be worth "between $1 trillion and $3 trillion."
China will be delighted to exploit those deposits to retain world leadership in the production of green
technology (i.e., electric vehicles, batteries, and solar panels) for export to the US. The debacle
of the US withdrawal itself probably helped convince Putin to launch the Russian invasion of Ukraine, too.
California
Bill Would Charge Any Parent Who Doesn't Affirm Transgenderism With 'Child Abuse'. A
recently amended California bill would add "affirming" the sexual transition of a child to the
state's standard for parental responsibility and child welfare — making any parent who
doesn't affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.
AB 957 passed California's State Assembly on May 3, but a co-sponsor amended it after hours in
California's State Senate on June 6. Assembly Member Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, wrote the
bill and introduced it on Feb. 14. State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, co-sponsored
it. Wilson's child identifies as transgender. Originally, AB 957 required courts to
consider whether a child's parents were "gender-affirming" in custody cases. Wiener's
amendment completely rewrites California's standard of child care.
Democrats
Had Better Be Careful What They Wish for After the Latest Trump Indictment.
Regardless of what you think about the Trump indictment, it's hard not to believe that it smacks of
the Democrats' endless attempts to nail Donald Trump for — something. We've gotten
used to it over the past few years, and these legal maneuvers always seem to play out the same way.
[...] Maybe they have him this time, but maybe not. After all, we've heard the rhetoric about
the "walls closing in" on Trump for a long time now. [Video clip] What seems to be
missing from the Democrats' calculus in indicting Trump again (with potentially more indictments to
follow) is that the whole scheme could backfire on them tremendously. They don't seem to be
aware of the precedent they're setting with these indictments. The Democrats are clearly
counting on being able to knock Trump out of the 2024 election cycle, but they apparently haven't
given much thought to the idea that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The Editor says...
Socialist Democrats are apparently unable to think ahead and foresee the potential consequences of
their half-baked ideas; for example, open borders, relying on solar panels and windmills while
blocking every practical source of energy, allowing men in women's restrooms, letting bums live in
the street, giving money to people who are too lazy to work, letting violent criminals roam free,
demanding that employers hire the blackest available people instead of those with the most
aptitude, letting the FBI act as the Secrete Police, killing babies at any stage of
pregnancy — or even beyond, conducting obviously fraudulent elections, calling carbon
dioxide a pollutant when it really isn't, Covid lockdowns, promoting homosexuality in public
schools, printing money and spreading it around to buy votes, draining the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, dissolving student loan debt, prohibiting gas stoves, and subsidizing electric cars
and gasoline diluted with ethanol that nobody asked for.
Biden
administration is 'actively plotting' ways to jam through his $400 billion student loan forgiveness
plan even if the Supreme Court strikes it down. The Supreme Court is getting ready to
hand down a decision any day now on President Joe Biden's proposed student loan forgiveness
plan — and progressives are scrambling to find a way to still wipe clean that
debt. Meanwhile, the group that launched one of the lawsuits that landed the resident's plan
at the Supreme Court says that they will sue any workarounds the Biden administration tries to jam
through. Job Creators Network President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz told DailyMail.com that the
Department of Education (DOE) is actively working on workarounds to still get at least $10,000
taken off of the debts of most borrowers with outstanding student loans.
Don't
call modern leftists communists. Communists also have a definite goal: the overthrow
of the capitalist order and its replacement by a more harmonious collective system. The means
of achieving this objective have been vigorously debated by theoreticians, and the prescriptions
have varied from revolutionary violence to parliamentary reform. What exactly this earthly
paradise would consist of is vague, but the intention is crystal-clear. Modern Western
radicals, on the hand, are a congeries of races, religions, economic classes, and sexes. They
are united only by their absolute loathing for the history and culture of the West and nothing
more. The writings of a Robin DiAngelo or the seminars of a Peggy McIntosh are not blueprints
for creating a better world, but simply hate-filled propaganda designed to stoke the fires of
resentment among groups. Empty slogans about "equity," the destruction of Occidental living
standards in the name of "saving the planet," race-revenge politics, and apparently endless
third-world immigration seem to have no goal beyond themselves. Chaos is cultivated for its
own sake, and the endgame seems to be the void. In short, then, what we have now is not
communism. Hard as it is to believe, it is worse.
Democrats
are seeking to destroy the greatest country that ever existed. Here are some
examples: On healthcare, Democrats want to either have single payer, government-run insurance
or want to dictate, as with Obamacare, exactly what must be in health care policies.
Republicans want people and companies to have freedom of choice. Democrats seem to want to
make as many people to be dependent on government as possible, as with Great Society
programs. Why would Democrats fight so hard to block a requirement for able-bodied people to
work for their benefits? With Great Society expansion of welfare programs, Democrats
essentially encouraged the break-up of families that leads to generational poverty.
Republicans believe in a safety net but want policies that encourage work, instead of welfare,
which would potentially allow people to move up the economic ladder. Democrats believe that
the government should pay off student loan debt. Republicans believe the people that borrowed
the money and received the benefit should pay it off.
New
York Calls for Reparations, Erasing Criminal Records, & Wearing Masks Indoors. A New
York bill is part of a national push to provide reparations for African Americans. Democratic
lawmakers in New York hope the Legislature will approve SB1163A in the coming days. "There's a
real question of whether slavery would have been economically feasible without New York," Democrat
James Sanders Jr. told Politico. "New York provided the insurance for the slave industry; New York
paid for many of the votes; New York bought much of the cotton." In other words, it's New
York's fault. This is the greed and politics of envy that socialism brings.
Ready
for Socialized Electric Power? Ever hear of the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)?
Sounds great, doesn't it? Yet, like "The Inflation Reduction Act" (the largest climate
legislation in government history), its title has very little to do with its actual purpose.
Its true objective is to empower the state (in this case New York) "to provide clean energy if the
private sector fails to." Still sounds great! There is, however, one little catch:
the private sector has until 2030 to provide clean energy. We all know that, given today's
technology, the private sector isn't going to meet this requirement — which means that
the second little catch will kick in: the moving of power utilities out of private hands into
publicly owned facilities.
How
Green New Dealers became Washington power players. It was just four years ago that
backers of the Green New Deal were considered outcasts in Congress. They butted heads with
Democratic leaders on climate. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) derided them as
"perfect" and "pure." And their sweeping plan to transform the energy sector never got a vote
on the House floor. But fast-forward to today, and many of those young outcasts have ascended
to top roles in Congress. They're wielding power on committees — some as attack
dogs, others as would-be consensus builders. And their ideas have helped shape legislation
like last year's landmark climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Biden
admin is preparing to target Americans' gas furnaces amid stove crackdown. The Biden
administration is expected to soon finalize regulations restricting which home gas-powered furnaces
consumers are able to purchase in the future. According to experts, the regulations —
proposed in June 2022 by the Department of Energy (DOE) — would restrict consumer choice,
drive prices higher and likely have a low impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The agency could
finalize the rules targeting residential gas furnaces, which more than 50% of American households
rely on for space heating, at any point over the upcoming weeks. "This is a classic example
of one size not fitting all," Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,
told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Every home is different, every homeowner is different
and people are best off having a wide range of choices. They can work with their contractor
to make the best decision for their home and their circumstances."
House
Republicans Target Gas Stove Regulations, Power of Administrative State. After
repeatedly failing to overturn Biden administration regulations in existing legislation, House
Republicans are taking the next steps in their attempt to exert authority over the administrative
state. Lawmakers discussed a series of bills intended to reach those ends during a June 5
Rules Committee hearing. "The Constitution articulates where the laws are made. It's
here in Congress," said Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) in his opening remarks.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), by contrast, said the proposals show that the House Republican
majority "once again prioritizes right-wing culture wars over the American people." Right-leaning
ideology prioritizes individual liberty over the government intervention preferred by the left.
Government's
Ban Isn't Only About Gas Stoves. The gas stove ban that we were told wasn't going to
happen is now being debated in Congress. Democrats are trying to ban certain models of gas
stoves and other household appliances. Republicans, meanwhile, are pushing two bills to try
to stop the bans from happening. [Video clip]
Those
Who Oppose Capitalism Are The Enemies Of Freedom. Capitalism is not an economic
system imposed by government in the way socialism or communism or any form of Marxism or planned
economy is imposed on people against their will. Capitalism is merely the economic activity
that men will engage in when left alone, when they are free to act as they wish. It is
spontaneous, ordered and entirely organic. When men are free to trade with each other without
government intrusion, they will inevitably seek and sell capital. And why wouldn't
they? It is their nature. Innovators and entrepreneurs hungry to make their ideas flesh
need capital to fund their ventures. Those who have capital see opportunities to reap
profits, so they trade their capital in an open market for profits to be realized later. This
is not exploitation but the manifestation of liberty.
It's Not
About Politics! Too many people still believe what we see on the news is politics as
usual. It is not. Politics departed long ago. What we are witnessing, what we see
demonstrated everyday, is good vs. evil. [...] Normalizing homosexuality, pushing transgenderism,
even celebrating them is not politics. Hospitals operating on children, mutilating them,
removing perfectly normal reproductive organs or creating faux body parts as a poor substitute is
not politics. Observing major corporations getting into politics like never before is not
mere politics. Watching these same corporations changing their wares to heighten the Left's
narrative is not politics. Major store chains selling clothing to hide genitalia to enhance
the cloaking of actual gender or allowing men in women's bathrooms is not politics. Thousands
upon thousands of homeless living on sidewalks in major Democrat cities while allowing hardened
criminals to prey on the innocents is not politics. Authorizing marketing execs to destroy
their brand just to normalize abnormality and then watching other companies follow suit is not
politics. Inviting drag queens to display their deviancy to children in public libraries and
classrooms and then calling it 'promoting imagination' is not politics. Finding thousands of
ballots over and above the number of voters in any precinct or allowing people to vote without
proving who they are is not politics. Opening borders to millions of unvetted, unknown people
from foreign countries the world over is not politics. Giving up energy independence is not
politics. Punishing political rivals with censorship is not politics. Spending
trillions on what no one can identify is not politics. Politicians and Deep Staters
committing treasonous acts for decades without repercussion is not politics. Permitting
people to 'serve' in Congress and the presidency who are mentally incompetent or even dead is not
politics. Using 'climate change' to amass power and money is not politics.
Climate
Madness: Government Looking to Cull Nearly 200,000 Dairy Cows. The high priests of
climate change are at it again, this time decreeing that 200,000 dairy cows must be put to death to
satisfy the left's global warming religion. This latest outrage is coming from government
officials in Ireland who have announced the destruction of tens of thousands of dairy cows so that
officials can meet their climate change goals. One proposal claims that by reducing the
country's dairy herd by 10 percent, the equivalent of removing 65,000 cows a year for three years,
will help officials meet their emissions reduction plans, according to Farmers Weekly citing the
Irish Independent newspaper.
The Editor says...
Or you could just ship 200,000 cows to Dimmitt County, Texas, where they could disappear overnight
and no questions will be asked. If you don't know what I mean, check into this fairly recent story:
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The Dimmitt County explosion was just one of a series of mysterious explosions at food processing facilities
all over the country.
The
Road to Socialism is Paved with Equity. The Biden administration defines equity as
"the consistent and systematic treatment of all individuals in a fair, just, and impartial
manner." Who could be against a policy so pure? One would think the supporters of a
policy so pragmatically pristine would encourage critical discussion. This is not the
case. Anyone that dares question the Democrat party's pursuit of equity is castigated as a
blasphemer against liberal orthodoxy. Liberals require opponents to approach their canon with
the reverence of monastic silence. But when the equity dogma is examined, one realizes that
it more closely resembles a Faustian bargain than progressive enlightenment.
Senate
Votes To Overturn Biden's Student Loan Giveaway. Two Democrats and one Independent
joined with all 48 present Senate Republicans on Thursday to pass a resolution blocking President
Joe Biden's plan to shift billions of dollars in student loans onto American taxpayers. The
Congressional Review Act resolution, introduced in the upper chamber by Republican Louisiana
Sen. Bill Cassidy, would overturn the Department of Education's 2022 move to forgive up to
$20,000 in loans for some recipients. A companion resolution introduced by Republican
Virginia Rep. Bob Good passed the House in May, 218-203. Biden has pledged to veto the
resolution. Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, along with
Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, joined with Republicans. [Tweet]
Arrest
of Chicago 'Peacekeeper' police substitute demonstrates the folly of 'defund the
police'. A man wearing the vest of the new "Peacekeeper" corps deployed over the
Memorial Day weekend, to stem the mayhem on a holiday weekend that has become an opportunity for
murder tallies to soar, was arrested for a violent attack. [...] One of the many fantasies of the
progressives is that there is something inherently wrong or dangerous with police. Instead of
armed police capable of using the threat of violence to restrain offenders, unarmed social
worker-like alternatives can reduce violence by sympathizing with offenders and understanding the
root causes of their behavior. The Chicago Police Department's 1,700 vacancies are so
catastrophic that Democrat politicians are desperate to deflect blame for their support of defund
the police and anti-cop measures. Chicago's new mayor, Brandon Johnson, ditched his former
defund-the-police rhetoric during the campaign but still won't commit to adding funds to the police.
The
Democrats' Greatest Achievement: Convincing Idiots That Tyranny Is Virtue. The far
lefties have spent decades demonizing conservatives, Republicans, and white Christians as hateful,
racist, terrorists, hell-bent on oppressing minorities, and, lately, guilty of taking down our
American democracy, while at the same time assuring their minions they are morally superior to
these same liberty-embracing crowd. [...] Leftists, desperate to feed their cowardice —
rather than starve it to death and replace it with courage — eat up their phantom
supremacy by swallowing whatever self-righteous balderdash their Democrats masters throw at them,
even if that means slowly stripping away their own freedoms. Those at the top of the Democrat
hate pyramid have learned they can thrust tyranny on their myrmidons if they just thinly disguise
it with a bogus sense of virtue. The weak are easy prey. Die-hard leftists will trip
over themselves in a desperate attempt to out-virtue signal their Bolshie friends, and if that
means cutting off their noses to spite our Constitution-loving faces, so be it.
Why
the White House Wants War. With Ukraine's capital, Kiev, subject to increasing
Russian bombardment, and Moscow subject to new drone attacks, the hostility now reflects direct
provocation of central government and leadership. Whether you rightly find Russia's
aggression in Ukraine unacceptable, or like University of Chicago political scientist John
Mearsheimer, you also see, pragmatically, a long trail of U.S. and EU provocation and mismanagement
in foreign affairs, one thing is fairly obvious: the United States is not interested in pursuing,
or trying to broker, a peace deal. Current U.S. foreign policy toward Russia is following a
narrow path of strict escalation toward superpower confrontation. Russia is not going to lead
a peace effort, nor will Ukraine.
American
Deviancy. You don't have to look very far to witness how fundamentally fractured our
society is. Intersectionality lauds our differences, and sets us up for punishment for the
transgression of individuality. [...] The nexus argument behind all claims of intersectionality is
victimhood — white males have stolen everything, which rightfully belongs to other
deserving distinct groups, all of course, sans white males. Everything must be returned or
taken by force, and only then can redress be genuinely achieved. This has become
incontrovertible and sacred doctrine among progressives, although nonsense! (And that's being
charitable when considering the absolute devastation yielded by the belief in and application of
intersectionality.)
The
Nanny State Stains a Deck. When candidates run for public office — local,
state, or federal — they campaign on some careful blend of their résumés,
their personalities, and their political issues. [...]The related issue currently in the news is
the world of natural gas appliances. The United States has so much natural gas, it's
practically free energy... but gas-powered ovens, ranges, furnaces, water heaters, and clothes
dryers are under assault from blue states like New York and California and from the federal
Department of Energy. Some states have mandated that no new construction can include them;
some cities have mandated that perfectly functional existing appliances be ripped out and replaced
with electric.
Walz
signs recreational marijuana bill into law. Possibly the most talked about bill
during this year's legislative session, the recreational marijuana bill, was signed into law on
Tuesday [5/30/2023]. Joined by state lawmakers and other advocates, including former
Gov. Jesse Ventura, Gov. Tim Walz signed the legislation during a ceremony at the State
Capitol to make Minnesota the 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana. "Jimi Hendrix is
looking down on Minnesota smiling today," Ventura said while pumping his fist.
Michigan
GOP Blasts Dems' Proposal To Give Most Violent Convicts Chance For Reduced Sentences.
Convicted felons in Michigan, including most murderers and sexual offenders, could have a better
chance of returning to society if Democrats get their way. A package of legislation
introduced last week by Democrat state Rep. Kara Hope aims to amend Michigan's penal code to
allow nearly every criminal to petition for a reduced sentence after serving 10 years behind
bars. Michigan Republicans, led by House Minority Leader Matt Hall, blasted the
Democrat-sponsored legislation, arguing that it prioritizes criminals above victims. "The
Democrats make these conversations largely about these criminals and how unfair the criminal
justice system is," Hall, who represents areas around Kalamazoo, told The Daily Wire in a phone
interview Friday. "And what we're trying to do is make sure the voices of the victims are heard."
How
to Destroy a People. Wokeness is not about "rights" — it is about
favoritism on a colossal scale. It is about transforming America into a Marxist totalitarian
state based on a coalition of groups antagonistic to traditional American identity. And so,
ultimately, it is about destroying America as we have known it for over 200 years. The
special consideration that these groups demand comes at the expense of ordinary citizens —
those decent, hardworking, family-oriented citizens who now find themselves forced to the back of
the bus. Ordinary Americans pay the higher taxes necessary to fund the privileges that
marginal groups now claim; ordinary folks are expected to nod in agreement as their children
are subjected to woke brainwashing; ordinary people are told they must swallow the idea that
the needs of homosexuals, transgenders, transvestites, criminals, illegal aliens, environmentalist
radicals, communists, atheists, and anarchists come first — in education, hiring,
culture, politics, and the news. There is little space or funding left for everyday
Americans, who are told that they are less important and "outdated" and even "hate-filled" just
because of their noble beliefs in Christianity, self-responsibility, decency, and goodness.
In
the Fight for America, We Hold the High Ground. The radicals have infiltrated
virtually all of our institutions. But Americans who identify as "liberal" — the
21st-century codename for communists — are only 25 percent of the population according
to Gallup. As our institutions have become increasingly radical, confidence in them has
collapsed. With the loss of confidence, they are also losing their effectiveness. The
75 percent are having their say in the matter. Our enemies can't win ideologically,
either. Instead, they've tried to stifle debate. But Biden's plan to govern
disinformation crashed and burned. The DOJ's attempt to censor dissenting opinions has been
exposed as a major scandal, which may even threaten the existence of the FBI. [...] The radicals
can't win elections, either. Instead, they tried to institutionalize election fraud.
Their push to nationalize elections with H.R. 1 — the For the People Act —
would have taken control away from the states. The legislation failed to pass. Even
many of the rule changes that enabled the 2020 shenanigans have since been found unconstitutional.
The
military is lying to you, of course. Both Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and General
Milley, Chair of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, insist that the Department of Defense neither funds
nor supports drag queen story hours on military bases. That was and remains a lie. When
presented with the evidence in a Congressional hearing Austin repeated the lie, even when
confronted by incontrovertible evidence that he was spreading falsehoods. He lied. Then
he lied again. And again. I have no idea if he was under oath, but it shouldn't
matter. Lying to Congress and the American people is unacceptable, except when a Democrat is
in the White House. Then it is apparently mandatory. [Tweet]
The
Corruption of Climate Science. It is no exaggeration that every major institution in
America has now committed itself to the elimination of affordable and abundant energy. If it
isn't stopped, this commitment, motivated by misguided concern for the planet but also by a lust
for power and money and enabled by moral cowardice and intellectual negligence, will destroy
Western civilization. For over 50 years, with increasing frequency, corrupted, careerist
scientists have produced biased studies that, amplified by agenda-driven corporate and political
special interests, constitute a "consensus" that is supposedly "beyond debate." We are in a
"climate crisis." To cope with this climate emergency, all measures are justifiable.
This is overblown, one-sided, distorted, and manipulative propaganda. It is the language of
authoritarians and corporatists bent on achieving even more centralized political power and economic
wealth. It is a scam, perhaps the most audacious, all-encompassing fraud in human history.
The
Biden admin, with the help of the complicit media, sure pretends a lot. Incompetence
runs deep in the Biden administration.
• They didn't seem to prepare for the disaster in Afghanistan.
• They didn't control the border.
• They also couldn't control inflation and don't seem to have a clue on what
causes it (hint, massive regulations and their destructive energy policies).
• And they couldn't even keep baby formula on the shelves or valuable drugs in the pharmacies.
But we are supposed to believe that these people can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity
forever if we just give them trillions of dollars and allow them to destroy industries that use
natural resources. Everything in the Biden administration seems to involve endlessly offering
talking points, which the media gladly regurgitates without doing research or asking
questions. Facts haven't mattered for a long time.
The
Truth About Diversity and the Terrifying Reason the Commie Left Is Pushing It.
Anything being pushed by globalists — especially the evil commie clowns at the World
Economic Forum (WEF) — requires a closer look. So, I thought I'd look into their
dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) which they've been hell-bent on gavaging
down our throats. It wasn't long before I stumbled upon a study from 2000 by a political
science professor from Harvard named Robert Putnam. Putnam, a liberal, has spent much of his
career studying the reality of diversity. What he has found, again and again, doesn't bode
well for the apparatchiks, snowflakes, and prairie fairies preaching the supposed benefits of all
things DEI. We've been led to believe that our differences are our strengths, but Putnam's
findings tell us quite the opposite. He interviewed 30,000 people, and the results were staggering.
Medicare
For All: This Idea Has To End. Sen. Bernie Sanders is still promoting Medicare
for All to "solve" several problems with the current health care system. What are those
problems? Cost and access are the top two. Advocates for socialized medicine schemes
like Medicare for All get both wrong. Typical framing of the cost issue shows U.S. healthcare
spending relative to gross domestic product (GDP). But, health care spending should be
divided by household disposable income, which is the amount of income available to spend after
taxes. The U.S. ranks no. 1 in household disposable income in the world, and leads 2nd
place by more than 20%. Gross domestic product, in contrast, is a measure of the productivity
of the economy rather than of income. On a per-capita basis, the U.S. typically ranks between
10th and 15th place in the world, and trails countries like Luxembourg, Ireland, and Monaco (which
has a per-capita GDP that is more than three times the U.S.) Clearly, GDP is an antiquated
measure developed shortly after WWII that doesn't reflect reality.
The
Left's Systematic Slandering of the Police. After the May 25, 2020 death of George
Floyd, a Black man, in the custody of Minneapolis Police, many Democrats, including Joe Biden, have
said the police are systematically racist. San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed,
Democrat "squad" member Rep. Cori Bush and others have called to defund them. Their
reasoning, so to speak, is that since some police officers rarely kill an unarmed Black man, the
entire institution is "systematically racist" (the expression of choice by the Democrat party and
their stenographers in what remains of our "news" media), it is necessary to defund the
police. Inferring from a few cases to a conclusion about an entire institution used to be
called "the fallacy of hasty generalization" in university critical reasoning courses, but the lack
of any good arguments for the Left's talking point has required their use of this fallacy in recent years.
Neil
Oliver: There's nothing green about the green agenda; It's all a scam. [Video clip.]
House
Votes Against EPA Truck Emissions Rule, Setting Up Biden Veto. The House voted on
May 23 to overturn the Biden administration's rule on heavy-duty vehicles' tailpipe emissions,
the latest knock against the president's environmental agenda in a closely divided Congress and the
forerunner to an expected Biden veto. The short piece of legislation would roll back a rule
submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for trucks in December 2022. The rule,
which can be read here, "sets stronger emissions standards to further reduce air pollution,
including pollutants that create ozone and particulate matter, from heavy-duty vehicles and engines
starting in model year 2027," according to the EPA. Heavy-duty vehicles are those with a
gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) above 8,500 pounds. Heavier light-duty pickup trucks such
as the Ford F-250 and the Chevy Silverado 2500 have GVWRs that top out above that, as do even
heavier pickups like the Ford F-350.
On
global warming, so many problems with the data. Here are some of the destructive
policies of the radical greenies that are based on predictions, not scientific data: The
destruction of energy-producing companies that produce reasonably priced energy. (They clearly
don't care about the harm to the poor and middle class by high inflation). The promotion of
the highly flammable pollutant lithium while seeking to control CO2, a non-pollutant, clear gas,
that makes plants grow and allows the world to be fed. Spending trillions on carbon
capture. Selling worthless carbon credits so people like John Kerry can pretend they care as
they fly in their private jets. Outlawing gas stoves, furnaces, lawn mowers, leaf blowers,
and gas grills. The destruction of fishing and killing of whales by wind farms.
Environmentalists claim to worry about landfills and pollution so where are they going to put all
the gas- powered equipment which will be worthless when the wind turbines wear out? Why
should anyone trust the same people who did the following when they said they could control
temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity, if we just hand over trillions, and give up
our freedom and quality of life?
Biden
admin announces 'historic' plan to reduce western states' water supply. The Biden
administration announced Monday that seven western states had reached an agreement to conserve
critical Colorado River system water supplies amid severe drought conditions. The
agreement — reached by the so-called Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and
Nevada — ensures that at least 3 million acre-feet (maf), or 978 billion gallons,
of Colorado River water supplies are conserved by 2027, according to the Department of the Interior
(DOI) which has worked with states to address shortages. Under the plan, at least half of
that amount will be conserved by 2025. "There are 40 million people, seven states, and 30
Tribal Nations who rely on the Colorado River Basin for basic services such as drinking water and
electricity," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement Monday.
Nebraska
senator flips out debating ban on sex change surgeries for minors, screams 'we need trans
people'. A Friday morning session in the unicameral Nebraska legislature devolved
into chaos after one Democratic lawmaker began shouting her support for transgender people amid a
debate on a bill to ban sex change procedures for minors in the state. The bill, which was
ultimately approved by lawmakers and sent to Republican Gov. Jim Pillen's desk to become law,
bans sex change procedures for minors, as well as abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy. In
voicing her disapproval to the measure Friday morning, state Democrat Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh
slapped the lectern and repeatedly shouted: "Transgender people belong here, we need trans people,
we love trans people."
Let's
Call Them What They Are: Communists. A "liberal" is someone who stands for
liberty. That is literally the opposite of what our "liberals" stand for. They use
cancelation and censorship to quiet disagreements. They distort the law to crush
dissent. They use moral relativism to break our sense of right and wrong. They don't
deliver liberty. They deliver oppression and corruption. "Progressive" doesn't work
much better. A progressive is supposed to be a person who values progress. But those
operating under the progressive banner have
• created conflict in the name of social justice,
• destroyed our prosperity in pursuit of ecological justice, and
• used wildly out-of-control spending to buy our way out of problems that actually require human development.
In the name of "progress," they have delivered social strife, criminal chaos, and economic
collapse. They haven't delivered progress — only regression. [...] "Democracy" has
nothing to do with what Democrats promote. None of those labels adequately describes those who
are actively working to undermine America's founding principles. Let's stop denying the threat
and call them what they are: communists.
What
Is Wrong With These People? Imagine literally being upset about your state government
preventing you from physically removing the genitals from your minor child. It's difficult to
do, I know, because the very idea of butchering the body of a child is foreign to you, but there
are a lot of people wildly upset by just that idea. Just as there is a slice of the public,
small as it is, demanding Bud Light completely destroys itself in the name of "tolerance." Then
there are the wealthy white liberals who, as if it were a sexual fetish of theirs, demand they and
their children, and by extension everyone's children, be indoctrinated into the idea that they are
responsible for things done by people who aren't them that happened long before they were
born. You really have to wonder what [...] is wrong with these people.
Eight
Disturbing Similarities between the Democrat and Nazi Parties. The overarching
philosophy of both Democrats and Nazis is centralized control. The individualists on the
pro-freedom side of the political spectrum favor liberty and limited government. The
collectivists of the anti-liberty side of the political spectrum favor control and unlimited
government. This can easily be seen in the Democrat's obsession with controlling not only
basic liberties, but also gas stoves, dishwashers, and air-conditioners.
The Editor says...
And low-flow shower heads, and one-gallon toilets, and 50-mpg cars, and fluorescent lightbulbs.
Democrats
Are The Brainless Party. The policies being pushed by the party aren't just
brainless, they're dangerous. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, this week introduced a
Reparations Now Resolution that would provide $14 trillion in funds to descendants of American
slaves. "What we're talking about is freedom and equity and calling on this country to acknowledge
the harm that it has inflicted," Bush said. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., tweeted in
support of the bill saying: "Reparations means equity. Reparations means justice.
Reparations means dismantling the systems that have kept us marginalized." Aside from the
impossibility of figuring out how to divide the spoils, to say nothing of raising the money, a
reparations bill would be massively divisive, given that 68% of Americans oppose it, including 58%
of Hispanics and 65% of Asians. Just 48% of rank-and-file Democrats back reparations.
The Editor says...
Representative Barbara Lee has been in the U.S. Congress for 25 years, yet she claims there are
"systems that have kept us marginalized." Cry on Oprah Winfrey's shoulder.
Karine
Jean-Pierre slams bans on trans treatment for minors: 'These are our kids, they belong to all of
us'. While appearing at the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend, White
House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that trans kids are "our kids" and "belong to all
of us" in response to what she called "anti-LGBTQ+ legislation." Speaking with the website
Jezebel at the event on Saturday, Jean-Pierre, who identifies as "queer," talked about the
importance of representation and visibility for young people. She also insisted that there
needed to be more moments to "call out" Republican legislation for the sake of trans
children. "There are more than 600 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation out there. A
few hundred of them are anti-trans community, and that matters because we have to call that
out. And we've never seen this level. It's historic in the number of pieces of
legislation," she said.
Disturbing
Democrat Trans Cult Thinks It Owns Your Children. Despite the very public pushback
against them in recent years, the predatory Democrat Trans Cult is still in full force, mobilized,
and coming for your children. These people are relentless and operating under the mistaken
impression that they're compassionate. The coastal bubble Dems are all on board with the push
to normalize conversations about sexuality between 8-year-olds and any random adults they interact
with during the day at school. In their telling of the story, every other third-grader in
America is trapped in the wrong body and agonizing to be liberated by a compassionate public
educator. This is just one more thing that was made worse by the evil touch of Hillary
Clinton. Ever since Granny Maojackets published It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons
Children Teach Us back in the '90s, Democrats have felt justified in claiming that parents
really can't handle raising their own children and that such things should be left up to the
nation's teachers.
Chicago,
RIP. Electing Lori Lightfoot as Mayor of Chicago was the beginning of the end for
that city. Replacing her with someone even more far left is accelerating Chicago's terminal
decline. Tom Bevan notes that the death throes are under way: [Tweet] The stupidity is
hard to fathom. A "head tax" on employees means less employment. The tax on jet fuel
will fall, I suppose, on all who fly into or out of O'Hare or Midway airport — yet
another reason to avoid the city. A 3.5% income tax that goes all the way down to $100,000 in
income is suicidal. I have no idea how the city plans to implement a "wealth tax," but it
sounds as though a household with a net worth of just $1 million would pay another $4,000 a
year. And the transaction fee will drive banking and investment firms out of the city.
In short, the plan, if enacted, will be a disaster.
Sen.
Markey introduces bill to pack Supreme Court, claims two Justices 'have no right to be
there'. Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey introduced a bill to pack the
Supreme Court on Tuesday, claiming during a press conference on the legislation that Justices Neil
Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have "no right" to be on the Court. Markey's Judiciary Act of
2023, which pro-abortion groups Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed, would add
four seats to the Supreme Court. During his press conference on the Supreme Court steps,
Markey called for Justice Clarence Thomas to resign and claimed that two justices have "no right to
be there." "In 2016, Senate Republicans broke the rules and packed the court," Markey said.
"In 2020, Donald Trump helped them to break the rules again." Republicans refused to confirm
Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016. After former President Donald Trump took office,
Republicans confirmed Gorsuch in 2017. After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Republicans
confirmed Barrett in October 2020.
Is
Sanity Returning? I'm referring to the firestorm rejection consumers are giving to
Anheuser-Busch (AB), specifically to buying and drinking Bud Lite. [...] AB's executives, Hollywood
celebs, academia, TV networks, Big Media, Big Tech, most large corporations, and most government
agencies have collectively decided they know what's best for you, know exactly what you need, and
have proceeded to shove it down our throats while forcing their political insanity onto
society. You must hate President Trump — Check; every TV network and celebrity
continually echoes that mantra. We will teach racist ideology to your children, and you'll
learn to love it — Check; Democrat-controlled school boards cram Critical Race Theory
(CRT) into every school curriculum. Demand gun control/gun confiscation — Check;
every mass-shooting is not because the shooter is deranged or mentally ill; no, it's the gun's
fault and Dems demand guns be confiscated. Americans must have and support open borders to
flood the country with illegals and change the voter base — Check; Biden and Dems have
refused to control the border, resulting in five million (but who's counting) illegals in slightly
over two years (thanks, Joe). America needs a weakened military more focused on White rage than
defeating our enemies — Check; all service branches are struggling to recruit new
members. So, given the large numbers of idiotic, woke businesses and lunatic
government/military agendas, Anheuser-Busch managed to outstupid them all. AB used a
girly-man transgender to advertise Bud Lite (BL) to the average working man.
Something
wicked this way comes. [Scroll down] What are we looking at?
Whatever its long-term provenance going back decades, the movement we are dealing with now starts
with Obama. In the 2008 campaign, Obama said the objective of his administration would be to
"fundamentally transform" America. I, and I suspect a lot of others, thought this was just
political blather. Not hardly. But there is a problem with this objective. To
achieve it, you have to plow through the Constitution. Obama didn't plan to do that by
amendments but by stoking racial animosity. Something important happened with the death
(ruled to be murder) of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, for which police officer Derek
Chauvin has been convicted and sentenced to 22.5 years. (Given the plethora of relevant
details around the case, a different judgment is imaginable.) It effectively launched the
Defund the Police movement.
Congressional Counter-Offensive.
This summer, Congress will pass 12 separate bills to fund federal government programs in fiscal
year 2024. In anticipation of that process, the Anti-Woke Caucus combed through all 12 of the
bills that passed the then-Democratic controlled appropriations subcommittees in 2022 to identify
woke funding requests. As we say in the Navy, it was a target rich environment. Speaker
Pelosi's Democratic majority asked for $200 million for programs dedicated to increasing
race-based hiring and recruitment in STEM; $200 million for the Department of State's Gender
Equity and Equality Action Fund; $8.6 million for gender advisor programs at the Department of
Defense; ICE to detain transgender illegal aliens only at facilities with staff who have received
LGBTQ sensitivity and awareness training and medical personnel who have experience delivering
hormone therapies; $108 million for environmental justice activities through the Department of
the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency; the Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize
projects that provide opportunities based on race; and the Department of Veterans Affairs to
establish a program to combat "online misinformation" and "extremism."
The
age of manufactured crises. This week, with the eclipsing of Title 42, the U.S.
southern border has gone from a hot mess to a full-blown emergency. We were pushed into the
conflict with Ukraine and Russia as well. Before that was the debacle in Afghanistan.
Our leaders killed drilling for oil and terminated pipeline projects which led to elevated gas
prices and fueled inflation. If inflation was a concern, you'd never notice it from our
leaders. They pumped trillions of dollars into the economy to make inflation worse (and had
the gall to call it an Inflation Reduction Act.) Even when there isn't a crisis, the current
administration creates one. For example, claiming gun violence and trans-oppression are
national emergencies. You can almost hear them, "Let's make loans easier for people with bad
credit ratings," which is destined to ignite a housing crisis down the road. If that isn't
enough, looming on the horizon is a Taiwan crisis, the Sudan, and perhaps an incident or two with
North Korea. Rather than get in front of an issue and calm it, actions are taken (or not
taken) to ensure that problems are allowed to fester and explode.
Chefs
join nationwide pushback against gas stove bans. World-renowned chef José
Andrés is trying to open his first Bay Area eatery but appears ready to quit the effort if
officials in the city of Palo Alto don't allow the use of natural gas at the proposed site.
Andrés's position was revealed in an April 28 letter to the city from the attorney for
the shopping center that has a deal to bring in the chef's new Zaytinya restaurant. "Some of
its more conventional cooking equipment can be made electric, but other unique pieces of gas-fired
equipment critical for Zaytinya's success do not have electrically powered equivalents," the letter
reads. "Without a gas connection and appliances, Zaytinya would be forced to alter its
signature five-star reputation and ... will likely choose not to locate within the city." The
controversy started in January after the chairman of the Federal Consumer Safety Products
Commission, Richard Trumka Jr., said gas stoves posed a "hidden hazard" and suggested the agency
could ban them.
Liberals
sure like dead black men. We are a nation led by a party that is bent on
destruction. On the West Coast, Democrats are destroying dams in the name of nature.
Elsewhere, they are destroying nuclear plants in the name of safety. They are destroying coal
plants in the name of global warming. They are destroying sections of interstates in the name
of racism. Black men kill black men by the thousand each year. Liberals ignore those
actual murders. Instead, they turn the media spotlight on the very rare occasion when a black
man dies at the hands of a white person. The murkier the details, the louder liberals
screech. Liberals are playing America. When President Obama said if he had a son he
would look like Trayvon Martin, he created this monster we still grapple nearly a decade later.
Martin was beating George Zimmerman's head against a sidewalk when the victim pulled his gun and
killed his assailant. The death of another teen thug, Michael D. Brown, gave libs an
excuse to destroy Ferguson, Missouri, a quiet suburb that black people used to escape
St. Louis. The list goes on, ending in the overdose death of George Floyd while
in police custody. Liberals used their rationalization to destroy cities.
The
government doesn't want to talk about your actual concerns. Gallup periodically asks
Americans to declare what they think is "the most important problem facing the country today."
Rather than offering multiple choice answers, they leave it open for respondents to say whatever
they like, matching the answers to a number of related categories. [...] ["]The single most
common answer was "the government," or "poor leadership," at 18 percent. Fourteen percent
said the economy in general, and 9 percent said inflation or high cost of living.["] [...]
Keep that list in mind and consider what news stories are generating the most buzz in the
media. Then consider what the President and congressional leaders are spending their time
talking about. We are repeatedly assured that some sort of "transgender genocide" is going on
and we should all be fighting about transgender issues. [...] We're told that the country simply
can't move forward without addressing systemic racism and reparations.
Collateral
Damage. The media and every leftist lunatic will claim that failing to pass a debt
limit increase will cause the loss of the dollar as the world reserve currency. This is a
flat-out lie. That boat has already sailed. What do you think de-dollarization
is? De-dollarization is caused by massive overspending resulting in the need to print, or
inject more dollars, even unbacked by Treasuries, in order to have the cash on hand to spend on
luxuries like the Green New Deal, transgender surgeries, electric car incentives, wind and solar
incentives, the de-oilization of our power grid etc., and other nations recognize it as
irresponsible and reckless so they're getting away from the dollar before they're wrapped up in the
collateral damage of its implosion. The media and politicians will tell you that you need to
raise the debt limit to avoid defaulting on our obligations. That's a lie. The
government raises enough cash through taxes to pay for Social Security (paid for by workers over
the course of their lives) Medicare and Medicaid. It raises enough money to pay the interest
on the debt, currently about $1 trillion. So there would be no default, whether the debt
limit is increased or not. What would not be paid for is a great deal of discretionary
spending and some tough choices would have to be made.
Janet
Yellen: we have to risk default to build windmills. At least Janet Yellen is upfront
about the Biden Administration's priorities. [...] They truly believe that spending a few billion
more on worthless clean energy projects is worth wrecking the US economy, or at least that the
American people might think so. I'm pretty sure that argument isn't going to fly outside the
confines of an Antifa meeting or a faculty lounge discussion. They are about the only people
who think that a few more solar panels and windmills are worth blowing up the US economy.
Today
It's Your Gas Stove, Tomorrow It's Your Dishwasher. "Don't worry about the
dishwasher," our host told us as we checked out the house where my wife and I were staying in the
south of France several years ago. "It's more than two years old." I had no idea why I
needed to worry about this or any other dishwasher, but I was about to find out. [...] Here's where
Presidentish Joe Biden steps up to say: You ain't seen nothin' yet, Jacque. In yet another
notorious Friday afternoon news dump, Biden's Department of Energy proposed new efficiency rules
for dishwashers sold in the U.S. If the proposed regulations go into effect — and
there's no doubt that the enviro-cabal running the White House is in favor — water use
would be reduced by a third on some standard-sized machines, and energy use would be reduced by
more than a quarter. Consumers already complain that machines that have been made since
Obama-era restrictions went into effect a decade ago already don't properly clean or dry
dishes. In the future, they'll have even less water and energy to work with.
Count the parallels:
The
Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America. The decade-long French Revolution
that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became
antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were
seen as far too narrow, given the state, if only all-powerful and all-wise, could mandate
"equality" and force "fraternity" among its subjects. [...] Jacobins sought to wipe out religion,
both materially and spiritually. They replaced God, first, with the atheistic "Cult of
Reason" and then a stranger still "Cult of the Supreme Being" — a dreamed-up, living,
humanistic god that only the murderous Robespierre could fully envision, but eerily similar to our
own Green New Deal deity. The months of the year themselves were renamed, the days of the
week renumbered and relabeled. Statues were toppled, first at night, later in shameless
daylight. Place names were erased and renamed. The original revolutionary heroes were
not to be mentioned; their uncouth successors deified. Money was printed to "spread the
wealth" — until it was worthless.
We
should talk about just how bad the RESTRICT Act is. Back in 2001, like many other
people I foolishly bought into the idea of the USA Patriot Act. After all, we had just
suffered the worst terrorist attack in history and we had to go after the bad guys, right? Of
course, since that time we've seen the government and our own intelligence agencies spying on
regular Americans more than any alleged ISIS sleeper cells. Now the government is brewing up
a new plan supposedly in response to threats posed by China through back-door data breaches using
the TikTok video app. It's called the RESTRICT Act and it is unfortunately drawing bipartisan
support in the Senate. But much like its predecessor, this bill would open the door to vastly
expanded executive branch powers and unprecedented levels of control of both financial activity and
people's personal data.
[The]
Biden Administration [is] waging [a] pointless war on our comfort in the name of climate.
Looking forward to using your air-conditioning this summer to keep you from misery and lack of sleep?
Well, you might have some issues. You see, the Biden administration has declared war on comfort.
It's not just gas stoves, leaf blowers, and lawnmowers the Biden-ites are coming for. No siree.
They are also bound and determined to eventually make air-conditioning prohibitively expensive for all but
their coastal elite friends and allies. New Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations are
limiting supplies of freon and other refrigerants, because they are allegedly contributors to "climate
change." The new production quotas have driven up the price of these refrigerants by about 300%,
meaning that a recharge may cost $100 to $500 more than before these regulations took effect, depending
on how much replacement refrigerant is needed. But wait, there's more! The coolant quotas
get even more stringent next year.
The
RESTRICT Act Gives Up Nearly All Notions of Checks and Balances. Just like snake oil
salesmen of the past, these Senators may talk a good game, but their antidote is far worse than any
purported affliction. To address our nation's hysteria over dance videos, more than twenty
Senators, both Republican and Democrat, support the RESTRICT Act. They tell us that this bill
will help rein in the dastardly threat that comes from the Chinese government supposedly spying on
silly videos made by American teenagers. Instead, it bestows an astonishing amount of power
to the Executive branch in a manner that the Chinese Communist Party would approve of. As
Tucker Carlson correctly observed, "this is not an effort to push back against China. It's
part of a strategy to make America much more like China."
There
are never enough regulations for progressives. Bernie Sanders now wants a minimum
wage of $17 per hour and a 32-hour work week. [...] The goal of Democrats for decades seems to be
making more people dependent on the government instead of having a goal to make more people
independent and giving them the opportunity to move up the economic ladder. A huge problem is
that members of Congress haven't worked even an average of 32 hours a week for a long time, so they
live in an alternative universe. Five of the richest ten counties in the United States are
around Washington, D.C., where they produce nothing but more bureaucracy for the rest of us, but
there is never enough. The question is, when will the politicians and bureaucrats ever think
they have confiscated more than their fair share? The answer is never.
Beware
the Globalist 'One Health' Propaganda Merging Pandemic and Climate 'Emergencies'.
First UNICEF, followed by GAVI, the WHO, the UN, the Council of Europe, the BMJ, the
Guardian, the Financial Times, Save the Children and now the Labour Party have all
told you: "No one is safe until everyone is safe." This slogan is designed to
garner ideals of equity and togetherness and induce a warm, fuzzy feeling whilst in actual fact it
is cold and calculating. The ultimate purpose of this slogan is to diminish the range of your
thought and to perpetuate the state of emergency. Its teaching is a top-down imposition with
no grounding in reality, amplified with mantra-like repetition by many (seemingly) independent
voices until it is no longer questioned by the masses. This is an insidious form of
indoctrination. The techniques employed by these sloganeers are not new and echo those of
totalitarian regimes. Unless we are able to comprehend the power of this manipulation then
we cannot safeguard ourselves from the danger that it poses.
Why
do liberals support legislation that obviously harms them? A large percentage of
liberal voters seems to have no objection to raising taxes, even when they themselves are the
target. These voters are, in fact, socialists who believe that Big Government can solve every
problem if only it has enough money to do so. These voters don't understand, or don't care,
that government spending translates into higher inflation. They believe Biden's
lies — that the economy is improving, that there is no inflation, that America is more
secure, that gas-powered engines must soon be eliminated, that there is no border crisis, that
57,000 new IRS agents will make life better for everyone.
The
New Ugly Americans. The Biden Administration in January 2022 stopped the EastMed
pipeline. That joint effort of our allies Cyprus, Greece, and Israel sought to bring much
needed clean-burning Mediterranean natural gas to southern Europe. Apparently, our diplomats
felt it violated our own New Green Deal orthodoxies. So we imperialists interfered to destroy
a vital project of our closest allies.
The
war on gas stoves is a war on all natural gas. Remember when we were assured that
there is no war on natural gas stoves? That was always a lie, of course. But it is
bigger than just stoves. New York is banning all natural gas connections in new construction.
[Tweet] Maybe when the Democrats and their MSM allies assured that gas stoves weren't in the
crosshairs they actually meant that not only gas stoves were going to be banned. Natural gas
appliances of all types are going the way of the dinosaur.
Biden
to Spend $500K Teaching 'Professional Skills' to Trans Kids in Pakistan. Decades
hence, when historians are seeking the exact moment when relations between the West and the Muslim
world turned the corner to become a model of trust and mutual respect, they will land on the day
the Biden administration reached out to help "Transgender Youth" in Pakistan. No,
really. There are trans kids in Pakistan, and they need "professional development." And
now our far-sighted administration is offering a $500,000 grant to teach Pakistani kids
English. One of the conditions of the grant is that the recipient provides "intensive
professional development courses for Pakistani transgender youth."
Minnesota
Democrat Signs Bill Banning Free Speech For Therapists Of People Struggling With Sexual
Distress. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill on April 27 that bans private
conversations between therapists and patients struggling with their sex and sexuality. Now
Minnesotan therapists who help those with gender dysphoria accept their sex and those with unwanted
same-sex attraction are banned from helping willing clients with these struggles. HF 16 bans
these private, uncoerced conversations as illegal "conversion therapy" for children and adults
despite studies suggesting such conversations can be helpful and welcomed. "No child will be
subjected to this outdated, Byzantine, and cruel practice of conversion therapy," Walz announced
during the signing.
Interior
Secretary Deb Haaland Testifies It's Better to Get Rid of Jobs in USA, Live in Poverty and Save the
Planet. Around 15 years ago CTH outlined the inclusive goal of the progressive
movement, modern Democrats as they were evolving, was to deconstruct the U.S. economic system so
that Americans would be forced to live in government-controlled poverty. Essentially reduced
to circling a campfire, eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off our family
members. Most people understandably scoffed and said we were being hyperbolic. However,
what we were highlighting was the natural conclusion of a visible ideology and set of
policies. The modern democrat ideology is based on a worldview that feudalism is superior,
and Democrats are elite in their global magnanimity (defined as their virtuous self image).
Fast forward a decade+ later, and there is Joe Biden's Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland,
explaining why it is better for the health of the planet if Americans lose their jobs, lose their
economic sustainability, starve in feudal poverty, as the virtuous government ships all the dirty
jobs to China and retains their clean pro-climate agenda. In Haaland's defense, it should be
noted that this has been the policy of Canada for quite a while.
The Editor says...
Before you wreck the U.S. economy to "save the planet," I have a few questions: How do you know
your actions will prevent anything? How do you know climate change isn't inevitable? How
do you know carbon dioxide is harmful? How many environmental disaster predictions have come to pass
in the last 50 years? Shouldn't the primary goal of the Executive Branch be to assure that the
United States thrives even when no other country does?
The
Disposable Biden. By any national metric, we're all far worse off now than we were
before Biden stumbled through the doors of the Oval Office like a lobotomized polio victim.
His "stiff gait" is an indicator of serious neurological decline which has become a brand of
sorts. It's Biden's version of Trump's rambunctious mane. But, instead of signaling a
raucous virility, Biden's halting and unbalanced gate communicates fundamental weakness and
morbidity. The leader of the free world? How about sock puppet? [...] Our institutions
have been poisoned by feckless, political appointees. But, the watershed moment in deep state
corruption manifested itself when Barack Obama sauntered into the White House, and Karl Marx
followed with him. Every apparatus of deep state power fell under the full control of left
wing radicals, installed by the Obama administration — a phalanx of unelected officials
that still occupy key positions today.
Democrats
are threatening to remove security funding for Supreme Court. Even I underestimate
the willingness of the Democrats to use the threat of violence to force compliance with their
demands. According to both Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, 15 Democrats from the Judiciary
Committee have sent a letter to the Appropriations Committee asking that funding for the security
that defends the lives of the Supreme Court Justices and their families be denied until the Court
buckles to the demands of the Democrats. [Tweet]
Josh
Hawley Gets Deb Haaland to Admit 'Quiet Part out Loud' During Energy Committee Hearing.
With both Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and John Kennedy (La.) doing their respective parts to expose the
rotten nature of the Biden White House and Congressional Democrats on the issue of targeting conservative
Supreme Court Justices for blatantly partisan reasons, it only seems fitting that we close out the day
with a pretty epic takedown from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). In Hawley's case, the scene was a
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing held Tuesday [5/2/2023] "to examine the President's
budget request for the U.S. Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2024." Deb Haaland, in her
role as Joe Bidens Sec. of the Interior, was there to defend her department's budget requests, which
include billions for addressing an allegedly "profound climate crisis that is rapidly changing how we
consider the future, evaluate risk, and protect resources."
USA
Today Is Coming for Your 'Pollution'-Spewing Lawn Mower. The liberal newspaper doom
mongered how "[g]as leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet" and praised how
"[b]ans are beginning to spread." USA Today immediately kicked off its nutty April 30
climate agitprop by making it seem like the fight against lawnmowers was a noble crusade against
Thanos' minions in Marvel's Avengers: Endgame (2019): "Your lawn may be the next climate
change battleground. And parks. And playgrounds." The newspaper ludicrously
propagandized that "[r]egulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution
emitted by small gasoline engines used to power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt
climate change." The newspaper apparently found this nonstory so important that it plastered
the item on the front page of its May 1 print edition.
Gas
leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Regulators and
clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines used to
power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt climate change. Environmentalists
say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver
to Los Angeles.
The Editor says...
[#1] The last sentence in the excerpt above is (ahem) rather hard to believe. Driving from Denver
to Los Angeles takes about 15 hours. The engine in an automobile is roughly 50 to 100 times
as big (in piston displacement) as the engine in a leaf blower. [#2] Environmental activists
and nanny-state regulators are concentrating on leaf blower and lawn mowers in a effort to slow down
"climate change," which is a process that's already so slow that nobody can tell it's happening.
(It's also incurable and inevitable.) Moreover, any battle against leaf blowers is a waste of time
because carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and China is burning coal faster than all other countries
combined. That's a lot of combustion, and nothing done in the U.S. will stop it.
USA
Today Is Coming for Your 'Pollution'-Spewing Lawn Mower — Claims 'a commercial gas leaf
blower' produces emissions 'equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles'. "Here we go
again," Climate Depot Founder Marc Morano said in comments to MRC Business. "Every day
Americans wake up to find that some new unelected bureaucracy or bureaucrat has determined that in
order to save the planet, a major modern tool or convenience is going to be banned." Morano
blasted USA Today for pushing woke, eco agitprop: "Forcing Americans to pay three times
higher for electric equipment in order to save the planet and meet climate goals — is
unacceptable." All Americans need to know about these restrictions, said JunkScience.com
founder Steve Milloy, is that "the government can still use gas-powered blowers but residents and
their lawn care companies can't. It's obviously not about air quality." Rather, Milloy
stated, "it's about left-wing government asserting more and more mindless control over our
lives. Even if it was true that gas-powered lawn equipment somehow affected air quality or
were too noisy, I'd rather suffer that than rogue government."
It
Takes a Village? Hillary's famous book title may have some truth to it in that a
village is a close-knit tiny community where everyone knows everyone and has a stake in each
other's well-being. But Hillary wasn't talking about a village; she was talking about huge,
faceless, unaccountable government bureaucracies. Now we have a president — or
maybe half a president — who recently said, "Our nation's children are all our
children." Really? Our children belong to their radical left-wing teachers? Biden
quoted one such teacher saying, "There's no such thing as someone else's children." So, our
children belong to the pedophiles among us? Do they belong to the greedy plastic
surgeons? Do they belong to the drug dealers and the pharmaceutical companies? Do they
belong to school boards and bureaucrats and school counsellors?
Shut
Down the Border or Shut Down Democrat Cities. The Mayor of New York City can
regularly be heard complaining about the strain placed on his city by the flood of illegal aliens
shipped to the sanctuary city by red state Governors. Now the city of Chicago is joining the
chorus of Democrat-run localities that advocate for open borders that are now choking on their
wish. While it's fun to watch, it is damaging to America. As such, it's time to shut
down the border until those charged with securing it can put a plan in place to actually do just
that. Honestly, the Biden administration had no intention of securing the border.
Flooding the country with illegal aliens straining state and local budgets is part of the
plan — you can't "fundamentally transform" something working, there'd be no point or
appetite for it. Democrats need to overwhelm people and governments, as well as completely
crumble the current system in order to sell people on the idea that something "new" is
needed. Of course, that "new" is the old tropes and policies leftists have been imposing and
failing at for more than a century, but you can't create a hellish Utopia without breaking a few
eggs (or killing 100 million people, as the case may be). That plan to transform the United
States into something it not only has never been, but was expressly never intended to be can only
work if what exists now is destroyed.
Kennedy
Jr. is a Trojan Horse. Commentators on the right tend to suffer the Bush Syndrome of
wanting love and respect from the enemies of America we call the left. This explains the
praise of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., who is challenging Biden for the presidential
nomination. I warn readers that Biden is not Kennedy's target. It's Trump.
Democrats want a Pretend Populist to keep him from winning re-election.
"No
Bricks, No Glass, No Cement" — What Net Zero 2050 Demands According to Government-Funded
Report. No bricks, the walls and foundations made of compacted earth, cement made
from clay and glass scavenged from demolition skips are just some of the construction changes
needed to comply with Net Zero by 2050. The latest paper from Government-funded U.K. FIRES looks to
"minimise new construction", and notes the shape of the urban environment will change, allowing for
"denser living and reduced transport needs". The latest U.K. FIRES paper seems to have slipped
out quietly at the end of last year and has to date attracted little publicity. But the
group, which comprises a number of academics led by Cambridge engineering professor Julian Allwood,
made headlines around the world recently with previous work noting that all flying and shipping
must stop by 2050, beef and lamb must be banned, and only 60% of energy will be available to cook
food and heat homes.
It's
Never Been About Tucker, Trump, or Fox News. America is going to hell in a
handbasket. Not in the surreal world created by TV and social media, but in the real
world. A civilizational inferno has engulfed America and the people we've elected to fight it
have done nothing of substance to contain it. We're not dealing with people who merely
disagree on how to put the fire out. We're dealing with political pyromaniacs who set the
fires, watch them burn, and work to stop anyone who tries to put them out. They're facilitating
illegal immigration, weaponizing government, redefining crime and punishment, changing the definition
of inflation to spend more, corrupting our election system, cheering and funding a tyrannical gender
revolution, and butchering history to institutionalize a cultish gospel of black victimhood.
Rappers'
violent lyrics can't be used against them in court under Democrats' new bill. House
Democrats are pushing a new bill that would make it illegal for prosecutors to use violent lyrics
by rap artists against them in court if they commit crimes, citing First Amendment protections.
On Thursday, Reps. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., announced they would reintroduce
the Restoring Artistic Protection Act, or RAP Act. The bill would protect artists from the use
of their lyrics against them in criminal and civil proceedings, a practice that's more common in cases
involving hip-hop artists. The pair introduced the bill last Congress, but it failed to gain any
traction. The measure, they say, would add a presumption to the Federal Rules of Evidence that
would limit the admissibility of evidence of an artist's creative or artistic expression against that
artist in court.
The
Ruling Class's Stalinist Purge. Like a hammer smashing anyone who seeks to "make
America great," the ruling class pounds Trump, his supporters, and now even Tucker Carlson. A
"great America," you see, is antithetical to the technocratic police State that the Marxist
globalists are busy building. [...] There is a great deal of public celebration among leftists
these days. They managed to use propaganda, criminal conspiracies, and boatloads of
unverified mail-in ballots to remove President Trump from office. Since his departure,
federal and state prosecutors have built sham criminal cases intended to thwart his return and
imperil his life with once-unthinkable imprisonment. State actors attack him from all
directions with civil suits intended to drain him of time and resources. His political
friends and allies — who have been unjustly dragged through the criminal "justice"
system due to the machinations of unethical prosecutors and black-robed tyrants — remain
targets for their beliefs.
Minnesota
bill normalizing pedophilia dropped after backlash. I'm not quite sure whether the
bill is totally dead or not, because nothing is until the legislature adjourns. We do know
that the GOP managed to get the language normalizing pedophilia stripped out of the bill in a vote
yesterday. Whether the language comes back or not, it is clear is that the pressure is on and
the Chief Author of the bill is feeling the heat and the Republicans in the Minnesota House, who
apparently hadn't noted the change to the definition of "sexual orientation" to remove the
exclusion for pedophilia, have grown a backbone.
Conservatives
Lost the Culture War and the Trump Agenda Is the Only Path Forward. Immigration,
trade, war, and crime. Being right on these four issues propelled Donald Trump to the
presidency in 2016 against all odds. The intervening seven years have changed nothing.
The only way a candidate from the Right can possibly win the presidency in 2024 is by campaigning
on limiting immigration (build the wall), increasing tariffs, getting out of Ukraine, and restoring
law and order (especially in regards to elections and the opioid crisis). These are the core
issues for the center-Right coalition needed to win national elections. No supposedly
conservative politician with aspiration for higher office should ever make any public statement
without hammering at least one of these points. Journalist asks about Social Security?
Talk about why we need to stop giving money to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Democratic opponent
brings up climate change? Talk about why we need to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it.
The Editor says...
No. Changing the subject is what Socialist Democrats do when they're losing an
argument. If your baby-killing Democrat opponent brings up climate change, make him prove
that carbon dioxide is harmful (it isn't), and that the polar ice caps are melting (they aren't),
and the sea level is rising so fast that millions of people will have to move in a few years (nope,
just look a New Orleans). Ask your Socialist opponent if he arrived at the debate in an electric
car. Probably not, but if so, ask him if he knows about the little kids who work in lithium
mines to make the batteries for electric cars. Whatever the subject, beat them down with
indisputable facts. Win the debate. The Socialists are not your friends.
They are wrong about everything, so there is no need to change the subject.
Minnesota
Legislation Seeks to Normalize Pedophilia as a Sexual Orientation. Earlier this year
I noted that the mainstream acceptance of transgenderism would be the precursor to the
normalization of pedophilia. The evidence to support this was quite clear. And I'm
sorry to say that I was right. The Minnesota legislature is in the process of changing the
legal definition of "sexual orientation" that literally opens the door to mainstreaming
pedophilia. Here's how it's being done. The bill modifies the existing Minnesota law
that designates sexual orientation as a protected category, making it unlawful to discriminate
based on sexual orientation within the state. The first thing it does is adds a definition
for gender identity: [...] That portion striking out the part that reads, "'Sexual orientation'
does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult," is not a mistake.
The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has made the decision to eliminate a clause
that explicitly excluded pedophilia from being considered a valid sexual orientation. This
doesn't mean that pedophilia will be legalized in Minnesota — yet — but
by specifically removing the clause excluding pedophilia as a protected sexual orientation, pedophiles
will become a protected class, subject to the same legal protections against discrimination currently
enjoyed by gays, lesbians, transgenders, etc.
Democrats
for Pedophilia. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that lots of liberals have
been grooming kids in recent years. Generally, though, they don't admit it: there are lots of
good reasons, supposedly, why drag queens should invade little kids' libraries, and ask children to
stuff dollar bills into their G-strings at drag shows. Here in Minnesota, we have something
different: the Democratic Party is officially coming out in defense of pedophilia as a matter of
law. Minnesota's crazed DFL majorities have passed one extreme measure after another this
session, but this one breaks new ground in service of pedophilia. The bill is HF 1655,
sponsored by a man pretending to be a woman named Leigh Finke.
Pedophiles
are about to become a protected class in Minnesota. The bill amends the provisions in
Minnesota law that created sexual orientation as a protected class, meaning that discrimination of
any kind based upon sexual orientation is illegal in the state. It's been around for a long
time, unsurprisingly, and like all such provisions, it encourages mischief such as lawsuits,
quotas, DEI initiatives, etc. They also undermine the right to free association. There
is a carve-out for some non-profits, but otherwise, it applies to everything and everybody.
Nothing shocking, of course. This sort of thing is common now. Nobody has the right to
free association in America anymore. Well here in the great state of Minnesota we are about
to expand the definition of "sexual orientation," and in the process, the great minds of the
Democrat majority in the House of Representatives have decided to remove a provision that excluded
pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation.
Portland
to ban gas-powered delivery vehicles from 16 blocks downtown. Portland is about to be
one of the first cities in the U.S. with blocks dedicated as a zero-emission delivery zone, thanks
to a $2 million grant the city received. The Portland Bureau of Transportation announced
Tuesday that the money will support creating a 16-block area in downtown where all deliveries must
be made using zero-emission vehicles. These vehicles can include electric vans and trucks,
cargo bikes or hydrogen-fueled vehicles.
The Editor says...
News bulletin: Downtown Portland shares the atmosphere with the rest of the world. This
stunt, (much like electric cars themselves) will benefit no one in the long run.
Biden
Reelection Video Fails to Mention a Single First-term Accomplishment. President Joe
Biden launched his reelection bid on Tuesday with the release of a new video that fails to name a
single achievement in his first term — nor any plan for what he might hope to achieve in
his second term. Instead, the video dwells on abortion ("personal freedom"), as well as "MAGA
extremists," whom the country must defeat in what Biden calls a "battle for the soul of our
nation," repeating a theme from his 2020 campaign. [...] The only hints at any kind of first-term
achievement are images of Biden's nomination of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme
Court. The video does not mention economic policy, nor foreign policy, nor challenges like
inflation or the border. It is focused on oblique references to abortion and attacks on "MAGA extremists."
My
Monday rant on saving civilization. Justice, to the Left, means people destroying
things, stealing things, committing violence, and tossing people out of the public and economic
square. Creating inflation in order to eliminate the middle class. [Tweet] We live in
a society now where killing babies and old people is considered a positive good, and paying people
not to work in the midst of a huge labor shortage is considered just. Where performing
sterilization on children before they even reach puberty is to be celebrated. In Minnesota,
in just one day, the Minnesota Senate passed 3 bills that shock the conscience: banning
so-called conversion therapy for transgender people, which is just giving counseling to troubled
youth and not a cult reprogramming as implied; making Minnesota an abortion sanctuary where
non-custodial parents can take their children for "care;" and the same "sanctuary" law that allows
such parents to get "gender-affirming" care for children despite not having custody rights and
violating court orders. The Democrats cheered and clapped after they passed all 3
bills. This is their vision of a just society. It is, literally, evil. The
intentional destruction of our society.
Five-Year
Plans: Climatistas Think Three's the Charm. Joe Stalin was first out of the box with
his Five-Year Plan, a brilliant scheme to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural into an
industrial state. What could be easier, what with all the brilliant intellectual minds that
Stalin had gathered around him, not to mention Joe's extensive library of 20,000 books? Only,
of course, on account of "saboteurs and wreckers," it didn't quite work out as the planners had
predicted. The Five-Year Plan of 1928-32 was punctuated by the Soviet Famine of 1932-33.
Still, only 6 to 8 million died. Thirty years later, Mao Tse-tung, as we then knew him, tried
to repeat Stalin's achievement with another Five-Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward of 1958-62.
There's no doubt that the Great Leap Forward made Stalin's Plan look like a walk in the park, with
the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61 causing 15-55 million deaths.
Playing
By the Rules Is for Suckers. Just look at yourself, all responsible and
upstanding. You worked hard, and you played by the rules. You didn't go out and commit
felonies or drop a bunch of kids with so many partners that you need a spreadsheet to keep Father's
Day straight. You've earned a credit score in the triple digits by paying your bills.
Congratulations. Now you get to pay for the deadbeats who party while you grind out a
paycheck. The Biden regime's new plan is to add a surcharge to the mortgages of people with
good credit scores to subsidize a key Democrat constituency, the ditzes, doofuses, layabouts, and
bums whose bad decisions would have once led to bad consequences, except we only do dire consequences
for good people in 2023. Their problems are your problems, and your problems are also your problems.
Getting
Off the Roller Coaster to Bondage. It's not as if the ruling class's "cult of
expertise" provides any comfort. We have a president who long ago lost his marbles, a vice
president who succeeded in the political profession by excelling in the oldest one, a secretary of
defense committed to promoting men in dresses, a health bureaucracy pumping citizens full of
experimental drugs, a Treasury Department endlessly printing money, a Commerce Department
prioritizing inflation-inducing "green" windmills over real economic growth, a homeland security
chief dedicated to keeping the nation insecure, and a national police force that treats half the
country as "domestic enemies." It's almost as if whoever installed these yahoos into the
highest positions of authority wanted obvious "fall guys" for when everything, well, falls down.
Did
a 21-year-old air guardsman expose Biden's violation of the War Powers Act? Last
week, the mainstream media gleefully reported the arrest of a low-ranking, 21-year-old Air National
Guardsman from Massachusetts named Jack Teixeira, who apparently, on an internet chat site,
divulged state secrets in violation of the Espionage Act and embarrassed the Biden administration.
[...] Among the information spilled are revelations of the Biden administration spying on friends
and foes alike. But bigger questions surround this case, hot-potato questions the media won't
touch, with the hottest being this: Do the Teixeira revelations expose a violation of the War
Powers Act by Biden? But most disturbing, are claims of United States Special Forces inside
the red-hot Ukrainian war zone, months after Biden boasted there will be "no boots on the ground,"
a boast perhaps as credible as his blathering that "if you take the vax, you won't get COVID."
If United States Special Forces advisors are on the ground, in the midst of a kinetic war,
supporting Ukraine's military against Russia, not only do Americans have a right to know, as major
wars have been ignited by the slightest of hair triggers, but a larger question must now be
examined: Has Joe Biden violated the War Powers Act?
Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg proposes spending $20 million taxpayer dollars on female crash test
dummies. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has proposed that the Department of
Transportation include $20 million for female crash-test dummies in its 2024 fiscal
budget. That Buttigieg — famous for his love of females though he may
be — wants to spend vast sums of taxpayer dollars on feminine crash dummies seems
odd in the current cultural climate in which we salute all things non-binary. Nonetheless,
Mayor Pete's proposal has already garnered support from several House Democrats. For example,
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut praised Buttigieg's plan during a recent House Appropriations
Subcommittee meeting. DeLauro stated that the use of female crash dummies would be a major
step forward in the fight against "gender inequity". Say what? Unlike humans, who are
either one sex or another, crash dummies can't be gendered[,] as they are not living
beings. But, in today's world, nothing can stand in the way of insanity.
The Editor says...
The clamor for female crash test dummies is clearly promoting violence against women. Or maybe it's a
sexist commentary on the way women drive. Either way, where are the great feminist leaders now?
Biden's
'environmental justice' is a cheap façade. Joe Biden claims he cares so much
about communities and the people, but he has never cared about the people in East Palestine,
Ohio. Maybe the IRS should concentrate on collecting taxes instead of pretending they can
control temperatures. Maybe the Justice Dept. should concentrate on criminals, like the
Bidens, instead of pretending they can control droughts. Maybe bank regulators should
concentrate on the safety and soundness of banks instead of on social justice and pretending they
can determine someone's carbon footprint. Maybe the DHS should concentrate on securing the
border instead of acting as though it can control sea levels. Maybe the military should
concentrate on keeping America safe from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea instead of pretending
it can control the weather. Anyone who believes that politicians and bureaucrats can design
policies or predict temperatures and other climate patterns twenty or one hundred years out,
knowing how far off previous dire predictions are, has lost his ability to think and certainly has
no common sense.
NYC
Subway Attack Victim Slams AOC's Call to Direct Police Funding to Teachers. A woman from Queens,
New York who lost her eye in a violent attack last fall torched Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's
(NY) suggestion that funding for police be given to public schools, parks, and libraries. Elizabeth Gomes,
33, was brutally attacked at a subway station by a "homeless ex-con," 41-year-old Waheed Foster, last year,
according to the New York Post. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez slammed Democrat Mayor Eric Adams' decision
to give "militarized" police their first raise in seven years. "We are now at a point where officially,
most officers are paid more than a teacher with a master's degree," Ocasio-Cortez said on the show. "We
are defunding safety, defunding our public schools, defunding our public pools, defunding our parks [and]
defunding our libraries."
Zero
Democrats Vote For House Bill To Protect Women's Sports. The House of Representatives
passed legislation on Thursday to protect women's sports leagues by banning male athletes who
identify as females from competing. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023
would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial
assistance which operate sports leagues cannot "permit a person whose sex is male to participate in
an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls." The legislation passed with
219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which
came from Democrats.
The
Useful Veneer of the Aging Democrat. This new Democratic Party believes in defunding
the police. It supports the George-Soros-funded state and city district attorneys.
These prosecutors seek either to release violent criminals without bail or reduce their felonies to
misdemeanors. Critical legal and race theories are their creeds. So they argue that
crimes have little to do with individual free will. Criminals are not deterred by tough
enforcement of the laws. Instead, "crime" reflects arbitrary constructs of a racially
oppressive hierarchy. They believe the "woke" revolution of using race and gender in lieu of
a meritocracy should dominate government and corporate boardrooms. Racial separation in
graduations, dorms, and university programs are needed reparations. Big Tech is their
ally. All the better when it partners with government, especially the FBI and CIA, to
suppress "misinformation" and "disinformation." They believe gender is socially
constructed. Thus transitioning biological males can and should compete in women's sports.
New
York City is Discovering that Legalizing Marijuana Wasn't Really a Great Idea.
Decriminalizing marijuana, we've been told to the point of stupor for years, would simply be a
matter of recognizing the way society has changed and coming to a mature accommodation of a
widespread current practice. It would free up valuable police resources to deal with actual
crimes and real criminals, and end a longstanding injustice in which — you guessed
it! — people of color were, we were told, disproportionately targeted for arrest and
prosecution. So the state of New York has legalized marijuana, and how's it going?
Doritos and Patchouli oil sales through the roof? Maybe. But there have been a lot of
unexpected downsides.
Both
American Political Parties Have Adopted Lenin's Strategy for the Destruction of Capitalism.
Ironically, uncontrolled spending and the massive assault on capitalism are the products of our
irresponsible democracy. There are three critical points. First, the Democrat party
made an epochal ideological shift toward egalitarianism. For years the Democrat elite and
party leaders have displayed their distaste for capitalism, fracturing the country's moral
consensus. Second, the Republican Party opted, for the most part, to ignore the ideological
challenge. Third, the American voters, who are dumb enough to elect untutored graduates of
American universities that are uninformed and poorly read; a few have even earned notoriety for
inconceivable stupidity. Some of them, aware of self-worthlessness, adopted Marxism and can
hardly contain their awe and envy at the American enterprise and question its moral validity.
The others are pedestrian opportunists with no intellectual basis and, as such, going along just
to get reelected. Since 1971 when the gold standard was abandoned, the Democrat and
Republican administrations, with the support of the House and Senate, have been replaying Lenin's
strategy for the downfall of capitalism, spending, and printing money at unprecedented levels.
When
Did the U.S. Become East Germany? How long will it be before dissent is criminalized in this country?
Mothers and fathers are being stripped of their parental rights, and children are being told to be the functionaries of
government. The Sanderses and AOCs would love nothing more than to elist them to spy on their families and report
their involvement in disinformation, misinformation, and "anti-government" activities. Wealth redistribution schemes
are disguised as green policies. Our retail shelves have in recent times looked like the bare counters of communist
East Berlin. We're told that we have to make do with less, and fewer choices are in our best interest. Our
economy would be full-on GDR-ed if the Sanderses and Ocasio-Cortezes had their way. The left is unrelenting in
its ambition to take more of the economy out of the private sector and place it in the hands of elected Democrats and
administrative tyrants.
Federal
Court Blocks California City's Gas Stove Ban, Turning Up The Heat on Democrats. A
federal appeals court on Monday overturned a California city's first-in-the-nation ban on natural
gas hookups in new buildings, saying it violates federal law. The three-judge panel from the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal sided with a coalition of California restaurants, who argued that the
City of Berkeley's ordinance essentially bans gas appliances in violation of a 1975 directive that
gives Congress control over restrictions on appliances. The unanimous ruling is a major blow
to California Democrats' green energy push, and could clear the way for legal challenges to similar
bans around the country. Democrats have increasingly moved to ban gas stoves while attempting
to downplay their efforts. New York is poised to become the first state to ban gas stoves,
and California is working towards a statewide ban of its own. The White House has denied that
President Joe Biden supports banning gas stoves while the Energy Department works to restrict their
sale. Blue state attorneys general and environmental groups lined up to support the ban in
court, in a sign of the case's national implications.
Ninth
Circuit Throws Out Berkeley Ban on Gas Stoves. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit tossed a Berkeley, California, ban on gas stoves on Monday, saying that the federal
Energy Policy and Conservation Act preempted state and local authorities in regulating natural gas.
[...] The Biden administration has taken steps toward eliminating gas stoves — though it
briefly pretended otherwise — ostensibly to prevent asthma, but actually as part of a
broader push against fossil fuel production.
The Revenge of Moriarty.
Last week, Washington state passed a bill that will permit children to be taken from their parents
if they deny them the right to "gender transition." According to Senate Bill 5599, child
shelters could contact the Department of Children, Youth, and Families instead of parents for
minors seeking "reproductive health services or gender-affirming care." It's vile enough that
pregnant young girls can have their babies killed by state-sanctioned abortionists — the
true meaning of "reproductive health services" — even without their parents'
permission. None can deny the baby inside them is, or was, alive before his or her
murder. But pro-choice maniacs can wail about the greater good of a child's death for the
parents or society, absent the little corpse of the victim. Their punishment will come later,
after their own demise, in a place they don't believe exists. But "gender-affirming care" is
a chimera, a nightmare, a Frankensteinian objective that cannot be achieved, only imitated in a
grotesque parody of the opposite sex, requiring the mutilation and approximate rearrangement of
body parts. Adults that consent to such a horror must bear the remaining lifelong
consequences of their mistake, although no doctor should ethically indulge their pathology.
But children lack the mental judgment to make such an irrevocable choice. And those who not
only encourage them to do this yet would prevent their parents from stopping it deserve to be in
prison, and nowhere near a statehouse.
Why
Banning TikTok Would Be a Cybersecurity Disaster. TikTok is not be the first app to
be scrutinized over the potential exposure of U.S. user data, but it is the first widely used app
that the U.S. government has proposed banning over privacy and security concerns. So far, the
discussion has focused on whether TikTok should be banned. There has been little discussion
of whether TikTok could be banned, and there has been almost no discussion of the effects on
cybersecurity that a TikTok ban could cause, including encouraging users to sidestep built-in
security mechanisms to bypass a ban and access the app. As a cybersecurity researcher, I see
potential risks if the U.S. attempts to ban TikTok. The type of risk depends on the type of ban.
They
Fear You. Almost gleefully supporting the Uniparty's calls for the urgent passage of
The Restrict Act — legislation ostensibly drafted to combat China's TikTok but in
actuality a statutory vehicle designed to provide the federal government with broad authority to
confront internet "danger" — the American press play along while the Legislative and
Executive Branches use this present "crisis" as an excuse to swing the sledgehammer down on
Americans' free speech. As those with eyes to see and sufficient backbone to speak
uncomfortable truths have noted, The Restrict Act is an "online PATRIOT Act" meant not to protect,
but rather to silence Americans. Make no bones about it: the federal government's number-one
worry is you.
Can
We Do Anything About America's Decline? Biden is on schedule to run up a $2 trillion
annual deficit, adhering to the Bush, Obama, and Trump legacy of unfettered spending. In Biden's case,
he insanely printed over $4 trillion at a time when labor participation rates were already in decline,
COVID-suppressed demand was returning, and transportation and production interruptions were reducing supply.
He raised taxes, increased regulations, cut projected increases in gas and oil production, and canceled energy
projects. The result was the highest inflation in 40 years, near-record energy costs, soaring interest
rates, the largest modern percentage of debt to GDP at 130 percent, the greatest debt in our history at
$33 trillion, and stagnant GDP.
America's
Coming Energy Crisis. In 2021, Biden signed an executive order that decreed that all
federal contracts for goods and services to be carbon-neutral by 2050. Some states and businesses
are following Biden's lead. California and six other states intend to ban the sale of
gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. California also wants to ban the sale of gas-powered water
heaters and furnaces by 2030. Now the Environmental Protection Agency has piled on. The
agency is proposing vehicle pollution limits for 2032 that are so strict that they will force roughly
two thirds of new vehicles sold to be electric. This may sound glorious to climate warriors,
but they have no idea what they are getting us into. Transitioning to net zero involves
decarbonizing electrical generation, industry, and transportation all at the same time.
It also involves creating net-zero carbon buildings, even though none presently exists.
Forced
Diversity Is Actively Harming America. In sum, left-leaning ideologues are operating
under a moralistic fallacy: They took the notion of "equality under the law" and, from that,
inferred that people must be physically equal. Or phrased more simply, "Discrimination is
undesirable; therefore, all people are (or must be) equal. The ideologues have used this
fallacy to impose their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies despite extensive and often
irreparable harm to individual Americans' freedom and prosperity. If America is to survive,
we must unite against the DIE ideology and the unconstitutional and harmful pathologies that it has
incorporated. Americans must all work to persuade those who are not ideologues that a
relentless focus on affirmative action to achieve the dysfunctional goals of diversity, equity, and
inclusion, will drag our country down. It's time to stand up against inept-ocracy and demand
a return to meritocracy everywhere in society.
Washington
State Democrats Vote to Hide Transgender Runaways From Parents. Washington State
could soon require youth shelters to hide minors who run away from home in order to obtain an
abortion or sex change operations without parental consent. The Washington House of
Representatives this week passed Senate Bill 5599, which would eliminate a law that requires youth
shelters to alert parents when their child checks in, unless there is evidence the child is being
abused. The proposal would widen the scope of what constitutes a "compelling reason" to
conceal a minor to include youths seeking sex change operations or "reproductive health services,"
like abortion. The bill, which the Senate passed in March, now goes to Gov. Jay Inslee's
(D.) desk for a signature. This is the latest blue state effort to help minors obtain
controversial medical procedures without parental consent. Lawmakers in Oregon, Minnesota,
and Colorado have all passed legislation designed to make their states "safe havens" for youths
seeking sex changes or abortions.
The
Priorities Of Our Own Government Are Completely Upside Down. When you consider good
to be evil and evil to be good, of course your priorities are going to be completely and utterly
messed up. The White House, the halls of Congress, and the federal bureaucracy and filled
with people that have an extremely warped view of the world. As a result, they are incapable
of making the right choices even if they were inclined to do so. Pretty much the best that we
can hope for is for them to do nothing, because everything that they "accomplish" ends up being
diametrically opposed to the interests of the American people.
Progressives
[are] Not Interested in the Good of the Country. Does wokifying the military with DEI
and drag queen shows on military bases improve and strengthen the national security
standing — which is the military's only mission — of this country?
No. Does it help progressives' election efforts with fringe voters? Yes. [...] Every
public utterance, every policy move, every new regulation from today's progressives is designed to
further their ability to obtain and hold power and control the American populace. The closer one
pays attention, the more apparent this is. "For the good of the country" never enters the picture.
America's
Coming Energy Crisis. President Joe Biden and the apocalyptic climate cult within the
Democrat party believe that climate change is the greatest threat to the country. That's
right, the greatest threat is not nuclear war, not unlimited unlawful immigration, not inflation,
or out-of-control spending. Instead, it's the slow warming of the atmosphere, which they
believe is caused solely by burning fossil fuels. In 2021, Biden signed an executive order
that decreed that all federal contracts for goods and services to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
Some states and businesses are following Biden's lead. California and six other states intend
to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. California also wants to ban the sale of
gas-powered water heaters and furnaces by 2030. Now the Environmental Protection Agency has
piled on. The agency is proposing vehicle pollution limits for 2032 that are so strict that
they will force roughly two thirds of new vehicles sold to be electric. This may sound
glorious to climate warriors, but they have no idea what they are getting us into.
9
Reasons Chicago Is the Perfect Site for the 2024 Democratic Convention. [#1] The
rampant crime: Like most big cities the Democratic Party has controlled for decades, Chicago
has a crime problem that its elected leaders are unable or unwilling to do anything about.
The city's murder rate has jumped nearly 40 percent since 2019, while car theft has more than
doubled in the past year alone. Kim Foxx, the George Soros-backed district attorney in charge
of prosecuting crime in Chicago, has a history of letting violent offenders off the hook.
Convictions have dropped nearly 30 percent on her watch. Naturally, the city's voters just
elected a radical new mayor who in 2020 said "defund the police" was "an actual real political goal."
Death
to the Suburbs! The indomitable Betsy McCaughey has called out the latest ugly
manifestation of "diversity, inclusion, and equity" the drive to destroy the suburbs. The
Biden administration and Democrat-controlled legislatures in several states have taken the lead in
this effort. In New York State, Governor Kathy Hochul, as part of the state budget, has
advanced a so-called Housing Compact that would eliminate local control and single family
zoning. Hochul's plan would require that high-rise "affordable" (read: low-income,
taxpayer-subsidized) housing be constructed close to each sleepy village train station —
mostly a few miles apart — on Metro North and the Long Island Railroad. If the
affected communities fail to do so "voluntarily," the state will have the power to override local
zoning. Those who fail to applaud this combined coup by warriors for social justice and real
estate interests are, you guessed it, racist. Suburban homeowners, Democrats as well as
Republicans, are beginning to awaken to the deadly threat these proposals pose to their
way of life.
Whose idea was this, and who benefits from it?
Biden
Admin Proposes Reducing Water Supply From Colorado River Basin Amid Drought. The
Biden administration has proposed a federal mandate to reduce the supply of water to 40 million
Americans who live in western states dependent on the Colorado River Basin to address long-term
severe drought and low run-off conditions. A draft report by the Department of the Interior's
(DOI's) Bureau of Reclamation proposes to revise the current guidelines for the near-term operation
of the Glen Canyon and Hoover dams. According to the DOI, the move forms part of the Biden
administration's efforts to invest in climate change resilience for the Colorado River Basin and
all the communities that rely on it. The draft report explores different alternatives to
ensure continued water deliveries and hydropower production for the 40 million Americans who depend
on the river system.
Big
Ag, Big Oil & Biden's Colorado River Plans. After the Biden administration this week
released proposals to cut water allotments to the states that depend on the shrinking Colorado
River, a progressive advocacy group criticized federal officials for failing to address an
underlying cause of the region's hydrological plight: the overexploitation of water resources by
the corporate agriculture and fossil fuel industries. "Any legitimate plan for the Colorado
River must directly confront a key driver of the crisis in the first place: the overuse and abuse
of limited water resources by big agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations — the very
same industries contributing to climate chaos in the first place," Food & Water Watch executive
director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement. The seven Colorado River Basin
states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and
Wyoming — have missed multiple federal deadlines to finalize an interstate water
conservation pact.
The Editor says...
[#1] Farming and the sequestration of water does not cause "climate choas." [#2] The climate has
always been slightly chaotic, which is why the weather cannot be predicted more than a few days in advance.
Honoring
the great Ludwig von Mises. "The champions of socialism call themselves progressives,
but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a
resistance to every kind of improvement," argued economist Ludwig von Mises in his book
"Bureaucracy," published in 1944. "They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they
plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate
clerk in a bureau."
Not Zero, or even close.
The Biden Administration has set a goal of achieving Net Zero US annual CO2 emissions by 2050.
To accomplish this goal, the Administration has decreed that all coal-fired electric generation
would cease by 2030; and, that all natural gas fueled electric generation would cease by 2035.
The Administration has also decreed that all new vehicles sold in the US after 2035 would be
electric vehicles. There is also an effort underway to end the use of natural gas for
applications other than electric generation, including virtually all residential, commercial and
industrial end uses. Incentives have been put in place for EVs and electric appliances and
equipment, as well as for wind and solar generation and electricity storage. Achieving the
Administration's goals would result in a US energy economy based solely on electricity, generated
by a mixture of renewable generation sources including hydro, biomass, geothermal, wind, solar and
possibly some nuclear generation.
What
Will Net Zero Ever Do For Us? We are being asked to cut overall energy use by 46-60%
per person. The evidence shows a clear relationship between high energy use and high GDP per
capita. Such dramatic cuts in energy use would put us on a par with Ecuador, Uzbekistan and
Vietnam. It is clear that reducing energy consumption puts us at severe risk of making us all
poorer with big cuts in living standards. We are also being asked to cut meat consumption by
35-50% and the zealots at UK FIRES want to ban beef and lamb entirely. However, higher meat
consumption is linked to longer life expectancy, so big cuts to meat consumption runs the risk of
making us live shorter lives. In addition, there are calls for up to a quarter of all our
agricultural land to be re-forested, reducing our ability to grow our own food. The UK FIRES
extremists also want to ban all aviation and shipping, so non-rail food imports would be
curtailed. They also want to greatly reduce fertiliser use, further reducing crop yields and
risking food security. They don't stop there: we are to be forced into electric cars and to
use them less. We will be forced to heat our homes with heat pumps and install ruinously
expensive insulation.
The
Left Unmasks Its Desire to Destroy Families&Nbsp;— And the Nation — With Sexual
Chaos. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis once again led the way in protecting parental
rights in education last week when he signed into law a bill that prohibits age-inappropriate
"classroom instruction" on "sexual orientation and gender identity" in kindergarten through third
grade. The legislation also requires parental consent for any health care services offered at
school, and school districts "may not prohibit or discourage parental notification of or
involvement in critical decisions affecting a student's mental, emotional, or physical health or
well-being." Contrary to the fear-mongering, there is nothing "controversial" about this
law. Yet it certainly does throw a spanner in the works for the radicals, neurotics, and
degenerates in control of corporate America, the establishment media, and Hollywood, who are
evidently on board with schools serving as platforms for perverts, predators, and groomers.
Washington
State Democrats Plan to Confiscate Your Money if They Think You're Making Too Much.
The time is coming, if Leftists get their way, when a government official can decide that you're
making too much money and confiscate all except what he, she, or xe decides you need. This is
already happening, in effect, with federal, state, and municipal income taxes, but a new bill in
Washington State is carrying the idea farther than it has ever before advanced in the United
States. The bill proposes an "excess compensation tax" to level out the unfair advantage that
overpaid people have. Who is overpaid? Anyone the Democrats target, of course.
The
Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed. The "energy transition" continues to receive
thunderous applause from all the usual Beltway suspects, an exercise in groupthink fantasy amazing
to behold. For those with actual lives to live and thus uninterested in silliness: The
"energy transition" is a massive shift, wholly artificial and politicized, from conventional energy
inexpensive, reliable, and very clean given the proper policy environment, toward such
unconventional energy technologies as wind and solar power. They are expensive, unreliable,
and deeply problematic environmentally in terms of toxic metal pollution, wildlife destruction,
land use massive and unsightly, emissions of conventional pollutants, and in a broader context
large and inexorable reductions in aggregate wealth and thus the social willingness to invest in
environmental protection. But the Beltway being what it is, the fantasists are impervious to
reality, until the massive costs and dislocations and absurdities become impossible to ignore.
(Witness, for example, California.) Even as they backtrack on their confident assertions that a
modern economy can be powered with the energy equivalent of pixie dust, they argue that the
emerging problems are little more than growing pains attendant upon short run rigidities, and all
will be well given some more time, more subsidies, and more magical thinking.
Brandon's
CAFE Standards To Drastically Increase. This is going to make vehicles a great deal
more expensive, making it harder for the working class and middle class afford vehicles, even used
ones. Of course this is being pushed by rich folks who do not have to worry about all
this. Oh, and many of them, like Joe Biden, are not even driving compliant vehicles[.] [...]
Automakers know the customer base. They know what people can afford, and have already been
pushed too far since the start of COVID. Will their own banks start doing 7 years plus loans
as business as usual? This will destroy leasing for the average American, and making financing
costs too high for most to afford. This couldn't possibly be the next step in forcing the
peasants out of their privately owned vehicles and onto mass transit, could it? Nah, that
would be a crazy thought. [Tweet]
The Real
Existential Threat. he two subjects Democrats like to talk about the most are democracy and
existential threats, threats to our democracy and existence. Since Democrats live in a Bizarro world,
everything they say is opposite of reality and priority. These threats to our existence if made in
opposite order of consequence would be Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, and [...] the Democrats themselves!
It is the Democrat Party, represented by the misinformed, the ill-informed, the MSNBC and CNN watchers, the
rioters-on-a-moments- notice, the woke crowd, every worm that comes out of a closet, the dumb Anheuser Busch
people who think putting a transgender on their cans is going to be a big seller. They are the lords
of social chaos.
Donald
Trump, Tiberius Gracchus, And America's Imminent End. [Scroll down] It has
taken less than 20 years since Barack Obama promised to "fundamentally transform" America for the
country to change from a functioning but imperfect republic into a farce of a country characterized
by a banana-republic-level tyranny. With a complicit bureaucracy, Obama used the IRS to
target political opponents, the Justice Department to coerce banks into blacklisting businesses he
didn't like, and Obamacare to give government unprecedented control over Americans' health
decisions while doubling the cost. He unconstitutionally opened the immigration spigot that
has now become a torrent. Within six months of taking office, Obama would set the tone for an
administration that would set race relations back 50 years. His "evolution" on gay marriage
would give cover to the spineless Supreme Court to impose that travesty on the country and lay the
ground for the fascist LBTQ hellscape America endures today. And finally, he weakened two of
the most foundational elements of American society: The military and residential communities.
Biden
considering cracking down on gas cars after stripping EVs of tax credits. The Biden
administration is weighing an aggressive proposal to implement the tightest-ever federal
regulations governing tailpipe emissions in an effort to boost electric vehicles. The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce the new standards, which will impact
cars manufactured between 2027-2032, next week during a ceremony in Detroit, Bloomberg reported on
Thursday, citing officials briefed on the proposal. In a statement, the EPA confirmed the
standards are designed to incentivize consumers to purchase electric vehicles (EV).
The Editor says...
When they say, "incentivize," they mean "force."
Canadian
Bill Seeks to Criminalize Protests of LGBTQ+ Activities, Impose $25K Fine. A bill
introduced in the Ontario, Canada, legislature this week would ban protests and criticism of LGBT
activities within a designated 100-meter "safety zone." Bill 94, titled the "Keeping 2SLGBTQI+
Communities Safe Act," indicates it would establish "community safety zones" designated by the
Attorney General prohibiting "persons from performing an act of intimidation" within 100 meters of
said zone. According to the bill, such "acts of intimidation" include "causing a disturbance,"
"distributing hate propaganda," "uttering threats or making offensive remarks, either verbally or in
writing with respect to matters of social orientation or gender roles," and "engaging in a protest or
demonstration for the purpose of furthering the objectives of homophobia and transphobia."
Life
after Climate Change. The global discussion about climate change has become quite
hysterical. Some 60 percent of people living in the rich world think it is likely to bring an
end to humanity. This is not only untrue; it is also harmful, because fear makes people
embrace bad policies and ignore many other urgent challenges facing the world. Consider, for
example, how the World Health Organization declared climate change the defining public-health issue
of the 21st century in 2014, but perhaps should have been more focused on pandemics, like
Covid. Or take the World Economic Forum participants who in January 2020 found the greatest
policy risk of the next ten years to be climate-action failure — ignoring the rapid
spread of Covid. Or consider how development institutions increasingly focus on helping poor
countries with climate-change responses, often at the expense of other things those countries
urgently need, such as growth and development, stronger health-care systems, better education, and
a more plentiful energy supply.
Treasury
Sec. Janet Yellen: 'The Inflation Reduction Act is, at its core, about turning the climate
crisis into an economic opportunity'. [Tweet with Video clip.]
The Editor says...
The same idea used to be called The Green New Deal
Could
It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here. My field of study in graduate school was
communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia's School of International
Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in
what was known at the time as "Communist Affairs." I cite this in order to make this point:
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined what I was studying would ever apply to the United States
of America, the freest country in world history. I assumed that communism was, for various
reasons, something that happened elsewhere — most obviously, Russia, China, Vietnam,
Cuba, Cambodia and North Korea. What were those various reasons? One was the absence of
freedom in the history of those countries. Another was that all those countries were, with
the exception of Cuba, outside of Western civilization.
When
Will This Climate Madness End? What do gas ranges, Dutch farmers, and moose have in
common? In a normal everyday context, very little. But in the world of apocalyptic
climate change, everything. [...] In 2021, Biden signed an executive order banning the federal
government from purchasing gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 and requiring federal contracts for
all goods and services to be carbon-neutral by 2050. Despite claims to the contrary, the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission has already begun the process of banning gas stoves by approving
an official Request for Information on the hazards related to them. At the same time,
California is charging ahead with its own environmental plans. The state will ban the sale of
gas-powered water heaters and furnaces by 2030. In addition, it and six other states intend to ban
the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Last Monday, the United Nations released a report
saying, "The world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating." U.N. secretary-general
António Guterres said developed countries should attempt to reach net-zero carbon emissions by
2040 instead of 2050.
The Editor says...
Any assertion that the "world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating" is an outright lie.
The rate of global warming is near zero. There is no urgnet need to shut down gasoline engines and coal-powered
industry. There is no climate emergency. There is no crisis. The U.N. is looking for ways to
perpetuate its existence, and the tyrants at the U.N. assume (and hope) that you know nothing about global warming.
Destroying
the Rule of Law. Why do they want legal law-abiding citizens disarmed,while they
demand defunding of law enforcement? It is simple: it goes along with their releasing violent
criminals back onto the streets, along with supporting their version of the Brown Shirts, Antifa as
a means of intimidation. I will say it, and it is no hyperbole. If the American left
could just line their political opposition up against a wall, they would. How else do you
explain the radical leftist gender dysphoria community calling for a "Trans Day of Vengeance?" This
call to violence resulted from legislation passed and signed into law in Tennessee protecting
children from gender mutilation surgeries, hormonal therapies, and puberty blockers, as well as
ending the perverse drag queen shows being performed before children. Talk about contributing
to the delinquency of a minor! But that is how the left responds to opposition.
Joe
Biden Moves to Cut Medicare Advantage. President Joe Biden's administration announced
that it would cut Medicare Advantage, after the president has frequently claimed that Republicans
want to slash Medicare and Social Security. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) announced this week that they would cut Medicare Advantage by 1.12 percent in 2024, which
is not as significant a cut as what the administration proposed two months ago. [...] Biden has
proposed these cuts to Medicare Advantage as he has frequently accused Republicans of wanting to
slash Social Security and Medicare as part of a potential compromise to address the coming debt
ceiling deadline.
Who
is pulling the puppet strings in Washington, DC? Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
appeared last week on Jesse Watters's show on Fox News to express his opposition to the RESTRICT
Act. The proponents of the bill claim that it will be used to ban the Chinese-owned social
media platform TikTok. But the critics of this legislation have pointed out that it grants
sweeping powers to the federal government and the president to ban any application they label a
'threat'. Some wondered if the use of a VPN to conceal one's online identity and access sites
blocked by the U.S. would be made illegal. The concern that many have is that the government
will use TikTok as an excuse to pass intrusive laws that monitor citizens online and beyond.
Watters made his case opposing the bill while pointing out that the bill doesn't even have the word
"TikTok" in it.
The
Left now has a demonic new aim: to make ordinary people poorer. We are living through
the most startling political realignment in more than 100 years. Never since the advent of
modern socialism in the early 20th century has the Left openly advocated making ordinary people
poorer, thereby leaving those on the Right to defend the spread of mass prosperity. The
debate (if this tendentious chorus of unanimity can be called a debate) on net zero has entirely
shifted the ground on which modern political discourse has been based. This role-reversal is
especially clear in the features that were once most characteristic of Left-wing and Right-wing
allegiance: it is the radical young who now tend to be most adamant that the freedoms and
comforts that come with widespread disposable wealth should be prohibited, while the traditionally
conservative older generation is left to fight for what used to be the Left-liberal doctrine that
higher income and the independence it brings should be spread as widely as possible.
Biden's
cynical game of debt-limit chicken puts entire nation at risk. Facing a July-or-so
deadline to get the federal debt limit increased or the nation will be unable to pay its bills, and
with the national debt at $31 trillion and soaring, President Joe Biden is ... playing hardball,
short-term, partisan politics. Republicans took the House last fall all vowing to start
slowing (at least) the ginormous growth in federal spending. They elected Kevin McCarthy
speaker after he committed to including spending cuts in any measure to raise the debt ceiling.
McCarthy and Biden then had what both sides called a productive face-to-face on Feb. 1 —
only for the White House to decline further meetings, even with a presidential aide.
Biden
admin moving forward with light bulb bans in coming weeks. The Biden administration
is preparing to implement a sweeping nationwide ban on commonly used light bulbs as part of its
energy efficiency and climate agenda. The regulations, which prohibit retailers from selling
incandescent light bulbs, were finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) in April 2022 and are
slated to go into effect on Aug. 1, 2023. The DOE will begin full enforcement of the ban
on that date, but it has already urged retailers to begin transitioning away from the light bulb
type and, in recent months, begun issuing warning notices to companies. "The lighting
industry is already embracing more energy efficient products, and this measure will accelerate
progress to deliver the best products to American consumers and build a better and brighter
future," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said last year.
Now
the Biden Administration is Coming for Our Cheap Light Bulbs. The Biden
administration is obsessed with climate change and they don't care how much worse they make life
for average Americans. They have already gone after gas stoves, gas cars, and even air
conditioners. Now they are coming after incandescent light bulbs. Anything that's
cheap, convenient, and liked by millions of Americans lands on their radar eventually. There
is just no end to it.
29
Dems Join GOP in House Vote to Block Biden Admin From Limiting Access to Gas Stoves.
U.S. House lawmakers voted in support of an energy bill amendment that would prevent the Department
of Energy from introducing energy efficiency standards that could outlaw most gas stoves on the
market today. More than a dozen Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, part
of a Republican-led pro-fossil-fuel legislative package H.R. 1, also referred to as the Lower
Energy Costs Act, which the Biden administration has vowed to veto. "Glad the House passed my
amendment to H.R. 1 preventing @ENERGY from banning 50% of gas stoves on the market,"
Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), who proposed the amendment, wrote on Twitter late Wednesday.
"This de facto gas stove ban was supported by 181 Democrats who are complicit in Biden's quest to
control your kitchen appliances," added Palmer, the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.
You'll
Live Like Peasants And You'll Like It. Every day it gets more difficult to ignore
just how odious the political left in this country is. In case we needed a
reminder — we didn't — another instance of the progressives' deranged minds
landed last week: The Biden administration is, in effect, coming after air conditioners. No,
it doesn't appear that the White House is planning to outright ban air conditioning. But a
recent round of rule making at the Energy Department will make new window units less efficient at
cooling and more expensive to buy, which will create hardships for the millions of poor Americans
who use them to counter summer heat, and in some cases survive it. It's part of a
pattern. In a little more than two years, the loathsome Biden administration has targeted not
only air conditioners, but automobiles with internal-combustion engines, gas stoves, dishwashers,
freight-hauling trucks, washers and dryers, and showerheads through a regulatory regime that will
either eventually ban them altogether or make them so expensive and inefficient that they become a
luxury item.
The
RESTRICT Act Is Exactly What It Sounds Like. The RESTRICT Act is the very definition
of a Trojan horse: innocuous on the outside, lethal on the inside. And it is being wheeled
toward the gates, with the help of Republicans in Congress. Ostensibly, the RESTRICT Act is
designed to protect Americans from TikTok — you know, that nifty piece of Chinese
spyware masquerading as a fun way to showcase dance videos, asinine behavior, and other things
people can live without. And Congress is interested in protecting the country from bad
international actors. That is because it can be done via the RESTRICT Act, which will do far
more than keep TikTok off of your phone or tablet. How much more? More than you want or
even thought possible, even under this administration. The RESTRICT Act goes after anyone
whom the powers that be deem a threat. That determination is made by the secretary of
commerce. A threat can include people abroad and U.S. citizens.
The RESTRICT
Act did not surface in a vacuum. [Thread reader] The "TicTok ban" legislation
(SB686), which is a fraudulent auspice for total internet control by the intelligence community,
comes from within bipartisan legislation spearheaded by the aligned interests of Senator Warner,
the SSCI and DHS. None of this is accidental, and the legislative branch is walking into the
creation of an online control mechanism that has nothing whatsoever to do with banning
TikTok. Preceding the Restrict Act, on March 2, 2023, the people in control of the Joe
Biden administration officially announced that government control of internet content was now
officially a part of the national security apparatus. If you have followed the history of how
the Fourth Branch of Government has been created, you will immediately recognize the intent of this
new framework.
Out-of-Control
US Federal Spending Needs to be Stopped Now! Consider the symptoms of one of the
major problems that has plagued the US for decades: out-of-control federal spending, as
highlighted by the symptoms of massive spending bills that defy regular order, congressional
earmarks, endless continuing resolutions, no federal budgets, and omnibus bills that fund leftwing
Democrat spending priorities and include non-spending atrocities (such as gun control provisions).
[...] During the first 70 years of the twentieth century, the only time the federal budget wasn't
balanced was during an economic downturn or during wartime. Americans understood that a
heavily indebted government ceded control of that government to its creditors, who could very well
be foreign governments or others with ill intentions toward the US. Veto-proof Democrat control
of Congress beginning in 1955 changed all that, as the socialism inherent in Democrat domestic
politics resulted in massive spending programs, such as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
Uncommon
Senselessness: Who Are These People? Let's step back for a minute and look at what
the Left wants and how it is going about getting it. First and foremost, it wants a heavily
centralized government that takes its marching orders from ideologues who see a constitutional
republic as an impediment, not an empowerment, for progress. It opposes states' rights and
the sovereign right of the individual to chart his/her own future. They see religion as a
threat to their plans to secularize the country and make God a bit player in their drama.
They view the Constitution and Bill of Rights as mere suggestions on how to form a more perfect
union. To them, diversity is more important than unity, and they view everything in terms of
race. They believe that our history is reprehensible and steeped in white supremacy; that it
needs to be re-written and that they should be its new authors and censors. They
regard our children as property of the state and that the state has the ultimate say in how they
are educated and raised.
Holding the
right people responsible for the global energy crisis. America's grid is in decline
and about to get far worse due to policies that 1) reward unreliable electricity, 2) prematurely
shut down coal plants, 3) criminalize nuclear, and 4) force electric vehicle use. The root
cause of our grid's reliability problems is simple: America is shutting down too many reliable
power plants — plants that can be controlled to produce electricity when needed in the
exact quantity needed. And it is attempting to replace them with unreliable solar and
wind. Nationally, as demand has increased over the last 10 years we have seen a decline in
reliable capacity (gas, coal, oil, nuclear, hydro, battery storage) by 5%. Will batteries make
unreliable solar/wind reliable? No. Battery storage is expensive and can only provide a
given "capacity" (e.g., 1 GW) for a few hours, and only then if fully charged. Planned
batteries are nowhere near enough to compensate for solar and wind's unreliability.
Dem
Bill Will Allow School Psychologists to 'Kidnap' Kids as Young as 12 - Remove from Homes Without Parental
Consent. A California legislative proposal that its sponsor says will increase mental health
services for children is being attacked by its opponents as "state-sanctioned kidnapping." Democratic
Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo said her bill fixes an issue that denies poor kids on the state's Medi-Cal
insurance plan the same coverage as other children. "[Assembly Bill] 665 is about making sure all
young people, regardless if they have private health insurance or are Medi-Cal recipients, have access to
mental health resources," Carrillo said, according to the Sierra Sun Times.
The Editor says...
This bill isn't about "access" or mental health or poor kids. I suspect it's about transvestites,
sex change operations, and grooming.
John
Kerry Says More Climate Mandates Coming From Biden Regime. Joe Biden's Climate Envoy
John Kerry sat down for an interview with Yahoo News Senior Climate Editor Ben Adler to discuss
climate change. The interviewer began by admitting Biden's so-called 'Inflation Reduction
Act' is actually a Marxist 'Climate Change' bill. Ben Adler asked John Kerry if the Biden
Regime will be taking more aggressive climate action in addition to what is already in the
'Inflation Reduction Act.' "We are doing a lot more than just the IRA. The IRA is a package
that in and of itself could get to 40% but in addition to that, the president is issuing executive
orders, there will be changes on automobile, on light truck, heavy truck... a number of initiatives
are being made," John Kerry said before he trashed Trump.
Biden
and Harris both weak going into 2024. President Joe Biden's job approval rating has
fallen to 38% in a new poll from the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research
Center — close to his lowest rating ever in that poll. Just last month, Biden's
rating was 45%, which was as high as it has been since his rating began a long slide a few months
after he took office. What's going on? The economy. In the month since Biden's
previous, higher rating, people have become deeply concerned about the safety of the banking
system. They have renewed worries about inflation. They are concerned about some
difficult-to-understand maladies affecting world economic stability.
Minnesota
advances 'trans refuge' bill opponents say would strip custody from non-consenting parents.
Minnesota lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that would establish the state as a "trans refuge"
for children who are seeking transgender medical procedures but who may be denied "gender-affirming
care" in other states. In a party-line 68-62 vote, the Minnesota House passed HF 146, which
had been introduced by Rep. Leigh Finke of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Finke is the
state's first transgender lawmaker. Democrats supporting the bill say the legislation will protect
transgender people, their families and healthcare providers from facing legal repercussions for traveling
to Minnesota to obtain cross-sex hormone prescriptions or sex-change procedures. Similar legislation
has been introduced in California and other states with Democratic-controlled legislatures, which seek to
counter Republican states that have sought to ban transgender procedures for minors.
As
China War Looms, Navy's Priority is Going 'Green'. The "age of American naval dominance is
over", Jerry Hendix, a former Navy Captain warned in a high-profile article in The Atlantic.
Hendrix's article imagines a scenario in which China or other enemy nations seize control of what are now
international waters and the cargo that moves across them. "The great container ships and tankers
of today would disappear, replaced by smaller, faster cargo vessels capable of moving rare and valuable
goods past pirates and corrupt officials." A handful of nations would end up controlling the
chokepoints of international trade and America would not be one of them. Navy Secretary Carlos
Del Toro has already conceded China's naval supremacy. Last month, the Biden appointee stated
that China has "got a larger fleet now so they're deploying that fleet globally."
Biden
Defense Officials Defend Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the Military. Biden Pentagon
officials in charge of military personnel policy defended pushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(DEI) in the United States military during a House hearing on Thursday, arguing that it would make
the military stronger, not more divided. However, they were short on data to back up their
arguments. Gil Cisneros, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, argued,
"Diversity, equity and inclusion are essential to unit cohesion and trust." The Army's
Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Agnes Schaefer argued, "A diverse and talented
force of trained and cohesive teams is the most important indicator of our readiness."
The Editor says...
The Army is not ready for battle if it's full of limp-wristed snowflakes. Diversity adds nothing
to cohesiveness. Do you see any "diversity" in the armies of Japan, China, or North
Korea? No, and you also don't see any excess fat, earrings, or tattoos.
It
is clearer every day which party is radical, extreme, dangerous, and flat out crazy.
It is sad that only 74% of registered voters believe that parents have more rights to choose major,
life-changing medical surgery than school officials. [...] Who are the 26% of voters who believe
the parents have no right to know? Probably the same sliver of people who believe that
biological males should compete with girls in sports and that people with penises should be able to
invade girls' privacy in public restrooms and expose themselves in their locker rooms. They
are most likely within the same slim minority of people who think it is O.K. to abort children
throughout all nine months of a pregnancy and even to let a baby just lay there and die if he or
she is nevertheless born alive in a botched abortion.
Republicans
Introduce Bills to Prevent Biden Administration From Banning Gas Stoves. Two House
Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans announced on March 20 they are introducing legislation to
prevent the Biden administration from banning gas stoves. The legislation was introduced by
Reps. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) and Debbie Lesko, (R-Ariz.) in response to the Biden
administration's two-pronged push to ban gas stoves, and might go to the House floor for a vote
later this year. Lesko introduced H.R. 1640, also known as the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, while
Armstrong introduced H.R. 1615, the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act. Both bills are
currently in committee. The pieces of legislation would prohibit the Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) from using federal funding to implement any regulation that would classify gas
stoves as a prohibited dangerous product under current law.
Industry
Is a powerful ally against Biden's power grab. From day one in the White House, the
Biden administration has fumbled one issue after another. Whether it's sending the American
economy into a nosedive or bungling foreign policy crises with some of our greatest adversaries,
Joe Biden and his cadre of agency cronies can't get out of their own way, or that of the American
people. Pressure at the pump, supply chain issues keeping store shelves empty, and rising
inflation thanks to this administration have hurt American consumers and businesses.
Meanwhile, an America-last approach to foreign policy has left us vulnerable and weak in the eyes
of adversaries like Russia and China.
America has deadly enemies, and they are laughing at us.
The
Pentagon Supports Child-Sex Changes, Argues Red States Have Created a 'Public Health
Crisis'. President Joe Biden's Pentagon is arguing for gender-affirming care for
minors as young as seven years old who belong to military families. In a March edition of the
American Journal of Public Health, Department of Defense providers expressed their support for
children to be put on hormone blockers and sex change surgeries despite the dangers of its
long-term effects, both mentally and physically. "Affirming care has only recently become
politicized; protection of gender-affirming medical care for military-affiliated [transgender]
youths may require a declarative position without tolerance for personal biases, as the DoD has
historically achieved for other minoritized groups," the authors wrote. Titled "Caring for
Military-Affiliated Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths: A Call for Protections," claim that the
only option for children who present gender dysphoria signs is to immediately move forward with
gender-affirming care, arguing it is a "human right."
Biden
Executive Order on Equity Rhymes With Jim Crow. President Biden recently issued an
executive order entitled "Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities
Through the Federal Government." Make no mistake: this executive order has the effect of
pushing us backward toward a racially divided nation, just like the good old days. What a shame.
Not thirty years ago, a very different spirit animated civil rights. Call it the Martin Luther King
vision. Dr. King's vision was fundamentally the Christian one, where every person has dignity,
where racism is a sin, where race matters not at all compared to character. Dr. King held the
moral high ground here. His vision ushered in a few short decades of getting it right. America
had just emerged from two centuries as a nation embracing the opposite of Dr. King's vision.
First human slavery, then violent, racially motivated lawlessness ruled the night.
I
Left My Hate in San Francisco. With the gatekeepers a non-factor and near complete
institutional infiltration, the Left may now dispose of any pretense of principle. As it
turns out, the Left has always favored racial hierarchies, as long as White males are on the
bottom. The Left has always desired censorship and the repression of civil liberties, the
police state, and even war and environmental degradation. It was simply that the Left wanted
to be the one in charge of the levers of inhumanity, able to exempt itself from its own brutal
policies while applying draconian tactics to weaken and abuse political opponents for their own
pleasure and political gain. The Left was never interested in tolerance and compassion, only
towards those who resemble them, checking all the ever-multiplying boxes, their own tribe as they
whimsically and arbitrarily define it. There is nothing admirable in this kind of tribal compassion.
As
China's Blue-Water Navy Continues Massive Expansion, US Navy Secretary Says Climate Is His 'Top
Priority'. China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) surpassed the U.S. Navy in
fleet size sometime around 2020 and now possesses roughly 340 warships, according to the Pentagon's
2022 China Military Power Report, released in November. Moreover, China's fleet is expected
to grow to 400 ships by 2025. Meanwhile, the U.S. fleet consists of fewer than 300 ships, with
a Pentagon goal of 350 manned ships by 2045, according to the U.S. Navy's Navigation Plan 2022,
released last summer. So, what is the U.S. Navy under Joe Biden doing about this sobering
reality? As reported by the Washington Examiner, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro
has said, multiple times, that fighting climate change has been one of his biggest priorities since
taking office.
Here
Are the Tech Companies, Liberal Media Outlets, and Prominent Democrats Saved by Biden's Bank
Bailout. Prominent tech companies, liberal news outlets, and a Democratic
politician's vineyards are among the thousands of businesses that breathed a sigh of relief on
Sunday when the Biden administration moved to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Valley
Bank maintained $209 billion in assets and $175.4 billion in total deposits, making it the
16th-largest bank in the country. It was the second-largest bank to fail in American history
when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the institution on Friday.
President Joe Biden has insisted that the FDIC's move was not a bailout, and claimed his
administration is working to protect "American workers and small businesses." But average Americans
won't benefit the most from the bailout. Ninety-three percent of the bank's depositors kept
more than $250,000 in the bank.
Federal
Agency Comes Closer to Gas Stove Ban. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
has made a formal request for information about the possible health hazards of gas-powered
stoves — another signal that the United States may be moving towards a ban on those
appliances under the Biden administration. "This RFI does not constitute or propose regulatory
action, but rather is intended to inform the Commission and the public," the request states.
The request can be viewed here. It has already received hundreds of comments. The
comment period ends May 8. The request states that it is seeking input and "proposed solutions"
from stakeholders such as "consumers, manufacturers, government agencies, non-governmental
organizations, and researchers on chronic chemical hazards associated with the use of gas ranges."
Energy
Secretary Jennifer Granholm praises China. What at first would appear to be a
head-scratcher comes sharply into focus only when you understand that China is constantly
increasing its greenhouse gas output without U.S. rebuke. Its output is now greater than all
the other developed nations combined! Nothing the rest of the world (i.e. America and
Europe both committed to net zero) does will achieve Biden's stated goals to "save" the
planet. China greenlights two coal plants a week while the U.S. and Europe shutter their own,
risking brownouts and people dying from the cold! Why are we such zealots for dumping our
traditional sources of energy with nothing on the near horizon to replace our needs? Granholm
knows what's going on, and, like our President, both are in the tank for an ever-ascendant China.
Stacey
Abrams gets a new job after election loss, joins environmental group trying to eliminate gas
stoves. Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has announced she will
be joining an environmental advocacy dark money group that is pushing to regulate and ban natural
gas-powered stoves. Rewiring America, the nonprofit group Abrams will join as senior counsel,
is a self-described "leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes,
businesses, and communities." Through her role, Abrams will "launch and scale a national
awareness campaign and a network of large and small communities working to help Americans go
electric," according to the group.
The Editor says...
In case you get most of your information from TV, there is just barely enough electricity available
to meet the demand as it is. Adding thousands of new all-electric houses is unwise and inefficient,
since the required electricity will probably come from a power plant that uses coal or natural gas.
It would be far better to burn the natural gas right under a skillet in your kitchen.
Stacy
Abrams is coming for your gas stove. Abrams is thrilled — thrilled, I tell
you — to be a part of such important work. Bringing the message of climate change,
renewables, and electrification to ignorant sods in communities all over the country, who didn't
know how unhappy they were with the appliances they own. [...] You'll notice the mention of the
Inflation Reduction Act incentives there. She's pushing spending our money to
make us miserable, cold, and unhappy. Not to mention she's "connecting" you to the
people who'll do the installing, etc., so she's basically the annoying solar salesman who bangs
every third day on your door already, only she's salaried. What a peach.
Biden
Seeks to Eliminate 96% of Gas Stoves. It wasn't until America's crooked fact-checkers
said Joe Biden had no intention of banning gas stoves that I was certain Joe Biden would ban gas
stoves. And now we know he is — 96 percent of them. "Yes, the Biden
administration is coming for your gas stove," writes Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) in the
Washington Examiner. It's a backdoor ban by way of outrageous regulations only four percent
of gas stoves will meet. And it's being done, not through democracy and our elected
representatives, but by fascist bureaucrats in the Department of Energy.
Biden
admin buckles to environmental groups, makes sudden reversal on key land decision.
The Biden administration announced late Tuesday that it would reverse a Trump-era land swap deal
facilitating the construction, in an Alaska wilderness area, of a potentially life-saving road
opposed by environmental groups. The Department of the Interior (DOI) withdrew the land
exchange — which had been finalized by former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in 2019
and aggressively defended in court by the Biden administration — and explained that it
contained procedural flaws and wasn't consistent with agency policy. DOI Secretary Deb
Haaland said the agency would initiate another environmental analysis of the proposal as part of
President Biden's conservation agenda.
Biden
Fails to Explain How His 'Plan to Reduce Gun Violence' Will Stop Criminals. After the
White House announced a new executive order focused on the president's "plan to reduce gun
violence" on Tuesday, Biden addressed his latest fiat from Monterey Park, California. As
usual, Biden's remarks had, at best, a tenuous connection to truth and reality. Pledging that
his latest executive order dealing with firearms will "accelerate and intensify" his
administration's supposed crackdown on illegal firearms, Biden said his order would keep firearms
out of the hands of criminals by taking "every lawful action possible to move us as close as we can
to universal background checks."
Obama
and Other Democrats Are Destroying the First Amendment by Design. The Democrat Party is
conducting a full-scale attack on the First Amendment and on those who dissent from the Democrat
Party line on any and all topics. Leading the charge is Barack Hussein Obama, with the
minions in the Biden regime implementing anti-free-speech campaigns behind the scenes as feverishly
as they can be divined. In a speech given at Stanford University last year, Barack Obama
declared himself to be a "First Amendment absolutist" while calling for social media
regulations. The self-described constitutional law professor needs to reread the First
Amendment, as well as the Federalist Papers, to understand how the latter recommendation completely
contradicts his absolutist claim.
NY
legislature rejects Governor's budget as being not expensive enough. As with many
other states, New York is still in the process of attempting to sort out its overly-bloated budget
for the fiscal year, but it's not going well. Governor Kathy Hochul submitted a draft budget
six weeks ago, but the state legislature has been bogged down, beset with infighting over the
details. One of the chief complaints from the legislators (and many of you will find this
hard to believe) is that Hochul has drifted "too far toward the center" since winning a full term
of her own last year.
Delaware
Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Gas-powered Car Ban. Without legislative action,
Delaware state agencies are reviewing banning gasoline-powered cars and trucks, and banning natural
gas and propane hookups to new buildings. Both actions are discussed in "Delaware's Climate
Action Plan." Regulatory action has already started forcing vehicle manufacturers to stock 35% of
electric vehicles (EV) in Delaware in only three years, eventually allowing only EV sales.
Drivers will not be able to register a new gasoline or diesel-powered vehicle in Delaware by 2034.
A survey conducted by Ragnar Research in February 2023 found that 73% of Delaware voters opposed
the gasoline and diesel-powered vehicle ban, with only 18% supporting the ban. Follow-up
questions showed 60% strongly opposed while 9% strongly supported the ban.
Biden:
Worse than Jimmy Carter. Climate change alarmists would have America sacrifice its
very nationhood, and national security interests, in blind pursuit of a demonstrably failed plan
that accelerates resource depletion to profit a handful of speculators. What's
next? Abolishing cows so all humanity eats Bill Gates' patented vat meat manufactured with
fossil fuels and synthetic fertilizers? Biden is opening up drilling in Alaska's Cook Inlet
while blocking future oil and gas developments in 16 million Arctic acres. (Carter protected
some 156 million Alaskan acres, though drilling there dates back to the 1950s). This conflicted
pattern has revealed friction within Democrat ranks. Unhappy with gargantuan debt incurred for
salvific "renewable" energy independence, more Dems are waking up to the scam.
Bye,
Democrats: I'm leaving party that disgracefully supports censorship. The latest House
Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing was the final straw. I
can no longer be a Democrat after watching my party of three decades ignore the serious
implications of vast governmental censorship and desperately, sometimes comically, try to shoot the
messengers. Last week's hearing was meant to take testimony on the implications of government
censorship reported in the Twitter Files — a series of articles, released on
social-media platform Twitter, outlining the "censorship-industrial complex." But what it
actually did was draw an astonishingly clear distinction between today's Democrats and Republicans
when it comes to our most fundamental and important right: freedom of speech.
The Editor says...
I see. You were okay with the far-left, godless, socialist, tax-and-spend baby killers who are
afraid of carbon dioxide, opposed to gasoline and coal, and have no objections to transvestite
story hour at the library, stolen elections, four-dollar gasoline, mandatory injections of experimental
drugs, and a wide-open border with Mexico. But when they tampered with Twitter, that was just too much!
They
Are Intolerant, Divisive, And Anti-Liberty — Call Them Leftists, Not
Liberals. Democrats have moved so far to the left in recent years that they should no
longer be called "liberals," unless the true liberals among them start to stand up to the leftists
who have taken over. The term is misleading, giving the impression that Democrats support
individual freedoms and accept people of different viewpoints, when increasingly they do not.
The word "liberal" gives yet more power to those who seek to take more of our liberties.
Right-leaning publications often use the term "liberal" when "leftist" would be better. On
the other hand, left-leaning newspapers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times like to
use the word "liberal" to describe their own illiberal political views. It obfuscates how
Democrats and their media allies have become more extreme, supporting censorship, authoritarianism,
and racial division: Twitter staff who denied conservatives their right to free speech and
eagerly complied with censorship demands from the federal government were described by the Post as
milquetoast "liberal employees." MSNBC says those pushing the tyranny of wokeness are just
naughty-sounding "liberal rascals."
Congress
Caught Off-Guard by Biden's $5 Trillion Tax Increase Proposal. Joe Biden's $6.8 trillion
annual budget proposal, which included a proposed increase of $5 trillion in taxes in order to fund
it all, surprised many in Congress due to drastically overshooting what he was expected to ask for.
As reported by The Hill, the unexpected proposal only creates greater risks for Democrats in the
2024 elections, as Biden presumably prepares for a re-election bid and his party seeks to defend 23 seats
in the U.S. Senate, including many red-state seats. The new proposal, some say, would only exacerbate
ongoing economic woes, including inflation and high tax rates, putting an even greater strain on the average
American household's finances. However, Biden has vowed that he would not raise taxes on anyone making
more [sic] than $400,000 a year. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) described the Biden administration's proposal
as "jaw-dropping," declaring it to be "exactly the wrong approach to solving our fiscal problems."
The Editor says...
Everything Biden does is "exactly the wrong approach" to any problem. It must be
intentional. Nobody is that stupid.
McCarthy
Attacks Biden Against His $7 Trillion Budget, Warning Him Not to 'Play Games' With Debt
Ceiling. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) is warning President Joe Biden not to
"play games with the debt ceiling" as the president rolls out a multi-trillion dollar budget
proposal. McCarthy argued that Biden's $6.9 trillion budget proposal would not succeed
in a House vote, saying that not even Democrats would vote for it. "This budget talks more
about equality and climate change than it does dealing with China dealing with fentanyl, dealing
with putting our workforce back in the workplace. That is a real challenge," McCarthy said in
an interview with Fox News. "To have a non-serious budget and for a president not to show the
leadership to sit down and solve this problem early only weakens America." The president
unveiled his proposed budget earlier this week. Some projections say it would result in
nearly $5 trillion in tax hikes on corporations and upper-class Americans, increasing costs
for everyone.
Biden
Budget: The COVID Ratchet is Permanent. [Scroll down] So, the net effect
of the COVID emergency was to ratchet up federal spending by about $2 trillion a year.
Forever. If you take a look at federal spending in the 20th century, the same ratchet
happened after the 1929 Crash and World War II. As the philosopher said: "You never let a
serious crisis go to waste." I used to be angry at the perpetual hunger for more spending by
our Democratic friends. But now that I've read and digested Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's The
Concept of the Political, I understand. If politics is the distinction between friend and
enemy, then everything makes sense. In politics you fight the enemy in World War COVID and
World War Climate and World War J6-Deplorables to the death, and you shovel the loot and plunder
at your DEI supporters.
Ted
Cruz Says Biden 'Certainly' Isn't Running the White House After New Budget Proposal.
Ted Cruz acknowledged what the majority of us have long known: Biden is a puppet leader. Cruz
criticizes the projected $6.8 trillion budget of the Biden administration on social media,
claiming he no longer runs the White House. Cruz, R-Texas, asserted that President
Biden's budget for the 2024 fiscal year indicated that "socialists are in charge" and that he had
failed to fulfill his vow to unite the two major parties. The budget, as stated by Cruz,
boosts taxes and increases expenditure to record levels for the socialist economic, education,
climate, and healthcare agenda.
Biden's
Proposed 2024 Budget Will Fund Veterans' 'Sex Changes'. President Joe Biden's
proposed 2024 budget, which was released Thursday, hopes to fund sex-change surgeries and
gender-affirming treatments for military veterans. "Recognizing the diversity of America's
veterans, the Administration is also taking action to advance equity across veterans' services,"
the budget reads. "In addition to ending the ban on transgender service, the Administration is
committed to providing gender affirming care to the Nation's veterans — and last year,
the VA announced that it was extending survivor benefits to certain survivors of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex veterans."
For
Democrats, Joe Biden's 'right' to spend is absolute. A big bank has gone down, the
second in 48 hours. The U.S. trade deficit has widened. Inflation is out of control
with the Fed openly warning the rate hikes to beat it back are going to keep coming. Yet
[...] Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats, keep calling for more federal spending. That's
where the problem is coming from. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,
just as economist Milton Friedman explained. Call for more spending and what's really being
called for is more inflation and the interest rate hikes that follow to stop that inflation, both
of which are now wreaking havoc. Biden just did that this week, seeking a $6.9 trillion
federal budget full of new spending, even as he questionably claimed that tax hikes would bring in
a windfall for the government, making its deficit smaller.
NYC
Residents Say City's New Climate Law Could Ruin Their Lives. A New York City climate
law regulating emissions is set to impose harsh penalties on larger buildings, many of them
residential, that don't comply by 2024, forcing building boards and residents to make difficult
financial decisions, according to The New York Times. Local Law 97 is part of the city's 2019
Climate Mobilization Act and aims to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030 and reach net zero by
2050 by targeting buildings, which are believed to be the city's largest polluters, according to
the NYT. But the strict regulations put building managers in a difficult position, forcing
them to choose between costly energy upgrades and massive fines. One building manager, Craig
Hart, told the NYT he could install solar panels on a roof that's going to need a $650,000
replacement in coming year, install a new boiler system that will have to be replaced in a few
years as emissions standards become more stringent, or face massive fines for noncompliance.
Joe
Biden's Preposterous Student Loan Bailout. The legality of President Biden's student
loan forgiveness proposal (Proposal) is much debated. The legal dispute revolves, in
significant part, around the language of the HEROES Act. Biden's lawyers claim that the
HEROES Act authorizes the proposed student loan forgiveness. Others claim that it does not.
[...] The HEROES Act states that the secretary of education (the "Secretary') may waive or modify
certain statutes and regulations as may be necessary to ensure that recipients of student
financial assistance are not placed in a worse position financially because of the
pandemic. In order for the Secretary, or anyone else, to determine whether a person's
financial position has worsened, one must examine that person's financial statements (balance
sheets, income statements, and tax returns) of the beginning and end and during the period in
question. [...] It appears that the Secretary has not obtained or reviewed the requisite financial
statements for any or all student loan borrowers who may claim benefits under the Proposal, nor
sought the necessary information to determine causation of any worsened financial positions.
Therefore the Secretary is not authorized by the HEROES Act, on its face, to commence any
implementation of the Proposal that does not and cannot qualify.
An
America shot through with Marxism. A few months ago, I was asked to write a book
review for an American Thinker reader named Leslie Stein, an associate professor of economics at
the University of Macquarie, in Sydney, Australia. He has written four books in total,
including the one he asked me to review, called The Undermining of Western Civilization.
This book is timely and pertinent, to say the least. This book comes in the midst of an
all-out Marxist assault on Western civilization. [...] Stein documents the entire history and
evolution of what we now call "wokism," beginning in the 1960s with radical Marxist student groups
on college campuses around the United States, including the Students for a Democratic Society, the
Black Panthers, and the Weather Underground organization — groups that doubled as
terrorist organizations who waged war with the police and blew up federal buildings, all in an
attempt to foment a communist revolution. They, collectively, were known as the "New Left."
Biden's
Budget Is Tax-And-Spend On Steroids. The headline the White House wants everyone to write
would say that President Joe Biden's budget plan will cut projected deficits by $2.9 trillion.
That number isn't impressive at all, given the context. Worse is the way he gets there.
Start with the fact that the $2.9 trillion amounts to just a haircut in the projected $20 trillion
deficits over the next decade, deficits that Biden and his fellow Democrats vastly inflated with their
two-year spending spree. [...] Next is the fact that Biden's budget would increase spending by
$1.8 trillion over the next decade. And all of it comes through increases
in "mandatory spending" — also known as "entitlement" programs.
Biden's
new budget mentions 'equity' 63 times, 'transgender' eight times and 'queer' seven times. Joe
Biden's new budget plan, released on Thursday, is light on initiatives for dealing with the drug crisis
sweeping the county but heavy on gender politics, according to a new analysis. Biden mentioned
'equity' 63 times in the document, Fox News found - more than double the references to the word
'border'. The word 'fentanyl' was only mentioned twice.
Federal
Judge Rules Biden Border Policies Unlawful, Make Border "Meaningless". After the
Biden regime released tens of thousands of migrants into the United States by using humanitarian
parole, a federal judge in Florida put the administration on blast and ruled that its actions were
unlawful. As the Biden administration worsens the country's immigration crisis, it has been
using parole as a tool to prevent overcrowding at the U.S.-Mexico border. This allows
migrants to enter the U.S. more quickly than they already were able to. A lawsuit was filed
by Republican Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody alleging that the administration's use of
parole at the border is illegal, as it is supposed to be used on a "case-by-case basis for urgent
humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit."
They
are coming for your parking spot. For decades cities were designed around cars, as
anyone who lives outside a very dense urban area knows. Suburbs exist because of cars.
Single-family homes for the middle class do too. Before cars you had to walk or ride a horse;
after, all that space around cities became usable as living space. It was nirvana for the
average family and still is for many of us. Urban planners often speak as if there were no
roads before cars, which is absurd. By their telling, everybody used a sidewalk or took a
train to get around, and the car ruined everything. In their world, you should live in a
15-minute city where you can walk anywhere, which is another way of saying you should live in an
urban high-rise building.
The
76 congressmen who demand unlimited illegal immigration. Recently a large group of US
Congressmen signed a letter to Joe Biden, demanding that he make it easier for illegal aliens to
enter and stay in the USA. The signers are ten US Senators, sixty-six US Representatives, and
one non-voting delegate from Washington DC. Below is a list of the seventy-six voting
delegates who signed the letter. [...]
A
lot of major Democrat donors have a couple things in common. The media and other
Democrats don't really care about any of the following:
• Too much money in politics
• Where the donations come from
• Paying back victims of crime.
• Soft on crime prosecutors
• Equity
• Equality
• Fairness.
They care only about power.
Proposed
bill would prevent anyone under 25 with being charged with felony murder. In recent
weeks, the issue of age has been a hot topic when it comes to justice reform. Governor Wes
Moore's pick to run the Juvenile Justice Service, Vincent Schiraldi has said no one under the age
of 21 should be introduced to the justice system, because the brain is not fully developed.
However, opponents of HB 1180, like Republican Delegate Susan McComas say Democrats are only using
mental capacity when it comes to soft on crime policies. "Proponents of the bill say that the
human brain is not fully formed in the frontal lobes until age 25. But yet, we're doing other
things in the general assembly, letting children vote earlier and earlier, letting them get hormone
inducing drugs to change their sex," said McComas.
SoFi
sues over student-loan pause to force borrowers to resume making payments. Some 40
million people have had their student-debt payments paused because the government thinks they need
the help. But one big financial technology company, which refinances student loans,
disapproves of the public policy and wants the payments resumed immediately to help its bottom
line. SoFi Technologies, a financial technology company involved in the student loan
refinancing business, is suing the Department of Education over the student loan payment
pause. In a suit filed in federal court late last week, the company alleges that the latest
extension of the COVID-era pause on student loan payments, interest and collections "is unlawful on
multiple grounds." The company is asking the court to invalidate and set aside the pause, or at a
minimum, require student loan borrowers who aren't eligible for the Biden administration's debt
relief plan to start repaying their loans.
Should Taxpayers
Subsidize College Dropouts? Last week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court
concerning the Biden administration's student-loan forgiveness plan predictably focused on arcane
legal theories such as the "major questions doctrine." Relatively little time was devoted to
the profoundly inequitable structure of the program. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice
Neil Gorsuch did note that it would provide benefits to certain favored persons while
ignoring the very real costs it would impose on others, but no one mentioned a fact that will gall
most taxpayers — it would cancel student loans for college dropouts. Remarkably,
the Biden administration and most Democrats see this as a selling point for the plan.
A
great question nobody is asking about Biden's student loan giveaway plan. I am
vehemently opposed to Joe Biden's illegal assumption of the power to force taxpayers to assume the
burden of student loan repayments on college tuition obligations voluntarily entered into.
It's wrong constitutionally, and it's wrong morally to force other people to pay for services to
others that only a minority receive. Besides, higher education has devolved into a
brainwashing arm of the hard left and has lost all claim to be a general public benefit. The
education cartel has abused the public with tuition escalating at three times the rate of general
inflation for about half a century now, financing useless, expensive, and counterproductive
administrative bureaucracies that now equal or outnumber teaching faculty at many institutions.
Now
convicted felons can vote in Minnesota. Formerly incarcerated felons in Minnesota
will now be able to vote after a new law restoring their rights was signed by the state's governor.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a bill on Friday which gives convicted felons who have completed their
jail time the right to vote. Now, 55,000 individuals who were previously deprived of those rights
can register to vote, the most significant expansion of that right in Minnesota in a half-century,
according to the governor's office.
What's
Next for Wokeism? Twenty-five years ago, I told a friend that we would likely bear witness to the acceptance
and even protection of several abhorrent social or political practices. That came true, but it didn't stop there. [...]
During the 1980s and 1990s, the social norms listed below were largely unacceptable; eventually the practices became
mainstream through the strident promotion by activists and ineffective pushback by traditional institutions:
• Open homosexuality, coupled with the very public promotion of the lifestyle
• Gay Marriage
• Transgenderism
• Sex by consenting children with young adults
• Open Borders
• Anti-Capitalism
• The acceptance of recreational drug use as acceptable behavior
• Rampant crime and reduced punishment
• Society no longer requires work to live
• Single-parent constructs as equal to two-parent families
Take a moment to reread this list. Nothing surprises us anymore. History teaches us that radical
social change usually ends badly, even for progressives. All of the above continues to have a significant
stigma for many Americans. There is general agreement that promoting negative moral or societal values can
and usually will have a deleterious effect on society. With no national debate, the redefinition of our
country has almost been achieved. Today, our ability to be shocked must surpass a very high threshold.
Just Call
it What it Is. Stone-deaf to public opinion polling, fringe party socialists have
seized control of the Democrat party and continue to influence despotic policies that damage
economic prosperity and national security. In television interviews and stump speeches,
Beltway Republicans play whack-a-mole, ignoring the obvious in search of an explanation; that is,
DEI and climate activism are utilized to control people rather than to repair any historical
injustice or spruce up the planet. From the manipulation of science and elections to speech
police and social media censorship to historical amnesia in grade school education to the creation
of an economic caste system by way of inflation, taxation, and immigrant invasion, the Biden
administration has deliberately inflicted an apostasy upon America.
House
votes to kill Biden's 'woke' ESG investment rule that props up 'phony climate
movement'. The House voted Tuesday [2/28/2023] to kill the Biden administration's
controversial rule that encourages private retirement plan fiduciaries to consider environment,
social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions for tens of millions of
Americans. The Department of Labor rule is widely seen by Republicans as part of the Biden
administration's push to inject "woke" ideology into all aspects of government. Under the
rule, fiduciaries who make investment decisions for the retirement plans of more than 150 million
people would be explicitly permitted under federal guidelines to consider companies' approach to
climate change and other social issues, instead of focusing on only profitability and return on
investment for retirees. Republicans say that's a recipe for tanking millions of investment
accounts, and on Tuesday, House GOP leaders called up a resolution aimed at killing the rule, which
passed 216-204. Only one Democrat voted for it.
DC
passes bill into law allowing illegal immigrants, other noncitizens to vote. The
Washington, D.C. city council made it official on Monday, illegal immigrants and other non-citizens
can now vote in local elections. The Democrat-run district that serves as the nation's
capital went so far as to allow foreign diplomats to cast a vote. That's according to various
reports that the city council passed the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act after a 30-day
congressional review period ended — the GOP-led House pushed to block the D.C. law
from taking effect but the Democrat-run Senate let the clock expire without taking action.
The law requires a person to be 18 and to have lived in D.C. for 30 days to be eligible to
vote, providing they do not claim voting residence in any U.S. state or U.S. territory.
SCOTUS
[is] Gearing up to Sink Biden's Midterm Bribe of Forgiving Student Loan Debt. It was
never up to President Joe Biden to forgive the student loan debt held by millions of Americans, yet
during the midterms, the Democrats made it a party-wide campaign promise. While the lie
didn't fly well enough to stop the Republicans from taking back the House with an unforgivably slim
margin, it sure gave young leftists something to rally around. But despite Biden telling
Americans he'd forgive the debt, even members of his own party were feeling uneasy about the
promise. New Hampshire Democrat lawmaker Chris Pappas didn't like the way Biden was sidestepping
Congress and said publicly that this wasn't so much forgiveness as it was debt reallocation.
Blue
State Is Imposing A New Climate Policy And Gas Prices Are Already Skyrocketing. Gas
prices in the state of Washington have surged 40 cents since the new year, when a new law designed
to penalize greenhouse gas emissions went into effect, according to the U.S. Department of
Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA). Washington businesses that produce more than
25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year will either need to purchase allowances
from the state's Department of Ecology at quarterly auctions, or trade for them with another
business later, a practice commonly known as "cap-and-trade," Axios reported. Since the law
was implemented, the cost of gas in the state has skyrocketed from nearly $3.70 to just over $4.10,
according to the EIA.
Biden
Unites the Feds with DEI. How are we to understand the Biden administration's
executive order to go full DEI for the whole federal government? I mean, if we need to purge
the federal government from stem to stern of systemic racism and enforce diversity, equity, and
inclusion, the federal government must be a veritable hornet's nest of racism, sexism, homophobia,
and hate. Otherwise we wouldn't need a whole-of-government effort to stamp it out. And,
of course, we are talking about Democrats. No Republican has had a shot at a Fed job for a
generation. But how can this be? Our liberal friends have been running the federal
government, man and boy — and now gender non-binary — for not less than
90 years, at least since FDR was inaugurated and cranked up the federal government to
ramming speed with a ton of new liberal programs. Our liberal friends have run a race
program — fighting systemic racism! — for the last 55 years, from quotas
to Affirmative Action to Diversity to Reparations. And that's not enough?
Biden
will be playing defense on student loans this week at the Supreme Court. President
Joe Biden's $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan will finally get its day at the Supreme
Court on Tuesday. But some experts predict that by the time arguments end, the administration
may wish it had been somewhere else. Biden's proposal, which would forgive up to $20,000 for
some borrowers, is almost certain to be in for a rough ride before a court with a 6-3 conservative
majority and an increasingly skeptical view of agencies acting without clear approval from
Congress. "The case against him on the merits is very strong," said Ilya Somin, a law
professor at George Mason University.
Minnesota
joins growing movement to ban new homes from having any gas at all. A growing number
of states and cities are considering or implementing bans for the future construction of not just
gas stoves, but natural gas hookups themselves, a move that would raise costs for consumers and
potentially have negative environmental consequences, natural gas advocates told the Daily Caller
News Foundation. Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota introduced legislation this month that
would permit the state's Commissioner of Labor and Industry to amend the state's energy code to
"mitigate the impact of climate change," a directive that could be used to justify a ban on natural
gas, according to the free-market Minnesota think-tank Center of the American Experiment.
California and New York are weighing statewide bans which would not only increase costs but may not
have the climate benefits advocates hope for, Dan Kish, senior fellow at the Institute for Energy
Research told the DCNF. "Natural gas is our cleanest fossil [fuel] and it is responsible for
the U.S. reducing carbon dioxide emissions more than other countries, largely because we have
centuries of the stuff," Kish told the DCNF.
Turns Out
They Are Coming for Your Gas Stoves. A new Biden administration rule on cooking
appliances would effectively ban half of all gas stoves on the U.S. market from being sold,
according to an Energy Department projection. In an analysis published earlier this month,
President Joe Biden's Energy Department acknowledged that roughly half of all gas stoves on the
U.S. market today would not meet its proposed cooking appliance efficiency regulations,
E&E News reported Friday. As a result, those stoves would not be eligible for
purchase. Still, Energy Department spokesman Jeremy Ortiz dismissed concerns over the
proposal, saying half the gas stove market "would remain if this standard is finalized as
proposed." The Energy Department's admission comes roughly one month after U.S.
Consumer Product Safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr., a Biden appointee, said a gas stove ban
was "on the table." "This is a hidden hazard," Trumka Jr. said of gas cooking.
"Any option is on the table. Products that can't be made safe can be banned."
Biden
Official Clears Ukraine of Misusing U.S. Financial Aid. Ukraine is not misusing
the tens of billions of dollars in direct financial assistance it is receiving courtesy of
U.S. taxpayers according to a top Biden administration official. Samantha Power, the
administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), gave the public
affirmation during a CNN live town hall on Thursday evening. Her assurances came just hours
ahead of the White House revealing it would give another $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine
as its war with Russia officially hits the one-year mark, bringing the total amount of American
military assistance to over $30 billion in one year.
California
Democrats want gender-neutral bathrooms mandatory in all K-12 schools. A California
state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would make the Golden State the first in the nation
to require schools to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom on campus. State
Sen. Josh Newman (D) introduced SB 760 last week, which would require all K-12 public and
charter schools to have at least one genderless bathroom for student use amid ever-increasing
controversy over the place of public schools when a student claims to identify with a gender
different from their biological sex.
I not a lawyer or a judge, but this is a Bill of Attainder:
Chinese
Spy Lover Eric Swalwell Proposes Bill to Ban Trump From U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif), who was kicked off the House Select Committee on Intelligence
because of his years-long affair with a Chinese spy, is trying to stay in the headlines by
proposing a plan to keep former President Trump out of the Capitol. The bill, introduced by
Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA), would permanently bar Trump and several top aides from the
Capitol because of their attempt to "undermine and overturn the 2020 presidential election."
The proposal asks the House and Senate Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police to take
"such actions as may be necessary" to keep Trump from entering the halls of Congress forever.
Kamala Harris, the $21
Trillion Woman. That's the conservatively estimated cost of then-Senator Harris' "Monthly Economic Crisis
Support Act." With the Biden administration setting a May 11 end date for the COVID-19 public health emergency, we can
finally close the books on the remarkable plan Harris introduced in May 2020. She proposed sending Americans "crisis
payments" each month that emergency declaration was in effect, plus an extra three months after it expired. The
legislation never advanced, but if it had most Americans would have received $2,000 checks each month retroactive to
March 2020 and continuing through this coming August. Up to two parents and three children per household would
have been eligible, for a maximum of $10,000 per month or an astonishing $120,000 per year. That's nearly double
the US median household income of $67,521 in 2020. It even exceeds the risible guaranteed annual income of $97,000
recently proposed by the San Francisco Reparations Advisory Committee. Think finding workers is hard now?
Across a span of 42 months, a typical family of four would have received a whopping $336,000 in federal
checks — without working a minute.
Biden
Administration's New Equity Atlas: An Unconstitutional Equity Redistribution Scheme. The Biden
administration's $1.2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) gives cities a blank check for hundreds of billions
of dollars in federal grants. An astonishingly massive windfall for municipal budgets. Janet Yellen, U.S.
Treasury Secretary, followed up by forming an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity (a.k.a. TACRE) to ensure cities
channel those funds and future federal grants towards racial equity justice. The Committee's mission is to
"identify, monitor, and review aspects of the domestic economy that have directly and indirectly resulted in unfavorable
conditions...for persons of color." The ulterior motive is to produce a permanent mechanism that is a data-driven
approach forcing racial equity justice outcomes. Leftists refer to the concept as "democratizing data," a contrary
term that is an affirmative action contrivance.
California
Democrats want gender-neutral bathrooms mandatory in all K-12 schools. A California state lawmaker has
introduced legislation that would make the Golden State the first in the nation to require schools to have at least one
gender-neutral bathroom on campus. State Sen. Josh Newman (D) introduced SB 760 last week, which would
require all K-12 public and charter schools to have at least one genderless bathroom for student use amid
ever-increasing controversy over the place of public schools when a student claims to identify with a gender different
from their biological sex.
Minnesota
Senate passes bills to restore felon voting rights, give licenses to illegal immigrants. Two more bills
are on their way to the governor's desk: one to restore voting rights to felons when they leave prison and another
to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Current state law requires felons to complete their entire
sentence before regaining the right to vote, including probation or parole. HF28 will allow felons to vote
whenever they are not incarcerated. [...] Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to amend the bill to prevent certain
violent criminals and those convicted of felony voter fraud from regaining the right to vote until after serving their
full sentence.
Biden's
Wonderful World of 'Equity'. Immediately after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 Joe Biden, signed
an executive order placed in front of him directing the federal government to "...pursue a comprehensive approach to
advancing equity for all." On February 16, 2023, he signed a follow-up executive order mandating that all
federal agencies create teams and annual plans to insure equity within all government agencies and to utilize government
programs to compel equity within the private sector. The use of the word "equity" is a deliberate attempt to
hoodwink the American public, who are fully are on board with a similar-sounding word "equality." Equity, unlike
equality, isn't equal access to opportunity or equal protection before the law. Equity, per the American Marxists,
is the redistribution of societal status, legal protection, and economic goods (i.e., jobs and material possessions) in
accordance with their politized assessment of disadvantages and demographics. Equity, in the Marxist context,
requires a clearly defined villainous group, and not coincidentally a political adversary, in order to manipulate the
masses into believing that they have the best interests of the people at heart. But first the population has to be
segmented or tribalized and then indoctrinated into believing they as distinct groups have been and continue to be
victimized and, thus, deserving of equal outcomes as merit or ability is immaterial.
Combustion
Going Bust: Global Phase-Outs Of Gasoline Cars. The European Union last week approved a law that will ban
the sale of combustion engine cars in its member states [beginning in] 2035. For Germany and Italy as well as for
Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the new bill sets a first deadline for the sale of gasoline-powered cars.
Biden Is
Still After Your Gas Stoves. Shortly after a Biden administration official boasted about how the federal
government might ban gas stoves for being "unsafe," the White House reassured the public that no such ban was in the
works. We warned readers at the time not to believe such reassurances because "once this sort of train starts
moving there is often no stopping it." That was in early January. It took less than a month for the Biden
administration to prove us right. Earlier this month, the Department of Energy released a proposed rule that, if
implemented, would essentially regulate gas stoves out of existence.
Minneapolis
Fed President Neel Kashkari Admits Goal is to Shrink Economy to Meet Decreased Energy Supplies.
Apparently, the interview took place a few weeks ago (it's new to me), but the admissions within it are quite
remarkable. The CNBC discussion surrounds inflation and the federal reserve raising interest rates.
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari is talking about the jobs report, inflation and the intention of the federal
reserve to continue raising interest rates until they achieve 2% inflation, regardless of consequence. Kashkari
doesn't hedge on the latter issue of consequence; he affirms with absolute guarantee the fed will keep raising rates
until the economy shrinks enough such that 2% inflation is achieved. However, watch what happens when Joe Kernan
takes that outlook and overlays "supply side" energy policy. [Video clip]
The
Greens Aren't Just Coming for Your Gas-Powered Car — They're Coming for All Cars. Late last
month, Joe Biden was mocked for posting a photo of himself in an electric vehicle (a GMC Hummer) that costs $110,000 and
up. And for touting a $7,500 federal tax credit that doesn't apply to vehicles that cost over $80,000. In other
words, the 46th president was ripped for confirming the stereotype that electric cars are a vanity passion for rich
green liberals. But what was less noticed, at least by the right, was that left-wing greens didn't like Biden's
photo-op, either. You see, Middle Class Joe insists that he wants to replace internal-combustion vehicles with
electric vehicles (EV), but the hardcore greens — including those within his own administration —
want to get rid of cars, period.
The
Left Is Willing to Bankrupt America for Climate Change. American socialists are eager to prove Churchill
right. Their preferred stalking horse in their pursuit of egalitarian misery is the specter of a climate
apocalypse. Since the apocalypse, in their telling, is gonna be, well, apocalyptic, that means the defense against
it must be just as all-embracing. And just as the defense against the real Nazi apocalypse bankrupted the British
Empire, so, too, they are content to bankrupt America in the pursuit of a cause they believe has equal urgency.
But there is no confidence among climate fanatics that the battle can ever be won without the surrender of abundance.
The further down the road we get to electrification, the more apparent it is that it will not solve the problem of
how to get enough energy without harming the planet.
Report:
Joe Biden Weighs Expanding Foreign Competition Against Working Class Americans. President Joe Biden is
weighing expanding foreign competition in the labor market against working class Americans by offering green cards to
foreign visa workers, a new report suggests. An exclusive report from Fox News's Adam Shaw reveals that Biden is
considering allowing foreign workers on H-2A agricultural visas and H-2B non-agricultural visas to apply for and secure
green cards to remain permanently in the United States labor market.
Maryland
bill would block minors from being charged as adults. The Maryland state Senate recently introduced SB 93,
named the Youth Equity & Safety Act. This latest attempt at so-called "justice reform" would end the practice of
charging juvenile suspects under the age of 18 as adults. Proponents of the bill claim that younger offenders
don't receive the resources they need in an adult prison while going through the juvenile court system makes them "less
likely to re-offend." (They offered no data to back up that assertion.) This is a stunning proposal to put
forward at a time when Baltimore has seen seven straight years with more than 300 murders and a very sizable portion of
the offenders (when they manage to identify and arrest a suspect) are minors that are recruited by the gangs, some of
whom are barely old enough for middle school.
The Editor says...
Ax yourself this question: If this idea becomes law, will violent crime increase or decrease?
Minnesota
Democrat lawmakers push ban on gas-powered lawn mowers, chainsaws to curb 'climate pollution'. Two
Minnesota Democratic lawmakers are proposing a pair of bills that would significantly impact the state's backyards and
neighborhood ice rinks in an effort to combat climate change. State Reps. Jerry Newton and Heather Edelson,
members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, introduced legislation on Monday that would block the sale of
common landscaping appliances like lawn mowers and chainsaws as well ice resurfacing machines such as Zambonis,
requiring that only electric battery versions be sold in the state starting Jan. 1, 2025. The ban on lawn and
garden equipment would include any machine that uses "a spark ignition engine rated at or below 19 kilowatts or 25 gross
horsepower." Commonly used landscaping tools like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, lawn edgers,
string trimmers and brush cutters would all be prohibited by that definition.
The Editor says...
That also outlaws your backup generator, unless you have a really big one.
But then, why would really big engines be okay, if small ones are ruining the earth?
Really? Does this include reverse discrimination and "affirmative action?" Of course not.
Biden
Signs Executive Order to Root Out Systemic Racism from Federal Government. President Joe Biden signed an
executive order Thursday aimed at rooting out systemic racism from the federal government and doing more to achieve
racial equity. The order, made in the middle of Black History month, extends an order Biden made on his first day
in office requiring federal agencies to investigate inequities within their departments and to proactively address
shortcomings. That is now an annual requirement. The aim is to deliver "equitable outcomes" for all
Americans, including underserved communities, through government policies, programs, and services. The order also
requires federal agencies to establish "equity teams," with a designated senior leader charged with implementing the
administration's equity goals and "delivering equitable outcomes, to the extent consistent with applicable law." And it
requires the establishment of a new White House steering committee on equity to "coordinate Government-wide efforts to
advance equity."
Biden
installed: What could possibly go wrong? Biden was not legitimately elected, he was fraudulently
installed. So terrified of Donald Trump are the denizens of the swamp that they were willing to sell out the
country, the Constitution, and the American people, and put into the oval office a man so corrupt and so compromised,
that the nation might never recover from this catastrophic theft of an American presidential election. Biden has
effectively ruined America in two short years. We are no longer energy independent but are being starved of
domestic energy. Businesses, especially restaurants, that survived the ridiculous Covid lockdowns now face
unaffordable gas bills. Gas prices are twice what they were under Trump — and now these fools want to
ban gas stoves! Punishingly absurd. This is a party that means to restrict all of the freedoms Americans
have long taken for granted.
Democrats
propose plan to make federal government give EVERY American born after 2005 a $1,000 savings account.
Congressional Democrats rolled out a spending proposal aimed at closing the racial wealth gap on Wednesday, which would
give at least $1,000 to every American born after 2005. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley
(D-MA) introduced the American Opportunity Accounts Act, which would federalize the use of 'baby bonds' for the
country's youth to help fight wealth inequality. The program would be funded by raising estate and inheritance
taxes. It would result in a major redistribution of wealth to middle and lower-income Americans.
The Editor says...
Any effort by the government "to help fight wealth inequality" is nothing more than a scheme to buy the votes of
lazy people using the wealth of the most productive and successful citizens.
Illinois
bills seek to require EV charging stations in new and renovated homes. Two proposed legislation in
Illinois seek to require new and renovated homes to have electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, a change that could
make new houses more costly. House Bill 2206 states that the Capital Development Board shall adopt rules requiring
each newly constructed residential building in the state that includes a garage "to have enough electric generating
capacity in the garage to charge an electric vehicle." Senate Bill 0040, on the other hand, requires new
single-family residences or small multifamily residences to have at least one electric vehicle capable parking space for
each residential unit that has dedicated parking, unless any subsequently adopted building code requires additional
electric vehicle capable parking spaces or installed electric vehicle supply equipment.
Real and Fake
Worlds: Why the Trains are Failing. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg worked in the fake world of
Harvard and consulting. Consultants do not improve business outcomes. They exist as a way to give cover to
an executive team by saying that the executive team's strategy is the correct one. This also means you can't fire
the executives for failure because the consultants agreed it was the right move. Where do you suppose "Mayor
Pete's" priorities are? [Video clip] Roads and train tracks can't get more real. Polluted water
is as real as it gets. Racial identity politics are part of the fake world. We only get to fight over
nonsense when infrastructure is strong enough to support our bloated selves. The country has decided that the fake
world matters more than the real world.
Forget 'Defund
The Police': There's A New Movement To Handcuff The Cops. Leaders in multiple states and cities are
embracing efforts to bar police from pulling drivers over for certain less-severe traffic violations, a move that some
experts believe endangers public safety. Lawmakers in Washington state are pushing a plan that would forbid police
traffic stops conducted to address some lower-level traffic lawbreaking, and Oregon has already established a similar
policy, while San Francisco is considering a city-wide plan of this kind after Los Angeles and Minneapolis instituted
their own. Such restrictions could effectively impede enforcement against more serious offenses and put innocent
civilians at risk, according to experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
California's
reparations proposals may carry a steep price for Democrats. A long-awaited meeting of San Francisco's
board of supervisors was set this week to discuss the recommendation of its African American Reparations Advisory
Committee to give $5 million to each eligible Black resident as reparations. The meeting was postponed, but the
city and the state soon must make a decision on a bill that has come due for Democratic politicians. The city
council voted unanimously to create the reparations committee in 2020. Even though California was a free state
without slavery before the Civil War, the committee's "particular focus has been the era of urban renewal, perhaps the
most significant example of how the City and County of San Francisco as an institution played a role in undermining
Black wealth and actively displacing the city's Black population." That could be viewed as only a partial payment
for race-related injuries.
Campus
diversity, equity, and inclusion programs make students miserable. Winston Churchill offered two brief,
brilliant definitions of socialism: (1) "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and
the gospel of envy." (2) "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The
inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." In other words, unhappiness is socialism's
lifeblood. It needs unhappy people to be the revolution's foot soldiers and, after the revolution, its praetorian guard.
The
Truth About Biden's Would-Be Gas Stove Ban Comes Out. Since the initial dust-up in early January, the
Biden administration and its media allies have run a relentless campaign to pretend as if concerns over a federal gas
stove ban were made up by Republicans. Unfortunately for them, the internet is forever, and commentary by
administration officials, including CPSC head Alexander Hoehn-Saric, made it clear the idea was on the table.
Democrat politicians also defended the possible move, claiming that gas stoves cause childhood asthma. For several
days, you were treated as an idiot who wanted to harm kids if you didn't think gas stoves should be banned. Even
the late-night TV shows were talking about, and then suddenly, everything changed. The press started to put out
stories asserting that Biden was never going to ban gas stoves and that it was simply a moral panic created by the
right. That wasn't true, but it served as a useful way to abscond from the fact that the administration had
backtracked due to the backlash.
'Democrat
Leadership' is an Oxymoron. Research shows that grandiose narcissists lack self-awareness, exaggerate
their skills and experience, and are not the best leaders. Unfortunately, today's Democrat leaders are riddled
with grandiose narcissism as they determine to save us from ourselves. One example: it's ludicrous that
those so full of hot air would contemplate banning our gas stoves, and clean gas in general. They are more bullies
wielding a cudgel than leaders with a gavel. Such forceful tactics may work in battle or other emergency situations
where there's no time for debate, but not in a government of checks and balances designed for deliberate debate.
86
House Democrats vote against resolution condemning 'horrors of socialism'. The U.S. House of
Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the
Democrats supporting it. H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution "denouncing the horrors of socialism," passed
328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans and three Democrats) not voting.
"This was a win for democracy," Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., the daughter of Cuban exiles who represents
Miami-Dade County and who sponsored the resolution, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. "As the
representative of the city of Miami, and daughter of Cuban exiles, I say that this resolution hits close to home for us
all," she added. "We know that socialism only brings misery, oppression, and exile, wherever it is tried."
Steel Yourselves,
Conservatives. In the lead up to 2022, Democrats not only refused to moderate their support for unlimited
abortion up to the moment of birth, transgender surgery for minors, critical race theory, criminal justice reform, and
illegal immigration, they doubled-down. Voters rewarded them with additional governorships, four flipped state
legislatures, an increased Senate majority, and minimal losses in the House. The Left has zero reason to take the
foot off the gas. Elections, legitimate or not, have consequences. The most likely outcome of the 2024
election is that Democrats retake the House, keep the Senate, and retain the presidency, regardless of who they run or
what the economy looks like. As Joe Biden and Jon Fetterman proved in 2020 and 2022, respectively, Democrats don't
need to actually campaign in order to win political office. Nor do they need to be able to string together a
coherent sentence.
After
His State Takes Away Gas Stoves, Sen. Schumer Falsely Claims "Nobody is Taking Away Your Gas Stove".
Political discourse is skipping right past the "make a good argument" stage to the "lying right to your face" stage.
[...] Schumer also tweeted that Republicans were, "cooking up a silly, shameless, and desperate narrative that Democrats
are coming for your gas stove." Fact Check: Infinity pinnochios. The governor of his own state has proposed a
gas stove ban. [...] Yes, they want to ban your stove, your car, your home and your life. It's what they do.
And they lie about it non-stop until they're ready to do it.
100
Members of Congress Refused to Denounce Socialism - Here Are Their Names. Republicans in Congress passed a
resolution Wednesday condemning the ideology of socialism and the destruction it has wrought throughout history.
While 219 Republicans were united in their opposition, House Democrats were split, with 109 voting for the condemnation,
86 voting against it and 14 others voting "present." According to the Washington Examiner, the final tally for the
vote was 328-86, indicating a sizable chunk of Democrat opposition.
Those
Attacks on Gas Stoves Aren't Really about Health. Earlier this month, the Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) announced that indoor gas stoves emitted harmful pollution. Several studies claim that the use
of gas can cause respiratory illness. The CPSC is considering restrictions on gas stoves, including possible bans
in new residential construction. But attacks on gas stoves are based on questionable science and are largely
driven by concerns not related to health. The CPSC has reportedly been considering actions on gas stoves since
October. Richard Trumpka, Jr., a CPSC commissioner, stated "This is a hidden hazard. Any option is on the
table. Products that can't be made safe can be banned." Two recent studies figure prominently in agency
concerns. The first, published in January last year by Eric Lebel and others, found that gas stoves and ovens emit
hazardous levels of methane and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The second, published in December last year by Talor Gruenwald
and others, estimated that 12.7 percent of childhood asthma cases in the US were due to gas stove use.
Nitrous oxide (NO) is produced at combustion temperatures above 1,600°C by breaking down nitrogen molecules in
air. Modern stove burner flames reach temperatures above 1,600°C, producing NO. The nitrous oxide then
combines with oxygen to form nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant. But the amount of NO2 generated by stoves is very
small, only parts per billion (ppb) levels.
Responding to the demands of almost nobody...
Energy
Department proposes efficiency rules for cooking devices after gas stove furor. The Department of Energy
is proposing new energy conservation standards for new household gas and electric cooking devices, some of which have
never been subject to federal efficiency standards. DOE's proposed rule-making, published Wednesday, follows the
recent political frenzy over the fate of gas stoves that was ignited after a federal regulator at the Consumer Product
Safety Commission said his agency could ban them to reduce indoor air pollution. The proposed rule-making would
set new efficiency standards for both electric and gas cooking tops, preventing them from exceeding set levels of energy
use per year.
The Editor says...
[#1] What does that last sentence mean? If your stove exceeds "set levels of energy use per year" while you're
cooking your Christmas dinner, will it quit working for the rest of the year? Who would benefit from that?
[#2] We have a centuries-old system of elected representatives in this country, which the regulatory agencies are bypassing,
in order to justify their continued existence. If everybody opposes natural gas, we will let our Congressmen know,
and they'll vote to phase it out. That will never happen, of course, because natural gas is a very popular and
feasible alternative to electricity or coal or firewood.
Every Democrat voted to extend the COVID-19 "emergency." I wonder why.
House
ignores White House objections, votes to end COVID health emergency. The House on Tuesday ignored
opposition from President Joe Biden and voted to end the public health emergency related to COVID-19, winning some
support from House Democrats on a second bill that would end the government's requirement that federal health care
workers must be vaccinated against COVID. The two bills — the Pandemic is Over Act and the Freedom for
Health Care Workers Act — were planned by Republicans last week; and late Monday, the White House announced
that it will terminate the national COVID emergency on May 11. The White House also announced its opposition to
the two bills up for a vote today. But Republicans pressed ahead anyway and easily passed both measures despite
the GOP's narrow majority in the House.
Why conservatives
oppose the war. Patrick Buchanan has retired at 84 after a long and influential career as a writer, TV
commentator and presidential advisor (Nixon, Ford and Reagan). He saw through George H.W. Bush and later opposed
the Gulf War. He opposes the blank check Washington has given Zelensky in this war. "For us, the greatest
stake in this Russia-Ukraine war is not who ends up in control of Luhansk, Donetsk or Kherson, but that we not be drawn
into a military conflict that would put us on the escalator to a war with Russia, a world war and perhaps a nuclear war.
"Nothing in Eastern or Central Europe is worth a major U.S. war with Russia that could go nuclear and cost millions of
American lives." That last sentence is heresy to the hysterical hawks, but the line rings true for conservatives
who, after initial rah-rah support for Ukraine, are having second thoughts.
The
root of our problems as a nation. When a six-year-old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, the
first thought was that it was an accident. When upon further review it was announced that it was intentional and
deliberate, a sort of shock wave went through the population. This was not just another incident, not just another
step along the road to perdition. Society is no longer slouching toward Gomorrah. Like the expanding cosmos,
the headlong race toward the edge of the cliff is actually accelerating. This was a quantum leap, an
order-of-magnitude increase. When one observes the breathtaking increase in moral degeneracy, one is reminded of
the biblical warning that the beast, knowing that his time is short, is seeking to devour whom he may. [...] Society is
becoming more and more disoriented, less structured in terms of norms, and, as an inevitable result, more
dysfunctional. Indeed, the definition of what is "normal" has become so vague as to have lost all practical
meaning. If everything is normal, then nothing is. If everything is a matter of personal opinion, then facts
become irrelevant. If your truth is not my truth, nor mine yours, then there can be no social contract. Dysfunctional
societies must eventually collapse. Whether from internal strife or external invasion, they cannot survive.
Now
the Left Is Coming for Your Pickup Trucks, America — and Their 'Logic' Couldn't Be More
Ridiculous. Rather than "only" coming after our evil, planet-destroying passenger cars, the left is
targeting our pickup trucks as well, my fellow Americans. Moreover, the idiocy is neither new nor driven only by
the left's hatred of internal combustion engines. As I first reported in January 2021 — and this is
laugh-out-loud hysterical — pickup trucks not only brazenly project "petromasculinity"; they're also the
personification (or would that be "truckification"?) of "glorification of violence and domination." Incidentally,
one of the many benefits enjoyed by conservative political pundits is never having to make [stuff] up; the left's got
you covered on a regular basis.
The Editor says...
"Petromasculinity" made automobiles feasible, and made America a superpower, beginning in about 1942.
Taking
on the Would-be Destroyers of America. Enemies of Freedom wish to see our prosperous nation willingly give
up our success to become a failed state. [...] To be successful, destroyers must control the meaning of words. The
destroyers had to take a functioning country with the world's largest middle class and tank it. Not only that, but
to tank it with the acquiescence of a significant portion of the population and make it appear noble. Where do you
start? First, you become a metaphorical geologist and, in that way, uncover our stress points. But instead
of rock, you look at fissures like inequities, racial disparities, the continuing breakdown of families, and how to take
on the economic and political power structures. Introduce fear, such as claiming the end of the world is at hand
through climate change. Then, institutionalize the process so that challenging "change" identifies you as one of
the dangerous ones standing in the way of "progress."
Elijah
Mohammed street-naming: Just when you think the NYC Council couldn't go any lower. Just when you think the
City Council couldn't go lower, along comes Councilmember Kristin Jordan-Richardson looking to rename a Harlem street
after Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who promoted an odd mixture of black nationalism, "black capitalism" and
black separatism. And in the most pernicious of ironies, KJR proposes "The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way" for
the corner of West 127th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. Speculation continues to this day about Mohammad's
involvement in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, who'd broken fully and public with the NOI not long
before — in part over credible accusations against Mohammad of sex with underaged girls and adulterous
activities with multiple women in the sect.
The Editor says...
Here is a rule of thumb, which I think I heard from Rush Limbaugh: in any city that has a street called "Malcolm X Boulevard,"
that's the most dangerous street in town; especially at the corner where it intersects Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Democrats
want 8.7% pay hike for federal workers who were 'subjected to' Trump. Democrats are proposing giving
federal workers an 8.7% pay increase for toiling through the Trump administration and the coronavirus pandemic.
The suggested pay increase for the 2 million federal workers would take effect in 2024, and would come after they
received the 4.6% raise this year from President Biden. "For years now, federal employees have risked their health
and safety working on the frontlines of this pandemic," Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said in a press release
announcing that he and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) would reintroduce the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates, or
FAIR Act.
People
Arrested at NYC Protest Show Exactly the Problem With Dem Approach to Law Enforcement. We saw some of the
violence that went on in New York City in the wake of the release of the horrible video of the beating of Tyre
Nichols. People are legitimately upset with the actions of the police in this case. But in NYC, you also had
the radical leftists who are pushing their political agenda, no matter the reason or the cause. Everything is an
argument about why the current order should be shifted to the left. The march in NYC, which featured the Party of
Socialism and Liberation leading the way, dissolved into violence in Times Square when a man began stomping on a police
car and breaking the windshield. Police tried to arrest him and then others tried to free him. Then the
police were trying to make another arrest, reportedly of one of the organizers of the march, when a woman intervened and
started allegedly punching at cops. [Tweet]
Speed
Is No Issue Unless It's About How Fast Our Liberty Is Being Lost. Government, unfortunately, rarely admits
to or learns from its mistakes and often seems determined to repeat them in updated form. Sometimes, it descends
into the bizarre, as when New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that "buildings are the largest source of emissions in our
state" and that's why she's "proposing a plan to end the sale of any new fossil-fuel-powered heating equipment by
2030." It's probably safe to extrapolate that the bulk of the heating equipment required under her scheme would be
powered by electricity and that the electricity will be generated by solar, wind and/or hydro. Keep that point in
mind. Governor Hochul's push for increased use of electricity comes not long after she "called for major
regulatory action that will require all new passenger cars, pick-up trucks and SUVs sold in New York State to be
zero-emission by 2035. Governor Hochul has also proposed that all school buses be zero-emission by that the same
year," according to a press release from her office. Those "zero-emissions" vehicles obviously would be powered by
electricity from the same sources and over the same distribution system as would her proposed heating equipment.
It's
Not Just Gas Stoves Democrats Are Coming For. Earlier this month, Biden's Consumer Product Safety
Commission announced that it opposed gas stoves and was looking at ways to eliminate them, prompting an outcry over the
coming ban. But climate scolds aren't just looking to ban your gas stove, America. They have a long list of
other appliances they want canceled, too. On Jan. 9, the CPSC pointed out that about 35 percent of U.S.
households use gas stoves, and then warned of the dangers of their use. [...] The nanny state move was further
complicated by the fact that the study, used by CPSC, warning that gas stoves promote asthma in kids was partly funded
by RMI, a group that seeks to "accelerate the clean energy transition," and was co-authored by Brady Seals, the manager
of RMI's Carbon-Free Buildings arm, which aims to retrofit buildings with electric appliances. In turn, RMI, which
used the study to promote stove electrification, has received at least $1 million in donations from
Breakthrough Energy, a "green energy" investment firm founded by Bill Gates, as well as the Bezos Earth Fund and
Bloomberg Philanthropies, according to the 2022 RMI donors report.
Gas
bags: Progressive war on your stove is very real. The first clue is the kinder, gentler puff pieces
appearing in the op-ed sections of the usual suspects. They pooh-pooh sane people's dismissal of the recent,
pretty thoroughly debunked BOMBSHELL STUDY. You know. The one where they measured all these horrific
toxic chemicals flooding the air while cooking on gas stoves... in kitchens encased in sheets of plastic sealed with
dust-proof ZipWall barriers? [Tweet] Yeah. That's the one. Not surprisingly, the New York Times has
jumped on the "simmer down" bandwagon. Quit trying to deny they're bad for you and Mother Gaia.
Let us lead you to the wonderful world of induction!
The
most dangerous legislator in America? California State Senator Scott Wiener could be the most dangerous
legislator in the nation. That's the lesson I took away from a great piece by Abigail Shrier I just read in City
Journal, one of the best magazines in America. It shines a light on Weiner's one-man crusade to empower human
traffickers in the State of California under the guise of protecting LGBTQIA+ rights. [...] And as Shrier describes in
the opening to her piece, Weiner got a law passed that vastly expanded the street prostitution trade, by removing all
penalties for a loitering law that gave police probable cause to arrest street prostitutes. In practical terms
that meant that police couldn't identify minors who were being trafficked and separate them from their abusive
pimps. The result has been drastic — the number of young women escaping sex slavery in California has
dropped to near zero.
Dave
Chappelle Says out Loud What Absolutely Everyone Is Thinking About Trans Activists.
[Scroll down] These kinds of protests by the radical trans lobby are nothing more than performance art and
they always pick on a group they know won't fight back (again, minus our barricade-throwing heroine). They are absolute
phonies trying to stir up trouble where there isn't any. It's just the left being the left — the supply
of legitimate anti-trans crimes doesn't come close to meeting their insatiable demand, so they try to create it by
taunting people not looking for a fight. Their hope, of course, is that someone will finally snap and fight back,
thus they'll be able to make the the claim that the trans community is being victimized. Unfortunately for the
perma-woke, Dave Chappelle's got their number and he's not afraid to say what we're all thinking: Their ultimate goal
is to garner publicity and to create controversy where there isn't any — and it's a tired schtick that's long
since run its course.
Do
You Trust the Integrity of Our Elections? How long would it take for the United States to become a fascist
nation if we were to adopt some of the ideas that were recently offered in the "For the People Act," the "John Lewis
Voting Rights Act," and/or the "Freedom to Vote Act"? Democrats have proposed...
• complete legalization of ballot harvesting so that a ballot could be submitted, on your behalf, by paid operatives.
• automatic voter registration for all adults (with no verification of citizenship).
• universal ability to vote by mail, for any reason.
• no voter ID requirement in states that choose not to have one.
States that already have an ID requirement would be forced to weaken it by accepting a broad array of documents,
including copies of utility bills or sworn statements (in lieu of ID).
• voting by convicted felons, unless they happen to be in prison on the day of the election.
• a ban on post-election independent audits, such as the Arizona Senate audit of Maricopa County's
2020 election. Only "official" audits would be allowed.
The proposals (above) are truly scary, and this may be the reason for GOP opposition to any national standard.
However, a country-wide standard is essential. We can no longer allow some states to cheat by allowing
non-citizens to votes, or by allowing political operatives to cast votes on behalf of unsuspecting residents.
Democrats
Propose Overturning The First Amendment. Adam Schiff and a group of Democrats introduced a proposed
constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, one of the greatest free-speech victories in
history. It's just a political stunt, of course, as Schiff doesn't have the votes. But it does reflect the
authoritarian outlook of the contemporary left on free expression. From the day the decision came down,
13 years ago this week, Citizens United was a rallying cry for those threatened by unregulated
discourse. President Barack Obama infamously, and inaccurately, rebuked the justices during his State of the Union
for upholding the First Amendment. Since then, Democrats have regularly blamed the decision for the alleged
corrosion of "democracy." Recall, however, that Citizens United decision revolved around the federal
government's banning of a documentary critical of 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the Democratic
primary elections. At the time, McCain-Feingold made it illegal for corporations (groups of freely associating
citizens) and unions (ditto) to engage in "electioneering" a month before a primary or two months before a general
election. It was outright censorship. In oral arguments, then-Solicitor General of the United States,
now-Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan initially contended that the federal government had the right to censor books that
"express advocacy."
The
greenie left is coming for your coffee. It wasn't enough that the greenie left came for our light bulbs,
our flush toilets, our guns, our plastic straws, our gas stoves, or our hamburgers. Now they're coming for our
coffee. [...] What they want, of course, is to take away more stuff from us, the better to control us. It wasn't
enough to target our gas-powered cars and tell us to take the bus. It wasn't enough to take away our electricity
and natural gas in the name of 'going green' and tell consumers to freeze in winter. It wasn't enough to howl for
an end to jet travel while greenie leftists bought carbon indulgences and continued to jet about with their private
planes. It wasn't enough to take away our plastic bags, to ensure that we only use unsanitary bacteria-filled
cloth recycle bags. It wasn't enough to take away our meat and tell us to eat bugs. All these are things
they are — no, really — trying to take away. In some cases, they have succeeded at such
schemes, too, all for a phony and chimerical quest to stop global warming, which somehow never happens.
Democrat-led
cities are already moving forward with gas stove bans that will affect millions. Democratic leaders in
major cities nationwide have already moved forward with bans on natural gas stoves even as the Biden administration has
pumped the brakes on similar regulations at the federal level. Cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, San
Francisco, Seattle and New York City — which are collectively home to more than 10 million
Americans — have enacted varying restrictions on natural gas hookups impacting gas-powered furnaces, ovens
and stoves. Leaders of the Democrat-led cities have argued that transitioning away from natural gas would help
achieve climate and net-zero ambitions.
The Editor says...
Nobody thought gas appliances were a problem until about two weeks ago. And now there's a mad rush to get rid of them,
for reasons that are never mentioned because their reasons are so stupid!
JPMorgan
Chase CEO Warns Against Halt to Gas Use on CNBC; Musk Agrees. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon dealt
leftists a dose of energy infrastructure reality on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday [1/19/2023]. While leftists are
busy calling for Americans to chuck their gas stoves off a cliff in the name of climate change, Dimon quipped, "We need
oil and gas," when Squawk Box co-host Joe Kernen asked him whether stakeholders will increase pressure on companies to
pursue Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies. Dimon said it would take "50 years" to transition
away from oil and gas completely. "It's a hundred million barrels a day that are used to heat, fuel, [and] feed
people." Dimon's comments are simply common sense. Anyone with a watt of common sense realizes that an
entire nation cannot merely switch its method of energy production and consumption overnight.
NY
lawmakers push to have Lunar New Year declared a public holiday. As the day approaches, a number of New
York lawmakers have pushed the state to recognize Lunar New Year as a public holiday. Assemblymember William
Colton introduced a bill on the subject in the 2021-2022 legislative session. He and Assemblymember Grace Lee, who
was elected in November of 2022, have pushed for the calendar change. Colton plans to reintroduce his bill in the
next legislative session. He's said declaring Lunar New Year as a public holiday will promote increased awareness
of both Asian history and tradition.
Democrats
Propose Constitutional Amendment to Overturn First Amendment Decision. Democrats in the House of
Representatives have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United
v. FEC decision made in 2010. The court ruled 5 [to] 4 that the free speech clause of the First Amendment
prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations and overruled
an earlier decision that banned corporations from making "electioneering communications." Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif) said in a press release he and Democrat colleagues introduced the "Democracy For All Amendment" to "overturn
legal precedents that have allowed unrestrained campaign spending and dark money to corrupt American democracy." He has
introduced the constitutional amendment every year since 2013, according to the release.
There's an announcement like this almost every week:
Joe
Biden's Secretary of State Announces $2.5 Billion More in Ukraine Military Aid. President Joe Biden's
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, announced another $2.5 billion in military aid for Ukraine on Thursday and said
the United States "will stand united with Ukraine for as long as it takes." The most recent aid package comes
after Congress awarded $45 billion to Ukraine in the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that Biden
signed into law last month, bringing the total amount of U.S. aid sent to Ukraine to over $110 billion.
At
Davos, the Rev. John Kerry Signals His Place Among the Elect. Before getting to the sillier part of
his homily, allow me to explain what Neo-Puritanism is and why it has surfaced. The concept is implicit in the
very word "progressive." In the last decade or two, that word has replaced "liberal" as self-definition among the
Left. On the Right, we shorthand the Left's shifting semantics into the more useful "woke," a word that on the
Left originally meant someone who had awakened and seen the light. At the risk of tautology, progressives, by
definition, progress. Unlike old-school liberals who could content themselves with a status quo, progressives move
forward. They refuse to rest, refuse to reflect. That much said, few among them have any clue as to what
their ultimate destination might be.
Bay
Area Regulators Want To Ban Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you
may soon have to give up your natural gas heaters. On March 15, regulators will decide if they will ban new
propane water heaters and furnaces, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Residents would have to replace
their broken gas units with electric appliances, starting in 2027 for most water heaters and in 2029 for furnaces.
The sweeping proposal from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board is similar to a recent move by the Biden
administration to crack down on gas stoves because of their alleged link to childhood asthma. The news drew
immediate public outrage, which the media described as the latest twist in the "culture wars."
Meet
the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That's Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves. The green energy group
behind a study cited in Consumer Product Safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr.'s call to ban gas stoves has partnered
with the Chinese government to implement an "economy-wide transformation" away from oil and gas. Colorado-based
nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood
asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists. [...] The Rocky Mountain Institute
is far from the first green energy group to advocate for the banning of gas stoves, which nearly 40 percent of U.S.
homes use. But the nonprofit's newfound influence reflects the Biden administration's alignment with the left's
loudest climate activists. President Joe Biden has already proposed a natural gas phaseout in federal buildings,
which would ban fossil-fuel equipment in new buildings by 2030.
CNN host accidentally EXPOSES real motives
for gas stove ban live on-air. Every once in a while, left-wing propagandists will accidentally blurt out
the truth. That's exactly what happened on CNN the other day when one of the network's hosts was discussing the
Biden administration's proposed war on gas stoves. While the official party line from the federal government
claimed that gas stoves needed to be phased out to prevent childhood asthma, CNN let slip that there is a bigger motive
behind the move. [Video clip]
The
Gas Stove Scare Is A Fraud Created By Climate Change Authoritarians. In the past I have often tried to
take a big picture approach to the issues facing the American public and how there is almost always a deeper connection
between a variety of political and economic events. And, what has become increasingly clear to me is that in order
to understand government actions and geopolitics, you must always ask yourself "Who benefits?" [...] Right now I'd like
to take a look at a relatively small issue and how the little dominoes lead up to a bigger con game and a bigger
disaster. Let's talk about gas stoves. Frankly, I don't care about what my stove uses to cook with as long
as it works. That said, around 38% of US households use natural gas for cooking and heating. That's a
significant percentage of people that rely on gas based energy for their daily needs. Here's the problem,
though — Natural gas is not politically correct these days. Nearly all carbon emitting energy
sources have been marked by climate activists and western governments as a threat that needs to be erased between
2030 [and] 2050.
Why
Deception Is Essential to the Left. News item: Stanford University withdraws its "Harmful Language" list
after it received widespread publicity — and universal ridicule. But other universities are quietly
imposing similar "language guidance" albeit without high-profile master lists that would expose them to the withering
laughter and contempt they deserve. News item: The Biden Administration rushes to reassure Americans that there is
"no plan" to ban natural gas stoves. This is a lie, of course. Lots of progressive cities —
and even New York state — are moving to impose bans on all natural gas appliances. There is no doubt
that the climatistas are determined to take away your gas stoves. What do these two stories have in common?
In both cases the left was too open and explicit about what they wanted, drawing unwanted and premature attention.
Is
[the] U.S. Headed Toward Socialism? Majority Says 'Yes': I&I/TIPP Poll. In recent years, government
in the U.S. has never been bigger, in terms of both spending and its power over individuals and the economy. Some
have begun to openly wonder: Is the U.S. evolving into a socialist-style economy? And is that what Americans
want? The latest I&I/TIPP Poll has answers. Over the last three years, due to the COVID pandemic, government
spending at all levels averaged just over 44% of GDP, the highest since World War II, when much of the economy was
essentially socialized in order to boost war spending. Today, a majority of Americans agree that the sudden, rapid
growth from COVID-related spending and burgeoning top-down control over the domestic economy to address climate change
have put U.S. on a path toward socialism.
Who
was behind that greenie push to ban gas stoves? The call to ban gas stoves in the U.S., based on
environmental concerns, certainly drew backlash from an angry public tired of seeing their household appliances,
critical possessions and standard of living being targeted. After all, they've already gotten our incandescent
light bulbs and flush toilets in many quarters. They've meddled with the design of our cars and guns.
They're trying to get our meat, telling us to eat bugs instead. Many consumers, and professional chefs, who say
gas is best for cooking, simply put their collective foot down. Where did this lunacy come from? About where
you'd expect — from our enemies.
Questionable
Governor Katie Hobbs Rolls Out New Budget Proposal Eliminating Border Security, Repealing School Choice
Law. Katie Hobbs' first budget proposal, released on Friday, January 13, calls for the defunding and total
elimination of Arizona's 'Border Strike Force,' $40 million for illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition rates,
and the repeal of a new school voucher law giving school choice to all families. As The Gateway Pundit reported,
in 2022, The Arizona Legislature passed a new law expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Account program, giving every
family in the state the freedom to choose their child's school no matter which school they attend. Katie Hobbs did
everything possible to prevent this law from taking effect late last year. As she removes tax breaks for American
families, Hobbs calls for $40 million to be used on financial aid programs for illegal immigrants.
Sheila
Jackson Lee wants to criminalize "white supremacy" writings that are felt to have inspired a crime. Here's
the bill that Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced. Its title is "Leading Against White Supremacy Act of
2023" — and so I would guess it might be unconstitutional because of its race specificity: [...] I believe
what this bill proposes is that, if someone publishes anything online that is read or viewed by someone who later
commits any crime motivated by "white supremacy," that first person can be convicted of conspiracy with that second one
even if they have never met or communicated in any way, and even if that person writing the online material is not
advocating crimes of any sort. If a judge or jury decides the publicized words fall under any broad and
ill-defined heading of "white supremacy," both people could be convicted. I've mentioned several times before
that, even back when I was in law school eons ago, I didn't like conspiracy laws because they seemed dangerous to me and
easy to misuse. Nothing since then has disabused me of that idea. This bill won't pass. But if the
House was controlled by Democrats instead of Republicans, would it pass?
Democrat
Introduces Legislation to Make White People Criticizing Minorities a Federal Crime. Rep. Shelia
Jackson Lee, long in the running for being the vapidest member of Congress (oops, did I just commit a crime?), has
introduced legislation that could make political criticism by white people against minorities a federal crime. In
what can only be called a convoluted mess, the bill proposes that a white person who "vilifies" any non-white person and
has their words end up on social media, accessible by "persons who are predisposed to engaging in any action in
furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime," would themselves be committing a federal crime.
[Tweet] The provision is so broad that you could drive a Mack truck through it. What is a "white
supremacy-inspired hate crime" under this statute? How is "replacement theory" defined?
We're
All Chicagoans Now. Much has been made about California leading the country: the Golden State is said
to be America's future, and to some extent, that is happening. But in other respects, as a nation, we're becoming
more like Chicago, and Chicago is our future unless we struggle against progressive policies. Chicago is perhaps
the most solidly Democrat city in America. It has not elected a Republican mayor since 1927. And what it has
created in the past 95 years is a society that suffers from inequality, corruption, and violence on a scale beyond
anything seen elsewhere in America. Chicago ought to be a case study in what not to do, but liberals like Obama
and Biden seem to think it is a blueprint for success — and it is, if only for the political elite who
rule over a helpless underclass. That blueprint involves transforming citizens into clients of the State, a
process that progressives have begun calling "democracy." Progressives intend to establish a socialist
totalitarian society with a permanent underclass ruled by a small elite — the so-called vanguard of the
proletariat that Lenin said must rule indefinitely until workers were prepared to govern themselves, a day that never
has arrived in any communist state.
The Green War on
Natural Gas Heats Up. Historically, those on the left never saw an energy source they liked.
Americans who have been around for a few decades remember the protests at nuclear power plants. Then there is the
war on coal which has been largely successful and continues unabated. But something can and should be said for
having a diversity of power available. If one supply goes down, there has always been another. But it
appears the ability to pick and choose is now under fire. On Jan. 14, Liberty Nation's Sarah Cowgill reported
on Governor Kathy Hochul's natural gas ban in New York, which will take place over the next ten years. This will
mean approximately 60% of New Yorkers will have to transition their homes to electric everything from water heaters to
stoves and ovens — the whole enchilada. Dictating energy sources is a dicey business because it takes
away a consumer's freedom of choice. This has become so troubling that 20 states have already passed laws
that make it illegal to block natural gas hookups.
Gas-stove
ban is off, claims Biden, but many are skeptical. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, and millions of
natural gas-cooking Americans can breathe a little easier: Both President Biden and the head of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission say they have no plans to ban natural gas stoves. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
said yesterday that Biden "does not support banning gas stoves." Jean-Pierre pointed to a clarifying statement by
the head of the CPSC to buttress her point. "I want to set the record straight. Contrary to recent media
reports, I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the [CPSC] has no proceeding to do so," Alex Hoehn-Saric, chair of CPSC,
tweeted yesterday. [...] Conservatives had a field day exploiting the apparent floating of a potential ban on popular
natural gas stoves, showing photos of First Lady Jill Biden, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other top Democrats
cooking with gas. Others noted that the main study launching the discussion was authored by writers tied to two
climate-change advocacy groups.
A
Revolution in the Minds of the People. I have a guttural revulsion to one-world-government types who seek
to rule the world by turning domestic populations against themselves. "Divide and conquer" is the only strategy they
know, and oppression disguised as altruism is the only outcome they bring. They speak obsessively about racism not
because they seek racial peace, but rather because the exploitation of such petty, ancient hatreds distracts people from
the real problems those with power continue to create. They preach about "climate change" not because they fear
that our planet is coming to an end, but because scaring humanity into handing governments complete control over the use
of energy hands governments complete control over humanity as well. They hyperventilate over COVID variants today
not because they seek to save lives, but because they seek to monitor and manipulate every movement of every life from
here on out.
Like
Paul Revere, a Massachusetts Republican Sends Warning. How do progressives govern? During the COVID
debacle, we got a good look at progressive blue state governors and then a progressive president in action. They
govern like absolute monarchs, decreeing mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and destructive lockdowns. They
abusively utilize 'emergency powers' that have no end date. They impose unconstitutional executive orders that
bypass legislative approval. [...] They've worked to silence conservative voices, suppressing all opposition. Even
the White House is in on it. What's on the agenda? Progressive Democrats plan to federalize elections,
violating the Constitutional requirement that state legislatures control elections. They want to pack the Supreme
Court to bend it to their will. They plan to add D.C. and Puerto Rico as new states, thus giving themselves more
Democrat senators and representatives, as well as additional electoral votes. Ultimately, they plan to abolish the
Electoral College altogether in favor of a national popular vote. They want immediate amnesty for all illegal
aliens. Progressive presidents have also installed corrupt federal judges to block any attempt by conservatives to
'right the ship.' What destructive, evil, self-serving people these are! They are heedless of the damage they
are causing to the country.
Get Ready
for 'Climate Change Death' Tracking. Anyone following the regime's playbook already understands that when
you disagree with it, you'll be accused of killing someone. Don't take the vaccine, don't lock down, or don't wear
a mask — you're killing grandma. Question voting and balloting procedures, and your words will provoke
a deadly insurrection. Suggest that a man can't get pregnant, and you're guilty of stochastic terrorism. The
regime characterizes conservatives as killers for their opinions, yet its partisans celebrate abortion up to
parturition. It wants to let murderers out of jail, and is now moving to destigmatize the "dignified" culling of
the elderly and infirm. Climate change is the platform from which the regime seeks to achieve power by creating a
rationale for laws and regulations that dictate where and how people can move, live, purchase, and work. So it
makes sense that climate change would re-emerge as a priority just as the world moves on from a pandemic, where the body
count of those dying "from" or "with" Covid was used to justify repressive policies such as lockdowns, shutdowns,
election process changes, and the prevention of the practice of your religious faith.
Talk about Gaslighting!.
The Biden Administration has beat a hasty retreat from the trial balloon of banning natural gas stoves and other
appliances, but this is likely only because they got caught before the bureaucratic rule-making machinery of the
administrative state could make it fait accompli and provide cover for Democratic politicians. You know in your
bones the authoritarian climatistas are determined to ban all natural gas use that they can. As Jim Geraghty
pointed out at National Review, "When a member of a federal commission says 'any option is on the table' and
'products that can't be made safe can be banned,' you cannot say that 'fears of a ban are unfounded.'" I'm so old
I can remember back in the 1980s when the air quality regulators in Los Angeles wanted to ban backyard charcoal
barbecues and fast-food drive-through windows even though they had barely negligible air pollution impacts even with the
most generous computer "models" of pollution attribution.
Biden
Is Coming for Your Gas Stove. Compelling Americans to give up fossil fuels, gas stoves, and other
gas-fired appliances is not a vice for the Biden administration. Now more than ever, the administration's climate
change police are coming after cooks and Americans who heat their homes with natural gas. Consistent with this
prospect, the Wall Street Journal editorial board concludes that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is
poised to ban gas stoves soon. A puritanical war on fossil fuels drives this possibility. It follows a
destructive pattern designed to impoverish and control American citizens. President Biden has consistently claimed
that climate change is the greatest threat to American security. He argues that Americans must embrace an
ambitious climate action plan to prevent the cruelest impacts of climate change as part of the global transition to
clean energy technology. Spurred by the Biden administration's climate change fantasy, the federal government is
working tirelessly to make fossil fuels scarcer and more unavailable. This wearisome campaign represents a
surrender to far-left environmentalists, who are committed to making natural gas, petroleum, and all forms of fossil
fuel more expensive for working people.
About
that gas stove ban... Never mind. Yesterday we discussed the ridiculous idea of a federal ban on gas
stoves floated by Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka. This crazy idea was quickly panned far and
wide, particularly by chefs and others in the restaurant industry. The outrage over this latest woke nonsense was
great enough that it caught the attention of government officials who realized that they had clearly picked up a live
political grenade and were looking for somewhere to throw it. By the end of the evening, CPSC Chairman
Alexander D. Hoehn-Saric issued a "clarifying" statement, saying that he was "not looking to ban gas stoves" and
his commission "has no proceeding to do so." Perhaps government idiocy isn't quite as bulletproof as many of us
had previously assumed.
Jerry
Nadler Argues Taking Babies to Hospital who Survive Abortions to Save Them — "Endangers" the
Baby. Rep. Jerry Nadler argued on the House floor that taking babies to the hospital who survive the
abortion procedure "endangers" the baby. Democrats prefer the abortion doctor let the baby bleed out on the table.
[...] Barack Obama voted four times while he served in the Illinois Senate in support of infanticide. This was
before he joined the US Senate in 2005. Obama opposed life-sustaining treatments for babies born alive after
failed abortions. It's one of his unbelievable and extremist positions that the liberal media overlooked while he
was in office.
210 Democrats
vote against bill requiring medical care for babies born alive after abortion attempt. Nearly every House
Democrat on Wednesday voted against legislation that would require immediate medical attention for babies who are born
alive after an attempt was made to abort them. The House passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,
which says any infant born alive after an attempted abortion is a "legal person for all purposes under the laws of the
United States." Doctors would be required to care for those infants as a "reasonably diligent and conscientious
health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive." The bill passed 220-210, and all 210 of the
"no" votes came from Democrats. Only one Democrat voted for the bill — Rep. Henry Cuellar of
Texas — and one other Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, voted "present." Following that
level of care, doctors would be required admit those infants to a hospital for further care. Any violation of this
standard would result in fines and imprisonment for up to five years, or both.
Gov.
Hochul quietly sneaks in proposal to ban sale of gas stoves, fuels outrage across New York.
Gov. Kathy Hochul quietly snuck a proposal to outlaw new gas stoves into the "New York Housing Compact" she
unveiled during her State of the State speech Tuesday — urging people to ditch their kitchens' gas grills and
go electric. The ban would affect old-timers and millennials who are obsessed with cast-iron pans, which are
tricky to use on electric stoves. "This is plain stupid," said a 70-year-old resident of Sea Gate, Brooklyn, who
gave his name as Victor K. "We lost electricity before, during Hurricane Sandy. The only thing we had
to heat up our food was gas. What if that happens again?" Hochul's plan would ban gas stoves, hot water
heaters and oil furnaces in both new home and commercial construction by the end of the decade.
The Editor says...
Isn't the demand for electricity already as great as the supply, with the addition of electric cars, Bitcoin mining, and marijuana
farms? Now millions of homes and restaurants will need electric power like never before. The only way around
this lunacy is if every restaurant installs a natural gas-powered generator! That's assuming natural gas isn't
outlawed entirely — to save the Earth.
Welcome
to New Yorkifornia. [Scroll down] Haven't there been enough rolling disasters for years already
in California for them to take a time out? Europe's crisis means nothing? The fact that the Carolinas had
their first winter blackouts EVER this year, because why? North Carolina's state-mandated clean energy plan, and
the huge population shift combined with the electrification of home heating. That not one soul planned in advance
to add capacity to the grid for. They are making the exact same mistake here. Nowhere in the mumbo
jumbo about justice and diversity is a peep about expanded capacity to handle the tremendous additional demands all this
new beneficial electrification is going to gobble up. Especially when solar panels are covered in 4 feet of
snow and the wind isn't blowing. Here goes New York, plunging merrily into the heat pump abyss — in a
state where it gets cold, and they get snow measured in feet. All winter long.
Biden
administration gas stove ban idea leaves NYC restaurants feeling burned. During a Friday night dinner
rush, executive chef Peter Petti will have stainless steel pots of pasta water boiling while searing salmon and steaks,
all 12 burners ignited on the gas stoves at Sojourn, a New American restaurant on the Upper East Side. Nearly
everything on his menu — from a 30-day, dry-aged NY strip to a chocolate flambeed dessert —
is cooked on the range. "Some dishes require two or three pans on the burners," said Petti, 45, who's been cooking
with gas since the beginning of his culinary career in the early 2000s, when he started as a line cook at Eleven Madison
Park. The Feds, however, can't stand the heat. On Monday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it
was considering a nationwide ban on gas stoves, which are currently used in 37% of US households and 76% of US
restaurants, according to Consumer Reports and the National Restaurant Association. The safety commission cited
recent reports that gas stoves emit unsafe levels of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide and have
been linked to cancers, respiratory illnesses and cardiovascular problems. But the city's chefs and restaurateurs
are fuming at the possibility of a ban and the devastating effect it could have on the health of their businesses.
Really?
They want to ban gas stoves now? The Consumer Product Safety Commission is opening a period of public
comments on the "dangers of gas stoves." We'll get to the supposed dangers in a moment, but if a regulatory agency
like the USCPSC is already to the point of taking public comments, one of two things is almost certainly on the
way. They will either impose emission limits on the stoves, no doubt driving up the cost and/or reducing
efficiency, or they will ban the stoves altogether. Either way, somebody is about to make a boatload of money, and
it won't be the consumers.
In
Mexico, Joe Biden Promotes Plan to Make it 'Easier' for Migrants Trying to Enter the United States.
President Joe Biden promoted his plan Tuesday to make it easier for migrants to come to the United States after meeting
with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. "This has been the greatest migration in human history around the world as
well as in this hemisphere," Biden said, speaking about the ongoing migration crisis after meeting with Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a summit in Mexico
City. But the president did not appear troubled by the volume of border crossings and migrants flooding into local
communities in the United States, placing a burden on U.S. citizens and legal residents.
Feds
propose 'student loan safety net' alongside forgiveness. The White House is moving forward with a proposal
that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay
federal loans under far more generous terms. President Joe Biden announced the repayment plan in August, but it
was overshadowed by his sweeping plan to slash or eliminate student debt for 40 million Americans. Despite the low
profile of the payment plan, however, some education experts see it as a more powerful tool to make college affordable,
especially for those with lower incomes. Education Department officials on Tuesday called the new plan a "student
loan safety net" that will prevent borrowers from getting overloaded with debt.
The Editor says...
The way to keep "from getting overloaded with debt" is to stop borrowing money!
Washington
lawmaker with past convictions introduces bill to pay state prisoners minimum wage. A Washington state
lawmaker who is a former convict is aiming to start paying inmates for working prison jobs. Democratic
Rep. Tarra Simmons said in a statement, "This is an evolution of slavery," and is proposing that the convicted
felons be paid minimum wage for working in the kitchen or while producing other goods. Simmons is an attorney and
co-founder/director of the Civil Survival Project, an organization that advocates for former convicts.
Biden
Admin Spent Over $300 Million In Taxpayer Money to Fund Illegal Migrants' Dental and Health Care. By now
it's not shocking to learn that President Joe Biden favors illegal migrants more than Americans after two of doing
nothing as the southern border wreaked havoc on the U.S. In an annual report released by the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, the Biden Administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure illegal immigrants were
well taken care of. The ICE Health Service Corps' budget was about $324 million, which was an
$8 million increase from the year prior. According to the report, the money was spent on providing "direct
care — including medical and dental health services — to over 118,000 non-citizens housed at 19
IHSC-operated facilities throughout the United States, which exceeded 1.1 million visits over the course of the
fiscal year."
Biden
Makes More of a Mess, Compares Illegal Aliens to Holocaust Victims. We reported earlier about how Joe
Biden had finally gotten around to making plans to go to the border. Biden also made remarks about the border,
with Kamala Harris trying to hold it together while standing behind him. The remarks were just a confused
mess. Biden didn't seem to have any idea what he was talking about. He didn't know what "CBP" stands for,
that it is Title 8 that applies to immigration, or that Title 42 has helped to prevent the situation at the border from
getting much worse. His "plan" seems to be an app that would help people who apply for asylum.
The Coup We Never Knew.
Did someone or something seize control of the United States? [...] Since when did money not have to be paid back?
Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did
America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?
The
War On Truckers, Refrigerators, And Your Well-Being. In the same way our "superiors" think that their food
comes from the grocery store rather than a farm or ranch, they must believe that those items magically appear on the
shelves. Otherwise, why would the ruling class, made up of and zealously backed by elites, go to war against
trucks? Just before Christmas, the Biden Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that it calls a "key
step toward accelerating zero-emissions future," and part of "the historic Clean Truck Plan, which is moving America's
highly polluting heavy-duty trucking fleet towards low-carbon and electric technologies." Enforcement of course
will mean fewer trucks on the road. For many drivers, the cost of working under the new regime will be too
high. "Truckers and manufacturers warn that the rule is too stringent and costly, and that compliance could send
higher prices through the economy that is already suffering from high energy costs and high inflation," says the
Institute for Energy Research.
We
Must Convince People That The Fascist Far Left Wants To Destroy The US. Events are part of an overall plan
that has a specific purpose that proves it's not just incompetence. Leftists desperately had to suppress the Biden
laptop scandal because it showed that they were under foreign influence. We know now that if the people had been
aware of this, history would have been changed. That influence explains why we are diminishing our energy
capabilities while giving the red Chinese a free pass. The purpose is to weaken us compared to them. That
influence explains why we are diminishing our military capabilities by shoveling cash and weapons into Ukraine.
That influence explains why we are committing national suicide with an open border that not only weakens us to the point
of a Cloward-Piven implosion but also provides all manner of military infiltration opportunities. That open border
also is giving leftists a great opportunity to take a page from the history of the Opium wars and destabilize the US
with a flood of Fentanyl.
The Tyranny
in America. The Left lives to see absolute destruction of freedom. Communists exult when liberty is
tattered. Progressives rejoice in limiting freedom. It is the epitome of dictatorship whether it is a jab
for a poison or a useless mask or the destruction of the sanctity of one's property. This is the picture of
tyranny. The media who have sold their souls to Satan neither care nor want to learn the truth of the dire
situations that beset the United States. The fact-checkers are usually the handmaidens of the very sources of
evil. [...] Identity politics, incitement to violence, tolerance for anti-white bigotry, heralding corrupt school
systems and defending the most egregious acts by communists are all palatable to Joe Biden and company.
Illinois
Supreme Court puts end of cash bail on hold until further notice. The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered
courts statewide to continue operating on the cash bail system until further notice, according to an order issued by the
court Saturday afternoon [12/31/2022]. A provision of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform bill scheduled to go
into effect on January 1 would have eliminated cash bail across the state. But a Kankakee County judge found that
portion of the law unconstitutional last week. The Supreme Court's action stems from a filing by DuPage County
State's Attorney Robert Berlin and Kane County State's Attorney Jamie Mosser on Friday afternoon that sought guidance
from the Supreme Court to clear up confusion about whether the Kankakee County judge's decision affected all 102
counties or only the 60-plus counties that were involved in the lawsuit that challenged the SAFE-T Act.
Brace
yourself for mountains of pain and misery under Gov. Hochul's zero-emissions fantasy plan. With the
start of the new year, New Yorkers are set to have their worlds turned upside down — and all for a fanciful
green-dream plan that comes with sky-high costs and mountains of other pain yet is almost certain to fail, and won't
even do much good if successful. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers triggered the nightmare back in 2019
with their delusional Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, setting wholly unrealistic "mandatory" milestones
to force the state off fossil-fuel energy and dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. Gov. Kathy Hochul
eagerly picked up the ball, and in December, a panel stacked with rubber-stampers pushed through a plan they
preposterously claim will enable the state to meet those goals. Hochul's agencies will now spit out
specific rules and regulations based on the plan. It's pure delusion.
America's 'most
dangerous law' goes into effect. Illinois law enforcement is preparing new ways to best serve and protect
law-abiding citizens as the state's new sweeping criminal justice reform bill takes effect Sunday, a local sheriff said.
[...] Illinois' Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act, which went into effect Jan. 1,
overhauled Illinois' justice system with provisions like limiting when defendants can be deemed flight risks and
allowing defendants under electronic monitoring to leave home for 48 hours before they can be charged with escape.
It was also supposed to eliminate cash bail, but the state's Supreme Court stayed that portion hours before the law was
set to take effect.
Law Will Install
Kill Switches In All New Cars. According to an article written by former U.S. Representative Bob Barr,
hidden away in the recently passed infrastructure bill, the very one I warned before would negatively impact drivers
across the country if it were to pass, is a measure to install vehicle kill switches into every new car, truck, and SUV
sold in this country. The regulation likely won't be enforced for five years, so maybe there's time to do
something about this. As we've seen both in this country and others recently, what constitutes "law-abiding" can
change drastically overnight. For example, in September a car was pulled over in New Zealand and the occupants
arrested when police discovered the trunk was full of Kentucky Fried Chicken meals. They were smuggling the fast
food to customers in locked-down Auckland, against quarantine measures. Yet not too long before, delivering
restaurant orders to people was considered a reputable, legal activity. It gets even better: Barr points out
that the bill, which has been signed into law by President Biden, states that the kill switch, which is referred to as a
safety device, must "passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether
that driver may be impaired." In other words, Big Brother will constantly be monitoring how you drive. If you
do something the system has been programmed to recognize as driver impairment, your car could just shut off, which could
be incredibly dangerous. There is the possibility the kill switch program might measure your driving as impaired,
then when you try to start the car up again the engine won't fire up. That would potentially leave you stranded.
Biden's
Unopposed Imposition of Stalinism. The majority of Americans are against open borders. Once again,
what we want doesn't seem to matter. A steady wave of illegal immigration is what Biden wants and no one seems the
least bit interested in putting an end to it. Millions of unvetted migrants are streaming across the border and
being shipped to secret destinations in direct violation of U.S. immigration law. This is nothing short of
treasonous. The import of deadly drugs, violent criminals, terrorists, and COVID spreaders constitutes the worst
public safety issue since World War II. At a time when runaway inflation is driving millions of Americans into the
poorhouse, we are being forced to provide public assistance to millions of freeloading non-citizens. Local
communities are being torn apart by the influx of refugees. [...] None of this is happening by accident. "It is
becoming harder not to conclude that the border crisis is intentional," said Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.
"Nobody is this incompetent." Of course it is intentional. Biden knows exactly what he is doing. He gets
his stooges, DHS Secretary Mayorkas and Press Secretary Jean-Pierre, to deny that the border is open, but we know they
are lying through their teeth.
What
are Senate Conservatives Going to Do about McConnell? The script is sickeningly familiar by now, isn't
it? Establishment Republicans — led throughout the '22 elections and in their aftermath by the
notorious Kentucky senator-for-life Mitch McConnell — betrayed their party's base, which is staunchly
conservative, increasingly in an America First sorta way. [...] RINOs are affirming Democrats coming out as
authoritarians who mean to centralize ever-greater power in Washington, D.C. The purposes are undercutting the
people's liberties, radically altering the nation. In fact, cementing alliances with elites in corporate suites,
the leftist academy, and other major institutions to monopolize power. RINOs, in turn, are "transitioning" to full
statist. Need we detail two years of Biden administration policies and Pelosi and Schumer-led efforts to have
Uncle Sam control all elections, attack our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights, promote the unrestricted killing of babies in
the womb, destroy conventional energy exploration and production, erase the southern border, spend like crazy drunks,
and... oh, what else? If you need convincing at this juncture about Democrats' and their allies' intentions,
you've got some hard work ahead of you.
Could
It Be That Our Rulers are 'Blithering Idiots?'. I think that the present annual event of an annual
one-size-fits-all omnibus spending package is not a sign of evil intent on the Pelosi and Schumer front, but a sign that
we are governed by blithering idiots. Because, you see, if the Pelosis and Schumers were really in control of
things, they wouldn't need to fund the government by gussying up an annual government-shutdown emergency, and finalizing
all their dirty deals with special interests high and low in the dark of 4,000 pages. Every year. Their
spending plans would be gloriously broadcast in the light of day. If our liberal friends were really confidently
in charge, they wouldn't need to be oppressing us with their cancel culture. You don't need cancel culture when
you already own the future. Cancel culture, like Reigns of Terror and Great Purges, is a backhand admission of
failure. If our Democratic friends really felt that they owned the future they wouldn't need to bother about
chasing Trump around and stigmatizing his followers as "armed insurrectionists," and going to enormous effort to
prosecute January 6 rioters. They would just know that they would win at the next election.
Department
of Energy ramps up the war against their tax slaves (us). On December 19, 2022, the Biden White House
released a statement briefing the public on a newly proposed rule by the Department of Energy which would require
lightbulb manufacturers to comply with new "climate change" efficiency standards. In fact, the move was just the
latest transgressions against the American citizenry: ["]This is the 110th action to strengthen energy
efficiency standards that the Administration has taken in 2022. These 110 actions span a range of household
products — everything from air conditioners and furnaces, to clothes washers and dryers, to kitchen
appliances and water heaters — as well as commercial and industrial equipment.["] The move
brings two major issues to the forefront of my mind: The first being the complete disregard for the constitutional
rule of law, and separation of powers. The second, the contemptuous display of elitism and immodest display of
climate communism.
The
Gigantic Defense Bill Does More Harm than Good. On Friday, President Joe Biden signed the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2023 into law. Conservative lawmakers like Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) —
for whom the bill was formally named — and liberal lawmakers like Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) overwhelmingly
supported it in the House and the Senate. The bill has much to like. [...] But as is normal when considering
monstrous bills that come out of D.C., the good in the law may be outweighed by the bad, including but not limited to
the following:
• Over 8,000 servicemembers who objected to the vaccine's moral compromises and
risks were summarily dismissed from the military. A Republican compromise means they will not be reinstated.
• The budget itself is unnecessarily enormous. The proper role of good government includes
support for a strong military because without a functioning national defense, there's no security for markets,
businesses, and economic movement. However, our country's military spending leaks like a sieve.
• There's no accountability for those who use and abuse taxpayer dollars.
• Abortion funding was left in.
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Absurdities of the McConnell-Schumer Omnibus Spending Bill. [Scroll down] [T]he spending bill
includes provisions that are cause for concern for pro-life Americans. In perhaps the clearest example of the
frame of mind of the authors, the $575 million in a global health section allocated for "family
planning/reproductive health, including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered
species." This section quite literally puts plants before people. This provision sees humanity as a
parasite, as a threat to the plants and animals that the bill's drafters clearly see as vastly more important than the
Americans and their families who Congress is supposed to protect.
Duplicitous
media suggests a 'Republican Biden' for a GOP win. [Scroll down] Why would journalists support
leftist politicians and their policies when statistics show the majority of people unhappy and distressed? A
recent poll conducted by USA Today revealed that "two-thirds of respondents... say the country has gotten off on the
wrong track." Well, because the journalists and the rest of the Democrats apparently live their lives in a
fantasyland: They pretend they care about Blacks by supporting "reparations" — but with other people's
money. They pretend they care about Blacks but "expand abortion care." They pretend they care about
education but prevent the poor and minorities from having the freedom of school choice. They pretend they want
women to control their own bodies yet will fire them if they don't take a vaccine still currently in clinical
trials. They pretend they support women and privacy, but they make them compete and shower with biological
men. They pretend they can control the climate, so long as the poor and middle classes hand over more money.
They pretend that they never tried to block election results.
America's
Growing Political Impotence. [Scroll down] Paradoxically, this highly visible impotence occurs
at a time when America is displaying its bedazzling technical skill. Thanks to the James Webb telescope, we can
peer into the beginning of time even as the same TV show might feature videos of feral teenagers pillaging Nordstrom's
jewelry department while "security" haplessly watches. Even more ironic, as government fails in its most
fundamental responsibilities, it embarks on the most Utopian missions such as altering the climate and imposing racial
and sexual equality. A visiting Martian might suspect that these odd priorities reflect mental illness, an
inability to separate the Quixotic from the practical here and now. Why not first stop the mentally ill from
pooping on the street before building a moon base to explore the cosmos? Who established these bizarre
priorities?
Not
Your Grandfather's Election Day. Republicans are still recovering from the midterms hangover after
suffering a stiff dose of how probabilistic mathematics, statistics, blood-red election maps, armchair predictions, and
century-long historical trends are collectively no match for the underhanded ground game of one's opponent. Giddy
Democrats have again put one over on the American people, somehow dodging retribution for a miserable economy and two
years of demonizing half the electorate. Even with majorities in both houses, the Dems faced stiff political and
public resistance in their failure to pass H.R. 1, For the Peoples Act, a misnamed Democrat effort to federalize state
elections. Undeterred, state Democrat parties have teamed up with Democrat national campaigns to achieve a permanent,
quasi-legal destruction of the election process and institutionalized fraud through the pursuit of early mail-in voting
and extended ballot deadlines in states that prohibit or curtail these practices. This campaign is virtue-signaled
through baseless and easily refuted claims of voter suppression, racism, and vintage pandemic concerns.
Biden
administration boating proposal would be 'greatest regulatory overreach' of its kind, critics warn. "This
would be the greatest regulatory overreach in American maritime law" — that's how Frank Hugelmeyer describes
a proposal by the Biden administration to limit the speed of all motorboats over 35 feet from Florida to Massachusetts.
"Not only are they creating a serious safety issue, they are creating a massive negative economic impact."
Hugelmeyer is president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), and he is just one of a growing number
of voices expressing outrage over the proposal put forward by the U.S. Commerce Department under the auspices of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "It's stupid," said Jeff Angers, the president of the
Center for Sportfishing Policy. "It's not what government is supposed to do."
The Democrats'
Slow Motion Insurrection. The Jan. 6 Capitol ruckus is not one of our country's greatest
moments. But if the objective of a few of the protesters was to overthrow the federal government, they planned and
executed poorly. The same can't be said of the Democrats. Their mostly bloodless coup to suspend
constitutional limits and seize unchallenged power has been thoroughly calculated and expertly executed. For
decades Democrats at all levels have been moving the U.S. from the civil society it was designed to be to the political
(that is, coercive) society they want to be in control of. They have waged outright war on the first, second and
10th amendments to the Constitution; robbed us of our economic liberty through punitive taxation and strangling
regulation; created environmental policies that have made innocent men criminals for making use of their own property
and taken that property whenever possible; and destroyed independence by fostering more dependence on the state.
They spend other people's money as if it were, well, other people's money and there is therefore no governor on their
actions. "The Democrat Party has a long history of ignoring the Constitution when it impedes their
government-expansionist objectives. Which is nigh constantly — as the Constitution is a
government-limiting document," says Seton Motley, president of Less Government, who cites some of the more egregious
examples in a Heartland Institute essay.
In
a last act of inverted morality, Oregon's outgoing governor commutes death sentences for criminals, but not
babies. Oregon is (currently) one of the handful of states in the country that allows abortion through all
the months of pregnancy, and for any reason. Democrats hold majorities in both legislative chambers, and the
governor's seat, and with their lax approach towards the sacredness of humanity, one which results in "unrestricted"
abortion, they're rightfully pinpointed and labeled as belonging to the "party of death" — but it turns out
that's not entirely true. More accurately, the Democrats should be noted as the "party of innocent death."
Dem
Gov. Kate Brown Commutes all 17 of Oregon's Death Sentences. Kate Brown, Oregon's Democratic
governor, has commuted the sentences of the state's 17 death row inmates during her last month in office, changing the
prisoner's sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This order, which takes effect on
Wednesday, has angered the victims' families as well as government officials. A prisoner has not been executed in
Oregon since 1997. In a statement, Brown explained the reasoning behind her new order. She said, "I have
long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing
people — even if a terrible crime placed them in prison."
The Editor says...
[#1] Did you get that? One of the leaders of the Abortion Party says, "justice is not advanced by taking a life."
[#2] Keep this in mind if you ever have to spend a week or two on jury duty in a capital murder trial: Years from now,
all your thought and deliberation could be thrown out the window by a left-wing governor.
Oregon
Governor Commutes the Sentence of Every Death-Row Inmate in State. Oregon governor Kate Brown said Tuesday
that the state's 17 death-row inmates will be spared execution and will instead have their sentences downgraded to life
in prison without the possibility of parole. "I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life,
and the state should not be in the business of executing people — even if a terrible crime placed them in
prison," the outgoing Democratic governor said in a statement. She added: "This commutation is not based on any
rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row. Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death
penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction."
The Editor says...
I'm not inclined to listen to one of the leaders of the Abortion Party as she pontificates about what's immoral.
Joe
Biden Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill: 'Nothing More Decent, More Dignified, More American'. President Joe
Biden signed a bill making same-sex marriage legal nationwide on Tuesday, describing it as a victory for freedom in
America. "There is nothing more decent, more dignified, more American about what we are doing here today," Biden
said during his speech at the White House before the signing.
The
United States of Fascist America. Fascism is a political ideology which, unfortunately, is
mischaracterized by both media and academia. For example, Wikipedia describes fascism as, "A far right,
authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, central
autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of
individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the
economy." The definition is mostly correct, except for the first words, claiming fascism is a "far right"
ideology. Hitler was considered a fascist but his party, contrary to the political science experts (disguised as
journalists), was far left. The Nazi Party is the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party. Note the name
"socialist," an ideology of the left, not the right. Another famous fascist, Benito Mussolini further clarified,
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." That's where
America is now, corporate and government power merging into a totalitarian behemoth, crushing any and all dissent.
Biden's
EPA Prepares To Crack Down On Home Appliances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new
rules on Friday that would restrict the use of refrigerators, air conditioning equipment and heat pumps that utilize
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The EPA's proposed rule would crack down on the manufacturing and importing of goods
containing HFCs, which would restrict the use of HFCs in refrigeration units, air conditioning systems and heat pump
equipment starting in 2025, according to an agency press release. In accordance with the Kigali Amendment to the
Montreal Protocol, a global climate treaty that the Senate ratified in September, the agency intends to reduce the
production and consumption of HFCs by 85% by 2036.
Guaranteed to lose money:
Washington
DC is leading the pack with fare-free bus rides next summer. Washington DC will permanently offer free bus
rides on all routes from next summer and other big cities like Boston and Denver may follow suit in what would be
America's biggest public transport shakeup in years. Under a plan agreed unanimously by Washington DC's council
last week, the city will expand its transport services and waive the $2 fares for riders boarding Metrobuses within
city limits [beginning] around July 1. During the Covid-19 pandemic, cities from Los Angeles to Missouri and
New York stopped collecting bus fares to cut human contact and ensure residents could reach jobs and services at
hospitals, grocery stores and offices.
DHS
Partnered Social Media Surveillance Systems Delivering Mutual Benefits. Pelosi and Reid intentionally did
not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama (and all that
came with him) with an open checkbook made even more lucrative by a worsening financial crisis and a process called
baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point for
the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake within baseline budgeting. Massive
bailouts preceded Obama's installation due to U.S. economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his
installation. This is the 'never let a crisis go to waste' aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program),
auto bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ie. those
shovel ready jobs) were all part of the non-budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with Quantitative Easing
(QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending bills further spending and replacing the formal budget
process. Note: There has never been a budget passed in the normal/traditional process since September of 2007.
The
terrible consequences of stolen elections and government corruption. The minute Biden took office he
tanked the recovering economy he inherited. This had to be purposeful; no economic adviser is that stupid.
He destroyed the energy independence Trump had made possible which has given us the gas prices we now endure. He
doubled down on all the COVID restrictions, all of them specious, harmful and unnecessary; these mandates and the
vaccines killed more people that COVID itself.
Congress
Quietly Slips Ukraine Debt Relief into 4,400 Page National Defense Authorization Act. When it comes to
congress and the graft that is Ukraine, nothing should come as a surprise. Last month, the Biden administration
asked Congress for another $37.7 billion in support for Ukraine. If that passes, and it certainly will,
Congress will have approved more than $100 billion in Ukraine-related spending. To wit, yesterday
congress slipped Ukraine Debt Payment Relief, into the 4,400 page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which
will make the Senate happy as the intent of the upper chamber is to continue the laundry operation.
Democrats
Want to Abolish Prisons. Following the midterm elections, Democrats gained two new members who have
already been outspoken in their progressive beliefs. Rep.-elect Summer Lee (D-PA) has openly advocated for
socialist policies. "Instead of 'thanking' Black women, Black voters, and especially, Black organizers... give us
the investments we need and deserve, redistribute wealth, ends police violence, abolish the carceral state, commit to
building Black directed political power... and reparations," Lee said. Last year, Lee introduced a bill that would
end cash bail in Pennsylvania. She has insisted that the majority of those who are arrested don't pose a threat to
society, therefore shouldn't have to go to jail just because they can't afford their bail. In 2016, Lee classified
Pennsylvania's system of bail as "a flaw in our system of justice" and "a threat to equal justice under the law."
Federal
Court Blocks Biden Mandate Forcing Religious Hospitals to Facilitate Gender Transitions. A federal court
on Friday blocked a Biden administration mandate that would force religious hospitals and doctors to facilitate gender
transitions against their sincerely held moral convictions. The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a
lower court's decision to block enforcement of the rule on the grounds that "intrusion upon the Catholic Plaintiffs'
exercise of religion is sufficient to show irreparable harm," the filing reads. Catholic nuns, clinics, a
university, and hospitals were among the plaintiffs in the case, represented by the Becket Fund. The plaintiffs
all provide medical care for transgender patients but refuse to provide gender-transition surgeries because they believe
them to be harmful.
Schumer
defies voters, urges Dems to squeak by massive spending bill before House GOP takes control. Proving once
again that he could care less about the will of the American people, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.) admitted that he wants Democrats in Congress to use the lame-duck period between now and January, when
Republicans regain control of the House, to pass an omnibus spending bill that will fund government spending for the
entirety of next year, preventing Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from "having any control" over the amount of
taxpayer money that will be thrown at liberal causes, such as climate change and the war in Ukraine.
Biden's 401(k) Heist. President
Joe Biden's going after 401(k) retirement accounts, risking millions of workers' comfortable retirements. If you
put money into a 401(k), beware. Until now, the law always required fund managers entrusted with your savings to
invest the money where it's expected to get the top return for you. Period. But on Nov. 22, Biden's
Labor Department announced a rule change that goes into effect the end of January. It will allow fund managers to
invest your money in the stocks of companies that favor left-wing policies, even if they earn a lower return. It's
legalized theft. The future return on your retirement nest egg is being sacrificed to advance a woke agenda.
2020:
The Year the Ruling Class Took Control. Manipulation is the key word when it comes to the
Democrats. Calls to pack the Supreme Court and the Senate, eliminate the filibuster, and change the way the
Electoral College works all point to the fact the Democrats and the Left never rest in their nonstop efforts to
manipulate the political and judicial systems to their advantage. In a way, they really are geniuses in
identifying ways to manipulate the system. They're not always successful, but they're always trying, and for now
they've succeeded in changing the way elections work in many states by making mail-in voting, ballot drop boxes, and
ballot harvesting legal. Democrats can get away with these ongoing shenanigans, especially the coverup of the
coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story, is because nearly every major institution in the country is controlled by
progressives in positions of authority at those institutions, most in the corporate mainstream media.
What
Democrats Are Trying to Pass Before Their House Majority Ends. Jamming through controversial legislation
through Congress during a lame-duck session is a troubling practice to begin with. It's becoming increasingly
common to bring up more hotly contested legislation that didn't have a chance of passing when vulnerable legislators had
to face an election — and the voters. Democrats are so concerned with "democracy" that they are
scrambling to head off the results of last month's elections, it seems. As is often the case, the Left cares
little about the proper functioning of government when its priorities are at stake. The Washington Post editorial
board called on Democrats in Congress to make this lame-duck session a "mighty one." Imagine how The Post would
describe the situation if it were Republicans seeking to push a conservative agenda through. In addition to "the
Respect for Marriage Act," here are four more of the most controversial pieces of legislation being considered by the
current lame-duck Congress: [...]
Wyoming
Sues Biden Administration, Alleges Suspensions of Oil Lease Sales [are] Illegal. The State of Wyoming
filed a second lawsuit against the Biden Administration, alleging that its suspension of oil lease sales were
illegal. Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyom.) announced that his state filed the lawsuit against the Interior
Department for the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) decision to halt oil and gas lease sales in the state. "This
litigation is timely and vital to the interests of Wyoming citizens," said Gordon in a statement. "Beyond that,
Wyoming's energy resources can help power the nation and bring down costs at the pump. BLM's decision to cancel
lease sales sure seems to be a violation of both the letter and the spirit of the law. "I firmly believe the pause
in lease sales was politically driven and not based in law or fact," the governor continued.
The
Democrats' Contempt for the American People. [Scroll down] The American people deserve a government,
not a clown show. When asked by Zeke Miller "What do you intend to do differently," following the midterms, Biden
replied "Nothing." Biden appears to have forgotten that the democratic process is supposed to be about the
well-being of the American people, not that of the Democrat Party. The facts that his party, via its
ballot-harvesting schemes, its bankrolling of "extremist" Republican candidates that it knew would not win in the
general election, its dishonest representation of the consequences of overturning Roe vs. Wade, and
Biden's cynical buying votes with his unconstitutional student loan forgiveness scheme has managed to avoid a large "red
wave" does nothing to solve problems for the American people. [...] Biden and the Democrats clearly do not care
about the suffering of the American people or the immigrants, but only for their own money and power. They
obviously see the American people as sheep to be played with one hoax after another rather than answering their
questions. The fact that the Democrats managed to stave off the "red wave" has literally nothing to do with
Joe Biden's enormously unpopular policies.
If
You Really Wanted to Destroy the U.S., Then... First, you would surrender our prior energy
independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in
history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up
consumer demand. Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain
for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage. Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas
field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line. Overregulate
and demonize frackers and horizontal drillers. Ensure there is less investment in their exploration and
production. Making use of internal combustible engines or fossil fuel power generation is prohibitively
expensive. Achieve a green oil dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.
Biden
Defends Multi-Trillion Dollar Scam: 'We Did So Much, Nobody Knows the Effects Yet'. Oh, Joe, bless your
clueless heart; you don't even see the irony. [...] Biden, on Tuesday [11/29/2022], defended his ill-fated "American
Rescue Plan" for the zillionth time by arguing that the (at least) $1.9 trillion spending spree helped enable local
governments to keep paying their employees (which does zero to help productivity). He also boasted of his
additional trillions in spending for government-subsidized health care, manufacturing, infrastructure, and so-called
"green energy." Biden's claim was not only nonsensical; it was a direct contradiction of Economics 101:
Injecting trillions of dollars into a struggling economy to chase a relatively limited supply of goods and services
generally leads to an increase in inflation — not a decrease, as Team Biden disingenuously
continues to claim.
The
Guilty Justify Their Cruel and Anti-Social Values. We see the incessant communist rantings of Bernie
Sanders for decades. Once a marginalized member of the Democratic caucus in the Senate although he self-designated
as a Democratic Socialist [euphemism for communist], Sanders has steadily gained in popularity over the decades until he
reached a high point of signing a 110-page pact with the Biden wing of the party in July of 2020. Of the eight
sections in that pact, six sections appeared with slightly different wording shortly thereafter in the 90-page
Democratic Party Platform. He says that he is "non-authoritarian" but that is bull. He honeymooned in Moscow
in 1988, and his visible enjoyment revealed that he felt he was at home-sweet-home. More importantly, the
socialists in the USA starting in 1912 included ownership of the means of production in their platform and this same
principle is expressed in the Communist Manifesto of 1848. The progressives who were both Republicans and
Democrats at the beginning of the 20th century preferred expanded regulation of certain industries (for example, the
pharmaceutical industry through the FDA and the railroads through the ICC) rather than ownership.
Senate
Passes vote to make same-sex marriage federal law - with 11 Republicans cooperating. The United States
Senate voted to enshrine the right to same-sex and interracial marriage into federal law on Tuesday [11/29/2022].
The Respect For Marriage Act passed on a 61-36 vote. Eleven Republicans voted with Democrats on the measure.
It now heads back to the House of Representatives, where it's likely to pass the Democrat-controlled chamber swiftly
enough to head to President Joe Biden's desk before the current Congressional term is over.
Language warning!
Four nefariously managed events meant to harm us.
[#3] Wokery, the Marxist campaign to disorder society in order to overthrow existing institutions and replace them with
a utopian dictatorship of the intersectionally oppressed — also known as The Revenge of the
Losers. [...] It laughs at the idea of redemption. Its adversaries are never forgiven, only dealt additional
punishments for asking. The mystery here is how Wokery was incorporated into the operating system
of the Democratic Party. The answer is the party needed something to replace its erstwhile corpus of organized
industrial workers, gone with the winds of Globalism, and so it valorized the various categories of the mentally ill,
the permanently downtrodden, and sundry persons who had become economic hostages to its corrupt system of payments and
grants. High above that ragtag-and-bobtail of crazies reigned an aristocracy of the so-called cognitive
elite, people of unquestioned virtue, college professors, the creative class, the credentialed echelon —
super-busy signaling their good intentions to their vassals to keep them in line.
The coup-attempt
party. A political light bulb went on regarding Adam Schiff's remark on CNN's "State of the Union" as
reported by Breitbart's Pam Key. In the interview, Schiff again mentioned the Russia hoax he has promoted for
five years, if not longer. (Note that Dana Bash did not call Schiff on this huge lie.). With Schiff
continuing to assert this gross falsehood, the Democrat Party has, for years, switched from being a loyal opposition
party to priding itself as a party of the permanently-attempted coup. How dumb of me not to have taken seriously
the Democrat cries of "Resistance," as of the Trump inauguration, January 20, 2017 — but I then
understood such cries to be figurative and fanciful references of a politically romantic nature. But where were
the Republican political experts like House Speaker Paul Ryan back in early 2017 when the "Resistance" was gearing
up? Alas, the anti-Trump Ryan was silently supporting the Resistance. How could the Democrats have succeeded
with the Mueller probe if Ryan had spoken out forcefully against what was apparently a coup attempt to oust the
legitimately-elected president?
Seattle
Councilmembers are trying to defund the police again. Despite a rise in crime, some on the City Council
are trying to defund the Seattle Police Department again. Too bad it's getting scant or disingenuous
coverage. The council is currently debating Mayor Bruce Harrell's budget. Anti-police councilmember Teresa
Mosqueda, who once defended a man threatening to murder police, is looking to cut funds from the SPD permanently.
She just doesn't want you to realize it's part of the defund movement. Harrell's budget temporarily cuts
$11 million dollars from the budget. The money would have been used to fill 200 open staff positions, but it
was cut to fund only 120. The SPD is dangerously understaffed, so why would they cut the budget?
Has
the Democrat party converted to Islam? On October 21, U.S. reps. Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky
issued a press release introducing a bill titled the "Combating International Islamophobia Act." According the
release, the purpose of the bill is "to address the rise in incidents of Islamophobia worldwide." Specifically, it
would require "the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, [which would]
include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity [sic] in the Department's annual human rights reports."
The bill was supported by the White House, which, notwithstanding its focus on Islam alone, described it as a measure
committed to "defending freedom of religion and belief." On Dec, 14, 2021, the bill, H.R. 5665, passed
in the House, 219 to 212. No Democrat voted against it; no Republican voted for it. [...] Under this clause, no
reports of any violence and killing committed not against Muslims, but by Muslims against other religious groups, nor
the suppression of non-Muslims in Muslim-ruled nations, would be authorized. Only acts against Muslims. [...] Need
it be said that H.R. 5665 violates the First Amendment at two different levels? First of all, in addressing
not the alleged hostile actions themselves, but rather the media that are supposedly instigating those actions,
the bill runs afoul of such media's freedom of speech. Secondly, in focusing on issues relating specifically to
Islam and to no other religion, the bill is "respecting an establishment of religion," which, under the Amendment, is
prohibited. One has to wonder if the 219 House members are aware that we have a Constitution, or whether it has a
First Amendment?
Biden's
Not So Subtle Lurch Toward Dictatorship. In the wake of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden was
asked during a rare press conference — in reference to Twitter's new owner — whether he thought
Elon Musk was a threat to national security. With a pause and a smirk, the president said that topic was "worthy
of being looked at."&n bsp;With those words, Biden made it clear that if you even seem to oppose his politics, your
private life will be under the direct scrutiny of the state. Despite his constant prattle about saving our
democracy, Biden seems to think he's running an authoritarian police state. In truth, the federal government
already maintains entities that review acquisitions such as Musk's for anything from foreign influence to
anti-competitive business practices. After many months in which Musk's negotiations to purchase Twitter happened
in full public view, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week that she sees no basis for the government to
investigate that purchase.
Senate
candidate Raphael Warnock, 2009: I'm "SICK AND TIRED" of hearing people criticize socialism. Democratic
Sen. Raphael Warnock holds a slight lead over his GOP challenger, Herschel Walker, in a runoff election poll
released Tuesday morning. In a video from 2009, preaching from the pulpit, Warnock states he was 'sick and tired'
of hearing people criticize socialism. [Video clip]
Are
You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago? Make no mistake: it is despotism that we face in Biden's
proposal to double the size of the IRS; in the political weaponization of the FBI, CIA, and DOJ; in the amassing of
information by technology giants; in the corporate surrender to woke ideologies; in the takeover of schools by
progressive activists; in the proliferation of "hate speech" laws; in the self-censorship that so many Americans
practice to appease political correctness; and in the influence of media on our thinking. We live in an age of
fear and conformity, and those who are weak have become enslaved and have willingly relinquished their freedom to the
powerful forces of government, media, "expert" opinion, and corporate venality. The practical effects of this
despotism can be seen everywhere. Rising taxes are used to transfer more and more of an individual's earnings to
government, where it is used with little accountability to enrich those who support ever greater government spending and
who make campaign donations to ensure this happens.
Biden
tells 401k investors to prioritize green investments over profit. The Biden administration will allow
employers to invest pension money in green industries that could provide lower returns for Americans. The move,
which was announced on Tuesday, reverses a rule imposed by Trump in 2020 that forced employers to prioritize profit when
making 401(k) investments. The new rule introduced by US Department of Labor will allow retirement plan investors
to focus on ESG investing — which considers the environmental and social impacts of investments.
Biden
Extends Student Loan Pause Again After Declaring 'Pandemic Is Over'. President Joe Biden reportedly plans
to extend the pause on federal student loan payments through the summer of 2023 as his student debt cancellation plan
faces legal challenges. The Department of Education will soon announce the extension of the freeze, according to a
report from CNN. The first payments will be due two months after June 30, unless the Supreme Court
greenlights the administration's debt forgiveness program beforehand. A similar report from Bloomberg quoted
multiple unnamed sources.
Also posted
under Using handouts to buy votes.
Energy Policy
Roadmap 2023. Since the start of his presidency, Biden has indulged in apocalyptic concerns about climate
change at the expense of American energy production, workers, and consumers. Early in his presidency, aping the
constant refrain from climate Chicken Littles, Biden signed an executive order, which stated, "There is little time left
to avoid setting the world on a dangerous, potentially catastrophic, climate trajectory." Therefore, Biden grandly
declared, "it is the policy of my Administration that climate considerations shall be an essential element of United
States foreign policy and national security." Moreover: ["]We must combat the climate crisis with
bold, progressive action that combines the full capacity of the Federal Government with efforts from every corner of our
Nation, every level of government, and every sector of our economy.["] Federal agencies acted quickly to
implement Biden's reckless order, and their policies continue to wreak havoc on American energy, consumers, and the
economy. For example, the Interior Department, led by radical former Rep. Deb Haaland (NM), banned new
federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases. This is significant, because oil and gas production from federal
lands and waters comprises about 24 percent and 11 percent of total U.S. oil and gas production,
respectively. To put those figures in context, "if U.S. federal land/waters was treated as its own country, the
2.67 million barrels of oil it produced daily in 2019 would have made it the 11th largest daily oil producer in the
world that year." Several states sued Interior to overturn the ban, and a federal district court recently ruled
(again) that it is illegal.
As
Shortages Persist Under Biden, It's Time To Ask: Is This On Purpose? Did the United States suddenly become
a socialist basket case? It's hard not to come to that conclusion after reading about the endless shortages
plaguing the nation. Each of which President Joe Biden either seems clueless to resolve or determined to make
worse. Let's start with the biggest one: the shortage of diesel fuel. While Biden was busy draining the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to tamp down gas prices before the midterm elections, the real worry was that supplies of
diesel fuel have been running short. Two years after the short-lived COVID lockdowns ended, diesel inventories
continued to trend downward to their lowest levels since 2008. The cost for a gallon of diesel fuel is 46% higher
than it was a year ago, according to AAA, and now costs more than $5 a gallon.
The
White House can end the energy crisis by next year if it wants to. Power the Future is an American energy
advocacy and research organization that promotes solutions to energy-related crises currently facing the United
States. In a report simply titled Energy Policy Roadmap, the group sets forth ten basic steps that President Joe
Biden and/or Congress could begin taking immediately before we run out of diesel, experience more rolling blackouts, and
all the rest of the very real threats America is facing because of the current destructive energy policies that are now
in place. [...] Here is the bullet list, and every item on here could be put into motion tomorrow if Joe Biden has the
will to take action or if the new Congress is willing to stand up to him and put corrective measures in place.
• Repealing Joe Biden's Natural Gas Tax
• Ending Biden's Oil and Gas Leasing Moratorium/Return Power to States
• Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline
• Blocking Biden's ESG Regulations
• Repealing the California Waiver
• Ending Activist-led "Sue and Settle" and "Citizen Lawsuits"
• Banning Use of the "Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases"
• Issuing Automatic Approvals for LNG Export Terminals
• Overturning Massachusetts v. EPA
• Stopping Biden's War on Coal
Free
America: We're already dealing with a fascist regime. Where does the Democrat Party want to be in five
years, or ten or twenty? We saw that very clearly on September 1, 2022, when Joe Biden made his infamous
speech with the red and black background. Biden gave a speech that was without parallel in American history.
It was an extraordinary departure from 200 years of American political tradition, and it was extremely important.
It reveals what the Left is trying ultimately to do. [...] In his red and black speech on September 1, 2022, the
83rd anniversary of the beginning of World War II, Biden said that Trump and his supporters represented a grave threat
to the Republic itself. That was what was so unprecedented in American life, and why his speech was more like
Hitler's Reichstag speech than any speech of an American president. Biden was saying that essentially half of the
electorate was a threat to the Republic and outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse. Do you think
that they are going to peacefully allow those whom they have thus branded to recapture the White House or the House or
the Senate? This is an effort to rule Trump supporters, that is, America First patriots, out of the bounds of
acceptable discourse, and to criminalize their perspective.
The
Run on Guns and Legal Battle Begin After Oregon's Gun Grab Passes. The joke these days is that if you put
the Bill of Rights to a vote, it would lose. The latest example of this decline in intelligence is Oregon, where
voters narrowly passed an anti-gun measure so ghastly that the Second Amendment has been "rendered superfluous."
Now, there's a run on gun stores, and civil liberties advocates have begun the fight to once again "secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" and reclaim the rights the Declaration of Independence stated were
"self-evident" and "endowed by our Creator." Don't kid yourself: It'll be a tough sell in Oregon, where wokeness
doesn't recognize "self-evidence," and "our Creator" has been replaced by godless communist dogma. It's a place
where young adults believe free rent, cheap weed, and college loan forgiveness are civil rights.
The
scary part is that the students fell for it. Some time ago, President Biden announced an executive order
aimed at helping students with college debt, promising $10,000 in debt relief from federal student loans for most and
$20,000 in debt relief from the poorest recipients who qualified for Pell grants. It was "Pandering 101" and
really aimed at getting college students to vote Democrat ahead of the midterms. What else was it? Well, it
worked and the young voted for Uncle Joe and his loan-forgiving ideas. They probably saved the U.S. Senate for the
Democrats and cut losses in the House.
America
was built on coal. Now Biden wants to abolish it. The one promise that President Joe Biden has
faithfully kept is his pledge to "close down" fossil fuels. We get two-thirds of our energy in America from fossil
fuels, and almost one-third of our power comes from coal. That's quadruple the amount of energy we get from wind
and solar, which are niche forms of energy. But Biden doesn't see it that way. He recently reiterated his
pledge to end coal production altogether. "No one is building new coal plants because they can't rely on it,"
Biden said on Nov. 4 while in California. "We're going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having
wind and solar." I hope the people in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wyoming are listening because thousands
of mostly union jobs are associated with the coal plants he wants to shutter. Biden says we need to "shut down"
these plants and the jobs that come with them because we need to combat climate change. One problem: Most of
the rest of the world is using more coal even as we use less. Even the sanctimonious Europeans are turning to
coal because their natural gas supplies from Russia are no longer reliable.
U.S.
Reverses Course, Now Says It Will Pay Climate Extortion Money to Poorer Nations. It had been an article of
faith since the 1990s when the idea of "climate reparations" was first proposed that the United States would never
participate in such an extortion scheme. Then Joe Biden got elected. At the COP27 climate conference in
Egypt, wealthy nations agreed for the first time to a framework that would pay poorer countries for "damages" that are
caused by climate change. Droughts, storms, heat waves, excessive cold — all can now be itemized as
part of the cost poor countries pay because rich countries are responsible for the changing climate. Of course,
storms and droughts have been occurring for millions of years in these regions, but that doesn't matter.
The Editor says...
[#1] If there are any actual damages, do they not affect all countries? [#2] If there is any actual change in the
world-wide climate, is none of it caused by smaller, undeveloped beggar countries? [#3] Was
Joe Biden really elected, or was he installed as the result of a fraudulent election?
US
will pay up to $1BN to compensate developing countries for global warming - but China Won't have to pay.
The United States will take part in the creation of and contribute to a fund that will pay developing nations to tackle
climate change. The fund, negotiated at the United Nations' COP27 Summit, was originally known as a 'loss and
damage' fund and had been blocked by previous American administrations. With a final climate accord already more
than a day overdue, representatives of nearly 200 nations were anxious for an agreement they could bill as a step
forward in the fight against climate change.
The Editor says...
[#1] Any "fight against climate change" is futile and unnecessary. Yet the news media seems to think it's a fact of life.
Personally, I adapt to the weather when it changes and don't try to fight it. Nobody can stop the climate from changing, and the climate
changes so little, from one year to the next that it is imperceptible and nearly impossible to measure. [#2] This is obviously just
a shakedown and wealth redistribution scheme. [#3] Why are "developing nations" uniquely able to keep the climate from changing?
[#4] Here's an idea: Let's pay the "developing nations" after they prove their ability to stop climate change.
A
Little Learning on Methane and Climate Change. Before leaving for a week of virtue-signaling at the COP27
climate conference with other world elites, President Joe Biden would have done well to reread Hans Christian Anderson's
story "The Emperor's New Clothes." [...] In Biden's case, the new clothes are the nonsense that there is a climate
emergency. But who would want to be considered "unfit for his office" or "unusually stupid" by questioning whether
there really is an emergency? So, resplendent in his new regalia, President Biden has proposed regulations on
methane emissions by the U.S. oil and gas industry, at a direct cost of more than $1 billion annually, to deal with
a nonexistent problem.
Maybe
denial is the driving factor in the 2022 election outcome. Democrat voters are not a monolithic
bloc. Yes, some are hard-core ideologues who swooned over Bernie Sanders. Some are recipients of public
assistance and dependent on Democrat party largesse. Some are students and recent graduates majoring in
insurrection. But they're not all community organizers, and they don't all hate America. Most are normal,
center-left people who habitually vote Democrat. [...] But consider for a moment what the habitual Democrat would have
had to acknowledge to vote Republican on November 8th:
[#1] That the President of the United
States is a doddering mediocrity.
[#2] That the person (or persons) responsible for the policies and
decisions emanating from the White House is a matter of conjecture.
[#3] That the administration's
policies are blatantly extremist and being implemented with ruinous effect.
[#4] That proper
stewardship of the nation's fiscal and energy resources is utterly lacking — to the point of precipitating a
foreseeable crisis.
[#5] That large numbers of inner-city youth, trapped in broken homes or broken
schools, are not being taught respect, self-control, or the difference between right and wrong.
[#6]
That the freedoms, values, and checks and balances on which this country was founded are being left grossly
unprotected.
[#7] That despite mounting challenges we are not presently capable of deterring our
adversaries or defeating them on the battlefield.
Perhaps it's all too much to contemplate. The habitual
Democrat voter prefers to remain incongruously oblivious.
Biden
Attempts to Revive Student Loan Forgiveness Plan By Asking Supreme Court to Restore It. The Biden
Administration is desperately trying to restore its failing $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan after it keeps
getting blocked by federal judges. According to a legal filing, the Biden Administration plans to ask the Supreme
Court to reinstate the president's canceled student loan debt program. In the court documents, President Joe Biden
is warning the Supreme Court that if it doesn't reverse the cancellation of the plan, millions of Americans will face a
financial burden when the payments are scheduled to start again in January.
Joe
Biden's Transgender Insanity Gets Crushed in Court. One of the most deranged aspects of the Biden
administration has been its pushing of radical transgender ideology in the medical field. Well past just letting
people do what they want, the president and his handlers have sought to force doctors to partake in activities that
violate their principle to do no harm. That includes being forced to prescribe puberty blockers and hormone
blockers to those who have no medical need for them as well as having to refer patients for "gender-affirming" surgeries
that permanently harm them. Thankfully, in a blow to the transgender lobby, the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Texas has ruled that Biden's edict on those matters is not lawful.
Tenacity by itself will not make this idea constitutional.
Biden
admin seeks to take student debt cancellation to Supreme Court. The Biden administration will soon ask the
Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision blocking the implementation of the president's student loan debt
cancellation plan. The Department of Justice on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to end the injunction on
the plan's implementation while indicating in the same filing that it would turn to the Supreme Court to list a separate
appeals court ruling, the Associated Press reported. Biden announced his plan in late August to forgive student
debt up to $10,000 for those earning less than $125,000 annually and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. The
Congressional Budget Office has estimated the plan will cost taxpayers approximately $400 billion.
The
2022 Mid-Terms Exposed the Existence of Two Americas and the Overwhelming Importance of the 2024 Election.
The United States is currently plagued with uncontrolled inflation spiraling into a severe recession, crime is rampant
in the nation's cities, the borders are open and uncontrolled, the standard of living is rapidly deteriorating, society
is sinking into a morass of premeditated cultural decline, and an increasingly bleak future awaits the vast majority of
Americans. Yet fifty percent of 2022 voters chose to continue this state of affairs by opting to elect or re-elect
the politicians that have created or abetted this ongoing national devastation. Far too many, particularly the
younger generations who voted overwhelmingly Democrat, dwell in mindless loyalty to a collectivist tribe, its leaders
and its attendant ideology. In their addled thinking this fidelity outweighs the well-being of themselves or the
nation and its citizenry.
Federal
Court Blocks Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Nationwide. The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered
a nationwide injunction pending appeal against President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness program Monday,
adding to previous legal action blocking the plan. The program seeks to forgive $10,000 in federal student loan
debt for individuals with incomes under $125,000 and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, with the Biden
administration claiming it had the authority to institute the program under the HEROES Act of 2003 and an emergency
situation sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina had
filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in late September over the program, and the court issued a stay on the
debt cancellation last month before granting an emergency motion for the injunction Monday [11/14/2022].
Federal
Judge Strikes Down A Key Part Of President Biden's Transgender Agenda. A federal judge has reversed a
Biden Administration rule that directed the Department of Health and Human Services to increase access to sex change
surgeries and hormone therapies, including to children, in a Friday ruling. Biden's HHS said in May 2021 that it
would interpret a section of the Affordable Care Act, which bars doctors from discriminating on the basis of sex, as
covering sexual orientation and gender identity. Two doctors represented by the America First Legal Foundation
brought a class action lawsuit against the Biden administration after the HHS took the action, arguing that the rule
would interfere with their ability to properly practice medicine. The judge argued that the Biden administration's
interpretation of Title IX to include "gender identity," was faulty and could not be changed until Congress passed
a law to that effect, or the Supreme Court ruled otherwise.
UN
considers trying to outlaw all fossil fuels on the planet. The COP27 globalist gathering that recently
took place in Egypt came with open calls for a global phase-out of, and eventual ban on, all fossil fuels. Were
this to actually happen, billions of people would die. A tiny, failing island in the South Pacific called Tuvalu
(ever heard of it?) made the proposition using the following quoted statement: "We, therefore, unite with 100 Nobel
Peace Prize laureates and 1000s of scientists worldwide to urge world leaders to join the fossil fuel Non-Proliferation
Treaty, to manage a just transition away from fossil fuels." One wonders: what does Tuvalu mean by the term "just
transition?" Is ending most human life on earth considered by the globalists to be the "just" thing to do?
Because that it what eliminating all fossil fuel usage would do.
Another Stolen
Election. [Scroll down] Polls show that Biden suffers an approval rate of only 36% and that a large
majority of Americans do not want Biden to run for reelection in two years. How is this preference consistent with
the vote count of Tuesday's election? Consider also that the party in power loses representation in midterm
elections, but despite the substantial turn away from Democrats revealed by CNN, this normal result did not occur on
Tuesday. Consider also public dissatisfaction with: record crime, record inflation with high food and gasoline
prices, rising interest rates and falling home values, massive illegal immigration, forced indoctrination of school
children with transgender theory and critical race theory, Biden's Covid vaccination mandates that caused health
injuries, deaths, and destroyed careers, Biden's Covid lockdowns that destroyed businesses, jobs, supply chains and
raised prices, Biden's "Russian" sanctions that disrupted energy supply and raised the price of everything. [...] Now,
ask yourself, what is worse, a stolen US election or an American electorate so insouciant and out to lunch that they
would keep a political party in office that is leading us into war with Russia and China, that hates white people and
persecutes them, that has politicized the FBI and Department of Justice turning them into Gestapo agencies serving
Democrat power, that fervently believes that parents are bad for children and should have no say in their education
(brainwashing), that is demonizing normality and normalizing perversity, that ... I could go on and on. Here was a
chance for voters to register their dissent, and according to the vote results they failed to do so. If the vote
count is honest, then the conclusion is that we must write off the American people as beings too stupid to survive as a
free people. This is why I much prefer to believe that the election was again stolen. What can be done about
stolen elections? Nothing. Especially when a previously stolen election has left Democrats in control of the
executive branch. The executive branch is the police branch. It is not going to enforce election or any law
against itself.
Federal
judge: You'd better believe that Biden's Academia bailout is unconstitutional. You better believe that Joe
Biden and his team knew that already, too. He managed to buy midterm votes without spending a dollar, and now he
can play the victim for another couple of years to hang onto those voters, who will end up with nothing
at all. At least one judge decided that the Constitution might be a little more important than
"standing" when it comes to Biden's unilateral appropriation of several hundred billion dollars. In fact, the
insult to the separation of powers and Congress' exclusive power of the purse is grave enough that Judge Mark Pittman
decided to dispense with the plaintiff's request for an injunction and proceeded to decide the case immediately,
vacating Biden's executive order.
John
Kerry Spills the Beans at U.N.'s COP27 Meeting: They Want to Replace Capitalism with a New Economic
System. The World Economic Forum's climate change agenda was "modeled" off the effort to roll out vaccines
during the Covid pandemic, John Kerry said during a COP27 panel discussion in Egypt on Tuesday. That means we can
all look forward to high-pressure, coercive government tactics, and not only from the government but from corporate
elites. Appearing alongside WEF President Børge Brende and various corporate executives, U.S. Special
Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said that it is urgent for the private sector to pair with governments to
realize the goal of preventing the global temperature from rising and to save lives in the allegedly looming global
climate crisis, Breitbart reported. Kerry said in a speech before the panel: "We have an enormous challenge
before us to bring to scale new technologies and to harness the deeply capable capacity of private sector entrepreneurs
in order to bring them to the table because without it, no government has enough money... we need everybody behind
this." King Charles has made similar statements, that we need nations to pool their resources and raise a
trillion dollars to combat climate change.
[Emphasis added.]
Biden's
student loan handout struck down by federal judge in Texas. A federal judge in Texas struck down President
Biden's student loan handout in a Thursday night ruling. Biden's plan, which aims to cancel up to $20,000 in
student loan debt for Pell Grant recipients in college and up to $10,000 for others who borrowed using federal student
loans. "Whether the Program constitutes good public policy is not the role of this Court to determine. Still,
no one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch,
or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United
States," United States District Judge Mark Pittman wrote.
Physicals,
Virtuals, Machines and Overlords. WEF chief [Klaus] Schwab has proclaimed that a key element of the
COVID crisis-fueled "Great Reset" will be to advance and shape this "Fourth Industrial Revolution." And in public
statements, he has explained what this means: merging man with machines. "What the fourth industrial revolution will
lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity," Schwab explained in a speech to the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs. This is not a conspiracy "theory". Schwab even wrote a book on the subject in 2016
entitled Shaping the Future of The Fourth Industrial Revolution. In it, he explains how looming technological
changes will allow governments to "intrude into the hitherto private space of our minds, reading our thoughts and
influencing our behavior." The title is a tell. This vision is not inevitable, but rather will have to be
shaped if it is to develop in the way that he and his WEF colleagues envision.
Biden's America
is actually a democratic autocracy. President Biden recently spoke about the need for democracy rather
than autocracy, pointing out that the American midterm elections would save democracy only if the Democrats got the
majority. In other words, those who vote Republican are against democracy, as only the rule of one party with
complete control over the government promotes democracy. Biden thereby defined his attitude as autocratic,
pointing out that "autocracy is the opposite of democracy. It means the rule of one, one person, one interest, one
ideology, one party." It is clear that autocracy — not democracy — is what the Democrats are
pushing for. If you are not for the rule of one interest, namely the socialist, ultra-rich corporate class that
now controls the very political theater Biden is a part of, you are the enemy of democracy.
Democrats
Are Losing Voters They Took for Granted, Thanks to Misplaced Priorities. Over the weekend, new data showed
Democrats that minorities are migrating to Republican candidates in a historic shift, and the electorate sees them as
focused on all the wrong things. All Democrats had to do was not be crazy. Biden inherited an economy in
recovery and a nation looking to take a collective deep breath. Instead, Democrats decided to destroy the economy
and push transing the kids. Voters noticed.
Manchin's
rebuke shows how toxic Biden's energy views are. It's not often that a senator launches a brutal, frontal
assault on a president from his own party. It's even rarer when he does it just before a national election.
But that is exactly what West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin just did to Joe Biden. At issue was Biden's recent
speech attacking coal, a bedrock of the West Virginia economy. Manchin was furious over Biden's promise to shut
down all of America's coal-fired power plants. That view might be red meat for Biden's audience of
green-power advocates and rich California donors, but it is poison in West Virginia. And it is those West
Virginians who elected Manchin, the only Democrat still standing in a state that is now deep red. [...] President
Biden's comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American
people are feeling because of rising energy costs. [...] Shutting down coal-fired plants is hardly a new position for
Biden. He said as much while campaigning for president. But why return to that theme just before an election
when high energy prices are already a political burden? Some combination of Biden's usual foot-in-mouth disease,
his quest for rich donors, and an effort to spur turnout among base voters.
Biden
Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Climate Change And His Handlers Are Trying To Save The Situation. In a
move that surely had his tapioca dealers talking themselves back from the ledge, the President stated that they would be
shutting down coal-fired power plants 'across America'. West Virginia may be the first state that comes to mind
when one thinks of coal country, but Pennsylvania is a close second and is home to one of the key senate races of this
election. Democrat senate hopeful, Fetterman, was likely stunned by Biden's recklessness ... and her husband
probably was too.
Energy
Inflation Was by Design. This essay will demonstrate that the energy supply and price crisis was a
deliberate outcome of a policy that Biden promised to implement, the same one that Obama had supported during his time
in office. It will review how and why we arrived here, why record energy prices were not happenstance, why
domestic conventional energy supplies are inadequate in relation to levels of demand seen in recent years, and how the
entire thrust of Obama's — and now Biden's — energy policy was designed to deliver these
results. It's not a bug but a core feature of his program.
Inflation
By Design. Gas is as ordinary as a pencil. We fill up our tanks every day, or jump in a rideshare,
hop on a plane, jet ski around a lake, without taking any notice of the miracle of this fuel. Gas is the result of
the labor of innumerable individual contributions, from geologists to tanker drivers; it begins miles underground and
ends at the local filling station, yet it is cheaper than bottled water. Pencils and gas are both marvels of free
market capitalism, as are countless petrochemical products, from plastics and rubber to laundry detergent and
cosmetics. The only non-market force capable of disrupting this well-oiled machine is government. That's
exactly what Joe Biden did.
Who
has really been running our country? On the day that Joe Biden was sworn into office, he signed dozens of
extensively radical executive orders. Then the Biden administration began populating the federal government and
the federal Judiciary — including the new Supreme Court vacancy — with hundreds (probably
thousands) of the most extreme anti-American people imaginable. The administration has re-crafted an enormous
number of laws and regulations — often illegally — to push the hard-left, woke, LGBT agendas
throughout business, government, education, and society in general. U.S. foreign policy, including the hideous
abandonment in Afghanistan and unhinged Ukrainian response, has clearly been coordinated to weaken America and
strengthen our enemies. Our military is being emasculated — and proselytized to consider patriotic
Americans as the enemy. The Biden administration ignores our immigration laws and welcomes millions of illegal
aliens to swarm across our southern border, and then methodically ships them to cities across the country (and even
gives them cell phones to use). The administration's aggressive "green new deal" is paralyzing our transportation
system and causing crippling inflation never seen in this country before. Federal agencies, spearheaded by the
Justice Department and FBI, have viciously become weaponized against conservatives, at the same time allowing "Antifa"
and other left-wing hoodlum groups to terrorize citizens at will. As many have observed, it's a controlled
demolition of America.
'Moderate'
Democrat Tim Ryan Backs Free Sex Changes for Illegal Migrants. The Democrat party's candidate in the Ohio
Senate race promised to provide taxpayer-funded sex-change surgeries and hormones to illegal migrants who say they are
transgender. Tim Ryan, who portrays himself as a moderate, made the wildly unpopular pledge in 2019 to one of the
party's most radical constituency groups, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Ryan made the pledge while he
was running for president in 2019.
Don't Cry For Me, America.
We've seen this movie before. The Democrats' populist giveaway plans can't possibly work, because government
bankrupts everything it touches. History teaches us that ObamaCare and the myriad of government's unfunded
entitlement programs will be utter, complete disasters. Today's Democrats are guilty of more than stupidity; they
are enslaving future generations to poverty and misery. And they will be long gone when it all implodes.
They will be as cold and dead as Juan Perón when the piper must ultimately be paid. Throughout history,
Democrats' Marxist templates for wealth redistribution have proven fatal for civilized societies.
The
Democrat War on Fossil Fuels. On October 19, in the heat of an election campaign, President Biden told the
American people, "We need to increase oil production." He went on to say, "My administration has not stopped or
slowed U.S. oil production." It was a disingenuous statement from a man whose sense of reality, fact, and fiction
have become an undecipherable narrative. Biden failed to mention the executive order he issued which stipulates,
"the Secretary of the Interior shall pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters."
This pause is ongoing. Biden uses the same executive order as an instruction to the secretaries of State,
Treasury, Energy, Defense, and Homeland Security, "to organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to
combat the climate crisis." Millions of Americans are employed by businesses supporting the fossil-fuel
industry. Others choose to invest in fossil-fuel businesses. All Americans rely on fossil fuels to power
their businesses, transportation systems, and utilities. Democrats will destroy these people's jobs, capital, and
imperil the U.S. economy.
Could
[Democrat] Politics Be Even More Childish? In contrast to the left's campaign of disinformation, we
present some facts:
• Fascists don't cut taxes, deregulate, and shrink government. Republicans, even
"MAGA Republicans," run on those issues, and are devoted to the principles, even if too often the policy agenda
fails (because of Democratic and media opposition).
• Fascists are socialists, and it's the Democrats who are wed to socialist policies.
They constantly agitate for higher taxes, more government control of the means of production, ever-deeper government
intrusion into private affairs, and incontestable political power. They don't want voters to know that fascism's
father Benito Mussolini said that "socialism is in my blood," or that the Nazis were national socialists.
• Politicians and media figures hungry for raw power will call those who question an election that
they won "deniers" while themselves denying that they did exactly that in previous elections.
• A party that wishes to destroy America would, as Walter Russel Mead wrote a month after Donald
Trump took office, limit fracking as much as possible, block oil and gas pipelines, and try to tamp down tensions with
Russia's ally Iran. The GOP has done none of that. The Democrats are guilty of all three.
• A party that would abolish democracy would crush dissenting voices and opinions, and constantly
smear its opponents — which is what the Democrats have done. (And yet again we have to reiterate that
the U.S. is not a democracy. That is an infantile construction used to deceive. We are a republic.)
The
Left Were the Mad Scientists, We Were Their Lab Rats. We are now headed for a decisive midterm
election. Strangely the hard-left architects of the last two years neither offer a defense of their failing
agendas, nor agree to change them. No Democratic congressional candidates brag about the 3 million people who
illegally crossed an open border. None boast that they helped cancel key pipelines, reduced federal leasing of gas
and oil, and shut down the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. None take credit for hammering investments in fossil
fuels. None preen over the no-bail and defund-the-police policies of left-wing, big-city prosecutors and mayors
who have spiked crime. None insist that an annual 8-9 percent inflation rate is a desirable spreading of the
wealth. And yet odder still, no Democratic candidate, state or national — and most certainly not Joe
Biden — offers to alter these toxic policies. If they won't defend what they have done, they apparently
will not undo what they have wrought either.
Back to
the Carter economy. The latest edition of "Joe Biden: Bad Ideas" came yesterday when Biden stepped up his
attacks on Big Oil and suggested that unless they lower prices he would push to implement a Windfall Profits Tax on the
companies, essentially seizing their profits as a punishment for making money. Such taxes are notoriously idiotic,
and even the dimwits in the White House must know that. It seems like Biden is trying to ruin the economy, and we
have hit the point where we have to actually consider that to be a possibility. Everything he has done to the
economy has made things worse, and after a while you have to consider whether it is intentional.
A
second attempt to block Biden's student-debt cancellation lands at the Supreme Court. Opponents to
President Joe Biden's student-debt relief took their legal battle to the Supreme Court on Tuesday in the latest attempt
to get the nation's highest court to block the plan. Indiana student-loan borrowers Frank Garrison and Noel
Johnson are seeking to halt the program, claiming it's unlawful and requires them to pay more in taxes because the debt
cancelation is considered taxable income under state law. "The administration is attempting to erase half a trillion
dollars in debt without any legal basis," Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative
law firm representing the two applicants, said in a statement. "The Court ought to put the brakes on this lawless action
while it's considered by the courts."
Los
Angeles and L.A. County buy into guaranteed income movement. Following a national trend, Los Angeles and
Los Angeles County have embraced the popular guaranteed income concept to combat poverty by offering low-income
residents no-strings-attached money. The city of Los Angeles offers a guaranteed income program to 3,200
participants chosen at random to receive $1,000 per month for 12 months. Los Angeles County has responded with two
guaranteed programs of its own. The county's pilot guaranteed income program involves 1,000 participants who will
receive $1,000 monthly payments for three years. The budget is $16.3 million, and the county will use federal
COVID-19 relief money to pay for the program, according to Los Angeles County. The program began in August.
A
Stunning Number of Americans Believe the Country Is 'Out of Control' Thanks to Democrats. A look at the
Democrat tote board reveals that this party's policies have resulted in more dead people.
• Democrats believe women should be able to kill their babies up to the moment of birth.
• The murder rate has spiked in Democrat-run cities where police are "de-funded."
• Democrats are willing to sacrifice your life at the altar of their global warming
religion by depriving you of reliable, cost-effective energy. Good luck heating your home this winter!
• They've required you to drive electric cars that don't work in the deep cold or when
you're stuck in traffic trying to escape a hurricane. Good luck with your evacuation plan!
• Democrats' policies have made food much more expensive, forcing some to choose whether to
eat or spend on other necessities.
• Democrats have opened the borders, releasing vast amounts of fentanyl and meth into the country,
killing more people than our wars.
The upshot is that Democrats are an existential threat to human life. Maybe that's why nearly 80% of the people
in a new CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker poll say that the country is "out of control."
No
such thing as a 'Christian Democrat'. This past week Matt Walsh posted the following comments on Twitter.
"The Democrats have settled on their closing argument: 'Vote for us so that we can castrate children, use your money to
pay for abortions, and put pornography in the schools. If you don't vote for us, then you are a Nazi and democracy will
die.' Fascinating political strategy." In these few words, Mr. Walsh highlighted a sad and sobering fact:
The Democrat party is now so extreme that no serious follower of Christ can align with it. There is no longer any
such thing as a "Christian Democrat."
The
'Hands Off Our Kids!' Election. Obama sold "hope and change." Trump promised to "Make America Great
Again." With control of Congress and the presidency heading into the 2022 midterm elections, what future are Joe
Biden and his fellow Democrats offering to lure voters toward their side? It appears to be one in which boys are
celebrated as girls, education is reduced to political indoctrination, and Green New Deal policies continue to
exacerbate food and fuel costs. What is the Democrats' argument for re-election? Despite staggering
inflation, crime, and illegal immigration, things could be much worse? If you loved masks and lockdowns, get ready
for more? You'll forget about the pain at the pump once war with Russia officially begins? Celebrate the
future by mutilating and aborting the children of today? Whatever future Democrats are selling voters, it is
bereft of hope, is riddled with pain, steals from Americans' depleted savings, and leaves those growing up today with
little but spare change.
The
Democrat party is evolving as a tool of the deep state. Who is in charge of the Democrat party?
Democrat voters? Supporters of politicians who vow to abolish socioeconomic injustices, but who instead tacitly
perpetuate them so they can continue to promise to abolish them, in exchange for continued support at the ballot
box. Voters do not control the Party -- they are manipulated by it. The media? No. Devoid of
original thought they are the propaganda arm of the Party, promoting the Party narrative to give vent to their own
personal grievances. They merely amplify the Party agenda. Democrat politicians? Traditionally
probably so, but that appears to be changing. The Party has evolved, installing an unprincipled, senile president
and an incompetent vice president, now touting a senatorial candidate who is patently impaired by post-stroke aphasia,
and propping up a senile senior senator from California. And it has no bright shining stars as potential future
leaders. It appears to be staffing its policy-generating apparatus with puppets. If they can read the cue
cards, they can run for office.
Have
Democrats Lost Interest in the Working Man? Perhaps the most telling example of the Democratic Party's
abandonment of what used to be called "the working class" was the transparent effort of this regime to have the federal
government illegally absorb a trillion dollars in college student loans this fall. These are largely people
earning six figures per year, a high percentage of them with advanced degrees. These aren't the hardworking
longshoremen, railroad engineers, and factory assembly line workers who used to form the core of the Democratic
Party. A lot of these college loan defaulters wouldn't know a lathe, conveyor belt, or arc welder from the
background in their video games. But blue collar workers' taxes (and their children's and grandchildren's taxes)
will be paying off the masters degrees and doctorates of these latte-drinking vegans for the next 100 years.
How easily the Biden-Harris regime threw their old base overboard to take care of their new base. The greenies and
academics, the counter-culturists and bureaucrats. These are the Democratic Party's base today.
If
Republicans win, it's the end of democracy. We should hope so. Democracy is mob rule.
Democracy is rule by majority. We do not have a direct democracy. We never had one. America was never
set up for that. [...] If you want a resuscitated America in November, you must vote for representatives who will:
• Open oil pipelines.
• Close the borders.
• Educate in our schools and remove drag queens and anti-white racist teachers.
• Secure elections by going back to paper ballots and one-day voting.
• Resuscitate the military as a fighting force, not a social experiment.
• Remove every vestige of CRT, SEL, DEI, ESG in government agencies.
• Clean out the FBI, CIA, FCC, NEA, IRS, and the EPA and strip them of all but the most innocuous
powers. Better still, eliminate these agencies.
• Stop spending and printing money.
• Stop paying people not to work.
• Bar men in women's sports.
• Revoke Section 230 and make websites like Twitter and Facebook legally responsible for their unrepentant
censorship against conservatives.
This is a no-excuses election. Everyone must vote. We have the choice in a few days to either keep a free America or
acquiesce to the Great Resetters who want a one-party system. If you want more of what we've been getting the last two years,
vote Democrat. If you want your freedom back and want to stop self-censoring, vote Republican.
Bad
Energy Policy Ideas Never Die. Thus far in 2022, political actors and their acolytes are dusting off,
again, every bad idea that has ever permeated political debate in the United States regarding energy. Among them:
• Price caps, which do nothing to provoke demand response or salient investment.
• Export bans, which only shrink the global supply pie, worsening price pressures.
• Tapping strategic oil reserves, originally reserved for emergencies — a
tactic too often deployed to manage or attempt to manage prices.
• Appealing to OPEC (and OPEC+) to open spigots while also investigating and/or invoking
sanctions against, and/or attempting to legislate against, OPEC.
None of these are new, or even clever, or even useful, but they are being presented to voters here and abroad as such.
The
'SAFE-T Act' Is the Epitome of Political Hypocrisy. Based on the title, you might expect that this law
would have something to do with keeping people safe, right? Think again. What the SAFE-T Act really does is
eliminate cash bail for people who commit heinous felonies such as second-degree murder, arson, drug-induced homicide,
robbery, kidnapping, aggravated battery, burglary, intimidation, aggravated driving under the influence, fleeing and
eluding, drug offenses, and threatening a public official. And just in case you were wondering — no,
that doesn't mean that people who commit those crimes will be sitting in jail until their trial. Just the
opposite, in fact. Under the SAFE-T Act, starting on January 1, 2023, accused murderers, arsonists, kidnappers,
and other violent criminals will not be in jail at all before their trial. They will be free to roam the streets
as before, despite the fact that they are potentially dangerous and undoubtedly desperate.
Progressives
Have Descended Into Madness, And Are Dragging The Rest Of Us With Them. [Scroll down] One needn't
prattle on like a conservative cable news host to list the ways in which our current polity and culture are, in fact,
"demented" in its worst sense: utterly depraved. It's demented for a political party to pin its election hopes on
going all-in on snuffing out more than 930,000 lives in the womb annually. Especially when America is plunging
(despite a small COVID baby bump) into demographic winter with its attendant economic and social consequences. And
depraved to mutilate and chemically deform children based on a seeming sudden surge, largely among impressionable
teenaged girls, of a condition previously believed to affect far less than 1% of the population — up to 80%
of whom also suffer from "personality disorders." Not to mention to subject kindergartners to drag queen
performances. But it's also perverse to plunge entire populations into energy insecurity and poverty to humor a
doomsday cult obsessed with an unproven and unprovable hypothesis about climate apocalypse.
Every House Democrat
just voted against parental rights legislation. House Democrats on Thursday unanimously voted to block
legislation that would have required informed parental consent before a school provides mental health services related
to sexual orientation or gender identity to students. In a 220-208 vote, the House rejected an attempt by
Republicans to amend a bill that seeks to bolster mental health care for students, educators, and school staff
negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Titled the Mental Health Matters Act, the legislation would award
grants to build a pipeline of school-based mental health services providers and increase the number of professionals
providing mental health services to elementary and secondary schools in high-need areas. The Department of
Education would be responsible for allocating those grants.
Violent
Crime Is Driving a Red Wave. Since crime is essentially a local issue, why does it hurt Democrats running
for national or statewide office? Because the Democratic Party has associated itself with the notion that "social
justice" and "racial equality" require fundamentally changing policing and incarceration. The problem, they say,
is police, not criminals. In practice, that means Democrats, especially progressives, favor weaker law
enforcement, easier conditions for bail (even for those charged with violent offenses), and less funding for police
officers. That message was encapsulated in the slogans "defund the police" and "reimagine policing," which took
hold in 2020 after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis cop. Not all Democrats embraced this self-defeating
fad. Joe Biden, notably, spoke out against it. But progressives marched in lock-step, and their policies
became the party's dominant message on crime. Not just dominant, uncontested.
Biden
Wants Your Kids to Be Gender-Transitioned Whether You Like It or Not. President Joe Biden wants your
children to make life-changing gender transitions, and the only reason you want to stop him is bigotry and fear.
At least, so he says. In a NowThis media roundtable aired Sunday, Biden discussed issues of the day with
progressive activists and social media personalities. Most notable was his interview with transgender TikTok
celebrity Dylan Mulvaney, a biological male who is transitioning to "girlhood." In the interview, Biden said state
attempts to restrict gender transitions are immoral and based on "fear." He was asked if states had the right to
place restrictions on "gender-affirming care," as the Left likes to call hormone therapy and reconstructive surgeries.
"I don't think any state or anybody should have the right to do that. As a moral question or as a legal question,
I just think it's wrong," the president said in response.
The
Economy Will Never Prosper Under Biden: Here's Why. The White House has also promised to use "every lever
at its disposal — including regulatory action — to deliver on the president's priorities,
including containing the pandemic, driving a durable economic recovery, advancing equity, and combating climate change."
We are already seeing the fruits of Biden's approach. A recession in the first half of the year. Sky-high
inflation. Widespread despair. What the left can't seem to understand is that when government gets active,
businesses get passive. They become more risk averse. Compliance costs weigh them down. Long-term
investments become problematic if you don't know what the rules will be down the road. This is one big reason
why energy production has never recovered after the pandemic — the oil and gas industry has no idea
what lies ahead. So, as Biden's regulators descend upon the land, the economy will — as it was
throughout Barack Obama's eight years — be on a long and dreary slog. Indeed, Biden's regulatory
zeal will probably ramp up if Republicans win big in November, since his legislative agenda will be caput.
Biden's
Marijuana Pardons Did Not Free a Single Federal Prisoner or Deliver the Expungement He Promised. Edwin
Rubis has served more than two decades of a 40-year federal prison sentence for participating in a marijuana
distribution operation. Taking into account "good time" credit, he is not scheduled to be released until August
2032. Rubis is one of about 3,000 federal prisoners whose cannabis-related sentences were unaffected by President
Joe Biden's mass pardon for low-level marijuana offenders. A protest at the White House today called attention to
their predicament. Biden's October 6 proclamation applied only to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents
convicted of simple marijuana possession under the Controlled Substances Act or the District of Columbia Code, none of
whom was still incarcerated. Although his pardons could benefit as many as 10,000 or so individuals, that
represents a tiny percentage of all simple possession cases, which typically are charged under state law. And
Biden's action will not release a single federal prisoner.
Biden's
Destroying the Economy. Is It Intentional? Here are seven Biden administration steps to undermine an
economy and a society from within. [...]
[#1] Dismantle the nation's energy supply
[#2] Don't enforce the border
[#3] Devalue the nation's currency through inflation
[#4] Destroy the nation's finances by running up the debt by multiple trillions of dollars
[#5] Divide rather than unite the nation
[#6] Dumb down and indoctrinate our children with anti-American propaganda in the schools and media
[#7] Decriminalize a lot
Why
some progressive Democrats are urging Biden to rethink his Ukraine strategy. Since the beginning of the
war, the US has sent over $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. These aid packages have received rare, almost
unprecedented bipartisan support. Only a small contingent within the GOP, i.e. 57 of 212 House Republicans and 11
of 50 Senate Republicans, voted against the aid packages. Among them was Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) who
proposed essential transparency and accountability, but that idea was summarily rejected. Quite often when asked
how long the US can be expected to spend billions on the war effort, Biden, and his top aides respond with "as long as
it takes."
Why Biden
Went Far Left. One must never forget that most politicians are not like ordinary people. Most of us
are such that if we told a big public lie, for example, that we had finished in the top half our law school class when
we had actually finished in bottom 11% of the class, or that we had been arrested protesting for civil rights with
Nelson Mandela when we had not, or that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes for the past decade when we knew he paid
taxes, or that one's political opponent had colluded with Russia in order to steal the 2016 presidential election when
we knew that is false, or say under oath that the southern border is secure when everybody knows it is not, we would,
once we had been exposed, be ashamed and have difficulty showing our faces in public for a long time. Similarly,
most of us would feel deeply ashamed if we enacted policies that led to 800+ deaths at the southern border ... and so
on. In fact, many politicians feel no shame whatsoever when they are exposed for telling big lies or
perpetrating destructive hoaxes or enacting deadly policies. The immediate reaction of most politicians when their
enormous lies, hoaxes, and body-counts are exposed is to start plotting how to get away with it. That is, most
politicians are concerned with securing their own wealth and power, in Joe's case, being "the Big Guy," truth never even
being in the mix. My diagnosis of Joe Biden's sudden lurch to the far left is that Joe pretty much never believed
in much at all. He said what he said and did what he did to secure his grip on power.
Biden
Is 'Buying Votes' Ahead of Midterm Elections With Policy Decisions: Rep. Lauren Boebert. As the Nov.
8 midterm election draws near, some see recent moves by President Joe Biden as a desperate means to "buying votes."
[For example,] Pardons for Marijuana Offenses: On Oct. 6, Biden announced a blanket pardon for some federal
marijuana possession convictions. "No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana," Biden said.
"Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that
many states no longer prohibit. Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to
employment, housing, and educational opportunities." He went on to say that minorities are disproportionately
targeted by law enforcement for marijuana offenses.
North
America Goes South: The Plan To Dismantle USA. People are starting to realize that the collapse of the
American border is not an accident. It can't be. When the vice president of the United States says the
border is "secure" at the same time that illegal border crossings have surged to more than a million a year, then one of
two things must be true. [...] Unfortunately, there was no way to determine what the Biden administration was up
to — until now. Two weeks ago, we learned that Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken is actively
engaged in a campaign to break down all barriers between the United States and Mexico. In other words, the huge
influx of Mexicans and other foreigners across the U.S. border is just the first stage in a globalist effort to blur the
lines between not just the United States and Mexico, but also Canada.
Fact-Checking
4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout. President Joe Biden used his home state of Delaware on Friday
to promote his "forgiveness" of student loan debt, which he did through executive action in August rather than through
Congress. Some of Biden's assertions during 24 minutes of remarks at Delaware State University in Dover were
factual, and some less so. Biden spoke at the event one day after the Supreme Court opted not to immediately block
the student loan forgiveness program from going forward, and after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by six states to
block the plan. "They've been fighting us in the courts," Biden told the crowd. "But just yesterday, a state court
and the Supreme Court said no, we are on Biden's side." However, on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th
Circuit barred the Biden administration temporarily barred from discharging student loan debt while the appeals court
weighed the states' request to halt the bailout.
Congress
Trying to Ram Through $50 Billion More for Ukraine Before GOP Takes Control of the House. Lawmakers from
both parties are reportedly seeking to lock in a staggering $50 billion in additional military aid for Ukraine
before a new Congress is sworn in this January. The move is yet another indication that your elected senators and
representatives no longer view the American people as their top priority, but rather, the government of a corrupt
Eastern European nation is their new baby. NBC News reports that multiple sources have confirmed ongoing
discussions regarding a government funding bill during the lame-duck session following the election.
Here's
proof Biden knows his student loan bailout is illegal. Basically, in order to sue, you have to have been
directly harmed by the program. And, on paper, it's hard to see who is harmed by the bailout because,
unfortunately, just generally being a taxpayer whose money is being illegally wasted is not considered sufficient
justification to bring a lawsuit. So, for a while, it seemed that even though Biden's plan was glaringly
constitutionally suspect, nobody would be able to challenge it in court, meaning it wouldn't be struck down even if it
was unconstitutional. Thankfully, various right-of-center plaintiffs have come up with creative ways to challenge
the plan in court. One such lawsuit that has emerged is a suit by six states claiming that their finances would be
harmed by Biden's bailout because they're heavily invested in private companies that service loans and will take a big
hit from the president's cancellation initiative.
Bizarro president
destroys the economy. Reagan drove a wooden stake through inflation in the 1980s and his successors
carried a crucifix afterward. Then came Biden. He emptied the Treasury by borrowing trillions of dollars to
spend on the Green New Deal (ironically labeled the Inflation Reduction Act) and on an infrastructure program called the
American Rescue Plan. Democrat Senator Mark Warner of Virginia told Bloomberg, "Was there too much in the American
Rescue Plan on a relative basis? Absolutely." This is the first infrastructure program that actually tears
down interstate highways in the name of equity.
Cancel This.
President Biden premised his cancelation or forgiveness of student loans of up to $20,000 per person on "the financial
harms of the pandemic." However, a Wall Street Journal editorial duly noted that "the government had halted student
loan payments since 2020, holding borrowers harmless. A month before he declared the pandemic 'over,' Biden
extended that student loan pause through Dec. 31." Biden's "plan," as he calls it, is blatantly
unconstitutional. It's not unfair to say that everything about it is wrong. The only question is whether any
party has legal standing to challenge it. Indeed, Biden has altered the "plan" since the original announcement to
exacerbate the standing issue for possible challengers. At last word, the estimated cost of the plan was $400 billion.
In
Ukraine, The Democrats Have Locked Us Into A Pointless, Dangerous War. This war should have ended months
ago. It was simply a matter of allowing Ukraine to stay out of NATO. Given that option or the continuing
devastation of their country, it seems clear which way the Ukrainians would have gone. If pressure wasn't brought
to bear from outside, the whole crisis would probably be a fading memory. Now, however, we'll continue to funnel
billions of tax-payer dollars into a military operation that has no legitimate justification in terms of American
interests and no clearly defined resolution other than, perhaps, ousting Putin. Will he allow that to happen
before using every weapon at his disposal? It seems unlikely. [...] Joe Biden says we will support Ukraine for
"as long as it takes." As long as it takes to do what? What is the objective?
Americans
Shell Out Or Shiver While Biden Ships Our Energy Off To Europe. A trend is emerging in the Biden
administration's foreign policy, a perpetual obsession with supporting Europe above and even at the expense of U.S.
needs at home. In response to attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system, Secretary of State Antony
Blinken called the situation in Europe a "tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian
energy." Blinken went on to tout the ability of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers to meet heightened European
demand, conveniently forgetting it was the Biden administration's executive actions that stifled production capacity
within its first 100 days in office. Careful, Mr. Secretary, with too much premature boasting.
Blinken's naïve comments, practically salivating at the idea of saving Europe, indicate just how much the Biden
administration does not want the war in Ukraine to end. The conflict has become the administration's sacred cow,
allowing it to cover up domestic political blunders and receive heaps of praise from European elites, perhaps the
toughest crowd globally for the U.S. post-Trump. What goes unsaid is that all this European love comes at the
expense of the interests and bank account balances of American households.
A
conservative group just asked the Supreme Court to block Biden's student-loan forgiveness. A conservative
taxpayers group wants President Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan blocked as soon as possible — and
it's taking matters to the Supreme Court. The Brown County Taxpayers Association in Wisconsin filed an emergency
request to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking to temporarily pause Biden's student-debt relief plan before Sunday,
when the group expects the administration to start officially canceling borrowers' debt. The conservative group,
represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), initially filed a lawsuit against the debt relief on
October 4, arguing that it has an "improper racial motive" by seeking to help Black borrowers and advance racial
equity. It said Biden exceeded his constitutional power by enacting the loan relief without congressional
approval. Two days later, a federal judge tossed out the lawsuit. While that decision is being appealed, the
group is now escalating the issue to the Supreme Court in an effort to block Biden's plan from taking effect.
Biden's Closing
Moves. President Biden's handlers seem to me not to have chosen well so far. The Biden economy
inflicts pain on a daily basis. What have they got for that? They served up the Inflation Reduction
Act. In other words, they have nothing to mitigate the inflation they ignited. On the contrary, they have
more kindling for the fire. And they count on their ability to play on the stupidity of voters abetted by their
media adjunct. Democrats haven't done much bragging about the IRA on the campaign trail. One can reasonably
infer that, insofar as it was enacted to serve their immediate political needs, it has proved a bust.
Eight
things that killed the Democrat Party. The old Democrat Party is gone. In its place is a radical
Libertine Party, full of itself and full of radical sexual, cultural, and economic ideas that have all but killed their
chances of ever getting legitimately elected again.
Pritzker
Democrats and the Safe-T Act, Releasing Violent Criminals Upon the People and Pretending There is No Cost.
Most Americans are workers. They're not afraid of hard work. And they believe in being fair. It was
unfair to deny fellow Americans a seat at a lunch counter based on the color of their skin. The unfairness of such
racism compelled Americans to support civil rights. And now, even those who haven't studied the Constitution or
criminal law, there is basic fairness in the idea that all Americans when charged with crime, have the right to
bail. I don't know who doesn't support this. I support it. I don't want to live in a country where
people are charged and hauled off without a chance for bail. But what Pritzker and the Democrats have done with
their SAFE-T ACT is a perversion of fairness. They use guilt and the fear of being called a racist to push it down
the people's throats.
Virginia
Democrat Lawmaker Backs Down From Bill That Would've Made It a Crime for Parents Not to Affirm LGBT Child.
A Democrat Virginia state delegate has backed down from introducing a bill to expand the definition of child abuse to
include inflicting "physical or mental injury" on children due to their gender identity or sexual orientation. In
her interview with local ABC7 on Thursday, Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) said parents who didn't affirm
their children's choice of gender identity could incur Child Protective Services (CPS) charges that might cause harm to
the parents' employment. She added that she wanted to do this to counter the transgender student policy recently
released by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). The draft policy requires public schools to acquire written
parental consent before treating a student as a different gender.
The
Democrats are responsible for the hardships faced by citizens. Inflation is at a 40-year high making
essential commodities expensive. Even the price of candy reached its highest recorded mark which will impact
Halloween celebrations. The price of gasoline continues to rise. The border is open causing over 4.9 million
migrant to enter the US since Biden took over, and the smuggling of illicit narcotics is resulting in numerous drug
overdose deaths. The rate of violent crimes in the U.S. is rising while the murder rate spiked by 30%, the highest
increase since record-keeping began in 1960. Democrats are placing restrictions on firearms, which are the only
affordable means of defense for citizens. The Democrats were responsible for the lockdowns that infringe upon the
right of movement and the right to earn a living. The Democrats impose vaccine mandates that eliminate the right
of choice. The Democrats desperately want to change the topic. Hence the focus on the 'insurrection'.
The goal of the January 6th committee was never to find facts, it was instead to persecute their main political
opponent, Donald Trump.
Wasn't
Legalizing Pot Supposed To Reduce Crime? [A]nyone pushing for legalized marijuana should look at what's
going on in California before cheering this on. That state, as have several others, legalized marijuana on the
promise that it would reduce crime, improve public health, increase traffic safety, and stimulate the economy.
Instead of wasting time prosecuting people for possession or for selling pot, states could capture a new revenue source
by taxing it. Legalization would also mean that states could regulate it, presumably making the marijuana safer
and free of adulterants. So far, 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for nonmedical
use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Americans
Must Permanently Marginalize the Perpetual Adolescents of the American Left. Currently in the United
States, less than 8% of Americans identify as very liberal or essentially Marxist and another 11% identify as
liberal. Yet this small subset (19%) of Americans dominates the culture, entertainment, education, the federal
bureaucracy and most importantly, the Democrat party. In November of 2022, the 81% of Americans who do not
identify with the left must begin the process of permanently defeating the radical left and their fatuous acolytes if
the nation is avoid the precipice toward which it is headed. The United States must not be destroyed by the
American Marxists and their attendant gaggle of egotistical and perpetual adolescents; therefore, the counter strategy
is to denigrate these buffoons by never missing an opportunity to call them out, and above all by ignoring their
infantile tactics as they have no weapon other than words and idle threats. In other words, treat them as the
adolescents they are.
Summers:
We Can't Have 'Strategy of Total Hostility to Fossil Fuels' That We've Had. During an interview aired on
Friday's broadcast of Bloomberg's "Wall Street Week," Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic
Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers reacted to
OPEC+'s production cut by stating that "we made a mistake by canceling the Keystone pipeline. We made a mistake by
slowing down all kinds of permitting activity. We made a mistake by being hostile as a country to natural gas."
Former
Obama Adviser Demolishes Joe Biden's Energy Moves With Simple Truth. Gas prices are starting to creep up
again. Despite Joe Biden going hat in hand to Saudi Arabia to beg for more oil production, OPEC gave him the
finger and announced that they would be cutting production by two million barrels a day. Joe's response?
He's going to continue to empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by 10 million barrels when it's already at dangerously
low levels and pretend like that's doing something besides robbing our security for the future. He's also
canceling sanctions on the dictatorial state of Venezuela (who cares about human rights?) so that they can pump more and
give some to us.
November Surprise?
We are barreling into an election that will determine the composition of Congress. There is much chatter about
whether this election will be allowed to happen. Signs and portents point to a grievous loss of power for the
Party of Chaos. Power is all they care about — certainly not the public interest or the common
good — and a particular sort of power: the power to coerce, persecute, and punish. It is obvious in
everything they do, from the FBI swat-team home invasions of select opponents and the gross mistreatment of the January 6
defendants, to the craven censoring of public speech, to the imposition of medical tyranny and the deadly fraud of
Covid shots, to the degenerate insults of their race-and-gender hustles, to their assault on the value of our money, to
their sabotage of the oil-and-gas industries, to their treasonous abandonment of border control, to the deliberate
perversion of policing and public order, to their promulgation of a faithless and unnecessary war, sharply against our
national interests, in faraway Ukraine.
OPEC
Humiliates Biden While the UK Increases Domestic Oil Production. It hasn't been a good week for Joe Biden.
[...] OPEC+ announced that it would be cutting oil production in the weeks leading up to the 2022 midterm elections,
despite his repeated pleas for them to boost production. It was the latest in a long line of humiliations for Joe
Biden — and, of course, entirely his own doing. He's the one who put the brakes on domestic oil
production and drilling, outsourcing our energy to foreign nations — including our enemies. Now, gas
prices are going to shoot up just before the midterm elections because of Biden's war on domestic energy. For
sure, increasing domestic energy production would go a long way toward fixing this problem, but Biden either hasn't
figured that out yet or just doesn't care.
A
massive indictment of the Democrat party. The U.S. Constitution, by limiting federal power, is designed to
protect the individual citizen from external coercion. [...] By supporting big government at the expense of the
individual, Democrats threaten to transform America into a totalitarian nightmare. President Biden has declared
that the "most lethal elements" in our society are political conservatives. In true Stalinist fashion, the DoJ,
the FBI, and the media are being weaponized to go after Biden's political opponents. Armed FBI agents raided the
homes of Roger Stone, James O'Keefe, Paul Manafort, and dozens of other Trump-supporters, to say nothing of the raid on
Mar-a-Lago. "The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party,"
said radio host Jesse Kelly. The implication is that if you distrust Biden's government, you are considered a
terrorist and must be hunted down. Democrats will not hesitate to deprive you of your basic rights if it suits
their purpose. In their war on free speech, Democrats have attempted to silence anyone who denies global warming,
criticizes Islamic terrorism, advocates a stronger military, or questions the validity of the 2020 election.
One Vote
Over the Line. Congratulations, potheads. Once again, your friends the ultra-liberal Democrats have
lived up to their reputation as primo vote-buyers with Joe Biden's in-flight, Air Force One order to liberate you from
your previous criminal acts. I'm talking about his pardoning of those of you who have been convicted of federal
drug charges for possession and use of cannabis, marijuana, weed, ganja, Mary Jane and all those other code words you
used to describe your 'cool' unplugged habit. Somewhere parties are being planned by ponytailed aging hippies and
drug pushers who see this as but the first step in a journey to legalize all drugs for public use. Flags
emblazoned with the green cannabis leaf are going up as Cheech and Chong roll their joints for a parade down Main
Streets all over the country. But wait! There's one caveat. This pardon only covers those marijuanians who
were prosecuted under federal laws and does not include those convicted by state courts.
Biden
administration demands Alabama embrace genderless schools or else, but we aren't giving in. Undeterred by
repeated losses, the Biden administration's war on red states and our "Neanderthal thinking" rages on. This month,
my colleagues and I are fighting Biden and his comrades at the United States Department of Agriculture in court to
protect the right of states to run their public schools as they see fit. This time, the fight isn't over
curriculum or masking — it's whether states still possess the paltry authority to require boys to use the
boys' bathroom at school. The United States Constitution leaves no doubt as to the states' broad authority over
their own public schools, but the Biden administration supposes that everything — even schoolchildren —
has a price.
The
Democrats Wrecked My Retirement. On Day One, Biden cut the legs out from under American energy
independence. Oil, gasoline, and natural gas prices skyrocketed. Why did the administration do this?
Because they think it's cool and woke to be Green. The Squad likes Green, and the administration wants to be "in"
with that ilk and with the extreme voters who support that. Green energy and renewables can't come close to
supporting our energy needs and won't for the foreseeable future. Remember, Biden, Pelosi, Kerry, Obama, Gore,
etc., etc. — none of them lives by Green rules. But they expect you to. All I know is, now that
I'm a retiree, gasoline has gone from $2.11/gallon to $3.76/gallon. And it'll be back over $4.00/gallon shortly,
as soon as Biden's game-playing with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve runs out of tricks.
Letting
marijuana offenders off isn't going to make us any safer. A day after the FBI released its yearly crime
data showing that murder rose yet another 4% in 2021 after rising almost 30% in 2020, President Joe Biden announced that
he is pardoning everyone convicted of marijuana possession. Rampant crime has been a major focus of Republican
campaign advertisements against Democrats this election year, and Democrats deserve every single attack. Across
the country, Democrats have been defunding police departments, decriminalizing offenses like bus fare jumping, and
supporting prosecutors that refuse to prosecute gun possession and other misdemeanors.
Joe
Biden Pardons Thousands Convicted of Federal Marijuana Possession. President Joe Biden announced Thursday
his decision to pardon some federal marijuana offenses as part of his effort to satisfy criminal justice and drug policy
activists. "As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or
possessing marijuana," Biden said in a statement released by the White House, noting that marijuana crimes had "upended
too many lives." Biden said he would pardon all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana,
directing his attorney general to set up a system to pardon all eligible individuals.
Biden
Administration's Manipulated Energy Policy Demonstrates Ignorance of History. Consumed, as they have been,
with the work of pushing revisionist woke ideology in the schools, it seems the Left missed the lesson that those who
don't know history are doomed to repeat it. They've learned nothing from the past, not even the recent past.
Yet here we are, looking at the possibility we could repeat the same mistakes Europe made in the late 90s and early
2000s when they failed to realize the real motivations behind the green energy propaganda they were being spoon fed as
truth. Back in the early 2000s, Russia did a phenomenal job with a disinformation campaign pushing anti-fracking
in Europe. We know this because NATO admitted that this "green energy" advocacy was funded by the very people who
stood to gain from the enacted policies: [...]
Some
Helpful Ideas For Biden's Impeachment. In his conduct while president of the United States, Joseph
Robinette Biden Jr. has shown a habitual contempt for the rule of law, on numerous occasions willfully violating his
constitutional oath by corrupting and manipulating the power of the executive branch. [...] Biden again knowingly
subverted the will of Congress when he transferred loan payments for millions of affluent students to taxpayers in hopes
of affecting the 2022 midterms. The president does not possess the statutory power to "forgive" or "cancel"
loans. Just ask congressional leaders like Nancy Pelosi, who correctly noted that "[p]eople think that the
President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness — he does not." He did it anyway.
Unilaterally. The president used the emergency powers found in the HEROES Act, passed after 9/11 to help U.S.
soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, to justify his decree. We know that Biden cynically exploited the bill,
because, by his own recent admission on "60 Minutes," he concedes there is no emergency.
Why
some polls show a dead heat for a generic ballot. The Afghanistan withdrawal was perhaps the most serious
foreign policy mistake in U.S. history. It left the Taliban billions of dollars of state-of-the-art military
equipment and the Bagram air base which is in spitting distance from China. Joe Biden's ill-conceived spending
kicked off the inflation that is currently sullying the lives of millions of Americans. Drunk with power, Biden
gleefully imposed mask and vaccine mandates on millions of Americans — law enforcement, military, federal
employees, etc. Those who were wisely skeptical and refused the experimental jab lost their jobs. As it
turns out, they were the smart ones; the vaccines were ineffective and have caused countless deaths and vaccine injuries
far more devastating than COVID. The mortality rate among young people is up by forty percent. Biden gleefully
put an end to our energy independence that President Trump had won. He cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline from
Canada and ended drilling on most federal lands. He has drained our strategic oil reserves at a most inopportune
time. This can only be a purposeful plan to destroy America as founded.
Hunger
In America: Why Hasn't It Already Been Ended? As you may know, the Biden Administration is planning to
hold its big "White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health" this coming Wednesday, September 28. Apparently,
we are to believe that "hunger" is and remains a significant problem today in the United States. [...] But wait a
minute — hasn't hunger in the United States already been ended? I seem to remember multiple prior
government promises to end hunger in America, each of them followed by massive funding, and/or increases in prior
already-massive levels of funding to achieve the goal. Are we only now learning that none of these prior efforts
worked? If not, that would represent a huge failure of the government bureaucracies that had been charged with
dealing with and solving this problem. Those same bureaucracies are still in place today, spending tens and even
hundreds of billions of dollars annually and, if we are to believe President Biden, failing miserably in their prime
responsibility of ending hunger. Shouldn't those bureaucracies be held accountable for that failure?
Biden
says White House has secured $8 billion in public and private sector funding to help end hunger in the U.S. by
2030. President Joe Biden's administration secured $8 billion in commitments from public and private
entities to end hunger in the United States by 2030, announcing them Wednesday ahead of the White House Conference on
Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Participants include grocery stores like Hy-Vee, Meijer and Publix, tech and media
companies including Google, Warner Bros. Discovery and Doordash and familiar brands like Chobani. 'We're
announcing over $8 billion in commmitments from over 100 different organizations to help reach our goals,' Biden said as
he opened up the conference Wednesday morning.
The Editor says...
Nobody is ever going to eliminate hunger or poverty. Look carefully, and you'll see they're spending billions of dollars
to "help end hunger in the U.S." You can do that much every time you eat lunch. The Democrats are hoping you don't
notice the difference. They're just re-distributing money.
Pacific
Legal Foundation sues to block Biden's student debt cancellation effort. A libertarian group of attorneys
based in Sacramento filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden's plan for student debt cancellation on Tuesday,
calling it an illegal overreach that would increase state tax burdens for some Americans who get their debt
forgiven. The lawsuit, believed to be the first targeting Biden's plan, was filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation,
a Sacramento law firm. It was filed in federal court in Indiana, one of several states that plan to tax any
student debt canceled by Biden's plan. "Congress did not authorize the executive branch to unilaterally cancel
student debt," said Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation.
56
GOP Members Beg Their Colleagues To Do Anything To Stop Biden's Destructive Agenda. Fifty-six
congressional Republicans are urging their colleagues in the House and Senate to vote against a wasteful, stopgap
spending measure that would fund the federal government — and a number of Democrats' wasteful wish-list
items — through the middle of December. In a letter sent to his Republican colleagues in the House of
Representatives, Texas Rep. Chip Roy explained how Congress's current spending habits are "fueling rampant
inflation and funding the Biden administration's radical agenda," which includes "empowering authoritarian bureaucrats
at agencies like the IRS and FBI, implementing open-border policies that are threatening [American] communities,
imposing COVID-19 mandates that shut down schools," and "forcing [U.S.] military servicemembers out of their jobs, and
advancing self-destructive energy policies."
Biden's
plan to end U.S. hunger by 2030 and tackle obesity: Monthly benefits for Americans to buy food. The Biden
administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including
expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food. The administration, in a plan released
Tuesday, is also seeking to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with
diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other diet-related diseases. It said it would work to expand Medicaid and
Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition.
Wasn't the "War on Poverty" supposed to have ended hunger in the 1960's?
Biden
Plans To 'End Hunger' In The US Through The Power Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion. The Biden
administration is working to end hunger and "diet-related diseases" by hiring more minority nutritionists, according to
a White House plan released Monday [9/26/2022]. The administration says that hiring more non-white registered
dietitian nutritionists will help minority communities that experience higher rates of "food insecurity," obesity and
type 2 diabetes, according to the White House National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The Health
Resources and Services Administration will begin collaborating with Minority Serving Institutions and Historically Black
Colleges and Universities in 2023 to recruit and train a diverse crop of nutrition experts as part of the White House's
plan. "A more diverse health care workforce would better serve communities of color, which suffer from higher rates
of food insecurity and diet-related disease," the memo states. "Patients are less likely to seek care or share
information if they perceive ethnic or social differences with their health care providers."
The Editor says...
Of course! The whole hunger problem is that there aren't enough non-white nutritionists.
Imagine all the people who have starved because their nutritionists were white! Oh, if only the whole country
was non-white, every problem would disappear. Wait — isn't that what they used to say in
Zimbabwe? How's that working out?
Dems
Stuffed Billions In Reparations For Black Farmers In 'Inflation Reduction Act'. The Democrats' massive
climate spending and tax bill gave the Department of Agriculture (USDA) $2.2 billion in loans to pay farmers, many of
whom are black, who have previously been denied USDA loans due to discrimination. The provision, which was backed
by Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, is intended to provide financial
assistance to farmers, ranchers or forest landowners that the department determines to have experienced discrimination
in USDA farm lending programs before Jan. 1. 2021, according to the bill's text. Although the funding could go to
any farmer that the government has discriminated against, such as white women or members of the LGBTQ community, the
money is primarily intended to rectify the historic denial of loans to black farmers, accordingto The Wall Street
Journal. Another of the bill's provisions will allocate $3.1 [sic] to help farmers of any race who are facing
financial hardship and also have a direct or guaranteed loan with the USDA.
A
Congress full of contempt for the American people. Since inflation is currently the major issue for the
American people, the Democrat Congress, with much fanfare and the usual self-congratulation, passed the "Inflation
Reduction Act." Since, however, one is here talking about Congress, one should not assume that anything is what it
is claimed to be. No sooner was the bill passed than former Secretary of State and current "climate envoy" John
Kerry, one of the D-Mass bunch, who purchased his massive seven bedroom carbon footprint mansion in the fake liberal
"sanctuary destination" of Martha's Vineyard in 2017, slipped up and told the truth to the International Energy Agency's
Global Clean Energy Action Forum: "I'm not sure how much it has to do with inflation, but that's O.K." [...] The
reason this deception is "O.K." with Kerry is that the real purpose of the bill is to spend 375 billion taxpayer dollars
on the Left's "green new deal" agenda to "tackle" climate change and double the number of IRS agents to harass the
remaining fraction of Americans that still have a job or small business.
Biden's
student debt forgiveness will cost taxpayers $400 billion over 10 years, non-partisan Congress office says.
Joe Biden's student loan relief plan could cost the country $400 billion over the next decade as the administration prepares to
unveil next steps for borrowers to apply for forgiveness as early as next month. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office
noted in a letter to the Senate and House Labor committees noting the high cost of the president's relief plan, as well as
reporting the plan would cause outstanding student loans to increase by $20 billion. In August, Biden announced his
plan to cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 individually and $250,000 jointly.
That forgiveness would rise to $20,000 for those with Pell Grants.
Running
the World into the Ground. Who can claim to be better off under Biden? The economy has tanked,
inflation is at a 40-year high, people can't afford to heat their homes or fill up their cars with gas, crime statistics
are off the charts, and confidence in America is at an all-time low. Biden's open-border policy, which is opposed
by a majority of American citizens, is leading to social unrest and economic chaos. A country without a
functioning border is not a country, yet that is where Biden has taken us. America is marching toward
totalitarianism as Biden empowers the DoJ and FBI to go after his political opponents, i.e., at least half of the
population. His worst offense, however, is following the climate dictates of the World Economic Forum. Biden
is torpedoing the robust U.S. economy in service of a totally false assumption — that human beings are able
to change the planet's climate. He is raising taxes so that billions of your dollars can be wasted on ridiculous
anti-fossil fuel projects. Biden has declared war on the energy industry in the name of global warming. He
wants us to believe that oil, gas, and coal are killing the planet.
Check
Out What New Dem Legislation Offers Military Members To Get Abortions. Some House Democrats have joined
forces to introduce a new piece of legislation that would require the United States military to provide a leave of
absence for service members to get abortions, which also includes payment for travel expenses for those who would need
to go out of state to receive the procedure. According to the Daily Wire, the legislation is called the "Access
to Reproductive Care for Service Members Act," which was introduced as a response to requests for abortions that
were being made by individuals within the armed forces after the Supreme Court overturned the sick and twisted
Roe v. Wade decision this past June.
Bad
news for Dems: The border crisis is the new Roe in Google searches. My, how quickly the plot changes with
just a single flight to Martha's Vineyard! To be fair, the media's interest in the border crisis began spiking
upward before then, but not much before Ron DeSantis sent 50 illegal immigrants to the wealthy Massachusetts
enclave. When buses began arriving in "sanctuary cities" like New York City and Washington DC, thanks to the
efforts of DeSantis, Greg Abbott, and Doug Ducey, the media went into full freak-out mode. They excoriated these
Republican governors endlessly, and still do. And you can guess what that did for public interest in the border
crisis. Axios reports this morning that it has now eclipsed interest in abortion, a topic that mainstream media
spent the summer flogging for the midterms, as well as the Mar-a-Lago kerfuffle.
Are
Democrats Deliberately Choosing Impaired Candidates? Once could be excused. Twice is
suspicious. Three times seems like a strategy. Are Democrats choosing infirm, intellectually challenged,
feeble people to run for office so that they can be easily manipulated? Joe Biden was and is clearly infirm,
physically, psychologically, and cognitively. John Fetterman is also clearly infirm due to two things: He has had
a recent stroke which seems to have left him cognitively impaired, and he also has a rather prominent swelling on the
back of his neck, which could be the sign of several very serious conditions. Kamala Harris is intellectually
suspect, linguistically incontinent, and verbally incoherent. Why are these people being chosen by the Democrat
Party for the highest offices? My observation leads me places I would rather not go.
The
war isn't against 'fossil fuels' but rather the people. Democrats in Congress just passed a slush
fund — also known as the Inflation Reduction Act — which gives massive amounts of money to their
political interests who claim they can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever. Politicians
are waging a war against the people, which are made manifest in their attempts to force everyone to get rid of their
cars, trucks, lawn mowers, and everything else powered by gas combustion engines, based on the unproven theory that they
cause rising temperatures, storms, floods, and droughts. They want the poor and middle class to be forced to buy
inefficient, impractical, and unaffordable options, or go without. What they don't put limits on are private jets,
yachts, or the number and size of mansions that emit massive amounts of carbon compared to the rest of us. [...] What we
never see in testimonies, articles, and news programs is any direct correlation between crude oil consumption, coal
consumption, methane emissions, CO2 content and temperatures because there is none. The temperature has fluctuated
the last 160 years cyclically and naturally as it always has.
As
Biden Closes in on 100 Executive Orders, He's Costing Taxpayers an Astronomical Amount of Money. Biden is
a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who's lived in the pretend world of D.C. politics for nearly 50 years, has no concept of
life in the real world, has never seen a wealth redistribution scam he didn't wholeheartedly embrace, and has become a
multimillionaire in the process. It doesn't take a proverbial rocket scientist to figure out that disastrous combination.
Democrats'
push for guaranteed income is a slap in the face to working people. Democratic politicians across the
United States are pushing for guaranteed monthly cash handouts to the poor. No strings attached. No work
required. Taxpayers foot the bill. This scheme — already being rolled out in Los Angeles,
Chicago, Providence, Denver and numerous other cities — needs to be stopped. It's turning people who
work and pay taxes into suckers. Los Angeles County will soon begin handing out $1,000 a month to random
applicants. The Los Angeles Times editorial board applauds the unconditional nature of the payments, naïvely
claiming the recipients "know far better than the government what their challenges and priorities are."
Translation: It's okay to forgo work and have children you can't support.
Six
States Allow Abortions Up to Birth But Protect Bald Eagle Eggs. A host of land, sea, and freshwater
animals are more protected under American laws than unborn babies in some states across the nation. In at least
six states, an unborn child legally may be killed up until the moment of birth. In these same states, it is
illegal to kill or even transport the eggs of a bald or golden eagle without a proper permit. Under the federal
Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, it is illegal to: ["]take, molest or disturb, possess, sell, purchase,
barter, offer to sell, purchase or barter, transport, export or import, at any time or in any manner any bald eagle
commonly known as the American eagle or any golden eagle, alive or dead, or any part, nest, or egg thereof of the
foregoing eagles.["] The law defines "take" as kill or capture. If a man or woman were caught carrying
an egg of a bald eagle without a proper permit to do so, he or she could face up to a $5,000 fine or a year in prison,
or both.
Summers:
"Insane" that Biden's blocking pipelines for oil transport. Is there anything sane about Joe
Biden's energy policies? For that matter, was there anything sane about Barack Obama's energy policies while Larry
Summers served as Obama's National Economic Council chair? Answer: not really. We got continually
lectured during that administration that we couldn't drill our way to energy independence, an argument proven false
almost as soon as Donald Trump took office. Biden and his team haven't made that argument, at least not
explicitly, but they have made it very clear that they have no intention of drilling more to re-acquire
energy-independent status. Even with that, however, Summer considers hostility to pipeline creation "kind of
insane." The oil still has to get transported, no?
MAGA's
Real Crime? Spotlighting Government Failure. The midterm elections are only weeks away. The
Democrats are in complete control of the House, Senate, and presidency. Donald Trump's name appears nowhere near a
November ballot. Yet the only things Democrats talk about are the former president and his "Make America Great
Again" voters. It is as if Joe Biden's and Nancy Pelosi's political troops have no interest in touting their
successes in opening the Southern border to endless illegal immigration, promoting divisive lockdowns and "vaccine"
mandates, passing a Green New Deal spending extravaganza, encouraging transgender drag queen shows for
elementary-schoolers, emptying prisons of criminals, eliminating cash bail for felony arrests, leveraging Americans'
pain at the gas pump to push them into expensive electric vehicles, or presiding over the highest rates of inflation in
over forty years.
The
Coming Outlawing of the Republican Party. Republicans want to hold the majority and co-exist with
Democrats, while Democrats, under the influence of the Left, want to eliminate Republicans. This fundamental
difference between the two sides was on display during Biden's fascist rant in Philadelphia where he denounced half the
country as a threat to democracy. And it would be a mistake to imagine that all the talk of a "threat to
democracy" is mere rhetoric. Another basic difference between the two parties is that Republicans are politically
unserious. Politicians, pundits and influencers spend so much time virtue signaling that they think words don't
matter. Democrats are quite serious. The Republican refusal to take them at their word, to believe that
their histrionic rhetoric represents a serious policy agenda, is why things are so bad. Surely, Beltway GOP
figures will reassure, Democrats aren't serious about adding states, Supreme Court seats, a trillion dollar coin or
using unlimited dictatorial executive authority. But what if they are?
The DOJ Is Hiding Biden's Voter
Registration Plan. The Justice Department (DOJ) has refused to release its mandated strategic plan about
ways to champion voter registration and participation, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability.
President Joe Biden's March 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting required every federal agency head to
submit a plan within 200 days outlining methods the agency could use to promote voter registration and
participation. A Federal District Court decided earlier in summer 2022 that the DOJ must release documents on this
matter to the FGA by Sept. 8, but the department withheld the plan, citing executive privilege, and revealed heavily
redacted versions of other documents, the FGA revealed. FGA President and CEO Tarren Bragdon said Americans
"deserve to know if the Biden Administration's unprecedented action is fair and non-partisan." He argued the DOJ must
reveal the documents to ensure fair elections.
Legislation
Within the Biden Green New Deal, Inflation Reduction Act, Has Created a Domestic Carbon Trading Platform.
Deep inside the legislative language of the falsely titled "inflation reduction act", aka The Green New Deal legislative
vehicle constructed by lobbyists and passed by congress, people are now starting to realize a carbon-trading system was
created. Ultimately, a carbon trading system has always been the holy grail of the people who run the western
financial system and want to create mechanisms to control wealth by using the 'climate change' agenda. A carbon
trading system is a very lucrative financial transfer mechanism with a potential scale to dwarf the derivative, Wall
Street betting, market. Secondarily, such a market would cement the climate change energy policy making it very
difficult to reverse. The new creation as explained by the Wall Street Journal, holds similarities to the EPA
ethanol program.
Now
Biden's Trying to Redefine Pregnancy. The actual purpose of the 1972 law known as Title IX was to prohibit
sex-based discrimination in school sports and programs. But now, the radical left is abusing Title IX to impose
radical gender theory. Much has been made of how Joe Biden seeks to redefine "sex" under Title IX to include
gender identity. Less attention has been paid to the fact that Biden's 700-page-long proposed rules changes also
include redefining actual pregnancy, the Heritage Foundation found. "The Biden administration wants to redefine
pregnancy to include childbirth, lactation, and 'termination of pregnancy' — that is, abortion," explains
Melanie Israel of the Daily Signal. "The administration's three-pronged definition of pregnancy makes a notable
departure from previous ones. Under Title IX now, women are protected from discrimination if they get an
abortion. This means that with a doctor's note, women receive medical leave from class or a sports team to recover."
New
Poll Spells Disaster For Dems Who Backed Student Loan Forgiveness. A majority of voters are saying they
are less likely to support candidates running for office if they favor the Biden administration's student loan
forgiveness plan, according to a Convention of States Action poll. More than 55% of voters are "less likely" to
back a candidate who is in favor of the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan, with about 31% saying they
are "much more likely" to support those who backed the president's plan, according to a Convention of States' Action
poll. Among independent voters, 64.6% say they are "less likely" to choose candidates who back the forgiveness
plan. "We're seeing this reflected not just in the polling but on the ground as well with grassroots activists we talk
to in every state," Convention of States President Mark Meckler said in a statement shared with Daily Caller News
Foundation. "Voters — particularly those must-win Independents — are appalled by Biden's plan and
will respond at the ballot box. This is looking like the sleeper issue that may have more impact in November than
people suspect."
IL
SAFE-T Act goes into effect 1 Jan: No cash bail and lots of other good stuff. Chicago's Mayor Lori
Lightfoot, while torquing off the suburbs by dumping bused-in illegal migrants on them, might be doing those migrants
the biggest favor they've had yet. She's getting them out of the city before Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker's
latest and greatest experiment in equitable justice becomes enforceable, and the city proper [gets bad]. [...] To their
credit, Republicans in the statehouse are fighting this tooth and nail, asking law enforcement for input in an effort to
force revisions, and outright calling for repeal in one instance. Mayors around the state are absolutely
apoplectic and with good reason. "No cash bail" after a judge okays your release sounds... well, not great, but
reasonable enough. Until you hear the list of offenses that qualify for "no cash bail" consideration —
[indeed], your jaw will hit the floor. Listen up, as Mayor Keith Pekau of Orland Village elucidates:
[Video clip]
Ernst
Bill Would Force Biden Admin to Set Thermostats in Solidarity With Californians. Republican Senator Joni
Ernst of Iowa is pushing for the Biden administration to play by the rules it expects Americans to follow with a new
bill aimed at turning up the heat — literally — in solidarity with residents in California who
have been plagued by energy shortages and the threat of rolling blackouts as a result of the left's so-called "green"
energy policies. "During a hot summer, liberal leaders told folks to set the AC to 78 degrees to compensate for
failed Democratic policies," Sen. Ernst said of California's energy crisis that saw days of power shortages and
power officials tell residents statewide to set their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using large appliances,
turn off unnecessary lights, and avoid charging their electric vehicles. "Secretary of Energy Granholm praised the move,
saying states like California are leading by example," Ernst reminded.
The Editor says...
[#1] There are 50 states. They are "united" to a certain extent, but "solidarity" is not required by law.
[#2] California is going over a cliff, and their one-party tax-and-spend
political system is ruining a once-great state. That is not what "leading by example" means, in any positive way.
Inflation
Rises After Joe Biden Signs 'Inflation Reduction Act' and Prepares White House Celebration. The White
House is planning a celebration of President Joe Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" on Tuesday, even as consumer prices
rose again in August, according to the latest numbers from the federal government. The Bureau of Labor Statistics'
Consumer Price Index released Tuesday morning shows that inflation in August rose one-tenth of a percentage point from
July and up 8.3 percent from the previous year. Grocery prices continue rising fast, as prices rose 0.7 percent
from July and 13.5 percent from the previous year. Restaurant prices are up 0.9 percent from July[.]
"Sue
And Settle': Biden Admin Agrees To Cancel Oil And Gas Drilling After Settling With Eco Activists. The
Biden administration will stop oil and gas drilling on more than 58,000 acres of federally-issued land after reaching a
legal settlement with environmental activist groups on Sept. 6. The Interior Department's (DOI) Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) agreed to halt drilling permits on 113 oil and gas leases across 58,617 acres of land in Montana, North
Dakota and South Dakota, according to the settlement. The DOI agreed to stop drilling after a coalition of
environmental nonprofits led by WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the agency in January
2021. "This is a sue and settle case," Paul Seby, a lawyer who specializes in environmental issues at Greenberg
Traurig, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "It's an abuse of the system and is being used to advance the policy
goals of the Biden administration at the expense of the law."
Biden
Celebrates 'Inflation Reduction Act' as Market Plummets over August Inflation. President Joe Biden
celebrated the passage of the "Inflation Reduction Act" by hosting an event at the White House Tuesday, the same day the
Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing inflation had continued to rise in August, causing markets to
plummet. "This bill cut costs for families. Helped reduce inflation at the kitchen table, because that's what
[people] look at — how much of their monthly bills they have to pay out for their necessities," Biden said in
a speech delivered outside the White House, thanking West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for voting for the bill.
Biden
chooses unions and green energy boondoggles over free market. As the Nov. 8 midterm elections approach,
President Joe Biden and his minions will be traveling the country celebrating statism. That is to say: ignoring
what made the nation unique and great, capitalism and the freedom to contract. Capitalism, free markets, and the
consistent application of the rule of law are what brought prosperity to 97% of Americans. Unfortunately, Biden
wants to emulate the policies of Europe, a geography fast becoming irrelevant in the arena of geopolitics. Last
week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen touted top-down industrial policy. Does anyone remember Solyndra?
Would
You Please Stop Being Stupid? Think about it: Democrats are supporting men participating in women's
sports and being in girls' bathrooms. Democrat district attorneys are releasing criminals without bond who go out
and commit theft, murder, and rape. Democrats are letting in tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and giving
them thousands of dollars. Democrats are causing the biggest rise in food prices and gas prices in 40 years.
Democrats are imposing censorship on television, the internet, in schools and businesses. Democrats used the COVID
farce to destroy people's livelihoods and destroy small businesses. Democrats are forcing people to take defective
vaccines that have killed many. Democrats have turned television networks into propaganda outlets. Democrats
are conducting drag queen shows in schools and libraries. And are Republican candidates forcefully bringing this
up in ads? Of course not! That would be rude. The prissy conservatives don't want to offend anybody.
End Of Renewables
Craze Is Near. The global energy crisis appears to have strengthened the resolve of Western political
leaders to not just continue but accelerate the transition toward green energy. Last month, U.S. President Joe
Biden signed legislation that aims to spend $370 billion on wind, solar, electric cars and other forms of green
tech. California legislators and regulators recently decided to spend $54 billion on clean tech, restrict oil and
gas drilling, and ban the sale of internal combustion cars by 2035. And the President of the European Commission
affirmed yesterday the European Union's "massive investments in renewables" because "they are cheap, they are
home-grown, they make us independent." But appearances can be deceiving. In truth, the energy crisis is
rapidly exposing the limits of renewables and the need for fossil fuels. Recognizing the political threat of high
gasoline prices, Biden has released so much petroleum from the public's Strategic Petroleum Reserves that they are at
their lowest level in nearly 30 years. Six days after California regulators banned the sale of internal combustion
engines, the state's grid operator urged residents to not charge their electric vehicles from 4 pm to 9 pm for fear of
blackouts. And European governments will spend over $50 billion this winter on new and refurbished coal and
natural gas supplies and equipment.
Why
Joe Biden can't change course on greenie madness. In many ways, Joe Biden's presidency is a baffling
one. He's down in the polls, and his policies are disasters, but unlike, say, Bill Clinton, he can't change
course, or moderate his direction, not even to save his presidency. He's particularly rigid on some of these
policies, such as the green agenda, even as the voters say "no" and the obvious political consequences of that are
coming for him. So what gives? Is he simply too old to change? That doesn't explain it, because he's
been a political weathervane for the duration of his career. [...] Biden is a cash- and prestige-obsessed nobody of zero
accomplishments and ideas, which makes him the perfect palimpsest for a foreign manipulator such as Wyss to get his
hands on America and remake it his way. His money animates the policy, and since he's got no obligation to the
American people, he can be as rigid as he pleases. Billionaires insist on value for their money, after all.
That's why Biden can't change course.
This is utterly delusional energy policy:
Janet
Yellen: U.S. Must Look to 'Wind, Sun' for Energy, Not Oil and Gas. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
said Thursday the United States must look to "the wind, sun, and other clean sources of energy" instead of relying on
oil and gas. Yellen's remarks came during a trip to Detroit, Michigan, where she boasted about the Democrats'
Inflation Reduction Act. "Our plan — powered by the Inflation Reduction Act — represents the
largest investment in fighting climate change in our country's history," Yellen told the crowd. "It will put us well
on our way toward a future where we depend on the wind, sun, and other clean sources of energy." "We will rid
ourselves from our current dependence on fossil fuels and the whims of autocrats like [Russian President Vladimir]
Putin," Yellen added.
The Editor says...
The U.S. under Donald Trump was not dependent on Russia, because we were utilizing our own petroleum resources to the
maximum possible extent — or at least we were moving quickly in that direction. Joe Biden has made domestic
energy production far more difficult, in every way that he can, for no reason other than the political appeasement of
environmental fruitcakes.
Are
Democrats looking to provoke riots by arresting President Trump? To try and head off a likely loss of the
House of Representatives and prepare for the next presidential election, Democrats create situations which raise anxiety
in citizens, and this increases the chances their candidate will prevail because voters know discord will then
subside. An example is Kathy Griffin's widely read statement: "If you don't want a Civil War, vote for Democrats
in November. If you do want Civil War, vote Republican." They make it very clear your life will only be peaceful
if you keep Democrats in power, and they think that this is persuasive enough to tip elections. [...] In the past,
Democrats fought a war inside the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of Republican-backed Union soldiers in a grim
civil war in order to keep humans as slaves. Lately, legislation they filed shows they're for killing unborn
babies right up until the moment before birth, or perhaps even after. Most people would say owning slaves and
killing babies is evil, so Democrats have shown what they were and are.
The
Political Party That's Built On Lies. The Democrats have to lie. They have to accuse the other side
of doing exactly what they're doing, of being the extremists that they themselves are. They can't openly admit who
they are nor the truth about their agenda. Most Americans would not be comfortable voting for candidates whose
objective is to establish a single-party regime across the country, and whose ideology is much closer to that of
history's worst despots than the Founding Fathers' vision of freedom and independence. The Democrats have a party
that couldn't exist without being held up by a support structure of calculated fabrications.
Biden's
DOJ embraces bias and anti-religious bigotry. Do you believe a baker has the right not to bake cakes for
same-sex weddings? Do you believe church daycare programs have just as much of a right as other such programs to
apply for state grants? Do you think pregnancy centers should not be forced by the government to tell pregnant
women where to get an abortion? If you support the First Amendment rights of any of these entities, then President
Joe Biden's Department of Justice believes you're a bigot unworthy of associating with — or at least that is
the message the department sends by protecting a senior DOJ official who attacked the nation's leading legal advocate of
religious liberty. The DOJ Civil Division's assistant director of commercial litigation is Eric Bruskin.
Last week, Bruskin labeled a reputable organization, the Alliance Defending Freedom, a "hate group" and told a former
colleague online, "Are these beliefs you hold? If so then it's time we end our professional association."
The U.S. also needs a sane policy for immigration, law enforcement, energy production, and election security.
The U.S. Needs a Safe, Sane Energy
Policy. Western democracies are under assault by a Russia determined to bring the United States and its
allies to their knees. It is time our response was nuclear. As in nuclear power. Improvements in
nuclear power have now reportedly made it a safer source of energy, providing an additional source of power free from
the posturing blackmail of leaders such as Putin. [...] The French are not content to sit in the cold this winter.
In recognition that wind and solar cannot possibly replace lost Russian natural gas, their response has been to restart
their nuclear reactors. They seek a clean, reliable source of power that is indifferent to Putin's energy war on
the West. That is not to say nuclear will replace fossil fuels or its "green" alternatives, solar and wind.
Aircraft engines may one day run on hydrogen, but the scores of aircraft now in the air at any given hour will rely on
fossil fuels for years to come.
The 'Inflation Reduction
Act' [will] Increase Inflation and Impoverish Middle Class Americans. The IRA [Inflation Reduction Act] is
revolutionary in what it purports to do for the climate. The only impact it will have on inflation is to
increase it. The IRA deliberately sets about impoverishing many Americans by increasing taxes "on everyone"
and increasing tax audits at the same time as prices are skyrocketing. Imposing steeper taxes at a time of steeper
prices may not mean that much to the rich, but has the effect of a stealth double-tax that crushes especially middle-
and working-class families, who now find themselves forced to choose between necessities such as food, gasoline or
rent. Reports state that 42% of Americans are struggling financially.
After
$370 Billion Climate Spending Spree, Biden Charts 'Nationwide Shift Away From Oil'. Less than one month
after President Joe Biden approved nearly $400 billion in climate spending, the Democrat is plotting a "nationwide shift
away from oil" through executive orders that could "effectively ban" internal combustion engine production. In the
next year, Biden is expected to unveil executive actions aimed at reducing vehicle and power plant emissions, the
Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday. Those actions "have the potential to drive a nationwide shift away from
oil and natural gas," according to the Chronicle. Biden, for example, is weighing new emissions standards for
vehicles made in the 2030s, and environmental activists are pushing the Democrat to "set a standard rigorous enough to
effectively ban the production of internal combustion engines." There's reason to believe the Biden administration
could support such a policy. After California banned the sale of new gas-powered cars as of 2035, Biden's energy
secretary expressed support for the move and said the policy "could be" a "national model."
COVID
Authoritarianism Paved the Way for Biden's Socialist Tyranny. It seems as if the more Biden assumes the
role of a dictator, the more inclined he is to proclaim himself democracy's "savior." This kind of Napoleon complex is
hardly unusual with Marxists. Socialist regimes always arrive under the pretense of protecting the people, yet, as
Lord Acton persistently warned, socialism remains "the worst enemy freedom has ever had to encounter." White House
press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said explicitly this last week that not agreeing with the majority "is an extreme way
of thinking," while simultaneously accusing Trump-supporters of representing an "extremist threat to our democracy."
Anyone who doubts that majorities can be just as vicious as brutal dictators need only survey the aftermath of a torch
and pitchfork mob. Mob rule is democracy at its simplest and no friend to human liberty. It is worth noting
that after the elections of both President Donald Trump in 2016 and Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2019, socialists,
Antifa domestic terrorists, anti-Brexiteers, and other leftists took to the streets in huge mobs, clashing with police
and chanting, "This is what democracy looks like." Protest mobs have no illusions about what democracy means.
Biden
Administration Plans to Ask Congress for Another $14 Billion For Ukraine. This has become absurd.
According to an AP report, Joe Biden is planning to ask congress for an additional $13.7 billion for Ukraine within a
budgetary request for $47 billion spending package. According to the report the Ukraine spending request will be
inside a package for additional COVID-19 spending, Monkeypox spending and other domestic relief.
Student
Debt Relief: Reparations for Rich White People. To reduce inflation, battle climate change, reduce gas
prices, stem rising crime, and protect our southern border, President Joe Biden has forgiven $10,000 in federal student
loans and extended $20,000 in debt cancellation to Pell Grant recipients for borrowers making less than $125,000 a
year. A study by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found that "between 69% and 73% of debt forgiven
accrues to households in the top 60% of income distribution" and the total cost could reach $1 trillion. Even
many Democrats are outraged.
These
Back-Busting Americans Paid For College Themselves And Think You Should, Too. Upon
news that Joe Biden had decided to completely ignore U.S. laws to attempt to force taxpayers to
assume the debts of people who chose to attend college, I reached out to Federalist writers for
stories of how other Americans paid their own way. Calling this particular pile of government
handouts for the privileged "forgiveness" is just a way to try to hide the fact that it's
fundamentally wrong and unfair. As the Bible says, he who doesn't work shouldn't eat.
He who takes on obligations should pay them. Taking something without paying for it is
stealing. Forcing other people to work so you can enjoy luxuries is called enslavement.
Long-term
con: Obamacare was 'paid for' by nationalizing student loans. It may be hard to
recall these days when a Democratic White House proudly rejects any guiderails from things such as
economics or the Constitution. But back in the Obama years, they considered themselves the
wonks. And Obamacare was supposed to be the triumph of the wonks. As the law aged, its
rickety construction became clearer, which is why most of the top-tier Democratic presidential
candidates in 2020 ran on replacing Obamacare. Among other problems, the bill's "pay-fors,"
the revenue enhancements that would supposedly dampen the law's effects on the deficit and on
inflation, all evaporated. More specifically, Democrats repealed them, showing that they
never really intended for the bill to reduce healthcare spending or pay for itself.
Biden's
Teetering House of Cards. On day one of his administration Biden put an end to the
energy independence achieved under Trump. He cancelled the Keystone Pipeline and cut off most
new drilling and fracking on federal land. That single action kicked off the highest
inflation in forty years; our economy depends first and foremost on fuel. Biden pretends that
there is a climate crisis (there is not) but he will spend billions on green projects, billions
that will end up in the pockets of grifters like all those companies who got millions from the
Obama administration, companies like Solyndra. The companies fail, the money
disappears. Biden has sent billions to Ukraine, the third most corrupt nation on the planet
(Russia is number seven). Now he wants to "forgive" (transfer the debt to citizen taxpayers)
nearly a trillion dollars of student loans to buy votes. This is monstrous and should cost
him the votes of millions of Americans who will bear the cost of this irresponsible executive order.
Expect
More Democrat Hail Marys. It's pretty obvious to me that the Biden Student Loan
Handout is a midterm Hail Mary. With a 40 percent approval rating, why wouldn't the president
throw some free stuff at the gender studies graduate vote? What has he got to lose?
Notice that I said: "what has he got to lose." I didn't say: what has the average
American got to lose by adding $300 billion to $1 trillion to the national debt? It helps
me understand how the Peronistas wrecked Argentina, and the Chávezistas wrecked Venezuela.
When your policies have wrecked the economy, why not double down, throw money at your supporters, and
call your opponents names?
Writing
Off Student Debt. President Biden's plan to forgive student debt is clear: most
students will get a $10,000 debt reduction, while lower-income students will be eligible to double
the amount (an element that went unmentioned inmost reports). Biden's August giveaway adds half a
trillion dollars to the federal government's debt deficit by some estimates.
The Editor says...
If you went to college, why do you have "lower income?"
Inflation
Reduction Act won't reduce inflation or climate change. Just 1 in 4 Americans believe
that President Joe Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act will actually reduce inflation, while
71% say the law will either have no impact or make things worse. The majority is right to be
skeptical. The nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model found that the bill's effect on
inflation will be "statistically indistinguishable from zero." This is not
surprising. The real purpose of the bill is not to reduce inflation but to reduce climate
change. Fully 85% of the law's spending goes toward climate and clean energy. So, what will
the bill's effect be on the climate? Answer: Statistically indistinguishable from zero.
Conventional
Wisdom is an Oxymoron. This week's fairy tale, now that the raid on Mar-a-Lago seems
to have fizzled — except as further evidence of DoJ and FBI overreach and
incompetence — is that the president has legal authority to forgive a substantial amount
of school loans. In fact, long before the courts rule on this — and I believe they
will find it an unconstitutional expenditure never authorized by Congress — the
ill-considered plan will die aborning. No administration calculation of the cost was
made. While the figure of $500 million has been bandied about, a trillion dollars is more
like it. And almost all of it this fiscal year. [...] The editors of both the lefty
Washington Post and Newsweek have opposed it and several vulnerable Democratic
congressmen are walking away from it. Worse, the administration of this is in the hands of
the Department of Education, which lacks the underlying income information from applicants, the
manpower, or expertise to handle it.
Student
loan transferral ought to be the nail in the coffin for Democrats. President Biden's
decision to buy the votes of people who accumulated student debt they cannot pay off —
the cost of which could range from $500 billion to one trillion when the country is already over
$30 trillion in debt with sky high inflation — is a compelling argument to "Use Your
Head and Vote Red" this November. Why should you pay for this agenda if you are among the
following people?
• People who never went to college
• People whose tuition was paid by the Armed Forces for service to our country
• People who worked their way through college and did not incur debt
• People who have already paid off their college debt
• People whose parents were willing and able to pay for their college, perhaps because
they chose inexpensive community colleges for their freshman and sophomore years, and in-state universities for
their junior and senior years, over pricey private schools
Is
there a more subtle reason behind the student loan money grab? All honest people
understand that the Democrats' plan to pay off $10,000 in student loan debt for those earning less
than $125,000 is incredibly corrupt. However, aside from the obvious vote buying, one reader,
who wishes to remain anonymous, suggested to me that there's a more nefarious purpose to all
this. I thought he had a point, so I'm sharing it with you. [...] ["]The Left's plan
does not depend on the current scheme. It's a red herring. Their goal is to rev up
their clueless base, pit people against one another, enflame class warfare, and then come to the
rescue to put out the flames with their free college goal.["]
Biden's
Student Loan Bailout. A new model just published by the prestigious — and
non-partisan — Penn-Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania shows that rather
than the $300 billion number being thrown around by Democrats as the cost of the student debt
bailout plan, the true cost is at least $519 billion for debt cancellation alone. And there
are other factors to consider, making the total cost of the plan at least $605 billion and perhaps
as much as $1 trillion.
Bill
Gates Investment Fund Cheers Biden's $350 Billion in Green Pork. As reported
exclusively by Frontpage Magazine, Americans can expect to see their chances of an IRS audit
increase fourfold under the Biden-Manchin 'Inflation Increase Act'. The massive upsurge in IRS
enforcement was justified as a way to pay for the massive spending in the bill. Much of that
spending consists of green pork for Democrat donors and special interests. While the media
had spent the past month persuading Americans that they will see economic benefits from the green
pork, now that the bill was passed through lies and dirty tricks, we know that it offers as much as
$350 billion in loans, subsidies and guarantees to green companies. Overseeing the Department
of Energy's loan program is Jigar Shah: the founder of SunEdison. SunEdison was one of the
biggest of Obama's subsidized green energy bankruptcies, receiving $1.5 billion in government
grants and subsidies. While Solyndra's bankruptcy, after receiving a $535 million loan from
the Obama administration, is infamous, there were quite a few disasters. The $350 billion
that the 'Inflation Increase Act' is playing with will be far worse.
"Doctor"
Jill's trillion-dollar gift to the educational-industrial complex. First Lady Jill
Biden asked to be called "Doctor" after her husband was elected president. She's not actually
a doctor. She's also not nearly as smart as one and so she thought the title made her look
like she was, at least to stupid people who don't know better. [...] Since then, she's been lying
low. Most of her public displays of authority are limited to whispering in her husband's ear
to tell him where he is and who he is, and unsuccessfully instructing him not to talk. But
she scored big this week behind the scenes. She whispered in Joe's ear that he should cancel
billions in loans that students voluntarily took on to pay six-figure tuition bills to the
education establishment. The published cost of this giveaway is $300 billion, but most
objective observers think the real cost is more like triple that. The people whose debt is
being cancelled are, naturally, people with college degrees. A large proportion of them have
Master's degrees. These are not the downtrodden of society; these are the privileged.
They are people who either have excellent earnings prospects or used the money loaned to them to
voluntarily purchase worthless degrees. Either way, they don't deserve this freebie.
But I'm sure they'll take it.
Parents
wonder: Does Biden's student debt handout include college loans taken out by moms and
dads? After President Biden announced his student loan handout plan on Wednesday,
August 24, 2022, many parents immediately wondered about the status of the college loans they took
out in their own names on behalf of their children. Many moms and dads took out Parent PLUS
loans, the federal loans available to parents of undergraduate students to handle college expenses
not covered by financial aid. Currently, at least 3.4 million Parent PLUS borrowers owe at
least $87 billion, according to the Brookings Institute.
Axios:
Biden and team stunningly unprepared for their trillion-dollar Academia bailout.
After nearly two years of talking about it, Joe Biden finally rolled out his student-loan
forgiveness plan ... and apparently nothing else. According to Axios, the White House didn't
bother to gather the data on eligibility, didn't create a system which would check it, and has no
system yet in place to fully complete the process. Did Biden drop the ball again —
or did he never expect to be allowed to run with it in the first place? [...] I mean, why
not wing it? The executive-order-driven policy will only cost between $605 billion and
$1 trillion, most of which will land in this fiscal year while inflation's already raging.
No biggie! More seriously, this looks like a lot of Joe Biden's policymaking —
impulsive, unprepared, and entirely reactive. Biden and his team have had seventeen months
to get these pieces in place for this policy decision. Instead, it looks like someone just pulled
together a few talking points at the last minute and bundled it into a memo for Biden to wave at a presser.
The
True Cost of Student Loans. Much like the illegal migrants waiting for the next
amnesty, there will now be waves of people signing up for student loans and college courses,
confident the government will bail them out in the next round of amnesty/debt forgiveness.
This is how the current situation is comparable to the amnesty act and mostly impacts the
prospective students. But it is not just the students who will be implicated. The
announcement to cancel debt is comparable to the mortgage schemes of Clinton, as it will change the
behavior of the colleges. They had to be slightly careful in terms of college tuition fees,
as they needed to make sure their prospective students could actually get a loan. Now that
the government has announced student debts will be cancelled, the colleges will be incentivized to
increase their fees. After all, now the government will come to the rescue of students who
owe the college. Much like the banks being confident that the government would bail them out
over mortgages to credit-risky customers, colleges are confident that the government will bail them
out for the costs of tuition racked up by students. So why not rack the fees up some more?
Is
Biden even able to bail out student loans? As almost everyone has heard, Biden
announced his plan to spend $360 billion to forgive student loans for up to 43 million
Americans. Groups estimate that the actual cost may be $440 to $600 billion, but who's
counting? Legal experts have reported that although Biden may have some authority to postpone
payments, he clearly doesn't have the power to cancel debts. [...] The reaction from many different
sides to his plan has been overwhelmingly negative. People who have already paid off their
student loans are angry because they did the right thing and kept to their obligations, and people
who didn't get loans, or didn't go to college at all, are even angrier at the idea of paying more
taxes to fund doctors, lawyers, and academics who should be able to pay what they owe. The
inflationary aspects of the debt forgiveness mean that the $7,000 Americans are paying extra each
year for Biden's high prices will continue to increase, with no end in sight — and this
includes the people getting the cash in the first place.
The Lawless Executive. Biden
thinks he can get away with tossing three hundred billion dollars, more or less, on the taxpayer's
tab with his "student loan" cancelation order. He's relying on a post-9/11 law which applies
to times of national emergency and attempting to piggyback on the Covid one which was declared in
2020 along with the HEROES act — and of course that "emergency" has not been lifted.
[...] I would expect that in any fair hearing this goes up in smoke in the courts. But —
there's a problem: Standing to sue. You see, to bring a case before the courts you
must have particularized injury.
Biden's
Education Secretary dodges questions on how student loan relief will be paid for.
Education Sec. Miguel Cardona on Thursday refused to say how much the White House had
projected President Biden's student debt cancellation would cost — despite repeated asks. 'The
projections are still coming out depending on how many people take advantage of it,' Cardona said
when asked by CNN's John Berman for a number. 'Mr. Secretary what's the range?' Berman
pressed. 'Well, like I said, those projections are still coming out,' Cardona said again.
'What we're finding is when the loan payments restart $4 billion is going to go back into it
because people are going to start paying. Anyone making over $125,000 will resume payment
into their loans.' 'It won't offset the total cost of this over time, how will this be paid
for?' Berman asked. 'The president has been very clear about reducing the deficit, ' Cardona
said. 'Whatever funds go to this loan forgiveness will be offset by the increase in loan payment
restart for those making over $125,000.'
Watch
Nancy Pelosi Say President Doesn't Have The Power To Do Debt Forgiveness. Back in April,
Nancy Pelosi admitted Biden didn't have the power to bail out student loan debt. [Video clip]
Joe
Biden Wakes up to Democratic Mutiny on Student Loan Forgiveness Plan. President Joe
Biden's unilateral move to implement a student loan forgiveness plan that "will include at least
$10,000 in loan forgiveness for borrowers who make less than $125,000 annually, as well as another
payment freeze for roughly four months" has understandably set off a firestorm nationwide, with
Republicans lining up to express their outrage over Biden's actions. But Republicans aren't
the only ones ripping Biden. He's also faced intense criticism from some surprising corners,
including from Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) who as we previously reported said on Wednesday that
"This announcement by President Biden is no way to make policy and sidesteps Congress and our
oversight and fiscal responsibilities." "Any plan to address student debt should go through
the legislative process, and it should be more targeted and paid for so it doesn't add to the
deficit," Pappas, who is said to be in a tough reelection battle, also stated.
Biden's
Student Loan Giveaway Is 'Unconstitutional Flimflammery'. The White House "Fact
Sheet" speaks of the horror and hardship students are experiencing. It talks of the
"significant burden" of student loan debt, how some borrowers are in default, and that the share of
debt falls disproportionally on black students. But this debt burden was not mandatory.
It was optional. And racking up $100,000 in student debt was an option these former students
willingly accepted. So now, the biggest beneficiaries of the loan forgiveness program are
going to be those who don't need it.
Biden
Shops For Critical Minerals In Canada While Shutting Down Mining Projects On American
Soil. President Joe Biden is looking north for critical mineral supplies to meet
government-inflated demand for clean-energy initiatives while the administration shuts down major
mining projects on American soil. In March, the president invoked the Defense Production Act
to expedite the expansion of U.S. mining operations behind lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and
manganese as demand rises for the raw materials. Not only are the critical minerals central
to the administration's subsidized wind and solar farms, but they are essential for defense
technologies and popular products from cell phones to laptops. Biden triggered the Cold
War-era law to reconfigure supply chains of critical minerals away from dependence on China, which
dominates refining capacity and production of rare earth elements. The president invoking the
Defense Production Act offers federal financial assistance to "domestic" projects securing American
mineral supplies, and in June, the administration published a report identifying Canada as a
"domestic source" under the Defense Production Act.
Biden
announces student loan handout as national debt soars. President Biden announced
Wednesday that he will cancel $10,000 of federal student loan debt for certain borrowers making
less than $125,000 per year, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, while extending the pause
on federal student loan payments through the end of the year. "In keeping with my campaign
promise, my Administration is announcing a plan to give working and middle class families breathing
room as they prepare to resume federal student loan payments in January 2023," Biden tweeted.
Biden gave remarks on the plan Wednesday afternoon [8/24/2022]. The nation's federal student
debt now tops $1.6 trillion after ballooning for years. More than 43 million Americans have
federal student debt, with almost a third owing less than $10,000 and more than half owing less
than $20,000, according to the latest federal data.
Theorems
on the Student Loan Cancelation. Invoking the HEROES Act as the legal justification
for student debt forgiveness reminds of Franklin Roosevelt invoking the World War I-era Trading
With the Enemy Act as legal ground for his "bank holiday." At the time everyone was so dumbstruck
and panicked that no one thought to raise a legal challenge, but that's surely not the case today,
though I do wonder if legal challenges may founder for lack of standing. [...] But there's an even
deeper logic at work. Young voters tend to drop off a lot in mid-term elections, and Biden
has just given the college cohort a reason to turn out this fall — especially if a judge
inhibits this blatant vote-buying scheme.
Pelosi
Does Complete 180 as Biden WH Reveals Where Debt Relief 'Authority' Purportedly Comes
From. As expected, President Joe Biden made a unilateral move Wednesday [8/24/2022]
to implement a student loan forgiveness plan that "will include at least $10,000 in loan
forgiveness for borrowers who make less than $125,000 annually, as well as another payment freeze
for roughly four months." While Republican members of Congress are understandably outraged,
most of the ones openly speaking out against Biden's move seem to be studiously avoiding the "i"
word (impeachment) even though that is an option that should definitely be on the table considering
Biden does not have the authority to carry out this plan, which does an end run around Congress and
the required legislative process. But according to a statement from Biden's Education Dept.,
he indeed has such authority, something that was pointed to by reporters Wednesday after many
raised questions as to where he thought he was getting his power from: [...]
Biden's
Student Loan Bailout Adds Insult to Working-class Injury. President Joe Biden is set
to announce student loan forgiveness of $10,000 — and perhaps more — for
lower-income debtors on Wednesday, in a move that is unconstitutional, unfair, and dangerous for
the stability of our economy and our democracy. There is no doubt that some borrowers would
benefit from student loan relief — especially young people, low earners, borrowers in
the black community. It would help them avoid default, and perhaps allow some to enter the
housing market. Some of these debtors can truly be seen as victims of a system that urges
young people to attend college when other paths might be better suited to their talents and
interests; that jacks up federally-subsidized tuition costs; and that steers students toward
highly-ideological majors that provide few marketable skills, but train them as future left-wing
voters and activists.
Biden
Announces His Illegal Student Loan Move With Senility and Casual Racism. Joe Biden
made it official on Wednesday, confirming reports that he was going to "forgive" tens of thousands
of dollars of student debt for federal borrowers, many of which are the most privileged and
well-off in our society. As I wrote previously, I think the move is morally reprehensible,
forcing an electrician who paid for their technical training to now pay for the gender studies
degree of some far-left kook making $100K a year in an academic position. For his part, Biden
took to the podium to announce his move while taking a precious few questions. Those he did
field received some of the most non-sensical answers of his presidency. Before we get there,
though, here was the president attempting to set things up in a way absolutely no one
understood. Really, what in the world is he talking about here? [Tweet]
Biden's
Student Loan 'Forgiveness' Is An Unjust, Cynical Abuse Of Power. "No Money shall be
drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." That's what it says
right there in the Constitution. And yet, without any legislation, Joe Biden now promises to
"cancel" up to $10,000 in student loans per borrower ($20,000 for Pell Grant borrowers), limited to
those with annual incomes of less than $125,000. Let's start by pointing out that President Joe
Biden isn't "canceling" or "forgiving" any student loans. Those are preposterous euphemisms
favored by Democrats and the media. The debt in question already exists, it has been lent
and spent, and those who borrowed the money of their own volition have already received
services. This debt isn't cancelable. The president hasn't "forgiven" loans, he's
unilaterally broken existing contracts and transferred the responsibility of payment to
taxpayers — many of whom have either repaid their own student loans or never borrowed
any money to begin with. Now, if you're opposed to repaying some stranger's loan, that's too
bad. A new batch of IRS agents will be there to ensure that you do.
White
House poised to cancel up to $10K in debt for some student loans: Report. The Biden
administration is leaning toward canceling up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those who make
less than $125,000 a year, according to a new report. CNN reported that the announcement
could come Wednesday, and that additional forgiveness for specific parts of the population are on
the table as well. Liberal Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
have pressed for a far more sweeping loan forgiveness program. The income cap was seen as a
way of insulating the White House from criticism that the debt relief is benefiting those who can
afford their payments, per CNN.
Biden
Is About to Commit an Impeachable Offense, Republicans Must Respond With Fury. As my
colleague Brandon Morse reported, President Joe Biden is about to blatantly break the law to
"cancel" thousands of dollars of student loan debt accrued by some of the most privileged members
of society. Of course, nothing will actually be canceled. Instead, because the
government will simply be out that money, the burden of those debts will be transferred from those
who accrued them to hundreds of millions of taxpayers who didn't.
Hochul's
Compelled Speech Bill is Just the Beginning. Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill last
year that will compel certain speech be used when addressing or referring to LGBTQ or trans people.
It is not constitutional and will be overturned. Legislation S.5325/A.6193 is very strange
because it mandates that utility companies "allow customers to use what preferred name and pronoun
they want." I was not aware that utility companies ever forbade customers their silly pronouns
and preferred names, but apparently Kathy believes this has been the case. That is just a red
herring. Here is the disturbing part. She clearly thinks that failing to use the right
pronouns is a problem.
Death of a
'salesman' in New York. Willy Loman is no more, at least in New York state law. Gov. Kathy
Hochul signed legislation Thursday replacing the word "salesman" with "salesperson" — the latest in a
series of moves by Albany toward gender-neutral and other woke language.
Why
is the Biden administration paying off Ukraine's debt but not ours? "Biden administration allocates billions to
pay down the budget deficit ... in Ukraine." This sounds like a parody headline from the Babylon Bee, but it is actually a
real thing that's happening under President Joe Biden's watch. On Monday, the United States Agency for International
Development, or USAID, announced that it is sending an additional $4.5 billion in U.S. taxpayer money to Ukraine. And
it's not going to humanitarian aid or even weapons for fighting off Russia's brutal invasion — debatable but at
least understandable forms of U.S. aid — it's going to reduce the Ukrainian government's budget deficit.
Joe
Biden Signs $430 Billion Climate and Health Care Spending Bill to 'Fight Inflation'. President Joe Biden signed
a $430 billion climate spending bill on Tuesday, insisting it would fight inflation. "We're cutting deficits to fight
inflation by having the wealthy and big corporations finally pay their fair share," Biden said at the signing ceremony at the
White House. The bill raises the corporate minimum tax to 15 percent and spends more money on bolstering the ability of
the IRS to enforce taxes.
Can
a GOP Congress Stop the New IRS Gestapo? Other than Mar-a-Lago and the Jan. 6 committee, the
latest — and ultimately quite possibly the biggest — elephant in the room is the legislation that's
nearing passage with a name straight out of Orwell's Ministry of Truth: the Inflation Reduction Act. Forget for a
moment all the ridiculous "green" featherbedding in this legislation. The administration's version of "the science" is
about as scientific as the Greek myths, possibly less. It's the same pro forma collection of hand-outs to the usual
pseudo-environmental suspects that ultimately add up to more orders for, frequently defective, Chinese solar collectors.
That's bad enough but the real danger in this legislation is the massive infusion of cash ($80 billion) into the IRS,
yielding an extraordinary expansion (an army of 87,000 new agents) and the literal weaponization of the tax agency.
Job
One For The GOP: Kill The Inflation Reduction Act. Joe Biden's $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act passed both
the Senate and House without a single vote from Republicans. It has zero redeeming value and is the most wretched bill
out of Washington since Obamacare was approved in 2010. The GOP has to take it off the books. As we pointed out in
this space weeks ago, the entire bill is a lie. It has nothing whatsoever to do with inflation and, in fact, won't
reduce it at all. The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model says the IRA's "impact on inflation is
statistically indistinguishable from zero." Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank, says it won't rein in rising
prices "over the short run." Even the Congressional Budget Office says it does nothing to address inflation.
Biden
Puts IRS Funding Ahead of Military and Border Security. Is this about the most warped set of national priorities
you've ever heard? If this $80 billion were rerouted to the Army and the Border Patrol, we could easily stop
much of the tide of illegal immigration and staff up our military so we have the soldiers we need to defend our
country. According to official budget numbers, the overall cost of border security at the Department of Homeland
Security is roughly $55 billion a year. That is less than just the increase in IRS funding to harass the
public. Or consider this: The epidemic of opioid and other drug overdoses is killing close to 100,000 a
year. We spend about $11 billion a year to prevent these tragic deaths. But the ironically named Inflation
Reduction Act calls for 30 times more than this, or more than $300 billion, to try to combat climate change, while
the number of those who die from CO2 emissions each year is close to zero.
Buckle
Up: Tough Times Are Coming. With each passing day, Biden's and Democrats' failures become more apparent
and painful to average Americans. The economy is shaky; inflation and energy costs will resume rising. Crime
spikes in big cities. Woke and sexual indoctrination of schoolkids is meeting with growing backlashes. Democrats'
police state gambits repel people who'd otherwise take a pass on politics. Their sheer incompetence, serial failures,
and tyrannical overreach are undercutting their authority. So Democrats and the establishment are afraid and
anxious. Looming ahead is the fall of the establishment's thousand-year Reich. Desperation will drive
establishment factions to more and, perhaps, even greater acts of illegally and shows of force — or worse.
After all, the ends justify the means.
Pelosi-Biden's
Inflation Bill Passed with 35 Percent of the House Voting Remotely and the CBO Not Finished Scoring Its Impact.
It was a mad rush to pass Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" and now we know why. This act from the corrupt and now
communist left is named like other bills they manufacture in that it is the opposite of what it claims. This bill will
not reduce inflation and will likely add to it. The funding will occur by taxing Americans of all classes and
increasing the US debt. [...] According to Redstate around 35 percent of those voting, did so remotely. But the
bill charged ahead. Now you have to wonder what's really in it.
Analysis
suggests Inflation Reduction Act will reduce annual inflation by only 0.1 percentage points. The Senate-passed
Inflation Reduction Act is expected to have almost zero impact on inflation, according to a new analysis. A University
of Pennsylvania Penn Wharton analysis released Friday [8/12/2022] revealed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would do
little to reduce the annual rate of inflation in the midst of the economic recession. The bill would only reduce annual
inflation by 0.1 percentage point over the next five years.
Do
The Political Elites Intend To Starve People To Death? What happened in Sri Lanka — "the systematic
destruction of Sri Lankan agriculture by a regime so focused on appearing environmentally conscious that it blinded itself to
the humanitarian disaster it was creating" — is also taking place in the Netherlands, one of the world's top
producers of farm products. There, policymakers have placed limits on agricultural waste emissions, which the
eco-zealots are now at war with. The "tractor-riding rebels" understandably rose "up against their government." What
else should be expected when the rules could force as many as 30% of producers out of business? Farmers in Spain,
Ireland, and New Zealand are also rising up. It's more than enough for any open-minded lawmaker anywhere on Earth to
look at these events and rethink the policies that have caused such turmoil. But not Justin Trudeau, Canada's Boy Prime
Minister, who like the rest of the immature left is fixated on making points with the "right" people, as if he never left
high school.
Democrats
continue to wage war against the oil industry in the name of 'climate emergency'. What else might a political
party do if the goal was actually to destroy a country, besides destroying affordable energy in the modern world? Would
they have open borders, destroying the rule of law, and creating a scenario where human and drug trafficking rates
skyrocket? Would they support district attorneys who refuse to prosecute violent criminals, instead placing them back
on the streets? Would they tell our children that racism is the very underpinnings of our nation? And therefore
patriotism equates with oppression? Would they confiscate a greater share of wealth from the private sector and
transfer it to the hands of an ever-growing federal government? Would they slowly erode the three branches, allowing
courts and unelected bureaucrats to pass de facto laws instead of the legislature?
The
complete Sovietization of the Democrat party. The Democrats are so determined to destroy Trump, they are
willing to reveal their true colors: They are all Stalinist communists now. They've just rammed through a nearly
$800 billion bill that will obviously exacerbate inflation, as well as transform the IRS into a Gestapo-like agency, armed
and dangerous to all Americans but for the very wealthy. Small businesses that survived the lockdowns will now be
stamped out by the higher taxes, audits, and regulations within this destructive bill. The billions of green agenda
requirements in the bill will force us all into energy deficits that will further devastate our already ruined economy and
our quality of life. That is their goal, their endgame.
Another
Key Fundamental Contradicts the Democrat 'Comeback' Narrative. Democrats are riding high right now, at least in
their own minds. On Sunday, the Senate passed the Manchin-led reconciliation deal, blowing hundreds of billions of
dollars on "climate change" provisions, including subsidies for well-off people to buy electric cars and solar panels.
The other part of the bill was a sizeable tax increase for the middle class. As to it being called the "Inflation
Reduction Act," even Bernie Sanders admits that's hogwash. Still, Democrats rejoiced, citing it as a major
accomplishment that will help lead them to victory in the mid-terms.
Why
Is No One Using the Inflation Reduction Act's Actual Name? This was never an Inflation Reduction Act.
This is Build Back Better v2.0. It is a handout to the IRS so Democrats can fund their pet projects by harassing and
fleecing small businesses and middle-class Americans. It is a handout to upper-class Americans who want to make the
switch to electric vehicles. It is a handout to pet companies that produce those vehicles. You are giving massive
subsidies during high inflation and raising taxes during a recession. It is a violation of basic economic principles at
a time when the economy is extremely unstable. This bill was the end result of Democrats negotiating with
themselves. At no point was there any Republican input.
Here's
the Truth About What 'Inflation Reduction Act' Would Do. As Senate Democrats achieve their goal of jamming
through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, reality is becoming clear: The bill will likely increase near-term
inflation, depress household incomes, and produce the long-term deficits that fuel long-term inflation. Using the
Congressional Budget Office's latest scoring, estimates of the most recent changes, and accounting for very expensive
gimmicks, it's likely that the bill will produce deficits. The cumulative deficit would be around $52.5 billion over
the next four years, at least $110 billion through fiscal year 2031, and more beyond. That would mean adding to
near-term and long-term inflationary pressures, in contrast to what proponents such as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,
claim. In short, the bill is about as far away from a genuine Inflation Reduction Act as possible. Though it
would be harmful under any circumstances, signing it into law during a period of stagflation would be the worst possible timing.
Democrat
Senators Advance Biden's Massive Tax-and-Spend Bill — Kamala Harris Casts Tie-Breaking Vote. Senate
Democrats on Saturday night advanced Biden's massive tax-and-spend bill dubbed the 'Inflation Reduction Act.' Kamala
Harris cast the tie-breaking vote Saturday night [8/6/2022]. [...] After casting the tie-breaking vote, Kamala Harris claimed
the massive bill will "lower costs" for families and "address some of the basic needs families have been having for generations."
Kamala
Harris casts tiebreaking vote as Biden's massive spending and tax package advances in Senate. Vice President
Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote Saturday [8/6/2022] to advance President Joe Biden's massive spending, tax and climate
legislation in the Senate. The 51-50 party line vote allowed senators to begin debate on the legislation, which
includes $400 billion in spending and $700 billion in taxes and revenue increases. Republicans planned to offer about
four dozen amendments to force vulnerable Democrats like Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Raphael Warnock of Georgia to
take a series of tough votes on everything from border security to taxes. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
argued the legislation "will kill American jobs and hammer our manufacturing sector" and "have no meaningful impact on global
temperatures whatsoever."
The
Congressional Budget Office Hasn't Finished Scoring the Manchin's Inflation Reduction Act. While the Senate's
"Vote-a-Rama" for Build Back Better v2.0, better known as the Inflation Reduction Act, is underway, it seems that the
Congressional Budget Office hasn't even finished scoring the bill we've been assured reduces inflation. [...] I'm not a
stellar math student, but that seems like a lot of deficit increasing. No wonder the Democrats want to pass the bill
before the CBO finishes scoring it. There is still a new 30-page section to score, which was amended in recently.
This is going to be another big spending bill that the Democrats will use to fund pet projects and not actually reduce any
inflation with. Full steam ahead.
Biden
administration's farcical climate policies to devastate farmers, exacerbate food shortages. Democrats are
rabidly pro-abortion. Their policies foster violent crime. They tend to favor assisted suicide. And the
legalization of even hard and hallucinogenic drugs. They were/are all-in on vaccine mandates. Apparently, they
never met a population control measure they didn't like. So, it's not surprising they want to curtail our food supply.
A Glance Ahead.
[Scroll down] Meanwhile, the Party of Chaos is about to unleash its "Inflation Reduction Act," which proposes to spend
three quarters of a trillion dollars created from thin air into an economy already hyperventilating on three years of
multi-trillion-dollar injections derived from no productive activity. At the same time, the act will raise taxes
especially for low-end wage earners and small businesses, completing the regime's destruction of the middle-class. The
cherry-on-top is the provision to double the size of the Internal Revenue Service by hiring 87,000 new employees to harass
ordinary American taxpayers. Is that what you voted for in 2020? I thought not.
Get
Ready For The 100 Year Long Climate "Emergency". Since the Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia
v. EPA on June 30, the bureaucracies in the "climate" space, together with all the environmental activists, have
been thrown into a tizzy. The Supreme Court just declared that the bureaucracies have no power to fundamentally
transform the use of energy in the economy without a clear direction from Congress, which on the climate issue cannot be
found in existing statutes. And it has become clear that no further such statutory direction is likely to emerge from
Congress before the mid-term elections in November. After November, changes in the make-up of Congress will probably
make further such legislation even less likely, if not completely off the table for years if not decades. So
what is a self-respecting climate alarmist to do? To those over there on the left, the answer seems obvious:
Demand declaration of a "climate emergency." With that declaration, the statutory gap could perhaps be filled by another
whole category of laws providing special powers in the event of a declaration of "emergency."
Democrat
Spending Bill Will Bring Nothing But More Economic Hardship. After months of trying and failing to get enough
votes in the Democrat-controlled Congress to pass sweeping social spending legislation, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) finally convinced Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to abandon their previously stated principles
and put their party over what's best for their constituents. Since the result of Schumer's closed-door negotiations was
announced, it's been clear that the bill — referred to unofficially as "Build Back Better Jr." but officially
named the "Inflation Reduction Act" — will not do anything it's being proclaimed to do. As Townhall
reported, the "Inflation Reduction Act" won't actually reduce inflation. In fact, it might even add slightly to
inflationary pressure for the next two years. That false name is enough to prove the legislation is a trojan horse for
radical Democrat policies and would be better dubbed "Democrats' Job-Killing Middle-Class Tax Hike for Woke Nonsense."
The
Meaning of Bidenomics. Everyone senses that the American economy under Joe Biden is in a rut. Inflation
is at a 40-year high. Energy prices are skyrocketing. The prices of all goods and services going up.
Meanwhile, the administration does little to alleviate these regular everyday problems. This is by design. [...] This
is precisely what the Biden administration, their apparatchiks, and the proponents of the Green New Deal seek: a thorough
top-down command-control system of the economy. Whether in the more benign bureaucratic-managerial form of the modern
welfare-state of the West, or the more viciously brutal socialistic, fascistic, or communistic cousins, the goal remains the
same: centralized command-control. By permitting economic malaise, the Biden administration deliberately seeks to
punish the independent spirit of American freedom in order to subjugate it to its federal vision of regulatory control
(that's what regulation is always about).
Dems
Tell the American People "The Inflation Reduction Act" Won't Raise Taxes. Democrats love taxes. The
never-ending promise that they won't raise taxes almost always leads to more taxes. So why should we believe the
Inflation Reduction Act won't lead to a hideous tax burden on the American people? Well, we shouldn't. [...] The
Inflation Reduction Act is going to increase taxes on every American income tax bracket, large, or small, regardless of the
lies told to us by the Biden administration and the arguments from Democrats that regular Americans will not see their taxes
increase under this proposal, according to data from the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). The cap, we were
told, was $400,000.00, but this is not the truth. This legislation is just the Green New Deal and Build Back Better
repackaged into one colossal disaster.
Student
loan cancellation is a slap in the face to working-class families. There are few policy proposals more backward
than President Biden's and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's farce of "canceling" student loan debt. Debt cannot be
"canceled" or erased — it can only be shifted to someone else. Truck drivers, farmers, bartenders,
electricians and plumbers shouldn't have to pay for someone else's degree. Those who have sacrificed and worked hard to
pay off their own student loans shouldn't then have to take on someone else's debt. But that is exactly what
Mr. Biden's plans would force hardworking Americans to do.
Why
We Lost Trust in the Expert Class. Recently, a group of 55 distinguished pro-administration economists assured
us that President Joe Biden's massive borrowing and new entitlements agenda were not inflationary. In September 2021,
these economists with 14 Nobel prize winners among them declared that Biden's inflationary policies would actually "ease"
inflation. Last month, inflation spiked to an annualized rate of 9.1%. None of these "blue-chip" economists have
offered any apologies for lending their prestige to convince Americans of the absurd: that inflating the money supply,
spiking new government spending, incentivizing labor non-participation, and keeping interest rates artificially low would not
cause inflation.
This
is what finally puts an end to Australia. There is an ominous buzz in the new Australian Parliament —
Albo and the Greens are planning to pass 40 new bills, quick smart. Each bill will probably need 100 new regulations and
200 new inspectors, auditors, and enforcers plus many new taxes and fees. [...] Probably the worst bill in Green-Albo's legislative
avalanche is "The Climate Change Bill." This dreadful piece of legislation gives the government the ability to "ratchet up"
green targets without new parliamentary approval but makes it difficult for future governments to ratchet back these targets.
This will clutter rural Australia with imported solar panels and windmills and destroy forests and grasslands with spider-webs of
roads and transmission lines. It will make blackouts more likely and destroy any heavy industry we have left. Filling
our cities with electric cars will stress the electricity grid and add greatly to urban fire risks. And in 15 years (or after
every cyclone), we will have an enormous problem trying to dispose of the worn out, non-degradable wind and solar generator debris.
The
Inflation Reduction Act increases inflation. On July 28, President Joe Biden announced his "support for a
historic agreement to fight inflation and lower costs for American families. It's called the Inflation Reduction Act of
2022." He added, "This is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation ... while reducing the burdens facing
working-class and middle-class families." So, according to Biden and Senate Democrats, who apparently live in a fantasy
world, when the federal government increases taxes and spending, we are supposed to believe that inflation will be
reduced. Back in the real world, where one plus one still equals two, recessions are defined by two consecutive
quarters of negative GDP growth, and indisputable laws like gravity and supply and demand reign supreme, the Inflation
Reduction Act would actually increase inflation.
The
only inflation-fighter in Dems' new bill is the name. Why have Democrats taken to calling everything
what it's not? The word games from "woman" to "recession" are bad enough, but Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer
now offer an "Inflation Reduction Act" that doesn't actually reduce inflation. Oh, if it works out as they claim, the
Penn-Wharton Budget Model indicates it might do a little inflation-reducing in a decade, but would actually goose it a bit
first. The White House's favorite experts, Moody Analytics, read the bill as lowering the Consumer Price Index by a
third of a percentage point — by 2031. That really shouldn't surprise, since this wasn't remotely written to
combat inflation. It's simply another cut-down version of the Build Back Better package, which President Biden put on
the table early in 2020, when no one in Washington was looking for ways to fight soaring prices.
Rigging
the War on Fossil Fuels. [Scroll down] In September 2020, a Gallup poll likewise found that climate
change ranked eleventh in a list of registered voters' top concerns — well behind such items as the economy,
terrorism/national security, the COVID-19 pandemic, health care, education, race relations, gun policy, crime, abortion, and
immigration. Notwithstanding the public's consistent and overwhelming lack of concern about climate change as an urgent
problem, the main concern of the Biden administration and the entire agenda of the Democrat Party has been, and continues to
be, driven by this issue. In the words of President Joe Biden, "climate change poses an existential
threat" — in fact, the chief existential threat to the United States — greater than terrorism, or
Chinese expansionism, or the invasion by 2,400,000 unvetted illegal migrants annually across America's broken southern
border. So obsessive is the focus of Democrat leaders on the alleged "existential threat of climate change," that a
centerpiece of their policies to oppose it is a war on fossil fuels, beginning with the cancelling of the Keystone pipeline,
the shutting down of the ANWR oil field in Alaska, and the refusal for more than 17 months to sell oil-and-gas drilling
leases on federal lands.
'Build
Back Better' Bill Would Fund 86,000 Additional IRS Agents To Sic On American Taxpayers. If you think that
Democrats' tax-and-spending bill wouldn't expand government, have I got news for you. Believe it or not, the Build Back
Better legislation would more than double the size of the IRS. That's one of the hidden details in the agreement that
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., cut with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., behind closed doors. And of course,
Democrats want to ram it through Congress within a matter of days. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., once said
about another big-government scheme, "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." The draft bill
contains an $80 billion "investment" in the Internal Revenue Service. Of that amount, more than half, or over $45.6
billion, will go towards enforcement activities. Even as it doles out such vast sums for the IRS, the bill contains
only a few short pages of text explaining the provisions. In other words, the IRS will have a relatively wide berth to
spend the new funding as it likes.
Virginia
AG Sues Biden for Pushing Transgender Ideology on Children. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is accusing
the Biden administration of using children to win more votes at the ballot box. Miyares filed a lawsuit against the
Biden administration's Department of Agriculture, which is threatening to take away funding for school lunches if schools
refuse to adhere to the left's radical transgender agenda. "They're essentially saying, 'We are requiring you to have
biological males in women's sports, we are requiring you to allow biological males to use women's bathrooms, female
bathrooms, and if you don't, we're going to withhold nutrition assistance for needy children,'" Miyares said in a statement
to the Washington Examiner.
Pay
Attention To The Dutch Farmer Protests Because America Is Next. Why is the Netherlands, of all places,
experiencing such unrest? Americans need to understand what's happening over there because the ruinous climate policies
that triggered these protests are precisely what President Joe Biden and the Democrats have in mind for the United
States. Specifically, Dutch farmers are protesting a government plan to cut fertilizer use and reduce livestock numbers
so drastically that it will force many farms out of business. Earlier this month, farmers used tractors and trucks to
block highways and entrances to food distribution centers across the country, saying their livelihood and way of life are
being targeted by the government. [...] The goal is to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which are produced by
livestock but which the government is labeling "pollutants," by 50 percent nationwide by the year 2030. The only way
to do that, many Dutch farmers say, is to slaughter the vast majority of their livestock and shutter their farms. The
government knows this and admitted as much earlier this year, saying in a statement, "The honest message ... is that not all
farmers can continue their business," and that farmers have three options: "Becoming more sustainable, relocating or
ending their business."
Canada's
Trudeau Declares War on Fertilizer, Following the Footsteps of Sri Lanka. Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau ignored cries of anger and desperation from farmers and provincial officials last weekend by pressing ahead with a
climate change agenda that will dramatically reduce Canada's use of fertilizer — the same ruinous strategy that
drove Dutch farmers into revolt and destroyed the agriculture of Sri Lanka. The Toronto Sun reported on a
dismaying Friday meeting of federal and provincial ministers, in which the latter could not convince the Trudeau
administration to show any "flexibility" in its emissions targets, not even with a global food crisis on the horizon.
Canada
Joins The Netherlands In Declaring Climate-Crazed War On Farmers. In his latest bid to amass greater control of
Canadian society, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to move forward with his government's plan to reduce nitrogen
emissions by limiting fertilizer use among Canadian farmers. The revelation came following a Friday meeting between
Trudeau and Canadian provincial ministers, where the prime minister unexpectedly announced his decision to cap fertilizer
emissions by unilaterally targeting the country's agricultural sector. [...] As referenced in the press release, the targets
set by the federal government include a bid "to reduce absolute levels of [greenhouse gas] emissions arising from fertilizer
application by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030," which the Trudeau administration previously announced in December 2020. While
Trudeau has not publicly released specific mandates, the provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan are blasting the
prime minister for advancing the policy. "We're really concerned with this arbitrary goal," said Saskatchewan Minister
of Agriculture David Marit. "The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas
industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers."
What
Biden's 'climate change emergency' is REALLY about. Glenn Beck reveals how climate academics and activists have
been gaming this out for years. They know exactly what they are going to do once Biden pulls the trigger. So many
scary options become available once a national emergency is declared. [Video clip]
How Long Until Democrats
Storm the Capitol? Are Democrats trying to incite an insurrection? The party's rhetoric on the
"existential threat" of so-called climate change has grown increasingly radical and vitriolic of late, its policy solutions
alarmingly anti-democratic in nature. Given the way some Democratic politicians have implicitly endorsed subversive
tactics to enact their controversial agenda, one can't help but wonder why outraged liberal voters aren't storming the U.S.
Capitol building at this very moment. "This is our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic — and
costly — effects of climate change," Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) told the New York Times earlier this
month. "We can't come back in another decade and forestall hundreds of billions — if not trillions —
in economic damage and undo the inevitable human toll ... failure really is not an option here."
The Editor says...
[#1] There is no reason to believe any assertion that "we only have ten years left" to fix global warming, when many similar
predictions have failed over the last 50 years. The weather cannot be altered by legislation and taxes. Global
warming — or cooling — is gonna happen whether we like it or not. And nobody will ever notice any
warming or cooling, because it will be so gradual. Summer will be hot and winter will be cold, and the best defense
against the weather is lots of electricity, which can be produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons. [#2] Any
assertions about "trillions in economic damage" are highly speculative.
How To
Erode the World's Greatest Military. A year ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark
Milley were assuring the country not to worry over Joe Biden's strange ideas of abruptly pulling out all U.S. troops from
Afghanistan. [...] The shame of defeat and the cloud of incompetence from Afghanistan has continued to harm recruitment
efforts of the military. About a year ago Austin and Chairman Milley took time out from assuring Americans that all
would be well in Kabul, to testify before Congress about the Pentagon's effort to address "white rage" in the six-month
aftermath of the January 6 riot. Both were also asked to explain why the armed services were recommending soldiers read
inter alia the often-discredited "antiracist" theories of Ibram X. Kendi. His polarizing doctrine asserts that the
entire U.S. system of government, all social and political life, and our very culture are racist to core. As a result,
Kendi's solution requires radical and overt racial preferencing and discrimination supposedly to fight such an insidious system.
Socialism
Is a Deal with the Devil. America was founded on the principles of capitalism. But there are those who
think communism is the solution for every problem, from bad weather to old Joe's dementia. In their book, In Their
Own Words, Terry Turchie and Donagh Bracken document that organizations such as the Weather Underground, the Black
Panther Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and The Democratic Socialists of American have been agitating for
communism for decades. We've even got one senator who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union and a whole squad of
congresswomen who openly support it now. They don't use the word "communism" very often, but their manifestos and
stated goals are 100 percent aligned with that ideology. Instead, they use seductive terms like "social justice,"
"guaranteed income," and "equality."
The Left Should
Be Happy with Biden. [Scroll down] Strangely, leftists do not grasp that Biden's current record and
unpopularity are due not just to his unmistakable cognitive decline. The problem is not just his often-toxic
personality, or his creepy habits of trying to shake the hands of invisible people or violating the private space of younger
women. Instead, the Biden Administration has become an utter failure because voters detest its agendas. They
recoil at $5-a-gallon gas. They feel their lives are being destroyed by 9.1 percent annual inflation and supply chain
shortages. The public is tired of near record annual increases in murders and other violent crime. They are
sickened by the tsunami of dangerous drugs pouring across the border and unvetted millions of foreign nationals entering
their country without their permission. They are irate that the Biden cabinet never responds to these disasters.
Instead, the administration denies the crises even exist. Or it blames its own self-created messes on the Russians, or
Trump, or their own Democratic senators who balked at printing more trillions of dollars.
Democrats
Are Now Begging Biden To Act Like A Dictator. Democrats are using the latest heat wave to push Biden to declare
a climate "emergency" so he can bypass the legislative branch. Biden is reportedly considering doing just that.
The left is freaking out because Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., won't sign onto a bill that includes carbon emission mandates
at a time when gasoline prices are way up, inflation is rampant, and the economy is almost certainly in a recession.
Plus, the Supreme Court just tossed an attempt by the EPA to control the nation's power grid in the name of fighting "climate
change." On Monday, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, told reporters "There is probably nothing more important for our
nation and our world than for the United States to drive a bold, energetic transition in its energy economy from fossil fuels
to renewable energy." Merkley said time is of the essence because it's not clear when Democrats will be able to pass a
climate bill.
Biden
fixates on nonexistent 'climate crisis' while ignoring actual problems. On July 20, President Biden gathered
with his climate change super friends at Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Massachusetts to relay this message to the
American people: "As President, I have a responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and
present danger. And that's what climate change is about. It is literally, not figuratively, a clear and present
danger." To emphasize just how dire the "climate crisis" has become, Biden added, "The health of our citizens and our
communities is literally at stake." Of course, Biden offered no evidence or data to support these outrageous claims of
imminent doom. Instead, he relied on fearmongering and less-than-truthful statements to incite a sense of panic among
the American people.
Dem
Sen. Heinrich: 'We're Going to Solve Inflation with a Climate Bill' and 'Every Bill' Should Deal with Climate. On
Wednesday's broadcast of NBC's "MTP Now," Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) argued that Democrats should say that "we're going to solve
inflation with a climate bill" and that in Congress, "we need to be doing climate all of the time now" and that "every bill we do,
whether it's an appropriations bill or whether it's a policy bill," should have climate provisions because "we've reached a point
where our climate is truly at a tipping point. We're losing this battle and losing control of the weather." Heinrich
stated, "[I]t really is our addiction to fossil fuels that is driving the out-of-control frustration and inflation that our
constituents are feeling."
The Editor says...
Take it easy, Senator Heinrich. You're not "losing control of the weather." You've never had control of the
weather. Turn off your television and look around. There is no extraordinary climate change. Global warming has stopped,
all by itself. It's hot outside because we're in the middle of summer. Where's the emergency? Also, where are the masses
of constituents whose number one concern is global warming? What do the Democrats intend to do, to stop the weather from
changing? Their only solutions are new taxes and more government bureaucracy.
Democrats
hope Biden uses the climate to take over and destroy the economy. If there was one lesson the Democrats learned
from 2020 forward, it was that, if the government convinces voters there's an emergency, the voters will let the government
get away with murder. That's why there is a huge push from the left for Biden to declare a "climate emergency" and,
under that rubric, end fossil fuels in America on an accelerated timeline. If Biden were to do this — and to
get away with doing it — America is over. Kaput. The great experiment will have ended.
Biden
Pledges Increases in OSHA Workplace Inspections as Part of Climate Change Compliance System. Joe Biden has
pledged to increase his use of executive power in order to deconstruct the U.S. energy system and recreate a Green New Deal
energy economy using windmills and solar power to generate electricity. Today, Biden kicked-off the first round of
executive orders. [Tweet] The first round of executive orders is essentially payments to low income Americans for the
increased costs of Biden's new energy programs.
Biden
Blasts Republicans for Failing to Recognize Climate 'Emergency,' Vows to Use Executive Action. President Joe
Biden called climate change an "emergency" during a Wednesday speech and vowed to use executive powers to bypass Congress,
days after Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) dealt a death blow to his sweeping legislative agenda. "Since Congress is
not acting as it should, and these guys here are, but we're not getting any Republican votes, this is an emergency," Biden
said from the podium in Somerset, Mass., apparently gesturing at Democrats around him. The president stopped short of
issuing a national climate emergency, but said he would use executive powers to address the issue. "As president I'll
use my executive powers to combat climate crisis in the absence of Congressional action," Biden added.
The Editor says...
There is no climate emergency. There is no climate crisis. Long-range weather forecasts are impossible.
Changing the weather through legislation is also impossible.
Brick
by Brick, Courts Build a Roadblock Against Biden's Administrative State. As the Biden administration reels from
a string of recent legal defeats, political analysts hail the U.S. Supreme Court's latest ruling, West Virginia
v. EPA, as but one component of a new, broad-based approach that the courts are taking to halt a century-long effort
by progressives to empower the administrative state and rule Americans by bureaucratic decree. Dating back to President
Woodrow Wilson 100 years ago, progressive presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Joe
Biden, have worked to transfer law-making authority from Congress to their executive agencies. Wilson, the father of
modern-day progressives, believed the Constitution, with its separation of powers, was an outdated document and that
professional bureaucrats were superior at decision-making, compared to the time-consuming and compromise-ridden process of
passing laws through elected representatives. Wilson wrote in the 1887 article "The Study of Administration" that "the
many, the people, who are sovereign [under the Constitution] have no single ear which one can approach, and are selfish,
ignorant, timid, stubborn or foolish."
Bye-bye, Biden.
Joe Biden has done more to drop-kick America back to the political, fiscal, and energy Stone Age than any president in
memory. Under Biden, our social and economic infrastructure has been all but decimated. It is almost as if he has
signed on to an America-last agenda. For that matter, does he even know what his agenda is? Or has he delegated
his presidency to pre-Trump power brokers? Worst of all, Joe Biden's policies regarding racial matters have reignited a
previously placid racial state. He is now exacerbating a simmering situation between white and black that hasn't been
seen since the '60s. While doing this, he has turned our once illustrious military into a race-based adversarial social
experiment, pitting our fighting forces against one another instead of against our enemies abroad. How can the American
military defend our country against a vicious socialist, communist, or radical Islamic threat if our own fighting forces are
pitted against each other by color? This is treasonous because what he has not directly promoted, he has allowed.
If Biden does not remove himself, he should be removed for terminal gross incompetence. The people who are actually
running this administration need to be removed as well.
Biden
holds off on climate emergency declaration. President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to
promote new efforts to combat climate change, although he will not declare an emergency that would unlock federal resources
to deal with the issue despite increasing pressure from climate activists and Democratic lawmakers. The White House
said Tuesday [7/19/2022] it has not ruled out issuing such a declaration later, which would allow the president to reroute
funds to climate efforts without congressional approval. On Wednesday, Biden will announce other new climate actions
when he visits a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, which shuttered in 2017 but has since been reborn
as an offshore wind power facility.
Trans
Biden Official Wants To 'Empower' Kids To Get Sex Changes. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine said
transgender youths need to be empowered to get "gender affirmation treatment" on MSNBC Monday [7/18/2022]. Levine, who
is transgender, said transgender youths are threatened by mental health issues, bullying and political attacks, and that
treatment of these youths should affirm their perceived gender identity and empower them to get sex change treatments.
The
Left's Blackmailing of Biden has Unleashed National Chaos, Stagflation and Systemic Uncertainty. In July of
2020 Biden signed on to a unity platform with Bernie Sanders that would seal his fate. He could never deviate from it
and he would have to agree to any and all further demands for fear of being not only exposed but abandoned by the American
Marxists, which would end his life-long narcissistic ambition to be another Franklin Roosevelt. Among the commitments
made and kept in the unity platform:
• The repeal, by executive order, of all of Trump's border policies including the stoppage of the wall
construction, the elimination of the "Remain in Mexico" policy, a moratorium of deportations, and an immigration reform package
that includes amnesty and a path to citizenship. In essence an open and uncontrolled border to allow millions to pour in
illegally and enter the electorate.
• The elimination of fossil fuels by 2030. Using executive orders: to stop the construction
of new pipelines, to curtail leases on public lands, to force financial institutions to stop investing in fossil fuel companies
and to promote limitless government investment in so-called "renewable energy" and impractical electric vehicles.
• Unlimited spending on new and existing social programs, which included housing, infrastructure, welfare,
as well as the left-wing's wish list of funding for left-wing non-government organizations and unions, the nationalization of
K thru 12 education, the elimination of charter schools and private school vouchers, and higher taxes on business and
the nebulously defined wealthy.
Judge
rules Biden administration's LGBTQ directives [...] infringes on states' rights. A judge in Tennessee has
temporarily banned two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by the Biden administration that extended
protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces, like allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their
choice. US District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. on Friday ruled for 20 state attorneys general who sued last August
claiming the Biden administration directives infringe on states' rights. The ruling could prevent students from
participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers
to accommodate transgender people. Atchley, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, agreed with the attorneys
generals' argument and issued a temporary injunction preventing the agencies from applying that guidance on LGBTQ
discrimination until the matter can be resolved by courts.
The
war on fossil fuels is concluding — and the good guys are losing. There are several entities that
saw a benefit in declaring war on fossil fuel: the environmentalists who are so historically illiterate that they believe
that a world without fossil fuels will be a bucolic paradise rather than a Hobbesian nightmare; the leftists who want to
break the West to rebuild it as a socialist paradise; the Great Reset/New World Order crowd, which envisions happy,
possession-free serfs; and the Chinese, who foresee a bloodless conquest of the West, which, believe me, will not be
anybody's paradise. While the winner among these groups isn't clear, the loser is coming into focus: ordinary people
across the Western world. The latest example comes from Germany.
There's
a low-cost way for the oil companies to respond to anti-petro Biden. I like fossil fuels. I like that
everything from coal to clean natural gas has raised most of humanity out of abject misery in my lifetime. I like that
parts of the world that seemed to have nothing to offer only had to look down to find a gift that has blessed us all.
I'm glad that some form of the dinosaurs continues to roam the earth if only as a part of the car I drive around. And
I'm glad that we can grow our food, cook our meals, drink clean water, heat our homes, have satisfying careers, and raise our
children in relative comfort compared to my great-grandparents' generation. Thank you, Oil Companies. All of us
depend every day on what you have done and continue to do. It must be a staggering shock to be told — in the
face of all evidence to the contrary — that your services will no longer be required in a few years.
Everyone knows it's a lie, but a hurtful one. Especially coming from some of the most listened-to voices at the highest
levels of our government.
Socialists Rising in L.A..
The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has emerged as the clear winner of the city's June 7 primary
in the weeks since ballot counting began. Five out of the nine candidates on the ballot for city office to earn the
DSA's endorsement have either won outright (garnering more than 50 percent of the vote) or advanced to the general election
with leads over their rivals. The results reveal the expanding political might of L.A.'s socialist Left. Los
Angeles primaries usually see low turnout. Well-organized groups with a solid ground game stand to do best. This
year, every registered voter was mailed a ballot, and 84 percent of ballots were cast by mail. The city now permits
ballot harvesting and unguarded drop boxes, and it doesn't check signatures. The DSA took advantage of these rules, got
boots on the ground, and reaped the rewards.
Never-learn
Dems pushing a zombie Build Back Better to wreck our economy even more. Despite even more crushing inflation
news — 9.1%, a level not seen since 1981 — congressional Dems are again flogging their recipe for
deeper disaster: a new version of Joe Biden's ill-fated 2021 "Build Back Better" bill. Have they learned nothing?
More spending is the last thing we need. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) was right to kill the first one, a mishmash of
social outlays, green poppycock and tax hikes (plus giveaways to the wealthy). The zombie-BBB Dems are moving to bring
to the Senate floor is, allegedly, smaller than the original — the promised cost is "only" $1 trillion —
with many specifics still up in the air. But it's near-certain to include federal bucks for green boondoggles as well a
tax hike on businesses. A tax hike on businesses, as a recession looms and jobless claims rise. What planet are
these people living on?
The
Left's obsession with transgenderism is barbaric. How to explain the Democrat party's obsession with
transgenderism, with shoving it down the throats of every American, from ages five and up? It's inexplicable.
Does every registered Democrat support confusing small children with gender identity indoctrination? That can't be
true. But school districts across the country are using books about all manner of sexual issues, including pornography,
topics way beyond the grasp of small children. And they are using those books without parents' knowledge. When
parents discover these books and object, they are threatened. Grooming, a word that once applied to other cultures or
the worst sadists, grooming young children for sex with adults, now applies to public schools in America with the full
support of American Democrats in Congress.
The
revolt against green tyranny has toppled its first government, as farmers' protests spread across Europe. Green
tyranny has finally provoked mass reactions, and the first government has fallen after imposing insane policies that wrecked
the food supply for its people. Both the president and the prime minister of Sri Lanka are resigning in the wake of
massive mobs storming and occupying their residences, burning the PM's private house and refusing to leave the presidential
palace until both men are out of office. [...] Sri Lanka foolishly signed on to the green initiative in farming, going
organic and limiting the importation and use of chemical fertilizers. Food production, including tea, a vital export
earner of foreign exchange, collapsed, and now the government is broke, people are hungry. [...] Farmers in Holland, in open
revolt against government plans to destroy their livelihoods by limiting nitrogen application for fertilizer, are tying up
that country's roads and cities. And the revolt is spreading to Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland.
If
They Lose, You Will Eat Bugs — Dutch Farmer Spokesperson Explains How EU Climate Change Goals Will Reduce Farm
Production. Despite the U.S. media not giving any time, attention or discussion to the rise of farmer protests
in Europe, everyone should pay attention because the same climate change goals being enforced in the European Union are
coming to North America. The global food manipulators within the World Economic Forum have established the farming
policy that aligns with their climate change goals. As noted in [a] Sky News discussion this is the Great Reset.
It's not just Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte pushing the agenda, in 2020 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave
an identical outline, with an identical timeline, for the exact same process. The collective WEF political leaders are
all singing from the same hymnal.
Yeah, "GOP Leadership." That's a good one.
When
Will GOP Leadership Come Out and Say It? Biden is a Traitor. He Must be Impeached, Then Indicted for
Treason. No one is even bothering to hide it. Biden is clearly a suicide bomber, owned by the Chinese
Communist Party and the Mexican Drug Cartel, and put in place to destroy America, American exceptionalism, capitalism, and
most importantly, the great American middle class. I learned this plan at Columbia University, Class of '83, alongside
my classmate Barack Obama (who was never actually seen in any class at Columbia[,] but that's a story for another day). The
plan we learned at Columbia was called "Cloward-Piven." The goals of Cloward-Piven were about overwhelming the system,
collapsing the US economy, destroying capitalism and turning America into a socialist/communist country. It's happening
right now — with Biden as the frontman and brain-dead puppet, and Obama as the real president, lurking in the shadows,
pulling all the strings. Except now Obama has updated Cloward-Piven to include open borders and massive inflation to
bankrupt the middle class.
The Great Regression.
A word of caution is needed about the pretentious and supposedly benign signature title of the Great Reset project.
Assume the worst when the adjective "great" appears in connection with envisioned fundamental, government-driven, or global
political changes. What was similar between Lyndon Johnson's massively expensive but failed "Great Society" and Mao's
genocidal "Great Leap Forward" was the idea of a top-down, centrally planned schema, cooked up by elites without any
firsthand knowledge, or even worry, how it would affect the middle classes and poor. So often, the adjective
"great" is a code word of supposed enlightened planners for radical attempts at reconstruction of a society that must
be either misled or forced to accept a complete overhaul. [...] The same linguistic suspicions hold true of the use of the
noun "Reset." It assumes a year-zero arrogance that all that came before was flawed. And all that will follow, we
are assured, will not be so defective.
President
Biden and His Admiral Have Boarded a Sinking Ship. Admiral (not a Navy admiral) "Rachel" Levine is a so-called
transgender woman, a pediatrician, and now a U.S. asst. secretary for health. Levine has joined President Biden and
many others in the LGBT campaign to promote "gender-affirming care" for youths. "There is no argument among medical
professionals — pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent
psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. — about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care[.]"
Levine's "no argument" assertions are hogwash for many obvious reasons. [...] In the same vein, President Biden has climbed
on board with the admiral by announcing his social transition proposal that K-12 schools must allow males who claim to be
females to access female private spaces, such as showers, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. In addition, schools must
require staff to use false and confusing pronouns when referring to so-called transgender people and must allow male staff to
dress as women while on the job. Specifically claiming reliance upon reasoning of the Supreme Court in the
Bostock Title VII employment case, Biden proposes to accomplish his goals by applying Title IX prohibitions of
sex discrimination in education also to sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.
Where
Science Ends and Morality Begins. Under the Biden administration, we are getting a foretaste of a green
future. The high costs of gasoline, heating oil, and electricity; the consequent high prices of everything else; the
food shortages; and economic recessions will all be permanent features of a green America. Tried flying lately?
Consider the phase-out of air travel to be already underway. Supply chain problems causing empty shelves at the
store? Not to worry; when "buy local" is your only choice, you won't have to worry about supply chains. Don't
like arbitrary government mandates? Don't like what the COVID lockdowns did to your constitutional rights? Don't
like seeing the rule of law abandoned before your eyes — from our open southern border to the homes of our Supreme
Court justices? Consider all this your introduction to socialist governance.
Democrats'
Anti-Democratic Delusions Require Population Control. Population control — whether seen as the
strict limiting of a population's growth or as the strict regulation of a population's freedom — touches every
hot-button political issue of today. Will taxpayers be forced to fund abortion? Will female athletes be forced to
compete against men? Will citizens be forced to take experimental vaccines? Will Americans be forced to pay
soaring gas prices until they either become too impoverished to own a personal vehicle or reluctantly choose to invest
$60,000 in a new electric automobile dependent upon an aging electrical grid powered by natural gas and coal?
Senate
Democrats Pushing $500 Billion Climate, Obamacare Package. Senate Democrats want to pass a $500 billion package
that would include major reforms to health care, climate change, and taxes, according to a report. NBC News reported
that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who was primarily responsible for tanking the Build Back Better Act, continues to hold
talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on a reconciliation package that would spend $500 billion and raise
$1 trillion in revenue. The package would primarily focus on health care, energy, and taxes. One source told NBC
News that the "ceiling" for climate change funding would be capped at $300 billion, making it a significant fixture of the package.
The
LGBT Hostile Work Environment. On May 31, 2022, President Biden delivered to the American people "A
Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month 2022." A presidential proclamation is a
directive that grants to the chief executive of the United States certain powers of mandatory ceremony and observance.
The power of presidential proclamations is especially operative in enforcing mandatory observances in the federal military
and civilian workplaces, as those are the domains over which the president holds direct constitutional authority. [...] Biden
rages: "An onslaught of dangerous anti-LGBTQI+ legislation has been introduced and passed in States across the country,
targeting transgender children and their parents, and interfering with their access to health care. The unconscionable
attacks have left countless LGBTQI+ families in fear and pain." The unconscionable attackers whom Biden's proclamation
vilifies are otherwise known as the American people. He is outraged at the diversity of viewpoint about the needs of
children, and he attacks the American people in the strongest terms for resisting sexuality indoctrination of children.
Democrats
don't want anyone to succeed. The number one projection you hear from Democrats today is how Republicans are
extremists who threaten democracy and individual rights. But if one takes a close look at Republicans and the Right,
their positions have remained consistent over the years — promoting small government, lower taxes, and individual
responsibility. It's the Democrats who have become the extremists by calling for bigger and more government every
election cycle, more spending and more regulation. And now calls for censorship by the Left continue to grow.
It's the stuff of socialism that's morphing into a kind of soft communism, which would explain the Democrats' affinity for
all things China. The final proof is the fact that the Biden presidency is really the Sanders/AOC presidency that
totally controls the agenda primarily in the form of the Green New Deal. It is nothing but big government socialism
disguised as planetary salvation.
Biden
Is Going Green, Even if It Kills Us. Hubris can get us all killed. The Biden administration's
determination to make its climate agenda a central factor in U.S. foreign policy could be the greatest threat to human
survival in our times. This leap into the climate-change rabbit hole has distracted the White House from the
old-fashioned — but painfully present — task of making sure Americans are not devastated by a major
war. By stirring partisan politics and dubious science into their recipe for national security, this administration
risks getting the single most important responsibility of the federal government horribly wrong. For starters, their
climate agenda lacks legitimacy. Declaring that it is validated by "settled" science neither settles the science nor
validates their agenda.
Despite
Record Gas Prices, Biden Rejects New Drilling in Atlantic and Pacific. Joe Biden has proven once again that he
has no interest in reducing the record-high costs of gasoline, which have gone up throughout his time in office. Biden
not only wants to block all new oil drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but he's also taking steps to shut down
exploration of oil and gas on federal lands. "A plan released Friday shows the White House proposed no more than 10
potential lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, an option for one potential lease sale in the northern portion of the Cook Inlet
of Alaska, and no lease sales for the Atlantic or Pacific planning areas over the 2023-2028 period," reports Breitbart.
This plan is not finalized, however, but any potential areas of exploration or sale not mentioned in the proposal will
reportedly be off-limits from 2023-2028.
Biden
administration unveils oil and gas drilling plans, gutting Trump-era framework. The Biden administration
published its long-awaited five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan Friday one day after missing its June deadline.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) plan included the possibility of the federal government holding up to 11 lease sales off
the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico over the five-year period between 2023-2028. However, the plan also put forward
the option of the federal government holding no lease sales in that same time period. "From Day One, President Biden
and I have made clear our commitment to transition to a clean energy economy," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a
statement. [...] The plan didn't include any potential sales in the Atlantic or Pacific, effectively blocking drilling off
the east and west coasts. In the first version of the DOI plan, the Trump administration sought to hold a total of 47
sales across the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coasts.
New
York Moves to Nullify Supreme Court Decision Upholding Gun Rights. Writing for the majority in Bruen,
Justice Clarence Thomas struck down New York's century-old requirement that an applicant for a handgun carry permit
demonstrate a "special need" if he wanted to carry for self-defense. New York's licensing process was entirely
discretionary and arbitrary, and in many jurisdictions, licensing officers simply refused to issue permits for
self-defense. This was particularly true in New York City, where applicants were routinely and summarily rejected
unless they were politically connected or celebrities — such as Howard Stern, Donald Trump, and Don Imus. In
other jurisdictions, licensing officers simply invented acceptable reasons on a whim, often issuing handgun licenses for
"hunting and target shooting" only, if at all. (In one rural upstate county, a former judge who had authority as a licensing
officer invented a requirement that he would not allow any permit-holder to have more than five handguns without appearing
before him personally and giving a "good reason.") In Bruen, Justice Thomas ruled that these arbitrary
restrictions were unconstitutional and violated the Second Amendment's guarantee to keep "and bear" arms for self-defense,
ordering New York State and New York City to issue concealed carry permits to qualified applicants for that reason.
New
York Democrats Ignore Supreme Court Ruling and Ban Guns Just About Everywhere. New York Democrats in the state
legislature were called into special session by Gov. Kathy Hochul in order to deal with an emergency situation.
The U.S. Supreme Court had thrown out New York's restrictive gun licensing law that made it nearly impossible for a citizen
to carry a weapon for self-defense, and Democrats were experiencing near-apoplexy. Their paradise was about to be
invaded by a bunch of gun-toting, whiskey-swilling, cowboy-hat-wearing yahoos. (That's their vision of anyone wanting a
concealed carry permit, anyway). They solved their problem by passing another gun law.
New
York moves toward enshrining abortion, LGBTQ rights in state constitution. New York is taking the first step
toward enshrining abortion access and LGBTQ rights in the state's constitution following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to
overturn Roe v. Wade. The Democrat-led Legislature began the process of passing an amendment Friday to expand the
state's constitutional protections during a special session initially called by Gov. Hochul to strengthen the state's
gun laws in response to a separate Supreme Court ruling.
The
Cry-Baby Leftist Mind. Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their
supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them. Among the elite, the Democrats'
"blue-wall" states were once considered a testament to the wisdom of the Electoral College. When that wall crumbled in
2016 to Donald Trump, the Electoral College suddenly was blasted as a relic of our anti-democratic founders. The
nine-person Supreme Court was once beloved. On issues like abortion, school prayer, same-sex marriage, pornography, and
Miranda rights, the Left cheered the Court as it made the law and ignored legislatures and presidents.
Delusional
Democrats Advance 'Transgender Bill of Rights'. A group of House Democrats made the politically questionable
decision to advance a proposal they call the "Transgender Bill of Rights" on Tuesday. Apparently, it's not enough that
all signs point to them getting utterly crushed, destroyed, wrecked, and annihilated in the November midterms; these
Democrats must want people to poke their party's smoldering corpse with sticks afterward. [...] Can these Democrats really be
this willfully blind to the deep resentment Americans feel for being forced to "celebrate" a freaky, creepy delusional mental
illness? For example, recent polls have shown that U.S. voters overwhelmingly (61%) approve of Florida's Parental
Rights in Education law and oppose "transgender" females competing against girls and women in athletics.
Five
Things The GOP Must Do To Win In November And Stay In Power. Among other unforced errors, Biden and the
Democrats have destroyed our economy, irrevocably damaged our national security by opening our borders, and have thoroughly
deprived millions of Americans of their basic rights in an alleged attempt to protect us in an unwinnable battle against a
Chinese virus. One need not look any further than the devastating surge we're currently seeing in gasoline prices for
evidence of the Democrats' complete implosion, and it seems clear the results they're achieving were indeed
intentional. As a result, and coming as no surprise to anyone other than Democrats themselves, Americans are vocally
rejecting the Democrats' socialist, climate alarmist, and racist agenda. In virtually every demographic that is
tracked — including a remarkable renunciation of their policies from Hispanics, traditionally one of the most
loyally Democratic groups in the country — Americans are abandoning Democrats in droves.
It's
more than just pain at the pump. Despite the United States being energy independent when President Biden
assumed office, we are now paying record prices for petroleum products that are contributing to near-record inflation once
termed by his administration as only "transitory." The mere fact that the President is now blaming Putin for the energy
crisis and begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for gasoline illustrates his administration's extreme naiveite and disjointed
energy and national security strategy. Even if his administration desires to go "green," his means to achieve that goal
is both foolhardy, disjointed, and dangerous to our national security.
Is
the Green Agenda Being Forced Upon Us by Accident? The Left hates oil and gas, beef (and chicken, and all
meat), and coal [and concrete and air conditioning and DDT and nuclear power and CO2 and natural gas and styrofoam and
plastic bags]. But millions of Americans don't believe the hysterical Leftist claims that these things are destroying
the planet. What to do about these folks? A number of suspicious recent incidents suggest that some people have
decided to take matters into their own hands and force compliance with the green agenda by leaving us no other choice.
How
can we fix things if you don't get involved? Joe Biden and his puppet masters want to destroy fossil fuel use
in the name of an unproven theory called "man-made global climate change." Not only do they refuse to admit their guilt for
the current crisis, but they don't seem to understand the unintended consequences of their actions. Or the backlash in
future elections. In order to solve a problem, one must first understand complicity. There is no redemption if
there is no admission of guilt, and then remorseful contrition. Every problem has a solution, and every error can be
rectified. Redemption would be signaled by gas prices returning to Trump-era levels, including energy independence.
Since the party in power doesn't understand cause and effect, or the Democrats intentionally sabotaged a successful economy,
redemption won't grace our nation until the culprits have all left Washington. On both sides of the aisle.
Biden
sneaking amnesty through for a million illegal border crossers. Who says crime doesn't pay? When you can
cross the border illegally, and not only be allowed to stay here, collect big benefits, and actually be allowed to apply for
citizenship as a reward for your lawbreaking, why wouldn't you come without papers instead of come the legal way? You'd
be a fool not to. Applying legally and waiting years for entry at great personal expense with no adjacent benefits is a
fool's errand, given the Biden administration's current policies. That's the shocking reality revealed in a report from
the Washington Examiner showing that the Biden administration is now .... ever so quietly ... dropping charges against tens
of thousands of unvetted illegal border crossers and visa overstayers, leaving them with clean records and incredibly, the
"right" to apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship. If the current pace of that continues, at least a million are
going to be effectively amnestied by 2024, the Examiner reports.
Biden
declares war on nicotine while giving addicts crack pipes. As Americans grapple with sky-high prices at the
pump, the worst rate of inflation in more than four decades, increasing crime, a wide-open southern border, a surge in
fentanyl deaths, a baby formula shortage, a looming food crisis, a plunging stock market, rolling brownouts, and many other
pressing problems, the Biden administration has set its sights on waging war on nicotine. This week, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) announced that it "plans to develop a proposed product standard that would establish a maximum nicotine
level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products" and that it has "issued
marketing denial orders (MDOs) to JUUL Labs Inc. for all of their products currently marketed in the United States." For
those keeping track, these anti-nicotine measures follow the Biden administration's proposal to ban menthol cigarettes, which
was announced by the FDA in April.
Biden
Administration Moves to Expand Title IX to Eliminate Gender-Exclusive College Facilities, Sports Teams. The
Biden administration on Tuesday proposed changes to the federal civil-rights statute banning sex discrimination in federally
funded education programs, including expanding protections to sexual orientation and gender identity. One proposed
change "would make clear that preventing any person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with
their gender identity would subject them to more than de minimis harm on the basis of sex and therefore be prohibited, unless
otherwise permitted by Title IX or the regulations." If adopted, the rule change would bar universities any other
federally funded institutions from maintaining men and women's sports and sex-segregated spaces like locker rooms and dormitories.
Now
That Country's Problems are Solved, the Democrats Pass One of the Most Useless Bills in American History. Now
that America's problems are solved and there is no more rampant inflation, gas prices are at reasonable levels, the border is
secure, and the economy is picking back up, House Democrats have decided to pass a thoroughly unnecessary bill for no other
reason that optics. It turns out women can become president, the bill states, as if we didn't already know from
Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin running as vice presidential candidates or the candidacy of the Trump-vanquished Hillary
Clinton. The Democrats also wanted to make sure that LGBTQIA+ people could become president, as if there were any doubt
about their eligibility for the office. "The House passed a bill on Tuesday that seeks to revise federal law and
clarify that women and LGBTQ Americans can be president of the United States," the Hill reported. "The legislation,
dubbed the 21st Century President Act, passed by voice vote. It also passed the House by voice vote in the last Congress."
Biden
Celebrates His Green Policies that Will "Take Millions of Cars Off the Road". Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered
remarks on soaring gas prices from his fake White House set in the South Court Auditorium. Biden repeated the same lies
in his speech and blamed Vladimir Putin for high gas prices. "Let's remember how we got here: Putin invaded
Ukraine," said Biden. This is a lie. Gas prices spiked before Putin invaded Ukraine.
Biden Admin
Quietly Nukes Trump-Era 'Transparency' Initiative Tracking Settlements And Payouts To Left-Wing Activists.
President Joe Biden's Department of the Interior (DOI) has quietly rolled back a Trump-era "transparency and accountability"
order creating a public litigation website so people can track details pertaining to lawsuits from outside interest groups
that Republicans argue cost taxpayers unwieldy sums. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland revoked the order, which was issued
in September 2018, on Friday. The order made details concerning settlements and consent decrees, as well as cash
amounts paid to lawyers of private entities, accessible online. The website was scrubbed following the Biden revocation
order and sought to "alleviate" any concerns by the public that it may not have a voice in "policymaking." It made the
Office of the Solicitor and the Office of the Chief Information Officer "post" a "searchable list" of final decrees and
settlements "that continue to govern departmental actions," according to the Trump order.
Congressman
Troy Nehls To Introduce Bill To Rescind Biden's Executive Order Requiring All States To Offer Gender Transition Therapy To
Minors. This week Congressman Troy Nehls will introduce the "Stop Child Abuse Act," seeking to rescind the
Executive order signed by President Biden on June 15, which prohibits individual state governments from banning the use of
gender transition therapies in minor children and removes the states' right to govern independently. Biden signed the
Executive Order on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals as part of his
administration's plan to further the cause of the LGBTQI+ community in America. According to the executive order, the
administration seeks to "protect LGBTQI+ individuals' access to medically necessary care," including gender transition
therapies such as hormones and surgical intervention for individuals suffering from gender dysphoria.
Biden's energy hypocrisy.
Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail in 2020 that he would "transition away from the oil industry," convert to 100 percent
"clean" energy by 2035, and "end fossil fuels." Shortly after taking office, he started to make good on this pledge
by suspending all new gas and oil leases on federal property and ending the Keystone XL pipeline. Now, faced with gas
prices at a record high $5 per gallon and runaway inflation — aka the consequences of his own actions —
Biden is looking for an off-ramp.
The
Dem's Inflation-Fighting Plan Is A Cruel Joke. "Today the Democratic House takes a strong step to bring down
crucial kitchen table costs of the pump and grocery store and across the board." That's the transcript of what House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the House floor before all but five of her fellow Democrats voted for the "Lower Food and Fuel
Costs Act" last week. Pelosi's garbled syntax aside, the only thing this bill would lower is the public's trust in
anything Democrats say these days. Despite its title, this bill would expand government but do nothing —
repeat, nothing — to lower prices today, tomorrow, or any time in the future.
The
Democrats vs. Morality. The list of debaucheries Democrats' champion is long. They offer a dark,
vulgar, inverted world: Criminals are victims, and victims are disregarded. Democrat-run cities teem with
hoodlums and worse. Cities are becoming illicit drug sanctuaries. The homeless (mentally and emotionally
disturbed, drug and/or alcohol addicted) roam streets like extras from the Walking Dead. Abortion is no longer
about being "legal, safe, and rare." It's naked infanticide. Institutional corruption appears endemic (the FBI,
DoJ, and much of corporate America, for example). Decades-old sexual permissiveness was the gateway to today's spreading
sexual perversion. [...] Marxism, including its offshoots (fascism is one such), wherever tried, has led to ruin.
Traditional Russia was destroyed by communists. Lenin and Stalin killed millions, smashed faith and family, relentlessly
terrorized populaces, and bequeathed to generations of Russians a gutted society. Recovery will be long coming, if ever.
Women's
Bureau of the Department of Labor to Host Webinar on the 'Power of Trans Inclusion' in the Workforce. The
Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor is set to hold a webinar titled "Equity in the Workplace — The
Power of Trans Inclusion in the Workforce," where attendees will hear from leftwing activists. The Women's Bureau of
the Department of Labor, which is hosting the event, was created "to safeguard the interests of working women; to advocate
for their equality and economic security for themselves and their families; and to promote quality work environments."
The Editor says...
Encouraging the acceptance of transvestites in the workplace does not "promote quality work environments."
The
Biden Administration's Push to Normalize Drug Use Will Result in More Deaths. We have been covering several
stories related to the escalation of drug deaths across the country, namely due to fentanyl (now the leading cause of death
for young Americans). In a normal world, there would be a push to stem the recreational use of powerful narcotics.
However, the Biden administration and progressives across the country are pressing to normalize drug use. For example,
we reported that Biden's Health and Human Services department provided $30 million in funding to dole out crack
pipes to drug addicts as part of its 'Harm Reduction Plan.' In the same piece, we noted that Biden's Department of Justice says
it might be open to allowing safe injection sites, which are places where people can shoot up heroin and other narcotics.
Why Biden's
Attacks On Energy Are "Absolutely Insane". Last month, Biden officials eased sanctions on Venezuela with an eye
to increasing oil imports. Next month, Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia with the intention of improving relations and
increasing oil production. [...] But none of those actions will lower energy prices. Increasing oil production in
Venezuela would take years and it wouldn't be nearly enough to make up for the reduction of oil imports from Russia.
Even Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates together could not produce enough oil to offset declining supply from
Russia. And it's not clear how antagonizing American oil and gas companies will result in more production and lower
prices. U.S. refineries are already operating at 94% of their capacity and Exxon invested $50 billion over the
last five years to expand oil production by 50%.
Joe
Biden to sign order for LGBTQ+ inclusive schools, foster system. President Biden will mark Pride Month
Wednesday by mandating that federal agencies craft "inclusive" school policies and ensure that same-sex couples and
transgender adults can foster children. Biden will sign an executive order that includes various other gay and
transgender rights initiatives at an afternoon White House event with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first
Senate-approved openly gay cabinet member. Other provisions instruct the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether
the phrase "conversion therapy" amounts to deceptive marketing and order the Department of Health and Human Services to draft
a "Bill of Rights for LGBTQ+ Older Adults." A Biden administration official told reporters that the president will use
the signing event to condemn recent legislation in Republican-led states that restricts the teaching of sexual orientation
and gender identity. A Florida law restricts such topics in kindergarten through third grade.
Team
of Fools: Biden's Cabinet Picks Prove He is Unfit to Lead. I have written extensively about Biden's
shortcomings. Nothing exceeds his capacity for choosing the wrong people. [...] Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, for
example. "Granholm's credentials for the job appear to be that she has swallowed Biden's climate agenda hook, line, and
sinker, and especially his affection for electric vehicles," says Liz Peek. "It certainly wasn't her deep understanding
of U.S. energy markets. She apparently knows nothing about U.S. oil production or how world energy markets work."
She believes that climate is the nation's number one challenge.
American
Individualism Is Being Extinguished By The New Elite. [Scroll down] One doesn't have to look too deeply
to see the manifestations of this puppet society. From carbon copy propaganda outlets masquerading as news agencies to
outrageous bureaucratic efforts to snuff out the rights and autonomy of the individual. The aristocracy that we fought
long and hard to be rid of is back with an unholy vengeance. The new aristocrats demand a renewed acceptance of their
superior station along with a vastly diminished standard of living for the average person. Their war on the middle
class and the Bill of Rights is so thoroughly immoral that it's difficult for most people to believe it's happening.
Their arsenal includes endless crises, wars, pandemics, social unrest, and fraud. The very air we breathe is their
greatest weapon. They frighten people into believing that it will not sustain a livable environment for even ten more
years if we can't learn to live without meat, heat, freedom, and autonomy. They then renew the threat every decade with
a slightly different tenor and tone.
Biden
Senior Climate and Energy Policy Advisor Demands Social Media Companies Immediately Block Content Identifying Biden Policy as
Source of Energy Inflation. As things in society start to collapse; and as people begin to really feel the
inflationary consequences of the Biden energy policy in action; suddenly all of those 'talking points' about shutting down
the fossil fuel industry take on a new meaning. People didn't realize the Green New Deal was going to mean $10/doz
eggs, $15/gal milk, $20 happy meals at McDonalds, or $150/tank of gasoline. Now they are paying attention. For
former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the current senior climate and energy policy advisor within the White House, all of
these 'in your face' surfacing Green New Deal consequences have become problematic for the Biden administration. Her
proposed solution, however, is rather remarkable. In this interview discussing the skyrocketing inflation and
consequences created by the Green New Deal policies, Gina McCarthy urgently begs all of the social media companies to start
removing the content from American people who are giving real world examples of the pain and economic hardship they are
feeling. McCarthy says that if social media do not start to help Joe Biden hide the pain, the climate change agenda
might be at risk. [Video clip]
The
Green New Deal crashes into the rocks. What a surprise! Carbon-based energy is much more important than
we were led to believe. A slight reduction in domestic resource development has sent seismic shock waves throughout our
economy. Bottom line: Folks are often willing to go along with calls for sacrifice... unless and until they are
made to really suffer. [...] The obvious question is: how will this all play out? The corrupt news media will likely
go even farther in its over-the-top hysterical portrayal of ordinary weather events, trends, and hiccups. As in
[Michael] Crichton's novel, [State of Fear,] what used to be a typical seasonal phenomenon —
hurricanes — are now being portrayed as cataclysmic events, even though the last 140 years have seen no
significant trend up or down in frequency. And yet, the EPA claims the opposite, even though most of its sources show
stability instead. That's what you get when you rely on corrupt government scientists.
Is
Biden Purposely Raising Gas Prices to Fuel His Green Agenda? The national gas average hit a new record of $5.00
a gallon this week, and it doesn't look like prices are going to fall anytime soon. Americans are frustrated with
President Joe Biden's lies about the economy, and many believe he is at fault for their wallets shrinking. A new poll
conducted by the Trafalgar Group found that over 53 percent of people "believe the Biden administration is intentionally
letting gas prices rise to make Americans use less fossil fuels." While 56 percent of voters agreed that the high fuel
prices is Biden's fault. Gas prices have nearly doubled since Biden took office just over a year ago when the national
average price was just $2.39.
Your
Pain at the Pump Is Biden's Plan. June 9, 2022 — a day that will live in infamy. That's the
day that the national average for gasoline officially broke $5.00 a gallon. And, yes, Joe Biden did that! Gas
prices have more than doubled since Biden took office, and they have been breaking new records day after day after day.
Some California gas stations are approaching $10 a gallon. Sadly, your pain at the pump is only going to get
worse. But here's what you must understand and what you must help your friends and family members to understand:
Your pain at the pump isn't an accident. It's all part of Joe Biden's plan. High energy prices are the
predictable, desired, and deliberate result of the Democrat jihad against the American energy industry. They are an
essential element of their "climate change" agenda.
Biden's
WHO Takeover. The Biden administration's bid to surrender American control over public health emergencies in
the United States to the World Health Organization fell short at the UN's 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva last month,
but there is no reason to believe Biden won't try again. This drive is part of our illegitimate placeholder president's
effort to undo all the good things that former President Donald Trump accomplished. Trump slashed U.S. funding of WHO
and served notice the country would pull out of the Communist Chinese-influenced agency, but Joe Biden aims to super-charge
WHO's authority in world affairs by amending an international pandemic treaty known as the International Health Regulations
(IHR) 2005. Of course, WHO is a bureaucratic monstrosity, a purveyor of leftist horror propaganda that, like its parent,
the United Nations, should not exist.
The Subordinate Citizen.
The Biden administration blasted the Trump southern border wall and canceled all further funding. Yet it just
appropriated $40 billion to Ukraine to ensure that it does not lose its border war against Russian aggression. That is
a tiny percentage of the federal budget. But the aid is full of symbolic irony, nonetheless. The
multibillion-dollar appropriation would have more than covered the completion of the entire wall along our own southern
border. An outside observer might conclude that the U.S. government intends to uphold the universal idea of national
sovereignty, internationally recognized borders, and the security of citizens inside their own country — as long
as they are not American citizens.
How
Democrats and dark money are plotting to blow up the Supreme Court. After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016
election to Donald Trump, Brian Fallon needed a job. Fallon had served as Clinton's national press secretary during the
campaign, and before that he had done the same job for my colleague Chuck Schumer in the Senate. For a while, his
reputation around Washington, DC, was stellar. He was, according to a lengthy profile in the Daily Beast, "one of the
most sought-after operatives in Democratic politics: a brass-knuckle brawler with experience at the highest levels of
government, a cellphone filled with the top journalists in town, and a reputation for being preternaturally on message."
But something changed in Fallon after Clinton's loss to Donald Trump. He became less interested in traditional
politics, giving up a role as a commentator on CNN, and more interested in ways of putting pressure on Democrats to take
radical action. By 2018, two years into President Trump's first term, Fallon and his friends in Democratic politics had
seen some of their party's core ideas repudiated time and time again at the ballot box. They had lost the game of
electoral politics. So, they figured, they would change the rules of the game to give themselves a better chance of winning.
Bernie
Sanders Thinks Democrats Need to Spend Trillions More or Lose the Midterms. There's a blessed consistency to
the solutions radical left-wing Democrats have offered for America's problems. As far back as the 1960s, liberal
Democrats have been agitating for the government to "spend more money." In the '60s, it was spending six zeroes more for
the government's schemes. But that just won't do for today's government Gargantua. Today we must speak in
terms of nine zeroes to solve any problem created when the government was spending only six zeroes. Senator Bernie
Sanders remembers when he was agitating for the government to spend billions of dollars on the welfare state in the
1960s. There were warnings from mainstream economists back then too — that such massive spending would lead
to inflation. Of course, it did. The creation of the welfare state in the '60s — and the monopolistic
practices of the OPEC oil cartel — led to the last "Great Inflation" of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It
was a no-brainer then and it's a no-brainer now.
The
Biden administration's feckless diesel policy. Ordinary Americans are feeling the pain from high gas prices but
the real problem is skyrocketing diesel prices and, helped along by looming shortages. Nevertheless, the Biden
administration is doing nothing to solve the problem. How can Biden and his buddies on the left not realize that
America runs on diesel fuel in the over-the-road trucks that deliver our food, pharmaceuticals, building supplies, and
even the gasoline and diesel delivered to filling stations? The short answer is that they do realize the harm that they
are doing to the economy but they do not care. Perhaps thanks to Hunter Biden's business plans, Joe Biden plans to
force Chinese solar panel power on Americans, whether they want it — or can afford it — or not.
There's no room in that plan for addressing the high fuel costs that the "great unwashed" are enduring. Biden and his
administration may avert their eyes but, when the price of diesel fuel soars, trucking and material supply companies will
pass those rising costs directly to consumers in the form of rising food prices.
What
would it take for the White House to commit treason? A number of prior actions by the Biden administration
directly harmed rather than helped the U.S. These injurious executive decisions include suppression of domestic oil and
natural gas production (note current gas prices); opening the southern border to a massive wave of illegal immigration,
deadly drugs, and human-trafficking; fabricating a COVID scam that destroyed public trust in Washington; mandates that
nullified the Bill of Rights; printing trillions of fiat dollars; abrogation of rule of law causing the current crime wave;
and promotion of anti-white racism CRT (Critical Race Theory). While all these actions hurt the American people and are
frankly anti-American, they do not satisfy the definition of treason: "betraying one's country, especially by attempting
to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government." But what the White House is currently planning behind closed doors
may be a different story.
Biden
Continues Obama's 'Fundamental Transformation' of America. [Scroll down] Obama's gaslighting strategy has
become the Democrats' overall approach. We're told that we don't actually see what we see. Or if we do see it,
it's not their fault. Or if it is their fault, it's for our own good. On every issue — job creation,
gas prices, inflation, immigration, crime, foreign policy — Democrats aren't telling us what can't happen;
they're telling us what they won't let happen.
Just Stop
It! Donald Trump left us with production elasticity and as net exporters of energy. Biden deliberately
blew it up because the administration fully supports the big lie that is the Climate Change/Green agenda. The Climate
Change movement has nothing to do with saving the environment and has everything to do with the collapse of our economy and
the rise of globalist domination once America is neutered. Greens, to that end, use misguided and disproven arguments
that fossil fuel use must be immediately curtailed to save the planet. Greens do not care if people starve or freeze,
even though they have no workable replacement for our total energy needs. Greens block all nuclear power options, which
would be a clean solution, further demonstrating that their goal is economic collapse and not climate. Biden cut, and
now refuses to expand, US energy production, yet he is trying to convince the Saudis to pump more oil to alleviate the crisis
he created.
If
Biden Intended To Destroy America, What Would He Be Doing Differently? [Scroll down] He set off a
40-decade-high inflation spiral with his $2 trillion "rescue" plan. He exacerbated supply-chain problems by paying
people not to work. He threw open the borders to millions of illegal immigrants. He needlessly kept COVID
mandates and restrictions in place. He worsened shortages of baby formula and spiking gasoline prices. He
encouraged foreign adversaries with his disastrous Afghanistan retreat. In every instance, Biden has said he and his
top officials were "caught off guard." In other words, his is pleading incompetence. The public has picked up on
this, which is why most Americans now believe that "incompetent" is the word that best describes this president. But
incompetence doesn't do Biden justice. In every case, Biden knew, or should have known, what would happen if he pushed
his policies. Yet he did so anyway. On inflation, even liberal economists were warning that Biden's reckless
$2 trillion "rescue" plan — which he signed after the economy had already roared back to life —
would set off a '70s-style inflationary spiral.
The
dystopian state of our nation. The illegitimate Biden administration is the worst thing that has ever happened
to the United States. He, his handlers, and his mind-numbingly incompetent Cabinet appointees have brought this country
to its lowest point in modern history, domestically and internationally. We are suffering a massive third-world
invasion on our southern border. The Russian incursion into Ukraine was incited by Biden and his cronies, the ones who
get rich on war. We were energy independent under Trump, but Biden put a stop to that on day one and so must go begging
to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil. Meanwhile, the price of gasoline for Americans has doubled. The Democrats
are thrilled. They have wanted this for a decade. The new press secretary-reader thinks that because gas prices
are high in other nations, we should be happy; we've caught up with the rest of the world. But the greenies in this
administration could not care less about the environment. They are interested only in power and control over us
all. The "climate crisis" is as big a hoax as Russian collusion. Like the "pandemic" and all its unconstitutional
restrictions, it's all about power, control, and greed.
Biden
Accelerating Obama's Push for a 'Woke' Military, Undermining Combat Readiness, Analysts Say. As the U.S.
military rolls out its new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), which imposes different physical standards and requirements for
men and women, longtime defense analysts and observers say that the military's push for diversity and inclusion —
a trend that accelerated under President Barack Obama and that the Biden administration aggressively carries
forward — undermines combat training and readiness. "The Biden administration has assigned priority to
diversity, inclusion, and equity as the primary criteria. That is a key decision and from it flows everything else that
is problematic" in the military today, said Elaine Donnelly, founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness, a
public policy organization in Livonia, Michigan. Donnelly views the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2021
released by the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) as providing a good measure of the new priorities. The
plan's "Strategic Objective 2" is "Educate USSOCOM professionals and leaders to help facilitate and sustain a diverse and
inclusive culture." Another of its goals is to "Increase hiring rates of diverse applicants."
Progressive
America is the Twilight Zone. Real Clear Politics' average for "Direction of Country" polls is currently an
eye-popping wrong track, 70.7%, while right direction stands at a paltry 22.4%. Other than D.C. lifers, welfare moochers,
and people wanting their college debt loans erased, who are these 22%? And who, this side of lobotomies, is the smaller
percentage of "not sure?" America's accelerating tumbling is the handiwork of a corrupt, ideologically driven,
incompetent — dare say, venal — elite. Don't doubt that most of the incompetence stems from an
irreparably flawed leftist worldview and age-old, mind-twisting power- and money-lust. A calamitous, destructive,
painful descent is happening before our eyes.
Biden
Administration Declare[s] National Emergency for Clean Energy Production. Earlier today [6/6/2022], Joe Biden,
working toward the agenda of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Wall Street multinationals, and the radical climate change
activists within the far left of the socialist democrat party, declared a national emergency around the issue of U.S. energy
prices and policies. On the front side of the justification, the people in control of the Biden administration, claim
that current and future increases in energy prices are likely to do severe damage to the economy and the lives of all
Americans. However, in the background of the issue, this is the 'never let a crisis go to waste' phase of an energy
crisis the administration has intentionally created. The real goal is to fundamentally transform the foundation of the
U.S. economy away from fossil fuels and into a new era of clean renewable energy. This is what all of the Biden cabinet
officers now refer to as the "economic transition" phase.
National
Socialist Media: It's Only A Coincidence We Want To Confiscate Guns Like The Nazis. We're not supposed to
notice that the collectivist actions of one nation's socialist party just happen to mimic the actions of other nation's
socialist parties or one particular National Socialist German Workers' Party, that's just a coincidence, don't pay any
attention to that. Have you ever noticed that our esteemed national socialist media spends an inordinate amount of time
attacking anyone who dares to compare their collectivist actions to other collectivists? Have you also noticed that you
can be sure a socialist nation has failed when our nation's socialist media suddenly decides that it was somehow, someway
'right-wing'? Their severe difficulty in always trying to push these lies is that all of these socialist nations have certain
characteristics in common that simply don't exist with countries imbued in the pro-freedom right. The most glaring
example is the parallels with the government of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, with gun control.
Of course it's intentional, but Biden is only doing what he's told.
GOP
sharpens a new attack line: What Biden is doing to America is 'intentional'. Rep. Jim Jordan is never one to mince
words. So when asked why President Joe Biden was willing to risk children losing their federally subsidized school lunches just to force
schools to adopt new LGBTQ-plus agendas, the Ohio Republican gave a razor sharp answer. "It makes no sense," Jordan told Just the News
during an interview Friday on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "That tells you this is intentional." After more than a year of
attacking Biden as a commander in chief who is bumbling, incompetent, prone to foot-in-mouth, rambling until he is lost, and mentally challenged,
Republicans have changed tack as they head into crucial midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. Now, the most unpopular
features of the current American scene — high gas and food prices, transgender mandates and the open border among them —
are relentlessly painted as part of the president's and Democrats' deliberate policies.
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Biden
will trigger DPA, waive tariffs for two years on solar panels to boost productions. President Biden will invoke
the Defense Production Act to spur domestic production of clean energy technology and order a two-year tariff exemption on
solar panels imported from Southeast Asian countries in a bid to tackle rising energy prices. The move will accelerate
production of solar panel parts, building insulation, heat pumps that more efficiently regulate the climate in buildings and
equipment for making fuel cells and other electricity-generated fuels. Mr. Biden also will waive tariffs on solar
panels imported from four Southeast Asian countries in a move to nudge Americans toward green alternatives amid rising energy prices.
Tucker
Carlson: Biden's Lunatic War Against Putin [is] Crushing The U.S. Economy. Let's say just for the sake of
a mind experiment, that you're the secretary of transportation for the United States of America. That's a big job, but
what would you do all day? Well, [...] your first concern would be the price of diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is what
makes transportation possible in this country. [...] Your second concern, if you were transportation secretary, would be
domestic air travel. This is a huge country. It's far too big a country not to have reliable commercial flights
from one place to another. [...] So, that's what you would be worried about if you were the secretary — diesel and
airlines — and yet, remarkably, in less than a year and a half under Joe Biden, both of these things, fuel costs
and air travel have gone dramatically in the wrong direction. The price of diesel is now hit its highest price ever
recorded in history. [...] Wasn't it just the other day that the United States was energy independent? Yes, but now
we're begging dictatorships to sell us oil, but it won't be enough. Industry officials are predicting shortages very
soon. [Video clip]
The
Naked Truth about Energy Transitions. Today's climate-mongers, led by ideologues such as Joe Biden, Nancy
Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jennifer Granholm, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to name a few, are so mindlessly
shortsighted that they apparently can't think beyond the tips of their noses. They demand we give up fossil fuels and
replace them with renewable energy, and they want it right now! [Disregard] the consequences to you, me, and our country
during the transition. They know that they'll all be dead in fifty years, so they're not willing to let change happen
incrementally, plus they have only two and a half years left of Joe's presidency to complete their build-back-worse strategy,
and if some of these ideologues are true to their stated belief, we will all be dead in the next nine years because of global
warming. Therefore, we absolutely must accept their scripture and change our sinning ways to save the planet. All
the more reason they push us toward presumed energy nirvana before our extinction occurs. These people are not patient
or logical, so they never think ahead to imagine what could go wrong if they succeed with their mission to rewire the world
in their image.
Jim
Jordan on Inflation: 'Part of Me Says This Is Intentional' by Biden WH. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) on
Friday blasted President Joe Biden and his administration for having created the record-high inflation and gas prices across
the United States. Jordan told Fox Business Network's "Varney & Company" that he was not as surprised as Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellen said she was that inflation followed the "crazy" spending, paying people not to work and doing away
with energy independence. He suggested it was "intentional" by the White House.
Dem
Rep. Mondaire Jones: We Will Abolish The Filibuster, Expand The Supreme Court If Gun Control Is Not
Passed. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said at a Thursday hearing on recent mass shootings that Congress would
abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court if the Democratic party's proposed gun control legislation does not
pass. "You will not stop us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today," Jones said. "You will not stop us
from passing it in the House next week and you will not stop us there. If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish
it. If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it. And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out
of circulation in our communities. Each and every day we will do whatever it takes to end gun violence, whatever it
takes." [Video clip]
Rhode
Island Democrat, David Cicilline, [reveals what he thinks] About Constitutional Rights. The Rhode Island
representative refused to yield his time during the outburst, while discussing legislation related to "red flag" laws, that
would allow the government and law enforcement to confiscate firearms from anyone deemed to be a danger to themselves or
others. Florida congressman Matt Gaetz attempted to insert an amendment to the legislation stating "Congress disfavors
the enactment of laws that authorize a court to issue an extreme risk protection order, also known as Red Flag laws, in the
States because such laws trample on an individual's due process and Second Amendment rights." [Video clip]
Joe
Biden Says Radical Gun Control Should Be 'Central' to Voting in November. President Joe Biden unleashed another
passionate call for gun control, using the bully pulpit of the White House to make his case. "Nothing has been done,"
Biden said. "This time that cannot be true. This time we must actually do something." The president spoke
about his proposals during a prime-time address from the White House, surrounded by candles representing the victims of mass
shootings. "For so many of you at home, I want to be very clear, this is not about taking away anyone's guns," Biden
said before announcing he wanted to ban all "assault weapons" including AK-47s and AR-15s as well as magazines holding
30 rounds.
JPMorgan
Chase CEO Warns to Prepare for Economic Hurricane as Biden Administration Switches U.S. Economy to Green New Deal
Agenda. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon warned of a "hurricane" as the economy
struggles against fiscally induced growth, quantitative tightening and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Mr Dimon was
delivering remarks at a conference sponsored by Alliance Bernstein Holdings Wednesday. Higher oil prices, higher fuel
prices, higher energy prices and much higher food prices are all looming over the horizon as the Biden administration
switches the baseline for the U.S economy from oil and gas to the Green New Deal energy program. Things are going to
get worse, the question is, how much worse?
Our
Economic Misery Isn't an Accident, It's the Plan. Americans can't afford to buy a used car or even gas because
the Left doesn't want them to drive. They can't buy homes because the Left wants to destroy the suburbs and force
everyone to live in megacities. They have trouble buying meat because the Left wants them to eat soy. The same is
true for the whole exercise in planned economic misery that we're experiencing. Take Hoover's "A chicken in every pot
and a car in every garage" and reverse it. That's the goal. What we're living through is not an unintentional
accident: it's the American Holodomor. The Left doesn't want you to be able to drive, buy a home, or enjoy a burger.
There Is No Plan. On
May 30, Biden published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that explained "My Plan for Fighting Inflation." [...]
Biden's Journal op-ed is a masterclass in passing the buck. He doesn't bring up his "plan for fighting
inflation" until midway through his thousand-word piece. My inner college professor wanted to send the article back to
him with suggestions for revision. Number one: Always move your best material to the top! The plan itself
is gauzy and thin. "The Federal Reserve has a primary responsibility to control inflation." You wouldn't know that
from listening to Progressives, including some of Biden's nominees to the Federal Reserve, who argue that the Fed's interest
in price stability distracts it from promoting full employment, green energy, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now
Biden wants the Fed to correct not only its mistakes, but his own.
Democrats'
safety agenda demonizes gun owners, coddles criminals, and defunds police. In order to understand what
Democrats are doing to this country, one must first understand that their new push for gun control is just one element of a
three-part agenda to reshape day-to-day life in the United States. Facing a brutal midterm election this fall, they
believe that the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is their opportunity to change the subject. Their problem, however,
is that they have already made it too difficult to discuss the gun control issue in isolation, the way they could back in the
late 1990s. That's because today's Democrats have gone so far to the left, embracing a radical anti-law enforcement and
anti-incarceration agenda that has become too big a national news story to hide. At this point, many voters feel unsafe
in their communities and know that no number of new gun laws can fix the problem.
Democrat
Mondaire Jones: Abolish the Filibuster, Pack Supreme Court to Pass Gun Control. Progressive Democrat
Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday that Democrats would go to extraordinary
lengths to pass major gun control. Jones spoke before the Judiciary Committee as House Democrats continue to consider
gun control legislation. During his impassioned speech, he said that Republicans cannot stop Democrats from passing
said reform because Democrats would go to extreme lengths to pass gun control legislation. This includes breaking the
legislative filibuster and packing the Supreme Court.
Green
Energy Chickens Coming Home to Roost. This year will graphically demonstrate the malign consequences of the
misguided efforts to replace cheap, reliable fossil fuel energy with unreliable, inefficient "renewable" energy like wind and
solar. Never in history has a civilization willfully embarked on destroying its material foundations, based solely on a
hypothesis rather than scientifically established fact. [...] Here at home, warnings of electricity blackouts across the
country this summer have not slowed down many states' increased efforts to shutter electrical plants powered by coal, natural
gas, and nuclear fission. In New York, Governor Kathy Holchul has announced the state's commitment to enforcing a
requirement that new power plants must achieve "zero on-site greenhouse gas emissions for new construction no later than
2027." This policy of wishful thinking follows New York's Climate Act of 2019, which requires that all power generation
comes from "green" sources by 2040, including 70% from renewable energy by 2030.
Joe
Biden Creates 'Office of Environmental Justice' for 'Communities of Color'. President Joe Biden's
administration announced Tuesday a new Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) to preserve "communities of color" from zoning
restrictions and pollution, among other objectives. The OEJ will report to the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) and will sit within the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity at HHS, according to Xavier Becerra, secretary of
HHS. Biden created the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity in 2021 to stop the warming of the globe.
The Editor says...
Does Joe Biden believe he can stop global warming by setting up another layer of bureaucracy?
Dem
Congressman Warns America: We Will Stop at Nothing Until We Confiscate Your Guns. Congressman Mondaire
Jones (D-NY) warned law-abiding gun owners that Democrats will do everything in their power to ensure AR-15s and similar
types of firearms are confiscated during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday [6/2/2022]. The hearing was to
consider H.R. 7910, the "Protecting Our Kids Act," which would raise the legal age to purchase "certain semiautomatic
centerfire rifles or semiautomatic centerfire shotguns" from 18 to 21 with "exceptions." The bill will also "modernize the
prohibition on untraceable firearms [and] encourage the safe storage of firearms."
Joe
Biden's Train-Wreck Economy. [Scroll down] The only thing we know today is that the pre-existing status
quo is gone. When Joe Biden and Brian Deese say they want to transition to an economy with more "stable and resilient"
growth, they are describing their alternative to the prepandemic froth. That vision has two goals. The first is
to use taxes and government-guided capital investments to compensate for the widening spread between the incomes of
knowledge-economy workers and everyone else. The other goal, of course, is their great white whale — a
non-fossil-fuel economy. Growth, they assume, will be slower in their economy but somehow steadier and more
predictable. Substance aside, the progressive economic model is on its way down the political drain.
Mr. Biden admitted as much in Tokyo when he remarked that passing his Build Back Better agenda would have lowered child
and family-care costs and tempered the effects of inflation. Of course, it's not happening. Still, this grand
progressive experiment — a final choice between the U.S. as a welfare state or a growth state — came
within one Senate vote of reality.
Trudeau
takes another major step towards totalitarianism. Last week marked the conclusion of the annual conference of
the World Economic Forum in Davos, an event with particular focus on the Sustainable Development Goals of the United
Nations. These goals, collectively known as Agenda 2030, are a set of objectives designed to be a "shared blueprint for
peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future." The Agenda includes seventeen Goals, like "No
Poverty" and "Zero Hunger" — however, underneath the facade of humanitarianism is a malevolent truth: Agenda
2030 is nothing more than an assault on national sovereignty and common people by the power-hungry global aristocracy.
As you may recall, Klaus Schwab, president of the Forum said, "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity
to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world." Goal 16, Target 8 of the SDGs, is this: "Broaden and
strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance" — enter Canadian
prime minister Justin Trudeau. According to Schwab, more than half of Justin Trudeau's Cabinet are members of the
Forum. Just yesterday, Trudeau announced his regime would be implementing a "national freeze" on gun ownership,
ultimately capping the amount of legal guns within Canadian borders.
'In
the crosshairs': Department of Navy releases climate change strategy. The Department of the Navy this week
released its strategy for how it will deal with climate change and proceed toward the government's goal of net-zero
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. "Climate change is one of the most destabilizing forces of our time, exacerbating
other national security concerns and posing serious readiness challenges," Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said in the
introduction to the 32-page report. "Our naval and amphibious forces are in the crosshairs of the climate crisis and
this strategy provides the framework to empower us to meaningfully reduce the threat of climate change." Setting the
department on a course to combat climate change is a main priority of Del Toro's tenure. He called the issue
"existential" for the Navy and Marine Corps.
The Editor says...
The climate is constantly changing, at an imperceptibly slow rate. The changes do not threaten anyone, especially the
military. The pronouncement by the Navy Secretary is a power grab and a demand for a bigger budget. If our
armed forces can be defeated by bad weather, this country is finished.
Biden
Plans To Cancel $10,000 In Student Debt Per Borrower Ahead Of Midterms. As soon as this weekend, President
Biden could announce a plan to cancel $10k in student debt per borrower, according to WaPo, citing three people with
knowledge of the matter. Biden could make the announcement at the University of Delaware's commencement ceremony on
Saturday. The plan would apply to Americans who earned less than $150k in the previous year or less than 300k for
married couples filing jointly. On April 6, the White House announced it would extend the pause of federal student loan
repayments through August 31. It wasn't clear if the administration would extend the moratorium beyond this.
Also posted
under Politicians use handouts to buy votes.
Biden
student-loan forgiveness plan: $20,000 for households earning $300K per year? So much for Scranton Joe looking
out for the working class, eh? While Joe Biden crows about the "incredible transition" he's forcing lower- and
middle-class households to endure with hyperinflation and record gas prices, Biden's about to offer Academia a
bail-out. College-loan recipients could get $10,000 taken off the top of their debt as long as they earn under $150,000
per year, and married couples with loans for both could see a $20,000 benefit as long as they earn under $300K.
Why
Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class. Inflation is running rampant. The
Producer Price Index, the most useful measure of general inflation, is up a whopping 16.3% from April 2021, per the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. That means that roughly $1 out of every $6 that people earn has been lost to inflation in a single
year. [...] Inflation comes when you have too much money chasing too few goods. The spending part provided the excess
money, but the Biden team was right there helping to ensure fewer goods, too. Gas prices going up? Not only was
Biden's spending program stimulating inflation, but at the same time Biden policies were reducing the amount of gasoline,
diesel and heating oil those dollars could buy. Biden went wild canceling pipelines, ending gas and oil leases,
imposing stricter environmental rules and — in cooperation with big institutional investors — choking
off the finances of people trying to produce new fuel supplies.
Democrats'
Domestic Terrorism Bill Actually Goes After Political Opponents. Democrats are calling for a crackdown on
domestic terrorism, but Republicans say their colleagues want to pass legislation that endangers the privacy of all
Americans. Democrats' proposed legislation is "nothing more than empowering the federal government to police thought
and speech in the United States of America," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says. The House last week passed the bill,
dubbed the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, days after a gunman in Buffalo, New York, shot and killed 10. The bill
is now before the Senate, which is expected to vote on it Thursday [5/26/2022].
The
Sinister Roots of Build Back Better. The foundation of the New Deal was found in the economic theory of John
Maynard Keynes. Keynes was a British economist who developed the theory of 'deficit spending' — the idea
that the government going into debt would jump start the depressed economy which, then, would experience reinvigoration.
[...] However, the Keynesian model has been weaponized under Build Back Better in a most sinister way. The present
shift is to make us more amenable to the globalist fantasies gaining popularity in recent decades to ensure a transition
towards world governance and a cooperative world economy (rather than a competitive one) under the cloak of "meeting needs"
and "sustainability." These two concepts are key pillars in a document written and published by the United Nations
called Agenda 2030.
Cruz:
Dems Blocked My Legislation to Harden Schools, Keep Guns Away from Criminals from Getting 60 Votes. On
Wednesday's [5/25/2022] broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters Primetime," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that
Democrats blocked legislation he proposed in 2013 to bolster school security and keep firearms out of the hands of criminals
and the mentally ill by keeping it from reaching the 60-vote threshold. Cruz said, "In 2013, I introduced legislation
that would spend $300 million on federal grants to harden schools to make them safer, to make them more protected. The
Democrats filibustered that legislation. I've introduced legislation to say schools like this elementary school behind
me can get federal grants to harden their security, to put in bulletproof doors, bulletproof glass, to put in armed police
officers to protect kids."
Never
Forget Democrats Want to Remove Cops from Schools. The Democrat party can never be allowed to forget how hard
it has worked to expel police officers from schools. At the state and local level, Democrats have and continue to push
and push and push to remove police and leave schoolchildren defenseless. [...] Here's what we know for a fact: We know
Evil is going to shoot up schools. We know the corporate media will never stop incentivizing shooting up schools.
Thanks to our pro-school shooting media, every school shooter knows that shooting up a school will give him exactly what he
wants: the power to shake up the country. We know the only thing that will stop a maniac with a gun is a good guy with
a gun. We know all this, and yet Democrats still want to remove cops from schools. So the question is why?
And the answer is simple. There is no greater propaganda tool to push to disarm the American people than school shootings.
Police in schools stop and discourage school shootings. If school shootings stop, Democrats lose their best propaganda tool.
Biden's
Climate Czar Threatens Airlines That Resist The Green Agenda. White House National Climate Adviser Gina
McCarthy hit airlines with a thinly-veiled threat Friday, warning of consequences if they don't follow strict climate
regulations. "Who would've thunk that [airlines would] be all in?" McCarthy, President Joe Biden's top climate adviser,
remarked during a speech at Tufts University. "But they better be or they're gonna be out of here." The White
House has pushed policies that would increase sustainable jet fuel by three billion gallons, reducing aviation emissions 20%
by 2030. McCarthy also said the Biden administration is doubling down on a wide variety of climate regulations, noting
the myriad rules on appliances the White House plans to introduce this year.
The Elites
Are Plotting Against Us In Plain View. Yes, it's that time of year, and the Neo-Malthusian global elites are
meeting in Davos, plotting in plain view, scheming to get us normals under their thumbs — and make it hurt.
Not kidding — they're talking a lot about pain. Zhou let the cat out of the bag the other day, when he said
that high gas prices were part of the "incredible transition". Incredible transition? Great Reset? Sounds the
same to me — and it is. [...] Climate change. That's what caught my eye. The whole point of the
electoral coup against Trump was to seize the moment to jam the Green agenda, the Great Neo-Malthusian Reset, down our
throats. Problem is, they've screwed up so badly that they can see approaching doom, in spite of the rigging.
Biden
Wants Taxpayers To Fund Massive Mining Projects — Just Not In The US. While minerals, like copper,
cobalt, nickel, graphite and zinc, are essential for green tech, China and other hostile nations dominate global mineral
supply chains. In 2021, the U.S. produced just 6% of the global copper supply, 0.4% of global cobalt supplies, 0.67% of
the world's nickel, 0% of global graphite supply and about 5.7% of the world's zinc, according to federal data. "The
Biden Administration continues to put American union workers last and look anywhere else but domestically for minerals, the
opposite of what Biden pledged to do before taking office," Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber, the top Republican on the
Natural Resources Energy and Mineral Subcommittee, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. "This
Administration is unserious about securing our domestic supply chains by cancelling the Twin Metals leases in my district in
Minnesota and standing in the way of mining projects in places like Arizona and Alaska as well," he continued.
Federal money always comes with strings attached.
Biden
Admin: K-12 Schools Must Put Boys In Girls' Bathrooms To Get Federal Lunch Money. K-12 schools must allow
boys into girls' private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration
announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration's press
releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June. "It seems to be
playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate," John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana
Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of attempting to sort out these new demands with government
officials on behalf of private schools in his state. "Because if a school feels like they cannot participate because
it's in conflict with their mission or values, if a religious exemption is not granted, you're taking away a program that's
feeding low-income kids."
No Way Out but War.
The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the
death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid
relief program. No respite from 8.3 percent inflation. [...] No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a
gallon. The permanent war economy, implanted since the end of World War II, has destroyed the private economy,
bankrupted the nation, and squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. The monopolization of capital by the
military has driven the US debt to $30 trillion, $6 trillion more than the US GDP of $24 trillion. Servicing this
debt costs $300 billion a year. We spent more on the military, $813 billion for fiscal year 2023, than the next nine countries,
including China and Russia, combined. We are paying a heavy social, political, and economic cost for our militarism.
Stark Raving Green.
2050: That's the deadline that President Joe Biden has set to decarbonize the U.S. power sector and supposedly save the
planet from man-made climate catastrophe. In issuing his December executive order prioritizing a "Clean Energy
Economy," Eco-Joe pledged you, the American taxpayer, to spend billions in the next three decades to achieve net-zero carbon
emissions "across federal operations" by mid-century. Blue-state governors and some power companies hail the proposals
as ground-breaking, according to the International Business Times. However, Biden is facing hostility from Republicans
and coal-producing states, who are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Supreme Court about whether
the administration has authority to implement the scheme. What few are talking about is how unfeasible the plans
actually are.
It
Sure Looks Like Joe Biden Is Trying to Purposely Destroy the Country. The last several weeks in the United
States have been a wild ride. Everything that could go wrong, short of a full-blown apocalyptic situation, has gone
wrong. The stock market is currently in the midst of a collapse, with the Dow Jones losing nearly 5,000 points over the
last 30 days. Inflation clocked in at 8.3% for April, representing another crushing blow to Americans. Of course,
gas prices continue to break milestones on a daily basis. [...] If the Biden administration were actually purposely trying to
destroy the country, what would they be doing differently? That's a question everyone should ask themselves at this
point. At every turn, on every issue, the president and his team are moving to do exactly the opposite of what has to
happen to help, and they are doing so with blatant arrogance.
The Editor says...
Aha! I think I know what they're up to. Joe Biden is creating a series of preventable crises. Someday soon, the Democrats
will throw out Mr. Biden on the basis of his obvious senility, and replace him with Kamala Harris, who is as dumb as a box of rocks.
The news media will celebrate the coronation of the First Female President for a couple of weeks, and then... TA-DAAA all the
country's problems will get fixed, one by one: The Mexican border will be sealed up, the oil companies will be given every possible
incentive to produce, ship, import and sell gas as cheaply as possible, the money supply will be tightened, career criminals will be locked up
for life, and baby formula will be flowing in the streets. After a year of Reaganesque improvements — which is really just un-doing
everything Biden did — Harris will be absolutely unbeatable in 2024. You couldn't possibly vote against her with such a record of
"achievements" unless you're some kind of racist. And don't you dare question her citizenship, you truther! Do you hate women, or
something? It's an enormous plot to make old white men look like the last people you should ever elect as president. And, as
Biden has proven, a Democrat president is just a figurehead anyway — the real power is behind the curtain — so it doesn't
matter if the ostensible president is competent or not. That's your cue, Michelle!
Councilwoman
Kristin Richardson Jordan pushing for NYC 'drag laureate'. A Harlem councilwoman is pushing legislation that
would require city leaders overseeing museums and nightlife to appoint a laureate of the Big Apple's growing drag performance
scene. Democratic socialist Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan introduced a bill Thursday that would require a
"drag laureate" to be picked annually by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in consultation with the head of the Mayor's
Office of Nightlife. During Thursday's City Council meeting, Richardson Jordan said the drag laureate would serve as
the city's "ambassador to LGBTQ nightlife." "As a black queer woman, I know what it is to feel invisible," said
Richardson Jordan, who has come under fire during her first year on the Council for bashing the NYPD as the city's "biggest
gang" and blaming Ukraine — for being invaded by Russia.
Is
The New Deal Unconstitutional? Well, duh — the obvious answer is YES. But that hasn't been a
winning argument in the Supreme Court since 1935 unfortunately. In the aftermath of the leaked Dobbs opinion,
the left has been in a panic about what other "rights" the Supreme Court might take away, like the right to same sex
marriage, inter-racial marriage, contraception, and watching European soccer in the middle of the night.
Pete
Buttigieg says US backs new Marshall plan to rebuild Ukraine. A leading figure in the Biden administration has
backed a recovery programme for Ukraine in the style of the Marshall plan, which helped rebuild Europe after the second world
war. Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary, said there was plenty of political will at home and internationally
towards cooperating in long-term reconstruction efforts including to buttress existing infrastructure in Ukraine.
The Editor says...
[#1] The war's not over yet, Peetie. [#2] Why is it up to the U.S. to rebuild Ukraine?
Fed
Chair Jerome Powell: We won't hesitate to raise rates to tame inflation. The US central bank is in the
midst of a "whatever it takes" moment when it comes to inflation, but if Fed officials had known how high inflation would
rise, they would have changed their course on policy earlier, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. "In hindsight,
it would have been better to raise rates earlier," Powell said in an interview at the Wall Street Journal's Future of
Everything event. The central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point earlier this month,
following a smaller rate hike in March, in order to get a handle on the highest inflation in 40 years.
When
it comes to energy production, the midterm elections matter. The day before Joe Biden entered the Oval Office,
America was a net energy exporter with a rapidly growing economy, despite the effects of the Democrat-demand lockdowns.
On his first day in the Oval Office, Biden immediately took steps to cut America's energy production and, by vetoing the
Keystone Pipeline, its access to energy. America instantly began an inflationary climb that accelerated with the War in
Ukraine. What a Senate Energy Committee hearing revealed is that the Biden administration is only just getting started.
If America is to survive, Biden's wings must be clipped and that can only be done with a veto-proof majority in Congress.
Biden
invokes Defense Production Act to bring in the baby formula. What could go wrong? Joe Biden is suddenly
serious. He's taken control. Instead of sending a spokeswoman to laugh off a question about who was "running
point" on the baby formula crisis, or telling moms with hungry infants to ask their doctors for free samples, if not call
their local community organizer, he's invoked the Defense Production Act to empower the federal government to take control of
the baby formula shortages that have come as 50% of baby formula has disappeared from store shelves. [...] Biden created the
crisis by allowing his FDA to hamfistedly shut down a major baby formula supplier over safety concerns after several infants
got sick and one died after supposedly consuming Abbott's baby formula, a charge the company says was falsely attributed to
its formula. Biden hasn't proven otherwise, but the plant, which makes about a third of the formula consumed in the
States, stays shut down. The shortages that came of it were something the Bidenite FDA never considered.
The Editor says...
It's almost as if Joe Biden is creating a series of calamities in order to fix them all just before the next election.
Except he's not even that smart. He's just creating calamities for the sake of destroying the U.S.
The Biden effect is real.
Over the past few weeks, Democrats seem to be having a revelatory experience, discovering that simply increasing demand
through government spending doesn't work if there are limited products to buy. The supply side of the capitalism
equation is essential, and when government layers on excessive regulations, it holds back business and slows the production
of goods. The inability of the Biden administration to both create a constructive environment for producers and a
dependable, efficient supply chain to get goods to market has produced the worst inflation in 40 years. Without supply,
all increased demand does is increase prices. This administration needs to focus on fixing the supply side of the
economy. But instead, Biden tweeted Friday, "You want to bring down inflation? Let's make sure the wealthiest
corporations pay their fair share." So, his solution to inflation is to increase taxes on businesses, who will then pass
those costs on to consumers. Sounds like a recipe for higher inflation.
Is Biden's 'Success'
Our Mess? If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly
unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done
differently than what Joe Biden has done? So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue?
When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner,
or claims Donald Trump did it. His administration apparently believes things are going well and according to
plan. When polls disagree, his team either believes the American people are brainwashed or that they themselves have
not supplied sufficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededicate themselves to continued
failure. Why? Apparently, what most in the country see as disasters, Biden envisions as success.
No
help at our border, but Biden announces $5 billion going to bike paths, wider sidewalks. In the world of
Democrat delusion, they think $5 billion is necessary, at this point in time, to make bike paths and widen side walks.
You cannot make this up. They have approved $40 billion in aide to Ukraine in a heartbeat under President Biden, while
having rejected former President Trump's request for a mere $5 billion to secure our border. The news also comes as
fentanyl and the drug overdoses are the number one cause of death in the U.S. There's also an increase in human smuggling and
extortion to pay to cross the border. But no; let's make some bike paths and widen sidewalks. That is an
immediate emergency.
Liberalism
and the Problem of Evil. No one can speak of evil without mentioning its attraction to the Democrat Party,
which is now the party of official racism in America. Political evil is a contagion of psychological immaturity,
self-delusion, and counterfeit justification, and its virus has spread throughout America's liberal ruling class. Its
influence has scoured our nation of its fundamental values, and leftists are intent on creating a state apparatus that
facilitates the separation of children from their parents, criminals from justice, and citizens from the Bill of
Rights. This is a call to Marxist socialism that has no past and no possibility of a future. This is evil come to
do business with the Democrat Party, and it is evil on a national scale. Civilization must protect the weakest, but
leftist ideology targets and crushes those who are unable to resist the powerful forces of state coercion. There is no
civilization on the far side of Marxism.
Americans
Send Biden a Resounding Message About His Policy on Gender Treatments for Minors. The vast majority of American
voters are against permanent "gender transition" treatments for minors, according to a new poll despite the Biden
administration's endorsement of these procedures. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 90% of respondents who had an
opinion on the subject believed minors should not be allowed to undergo permanent "gender transition" procedures, in stark
opposition to Biden's position. The poll surveyed 1,000 likely voters from April 22-26 and was conducted by McLaughlin
and Associates along with Summit Ministries.
As
Baby Formula Shortage and Inflation Worsen, Democrats to Hold UFO Hearings. America faces a series of worsening
crises, including a major baby formula shortage, and growing economic and social unrest, and what are Democrats in Nancy
Pelosi's House of Representatives doing? They are pushing abortion bills and holding UFO hearings. In a Fox News
report last week, correspondent Chad Pergram noted that the priorities of the Democrats in Washington don't seem to be jibing
with the needs of the American people. Instead of concerning themselves with gas prices, inflation, and a baby formula
shortage, Pergram reported, "Democrats are focused on abortion."
Senate
Advances Bill to Give Ukraine $40 Billion in Aid During 40-Year High Inflation. The Senate voted on Monday to
advance legislation that would provide $40 billion in aid to Ukraine, while Americans continue to suffer from food shortages
and reel from inflation. The Senate voted to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed on H.R. 7691, the Ukraine
Supplemental Aid Package. The motion passed 81-11. This means that the Senate can begin debate on the Ukraine aid package.
Another
COVID-19 Spending Bill Would Fuel More Inflationary Fire. With the annualized inflation tax now around $8,500
per American household, the last thing we need is more fuel dumped on the inflationary fires. Yet, that is exactly what
President Joe Biden has asked Congress to do. Congress is now considering a $48 billion corporate bailout disguised as
COVID-19 spending that takes more of your money and gives it to Biden's chosen few. This, of course, is on top of more
than $6 trillion of taxpayer money that has been spent on COVID-19. Of these funds alone, $40 billion (80% of the bill)
would go just to backfill a single program from Biden's inflationary stimulus that gave out cash last year to businesses of
the government's choosing. However, who will backfill the bank accounts of the Americans robbed to finance this
corporate giveaway? Point of fact: It is your money that they would be giving out.
Biden
team's bright idea to get Venezuela to pump oil for us panned by senior diplomat. A few weeks ago, the Joe
Biden team, in response to Congress cutting off Russian oil imports, tried to get Venezuela to pump some oil for us.
The logic, of course, was to let bygones be bygones, and ignore the inconvenient little detail about Venezuela's oil company
being full of drug dealers, which is among the things that got them sanctioned and cut off in the first place. Why not
have Venezuela replace Vladimir Putin for oil? It sounded so logical, so easy. Anything but pump our own.
Well, now the details of that caper are out and let's just say it isn't pretty.
The
SEC climate change rule sidesteps Congress and voters. The Securities and Exchange Commission's recently
proposed rule is so complex and far-reaching it could reorient the entire U.S. financial system into one that prioritizes
climate change over financial soundness. The rule risks turning the SEC into a quasi-environmental agency in which
climate "experts" have greater influence than financial regulators focused on preventing fraud and promoting fair returns to
workers and retirees. [...] The proposed climate change disclosure rule is so complex that it runs 506 pages with 1,068
footnotes. It would impose a $10.235 billion cost on society, putting further upward pressure on energy prices.
Rather than providing clarity to investors, it would require companies to report the unknowable and predict the impossible.
Chuck
Schumer Is Hellbent On Destroying The Democratic Party. The midterm elections in November will be decided by a
lot of things, but abortion and the overturning of Roe v. Wade won't be among them. The economy will
be at the top of the list of voters' priorities in the fall. Folks who have watched their 401K accounts evaporate and
who are getting clobbered by inflation will be voting with their pocketbooks. Many voters will consider the immigration
crisis at the southern border when casting their votes, as well as the instability in Eastern Europe and President Joe
Biden's incoherent foreign policy.
'Bread
and Circuses' but without the bread. Roman poet Juvenal purportedly said, "Give them bread and circuses and
they will never revolt." This phrase expressed the strategic blueprint of Roman officials, one which sustained civic
approval through misdirection and diversion — attention was directed towards the pleasures of hedonism and
entertainment rather than the neglectful government. Sound familiar? The presence of fast-food establishments,
fully-stocked grocery stores, and microwaves, provide convenience to such a degree, few of us would be able to survive in the
event of a total collapse of the supply chain. We live in a world of perpetual distractions, from social media, to
streaming services on the television, to a 24-hour news cycle of state-sponsored propaganda. However, with Biden's
usurpation of the executive branch, he and his accomplices are flipping the script. Instead of pacifying the masses to
maintain public support, Joe and company threw out half of Juvenal's equation — they forgot the food!
Gas
lines, here we come: Pelosi to push federal price caps on gasoline. The 1970s came back so fast, I didn't
even have time to buy some leisure suits. Faced with massive inflation and an energy crisis, the obvious solution would
be to incentivize more extraction and refining by lowering regulatory hurdles, a solution that eventually helped end the
cyclical energy crisis 40 years ago. Instead, Democrats have decided to act by canceling lease sales, erecting more
regulatory hurdles, and attacking ... "price gouging." Bloomberg Energy reporter Javier Blas reports that Nancy Pelosi
will float a bill in the House that would give Joe Biden the authority to impose price controls on gasoline: [Tweet]
The
Leftwing Insurrection. [Scroll down] The real insurrection brewing in America isn't on the right despite
the constant talk and promotion of this view. It is meant to hide the reality. It is from the left that the real
insurrection is brewing and coming. "Transformation" of the Supreme Court (destroying the Supreme Court).
"Transformation" of the Presidential election process (destroying the Electoral College). "Transformation" of the First
and Second Amendments (destroying the First and Second Amendments). "Transformation" of the economy (destroying the
market economy and replacing it with government control and cronyism). The talk of "transformation" hides the
insurrectionist mentality of the left. The left wants to destroy and alter the organs and institutions of American
government to suit their own tyrannical desires. Patriotic conservatives, derided by Joe Biden as "ultra MAGA," seek
the restoration of the promise of American self-governance and the autonomy of states and communities from the federal
leviathan. The left wants to implement its one-size fits all California politics across the entire country.
Biden's
Climate Czar May Have Inadvertently Revealed Deep Dysfunction In The Administration. Top White House climate
adviser Gina McCarthy copied a CBS News reporter on an email chain Wednesday announcing the administration would cancel a
series of oil and gas lease sales. "The Cook inlet sale was canceled. It is not proceeding," McCarthy wrote to
other White House officials in an email, CBS reported. Another official reportedly responded immediately saying that a
decision hadn't been made yet. Interior Department (DOI) officials then reiterated that sentiment to CBS, also saying
the agency hadn't decided if it would move forward on the lease sales Wednesday evening.
Biden
announces 20 internet companies will give 'free' high-speed broadband for almost 50 million low income families. The Biden
administration announced a plan to get high-speed internet to millions of Americans through subsidies and discounts agreed to by
industry — putting work-from-home technology, plus educational and entertainment options into rural and low-income homes.
'High-speed internet service is no longer a luxury — it's a necessity,' the White House said in a fact sheet Monday [5/9/2022]
announcing the program. The funds come from the bipartisan infrastructure law that Biden is championing around the country.
The Editor says...
Low-speed internet service is good enough for email, high-school homework, and browsing the news.
High-speed internet is "a necessity" only if you watch a lot of movies and TV shows over the internet, or you
constantly upload movies of your cat.
Congressional
Democrats Say Biden Not Spending Enough on Ukraine. The House of Representatives were concerned Joe Biden was
not spending enough on the Ukraine laundry operation, so they took his $33 billion request and added another $7 billion
making the Ukraine support package $40 billion. Yes, you read that correctly: 'Unbelievable' is an
understatement. I mean seriously, does anyone in Washington DC even talk to their constituents any longer? The
DHS Customs and Border Patrol budget for our border security operations is approximately $4 billion, the Southern border is
in crisis. Meanwhile Biden and Pelosi send over $55 billion to Ukraine?
Biden
Administration Sneaks Unlawful Immigration Benefits Into Ukraine Aid Request. President Joe Biden recently sent
an emergency supplemental funding request to Congress for $33 billion in aid to Ukraine. However, the administration
used the opportunity to sneak in unlawful immigration benefits for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian, Afghan, and Russian
immigrants — paid for by the American people and at the expense of lawful applicants who have been waiting years
to properly immigrate to the U.S. The emergency request includes $1.2 billion for the Department of Health and Human
Services with a nod to the Department of Homeland Security's Uniting for Ukraine program. This portion of the funding
request includes robust and increased blanket immigration provisions for Ukrainians, Afghans, and Russians in the science,
technology, engineering, and math — or STEM — fields.
Is
the American Postmodern Left a Fascist Movement? For my work in corporate social responsibility, I was recently
reading The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi's critique of capitalism, when something he wrote gave me one of those
really uncomfortable "Aha" moments. Polanyi was discussing the alternatives to capitalism — left socialism
and right socialism (which we call "Fascism"). His point was that these two socialisms were created to undo the
disruptions of capitalism which had privileged "money power" to degrade human sociality into atomic individualism driven by
self-seeking greed. When I read his observation that the Fascist phase of anti-capitalism brought about "Irrational
philosophies, racialist aesthetics, anti-capitalist demagogy, heterodox currency views, criticism of the party system,
widespread disparagement of the 'regime'," I thought "How odd, that sounds just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the
postmodern Left."
Disinformation
Panels, Control over Social Media Content and Now DOJ Environmental Justice. Barack Obama and Eric Holder did
not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons
only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people get confused. Prior to 9/11/01
the greatest threat to government was considered to be from outside the U.S, vis-a-vis terrorism. After 9/11/01 the
greatest threat was redefined, Americans were now considered the threat, the enemy tracking radar was turned around to look
inside America. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve
continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this
purpose. DHS and ODNI were created because Americans were now the threat to government. Stop. Pause.
Think. You are taking off your shoes at the airports because YOU are the threat. You pass through body scanners
because YOU are the threat. Stop. Pause. Think. How does that define your relationship with government?
Biden's
gender-transition agenda is harming children. "There is no argument among medical professionals —
pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists,
etc. — about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care," U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel
Levine told NPR recently. This was Levine's way of saying that it is actually harmful not to gender-transition boys
into being girls and vice versa, even though that often means permanent mutilation of a child's body and irreversible
hormonal treatments. With the assertion that there is "no argument," Levine is using a fallacy called "proof by
assertion" — as if the forceful repetition of a controversial statement can make it true. This is a
concerted effort by the Biden administration and the gender-transition industry to quell a raging debate among medical
professionals and researchers, many of whom strongly disagree.
Biden's
climate advisor threatens airlines they better comply or 'they're gonna be outta here!'. White House National
Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy openly threatened airlines in true "Godfather" fashion on Friday during a forum at Tufts
University, warning that they will no longer exist if they don't follow President Joe Biden's Green New Deal-style
rules. "Who woulda thunk that [airlines would] be all in?" McCarthy remarked. "But they better be or they're
gonna be out of here." The White House is promoting exceedingly unrealistic policies that claim to increase sustainable
jet fuel by three billion gallons and reduce aviation emissions by 20 percent by 2030. McCarthy boasted that the Biden
administration will be issuing over 100 new rules this year to regulate appliances.
Student
Loan Bailout Is [a] Handout to [the] Ruling Elite. Democrats are calling for more redistribution of
wealth — this time for the benefit of their Ivy League-educated elites. The COVID-19 pandemic and continual
government-imposed lockdowns upended our way of life. Many Americans found themselves unemployed or in financial
trouble. Now, inflation is eating away at everyone's wealth, making us all poorer. Large swaths of Americans are
hurting, but whose needs are being prioritized? Apparently, the Biden administration wants to prioritize what amounts
to welfare for the upper class.
King Joe
Can't Transfer Student-Loan Debt. Transferring hundreds of billions of dollars of student-loan
debt — as Joe Biden is reportedly considering — would be unjust, indiscriminate, and remarkably
irresponsible. It would force everyday Americans who didn't take out those loans to shoulder their burden in the form
of higher taxes or increased national debt (which, inevitably, leads to higher taxes). But none of this matters as much as
the worst thing about such a potential action: It would be a naked violation of our constitutional forms, a move more
monarchical than republican. Both the Constitution and the founders' writings make it clear that Congress has the power
to make federal laws (subject to a presidential veto) and the power of the purse. Biden has neither, and yet he wishes
to exercise both in this instance.
Samantha
Power Admits Biden Admin Using Russia-Ukraine War to Push Green Energy. Samantha Power, the administrator for
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), admitted to the world that the administration is using Russia's
full-scale invasion of Ukraine to push its green energy agenda. [Tweets]
It's not debt
forgiveness, it's debt transfer. Laura Ingraham sparked intense outrage on the left (what's new) with her
recent remarks criticizing President Biden's reported plans to push forward with his student loan debt "forgiveness"
scheme. Before we get to that, let's establish the obvious: this isn't debt forgiveness, it's a debt
transfer. Since money can't be evaporated or erased, the existing debt — that is, money that has already
been spent — will be paid by someone. What the president is promising to do is to tell the people who took
the loans that they don't have to fulfill their obligation to pay, while telling taxpayers they get to.
Congress
Must Carefully Review Any Ukraine Spending Package. President Joe Biden has requested a $33 billion
supplemental spending package to provide additional aid to Ukraine. These funds would follow the $13.6 billion
appropriated in March as well as the $6.4 billion in security assistance provided since 2014. This proposed level of
funding is significant. For context, $33 billion is about the same amount as the annual discretionary funding provided
to the Department of Justice and is even greater than the funding for the Environmental Protection Agency plus the Department
of Labor plus the Department of Commerce. Compared to the $46.6 billion in Ukraine-related funding provided and
requested this year, the entire fiscal year 2022 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill was $56.1 billion.
While the human impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is moving, and further U.S. support for Ukraine to defend itself is
warranted, it is vital that Congress carefully evaluate Biden's request and ensure that any legislation is responsibly crafted.
Biden's Loan Forgiveness
Fraud. His popularity flagging, President Joe Biden is using the oldest trick in the book to return voters to
the Democrats' fold: Don't earn their future votes, buy them. And that's exactly what Biden is doing with his $1 trillion
plan to "forgive" student loans. Biden had already allowed students to "postpone" paying their loans during the pandemic
"emergency," even those who have jobs and could make the payments. So why now forgive the loans? The truth is, one of
the biggest recent declines in Biden's support comes among Americans of college age and slightly older, the very group most likely
to have a pile of student loans. What better, or more cynical, way to revive their flagging political support than to bribe
them with a "free" education?
Biden
is circling closer to a student loan forgiveness executive order. Despite the lack of any definitive proof that
the President has the authority to simply cancel student loan debt without congressional approval, Joe Biden is reportedly in
talks to do precisely that and he claims a decision will be coming in a matter of weeks. The progressive lobby in
Congress has been pushing Biden to take such an action, but he supposedly isn't prepared to give them everything they
want. The target figure for progressives is $50,000 in debt relief for everyone. Biden said he's not going that
high and there are expected to be income caps associated with any proposed relief. What the exact figures are remains
to be seen. But if it's anything close to what's being suggested in this report from National Review, there are
definitely going to be a lot of questions among the public.
A
Bridge Too Far, the Demise of the Democrats. The progressive socialist left has gone not just one, but several
bridges too far in just these past 16 months. They have sought to advance along a singular avenue of approach into the
heart of America and are now facing a strategic demise. There can be no doubt that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
represent the most incompetent duo that this Nation has possibly ever seen. Of course, to leftists, all is just well,
but they cannot hide this facade for too much longer. The left's decision to end our energy independence and force
Americans to their economic knees to accept their Green New Deal fallacy is failing. America was not too long ago a net
exporter of energy resources. Along those lines, the astronomical rise in inflation, a 40-year high, is curtailing
economic independence for many Americans. Realize that inflation and the rise in energy prices are hidden taxation on
Americans.
Biden
Sues Alabama, Claims Ban on Transgender Child Abuse Violates 14th Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment states
that, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
At no point in time does it state that states are not allowed to ban child abuse simply because a particular group tends to
practice that abuse. For example, states can be raping 7-year-olds even though Mohammed married a 7-year-old
girl. Biden and his hack running the DOJ disagree. The DOJ has sued Alabama over Senate Bill (S.B.) 184 or the
Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. The filing is filled with woke gibberish that makes lots of assertions
without ever meeting a basic legal standard.
Ad
Campaign Reminds Voters of Reality in Blue States Under Biden, Democrats. Earlier this week, the State
Government Leadership Foundation (SGLF) launched its six-figure "Tale of Two Americas" ad campaign to highlight the stunning
contrast between how states run by Republican leaders and those run by Democrats fare when it comes to issues such as
economic opportunity, academic achievement, and safety in their communities. The 54-second ad contains buzzwords such
as "freedom and fear." The ad distinguishes how "Our country is a tale of two Americas. One full of freedom. The
other full of fear. We have opportunity or hardship. Education or indoctrination. Rule of law or
lawlessness. Strength or weakness." The narrator goes on to point out "Liberal failures are hurting Americans.
Conservative ideas are moving us forward," and closes by asking "Which America do you want to live in?"
The
Taxpayer Con of the Century. Remember how Democrats sold their student loan takeover as a money-saver?
Now millions of borrowers can't or don't want to repay their loans, so President Biden says he may cancel their debt. [...]
Federal student loans were established as part of the Great Society to help low-income students. Yet step by step,
Democrats have turned student loans into an entitlement for academia and the affluent. Rather than make college free on
the front end — which might have failed to pass Congress — they want to waive the costs at the back
end. As the loan limit increased over time — now $57,500 a year for independent undergrads and $31,000 for
those dependent on their parents — colleges raised their prices to sop up more federal largesse. It doesn't
matter to the schools if their philosophy grads work as baristas. In 2010 Democrats nationalized the student loan
market, eliminating guarantee fees for private lenders and using the "savings" to pay for ObamaCare.
White
House considers excluding high earners and those who studied professional degrees such as law and medicine from student-loan
relief. The White House is considering using income caps to exclude high earners, and those who took out loans
for medicine and law degrees, from being eligible for student-loan relief. Officials of the Biden administration are
looking at limiting the relief to people earning less than $125,000 to $150,000 for individual filers, or $250,000 to
$300,000 for couples filing joint taxes, according to a new report released Saturday by the Washington Post. A source
told the Post that there are different proposals being floated around about how to structure this, but no final decision has
been made on the plans.
Democrats
are suddenly embracing a congressional stock-trading ban. There are a number of nervous Democrats in Congress
that are searching for some sort of "win" to put up on the scoreboard before the midterm elections come washing over
them. With most of their big-ticket (and widely unpopular) agenda items bogged down, some are looking at a possible ban
on stock market trading by members of both chambers as one piece of low-hanging fruit that they might be able to get into the
books. This is an issue that shows up in the news from time to time but never seems to garner much momentum in
Congress. The underlying questions are the obvious issues of the propriety of members making bets on the stock market
involving companies that they themselves are charged with regulating, potentially impacting the value of those stocks.
Why
Biden pursues politically suicidal policies. The politically insane plan to divert resources away from the
Veterans Administration to care for illegal immigrants is only the latest example of the unpopular policies that have driven
Biden's approval ratings into the toilet. But it's not insane if the end game is to "fundamentally transform" the
country in such a way that it can't be reversed, and politics will no longer play the same role.
• Once geopolitical alliances and relationships have been altered as they're being since Obama's first term and now on steroids;
• Once 4 years of an open border with possible 6-10 million illegal immigrants flood in
and alter demographics and domestic policy including drugs, crime, welfare, education, housing, and of course voting;
• Once you destroy every major institution from academia and the media to the Democrat party and
executive branch departments like State, DHS, IRS, DOJ, etc., not to mention the military.
You can't just reverse it. So perhaps the end game, after Obama (and his handlers) realized that 8 years
of slow change was the wrong method, is 4 years on steroids while gutting every constitutional protection that's
kept us the greatest civilization in the history of the world.
What
if Joe Biden forgives all student loans? Perhaps the Democrats in Washington are beginning to realize that even
their base, particularly the old school Democrats, are turned off by the Democrats' focus on peripheral issues such as
climate change, abortion, and transgenderism, while they ignore the record-high inflation that is rapidly draining voters'
savings, the supply chain crisis, the influx of illegal immigrants, and numerous other Biden-made crises. With only six
months left until midterms, the Democrats realize that the only way to enthuse and appease their base is to implement some of
the very radical items that have always been on their list. One of their most important voting bases are young voters,
who frequently carry significant student loans. They've been calling for debt forgiveness, which, of course, will
amount to a freebie. Freebies are often used to bribe voters prior to elections with the hope that a record of
misgovernance will be overlooked.
Biden's
student debt cancellation plans: Who benefits and who is burdened? President Joe Biden's student debt
cancellation plan could end up providing millions of people with relief from monthly payments and be a vote winner ahead of
the midterm elections — but it could also offer benefits disproportionately to those who are better off.
Biden said Thursday that he wasn't considering canceling as much as $50,000 worth of debt per borrower — which
would be a significant sum, well beyond what he campaigned on doing — although he said little else about the shape
his student debt plan will take. White House press secretary Jen Psaki similarly offered few details Thursday when
pressed about Biden's forthcoming plan.
White
House shrugs off student debt cancellation inflation concerns. The White House downplayed concerns that
President Joe Biden forgiving certain federal student loan debt will worsen inflation. White House press secretary Jen
Psaki declined to comment Thursday on modeling by nonprofit organizations, such as the Committee for a Responsible Budget,
that Biden exercising executive power to cancel select student debt would exacerbate rising consumer prices, especially since
the president had not presented any proposals yet.
The Editor says...
When does Joe Biden ever present a proposal of his own? All he does is sign papers (and make speeches) that someone
else has written. Mr. Biden has one foot in a nursing home and barely knows what day it is.
Stagflation
is staring Biden in the face — but he refuses to change course. First we were told inflation was
imaginary. Then we were told it was "transitory," the result of COVID-inflicted supply-chain problems. Then we
were told it was Russian President Vladimir Putin's fault. Now people are starting to admit the massive runaway
spending of the Biden era has something to do with it. But we're also facing stagflation, a mixture of inflation and
slow growth, and the government also plays a role in turning inflation into stagflation. As Milton Friedman famously
warned, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. When the government pumps the economy up with excess
dollars — something usually referred to as "printing money," though a too-literal USA Today fact-checker hastened
to assure us that much of the money created isn't actually printed on paper — inflation results. When you
have more money in the system than goods, the price of goods goes up. That's inflation, and it's what's happening now.
Exactly what Bernie Sanders would do:
Joe
Biden unveils new plan to saddle Americans with $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. Joe Biden is in
trouble. His Democrats are collapsing at the polls based on his disastrous first term and now midterms are around the
corner. What's a failed president to do? Dole out the goodies, of course, some big ones in a desperate bid to win
back younger leftist voters. [...] What could go wrong with that? Well aside from the disgust that many Americans would
feel at having scrimped and saved to pay off their own student debts as those who took on too much debt get off
scot-free — the delayed home purchasing, the delayed vacation, the choice of a state school over a prestigious
private one to avoid taking on too much debt, or the choice to take up a trade instead of a college education, there are also
other problems with the entire process. First, this one would probably bypass Congress.
Biden's
open border: One of the most successful voter drives in Democrats' history. To fully understand how
Democrats plan to turn America into a single-party state, take a look at two of their seemingly disparate actions shortly
after President Biden's inauguration. In Washington, Democrats immediately pushed legislation to fundamentally take
over state-run elections to greatly loosen voter registration rules. While GOP senators stalled the bill in January,
Democrats have vowed to enact the unprecedented federalization, somehow, someday. At the southern border,
Mr. Biden has illegally opened the gates to just about anyone — be they drug and sex traffickers, or migrant
job seekers, or sex offenders or other criminals. The brutal Mexican drug cartels are getting richer. Their
Chinese-produced fentanyl is killing record numbers of Americans. Official count of people illegally entering the U.S.
is in the millions in 2021-22 and will go even higher the rest of Mr. Biden's term because he wants it to. Take
the two separately or together — federalized ballot counting and opened borders — and you've got
yourself a successful Democratic voter drive.
The
terrible unintended consequences of the Biden presidency (unless they were intended). The Biden administration
is consumed with wokery to the point that they value members of the LGBTQ++ "community" over all other Americans. Biden
was duty-bound by a promise to Jim Clyburn to select a black woman to the SCOTUS. He chose the most radical black woman he
could find, a woman who said she was unable to define the word "woman" because she is not a biologist! She has long
made clear her sympathy for procurers and users of child pornography. This would seem to line up with the left's agenda
to sexualize, to groom, very young children. The appointment of Ketanji Brown-Jackson does not bode well for the
integrity of the Court nor does the DOJ's war on parents, AG Garland's "domestic terrorists," as if they have no right to be
informed about what their children are being taught in school. The criminalization of parents and the destruction of
the nuclear family would seem to be fundamental to their goal.
Biden
to ban traditional incandescent lightbulbs by 2023 in favor of LED alternatives that are $3 more expensive.
President Joe Biden is banning traditional incandescent lightbulbs in a push to be more energy efficient, but critics claim
the switch to LED alternatives will prove costly for poorer Americans. The Department of Energy (DOE) adopted two new
rules Tuesday that strengthen energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs and will effectively phase out the sale of
traditional bulbs by next year. However, consumer analysts allege that not only are LED bulbs more expensive, costing
nearly $4 each as opposed to $1 for an incandescent bulb, but are often not stocked in stores in lower-income communities.
Red
tape: The agencies pursuing major new rules for Biden's green agenda. President Joe Biden promised the
most ambitious green agenda ever, ending fossil fuels, pushing renewables, and forcing business to toe the line. As
Earth Day 2022 arrives, the Washington Examiner offers alternative coverage in light of record energy prices and widespread
criticism of the administration's incoherent policy approach. In one of his first acts in office, President Joe Biden
signed an executive order for a "whole of government" approach to combating climate change, drawing in not just the Environmental
Protection Agency but a host of federal entities. Later, he signed a second order mandating that agencies address financial
risks stemming from climate change,