Biden Actions ... And Reactions
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They should be making a great profit.
Trump bought that oil cheap and Biden is selling high.
NYT: Biden Is Too Passive and Full of Excuses to be President
Titled “Biden Promised to Stay Above the Fray, but Democrats Want a Fighter,” the New York Times blasted the president for flying to Ohio after a mass shooting and in the midst of an inflation crisis, while choosing to ignore speaking on neither of the topics.
“Forty-eight hours after a horrific mass shooting on the Fourth of July, President Biden flew to Ohio…with inflation soaring and Democrats still fuming about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Mr. Biden’s public schedule included no events or announcements on either topic,” the piece opened with.
The author gravely stated that Biden seemed detached from reality and appeared “far less engaged than many of his supporters had hoped.”
The article then called out Biden for not being the president the Democrats had hoped he be, and frankly the kind of president America needs right now.
“While many Democrats are pleading for a fighter who gives voice to their anger, Mr. Biden has chosen a more passive path — blaming Congress, urging people to vote and avoiding heated rhetorical battles,” the article read.
Biden Is Raising an Army of Taxpayer-Funded Atheists
The government recently announced plans to fund a program that would send Americans abroad to promote atheism and humanism in South/Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.
The program would be funded by your tax dollars - as much as a half million dollars per organization.
They are literally going to use a government tithe to spread a godless message of hopelessness to the world.
Congressman Jim Banks, the Republican from Indiana, is demanding answers — writing in a letter to President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken that it’s unconstitutional for the government to convert people to the atheist way of life.
He said it’s one thing to be tolerant and respectful of those who don’t believe in God.
"It is quite another for the United States government to work actively to empower atheists, humanists, non-practicing, and non-affiliated in public decision-making," the letter read. "Any such program – for any religiously-identifiable group – in the United States would be unconstitutional."
The idea that our tax dollars are being used to convert people to a godless, heathen lifestyle is appalling.
"A few weeks ago, the United States Embassy in Germany erected a ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag. Americans should be very alarmed at this. It’s not only that ‘Black Lives Matter’ remains a highly divisive and increasingly unpopular movement here in the United States; the display is also denoting a promotion of a specific radical organization. Other recent initiatives of the State Department include creating a ‘Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice,’ whose mission will be to spread Critical Race Theory and other progressive dogmas worldwide, and working to remove restrictions on abortion around the globe."
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Biden’s Swamp Brings Back ‘Sue And Settle’ To Hide Behind Courts As It Stomps Out Fossil Fuels
Led by the Dakota Resource Council, 10 environmental groups including the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club are suing the Interior Department, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and their executives to put an end to federal lease sales for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Despite an 18-month suspension in lease sales and an overhaul of the leasing program that discourages drilling, the plaintiffs allege that the federal government failed to consider the global consequences of emissions from more oil and gas extraction.
“Federal Defendants acknowledge the fundamentally incremental nature of the climate crisis and the small and shrinking window that remains to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change,” the legal complaint states. “Federal Defendants also admit that their Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Program contributes significantly to the global climate crisis, and that the Lease Sales at issue here will collectively cause billions of dollars in social and environmental harm to people and the planet.”
The case includes all the trademarks of a “sue and settle” suit: Friendly interest groups present a legal challenge to a federal policy with proposed changes that are endorsed by the administration, which in turn voluntarily settles and enacts the preferred policy outcome behind the cover of the courts. The allied interest groups, meanwhile, pocket a handsome payout of taxpayer dollars in the process.
Administration officials have left no room for doubt in their desire to shut down the nation’s oil and gas program, following through on a pledge from the president made repeatedly on the campaign trail to “end fossil fuels.”
“No more drilling on federal lands,” Biden said on a CNN debate stage. “No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill. Period.”
Indeed, Biden ordered the suspension of lease sales for oil and gas exploration on federal lands almost immediately upon his inauguration. The suspension remained in place until a federal judge in Louisiana ordered their resumption. The Biden administration, however, has dragged its feet on new sales while pledging to resist compliance, with White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy saying on MSNBC that “President Biden remains absolutely committed to not moving forward with additional drilling on public lands.”
Gary Lawkowski, an attorney at the Dhillon Law Group who specializes in administrative law and used to serve at the Department of the Interior, told The Federalist that while it was “too soon to say definitively” the current lawsuit brought by the Dakota Resource Council fit the exact criteria of a “sue and settle” case. The filing possesses “all the hallmarks of being one that would be hard to challenge a settlement in.”
How apropos .. I was just talking about the leftist process the other day
Yes, Biden’s War On The Oil And Gas Industry Is Driving Shortages And High Prices
The answer is that U.S. producers are shackled by powerful external limiters, in part emanating from the ESG investing movement, but perhaps most penetratingly from the overriding idea that the need for oil and natural gas is soon coming to an end. Investors want to see companies produce as much as possible from existing assets now, pay the highest current dividends possible, and invest as little capital as possible in future exploration and development.
In John Kerry’s world of alternative facts, this might be the right course. According to him, the natural gas industry will no longer be necessary in just 10 years’ time. But this view is dangerously disconnected from reality.
He isn’t alone, though; ironically, the very organization founded in response to the 1970s oil supply crises, the International Energy Agency, is feeding the frenzy by calling for “immediate action” to end investment in oil and gas.
This is the mindset that is forcing Americans to stare down a bleak future. We now face rolling blackouts and families are forced to choose between basic needs and filling their gas tanks. Meanwhile, the U.S. struggles to help lessen from the threats of commodity shortages. And these are just some of the challenges we face, as energy denominates the cost of everything – food, housing, clothing, and medical costs.
It’s time to recognize market realities. The truth is that demand for oil is projected to reach an all-time high in 2022 and another all-time high in 2023. What’s more, the Energy Information Administration has long proclaimed that both oil and gas will play a dominant role in the global economy through 2050 and beyond.
Biden Repeatedly Struggles While Delivering Remarks, Elon Musk Torches Him
Biden repeatedly demonized the nation’s highest court during his remarks, calling the ruling “terrible” and “extreme,” and claiming without evidence that the ruling was “not a decision driven by the Constitution.”
During his remarks, Biden repeatedly stammered, struggled to pronounce words, and appeared to read a little too much off the teleprompter, which earned him widespread mockery, including from Elon Musk.
“It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so — end of quote. Repeat the line,” Biden said. “Women are not without electoral and, or political — let me be precise — not and, or — or political power.”
Musk responded with a meme from the movie “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” starring Will Ferrell.
“Whoever controls the teleprompter is the real President!” Musk wrote.
The meme showed a clip of Ron Burgundy, played by Ferrell, reading off a teleprompter during a newscast, saying: “You stay classy, San Diego. I’m Ron Burgundy?”
Burgundy’s remarks are immediately followed by his boss stating behind the scenes: “Damn it! Who typed a question [mark] on the Teleprompter? For the last time, anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read.”
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. Here are three.
First, the 2012 Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force (Report), at 4, emphasized that there is no consensus regarding treatment of children with GID (now called G.D.), because "opinions vary widely among experts" as to treatments.
Second, the 2012 World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care asserts that social transition for children, which would include use of opposite-sex bathrooms and participation in opposite-sex sports, "is a controversial issue."
Third, the American College of Pediatricians has concluded: "Ethics alone demands an end to the use of pubertal suppression with GnRH agonists, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries in children and adolescents. The American College of Pediatricians recommends an immediate cessation of these interventions, as well as an end to promoting gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies."
So much for Levine's nonsense about "no argument." Such assertions can be only explained as willful attempts to persuade uninformed vulnerable children and their parents.
Republican lawmakers blast Biden administration grant to protect atheists overseas
“It is one thing for the [State] Department to be tolerant and respectful of a wide range of belief systems, and to encourage governments to respect the religious freedom interests of their citizens,” Mr. Banks writes. “It is quite another for the United States government to work actively to empower atheists, humanists, non-practicing and non-affiliated in public decision-making.”
And because, the letter says, “atheism is an integral part of the belief system of Marxism and communism,” Americans “rightly discern” the grants as an element of the Biden administration’s efforts “to promote radical, progressive orthodoxy abroad.”
The Republican lawmakers contend the grant “prioritizes atheists and humanists above all other potential recipients” and violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause that prohibits the government from passing any law “respecting an establishment of religion.”
By designating atheists as a “unique religious group,” the letter states, the goal of creating “networks and advocacy groups” for nonbelievers “would never pass constitutional muster” if it were aimed at promoting Christianity in China, for example.
Moreover, Mr. Banks and his colleagues charge, there’s a question of how such spending helps U.S. foreign policy interests.
BIDEN HOPS ON THE RAPE BANDWAGON
I wrote here about the sensational story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion. The story, phoned into an Indiana newspaper by an abortionist who seems to spend most of her time promulgating pro-abortion propaganda in the press, spread around the world almost instantaneously. But there is little reason to believe it is true. No one, including Snopes, has been able to verify it, there is no sign of any criminal investigation or prosecution of the supposed rapist, and the abortionist who originally peddled the story seems to have gone to ground.But that didn’t stop Joe Biden: in his press conference on abortion today, he retailed the story as his best evidence of the desirability of abortion on demand, up to the moment of birth. In an apparent Freudian slip, he referred to terminating a presidency rather than a pregnancy:
Although I agree with the conclusions, those reports are 10 years old. Would the "experts" come to the same conclusions today?
Biden Blames Republicans For Soaring Gas Prices
President Joe Biden blamed Republicans for soaring gas prices in a Sunday tweet, moving on from the “Putin-price hike” shtick.
Biden attempted to shift blame onto Republicans as a way to drive up support amongst voters for the November midterms.
“Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs,” Biden tweeted. “This is not right. And that’s why this election is going to be so darn important.”
US leaks of Israeli covert ops against Iran eroding trust, security ahead of Biden visit to region
That issue is anonymous U.S. officials consistently leaking information to the media about alleged covert Israeli operations against Iran, from targeted killings to explosions at nuclear sites.
"It's a sign of extraordinary incompetence and unprofessionalism from Biden and his foreign policy team," said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst who also served as a senior staffer on both the House Intelligence Committee and the National Security Council. "It's outrageous they would leak this kind of information."
Unnamed officials recently told CNN that Israel has ramped up its covert attacks in Iran and is largely keeping the U.S. in the dark.
A month earlier, an American intelligence official leaked to the New York Times that Israel told Washington it was behind the assassination of top officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an Iranian military force and a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
The leak infuriated Israeli officials, who often share intelligence with American counterparts.
"It mainly harms trust," Ram Ben Barak, who heads the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of Israel's parliament, said at the time.
"We have very many close relationships and a lot of cooperation between us, which all depend on trust, and when it is violated in some way then it damages future cooperation," he added. "I hope the Americans investigate the leak and figure out where it came from and why it occurred."
Administration personal [ deep state ] that hate Israel and think they know better about world policy ..... the same actioins took place during the Bush and Trump Administrations
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Power with Control
And get run out of town on a rail? They dont dare.
Biden Ponders the Press in Far Away Galaxies While Staff Shoos Reporters out the Door
Suddenly, it seems like the media is willing to comment on Joe Biden’s age and his cognitive issues. Even the NY Times is now amplifying his issues, pointing out how the White House is trying to deal with the situation — from getting him more “rest” in Delaware because he can’t do a 10-day international trip to making sure they do all they can to cut off the press from talking with him in unscripted moments.
Part of that is due to the fact that his numbers are so in the basement, he’s toxic and the Democrats are fleeing from him, so the media feels like they are now free to comment on the situation and his incoherence. Of course, he’s been incoherent since before he came into office but they couldn’t be bothered to be straight about the problem because that would have hurt the Democrats’ chances for power. If the media had been honest, maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation now. But given the nature of the stories, with them now acknowledging how few Democrats who want him to run again — nearly two/thirds don’t want him — it seems like they’re prepping us for a change, likely after the midterms, to announce at least that he won’t be running again.
Biden sanctions collapse, as Ukraine piles up losses & hemorrhages cash
Two realities that are worth paying attention to moving forward:
- Ukraine is losing, and there are no signs that they can turn the tide of the war
In addition to its continuing battlefield supremacy, Russia now has time on its side, thanks to the booming commodity market and Russia’s many willing energy buyers.
Ukraine is in the polar opposite situation. Kiev is becoming a massive financial liability for the West. Even as Western powers have already allocated over 100 billions dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine, the Zelensky-led government continues to demand incredible sums to sustain the war effort.
In some underreported signal that surfaced over the weekend:
Germany (which largely controls the EU’s finances) has reportedly been blocking a $9 billion dollar tranche to the Zelensky regime, concerned over the country’s ability to remain solvent.
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