Biden Leadership In America Today

Hijinx

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All of these problems started the day Biden was inaugurated.
Not only bad for America, but bad for the world.
 

my-thyme

..if momma ain't happy...
Patron
But I thought we needed to stop raising meat because their production of manure is killing the climate.

Or something like that.

So which is it, manure=good or manure=bad?
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

White House "panicked" at lack of tools to keep abortion legal



Did they somehow miss the news that hearings were held in the Dobbs case six months ago? Did they … not anticipate that a 6-3 conservative Court might seize the opportunity to overturn Roe?


The Biden White House seems forever late in responding to events. They were still pushing Build Back Better last fall after public anxiety over inflation had begun to rise. Stephen Breyer’s retirement seemed all but assured this year given the electoral reality of the midterms yet it still took Biden and his crew weeks to interview candidates before settling on Ketanji Brown Jackson. Why didn’t they have someone in mind and ready to go for the likely vacancy?
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
That was, I think, a reasonable guess, based on Joe’s obvious issues.

But now, those thoughts have just been confirmed, tucked away in a Politico story about a possible rematch in 2024 between Biden and President Donald Trump — that Biden “permanently” needs a teleprompter. How humiliating is this?

From Politico:

And the White House has largely abandoned using the Oval Office for press events in part because it can’t be permanently equipped with a teleprompter; Biden aides prefer the fake White House stage built in the Old Executive Office Building next door for events, sacrificing some of the power of the historic backdrop in favor of an otherwise sterile room that was outfitted with an easily read teleprompter screen.

So, there it is — they’re admitting that they can’t put all that gear in the Oval Office, and they need constant help for Joe Biden that he can easily read.

We can see it’s a common problem they have when he’s on the road. Biden is constantly squinting and tripping over what it says on the teleprompter, in part because he’s confused, but also in part because he seems unable to see it.

 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

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.

It is unclear why the CBS News reporter was copied on the email, but the ensuing thread appeared to show disagreement and miscommunication over the administration’s energy policies as gasoline prices continue to hit all-time highs.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Anonymous Democrat calls Biden 'rudderless, aimless and hopeless' in damning report that compares the gas tax holiday plan to 'throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks'


An unnamed Democrat lawmaker criticized the Biden administration as 'rudderless, aimless and hopeless' in yet another damning report of turmoil between the US President and his party on Tuesday.

More than 20 Democrats working across Congress and the White House shared private concerns with CNN regarding President Joe Biden's ability to respond to back-to-back crises that have plagued the country for much of his term - and whether he's an effective leader of those behind him working to fix it.

Even the president's allies seem to be frustrated with a 'lack of action' as his measures to curb high gas prices and address the baby formula shortage fail to solve either problem.

One such example is Biden's recent demand for Congress to give Americans a three-month relief from the federal gas tax in a bid to ease their pain with sky-high prices at the pump.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Joe Biden Gets Heckled at His Own White House Event



Monday's outburst at an official event held with an invite-only crowd on the White House lawn follows Biden getting heckled by a stranger during yet another escape to Delaware over the weekend. Biden, out on his bike — during which he stayed upright this time — was asked "where your f***ing training wheels at?" and given the "bird" by a bystander who posted the video online. Near, far, wherever Biden is, it seems the tide against him continues to rise.

Back at the White House on Monday, the president also renewed his calls for an "assault weapons" ban saying he is "determined" to get more legislation through Congress that goes even further than the bill being celebrated on Monday.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Why Is the White House Running Interference for the Taliban?



The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), a group seeking to overthrow the Taliban, won critical victories recently as it took control of several areas in the northern part of the region. The fighting had been going on for days, and the Taliban sustained a significant number of casualties.

The Foreign Desk reported:
According to official news reports, Mullah Bahauddin, the head of the Taliban’s police command in the Khost district, along with several other Taliban fighters, were ambushed and killed by Resistance Front soldiers at his headquarters in the Carousel Valley in the city of Khost.
Additionally, Mullah Wajid, the head of the Carousel Valley Basin, and Taliban reinforcements also died at the hands of NRF forces who managed to seize Taliban weapons and destroy their military equipment and vehicles.

This is usually the type of development that would please Americans, even if we are no longer involved militarily in the country. While we are no longer interested in maintaining our troops in the region, it does not mean we somehow changed our minds about the Taliban, which is known to shelter radical Islamic terrorists. But it appears our State Department is not too happy about the fact that the Taliban is sustaining serious losses.
In a statement given to The Foreign Desk, a State Department spokesman said: “We want to see the emergence of stable and sustainable political dispensation via peaceful means. We do not support organized violent opposition to the Taliban, and we would discourage other powers from doing so as well.”

That’s right, folks.

The United States of America’s federal government just told the world that it does not support armed uprisings against a tyrannical organization like the Taliban. The spokesman also said the department is “monitoring the recent uptick in violence closely” and that they “call on all sides to exercise restraint and to engage.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

If Biden Were Serious About Energy Policy, Here's What He'd Propose



On June 21, Biden claimed he isn't impeding domestic oil production in the middle of an energy crisis, but his actions speak louder than his words. Since taking office, he has suspended new drilling permits on federal lands, revoked significant existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska that were already paid for, canceled a strategic pipeline that would have imported secure Canadian heavy oil more safely than rail or trucks, and stayed cozy with the environmental activists who use lawsuits and protests to impede new development.

Biden has called for increasing refining capacity, but his administration makes it nearly impossible to permit a new refinery and refuses to budge on easing environmental regulations that could extend the operational lives of old refineries. The federal Energy Information Agency reports that the U.S. has closed 79 domestic refineries since 1992, and the last new refinery was completed in 1977. Industry leaders don't think refineries are coming back. Chevron CEO Michael Wirth recently told The Washington Post he doesn't expect ever to see another refinery built in the United States: "In a country where the policy environment is trying to reduce demand for these products, you are not going to find companies to put billions and billions of dollars into this."

In addition to regulatory hurdles, producers face capital starvation. Banks steered by environmental, social, and corporate governance goals don't want their hands dirtied by oil. They aren't the only ones: Coastal pension funds with a distaste for fossil fuels (though presumably not for electricity), BlackRock zero-carbon goals, and similar restrictions have caused significant decreases in investment in new wells. Forcing companies to drill solely out of cash flow inherently cripples their capacity to respond quickly to market conditions.

While he's blaming producers for the crunch, Biden is trying to offer consumers relief, pushing for a gas tax holiday (much to the chagrin of his environmentalist base). While lowering taxes might save consumers a few cents at the pump, it won't fix the supply shortages. And releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, another one of Biden's alleviation measures, doesn't offer long-term relief either. Depleting reserves of oil that's harder to replace is both shortsighted and potentially destabilizing.


In 2020, when the price of a barrel of oil dipped negative, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) said in a since-deleted tweet, "You absolutely love to see it." At the time, I thought her schadenfreude was the most dangerous thing about the tweet, but now I see it is the recklessness that such a perspective embodies.

Biden wants us to look for the bright side in this difficult economic moment: "We have a chance here to make a fundamental turn toward renewable energy." That may be the case, but the public needs leaders who are honest about what this "fundamental turn" is going to cost ordinary Americans: sustained high energy and fuel costs, rolling blackouts, and high food prices.

When oil and gas supplies are depleted, the void isn't immediately filled by renewables. We get shortages. For example: Even on the sunny, windy days that offer peak renewable generating opportunities, we lack the infrastructure (such as transmission lines) to move the power from the rural areas where it's generated to the urban areas where it's needed.
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
It's a shame no new refineries are being built, but there is another thing.
The west is having a drought. Lake Meade is drying up. Why isn't California building desalinization plants to supply drinking water?
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Biden Gets Mocked as Saudis Sweep the Leg out From Under His Claims








Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal — who had previously served as head of Saudi intelligence and an ambassador to the U.S. — told CNBC that Biden was a “much-diminished president” compared with when he was inaugurated in January 2021.

“As an example, on energy issues, he came in with a policy to stop completely fossil fuel usage not only in the United States, but worldwide,” Prince Turki said. Now, Biden has a need for fossil fuel, “not only because of the Ukraine war, but also because of U.S. policy itself that shut down pipelines and stopped issuing….discovery of oil on U.S. soil,” Turki said.


That’s right on target, but it’s not good when you have the Saudis mocking the person we have occupying the highest seat in the land. That doesn’t help out national security interests or our standing in the world. But, it’s not going to get better until Joe Biden leaves office.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

‘Every Time You Turn Around’ Joe Hit with Another Crisis'


Speaking about her husband, President Joe Biden, the first lady appeared saddened by what was happening to the world during his presidency.

“He had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment,” she said.

Biden spoke to about two dozen guests at the fundraiser for the Democrat National Committee, setting aside her prepared remarks for a frank discussion.

“He’s just had some many things thrown his way,” she said. “Who would have ever thought about what happened … Roe v Wade? Well, maybe we saw it coming,but still we didn’t believe it.”

She also said Biden was unable to predict a war in Ukraine.

“The gun violence in this country is absolutely appalling,” she continued. “We didn’t see the war in Ukraine coming.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Jill Biden tells donors Joe’s presidency hamstrung by crises both home and abroad



First lady Jill Biden told donors her husband’s political agenda has been sidetracked by unexpected crises at home and overseas.

Biden, 71, made the remarks during a private Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Nantucket, Mass., as President Joe Biden wrapped up his four-day trip to the Middle East, according to CNN.

Her comments came after pollsters recently found most Democrats don’t want the president to seek a second term. His approval rating was a dismal 33%, and only 13% of Americans thought the country was headed in the right direction, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday.
 

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
“He had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment,” she said.
Awwwwwww.... what did they expect? To just sit back and sip tea while looking important? He IS the President and every President prior has dealt with far more important crisis than this idiot. Can you imagine how he would have dealt with the Cuban missile crisis?
 

Clem72

Well-Known Member
It's a shame no new refineries are being built, but there is another thing.
The west is having a drought. Lake Meade is drying up. Why isn't California building desalinization plants to supply drinking water?
Because it isn't necessary? Right now they are taking advantage of cheap and easy water from rivers and lakes. But even if that dries up they can start drilling wells. More than 40 percent of the state has easy access to large aquifers, and wells are much cheaper than desalination.

Desal is like step 4 or 5 after they first try wells, extensive reclamation, and severe use restrictions.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Big Labor's Covert Plan To Kill Union Elections


Union partisans in the Biden administration want to bypass Congress and enact controversial labor policies by dusting off rejected 1940s-era legal theories.

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act could replace secret-ballot union elections—which operate just like political elections with private voting booths—with inferior "card check" drives, where union agents are permitted to solicit votes in person from workers by demanding they sign union cards. This move has support from President Joe Biden and virtually every major labor union. If they obtain cards from a majority, union officials get their government-enforced monopoly without facing an actual election.

Unsurprisingly, there are countless stories of coercion during card check drives, ranging from groups of union agents harassing workers in their homes and lies about the true purpose of a signature to threats of violence against those who won't sign. One health care worker even reported being told the union would "come and get her children" and "slash her tires" if she didn't sign a union card.

There was a time when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the agency that enforces labor laws covering most private sector workers, would force employers to bargain with unions on the basis of such cards alone. In 1947, Sen. Robert Taft (R–Ohio) summarized the problem this created during debates over amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA):

"Today an employer is faced with this situation. A man comes into his office and says, 'I represent your employees. Sign this agreement, or we strike tomorrow.' Such instances have occurred all over the United States. The employer has no way in which to determine whether this man really does represent his employees or does not. This bill gives him the right to go to the Board under those circumstances, and say, 'I want an election. I want to know who is the bargaining agent for my employees.'"
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member






Cruz said he believed this was a mandate to discriminate that he thought was stemming from her. She claimed she’d never seen the email and said the practices were not happening at the State Department, but when Cruz pressed her on the email, she said she had never seen it before and that they were not overtly discriminating. She claimed they were trying to root out discrimination which she believed to be happening there. She kept smiling the whole time which was also weird — it’s not an issue to smile about.


Cruz noted that this particular discrimination was reportedly ongoing and that Abercrombie-Winstanley professed to be unaware of it. He said he was reminded of a line from “Office Space” — “What would you say that you do around here?” Her job is supposed to be about stopping discrimination, but Cruz contended he thought that her job, in practice, was to encourage this discrimination.

What was the concern of the Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)? That the email’s writer had not been identified. That’s called a whistleblower, Senator. How much do you want to bet that rather than addressing the problem being raised here, they go after the person who wrote the email?


 
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