Biden's America Last Program

[GURPS]

Energy Sec Granholm: Soaring Gas Prices Are An ‘Exclamation Point’ That U.S. Must Accelerate Green Energy Push​

During the exchange with reporters, Granholm also referred to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its effects on the global oil supply as a reason to push for more green energy. “No one has ever weaponized access to the sun,” Granholm said, referencing Russia’s move to cancel energy exports or demand shipments to be paid in Russian rubles. “No one has ever weaponized access to wind. The way we are energy secure is to build homegrown clean energy, and other countries are looking to that as well.”

Granholm repeated the rhetorical line that gas prices stem from the price of oil around the world, saying that every country in the world is also dealing with high prices and looking for ways to increase supply. “Everybody realizes that gasoline is derived from oil, and oil is traded on a global market, and so every country in the world is facing this,” she said. “Every country is looking for ways to increase supply in the moment — in supply of oil so that we can stabilize.” Granholm added that the U.S. can increase supply by tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and urging oil companies to increase their output, moves the Biden administration has already taken.

 

[GURPS]

Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class​

Vladimir Lenin supposedly once said, “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

There’s some doubt as to whether this line is genuine; regardless, it seems like a pretty good description of what the Biden administration is doing to America’s 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. Or to put it another way, 80 minutes’ earnings out of every eight-hour day have been eaten up.

This is predictable, of course. Team Biden took an already-bloated federal budget and supersized it with spending last year, printing money hand-over-fist to fund a massive array of pork-filled programs, many if not most of which guided billions of dollars into the pockets of Democratic Party supporters.

 

[GURPS]

Rising cost of fuel is the price we pay for their ‘green’ Utopia​

Speaking at a press conference in Japan, Joe Biden said, “When it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.”

Any slightly observant person recognizes Biden is suffering serious mental decline – he’s a stooge! Of the many corrupt interests he serves, the ‘green’ agenda may be the most obnoxious – the “solutions” are laughable. For example, solar panels are touted as a great source of “clean” energy, but we are on track for some serious fallout:

Solar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential role in fighting climate change. They are also complex pieces of technology that become big, bulky sheets of electronic waste at the end of their lives–and right now, most of the world doesn’t have a plan for dealing with that.
But we’ll need to develop one soon, because the solar e-waste glut is coming. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually.
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“If we don’t mandate recycling, many of the modules will go to landfill,” said Arizona State University solar researcher Meng Tao, who recently authored a review paper on recycling silicon solar panels, which comprise 95 percent of the solar market.
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When the panels enter landfills, valuable resources go to waste. And because solar panels contain toxic materials like lead that can leach out as they break down, landfilling also creates new environmental hazards.

Our pain at the pump is intentional – it’s simply the means to Biden’s masters’ end for a ‘green’ agenda – even if the “transition” requires “despotic inroads” – it’s worth it for them.

 

[SamSpade]

We are still many years away from anything resembling a smooth and sensible transition to green energy - like most things, the left thinks the only way to get people to go to green energy is to FORCE THEM TO DO IT.

Comes from a number of things, but essentially, the left thinks the people really don't have any business making big decisions for themselves. For example, they're horrified that voters - citizens - might be the ones in each state deciding on the legality of abortion. Keeping with their observed pattern of believing their opinion is right, and all others are wrong and therefore, a THREAT to the "right" one.

By the way - this is tyranny. It's not happening with jack boots and thugs, but it's the same thing.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." - C. S. Lewis

 

[GURPS]

Everything You Know About Fascism Is Wrong


George Carlin: . . . and the poor have been systematically looted in this country. The rich have been made richer under this criminal, fascist president and his government. [Applause.] [Cheers.]

Bill Maher: Okay, okay.

James Glassman: You know, George—George, I think you know — do you know what fascism is?

Carlin: Fascism, when it comes to America—

Glassman: You know what fascism is?

Carlin: It will not wear—

Glassman: Do you know what Nazis are?

Carlin: It will not wear—no, sir, wait a second—

Glassman: Do you know what Nazis are? Do you know what fascists are?

Carlin: When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Smiley-smiley. Fascism—Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

Maher: And actually, fascism is when corporations become the government.

Carlin: Yes.



Liberal Fascism .... Pg 1

 

[GURPS]

Harvard graduate walks out of Merrick Garland's commencement address​

 

[Sneakers]

Harvard graduate walks out of Merrick Garland's commencement address​

So instead she takes a selfie and posts something all about her...

 

[Hijinx]

So instead she takes a selfie and posts something all about her...

She is much better to look at , and she isn't owned by Obama.

 

[GURPS]

ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY?​

The Biden Administration has reached the “you can’t fool all of the people all of the time” stage,” and the evidence shows Americans aren’t buying Biden’s excuses and blame-shifting.

The latest Gallup survey from late May is headlined, “Economic Pessimism Growing in the U.S.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index measured -45 in May, down from -39 in each of the previous two months. It is the lowest reading in Gallup’s trend during the coronavirus pandemic, and likely the lowest confidence has been since the tail end of the Great Recession in early 2009. . . Americans’ economic pessimism took a turn for the worse this month. . .

Equally interesting are the rankings of issues on an open-ended (that is, without offering pre-determined answers to respondents) question:

Notice that not many people are concerned about racism, or the war in Ukraine, or even health care.

Beyond the ideological perversity of the Biden White House is the problem of basic competence. They’re not even any good at lying and propaganda. Take, for example, this claim in Biden’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago:

“A dozen CEOs of America’s largest utility companies told me earlier this year that my plan would reduce the average family’s annual utility bills by $500 and accelerate our transition from energy produced by autocrats.”

 

[GURPS]

Is This the Most Horribly Aged Tweet Ever?​

As you dread your next visit to the gas pump, it’s a perfect time to remind you that Thursday marks six months since the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) tweeted the most ridiculous graphic ever. It showed the national average price of gas decrease from $3.40 to $3.38 a gallon at the end of November, and had the audacity to thank Joe Biden for that ginormous 2¢/gal decrease.



The graphic was truly audacious, considering the way it touted a mere 2¢ decrease as something Americans ought to be thankful to Joe Biden for when it was a blip in otherwise skyrocketing gas prices.

 

[GURPS]

Biden’s inflator in chief Brian Deese is an awful pick​

But the role of Brian Deese in Biden’s new and belated “laser focus” on inflation is more proof that Sleepy Joe either doesn’t have a clue about policy, or isn’t serious about one of the most serious economic problems facing average Americans.

Deese is a lunatic in charge of the asylum. His economic policies are among the big reasons we’re suffering with 8% inflation (a stealth tax on the working class) and markets are signaling a possible recession.

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Deese is fine as a flack or a ghostwriter for the president (he’s actually pretty good BS’ing on TV), but he shouldn’t be anywhere near setting policy for an economy approaching $25 trillion.

His résumé is far too steeped in progressive policies and politics that are at the heart of our inflationary woes.

Consider: Deese, fresh from Yale Law School, cut his teeth in government as key economic adviser to Barack Obama, the president who famously used his skills as a community organizer in an effort to remake the US economy into something that would make Saul Alinsky proud.

Deese worked on Obama’s auto bailouts, burnishing his rep as a super progressive in dealing with the carmarkers.

After traveling through the administration’s budget and economic bureaucracy, he took a crack at private-sector work at BlackRock to advance a progressive investing fad known as ESG, or Environmental Social Governance.

Deese spent three years as global head of sustainable investing at the $10 trillion asset-management company, imploring money managers to screen out companies that didn’t meet strict environmental standards set by progressive influencers.

Under ESG guidelines, for example, oil companies are implored to cut back on drilling and invest in windmills — with the threat that BlackRock might divest or seek management change.

Because of BlackRock’s size, these edicts were copied by other investment firms.

 

[LightRoasted]

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[stgislander]

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[Kyle]

This exactly typifies Democrats. Always carried by others.

 

[GURPS]

Poll Finds More Americans Are Pessimistic About Their Standard Of Living​

According to a poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal and the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC), 83% of respondents described the state of the economy “as poor or not so good.” Meanwhile, 35% said they are not “satisfied at all with their financial situation” — the highest level since the poll began in 1972.

A slim 27% of respondents believe they have a “good chance of improving their standard of living” — representing a 20% drop since last year. Nearly twice as many — 46% — do not believe their living standards can improve.

Jennifer Benz, vice president of public affairs and media research at NORC, told The Wall Street Journal that inflation, in particular, is driving the dismal results. Indeed, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen by 8.3% since last year — near the highest inflation rate in four decades.

 

[stgislander]

For your consideration ...


But, but .....

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[GURPS]

White House: Frustrated Americans Should Remember That Gas Prices Are Even Higher in Other Countries​

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to questions about high gas prices during the daily briefing by noting it was “really important” that people understood that prices were higher across the globe.

She noted that gas prices in the European Union were $8.15 a gallon, prices in Germany were $8.88 a gallon, and prices in Canada were $6.23 a gallon.

“This is a global challenge, this is something that everyone is feeling across the globe,” she said, arguing that gas prices had risen as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine.

Gas prices in the United States soared to a new record high on Monday for the ninth consecutive day.

Jean-Pierre acknowledged that high inflation, food prices, and gas prices were “hurting families especially as they sit around their kitchen table.”

She repeated that “everything was on the table” to deal with high gas prices but said that she did not have any information on actions the president would take to help lower gas prices.

 

[herb749]

He could end his war on fossil fuels .

 

[Hijinx]

^^^^^^ Exactly^^^^ Everything is not on the table, and she and everyone else knows it.


One thing that is amazing to me is that the other countries tied up i this mess are not screaming for Biden's head.

The fuel situations was going pretty good under Trump, then on his first day in office, this Dingleberry sat down and signed his many Executive orders. The United States Energy Independence and our actual exporting of oil stopped. Then we started buying oil from Russia and other places, and the price went up all over the world. The energy crisis all over the world is Joe Biden's legacy. Now that's the way I see it, and if I were Europe I would be wanting Joe Biden's ass in a sling. What he did not only screwed us it screwed them all. Just like IMO he is responsible for the war in the Ukraine.

 

[herb749]

^^^^^^ Exactly^^^^ Everything is not on the table, and she and everyone else knows it.


One thing that is amazing to me is that the other countries tied up i this mess are not screaming for Biden's head.

The fuel situations was going pretty good under Trump, then on his first day in office, this Dingleberry sat down and signed his many Executive orders. The United States Energy Independence and our actual exporting of oil stopped. Then we started buying oil from Russia and other places, and the price went up all over the world. The energy crisis all over the world is Joe Biden's legacy. Now that's the way I see it, and if I were Europe I would be wanting Joe Biden's ass in a sling. What he did not only screwed us it screwed them all. Just like IMO he is responsible for the war in the Ukraine.

Its kind of NATO's problem also. We had that carrot on a stick waving it at Ukraine. Its also the EU with their carrot membership.