Biden's America Last Program

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As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Clyde Wayne Crews put it recently, “President Biden is leading an unprecedented expansion of the administrative state. In two years, his administration has imposed 517 regulatory actions with some $318 billion in total costs.”

The newest attack on freedom, Biden’s dishwasher regulation, would require new machines to use 27% less power and 34% less water, making already barely functioning dishwashers virtually useless. (It takes nearly three hours for dishwashers today to “clean” dishes. President Donald Trump tried to loosen these anti-consumer mandates.)

Another rule would eliminate 98% of all top-loading washing machines on the market today. There are new efficiency mandates in the works for everything from microwaves to toothbrush chargers.

“The effort is forcing manufacturers to produce more costly products they say reverse innovation by decades and potentially eliminate thousands of U.S. jobs,” the Washington Times reports.

The Securities Exchange Commission, meanwhile, wants publicly traded companies to disclose the “climate risks” of their operations. The rule “could shift $18.4 billion to consulting firms, lawyers, and data providers,” according to an analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence.

Keep in mind that the cost of these new regulations will get added to the existing pile that already imposes a mind-boggling $2 trillion in compliance costs — an amount roughly equal to Canada’s entire GDP.

Biden Unleashes The Regulatory Kraken — And There’s No Land In Sight

Anyone who is surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention.

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Biden Unleashes The Regulatory Kraken — And There’s No Land In Sight

Anyone who is surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention.

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The proposed standards for electric motors, dishwashers, and beverage vending machines are being touted as a way to reduce carbon pollution and conserve energy and water. However, critics argue that these rules will actually do more harm than good, by imposing unnecessary costs on American businesses and consumers.

“The Congressionally-mandated proposed standards for new dishwashers and beverage vending machines and final standards for electric motors are designed to conserve energy and water while mitigating harmful carbon pollution,” Biden’s Department of Energy said in a statement.

“DOE expects the new standards for electric motors will save American businesses approximately $464 million per year on energy costs, while the proposed standards for dishwashers, which have not been updated in over a decade, will save American consumers approximately $168 million per year on their utility bills.”

Biden Regime Announces New Rules Cracking Down On Dishwashers

The Biden administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) has announced new rules cracking down on dishwashers, claiming that they will save Americans over $650 million in annual energy and water bills. However, many are skeptical of the DOE’s claims, arguing that these new rules are just another...

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According to the mayor’s office, the situation amounts to a “national humanitarian crisis” that is “exceeding the City’s ability to manage” the influx of over 8,000 migrants who have arrived since last August.

“Chicago is doing everything it can to respond to the urgency of this matter. The City has continued to call on federal and state governments to support the new arrival mission with much-needed additional funding and resources for emergency shelter and resettlement, as there are not enough resources currently to meet the need,” Lightfoot’s office said.

The move comes as the United States is preparing for the end of a COVID-19 pandemic-era immigration rule, Title 42, which allowed the federal government to restrict the number of migrants seeking asylum in the country.

Lightfoot declares State of Emergency over Chicago immigrant surge

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a State of Emergency declaration on Tuesday due to a surge in immigrants arriving in Chicago from Texas. According to the mayor’s of…

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According to the mayor’s office, the situation amounts to a “national humanitarian crisis” that is “exceeding the City’s ability to manage” the influx of over 8,000 migrants who have arrived since last August.

“Chicago is doing everything it can to respond to the urgency of this matter. The City has continued to call on federal and state governments to support the new arrival mission with much-needed additional funding and resources for emergency shelter and resettlement, as there are not enough resources currently to meet the need,” Lightfoot’s office said.

The move comes as the United States is preparing for the end of a COVID-19 pandemic-era immigration rule, Title 42, which allowed the federal government to restrict the number of migrants seeking asylum in the country.

Lightfoot declares State of Emergency over Chicago immigrant surge

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a State of Emergency declaration on Tuesday due to a surge in immigrants arriving in Chicago from Texas. According to the mayor’s of…

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She wants fed money as a going away present .

 

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Reps. Gooden, Jordan, Demand Answers On Federal Funding Of Illegal Immigration​

“Since President Biden took office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have encountered over five million illegal aliens. This is a direct consequence of the Biden Administration’s policies,” a press release from Gooden states.

It goes on to state, “nearly two million illegal aliens have been released into the U.S. in accordance with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy.” The press release also highlights the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like United Way that receive federal grants and “reportedly use DHS grant funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide aid to illegal aliens.”

Meanwhile, the letter points out that United Way and other NGO’s are “receiving millions of taxpayer dollars to provide free food, lodging, and transportation for illegal aliens across the U.S.”

Gooden asserted that the drastic surge in illegal immigration is “fueled in part by NGOs like those on the EFSP National Board” before urging NGOs involved in immigration to “prioritize transparency and fiscal responsibility.”

 

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Another rule would eliminate 98% of all top-loading washing machines on the market today. There are new efficiency mandates in the works for everything from microwaves to toothbrush chargers.

They can pry my 2800 watt Solwave microwave from my lave hot on the surface but cold in the middle dead fingers.

 

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With dozens or hundreds of active shortages, there is no single overriding factor that explains all the shortfalls, but several trends have emerged.

Some drugs, like Adderall and Ozempic, are skyrocketing in popularity due to alternative uses, exhausting limited supplies. Adderall is meant to treat ADHD but is abused by some students and professionals to increase concentration on various cognitively demanding tasks. Ozempic is meant to treat Type-2 diabetes but has been used as a “miracle weight loss drug.” Supply hasn’t caught up with the surge in demand.

Other observers have attributed the shortages to disruptions in the global supply chain. Exact statistics are difficult to come by — part of the problem is that the supply chain for some pharmaceuticals is not totally transparent, to the point where regulators don’t even know for sure where everything comes from — the FDA actually petitioned Congress for more resources to figure that out.

Near as the Senate can tell, though, about 80% of “pharmaceutically active ingredients” – the most important part of any drug – are manufactured outside the U.S. If these foreign sources had their economies locked down or started hoarding supplies, that could completely gut our supply chain. China has often been highlighted as a prominent and problematic international supplier and many lawmakers view this as a serious strategic weakness of the United States.

Other observers have claimed that the problem is more domestic in nature — they say doctors have a tendency to overprescribe antibiotics to patients that don’t actually need them, which makes them less available and less effective for patients who do.

“Panic buying“ has also been blamed – a perceived shortage can become a self-fulfilling prophecy as consumers rush to buy up all available supply.

But while all these immediate causes have drawn considerable attention, some are claiming that more basic market forces are to blame.

Many lifesaving drugs aren’t very profitable to make – with some bringing in only pennies per dose. Those narrow margins discourage newcomers from entering the sector, and if there are supply chain issues that make the product more expensive, established players are more likely to cut corners or stop making them altogether.

U.S. Faces Massive Shortage Of Prescription Drugs

Record drug shortages across the United States are delaying potentially lifesaving treatments for thousands of patients around the country. Congress and the White House are scrambling to address a shortfall in prescription drugs — everything from painkillers to cancer treatments. “Hospitals all...

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Retired Air Force intel officer who had hundreds of classified documents in his Florida home, including Top Secret briefs on NSA's capabilities, is sentenced to three years in prison​

A former Air Force intelligence officer has been sentenced to three years in prison after prosecutors said he illegally kept hundreds of highly classified documents at his Florida home.

Robert L. Birchum, 55, was sentenced on Thursday in Tampa federal court, after pleading guilty to one felony count of unlawfully possessing and retaining classified documents relating to the national defense of the United States.

According to the plea agreement unsealed in February, Birchum served as an Air Force officer from May 1986 to July 2018, when he retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel after holding a variety of high-level roles, including chief of combat intelligence for an unnamed Air Force group.


Prosecutors say that he removed more than 300 classified files or documents, including more than 30 items marked Top Secret, with some describing the National Security Agency's capabilities and methods.

 

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Cohen is one of those professionals who want to treat mass shootings and gun violence like a viral outbreak, prescribing policies that would make it easier to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens based on medical reasons. Forget the COVID lockdowns, which were already grounded in voodoo science, this could make way for a backdoor gun grab, and the GOP shouldn’t show deference for a nominee whose aim isn’t centered on enhancing public health (via Washington Free Beacon):

President Joe Biden's likely nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cofounded a medical advocacy group that supports a variety of radical left-wing causes.

Mandy Cohen cofounded Doctors for Obama and served as executive director of its spinoff, Doctors for America. The organization, which began as a pro-Obamacare group, in recent years has pushed Congress to ban semiautomatic rifles and treat gun violence as a public health crisis, sided with the anti-police movement, and launched a campaign to "demand [an] anti-racism curriculum in medical institutions."

Cohen's affiliation with the left-wing group could exacerbate what is already expected to be a tough confirmation battle. The Biden CDC has been under intense scrutiny thanks in large part to outgoing chief Rochelle Walensky's support for pandemic quarantines, mask mandates, and school closures. Walensky instituted a ban on evictions, citing the pandemic, that was later struck down by the Supreme Court.

In 2021, Doctors for America endorsed proposals that would defund police departments, including a bill sponsored by Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) to scale "back the role of law enforcement." Doctors for America in 2020 sponsored a report with the left-wing Alliance for Safety and Justice that recommended a reduction in police funding to fund other agencies to deal with "mental health crisis" response. The organization launched a campaign to "demand [an] anti-racism curriculum in medical institutions" and has pushed for a variety of gun control bills.

It isn’t surprising that Biden has picked candidates either to the Left of Lenin, grossly unqualified, or a combination of the two to head key agencies. He’s playing to the base and merely concerned about checking boxes in this game of diversity bingo. As the story is being written about the debt ceiling deal, it’s a GOP defeat. The party must regroup and push back. Working to sink this nomination could be a good exercise.

Oh, Of Course, Biden Would Pick Someone Like This to Head the CDC

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NBC Today is talking up supply chain issues this morning. Anyone seen Pete B .?

If it builds up to a crisis like last time the media will quickly throw out a few nice articles about him again.

 

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NBC Today is talking up supply chain issues this morning. Anyone seen Pete B .?

Nope, what's the deal ?

 

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West Coast port dockworkers belonging to the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) continued their “coordinated work action to disrupt operations” for the fourth day on Monday, according to a June 5 statement from the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), which represents shipping industry employers on the Pacific Coast. Worker actions have “slowed operations at key marine terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and elsewhere on the West Coast, including the ports of Oakland and Seattle.”

“Union leaders are implementing many familiar disruption tactics from their job action playbook, including refusing to dispatch workers to marine terminals, slowing operations, and making unfounded health and safety claims.”

The PMA and ILWU have been negotiating a new contract since May 10. On Friday, the union had said that it remains committed to negotiating a good contract for its workers. ILWU represents 22,000 workers at 29 ports on the West Coast.

“It’s important to understand that West Coast dockworkers kept the economy going during the pandemic and lost their lives doing so,” said ILWU International president Willie Adams, according to a June 3 tweet.

“We aren’t going to settle for an economic package that doesn’t recognize the heroic efforts and personal sacrifices of the ILWU workforce that lifted the shipping industry to record profits.”

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Complaint About Worker Wages​

In its June 3 tweet, the ILWU pointed out that PMA member carriers and terminal operators made “historic profits of $510 billion” during the COVID-19 pandemic, with profits even jumping by 1,000 percent in some cases. Even as shipping volumes return to normal this year, PMA members have “continued to post revenues that far exceed pre-pandemic times by billions of dollars.”

During the pandemic, ILWU workers “risked and lost their lives” to ensure that grocery shelves were stocked, essential medical supplies reached hospitals, and consumer goods reached people, it said.

West Coast Cargo Processing Slows Down Following Worker Disruptions

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what a load of horseshite .... Covid has a 99% survival rate For Fox Sake .... nobody was risking anything

 

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I’ve been reading — and writing — about China’s cultural revolution, and I see some similarities.

For ten years, Chairman Mao had his street thugs — called the Red Guards — humiliate, torture, plunder, and kill people who they decided weren’t on board with Mao’s plan to enslave the people of China.

Most of the Red Guards were between 13 and 21 years old. They clubbed people to death — roughly two million — with near impunity. People not down with the chairman clown could be pulled from their homes at the mercy of angry, commie animals, kind of like Antifa.

You’ll notice Antifa keeps their sally boys busy in mostly blue, anti-gun cities, where they burn what they want and get home in time for mom to cook rainbow waffles for breakfast. They did try to “Red Guard” their way through Kenosha, WI, but Kyle Rittenhouse perforated three of them, sending two to the final roundup. So much for stepping outside their comfort zone.

Without the Second Amendment, it’s easy to see how Antifa could go house to house — in any state they like — and have their way with anyone sporting a Betsy Ross flag on their porch.

As Mark Steyn hilariously pointed out in his book America Alone, an armed population makes crime dangerous.

New Hampshire has a high rate of firearms possession, which is why it has a low crime rate. You don’t have to own a gun, and there are plenty of sissy arms-are-for-hugging granola crunchers who don’t. But they benefit from the fact that their crazy, stump-toothed knuckle-dragging neighbors do. If you want to burgle a home in the Granite State, you’d have to be awfully certain it was the one-in-a-hundred, “We are the world” panty-waist pads and not some plaid-clad gun nut who’ll blow your head off before you lay a hand on his seventy-dollar TV. A North Country non-gun owner might tire of all the Second Amendment kooks with the gun racks in the pickups and move somewhere where everyone is, at least officially, a non-gun owner just like him: Washington D.C., say, or London. And suddenly he finds that, in a wholly disarmed society, his house requires burglar alarms and window locks and security cameras.

The Second Amendment is also the only reason we still have the First Amendment.


Our right to speak freely and assemble peacefully allows us to be heard by our government. It allows us to go to church and write articles like this one.

Without the First Amendment, we could be reduced to meeting illegally in basements and passing notes to other patriots. We could also be hung for doing so if our government was full tyrant-tard, which kinda sorta might be coming our way.

KDJ Afternoon Update: The First and Second Amendments--Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

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West Coast port dockworkers belonging to the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) continued their “coordinated work action to disrupt operations” for the fourth day on Monday, according to a June 5 statement from the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), which represents shipping industry employers on the Pacific Coast. Worker actions have “slowed operations at key marine terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and elsewhere on the West Coast, including the ports of Oakland and Seattle.”

“Union leaders are implementing many familiar disruption tactics from their job action playbook, including refusing to dispatch workers to marine terminals, slowing operations, and making unfounded health and safety claims.”

The PMA and ILWU have been negotiating a new contract since May 10. On Friday, the union had said that it remains committed to negotiating a good contract for its workers. ILWU represents 22,000 workers at 29 ports on the West Coast.

“It’s important to understand that West Coast dockworkers kept the economy going during the pandemic and lost their lives doing so,” said ILWU International president Willie Adams, according to a June 3 tweet.

“We aren’t going to settle for an economic package that doesn’t recognize the heroic efforts and personal sacrifices of the ILWU workforce that lifted the shipping industry to record profits.”

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Complaint About Worker Wages​

In its June 3 tweet, the ILWU pointed out that PMA member carriers and terminal operators made “historic profits of $510 billion” during the COVID-19 pandemic, with profits even jumping by 1,000 percent in some cases. Even as shipping volumes return to normal this year, PMA members have “continued to post revenues that far exceed pre-pandemic times by billions of dollars.”

During the pandemic, ILWU workers “risked and lost their lives” to ensure that grocery shelves were stocked, essential medical supplies reached hospitals, and consumer goods reached people, it said.

West Coast Cargo Processing Slows Down Following Worker Disruptions

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what a load of horseshite .... Covid has a 99% survival rate For Fox Sake .... nobody was risking anything

Let's see if the Biden Admin treats the longshoremen like they did the railroaders.

 

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Let's see if the Biden Admin treats the longshoremen like they did the railroaders.

He won't care until the media attention reaches critical mass .

 

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Ships pile up in West Coast ports in labor fight, threatening supply chain chaos​

The fight is sparking concerns among lawmakers who worry surging container prices could ripple through the economy and hit all sorts of consumer goods in a repeat of supply chain problems following pandemic shutdowns.

“The shippers I know are afraid of what might happen if we shut down our ports,” said Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “People are concerned.”

Data from logistics platform Go Comet shows median delay times trending upward this week in several key West Coast ports, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Long Beach, Calif. Wait times at the port of Seattle are now more than a week.

People who study the data say the rates for shipping containers on the West Coast are rapidly rising.

“Container rates for importing 40-foot containers to the United States’s West Coast over the past week have jumped 20 percent week-over-week, likely as a result of the anticipated congestion at the ports. This follows a dramatic lull in rates after last year’s highs,” said Eytan Buchman, who works with the logistics booking company Freightos.

 

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Reddit - Dive into anything

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It’s not every day that a federal judge asks attorneys representing the president if they’ve read their “1984.”

Yet Judge Terry A. Doughty did just that last month, invoking the dystopian novel in questioning lawyers for President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other officials about their Orwellian conduct.

These are the defendants in perhaps the most consequential First Amendment case you’ve never heard of.

That case, Missouri v. Biden, has exposed arguably the most extensive mass-surveillance and mass-censorship regime in the history of mankind.

In so doing, it has set in motion events that could lead to that regime’s collapse.

The plaintiffs, led by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and prominent censorship victims, allege that the feds have engaged in a conspiracy to violate the First Amendment by coercing social-media platforms to censor “wrongthink” under the guise of combatting “mis-, dis- and mal-information.”

The targeted speech first concerned skepticism about the integrity and outcome of the 2020 election, expanded to cover all aspects of COVID-19 and now may encompass everything from “gendered disinformation” to financial events and the Russian-Ukrainian War.

Through limited but revealing discovery, the plaintiffs have compiled overwhelming evidence to support their case.

The evidence shows dozens of officials across at least 11 agencies — from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Health, Human Services to the FBI, Homeland Security, plus the White House — all chiding, cajoling and colluding with social-media platforms.

They also partner with “private” censorship cutouts — all in an effort to suppress disfavored speech.

The ‘Wrongthink’ case against Biden could help end federal policing of public speech

We never voted for a Ministry of Truth. Not a single cent more of our money should go towards silencing ourselves.

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Ships pile up in West Coast ports in labor fight, threatening supply chain chaos​

The fight is sparking concerns among lawmakers who worry surging container prices could ripple through the economy and hit all sorts of consumer goods in a repeat of supply chain problems following pandemic shutdowns.

“The shippers I know are afraid of what might happen if we shut down our ports,” said Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “People are concerned.”

Data from logistics platform Go Comet shows median delay times trending upward this week in several key West Coast ports, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Long Beach, Calif. Wait times at the port of Seattle are now more than a week.

People who study the data say the rates for shipping containers on the West Coast are rapidly rising.

“Container rates for importing 40-foot containers to the United States’s West Coast over the past week have jumped 20 percent week-over-week, likely as a result of the anticipated congestion at the ports. This follows a dramatic lull in rates after last year’s highs,” said Eytan Buchman, who works with the logistics booking company Freightos.

With China investing in Mexico how long before they help them build their own port to undercut the west coast US ports.

 

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With China investing in Mexico how long before they help them build their own port to undercut the west coast US ports.

What are you talking about, Mexico has tons of shipping ports not to mention dozens of cruise-ship ports that could be retrofitted.