Oh. So they're completely autonomous and take no direction from agency appointees and their policies?
Biden's America Last Program
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HemiHauler
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Oh. So they're completely autonomous and take no direction from agency appointees and their policies?
I mean one can go to the Energy Information Bureau’s website and learn for yourself. But why bother, eh?
If that is true, the Admin would say so. They never pass up an opportunity for good press.
HemiHauler
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They don’t have to “say so”. It’s de rigueur for an entire staff.
Do our adversaries fear Biden? They did Trump
But the argument that adversaries feared him and therefore acted with a measure of restraint is quite intuitive.
No one is going to mistake Trump for Cardinal Richelieu or Henry Kissinger.
His view of the world was highly personal and reflected a few obsessions, especially the notion that we were getting ripped off by foreigners.
His trade war with China was a waste of time, and his commitment to NATO was genuinely in doubt.
Yet despite the feeling of chaos created by his constant shoot-from-the-hip bombast, things basically stayed on the rails.
The fact Trump was erratic and took perceived slights so seriously made it difficult to know how he would react to any given provocation.
It was personal unpredictability elevated to the level of game theory.
Maybe he was just blustering. Maybe he was ready to take it further.
But who would want to find out?
In other words, Trump spoke loudly and carried a stick of indeterminate size, and this was perhaps as good as carrying a big stick.
It’s worth noting, though, that he followed through on his promise to bomb ISIS into near-oblivion, and when given the chance to hit a committed enemy of the United States, the notorious Iranian operative Qassem Soleimani, he targeted him for killing despite the considerable risks.
The New York Times reported at the time: “After initially rejecting the Suleimani option on Dec. 28 and authorizing airstrikes on an Iranian-backed Shiite militia group instead, a few days later Mr. Trump watched, fuming, as television reports showed Iranian-backed attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad, according to Defense Department and administration officials. By late Thursday, the president had gone for the extreme option. Top Pentagon officials were stunned.”
If US officials were stunned, how must anyone around the world with American blood on his hands have felt?
And wouldn’t it have made adversaries think twice about doing anything to set the president “fuming”?
Biden agency diverting millions in border funds to blue cities says border is not its 'mission space': emails
FEMA, which is a Department of Homeland Security subagency tasked with overseeing federal disaster assistance programs, made the statement in an email exchange with Democrat Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego's staff, which invited agency officials to tour the border. Gallego has criticized the agency for diverting hundreds of millions of dollars in migrant service assistance away from Arizona to northern cities and states like New York and Chicago.
"Arizona’s border communities have been on the front line of this border crisis. We’ve worked, again and again, to get the administration to listen to their concerns," Gallego told Fox News Digital. "They’ve refused to communicate, answer even the most basic of questions, and perhaps worst of all, chosen to divert funds away from the border."
"Now, when we’ve presented Administrator [Deanne] Criswell with the opportunity to meet directly with Arizonans to hear their concerns, FEMA has chosen to throw their hands up and claim the border isn’t their problem," he continued. "That’s insulting to Arizonans, and the agency should be held accountable. When Arizonans complain about the government doing nothing to support them – this is exactly the type of behavior they’re talking about."
The Coming Construction Boom And Our Skilled Labor Shortage Is Going To Be A Disaster
Over 20 years ago I stared at concept drawings and maps for a massive California passenger rail project. Those in the front of the room explained the need, cost, and schedule for the no-brainer endeavor. On paper, it was impressive.
Leaving the meeting, I said to the other attendees on the elevator, “That will never get built.” The responses were “Nope,” “No way,” and “Not in my lifetime, anyhow.” We were all construction lawyers in our 20s and 30s and knew it was delusional to think the project would ever exist in the real world. We are now a generation older. There is no rail line. Skilled labor is scarcer. We are now concerned about other marquee U.S. construction projects.
The construction industry’s productivity gains over the past three decades have badly lagged others that have proven more able to absorb innovation and replace humans. A machine can cut a straight line faster than ever to make widgets on a production line, but it cannot hang off the side of a building to erect steel. Manual labor and in-person reasoning skills remain in high demand. Why does this matter?
ICE admits record 5.7 million migrants in US — Biden wants to provide ‘medical services, housing’ to all
The program would cost “billions” and effectively be a “welfare” program for non-detained migrants awaiting court dates, former ICE director Tom Homan told The Post.
“The RRM is just a push by the open border advocates to provide welfare benefits to 6 million people,” the former ICE director continued.
RRM is anticipated to “replace all of ICE’s non-detained programs” and would “apply to the entire non-detained docket,” a question-and-answer form ICE published in September reads, clarifying: “The current non-detained docket is 5.7M.”
Those held in ICE detention for processing at the border or in facilities awaiting deportation are not included in the 5.7 million figure.
The services for “all RRM participants” would include “legal assistance; psychosocial services; therapeutic services; medical services; food and clothing banks; housing; public transportation information; parental information; education information; and repatriation and reintegration services,” according to the RFI form published Aug. 17.
“These services are designed to increase participant compliance with immigration obligations through information, stabilization, and support. Services will be individualized to each participant’s needs and may range from basic referrals to intensive direct assistance,” the RFI form reads.
Homan criticized the program for providing legal assistance to migrants who crossed over the border.
“They’re going to give legal assistance to illegal aliens at the taxpayers’ expense to fight the government,” he said. All the services combined are a “massive giveaway that are going to cost billions of dollars.”
Dad Shares The Honest Moment When He Realized He Didn't Want To Raise His 4-Year-Old Daughter In America Anymore
Before deciding to move to Spain, Ashley and her husband had taken a trip to the country to visit. While they were there, her husband witnessed something that immediately changed his perspective about living in America.
He recalled the two of them being at a crowded coffee shop in Spain, and originally being from St. Louis, her husband had been a bit nervous about the crowd. "There's a ton of people walking around. Being from St. Louis, that's not a very comfortable place for me to be in,” he said.
Probably sensing her husband's nerves, he recalled Ashley turning toward him and telling him that no one in this crowd has any guns. "You turn to me and say, ‘Have you seen all these people?' And you're like, 'None of them have guns.'"
As soon as he heard his wife say that, he instantly realized that the fear of gun violence in America was something that had weighed heavily on his chest as someone who had grown up in the country and was now raising his 4-year-old daughter in it too.
"I realized this weight that I had been carrying around my whole life wasn't necessary. Like what we think is normal is not normal,” he continued.
Maybe democrats have thought about this and will make the immigrants the chinese of the 1800's railroad boom.
So they can get stabbed instead or have their chilren kidnapped.
Clem72
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I feel like this is less of an "America" issue and more of a "St. Louis" issue. I have NEVER been in a crowded area and though, oh no I wonder how many people here have guns. But I also have never been to St. Louis.
Clem72
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I don't understand the mindset anyways, weapons don't make people violent. Moving somewhere that doesn't have "guns" in order to feel safe makes about as much sense as putting a deadbolt on your front door that has 8 ft. decorative windows on either side. It's not doing what you think it's doing.
Dad has MENTAL Issues ... progressive brain
if you ' feel ' uncomfortable because A NON CRIMINAL is carrying a weapon, YOU have a problem, NOT Society
Moreover, Cotton went bottom-line about the $3.5 billion, which he suggested would function as a resupply line for Hamas, in addition to blasting Biden's request for another $11.8 billion for Ukraine, as its war with Russia drags on. Cotton said in a press release:
With respect to Cotton's comments about Hamas, the terrorist organization has been the de facto authority in Gaza, home to roughly two million Palestinians, since 2007. Hamas published its charter in 1988, which called for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic society in historic Palestine.
That objective of Hamas has not changed.
As for talk of ceasefires, peace talks, and such, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is credited with the following statement, although there is no primary source that validates the quote as hers — which doesn't negate or diminish its reality:
With respect to Cotton's comments about Hamas, the terrorist organization has been the de facto authority in Gaza, home to roughly two million Palestinians, since 2007. Hamas published its charter in 1988, which called for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic society in historic Palestine.
That objective of Hamas has not changed.
As for talk of ceasefires, peace talks, and such, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is credited with the following statement, although there is no primary source that validates the quote as hers — which doesn't negate or diminish its reality:
Joe Biden Has Killed the American Dream
If you only paid attention to the mainstream press, you'd be inundated with a constant stream of articles ensuring you how great the economy is. "Look at the jobs market," the headlines have blared while promoting the supposed historic resiliency of our present moment. The full-court press has been so strong that the Biden administration has even taken to labeling it "Bidenomics," a marketing ploy that has proven less than ideal.
What looks good on paper, though, is often not representative of the real-world impact. Thus, Joe Biden's current economic malaise, for which Americans are assured they should be incredibly thankful, is hitting American families far harder than Paul Krugman's latest cherry-picked bar graph indicates.
Shockingly, if you ignore how much things actually cost across the board, you can spin a rosy picture in which a greatly delayed slowing of the rate of inflation is actually an incredible accomplishment. But back in the real world, this reality still remains.
Since Biden took office, the compounded or aggregated inflation rate, whichever term you prefer, is over 21 percent. That means that Americans are paying 21 percent more today to live the same way they were living just two and a half years ago. It's hard to express how much of a shock to the system that has been for many families. Despite claims of rising wages (which have not kept up with baseline inflation), the vast majority of people have not received a 21 percent raise over that time period.
"Rob Malley was Joe Biden's chief negotiator for Iran. He's an incredible Iran sympathizer. He is an advocate, a passionate advocate for the disastrous Obama-Iran nuclear deal," Cruz said, adding that Malley has come under investigation by the FBI after his security clearance with the State Department was suspended earlier this year.
Cruz said Malley held one of U.S. history's most significant national security scandals.
"He's had his security clearances stripped, which I want you to pause and think, just how bad does his conduct have to be to have his security clearances pulled by this ideological and radical White House?" Cruz questioned.
Malley has been a top figure in the Biden Administration's Iran policy, including negotiating with Tehran on the Iran nuclear deal.
The war in Israel has prompted GOP lawmakers to scrutinize Malley more intensively. One senior GOP aide said that Malley has been "so suspicious as a briefer" that several Congress members have refused to attend classified briefings he led in the past.
"Three of Rob Malley's top advisers, his inner circle that he relied on, were Iranian operatives. They were recruited by the government of Iran. They were directed by the Iranian foreign minister. They reported to the Iranian foreign minister," Cruz continued.
Cruz said Malley held one of U.S. history's most significant national security scandals.
"He's had his security clearances stripped, which I want you to pause and think, just how bad does his conduct have to be to have his security clearances pulled by this ideological and radical White House?" Cruz questioned.
Malley has been a top figure in the Biden Administration's Iran policy, including negotiating with Tehran on the Iran nuclear deal.
The war in Israel has prompted GOP lawmakers to scrutinize Malley more intensively. One senior GOP aide said that Malley has been "so suspicious as a briefer" that several Congress members have refused to attend classified briefings he led in the past.
"Three of Rob Malley's top advisers, his inner circle that he relied on, were Iranian operatives. They were recruited by the government of Iran. They were directed by the Iranian foreign minister. They reported to the Iranian foreign minister," Cruz continued.
Top Biden Officials Furious Over Admin Resuming Oil and Gas Leasing
Well, I’m not totally shocked that people within President Joe Biden’s administration want to kill all uses of fossil fuels.
Fox News reported that several emails from 2021 show top officials openly lashing out at Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s announcement that the administration would resume oil and gas leasing.
Haaland’s decision responded to a federal court struck down “Biden’s moratorium on leasing issued during his first week in office.”
From Fox News: