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Today’s topic should have been yesterday’s, reigniting presidential campaign observations. Particularly because Joe Biden’s immediate attack on domestic oil production sparked the inflation causing economic upheaval around the world.

According to the BBC @www.bbc.com/news on January 18^th, 2021, the date Biden took office: “A briefing note seen by Canadian and US media says Mr Biden will sign an executive order revoking the permit for Keystone XL on Inauguration Day - 20 January.

“He will also return the US to the Paris climate agreement - a global pact on cutting carbon emissions - reversing another decision by Mr. Trump, who took the US out of the accord on 4 November last year.

“Mr Biden has pledged to make the fight against climate change a top priority of his administration.”

Effects of Biden’s actions can be seen by the fact that in June 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Annual Inflation rose to 9.1%, the highest since 1941. Crude Oil prices averaged over $100 per barrel, while according to the AAA, regular gasoline prices averaged $5.016 in the middle of the month.

As good a recap as can be found anywhere comes from Investopedia, who said: “Yes, oil prices can affect inflation. [T]here is a cause-and-effect relationship between oil prices and inflation. When oil prices rise, it contributes to inflation by increasing the cost of inputs. Inflation measures the overall rate of price increases across the economy. The annual gain in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) set a 40-year high in March 2022 amid COVID-19 supply disruptions. Crude oil prices were the highest in a decade as the U.S. and its allies imposed sanctions on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. Higher oil prices contribute to inflation directly and by increasing the cost of inputs. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in his semiannual testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in March 2022 that, as a rule of thumb, every $10 per barrel increase in the price of crude oil raises inflation by 0.2% and sets back economic growth 0.1%."

Therefore, the horrendous pity of the situation is the fact that the impact on the overall economy of inflation, and the blow to every citizens budget was all known and foreseen. Yet, for purely political purposes and to satisfy demands of the far left factions of the Democrat Party, Biden curbed U.S. oil production anyway.

Now, let's look at the other side as reported by Eustace Huang, a reporter based out of CNBC’s Singapore office, back on Monday, April 13, 2020, in an article titled: “OPEC and allies’ oil production cut is Trump’s ‘biggest and most complex’ deal ever: Dan Yergin”

Mr. Huang writes: “As the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies came to an agreement on a record cut in oil production, U.S. President Donald Trump may have struck his “biggest and most complex deal,” according to oil expert Dan Yergin.

“What was so interesting — among many, very interesting things in this unprecedented event — was the turnaround, the pivot by Donald Trump,” Yergin, who is vice chairman at IHS Markit, told CNBC’s “Street Signs” on Monday.

“Just a few weeks ago, Trump had said the early-March plunge in oil prices were “good for the consumer” as it meant lower gasoline prices. That drop in crude prices had been triggered by an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia after Moscow rejected a proposal by OPEC to cut 1.5 million barrels of production per day.

“The sharp decline in oil prices spurred giant capex and job cuts across the U.S. shale industry, which has some of the highest production costs in the world.

“But Yergin said: ”(Trump) came to see this as a national security issue, also an employment issue, and a very important factor in the U.S. economy … and he just jumped in.”

“This must be the biggest and most complex deal (Trump)’s ever made,” Yergin said. “Not only was he a deal maker, but he was also something of a divorce mediator.” Yergin said there were two main factors driving the turnaround to the deal that just six weeks ago “would not have seemed possible.”

Firstly, he said, the price of oil was in danger of crashing without a deal as there was limited inventory space left. That would have had “severe repercussions” beyond the oil industry itself and other sectors such as finance.

The other driving factor was likely due to a dearth in oil demand, where the “producers found they couldn’t sell their oil.” Crude demand has taken a hit in recent weeks as measures taken by authorities to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have left major economies effectively frozen.

“I think all those things came together but then it was this dealmaker ... Donald Trump who got on the phones,” Yergin said. “I would say it looked like a mission impossible a few weeks ago. Turned out, it was mission possible.”

“His comments came after OPEC+ finalized an agreement to cut production by 9.7 million barrels per day — the single largest output cut in history.

What’s most remarkable is that if you take the politics out of it, any problems in massive oil production would have gone a long way to take care of themselves, whereas: “For his part, Trump has noted that market forces would naturally curb output stateside, after previously stopping short of saying the U.S. would scale back production.”

“Commenting on the deal that has been struck by OPEC+, Yergin said it has “bought time” and avoided what is known as a “tank top” by the end of April to beginning of May.

“He also said it addresses another problem of the buildup in inventories that were so high that they would have left pressure on the market over the next few years.

“This agreement goes two years, so it’s also meant to manage the inventories downward over that period of time,” Yergin said. “What this has done is averted what really would have been a disaster for the oil industry and I think it does give some stabilization.”

Thus, we have two theories at work in real-time, one working to its own advantage regardless of circumstance to constituents. The other taking a broader look before proceeding. Resulting in a case where one side is driven to pursue every situation primarily for its political impact, the other examining practical realities first. And the crime of the situation is that individual citizens are forced to pay the price of the politician’s theoretical battle in real cash, in real time right out of their own pockets.

That’s it for today folks.

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As the New Year approaches, the 2024 Presidential election does as well, suggesting it’s time to return to blogging once more. At the outset, it seems that this time around major performance differences between the two most likely candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, are glaringly obvious using proven history and the nation’s current condition as measuring tools.

Going back to January 20, 2021, Shannon Pettypiece headed an article on NBC News: “Biden takes immediate steps to undo key Trump initiatives, unveils immigration plan,” signing more than a dozen executive actions Wednesday when he arrived at the White House as the 46th president.”

She continued: “Biden signed more than a dozen executive actions Wednesday in the Oval Office just hours after arriving at the White House after having been sworn in as the 46th president, including measures to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change, repeal Trump's restrictions on travel from several Muslim-majority countries, stop construction of the Southern border wall and mandate the wearing of masks on federal property.

“He also used his first day in office to propose a sweeping immigration reform bill, a lofty legislative task his administration has decided to take on from the start”.

Three years have now passed, more than sufficient time to compare results, particularly regarding the Southern border wall and "sweeping immigration reform." As noted by John Binder, Saturday, December 23, 2023 on Breitbart, he wrote: “President Joe Biden has helped break records this year at the United States-Mexico border. In particular, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversaw record illegal immigration, again, to the U.S. in 2023.”

Key issues from Binder’s article follow:

“1. 5,000 Illegal Aliens Released Daily
According to private testimony from DHS officials given to House and Senate committees this month, the agency is releasing about 5,000 illegal aliens every day from the border into American communities.

Put another way, Biden’s DHS is releasing about 150,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. interior every month — the equivalent of adding ten Martha’s Vineyards to the country every 30 days.

“2. 670,000 “Known Got-Aways”
In fiscal year 2023, typically how the figures are tracked, the House Homeland Security Committee estimates that some 670,000 illegal aliens are known to have successfully crossed the border.

These illegal aliens are called “known got-aways” and do not include those illegal aliens who are unknown to Border Patrol. The data indicates that more known illegal alien got-aways have crossed the border this year than residents who live in Boston, Massachusetts.

“I fear the extent of the threat posed by the record-number of got-aways on [DHS] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas’ watch won’t be clear until it is too late,” Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), who chairs the committee, said in a statement.

“3. Nearly 2.5 Million “Encounters” at Southern Border
Since Biden took office, his DHS has counted so-called “encounters” with illegal aliens at the border whereas past administrations kept track of apprehensions.

In fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol encountered nearly 2.5 million illegal aliens at the southern border alone. Nationwide, more than 3.2 million illegal aliens were encountered.

For comparison, close to four million babies are born annually in the U.S. The number of illegal aliens encountered at the nation’s borders this year, alone, is approaching that of annual U.S. births, falling short by just a few hundred thousand.

“4. Over 35,000 Illegal Alien Convicts Trying to Get into U.S.
As Green’s committee notes, in fiscal year 2023, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents arrested more than 35,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions as they attempted to make entry into the U.S.

Of those criminal illegal aliens, nearly 600 were identified as known gang members, including from the violent MS-13 Gang which operates out of El Salvador and has taken foot in states like New York, Virginia, Maryland, and California, among others.

“5. 169 Illegal Aliens on “Terrorist Watch List” Captured

Perhaps most concerning to law enforcement agencies is the skyrocketing number of illegal aliens arriving at the border who are matches for those listed on the federal government’s “Terrorist Watch List.”

In fiscal year 2023, 169 illegal alien terrorists were arrested by Border Patrol attempting to cross the southern border.

“The number of individuals apprehended illegally crossing the southwest border and found to be on the terrorist watchlist has increased 2,500 percent from Fiscal Years 2017-2020 to Fiscal Year 2023.  “And those are only who we’ve caught,” Green said this week.

“How many others have slipped by as Border Patrol agents have increasingly been pulled off the line to process illegal aliens crossing the border?” he continued. “How many violent criminals and gang members are now at large in our communities?”

Thus, on the first issue of contention, illegal immigration, results show that the nation has gone from the safest it’s ever been under Trump to one where “Biden’s DHS is releasing about 150,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. interior every month — the equivalent of adding ten Martha’s Vineyards to the country every 30 days,” and no one knows, “[h]ow many violent criminals and gang members are now at large in our communities.”

It seems quite obvious as to whom the nation is better off with on this one.

That’s it for today folks. 

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Following Rupert Murdoch’s departure, Fox News moved gradually left. To the extent that, Paul Ryan’s joining the board as Chairman of the Fox Nominating and Governance Committee, was stoked primarily by hatred of Trump.

On Monday, June 27, further evidence appeared in the headline; “Fox News' Brian Kilmeade: Trump 'Unhinged,” which seemed to the casual reader as if happening just then. Details, however, reveal that Kilmeade was referring to something taking place back "between the election and Jan. 6.”

Back on Sunday June 6, Kilmeade had said on Media Buzz: "The president was unhinged during that period, recalling the weeks between the 2020 presidential election and Jan. 6, 2021 — when protesters rioted and stopped constitutional procedure certifying the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden in key battleground states contested by House and Senate Republicans.

"I interviewed him at West Point, and he was kind enough to give me a few minutes," Kilmeade continued. "I've never seen him so angry. That was in between the election and Jan. 6.”

"As soon as we were done, he just stormed off. And you know how long I've known him, for 15 years or 20 years prior to him going to the White House. I've never seen him so angry.

"He's convinced he was robbed. There's no doubt about it."

From the slant of the article, and Kilmeade’s’ verbiage, the efforts to damage Trump are evident. As a practical matter, however, considering a presidential election had just been stolen from him, Trump’s merely being “angry” seems relatively mild and certainly controlled.

In this case, readers again have a very firm handle on reality and express their knowledge impressively.

Whoaman wrote: “Paul Ryan must have gotten to Kilmeade. He is now sounding like a liberal hack. By the way, Trump had every reason to be angry. If you are watching the new evidence that is emerging, the latest coming from Maricopa Co. in AZ, it is obvious how sinister the corruption was. And now our country is paying a hefty price for it. And just because people didn’t like the demeanor of the President. Don’t even have to ask my liberal friends, they still think JB is “Mr. Wonderful.” I guess once a democrat, always a democrat.”

Sam Fox wrote: “Obviously Mr. K did NOT do any research. I'd like for the coward to explain WHY so many ballots were mailed out & WHY ALL the swing states stopped at the same time in the early morning hours just AFTER the election. How does he explain the ILLEGAL ways that state legislatures were subverted to make cheating easier.

How can this 'person' ignore the THOUSANDS of sworn affidavits by poll workers. These workers are under penalty for perjury if they lied. I call BK a 'person' because IMO he is not even close to being a real man!

“The above only touches on SOME of the evidence BK hid from. Any one watch Mike Lindell's videos?”

Dennis Patriot 70 said: “Brian Kilmeade has lost all credibility with people who are clearly in the know--and there are literally millions of us--who have seen and reviewed the available data, from multiple corroborating sources....and we know the real numbers. Any program where Kilmeade appears totally turns me off, and he needs to become a real journalist and seek the facts, not the comments of sources who have not done the hard work of actually seeking the facts. Shame on you Kilmeade.”

Nita wrote: "Yes, Trump could have lied and said what Kilmeade thought he should of said and maybe his approval rating may be 70% but it would not be Trump. He told you what he thought and let the chips fall where they may. That's why people liked him, he didn't just lie like other politicians. We know now six states that were corrupt. Trump was right. The election was stolen. We all know that and not talking about it will not make any difference. I also feel bad for the ones working the election that tried to report what happened and  they were ignored, like it didn't matter. Honest elections are important to some, too bad they are not to all. It is all about political power to some. That's sick!" 

Joe or Walter? said: “I think the Dems were so positively sure that Trump didn't stand a chance against Hillary, that they didn't bother to cheat in that election, so they upped their, lie, steal, cheat, rig, fraud game with the 2020 election to make damn good and sure Trump had no way of winning, and even though he got more votes than any other incumbent President in history, they rigged the voting machines and the ballot mail in boxes so much so that Biden (who rarely came out of his basement bunker to campaign, and when he did was lucky to get a 100 people to show up) somehow got 81 million votes. All the while Trump was getting from 20,000 to 60,000 supporters at ALL of his 2 to 3 campaign stops per day in 2019. So if anyone is gullible and naïve enough to think that Dems didn't steal the 2020 election than I've got some excellent ocean front property in Arizona to sell you cheap.”

So, here again evidence establishes presence of thoughtful, well-informed, articulate citizens refusing to accept pap and propaganda designed to defy reality. The truth being put extremely well by reader Joe or Walter, worth repeating : “[A]nd even though he got more votes than any other incumbent President in history, they rigged the voting machines and the ballot mail in boxes so much so that Biden (who rarely came out of his basement bunker to campaign, and when he did was lucky to get a 100 people to show up) somehow got 81 million votes. All the while Trump was getting from 20,000 to 60,000 supporters at ALL of his 2 to 3 campaign stops per day in 2019. So if anyone is gullible and naïve enough to think that Dems didn't steal the 2020 election than I've got some excellent ocean front property in Arizona to sell you cheap.”

Thus, just like the first time, the 70 million or so now aware Trump supporters will more than likely find a way to insure reelection. And this time they’ll be joined by 60% or more of the “81 million” Biden voters who’ve certainly had more than enough of him and his party.

That’s it for today folks.

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 Friday’s Michael Goodwin column @nypost.com, condenses what is likely voter’s opinions and beliefs across the country regarding the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade. A New York City dweller himself, in a very rare circumstance found considerable disagreement from significant numbers of his readers.

The column, “Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal may help the Democrats in midterms,” first describes the court decision. Next, including Goodwin's rarely offered own view that “while I favor abortion rights with restrictions, I agree with those who argue that Roe created a constitutional right and a trimester scheme that had no legal or historic basis.”

Proceeding to make the article’s point, Goodwin writes: "Most Democrats, of course, are furious with [the] case, but much of their reaction inadvertently proved the soundness of the court’s rulings. The widespread promise to pass legislation to codify abortion rights, for example, underscores the central point the justices were making — that because the Constitution is silent on abortion, the matter is rightly left to voters and lawmakers in each state. 

“The court defeat on abortion, however, might do the trick [for Democrats], especially in some suburban swing districts that could keep [them] in power. Pelosi reflected the possibility when she called the Roe ruling “outrageous and heart-wrenching,” but instantly pivoted to politics by adding: “But make no mistake: The rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November.” 

“Even a confused Sen. Elizabeth Warren stumbled to the same conclusion. After declaring herself “spitting mad” and calling the justices who voted to overturn Roe “six extremists,” she said: “In a democracy, on this issue, the Supreme Court does not get the last word, the people do. And we’re going to fight back.” 

And then, in another quite rare occurrence, a considerable number of ordinarily exceptionally loyal readers posted 494 comments, the vast majority in disagreement with Goodwin, while offering the highly likely opinion of most typical voters and worthy of posting as written by them.

Florida Elder wrote: “The Dems hoped this would be a distraction and get the voters back in their camp. I presume your view is from New York City. Well here in Florida it is not a distraction. Every person I speak to has the price of gas, the prices at the grocery stores, the shortage of certain items, the open border from Mexico and other policies since the Dems are in the White House and the House that make them loudly denounce Biden and the Dems. They don't understand New Yorkers marching when they live in a state where abortions will continue as they always have. Floridians understand it was not a ban on abortions but the Supreme Court leaving it to the states to decide about abortions. We see it as an excuse to march, be violent, destroy property, bash the cops, assault people, disrupt traffic and do general mayhem. They lie in wait for opportunities like this to destroy our country and they try to further divide us. It is not going to save them. The economy is tanking day by day and everyone fears a recession or even a depression. When there isn't enough money to feed their family and drive to work and pay the rent, they will not care about abortions. They are trying to survive and worried about what tomorrow will bring.

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MM opined: “I usually like Goodwin but he's wrong. Look at where the "night of rage" occurred. In liberal states plus a 1 off in Phoenix. No massive protests in TX, NC, GA, WI, MI, OH, FL, etc. Abortion is such a random occurring event (even women that have an abortion rarely have them every day) it doesn't really register. Buying gas and groceries is something people do everyday. Watching Biden fall off bicycles and not be able to read off a cue card is a weekly event. Abortion is blown out of proportion. Most of the "polls" say most Americans are ok with abortion, roughly 60 -40 for, but it ranks like 18th on what is important to voters.”

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Ella Jones wrote: “I live in Indiana, and I can tell you no one really cares about this. No protests. No rioting. I don't believe this will make much of a difference in the mid-terms. Within a few weeks people's attention will again focus on whether they have enough money to buy gas or groceries.

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Nativefulton wrote: “Michael. I agree with you most of the time but I think you have been inhaling the decriminalized ganja lately on our streets. But seriously, I respectfully disagree. With inflation on a climb along with unbearable gas prices, abortion and gun issues will be on the back burner for the time being. Congress will be taken over by Republicans this November.

Joe DeCarlo wrote: “Love me some Michael Goodwin but he is wrong here. Do you really think real Americans, this November, are going to put Roe v Wade over insane inflation, gas prices, crime and the impending job losses and recession? Yes it will enthuse the crazies, but there are more real people, thank God, than the loony left, who think of things that they have to deal with on a DAILY basis than abortion rights.

John wrote: “Bill Clinton said abortion should be safe, legal and rare. If the Dems had heeded all of that, we wouldn’t be here. Abortion all the way to term is absurd and reflects the craziness and the lack of seriousness the left displays all the time in everything. They have themselves to blame, and, yes, there will be a Red Tsunami coming in the midterms that will be of Biblical proportions and will put leftist politics out of commission for decades to come.

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craig summers said, “.........Even a confused Sen. Elizabeth Warren stumbled to the same conclusion. After declaring herself “spitting mad” and calling the justices who voted to overturn Roe “six extremists,” she said: “In a democracy, on this issue, the Supreme Court does not get the last word, the people do. And we’re going to fight back ...." That was the point of the Supreme Court decision - return the decision of abortion to the states i.e., the people. Warren got her wish.

What’s most important here is that responders present well-composed, intelligent composites of the personal situations of most citizens, much less voters. And while abortion may be a major concern to many, budgetary concerns apply to most. Further compounded by the fact that abortion legislation itself hasn’t changed at all for significant numbers. What has changed is jurisdiction, moving from federal to state. Thus, as time passes and specificity regarding the issue increases, ramifications may very well turn out to be far less damaging to Republican candidates than presently expected.

That’s it for today folks.

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BloggeRhythms

Posted here relatively often over the past several years regards how Progressives rarely look past the moment, in knee-jerk reactions frequently pursuing or creating causes that will someday come back to harm them. Particularly the minimum wage, wherein their limited or totally absent business experience precludes them from understanding the concept of profit and loss.

For the most part, it seems Progressives believe that businesses automatically earn income and therefore the far left’s job is to obtain as much of that revenue as possible for themselves. And then, after taking their cut, redistributing the remainder across their base of intellectually limited followers in return for their votes.

In the “real world,” however, the reverse is true. Businesses not only have to manage every nickel and dime to stay profitable; competitors, astute customers, taxes, and regulatory costs produce significant pressure income-wise. And therefore, while raising labor costs for the same job may benefit workers in the short run, the increase will force innovation as well for management.

In that regard, yesterday June 23, Maxwell Newman wrote @newsmax.com: “The rise of the robots is no longer sci-fi. It’s happening now, as Amazon has just rolled out its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” for its warehouses this week.

“The Proteus system is not the only robot Amazon has recently announced. A robotic arm, called Cardinal, has the ability to move packages as heavy as 50 pounds, and the company hopes to install the system on warehouse floors next year.”

“Amazon says the robots can improve employee safety, a record where the company has been repeatedly criticized. The company says Cardinal “reduces the risk of employee injuries by handling tasks that require lifting and turning of heavy packages or complicated packing in a confined space.” More broadly, Amazon says automation has “transformed our business.”

Probing further into the matter, “Amazon has actually employed robots for years. Approximately 15,000 Kiva robots, now dubbed Amazon Robotics, were working in 10 warehouses as far back as 2014.” At the same time, “[M]any companies push ahead with automation to cut costs and up productivity.”

While Amazon steadfastly maintains that automation allows “people and technology [to work] safely together,” and that “our vision was never tied to a binary decision of people or technology,” Martin Ford, author of “Rise of the Robots,” a book covering automation offers a different opinion.

Ford told The New York Times three years ago, “This technology will eventually displace a lot of people in those warehouses. I would not say that, overnight, huge numbers of jobs disappear. Maybe the first indication is they don’t get rid of those people—but the pace of job creation slows down.”

Several readers offered opinions of their own.

Will not ever for a democrat wrote: “Keep raising the minimum wage and robots will replace all manual jobs. There should be no minimum wage requirements

FritztheCat11 said: “Amazon to the "Woke generation, "We'll back your social issues 100%" and give you a better life." One week down the road, "Oh BTW, we're laying you off, because we found robots to be less demanding."

1984 opined: “Robots don't unionize.”

Most interestingly, the concept of robotics itself, in today’s day and age is quite easily understandable. Automation replacing humans for rote tasks is not very difficult for even those lowest on intellectual totem poles to grasp. Unfortunately for Progressives though, in the world of grains of common sense, they’re somewhat lower than that.

That’s it for today folks.

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Today’s another wherein Joe Biden’s senility has granted the Republican party an enormous gift. Having one more chance to correct his ways and give his party the opportunity to retain electoral power next November, Biden chose to remain on a path to political obliteration instead.

Rather than returning to inevitable oil production, whereas there is currently no viable, affordable alternative, he instead “called on Congress to pass a three-month suspension of the federal gasoline tax to help combat record pump prices and provide temporary relief for American families this summer.

"We can bring down the price of gas and give families just a little bit of relief," Biden said in a White House address,” according to newsmax.com. The statement carries significant incredibility considering, as noted by Larry Bell, last Friday, June 17, also on newsmax.com, “Climate Change” was a fictional political tool to begin with.

Bell recalls that “[e]xcept maybe for a candid admission from former IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer, who advised in 2010 that “… one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

“Fast forward then to true agendas of another climate and environment “expert” and Democratic “Green New Deal” architect, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY.

"As AOC’s former chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti told then-Washington state’s climate director Sam Ricketts during a May 2019 meeting, "The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all."

Chakrabarti then asked, "Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing."

Bell closes by summarizing this way: “When science becomes political, it can no longer be dignified nor trusted as science."

"As H.L. Mencken observed in his 1918 essay In Defense of Women, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

The ploy was often mentioned by Rush, to whom the employment of what was originally called “Global Warming” was a hot button [no pun intended.] He had a very firm handle on how this fictional fear was manipulated by the left for political purposes. In fact, what went unmentioned by leftists and the mainstream media was how, when temperatures never rose as drastically as predicted, the name was subtly changed to “Climate Change” whereupon a whole new of set of Saul Alinsky type threats had to be invented that remained ”outside the expertise of the enemy.“   

Back on February 17, 2019 Rush maintained: ‘’Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."

Now today, we have a president of The United States of America, who for purely political purposes shut off oil domestic production in turn causing crippling inflation, financially harming enormous numbers of citizens least able to afford increases in living costs. While at the same time this same president tries to convince the voting public, “Putin did it.” And then, as said at the start, when given a golden opportunity to correct an incredible error in judgement, stays on political course to give his political rivals enormous advantage. In the world of “stupid,” continuing to follow the “Climate Change” fiction is in a class of its own.

On another matter, as reported by Nick Koutsobinas @newsmax.com, “Constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz in a Sunday Breitbart piece called out his former Harvard colleague Laurence Tribe 

"In a recent CNN interview, Tribe assured his viewers that 'without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt' Trump was guilty of numerous crimes, including the 'attempted murder' of Vice President Mike Pence. He said: 'You don't have to go to law school' to know that these crimes have been committed.'

"Well, actually you do," Dershowitz added. "Any first-year law student writing such drivel on a criminal law exam would receive a D-, even with grade inflation. It is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard a law professor say.

"There is much to criticize about Trump's actions of January 6, 2021. But even suggesting that he is guilty of attempting to murder his vice president shows judgment akin to supporting Michael Avenatti for president.

"This is important," Dershowitz said, "because Tribe has become the go-to academic spokesperson for the woke hard left on all legal matters Trump. If this is representative of their thinking, they — and we — are in real trouble."

What’s important here, is that even a lifelong liberal like Alan Dershowitz has apparently had enough of the “woke hard left “to call them out, while in the process providing some support for Trump. And in turn establishing that no firm judgments can be made about anything until both sides have proven their cases unequivocally.

That’s it for today folks.

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Today’s premise stems from Tim Murtaugh @www.heritage.org  back on August 6, 2021, regarding Biden’s penchant for lying without hesitation or compunction.

Murtagh writes, “to hear President Joe Biden tell it, he is everyman. Almost literally.

“He’s a truck-driving, long-ball-hitting outlaw who is uncommonly brave, marched for civil rights, and was an accomplished scholar in law school.

“It’s an impressive resume, especially for a politician who has spent most of the past 48 years in Washington, D.C”.

“And almost all of it is either highly embellished or completely untrue. Largely protected by the media, “especially throughout his 2020 campaign for president and since taking office in January, Biden’s penchant for falsehoods has been with him for decades.“ 

Murtagh presents several examples of fabrication, including telling workers at a Mack Trucks facility in Pennsylvania: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man.” This, of course, is nonsense.” [T]he closest Biden apparently ever got to driving one was a 535-mile trip as a passenger in 1973, when as a freshman senator he said he wanted to understand what truckers experience.

When called on this, “the White House fell back on its habit of describing things as they are not, weakly noting that Biden once had a summer job driving a school bus, which most decidedly isn’t an 18-wheel Mack Truck.”

Similarly, “while hosting the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House before the Fourth of July weekend, Biden boasted that he hit a 368-foot drive “off the right-centerfield wall” during his second Congressional Baseball Game at old RFK Stadium in 1974.

“Newspaper accounts of the game, though, show that Biden went 0-for-2”.

“But truck-drivin’, baseball-smashin’ Joe Biden doesn’t stop there.

“During his campaign for president, he said at least three times that he had been arrested by police in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison.

“It didn’t happen”.

Claiming that as a college student, he was arrested for attempting to enter a women’s dormitory on the campus of Ohio University, that wasn’t true either. Nor was a “tense encounter with police” in 1963. Visiting Washington as a student, wandering into the U.S. Senate chamber, he was not “arrested by a Capitol Police officer,” but merely asked to leave.

Then in presidential primaries, “Biden told a gut-wrenching story about a journey he made as vice president to a dangerous area of Afghanistan."

Asked by a four-star general, he said, “to pin a Silver Star on a Navy captain who had displayed incredible bravery in rappelling down a 60-foot ravine under fire to retrieve the body of a fallen comrade.

“Biden said he unflinchingly waved off those who said it was too perilous for him to make the trip to Afghanistan.

“We can lose a vice president,” he said. “We can’t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.”

“When the time came to pin the medal on the Navy captain, Biden said, the man refused it because he had been unable to save the life of his fellow serviceman.

“It turns out that Biden was combining pieces of several different events into one account that makes him look like he selflessly went into harm’s way to honor an American hero.

“He once did go to Afghanistan, but as a senator and not as vice president. And he did once pin a medal on the chest of a soldier who believed he didn’t deserve the honor.

“But the hero who rappelled into the ravine was an Army specialist who was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama, not Biden, six years later."

“As The Washington Post reported: ‘In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.’”

And now today, June 17, 2022, Eric Mack writes @newsmax.com “Exxon Mobil has fired back at President Joe Biden's calling out U.S. energy producers amid rampant inflation and rising gasoline costs, placing blame on the oil companies and saying they need to ''work with my administration to bring forward concrete, near-term solutions that address the crisis.''

“Exxon Mobil not only laid out its investments and communication with the Biden administration, but a press release Wednesday blasted the administration's energy policies and made a call for Biden to act.”

''In the short term, the U.S. government could enact measures often used in emergencies following hurricanes or other supply disruptions – such as waivers of Jones Act provisions and some fuel specifications to increase supplies,''

Ways to promote investment include “regular and predictable lease sales, as well as streamlined regulatory approval and support for infrastructure such as pipelines.''

Exxon went on to say, “'We have been in regular contact with the administration to update the president and his staff on how ExxonMobil has been investing more than any other company to develop U.S. oil and gas supplies,'' the company's release began. ''This includes investments in the U.S. of more than $50 billion over the past five years, resulting in an almost 50% increase in our U.S. production of oil during this period.

''Globally, we've invested double what we've earned over the past five years – $118 billion on new oil and gas supplies compared to net income of $55 billion. This is a reflection of the company's long-term growth strategy, and our commitment to continuously invest to meet society's demand for our products.

“Exxon Mobil also took up opposition to Biden's criticism of oil company profits.

''Specific to refining capacity in the U.S., we've been investing through the downturn to increase refining capacity to process U.S. light crude by about 250,000 barrels per day – the equivalent of adding a new medium-sized refinery,'' the release added. ''We kept investing even during the pandemic, when we lost more than $20 billion and had to borrow more than $30 billion to maintain investment to increase capacity to be ready for post-pandemic demand.''

A reader, Boomer, clearly established that the voting public is fully aware of who did what, when and why: “I don't know about any of this, but what I do know is Trump had us energy independent, gas was under 2 bucks, the democrats stopped drilling on federal lands, we are buying oil from Russia and talking to other foreign countries, and gas is averaging 5 bucks. So rather than go back to what we were doing under Trump, we have a peeing match between big oil and the democrats'. In the meantime big oil reaps huge profits and the average American suffers. Great job you democrat supporters, have you learned your lesson yet?”

All boiling down to a frustrated nation, paying exorbitant costs for purely political purposes. But suffering voters and disappointed others don’t really matter much to Biden. Because if desired results don’t occur, he simply makes one’s up instead.

That’s it for today folks.

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