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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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