It’s Wednesday, October 12th, 2022…but before we begin, AOC assures us…
There is absolutely no room in this country or world for antisemitism. It is important to see how harmful + dangerous Kanye’s words are – not only to our Jewish brothers, sisters, & siblings, but also to our collective society at large.
Not to mention completely hypocritical. But as you’ll see later, hypocrisy is par for the Progressive course!
Since we’re on the subject of unhinged racists, check out this clip on the mayor of Eastpointe, Michigan, the very personification of power-mad Progressives:
Sad part is, given the intelligence of the average voter, she’ll probably be reelected…though we hope she’s thrown out on her fat, ignorant a*s.
Subsequent to this video, a judge denied the idiot former Detroit cop’s request for a Personal Protection Order against the 80-year-old councilman, which lies at the heart of the video.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, writing at the WSJ, Andy Kessler relates why you can…
“Lockdowns were a huge policy mistake. I blame Silicon Valley. I know, I know, the real blame resides with ill-informed technocrats who instituted the draconian and non-Jeffersonian lockdowns: the Trump and Biden administrations, blue-state governors, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the rest of the alphabet soup of head-nodding agencies. Yet policy makers implemented lockdowns only because they could—because Silicon Valley provided the tools to lock people in their homes without completely imploding the economy.
Think about it. You couldn’t force lockdowns without laptops, Zoom, Amazon deliveries, cloud computing, Slack, QR codes or Netflix. Without them, lockdowns would have lasted two, maybe three weeks tops before the utter destruction of the economy forced everyone back to the workplace. Instead, we took the Faucian bargain of technology-enabled yearlong lockdowns because it was doable. Silicon Valley’s tools became shackles.
Lockdowns came with huge costs: job losses, increased crime, stunted learning, delayed medical treatments, violent protests, government spending blowouts, supply-chain disruptions, inflation, mental-health issues—all avoidable…”
Here’s the juice in meme form courtesy of Balls Cotton:
“Those waggish stickers we’ve been seeing at gas pumps, with President Joe Biden pointing to the inflated price, saying “I did that,” won’t be going away any time soon now that OPEC is cutting global oil supplies by two million barrels a day. But too few realize that this White House’s foreign policy is as responsible for consumer pain at the pump as its big-spending domestic policies are.
Is it likely that if asked, would John Q. Public think that the right man to send to Saudi Arabia to conduct aggressive oil diplomacy is a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces, who last year was being talked up as a possible U.S. ambassador to Israel, and who, working in Barack Obama’s State Department, had failed in negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on the issue of access to Mediterranean natural gas reserves? And would Mr. Public be surprised to hear that two weeks after meeting with the Saudis, this aide—Biden energy security adviser Amos Hochstein—would tell Bloomberg News, “I did not walk away with that understanding” that the Saudis would impose such a large oil export reduction, then grinningly add, “but that’s two weeks ago.”
October surprises during election years have come in many guises in American history, but this year it comes clothed in a ghutrah worn by a young Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has just given Joe Biden, and his Democratic Party, a well-timed payback for accusing the Saudi royal family of “murdering children” during the 2020 presidential campaign and promising he would “make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.” Gasoline at the pump will now be on a sizable upswing on Election Day a month from now as Americans vote for members of Congress.
…That the crown prince would thumb his nose at Biden so flagrantly illustrates the impotency and ineptitude of the former longtime chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As Robert Gates, secretary of defense for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has famouslyquipped, Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” And he was wrong once again—fatally so—in last year’s debacle yanking U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, in which 11 Marines, a soldier, and a Navy corpsman were killed in a terrorist bombing during the evacuation at Kabul airport, the Taliban returned to power, and al-Qaeda now once more enjoy carte blanche within the country.
The ripples of that display to the world of weakness and incompetence enticed Putin to invade Ukraine, emboldened China’s Xi Jinping to launch what may be the prelude to an invasion of free Taiwan, and has now shown Saudi Arabia that it has little to fear from such a feckless U.S. administration.
The Biden administration recently recently swapped two high-level Venezuelan drug traffickers, both nephews of regime ruler Nicolás Maduro’s wife, who were convicted in New York for five American Citgo executives lured to Caracas and then arrested and convicted on phony embezzlement charges, a Marine arrested at a roadblock and held on flimsy firearms violations, as well as a kidnapped 24-year-old Florida man who says he was being waterboarded and electrocuted by Venezuelan intelligence officers while in confinement. The president apparently now hopes the oil-rich, anti-American socialist regime will make up for some of the Saudis’ cuts.
Funny how Democrats, who seek to render fossil fuels obsolete, right now will apparently do anything for an ample supply of evil, filthy oil in the final weeks before mid-term elections that threaten to end their majority in the House of Representatives.
That is not the story here, however. The United States, which defied the experts and became energy independent under Trump, has under Biden shown friend and foe in the world alike just how weak its international hand is. A presumed superpower that is at ideological war with its own domestic energy industry is in no position to negotiate anything with the world’s major oil suppliers. This president, upon taking office last year, scrapped the Keystone XL pipeline that was a few months away from transporting 800,000 barrels of oil a day into the United States. Soon thereafter he issued a series of executive orders obstructing all new oil and natural gas leases on government-held land. This administration has the ignoble distinction of having provided the fewest oil leases of any in the post-war period. It has abused the Defense Production Act of 1950, enacted to support the Korean War effort, to subsidize the production of solar panels.
We are already experiencing the highest inflation in four decades, with a recession already happening or about to. After pleading with and being rebuffed by an ally we called a murderer, we may now pivot and implore an outright enemy in South America to supply us with the U.S. economy’s lifeblood, which we could and should be supplying for ourselves. Biden has already depleted our emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve by about 40 percent, down to 416 million barrels, its lowest level since 1984.
We have been led out onto thin economic ice, which could collapse beneath us given the wrong combination of conditions—say, a serious global oil shock raising the price-per-gallon into double digits, compounded by deep recession, the spread of Europe’s double-digit inflation to our shores, and some unforeseen military aggression abroad.
Experiencing that magnitude of disaster, few among the hordes of unemployed will find much mirth in the Biden gas pump stickers reminding them, “I did that.”“
“There are some little signs that the “red wave” of this election may be picking up speed.
In one of those “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” moments, I continue to notice that the president and vice president are nowhere near the campaign trail with other Democratic candidates most days as the midterm campaign season approaches the final stretch — and almost all of Washington is acting like this is perfectly normal.
Today, President Biden — whose job-approval rating is around 42 percent — will be “participating in a virtual reception for Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester” this evening. Blunt Rochester represents Delaware’s at-large district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Delaware scores a D+6 on the Cook Partisan Voting Index. Blunt Rochester won with 56 percent of the vote in 2016, 64 percent of the vote in 2018, and 57 percent of the vote in 2020. In her last fundraising update, Blunt Rochester had raised more than $2.1 million; her GOP rival, Lee Murphy, had raised a bit more than $288,000.
In other words, with 27 days until Election Day, the president is appearing at a virtual event for a near-lock Democratic candidate in his home state, where the incumbent already enjoys a 7–1 fundraising advantage.
Polls have been fairly consistent in showing Republican candidate J. D. Vance with a lead, but it’s a small one. American Greatness — a group largely attuned with Vance’s philosophy — commissioned a poll and found the Republican Senate candidate ahead of Ryan by two percentage points. Meanwhile, the same survey found the allegedly boring, milquetoast GOP governor Mike DeWine ahead by 22 points. That is not a typo; the poll found a 20-point split between the performances of the GOP senatorial and gubernatorial nominees.
Democrats can read polls, too, and for whatever reason, they don’t see Ryan as a wise investment of limited resources this late in the campaign. If Democrats don’t think they can spare a couple million for a guy who’s only down by a few points in a key Senate race, they must be really worried about some other races.
…Finally, I feel like a lot of Democrat-aligned media voices are sort of sleepwalking into the usual midterm drubbing. Five days ago, CNN asked, “Could Republicans lose a Senate race in deep-red Utah?” Every time I make even the briefest reference to the Mike Lee–Evan McMullin Senate race in Utah, some enthusiastic McMullin supporter on Twitter crashes through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man and insists that McMullin is going to win. Lee’s lead isn’t as big as you might expect, but he’s led every poll. Every poll!
Joe Biden’s job-approval rating in Utah is 27 percent,according to the Civiqs polling firm.You think that’s the kind of environment where a two-term incumbent Republican loses?
When the now-traditional midterm wave hits the Democrats, why does it always seem worse than expected? Probably because so many media voices spend October telling Democrats that it won’t be that bad.“
Maybe…just MAYBE…this is a storm of Progressive policies so perfect even the Gang Who Still Can’t Shoot Straight can’t screw is up. Assuming of course, Trump can keep his mouth and fingers under control until November 9th.
“President Biden’s secretary of the Army responded to the criticism that the military branch was becoming “woke,” saying the branch’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are “important.” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth spoke at a Monday discussion with other military leaders on national security and the branch’s modernization efforts.
While speaking at the event, Wormuth responded to the criticisms that the Army is going “woke” by saying the DEI programs being forced on soldiers are “important.” “We get criticized, frankly, sometimes for being ‘woke,'” Wormuth said. “I’m not sure what ‘woke’ means. I think ‘woke’ means a lot of different things to different people.”
“But, first of all, if ‘woke’ means we are not focused on warfighting, we are not focused on readiness, that doesn’t reflect what I see at installations all around the country or overseas when I go and visit,” the Army secretary continued. “I do think we do have a wide range of soldiers in our Army, and we’ve got to make them all feel included,” Wormuth said. “And that’s why a lot of our diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are important.”…”
No offense, but this is akin to actually having an actual Charlie dispensing air combat maneuvering advice to Top Gun pilots. Boys and girls, can you say, “Useless as a…
We knew you could!
Moving on, here’s a octet of items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
“Austria’s environment minister, Leonore Gewessler, warned that the measure could “greenwash” nuclear power and gas despite the environmental damage they cause. She said calling natural gas that can damage the climate green is misleading and could harm the EU’s credibility.“
Here’s the juice: Given the fact most of its inhabitants are likely to experience a VERY cold winter…
…when it comes to energy policies, we’re relatively certain the EU has surrendered what little credibility it still had.
(3). In another energy-related item, Best of the Web relates Valero Energy VP Scott Folwarkow’s response to a demand from the California Energy Commission to five oil refiners for an explanation why gas prices jumped 84 cents over a 10-day period even as oil prices fell. Folwarkow’s gives it to them with both barrels!
(4). In what should come as a shock to no one…particularly Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden…a Wall Street Journal investigation confirmed more than 2,600 officials at agencies from the Commerce Department to the Treasury Department, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, disclosed stock investments in companies while those same companies were lobbying their agencies for favorable policies, amounting to more than 1 out of 5 senior federal employees from some 50 agencies.
(5). Australia’s SkyNews records…”overzealous”…police who deserve to be not only defunded, but fired:
Guess the spirit of fascism is alive and well down undah!
(7). In another submission from Nick, if there’s ever been a ranker display of hypocrisy on the planet, we haven’t witnessed it:
A battalion of police officers were mobilized to protect Nury Martinez’s (@CD6Nury) house last night from leftist rioters following the audio leak. She was one of the Los Angeles city council members who pushed for the same police to be defunded for others.pic.twitter.com/BUn1NSOesJ
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