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The Energy Absurdity of the Week: Media Suddenly Discovers Politicians Make Promises for Campaign Donations
But only when Trump does it.
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
The news today is filled with reports by the legacy media outlets that form the propaganda wing of the Democrat party expressing shock and surprise that a presidential contender made some promises to business executives as he asked them for big contributions to his campaign.
Why, the nerve! That’s never happened, has it? Apparently, media outlets ranging from the Washington Post to Politico to Reuters to the New York Times to the Guardian to the Atlantic had never heard of such a thing happening until it involved a dinner for oil and gas executives hosted by - you guessed it - Donald J. Trump.
You don’t have to believe me: Just go out to Google and do a search on “Trump and oil executives,” and see what comes up.
Here’s what I found:
I especially love the headline from Politico: “A little bold and gross: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign.”
Hey, you never saw that publication complaining about the NRDC, Sierra Club or PETA writing executive orders for Joe Biden to sign. You sure as hell don’t see any of those propaganda outlets bitching when the Center For Biological Diversity dictates endangered species listings to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, or when EV makers and wind and solar developers literally wrote entire sections in the Inflation Reduction Act that now plow billions of dollars of subsidies back into their own pockets.
Truly, the sort of rampant crony capitalism running out-of-control in Washington right now is fantastic to the media so long as Democrats are in charge.
But let Trump promise to take action to reverse some of Biden’s climate alarm policy madness while soliciting donations, and you’d think the damn world has come to an end.
One of my favorite excerpts from the WaPo story comes in the first 2 paragraphs:
Former president Donald Trump repeatedly ranted about wind power during a fundraising dinner with oil and gas industry executives last week, claiming that the renewable-energy source is unreliable, unattractive and bad for the environment.
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
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Wooo-hooo! Who do I send the check to? I’m happy to pay for truth-telling like this, and so should every one of those present at that Mar-a-Lago event.
Meanwhile, the writers at the far-left Guardian seem to be having a case of the vapors here:
In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.
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I mean, this is just the same kind of stuff Trump did in his first term. Were these clowns just not paying attention?
And that last sentence about Biden’s ‘pause’ in LNG export permits: Are we really to believe these fake journalists aren’t aware that order was made purely as a sop to Biden’s own campaign funders in the climate alarm lobby?
Like it or not, this is how American politics work: Individuals, NGOs, unions, companies and entire industries tend to donate money to politicians who promise to take policy actions that are best for their own interests.
One of the big media complaints about Trump is that he tends to be so direct and blunt about it, or as multiple stories complain, he takes a “transactional approach” to politics. Well hell, all that means is he’s being unusually honest about what everyone knows is going on here.
What these propagandists still don’t get after all these years of covering Trump is that his direct and blunt approach to politics is one of the main reasons why he won in 2016, probably won in 2020, and is increasingly likely to win again this year. The fact that his behavior is “unusual” for a political figure is actually one of his main assets.
Back in 2016, an unusually high percentage of oil executives supported Hillary Clinton instead of Trump. If they make that same mistake in judgment again this time around, well, they will richly deserve what they get from a second Biden term.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-week-a36?publication_id=712558&post_id=144477152&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Biden Doubles Down on Incorrect Inflation Claims
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 09 May 2024 10:22 AM EDT
President Joe Biden, still insisting that he is turning the economy around, repeated claims Wednesday that inflation "was 9% when I came to office," but federal reports show otherwise.
"No president has had the run we've had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation," Biden told CNN's Erin Burnett. "It was 9% when I came to office."
But The New York Post noted that inflation was at 1.4% when Biden took office in January 2021.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics records, overall inflation was at 1.4% in January 2021. It climbed to 4.2% in just a few months in April 2021, then reached 9.1%, a 40-year high, by June 2022.
Meanwhile, inflation as of March was at 3.5%, 2.1 percentage points higher than it was when Biden was sworn in.
The president made similar claims in April after the BLS March reports were released, blaming former President Donald Trump for the rapid climb in prices and claiming that his administration "dramatically reduced inflation from 9% down to close to 3%."
"We're better situated than where we were when we took office, where inflation was skyrocketing," Biden said then.
Biden also defended his policies after Burnett pressed him on polls showing that voters trust Trump more on the economy.
He responded that he has already "turned around" the economy, even though interest rates and inflation remain high.
Biden's critics say massive spending bills passed in his first year of office fueled inflation.
According to BLS data, the average prices of goods and services have increased 19% in the past four years. Prices increased by 8% during Trump's four years in office.
Burnett reminded Biden that home prices have doubled from before the pandemic and consumer confidence is near a two-year low. But Biden insisted that polling data has been "wrong all along."
"Look at the [University of] Michigan survey — 65% of the American people think they're in good shape economically," he said. "They think the nation is not in good shape. They're personally [in] good shape."
Biden also blamed high inflation on "shrinkflation" and "corporate greed," where before he blamed it on COVID-19 supply chains and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The fact is that if you take a look at what the people have, they have the money to spend; it angers them and angers me that you have to spend more," Biden said. "For example, the whole idea of this notion Sen. [Bob] Casey [of Pennsylvania] talked about, shrink inflation. For example, Snickers bars, they did a thing, and it's like 20% less for the same price. That's corporate greed. And we've got to deal with it."
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-inflation-economy/2024/05/09/id/1164063/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM620157_05092024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010102u0akor
Society’s Gordian Knots
By Robert Arvay
DEI, which stinks to the public, morphs into creative new acronyms
By Jack Hellner
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democrat party’s hard bigotry of no expectations
By Andrea Widburg
Crew cleaning campus protest graffiti spray paint over pro-Hamas protestors blocking them
By Monica Showalter
Stormy Daniels courtroom just gets worse and worse
By Monica Showalter
Stormy bring back that sunny day
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Democrats may be the dog that caught the car
By Timothy Jankowski
If you have been following Conservative media recently on the subject of the Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels trial in New York City, you have probably heard numerous commentators express the opinion that, even though Alvin Bragg’s case against President Donald Trump is largely falling apart, the fact that he is being tried by a highly biased jury, he will be convicted nonetheless. I can only say that if you are a Democrat you should be crossing your fingers that this does not happen. Let me explain why….
It’s very clear that the initial Democrat strategy to take down Trump was to engage in a shock and awe lawfare campaign by utilizing Democrat state and federal prosecutors to file so many criminal charges against the former president that the GOP would have no choice but to abandon him. Their miscalculation however, was confusing the weak-kneed Republican ruling class with the hardcore conservative base that had long ago realized that the deep state would do anything to maintain power—the voters consequently embraced Trump, despite the multiple charges, and handed him the party’s nomination.
Now, if Alvin Bragg had charged Trump with a single felony count of [blah, blah, blah] and a jury had convicted him, the judge in the case could have sentenced Trump to probation and a substantial fine, perhaps even requiring him not to leave the state or at least having him check-in in-person with his probation officer on a regular basis, which would have allowed Democrats to significantly impede the Trump campaign. Additionally, it would allow the Democrats to run advertisements claiming that Donald Trump was a “convicted felon.”
But because TDS is real and the concept of “nuance” is completely lost on liberals, they instead charged ahead like a bull in a china shop with 34 felony indictments against the former president. This means if Trump is convicted, the judge will have no choice but to impose an incredibly harsh sentence.
Consider, if Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, offering a lenient sentence such as probation would be prima facie evidence that the case were overcharged, especially if the judge postponed sentencing pending appeal. Find me another person convicted of 34 felonies in a single trial anywhere in the U.S. who wasn’t immediately remanded to prison and…well, find that person first and we’ll discuss it further.
So if Trump is convicted, and keep in mind that the 34 indictments are carbon copies of the original charge meaning that if he is found guilty of one he will be found guilty of all of them, there would be no reason as to why he would not immediately be sent to prison. Even if he were to be given only six months per felony conviction, it would result in a sentence of 17 years, not a term that could be put off under normal court guidelines.
If Democrats think that imprisoning their primary presidential rival for two decades or more right before the election based on an eight-year-old case about how payments to an attorney were labeled is a winning strategy, they are living in an alternate reality. It’s certainly likely that the average American is tuned out to the current court proceedings, but if the leader of the Republican party were to be jailed just a few months before the election you can bet they’d start paying attention and asking questions.
The reality is that charging Trump with 34 felonies leaves the court with no wiggle room whatsoever. If he is convicted, the court will have no choice but to impose a draconian sentence on him or be exposed as a totally fraudulent entity. Either Trump engaged in an activity that was so serious it required being charged with 34 felonies eight years after the events occurred, or the “crime” of which he will be convicted of is so unthreatening to the citizenry that he can continue to be allowed to walk the streets free to potentially “re-offend.”
The reality is that the Democrats are like a dog chasing a car. They won’t know what to do if they catch it. There is literally no way the already pathetic media could spin a conviction as anything other than a massive overreach of the law. The MSM is already struggling to explain the crime that is being charged. If Trump were to be convicted and given a lengthy prison sentence right before the election there’s no plausible way they could justify his incarceration.
At this point the best outcome that Democrats could hope for would be a hung jury where they could blame some juror as a Trump supporter, whether or not that claim had any basis in reality; but if Donald Trump is convicted, they are opening a Pandora’s Box that may swallow them whole.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/democrats_may_be_the_dog_that_caught_the_car.html
For Trump to win, we must defeat the left’s last gasp of Nazi slurs
By D. Parker
The Deep State Exposed Itself
By J.B. Shurk
An Honest Judge Exposes The Dishonesty Around The Mar-A-Lago Case
By Ron Wright
Defund the Universities That Create the Hate
By P.F. Kelly, Jr.
Thanks to the Hamas-sponsored anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rallies happening on college campuses right now, what were once monolithically progressive and Biden-supporting Democrat enclaves in our country are quickly morphing into energetic Trump 2024 rallies. We are witnessing a nationwide tutorial on how to turn disinterested, pleasure-seeking youths into rabid Trump supporters.
What had seemed like an indestructible progressive monolith on campus has revealed some cracks, emboldening (finally) the sane commonsense students in their midst. They have learned that their progressive opponents aren’t very smart or well-informed, and their campus hegemony is not inevitable. Talk about unintended consequences. President Trump must be an evil genius after all.
Trump couldn’t have planned this any better. Could anything have inspired the graduating seniors at the University of Michigan, hardly a bastion of conservatism, to break out in chants of “USA, USA”? Probably nothing, except an interruption of their graduation ceremony by protesters from Black Lives Matters and Hamas. If those two groups join forces on America’s college campuses and take their show on the road for a tour of America’s cities this summer, get ready for a Trump landslide in November. Meanwhile, down at Louisiana State University and other southern schools, where one would expect such a reaction, a large crowd of students drowned out a Hamas protest with the same loud chants of “USA, USA.”
Republicans and conservatives generally have been unable to pull the masks off the rabid Marxists who run America’s universities to reveal their hateful ideology. Colleges have fought off attacks on their indoctrination of America’s youth by hiding behind credentialism and an aura of invincibility. It had started to seem like they were truly untouchable. But left-wing rallies are being overwhelmed by a tide of counterprotesters who believe in this country, who believe in truth and decency, and who are disgusted with the actions and hateful ideas of the radical rabble in the Hamas villages on our campuses.
What is being revealed in these Hamas villages? A university pedagogy based on “othering,” a pedagogy of grievance, of blame. In modern academic scholarship, soaked in racist paradigms and theories of oppression, someone is always getting screwed. Nothing is ever anyone’s fault. If you are in an oppressed group, you never have to take responsibility for your actions. If you’re oppressed, you have every right to be angry at your so-called oppressors, an anger which, continually stoked by ivory-tower academics and oppression-industry “sages,” quickly morphs into hate for the other party, the perceived oppressor.
Today it’s the Jews. The same people protesting, different target. But it’s all generated by the university grievance mill, which keeps the hate at a fever pitch. Fortunately, the Hamas protesters are revealing to everyone just how dangerous our university campuses have become and how poorly our young people are being formed intellectually. Are American Jews, threatened with murder now by their logic, responsible for the actions of the state of Israel? Military actions undertaken in self-defense? Actions to defend themselves from a brutal and inhumane attack by Hamas terrorists on innocent Israeli citizens, raping and murdering men, women, and children?
That logic seems beyond the intelligence of the average Hamas protester, who is short on facts and critical-thinking skills. While indoctrinating our youth, our universities cannot teach them to think logically. How refreshing to see some students push back on the hate. Usually overwhelmed by the general atmosphere on campus, they are now joining the fight and being heard. Likewise, in the public universities in red states, state legislators must fight back against what is happening at their taxpayer-funded universities.
All the protests by the “best and brightest,” our future ruling elite, are paid for by taxpayer dollars. Even a private university like Columbia received $1.2 billion in federal funding last year alone. Why do federal tax dollars support a private university with an almost $14 billion endowment that charges close to $80,000 per year in tuition? Some GOP senators, including Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) are advocating to cut federal funding for colleges hosting anti-Semitic protests. Even talk show host Bill Maher recently criticized Biden’s latest student loan bailout by saying that Maher’s “tax dollars” are funding “Jew hating.”
We cannot let this moment pass. Things must change on campus. The academic curriculum that creates a culture of hate, fueled by DEI mandarins and woke administrators, must be dismantled along with the Hamas villages. Hate must give way to intellectual inquiry, real inquiry founded on respect for others and the search for truth. We cannot let these protests die while the system that created them remains.
The biggest enemy of freedom is a manufactured groupthink. Anyone paying attention to our college campuses knows that progressive groupthink has been metastasizing there for decades, but we finally have a cause that demonstrates the extent of the rot. An illiberal band of murderers, who declare their desire to kill Jewish American citizens, a terrorist organization that committed unspeakable atrocities in their October 7 attack, has the full support of many American college students for a cause they don’t understand. “From the river to the sea!” What river? What sea? Many student protesters can’t even answer that.
Some protesters can’t even spell Palestine, as we saw in recent graffiti on campus. The students display little intellectual curiosity, and their educators have no interest in teaching the kids how to think. Only what to think. Protesters claim that Jews -- even American Jews -- are “pro-genocide,” a typical Hamas talking point, without any evidence of the mass, targeted killing of civilians by Israeli forces. In reality, the military response of Israel to the barbarous attack on them on October 7 has shown remarkable precision and restraint. But facts don’t matter anymore.
I saw a glimmer of hope in an interview at Semafor this week by Ben Smith, one of journalism’s well-connected palace guards, of New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn, in which Smith asked him why he doesn’t see it as his job to help elect Joe Biden. Kahn replied that the Times was not an “instrument” for the Biden campaign. He said that there are people in the country who might elect Trump in November, and they have the democratic right to do so. And he noted that the coverage of Trump in 2020 went “too far,” was too determined to actively undermine Trump. Choosing reality over indoctrination in the news is a breath of fresh air in today’s stifling leftist intellectual environment.
We must hold our students and universities to a higher standard. We as a nation cannot fund the intellectual beggaring of our children. The first impulse of a proper education should be understanding, not prejudice; it should be sympathy, not destruction. Break up the Hamas villages and defund the universities that spawned them. We must rediscover dialogue and disagreement, point and counterpoint. If we simply play the blame game, the only currency any of us will trade in is hate.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/defund_the_universities_that_create_the_hate.html
The Cruelty of Woke Compassion
By Doug MacGregor
Mistrial Bait – Stormy Daniels Testifies Again Thursday
The big question that no one is asking.
by Liberty Nation Authors | May 9, 2024
Adult film actress turned TV host Stormy Daniels will take the stand today, May 9, to once again testify against former President Donald Trump. It’s her second day on the stand as the star witness for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Mr. Trump. Bragg adopted a novel legal theory and prosecuted the former president for improperly misclassifying a payment to Ms. Daniels. The actress’s first day on the stand was a series of hints and allegations that dropped like bolts from the blue.
But what is the legal purpose of bringing forward a witness who does not know about the subsequent paperwork filings? And is her appearance a symptom of a greater malaise in the case against Donald Trump? We spoke with Liberty Nation Legal Affairs Editor Scott D. Cosenza, Esq., to find out just what games are being played in the most high-profile case of the year.
The Stormy Daniels Surprise
Mark Angelides: Scott, let’s start with the question everyone seems to ignore. Why is Stormy Daniels even testifying? What possible knowledge could she have of how her “hush money” payment – which no one denies she was paid – was processed and recorded?
Scott D. Cosenza: There is no dispute that they (Trump and Daniels) entered a confidentiality agreement. Typical big-box reporting notwithstanding, the so-called “hush-money” agreement broke no laws and is not disputed. I’m reminded of the breathless stories about Kyle Rittenhouse crossing state lines as if that were illegal. Why bring Daniels to court, indeed? It depends on the goal.
Mark: Ms. Daniels’ testimony was inflammatory, to say the least, dropping hints about Trump drugging her. These accusations have never been made before; was this even admissible?
Scott: Well, it wasn’t a direct accusation. Still, it’s a textbook case of testimony that would generally be regarded as inadmissible as prejudicial. Because cameras and audio recordings are not allowed in the courtroom, we are relying on press members present who quoted her saying she “felt drugged.” Later, she said she “blacked out” after sex with Trump and “was staring at the ceiling and didn’t know how I got there.” The clear implication is that Mr. Trump somehow acted upon Daniels without consent. Reports say judge Merchan allowed the testimony.
Mark: Wasn’t Harvey Weinstein’s conviction just overturned for this exact thing?
Scott: Weinstein was granted a new trial because several women were allowed to testify that he sexually assaulted them, even though he was never charged with those crimes. So, the testimony here is not directly analogous – but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lesson for Merchan from the Weinstein ruling. Alan Dershowitz, the famed lawyer and law professor, called what happened in Merchan’s courtroom a “clear reversible error” based on the opinion in the Weinstein case. He said Bragg followed a roadmap of what you cannot do in court.
Damage Done?
Mark: Is there any recourse for Donald Trump to fight back against the allegations? Or is the damage already done?
Scott: The political damage may be difficult or impossible to fight against. On the legal side, our system generally provides appeals only after a conviction.
Mark: This seems to me – as a layman – to be a highly unorthodox way of prosecuting a case. Rather than bringing in witnesses and evidence to support the crimes you are charging, instead, bring in witnesses to assassinate the defendant’s character. Or have I misdiagnosed Mr. Bragg’s intent?
Scott: Mr. Bragg’s novel charges and the prosecutorial pathways he’s pursuing seem less like a search for truth or an attempt to deliver justice with each passing day. Instead, they appear more to be a political attack against Trump. Seen through this lens, bringing Daniels to court to talk about her alleged liaison with Donald Trump is a no-brainer. It puts an unflattering story about Donald Trump on the front page of the nation’s papers.
Mark: What can we expect from Ms. Daniels as her testimony continues?
Scott: Today, she will be facing Donald Trump’s lawyers in a cross-examination. They will do their best to impeach her testimony on direct examination, including by attacking her veracity and character. After her previous day of testimony, when the defense team requested a mistrial, although he denied it, Judge Mechan conceded that “there were some things that should have been left unsaid.” Perhaps today, her testimony will convince the judge that he should grant the mistrial motion after all.
https://www.libertynation.com/mistrial-bait-stormy-daniels-testifies-again-thursday/
Joe Biden and His Jell-O-Clad Commitment to Israel
The White House is trying to bend Israel’s strategic warfighting to save Biden’s 2024 campaign.
by Dave Patterson | May 9, 2024
Mike Johnson Survives Ousting – But What Did It Cost?
Strategic implications of removing the speaker.
by Mark Angelides | May 9, 2024
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) brought her efforts to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) to the floor late yesterday, May 8. Rather than facing a full vote, however, the motion was tabled with overwhelming support from both the GOP and Democrats. In a 359 to 43 vote, Green’s efforts were quashed, with just 32 Republicans voting against.
Mr. Johnson breathed a sigh of relief, saying, “Hopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress. It’s regrettable, it’s not who we are as Americans, and we’re better than this. We need to get beyond it.”
But while it may appear this was a simple case of the House working in unison, other factors and machinations were almost certainly at play.
Dismissed With Trump Backing
It appears that former President Donald Trump saw potential disunity in the House as detrimental to his re-election hopes this November. Despite his past support for Greene, he made his thoughts and feelings known in advance of the bill’s introduction:
“I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s got Spirit, she’s got Fight, and I believe she’ll be around, and on our side, for a long time to come.
“However, right now, Republicans have to be fighting the Radical Left Democrats, and all the Damage they have done to our Country. With a Majority of One, shortly growing to three or four, we’re not in a position of voting on a Motion to Vacate. At some point, we may very well be, but this is not the time.”
“But if we show DISUNITY, which will be portrayed as CHAOS, it will negatively affect everything,” he continued in his Truth Social thread. “Mike Johnson is a good man who is trying very hard. I also wish certain things were done over the last period of two months, but we will get them done, together… It is my request that Republicans vote for THE MOTION TO TABLE… We WILL WIN BIG – AND IT WILL BE SOON!”
New Banner Political Power PlaysAnd the former president may well have a point from a tactical strategy perspective.
As he leads in the polling, Mr. Trump will be wary of anything that upsets that trajectory or risks handing a significant victory to DC Democrats in Congress. After all, if – as polls indicate – he is on track to win the November election, his tenure in office could be born into the chaos of gaining the presidency but losing the legislature; effectively making him a lame-duck president on his first day back in office.
Trump seems all too aware that if he is to create a lasting legacy, he needs more than just a pen and a phone.
Democrat Narrative on Johnson and the GOP House
While House Democrats will no doubt claim a minor victory in ensuring the current speaker serves at their pleasure, a successful ousting would have perhaps provided a bevy of more damaging political ammunition.
The narrative from the Democrat leadership – and, indeed, the Biden-friendly Fourth Estate – has been that the “adults are back in charge.” The party can now rightly claim that they put country before partisan politics – although political optics were almost certainly the unspoken goal. Backing the move to oust Johnson would have created a whirlwind of chaos that had the potential to become a double-edged danger.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) demurred on whether his caucus would support Johnson if another motion came to the floor. Instead, he opted for a bipartisan stance, saying he and his party would “continue to solve problems for everyday Americans to put people over politics, as we once again did today.” But his response may be only the thin veneer to an otherwise calculated risk.
On one hand, voting not to table the motion would have caused chaos within the GOP, allowing a slew of negative articles and soundbites over Republican dysfunction. On the other, however, Biden is sinking badly in the polls and a solid legislative win could turn around the precipitous decline.
If President Joe Biden had been in a stronger position politically, it seems likely that the slim GOP majority would today be hunting for a compromise candidate.
https://www.libertynation.com/mike-johnson-survives-ousting-but-what-did-it-cost/
How Politics And Litigation Impede Innovation In Plastics Recycling
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
Plastics are an indispensable, ubiquitous part of modern society. Due to their unique qualities, incredibly light weight, and ability to be formed into any shape or size, plastics provide essential components in hundreds of products we use every day of our lives. Unfortunately, the processes of making, recycling, and disposing of plastics are not well understood by policymakers or the public and are often subject to demonization and litigation by the industry’s opponents.
Makers of plastics could face another high-profile court case on a new front in the coming weeks deploying a novel theory of climate-related damages. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose ambitions for higher office are not a closely held secret, told Reuters in late April his office is close to wrapping up an investigation based on a legal theory that would seek damages related to the impacts of plastics waste from manufacturers, targeting ExxonMobil?ExxonMobil? as the first test case.
"We are soon going to be ready to get to a decision based on all of our investigations in the coming weeks," Reuters quotes Bonta saying. "The lies and deceit Exxon used to cover up the truth about the non-recyclability of plastic is well documented."
Bonta launched his investigation in 2022 at about the time the California legislature was enacting SB 54, a law that places a set of new demands on manufacturers related to plastics recycling and disposal. At that time, ExxonMobil called the claims “meritless,” but has remained silent on the matter since. Even if merit does exist, wouldn’t Bonta also be obligated to pursue similar claims against the large numbers of counties, cities, and towns whose local governments have overstated the percentage of plastics in programs they’ve implemented over the last quarter century?
Both industry and governments everywhere have long struggled with the best means of either recycling or disposal of used plastics. Some governments, like the state government in California led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, have attempted to attack the problem by invoking a seemingly endless stream of laws and regulations, always assuring the public the costs will be borne by manufacturing and other corporations who make and use the products. But such costs will inevitably be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for those products.
SB 54 is a good example of what has been happening in the Golden State in recent decades. Passed in 2022, SB 54 places a series of demands on manufacturers that many in the industry believe will be impossible to fill. Among other requirements, the law requires companies to meet the following targets by 2032:
Sell 25% less single-use plastic packaging and food ware in the state.
Make all single-use packaging and plastic food ware recyclable or compostable.
Recycle 65% of single-use plastic packaging and food ware.
Because of concerns that fit-for-purpose alternatives to plastic packaging and food ware do not currently exist in any scalable way, and that only about 9% of plastics are currently recycled, manufacturers in the state opposed the bill and are concerned about their ability to comply with its demands.
“The challenge is that the legislature keeps adding on to things in the spirit of increasing recycling, and SB 54 is a great example of that,” Lance Hastings, President & CEO at the California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA) told me on a recent interview. “Unfortunately, we were in opposition to the legislation. Some of our opposition was related to the mechanics of the legislative process, but also because our members are making significant investments in recycling infrastructure and SB 54 tilted at that landscape.”
Hastings says a big part of the problem with legislation like this is that it attempts to force all the state’s urban, suburban, and rural areas into a one-size-fits-all approach. “There is no universal solution, and the public is being left out of the discussion,” Hastings says. “Because they [policymakers] always look at a macro solution when they're passing a state law, it affects everybody.” He adds that the key is working cooperatively to change individual behaviors by implementing solutions tailored to the needs of local communities.
The Bottom Line
ExxonMobil is one of the country’s leading makers of plastics and is investing billions in development and implementation of an advanced recycling process that would dramatically increase the percentage of plastics that can be recycled and reused by manufacturers and consumers. The company is already finishing out an advanced recycling unit at its Baytown Refinery plant that can then be expanded to a number of locations across the country and internationally.
Mounting yet another lawfare-style campaign of litigation targeting a segment of the industry that is already investing billions in new solutions to what everyone acknowledges is a significant problem will only serve to rob companies of legal certainty, stall innovation, and make it harder to reach major future investment decisions. It all seems so counterproductive, yet here we are.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/how-politics-and-litigation-impede?publication_id=712558&post_id=144467868&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Biden Treasury is Vaporizing Billions in Potential Hydrogen Investments With 45V Rule
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
In May of last year, I wrote about how U.S. Treasury Department’s then-proposed rules for the hydrogen production tax credit (Internal Revenue Code Section 45V) could impact the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) power-plant rules.
While low greenhouse-gas (GHG) hydrogen was listed as a key technology to decarbonize power-related emissions at the time, EPA reversed course this year, removing the technology from its final rule released late last month.
Here’s how the Houston Chronicle put it: “And in a blow to clean hydrogen developers in Texas and beyond, the EPA dropped language encouraging power companies to burn hydrogen fuel at gas plants after pushback from power companies.”
The reason for the pullback is obvious. The activist-driven draft rules that Treasury published in December make it extremely difficult and costly to qualify for the credit, which means hydrogen will not be produced at the volumes necessary to supply the need. Green hydrogen producers are required to source their power from new zero-emission sources and match their hydrogen production to the carbon-intensity of the grid on an hourly basis.
Meanwhile, so-called “blue” hydrogen producers must use a national average to estimate upstream emissions, meaning there’s no incentive to use the cleanest natural gas to produce hydrogen. Both are policies that will result in the same outcome: less clean hydrogen on the market and higher costs, all of which was completely foreseeable last May.
It is notable now that individual companies are speaking up and warning about cancelling planned investments. Last year it was all speculative, and activists dismissed industry warnings as just fearmongering. Well, now companies are clearly not playing around.
Here are some examples of just a few big hydrogen investments that could be paused or cut entirely as a result of the unworkable rules:
Mark Klewpatinond, global business manager for hydrogen at Exxon Mobil, told the Houston Chronicle: “If we’re not able to differentiate natural gas production, it’s highly unlikely Baytown would proceed. It needs to compete for capital against other projects we have.”
Kathleen Barrón, executive vice president and chief strategy officer for Constellation, told the BloombergNEF Summit held in New York City in mid-April that her company, which is already producing hydrogen using electricity from one of its nuclear power plants, will file for the 45V production tax credit despite the fact that the project does not meet the draft criteria. Barron said Constellation was prepared to “visit with the courts to sort out whether the final guidance is consistent with the statute.”
Axios reported on May 6 that metals giant Fortescue’s CEO Andrew Forrest says the company will cancel its own major investments in hydrogen unless significant changes to the Section 45V credit regulations are made. “Projects we have across North America will stop” without such changes being implemented, Forrest said.
Fortescue’s array of hydrogen-related investments in the United States include a federally subsidized plant in Washington state, another plant in Arizona and a car manufacturing site in Michigan. All are now in jeopardy.
These announcements by major companies seeking to commit billions to new hydrogen-related projects if the rules make sense fly in the face of a claim by left-wing activist group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) that industry complaints that the regulations as written “will hinder industry growth consistently flout on the ground evidence and are contrary to the best analytical findings.”
Regardless of what “analytical findings” NRDC was relying on, the evidence on the ground as of today is clear: The Treasury interpretation as it currently exists will kill billions of dollars in job-creating investments in the United States, exactly as so many warned a year ago.
In an article published on its website last year, NRDC asserted there is “no tradeoff between scaling up the industry and safeguarding against emissions increases,” and that projects “can be cost-competitive from day one” under the rules they supported (and which Treasury adopted). But obviously, such a tradeoff does exist and the companies willing to risk billions of dollars on U.S. hydrogen development are not going to move ahead with such investments under a set of regulations that renders their projects non-profitable.
Corporations exist for one reason: To generate profits for their investors. They are not charitable organizations and no amount of high-minded rhetoric and wishful thinking from the climate-alarm lobby can alter that reality.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/biden-treasury-is-vaporizing-billions?publication_id=712558&post_id=144465579&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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It will never get thru the dem led senate, but makes for good press.
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Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000
https://rumble.com/v4tw7b8-bombshell-a-wisconsin-election-official-has-been-fired-for-allegedly-copyin.html
Chicago voters send message to Biden ahead of visit: City 'completely fed up' with Democrats
Betty Guider tells 'Fox & Friends First' Black residents ready to support Trump as migrants trigger outrage
By Elizabeth Heckman
Published May 8, 2024 11:44am EDT
Chicago residents say Black voters 'fed up' with Biden, Dems: 'Too late' to appeal to us
Chicago residents P-Rae Easley and Betty Guider react to President Biden's anticipated visit to the Windy City and why they feel his support among the Black community and other residents has dwindled.
Chicago residents expressed frustration and anger with President Biden ahead of his visit to the city, warning that Black voters are turning on the Democratic Party in huge numbers.
P-Rae Easley and Betty Guider joined "Fox & Friends First" Wednesday to explain why they think the city is no longer "the Democratic stronghold that they anticipated."
"The city is completely fed up with the Democratic Party. We are stepping over illegals every day. They are now trying to break into people's homes. Gas is through the roof, groceries are through the roof, violence is up. Nothing is comfortable here under Democratic leadership. We're all moving on," said Easley.
Guider explained that the Democratic Party has always counted on support from the Black community, but now Democrats seem to have stopped trying to appeal to Black voters.
"So many of our Black members have decided to change over, to switch from blue to red. And I think it's kind of too late now to come to Chicago to appeal to us. It's nothing here for him. We are fed up," said Guider.
Easley thinks more voters are going to vote for Trump despite Biden winning the city in 2020 by a landslide. She said the situation is changing quickly because of Democrats' policies on migrants.
"I think that they're definitely going to vote for Donald Trump, because we can't afford to keep subsidizing the illegals who are coming here. … People are proudly stating that they're going to vote for the first time in their lives, and they're going to run to the polls to vote for Donald John Trump," she added.
Guider explained that Chicago residents are tired of the same issues facing the city but meanwhile, support is available for illegal immigrants.
"Our school system here, particularly in the Black community, has suffered tremendously. Our students are leaving our communities to go to other schools. The crime rate is still very high here."
Guider said there are many unsolved murders and voters are infuriated to see resources being allocated to illegal immigrants.
"So many things that money could have been used for. And as a people here, we've been told that we have no money. There is no money for Chicago that has citizens here. But now all of a sudden, monies are coming in to support illegal aliens, not migrants, to support illegals. We are the citizens here, right? We've paid into the system. We're suffering."
According to FOX 32 Chicago, Biden will be in Chicago Wednesday for a fundraiser to support his campaign. Biden visited Chicago last month for another campaign fundraiser and VP Kamala Harris will visit next Thursday.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-voters-send-message-biden-ahead-visit-city-completely-fed-democrats
'Me Teach You White Man Secret Of Fire!' Governor Hochul Says To Primitive Black Children Of The Bronx
NEW YORK, NY — In a heartwarming outreach to African Americans, New York Governor Kathy Hochul visited a Bronx elementary school to bring the miracle of white man's fire to the Black community.
"Me teach you white man secret of fire!" Gov Hochul told a group of 6th graders. "Oooooo! Fire!"
Governor Hochul then demonstrated the use of a BIC lighter and lit a wooden torch in her hand, waving it around so that all the kids could be amazed by white man's secret fire trick.
Grade schoolers were reportedly bored by the demonstration, which the school superintendent blamed on their short attention span from being Black.
"Look! Flame hot! No touch!" Hochul warned.
In a press release, the governor's office proudly proclaimed, "Governor Hochul has brought fire to the Blacks!"
"We're so thankful the governor could dumb herself down enough to talk to these kids," said one district employee. "Maybe we can teach them about electricity next."
At publishing time, Governor Kathy Hochul had visited a grade school in the Upper West Side to teach them how to use a real computer.
https://babylonbee.com/news/me-teach-you-white-man-secret-of-fire-governor-kochul-says-to-primitive-black-children-of-the-bronx
Target Unveils New Line Of Hamas Intifada Wear For Children
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — In a show of support for anti-Israel protests on college campuses and other places across the country, retail giant Target unveiled a new line of Hamas intifada wear for children.
The new line is scheduled to arrive in stores in the coming weeks and will allow customers to outfit their toddlers, preschoolers, and grade school students in the latest fashion inspired by one of the world's most prominent Islamic terrorist organizations.
"Now your kids can join the war against the Jewish oppressors!" said Target marketing spokesperson Jen Grant. "From the rubble-strewn battlefields of Gaza to college campuses nationwide, everyone wants to look like the battle-hardened freedom fighters from Hamas — and your child can! At Target, we're committed to representing all people groups, especially those who want to annihilate the nation of Israel from existence. Check out the new Intifada line at your nearest Target today!"
Reaction from parents was mixed following the announcement. "I can't wait to get my little Colton his very own keffiyeh!" said one parent. "He'll be ready to protest and stand up to colonizers while chanting ‘Death to Israel' before you know it!" Others were not sold on the idea. "Not sure this should be marketed to kids," said concerned parent David Goldstein. "If I saw a kid wearing this stuff at my child's school, I'd be a little worried, to say the least."
At publishing time, Target was also preparing to introduce an exclusive line of "Campus Protester" Barbie dolls, complete with unwashed hair and misspelled protest signs.
https://babylonbee.com/news/target-unveils-new-line-of-hamas-intifada-wear-for-children
Uighur Slaves Struggling To Keep Up With Demand For Palestinian Headscarves
XINJIANG, CHINA — Thanks to the recent uptick in awareness of worldwide injustices and inequalities, Uighur slaves are struggling to keep up with the demand for more Palestinian headscarves.
The traditional keffiyeh is the square cotton scarf that is being worn on liberal college campuses around the United States in solidarity with the Free Palestine resistance movement. Unfortunately, those headscarves aren't affordable to poor college students unless the manufacturing is outsourced to Uighur slaves in China.
"We are really glad that college kids are paying attention to unfair and oppressive conditions around the world," said one Uighur, Aygul Ablet, through her prison bars to a translator. "It's certainly increased our workload, but it's all for a good cause I guess."
"When boss man says make 2,000 scarves by Friday afternoon to hit quota or else we will get hit, it really motivates us all," chimed in Dilshat Muhemmet. "We all need something that keeps us going. For some, it's 'Free Palestine.' But for us, it's a big scary man with a baton."
At publishing time, the prison camp of Uighur slaves received an order to make 20,000 Che Guevara t-shirts also by Friday.
https://babylonbee.com/news/uighur-slaves-struggling-to-keep-up-with-demand-for-palestinian-headscarves
12 Women Come Forward Alleging They Were Sexually Assaulted By Whoever Trump’s VP Pick Is
U.S. — A new wave of controversy erupted as 12 women came forward alleging they had been sexually assaulted by whoever Trump's vice presidential pick would end up being.
The damning allegations began to come in despite the fact that Trump has yet to officially name a running mate or even disclose whether the pick is a man or a woman. Sources confirmed at least a dozen highly credible accusers emerged to demand justice against whoever the VP candidate might be.
"Whoever the VP pick is, I am here to tell my story of how I was inappropriately touched by them," claimed one accuser. "As soon as Trump sees fit to announce who his running mate is, I'm going to positively identify him… or her. Whatever. No matter who he picks, they aren't going to get away with what they did. They must be held accountable!"
Other women quickly joined the ranks of accusers, suggesting Trump's eventual VP selection — no matter who it may end up being — has a long history of serious misconduct. "The person Trump picks as his running mate will not get away with the things we all know they did. Once he announces who it is, we'll know who to blame for what happened to all of us."
At publishing time, the DOJ had announced they would be charging Trump's VP pick with serious federal crimes, once they find out who it is.
https://babylonbee.com/news/12-women-come-forward-alleging-they-were-sexually-assaulted-by-whoever-trumps-vp-pick-is
Inconvenient truths: A few things exposing the lie that humans and our use of natural resources controls the climate
By Jack Hellner
LAPD uses January 6 techniques to identify Jewish students who fought back at a UCLA pro-Hamas protest
By Monica Showalter
They're studying Facebook posts. They're using frame-by-frame video screenshots of faces to match with gargantuan databases of named faces. They're seeking and taking tips from "friends" and relatives and ex-boyfriends.
For the UCLA Jewish students who got into a scrap with pro-Hamas illegal campout protestors, no doubt after hearing a slew of antisemitic statements and being blocked from attending class, they're doing exactly what they did to identify and hunt down January 6 protestors.
According to the Los Angeles Times, which reports this like it was a good thing:
It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week.
The mob violence was captured on live television, but it took three hours for police to bring it to an end. Those involved left, and no arrests were made.
But the trail is not cold.
UCLA detectives are now scanning hundreds of images in an attempt to identify the attackers. They intend to use technology that captures facial images and compares them to other photos on the internet and social media to put names to faces, according to law enforcement sources.
The same technology has allowed police to identify suspects in smash-and-grab retail burglaries. It also was the heart of the Jan. 6 investigation, in which videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol helped the FBI identify many of the assailants and led federal prosecutors to charge more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators often were able to find social media images of the assailant wearing the same clothing as during the attack.
So now they're spending big bucks to target UCLA Jewish students again, with the same use of intensive investigative techniques as they used on January 6 protestors.
They're taking years to do it, calling it their biggest operation, even as Los Angeles is awash with real crime, but this is more important to them, getting their man, or woman, as the case may be, championing a protest the establishment didn't like, same as they did with the January 6 protestors. Jews tussling with pro-Hamas protestors whose cause probably killed some of their relatives back on October 7 are their top priority, and this is their January 6.
How they will hunt. In the case of the January 6 protestors, they managed to bag people like these, a protestor known as "pink beret," Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller. The politicized law enforcers worked like beavers to swoop down on her several years after the fracas, though it's pretty obvious she wasn't doing anything more than just being there, spending millions in order to get her thrown into prison.
Now they'll do it to the Jewish students who fought back against the haters. Never mind catching the dirtbags who left the campus a steaming mess, graffiting its walls, junking its furniture, leaving a lot of smell and mess as well as landfill-sized amounts of litter. Those guys get off scot-free. As do the graffitiers of menacing messages on synagogues these days around the West Side of Los Angeles, the antisemitic assailants against visably Jewish people walking on the streets of Beverly Hills, and the freaks throwing smoke bombs and screaming against Jewish people in their homes in Brentwood. All of those things happened. But we hear not a word about catching the monsters who committed those crimes, or for that matter, the pro-Hamas lowlife who blocked Jewish students from their own classrooms at UCLA and injured some Jewish students, too.
Double standards anyone? The antisemitic bad guys walk. The Jewish students get the book thrown at them for fighting back after provocations.
It sure looks like a double-standard of justice to me.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/lapd_uses_january_6_techniques_to_identify_jewish_students_who_fought_back_at_a_ucla_pro_hamas_protest.html
A wake-up call for American Jews and moderate Democrats
By Lewis Dovland
Joe Biden’s official campaign chair offers insight into 2024 optimism: ‘We’re not selling hysteria’
By Olivia Murray
Jen O’Malley Dillon (“J.O.D.”) is apparently a Democrat campaign superstar, being the “first woman” (whatever that means) to chair a “winning” (again, whatever that means) presidential campaign, and she’s feeling very optimistic about Joe Biden’s 2024 chances because as she said in a recent Vanity Fair interview piece, “we’re not selling hysteria.”
I beg your pardon?
Looks like it’s time to roll out the receipts—below are seven instances where the Democrats and their minions did in fact peddle panic as a campaign tactic.
🤡 Clown moment #1: Maxine Waters invoking the debunked “bloodbath” comments and asserting that “right-wing” psychopaths are “training up in the hills somewhere” to rain violence down on civilians should Biden “win” again. On Sunday, Waters appeared on an MSNBC segment where she said this, via a report at Fox News:
‘I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting what communities they are going to attack. We need to know now, given that he is telling us there is going to be violence if he loses. We need to know what his plan is and how we are going to be protected,’ Waters said.
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‘You can’t trust anything that Donald Trump has to say. No matter if he loses, he is going to say it was fraud. He still has not accepted what happened in the last presidential election. We have to be very concerned about a former President of the United States talking about attacking his own country, talking about perhaps a bloodbath, talking about perhaps there is going to be trouble. He said it in so many different ways,’ Waters said.
She added, ‘We should take him seriously. This man does not believe in the Constitution. He wants to be a dictator. This is a dangerous human being. We have to know what our country is going to do to protect us from him.’
🤡 Clown moment #2: Hillary Clinton’s “Hitler was duly elected” comment. While speaking to her observations as a member of Barack Obama’s cabinet, Clinton discussed what it was like watching “duly elected” officials get into office and weaponize the government—before dropping the Adolf Hitler buzzword, and Donald Trump’s name shortly thereafter. Here’s what she said, via The Hill:
‘You could see it in countries where, well, Hitler was duly elected, right?’ Clinton said. ‘And so all of a sudden somebody with those tendencies, so dictatorial authoritarian tendencies, would be like, OK, we’re going to shut this down.’
‘Trump is telling us what he intends to do,’ Clinton continued. ‘Take him at his word.’
Clinton also described a Trump victory in 2024 as “the end of our country as we know it.”
🤡 Clown moment #3: Journalist Sophie Gilbert’s piece in The Atlantic which asserted that another Trump presidency would be “four more years of unchecked misogyny” in which women would “once again” be prime targets for lecherous men. (I thought “gender” was a “social construct” though?) Gilbert’s article is actually just one installment of a series put out by the magazine; here’s the “Editor’s Note” at the beginning of the essay to give you an idea:
This article is part of ‘If Trump Wins,’ a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.
Weirdly, Gilbert’s scope did not include names like Juanita Broaddrick, Tara Reade, Monica Lewinsky, or Ashley Biden, and she also failed to highlight on the sex scandals of Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, Democrat donors Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, and Kevin Parker, just to name a few.
🤡 Clown moment #4: Bloomberg telling its readers not to panic… while spreading panic. See below:
Prospect of a Second Trump Term Demands Preparation, Not Panic
A new season of Trump-presidency panic is upon us. And for good reason: Donald Trump could be re-elected in 2024….
🤡 Clown moment #5: J.O.D. being hysterical and hyperbolic in the very Vanity Fair interview she claims to not be “selling hysteria.” If Trump were to win, that means a loss of “the thing that matters most” to her, which is as she says, “a future for my kids.” Her kids will have no future if Trump wins? Are they aspiring to be pedophiles or government bureaucrats? I should think not, and therefore, of course they have a future in America.
🤡 Clown moment #6: Biden repeating the “dictator on Day One” disinformation narrative. Again, this was a joke, in which Trump said he’d be a “dictator” by taking unilateral (executive) actions on his first day in office… to secure the border and open up domestic energy production. Gee, what a lunatic.
🤡 Clown moment #7: House Democrat Jared Moskowitz announcing that Trump “would start World War III” if given the opportunity. Newsflash buddy, we’re at the precipice now: Ukraine is fixing to join NATO, a development which Russia correctly views as hostile; Iran has ramped up its attacks against Israel; Europe is totally overrun with war-hardened migrants from sub-Saharan Africa; the U.S. has millions of unvetted foreigners (many of whom turn out to be convicted terrorists, murderers, and pedophiles) loose in the interior; the world reserve currency is rapidly losing its value because of D.C.’s spending habits; economic issues like inflation and cost-of-living crises are gutting a number of nations in the West; America’s college campuses are engulfed in violent riots; China’s aggressions have hit new highs; and when asked about highly-sensitive foreign affairs, leading political figures of the world’s number one superpower either mumble incoherently or shout “shrimp and grits” to reporters:
Kamala Harris responds "Shrimp and Grits" when asked about her thoughts on Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/NTryUvUAFW
— Freyja™ (@FreyjaTarte) May 7, 2024
In contrast, Trump kept the world relatively peaceful, negotiating a historic deal between long-time enemy nations, and the U.S. dollar was strong—healthy and secure economies make for safe nations.
March of 2020 vs. March 2024.
Avg. Gas Price : $1.99 vs. $3.53
Avg. Mortgage Rate 3.59% vs. 7.02%
Food ⬆️ 22%
Rent ⬆️ 25%
Credit Card Debt up 47%
College Campuses are 🔥
And Kamala has Shrimp & Grits for lunch.
Why yes, Joe. America was better under President Trump!… pic.twitter.com/jFcQ44zsw6
— The REAL Politically Savvy 🇺🇸 (@patriot_savvy) May 7, 2024
Is anyone else sick of this circus, or better yet, freak show? Because I certainly am.
Bring back President Trump now.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/joe_biden_s_official_campaign_chair_offers_insight_into_2024_optimism_we_re_not_selling_hysteria.html
From Springfield, Illinois comes ‘news’ meant to scare people into capitulating to ‘green’ communism
By Jack Hellner
The kangaroos keep coming in Judge Merchan's courtroom
By Monica Showalter
Maxine beyond repair
By Silvio Canto, Jr.