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An oldie but still a goodie!
Ronald Regan was a very wise man:
Two TV icons ... Sanford and Son and All in the Family.
Dumb, Dumber, and Dum-dee-dee-dum
Irina Slav
May 03, 2024
Denial, disinformation, and doublespeak. That’s how a group of Democrat legislators in the U.S. Congress dubbed a Senate budget committee hearing that took place this week.
Here’s the full name: Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change. Passionate, right? Righteous. Highly impressive. And the result of an “investigation” into Big Oil that started three years ago.
The conclusion of that investigation? Big Oil is bad because it knew about climate change and didn’t tell the whole kindergarten, and also Big Oil doesn’t love the climate and wants the planet to burn. You might think I’m oversimplifying to mock and deride the investigators but here’s a quote.
Among the assertions made by one of the legislators partaking in the hearing party were the following: “Big Oil continues to conceal the facts about their business model and obscure the actual dangers of fossil fuels, including natural gas, in order to block the climate action we need.” Same thing, only said in pompous language.
The legislator, by the name of Jamie Raskin, seems really passionate about the climate. “Despite knowing about the devastating effects of their oil and gas products on the planet for decades, the industry has always prioritized its bottom line and chosen low-road PR tactics over a high-road commitment to addressing the crisis.” Yep. That’s real passion right there. Too bad passion rarely keeps company with reason.
Big Oil’s reaction to the latest round of blame-flinging and name-calling was one of exasperation, with the exception of Shell, which had this to say about the documents waved around as evidence of knowing about climate change and hiding it for profit. These documents, a spokesman said, “are evidence of Shell’s efforts to set realistic targets, hi-grade its portfolio and meaningfully participate in the energy transition.”
Speaking of Shell, the company had an eventful week that also happened to be highly amusing for me. First, there was the report that a group of 27 institutional shareholders had called on Shell’s other shareholders to vote for a resolution demanding more of what everyone calls “climate action” as if that phrase means something.
The group, which together has 2.5% in Shell, said in its letter to their fellow Shell-holders that the company had to do more about cutting emissions because Paris Agreement strategy alignment was “essential to preserve the health of the global economy”.
You’d no doubt be shocked to learn that the originator of the letter-writing effort was none other than Follow This, the activist shareholding scheme that has been filing resolutions against Big Oil for a decade and has recently started to experience some pushback as Big Oil started making Even Bigger Money. This has not made Follow This a happy scheme.
Just a day after the news about the shareholder letter broke, Shell reported a net profit of $7.7 billion for the first quarter of the year, beating analyst forecasts by over $1 billion. It also said it would buy back $3.5 billion worth of shares over the next quarter. Now, who are those shareholders going to listen to — Follow This or the company that pays them for their generosity in buying shares in it?
Regrettably, the answer to this question may not be as straightforward as it seems, based on that letter that features among its signatories entities such as Amundi and AXA. Apparently, the idea that reason rules in the financial world is a huge illusion.
While asset managers with Shell holdings fret about the health of the global economy, which apparently depends on Shell’s production plans, a California court — I repeat, a California court — just killed a kids’ climate lawsuit. I guess even evil climate deniers need a bit of good news once in a while.
Anyway, that court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, dismissed the case, brought in by a group of 21 children on the grounds that, per Reuters, “courts could not mandate broad policy changes that are better left to Congress and the executive branch.”
The kids, gently guided in their righteous battle by Our Children’s Trust, which you’ve probably heard about because having children sue various governments is all it does, initially wanted the court to make the U.S. federal government say Mea culpa, self-flagellate, change its energy policies and phase out “subsidies” for oil and gas production. That was back in 2020 and the 9th Circuit Court promptly dismissed the case.
But Our Children’s Trust doesn’t give up that easily. After that first dismissal, they changed the tune, now only wanting a declaration that these policies were wrong. An Oregon district judge obliged and gave the lawsuit a second chance of life. Well, that ended this week, for good this time.
You’d think Our Children’s Trust would give up and go home but you’d be wrong. There’s this to be said about fungal infections and climate litigators: they are stubborn little things. So now the case is going in front of an extended panel at the 9th Circuit Court in hopes 11 judges would rule differently from three. Because they so did back in 2020, when OCT did the same after the initial court ruling, as in, they didn’t.
"This is a tragic and unjust ruling, but it is not over," one OCT attorney said in comments following the ruling. Ominous words, I’m sure. Maybe it would make her feel better if she knew that other climate crusaders had much bigger, much more serious problems than her. Because tragic and unjust as that ruling may have been it pales in comparison to the tragedy and unjustness that the Basel III banking framework is about to unleash on the energy transition. Allow me to take a moment to compose myself.
Okay, so. Remember the 2008 financial crisis, right? Remember how no one went to prison for it but regulators rushed, nay, scrambled, to make new rules to prevent that kind of thing from happening again, right? Well, the result is the Basel III framework, which in very crude terms will require large banks to hold more capital as buffer against potential crises. Guess what that means.
Why, it means banks won’t be able to be as generous with wind and solar projects as they have been so far. As illustration, CNBC related this week the tragic and unjust story of one solar developer who said that “the proposed rule “potentially makes projects unfinanceable with the implied costs” and that he’s already heard from bankers who have said they won’t be able to continue funding renewable energy projects.”
If you just laughed, may Jamie Raskin come down upon you like a sack of organic fertiliser. Shame on you. Unfortunately, there’s more shameful laughter-inducing news. It’s not just raining bad news for the transition this week, it’s pouring.
Denmark’s Orsted this week warned that costs for wind projects will remain elevated until central banks start cutting rates. “The longer interest rates stay high, the longer prices in [renewable energy] auctions will stay high,” CEO Mads Nipper told the FT and if you’re laughing now, that’s just heartless.
So, wind and solar are going to remain costly because of interest rates (and nothing else at all) and banks will become less generous because they’d be obliged to keep more money at home. Can the future get any bleaker?
Of course it can. The UK’s Prime Minister just played a cruel joke on all the righteous defenders of Mother Earth in the country. You know what this man has done? He’s gone and allowed drilling for oil and gas at offshore wind sites. The Guardian is in understandable pieces about it.
I would like to share with you the comments that a former climate official with the Sunak government, Chris Skidmark — I mean Skidmore — had for the Guardian: “Instead of wind powering new oil, the investment should instead be in more wind and renewables. More fossil fuels will only create stranded assets and stranded jobs at a time when demand for oil and gas is falling.” Who wants to tell Chris about Basel III? And oil demand, too.
Thickening the gloom, Wood Mackenzie this week issued its own warning, saying that a five-year delay in the energy transition “could see the global average temperature rise to 3-degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.” May the original Wood Mackenzie and its valuable analysis rest in peace. Someone would have to tell the new, crusader-friendly, Wood Mac about Basel III, too. And maybe about the reliability of a concept as abstract as a global average temperature.
To end on a positive note, the G7 shook hands on a 2035 phaseout of coal power and I can’t wait to see this implemented. I also can’t wait for the new coal consumption data from Asia once the G7 begins the phaseout in earnest. The other thing I can’t wait for is the inevitable news that AI data centre operators are moving their operations to Asia where the electricity supply is reliable. Imagine that.
https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/dumb-dumber-and-dum-dee-dee-dum?publication_id=376351&post_id=144198693&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Dumb, Dumber, and Dum-dee-dee-dum
Irina Slav
May 03, 2024
Denial, disinformation, and doublespeak. That’s how a group of Democrat legislators in the U.S. Congress dubbed a Senate budget committee hearing that took place this week.
Here’s the full name: Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change. Passionate, right? Righteous. Highly impressive. And the result of an “investigation” into Big Oil that started three years ago.
The conclusion of that investigation? Big Oil is bad because it knew about climate change and didn’t tell the whole kindergarten, and also Big Oil doesn’t love the climate and wants the planet to burn. You might think I’m oversimplifying to mock and deride the investigators but here’s a quote.
Among the assertions made by one of the legislators partaking in the hearing party were the following: “Big Oil continues to conceal the facts about their business model and obscure the actual dangers of fossil fuels, including natural gas, in order to block the climate action we need.” Same thing, only said in pompous language.
The legislator, by the name of Jamie Raskin, seems really passionate about the climate. “Despite knowing about the devastating effects of their oil and gas products on the planet for decades, the industry has always prioritized its bottom line and chosen low-road PR tactics over a high-road commitment to addressing the crisis.” Yep. That’s real passion right there. Too bad passion rarely keeps company with reason.
Big Oil’s reaction to the latest round of blame-flinging and name-calling was one of exasperation, with the exception of Shell, which had this to say about the documents waved around as evidence of knowing about climate change and hiding it for profit. These documents, a spokesman said, “are evidence of Shell’s efforts to set realistic targets, hi-grade its portfolio and meaningfully participate in the energy transition.”
Speaking of Shell, the company had an eventful week that also happened to be highly amusing for me. First, there was the report that a group of 27 institutional shareholders had called on Shell’s other shareholders to vote for a resolution demanding more of what everyone calls “climate action” as if that phrase means something.
The group, which together has 2.5% in Shell, said in its letter to their fellow Shell-holders that the company had to do more about cutting emissions because Paris Agreement strategy alignment was “essential to preserve the health of the global economy”.
You’d no doubt be shocked to learn that the originator of the letter-writing effort was none other than Follow This, the activist shareholding scheme that has been filing resolutions against Big Oil for a decade and has recently started to experience some pushback as Big Oil started making Even Bigger Money. This has not made Follow This a happy scheme.
Just a day after the news about the shareholder letter broke, Shell reported a net profit of $7.7 billion for the first quarter of the year, beating analyst forecasts by over $1 billion. It also said it would buy back $3.5 billion worth of shares over the next quarter. Now, who are those shareholders going to listen to — Follow This or the company that pays them for their generosity in buying shares in it?
Regrettably, the answer to this question may not be as straightforward as it seems, based on that letter that features among its signatories entities such as Amundi and AXA. Apparently, the idea that reason rules in the financial world is a huge illusion.
While asset managers with Shell holdings fret about the health of the global economy, which apparently depends on Shell’s production plans, a California court — I repeat, a California court — just killed a kids’ climate lawsuit. I guess even evil climate deniers need a bit of good news once in a while.
Anyway, that court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, dismissed the case, brought in by a group of 21 children on the grounds that, per Reuters, “courts could not mandate broad policy changes that are better left to Congress and the executive branch.”
The kids, gently guided in their righteous battle by Our Children’s Trust, which you’ve probably heard about because having children sue various governments is all it does, initially wanted the court to make the U.S. federal government say Mea culpa, self-flagellate, change its energy policies and phase out “subsidies” for oil and gas production. That was back in 2020 and the 9th Circuit Court promptly dismissed the case.
But Our Children’s Trust doesn’t give up that easily. After that first dismissal, they changed the tune, now only wanting a declaration that these policies were wrong. An Oregon district judge obliged and gave the lawsuit a second chance of life. Well, that ended this week, for good this time.
You’d think Our Children’s Trust would give up and go home but you’d be wrong. There’s this to be said about fungal infections and climate litigators: they are stubborn little things. So now the case is going in front of an extended panel at the 9th Circuit Court in hopes 11 judges would rule differently from three. Because they so did back in 2020, when OCT did the same after the initial court ruling, as in, they didn’t.
"This is a tragic and unjust ruling, but it is not over," one OCT attorney said in comments following the ruling. Ominous words, I’m sure. Maybe it would make her feel better if she knew that other climate crusaders had much bigger, much more serious problems than her. Because tragic and unjust as that ruling may have been it pales in comparison to the tragedy and unjustness that the Basel III banking framework is about to unleash on the energy transition. Allow me to take a moment to compose myself.
Okay, so. Remember the 2008 financial crisis, right? Remember how no one went to prison for it but regulators rushed, nay, scrambled, to make new rules to prevent that kind of thing from happening again, right? Well, the result is the Basel III framework, which in very crude terms will require large banks to hold more capital as buffer against potential crises. Guess what that means.
Why, it means banks won’t be able to be as generous with wind and solar projects as they have been so far. As illustration, CNBC related this week the tragic and unjust story of one solar developer who said that “the proposed rule “potentially makes projects unfinanceable with the implied costs” and that he’s already heard from bankers who have said they won’t be able to continue funding renewable energy projects.”
If you just laughed, may Jamie Raskin come down upon you like a sack of organic fertiliser. Shame on you. Unfortunately, there’s more shameful laughter-inducing news. It’s not just raining bad news for the transition this week, it’s pouring.
Denmark’s Orsted this week warned that costs for wind projects will remain elevated until central banks start cutting rates. “The longer interest rates stay high, the longer prices in [renewable energy] auctions will stay high,” CEO Mads Nipper told the FT and if you’re laughing now, that’s just heartless.
So, wind and solar are going to remain costly because of interest rates (and nothing else at all) and banks will become less generous because they’d be obliged to keep more money at home. Can the future get any bleaker?
Of course it can. The UK’s Prime Minister just played a cruel joke on all the righteous defenders of Mother Earth in the country. You know what this man has done? He’s gone and allowed drilling for oil and gas at offshore wind sites. The Guardian is in understandable pieces about it.
I would like to share with you the comments that a former climate official with the Sunak government, Chris Skidmark — I mean Skidmore — had for the Guardian: “Instead of wind powering new oil, the investment should instead be in more wind and renewables. More fossil fuels will only create stranded assets and stranded jobs at a time when demand for oil and gas is falling.” Who wants to tell Chris about Basel III? And oil demand, too.
Thickening the gloom, Wood Mackenzie this week issued its own warning, saying that a five-year delay in the energy transition “could see the global average temperature rise to 3-degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.” May the original Wood Mackenzie and its valuable analysis rest in peace. Someone would have to tell the new, crusader-friendly, Wood Mac about Basel III, too. And maybe about the reliability of a concept as abstract as a global average temperature.
To end on a positive note, the G7 shook hands on a 2035 phaseout of coal power and I can’t wait to see this implemented. I also can’t wait for the new coal consumption data from Asia once the G7 begins the phaseout in earnest. The other thing I can’t wait for is the inevitable news that AI data centre operators are moving their operations to Asia where the electricity supply is reliable. Imagine that.
https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/dumb-dumber-and-dum-dee-dee-dum?publication_id=376351&post_id=144198693&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Friday's Energy Absurdity: Billy Blazejowski the Climate Alarm Idea Man Strikes Again!
He's got a million of 'em!
David Blackmon
May 03, 2024
All you younger readers are just going to have to get used to this old reference, because Billy Blazejowski, the “idea man” played by Michael Keaton in the hilarious ‘80s comedy “Night Shift,” has truly been reincarnated and is working hard to kill the climate alarm boogeyman.
Back on April 3, I wrote about how the 21st century Billy Blaze brought us the grand idea of blocking the sun by floating thousands of huge helium-filled balloons into the stratosphere to fight the climate boogeyman. Sure, after all, nothing could possibly go wrong with such a plan. It’s even better than Billy’s early idea to sell cans of tuna with the mayonnaise already inside. Who can even argue with this stuff?
This week gives us a group of Billy Blazejowskis at LanzaTech with another fantastic idea to cure the climate-demic. And don’t worry: No big balloons are involved in this one. Indeed, these idea men aren’t planning to put anything into the atmosphere at all, which should give us all a huge sigh of relief!
Until, that is, you read what they are planning on doing.
I’ll let this excerpt from a story at OilPrice.com fill you in:
U.S.-based biotechnology firm is using carbon-eating bacteria to turn emissions from steel mills, refineries, and other heavily polluting industrial processes into ethanol and chemicals, helping reduce carbon emissions and make recycled, sustainable products.
LanzaTech, which has been operating at a commercial scale since 2018, not only captures the carbon gases at industrial sites but it also transforms them – using bacteria in bioreactors – into fuels and chemicals. These recycled products are directly replacing virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company says.
"LanzaTech's carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals," the biotechnology firm says.
"You can find carbon dioxide from almost every steel mill and refinery. You can even make it from trash," LanzaTech's chief executive officer Jennifer Holmgren told The Wall Street Journal.
[End]
Ok, so, we’re going to eat the carbon with bacteria. Let’s all remember that carbon dioxide is not any sort of pollutant whatsoever, no matter what any 5 idiots (I’m looking at you, Anthony Kennedy) on any US Supreme Court have ruled. Carbon dioxide is, in truth, the very foundation for all life on planet Earth.
But now the Billy Blazejowskis at LanzaTech, driven by climate alarm hysteria, are spreading bacteria to eat it.
Hey, we’re all carbon-based beings, aren’t we? Remember the meme below that sits atop my landing page?
hmmmmmmmm…Billy Blaze might be more of a threat than we all thought.
That is all.https://blackmon.substack.com/p/fridays-energy-absurdity-billy-blazejowski?publication_id=712558&post_id=144268697&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Friday's Energy Absurdity: Billy Blazejowski the Climate Alarm Idea Man Strikes Again!
He's got a million of 'em!
David Blackmon
May 03, 2024
All you younger readers are just going to have to get used to this old reference, because Billy Blazejowski, the “idea man” played by Michael Keaton in the hilarious ‘80s comedy “Night Shift,” has truly been reincarnated and is working hard to kill the climate alarm boogeyman.
Back on April 3, I wrote about how the 21st century Billy Blaze brought us the grand idea of blocking the sun by floating thousands of huge helium-filled balloons into the stratosphere to fight the climate boogeyman. Sure, after all, nothing could possibly go wrong with such a plan. It’s even better than Billy’s early idea to sell cans of tuna with the mayonnaise already inside. Who can even argue with this stuff?
This week gives us a group of Billy Blazejowskis at LanzaTech with another fantastic idea to cure the climate-demic. And don’t worry: No big balloons are involved in this one. Indeed, these idea men aren’t planning to put anything into the atmosphere at all, which should give us all a huge sigh of relief!
Until, that is, you read what they are planning on doing.
I’ll let this excerpt from a story at OilPrice.com fill you in:
U.S.-based biotechnology firm is using carbon-eating bacteria to turn emissions from steel mills, refineries, and other heavily polluting industrial processes into ethanol and chemicals, helping reduce carbon emissions and make recycled, sustainable products.
LanzaTech, which has been operating at a commercial scale since 2018, not only captures the carbon gases at industrial sites but it also transforms them – using bacteria in bioreactors – into fuels and chemicals. These recycled products are directly replacing virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company says.
"LanzaTech's carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals," the biotechnology firm says.
"You can find carbon dioxide from almost every steel mill and refinery. You can even make it from trash," LanzaTech's chief executive officer Jennifer Holmgren told The Wall Street Journal.
[End]
Ok, so, we’re going to eat the carbon with bacteria. Let’s all remember that carbon dioxide is not any sort of pollutant whatsoever, no matter what any 5 idiots (I’m looking at you, Anthony Kennedy) on any US Supreme Court have ruled. Carbon dioxide is, in truth, the very foundation for all life on planet Earth.
But now the Billy Blazejowskis at LanzaTech, driven by climate alarm hysteria, are spreading bacteria to eat it.
Hey, we’re all carbon-based beings, aren’t we? Remember the meme below that sits atop my landing page?
hmmmmmmmm…Billy Blaze might be more of a threat than we all thought.
That is all.https://blackmon.substack.com/p/fridays-energy-absurdity-billy-blazejowski?publication_id=712558&post_id=144268697&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Never been a fan of basketball or hockey.
Absolutely!
And yet the libs still defend their MMP and his admin!!!!
TURBO CANCER – Nurses are developing advanced (usually Stage 4) turbo cancers after being forced into taking COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. I present 30 nurses & their tragic stories!
https://vigilantnews.com/post/turbo-cancer-nurses-are-developing-advanced-usually-stage-4-turbo-cancers-after-being-forced-into-taking-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-i-present-30-nurses-their-tragic-stories/
TURBO CANCER – Nurses are developing advanced (usually Stage 4) turbo cancers after being forced into taking COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. I present 30 nurses & their tragic stories!
https://vigilantnews.com/post/turbo-cancer-nurses-are-developing-advanced-usually-stage-4-turbo-cancers-after-being-forced-into-taking-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-i-present-30-nurses-their-tragic-stories/
Watch for future protests and lawsuits against law enforcement for police brutality!!!
The Left-Wing Media Frets Over Presidential Debates
Beyond the ratings windfall, some could be dreading Trump-Biden TV showdown.
by Graham J Noble | Apr 30, 2024
Will American voters get to see presidential debates in 2024? Currently, nobody really knows the answer to that question even though the Commission on Presidential Debates has created a schedule. The first face-off between the two presumptive nominees – incumbent Joe Biden and challenger Donald Trump – is slated for Monday, Sept. 16. While the television networks appear anxious for the debates to go ahead, there seems to be something of an emerging campaign by left-leaning print and digital media outlets to shield Biden from having to take the stage for direct verbal confrontations with his predecessor and would-be successor.
On April 14, 11 prominent news organizations issued a joint statement urging presidential candidates to publicly commit to a series of televised debates. CBS, CNN, ABC News, Fox News Media, and several other organizations argue that the stakes in this election are “exceptionally high” and that “there is simply no substitute for the candidates debating with each other, and before the American people, their visions for the future of our nation.”
One hardly needs a master’s degree in communications to figure out why these news companies want the debates to go ahead: Televised Trump-Biden grudge-matches are sure to be ratings gold. It is beginning to look, however, as though a lot of Biden supporters in the world of digital and print journalism are less enthusiastic about the idea. A quick internet search for “presidential debates 2024” throws out a list of articles that attempt to rationalize, in various ways, the argument against presidential debates. Unsurprisingly, each one of these articles focuses on Trump, and why he is supposedly unworthy to share a stage with the current occupant of the White House. Examples include:
Why Biden Should Not Debate Trump – The Atlantic, April 16
Have presidential debates outlived their usefulness? – The Boston Globe, April 15
TV networks want Biden and Trump to debate. What’s the point? – Poynter., April 10
In The Atlantic article, David Frum argued that Trump should not be given “equal status on a TV stage” to Biden because to do so “would be a dire normalization of [Trump’s] attempted coup.” The opinion piece from Poynter. is at least a more honest and less hysterical argument – agree with it or not. Presidential debates have become a tradition, the author posited, and they are very important – just perhaps not this time around because, “In the end, there is a risk that Trump won’t play by the rules and any debate will skid off the rails.”
Presidential Debates Perilous for Biden?
That was a common thread running through many of these media articles: that Trump “won’t play by the rules” of presidential debates. The unavoidable suspicion, of course, is that the authors of these articles know full well that Biden has a potentially career-ending problem. His undeniable cognitive decline in recent years renders him incapable of holding his own against Trump in anything but the most rigidly controlled and staged-managed event. The rules by which Trump might refuse to play are perhaps those these journalists hope would be put in place to make the debates as accommodating as possible to Biden. They would leave little or no room for mistakes on his part – or for any appearance that he is not up to the task.
It’s a theory supported by former Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain’s recent appearance on MSNBC. Speaking with Jen Psaki – a former White House press secretary under Biden who now hosts her own show on the network — Klain said:
“I think what we have to see is something different than we saw in 2016 and 2020, where the debate commission lost control of the debates. Trump didn’t follow the rules at all. He talked over his opponents. There wasn’t a fair division of time. It was more a spectacle than a debate. That’s always going to be true with Donald Trump on the stage.”
Klain went on to describe his vision of the Trump-Biden presidential debates. He spoke about the candidates getting equal time and “where there is an orderly way of proceeding.” The president’s critics could be forgiven for interpreting that as a way of shaping the debate format so that Biden can recite prepared comments without interruption and without having to respond to Trump spontaneously.
It is fair to say that in past presidential debates – even up to as recently as the 2020 Democratic Party primaries – Biden usually came off as calm, cool, collected, and rational, even if one does not agree with his politics. Since that time, however, he has demonstrated a tendency to lose his temper, to raise his voice at times to a level one might even describe as hysterical, and to call people names. Additionally, Biden is now known for his frequent gaffes and a habit of recounting fictional episodes from his personal and political history. In a nutshell, he has on several occasions conducted himself in a manner often ascribed to Trump – and frequently used against the 45th president.
Those on the political left wary of presidential debates between Biden and Trump are, in all likelihood, concerned about these very issues. Thus, they would prefer to see either no debates or only events that are very strictly regulated. They are almost certainly hoping to eliminate the possibility of Biden embarrassing himself or simply being unable to go toe to toe with his notoriously boisterous opponent.
Trump has made it clear that he wants to debate Biden – who has, in turn, now claimed he is happy to engage in presidential debates with Trump. However, neither campaign has officially accepted the debate commission’s schedule – and so it still remains to be seen whether there will be any presidential debates in 2024. If there are none, then Biden’s handlers might well breathe a sigh of relief. Trump, on the other hand – along with his supporters – will probably feel cheated.
https://www.libertynation.com/the-left-wing-media-frets-over-presidential-debates/
New Bombshell Evidence Emerges: Was Trump Set Up in Classified Docs Saga?
MATT MARGOLIS | 9:11 AM ON APRIL 28, 2024
Court Filing
This week in Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of new documents that Jack Smith fought to keep hidden. And you'll soon find out why. Among the documents unsealed were extensive exhibits, motions, and other filings shedding light on the intricate web of communication between the Biden White House and the National Archives and Records Administration in the lead-up to Trump's indictment.
Investigative journalist Julie Kelly found something interesting in the documents that could change everything. The first things is testimony from an FBI agent who testified that the General Services Administration (GSA) had been in possession of Trump's boxes in Virginia before ordering Trump's team to come get them.
WELL WELL WELL I am pretty sure we never heard this part of the "classified documents/box" story!
More from unredacted motions in FLA--this is from an unsealed transcript of witness interview.
FBI agent says GSA was holding large quantity of Trump's boxes in VA and then ordered… pic.twitter.com/0i4tGdWZ9A
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 27, 2024
"So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago," Kelly notes. "Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with 'classified markings.'"
"I will double check indictment but I don't recall this event in the timeline," she added.
So, it appears that the Biden administration may have been responsible for shipping classified information to Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. This development is significant because Trump has previously blamed the GSA for packing the boxes that contained the classified documents, only to later accuse Trump of essentially stealing them and using that as pretext for sending the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022.
"It was a set-up from the get-go," remarked Tom Fitton, the founder of Judicial Watch.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden had classified information that he was never entitled to have stored in boxes in his garage for years, but was not charged. Biden blamed staffers for packing the classified information.
While this may not prove the Biden administration set up Trump in the classified documents case, considering the way the Biden administration has abused the legal system against Trump, no one can confidently say they wouldn't.
Even so, it still raises other legitimate questions. For example, if the GSA had been in possession of the boxes, why wasn't a review of the materials conducted before they instructed Trump's team to get them? When it comes to classified information, they wouldn't have expected Trump and his staff to be responsible for ensuring that classified documents weren't among the records. Perhaps they did review the contents of the boxes and knew classified documents were contained in them before they told Trump's people to come get them.
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Right there with ya Bull:
Thankfully there are people like you and me that can pull the plug on our pets when they are in the sad situation of "end of life". As hard as it is for us, it's very selfish to just keep them going when their time as our family member is over.
We have 13 small wooden urns on our bookshelves to keep our past friends with us. We also have 7 more still with us that we do not look forward to having to say goodbuy to!
Right there with ya Al. It's all fun and games until someone pays price, then they scatter like roaches when the light is turned on.
No more playing patty cake with these useful cult members that drinking the Kool Aid provided by those that are being payed a lot of money to "educate" those that also paid a lot of money for an education. Of course there are a lot that just follow along like sheep because they have nothing better to do with their lives and/or are being paid.
This part reminded me of Joe's dangerous dog....
Kristi Noem v. Joe Biden in the indecency sweepstakes
By Mike McDaniel
Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are up arms about a brief passage in South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s new book. Said passage relates the long ago, sad tale of putting down a dog whose behavior proved inappropriate and dangerous to farm life. For those with even a pasing connection to farm or ranch life, it’s an unremarkable story.
Farming and ranching are businesses. For families it’s often their sole source of income. While farmers and ranchers love and care for their animals, they can’t afford to romanticize them. A dog that attacks other animals, to say nothing of people, is dangerous to the bottom line, and having to put down animals for all manner of reasons is an integral, and surely sad, part of farm and ranch life.
But Noem is horrible! She’s indecent!
When D/s/cs so indignantly attack Republicans and Normal Americans, I tend to suspect they just might be attacking them for less than honest, transparent reasons. Such attacks also tend to be revealing of their political fears, in this case, Gov. Noem might present an appealing, effective choice for a Trump running mate.
Speaking on indecency, we must remember Joe Biden’s promises to restore normalcy and decency to the White House and America. The invaluable Miranda Devine, writing at The New York Post, reminds us of just how decent Biden is not:
Joe Biden is not “decent.” He made that clear a few minutes before [Colin] Jost took the stage when he gave a graceless, inappropriate stump speech in which he lied about Trump and then laughably urged the assembled media to fight “disinformation.” [skip]
Biden rolled out his favorite lies about Trump, like: “He said he wants to be a dictator on Day One.”
False. When asked if he would be a “dictator” in office, Trump joked, “No, other than Day One.”
Biden said Trump “promised a bloodbath when he loses again. We have to take this seriously.”
False: Trump said there would be an economic bloodbath if he were to lose the election.
Biden then called on the journalists in the room to report “truth over lies. … In an age of disinformation, credible information people can trust is more important than ever.”
Honestly, there’s nothing decent about a president who lies and gaslights the American people day after day.
This would be the same Joe Biden who said “ We [D/s/cs] choose truth over facts!” That’s perhaps the perfect example of a gaffe: a politician accidentally saying what they truly believe.
Devine provides other examples of Biden’s indecency:
*Helping your family sell out the country to shady foreigners for tens of millions of dollars — and then pretending you know nothing about it.
*Inviting millions of illegal migrants into the country — and then lying that the border is secure.
*Sniffing and fondling children and women every chance you get.
*Refusing to acknowledge your out-of-wedlock grandchild until forced to issue a statement as part of a child support settlement Hunter Biden struck with the mother, and then failing to include the little girl in the annual family Christmas stocking lineup at the White House.
*Refusing to provide Secret Service protection to Bobby Kennedy Jr., despite threats against him and the history of assassination in his family.
*Continually looking at your watch in boredom as the bodies of the 13 heroes are repatriated to Dover Air Force Base, and then infuriating the families by making it about yourself and the fantasy that your son died in combat, too.
*Allowing your dogs to attack Secret Service agents.
By all means, take the link and read the rest. I would add perhaps the most obvious indecency: conspiring with federal, state and local prosecutors to imprison and bankrupt the Republican nominee for President, to deny Americans their electoral choice. The list, to be sure, is virtually endless.
One need not delve deeply into history to understand Joe Biden has always been a mean, angry liar. He aligned himself with many of the Senate’s D/s/c racists—the Democrat Party has always been the party of racism--and in 1977 said integration policies would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.” His failed attempt to exclude Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court needs little reiteration. Biden is also a plagiarist, lifting portions of a speech from British politician Neal Kinnock, ending his 1988 presidential bid.
Where political indecency is concerned, America might be best served by trusting the honesty and farming sensibilities of Kristi Noem over Joe Biden’s political record of indecency and lies.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/kristi_noem_v_joe_biden_in_the_indecency_sweepstakes.html
Kristi Noem v. Joe Biden in the indecency sweepstakes
By Mike McDaniel
Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are up arms about a brief passage in South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s new book. Said passage relates the long ago, sad tale of putting down a dog whose behavior proved inappropriate and dangerous to farm life. For those with even a pasing connection to farm or ranch life, it’s an unremarkable story.
Farming and ranching are businesses. For families it’s often their sole source of income. While farmers and ranchers love and care for their animals, they can’t afford to romanticize them. A dog that attacks other animals, to say nothing of people, is dangerous to the bottom line, and having to put down animals for all manner of reasons is an integral, and surely sad, part of farm and ranch life.
But Noem is horrible! She’s indecent!
When D/s/cs so indignantly attack Republicans and Normal Americans, I tend to suspect they just might be attacking them for less than honest, transparent reasons. Such attacks also tend to be revealing of their political fears, in this case, Gov. Noem might present an appealing, effective choice for a Trump running mate.
Speaking on indecency, we must remember Joe Biden’s promises to restore normalcy and decency to the White House and America. The invaluable Miranda Devine, writing at The New York Post, reminds us of just how decent Biden is not:
Joe Biden is not “decent.” He made that clear a few minutes before [Colin] Jost took the stage when he gave a graceless, inappropriate stump speech in which he lied about Trump and then laughably urged the assembled media to fight “disinformation.” [skip]
Biden rolled out his favorite lies about Trump, like: “He said he wants to be a dictator on Day One.”
False. When asked if he would be a “dictator” in office, Trump joked, “No, other than Day One.”
Biden said Trump “promised a bloodbath when he loses again. We have to take this seriously.”
False: Trump said there would be an economic bloodbath if he were to lose the election.
Biden then called on the journalists in the room to report “truth over lies. … In an age of disinformation, credible information people can trust is more important than ever.”
Honestly, there’s nothing decent about a president who lies and gaslights the American people day after day.
This would be the same Joe Biden who said “ We [D/s/cs] choose truth over facts!” That’s perhaps the perfect example of a gaffe: a politician accidentally saying what they truly believe.
Devine provides other examples of Biden’s indecency:
*Helping your family sell out the country to shady foreigners for tens of millions of dollars — and then pretending you know nothing about it.
*Inviting millions of illegal migrants into the country — and then lying that the border is secure.
*Sniffing and fondling children and women every chance you get.
*Refusing to acknowledge your out-of-wedlock grandchild until forced to issue a statement as part of a child support settlement Hunter Biden struck with the mother, and then failing to include the little girl in the annual family Christmas stocking lineup at the White House.
*Refusing to provide Secret Service protection to Bobby Kennedy Jr., despite threats against him and the history of assassination in his family.
*Continually looking at your watch in boredom as the bodies of the 13 heroes are repatriated to Dover Air Force Base, and then infuriating the families by making it about yourself and the fantasy that your son died in combat, too.
*Allowing your dogs to attack Secret Service agents.
By all means, take the link and read the rest. I would add perhaps the most obvious indecency: conspiring with federal, state and local prosecutors to imprison and bankrupt the Republican nominee for President, to deny Americans their electoral choice. The list, to be sure, is virtually endless.
One need not delve deeply into history to understand Joe Biden has always been a mean, angry liar. He aligned himself with many of the Senate’s D/s/c racists—the Democrat Party has always been the party of racism--and in 1977 said integration policies would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.” His failed attempt to exclude Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court needs little reiteration. Biden is also a plagiarist, lifting portions of a speech from British politician Neal Kinnock, ending his 1988 presidential bid.
Where political indecency is concerned, America might be best served by trusting the honesty and farming sensibilities of Kristi Noem over Joe Biden’s political record of indecency and lies.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/kristi_noem_v_joe_biden_in_the_indecency_sweepstakes.html
Illegals fly free--and secretly
By Mike McDaniel
By the time Joe Biden’s term ends, if it ends, no less than 10 million illegal aliens, many of them criminals and the insane, hundreds of thousands of terrorists and spies, even members of China’s military, will be within America’s borders. Terrorist attacks on a previously unimaginable scale are a certainty, so likely even our feckless FBI director is warning of them, surely to cover his bureaucratic posterior. Should Biden steal a second term, America will no longer resemble America. But voting with one’s feet is far from the only way illegals breach our borders with the help of Biden’s Handlers:
In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the feds have admitted that in 2023 alone they secretly flew 320,000 illegal aliens into the United States. [skip]
Included in details of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit first reported by Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies found Biden's CBP approved the latest secretive flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries into at least 43 different American airports from January through December 2023.
That's 320,000 in 2023 alone to which they’ll admit. The flights, carrying numbers unknown, continue. The information was obtained only by way of FOIA because these flights, usually in unmarked aircraft, are kept strictly secret and land only at night. The Administration does this through an app that allows illegals to apply for those flights. Unvetted, they are flown directly into America at no cost, bypassing public scrutiny and cameras depicting them freely crossing our “secure” and “closed” borders. Americans forced to evacuate hostile nations due to the foreign policy idiocy of the Biden Administration have to cough up airfare in advance, when the State Department can be roused to arrange a flight or two. Illegals, once here, are routinely flown and bussed across the country to destinations of their choice, also at taxpayer expense. Americans are not impressed:
Rasmussen, whose polls slightly overweight Democrats, asked, “It was recently reported that the Biden administration had a program of international flights that last year transported more than 300,000 illegal immigrants to U.S. airports. Do you approve or disapprove of this program?” Some 25% approved, 60% disapproved.
Overall, voters also panned Biden’s border policies. Asked to rate his handling of the crisis, 28% said good to excellent and 70% said fair too poor, with 53% declaring it “poor.”
Even 39% of Democrats are opposed. What that says about the 61% that aren’t is as despicable as it is unsurprising, unsurprising because they see illegals as future—as soon as the 2024 election—Democrat voters. But wouldn’t that be illegal? Only citizens can legally vote. Right. Only living people are supposed to be able to vote too. The old Chicago exhortation—“vote early; vote often”—applies. And by some unfathomable coincidence, the dead virtually always vote Democrat. It must be something about the afterlife.
Biden’s Handlers have already rigged the Census to count not just citizens, but illegals, increasing Democrat House seats increasingly depleted by the millions of Americans fleeing blue states.
So low have American’s expectations of government and our essential institutions become, we tend to view such things not with revolutionary outrage, but resignation. Each new illegal, unconstitutional, immoral usurpation is greeted with gallic shrugs and disgusted groans. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris blatantly lie, calling the border “secure” and “closed,” but because Americans aren’t yet ready to take up arms, they groan and suppress their anger, understanding our President and Vice President cannot be trusted.
Nor can the Senate. When DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, another serial border liar, was impeached, the Democrat-ruled Senate refused to do its constitutional duty to try him, and simply dismissed the articles of impeachment. It has been more than 150 years since a cabinet secretary was impeached, so it’s not as though it’s a common, political ploy.
What’s next? Giving illegals free room and board, cell phones, work permits, displacing veterans and the needy, taking over school facilities and lying about all of that? Oh. Right. The Administration is already doing that too.
It’s a truism to say America is a nation of immigrants, but never before have we imported them unvetted, by air, with taxpayer dollars from the brokest nation in history. Never before have we not expected them to pay their own way and to assimilate.
When that bill comes due, who will be left to pay it and what with?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/illegals_fly_free_and_secretly.html
How popular is the AR-15?
By Mike McDaniel
On April 13, American Thinker posted Should I Buy An AR-15? That article generated 99 comments, and suggested there are some 30 million ARs in private hands in America. I also suggested one of the best reasons to buy an AR-15 is the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) doesn’t want you to have one, that and you’re a free American and want one. It seems tens of millions of Americans agree:
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) recently released a “Firearm Production in the United States and the Firearm Import and Export Data” report which indicates that 28,144,000 modern sporting rifles (MSRs) have been put into circulation since 1990. MSR production increased 32 percent from 2020 to 2021 alone.
“Modern sporting rifle” has become the standard term for the AR-15 and its several variants, though it arguably encompasses such arms as the Ruger Mini-14, even semiautomatic AK-47/74 variants. “AR,” by the way, is not an acronym for Assault Rifle, nor for “Assault Weapon,” a designation that does not exist in firearm nomenclature, but is an invention of the anti-liberty/gun Left designed to scare the uninformed into thinking semiautomatic AR-15s are machineguns. The AR-15 platform was invented by Eugene Stoner, who then worked for Armalite, thus “AR,” Armalite Rifle. Stoner invented the AR-10 first, chambered in .308/7.62 NATO, but scaled it down to the AR-15 in .223/5.56 NATO for the Air Force, the first military branch to adopt it, with its iconic triangular handguard, in M-16 form.
AR-10s are still available in .308, and that platform, and the AR-15 are also available in a variety of other calibers by switching the upper receiver and magazine. As long as other cartridges will fit an AR-10/15 magazine/magazine well, they’ll work with the appropriate upper receiver. This too contributes to the popularity of the AR platform.
In 2021, according to the findings, more than half of the 21,037,810 total firearms made available for the U.S. market were either pistols or revolvers. In all, 12,799,067 were handguns, 4,832,198 were rifles and 3,406,545 were shotguns. The figure includes firearms domestically produced plus those imported (minus exported firearms).
Americans have always liked and purchased guns, but when liberty is more obviously, even blatantly, threatened they’ve responded by buying the means to deter and resist tyranny. By December 2023, Americans, judging by federal firearm checks, had purchased more than a million guns per month for 53 consecutive months. Make that 57 months by the end of April, 2024. How many more? The December, 2023 number was 1.7+ million. With each firearm check, more than one gun may be purchased, which means the ultimate number, using that metric, is always larger than the number of individual checks. The American firearm industry, despite the worst efforts of leftists, continues to fill the arsenal of Democracy:
Total domestic firearm production reported in 2021 was 12,521,614—an increase of 28.6 percent over 2020 reported figures.
Because guns, well maintained, are nearly eternal, it’s difficult to estimate ultimate numbers, but this is a reasonable attempt:
In all, NSSF estimated the total number of firearms in civilian possession from 1990 to 2021 is 473.2 million.
Again, that’s only from 1990 to 2021, and why the Japanese, during WWII, believed invasion of America was impossible. They’d be facing a gun behind every blade of grass. Domestic tyrants share that Japanese perspective, which is why they’re so desperate to ban and seize AR-15s and every other effective firearm.
Ammunition sales are equally high. Even in 2020, sales increased by 139% and contemporary sales are as robust.
These statistics are surely horrifying for those that want to establish “our democracy,” an eternal tyranny of the majority. For Normal Americans, people who want only to be left alone to live under the Constitution—our representative republic—and the rule of law, they’re heartening indeed.
Our military is currently trying to replace the AR platform for general issue, but that effort may or may not be going well. In the meantime, no rifle so represents American liberty and American’s determination to retain it as that little black rifle.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/how_popular_is_the_ar_15.html
How popular is the AR-15?
By Mike McDaniel
On April 13, American Thinker posted Should I Buy An AR-15? That article generated 99 comments, and suggested there are some 30 million ARs in private hands in America. I also suggested one of the best reasons to buy an AR-15 is the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) doesn’t want you to have one, that and you’re a free American and want one. It seems tens of millions of Americans agree:
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) recently released a “Firearm Production in the United States and the Firearm Import and Export Data” report which indicates that 28,144,000 modern sporting rifles (MSRs) have been put into circulation since 1990. MSR production increased 32 percent from 2020 to 2021 alone.
“Modern sporting rifle” has become the standard term for the AR-15 and its several variants, though it arguably encompasses such arms as the Ruger Mini-14, even semiautomatic AK-47/74 variants. “AR,” by the way, is not an acronym for Assault Rifle, nor for “Assault Weapon,” a designation that does not exist in firearm nomenclature, but is an invention of the anti-liberty/gun Left designed to scare the uninformed into thinking semiautomatic AR-15s are machineguns. The AR-15 platform was invented by Eugene Stoner, who then worked for Armalite, thus “AR,” Armalite Rifle. Stoner invented the AR-10 first, chambered in .308/7.62 NATO, but scaled it down to the AR-15 in .223/5.56 NATO for the Air Force, the first military branch to adopt it, with its iconic triangular handguard, in M-16 form.
AR-10s are still available in .308, and that platform, and the AR-15 are also available in a variety of other calibers by switching the upper receiver and magazine. As long as other cartridges will fit an AR-10/15 magazine/magazine well, they’ll work with the appropriate upper receiver. This too contributes to the popularity of the AR platform.
In 2021, according to the findings, more than half of the 21,037,810 total firearms made available for the U.S. market were either pistols or revolvers. In all, 12,799,067 were handguns, 4,832,198 were rifles and 3,406,545 were shotguns. The figure includes firearms domestically produced plus those imported (minus exported firearms).
Americans have always liked and purchased guns, but when liberty is more obviously, even blatantly, threatened they’ve responded by buying the means to deter and resist tyranny. By December 2023, Americans, judging by federal firearm checks, had purchased more than a million guns per month for 53 consecutive months. Make that 57 months by the end of April, 2024. How many more? The December, 2023 number was 1.7+ million. With each firearm check, more than one gun may be purchased, which means the ultimate number, using that metric, is always larger than the number of individual checks. The American firearm industry, despite the worst efforts of leftists, continues to fill the arsenal of Democracy:
Total domestic firearm production reported in 2021 was 12,521,614—an increase of 28.6 percent over 2020 reported figures.
Because guns, well maintained, are nearly eternal, it’s difficult to estimate ultimate numbers, but this is a reasonable attempt:
In all, NSSF estimated the total number of firearms in civilian possession from 1990 to 2021 is 473.2 million.
Again, that’s only from 1990 to 2021, and why the Japanese, during WWII, believed invasion of America was impossible. They’d be facing a gun behind every blade of grass. Domestic tyrants share that Japanese perspective, which is why they’re so desperate to ban and seize AR-15s and every other effective firearm.
Ammunition sales are equally high. Even in 2020, sales increased by 139% and contemporary sales are as robust.
These statistics are surely horrifying for those that want to establish “our democracy,” an eternal tyranny of the majority. For Normal Americans, people who want only to be left alone to live under the Constitution—our representative republic—and the rule of law, they’re heartening indeed.
Our military is currently trying to replace the AR platform for general issue, but that effort may or may not be going well. In the meantime, no rifle so represents American liberty and American’s determination to retain it as that little black rifle.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/how_popular_is_the_ar_15.html
Yep, those were the types that got beat up for things likes that!!
That's a good one Larry.
That's great!!!
Good morning bbotcs. Notice that's there's no push back from any of the women's right organizations? They're all bark and no bite ... What a joke.
To Avoid Falling, Biden To Traverse Lawn In Giant Hamster Ball
WASHINGTON, DC - In an ongoing effort to keep the President from running into stationary objects, Whitehouse staff placed Biden in a giant hamster ball this week for his own safety.
The President was seen traversing the lawn in the giant plastic ball, which observers say is an effective way to keep him from running into trees, hedges, and other dangerous object
"This is a great solution for when he needs to get from Point A to Point B without harming himself or others," Whitehouse staffer Mel Baker told the press. "We're thinking of making one for him to use on Airforce One and another one for the campaign trail too."
Staffers helped the President into the ball after a series of videos emerged of his most recent falls and stumbles. "It's safer this way…for all of us," one aid told reporters.
Sources close to Biden say the President was happy with the giant hamster ball and thought it resembled a big scoop of ice cream.
"Presidents throughout history have used similar devices for mobility," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the press. "Towards the end of his life, William Haward Taft was often placed in a giant dog stroller and wheeled through the halls of Congress. Totally factual."
As of publishing time, Secret Service agents were seen frantically searching for the President after Biden bounced down a set of stairs near the Oval Office.
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-avoid-falling-biden-to-traverse-lawn-in-giant-hamster-ball
To Avoid Falling, Biden To Traverse Lawn In Giant Hamster Ball
WASHINGTON, DC - In an ongoing effort to keep the President from running into stationary objects, Whitehouse staff placed Biden in a giant hamster ball this week for his own safety.
The President was seen traversing the lawn in the giant plastic ball, which observers say is an effective way to keep him from running into trees, hedges, and other dangerous object
"This is a great solution for when he needs to get from Point A to Point B without harming himself or others," Whitehouse staffer Mel Baker told the press. "We're thinking of making one for him to use on Airforce One and another one for the campaign trail too."
Staffers helped the President into the ball after a series of videos emerged of his most recent falls and stumbles. "It's safer this way…for all of us," one aid told reporters.
Sources close to Biden say the President was happy with the giant hamster ball and thought it resembled a big scoop of ice cream.
"Presidents throughout history have used similar devices for mobility," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the press. "Towards the end of his life, William Haward Taft was often placed in a giant dog stroller and wheeled through the halls of Congress. Totally factual."
As of publishing time, Secret Service agents were seen frantically searching for the President after Biden bounced down a set of stairs near the Oval Office.
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-avoid-falling-biden-to-traverse-lawn-in-giant-hamster-ball
Newsom Asks Public To Help Design New California Coin, Instantly Regrets It
When he’s not making ignorantly silly commercials about access to abortion in Alabama, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s favorite hobby is getting ratioed online. Seriously, I’m not sure there’s anyone less self-aware than Newsom, or anyone who’s more of a glutton for punishment.
So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, “Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department,” a reference to Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Apparently, Newsom (or the intern who wrote the tweet) didn’t understand that the title is surmised to be a slam at Swift’s ex-boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn. Vogue reports that Alwyn “once stated in an interview that he had a texting group chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called the ‘Tortured Man Club,’ which many fans instantly drew parallels to with Swift’s album name.”
The Golden State has a long history of positive innovation, but the only thing it’s innovating during Newsom’s tenure is new ways to waste every natural gift God can bestow upon a land and leave its citizens in poverty. Oh, and new methods by which the government can repress the civil rights of people.
And so many submissions centered on themes of homeless encampments, dumpster fires, and endless COVID masking rules.
This is weird, even for Gavin Newsom. In an apparent play on Taylor Swift’s new album title “Tortured Poets Department” he’s asking for suggestions for “Tortured Coin Designers Department” to design a $1 “Innovation Coin.” Is this a desperate move to reduce rhetoric $73 deficit?… https://t.co/sjYv98lhoT pic.twitter.com/vEBOolYLFw
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) April 25, 2024
— Lex Jurgen (@Lex_Jurgen) April 26, 2024
Newsom Asks Public To Help Design New California Coin, Instantly Regrets It
When he’s not making ignorantly silly commercials about access to abortion in Alabama, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s favorite hobby is getting ratioed online. Seriously, I’m not sure there’s anyone less self-aware than Newsom, or anyone who’s more of a glutton for punishment.
So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, “Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department,” a reference to Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Apparently, Newsom (or the intern who wrote the tweet) didn’t understand that the title is surmised to be a slam at Swift’s ex-boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn. Vogue reports that Alwyn “once stated in an interview that he had a texting group chat with fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott called the ‘Tortured Man Club,’ which many fans instantly drew parallels to with Swift’s album name.”
The Golden State has a long history of positive innovation, but the only thing it’s innovating during Newsom’s tenure is new ways to waste every natural gift God can bestow upon a land and leave its citizens in poverty. Oh, and new methods by which the government can repress the civil rights of people.
And so many submissions centered on themes of homeless encampments, dumpster fires, and endless COVID masking rules.
This is weird, even for Gavin Newsom. In an apparent play on Taylor Swift’s new album title “Tortured Poets Department” he’s asking for suggestions for “Tortured Coin Designers Department” to design a $1 “Innovation Coin.” Is this a desperate move to reduce rhetoric $73 deficit?… https://t.co/sjYv98lhoT pic.twitter.com/vEBOolYLFw
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) April 25, 2024
— Lex Jurgen (@Lex_Jurgen) April 26, 2024
No, the government is not to be trusted
By Richard Berkowitz
No, if you're here from the government, you are not here to help me. Lamentably, you are not to be trusted. You can be terribly harmful and often are.
I listen to an untold number of videos relating to Congressional and Senate hearings, Investigations of witnesses, etc.
In each instance, and maybe more in the ones taking place in the Senate, I find them to be a lot of blowhard but overly courteous discussions where nothing truly is accomplished.
Sometimes, I am sure, legislation results from the information gleaned but it seems to me, that while the world is burning, they are more engaged in drinking water than hosing out fires.
Frankly, the British are, in my opinion, far more eloquent and humorous, though Sen. John Kennedy, from Louisiana, (who incidentally was educated at Oxford where British parliamentarians learn their skills) is a hoot. He is our equivalent of the great humorist from Oklahoma, Will Rogers.
The second thing I notice is when agency heads are called upon to tell why information requests are constantly ignored, withheld, or blacklined, the answer usually given is due to an ongoing investigation we cannot comment on. FBI Director Christopher Wray is particularly evasive in these ways.
The consequences are mostly dispiriting and continue to validate the comment 'you don't want to see how sausage and laws are made.'
The critical issue is how do we get trustworthy candidates for Congress; people who care deeply about the nation, who put the nation's interest first, and who are willing to take the slings and arrows public service subjects one to in today's highly politicized environment?
It takes a great deal of money to campaign and the last thing we need or want is to be governed by elite oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg, or Bill Gates or those who engage in public life for the purpose of self-enrichment, such as Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bob Menendez, or, worse still, those who crave power to bring about our nation's transformation like Obama or those of their ilk.
Politics historically attracts some interesting and equally dangerous characters.
I have always believed anyone running for a significant political position should be given a Rorschach Test and/or undergo a mental evaluation that is publicly disclosed.
The public needs to be informed, particularly since we no longer can rely upon the mass media's objectivity.
As for limited terms, time and again I know how popular it is, but unless the bureaucracy can be fired or their own service limited, they present the highest of all risks.
Christopher Rufo's book: "America's Cultural Revolution," devotes a significant amount of discussion to how those who work in government, at all levels, " ... fortify power and privilege while waging grievous harm which eventually becomes the pretext for domination."
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Sen. Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren shoved down America's throat, expanded its demands and power far beyond the benign intent upon its claimed initial language. It went from a legislative squeak to an omnipotent roar,
And what of the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Education, etc? I could go on and on as every one of these benign well-intended agencies have morphed into abusive ones, which at times, have threatened our freedoms and even our Bill of Rights.
If you do not believe me, ask FISA judges how they were exploited by the FBI.
No, if you're here from the government, you are not here to help me. Lamentably, you are not to be trusted. You can be terribly harmful and often are.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/no_the_government_is_not_to_be_trusted.html
No, the government is not to be trusted
By Richard Berkowitz
No, if you're here from the government, you are not here to help me. Lamentably, you are not to be trusted. You can be terribly harmful and often are.
I listen to an untold number of videos relating to Congressional and Senate hearings, Investigations of witnesses, etc.
In each instance, and maybe more in the ones taking place in the Senate, I find them to be a lot of blowhard but overly courteous discussions where nothing truly is accomplished.
Sometimes, I am sure, legislation results from the information gleaned but it seems to me, that while the world is burning, they are more engaged in drinking water than hosing out fires.
Frankly, the British are, in my opinion, far more eloquent and humorous, though Sen. John Kennedy, from Louisiana, (who incidentally was educated at Oxford where British parliamentarians learn their skills) is a hoot. He is our equivalent of the great humorist from Oklahoma, Will Rogers.
The second thing I notice is when agency heads are called upon to tell why information requests are constantly ignored, withheld, or blacklined, the answer usually given is due to an ongoing investigation we cannot comment on. FBI Director Christopher Wray is particularly evasive in these ways.
The consequences are mostly dispiriting and continue to validate the comment 'you don't want to see how sausage and laws are made.'
The critical issue is how do we get trustworthy candidates for Congress; people who care deeply about the nation, who put the nation's interest first, and who are willing to take the slings and arrows public service subjects one to in today's highly politicized environment?
It takes a great deal of money to campaign and the last thing we need or want is to be governed by elite oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg, or Bill Gates or those who engage in public life for the purpose of self-enrichment, such as Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bob Menendez, or, worse still, those who crave power to bring about our nation's transformation like Obama or those of their ilk.
Politics historically attracts some interesting and equally dangerous characters.
I have always believed anyone running for a significant political position should be given a Rorschach Test and/or undergo a mental evaluation that is publicly disclosed.
The public needs to be informed, particularly since we no longer can rely upon the mass media's objectivity.
As for limited terms, time and again I know how popular it is, but unless the bureaucracy can be fired or their own service limited, they present the highest of all risks.
Christopher Rufo's book: "America's Cultural Revolution," devotes a significant amount of discussion to how those who work in government, at all levels, " ... fortify power and privilege while waging grievous harm which eventually becomes the pretext for domination."
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Sen. Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren shoved down America's throat, expanded its demands and power far beyond the benign intent upon its claimed initial language. It went from a legislative squeak to an omnipotent roar,
And what of the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Education, etc? I could go on and on as every one of these benign well-intended agencies have morphed into abusive ones, which at times, have threatened our freedoms and even our Bill of Rights.
If you do not believe me, ask FISA judges how they were exploited by the FBI.
No, if you're here from the government, you are not here to help me. Lamentably, you are not to be trusted. You can be terribly harmful and often are.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/no_the_government_is_not_to_be_trusted.html