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Dementia Joe Circles Back to Racism
By Sloan Oliver
Anyone who’s ever dealt with an Alzheimer’s (or dementia) parent or grandparent knows the routine -- they only talk about five or six topics before they return to the first. By the time they’ve reached topic #5, they’ve completely forgotten that, only 30 minutes prior, they spent 10 minutes telling you about story #1. Those in such condition, those losing their mental faculties, spend the most time on events that most impacted their life; then it’s on to story #2 for several minutes; followed by topic/story #3, 4 and 5 before they revert to topic #1.
In the last years of my WWII, Korean War veteran father’s life, he told us (topic #1) that he singlehandedly defeated the Japanese (He was a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific.) and singlehandedly kept the Chinese hordes from overrunning the Marines at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. Topic #2, he talked about scoring the winning touchdown (in 1938) against the cross-town rivals. Topic #3, he reminded me that I came from his penis. I tell this only to let you know that people with dementia are completely unfiltered. They either don’t know what’s inappropriate or don’t care. But they tell you exactly what they think, such as I came from my father’s penis. All his stories took place decades ago and had a grain of truth (He fought in WWII and Korea, and scored a TD) but they were all embellished and largely concocted in his mentally reduced mind. It’s the same with all who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s.
It’s obvious; Joe Biden has reached dementia stage where he only talks about five or six topics before reverting back to topic #1. For Joe, topics #3 through #5 are some kind of tale beginning with “No joke” or “I’m not kidding” and goes on to tell some wild story from decades ago: such as his Uncle Bosie was eaten by cannibals during WWII; or that he was arrested in South Africa trying to visit Nelson Mandela (1970s); or that he drove 18-wheelers (1960s); or his confrontation (early 1960s) with notorious gang-leader Corp Pop (a “bad dude”) before he circles back to Topic #1. Just like my father, Biden’s stories have a grain of truth -- Uncle Bosie died during WWII; Joe went to South Africa, etc. The majority of Joe’s story is made up, mostly pandering to those gullible enough to listen to him.
Dementia Joe’s Topic #2 is white supremacy. For years, Biden has claimed white supremacy (WS) is the greatest terrorist threat facing America, and the group Patriot Front is the most hateful of the WS movement. I didn’t know that. Patriot Front must be some “bad dudes” with hundreds of murders and thousands of violent acts to their credit. So, I looked them up, or I should say, I looked at what the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) had to say about them. (Note: the SPLC is radical leftist and despises Whites and Christians. They report on every white-on-black racial incident to prove their false claim that white supremacy exists. Problem for them is there are very few violent white-on-black racial incidents.) If anyone could find violent crimes committed by the Patriot Front and other WS groups, it would be the SPLC. Turns out, the Patriot Front is such a terrible WS organization that they’ve committed ZERO murders and ZERO acts of violence against blacks or against other minorities. The SPLC does claim that the Patriot Front uses racial slurs against minorities (so do most hip-hop videos), shares violent images (many people routinely share violent videos), denigrates illegals and gays (a legal act), have demonstrated against gay pride events (completely legal and protected by the 1st Amendment), and have defaced LGBTQ posters (boo-hoo, at least they don’t burn down cities and federal courthouses like Antifa and BLM do). In other words, in Joe’s addled mind, whites who protest are white supremacists and must be designated the #1 terrorist threat.
If white supremacy is Joe’s Topic #2, what could possibly be #1? Drum roll, please… the topic that Biden always “circles back” to is racism. Biden starts with racism, goes to topic #2 (white supremacy) and #3, then back to racism. The man is obsessed with racism and returns to it over and over again. He’s been doing this for years. In 2011, Biden told a black audience that Republicans are “gonna put y’all back in chains.” In 2020, he told blacks, if you don’t know who to vote for “you ‘ain’t black.” As a candidate, Biden made skin color (not competence) the primary qualification for his vice president. As president, skin color (not competence) is Joe’s primary consideration for Supreme Court appointments. His focus on skin color must be belittling and condescending to all blacks, especially those who are qualified and competent.
Somebody please tell Joe that we’re not in the 1950s or 1960s anymore. For him, he’s remembering fonder times, days when Dems felt free to overtly display their hatred of blacks, but enough is enough. (Recall it was Dems who violently attacked protesting blacks in the ‘50s and ‘60s -- such as blasting them with water hoses (Bull Connor), beating them at the Edmund Pettis Bridge (Sheriff Jim Clark), denying them entrance to schools (Gov. Orval Faubus) and universities (Gov. George Wallace), and even electing a Grand Wizard of the KKK to the U.S. Senate (Senator Robert Byrd)).
Last Saturday, Biden reverted to Topic #1. He delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College. He started and ended his speech with lies and “racism” as he told the graduates (and us) that blacks are still being treated today like they were in the 1950s and 60s. Joe talked about black men being killed in the streets, implying that such killings are happening today due to white-on-black racial violence or police-on-black killings. Joe’s implications are false. Yes, blacks are being killed in the streets. Simply look at Macon (in central Georgia), or at any city with a large black population, and we know that’s true. However, blacks are being killed by other blacks. Overall, there is very little interracial violence. When interracial violence occurs, black-on-white violence is much more prevalent then white-on-black. In 2019, 246 blacks were killed by whites (across the nation) but 566 whites were killed by blacks. One has to willfully ignore all relevant crime figures to conclude that white supremacy and white racism are the main cause of violence against blacks.
Moving on, the remainder of Biden’s speech was a 30-minute version of America hates blacks because of skin color and U.S. democracy is a “trail of broken promises.” What broken promises is Biden talking about? For decades, Dems have run every large American city and all of them are much less desirable places to live and raise a family; yet Biden wants to blame you and me for some nebulous promise. Adam B. Coleman best summarized Biden’s speech. “Imagine working hard for years to graduate from college and Joe Biden shows up to remind you that you’re a victim and America doesn’t love you because you’re black.”
Final Thought: No wonder Biden is so unpopular. His message to Morehouse grads was depressing, demoralizing, unpatriotic and that white America hates blacks. Then again, Joe does have dementia and circles back to racism.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/dementia_joe_circles_back_to_racism.html
An Effective Trump Presidency Requires Republican Control of Congress
By Steve McCann
Biden Rushes to Lock in Regulations in Case Trump Wins
The president only has so long to make new rules.
by Kelli Ballard | May 23, 2024
As Election Day 2024 draws near, the Biden administration is scrambling to make sure its legacy is cemented no matter the victor. Part of this includes pushing through a huge number of favored regulations before time runs out. Under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), federal rules can be rolled back within 60 legislative days after they are issued, putting pressure on the president to act quickly to safeguard a long list of regulations should Donald Trump win in November.
Biden Rushes to Lock in Regulations
“In April 2024, federal agencies broke records by publishing 66 significant final rules,” the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center recently reported. This is higher than any previous month during the Biden administration “and is nearly five times the average of the preceding months.”
According to the report, more than half (34) of the rules are economically significant, which means that “each of those rules is likely to have an annual impact of $200 million or more on the economy.” Of those 34, 27 were published during the last two weeks of April. That number is higher than any other month going back to Ronald Reagan’s administration, including the “midnight” months, when there is a flood of activity just before a president leaves office.
The report demonstrated the rush, showing that the Biden administration published 262 final rules each month from February 2021 to March 2024. Five percent of those were significant, and 2% were economically significant. Fast forward to last month, and 22% of the rules were significant, while 11% were economically significant. “That comparison suggests that agencies have likely been prioritizing publication of the most controversial, high impact rules to minimize the risk of CRA disapproval in case of a presidential transition.”
In 1996, Congress enacted the CRA as a tool to measure resolutions that were introduced and did not result in disapproval. The late Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said about the bill: “The President promulgates a regulation and Congress has a chance to look it over to see if it is too burdensome, too costly, too unfair. We have done that a few times. That was legislation that I did, and it was great when we had Republican Presidents, not so great when we had Democratic Presidents, but it was fair.”
The act had been used only once before Trump became president. In March 2002, President George W. Bush signed a resolution to overturn an OSHA ergonomics rule from the Clinton administration. When Trump became commander-in-chief, he signed 16 CRA resolutions against rules from Barack Obama’s administration. “This is Newt Gingrich’s knife against the throat of the administrative state that Trump weaponized,” Craig Segall, vice president of the climate advocacy group Evergreen Action, told The American Prospect. And this is what Biden is trying to prevent from happening again.
Some of the regulations Biden is pushing through include:
A Federal Trade Commission non-compete clause rule
Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for coal-fired power stations
A Labor Department overtime rule
A boost to electric vehicles by limiting automobile tailpipe emissions
A ban on non-compete agreements
The first federal mandate to cut carbon dioxide from power plants
National limits on forever chemicals in drinking water
Healthcare for DACA undocumented immigrants
Government use of HIPAA to safeguard access to abortion
Biden needs to publish regulations before the end of May to protect them from the CRA, although some lawmakers argue that such significant changes could be safeguarded as far out as September. Whatever the ultimate deadline, passing rules and regulations that an incoming administration would have to expend effort to repeal hints at the wisdom of Ronald Reagan’s famed 1964 adage that “governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear.”
https://www.libertynation.com/biden-rushes-to-lock-in-regulations-in-case-trump-wins/
The White House Can’t Even Get Its Inflation Lie Right
From not a problem to transitory, inflation blindsided the administration.
by Andrew Moran | May 23, 2024
Is Biden Bucking the Buckeye State?
Risky presidential strategies afoot in Ohio.
by Mark Angelides | May 23, 2024
The Ohio Democratic Party has been put on notice that President Joe Biden risks not being on the November ballot. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose this week issued the latest in a string of warnings that unless the party gets its act together, the commander-in-chief might just miss out on the deadline to file as a candidate.
Ohio law requires that candidates are certified by their parties at least 90 days before voters go to the polls; however, the Democratic Party Convention will not take place until August 19, when attendees will converge on Chicago – just 65 days before Election Day. The question has become: Who will jump first?
Is Biden the Nominee or Not?
Officially, Joe Biden will not become the nominee for his party until the national convention, which means he will miss the certification cut-off date. LaRose warned in a statement that:
“I’ve said from here to Colorado that it’s in the best interest of voters to have a choice in the race for president. I’m also duty-bound to follow the law as Ohio’s chief elections officer.
“As it stands today, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee will not be on the Ohio ballot. That is not my choice. It’s due to a conflict in the law created by the party, and the party has so far offered no legally acceptable remedy.”
One might argue that the state could change its rules to accommodate the sitting president, but there appears no such appetite in the Ohio legislature for this action. The process for doing so, however, was already nixed by local leadership.
Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens, a Republican, said: “There’s just not the will to do that from the legislature.” His position was echoed by his Democrat counterpart, Minority Leader Allison Russo, who held out little hope that a solution would come through bipartisan legislation. “We’ve seen the dysfunction here in this place,” she stated. “And I think we’ve seen that folks have not been able to put aside partisanship and hyper-partisanship and infighting… I think at this point, you’re probably going to see either, you know, some sort of inner party effects or perhaps court action.”
The Governor Disagrees
Republican Governor Mike DeWine believes that the state apparatus can resolve the situation, however. He argued:
“I have every confidence that it’s going to get done. No one should worry, they’re going to be able to vote for the president or the former president, whoever they want to vote for. You know, this is not going to be a situation where the president’s name is not on the ballot. So, it’s either going to be done by the court, or it’s going to be done by the legislature.”
While the legislature has been working towards a solution, efforts in that arena are currently stalled.
New banner Perpective 1A Biden spokesman assured voters in response to LaRose’s plea that all would be well come Election Day. “Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states,” he said. “Election after election, states across the country have acted in line with the bipartisan consensus and taken the necessary steps to ensure the presidential nominees from both parties will be on the ballot.”
Indeed, Alabama faced a similar situation earlier this month and came to an agreement to move the certification deadline from 82 days before the election to 74.
But what can the American public glean about the players in this quasi-farcical comedy of errors?
Ohio Matters
As Kyle Kondik – managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball – writes in his book The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President, the Buckeye State has only deviated by roughly two points from the national voting average in the last 30 presidential election cycles. In fact, Ohio has the best track record of electing presidents of any other state since 1896 – missing out on only Thomas Dewy in 1944, Richard Nixon in 1960, and Donald Trump in 2020.
Why would Joe Biden take any risk whatsoever with missing out on what some describe as the Ultimate Bellwether?
The lack of action to the repeated requests by Secretary of State LaRose hints at a hubris within the administration and the state Democratic Party, almost a sense of entitlement that states should fall in line behind the federal government’s lead. Yet, this presents a fundamental misunderstanding of how the nation works.
It is not one grand election for the president of the United States but rather 50 state elections. It is not the states’ responsibility to ensure that a candidate has access to the electorate, but the candidate’s duty to ensure he or she complies with the individual rules.
https://www.libertynation.com/is-biden-bucking-the-buckeye-state/
Thursday's Energy Absurdity: In California, the tax-per-mile 'conspiracy theory' becomes reality
David Blackmon
May 23, 2024
For several years now, boosters of the failing energy transition have publicly dismissed critics who have speculated that their ultimate goal where transportation is concerned is not merely to shift private car owners to adopt EVs, but to make the cost of owning a car so expensive that all but the most elite in society give up their cars altogether. Anyone reaching that imminently logical conclusion based on the evidence at hand has been dismissed as a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ or something worse.
One easy way to make owning a car increasingly costly would be to tax drivers on a cents-per-mile basis. With EVs replacing some percentage of gas-powered cars, states are finding their slush funds of taxes collected at the gas pump dwindling and are looking for ways to get the revenue flowing again. Some states, like Texas, are doing that with a hefty annual fee on EVs, but taking that route is hard to hide and tends to get hubris-filled EV buyers into a tizzy about having to actually help pay for the roads their extremely heavy vehicles do so much to damage. Go figure.
So, politicians being politicians, many are looking for a way to do this that’s somewhat easier to hide and seems “fair,” at least on the surface. For this reason, we now see the politicians and regulators in California (because of course it’s in California - where else?) now running tests on assessing a new tax based on miles driven each year.
Here’s an excerpt from a story at Motor Trend:
To combat the reduced gas tax revenue without singling out EV owners or trying to approximate an electric car's equivalent gas use or some other scheme that, it's assumed, nearly everyone (owners of gas cars and EVs alike) might find unfair, the California Department of Transportation (known as Caltrans) is considering ditching the gas tax all together in exchange for imposing a use tax on all vehicles, which would charged per mile driven, regardless of what powers your car. To test it out, Caltrans has launched a pilot program called “California Road Charge.”
How will the state keep track of how many miles you drive? Well, those who are volunteering to participate in the Road Charge pilot program can elect to have a tracking device installed in their car. Alternatively, participants can also just take a picture of their odometer and submit that instead.
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Mind you, California has already adopted a $100 annual road damage fee on EVs, which is half the Texas fee. Now, in addition to that, the state is moving to invoke a per-mile fee by forcing drivers to accept a tracking device being installed in their car. Thus does yet another ‘conspiracy theory’ become reality.
While state officials now claim the per-mile fee would replace the traditional at-the-pump gas tax, you can be certain that will not happen. This is a state dealing with the most massive state budget deficit in US history, after all.
But I suppose that’s just another ‘conspiracy theory,’ right? My advice: Bookmark this piece and get back to me when the conspiracy becomes the next reality.
Thanks to podcasting partner Tammy Nemeth for tipping me off to the Motor Trend story.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/thursdays-energy-absurdity-in-california?publication_id=712558&post_id=144905113&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true