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7 More States Sue Biden Over Student Loan Relief Plan
Biden still attempting to make all Americans pay for college dead beat's debts. AKA, buying votes on the backs of those that reject this idiot's and his puppet master's attempts to side step the law!!!
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-student-loan-education/2024/04/09/id/1160327/
Seven states filed suit on Tuesday against President Joe Biden, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, and the U.S. Department of Education over Biden’s SAVE income-driven repayment student loan initiative.
Led by Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey, the lawsuit is joined by Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.
"With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt," Bailey said. "The United States Constitution makes clear that the president lacks the authority to unilaterally ‘cancel’ student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress."
In a visit to Wisconsin on Monday, Biden detailed a proposal that would cancel at least some debt for more than 30 million Americans. It’s been in the works for months after the Supreme Court rejected Biden’s first try at mass cancellation.
Biden’s first attempt at widespread student loan cancellation would have erased $10,000 for borrowers with yearly incomes of up to $125,000, plus an additional $10,000 if they received federal Pell grants for low-income students. It was estimated to cost $400 billion and cancel at least some student debt for more than 40 million people.
The Supreme Court rejected that plan last year, saying Biden overstepped his authority.
The new plan uses a different legal justification — the Higher Education Act, which allows the secretary of education to waive student loan debt in certain cases. The Education Department has been going through a federal rulemaking process to clarify how the secretary can invoke that authority.
"President Biden from Day One has worked to fix the student loan system and make sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class — not a barrier to opportunity — because he knows that debt cancellation not only benefits borrowers, it benefits the entire economy," read the official statement from the White House.
Bailey said Biden is attempting to thwart the Constitution to suit his political agenda.
"I’m filing suit to halt his brazen attempt to curry favor with some citizens by forcing others to shoulder their debts," Bailey said. "The Constitution will continue to mean something as long as I’m attorney general."
"Just last year, the Supreme Court struck down an attempt by the President to force teachers, truckers, and farmers to pay for the student loan debt of other Americans — to the enormous tune of $430 billion," the lawsuit read. "In striking down that attempt, the Court declared that the President cannot 'unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy.'"
"Undeterred, the President is at it again, even bragging that 'the Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn’t stop me,'" the states added.
In March, 11 states, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, filed a lawsuit arguing the new plan is no different than Biden's first effort in loan cancellation which the Supreme Court rejected in June of 2023. Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah, joined Kansas in the previous suit.
Robinette Hood: Here’s how Biden’s EV agenda will take from the poor and give to the rich
April 8, 2024
President Joe Biden’s massive electric vehicle (EV) agenda will subsidize the lifestyles of America’s well-to-do while hitting average people the hardest, economists and auto market analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Biden administration is aggressively regulating the U.S. auto market to drastically increase the proportion of EVs sold over the coming decade, but consumer demand has not taken off as quickly as proponents had projected despite the subsidies made available by Biden’s flagship climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Manufacturers are slashing prices of their EVs to make the vehicles more appealing to consumers, which will increase prices for internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to compensate; this dynamic will only pick up speed and infect the used-car market favored by lower-income consumers as the administration’s stringent regulations kick in over time, economists and auto market analysts told the DCNF.
EVs benefit from direct subsidies, such as the IRA’s $7,500 consumer tax credit, but they also will increasingly benefit from a hidden cross-subsidy whereby manufacturers drop their prices and offset those losses by boosting prices of ICE vehicles, experts explained to the DCNF.
“As the mandated market share of EVs grows, the number of ICE vehicle sales must shrink. A decreasing number of ICE vehicle sales would have to prop up an increasing number of EV sales. The price hike per ICE vehicle would have to increase to offset losses on the ever-larger volume of EVs sold,” Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the DCNF. “Used cars compete with new cars for customers. If new car prices rise, so will used car prices. Even with generous federal, state, and manufacturer incentives, EVs cost thousands of dollars more than comparable ICE vehicles, and millions of middle-income households are already priced out of the market for new vehicles.”
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have each promulgated major emissions or fuel economy regulations designed to effectively require massive increases in the number of EVs sold in the 2030s. Despite these regulations and massive federal spending intended to help advance EV production and demand, American manufacturers are losing billions of dollars on their EV product lines.
These losses are poised to kick off a chain of second-order consequences on the auto market that will disadvantage lower-income consumers whose needs are especially not well-suited by EVs, O.H. Skinner, the executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, told the DCNF. Democrats set aside billions of dollars to help build out a national EV charging network in the bipartisan infrastructure package of 2021, but those funds have so far only led to a handful of charging stations coming online across the country while “range anxiety” remains a very real concern for consumers.
“One of the most pernicious effects of the EV agenda is the skyrocketing cost of many traditional models. When D.C. and California elites fixate on wiping away the majority of the cars on the market, it distorts the market — the cars that people want are in shorter and shorter supply, leading to higher prices and requiring consumers to pay over list price to snag what is available, while the market is flooded with EVs that consumers aren’t interested in, even at steep discounts,” Skinner told the DCNF. “And this will roll forward into the used market as well, as the same shortages flow through for years, hurting those who most need affordable cars that meet their family needs.”
The general effect that Skinner describes projects that increased costs of new gas-powered cars — driven by manufacturers’ desire to offset losses on EVs and increase demand for a decreased number of available new gas-powered models — will boost demand for used cars as consumers turn to that market for better deals. In turn, that increase in demand will put upward price pressure on the used car market, making cheaper options less affordable to the detriment of demographics that do not have the means to splurge on pricier automobiles.
REPORTER: "The first quarter of this year, Ford lost $700 million on their EV program...Is that what we can expect from Bidenomics?"
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 27, 2023
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY: "Bidenomics is having a tremendous impact." pic.twitter.com/eLUBKkg9XM
Robinette Hood: Here’s how Biden’s EV agenda will take from the poor and give to the rich
April 8, 2024
President Joe Biden’s massive electric vehicle (EV) agenda will subsidize the lifestyles of America’s well-to-do while hitting average people the hardest, economists and auto market analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Biden administration is aggressively regulating the U.S. auto market to drastically increase the proportion of EVs sold over the coming decade, but consumer demand has not taken off as quickly as proponents had projected despite the subsidies made available by Biden’s flagship climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Manufacturers are slashing prices of their EVs to make the vehicles more appealing to consumers, which will increase prices for internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to compensate; this dynamic will only pick up speed and infect the used-car market favored by lower-income consumers as the administration’s stringent regulations kick in over time, economists and auto market analysts told the DCNF.
EVs benefit from direct subsidies, such as the IRA’s $7,500 consumer tax credit, but they also will increasingly benefit from a hidden cross-subsidy whereby manufacturers drop their prices and offset those losses by boosting prices of ICE vehicles, experts explained to the DCNF.
“As the mandated market share of EVs grows, the number of ICE vehicle sales must shrink. A decreasing number of ICE vehicle sales would have to prop up an increasing number of EV sales. The price hike per ICE vehicle would have to increase to offset losses on the ever-larger volume of EVs sold,” Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the DCNF. “Used cars compete with new cars for customers. If new car prices rise, so will used car prices. Even with generous federal, state, and manufacturer incentives, EVs cost thousands of dollars more than comparable ICE vehicles, and millions of middle-income households are already priced out of the market for new vehicles.”
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have each promulgated major emissions or fuel economy regulations designed to effectively require massive increases in the number of EVs sold in the 2030s. Despite these regulations and massive federal spending intended to help advance EV production and demand, American manufacturers are losing billions of dollars on their EV product lines.
These losses are poised to kick off a chain of second-order consequences on the auto market that will disadvantage lower-income consumers whose needs are especially not well-suited by EVs, O.H. Skinner, the executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, told the DCNF. Democrats set aside billions of dollars to help build out a national EV charging network in the bipartisan infrastructure package of 2021, but those funds have so far only led to a handful of charging stations coming online across the country while “range anxiety” remains a very real concern for consumers.
“One of the most pernicious effects of the EV agenda is the skyrocketing cost of many traditional models. When D.C. and California elites fixate on wiping away the majority of the cars on the market, it distorts the market — the cars that people want are in shorter and shorter supply, leading to higher prices and requiring consumers to pay over list price to snag what is available, while the market is flooded with EVs that consumers aren’t interested in, even at steep discounts,” Skinner told the DCNF. “And this will roll forward into the used market as well, as the same shortages flow through for years, hurting those who most need affordable cars that meet their family needs.”
The general effect that Skinner describes projects that increased costs of new gas-powered cars — driven by manufacturers’ desire to offset losses on EVs and increase demand for a decreased number of available new gas-powered models — will boost demand for used cars as consumers turn to that market for better deals. In turn, that increase in demand will put upward price pressure on the used car market, making cheaper options less affordable to the detriment of demographics that do not have the means to splurge on pricier automobiles.
REPORTER: "The first quarter of this year, Ford lost $700 million on their EV program...Is that what we can expect from Bidenomics?"
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 27, 2023
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY: "Bidenomics is having a tremendous impact." pic.twitter.com/eLUBKkg9XM
Hi Al ..... Sounds like something the braindead Biden administration would do.
BTW ... are we still alive? With cloudy skies here, it was a big nothing burger!!!
Adding a little gas to the water will make it smell like gas, you know, just incase someone gets suspicious!!
Hi Larry. The past week our weather report went from clear to mostly sunny, to partly cloudy yesterday and today, you guessed it, cloudy skies. Of course they can predict the climate 50 to 100 years from now!!!
Obama’s Continuing War on Suburbia, Courtesy of Joe Biden
By Eileen F. Toplansky
Like the prophets of old, Stanley Kurtz warned of the evil mongers in America, but sadly, no one seemed to heed his dire warning.
In his 2012 book titled Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, Kurtz painstakingly detailed Obama’s and, now by extension, Biden’s nefarious plans to destroy the suburbs.
The ever-stealthy Obama has been assiduously working on the goal of abolishing America’s suburbs ever since his days as a community activist.
Although state laws may discourage involuntary annexation of suburbs, there are three key changes that will end the dream of a white picket fence and single family home ownership. They include:
Creating a no-growth boundary around each metropolitan area. This will force ‘large numbers of Americans to abandon their cars and their dreams of freestanding houses [.]’
Forced economic integration which translates into the government trying to systematically manage where people live by income level [.] ‘Regulations will force builders to include a quota of low-income housing units and the free market in housing will gradually be replaced by government-planned living patterns.’
Metropolitan regions will initiate a regime of tax sharing to reduce ‘fiscal disparities’ – shorthand for ‘suburban tax money to be transferred to cities and lower-income inner-ring suburbs.’
Coercion, not choice will mandate how this will be accomplished. Already Americans are being told that they must stop driving their gas-fueled cars. Under the guise of helping the environment, the government accrues more power for itself.
Think socialism, social democracy, extreme liberalism, Marxism, communism. Class warfare will be pursued as the traditional American dream of striving for a better future with the freedom to move where you please is demolished.
In 2015, Kurtz explained how then “HUD Secretary Julian Castro Announced the Finalization of the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH).
In effect, AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education. Not only the policy but the political implications are immense — at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.
It is a scandal that the mainstream press has largely refused to report on AFFH.
Obama . . .downplayed his policy goals in this area and delayed the finalization of AFFH for years, because he [understood] how politically explosive this rule is. Once the true implications of AFFH are understood, Americans will rebel. The only prospect for successful imposition is a frog-boiling strategy of gradual intensification.
Fundamentally, AFFH is an attempt to achieve economic integration. Race and ethnicity are being used as proxies for class [.]
Once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, no policy area is safe. Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and the new, unelected regional bodies [emphasis mine] the feds will empower. Over time, AFFH could spell the end of the local democracy that Alexis de Tocqueville rightly saw as the foundation of America’s liberty and distinctiveness.
In 2016 Rush Limbaugh explained that:
The one thing you have to understand about liberals is they hate suburbia. They despise it. They despise suburbia ’cause of who lives there. They despise suburbia ’cause it exists. They despise suburbia because there’s no mass transit. They despise suburbia ’cause it’s a lot of cars and SUVs and soccer moms destroying the planet by climate change. But mostly they despise it because it’s liberty and freedom. And then the third reason they despise it is, it’s people that used to live in the cities.
Therefore move some inner-city dwellers who can’t afford it out to suburbia. It’s a form of payback [.]
In fact, Paul Sperry wrote about this in 2016 in an article titled: “Obama’s Last Act is to Force Suburbs to be Less White and Less Wealthy.”
In essence, as Limbaugh pointed out: “The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher rents in pricey areas, such as [New York’s] Westchester County, while assigning them government real estate agents called ‘mobility counselors’ to secure housing in the exurbs.
If suburban landlords refuse to comply, they can be sued for discrimination and this also includes refusing Section 8 tenants with criminal records.
When it was tried in Dallas, “the crime rate skyrocketed with the introduction of people with no jobs, [yet] … it was judged to be a success.”
This has been Obama’s dream for years and it will add up to economic damage and declining property values.
It stigmatizes successful people. But, more importantly, it conditions people. If you are dependent, and if you have what you have because of government, you’re fine, you’re great, you’re a model citizen. But if you’ve gone outside that, if you are a success independently, then you’re gonna be targeted and you are going to be stigmatized, you’re gonna be punished, you’re gonna pay a price for it.
With the intense push for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), it is clear that AFFH is just another building block to punish people who have succeeded. Given the ongoing discrimination against white people, it is all part of the bigger plan Obama envisions as he transforms the country.
The Democrat Party today wants to punish people who have prospered under capitalism, under the premise it’s unfair [.] It’s not because of merit or success. It’s luck, it’s connections, and since not everybody has luck and connections, the people who do are gonna pay a price for it. People that prospered under capitalism are corrupt. People who prospered under capitalism have done so unfairly and it’s time to level the playing field, so to speak.
Communism destroys the spirit and the motivation of human beings.
This is what the Democrat party today is, this is what progressivism is about.
Of course, with Biden in office, his puppet master Obama is revving up the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH) into high gear.
Betsy McCaughey wrote in February 2023 that:
If you’ve worked hard to afford a suburban house with a patch of lawn where your kids can play, you’re under attack.
The Biden administration and Democrats in New York, Connecticut and other states are warring on local zoning laws to build high-rise apartment buildings with ‘affordable’ units in tree-lined, single-family neighborhoods. All in the name of equity, meaning everyone can live in a tranquil suburb, whether they’ve earned the money to pay for it or not.
The Biden administration announced . . . it will require all towns across America to submit ‘equity plans’ showing how they will make it possible for low-income people to live there, by providing affordable housing, transportation and other resources.
Towns that don’t meet the cookie-cutter requirement for economic diversity will lose federal funding.
This war against suburbia known as regionalism is a serious push toward wealth redistribution with the suburban middle class bearing the brunt of it.
As Limbaugh so presciently foretold, “Obama is a longtime supporter of ‘regionalism,’ the idea that the suburbs should be folded into the cities, merging schools, housing, transportation, and above all taxation."
Biden fully intends to push Americans toward this social transformation with the goal of “income equalization via a massive redistribution of suburban tax money to the cities.”
You have to understand Central Planning, what it is, command-and-control economics, what it is. And it all descends from a central belief that the average man or woman is incompetent. They can’t be trusted to do the right thing for society, for themselves, for the culture. Any expressions of individuality in this regard are a threat to command-and-control types. And the more they have you in mass transit, the more they have control over where you can and can’t go.
Americans’ rights, liberty and choices are incrementally being chipped away. That white picket fence may truly be a thing of the past if Americans don’t stand up and fight back.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/obama_s_continuing_war_on_suburbia_courtesy_of_joe_biden.html
Obama’s Continuing War on Suburbia, Courtesy of Joe Biden
By Eileen F. Toplansky
Like the prophets of old, Stanley Kurtz warned of the evil mongers in America, but sadly, no one seemed to heed his dire warning.
In his 2012 book titled Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, Kurtz painstakingly detailed Obama’s and, now by extension, Biden’s nefarious plans to destroy the suburbs.
The ever-stealthy Obama has been assiduously working on the goal of abolishing America’s suburbs ever since his days as a community activist.
Although state laws may discourage involuntary annexation of suburbs, there are three key changes that will end the dream of a white picket fence and single family home ownership. They include:
Creating a no-growth boundary around each metropolitan area. This will force ‘large numbers of Americans to abandon their cars and their dreams of freestanding houses [.]’
Forced economic integration which translates into the government trying to systematically manage where people live by income level [.] ‘Regulations will force builders to include a quota of low-income housing units and the free market in housing will gradually be replaced by government-planned living patterns.’
Metropolitan regions will initiate a regime of tax sharing to reduce ‘fiscal disparities’ – shorthand for ‘suburban tax money to be transferred to cities and lower-income inner-ring suburbs.’
Coercion, not choice will mandate how this will be accomplished. Already Americans are being told that they must stop driving their gas-fueled cars. Under the guise of helping the environment, the government accrues more power for itself.
Think socialism, social democracy, extreme liberalism, Marxism, communism. Class warfare will be pursued as the traditional American dream of striving for a better future with the freedom to move where you please is demolished.
In 2015, Kurtz explained how then “HUD Secretary Julian Castro Announced the Finalization of the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH).
In effect, AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education. Not only the policy but the political implications are immense — at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.
It is a scandal that the mainstream press has largely refused to report on AFFH.
Obama . . .downplayed his policy goals in this area and delayed the finalization of AFFH for years, because he [understood] how politically explosive this rule is. Once the true implications of AFFH are understood, Americans will rebel. The only prospect for successful imposition is a frog-boiling strategy of gradual intensification.
Fundamentally, AFFH is an attempt to achieve economic integration. Race and ethnicity are being used as proxies for class [.]
Once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, no policy area is safe. Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and the new, unelected regional bodies [emphasis mine] the feds will empower. Over time, AFFH could spell the end of the local democracy that Alexis de Tocqueville rightly saw as the foundation of America’s liberty and distinctiveness.
In 2016 Rush Limbaugh explained that:
The one thing you have to understand about liberals is they hate suburbia. They despise it. They despise suburbia ’cause of who lives there. They despise suburbia ’cause it exists. They despise suburbia because there’s no mass transit. They despise suburbia ’cause it’s a lot of cars and SUVs and soccer moms destroying the planet by climate change. But mostly they despise it because it’s liberty and freedom. And then the third reason they despise it is, it’s people that used to live in the cities.
Therefore move some inner-city dwellers who can’t afford it out to suburbia. It’s a form of payback [.]
In fact, Paul Sperry wrote about this in 2016 in an article titled: “Obama’s Last Act is to Force Suburbs to be Less White and Less Wealthy.”
In essence, as Limbaugh pointed out: “The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher rents in pricey areas, such as [New York’s] Westchester County, while assigning them government real estate agents called ‘mobility counselors’ to secure housing in the exurbs.
If suburban landlords refuse to comply, they can be sued for discrimination and this also includes refusing Section 8 tenants with criminal records.
When it was tried in Dallas, “the crime rate skyrocketed with the introduction of people with no jobs, [yet] … it was judged to be a success.”
This has been Obama’s dream for years and it will add up to economic damage and declining property values.
It stigmatizes successful people. But, more importantly, it conditions people. If you are dependent, and if you have what you have because of government, you’re fine, you’re great, you’re a model citizen. But if you’ve gone outside that, if you are a success independently, then you’re gonna be targeted and you are going to be stigmatized, you’re gonna be punished, you’re gonna pay a price for it.
With the intense push for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), it is clear that AFFH is just another building block to punish people who have succeeded. Given the ongoing discrimination against white people, it is all part of the bigger plan Obama envisions as he transforms the country.
The Democrat Party today wants to punish people who have prospered under capitalism, under the premise it’s unfair [.] It’s not because of merit or success. It’s luck, it’s connections, and since not everybody has luck and connections, the people who do are gonna pay a price for it. People that prospered under capitalism are corrupt. People who prospered under capitalism have done so unfairly and it’s time to level the playing field, so to speak.
Communism destroys the spirit and the motivation of human beings.
This is what the Democrat party today is, this is what progressivism is about.
Of course, with Biden in office, his puppet master Obama is revving up the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH) into high gear.
Betsy McCaughey wrote in February 2023 that:
If you’ve worked hard to afford a suburban house with a patch of lawn where your kids can play, you’re under attack.
The Biden administration and Democrats in New York, Connecticut and other states are warring on local zoning laws to build high-rise apartment buildings with ‘affordable’ units in tree-lined, single-family neighborhoods. All in the name of equity, meaning everyone can live in a tranquil suburb, whether they’ve earned the money to pay for it or not.
The Biden administration announced . . . it will require all towns across America to submit ‘equity plans’ showing how they will make it possible for low-income people to live there, by providing affordable housing, transportation and other resources.
Towns that don’t meet the cookie-cutter requirement for economic diversity will lose federal funding.
This war against suburbia known as regionalism is a serious push toward wealth redistribution with the suburban middle class bearing the brunt of it.
As Limbaugh so presciently foretold, “Obama is a longtime supporter of ‘regionalism,’ the idea that the suburbs should be folded into the cities, merging schools, housing, transportation, and above all taxation."
Biden fully intends to push Americans toward this social transformation with the goal of “income equalization via a massive redistribution of suburban tax money to the cities.”
You have to understand Central Planning, what it is, command-and-control economics, what it is. And it all descends from a central belief that the average man or woman is incompetent. They can’t be trusted to do the right thing for society, for themselves, for the culture. Any expressions of individuality in this regard are a threat to command-and-control types. And the more they have you in mass transit, the more they have control over where you can and can’t go.
Americans’ rights, liberty and choices are incrementally being chipped away. That white picket fence may truly be a thing of the past if Americans don’t stand up and fight back.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/obama_s_continuing_war_on_suburbia_courtesy_of_joe_biden.html
Mitch McConnell Teases a GOP-Trump War in the Senate After Election Day
Booby traps against the former president don’t all come wrapped in blue.
by Joe Schaeffer | Apr 8, 2024
If former President Donald Trump succeeds in returning to the White House in January 2025, he will find stout roadblocks awaiting him in Washington, DC. Among the most significant: his own fellow Republicans in the US Senate, led in spirit if not title by outgoing GOP upper chamber leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
McConnell on April 1 sought to remind whoever needed hearing it that he isn’t going anywhere. His current Senate term doesn’t end until January 2027. His words in an interview with Louisville radio station WHAS were unmistakably aimed at a resurgent America First movement that has catapulted Trump into mathematically locking up a third straight Republican presidential nomination.
‘Actually Fighting Back’
“I’m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party. And some in the other as well. And the symbol of that lately is: Are we going to help Ukraine or not?” McConnell told the station. “I’ve got this sort of on my mind for the next couple years as something I’m going to focus on.”
McConnell tepidly endorsed Trump once he wrapped up his primary dominance in March, choosing not to openly oppose his party’s nominee. But that isn’t stopping him from continuing to go negative. “[President Joe] Biden’s got problems too. Both these candidates don’t score very well with the public,” McConnell asserted in the radio interview. “One of them’s going to win. What am I going to do? I’m going to concentrate on trying to turn my job over to the next majority leader.”
There’s a lot to dissect in that statement. Let’s start with the fact that McConnell is calling Trump unpopular just as a new poll once again shows his own standing within the GOP grassroots to be decidedly underwater.
A recent Morning Consult survey shows former President Trump polling a whopping 43 points higher than Sen. McConnell. In the poll, conducted March 30-31 – which is just a day or two before McConnell’s radio slam – Trump’s favorability with surveyed GOP voters came in at 76%. McConnell was at 33%.
Trump’s unfavorability rating was 17%; McConnell’s was 44%.
But such polls are nothing new. The more critical part of McConnell’s quote was his reference to feverishly working to secure his own kind of Republican as his upper chamber leadership successor. Mitch McConnell may not be liked by the red base, but he has plenty of allies on his side of the Senate aisle.
Mitch’s Man Takes Heat in Texas
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is one McConnell intimate who has already announced he is seeking the post. Like his high-placed friend, Cornyn is a mover and shaker inside GOP Senate circles who is finding himself increasingly loathed by Republicans far removed from those cozy confines.
“Powerful and deep-pocketed forces in Texas plan to challenge Cornyn’s 2026 re-election bid, claiming he represents a return to establishment politics,” The Daily Caller reported April 4.
And they are not shy about saying so.
New Banner Political Power Plays“John Cornyn is a total failure. Texas will not re-elect him to the US Senate, and his colleagues would be fools to trust him,” Texas GOP state Rep. Tony Tinderholt told the news site. “Republican voters deserve leaders who will fight for them and put America first. John Cornyn is nothing more than a swampy sellout.”
“For years, I have been looking for any evidence whatsoever that John Cornyn is actually a Republican. So far, I have been greatly disappointed, over and over again, as have all grassroots conservatives and the Republican Party of Texas,” conservative news site BizPac’s founder Joseph Trahan, who is a Republican nominee for a state Senate seat in 2024, exclaimed. “He continually sides with the Democrats and defines the Uniparty with his policies. The last thing the United States needs right now is a Democrat or RINO in leadership of the US Senate.”
Meanwhile, Trump on April 1 publicly pilloried another McConnell chum.
“One of the worst senators in the United States Senate is, without question, [Sen.] Bill Cassidy [R-LA], a total flake, Republican though he may be,” Trump wrote in a blistering Truth Social post. “He campaigned in the great state of Louisiana on Trump, Trump, Trump, and was absolutely thrilled when he was able to get my very important endorsement.”
“Nevertheless, when the Democrats’ impeachment hoax started, this lamebrain senator actually voted against me,” Trump continued.
Cassidy has echoed Democrat talking points on Jan. 6, further angering Trump. “This is not someone you want to be in a foxhole with – very disloyal and not very smart,” Trump stated.
McConnell ‘Quality Candidates’
With conflict between his MAGA agenda and Senate Republicans determined to oppose him all but assured should he win the November election, what does Trump do with McConnell’s handpicked Senate candidates running this year?
McConnell famously vowed after the 2022 midterm elections that the DC Republican establishment would “control the primary outcome” for party Senate races in 2024. Latching onto the big-box media narrative that Trump-aligned hopefuls are by default not “quality candidates,” McConnell promised to produce acceptable (in his view) choices in the next major election cycle.
How has that worked out?
McConnell has cleared a path for GOP nomination for not one but two former top executives of Bridgewater Associates, a private equity behemoth so deeply invested in China that it manages state money for the Asian communist superpower.
In New Mexico, ex-Bridgewater chief financial officer Nella Domenici, daughter of longtime GOP Sen. Pete Domenici, is expected to claim the party’s Senate nod. In addition to her corporate career at what is undoubtedly the most active US-based hedge fund doing business in China today, Domenici also served on the board of directors for Change Healthcare, an organization that sought to create vaccine passports for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
In Pennsylvania, former Bridgewater CEO David McCormick is poised to win the Republican Senate nomination. McCormick fell just short of the nod in 2022, losing out to TV doctor Mehmet Oz. McConnell urged him to try again in 2024.
McCormick is married to Dina Powell McCormick, a major establishment Republican force in her own right. Incredibly, Powell McCormick currently serves as board chair of a New York City-based organization, the Robin Hood Foundation, that works to bring migrants into the completely overwhelmed Big Apple – all while her husband denounces the Biden administration on the campaign trail for being soft on the immigration crisis.
Imagine the reaction these two newly minted Republican senators would have to Trump tariff proposals against China should they win their respective races.
It’s an interesting problem. Does Donald Trump endorse McConnell-backed Republican Senate candidates in an effort to help his party retake the chamber, even though it is inevitable that they will go on to help his avowed Kentuckian foe assiduously work against him and his policies should he retake the White House?
https://www.libertynation.com/mitch-mcconnell-teases-a-gop-trump-war-in-the-senate-after-election-day/
Mitch McConnell Teases a GOP-Trump War in the Senate After Election Day
Booby traps against the former president don’t all come wrapped in blue.
by Joe Schaeffer | Apr 8, 2024
If former President Donald Trump succeeds in returning to the White House in January 2025, he will find stout roadblocks awaiting him in Washington, DC. Among the most significant: his own fellow Republicans in the US Senate, led in spirit if not title by outgoing GOP upper chamber leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
McConnell on April 1 sought to remind whoever needed hearing it that he isn’t going anywhere. His current Senate term doesn’t end until January 2027. His words in an interview with Louisville radio station WHAS were unmistakably aimed at a resurgent America First movement that has catapulted Trump into mathematically locking up a third straight Republican presidential nomination.
‘Actually Fighting Back’
“I’m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party. And some in the other as well. And the symbol of that lately is: Are we going to help Ukraine or not?” McConnell told the station. “I’ve got this sort of on my mind for the next couple years as something I’m going to focus on.”
McConnell tepidly endorsed Trump once he wrapped up his primary dominance in March, choosing not to openly oppose his party’s nominee. But that isn’t stopping him from continuing to go negative. “[President Joe] Biden’s got problems too. Both these candidates don’t score very well with the public,” McConnell asserted in the radio interview. “One of them’s going to win. What am I going to do? I’m going to concentrate on trying to turn my job over to the next majority leader.”
There’s a lot to dissect in that statement. Let’s start with the fact that McConnell is calling Trump unpopular just as a new poll once again shows his own standing within the GOP grassroots to be decidedly underwater.
A recent Morning Consult survey shows former President Trump polling a whopping 43 points higher than Sen. McConnell. In the poll, conducted March 30-31 – which is just a day or two before McConnell’s radio slam – Trump’s favorability with surveyed GOP voters came in at 76%. McConnell was at 33%.
Trump’s unfavorability rating was 17%; McConnell’s was 44%.
But such polls are nothing new. The more critical part of McConnell’s quote was his reference to feverishly working to secure his own kind of Republican as his upper chamber leadership successor. Mitch McConnell may not be liked by the red base, but he has plenty of allies on his side of the Senate aisle.
Mitch’s Man Takes Heat in Texas
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is one McConnell intimate who has already announced he is seeking the post. Like his high-placed friend, Cornyn is a mover and shaker inside GOP Senate circles who is finding himself increasingly loathed by Republicans far removed from those cozy confines.
“Powerful and deep-pocketed forces in Texas plan to challenge Cornyn’s 2026 re-election bid, claiming he represents a return to establishment politics,” The Daily Caller reported April 4.
And they are not shy about saying so.
New Banner Political Power Plays“John Cornyn is a total failure. Texas will not re-elect him to the US Senate, and his colleagues would be fools to trust him,” Texas GOP state Rep. Tony Tinderholt told the news site. “Republican voters deserve leaders who will fight for them and put America first. John Cornyn is nothing more than a swampy sellout.”
“For years, I have been looking for any evidence whatsoever that John Cornyn is actually a Republican. So far, I have been greatly disappointed, over and over again, as have all grassroots conservatives and the Republican Party of Texas,” conservative news site BizPac’s founder Joseph Trahan, who is a Republican nominee for a state Senate seat in 2024, exclaimed. “He continually sides with the Democrats and defines the Uniparty with his policies. The last thing the United States needs right now is a Democrat or RINO in leadership of the US Senate.”
Meanwhile, Trump on April 1 publicly pilloried another McConnell chum.
“One of the worst senators in the United States Senate is, without question, [Sen.] Bill Cassidy [R-LA], a total flake, Republican though he may be,” Trump wrote in a blistering Truth Social post. “He campaigned in the great state of Louisiana on Trump, Trump, Trump, and was absolutely thrilled when he was able to get my very important endorsement.”
“Nevertheless, when the Democrats’ impeachment hoax started, this lamebrain senator actually voted against me,” Trump continued.
Cassidy has echoed Democrat talking points on Jan. 6, further angering Trump. “This is not someone you want to be in a foxhole with – very disloyal and not very smart,” Trump stated.
McConnell ‘Quality Candidates’
With conflict between his MAGA agenda and Senate Republicans determined to oppose him all but assured should he win the November election, what does Trump do with McConnell’s handpicked Senate candidates running this year?
McConnell famously vowed after the 2022 midterm elections that the DC Republican establishment would “control the primary outcome” for party Senate races in 2024. Latching onto the big-box media narrative that Trump-aligned hopefuls are by default not “quality candidates,” McConnell promised to produce acceptable (in his view) choices in the next major election cycle.
How has that worked out?
McConnell has cleared a path for GOP nomination for not one but two former top executives of Bridgewater Associates, a private equity behemoth so deeply invested in China that it manages state money for the Asian communist superpower.
In New Mexico, ex-Bridgewater chief financial officer Nella Domenici, daughter of longtime GOP Sen. Pete Domenici, is expected to claim the party’s Senate nod. In addition to her corporate career at what is undoubtedly the most active US-based hedge fund doing business in China today, Domenici also served on the board of directors for Change Healthcare, an organization that sought to create vaccine passports for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
In Pennsylvania, former Bridgewater CEO David McCormick is poised to win the Republican Senate nomination. McCormick fell just short of the nod in 2022, losing out to TV doctor Mehmet Oz. McConnell urged him to try again in 2024.
McCormick is married to Dina Powell McCormick, a major establishment Republican force in her own right. Incredibly, Powell McCormick currently serves as board chair of a New York City-based organization, the Robin Hood Foundation, that works to bring migrants into the completely overwhelmed Big Apple – all while her husband denounces the Biden administration on the campaign trail for being soft on the immigration crisis.
Imagine the reaction these two newly minted Republican senators would have to Trump tariff proposals against China should they win their respective races.
It’s an interesting problem. Does Donald Trump endorse McConnell-backed Republican Senate candidates in an effort to help his party retake the chamber, even though it is inevitable that they will go on to help his avowed Kentuckian foe assiduously work against him and his policies should he retake the White House?
https://www.libertynation.com/mitch-mcconnell-teases-a-gop-trump-war-in-the-senate-after-election-day/
Monday's Energy Absurdity: Hey, Remember How Al Gore Said the Maldives Were Gonna Disappear?
Yeah, that was just another lie.
David Blackmon
Apr 08, 2024
Among the dozens of false fright scenarios pushed by Al Gore and other leaders in the climate alarm movement is the prospect of rising sea levels rapidly subsuming islands all across the planet and low-lying coastal cities like Miami Beach.
Specific to Miami Beach, who else remembers when, back in 2017, Al Gore made tons of news by claiming that coastal town was about to be subsumed by the Atlantic when, during a brief visit there, he witnessed sea water flooding some isolated sections of that sand bar island? His alarmist pals in the media were only too happy to cooperate, running with fright stories under glaring headlines touting Gore’s panicked rhetoric.
Of course, it turned out that Gore had simply witnessed a well-known, timeless phenomenon that Miami Beach residents call “King Tides”, which happen during times when the earth, sun, and moon are aligned in a way that maximizes the moon’s gravitational pull on the ocean. The city blocks Gore saw being covered by sea water have been being covered with sea water on a regular basis for untold centuries.
Funny thing, though: Pretty much none of the media propaganda outlets who trumpeted Gore’s ignorance made any effort at all to correct their stories, because the narrative is far more important than the truth. Who could’ve foreseen that one, huh?
Not that anything like that inconvenient truth would ever deter Gore from continuing his highly profitable quest to brainwash the public about climate change. There are trillions of dollars at stake in maintaining the fright, after all. In his movies and public statements, Gore has unerringly touted his narrative that global warming would cause rising sea levels - or, more accurately, accelerate the sea level rise that has been happening at a steady pace since the end of the last major ice age more than 10,000 years ago.
He and others make a regular habit of talking specifically about the prospect of Pacific islands like the Maldives would be among the first to be inundated in just a few decades. Naturally, that’s not happening, either.
Today brings a story from a group of Chinese scientists who have found that the Maldives and other Pacific islands are not only holding their own against the dreaded rising tides, they’re actually rising themselves. In a paper published in the International Journal of Digital Earth, the researchers found that an “amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years.”
Oh.
Here’s an excerpt from the story reported by Net Zero Watch this morning:
This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, the findings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmists suggesting that rising sea levels caused by humans using hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels.
…
The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics and the transport of sediment. On inhabited islands, human action such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.
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The Chinese findings are important in helping destroy the claim that many low-lying islands will simply disappear beneath the waves in the near future due to human-induced climate change. They show how shoreline changes are a persistent and ongoing process that is subject to many natural and human influences. Most of the poster islands used for climate scares such as Tuvalu and the Maldives have increased in size of late, and are hardly suitable to whip up fear of a claimed climate ‘emergency’. Sea level rise is not a “predominant” cause of the changing coasts, the scientists note.
[End]
And now, as the late great Paul Harvey would have said, you know the rrrrrrest of the story. You’re welcome.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-hey-remember-6f8?publication_id=712558&post_id=143381791&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Biden sets the record, although, a negative one. The Biden braindead minions don't give a FU*K!
🚨 New: Biden Admin Sets World Record For Illegals Entering The Country:
— Blake (@_BlakeHabyan) April 4, 2024
This graph should be alarming to anyone who prioritizes the safety and security of The United States and its citizens.
• 🟧 Orange indicates single adults.
• 🟦 Blue indicates… pic.twitter.com/D5rUzAoLHP
Biden sets the record, although, a negative one. The Biden braindead minions don't give a FU*K!
🚨 New: Biden Admin Sets World Record For Illegals Entering The Country:
— Blake (@_BlakeHabyan) April 4, 2024
This graph should be alarming to anyone who prioritizes the safety and security of The United States and its citizens.
• 🟧 Orange indicates single adults.
• 🟦 Blue indicates… pic.twitter.com/D5rUzAoLHP
I believe the time frame is now 7 years. The government doesn't want people to, as they call it, hide the money from creditors!
You're absolutely correct CT. In Sept 2022 my younger brother had to go into a nursing facility because of health reasons. One of the first questions on the admission form was "What assets does he have"? Since he didn't have any tangible assets except for SS the facility could only take that every month. After he passed away in December 2022 friends thought that they would come after me, I was his POA and Rep Payee for many years, for payment of his existing medical bills.
The hospital, Doctors and nursing facility were left holding the bag since family members are not responsible for the debt of their parents and siblings. They write that debt off!!!
Electric vehicles: the dogs don't like it
By Mike McDaniel
There’s a famous story in American marketing circles about a pet food company that spent a fortune on a new dog food, but were horrified to find sales tanking. They’d done everything right! What could possibly have gone wrong? As the story goes, a high-priced consultant was brought in. His verdict? “The dogs don’t like it.”
A similar story about electric vehicles (EVs) will probably one day be taught in business schools. For years, and particularly during the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) we’ve been told EVs are the future, and all manner of mandates, tax incentives, regulations and other “expert” manipulations have been pushed on Americans to see that EV future arrives no later than 2030. Unfortunately for the MMPA, the dogs don’t like it:
The electric vehicle (EV) push is eating into Ford’s profit margins as the company seeks to find the right mix between profitable vehicles consumers want today and the next generation of EVs that may be in higher demand as the market’s preferences shift in the future.
Ford Model e, the company’s EV division, had a net loss of $4.7 billion last year — with $1.6 billion of that in the last quarter — and Ford's chief financial officer John Lawler explained during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday that both "the quarter and year were impacted by challenging market dynamics and investments in next-generation vehicles."
Ford expects to lose at least $5.5 billion, in 2024 which, like the $4.7 billion, is what they’re willing to admit at the moment. That’s real money even for Ford, and despite MMPA demands, they’re a publicly traded company with fiduciary obligations to their stockholders. It has taken Ford awhile to remember that. They’ve claimed to have reduced EV production by 50%, but have laid off 66% of their F-150 Lightning production force. EVs, it turns out, are bottomless money pits, as Rivian has discovered. They’re laying off workers, and their stock has plummeted.
Apart from the real and insurmountable problems all EVs have, Rivian’s price structure is deadly. The average EV price is $67,000. The cheapest Rivian model starts at $70,000, which means a reasonably well-equipped Rivian approaches $100,000. Not many Americans, unless they’re buying one for greenie street cred, and have all the conventionally powered vehicles they need, can afford that. Rivian isn’t alone:
Fisker’s stock plunged this week as investors worry about the company’s ability to survive amid a cash crunch. The auto company also said it would slash 15% of its workforce.
In its original incarnation, Fisker went bankrupt in 2013, disappearing the 529 million the Obama Administration “loaned” it, even though they knew Fisker was going under. Fisker, in its former and current incarnations, made luxury vehicles most Americans couldn’t remotely afford.
It appears Fisker is days, not months, from going under again. General Motors has “postponed” its EV production plans, and 50% of Buick dealers have opted for buy-outs—they’re going out of business—rather than invest in the equipment and training necessary to sell and service EVs. Ford and other makers have canceled or “postponed” EV battery making ventures, some with the Chinese, and even the MMPA is starting to worry, at least a little, about Chinese EVs and espionage:
During an interview aired on Friday’s [02-23-24] broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that we “Probably” need to take more action to keep Chinese electric vehicles from flooding the market and stated, “I have national security concerns about electric vehicles.” [skip]
By the way, I have national security concerns about electric vehicles. An electric vehicle has sensors and semiconductors. They know who’s driving it, where they’re driving, huge amounts of data. Chinese EVs on our road, is that data going back to Beijing in ways that undermine our national security?
A Biden Cabinet Secretary saying that about China?! That’s probably an indication of Joe Biden’s sinking political capitol and worries about losing political power rather than much concern about America.
Electric Vehicle Derangement Syndrome is every bit is debilitating as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently contradicted reality and Raimondo.
Appearing on Fox’s “American Reports,” he argued America is “moving towards EVS.” and his only worry about China’s EVs obliterating American auto manufacturing has nothing to do with national security. He wants to out-produce China, even though China can severely undercut American EV prices.
Rational people understand economic reality: Americans don’t like EVs, and what they don’t like, or can’t afford, they’re not going to buy. The MMPA, however, can’t even keep its arguments, economics, or the necessities of national security, straight.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/electric_vehicles_the_dogs_don_t_like_it.html
Electric vehicles: the dogs don't like it
By Mike McDaniel
There’s a famous story in American marketing circles about a pet food company that spent a fortune on a new dog food, but were horrified to find sales tanking. They’d done everything right! What could possibly have gone wrong? As the story goes, a high-priced consultant was brought in. His verdict? “The dogs don’t like it.”
A similar story about electric vehicles (EVs) will probably one day be taught in business schools. For years, and particularly during the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) we’ve been told EVs are the future, and all manner of mandates, tax incentives, regulations and other “expert” manipulations have been pushed on Americans to see that EV future arrives no later than 2030. Unfortunately for the MMPA, the dogs don’t like it:
The electric vehicle (EV) push is eating into Ford’s profit margins as the company seeks to find the right mix between profitable vehicles consumers want today and the next generation of EVs that may be in higher demand as the market’s preferences shift in the future.
Ford Model e, the company’s EV division, had a net loss of $4.7 billion last year — with $1.6 billion of that in the last quarter — and Ford's chief financial officer John Lawler explained during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday that both "the quarter and year were impacted by challenging market dynamics and investments in next-generation vehicles."
Ford expects to lose at least $5.5 billion, in 2024 which, like the $4.7 billion, is what they’re willing to admit at the moment. That’s real money even for Ford, and despite MMPA demands, they’re a publicly traded company with fiduciary obligations to their stockholders. It has taken Ford awhile to remember that. They’ve claimed to have reduced EV production by 50%, but have laid off 66% of their F-150 Lightning production force. EVs, it turns out, are bottomless money pits, as Rivian has discovered. They’re laying off workers, and their stock has plummeted.
Apart from the real and insurmountable problems all EVs have, Rivian’s price structure is deadly. The average EV price is $67,000. The cheapest Rivian model starts at $70,000, which means a reasonably well-equipped Rivian approaches $100,000. Not many Americans, unless they’re buying one for greenie street cred, and have all the conventionally powered vehicles they need, can afford that. Rivian isn’t alone:
Fisker’s stock plunged this week as investors worry about the company’s ability to survive amid a cash crunch. The auto company also said it would slash 15% of its workforce.
In its original incarnation, Fisker went bankrupt in 2013, disappearing the 529 million the Obama Administration “loaned” it, even though they knew Fisker was going under. Fisker, in its former and current incarnations, made luxury vehicles most Americans couldn’t remotely afford.
It appears Fisker is days, not months, from going under again. General Motors has “postponed” its EV production plans, and 50% of Buick dealers have opted for buy-outs—they’re going out of business—rather than invest in the equipment and training necessary to sell and service EVs. Ford and other makers have canceled or “postponed” EV battery making ventures, some with the Chinese, and even the MMPA is starting to worry, at least a little, about Chinese EVs and espionage:
During an interview aired on Friday’s [02-23-24] broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that we “Probably” need to take more action to keep Chinese electric vehicles from flooding the market and stated, “I have national security concerns about electric vehicles.” [skip]
By the way, I have national security concerns about electric vehicles. An electric vehicle has sensors and semiconductors. They know who’s driving it, where they’re driving, huge amounts of data. Chinese EVs on our road, is that data going back to Beijing in ways that undermine our national security?
A Biden Cabinet Secretary saying that about China?! That’s probably an indication of Joe Biden’s sinking political capitol and worries about losing political power rather than much concern about America.
Electric Vehicle Derangement Syndrome is every bit is debilitating as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently contradicted reality and Raimondo.
Appearing on Fox’s “American Reports,” he argued America is “moving towards EVS.” and his only worry about China’s EVs obliterating American auto manufacturing has nothing to do with national security. He wants to out-produce China, even though China can severely undercut American EV prices.
Rational people understand economic reality: Americans don’t like EVs, and what they don’t like, or can’t afford, they’re not going to buy. The MMPA, however, can’t even keep its arguments, economics, or the necessities of national security, straight.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/electric_vehicles_the_dogs_don_t_like_it.html
All eyes are on Pennsylvania as the Convention of States grassroots gear up to host a Capitol Surge Day event in the birthplace of Article V. Notably, it was in the Keystone State that George Mason first championed his amendments convention provision to the Constitution. Thus, it stands as a fitting locale for one of the most important COS events of the year.
“This is our chance to send a loud & clear message to Harrisburg that Pennsylvania needs to pass Resolutions HR-106 and SR-77 calling for an Article V convention,” said Associate Regional Director Steve Patten. “And we need your help to make it happen.”
Next Wednesday, April 10, at 9:00 a.m. ET, our trained political operatives in Pennsylvania will unite with Convention of States President Mark Meckler and Senior Executive of National Affairs Rita Peters for a day of grassroots advocacy and action. Following presentations from Meckler, Rita, and other state leaders, the team will proceed to the Capitol to disseminate vital information about Convention of States to members of the General Assembly.
Last year’s event drew over 140 impassioned grassroots activists, leaving an indelible mark on state lawmakers, a precedent the team aims to replicate this year.
Learn more about the event here.
Recent groundbreaking polling from Pennsylvania uncovered significant bipartisan support for the Convention of States initiative. Majorities within all major political parties, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, stand behind the cause. Furthermore, the data reveals that 69% of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, and an impressive 77% of Independents are willing to cross party lines in order to support candidates who advocate for COS.
“These results send a powerful message: Convention of States is a unifying cause that resonates across party affiliations,” said Mark Meckler. “It is heartening to witness Democrats and Republicans recognizing the importance of this constitutional remedy, as well as expressing a willingness to break party lines in order to do what is best for their country and state.”
Given Pennsylvania's historic connection to Article V and the widespread bipartisan backing for COS, the time is ripe for the Keystone State to add its voice to the growing chorus of states calling for a convention. To urge your state legislator to join this important cause, sign the Convention of States petition below.
https://conventionofstates.com/news/all-eyes-on-pennsylvania
https://conventionofstates.com/news/all-eyes-on-pennsylvania
All eyes are on Pennsylvania as the Convention of States grassroots gear up to host a Capitol Surge Day event in the birthplace of Article V. Notably, it was in the Keystone State that George Mason first championed his amendments convention provision to the Constitution. Thus, it stands as a fitting locale for one of the most important COS events of the year.
“This is our chance to send a loud & clear message to Harrisburg that Pennsylvania needs to pass Resolutions HR-106 and SR-77 calling for an Article V convention,” said Associate Regional Director Steve Patten. “And we need your help to make it happen.”
Next Wednesday, April 10, at 9:00 a.m. ET, our trained political operatives in Pennsylvania will unite with Convention of States President Mark Meckler and Senior Executive of National Affairs Rita Peters for a day of grassroots advocacy and action. Following presentations from Meckler, Rita, and other state leaders, the team will proceed to the Capitol to disseminate vital information about Convention of States to members of the General Assembly.
Last year’s event drew over 140 impassioned grassroots activists, leaving an indelible mark on state lawmakers, a precedent the team aims to replicate this year.
Learn more about the event here.
Recent groundbreaking polling from Pennsylvania uncovered significant bipartisan support for the Convention of States initiative. Majorities within all major political parties, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, stand behind the cause. Furthermore, the data reveals that 69% of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, and an impressive 77% of Independents are willing to cross party lines in order to support candidates who advocate for COS.
“These results send a powerful message: Convention of States is a unifying cause that resonates across party affiliations,” said Mark Meckler. “It is heartening to witness Democrats and Republicans recognizing the importance of this constitutional remedy, as well as expressing a willingness to break party lines in order to do what is best for their country and state.”
Given Pennsylvania's historic connection to Article V and the widespread bipartisan backing for COS, the time is ripe for the Keystone State to add its voice to the growing chorus of states calling for a convention. To urge your state legislator to join this important cause, sign the Convention of States petition below.
https://conventionofstates.com/news/all-eyes-on-pennsylvania
All eyes are on Pennsylvania as the Convention of States grassroots gear up to host a Capitol Surge Day event in the birthplace of Article V. Notably, it was in the Keystone State that George Mason first championed his amendments convention provision to the Constitution. Thus, it stands as a fitting locale for one of the most important COS events of the year.
“This is our chance to send a loud & clear message to Harrisburg that Pennsylvania needs to pass Resolutions HR-106 and SR-77 calling for an Article V convention,” said Associate Regional Director Steve Patten. “And we need your help to make it happen.”
Next Wednesday, April 10, at 9:00 a.m. ET, our trained political operatives in Pennsylvania will unite with Convention of States President Mark Meckler and Senior Executive of National Affairs Rita Peters for a day of grassroots advocacy and action. Following presentations from Meckler, Rita, and other state leaders, the team will proceed to the Capitol to disseminate vital information about Convention of States to members of the General Assembly.
Last year’s event drew over 140 impassioned grassroots activists, leaving an indelible mark on state lawmakers, a precedent the team aims to replicate this year.
Learn more about the event here.
Recent groundbreaking polling from Pennsylvania uncovered significant bipartisan support for the Convention of States initiative. Majorities within all major political parties, including Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, stand behind the cause. Furthermore, the data reveals that 69% of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, and an impressive 77% of Independents are willing to cross party lines in order to support candidates who advocate for COS.
“These results send a powerful message: Convention of States is a unifying cause that resonates across party affiliations,” said Mark Meckler. “It is heartening to witness Democrats and Republicans recognizing the importance of this constitutional remedy, as well as expressing a willingness to break party lines in order to do what is best for their country and state.”
Given Pennsylvania's historic connection to Article V and the widespread bipartisan backing for COS, the time is ripe for the Keystone State to add its voice to the growing chorus of states calling for a convention. To urge your state legislator to join this important cause, sign the Convention of States petition below.
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Biden Still Polling Well With 3 A.M. Mail-In Ballot Demographic
Apr 4, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — Despite ominous polling data showing former President Donald Trump holding leads in key battleground states, there are strong indications that President Joe Biden is still polling well among the important 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic.
Democratic strategists expressed confidence that this crucial voting block, which played an important role in his 2020 victory, is still firmly in President Biden's corner, leading many insiders to believe that November's presidential election will turn out differently than current battleground polls indicate.
"We'll be just fine," said Biden campaign chief Julie Chavez Rodriguez. "Mr. Trump's camp may be crowing about all the polls showing him having a lead, but we all know which votes are really the important ones. As long as Donald Trump struggles to win the 3 A.M. unverified mail-in votes, President Biden will still end up being the choice of the American people. Joe just knows how to win those middle-of-the-night votes."
While Trump has built impressive leads in many important states heading into the general election, Biden's track record of winning an overwhelming percentage of votes among ballots that surreptitiously arrive after polling locations have closed and don't have verifiable signatures looms large. "Trump can build as big of a lead as he wants," Chavez Rodriguez said. "It won't matter. We know that the 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic will come in strong for us in the end. It may even come in stronger for us this year than it did in 2020. In fact, I know it will."
At publishing time, when asked how many 3 A.M. mail-in votes they expected to need, Biden's campaign said it wouldn't know until election night.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-still-polling-well-among-3-am-mail-in-ballot-demographic
Biden Still Polling Well With 3 A.M. Mail-In Ballot Demographic
Apr 4, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — Despite ominous polling data showing former President Donald Trump holding leads in key battleground states, there are strong indications that President Joe Biden is still polling well among the important 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic.
Democratic strategists expressed confidence that this crucial voting block, which played an important role in his 2020 victory, is still firmly in President Biden's corner, leading many insiders to believe that November's presidential election will turn out differently than current battleground polls indicate.
"We'll be just fine," said Biden campaign chief Julie Chavez Rodriguez. "Mr. Trump's camp may be crowing about all the polls showing him having a lead, but we all know which votes are really the important ones. As long as Donald Trump struggles to win the 3 A.M. unverified mail-in votes, President Biden will still end up being the choice of the American people. Joe just knows how to win those middle-of-the-night votes."
While Trump has built impressive leads in many important states heading into the general election, Biden's track record of winning an overwhelming percentage of votes among ballots that surreptitiously arrive after polling locations have closed and don't have verifiable signatures looms large. "Trump can build as big of a lead as he wants," Chavez Rodriguez said. "It won't matter. We know that the 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic will come in strong for us in the end. It may even come in stronger for us this year than it did in 2020. In fact, I know it will."
At publishing time, when asked how many 3 A.M. mail-in votes they expected to need, Biden's campaign said it wouldn't know until election night.
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