Jim Crow Joe

[DKG]

The day President Biden was inaugurated, the price of oil was $55.66 a barrel. Today the price has soared to $94.58. While everyday Americans are concerned about putting food on the table and gasoline in their cars, the Biden administration is making performative sacrifices to climate-change deities and undermining national security.

Restrictions on domestic oil production do almost nothing to combat global warming. If the U.S. and other countries implemented their commitments under the Paris Agreement from 2030 onward, it would cost $1 trillion to $2 trillion a year and only reduce the global temperature increase by 0.05 degree Fahrenheit by 2100. The only way to address climate change substantively is to find clean-energy alternatives that undercut the price of fossil fuels. Yet the Biden administration pours hundreds of billions into inefficient regulations and subsidies, while neglecting research and development on new energy technology.

While not doing much about climate change, the Biden administration has managed to increase the cost of living and weaken national security. Canceling oil leases signals to markets that making new investments won't be profitable. This restricts domestic supply, increases prices and weakens Western economies. It also bankrolls our adversaries. Russia depends on higher oil prices to finance its war. Mr. Biden has also drawn down the strategic petroleum reserve and, more recently, allowed huge Iranian oil sales to China. The climate-change war on domestic fossil-fuel production is truly an all-around disaster.

[Brent]

Biden's campaign is working hard on a critical project for his reelection bid: make sure he doesn't trip.

[Garraty_47]

Biden's campaign is working hard on a critical project for his reelection bid: make sure he doesn't trip.

It seems they'll have to clear any area where Joe will be walking of flags too, then.

Pesky free-standing flags... always in the way when you're trying to find the podium.

[DKG]

Former Democrat President Bill Clinton says immigration is "broken" under Joe Biden and "we need to fix it."

After reversing the border policies of Donald Trump, Biden triggered an unprecedented and historic surge of illegal immigration at the southern border.

Clinton says it's time to end asylum and sanctuary city laws that Democrats have been supporting.

Referring to New York City's "Right to Shelter Law," Clinton argues "it should be modified."

"It's broken. We need to fix it," Clinton said, adding that the law "doesn't make any sense."

Clinton also noted the "chaos" around the migrant crisis is "very beneficial for the Republicans."

Millions of Americans will vote for Republicans as this mass invasion occurs under Democrats' watch.
https://www.americainsider.org/2023/10/02/bill-clinton-breaks-with-democrat-party/

The solution is not a work permit upon illegally entering the US.

[DKG]

Biden reversed his pledge from 2022. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has received orders to construct a new 20 mile long Border Wall in Starr County Texas.

Biden's open border policy has been a dismal failure.

No word if congress will block funding for it like they did with Trump.

[DKG]

Americans don't care about the jobs report

Joe Biden is taking a victory lap because of a robust top-line jobs report that showed 336,000 jobs added to the economy in September. Assuming those numbers aren't materially revised (as has happened so often with data under this administration), here's the fact of the matter: Americans don't care about the jobs report data. They do care that they are getting crushed financially.

In a different time, one when jobs were scarce, adding jobs would be something to celebrate.

But the reality is that we haven't had an issue with jobs for quite some time (absent the anomaly of the government shutting down a third of the economy in 2020).

The labor market has been tight. There have been substantially more jobs available than job seekers for quite a while, and frankly, the economy could benefit from more people in the labor force. If people want to work, while they might not secure their first choice of job, there have been plenty of jobs available to them.

People are struggling financially to keep up with the ongoing impacts of inflation, and that's likely why the September jobs report included as a large part of the job "gains" an increase of 123,000 people who held multiple jobs. People need to work more today to afford their accustomed standard of living.

The report also showed a large increase in government jobs, and the government, with its enormous debt and deficits, is not exactly what we want driving the economy right now.

Inflation from government and Federal Reserve policies has made the cost of living a substantial burden for middle- and working-class families.

Individuals are saving less — the personal saving rate stands under 4%, lower than historical averages.

Consumer debt is at record levels across the board. As of the end of the second quarter of this year, household debt stood at $17.1 trillion — a record high. This includes records across various categories, including credit card debt, which has passed an all-time high of $1 trillion.

Delinquencies in credit card debt and auto loans have also reached levels that haven't been seen in more than a decade (3.8% and 3.6%, respectively).

Stimulus has run out, student loan repayments have resumed, and there appears to be no financial turnaround in sight.

So while of course Americans would be worse off if the job market weakens, that's not the root of the problem.

Politicians, statisticians, economists, and the corporate press want to paint a picture that the economy is on good and solid footing. Because we have been behind with labor force participation and that has caused a tightness that keeps unemployment down and jobs plentiful for the time being, they lean into that as a sign of strength. They try to highlight that the economy is still expanding, never admitting that it is expanding on the backs of middle- and working-class Americans who are going into substantial debt to keep the economy afloat. And they never mention that government spending and deficits are propping up the U.S. gross domestic product at substantial, long-term costs to all of us.

There is nothing "normal" after 15 years of historically accommodative Fed policy, the scope of government spending, shutting the economy down, an anti-fossil fuels energy agenda, and other policies that have set the stage for the current economic backdrop. No rhetoric changes Americans' current fiscal reality.

[DKG]

Biden has a dream — and it's about to turn into a nightmare for American taxpayers.

America is "willing to do the hard work to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius," he declared at April's Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change.

To hit this target, per the scientists with the president's ear, greenhouse gases must peak before 2025 and fall 43% by 2030.

Yet fossil fuels account for around 77.6% of US primary energy production.

So how does the president intend to reach his dream of "net zero" carbon emissions by 2050?

"I've signed a thing called the Inflation Reduction Act," he said in his speech, "the single largest investment in fighting climate change in history, which will reduce annual carbon emissions by 1 billion tons by 2030."
Biden let the cat out of the bag: The act has very little to do with inflation, much less about reducing it.

Rather, with $6 allocated to renewable-energy projects for every $1 allocated to American manufacturing, the IRA is a big fat green-energy bill masquerading as industrial policy.

As interest rates have risen and excess money gets removed from the financial system by the Federal Reserve, markets are waking up to the fact many renewables' companies are hothouse plants addicted to cheap credit.

The S&P Clean Energy Index is down 31% since the start of 2023 — and 59% since its early-2021 peak.

In 2023's third quarter, global renewable energy funds have seen a record $1.4 billion in outflows.

The big green party on Wall Street is over, killed off by the party-poopers at the Federal Reserve.

Yet the IRA investments are just getting started. The bill aims to release its $891 billion in spending over 10 years.

Much was made of the bankruptcy of the green-energy company Solyndra in 2011 after it received $535 million in loans from the Obama administration's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus.

But ARRA only allocated $27.2 billion to renewables, while the IRA allocates around $300 billion to the sector — not to mention the fact the stimulus spending took place in an environment of low interest rates.

It's therefore likely we'll see many more Solyndras in the coming years.

[DKG]

The Biden administration is planning to ease existing Trump-era sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry in exchange for the nation to hold more democratic elections in 2024, according to a new report.

At the same time, President Biden has taken steps since taking office to curb U.S. oil and gas production and fulfill his campaign promise to "end fossil fuel" as part of his broader climate agenda. For example, he has curbed oil and gas lease sales on federal lands and waters, revoked pipeline permits and consistently appointed officials across his administration who back green energy over traditional fossil fuels.

Biden's energy policies put America last. On day one, he killed the Keystone XL pipeline. In week one, he blocked new federal oil and natural gas leasing. By year two, he sold off 40 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – taking it to its lowest level in forty years. Meanwhile, he eased sanctions on Iran, which funds terrorism across the Middle East.

Now with Israel under attack, Biden is desperate for anything to mask the consequences of his reckless policies. His latest gimmick is to ease sanctions on Nicolas Maduro's brutal regime in Venezuela. America should never beg for oil from socialist dictators or terrorists. For the sake of American energy workers and America's allies, Biden must work with domestic producers to unleash American energy.

[Brent]

It is not looking good for Joe Biden.
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[Thiel]

The Wall Street Journal wrote last month, "Iran's (oil) production surge occurred mostly over the summer as the Administration sought to strike a nuclear deal with Tehran and counter rising U.S. gasoline prices." Biden's retreat from the Trump sanctions on Iranian oil has enriched Iran, according to many other experts, by some $50 billion.

[Herman]

Another war the Jim Crow Joe regime instigated, so they can topple a government.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/antony-blinkens-plot-to-destroy-israel-exposed?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202023-11-18&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
The Obama-Biden-Blinken "realignment" is well under way, and the consequences are dire for Israel and the United States — and indeed for the rest of the world.
It is now crystal clear that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is exploiting the Iranian-backed Hamas war to destroy the existing state of Israel through the use of threats, blackmail, leaks, the media, diplomatic backstabbing, the Arab states, the European Union, and the United Nations.

In a State Department memo dated Monday, November 13, Blinken explained America's posture toward the Arabs in Gaza. It's madness. He wrote:

As I said in private and in public, we believe Palestinian people's voices and aspirations must be at the center of post-crisis governance in Gaza. We believe in Palestinian-led governance of Gaza, with Gaza unified with the West Bank. Gaza's reconstruction must be supported with a sustained mechanism.

We also underscored America's firm opposition to actions that would undermine efforts to build lasting peace and security. No forcible displacement of Palestinian civilians from Gaza - not now, not after the fighting stops. No reoccupation of Gaza after the conflict. No attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza. No reduction in the territory of Gaza. No use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism or other violent attacks, and no tolerating the use of the West Bank to carry out such attacks. No more violence from extremist settlers in the West Bank.

These steps are not ends in themselves. They must lead to Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in states of their own, with equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity, and dignity. That's not something we can put off discussing until after this crisis is over. This discussion must happen now.
This also explains the current pressure campaign by leftists in Israel to try to topple the Netanyahu-led conservative government and replace it with radical left-wing parties that will deliver Israel to the effective control of the U.S. State Department, where Blinken, a mere appointed Cabinet secretary, will determine Israel's fate.

Israel will not survive the Blinken plan — certainly not for long. This has been the plan for Israel since Barack Obama was president, when Blinken was deputy secretary of state. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) was 100% right when he went to the Senate floor to excoriate Blinken and refused to support his confirmation.

Blinken, the Biden whisperer, is behind pouring $100 billion into rearming Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis in Yemen. Blinken set the Middle East on fire immediately upon taking office nearly three years ago. He has lifted or refused to enforce virtually every sanction on Iran. Blinken destroyed the popular uprising against the ayatollahs, when the Iranians sought to remove their murderous regime, by backing Tehran over its people.

Worse, Blinken chose Robert Malley, a Marxist supporter of Iran, as the U.S. envoy to negotiate another nuclear deal. And what did Malley do? He installed a high-level Iranian spy ring in D.C. and undermined our nation (and Israel) at every turn.

The Obama-Biden-Blinken "realignment" is well under way, and the consequences are dire for Israel and the United States — and indeed for the entire Middle East and the world. It is a hideous and diabolical plan, being instituted right now without any transparency, involvement from Congress, or the knowledge and consent of the American people. It is the brainchild of a small cabal of rogue, radical left-wing foreign policy arsonists who could easily trigger World War III.

The question is: How long will this go on before Blinken is stopped? Where are the House Republican committee chairmen? Where are the Senate Republicans? Where are conservative think tanks? Where are the conservative media? (This publication excepted, of course.)

I understand that the left-wing corporate media and the Democratic Party are worse than useless. In fact, they are propagandists for this administration's malign policies, from Thomas Friedman at the New York Times to Jamie Raskin in the House of Representatives.

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But if there is not an organized pushback immediately, a relentless and public demand for accountability and transparency, and an immediate impeachment inquiry directed at Blinken (successful or not), then evil will prevail. Never forget all the disasters the Biden whisperer has unleashed in a mere three years running American foreign policy and the death, inhumanity, and impoverishment he has imposed on one region and society after another. Enough is enough.

[Thiel]

President Biden seems to have given up trying to sell Bidenomics because nobody is buying it. Now he is attacking Trump personally.

[Brent]

Brain dead Biden says he is committed to doing all he can to stop the fentanyl crisis. He is not doing everything to control the crisis when he refuses to do the one thing that will stop it. Close the border to illegals you idiot.

[DKG]

Biden is certainly getting in the holiday spirit. He's feeling very generous – with your money.

After the U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down his unilateral attempt to "forgive" at least $400 billion in student loans, Biden has diligently sought ways to work around this serious reprimand.

He has landed on at least one option that is more costly than his original plan – and will be more difficult to challenge legally.

The millions of Americans who have already paid off their loans or have opted to forgo college altogether may find this development irksome.


The so-called Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program broadens caps on monthly payments based on income and family size and also offers interest subsidies. Many borrowers won't have to pay anything each month. Others will qualify for loan forgiveness on remaining balances much more quickly.

The White House has called its program the "most affordable student repayment plan ever."

But affordable for whom?

These debts don't magically disappear. While individual borrowers may feel relief, it's taxpayers who are ultimately left covering the cost. And this new de facto forgiveness plan will add to our ever-growing national debt, which the country can't afford.

According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, Biden's SAVE plan will cost $475 billion over 10 years.

Other estimates are even higher. The House Committee on Education & the Workforce has stated it could cost as much as $559 billion, which would make it "the costliest regulation in U.S. history."

[DKG]

Biden reportedly apologized to "prominent Muslims" last month for doubting the civilian death toll in Gaza.

Last month, Biden told reporters that he has "no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth" about civilian casualties in Gaza.

"I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it's the price of waging a war," Biden explained. "But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using."

The day after Biden made those comments — which drew outrage from the Council on American-Islamic Relations — the president met with Muslims and apologized for his remarks, according to the Washington Post.