Our nation’s founding began on the day that a group of people realized that they had no representation in their own political system. A network of 50+ “local” websites has popped up since last year in swing states offering aggregated news and sports content interspersed with heavily slanted political items boosting Democrats and damaging Republicans. The operation is linked to DAVID BROCK: Virginia is part of this.
Biden’s America: Mortgage rates are averaging 6.66%. This is more than double the rate of a year ago, adding almost $700/month to financing a $400,000 home–an approx. $250,000 financing cost increase if the mortgage is kept for 30 yrs.
How’s your retirement? Today: Stocks have lost $7.6 trillion in value since Biden took office.
Note: Voter ID will put an end to the Democratic Party.
BREAKING: Biden at a Democrat Fundraiser Thursday said Putin is ‘not joking’ about tactical nuclear weapons; ‘Armageddon’ risk at highest level since Cuban Missile Crisis.
NEW – Ukraine’s Zelensky calls on NATO to launch “preemptive strikes” against Russia to “eliminate the possibility” of a Russian nuclear strike.
NY Post – US buys $290 million in anti-radiation drugs amid Putin’s nuke threats.
Joe Biden draining our oil reserves just to mitigate Democrat losses in the midterm election might be the most despicable thing a president has ever done. The Wall Street Journal says Biden will ease sanctions on Venezuela to pump more oil but he won’t do anything to bring back American energy independence and all of the associated jobs.
BREAKING: FBI agents say there is enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes. These allegations cover up the entire scope of the Biden family’s international influence peddling for years.
MSNBC on Hunter Biden: “He did this while his father was Vice President and in charge of Ukraine issues, and he was taking 50,000 dollars a month from that energy company.”
BREAKING: Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski reveals that he presented evidence to the FBI that the Bidens committed multiple felonies but FBI agent Timothy Thibault, who ran point on the investigation, never followed up with him or his lawyers. Tony Bobulinski has documented proof that the Biden family business partnered with the Chinese to deploy “billions” in CCP capital as part of their Belt and Road initiative.
Repeat: Joe Biden was poised to get obscenely rich helping China achieve global economic dominance. These are ACTUAL grounds for Impeachment. Without any doubt. Anyone who understands our system of government should know that.
ELECTION STUFF: CEO of US election software firm Konnech arrested for storing data on servers in China…what??
Why does a hurricane relief bill have money for Ukraine in it? How are people not angry at the fact that all of OUR tax money is going to Ukraine and not Americans?!? The anti-Christian Nationalism crowd’s version of patriotism is to be so pro-Ukrainian ethno-nationalism that they’re willing to risk nuclear destruction of the planet. The fools crowing about J6 while hurtling us toward Armageddon are the real threat to our republic. Progressives: “Nationalism is evil!”
Also Progressives: “Swallow the rainbow pill our white scientists cooked up or else you hate America!”
Nobody wants to talk about the US aided coup in Ukraine.
“The median American citizen does not, and should not, care whether an ethnically divided, strategically unimportant, historically contested Slavic subregion or two in eastern Ukraine ultimately takes orders from Kyiv or Moscow.” – Josh Hammer for Newsweek.
Nobody wants to talk about Minsk agreements that Ukraine broke
Nobody wants to talk about Ukraine shelling the Dombass for 8 years
Nobody wants to talk about the Ukrainian Nazis
“The Biden Admin does not care about the American people. Permanent Washington loots us to serve the interests of the arms-manufacturing global oligarchy while we struggle to pay for rent, gas and groceries and our soldiers go on food stamps.” – Tulsi Gabbard.
Biden’s on track to practically empty our strategic oil reserves to get Democrats elected in November. They’re willing to gamble anything to let you feel they’re moving things in the right direction. They’re not and prices will skyrocket after Nov 9.
White House after OPEC+ decision: “At the President’s direction, the Department of Energy will deliver another 10 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the market next month, continuing the historic releases the President ordered in March”…If the goal was to deplete the strategic reserve and then have to rebuild it creating a crisis that will cause gas rationing they wouldn’t do anything different than they have been.
Cancelling the Keystone Pipeline was a history-book-level screw up.Meanwhile, OPEC to cut 2 million barrels of oil per day, three months after Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia asking MBS to boost production.
Joe Biden said he lost an awful lot of his home in a fire from a lightning strike 15 years ago. Apparently it was a small fire contained to the kitchen that was under control in 20 minutes. He tries to relate to people who are suffering, through lies.
“I’m not out of control, I’m just not in their control.” ~Kanye West
JUST IN – Twitter is rolling out its Birdwatch “collaborative fact-checking” program ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. Is it time to investigate the individual fact checkers?
“Helpful notes” added to tweets by eligible users will be visible to everyone in the US starting today.
Supreme Court Justice Jackson tells the Alabama solicitor general that the Framers of the 14th Amendment did NOT intend it to be “race neutral or race blind,” so taking race into account to protect minority voting rights is perfectly constitutional. Progressive originalism at work. The communists don’t even pretend to be concerned about the Constitution. They’re worried about victory over their enemies.
More Legal – 12 federal judges say they are no longer hiring clerks from Yale Law School, citing a slew of scandals that they say have undermined free speech and intellectual diversity.
The boycotters include circuit judges who feed clerks to the Supreme Court. In addition to Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho, who announced on Thursday that he would no longer hire law clerks from the nation’s top-ranked law school, 12 federal judges—both circuit and district court jurists—told the Washington Free Beacon they are joining the boycott. “Students should be mindful that they will face diminished opportunities if they go to Yale,” said a prominent circuit court judge, whose clerks have gone on to nab Supreme Court clerkships. “I have no confidence that they’re being taught anything.” With one exception, the judges made clear this is a policy they are imposing on future—not current—Yale Law School students. In other words, the boycott will only affect students who choose Yale Law in spite of it, and in full knowledge of the school’s many scandals.
“The president recently praised a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers. One of them reportedly faces termination because he isn’t vaccinated…would the president ever reconsider?”…Press Secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “I’m not going to comment”
Biden says on hot mic: “No one fucks with a Biden…” Ummm….OPEC, a bicycle, and a set of stairs leading to an airplane would like a word.
BREAKING: The American Medical Association is asking Big Tech and the Department of Justice to censor, deplatform, investigate, and prosecute journalists who question the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is “disinformation.”
Bill Gates just donated $1.27 BILLION towards funding the UN Agenda 2030 “Global Goals”.
Guess what he is pushing as part of this? DIGITAL ID.
One of the most fascinating things about the modern age we live in is the population of journalists almost exclusively being from mega rich families and the fact they have done such a good job of hiding it from the internet. The most extreme case of this is Carlos Maza. Right out of Wake Forrest University he worked for Vox pushing extreme left wing views & targeting anyone on the right no matter how poor or middle class. What almost no one knew was he was a billionaire. Until his termination at Vox there was no Google result you could get that could tell you anything on Carlos Maza’s background. Nothing. A complete memory hole. For almost 10 years he was able to use his massive platform to cancel anyone he saw fit to & abuse his power unchecked. It wasn’t until he was fired from Vox for being too much of a left wing extremist (just let that sink in) & he began his failed YouTube career did anyone do any digging into how this guy afforded some of the most expensive real estate in New York with no income…
Taylor Lorenz might actually be an even worse offender of this hypocrisy. While also born to fabulous wealth & privilege she has the family power to keep her past off the internet even after it became known.
She can actually get it removed forever from the internet.What’s amazing about Taylor Lorenz is we know she was born in NYC, raised in the richest zip code of Connecticut. We know she attended a Swiss private boarding school and graduated from Hobart and William Smith College.But that’s about it.While this woman of wealth and privilege can doxx even the poorest, weakest, least powerful people in the internet, publishing all their private information, address, work places and phone numbers.
She can apparently get anything about herself wiped from the internet forever…Taylor Lorenz was born to mega rich developer Walter R. Lorenz (65) and Anne Lorenz (67) and raised in a $5.7 million dollar mansion. Her sister is Brook Lorenz of CNN.But it’s her uncle that’s the big story here. You see Taylor Lorenz’s mom and uncle were mega rich children of a very powerful politician… and R. McDonald (her uncle) is the owner / founder of the WayBackMachine internet archive. Trying to find info about any of these people on the internet in nearly impossible. Taylor Lorenz even had her uncle exempt her twitter account from the WayBackMachine. Once she deletes her tweets they are literally wiped from the internet forever.
Now that’s power you can’t buy.Go ahead… Google her. Go to her wiki page. You see anything there like you do with literally any other public figures? NOPE! Nothing.
She’s even managed to have any public record of her date of birth wiped. Pics of her from high school or collage that could age her? Gone.Taylor Lorenz, a mega rich child of wealth and privilege from a powerful political family who’s uncle can wipe any of her history off the internet forever has been given massive platforms with the NYTs and WaPo to attack, smear, doxx, harass and terrorize anyone she wants.
Ben Collins of NBC News has leveraged his power and family wealth to become one of the most powerful internet hall monitors of our age…While Taylor Lorenz can get her wiki page wiped, Ben doesn’t even have one. Like really?
The lead disinformation journalist at the biggest network news platform in the United States has not even a blurb that pops up in the first 100 Google results???Like… there are obscure poets from 100’s of years ago from countries that don’t exist anymore that have at least a burb on wiki. How is information on one of the most powerful journalists with a massive platform so hard to find?Not surprising in the least. The left loves to cry about “privilege” and then they hide when they actually come from it so they can keep on being self-righteous assholes to everybody else.
The media is now pushing the narrative that it is inefficient labor that is going to crash the economy.
Not the Fed, not monetary policy, not the US govt policy … it’s your fault.
Public record emails show the Biden administration wanted to “leverage” school sports and activities to coerce vaccination amongst students…”we have seen leveraging athletics and extracurriculars as a way to boost you vaccination as an effective tactic across the country.”
The push to police “misinformation” comes from people who think they are right about everything, but cannot provide convincing arguments about much of anything. The regime is playing a dangerous game, encouraging the DOJ to “investigate and prosecute” journalists who publish “misleading information”—which could constitute almost anything. The real message: “If you stray from regime opinion, you might end up in prison.”
“The middle class has been eviscerated…we need a [populist nationalist] reboot…The neocon/neoliberal establishment, which is really both parties, Wall Street, and the corporations, they’re all terrified of this. And that’s because they understand this time we mean business.” – Steve Bannon
The emerging consensus is that the United States blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, which will likely ruin the lives of a lot of Europeans and devastate European industry. But Euros are apparently content to take it lying down, utterly emasculated by the GAE.
At N.Y.U., students said the high-stakes organic chemistry class was too hard— and threatened their “dreams of medical school.” Dean fired the award-winning Professor. This is what you get from an uneducated, propagandized, and ultimately stupid generation. They grow up physically, but they remain ignorant and unthoughtful.
NEW – Doubts are increasing in scientific circles as to whether the manufacturers’ claims about the mRNA vaccine are accurate. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna still refuse to allow independent verification of the data.
The Chinese Communist Party has set up a police station in NYC to reportedly help track their citizens abroad.
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Chinese police dept in New York City 😉
I have to admit that the first time I came across the Asses&Villains thread some time back, I wasn’t at all sure of what I was reading.
Now, it makes all the sense in the world, to wit:
“Let me start off with two words: made in America.”
– American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who nobody ***** with, speaking at an event at the Volvo Group Powertrain facility in Hagerstown, Md. on 7 October 2022.
WHAT WE ARE HEARING OVER HERE:
Bloomberg
“Biden Team Seethes Over OPEC+ Cut That Darkens Election Outlook”
By Jordan Fabian and Jennifer A Dlouhy
Updated on October 7, 2022
Bewildered Biden administration officials hunkered down Thursday in the wake of a shock oil production cut by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC+ allies, hoping that crude prices don’t spike ahead of November elections and end Democratic control of Congress.
US officials had sought to stave off the move, without success.
Little more than three months after President Joe Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia to urge higher oil output for a global economy on the skids, the kingdom and the cartel it dominates said it would slash production by 2 million barrels per day.
WHAT OPEC AND THE SAUDIS ARE SAYING, OVER THERE:
CNBC
“OPEC+ to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day to shore up prices, defying U.S. pressure”
By Sam Meredith
October 5, 2022
A group of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers on Wednesday agreed to impose deep output cuts, seeking to spur a recovery in crude prices despite calls from the U.S. to pump more to help the global economy.
OPEC and non-OPEC allies, a group often referred to as OPEC+, decided at their first face-to-face gathering in Vienna since 2020 to reduce production by 2 million barrels per day from November.
Oil prices have fallen to roughly $80 a barrel from more than $120 in early June amid growing fears about the prospect of a global economic recession.
The production cut for November is an attempt to reverse this slide, despite repeated pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration for the group to pump more to lower fuel prices ahead of midterm elections next month.
Speaking at a news conference, OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais defended the group’s decision to impose a deep output cut, saying OPEC+ was seeking to provide “security [and] stability to the energy markets.”
Asked by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble whether the alliance was doing so at a price, Al Ghais replied: “Everything has a price.”
“Energy security has a price as well.”
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The Washington Post
“OPEC, allies move to slash oil production, eliciting blistering White House response”
By Jeff Stein, Rachel Lerman and John Hudson
Updated October 5, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EDT
A coalition of oil-producing nations led by Russia and Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it will slash oil production by 2 million barrels per day, in a rebuke to President Biden that could push up gas prices worldwide, worsen the risk of a global recession and bolster Russia in its war in Ukraine.
The move by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners prompted a blistering reaction from White House officials and reverberated almost immediately through domestic and global financial markets, threatening higher energy costs for the United States and European countries already grappling with inflation and economic instability.
The cut to production also amplifies geopolitical tensions at a precarious moment for the world’s major powers.
The OPEC Plus coalition said it was making the move “in light of the uncertainty that surrounds the global economic and oil market outlooks, and the need to enhance the long-term guidance for the oil market, and in line with the successful approach of being proactive, and preemptive, which has been consistently adopted” by the group.
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Reuters
“OPEC+ oil output cut shows widening rift between Biden and Saudi royals”
By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw
October 7, 2022
WASHINGTON/LONDON, Oct 7(Reuters) – The OPEC+ organization’s decision this week to cut oil production despite stiff U.S. opposition has further strained already tense relations between President Joe Biden’s White House and Saudi Arabia’s royal family, once one of Washington’s staunchest Middle East allies, according to interviews with about a dozen government officials and experts in Washington and the Gulf.
Biden hopes to keep U.S. gasoline prices from spiking again ahead of midterm elections in which his Democratic party is struggling to maintain control of the U.S. Congress.
US officials “tried to position it as ‘us versus Russia,'” said one source briefed on the discussions, telling Saudi officials they needed to make a choice.
That argument failed, the source said, adding that the Saudis said that if the United States wanted more oil on the markets, it should start producing more of its own.
“We are concerned first and foremost with the interests of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and then the interests of the countries that trusted us and are members of OPEC and the OPEC + alliance,” Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz told Saudi TV Wednesday.
OPEC weighs its interests with “those of the world because we have an interest in supporting the growth of the global economy and providing energy supplies in the best way,” he said.
Washington’s handling of the Iran nuclear deal and withdrawal of support for a Saudi-led coalition’s offensive military operations in Yemen have upset Saudi officials, as have actions against Russia after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters
“Biden approval holds near lowest level of his presidency – Reuters/Ipsos”
By Jason Lange
October 11, 2022
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval rating stayed close to the lowest level of his presidency this week, a dark sign for his Democratic Party’s prospects in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday found.
The two-day national poll found that 40% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance, unchanged from a week earlier.
The president’s sagging popularity, which drifted as low as 36% in May and June, has weighed on his party’s chances in November.
This week’s poll showed about a third of Americans – including one in five Democrats and two in five Republicans – saw the economy as the most important problem facing the country.
Much smaller shares of respondents pointed to other issues as more pressing, with one in 10 Democrats saying the country’s biggest problem was the end of national abortion rights, while the same share of Republicans pointed to crime.
Reuters
“Ukraine’s Zelenskiy appeals for $55 bln to cover budget gap and reconstruction”
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder
October 12, 2022
Yellen said the United States would begin to disburse another $4.5 billion in grant assistance to Ukraine in coming weeks, bringing its budget assistance to $13 billion since the start of the war, and called on others to improve the “scale, predictability, and grant component of disbursements.”
What a long, strange and bizarre trip this not ready for primetime, amateur hour, knee-jerking, inept and incompetent Biden regime has been, and remains:
The Daily Caller
“Biden Admin Begged Saudis To Delay Oil Production Cuts Until Days Before The Election: REPORT”
Jack McEvoy
11 October 2022
Biden administration officials urged Saudi Arabia to delay production cuts until a few days before the midterm elections, meaning that Americans would not have felt the impact of reduced supplies before casting their ballots, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Before the cut was announced, the Biden administration begged Saudi Arabia, a founding member of OPEC, to delay the decision until November, the WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the negotiations.
Saudi Arabia viewed the appeals as a cynical attempt to avoid fallout prior to the November elections and refused to do so, according to the WSJ.
The Arab kingdom instead pressured its OPEC allies to vote to slash production following the Biden administration’s attempts to delay the cuts.
A National Security Council spokeswoman told the WSJ that the administration’s efforts were not politically motivated.
Administration officials did not trust Saudi predictions about a fall in oil prices and wanted the nation to wait another month before cutting production to analyze the global market’s reaction, according to the spokeswoman.
“It’s categorically false to connect this to U.S. elections,” the spokeswoman said.
“It’s about the impact of this shortsighted decision to the global economy.”
With the national average gas price hitting $3.92 on Tuesday, the White House is scrambling to respond as it is concerned that price hikes at the pump could hurt the Democrats’ chances in the midterm elections, according to The Washington Post.
The Biden administration will release 10 million oil barrels from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) throughout November to bring down gas prices and is mulling further releases from the emergency stockpile following OPEC’s cuts.
Biden vowed to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” during his campaign yet visited the nation in July to ask them to pump more oil.
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CNBC
“Biden threatens ‘consequences’ for Saudi Arabia after OPEC cut, but his options are limited”
By Natasha Turak
October 12, 2022
President Joe Biden is angry at Saudi Arabia for its decision to slash oil production along with its OPEC allies against U.S. wishes, and he’s made no secret of it.
With the global economy on a knife-edge and energy prices high, Washington sees the kingdom’s move – which it made in coordination with Russia and other oil-producing states – as a snub and a blatant display of siding with Moscow.
For this, Biden said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that there would be “consequences.”
He did not go into further detail as to what those consequences might be.
The decision by OPEC+ – which constitutes OPEC and its non-OPEC allies like Russia – to cut its output “underscores the extent to which the Biden administration has lost its ability to influence Saudi OPEC+ policy,” said Torbjorn Soltvedt, principal MENA analyst at risk intelligence firm Verisk Maplecroft.
“The White House has few good options despite Biden’s warning of ‘consequences’ after the cut,” he said, noting U.S. lawmakers’ threats of antitrust legislation and removal of U.S. military assets from Saudi Arabia.
While both courses of action would send a clear message, they could backfire for both the U.S. and for crude prices.
“Both of these options would threaten to break already fraught relations, which in turn would put even greater upward pressure on oil and fuel prices,” Soltvedt said.
“In short, a breakdown in U.S.-Saudi relations would mean a higher Middle East risk premium for the global oil market and higher oil and fuel prices,” he said.
“This is the opposite of what the White House is trying to achieve ahead of midterm elections in November.”
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Rigzone
“Crude Futures Dropped Wednesday”
by Bloomberg | Ilena Peng and Julia Fanzeres
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said countries already are trying to secure contracts to buy Russian oil before European Union sanctions take effect on Dec. 5, Reuters reported.
“One big aspect of the bull case for oil prices is a meaningful loss of Russian supplies, especially as we stare down that Dec. 5th deadline,” said John Kilduff, founding partner at Again Capital.
“That’s what’s getting everybody kind of spooked.”
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Rigzone
“Oil Gets Boost from Bullish EIA Data”
by Bloomberg | Ilena Peng
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Meanwhile, some Biden administration officials are growing concerned that a plan to cap the price of oil purchased from Russia may backfire, particularly after recent OPEC+ supply cuts.