The following Op-Ed is written and submitted by Paul Plante.
Recently, I received an e-mail from the Cape Charles Mirror, checking in to see if I was still walking the planet after an absence of posting, which gesture on the part of the CCM to check in with me, an elderly disabled veteran who lives alone out in the countryside, was very much appreciated.
My response as to not posting was that there is so much bull**** being literally heaved at us from all directions at once by the Biden regime to cover over Joe’s cratering poll numbers, and the fact that Joe is actually trailing Trump in the polls, with Americans rating the economy under Trump as being far better than it is under Biden and his signature, eponymous Marxist economics scheme labeled “BIDE-O-NOMICS” ( see, CCM, August 13, 2023, “Op-Ed: On BIDE-O-NOMICS” http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/op-ed- … s/#respond ) that it has been impossible to sort it all out before the next barrage came raining down on our heads, so that I have been living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin.
Consider, for example, a recent 1945 article 1945 by Tyler O’Neil, the managing editor of The Daily Signal, titled “The Insidious Way the Joe Biden Forces Staff to Preach DEI” on 30 October 2023, where we were informed as follows about how Joe is imposing BIDE-O-NISM on the American people through the agency of the federal government which Joe has dictatorial and autocratic control over through his executive orders, to wit:
Promoting the gospel of diversity, equity, and inclusion isn’t an extracurricular activity at the Department of Commerce — it’s an essential part of every employee’s job, according to a new memo obtained by The Daily Signal.
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Now, if that is not a serious case of WTF, then what is?
And it is actually so bizarre that it is way beyond WTF over into the area of the extreme absurd, and to see how that is, let us go back to the article, as follows:
If the hard-nosed economists at Commerce don’t preach about institutional racism or display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios, they will face adverse action from their superiors.
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Display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios?
HUH?
Can this **** be for real?
But of course it is, as we see by going back for more, to wit:
The department is institutionalizing the Left’s ideology through its employee performance reviews.
According to the memorandum dated Oct. 16, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility activities are an essential part of every employee’s work at President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department, which is run by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
“The inclusion of DEIA activities in a performance plan and critical element signifies that these duties are of such importance that acceptable performance in these activities are required for acceptable performance in the position,” the memo, available on the Commerce Department website, states.
https://www.commerce.gov/cr/programs-an … pport-deia
https://www.commerce.gov/hr/practitione … -inclusion
“The attached implementation guidance explains where and how the standardized DEIA language must be incorporated into performance plans.”
The document lists eight options for an employee’s “Supervisory Support Activity,” directing staff to “Select at least one support activity to be inserted as a credible measure and performed in correlation to the DEIA performance requirement.”
Half of the options for Commerce Department employees read like a list of requirements for a DEI convert to prove his devotion to a pseudo-religious cause.
Each of these requirements advances the Left’s intersectionality narrative: American history is a story about the oppressed and the oppressors, and therefore it is the government’s job to even out the scales.
Blacks, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ individuals, and others are “oppressed,” “marginalized,” or “underserved,” and therefore the government must prioritize them according to their skin color, sex, sexual orientation, or claimed gender identity.
This DEI agenda amounts to a pseudo-religious ideology, complete with a cast of heroes and villains, an original sin of oppression, and its own mantras, such as “Black Lives Matter!” and “Trans Women Are Women!”
When Commerce requires its employees to “lead or support an initiative to raise awareness and emphasize the value of” DEI, that often translates to “become an apologist for the narrative that America is institutionally racist, sexist, transphobic, and oppressive.”
Although diversity, equity, and inclusion sound like laudable goals, DEI training for employees forces the Left’s narrative time and time again.
Commerce’s requirements amount to a loyalty oath for employment, enforced by performance reviews.
Further down, the document presents “Performance Language Implementing Guidance” that appears to require all employees to accept the basic idea of gender ideology — that a person’s gender identity overrides his or her biological sex.
According to this document, employees must “participate in available DEIA training,” take part in employee resource groups, and “include preferred name and pronouns in your Microsoft Outlook employee email signatures and Microsoft Teams settings.”
Supervisors must ensure “subordinate employees’ use of correct names and pronouns, both written and verbally, to help foster a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.”
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So, yes, people, to say that I have been left speechless by this incredible bull**** is the height of understatement, indeed.
And once again, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror for being here in its capacity as a GRAND PALLADIUM of our liberty by providing us a forum in which to discuss this absolute weirdness that is infecting our government at its highest level.
Don Green says
Thanks for the update, Mr. Plante! I had started to worry about your absence until you started posting last week. Don’t go away again!
Paul Plante says
In all truth, Mr. Green, I am finding myself more and more incredulous (unwilling or unable to believe something) and disbelieving as the days go by, as to what passes for “government” in this country today at all levels, which sense of disbelief has rendered me nearly speechless these days, as how can someone, anyone, for that matter, rationally analyze the irrationality that assails us on all fronts today here in this sorry excuse for America.
In his Fabius IV political essay 235 years ago on May 19, 1788, John Dickinson, a man trained by scholars who used his knowledge to think for himself, something we no longer have in this country, and who was known as “The Penman of the Revolution” because he was able to put on paper the thoughts and ideals which formed the foundation for our brand new country, stated that as American citizens, which I no longer think we are, for many reasons, it is OUR collective DUTY to watch, with the eyes of a hawk as I was taught when young, and OUR RIGHT to take care that OUR Constitution be preserved, or in the Roman phrase on perilous occasions — to provide that the Republic receive no damage.
Except we no longer have a Republic.
The Republic as I once knew it is dead and gone, not to return in our lifetimes, such as what are left of them.
Consider Nancy Pelosi on that very subject in an article in The Messenger titled “Pelosi Blasts No Labels: ‘I Can No Longer Remain Silent’” by Kayla Gallagher on 4 November 2023, to wit:
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says she “can no longer remain silent” about her concerns with the group No Labels making a potential presidential bid.
“No Labels is perilous to our democracy,” Pelosi told reporters at a breakfast event with Third Way, a Democratic-centrist group.
“When they jeopardize the reelection of Joe Biden as president of the United States, I can no longer remain silent on that,” she said.
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Think about what she is saying there about how she can no longer remain silent on the fact that she considers No Labels to be perilous to our “democracy,” not our Republic, because they, in her words and her view, jeopardize the reelection of Joe Biden as president of the United States, keeping in mind that she is one of the most powerful politicians in this country, while I am among the most powerless, and were it not for the beneficence (the quality or state of doing or producing good) of the Cape Charles Mirror, I would be absolutely powerless, period.
In her opinion, and consider that her statement about No Labels being in her words perilous to our “democracy” because they jeopardize the reelection of Joe Biden as president of the United States, was NEVER challenged by anyone, even in that very article, ONLY Joe Biden can be the president.
As an American citizen, at least in my mind, I find that to be an extremely dangerous statement and position for her to take, but in this version of America which exists today, HO HUM, BIG DEAL, WHO CARES, because that is the natural order of things and the way things should be, that we should be ruled by an autocratic dictator, because that is really what “democracy” means – ONE MAN RULE.
I started my blogging career as an American citizen on the former John Kerry forum in 2004, which I thought at the time, however naively, revolutionized communications between ordinary citizens in America in ways unseen or likely unheard of since the Forum of Rome in the Republic of Rome.
What I observed during my stint with that forum was the fact that even then, at least in that forum, intellectual liberty, which is to say our right to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction, which liberty provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored, did not exist because of those who were the “moderators” did not allow any criticism whatsoever, however valid, of John Kerry as a presidential candidate.
Any contrary comments were quickly removed by the “mods,” with the offending party who posted them being banned from further participation in the discussion.
From there, I went to a forum called CommonGroundCommonSense, where there was no common sense present that I could see, while so-called common ground was determined by the same “mods” who came over from the John Kerry forum.
That was during the time that Hussein Obama was first running for president, and as was the case with John Kerry, that forum became a Hussein Obama site where no criticism of Hussein was allowed, contrary to a 1919 opinion of United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wherein was stated that suppression of ideas worked a great hardship on society, which happens to be all of us in America, regardless of race, color, creed or national origin.
Another well-respected Supreme Court Justice at that time named Oliver Wendell Holmes rested his First Amendment views on what he called the “marketplace of ideas,” reasoning that because we cannot know immediately which ideas are good and true and useful and which are not, we must let them vie against one another in the faith that after full exposure and discussion, the truth will win out, which has the motive behind my blogging efforts and posting in here over the years I have been associated with this publication, which is unlike any other in America that I am aware of.
Supreme Court Justice Brandeis saw free speech as an essential aspect of citizenship in America, and according to his view, men and women in America both had the duty to be good citizens, which means being informed on the issues confronting us.
Mused the Justice, how can individuals make intelligent decisions about those issues without having basic information about them?
How can citizens, which means all of us, judge which side has the better argument unless we can hear both sides of an argument and then join in the debate with facts?
Justice Brandeis thus provided a positive justification for protection of speech, that being the necessity for the citizenry, which happens to be all of us here in the United States of America, to be fully informed about issues and to be aware of all viewpoints.
But as Nancy Pelosi was making incandescently clear in that Messenger article on 4 November 2023, in her America today, and it is far more hers than ours, that is no longer the case, and no one seems to care!
So at that point, and there is where I see us, what is the sense of speaking out anymore?
People hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.
In a recent TWEET on mindless TWITTER by Joe Biden, he stated as follows:
“There is truth and there are lies.”
“Lies told for power and for profit.”
“And each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders – leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation — to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.”
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When it is Joe Biden himself who is telling us all those lies, and they have been coming fast and furiously these last so many weeks, it has become nearly impossible, if not totally impossible, to do that – defend the truth and to defeat the lies.
Hence my silence in here these last so many weeks!
THANKS FOR CARING!
Sgt Jockamo Rasputin USMC says
There once was a chap from New Haven,
Who had an affair with a Raven,
As he said with a grin,
While scratching his chin,
NEVERMORE..
Joyce Hall says
Good grief, does this person really want another Nazi state under the mumbling trump and his coterie of idiots?
Mr. Plant should move closer to a psychiatric facility. Or just keep his incorrect ideas to himself.
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy? Biden is all the USA has, if trump and his lady of the night are back in the White House Heaven help all of us.
Paul Plante says
Hi, Joyce.
How are you today?
And do people tell you that you seem nice?
They should, you, because anything else wouldn’t be fair or equitable to you.
And you are very articulate, as well, able to use words as you are to make sentences and paragraphs out of.
In fact, the only things lacking are logic and rationality and well, common sense, to0 be truthful, because you see, Joyce Hall, and if you had actually ever read anything I have written over the years in here, and in fact, if you had bothered to read Paul Plante @ JANUARY 5, 2024 AT 10:20 PM, this is what you would have seen on the subject of GOOD GERMANS in response to your irrational and hysterical claim that I want yet another Nazi state beyond this one we have under the mumbling Joe Biden and his coterie of morons and idiots, that one under the mumbling trump and his coterie of idiots, to wit:
Paul Plante says:
It is said that people who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, but personally, I think people in America who don’t know history are either stupid, like Karine Jean-Pierre, and wish to remain ignorant, or they have been deprived of a proper education to keep them ignorant, so they can’t question what is going on in the world around them – the ideal GOOD AMERICANS, like the GOOD GERMANS in Germany during WWII.
Wikipedia, incidentally, defines GOOD GERMANS as follows: Good Germans is an ironic term — usually placed between single quotes such as ‘Good Germans’ — referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way.
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I’m not a GOOD AMERICAN, Joyce Hall, so good grief, no, I do NOT really want yet another Nazi state under the mumbling trump and his coterie of idiots?
As to your statement that Mr. Plant(e) (NOTE TO JOYCE: you forgot the “e”) should move closer to a psychiatric facility, how much closer would you advise, and for what possible reason?
And how about this gem from yourself: Or just keep his incorrect ideas to himself.
“Incorrect ideas,” Joyce?
MY “incorrect ideas?”
That sounds exactly what a Nazi would say, Joyce!
Are you then a Nazi?
If not, then why do you talk like one?
And from there we go to this lament of yours, to wit:
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy?
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Obviously, I’m here, and I may well be one the last of the breed left in America, to be truthful.
As to the rest, instead of liberty, all they want is a kind master who will give them the free ride through life they so desire.
And then we come to this sad reality about America that you have expressed so well and so plaintively that your anguish of your tormented soul is on display for all the candid world to see and feel, to wit: Biden is all the USA has.
To which I respond, and when we are sunk so far down into the muck at the bottom of the political barrel as that, there is no longer any hope whatsoever for this sorry nation in a decline down to third-world ****hole status.
And Joyce, thanks for taking some of your valuable time to come in here and make it crystal clear to the candid world that such is really the case now – that one we have sunk to the level of having Joe Biden as a “leader,” there is no way back from there, and forward is only further down.
Paul Plante says
It quite frankly amazes me how many people there are in America like Joyce Hall above here who either never were taught a single thing about CITIZENSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES in a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC like ours, and so go through life completely ignorant of them, thinking, as is the case here, that if one like myself is against having this future of this nation in the hands of a senile idiot like Joe Biden, that I therefore have to be for his rival, which is something only an idiot would think, or they rejected those responsibilities out of hand as too much work, preferring a kind master to liberty.
For the record. although I am not at all sure it makes a difference any more, when the willfully ignorant like Joyce Hall now form the voting majority in this sick and sorry corrupt nation, which is how nations become sick and sorry in the first place, a free republic like ours once was, can only endure because citizens appreciate both the rights and the responsibilities necessary to its survival, recognizing liberties and duties.
Thus, acts such as voting, paying taxes, casting educated votes, serving on juries, defending the country in the armed forces, and participating in civic organizations are all important to the continuation of the American constitutional republic.
Casting educated votes does not mean MINDLESSLY voting for either a DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN, as poor uninformed Joyce Hall, and so many others like her in this country today seem to believe, and it would be very interesting and informative if people like Joyce would come in here and explain that to the rest of us, why they think and believe in that way, that there are only ever two choices for president in this country from one of the two WORTHLESS political parties which differ in name, only, and we will all be wiser and better for it, as a result.
Paul Plante says
So where are we, people?
Oh, right!
The MIGRANT CRISIS.
But seriously people, is it really?
Or is it something that is happening BY INTENT on the part of the Democrats for political purposes, and because the Democrats see it as a way to make some coin by following the admonition of Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff for Hussein Obama when Joe Biden was vice-president that “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before?”
First of all, the political exploitation of immigrants by the Democrats is a very well known tactic that goes back in time to the Democrat’s Tammany Hall days in New York City under the corrupt “BOSS” Tweed, a subject that used to be taught in high school history classes.
Consider the Britannica article on the subject titled “Tammany Hall
American political history” last Updated on September 15, 2023 where we learn as follows, to wit:
Tammany Hall, also called Tammany, the executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City historically exercising political control through the typical “boss-ist” blend of charity and patronage.
In 1805 the Society of St. Tammany obtained from the state legislature a charter of incorporation as a benevolent and charitable body to give relief to members and others.
Politically, the Democratic Party was organized as an apparently distinct body, but the society’s sachems controlled the political mechanism and prevented hostile factions from meeting in the society’s building, Tammany Hall.
In the 1830s the pressures exerted by the Workingmen’s Party and its successor, the Equal Rights Party, forced the general committee of the Democratic Party to oust the banking and merchant leaders.
The election of a grand sachem, Martin Van Buren, as president of the United States in 1836 added to Tammany’s prestige.
Within a few years, however, the immigrant groups, organized into gangs, came under the control of the astute, unscrupulous, and engaging Fernando Wood, several times mayor of New York, who used them to break with and later control Tammany.
Grand Sachem “Boss” William M. Tweed initiated complete boss domination of the Hall in 1868.
Corruption reached a climax under Tweed, when New York City was plundered of more than $200 million.
Tweed died in jail, but most of his confederates retained their wealth.
Throughout the world, Tammany became synonymous with corruption and was the subject of some of Thomas Nast’s most effective cartoons.
And as Wikipedia informs us with respect to exploiting immigrants for political gain, Tammany Hall served as a social integrator for immigrants by familiarizing them with American society and its political institutions and by helping them become naturalized citizens with one example being the naturalization process organized by William M. Tweed, where under Tweed’s regime, “naturalization committees” were established.
These committees were made up primarily of Tammany politicians and employees, and their duties consisted of filling out paperwork, providing witnesses, and lending immigrants money for the fees required to become citizens.
In true Democrat fashion, judges and other city officials were bribed and otherwise compelled to go along with the workings of these committees, and in exchange for all these benefits, immigrants assured Tammany Hall they would vote for their candidates, so that by 1854, the support Tammany Hall received from immigrants would firmly establish the organization as the leader of New York City’s political scene.
So there we have the political template being followed by the Democrats today, albeit it on a national scale.
But these immigrants are also seen as a money maker for the Democrats, as well.
Think I’m kidding, people?
Not a joke!
And for some proof of that assertion, let us simply go to an Albany Times Union article by Joshua Solomon on October 30, 2023 titled “DocGo faces class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of jilted investors” where we learn as follows on that subject, to wit:
ALBANY — Investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against DocGo after the mobile health care company’s stock tumbled following reports of government investigations into its handling of a $432 million migrant services contract and the resignation of its CEO, which was prompted by an admission he lied about his professional biography.
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Yes, people, INVESTORS, which means rent seekers seeking to make some money off this MIGRANT CRISIS they themselves created to exploit.
And what a truly murky and sordid story this is, as can be expected of the Democrats, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The lawsuit alleges DocGo’s top officials engaged in a fraudulent scheme and a “reckless disregard for the truth,” which artificially inflated the publicly traded company’s value.
A spokesman for DocGo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs, investors in the company from November 2022 to September, are seeking to recoup their financial losses on DocGo’s stock.
The lawsuit details news reports that coincided with the company’s declining value, with its most substantial loss following a Times Union story revealing that the company’s CEO, Anthony Capone, falsified his professional biography and repeatedly lied about details on his resume.
Following the newspaper’s report, Capone resigned.
The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York on Friday.
Capone took over as CEO on Nov. 8, 2022 and resigned on Sept. 15.
He stepped down after New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced his office would conduct an atypical “real-time audit” of the company’s $432 million contract.
As the controversies mounted, DocGo’s stock fell by more than a third of its value, or more than $3 per share.
The contract with New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development has led to DocGo overseeing the care of thousands of migrants, about half of whom are scattered throughout hotels upstate.
DocGo is required to provide housing, casework, food, access to medical care, security and other services typically offered at a homeless shelter.
New York City is required by a 1981 consent decree to provide shelter to anyone in the city in need of those services.
The lawsuit was filed by the law firms Pomertantz LLP, of Manhattan, and Portnoy Law Firm, of California.
Both firms previously issued news releases announcing they were investigating filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of what they said were investors wronged by DocGo.
The lead plaintiff is Joe Naclerio, who possessed 500 shares of DocGo that were purchased between November 2022 and March.
The lawsuit alleges there may be hundreds of thousands of other investors who have been financially harmed and would qualify to have their interests represented in the class-action case.
The lawsuit alleges DocGo senior leadership had “knowledge of the details of DocGo’s internal affairs.”
The defendants had “both the motive and opportunity to commit fraud,” according to the complaint.
“They also had actual knowledge of the misleading nature of the statements they made, or acted in reckless disregard of the true information known to them at the time,” the lawsuit alleges.
Last month, the Times Union reported that the company’s CEO had not attended the graduate university he stated he went to or earned a master’s degree, as he told investors.
The institution where he previously said he earned his undergraduate degree also could not confirm he graduated from there, although Capone said he does have a degree from an accredited university.
Capone told investors at an August conference about his alleged graduate degree in artificial intelligence when discussing his prior role as the company’s chief technology officer.
He had touted how DocGo’s artificial intelligence technology set it apart from its peers.
“I’ve been with the company since pretty much the beginning,” Capone said at the Aug. 9 conference.
“But the most important thing to understand is why all of that works — why we can scale so rapidly, 30, 40 percent growth year-over-year, why we can deliver care to some of the most difficult, challenged populations, why we can do so with a high degrees of efficiency and generating good returns for the investors that have taken risks on DocGo is because of our technology.”
“And that’s where I really came in originally,” Capone continued.
“We started the company” I was our chief technology officer.”
“My graduate degree is in computational learning theory, which is a subset of artificial intelligence.”
Capone’s comments at the conference included other misrepresentations, which the newspaper previously reported.
Despite his assertion the company was bidding for a $4 billion contract for medical services at the southern border, multiple sources familiar with the contract, including a spokeswoman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the contract was for about half of that value.
A spokesman for the company contended the contract was worth $4 billion but refused to provide evidence to support that claim.
“These are facts,” spokesman Michael Padovano had said, but added he was not “at liberty” to share further information.
Capone also described a health insurance plan in which “we have already signed up over 3,000 asylum seekers onto New York state Medicaid through UnitedHealthcare.”
Padovano said the company does not enroll anyone onto health insurance.
After the newspaper reported his falsified professional biography — misrepresenations that were on the company’s website, a resume Capone attached to a COVID-19 services procurement document with New Jersey and in a filing with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission — DocGo announced that he had stepped down and would be replaced as CEO.
Capone has since been brought back to work at the company through March as a consultant for about $225,000, according to a public filing by the company earlier this month.
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Yes, people, America – the land of never-ending investor scams, but this story of making money off of immigrants continues, so please, stay tuned for more is yet to come!
Paul Plante says
So, as we consider this Docgo fiasco, or perhaps more appropriately, investment scam, here is a question with respect to these illegal immigrants being allowed into our country by Joe Biden as an investment opportunity, to wit:
WHAT IS AN INVESTOR?
And that answer is a person or organization that puts money into financial plans, property, etc. with the expectation of achieving a profit.
And a profit, of course, is defined as obtaining a financial advantage or benefit, especially from an investment.
So we have people investing in Docgo with the expectation of making money off the deal.
But what is the “deal” they are going to make money off of?
And here is where it gets really murky.
To understand what is going on here, we have to understand that these people here in our country illegally are entitled to free housing and free food, and of course, somebody has to provide that free shelter and free food, and that is where the profits are going to come from.
Now, finding out all the details is difficult here, because last spring, NYC officials raised eyebrows when they declared a state of emergency and awarded DocGo a $432 million no-bid contract to house migrants and provide them with services including case management, medical care, food, transportation, lodging and round-the-clock security.
And two years ago, on November 8, 2021, DocGo’s common stock and warrants began trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols “DCGO” and “DCGOW”, respectively, which means that Docgo is a for-profit company.
And who caused the “emergency” that required NYC to award a for-profit company a $432 million no-bid contract to house migrants and provide them with services including case management, medical care, food, transportation, lodging and round-the-clock security?
Why, that would be Joe Biden, of course.
Stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
Think I’m kidding, people, about there being HUGE COIN to be made thanks to this MIGRANT CRISIS created by Joe Biden and the Democrats?
Not a joke!
And for some proof of that assertion, let us go to an Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on September 1, 2023 titled “DocGo in the running for $4 billion contract for migrant services – DocGo CEO says NYC migrant work helps the company’s multi-billion dollar bid for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol contract,” where we have more on that story, as follows, keeping in mind that Docgo’s migrant work in NY was as the result of a no-bid contract worked out in typical Democrat fashion in a smoke-filled backroom somewhere in the bowels of NYC, to wit:
ALBANY — DocGo CEO Anthony Capone is seeking to turn a $432 million migrant shelter contract with New York City into a $4 billion contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide health care for those crossing the border.
And as part of the work, Capone said his publicly traded company is signing up migrants in its care for Medicaid plans.
Becoming their primary care provider, he said, can yield monthly member reimbursement for the company.
Capone detailed how his for-profit company stands to benefit financially from the shelter contract during a one-on-one interview last month at the Canaccord Genuity 43rd annual growth conference, which is held by an investment banking and financial services company.
“We did this, in large part, because it gave us all of the credibility to win the Border Patrol” contract, Capone said.
“Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country, it gives us enormous credibility.”
“And we have references from the city who handles the largest amount.”
Capone expects the federal contract to be awarded this month.
The five-year contract is for providing medical services at the southern border.
DocGo recently submitted its application, Capone said, after working on it for about eight months.
The federal government previously awarded the contract, but a company formally protested the award, restarting the bid process and, as a byproduct, giving DocGo a second chance with the New York City migrant work to cite at the top of its resume.
“We have all this expectation now,” Capone said.
“Our application is a lot stronger.”
The comments from Capone came as DocGo has faced intense public scrutiny over its New York City migrant shelter contract.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has been skeptical of the company’s handling of the migrant services, which has included busing thousands of migrants upstate and putting them in hotels.
The office of Attorney General Letitia James launched an investigation related to the DocGo contract, which includes an order to the company to cease any limits on the free movement or speech of the migrants in its care.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, after initial reports that called into question DocGo’s work, said while the city will “scrutinize them,” he has confidence in the company that has done a “herculean job.”
“City officials are well-aware of this program’s success as exemplified last week when Mayor Adams reiterated his confidence in our partnership during a press conference where he praised our work, describing it as a herculean effort to help the city with this humanitarian crisis,” Capone said during an investor call on Aug. 7, in which the company reported record earnings over the last financial quarter.
Two days later, Capone sat down for a 25-minute interview at the Canaccord Genuity conference, where he explained the company’s business plan with the migrant crisis.
Asked whether the company expects a dip in revenue after its $432 million contract with New York City expires, Capone said he had a “high degree of confidence” it will stay strong.
“Just look the macro factors here,” he said, pointing to the political gridlock around the southern border.
“There’s almost no chance that there’s going to be federal legislation which solves this problem,” Capone said.
“Almost none.”
“All you have to do is understand the dilemmas with each one of the solutions and know that it will not happen.”
“It’s certainly not happening before the next election cycle.”
“But I doubt it will happen ever.”
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Which means the cash flow generated by Joe Biden’s intentional MIGRANT CRISIS is guaranteed to go on forever, and meanwhile, with respect to who is really putting the money in the pockets of these investors, we learn from an article in The Hill titled “White House says assistance to New York for migrant influx depends on Congress” by Nick Robertson on 08/26/23 that as of that date, Joe Biden, the creator of this MIGRANT CRISIS politically-connected Docgo is cashing in on, the we, the American people have already sent $140 million in federal funds to New York City assist migrants, the largest amount for any city not on the U.S.-Mexico border, to make sure that these illegals have better treatment than an American citizens, with respect to free housing, free food and free medical care.
And such is considered “EQUITY” today in the America of Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior!
But please stay tuned, because there is more, much more, yet to come.
Paul Plante says
I don’t know about anybody else either in here, or out there, but as an older American with knowledge of this country’s history from its earliest days to the present, as well as the history of other civilizations back through history, including of course, the Romans, and the Greeks, and the Chinese, I can’t believe how far down this nation has come in terms of intelligence and knowledge in my lifetime of a little over three quarters of a century, to the point of where nothing anymore transpiring in this sick and sorry nation with all of it many crises and national security issues, and this present incumbent reminds me of that point in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” itself a story of a society in the same state of decline as is now going on in America when the incompetent Mr. Thompson was the chief executive of that fictional version of America which so resembles this actual version of America today.
And since we are dealing with Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS, let’s consider these following words in a TWEET on mindless TWITTER by Democrat big dog Charley “Chuck” Schumer @SenSchumer, to wit:
The Acting Head of the Border Patrol @CBP just confirmed to me that the vast majority of migrants coming to the United States are NOT criminals.
These are human beings fleeing danger.
They deserve to be treated humanely and with respect.
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Human beings, people?
My goodness, but aren’t we all?
And that TWEET by Charley “Chuck” in turn brings us to an article in the Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on October 4, 2023 titled “Colonie police arrest numerous migrants at shelter hotel – Charges range from assault to robbery as a series of incidents, including knife fight and alleged rape, unfold at migrant hotel,” where we learn about these migrants that the Acting Head of the Border Patrol @CBP had confirmed to Charley “Chuck” were NOT criminals, but ordinary human beings instead, as if human beings could not be criminals of any kind, which is ridiculous thought, because every criminal is in fact a human being, to wit:
COLONIE — Colonie police have made a series of arrests in the past week at a Wolf Road hotel where more than 100 migrants have been staying since May.
The charges have ranged from misdemeanor assault to felony assault and rape allegedly committed by a non-citizen who was working at the hotel but not staying there under the migrant sheltering program.
Another arrest was made off-site when a Venezuelan migrant staying at the hotel was charged with assault and robbery after allegedly attacking employees at a nearby mobile wireless service store where he was accused of smashing items and forcibly taking money from the cash register.
That person also had been arrested twice in New York City over the summer for charges of assault and forgery, before being transported to the Colonie hotel as part of New York City’s migrant relocation program, police said.
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This, people, is so DEMOCRAT, so Joe Biden, and so Charley “CHUCK” Schumer – just some ordinary human beings here, people nothing to be concerned about, because these are not criminals, they are human beings fleeing danger and so they deserve to be treated humanely and with respect, even if we who are their victims are not in return treated with respect by them.
Going back to that story of Joe Biden’s beloved migrants, we have more as follows, to wit:
Deputy Police Chief Robert H. Winn said another incident over the weekend resulted in the arrest of two migrants on assault and weapons possession charges when they allegedly brandished knives during a fight that broke out during a party.
On Thursday, another Venezuelan migrant was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly striking his girlfriend with a set of keys, according to police.
In the rape case, the suspect is accused of entering the room of a hotel patron and sexually assaulting her.
About 2,000 migrants are staying at hotels across upstate New York under the oversight of DocGo, a publicly traded health care company that was awarded a $432 million no-bid contract by New York City for the services.
The company has faced intense public scrutiny for its taxpayer-funded care of migrants, criticism which officials there reject.
Migrants were bused to the Albany area after initially going through an intake process in New York City, which has had a right-to-shelter consent decree with the Legal Aid Society since 1981.
Migrants are housed by the city while they are effectively homeless, as they are unable to work lawful jobs while they await to potentially seek asylum.
New York City officials did not initially respond to a request for comment about whether it was notified of any incidents involving police this past week.
DocGo is contractually required to immediately notify the city of any incidents involving law enforcement, including providing a detailed description of the incident and a follow-up plan.
“The spate of crimes reported in the Times Union are troubling and shine a light on how unfeasible it is to drop migrants who can’t legally work or drive at suburban hotels far from needed support services,” state Sen. Jake Ashby, R-Castleton, said in a statement.
Ashby, whose district includes the SureStay hotel, renewed his push for a special legislative session that his fellow Republicans want.
The town had previously filed code violations against the Wolf Road hotel where busloads of migrants from New York City had been dropped off since late May, prompting an unrelated legal battle in state Supreme Court between Colonie officials and Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
Court records indicate two code violations were served over the summer on Amandeep Dhillon, whose family owns the SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western at 200 Wolf Road, where dozens of migrants have been living since Memorial Day weekend.
Additional busloads of migrants from New York City arrived there on Thursday and late Sunday; there are now more than 100 migrants staying at the hotel, including at least 50 children, according to town officials.
The SureStay’s operators are accused of violating a town ordinance that prohibits guests from staying in a hotel for more than 28 consecutive days.
A second violation filed in Town Court accuses hotel officials of refusing to allow Deputy Police Chief Robert H. Winn to review the guest registry when he went there June 30.
The 28-day lodging limit and the ability of town police or building department officials to review hotel registries were both enacted in town ordinances adopted about seven years ago.
Dhillon previously declined to comment and referred comment to his attorney, Todd E. Soloway, who did not respond to a request for comment.
The court records in the code violations’ case, which has a return date of September, indicate Winn was assured several months ago by Anthony Capone, the former chief executive officer of DocGo, a company hired by New York City to help facilitate the transportation and lodging of thousands of migrants, that the first group at the SureStay hotel would not remain there for more than 27 days.
An affidavit attributed to Winn in Town Court says his conversation with Capone took place May 27, the same day that Winn told the general manager of the hotel about the town’s 28-day lodging limit.
In June, Winn said he had visited the hotel periodically and “personally observed security guards associated with DocGo and other individuals residing at SureStay, indicating the ongoing presence of (the) same individuals at the SureStay for more than 28 consecutive days.”
Capone resigned from DocGo last month following a Times Union story that reported he had lied about his professional biography.
The newspaper also reported that Capone misrepresented information about the company’s business plan to investors.
On June 19, according to Winn’s affidavit, he said the hotel manager told him it’s “in the hands of counsel for the hotel” when the deputy chief called him and reminded him of the town’s occupancy rules.
Winn said that on June 30 the hotel declined to provide him with a copy of its guest registry.
In an interview, he said that attorneys for the hotel’s operators told him they would not provide that list unless he had a search warrant.
The standoff between the town and the Wolf Road hotel is unfolding as Colonie is also involved in litigation in which multiple counties have filed lawsuits or issued executive orders seeking to block New York City from relocating migrants in their communities without ample notification and coordination.
The crisis in New York City has continued and multiple cities across the U.S. are seeing a similar influx as record levels of migrants continue to cross the southern border.
New York City’s attorneys have also accused the local communities of citing a false narrative that they are being burdened by the presence of the migrants.
The city, and the state of New York with the assistance of federal aid, have been assuming the fiscal responsibility for the migrants’ lodging, transportation and food.
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Yes, people, we, the AMERICAN PEOPLE who are federal taxpayers, or taxpayers in New York state, and who have to provide for ourselves with respect to food and lodging, are the ones paying the freight for this FIASCO created by Joe Biden and his pack of Democrats.
But people, sleep sound tonight knowing that that is how EQYUITY works in Jor Biden’s America today – from those who have to those who want what the others have and have Joe Biden there to get it for them.
Paul Plante says
And talk about outright contempt for law and order and the public’s safety by Joe Biden and his pack of Demo0crats who are spitting in our eyes with this MIGRANT CRISIS they created so as to have yet another CRISIS they can now milk for all it is worth as they ship these migrants they let in to the country around like cattle, let us go back for the moment to the article in the Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on October 4, 2023 titled “Colonie police arrest numerous migrants at shelter hotel – Charges range from assault to robbery as a series of incidents, including knife fight and alleged rape, unfold at migrant hotel,” where we have as follows concerning these migrants that the Acting Head of the Border Patrol @CBP had confirmed to Charley “Chuck” were NOT criminals, but ordinary human beings instead, to wit:
Another arrest was made off-site when a Venezuelan migrant staying at the hotel was charged with assault and robbery after allegedly attacking employees at a nearby mobile wireless service store where he was accused of smashing items and forcibly taking money from the cash register.
That person also had been arrested twice in New York City over the summer for charges of assault and forgery, before being transported to the Colonie hotel as part of New York City’s migrant relocation program, police said.
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That, people, is frankly incredible and totally irresponsible, which two wo9rds serve to describe the totality of the federal government today under Joe Biden and the Democrats – NOT WORTH A DAMN!
SO YES, PEOPLE, LET’S SHIP THESE CRIMINALS AROUND IN OUR COUNTRY AND STICK THEM IN OUR COMMUNITIES SO THEY CAN COMMIT THEIR CRIMES AND DO HARM TO US WHO HAVE THE ADDED INDIGNITY OF HAVING TO PAY FOR THESE CRIMINAL’S FOOD AND SHELTER WHILE JOE BIDEN LETS THEM RUN FREE TO COMMIT THEIR CRIMES INSTEAD OF INCARCERATING THEM BECAUSE TO JOE BIDEN, CHARLEY “CHUCK” SCHUMER AND THE DEMOCRATS, THEY ARE SPECIAL, AND DESERVING OF ALL OUR LOVE AND AFFECTION BECAUSE UNLIKE US AMERICAN CITIZENS, THESE CRIMINALS ARE HONEST-TO-GOSH HUMAN BEINGS!
And thanks to the United States Supreme Court, it has now been proven conclusively that feeding off the taxpayers is not a federal offense, while at the same time, we, the American people, have no right to expect honest services from our public servants, which means there is no bar to public servants at the federal or state level giving us dishonest services instead, given that bribes are really the grease that keeps the machinery of government running smoothly, which takes us to an article in the Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on October 7, 2023 titled “DocGo often billing twice what it’s paid for staff in NYC migrant contract –
Publicly traded health care company stands to profit off crisis under $432M contract,” where we learn about how this DocGo really makes it money off these migrants while if feeds off the federal taxpayers thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
ALBANY — A security company posted an ad with Craigslist in search of a “dedicated and vigilant” credentialed security officer, who will “play a crucial role in maintaining a safe and secure environment for our clients and their properties.”
The top benefit?
A “competitive salary” of $22.20 per hour working for the Bronx-based A&H Security Services.
Anyone who secured an interview could potentially land a job patrolling hotels where migrants have been sheltering for months under the oversight of DocGo — the publicly traded company that secured a no-bid $432 million contract with New York City in May.
The catch?
DocGo can bill New York City $50 an hour for security guards, according to a copy of the contract obtained by the Times Union through a Freedom of Information Law request.
The low wages and high billing rate is part of a pattern for DocGo under its contract with New York City to oversee thousands of migrants upstate and in the New York City area.
DocGo often bills the city twice what it pays employees, according to a review of job postings as well as interviews with both current and former employees and immigration advocates familiar with the company’s work.
The discrepancies raise additional questions about whether the city, and by extension the state, are getting a good value for taxpayers at a time when budget officials have called for either cuts or freezes in future spending — as a result of extraordinary public expenditures resulting from the immigration crisis.
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HUH?
The discrepancies raise additional questions about whether the city, and by extension the state, are getting a good value for taxpayers at a time when budget officials have called for either cuts or freezes in future spending as a result of extraordinary public expenditures resulting from the immigration crisis?
Are these people crazy?
Are they insane?
NO, THEY ARE NOT GETTING A GOOD DEAL FOR TAXPAYERS, NOR DO THE Y GIVE A DAMN, FOR THE TAXPAYERS ARE THERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GETTING FLEECED IN ORDER TO PUT PROFITS INTO THE POCKETS OF THE INVESTORS INTO DOCGO, SO THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!
Going back to the story, it continues as follows, and again, keep in mind that we are talking about a no-bid, sweetheart political deal here, to wit:
Government contracts with nonprofits do not typically involve a 100 percent markup for services, even when accounting for insurance and other additional costs.
But DocGo is a not a nonprofit, even though it’s doing the type of work normally handled by that sector.
If the contract was competitively bid, and not awarded on an emergency basis, the markup for services would be heavily scrutinized by a comptroller, said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a good government group.
Kaehny, who previously specialized in contract procurement, lamented about the dynamic in place instead, which has proliferated since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Both the governor and the mayor still have extensive powers to enter into contracts without basically any review,” Kaehny said.
“And DocGo is a classic example of why that’s a bad thing.”
Mike Garcia, with A&H Security Services, declined to comment on Friday.
Typically, companies contracted to work with DocGo agree not to speak negatively about the company as a condition of being their subcontractor.
A DocGo spokesman, Michael Padovano, described the analysis as “overly simplistic” and said it “does not accurately reflect the services being provided throughout New York.”
“It does not address the myriad of complexities associated with an effort of this size and scale — from overhead costs, technology systems and rapid deployment expenses to the nuances of regional market rates and the assumption of risk for future uncertainties,” said Padovano, who is contracted by DocGo and works for the public relations firm 5WPR.
Padovano said that the rates “reflect reflect both the operational demands and unique challenges of this ongoing humanitarian crisis, including the urgency, scale, and continuous 24/7/365 service delivery.”
The DocGo spokesman did not dispute the pay rates for employees.
DocGo is hiring a field supervisor in Schenectady for $25 to $28 an hour, which is far less than the $83 an hour it can bill under its contract for supervisors.
DocGo’s subsidiary, Rapid Reliable Testing, was hiring a licensed practical nurse for $37 an hour in Albany, when it can bill for $90 an hour.
Caseworkers working for a subcontractor, Platinum Community Care, are making between $24 and $28 an hour, according to a person familiar with the matter; DocGo can bill $75 an hour for caseworkers.
Officials with New York City did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
City officials previously defended the rate being paid to DocGo for hotel rooms — $170 per night.
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Yes, people, that’s the way you do it here in Joe Biden’s brave new world where we have homeless veterans Joe Biden doesn’t give a damn about living on the street, you feed off the taxpayers, because, hey, that’s the reason they exist, as sheep to be sheared!
Paul Plante says
So how are these migrants Charley “CHUCK” Schumer calls human beings, as if we born here American citizens are something else other than human beings who the Biden administration is shipping around the country at taxpayer expense like cattle really being treated for the exorbitant money being paid to investors that we are being charged to treat them?
For a glimpse at that answer, let’s go to an Albany, New York Times Union article by Maria M. Silva and Steve Hughes on October 24, 2023 titled “Migrants decry poor conditions at Rotterdam Super 8 motel” where we learn as follows from the perspective of the migrants the Biden administration treats like cattle, to wit:
ROTTERDAM — A group of at least 20 asylum-seekers staying at a Super 8 motel in Rotterdam protested outside the building Monday evening over their mounting frustrations with their treatment.
The migrants said they are frustrated with delays in processing their immigration paperwork and described poor conditions at the motel, including allegations of bed bugs, a lack of heating, water or medical assistance.
The group spoke to two Times Union reporters in Spanish as they stood along Carman Road holding signs written in English laying out some of their complaints.
“There are people inside the hotel who are afraid because the woman in charge, the director of the hotel is threatening us that if we go out, they’re kicking us out of the program,” one of the migrants said.
All of the migrants at the protest who spoke with the Times Union asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from employees of DocGo, the company that New York City contracted with to oversee the massive influx of arrivals in the city.
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Yes, people, this is the humane treatment for these people we are paying for, at top dollar that the Biden administration is providing for them, but let’s go back for more, to wit:
Among the migrants are Venezuelans and Colombian nationals.
Some of the migrants who spoke on Monday said they are frustrated with the lack of information about their cases and the workers at the hotel who are supposed to be helping them.
“Honestly, what we want is to work so we can be independent and give our children a good future,” one woman said.
“We really need an ID, paperwork, something that identifies us.”
“We are in a lot of need.”
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Aren’t there a bunch of actual Americans in a lot of need, as well?
Going back for more, we have, to wit:
Some of the complaints mirror those voiced by migrants at other area hotels overseen by DocGo.
Last month, New York City officials said DocGo was “refining” its operations.
The state attorney general’s office previously told DocGo to cease any limitations on the freedom of movement or speech of migrants under its care.
DocGo has severed ties with two security companies it had employed but were found by the state Department of State to not be properly licensed.
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What a slipshod operation this is, which is the HALLMARK of anything and everything Joe Biden gets his hands on or gets involved with, which again takes us back to that story, to wit:
Early this month, the Times Union reported that a longtime immigration attorney, who is representing at least eight migrants in the Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Albany, said staff at the DocGo-run shelter sought to deny the ability of his clients to be represented by outside counsel for their work authorization application.
DocGo did not respond Tuesday to requests for comment on concerns at the Rotterdam Super 8.
The migrants arrived at the Rotterdam motel in July, two months after New York City began sending hundreds of migrants upstate.
It is one of the motels in the Capital Region hosting migrant children, with more than five dozen enrolling in the Mohonasen school district.
The other migrants are housed in motels in Colonie and Albany.
The protesters said many of their complaints are about the lack of care the children are receiving.
Many of them are sick and their parents are frustrated that they can’t work to earn money to buy basic medical care.
About a half dozen children without coats rode bicycles in the motel parking lot.
Area nonprofits have been collecting and distributing donations to get the migrants basic supplies.
“I haven’t been to the doctor,” one woman said.
“I requested an appointment last month because my kid has a toothache and you know when they gave it to me?”
“For Nov. 30.”
“Tell me what I should do.”
“We asked everybody: the director, the supervisor, nobody does anything.”
Another concern is the quality of food the migrants are served.
They described being supplied with frozen meals that they compared to dog food.
They use an outdoor fountain for drinking water and are often asked to switch rooms because the hotel is dealing with a bedbug infestation, they said.
“It’s like a chess game.”
“One day, we’re in one room and the next day, we’re in another (room) because bed bugs are everywhere,” one woman said.
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Yes, people, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, we are getting a real education here as to how the Biden administration is using these migrants as nothing more than pawns in a political game that is looting our treasury to enrichen investors in Joe’s money-making scheme called the MIGRANT CRSIS in America, a CRISIS created by Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to be milked for all it is worth.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of feeding off the taxpayers being no crime in Joe Biden’s America today, coupled with us having absolutely no right whatsoever to an expectation of honest services from public servants and officials in the Biden regime, to see how this MIGRANT CRISIS SCAM cooked up by Joe Biden and the Democrats to enrichen some POLITICALLY-CONNECTED INVESTORS in this country at taxpayer expense as Joe and the Democrats run these non-citizen MIGRANTS around the country as if they were cattle, which is what they are to Joe Biden and the Democrats who see them as the CASH COWS they really are, allows this politically-connected DocGo outfit to feed off the American taxpayers while helping Joe and the Democrats to loot our treasury to their benefit and our detriment, let us go back for a moment to an Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on September 1, 2023 titled “DocGo in the running for $4 billion contract for migrant services – DocGo CEO says NYC migrant work helps the company’s multi-billion dollar bid for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol contract,” where we this following to consider, to wit:
ALBANY — DocGo CEO Anthony Capone is seeking to turn a $432 million migrant shelter contract with New York City into a $4 billion contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide health care for those crossing the border.
And as part of the work, Capone said his publicly traded company is signing up migrants in its care for Medicaid plans.
Becoming their primary care provider, he said, can yield monthly member reimbursement for the company.
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Signing up these illegals in its care for Medicaid plans and thereby becoming their primary care provider, can yield monthly member reimbursement for the for-profit POLITICALLY-CONNECTED DocGo company with its NO-BID CONTRACT so that DocGo can make a profit for its INVESTORS?
How about that, people – these migrants who are here in our country illegally because Joe Biden and the Democrats simply opened our border and allowed them to flood across, no questi0ns asked, are entitled to Medicare paid for by the American taxpayers, and meanwhile, we read in a US News &World Report article titled “Paperwork Causing Many Americans to Lose Medicaid Coverage, White House Warns” by Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter, on July 31, 2023, as follows:
MONDAY, July 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Large numbers of Americans who were dropped from Medicaid this spring lost their coverage because of paperwork problems, and not because they weren’t still eligible for the public health insurance program.
“I am deeply concerned about high rates of procedural terminations due to ‘red tape’ and other paperwork issues,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter sent Friday to all governors, the Associated Press reported.
The changes are happening now because a prohibition on removing Medicaid coverage during the pandemic has now been lifted.
States have now begun doing annual eligibility redeterminations.
Among 18 states that began this review in April, about 1 million people continued to receive their health coverage, the AP reported.
Another 715,000 lost that coverage, but in 4 of 5 cases that was for procedural reasons, according to data from the federal U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Becerra encouraged governors to make efforts to keep people on Medicaid, including by using electronic information from federal programs, such as food stamps, to confirm eligibility.
Many may be “caught in a bureaucratic nightmare of confusing forms, notices sent to wrong addresses and other errors,” said Michelle Levander, founding director of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California.
The AP and health care advocacy group gathered data showing that about 3.7 million people already have lost Medicaid coverage, including about 500,000 in Texas, 400,000 in Florida and 225,000 in California.
In California, 89% of those cuts were for procedural reasons.
That was true also for 81% in Texas and 59% in Florida, according to the AP.
Even though people who were incorrectly dropped can regain their coverage if they prove eligibility within 90 days, there are still issues, according to advocates.
“State government is not necessarily nimble,” Keesa Smith, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, told the AP.
“When individuals are being dis-enrolled, the biggest concern … is that there is not a fast track to get those individuals back on the rolls.”
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And the moral of that story is that if you want good benefits provided for you, it is really better to be in this country as an illegal alien than it is to be here as a citizen.
Paul Plante says
And thanks once again to the Cape Charles Mirror for affording us this rare opportunity to examine in detail this MIGRANT CRISIS that has been intentionally created by Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS as a money-making operation in perpetuity, which to Joe and the DEMOCRATS, means forever, as they treat these migrants like cattle, shipping them here and there, while denying them humane treatment, including making them, in the words of the migrants, have to eat dog food as their means of sustenance.
Think I’m kidding, people, when I say this is a SCAM?
Not a joke!
And for proof of that assertion, let’s go back to an Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on September 1, 2023 titled “DocGo in the running for $4 billion contract for migrant services – DocGo CEO says NYC migrant work helps the company’s multi-billion dollar bid for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol contract,” where we have the CON MAN Anthony Capone bragging to investors about how successful his operation was, and why it was a good investment to get in on the ground floor of, to wit:
ALBANY — DocGo CEO Anthony Capone is seeking to turn a $432 million migrant shelter contract with New York City into a $4 billion contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide health care for those crossing the border.
Capone detailed how his for-profit company stands to benefit financially from the shelter contract during a one-on-one interview last month at the Canaccord Genuity 43rd annual growth conference, which is held by an investment banking and financial services company.
“We did this, in large part, because it gave us all of the credibility to win the Border Patrol” contract, Capone said.
“Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country, it gives us enormous credibility.”
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One of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country?
Do tell, dude, except from what we have been reading in here, these migrants you are feeding off of courtesy of the American taxpayers are virtual prisoners of yours who are getting substandard care for the exorbitant fees you are charging for their care, including having then eat dog food.
“And it gives us enormous credibility?”
With the Joe Biden regime, it does, but not with the rest of us in this country footing the bill for this SCAM, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“City officials are well-aware of this program’s success as exemplified last week when Mayor Adams reiterated his confidence in our partnership during a press conference where he praised our work, describing it as a herculean effort to help the city with this humanitarian crisis,” Capone said during an investor call on Aug. 7, in which the company reported record earnings over the last financial quarter.
Two days later, Capone sat down for a 25-minute interview at the Canaccord Genuity conference, where he explained the company’s business plan with the migrant crisis.
Asked whether the company expects a dip in revenue after its $432 million contract with New York City expires, Capone said he had a “high degree of confidence” it will stay strong.
“Just look the macro factors here,” he said, pointing to the political gridlock around the southern border.
“There’s almost no chance that there’s going to be federal legislation which solves this problem,” Capone said.
“Almost none.”
“All you have to do is understand the dilemmas with each one of the solutions and know that it will not happen.”
“It’s certainly not happening before the next election cycle.”
“But I doubt it will happen ever.”
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And it won’t happen, people, because Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS DO NOT want it to happen, because right now, this MIGRANT CRISIS is a real solid moneymaker for too many people to bring it to an end, which takes us to a New York Post article titled “Migrant crisis has US taxpayers on the hook for up to $451B, House GOP report says” by Josh Christenson on November 13, 2023, where we have some essential truth about the costs to us as a people and as a nation as a result of Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS revealed, to wit:
Americans could pay up to $451 billion to care for migrants who entered the US illegally, but have been released into the country or escaped from custody, according to a new report due out Monday from House Republicans and obtained exclusively by The Post.
“Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration and the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border sparked by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ policies,” the House Homeland Security Committee interim staff report states.
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And let’s be crystal clear here, people – these are Joe Biden’s policies, or they wouldn’t be happening, given Joe Biden’s autocratic nature which has him a virtual control freak with respect to every single detail of his regime, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“Only a small fraction is ever recouped from the taxes paid by illegal aliens, with the rest falling on the shoulders of American citizens and lawful residents,” it adds.
Compiled from federal and state records, media reports and other public information, the 50-page document outlines the taxpayer costs incurred in medical care, housing, education and other welfare benefits for tens of millions of migrants — to say nothing of the additional costs for law enforcement.
“This report reveals in painstaking detail the dollar costs facing the American people every day that this chaos continues, both in small towns on the border and in big cities like New York,” Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) told The Post.
The bill for government care and housing could total as much as $451 billion per year nationwide for apprehended migrants and known “gotaways” who have entered the US since 2021, according to figures the House panel cites from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Between 16.8 million and 29 million illegal immigrants currently reside in the US, according to estimates the committee cites from the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Yale University, 3.8 million of which have entered since President Biden took office in January 2021.
Mayorkas revealed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing last month that more than 600,000 migrants have come into the country in fiscal year 2023 without being apprehended by border agents.
That’s in addition to another 900,000 who entered the US legally and applied for asylum before being released, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
Biden, 80, asked Congress last month to pass $14 billion in additional border security funding to aid the processing of migrants, reimburse state and local governments and non-governmental organizations and provide other services.
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Yes, people, the SELF-CREATED BIDEN MIGRANT CRISIS that will never end as Joe blows though taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor on a spree in a whorehouse town for which we are getting the bill!
Paul Plante says
Think I’m kidding, people, when I say that Joe Biden is blowing through our taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor on a spree in a whorehouse town with all of his many CRISES for which we are getting stuck with the bill?
Not a joke, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US budget gap narrows in October due to delayed tax payments” on November 13, 2023, where we learn about the real harm Joe Biden is doing to our future as a people and as a nation with his profligate BORROW-AND-SPEND BIDE-O-NISM, to wit:
The report was released on the heels of ratings agency Moody’s announcement on Friday that it had lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating to “negative” from “stable,” citing large fiscal deficits and a decline in debt affordability.
It also followed data last month showing the deficit in fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30, was the largest outside the COVID-19 era at nearly $1.7 trillion.
Outlays, meanwhile, rose 16% to $470 billion, with a $41 billion year-over-year increase in interest payments on the U.S. government’s debt accounting for about two-thirds of the net increase of $64 billion.
Interest costs have surged since March 2022 when the Federal Reserve kicked off an aggressive campaign to rein in inflation, resulting in the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight interest rate shooting up by 5.25 percentage points.
With the average interest rate on the $26 trillion of outstanding Treasury securities up to 3.05% from 2.19% in October of last year, that trajectory is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, Treasury officials said.
Interest on the debt, at $89 billion, was the second largest outlay in October after monthly Social Security payments of $118 billion.
A year ago, interest on the debt was exceeded by Social Security, national defense spending and the combined total of the government-run Medicaid and Medicare health insurance programs.
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And anyone who thinks any of that is good for our future as a nation and as a people has to be a dyed-in-the-wool mindless Democrat and Biden supporter who is an idiotic moron incapable to rational or logical thought.
And here, given that I am an ardent student of history, to see the harm Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS has in turn created for our nation, what I would like to do is to go to an article published in The Conversation titled “Immigration: How ancient Rome dealt with the Barbarians at the gate” published on February 13, 2019 by Cavan W. Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, as follows:
A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi and the Greuthungi – were massing along the Danube river, at the border of the Roman Empire.
This was not an invading army, but men, women, and children fleeing the enemy at their backs: a seemingly invincible army of Huns.
The Goths, a coalition of Germanic tribes that were long foes of the Romans, begged to be admitted to Roman territory.
Afraid for their lives, they hoped to find safety on the other side of the river.
The year was 376.
What the Romans did in response to the arrival of the Goths would have profound effects on the history of the vast and powerful Roman Empire.
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And what Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS are doing in response to this flood of migrants from South America who have literally been invited here by Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS is going to have profound effects on the history of the United States, and let there be absolutely no doubts about that, whatsoever, which takes us back to that article for more, as follows:
As the United States grapples with a polarizing debate over how to manage and police its southern border, a debate that led to the longest government shutdown in history, American policy makers would do well to understand what happened during this tragic moment in Roman history.
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And yes, people, they would do well on our behalf to understand what happened during that tragic moment in Roman history, but you know what?
They won’t bother trying to learn because they do not believe history as happened applies to their actions or to the United States, it being special, and all, which again takes us back to that article, to wit:
Roman border security was historically effective, not because of massive barriers, but because they knew how to manage the flow of migration.
This flow didn’t lead to the collapse of the empire by marauding Germans.
Rather, the flow of migration transformed the Roman Empire into what became medieval society.
Yet the arrival of the Goths in 376 shows what happens when good border policy is ignored.
Ancient Roman border security
To understand how the arrival of these Gothic tribes created a crisis for the late Roman Empire, we have to first start with how the Romans traditionally handled the migration of new tribes into their territory.
The borders of the Roman Empire were constantly in flux and always flexibly managed, owing to the difficulties of policing a huge border without modern technology.
Roman border control rarely made use of massive walls, but depended on natural barriers in the landscape.
This was particularly true on the northern border, which heavily relied on the Rhine and Danube rivers.
Rome’s borders were gradual transitions more than hard and fast lines.
When migrating tribes asked to be admitted to the empire, the Romans tended to follow a fairly standard policy.
Tribes were broken up into smaller groups and sent to underpopulated regions.
They were forced to surrender their weapons, renounce their loyalty to their tribal leaders, and commit a certain number of fighting men to the Roman legions.
These policies had served the empire well for centuries.
By diluting tribal loyalty and disarming the newcomers, the Romans strengthened their economy, increased tax revenue, and swelled the ranks of the army.
Goths at the border
Let’s return to the Goths waiting on the north side of the Danube.
One of our main historical sources about this event is the fourth-century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, whose account is used in this description.
According to Ammianus, one of the Gothic tribes (the Thervingi) sent envoys to the eastern Roman Emperor Valens to ask for admission to the empire.
They wanted their people to settle in nearby Thrace, adding the promise that they would contribute soldiers to the Roman army.
This offer pleased the emperor and the local population.
The Thervingi would offer a strong buffer against other potentially unfriendly tribal groups and would provide soldiers and new tax revenue.
Valens welcomed them to cross over.
That fall, huge numbers of Thervingi crossed the river, which was swollen from recent rains.
They made the journey in whatever boats could be found.
At this point, things went badly for the Thervingi.
Many died during the dangerous crossing.
The Romans allowed more Thervingi to cross than they could supply with food.
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Which is exactly what Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS are doing today, so let us take a break for station identification, and when we return we will see what happened to the Romans as a result of their Biden-esque stupidity in that matter, so, please, stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
This tale of the Germans crossing the Danube onto Roman territory at one time was required knowledge of young Americans like myself in an admittedly different time in America before computers and cell phones, when cautionary tales like this were how knowledge of the past was conveyed (“He who uses a mirror of brass can see to set his cap; he who uses the mirror of antiquity can predict the rise and fall of nations”) to young Americans like myself, so that we would realize what was then deemed an essential lesson that actions by what are too often mistakenly called “governments” can have grave consequences for all of us, this as we watch a YouTube video from our own times thanks to the policies of Joe Biden and the Democrats that has intentionally turned our southern border into a sieve, which video is entitled “Border patrol overwhelmed by influx of migrants” from ABC News, to wit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuQNGCb5ys
When we last left that story, like Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing today with their MIGRANT CRSIS they are now capitalizing on financially and politically, the Romans had allowed more Thervingi from Germany to cross their border, which was the Danube river at that time, than they could supply with food.
Picking up that story where we left off, it then continues as follows, to wit:
The local Roman military commanders, Lupicinus and Maximus, withheld supplies the emperor had earmarked for the Thervingi and sold them at massively inflated prices.
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Yes, people, the same human nature that persists today, the greed and avarice, existed back in Roman times, as well, this as we watch the for-profit, politically-connected DocGo and its investors reaping a financial windfall at taxpayer expense from Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS, which again takes us back to the story, keeping well in mind that to date, according to an NBC News story titled “Influx of migrants at border gains renewed attention as ‘crisis’ rhetoric spreads” by Erik Ortiz on October 4, 2023, more than 200,000 migrants unlawfully crossed our southern border in September of this year — a record high for 2023, up from more than 182,700 people who border agents encountered in September 2022 and 142,710 people in September 2021, according to Customs and Border Protection data, to wit:
Ammianus says the situation became so desperate that even the families of Thervingi chieftains sold their sons into slavery for dog meat.
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That as we read in the Albany, New York Times Union article by Maria M. Silva and Steve Hughes on October 24, 2023 titled “Migrants decry poor conditions at Rotterdam Super 8 motel” that a concern of these migrants who have essentially been made property or chattel of this for-profit, politically connected DocGo crowd is the quality of food they are served, which they have compared to dog food.
Going back to the story, it continues as follows:
The Romans saw these migrants from the north as uncivilized and irrational.
It is likely that the Roman commanders felt justified in their bad behavior toward the Goths because of Roman prejudice against “barbarians.”
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And now, we get to the part where things began to go bad for the mighty Romans, because they were very stupid, just like the people in the Biden regime today managing Joe’s MIGRANT CRISIS, to wit:
Bad treatment, bad outcome
The Romans ignored all their usual protocols for admitting new tribes into the empire.
For some reason, the newly arrived Thervingi were not forced to hand over their weapons, nor was the tribe broken up into smaller units to be dispersed to different regions.
This may have been because the Romans allowed too many Thervingi to cross, leaving Roman military forces vastly outnumbered.
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This as we read in a CNN story titled “More military personnel head to the US-Mexico border as officials describe an increase in migrant crossings” by Priscilla Alvarez, Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough on September 22, 2023 that some 800 new active-duty personnel are being sent to the southern border, where 2,500 National Guard members already are serving, according to Department of Homeland Security officials who are failing miserably, as can be expected of everything and anything associated with this Biden Regime to keep our so-called “homeland” secure, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
The other Gothic tribe massed at the Danube, the Greuthungi, were in a different position.
Valens had rejected their envoys’ request for admission to the empire.
They were as desperate to cross into Roman territory as the Thervingi.
Seeing that the Romans were overwhelmed, the Greuthungi crossed the Danube on their own, further to the east.
As conditions among the Thervingi continued to deteriorate, Lupicinus made a desperate play to keep them in line: He invited their leaders, Alavivus and Fritigern, to a dinner party and promptly took them hostage.
When the Thervingi began to riot in response, Fritigern was able to convince Lupicinus to let him go to calm the situation down.
But having gained his freedom, Fritigern reneged on his promise to Lupicinus and mobilized the Thervingi, who then allied themselves with the Greuthungi.
The result was a unified and massive Gothic army that was now loose and armed in Roman territory.
Thus began six years of war that would devastate the region and leave countless dead, including the Emperor Valens, who died fighting the Goths at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.
The eventual peace brokered with the Goths in 382 by Theodosius I allowed them to settle in Roman territory as a self-governed federation between the Danube and Balkan mountains.
But as an independent state within Roman territory, the Goths never integrated into Roman society and remained a source of political instability.
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And where today is the Roman Empire?
A bunch of historical ruins, is it not, that today are tourist attractions and curiosities.
Stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
I live outside the territorial limits of balmy Cape Charles, Virginia, where never is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day, and so since it is not balmy here (global warming hasn’t got here yet), and since it is November, with temperatures at night down in the 20’s, I have to burn wood to keep my house warm (NO, I don’t have a government-mandated heat pump nor do I intend to get one, as they are energy hogs) and to get the fire going, I wad up pages of the Albany, New York Times Union to get the kindling going, and as I was doing that recently, I came across an article by Katherine Kiessling on November 12, 2023, titled “Journalist Margaret Sullivan: Democracy needs strong local news,” which title immediately brought to mind the Cape Charles Mirror, and the role it plays not only in society down here, but across the US, as well, as a source of alternative points of view uncensored by the fascists of FACEBOOK, or TWITTER in conjunction with the DOJ, the FBI, and the Biden white house.
Reading that headline caused me to then do some background research into that topic, given the role of what today is called “the media,” in this country’s political affairs since the days when it was still so many British colonies.
To begin my research, I went to the Technical Publication Series of the Center for Democracy and Governance, whose slogan is “…promoting the transition to and consolidation of democratic regimes throughout the world,” which is a unit of the Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research, of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C. 20523-3100, and the publication from that series titled “The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach” dated June 1999 and Chapter II. DEFINING GOALS: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN DEMOCRACY, where people in other countries who don’t have democracies are told, to wit:
Access to information is essential to the health of democracy for at least two reasons.
First, it ensures that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation.
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And let us stop there for the moment, people, to explore what has been said there about access to information ensuring that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation.
Access to information, especially the plethora we are daily barraged with in this county DOES NOT in and of itself ensure anything, starting with the misguided premise that it will ensure that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation.
People who are ignorant will make choices acting out of ignorance, and if they are ignorant, they won’t know misinformation from the truth, which is why there is a concerted effort on this country to keep people grossly ignorant, so they won’t know how to question anything, starting with Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS, which crisis is worth BILLIONS to Joe Biden, and Joe’s GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS, which crisis is worth TRILLIONS.
And that takes us back to that publication, as follows:
Second, information serves a “checking function” by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them.
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To this day, and I have been around for over a quarter of a century, I have yet to see an elected official at any level of government uphold his or her oath of office because of “information,” because in truth, an elected official can violate their oath of office all day long, each and every day, because there is no way for a citizen to be able to enforce an oath of office against an oath breaker.
Going back to that publication, keeping in mind that it is the work product of a federal government that does not itself practice what it preaches to other countries, it states as follows, again with respect to other countries, not here, to wit:
Support for media is a critical prong of U.S. democracy and governance assistance.
USAID Strategic Objective 2.3, “Increased development of a politically active civil society,” provides a rationale for media-related programming.
Intermediate Result 2.3.4, “Enhanced free flow of information,” broadly states the Agency’s goal for media activities.
While media is considered by USAID to be a part of the civil society arena, it is well known that media overlaps other functional areas of democracy and governance.
For example, support for media may yield results in governance activities, particularly those related to decentralization, anti-corruption, and citizen participation in the policy process.
The rule of law may be further institutionalized by support for an independent media that keeps a check on the judiciary, reports on the courts, and promotes a legal enabling environment suitable for press freedom.
Free and fair elections conducted through transparent processes require a media sector which gives candidates equal access, and reports the relevant issues in a timely, objective manner.
International conventions buttress USAID’s media activities.
Most notably, Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Within the context of supporting democratic transitions, the goal of media development generally should be to move the media from one that is directed or even overtly controlled by government or private interests to one that is more open and has a degree of editorial independence that serves the public interest.
If the media is to have any meaningful role in democracy, then the ultimate goal of media assistance should be to develop a range of diverse mediums and voices that are credible, and to create and strengthen a sector that promotes such outlets.
Credible outlets enable citizens to have access to information that they need to make informed decisions and to participate in society.
A media sector supportive of democracy would be one that has a degree of editorial independence, is financially viable, has diverse and plural voices, and serves the public interest.
The public interest is defined as representing a plurality of voices both through a greater number of outlets and through the diversity of views and voices reflected within.
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And with that stated, for the monent, I will rest.
Paul Plante says
Staying with this theme of the role the Cape Charles Mirror plays in our REPUBLIC, the REPUBLIC so-called “democracy” in this country, which is really autocracy, or more properly, ochlocracy, which is the rule of government, in this case, our national government under DEMOCRAT Joe Biden, by a mob or mass of people known as DEMOCRATS and IMMIGRANTS and the intimidation of legitimate authorities, in terms of not only keeping us informed, but further, allows for a plurality of voices to be heard, and through the diversity of views and voices reflected within.
And think I’m kidding, people, about a mob or mass of people known as DEMOCRATS and IMMIGRANTS ruling our national government while intimidating legitimate authorities?
Not a joke, as we see from an article in the GOTHAMIST by Raphael Pope-Sussman on Feb. 1, 2017, where we have DEMOCRAT MOB RULE and INTIMIDATION in action right before our eyes, to wit:
Hundreds of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures Tuesday night on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza at a rally calling upon U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration.
The rally was the latest in a series of weekly gatherings poetically dubbed “What the F*ck, Chuck?” outside the senator’s Brooklyn home on Prospect Park West and his offices in Midtown.
As a series of speakers stood on a platform and shouted over a mobile PA system, protesters cheered and jeered as they held signs with slogans like “Buck Up Chuck”; “Resisting Trump Is Your Primary Duty”; and “Filibuster Filibuster Filibuster.”
Hae-Lin Choi, of the Democratic Socialists of America and Resist Trump NY, took the stage first, announcing herself as an immigrant and telling the crowd why organizers had called for the protest.
“We planned this rally to Schumer’s home to help him find the spine and maybe some of the other body parts he needs to grow,” she said, citing Schumer’s early “yea” votes on Trump’s nominees to lead Defense, Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Choi said organizers were encouraged by Schumer’s announcement in recent days that he would vote no on eight more nominees, but that they see this as a bare minimum, and they intend to keep up the pressure.
“Senator Schumer must be bold and stand with the working class,” she cried over the loudspeaker.
“He has to champion the resistance or get out of the way and we’ll find someone that will.”
As Choi spoke, the crowd chanted, “Stand up, or get out of the way.”.
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Yes, people, that is what the DEMOCRAT MOB calls “democracy” in this country, and that takes us to an america,gov site called ShareAmerica and an article titled “The importance of an independent press,” which outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, largely does not exist in this country, on March 9, 2023, where we learn as follows, although we really should have known this by the fifth grade, if not earlier, to wit:
Free, independent media allow the public to make informed decisions, hold leaders accountable and hear a diversity of opinions — all free of government influence.
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Yes, people, in an ideal world, which this most certainly is not, that would be the case, but as FACEBOOK and TWITTER proved during the COVID CRISIS, worth $1.9 TRILLION to Joe Biden as a SLUSH FUND, there is no such thing as freedom from government influence, something that was also proven with the now famous BLINKEN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR’S LETTER claiming falsely the Hunter Biden’s laptop was really
Russian DISINFORMATION, when it was anything but, which NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS’ DISINFORMATION served to put Joe Biden into the white house by making Trump out to be a liar.
Going back to the article, it continues:
“Information and knowledge are powerful tools,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said May 2, 2021.
“A free and independent press is the core institution connecting publics to the information they need to advocate for themselves, make informed decisions, and hold governmental officials accountable.”
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And what a joke that all is, which takes us to a Mediaite story titled “Jim Jordan Says New Testimony Shows Blinken, Biden Camp Behind ‘Infamous’ Letter Smearing Hunter Biden Laptop Story as Disinfo” by Isaac Schorr on 21 April 2023, where we have Tony Blinken caught talking out of the other side of his mouth, to wit:
New testimony released by House GOP leaders sheds light on the role that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign played in smearing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation.
In an interview with the committee, Michael Morell, the former deputy director of the CIA, testified that he signed onto a letter panning the story — which was published by the New York Post on October 14, 2020 — as likely part of a disinformation operation only after being reached out to by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was then serving as an advisor to the Biden campaign.
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Now, first of all, despite any blather or codswallop Tony Blinken might spew about a free and independent press being the core institution connecting publics to the information they need to advocate for themselves while holding governmental officials like Tony Blinken and all the national security advisors accountable, the fact is that we don’t have a free and independent press outside of the Cape Charles Mirror to actually do any of that, while Tony was using the gelded and neutered mainstream and legacy media to DENY us information we need to advocate for ourselves, while at the same time, he had the tame media not holding Joe Biden accountable, at all!
Ah, the HYPOCRISY (the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense), people, but that is exactly the quality that makes Tony Blinken such a good lackey and toady and sycophant for Joe Biden!
Paul Plante says
Going back to the original post in here, by way of review, I reiterated receiving an e-mail from the Cape Charles Mirror checking in to see if I was still walking the planet after an absence of posting, which gesture on the part of the CCM to check in with me, an elderly disabled veteran who lives alone out in the countryside, was very much appreciated.
And as I stated above, my response as to not posting was that there is so much bull**** these days being literally heaved at us from all directions at once, this CRISIS and that CRISIS, and our national security is in jeopardy, that it has been nigh on impossible to sort it all out before the next barrage came raining down on our heads, so that I have been living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe Biden’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin.
But in truth, it really is more basic than that, why I wasn’t posting, and it boils down to a dangerous sense of futility I am experiencing, which occurs when one can no longer see the point in even trying.
Futility is the sense that no matter how much one works at it, in this case posting editorials or comments, nothing will change for the better, so one might as well give up.
And there, quite truthfully, is where I find myself these days, living in a past that is now long gone and largely unremembered, or it has been canceled altogether, which leaves me possessed of a cultural context that no longer exists along with a vocabulary of words that no longer have meaning, so that communication itself has become nigh on impossible.
People hear what they want to hear, from those from whom they want to hear it, and they disregard all the rest.
People also comprehend only that which they have the intellectual capacity to comprehend, and absent that intellectual capacity, there is no comprehension, at all.
And here, with my reference to Joe Stalin above here, and STALINISM, a term no longer known and no longer taught today, is where to me this whole system of communication in this country breaks down today, because we have no single cultural context in this country today, nor do we operate from a common base in terms of citizenship, which is a very empty word today.
And in support of that statement, as well as what underlies my sense of futility, consider that GOTHAMIST article above here by Raphael Pope-Sussman on Feb. 1, 2017, where we had REAL STUPID AND IGNORANT DEMOCRAT MOB RULE in action right before our eyes, to wit:
Hundreds of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures Tuesday night on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza at a rally calling upon U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration.
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Now, those of you who like me have been educated in detail as to the structure of what our national government was supposed to be, think about all of what is stated in that one sentence there for a moment, and what it means to us and our future as a nation, keeping in mind that according to Lord Tytler, a Scottish Historian, the average age of the world’s democracies is around 200 years, and after two hundred years, the nations collapse due to various economic policies to be followed by a dictatorship, which is where I have us right now in this country with AUTOCRAT Joe Biden and all of his EXCEUTIVE ORDERS that govern literally every aspect of our lives, including what you can or cannot cook your supper on tonight, and what kind of car you have to drive, and on and on and on, seemingly without end.
According to that article, in February of 2017, which is six (6) years ago now, for an idea of how deeply VERY STUPID has become entrenched in our so-called citizen body, hundreds of very ignorant and real stupid New Yorkers came out in freezing temperatures on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to screech their little hearts out at a rally calling upon then-U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration, as if US senators were in fact nothing more than gobs of PUTTY for screeching and howling mobs of DEMOCRATS to mold and shape as they desire, which Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, now the TOP DOG in the senate, to our detriment as a people and as a nation, clearly was and is.
And in what system of government do US senators take firm stands against a presidential administration because a screeching, howling mob of DEMOCRATS demand that they do so?
And how ignorant and uninformed do hundreds of people have to be, to believe that US senators like Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, who obviously lacked the spine to stand up to the howling mob, come to heel for them at their beck and call?
Or more properly, when spineless, gutless and caitiff US senators like Charley “CHUCK” Schumer do come to heel like a trained pet dog for a screeching, howling mob of real stupid people, what does that really say for what used to be our REPUBLIC, and our future?
As to why we have, or had a senate, according to the United States Senate itself on its website, and truthfully, with Charley “CHUCK” Schumer in charge of that body, who can believe a single word any of them say, in a series of political essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, signed as “Publius,” and published in 1788 as The Federalist, the writers explained how the new Constitution — dividing the government into three equal branches — would preserve the Union, reconcile differences among states and political factions, and promote a common welfare, while carefully controlling power through a system of checks and balances.
All of which has subsequently been sadly proven to be nothing more than PIE-IN-THE-SKY dreaming on their part.
As the senate website says, of the 85 essays the trio authored, seven dealt specifically with the Senate (Nos. 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 75, and 76), while others (such as 51) discussed the Senate as part of the broader definition of a federal government that included a bicameral legislature.
Writing in the Federalist Papers, James Madison explained the unique nature of the Senate and the cautious, deliberative role it was supposed to play in American government.
In Number 62, James Madison eloquently stated, as follows, to wit:
The qualifications proposed for senators, as distinguished from those of representatives, consist in a more advanced age and a longer period of citizenship. . . .
The propriety of these distinctions, is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust; which, requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires, at the same time, that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages. . . .
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Stability of character, people?
Senatorial trust?
Charley “CHUCK” Schumer?
Not happening, people!
Going back to Jemmy Madison, he continues on as follows, and this is relevant to these times today we are now in, with a totally worthless, unresponsive, unaccountable national government in this country, to wit:
. . . The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions. . . .
All that need be remarked is, that a body which is to correct this infirmity, ought itself to be free from it, and consequently ought to be less numerous.
It ought moreover to possess great firmness, and consequently ought to hold its authority by a tenure of considerable duration. . . .
. . . The mutability in the public councils, arising from a rapid succession of new members, however qualified they may be, points out, in the strongest manner, the necessity of some stable institution in the government. . . .1
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Today, regardless of some infantile pipe dream Jemmy Madison had back in 1788, we DO NOT have what can be considered any stable institions in what is laughingly called our national government, when it is nothing more than a national clown show, which takes us back to the senate website, as follows:
Madison clearly recognized the need for a smaller, more deliberative body in the legislative branch to cool the passions and control the urges of democratic masses.
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Control the urges of democratic masses?
Oh, really!
Then what was all of this, if not the urges of democratic masses:
The rally was the latest in a series of weekly gatherings poetically dubbed “What the F*ck, Chuck?” outside the senator’s Brooklyn home on Prospect Park West and his offices in Midtown.
As a series of speakers stood on a platform and shouted over a mobile PA system, protesters cheered and jeered as they held signs with slogans like “Buck Up Chuck”; “Resisting Trump Is Your Primary Duty”; and “Filibuster Filibuster Filibuster.”
Hae-Lin Choi, of the Democratic Socialists of America and Resist Trump NY, took the stage first, announcing herself as an immigrant and telling the crowd why organizers had called for the protest.
“We planned this rally to Schumer’s home to help him find the spine and maybe some of the other body parts he needs to grow,” she said, citing Schumer’s early “yea” votes on Trump’s nominees to lead Defense, Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Choi said organizers were encouraged by Schumer’s announcement in recent days that he would vote no on eight more nominees, but that they see this as a bare minimum, and they intend to keep up the pressure.
“Senator Schumer must be bold and stand with the working class,” she cried over the loudspeaker.
“He has to champion the resistance or get out of the way and we’ll find someone that will.”
As Choi spoke, the crowd chanted, “Stand up, or get out of the way.”.
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Seriously, people, how can anyone use rational methods to deal with that gross ignorance?
Stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
For the record, not that it any longer makes much difference in this benighted (in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance) sorry nation, where today, people “communicate” by spouting short bursts of largely unintelligible gibberish known as TWEETS, as if people were really some species of bird, or they make videos of themselves spouting ignorant drivel on something called TikTok, I have read each and every Federalist Paper several times now, and as I look at where we are today in this country, versus where the authors of the Federalist papers said we would be, all I can think is how very naive the authors were, mainly Jemmy Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, as Jay was a minor contributor, and if they weren’t naive, but calculating, instead, then they played the people back then like a Stradivarius in order to get a flawed constitution passed in order to give themselves political power they otherwise would not have had, and here we are today, stuck with it.
For his efforts to create this new form of government, which clearly has square wheels on it today, so that instead of rolling along smoothly, it moves it fits and starts, bumping its way along like something you would expect to find in some third-world ****hole, instead of a modern nation, Alexander Hamilton was made this country’s first secretary of the treasury, as we learn from the US treasury website, to wit:
At the inauguration of the constitutional government in 1789 Alexander Hamilton (1757- 1804), George Washington’s former military aide and a renowned financier, was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury and thus he became the architect of the structure of the Department.
Desirous of a strong, centrally controlled Treasury, Hamilton did constant battle with Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and Albert Gallatin, then a Congressman, over the amount of power the Department of the Treasury should be allowed to wield.
He designed a Treasury Department for the collection and disbursing of public revenue, but also for the promotion of the economic development of the country.
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And today, under the leadership of Obama-ite former fed chief Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, a Biden sycophant and toady who serves as a cheerleader for Joe Biden, in addition to talking down to us as if we were all stupid and moronic and ignorant, the treasury is simply there to borrow massive amounts of money at high interest rates to finance the INSANE GREEN DREAMS of AUTOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, to our detriment as a people and as a nation, with us having no say in the matter, whatsoever.
As to “TOODLES” talking down to us while cheerleading for the Biden regime, consider the article in The Messenger titled “Consumers Still Struggle With Higher Prices, Despite Progress on Taming Inflation, Treasury Secretary Says” by Al Lewis on 20 November 2023, where we had “TOODLES” uncaged on center stage, as follows:
Yellen noted that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, came in at 3.2% in October, down from its peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
“We’re making considerable progress in bringing inflation down,” she said.
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Now, first of all, people, as to us being considered too stupid by “TOODLES” on behalf of the Biden regime to be able to reason things out on our own without input from Ph.D.’s like her (Note, they only give out Ph.D.’s in this country to the very best and brightest among us, people like “TOODLES” and the bearded buffoon Ben Bernanke, who was fed chief before Hussein Obama made “TOODLES” fed chief instead, because she was pliable, like soft putty which made her a perfect tool for Hussein and now Joe Biden who has selected here for the same reason), to the common person, who really gives a damn that inflation is coming down, as “TOODLES” claims?
As long as there is inflation, already high prices caused by yesterday’s inflation simply get higher and higher, which we see by going back to that article, to wit:
“Although prices in general are rising much less quickly, Americans still see increases in some important prices, including food from where we were prior to the pandemic,” Yellen said in an interview on CNBC.
“But Americans do notice higher prices from what they used to be accustomed to.”
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Damn right there you are, “TOODLES,” to the point of where the elderly on fixed incomes like myself are simply getting squeezed out of what “TOODLES” calls the MIRACLE BIDEN ECONOMY because we cannot afford to pay the exorbitant prices for what used to be consumer goods, but now are more like luxury items.
Going back to the cheerleading, we have more from “TOODLES” as follows:
President Joe Biden has signed three key piece of legislation – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act – that are investing trillions in the U.S. economy, Yellen said.
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And there, people, her phrase “investing trillions in the U.S. economy” is pure bull****, because Joe Biden isn’t “investing.”
What Joe has done and is doing with “TOODLES” as his enabler is creating the illusion of an economy that is based on MASSIVE BORROW AND SPEND, and as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, in the last fiscal year which ended in September, “TOODLES” and Joe gave us a federal deficit of $1.7 trillion, a $320 billion, or 23%, increase from the prior fiscal year, and the entire federal debt, an eye-watering $33 trillion currently closer to the $34 trillion mark has us, a nation in a serious state of decline, now spending more in gross interest on Treasury debt securities than it does on national defense, according to the Treasury’s latest monthly statement.
Our fiscal year starts Oct. 1, and in the first month the Treasury shelled out $88.9 billion in interest on its debt securities, while the Department of Defense spend $83.4 billion on military programs, and nearly $2 billion is spent every day just in interest on the national debt, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
And that money is not “invested.”
That money is wasted because those interest payments are not productive, and to maintain her massive debt issuance, “TOODLES” is pulling out of the economy money that would otherwise be invested in productive causes, as opposed to keeping the out-of-control Biden regime afloat, with what is essentially a PONZI scheme (a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors).
Going back to “TOODLES” and her cheerleading, the article continues as follows:
“We’ve had responsible investments in the U.S. economy that will have a payoff,” she said.
And as those investments generate jobs and economic activity, inflation appears to be headed lower.
“I think as inflation comes down, prices stop rising, and the labor market remains strong Americans will begin to see that we have made meaningful progress,” she said.
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See what I mean, people, about “TOODLES” Yellen treating us as if we were really very, very stupid – the majority of the American people are fed up with Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, and that even includes Democrats.
And let us pause here for station identification and fifteen solid hours of the very best commercial advertisements modern American marketing can produce to inform us of all the stuff out there waiting for us to purchase it, if we only had the money to do so, and then we will be right back with more, so please, stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
On this day of Thanksgiving in what used to be our REPUBLIC, before the COUP and OVERTHROW of Constitutional rule by the Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats on 6 January 2021, let me say that I am very thankful that we have Wayne Creed and the Cape Charles Mirror in our lives to give a voice to those of us out here who would otherwise be voiceless in our own country!
Paul Plante says
And barely are the words out of my mouth in here about being barraged and sensorily overwhelmed by such a BLIZZARD of PURE UNADULTERATED BULL**** from SENILE DEMOCRAT AUTOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the Biden REGIME to include Janet “TOODLES” Yellen and BIDEN PROPAGANDA MINISTER “BINDER” (aka Karine Jean-Pierre), and the Biden Campaign that has me now living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe Biden’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin, as well as experiencing a dangerous sense of futility, which occurs when one can no longer see the point in even trying, futility being the sense that no matter how much one works at it, in this case posting editorials or comments, nothing will change for the better, so one might as well give up, when like a BOMB CYCLONE hitting on Thanksgiving, the intensity of the BLIZZARD greatly increased in magnitude with the airing of a TV ad on Thanksgiving Day during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game, which takes us to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we have the latest BIDEN BULL**** flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
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Dwindling, indeed, people, as we clearly see from a State Of The Union article titled “Biden’s Job Approval Is Lowest Ever Measured In NBC Poll” by Jordan Andrews on 24 November 2023, to wit:
The latest NBC News poll shows President Joe Biden’s lowest approval rating ever at 40%, with an astounding 57% disapproving.
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According to the article, and nobody who has been following Joe Biden’s pitiful tenure as president and the dog’s dinner (a situation or piece of work that is chaotic, badly organized, or very untidy) Joe Biden makes out of everything he puts his hands on, the significance of that is that is the lowest Joe Biden has ever measured in our poll in terms of job approval, and independents like myself more than two to one disapprove of the miserable and incompetent job Joe is doing, while three times as many Democrats, 21%, more than one in five, say they disapprove.
Going back to Newsweek, that article continues as follows:
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
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So what is Joe’s solution to his falling numbers?
You got it, people, TELL US MORE LIES as if we are stupid enough to believe a word Joe Biden, a notorious serial liar, says about anything, starting out with just how great a person Joe Biden really is, which takes us back to Newsweek, to wit:
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
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Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
What rot!
According to Joe’s own bio, Joe was born Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942, and then Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, when Biden was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield, which takes us back to Newsweek for this burst of pure BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
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And this is Theater of the Absurd coupled with Opera Bouffe (French comic opera, with characters drawn from everyday life), people, because the so-called “middle-class” town left Joe Biden a long, long time ago, and Joe has never looked back from his multi-million dollar beach house in Rehobeth Beach, nor does he want to, which takes us back to Joe’s bio for this, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
So if Joe moved to Scranton when he was seven years old, and left when he was ten, by my math, he was only there for THREE years as a child, after having spent the first seven years of his life in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City, which hardly gives Joe any kind of “middle-class” roots!
And the only reason Joe moved to Scranton was because his father was a failure at business.
Going back to Joe’s bio:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
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Ah. yes, Archmere Academy – tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, which takes us back to Newsweek as follows:
It adds: “He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
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See what I mean about a BLIZZARD OF BULL****?
Joe Biden, a professional hack politician who has never worked a real job in is entire spoiled, privileged and entitled life, don’t know doodly-squat about what life is like for real people who do have actual jobs, which again takes us back to Newsweek:
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
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I’m throwing up in my mouth at this point, so let’s take a commercial break, and after station identification, we will be right back, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
I’ve been alive long enough now, going all the way back to Harry S. “The Buck Should Have Stopped Here But Didn’t” Truman, then Eisenhauer, and JFK, and the Texas Horse’s Ass Lyndon Baines Johnson, etc., so I can remember a time in America when we never heard from American presidents, especially this endless, disgusting and frankly sickening BIDEN BOBANCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, boasting; a boast; vain display, worldly vanity) we are being constantly barraged with today, which takes us to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star and an article titled “Biden campaign launches new ad focused on the president’s Scranton roots – ‘Never Left’ mentions his connection to middle-class voters and touts some of the administration’s cost-saving initiatives” by Kim Lyons on October 3, 2023 where the Biden HORSE**** does flow forth freely and copiously, to wit:
A new ad from the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign points to President Joe Biden’s upbringing in Scranton as giving him a unique perspective on — and empathy for— the struggles of middle class Americans.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad’s voiceover begins, “and while Joe Biden’s traveled far and wide, Scranton, Pennsylvania has never left him.”
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Joe’s upbringing in Scranton gave him a unique perspective on and empathy for the struggles of middle class Americans?
Get real, people!
According to Joe’s own bio, which very well could be all bull**** like everything Joe says, he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942.
Then, because Joe’s father was wealthy, the Biden family blew that ****-hole and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, which means Joe LEFT Scranton when he was FOUR years old.
Then, because Joe’s father was a lousy businessman, he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, which would have been 1949, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
So Joe was in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City from age FOUR until age SEVEN, which makes THREE years away from the ****-hole of Scranton.
And then Joe moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, which makes THREE more years in Scranton, when Biden was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.
So doing some basic math here, Joe spent a whopping SEVEN years in Scranton when Joe was a mere child, so unless Joe was exceptionally precocious (old beyond one’s years) when he was a child, which is highly doubtful because in school, he was an ignorant dullard cruising at the bottom of his classes, when exactly was it that Joe learned any kind of values in Scranton, other than how to be a poor liar?
See what I am talking about here, people?
We are being treated like ignorant fools here with this Biden “NEVER LEFT” ad, because in reality, Joe was ever really there in the first place, and after the age of ten, Joe never went back.
Going back to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star article, it continues thusly, to wit:
Viewed by the Capital-Star ahead of a wider rollout Tuesday, the one-minute spot is titled “Never Left” and will air in Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton markets.
It’s part of a larger $25 million media campaign that Biden-Harris announced in August and has been rolling out in battleground areas.
“While MAGA Republicans pretend they’re fighting for America’s middle class, President Biden and Vice President Harris are actually delivering,” Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager, said in a statement.
“Whether it’s taking on Big Pharma to cut prescription drug costs, lowering health care premiums for millions of Americans, or reducing energy bills for American families, fighting for the middle class isn’t an empty campaign promise for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – it’s their political DNA.”
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The ONLY thing in the political DNA of both Joe Biden and Karmela Harris is spewing ignorance and lies.
For example, a State Of The Union article titled “Belief in the American Dream Has Collapsed Under Biden” by Joseph Ellis on 27 November 2023 informed us as follows as to what Joe’s blundering and bungli8ng anhd ham-handed, short-sighted and inept and incompetent handling of the US economy has produced for the beleaguered people of America, to wit:
A new poll by The Wall Street Journal and NORC reveals that only 36 percent of U.S. voters believe the “American dream” is attainable, a stark contrast to a previous survey where 68 percent agreed with the notion of hard work leading to success.
The poll also found that roughly two-thirds of voters perceive the economy as poor, with concerns about inflation outpacing wages and rising prices.
The “American dream” appeared more unattainable to women and younger respondents, and only 35 percent felt the economy was in good condition.
Despite the administration’s claims, only 14 percent of voters believe the economy has improved under Biden, while 70 percent say it has suffered under his policies.
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Thanks to Joe Biden, I, who am an elderly disabled combat veteran on a fixed pension, have been forced OUT of the US economy because I can no longer afford to be a part of it.
Going back to this spew of pig **** from Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager, where she tells us the blatant lie that Joe is reducing energy bills for American families, that takes us to a Washington Examiner article titled “Poll: Inflation dominates the list of concerns of registered voters” by Tom Gantert on 27 November 2023, where we reality as seen through the eyes of REAL AMERICANS, meaning those outside the Washington Beltway, to wit:
(The Center Square) – Inflation and price increases are by far the most important issue facing the country.
That’s according to The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll conducted from Oct. 20-26, 2023, in conjunction with Noble Predictive Insights.
The poll data showed that 48% of registered voters said inflation was the most important issue in the U.S.
The poll reported that 95% of registered voters said they have seen prices increase over the last few years with 5% saying they have seen no change.
Among those who reported seeing price increases, 96% said the cost of groceries had increased and 82% said the cost of gasoline had increased.
Another 74% said their utility bills had increased.
One measure of inflation is the Consumer Price Index, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics describes as “a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.”
The BLS bases CPI on the cost of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, transportation, doctors’ and dentists’ services, drugs and other products and services that people purchase on a daily basis.
From 2013 through 2020 in the mid-Atlantic region, the monthly percent increase in CPI ranged from as low as negative 0.2% in April 2015 to as high as 2.9% in June and July 2018.
But in 2021, monthly increases in CPI started occurring.
CPI increased by 4.2% in April 2021 and then rose as high as 7% in December 2021.
In 2022, the CPI monthly increases ranged from 6.5% to as high as 9.1%.
In 2023, the monthly increases in CPI have hovered at 3.7% in August and September.
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GOOD OLD “MIDDLE CLASS” JOE!
But stay tuned because in the next installment, we shall explore the question of what the term “middle class” values means in America, so don’t change that dial and we shall be right back after a commercial break and a pause for station identification!
Paul Plante says
This morning, I went on google looking for how to contact the Pennsylvania Capital-Star concerning that Biden article I quoted from above, and real big surprise, there is no way to contact them.
So they can print that BIDEN horsecrap with apparent impunity, and unlike the Cape Charles Mirror, there is no way anyone can challenge what they print, as we can do in here, or comment on what they have printed, as again, we can do in here, which is why the Cape Charles Mirror is a GRAND PALLADIUM of our liberty while the Pennsylvania Capital-Star appears to be nothing more than a worthless BIDEN TOADY or mouthpiece.
And speaking of the rank BIDEN horsecrap that we are going to find ourselves barraged with on a daily basis now that the SILLY SEASON is starting in earnest, the October 3, 2023 edition of the Arizona Mirror carried an article which was essentially a regurgitation of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star article I cited above titled “Biden campaign launches new ad focused on the president’s Scranton roots.” except this one was titled “Biden touts blue-collar roots in latest AZ ad” by Jim Small, which article by the same author was reprinted in the Tucson Sentinel, which raises the question of what blue-collar roots does the privileged Joe Biden have, which takes us back to Sep 17, 2020 and an Axios article titled “Joe Biden: ‘I’ve benefitted’ from white privilege” by Orion Rummler, where we had Joe, as follows:
Joe Biden said at a CNN town hall on Thursday that he has benefitted from white privilege “just because I don’t have to go through what my Black brothers and sisters have had to go through.”
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So before we get to the definition of “middle class,” and the question of what are “middle class values,” what does the term “blue-collar” mean here in America?
And the answer from Investopedia is that the term blue-collar worker refers to individuals who engage in hard manual labor, typically in the agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, or maintenance sectors.
So what “blue-collar” roots does Joe Biden have, besides none at all?
“Little Joey,” as Biden refers to himself back in his limited Scranton days, as we saw above, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942, and then because “Little Joey’s” father was wealthy, NOT blue-collar, the Biden family blew that ****-hole of Scranton and purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, when “Little Joey” was FOUR years old, and then, because “Little Joey’s” father was a lousy businessman, NOT a blue-collar worker, he suffered business setbacks around the time “Little Joey” was seven years old, in 1949, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton, and then “Little Joey” moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, when “Little Joey” was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield, and Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.
So where, besides in yet another of Joe Biden’s fantasylands, where he invents personal history for himself out of fairy dust and moonbeams and cobwebs, were Joe Biden’s blue-collar roots, then?
And the true answer is that he does not have any, unless we want to believe a Biden fantasy that has “Little Joey” working in the Scranton coal fields when he was just a toddler, the youngest blue-collar union member there ever was, as we see “Little Joey,” still in a diaper, toddling off to work with his hardhat on his head and his lunchpail under his arm for yet another day of hard labor, which is what real blue-collar workers do in real life.
And I’m speaking as someone who has real blue-collar roots, unlike Joe Biden.
Never in my life have I seen such bull**** from an American president, and it is obvious these rags make absolutely no effort whatsoever to do any fact-checking, although a three-year old with computer skills, let alone a supposed “professional journalist” like Jim Small, could have easily debunked this specious claim by Joe Biden and his white privilege to have “blue-collar” roots.
And that takes us to what defines someone as “middle-class,” and according to the Pew Research Center, “middle class, a contrived term,” simply refers to someone who as an income that ranges between two-thirds and double the median income and the exact boundaries of a middle-class income vary by family size and location, due to the geographical differences in cost of living.
And that’s it – it refers to a segment of 0ur population – so that it is obvious from Joe’s claims of “fighting for the middle-class,” that as president, Joe is clearly discriminating against disabled veterans like myself who are definitely not in the middle class here in America.
So what are “middle-class values” then?
According to Wikipedia, the term middle-class values as used by various writers and politicians include such qualities as hard work, self-discipline, thrift, honesty, aspiration and ambition, and from that, we can clearly see that Joe Biden himself, a notorious serial liar who has never worked a real job, especially a blue-collar job, in his life, DOES NOT have what a traditional middle-class values.
To avoid the hard work real American like myself engaged in growing up, Joe has spent his entire adult life feeding off the taxpayers as a career hack politician.
As to honesty, forget it, because Joe, as a serial liar, does not have a shred of it in his body, which is evidenced in the very campaign ad, where Joe concocts a false narrative as to his early years in order to gull those in America to ignorant to fact-check Joe’s false claims.
So much for Joe Biden’s middle-class values!
Like his supposed “blue-collar” roots, they don’t exist and never have!
Paul Plante says
For a good example of the disgusting BIDEN LIES, the stupid BIDEN GASLIGHTING and the FASCIST CENSORING of BIDEN BAD NEWS by the autocratic Biden Regime that we here in America are going to be subjected to on a daily basis from here on out til Election Daty 2024, let’s go to a Washington Examiner article titled “Democrats: The economy is either great or Republicans’ fault” by Madeline Fry Schultz on 29 November 2023, where we have as follows:
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, in the first 30 months of Biden’s presidency, gas prices went up 35%, bread was up 24%, and housekeeping supplies were up 17%.
Basics such as motor vehicle repair, public transportation, meats, and day care had also risen significantly.
But inflation is not that bad.
Or is it?
The article (the Washington Post) then describes squabbles within the Biden administration.
Some want to take a cue from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who recently said, “I think it’s our job to explain to Americans what President Biden has done to improve the economy.”
Others see that as too much of a “let them eat cake” approach and prefer to blame a poor economy on “large corporations and Republicans,” though neither of them are running the country.
As an example, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) constant scapegoating of “corporate greed” comes to mind.
What Biden’s advisers all seem to be able to agree on, however, is that these $16 burger posts must be stopped.
“The White House official said the administration is working with TikTok creators to tell positive stories of Biden’s economic stewardship, while also working with social media platforms to counter misinformation,” the report says.
We know the White House has been collaborating with TikTokers to spread its propaganda, and chillingly, we also know that it has abused its power to pressure social media companies into countering what it sees as “misinformation.”
So, while Biden and his team squabble over how best to gaslight people regarding the economy, the unifying solution is easy: Flood TikTok and Instagram with Generation Z propagandists and pressure such companies to throttle, “fact-check,” or otherwise discredit and disappear negative posts about the economy.
If censorship is the solution, it sounds like those arguments about the Biden economy aren’t so strong after all.
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Yes, people, propaganda, and censorship, which are true signs of an autocratic regime, as if this were Ukraine under the fascist pig Zelenski, who Joe Biden is emulating in this country, which is why we should be thankful we have the Cape Charles Mirror, before the autocratic Biden regime cancels it as a source of misinformation about Joe Biden, because in Joe Biden’s version of America, modeled on the Soviet Union under the thug Joe Stalin, only “good news” about Joe Biden and his failed policies can be printed, which then takes us to another Washington Examiner article titled “Yellen claims ‘it’s our job’ to explain what Biden’s done to improve the economy” by Asher Notheis on 21 November 2023, where we have Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen (cue Bob Seger – Her Strut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51c0vuLEng ) on center stage (cue “Lies, Lies, Lies” by JJ Cale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJKYNKr3so ), as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday that she believes “it’s our job” to explain to voters what President Joe Biden has done to address the economy, which many voters believe is not doing well.
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Se, it’s like this, people, according, to “TOODLES,” and the Biden administration, and their media enablers such as THE FIVE ******* IDIOTS (see, Fox News, November 27, 2023, ‘The Five’: Media complains voters are too stupid to feel a good economy” https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341863508112 ), we are all of us far too stupid to realize just how good we really have it under Joe Biden, thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is why we so desperately need “TOODLES” to lead us forth from benighted ignorance into the shining light of the brand new day in America Joe has provided us with, because he loves us and is a really food person, to boot, which takes us back to that article, to wit:
Yellen was asked about recent polling data that found 59% of voters under the age of 30 would rate the current state of the economy as “poor.”
The United States economy, and Biden’s approach to addressing it, is one of several topics many voters have expressed frustration on heading into 2024, when Biden seeks reelection.
“I think it’s our job to explain to Americans what President Biden has done to improve the economy,” Yellen said on CNBC.
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Yes, people, stay tuned, because enlightenment from “TOODLES” to cure us of our ignorance is at hand, sing HALLELUJAH, say AMEN, to wit:
“I think as inflation comes down, prices stop rising, and the labor market remains strong, Americans will begin to see that we have made meaningful progress.”
“And importantly, the administration is making investments in America that will show up in improved conditions and more availability of good jobs in many parts of the country that have not seen a lot of progress.”
The secretary went on to state that the Biden administration has announced over $500 billion in manufacturing investing, some of which is starting to “come to fruition.”
She added that more voters will feel “more hopeful about our prospects” over time.
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Yeah, right, “TOODLES,” keep piling the Biden horse**** higher and deeper, and when the stinking pile is above the tops of our heads, which it will be soon, we will all see the light of day!
Going back to the article, we have:
The state of the economy, and voters’ view on it, could potentially be a bump in the road for Biden’s path to reelection in 2024 as some Democrats are questioning if the president has the ability to win the election next year.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod claimed over the weekend that Biden has “a 50-50 shot” at winning reelection, but his chances are “no better than that, maybe a little worse.”
Other Democrats have brushed off these concerns, including Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), who pointed to the election results from 2022 and 2023 as good news for Democrats next year.
Coons argued that the Democratic Party’s performance in recent elections, which have been better than anticipated, is “rooted” in Biden’s accomplishments as president.
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Which brings us to this classic quote from a State Of The Union article titled “Scrambling: Biden White House in ‘Full-Blown Crisis’” by Jordan Andrews on
28 November 2023, to wit:
A Biden voter in 2020, Spencer Weiss said, “The world is falling apart under Biden.”
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And people, that says it all!
Paul Plante says
FAILURE UPON FAILURE UPON FAILURE!
LIES UPON LIES UPON LIES!
BIDEN/HARRIS 2024!
And there is my campaign ad for Joe Biden, which is a lot more realistic and to the point than is Joe’s NEVER LEFT campaign video!
And that mention of lies takes us back to an article in The Messenger titled “Consumers Still Struggle With Higher Prices, Despite Progress on Taming Inflation, Treasury Secretary Says” by Al Lewis on 20 November 2023, where we had Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen (cue Fleetwood Mac, Little Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGD9dT12C0 ) on center stage attempting to mislead WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE as if we were really as stupid as the Biden administration and its corp0rate media enablers believe us to be, as follows:
Yellen noted that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, came in at 3.2% in October, down from its peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
“We’re making considerable progress in bringing inflation down,” she said.
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And that is so NOT TRUE, because Joe Biden is the cause of the inflation, and it is the federal reserve, not Joe Biden, that is trying to bring down the inflation caused by Joe Biden, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “Biden says he trusts Fed to take action on inflation if needed” by Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt on August 11, 2021, where we had as follows:
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his administration is working to relieve bottlenecks threatening the economic recovery and trusts the Federal Reserve to take any steps that may be needed to rein in prices.
“While today’s consumer price report points in that direction, we will keep a careful eye on inflation each month, and trust the Fed to take appropriate action if and when it’s needed.”
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly said the current burst in inflation is likely temporary.
Biden faces a choice in the next few months over whether to appoint Powell to another four-year term when his current term ends in February.
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And of course, as we today know quite well, Powell, who Joe did reappoint, because he is stupid and incompetent, qualities Joe requires of those who serve him so he looks “smart” by comparison, was dead wrong about inflation being “likely temporary.”
But the point is that Biden publicly acknowledged that it was the fed’s responsibility to fight inflation, not his, and the first person who should have known that was “TOODLES,” who Democrat William Jeffers announced on April 22, 1994 his intention to nominate “TOODLES” as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an office she held until February 1997.
So why then was she lying to us about the Biden regime “making considerable progress in bringing inflation down,” on 20 November 2023?
Clearly, as we see from the minutes of the July 3, 1996 federal reserve meeting, “TOODLES” was well aware of the role of the fed in combating inflation in the guise of “price stability,” something we clearly do not have today, to wit:
MS. YELLEN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I will try to be brief because, like President Broaddus, I would like to take a little extra time in our next go-around concerning price objectives for monetary policy.
Will aggregate demand really moderate in the second half of the year, and are we about to see an uptick in core inflation due to increasing wage pressures in already tight labor markets and the feedback of higher food prices into wage demands?
With respect to the slowdown in aggregate demand, I confess both ignorance and concern.
With respect to inflation, though, as a number of you have emphasized, the news has been favorable.
Core inflation in the CPI and PPI remains well contained and, as the Roberts memo and the Chairman highlighted, consumer inflation as measured by the chain-weighted PCE is running just over 2 percent.
I would emphasize that our most recent readings on long-term inflationary expectations also are quite positive, suggesting the absence of any deterioration there.
Food prices do seem poised to rise, with pass-through to wages and core inflation a possibility.
But eventually, even if it is beyond our forecast horizon, it seems to me that these weather-related price hikes will unwind, bringing core inflation back down, too.
In my opinion, temporary supply shocks should be essentially irrelevant to monetary policy.
Core inflation still exceeds the pace consistent with the apparent trend in unit labor costs, and profit margins have widened.
We may be living on borrowed time, and there may end up being a price to pay for having allowed the economy, to use Governor Lindsey’s phrase, “to push the envelope.”
In my estimation, though, with each passing quarter–and I now count seven–in which unemployment remains near 5-1/2 percent and core inflation declines or remains stable, the Committee’s degree of confidence that the natural rate has fallen should rise a little.
Mine certainly has.
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And the answer as to why she was lying to us on 20 November 2023 is because she works for Joe Biden, period, who himself is a serial liar.
And then we had Joe in another Reuters article titled “Biden vows to give Fed Chair Powell ‘space’ to fight inflation” by Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw on May 31, 2022, to wit:
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to discuss historic inflation that’s draining American wallets, even as he assured the central bank chief he would have freedom from political interference.
“The president underscored to Chair Powell in the meeting what he has underscored consistently including today — that he respects the independence of the Federal Reserve,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said after the meeting, calling it “very constructive.”
The Fed hopes inflation will moderate on its own, as companies sort out supply chain issues complicated by the pandemic, for example, and consumers shift spending toward services.
But Powell has also made clear that the Fed is no longer counting on that, and will ratchet interest rates as high as needed.
He sees high inflation as the chief economic risk facing the country, and controlling it as the Fed’s top priority during his second term, even if the process proves painful to households and firms, and pushes the unemployment rate a bit higher.
For Biden and the Democratic party that could mean a difficult midterm election season, where they are trying to maintain control of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Biden in June plans a media blitz to make the case to Americans that the economy is strong.
U.S. consumer price growth slowed in April as gasoline prices eased off record highs, suggesting that inflation has probably peaked, though it is likely to stay hot for a while and keep the Federal Reserve’s foot on the brakes to cool demand.
Powell earlier this month said that despite some encouraging signs that price pressures may be peaking, the current environment is “not a time for tremendously nuanced readings of inflation,” and U.S. central bank officials will keep tightening policy until inflation comes down in “a convincing way.”
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Could “TOODLES” have been unaware on 20 November 2023 that that discussion between Biden and Powell happened on May 31, 2022?
Only if she is truly an ignorant fool, which is a distinct possibility, or a moronic idiot, another strong possibility!
So fast forward to today with regard to inflation and a CNBC article titled “Fed’s Barkin says rate hikes are still on the table if inflation doesn’t continue to ease” by Jeff Cox on November 29, 2023, where we have REALITY as it confronts us common Americans, especially us older Americans on fixed incomes who have been forced out of the BIDEN economy with its inflated prices that have turned ordinary consumer goods into luxury items, to wit:
Bostic said his staff expects the inflation rate to decline to 2.5% by the end of 2024 and then get back to the Fed’s 2% target by the end of 2025.
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Yes, people, you are reading that correctly if like me, you read that as inflation lasting for years to come, and let’s get over that horsecrap that inflation coming down means anything positive to us, because what it really means is that for at least the next year, if not more, PRICES WILL STILL BE GOING UP, which takes us to another Reuters article titled “Current policy rate lets Fed be ‘nimble’ with incoming data, Mester says” by Michael S. Derby on November 29, 2023, to wit:
It will likely take time to hit the Fed’s inflation target, Mester said, but in the meantime, “monetary policy is in a good place for policymakers to assess incoming information on the economy and financial conditions.”
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And let’s pause here for station identification so this all has a chance to sink in, but stay tuned, because the SILLY SEASON is just getting going and the TORRENT OF LIES from the Biden regime is just getting up a good head of steam as Biden tries to bulldoze us with a BARRAGE OF PURE BULL****!
Paul Plante says
As the late Lloyd Joseph Kellam, a native of Cape Charles, VA, who was the son of the late Lloyd Branson Joseph Kellam and the late Florence Manley Kellam, and who passed away on October 2, 2023, is doing elsewhere in here with respect to life in Cape Charles in years gone by, so too am I talking in here not only about the present, but what life was like here in America when I was young (I’m past the 3/4 century mark) as compared to now, and what comes to mind before I come back to America today under Joe Biden, who I believe has an administration even more corrupt than that of US Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877), I would like to go back to 1958, and an incident I remember well, that being the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL that forced Sherman Adams to resign under fire as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief White House aide, and the reason that SCANDAL, which today in Joe Biden’s America wouldn’t be a scandal, but bidness as usual, came to mind was a State Of The Union article titled “Biden Admin Caught Red-Handed Skipping Taxpayer Safeguard To Push Through Green Energy Project” by Jordan Andrews on 1 December 2023, where we have what I, an older America, consider corruption in the Biden adminstration, to wit:
The Biden administration granted a waiver to an energy firm developing an offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, exempting them from paying development fees intended to protect taxpayers.
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And let us call that out for what it is, people, dictatorial gall (bold and impudent behavior, as in Joe Biden had the gall to strip the taxpayers of America of the protection of law!”) on the part of this lawless autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, whose administration makes that of US Grant look clean by comparison, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
The decision has raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, as the former Deputy Interior Secretary had previously provided legal services to the energy firm.
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And that is a qualification to serve in this CORRUPT Biden regime – having an actual conflict of interest and being compromised, as a result, which takes us back to the story of Biden Regime CORRUPTION, to wit:
“At the same time the Department of the Interior was looking at forcing greater and more expensive bonding requirements on holders of long-standing oil and gas leases, they were relaxing these requirements on the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind energy producer, one that just coincidentally happened to be a client of their incoming #2,” PPT Director Michael Chamberlain said.
“If you want to talk about bad optics, I don’t see how they could be any worse than right here,” he added.
“For an administration touting itself as the most ethical in history, this represents yet another incident in which Secretary Haaland’s Interior appears to have a tough time living up to that standard.”
The waiver was approved despite the Trump administration’s prior rejection of the request.
The project, Vineyard Wind 1, has been fast-tracked, receiving federal approval and support from the Biden administration.
“Vineyard Wind 1 represents a historic milestone for advancing our nation’s clean energy production.”
“This project and others across the country will create robust and sustainable economies that lift up communities and support good-paying jobs, while also ensuring future generations have a livable planet,” Haaland said in 2021.
“The Interior Department is committed to responsibly accelerating our nation’s transition to a clean energy future, and doing so in coordination with our partners, stakeholders, Tribes and ocean users to avoid and reduce potential impacts as much as we can,” she added.
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Going back in time for context here, the Grant administration was routinely labeled one of the most corrupt in U.S. history, that being before being supplanted by the Biden administration, but despite the scandals that arose during his tenure, unlike Joe Biden today, Grant was never personally involved with any of them, and his honesty and personal integrity were never questioned, while today, Joe Biden’s honesty and personal integrity are most certainly questioned, and I would say that Joe Biden possesses neither.
Going back to US Grant, his inability to clean up his own administration was a blight on his presidential record, whereas today, as we see from this article above, Joe Biden makes no effort whatsoever to clean up his administration, because he doesn’t care to do so, after years in the US Senate where “palm greasing” has been raised to an art form.
Which brings us to 1958 and the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL from the UPI Archives for October 28, 1986, by Arnold Sawislak, UPI Senior Editor, as follows:
WASHINGTON — The Republicans regained the White House in 1952 with a general at the helm, and determined to fashion an image based on morality, honesty, thriftiness, and character.
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In our times, the DEMOCRATS regained (stole?) the White House in 2021 with a caitiff draft dodger at the helm, and they determined to fashion an image based on a lack morality, zero honesty, profligacy instead of thriftiness, and a lack of character from the chief executive on down.
Going back to that story, we have more as follows:
Sherman Adams filled the bill — and more.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was, of course, a war hero — the kind that inspires statues, but GOP campaigners also made much of the fact that he was unsullied by the ‘you-scratch-my-back-and-I’ll-scratch-yours’ political morality that embarrassed the Truman administration so often immediately after World War II.
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Today, Joe Biden has brought us back in time to the corrupt administration of Harry S. Truman, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Eisenhower brought Adams, the former governor of New Hampshire, to Washington, and the austere, almost grim Yankee symbolized a new no-nonsense atmosphere in the White House — where not long before, Truman’s cronies, including military aide Gen. Harry Vaughn, had dealt in influence-peddling and cheerfully trafficked in gifts of mink coats and food freezers.
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Being a DEMOCRAT, of course, Joe Biden not surprisingly is copying what went on during the Truman years, especially the influence-peddling, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
As White House chief of staff, Adams ran the show with the kind of military precision that a five-star general who commanded a gigantic war effort would expect from his chief aide.
He also was the very picture of the frugal public servant, eating ham and cheese sandwiches at his desk, rather than accepting pricey meals in what came to be known as the Washington ‘power lunch’ restaurants.
Adams appeared so powerful in setting the White House agenda and deflecting favor-seekers and other pests from the Oval Office that Democrats and some Republicans wondered aloud who really was in charge down there at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
He could have given Donald Regan lessons in unsympathetic listening and cold dismissal.
That ended with the arrival in Washington in 1958 of Bernard Goldfine, a New England businessman intent on getting some under-the-counter assistance with problems he was having with the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities & Exchange Commission.
To lubricate the process, Goldfine sent some of the people he thought could help him some nice presents, such as coats made of vicuna (most Americans never had heard of the valuable fabric woven from the fur of the rare South American beast) and oriental rugs.
Congress, which by that time had been recaptured by the Democrats, investigated the Goldfine affair with zest, and with the Washington press in full cry (one reporter was discovered trying to wiretap the Boston magnate’s hotel suite), it was soon disclosed that Sherman Adams, of all people, had accepted gifts from his old friend Bernie.
Adams indignantly denied wrongdoing, contending he had once given Goldfine a gold watch and the goodies he got from the Boston magnate were no more than reciprocal tokens of esteem.
A lot of people believed him, including the president, who told a news conference that gifts ‘are not necesarily a bribe’ and that he trusted and would keep Adams ‘because I need him.’
But under pressure from frightened GOP candidates in the 1958 elections, Ike finally let Adams resign with a letter glowing with high praise for his devotion to duty.
So Eisenhower said goodbye to Sherman Adams, his administration said goodbye to its aura of moral superiority and Washington marked up another victim of the axiom that ‘power corrupts.’
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And BIG SURPRISE, here we are today, with Washington and Joe Biden proving all over again that “power corrupts,” and in Jo0e Biden’s case, absolute power corrupts absolutely!
But stay tuned, more is yet to come!
Paul Plante says
Recapping here, we have been comparing the corruption of the Biden administration today with the corruption of the Grant administration (1869-1877), and making note of the fact that whereas in his time, which is long ago in American history now, when values were quite different than what they are today, the inability of US Grant to clean up his own administration was a blight on his presidential record, in our times today, the fact that Joe Biden makes no effort whatsoever to clean up his administration, because he doesn’t care to do so, after years in the US Senate where “palm greasing” has been raised to an art form, serves as no blight whatsoever on his presidential record, because people are so much more tolerant of corruption today than they were back in Grant’s time, or even 1958, when the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL forced Sherman Adams to have to resign as Eisenhauer’s chief of staff while tainting the Eisenhauer administration with the stench of corruption, and so, Joe gets to slide and the corruption and rot in his administration proceeds undiminished.
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we see by going to an article in the Brit publication The Daily Mail titled “Karine Jean-Pierre and top Biden spokesman inappropriately used their roles to influence elections with attacks on ‘MAGA’ Republicans, government watchdog rules” by Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter, on 2 December 2023, where we have this grossly insulting behavior from “BINDER” (KJP), Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER who wouldn’t know the truth if it reared up and bit her on her ass, and her lackey and Biden sycophant Andrew Bates, to wit:
White House spokespeople Karine Jean-Pierre and Andrew Bates violated the Hatch Act when they had been warned against using the word ‘MAGA’ to describe certain Republicans, a government watchdog agency said on Friday.
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Note the words “HAD BEEN WARNED,” which warning meant absolutely nothing to either of them because they know that under Joe Biden, the law is toothless, and thus, for willfully violating it in the name of DIVISIVE BIDEN PARTISAN POLITICS, they will suffer no consequences whatsoever, which takes us back to that insulting and unlawful behavior that is so characteristi9c of the corrupt Biden administration, to wit:
The independent Office of Special Counsel said the two took actions ‘contrary’ to official guidance on the law when they slammed ‘MAGA’ Republicans’ budget plan this year.
In their letter, first reported by NBC News, the office notes the violations came days after Jean-Pierre was warned she had violated the law intended to prevent federal employees from using their offices to influence elections.
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And “BINDER” simply blew off that warning because she knows it means nothing when she has the protection of the corrupt Joe Biden, which protection allows her to violate the law, OUR LAW that is supposed to protect us from unscrupulous political actors feeding off the taxpayers as is Karine Jean-Pierre, with impunity, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
This summer, the Office of Special Counsel notified government officials that ‘MAGA’ and similar terms were effectively off-limits for use as they were seen as campaign-related slogans.
The ruling came after OCS’s June finding that Jean-Pierre was in violation of the Hatch Act when she repeatedly referred to ‘MAGA Republicans’ in the run-up to the 2022 midterm election.
No action was taken against Jean-Pierre.
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Yes, people, NO ACTION was taken against “BINDER,” despite it being clear as day that she violated the law, which serves as proof of my assertion that this Biden administration is corrupt by intent, because Joe Biden believes that HE is the law, as if he were a reincarnation of Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, an absolute monarch who was not subject to any constitutional limitations, leading him to declare “l’etat, c’est moi” (“I am the state”).
Like Joe Biden today in our time, Louis ruled by divine right, receiving his authority directly from God, which is the same place Joe believes he gets his, and as the concept of divine right allowed Louis to quash emerging rebellions while establishing legitimacy, so too does the concept of divine right in our times today gives Joe Biden allow Joe Biden to quash what he believes are emerging rebellions (TRUE DEMOCRACY) against his rule, which takes us back to the story of KJP violating the law, to wit:
‘We take the law seriously and uphold the Hatch Act,’ a White House official told DailyMail.com.
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C’mon, man, that’s horsecrap and this white house “official” peddling that BULL**** to the Brits is nothing more than a lying, dog-faced pony soldier, as is KJP and Joe Biden, which again takes us back to the Brits for more, to wit:
Jean-Pierre, Bates and other officials repeatedly cite the Hatch Act in press briefings when declining to answer reporters’ questions about President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign or about Trump’s candidacy.
But Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, and Bates, who is deputy White House press secretary, have used the word ‘MAGA’ repeatedly when talking about ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’ and their agenda.
The complaint against the duo was filed by a conservative watchdog group called Protect the Public’s Trust, which is run by former Trump administration official Michael Chamberlain.
‘Apparently, nobody takes the Hatch Act very seriously, at least nobody that matters.’
‘Ms. Jean-Pierre cites it frequently to avoid tough questions, but when she and her deputy received the initial warning from OSC, they doubled down,’ Chamberlain told NBC News.
‘They probably guessed there would be no consequences, and the OSC appears to have proven them correct.’
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And my goodness, people, let’s get real here, as we’re all adults in here, not mindless children who don’t know better – of course the OSC proved them correct that KJP and Bates KNEW they wouldn’t be held to account by Joe Biden, and thus, there would be no consequences, because the law is a ******* JOKE, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Jean-Pierre, in particular, is a frequent invoker of the Hatch Act.
In December 2023, she used it to avoid answering questions about whether Biden would return campaign donations from disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
‘I am covered by the Hatch Act, which I’m happy to say over and over again, because we believe in the rule of law here,’ Jean-Pierre said in response.
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WHAT A JOKE, Karine, THAT ANY OF YOU IN THIS CORRUPT, INEPT, INCOMPETENT, BUMBLING, BUNGLING ADMINISTRATION BELIEVE IN RULE OF LAW!
All you believe in is RULE OF JOE, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
In April, she cited the Hatch Act when she declined to comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing that he is challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
And, in January, she cited the Hatch Act when refusing to answer if Biden would serve a full four-year second term.
‘So, let me just say this – I’m not going to comment on the 2024 — he is a candidate,’ Jean-Pierre said, adding she wanted to be careful.
‘And we do follow the Hatch Act, so I want to be really, really mindful here.’
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And that takes us to a Forbes article titled “White House Attacks On ‘MAGA’ Policies Violated Federal Law, Government Watchdog Says” by William Skipworth, Forbes Staff, on 2 December 2023, for this discussion on the Hatch Act, to wit:
The Hatch Act was passed in 1939 and meant to prevent candidates, particularly incumbent candidates, from using employees with federal salaries, as well as federal resources to further their own political ambitions.
In addition to limiting what federal employees can do, it also prevents elected officials from using government buildings for campaign events, it forbids anyone from bribing citizens for their vote and it outlaws federal funds from being used for campaign activities.
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Yes, people, the Hatch Act was passed in 1939 to PROTECT us from corrupt hack, greedy, grasping, professional politicians like Joe Biden, and in January of 2021, the Hatch Act was simply discarded by the Biden administration to protect corruption, instead of we, the American people, and such is like in America today in this time of Joe Biden, more corrupt than US Grant and the worst president this country has ever had the misfortune to be saddled with, and that is a fact!
Paul Plante says
So, yes, people – LIES and FAILURES!
And a HUGE national deficit that is BLEEDING our economy to pay the interest, some $2 BILLION per day that might as well have been consigned to a garbage incinerator because interest on the MASSIVE DEBT OUT-OF-CONTROL Joe Biden has wracked up to pay for his INSANE GREEN DREAM is UNPRODUCTIVE MONEY that buys WE, THE PEOPLE nothing at all, which is FISCAL IRRESPONIBILITY on the part of AUTOCRAT Joe Biden.
That is all we have to show so far from this sorry administration as to its so-called “accomplishments,” which takes us back to Biden lickspitttle Deb Haaland above here referring to Joe Biden’s WINDMILL FARMS, to wit:
“This project and others across the country will create robust and sustainable economies that lift up communities and support good-paying jobs, while also ensuring future generations have a livable planet,” Haaland said in 2021.
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Yes, people, that was in 2021, and it was nothing more than empty political BULL**** rhetoric then, just as it is today, and for proof of that assertion, let us simply go to a Bloomberg article titled “A $30 Billion Meltdown in Clean Energy Puts Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk” by David R Baker, Saijel Kishan and Jennifer A Dlouhy on 30 November 2023, where we have this analysis of the MASSIVE FISCAL FIASCO unleashed upon us by the Biden regime to our nation’s detriment as a result of Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, to wit:
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — No one expected the transition from fossil fuels to be easy.
But a year after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law promised billions of dollars for America’s switch to clean energy, some of the nation’s most ambitious renewable power projects have been shelved, electric car sales are missing targets and investors are fleeing the sector in droves.
The result is a $30 billion collapse in US clean energy stocks in the last six months — a market many investors expected to flourish in the aftermath of the law’s passage.
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Which conclusively proves two things beyond a shadow of a doubt. to wit: in Joe Biden’s version of America, there are indeed suckers being born every minute all over America and in Joe Biden’s America, fools are very easily parted from their money by Joe Biden’s empty promises to them of easy money to come if only they would get in on the ground floor, which takes us back to Bloomberg, to wit:
Few industries have been unscathed by soaring interest rates, but perhaps none has been harder hit than renewable energy.
For a sector that builds big, expensive facilities such as solar plants and wind farms, high rates cut profit margins enough to sink projects and bankrupt companies.
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And who is ultimately responsible for those high interest rates killing these projects?
And what am I saying, people?
That’s a no-brainer!
Of course it is Joe Biden and BIDEN-FLATION as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe’s ill-thought-out and frankly stupid MARXIST economic programs, which takes us back to Bloomberg for more of this BIDEN FISCAL FIASCO, to wit:
The giddy enthusiasm that followed the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage evaporated, wiping out a quarter of the market value of US companies in the S&P Global Clean Energy Index in the six months ended Nov. 27.
It’s a meltdown that underscores the obstacles standing in the way of Biden’s ambitious climate goals.
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And these BLIND PROFLIGATE FOOLS spending our tax dollars indiscriminately like drunken sailors in a whore-house town never saw any of this coming, because they are stupid and fiscally irresponsible with our tax dollars, which is a clear sign as to how inept and incompetent they are with our tax dollars, which again takes us back to Bloomberg, to wit:
Along with sky-high financing costs, clean energy companies face the problems of winning over potential neighbors for their projects, securing government permits and plugging into a creaky power grid unable to handle all the renewable power that’s planned.
The warnings are clear: America’s road to achieving a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035 is getting rockier by the day.
“We’re in the moment of realization now where some of the euphoria has worn off and we’re starting to realize it’s still not going to be easy,” says Eric Scheriff, senior managing director at Capstone, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm.
The specter of bankruptcies now haunts the sector.
Electric bus maker Proterra Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection earlier this year, with solar financing firm Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. following soon after.
Deals are falling apart: Private equity-backed Ares Acquisition Corp. abandoned its planned merger with nuclear power technology company X-Energy Reactor Co. in October.
And projects have been canceled: Utility owner Avangrid Inc. shelved wind projects in Connecticut and Massachusetts this year, while NuScale Power Corp. abruptly terminated its plans for the first small modular reactor in the US — a technology seen as key to the sector’s potential revival.
For anyone who remembers the last cleantech bust more than a decade ago, it’s easy to fear a repeat.
“In the final analysis, green investing has to be based on economic realities,” says Jerome Dodson, the now-retired founder of Parnassus Investments, one of the world’s largest sustainable investment firms, with $42 billion in assets.
He sold his stake in the business in 2021 — at the “top of the market,” as he puts it — and predicts that wind and solar stocks could fall an additional 15% to 20% in the next six to eight months.
It was only two years ago that Wall Street investors and bankers headed to Scotland for a global climate meeting, waxing lyrical about net-zero emissions goals and the profits to be made from the shift to cleaner energy.
That’s a stark contrast to the current mood as the world convenes again for climate talks at the COP28 summit this week in Dubai.
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And with that in the record to digest, let us take a pause for station identification and twenty-two hours of very interesting and informative infomercials telling you pretty much everything there is to know about what the Biden regime wants you to know about, and then we will be back with more.
Paul Plante says
So, once again recapping here, people, this thread, as it turns out, is a combination of “we told you so,” in reference to the Cape Charles Mirror’s coverage over the last several years of this ON-GOING FIASCO known as the Joe Biden administration with all its LIES, FALSEHOODS, MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION, as well as DEJA VU all over again with respect to Joe’s FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT and just plain DAMN BAD JUDGMENT and STUPIDITY coupled with EXTREME ARROGANCE and CORRUPTION when it comes to “investing” taxpayer dollars, OUR DOLLARS, in his INSANE GREEN DREAM, which takes us back in time to when Joe was Hussein Obama’s assistant president and a YouTube video titled “Biden on Fisker – Money Will Return to Taxpayers in Billions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_6TYULxMg which was one of Joe’s famous FISCAL FIASCOS that ended up hosing WE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, who are here merely for Joe and his political cronies to feed off of, in which video we have Joe himself in his own words feeding us a raft of PURE BULL**** about how his investment of taxpayer dollars in Fisker was going to return a profit of BILLION$ to us taxpayers while creating scads of high-paying jobs, which claims Joe is again making today, even as his INSANE GREEN DREAM is once again failing before our eyes due to STUPIDITY on the part of Joe and all the fools ignorant enough to invest in Joe’s pipe dream, to wit:
“This is seed money which will return back to the American consumer in BILLION$ and BILLION$ and BILLION$ of dollars in good new jobs.”
“The president (Hussein Obama) and I (goofball Biden) have never doubted that we could write a new chapter in the automotive history of this country.”
“Because we knew for real we not only had the best workers, we had the best innovators, the best designers and that’s what this is about today.”
“It’s about … it’s about what we’re about, this administration, rewriting a new chapter for our economy.”
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Now, since that is a videotape of Joe himself saying those words, there is no way that Joe can claim misinformation or disinformation on either my part, or by the Cape Charles Mirror, and that in turn takes us back in time to an investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we have some necessary background history concerning Joe Biden’s fiscal irresponsibility with OUR tax dollars, to wit:
In 2009, the Obama-Biden administration agreed to pump $500 million of taxpayer stimulus cash into a foreign automotive company, Fisker, to make cars in the vice president’s home state of Delaware.
When their green-energy boondoggle went belly up, zero cars had been manufactured in the United States — despite the hefty cost footed by America.
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That was then, and now that Joe is back in power again, the same thing is happening now, all over again, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
The intricacies of the deal are tangled.
Bankruptcy documents related to the Fisker failure curiously listed Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, as a creditor to the automaker.
Fisker was later purchased at auction by Wanxiang, a Chinese conglomerate, after being “enticed” by Fisker creditors.
Wanxiang also has ties to Hunter Biden: The foreign company had invested $1.25 billion into a different company that was a client of Seneca Advisors, Hunter’s consulting firm.
Fisker was awarded $528 million in federal loans to build luxurious looking, environmentally friendly automobiles in America — despite having never sold a car.
The grant was given by the Department of Energy and celebrated by Secretary Steven Chu who declared that thousands of jobs would be created.
It has been written that Fisker’s overall marketing strategy “call[ed] out to an untapped market: moneyed Hollywood vegans, of which there plenty.”
Fiscal watchdogs were alarmed by the Obama-Biden administration’s expenditure.
One warned at the time: “This is not for average Americans.”
“This is for people to put something in their driveway that is a conversation piece.”
“It’s status symbol thing.”
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And think on those words, people, as we consider the “INSANE GREEN DREAM” PIE-IN-THE-SKY blather of Joe Biden today with respect to what his “CHIPS ACT” and his misnamed “INFLATION REDUCTION ACT” are supposed to accomplish today, and notice the name Hunter Biden as a player in that Fisker story, which is about recklessness with taxpayer dollars by Joe Biden, plain and simple, and now he is back in power to do it all over again, which takes us back to Fisker and Hunter and Joe, to wit:
The Fisker strategy also relied on large-scale government investment, which was made easier by having strong political connections.
Fisker was backed by former Vice President Al Gore and venture capitalist John Doerr, a “big-ticket” Obama donor and now a major contributor to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.
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And how about that, now will you, people – look where Joe is getting his money from!
Getting back to that story, it goes on as follows, and provides us with a template and game plan for what Joe intends to do with our taxpayer dollars today, to wit:
In February 2009, Doerr had been appointed by the Obama-Biden administration to sit on an economic recovery board.
His firm, Kleiner Perkins, managed a $100 million tech fund.
CNET reported of his appointment: “Not-so-coincidentally, Doerr has lobbied for laws at the state level – and, more recently, as part of the ‘stimulus’ proposal – that would benefit his portfolio by moving toward smart grid, solar, and other technology.”
Fisker had private clout, and soon would secure taxpayer cash.
A Biden staffer told the Wall Street Journal that he made “no direct appeals” to the agency prior to the loan’s approval.
That claim from December 2009 seems suspect based on the paper’s chronicling of events.
Delaware’s Chief of Economic Development dubbed Biden a “secret weapon” in securing federal support.
Before ruling on the loan, Department of Energy leadership was “peppered” by elected officials in the state and had “repeated discussions with Vice President Biden and his staff.”
When Secretary Chu ran into Biden at an event, he reportedly told him, “I know, I know – Fisker.”
The loan was approved five days after that conversation.
Fisker chose a shuttered factory in Delaware located 3,000 miles away from the company’s headquarters.
High Gear Media notes other disadvantages besides geography: “(It) needed expensive retooling, was far too large for the task at hand, and was ostensibly more expensive to retrofit than some other ‘old GM’ properties, such as Doraville.”
However, the selected destination had some political advantages: It was just a few miles from Biden’s house and “across the tracks from Biden Park.”
The vice president was so excited that he “inadvertently divulged” Fisker’s product plan during a speech to union members.
A press release heralded a “new chapter” for the American auto industry which he believed would help our country “reclaim its top position in the global market.”
Given that the taxpayers were funding this venture backed by his political allies, Biden sought to assure the nation that his investment was wise: “This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars in good, new jobs.”
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And let’s leave off there for a moment as we pause for station identification so you can get to the fridge for some necessary munchies, and when we return, it will be to hear the following from the authors of that investigative report, so stay tuned:
“But not everything went according to Biden’s ‘roadmap.’”
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And of course it didn’t, because Joe’s roadmap led straight to a large cliff above a huge swamp, and here we are, right there all over again, with far more taxpayer dollars in jeopardy.
Paul Plante says
In a post above here, I wrote that I can remember a time in America when we never heard this endless, disgusting and frankly sickening BIDEN BOBANCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, boasting; a boast; vain display, worldly vanity) we are being constantly barraged with today from any American president before Joe Biden came down the pike, to our detriment and that of our REPUBLIC, as well, and when I refer to BOBANCE, I can think of no better example than the YouTube video titled “Biden on Fisker – Money Will Return to Taxpayers in Billions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_6TYULxMg where we had Joe himself in his own words feeding us a raft of PURE BULL**** about how his investment of taxpayer dollars in Fisker was going to return a profit of BILLION$ to us taxpayers while creating scads of high-paying jobs, which claims Joe is again making today, even as his INSANE GREEN DREAM is once again failing before our eyes due to STUPIDITY on the part of Joe and all the fools ignorant enough to invest in Joe’s pipe dream.
As I watch that video and listen to Joe going on and on about how Joe and Hussein Obama never doubted that they could write a new chapter in the automotive history of this country, and how it was about … it’s about what Joe and Hussein were about, their administration, rewriting a new chapter for our economy, I can’t help but think what a great salesman Joe would be on late-night Infomercials peddling SHAM-WOWS, or THIGH MASTERS, or some such as is the subject of late-night infomercials.
And I also believe that to understand the present, it is necessary to have some knowledge of what has come before, and there, that video of Joe in his own words is worth a thousand words of mine in here, where in our time today, as we shall soon see, Joe still believes that HORSE**** he was peddling to the people of America back then about he was going to write a new chapter in the automotive history of this country, which he certainly is doing today, to the detriment of the automotive industry, because Joe totally ***** up anything and everything he puts his hands on, and how Joe was “rewriting a new chapter for our economy,” which thoughts take us to an article in The Hill titled “As demand for EVs plummets, Biden’s green fantasy is pummeling US auto dealers” by Mandy Gunasekara, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on 4 December 2023, where we see in real time exactly what Joe is really doing to our natio9n and our economy with his “writing of a new chapter for our economy” with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
From inflation to gas-stove bans, it’s clear President Biden and his top officials are living in an alternate reality.
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And yes, people, he and they most certainly are – and its called LA-LA- LAND, which takes us back to Joe writing a new chapter in the automotive history of this country, to wit:
Perhaps no issue proves this point more than their unrealistic mandate for electric-vehicles, a multibillion-dollar effort to force Americans into cars they simply don’t want and can’t afford.
In a recent speech President Biden bragged that billions of taxpayer dollars were being spent to convert auto-manufacturing factories to produce electric vehicles and “build a network of 500,000 electric-vehicle charging stations all across America.”
These actions, he claimed, will help “working families” and “create good-paying union jobs.”
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And as you watch that video, you readily see that Joe is spinning the same CRAP today as he was spouting back then, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
But facts are stubborn things, and now more than 3,000 auto dealers are finally speaking up.
Although not widely covered, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Volkswagen, and others have collectively laid off thousands of workers this year, due in large part to cratering demand for electric vehicles.
Ford admitted this summer that its electric vehicle business will lose $4.5 billion this year.
So much for “creating” jobs.
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So much, indeed, and that takes us back to the story of FAILURE all over again due to a lack of sound judgment on the part of Joe Biden, to wit:
Low market demand for electric vehicles should not be surprising.
Technical experts have been sounding the alarm for years that actual adoption rates and fleet turnover — the rate at which old cars are replaced with newer cars — is significantly lower than the green agenda’s inflated political projections would have it.
The EPA’s 2018 Mid-term Evaluation of Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Years 2022-2025 found that assumptions surrounding electric vehicle adoption, in particular, were grossly overstated and “didn’t comport with reality.”
In 2016, electric vehicle sales accounted for just 2.44 percent.
Realistic projections from our nation’s top auto engineers were less than rosy.
As candidly laid out in the official notice, “customers are not buying electrified vehicles at a rate sufficient for compliance.”
Biden has tried to manipulate this reality in many ways.
Team Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats have shifted billions of taxpayer dollars toward a charging infrastructure that has failed to materialize, while also seeking to buy off the auto-manufactures.
Ford, for example, has received a $9.2 billion loan to build more batteries.
For context, a Wall Street Journal analysis revealed that this is “$3.3 billion larger than what the company borrowed during the Detroit meltdown of 2008-09.”
Ford is not alone; GM and LG have received $2.5 billion for similar commitments.
Perhaps this is why their layoffs and production cuts have gotten so little attention.
While the manufactures roll in the billions of taxpayer dollars aimed at sweetening the otherwise unrealistic transition, American auto-dealers, and by extension their customers, are left holding the proverbial bag.
Most Americans cannot afford or simply don’t want EVs.
Given the inflationary effects of Bidenomics, not even generous taxpayer subsidies can make the idea of buying a $56,000 electric car (on average) palatable for most consumers.
Despite these inconvenient facts, Team Biden is full steam ahead.
The EPA’s latest regulatory mandate would require 50 percent of new car sales to be totally electric by 2030.
Not only is this unrealistic, but any serious attempt to achieve it will waste money while severely damaging both the economy and the planet.
Auto-dealers with electric vehicles stacking up on their lots are pleading with the administration to at least pause the madness.
It’s past time Biden started to listen.
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But the sad reality, people, is that Joe Biden is so wrapped up in his perfection that he is totally incapable of listening, which was the case back when Joe was pumping Fisker, which takes us back to the investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we have some necessary background history concerning Joe Biden’s fiscal irresponsibility with OUR tax dollars, to wit:
When Biden predicted a “new chapter,” he wasn’t banking on his story taking a climactic turn at Chapter 11 — via a bankruptcy filing.
Two years after getting loan approval, Biden’s pet project was speeding towards disaster.
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And when we return from a pause from station identification and a slew of commercials on the best EV’s out there for you to buy, we will pick that story up again, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
SPIN, CRASH, BURN!
So goes BIDE-O-NOMICS, people, and who on earth should be surprised by that.
Consider the State Of The Union article titled “Biden Shifting Away From ‘Bidenomics’ Talk as Public Remains Skeptical on Economy” by Joseph Ellis on 3 December 2023, to wit:
The term “Bidenomics” has become less prominent in President Biden’s speeches, with his re-election campaign using it in subtler ways.
Mainstream media outlets have noticed this shift, with prominent Democrats and allies warning that the branding could backfire.
Polls show that a majority of U.S. voters do not like “Bidenomics.”
“Whatever stories Americans are told about the strength of the economy under President Joe Biden, they are not going to be persuaded to look past the issue of their own living standards,” wrote economist James Galbraith.
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Or the the Washington Examiner story “Not even Democrats are buying Bidenomics” by Zachary Faria on 5 December 2023, to wit:
President Joe Biden boldly tried to sell people on his economic plan as the core of his reelection campaign even though people hate the state of the economy under Biden.
As you might have expected, that has backfired to the point that Democrats, including Biden, are sprinting away from the term.
House Democrats have abandoned the term in favor of “People Over Politics,” a clear sign that “Bidenomics” isn’t selling well to voters.
That is not a surprise, given that Biden’s approval rating on the economy is sitting at 32% with 67% disapproving.
Among independents, Biden’s approval on the economy is at 25%.
The White House’s attempt to gaslight people into thinking they are doing better financially than they are and then tying it to a wildly unpopular president, surprisingly, is not very popular.
In fact, it is so unpopular that Biden himself hasn’t mentioned Bidenomics over the last four weeks after using the term 101 times in June.
Biden no doubt bought into his own hype in the summer, but branding a failing economy with his name as people continued to struggle to keep up with inflation turned out to be a misstep that even he wants people to forget.
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Or the Washington Examiner story titled “‘Bidenomics’ goes bust: House Democrats have ditched Joe’s signature slogan” by Jack Birle on 5 December 2023, to wit:
House Democrats are not fans of “Bidenomics,” the term used to describe President Joe Biden’s economic policy, despite a major push by the White House this year.
Both behind the scenes and in public, congressional Democrats are looking to drop the term in favor of a different way of pitching the president’s economic agenda, according to Axios.
The campaign fundraising wings for House Democrats, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC, have largely avoided using the term in their messaging.
The DCCC has not used “Bidenomics” in its public releases, while the House Majority PAC has only used it once in the past several months.
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And then there is the Fox News story titled “Democrats drop ‘Bidenomics’ as some voters complain it’s ‘tone-deaf’: Report” by Jeffrey Clark on 5 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
Democratic Party leaders are refusing to use the term “Bidenomics” in speeches and online as the 2024 presidential election closes in, according to an Axios article from Sunday.
“House Democrats have rejected the White House’s months-long campaign to sell the term ‘Bidenomics,'” the outlet reported, with many in House Democratic leadership stopping use of the term months ago.
“Bidenomics,” a term that President Biden has repeatedly used to tout his economic achievements during his presidency, has become unpopular within a Democratic Party struggling to convince voters that life is better under Biden.
Axios reported that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC “are also avoiding” using the term Bidenomics “on social media and press releases, as polling indicates the tagline is ineffective.”
Voters, not just Democratic Party leadership, also feel negatively about Bidenomics, with Democratic sources telling Axios that the term was “seen as tone-deaf to voters still struggling economically and also invoked a president with lackluster polling numbers.”
A Fox News poll from mid-November found 78% of voters rate the economy negatively, and the majority feel the worst isn’t over.
Inflation was the top concern with the majority of those surveyed, and only 29% of voters approved of Biden’s handling of the issue, while 69% said they disapproved.
A number of historians and liberal columnists have advised Biden to stop using “Bidenomics,” with liberal presidential historian Douglas Brinkley telling NBC News the messaging “fell flat” with the public.
“It’s a little bit like Gerald Ford’s ‘Whip Inflation Now’ buttons.”
“Nobody wants to be waving banners that say, ‘I love Bidenomics,’” Brinkley said.
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And hey, people, JOBS, JOBS, JOBS – GAZILLIONS of HIGH-PAYING jobs in America thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, as we clearly see in this CNBC story titled “Job openings slide to 8.7 million in October, well below estimate, to lowest level since March 2021” by Jeff Cox on December 5, 2023, to wit:
Job openings tumbled in October to their lowest in 2½ years, a sign the historically tight labor market could be loosening.
Employment openings totaled a seasonally adjusted 8.73 million for the month, a decline of 617,000, or 6.6%, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
The number was well below the 9.4 million estimate from Dow Jones and the lowest since March 2021.
The quits rate had peaked around 3% of total employment in late 2021 into early 2022, during what briefly was known as the Great Resignation as workers left their old jobs in search of positions that paid more and offered better working conditions; it since has declined to 2.3%.
Declines in job openings were widespread by industry.
The biggest sector decline was education and health services (-238,000), followed by financial activities (-217,000), leisure and hospitality (-136,000), and retail (-102,000).
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Or the Reuters story titled “US private payrolls miss expectations in November” on December 6, 2023, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – U.S. private payrolls increased less than expected in November as the labor market gradually cools.
Private payrolls rose by 103,000 jobs last month, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Wednesday.
Data for October was revised lower to show 106,000 jobs added instead of 113,000 as previously reported.
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And to put some icing on the cake, we had a Reuters story titled “US manufacturing mired in weakness, economy heading for slowdown” by Lucia Mutikani on December 1, 2023, where we had this news about what a “success story” BIDE-O-NOMICS really is, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing remained subdued in November, with factory employment declining further as hiring slowed and layoffs increased, more evidence that the economy was losing momentum after robust growth last quarter.
Economic activity is cooling as higher interest rates crimp demand.
The ISM said that its manufacturing PMI was unchanged at 46.7 last month.
It was the 13th consecutive month that the PMI stayed below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing.
That is the longest such stretch since the period from August 2000 to January 2002.
A rebound anytime soon is unlikely as manufacturers in the ISM survey mostly described inventories as bloated.
The 14 industries reporting contraction included paper products, electrical equipment, appliances and components, computer and electronic products, machinery and miscellaneous manufacturing.
Comments from manufacturers were mostly downbeat and cited the need to reduce inventory levels.
Makers of computer and electronic products said the “economy appears to be slowing dramatically.”
Miscellaneous manufacturing firms said “customer orders have pushed into the first quarter of 2024, resulting in inflated end-of-year inventory.”
Producers of food, beverage and tobacco reported that “our executives have requested that we bring down inventory levels considerably, and it has started causing customer shortages.”
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And why, people, are interest rates higher?
BECAUSE OF BIDE-O-NOMICS AND JOE BIDEN’S INSNAE GREEN DREAM IS WHY!
And that takes us back to the which takes us back to the investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we had more of Joe Biden’s “fiscal acumen” on display, to wit:
So much for Biden’s pledge that the taxpayer seed money would give America “billions and billions and billions of dollars in good, new jobs.”
By November 2013 Fisker had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The move was described by The Verge to be “all but inevitable since its Karma electric sports car failed both in tests and on the market.”
Biden’s gambit had gone bust, with taxpayers losing $139,000,000 of the $192,000,000 granted.
Creditors owed money by Fisker quickly lined up.
Documents show they include notable names such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, BMW, Andre Agassi, and Robert “Hunter” Biden – the vice president’s son.
In 2014 Fisker was sold to a Chinese conglomerate, Wanxiang, after the automaker’s creditors “enticed” the corporation to make an offer that “sparked competition.”
The auction “drove up Fisker’s price by about $90 million, compared to the offers that started off the bidding.”
Hunter Biden, who was listed as a Fisker creditor, has connections to Wanxiang.
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And when we return from a pause from station identification and a slew of Biden campaign political commercials telling us just how good off we are today thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, we will pick that Fisker story up again, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
And here we come to an existential question of exactly what is the purpose of the elderly like myself in modern society, or rephrased, what duty do the elderly like myself have to modern society, especially when modern society relegates the elderly like myself to the trashbin of society, expecting and in some cases demanding that we crawl off to someplace where the elderly crawl off to, to die, like Florida, leaving our property for the young folks to take over, since they are more deserving of it than we are.
And that brings me to the subject of “institutional memory,” which is a role I try to play in here, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, and “institutional memory” as I use the term means information held in one’s personal recollections and experiences that provides an understanding of the history and culture of an organization, especially the stories that explain the reasons behind certain decisions or procedures.
And that raises the question of is HISTORY relevant to the present, or like was said by some dimwit pedagogue politically connected to a previous presidential administration that they didn’t need to know history, because they were writing the history everybody else would need to know, and thus we had war in Iraq which hasn’t ended and is still going on to this day.
And here I am thinking specifically of the Hatch Act, which was passed in 1939, a real long time ago, now, and was meant to prevent incumbent candidates like Joe Biden from using employees with federal salaries, which as we shall see includes presidential CABINET members, like Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, as well as federal resources, to further their own political ambitions, and specifically, it forbids anyone from bribing citizens for their vote, like with using federal funds to bribe young people for their votes by canceling their student loans for them, which takes us to a CNBC article titled “Biden administration to forgive $4.8 billion in student loan debt for 80,300 borrowers” by Annie Nova on 7 December 2023, as follows:
The Biden administration has now cancelled nearly $132 billion in student debt for more than 3.6 million Americans.
Forgiveness may set Biden apart in election
The actions are likely to help President Joe Biden as he runs for reelection, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
“Biden has forgiven more student loan debt than any previous president,” Kantrowitz said.
“It distinguishes him from other candidates.”
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Yes, people, indeed it does distinguish Joe Biden, a career politician who has been feeding off the taxpayers all his adult life like a boll weevil in a cotton patch or a rat in a farmer’s corncrib while using GOVERNMENT RESOURCES, our tax dollars, to further his political ambitions and to enrichen himself and his family at our expense, because as Hussein Obama would say, it’s the right thing to do,” and that thought takes us back to the investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we have American history as it happened, to our detriment, and son Hunter’s benefit, thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
By 2012, ABC News reported Fisker “continues to signal it could ditch plans to build its next generation hybrid electric vehicle in the United States, despite the nearly $200 million in Obama administration loan money it has already received.”
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Like the money Joe Biden is using today to bribe young voters by forgiving their student debt to further his political ambitions, that nearly $200 million in “Obama administration loan money” given to Fisker was OUR tax dollars, and let us not forget that fact as we go back to that article, to wit:
As “hardball negotiating tactics” ensued The Philadelphia Inquirer ran with this headline: “Biden-backed Fisker Delaware auto plant, 2500 jobs, in doubt.”
In March 2013, Fisker announced that it would lay off most of its workforce.
The Los Angeles Times said that the company had been “stymied by unsuccessful efforts to craft a deal with Chinese investors” and the layoffs “likely signaled the death” of the company.
During a hearing in the U.S. Capitol that spring, Congressman Mark Meadows asked a Fisker representative: “How many of these vehicles were ever produced in the United States?”
As the automaker executive was speaking, Meadows interrupted him to seek clarity: “So, zero?”
The Fisker agent confirmed that zero was “correct” – despite having received nearly $200 million in taxpayer funding.
So much for Biden’s pledge that the taxpayer seed money would give America “billions and billions and billions of dollars in good, new jobs.”
By November 2013 Fisker had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The move was described by The Verge to be “all but inevitable since its Karma electric sports car failed both in tests and on the market.”
Biden’s gambit had gone bust, with taxpayers losing $139,000,000 of the $192,000,000 granted.
Creditors owed money by Fisker quickly lined up.
Documents show they include notable names such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, BMW, Andre Agassi, and Robert “Hunter” Biden – the vice president’s son.
In 2014 Fisker was sold to a Chinese conglomerate, Wanxiang, after the automaker’s creditors “enticed” the corporation to make an offer that “sparked competition.”
The auction “drove up Fisker’s price by about $90 million, compared to the offers that started off the bidding.”
Hunter Biden, who was listed as a Fisker creditor, has connections to Wanxiang.
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And here we come to the important part of this timeline which continues right on up to our times today, as the Hunter Biden saga continues, to wit:
After Senator Obama selected his father as a running mate Hunter set up a consulting firm called Seneca Global Advisors.
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Make note of that, anyone out there trying to connect the dots in the Joe Biden/Hunter Biden enrichment scheme using Joe’s political positions to make money for CLAN BIDEN.
Going back to the story, it continues, as follows:
One of Seneca’s clients was GreatPoint Energy.
In an article focusing on Hunter’s “web of interests”, The Financial Times reported that GreatPoint Energy received a $1.25 billion investment from Wanxiang.
They note, “it was the largest venture capital investment into the US that year.”
“It is unclear if Hunter Biden was directly involved in securing this investment.”
The Nation wrote that when Biden investments have “turned sour, Chinese investors have been ready to help.”
The magazine also observed that Joe’s political friends tend to do well at the “expense of the middle class.”
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What a great line, and people, that remains true to this day, as Joe Biden’s campaign team tries to tell us how much good Joe is doing for the “middle class” today, which takes us back for more, to wit:
GigaOM assessed that Hunter’s appearance in bankruptcy documents means that he was likely an “early investor or just a potential customer that is owed deposit money.”
If being owed cash for Fisker’s failure to deliver a pre-ordered car is the simple explanation, it’s curious that an “assistant at his Washington law firm said he was “declining to comment” when asked by the News Journal in 2013 about his role.
So, did the progeny of Vice President Biden have a financial interest in the acquisition of Fisker by Wanxiang?
The Biden campaign refused to answer our inquiry.
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And with that, here I will take a break, but stay tuned, because with Joe Biden, that is de rigueur (“a fashion or custom that is commonplace within a context”), because that is what government money is for – to enrich those who have control of it, since there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.
Paul Plante says
So, since the subject has been raised, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, is there a down-side to being an elderly American today in this present version of society, with a working memory, or “institutional memory?”
And that answer from my perspective of three-quarters of a century here in the now crumbling facade known as the “united (they are not) states of America” is yes, there is, because I can not only see, but document just how far down we have come as a nation and as a people in that time, so that today what passes for “government” at the national level is nothing more than a sick joke being played on us who can remember when it was different, and far better, which, of course, is a subjective opinion that many today would dispute, but so be it, that is their privilege, and it changes absolutely nothing I am writing about in here, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, and here, I am referring specifically to using federal funds to blatantly BRIBE voters, which is exactly what Joseph Robinette “FISKER JOE” Biden, Junior, an incumbent candidate for the office of chief executive of America, whose economic program for America is reminiscent of Mao Tse Tung’s GREAT LEAP FORWARD in Communist China, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961, or the “Potemkin Villages” of Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, intended to impress the Russian empress Catherine the Great, is doing with his infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
And there, with my reference to Chairman Mao and Potemkin, is where I find myself these days, living in a past that is now long gone and largely unremembered, which leaves me possessed of a cultural context that no longer exists along with a vocabulary of words that no longer have meaning, so that communication itself has become nigh on impossible.
Earlier today, in fact, I was in conversation with a couple of people of fifty years of age who are far from ignorant, and when I threw out the names of Potemkin and Mao, they had no idea as to what I was talking about, not because they are stupid, they are far from it, k but because it was stuff they never were taught about, and when they asked me how I know about this stuff, my answer was that there was a time in America when we as young citizens were supposed to be aware of these things, so that they would not happen here.
And talking about STUPIDITY at very high levels in American government today, take for instance a State Of The Union article titled “Top DOJ Official Admits To Jim Jordan That She’s Clueless: ‘I Don’t Know What We Say’” by Jordan Andrews on 8 December 2023, where we have the stupidity in high government officials deemed acceptable in this day and age of the MEDIOCRITY known as “FISKER JOE” Biden, to wit:
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan expressed astonishment at Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke’s lack of familiarity with a significant free-speech case before the U.S. Supreme Court, suggesting it reflects the Justice Department’s political motives.
The case, Missouri v. Biden, involves allegations of government censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Um, congressman, I’m not familiar with this litigation, but happy to bring your question back,” Clarke said to Republican Rep. Dan Bishop regarding Missouri vs. Biden.
Bishop then sought further confirmation that Clarke was indeed “not aware” of the case.
“Unfortunately, I’m not, Congressman,” she said.
Bishop questioned how it was even possible.
“If – if – if you could share more of the facts, that could be helpful, Congressman,” Clarke said shakly.
“Otherwise, you’re just — you just don’t know.”
“Is that correct?” Bishop asked.
“That’s correct.”
“Unfortunately, this does not appear to be a case that I’m familiar with,” the assistant attorney general said.
“I don’t know what we say,” Rep. Jordan later said.
“I would think every member and anyone watching is just astounded.”
Clarke’s admission of ignorance, when questioned by Rep. Dan Bishop, raises questions regarding her competence and truthfulness.
The situation has left many with uncertainty surrounding her credibility.
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And given she works for Joe Biden, she doesn’t have any credibility, because Jo9e himself doesn’t, so he does not demand it of his underlings, but so much for that, because what I want to do is to go back to the so-called Hatch Act, which today is a joke, and BRIBING the citizenry with federal funds to get elected, which takes us to a New York Post story titled “Biden heads to California for big Hollywood money haul, days after Department of Justice file charges against Hunter Biden” by Reuters on 8 December 2023, where we have “FISKER JOE” using federal funds to buy votes with, as follows:
President Joe Biden kicks off a three-day, star-studded fundraising trip in California on Friday that a top campaign official boasted will rake in a record amount of cash for the Democratic president’s 2024 re-election effort.
The California swing is part of a blitz of at least nine fundraisers Biden will hold before the end of the month.
The fundraisers in California and an earlier round in Boston are expected to raise at least $15 million, according to a source familiar with the events.
Biden will briefly stop in Las Vegas on Friday to announce $8.2 billion in funding for 10 new passenger rail projects, a senior administration official said.
The projects, funded by the $1 trillion infrastructure law, include $3 billion for the nation’s first high-speed rail line, which will run through California, according to a senior administration official.
Biden will also announce a $3 billion investment to help create another high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and South Carolina, along with money for projects in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C, the official said.
Biden has spent the last year crisscrossing the country announcing new funding tethered to his signature pieces of legislation, the infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
It is part of a bid to boost his poll ratings and convince voters he is the right person to lead the U.S. economy, but recent public opinion polls show the effort has had little success.
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As an older American who remembers when things were quite different, I personally find myself quite disgusted with this conduct by Biden, given this money comes from our of our pockets, not his, and more on failed high-speed train projects later, but right now, the subject is the Hatch Act and government corruption, which takes us to Wikipedia for essential background, to wit:
The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law.
The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico.
Background
Widespread allegations that local Democratic Party politicians used employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the congressional elections of 1938 provided the immediate impetus for the passage of the Hatch Act.
Criticism centered on swing states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
In Pennsylvania, Republicans and dissident Democrats publicized evidence that Democratic politicians were consulted on the appointment of WPA administrators and case workers and that they used WPA jobs to gain unfair political advantage.
In 1938, a series of newspaper articles exposed WPA patronage, and political contributions in return for employment, prompting an investigation by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, headed by Sen. Morris Sheppard, a Texas Democrat.
Despite that investigation’s inconclusive findings, many in both parties determined to take action against the growing power of the WPA and its chief administrator, Harry Hopkins, an intimate of President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Act was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch, a Democrat from New Mexico.
At the time, Roosevelt was struggling to purge the Democratic party of its more conservative members, who were increasingly aligned with the administration’s Republican opponents.
The president considered vetoing the legislation or allowing it to become law without his signature, but instead signed it on the last day he could do so.
Provisions
The 1939 Act forbids the intimidation or bribery of voters and restricts political campaign activities by federal employees.
It prohibits using any public funds designated for relief or public works for electoral purposes.
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Except as we are clearly seeing above here, the supposed law, which is gutless, DOES NOT prohibit “FISKER JOE” Biden from using public funds designated for public works for electoral purposes, because the law DOES NOT apply to Joe, who is exempt from its provisions, and thus, is free as a bird to spend our tax dollars as he pleases in order to buy himself the next presidential election.
It reminds me, quite frankly, of Marcus Didius Severus Julianus (born 133—died June 2, 193), a wealthy Roman senator who became emperor (March 28–June 1, 193) by being the highest bidder in an auction for the support of the Praetorian Guard.
A member of one of the most prominent families of Mediolanum (now Milan), Didius Severus Julianus had a long and distinguished public career.
After commanding the legion at Mogontiacum (now Mainz), about 167, he governed northeastern Gaul, Dalmatia, the lower Rhine, Bithynia, and Africa.
He was consul in 175.
During the political disturbances of Commodus’ reign he was banished to Mediolanum.
Commodus was murdered on the eve of Jan. 1, 193, however, and his successor, Pertinax, was assassinated by the imperial guard late in March.
Backed by a group of senators who had Milanese connections, Julianus competed with the late emperor’s father-in-law, Titus Flavius Sulpicianus, in offering the guards a substantial donative (accession bounty).
Julianus won the bidding and was escorted by the guards to the Senate, where he encountered angry demonstrators denouncing the auction and calling for the intervention of the army.
Shortly thereafter the Danube legions invaded Italy, killed Julianus, and proclaimed their principal commander, Lucius Septimius Severus, emperor.
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STUPID Joe Biden, to me, is playing with fire here, being so blatant and open about using federal funds to bribe voters and to buy votes.
Will he get burned, and our nation with him?
Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, let’s stop back at an article in The Hill titled “As demand for EVs plummets, Biden’s green fantasy is pummeling US auto dealers” by Mandy Gunasekara, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on 4 December 2023, for more relevant BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
The promised build-out of charging stations has been equally disastrous.
At Biden’s request, Congress set aside $7.5 billion in 2021 to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country.
A recent analysis found that, despite the influx of funding, the program has yet to install a single charger.
A $7.5 billion taxpayer “investment” with no return two years in is a tough economic pill to swallow.
Team Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats have shifted billions of taxpayer dollars toward a charging infrastructure that has failed to materialize, while also seeking to buy off the auto-manufactures.
Ford, for example, has received a $9.2 billion loan to build more batteries.
Ford is not alone; GM and LG have received $2.5 billion for similar commitments.
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FISKER all over again, people, except with a HUGE price tag this time?
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says
With respect to my comment above here about the now crumbling facade known as the “united (they are not) states of America” and how far down we have come as a nation and as a people in my lifetime, so that today what passes for “government” at the national level is nothing more than a sick joke being played on those us with working memories who can remember when it was different, and far better, I can do no better to document what I am referring to by pointing to that State Of The Union article above here titled “Top DOJ Official Admits To Jim Jordan That She’s Clueless: ‘I Don’t Know What We Say’” by Jordan Andrews on 8 December 2023, where we have the stupidity in high government officials deemed acceptable in this day and age of the MEDIOCRITY known as “FISKER JOE” Biden in the person of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who to become a lawyer supposedly first went to four years of college, and then three years of law school, and emerged from all of that supposed “education” as a ******* idiot totally unaware of current events in America, and one must wonder if she had her Binky (a trademarked brand name for pacifiers manufactured by the Binky Baby Products) in her mouthy when she was testifying as to how stupid she is before a panel of the House of Representatives recently.
It was in the second grade of elementary school back in the last century of the last millennium that it was impressed on me that as an American citizen (yes, people, in America, at least back then, children were considered young citizens and were taught they had duties to society, just as adults do, if society is not to break down, as it has since, despite that) I had a duty to know current events in the world around me, because American society had no need for a stupid and ignorant population as had been the case in Nazi Germany with the bovine-like GOOD GERMANS who allowed Hitler to have his way in that country until beaten by the Allies in the just-concluded WWII (does anyone today remember WWII), and so I was stunned, but not at all surprised, to see just how ignorant this Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke really is, and what a statement about American government today that really is.
But enough about that idiot, because my subject today is high-speed rail and Joe Biden’s announcement in Las Vegas on Friday to announce $8.2 billion in funding for 10 new passenger rail projects funded by the $1 trillion infrastructure law, which includes $3 billion for the nation’s first high-speed rail line, which will run through California, according to a senior administration official, with “FISKER JOE” Biden also announcing a $3 billion investment to help create another high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and South Carolina, along with money for projects in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C, the official said.
Now, pause here, people, to consider what are in actuality paltry (small or meager) amounts of money for what Joe is proposing, and that brings me back in time in New York state history, where we have been before on this subject of high-speed light rail, and an article in the Buffalo News titled “Lundine Unveils High-Speed Train Plan” on November 10, 1993 where we were informed that the plan, backed by Gov. Mario Cuomo, a notorious braggert and DEMOCRAT and his lackey, assistant governor Stanley Lundine, would see nearly $1 billion pumped into rail line improvements throughout the Empire Rail Corridor, which high-speed rail, as much a pipe-dream then as is Joe’s plan today, never came to fruition, as we shall see, just as Joe’s plan, like his EV charging stations which don’t exist, will never come to fruition, and that takes us back in time to an Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Cuomo proposes study of high-speed rail options” by Eric Anderson, updated December 26, 2019, where we had as follows, to wit:
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to bring together a blue-ribbon panel to “reexamine and rethink strategies to bring high-speed rail to New York,” according to the latest preview of his upcoming State of the State address.
Thursday’s announcement said the governor would “task a panel of engineers to reexamine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York.”
“High speed rail is transforming economies around the world,” Cuomo said in a statement.
“We’ve been told that bringing this technology to our state is too expensive, too difficult and would take too long — that’s not an acceptable attitude for New York.”
Passenger rail advocates welcomed the governor’s announcement.
“We certainly encourage the governor’s plans to increase high speed rail and allow more passengers to use rail to travel from one part of the state to the other,” said Gary Prophet, president of the Empire State Passengers Association.
The current “Empire Corridor” rail line connecting New York City, Albany and Buffalo has been criticized as sorely in need of infrastructure upgrades.
The Executive Chamber’s release notes that those lines average 51 miles per hour, “meaning it is often the slowest method available for New Yorkers.”
An effort to bring high-speed rail to the corridor, launched in 2009, has faced delays.
A final version of the environmental impact statement, which was to have been completed last April, now isn’t expected until next May.
Numerous high-speed rail proposals have run aground due primarily to cost and the presumptive years they would take to construct.
CSX, which owns the tracks west of Schenectady and operates dozens of freight trains daily, has balked at mixing passenger trains traveling more than 70 mph with freight trains that move at much lower speeds.
Amtrak has leased the tracks between Poughkeepsie and Schenectady from CSX, which uses other tracks on the west side of the Hudson River for its freight service.
That allows Amtrak trains to travel as fast as 110 mph on some sections of the leased tracks.
Cuomo’s proposed expert panel “will review these past studies, and strategies that countries all over the world have used to build thousands of miles of high-speed rail, to ask every question and find the best way to build high-speed rail in New York.”
Amtrak’s new generation of Acela high-speed trains is being built at a factory in Hornell, but those trains, traveling between Boston and Washington, will make just one New York stop, at Penn Station.
Using them upstate would require construction of overhead catenary lines to provide electric power.
Despite Cuomo’s passion for large infrastructure projects — which have included the construction of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and major improvements at LaGuardia Airport — a study of high-speed rail seems far more likely to find favor than an actual construction plan in the next legislative session, when the governor and lawmakers will confront an estimated $6 billion budget gap primarily resulting from state health care spending.
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That, of course, was Young Andy Cuomo’s proposal, Young Andy being the son of Mario, but Young Andy was forced out of office, because he couldn’t keep his groping hands and grasping fingers off the women around him, and so we never heard any more about any of that from him, which takes us to a City Magazine article from January 7, 2020, titled “New York’s high-speed rail fail” by David Andreatt, where we have some economic reality staring us in the face, except of course, the goofy “FISKER JOE” Biden, who is totally clueless here, being disconnected from the reality the rest of us reside in, to wit:
Just 70 percent of Empire Corridor trains are on time, according to Amtrak’s own report card.
That’s mostly because the trains run on tracks owned by the freight carrier CSX Corp., which prioritizes its own traffic over that of Amtrak.
So, naturally, a faster ride would be welcome.
But how many of those Empire Corridor travelers really need faster service?
Are they willing to pay for it?
Would the benefits outweigh the cost?
What is the cost?
That depends how fast we want the “high-speed” rail service to go.
The last study of the matter was a 2014 joint state and federal report that found increasing the average speed to 77 mph, while topping out at 125 mph, would cost $15 billion.
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Consider that sum, people, keeping in mind that we are talking before BIDENFLATION thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS jacked up the prices of everything – $15 BILLION for what in essence is a short distance compared to what Joe is proposing – $3 billion investment to help create another high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and South Carolina, which is roughly 2,166.9 miles, while the so-called Empire Corridor contains 463 miles of track from Niagara Falls to New York City.
Going back to reality, we have more, as follows:
Getting from Niagara Falls to New York City would take 6 hours on an express train and 8 hours, 40 minutes on a regional train.
Two slower “high-speed” alternatives that would average speeds of 61 and 63 mph, respectively, and reach top speeds of 90 and 110 mph, respectively, were projected to cost $5.6 and $6.3 billion.
The report rejected as too expensive the fastest high-speed rail options — those bullet trains that zip around Europe at 190 mph and the magnetic levitation, or “maglev,” trains in China and Japan that top out at 225 mph.
The report put their price tag at nearly $45 billion.
In 2009, a national infrastructure planning group identified Rochester and New York City as among the best city pairs for a high-speed rail route.
But the route was 50th out of 50 on the list. Buffalo and New York was 43rd.
The best pairing was, unsurprisingly, New York City and Washington.
Also near the top was Los Angeles and San Francisco, where work on a 438-mile high-speed rail line linking those cities by trains traveling 164 mph was modified last year after the completion date of 2020 was extended to 2033 and the estimated cost of $33 billion swelled to $77 billion.
The project is now reportedly confined to a truncated stretch of track in the Central Valley.
Before New York sinks billions of dollars it doesn’t have into a route of similar length, Cuomo’s panel of experts must consider whether there’s a market to support it.
Amtrak would not divulge the number of intercity passengers on the Empire Corridor.
A spokesperson would only say that 132,434 people either boarded or disembarked a train in Rochester last year.
That translates to 363 passengers entering or leaving the station each day.
Apparently not enough to support a coffee shop or a deli or a convenience store at about $300 a month.
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And let’s stop here to let this all sink in as we face yet another BIDEN FISCAL BOONDOGGLE of massive proportions!
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says
So, people, and we see this at all levels of government, including down here on the East Shore of Virginia, you’re a “public official” with scads of taxpayer funds to dispense (spend on enriching your political cronies, greasing palms and stuffing pockets to buy votes with), and you want the taxpayers to think you are really doing something for them, while in fact, you are doing something for your family (i.e. the Bidens) and friends and political cronies, which you don’t want the people to know about, even though they do, what is it that you do to mislead them and impress them?
And that answer stares us right in the face above here in the Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Cuomo proposes study of high-speed rail options” by Eric Anderson, updated December 26, 2019, where we had as follows, to wit:
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to bring together a blue-ribbon panel to “reexamine and rethink strategies to bring high-speed rail to New York,” according to the latest preview of his upcoming State of the State address.
Thursday’s announcement said the governor would “task a panel of engineers to reexamine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York.”
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That’s right, people, you call in a bunch of “experts,” like say, the Berkely Group in Northampton County, and you call them by the impressive-sounding title of “planning consultants,” because nobody really knows that a planning consultant is, and being afraid to demonstrate their ignorance, they won’t ask or even utter a peep about it, or to make it sound even more impressive, you do like DEMOCRAT Young Andy Cuomo did in New York and you call them a “BLUE RIBBON PANEL,” and it is MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
And later that day, people will have moved on to something new, and will have completely forgotten about it, so you and they, the beneficiaries of the politician’s largesse with our tax dollars are home free and rolling in taxpayer dough, with nobody the wiser, or if they are, there is nothing they can do about it, like Young Andy did in New York before he got turfed out of office for failing to keep his hands to himself and off the women’s bodies around him, as if he were a Sultan and they his harem!
In New York, Young Andy Cuomo told us that he would “task a panel of engineers to reexamine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York,” and people, that is the last we ever heard about it, which brings us forward in time to today and this money “FISKER JOE” Biden is doling out to build these high-speed rail lines which like his nationwide charging stations, will never get built and that money will disappear without a trace because there is absolutely no oversight whatsoever as to how the money from Joe’s infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act is being spent, and who it is being doled out to, which brings us to a Daily Mail article titled “Want to beat the stock market? Just copy Congress! Politicians’ trades perform twice as well as market average and Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio has grown by 50 PERCENT in 2023” by Lewis Pennock on 10 December 2023, where we have as follows, as we try to9 follow the money here, as Joe Biden uses our tax dollars to create winners and losers, to wit:
* A tool which mimics the trading activity of Congress members has gained 21 percent in the past year, performing twice as well as the stock market average
* A separate tracker which follows trades by Nancy Pelosi reveals her investments have increased by 50 percent in the past 12 months
* In some instances, members of congress have bought into companies just days before their prices have boomed, earning them tens of thousands of dollars
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But that is not insider trading, people, because they are politicians, just as Joe Biden using our tax dollars to buy votes is not in violation of any laws whatsoever.
And that brings us to a Washington Examiner story titled “Biden bungles major spending announcement for green plan” by Cami Mondeaux on 9 December 2023, where we have as follows:
President Joe Biden traveled to Las Vegas on Friday to unveil his administration’s latest investment in high-speed railways and train corridors, but the announcement was largely overshadowed by the president tripping over his words to articulate the exact cost.
During his speech, Biden hit out against his predecessor, former President Donald Trump for not doing enough while in office to address the country’s infrastructure needs.
The president especially criticized Trump for the former president’s plans for an “Infrastructure Week,” which meant to feature a series of infrastructure projects to rebuild the country’s highways and bridges — plans that were not completed.
“On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week America’s having an Infrastructure Decade,” Biden said, touting his own infrastructure investments — but stumbling over the specifics.
“Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!”
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Yes, people, Joe Biden really did say that and the Australians who are following every word the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD utters, while sounding like an idiot as he did in Las Vegas, are having a field day with it, as we see in this Sky News Australia clip with Rita’s Reality Check, to wit:
Joe Biden stumbles over train line cost in ‘worrying’ new gaffe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tDYVUlMBg
Going back to the Washington Examiner article, it continues as follows, to wit:
The speech comes as Biden was announcing his latest $8.2 billion project that would bolster railway construction and invest in building what would be the country’s first true high-speed rail line.
The project would focus on creating a high-speed system between California and Nevada as well as a rail line that would connect California’s Central Valley to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The project would also fund upgrades to frequently used rail corridors in Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, and Washington, D.C.
The projects will be funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a key part of Biden’s agenda that he signed into law in November 2021.
The investment is a foreshadowing of what Biden will focus much of his reelection campaign on next year, with his infrastructure investments likely becoming a focal point.
If Biden’s speech on Friday is any indication, it’s also likely the president will use his infrastructure accomplishments to criticize Trump on the trail next year, especially if the two face off in a rematch for the Oval Office.
“Trump just talks the talk.”
“We walk the walk,” Biden said, criticizing the former president for claiming the United States is becoming a “failed nation.”
“Frankly he doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
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When in fact it is “FISKER JOE” Biden who doesn’t know what he is talking about, which takes us back to the City Magazine article from January 7, 2020, titled “New York’s high-speed rail fail” by David Andreatt, where we have some economic reality to consider, with respect to the $8.2 billion Joe is proposing to spend, to wit:
Also near the top was Los Angeles and San Francisco, where work on a 438-mile high-speed rail line linking those cities by trains traveling 164 mph was modified last year after the completion date of 2020 was extended to 2033 and the estimated cost of $33 billion swelled to $77 billion.
The project is now reportedly confined to a truncated stretch of track in the Central Valley.
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So ask yourselves, people, what Joe is going to get for the paltry sum of $8.2 billion, when the cost of a 438-mile high-speed rail line in DEMOCRAT-controlled California which won’t be completed until 2033, if ever, has swelled from $33 billion to $77 billion, that before BIDENFLATION thanks to Joe’s BIDE-O-NOMICS, and then ask yourself this question: WHERE IS THAT $8.2 BILLION IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS REALLY GOING?
Whose pocket is Joe going to stuff?
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says
And we have some HUGE, breaking news today, people, from TEAM BIDEN, and its Infrastructure Decade, with “BOBANCE JOE” Biden touting his own infrastructure investments, as follows:
“Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!”
Yessirree, people, that is one huge chunk of coin old Joe is spending on all of his WOKE infrastructure projects, which takes us to a State Of The Union article titled “Biden Spending Billions On ‘Woke’ Priorities” by Claire O’Hare on 25 November 2023, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Senate Commerce Committee Republicans are concerned about the Biden administration’s allocation of taxpayer funds to what they term “woke initiatives” in infrastructure projects.
They argue that these initiatives prioritize “equity” and “climate change” over essential infrastructure development.
“Billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars meant for infrastructure projects are tied to woke initiatives that are more focused on dismantling America’s infrastructure in the name of ‘equity’ and ‘climate change’ than building roads, bridges, and highways to connect the country,” the memo reads.
“Congress must not allow the Department of Transportation to push the absurd concept of ‘racist roads’ to prevent Americans from getting much-needed improvements to their highways,” it added.
“The funding notices issued by DOT should focus on the law as written, not woke priorities.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s programs require grant recipients to address equity and climate concerns, which has raised objections from Republicans.
“Projects that have not sufficiently considered equity and barriers to opportunity in their planning, as determined by the Department, will be required to do so before receiving funds for construction,” the DOT’s NOFO states.
“Projects that have not sufficiently considered climate change and environmental justice in their planning, as determined by the Department, will be required to do so before receiving funds for construction.”
“Taken together, these additions, which severely deviate from the criteria in law, will favor states seeking to expand mass transit and bike paths over states wanting to build roads.”
“The added requirements on grant agreements, which are necessary for money to be paid after awards are announced, are particularly pernicious,” the memo adds.
“The DOT funding notice guarantees that applicants will not get construction funds unless they embrace the administration’s extreme views on climate and equity.”
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars,” Buttigieg argued.
“Transportation can connect us to jobs, services and loved ones, but we‘ve also seen countless cases around the country where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built.”
“But we can’t ignore the basic truth that some of the planners and politicians behind those projects built them directly through the heart of vibrant, populated, communities — sometimes in an effort to reinforce segregation,” he said.
“Sometimes because the people there had less power to resist.”
“And sometimes as part of a direct effort to replace or eliminate Black neighborhoods.”
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Yes, people, in America, we actually have racism physically built into some of our highways, apparently mixed into the concrete or blacktop along with the aggregate, or maybe it is the aggregate that is racist, along with the Portland cement, this according to Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, who as Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, is a premier expert bar none on racist highways and racist infrastructure.
But that is not the HUGE news I am talking about, people, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “First EV charging station funded by Biden’s infrastructure law goes online” by David Shepardson on December 11, 2023, where we have GREAT NEWS from TEAM BIDEN as follows:
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The first electric vehicle charging station funded by a $7.5 billion U.S. government program has begun operating in Ohio, the White House said Monday as the government ramps up charging to address a key concern of potential buyers.
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Yes, people, after spending years and BILLION$ on the effort, TEAM BIDEN has finally managed to build ONE charging station!
Sing hallelujah, say amen, will miracles never cease!
Getting back to that article, we have more as follows, to wit:
The White House goal is to grow the nationwide network of chargers to 500,000, including high-speed chargers – no more than 50 miles (80 km) apart – on the nation’s busiest highways and interstates.
The funding comes from the $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the first station opening is a major step to “create a convenient, affordable, and reliable electrified transportation system.”
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Ah, yes, people, good old Jennifer, and for anyone not familiar with her, Biden “energy secretary” Jennifer Granholm is a Canadian-American lawyer, educator, author, political commentator, and politician with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1987 who knows absolutely nothing whatsoever about energy or much else for that matter, except looking pretty for Joe, which he likes, who became Joe’s “energy secretary” because she was a proven party loyalist who was a member of the presidential transition team for Hussein Obama before he assumed office in 2009 and then she became host of “The War Room” with Jennifer Granholm, and in 2017, she was hired as a CNN political contributor, and more importantly, at least as far as Joe is concerned, because Joe made a campaign promise to select a team that “looks like America” and modernizes the predominantly male, white institution, she won the Miss San Carlos beauty pageant, and then as a young adult, she attempted to launch a Hollywood acting career but abandoned her efforts at age 21, and after that, in 1978, she appeared on The Dating Game, another top qualification to be a member of TEAM BIDEN (cue Bob Seger – Her Strut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51c0vuLEng ) and of great importance to Joe, and her main qualification to build this one charging station, she held jobs as a tour guide at Universal Studios and in customer service at the Los Angeles Times and was the first female tour guide at Marine World Africa USA in Redwood City, piloting boats with 25 tourists aboard.
BIDEN BOONDOGGLES, people, like we have never had before in the history of this country, which takes us back to the MAIN HUGE NEWS just out yesterday, in a Fox News article titled “Biden admin sends billions to California’s over-budget, behind-schedule ‘train to nowhere'” by Thomas Catenacci on 11 December 2023, where we learn as follows about Joe, who has scads of taxpayer funds to spend on enriching his political cronies, while greasing palms and stuffing pockets to buy votes with, to wit:
The Biden administration is sending California more than $3 billion in federal taxpayer funds for the state’s high-speed rail project which was first approved 15 years ago and has since faced unprecedented delays and been dramatically downsized.
The White House announced $3.07 billion in additional federal funding for the California Inaugural High-Speed Rail Service Project as part of a broader announcement Friday unveiling a total of $8.2 billion in new passenger rail corridors nationwide.
The project — which has ballooned $80 billion over budget since it was first approved by California voters in 2008 — has been championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“California is delivering on the first 220-mph, electric high-speed rail project in the nation,” Newsom said after the funding was announced.
“This show of support from the Biden-Harris Administration is a vote of confidence in today’s vision and comes at a critical turning point, providing the project new momentum.”
“California takes great pride in our ambitious status as the leading edge of high-speed rail in America.”
“With this new $3.07 billion in federal funding, we take an important leap closer to making high-speed rail a reality in California,” added Pelosi.
“An electrified high-speed rail network will dramatically improve the quality of life in the Central Valley and up and down California.”
In its announcement, the White House failed to disclose the project has been under development for more than a decade and has faced significant delays, instead boasting of its climate benefits.
An accompanying announcement from the Department of Transportation described it as a project to “help deliver high-speed rail service in California’s Central Valley.”
The Obama-Biden administration secured more than $2 billion to support the project’s development in 2010 using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the 2009 post-recession stimulus package.
The project was originally planned as a $33 billion project consisting of 1,955 miles of railway connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Since then, the cost has swelled to $113 billion and the project’s scope has been dramatically scaled down to a 171-mile railway connecting Bakersfield, Fresno and Merced that isn’t expected to be operational until 2030.
Overall, if the project is completed in 2030, it will have taken a decade longer than expected, while costing $80 billion more and being 91% smaller than originally planned.
Because of its repeated shortfalls, the project has been dubbed by critics as the “train to nowhere.”
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This is pure POLITICAL BULL****, people, as well as GROSS FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT unrivaled in this nation’s sorry history of political corruption at the highest levels of government, making past scandals look like nothing in comparison, which takes us back to that story as follows:
“This commuter train isn’t even ‘high speed,’ is at least 13 years behind schedule, and will now cost four times the original price tag promised to voters,” Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., who has opposed the project for years, told Fox News Digital.
“Far too much taxpayer dollars have been wasted on this boondoggle.”
“It’s in everyone’s best interest to cut the losses and rescind every cent dedicated to this foolish project.”
“Any fool can see this project isn’t going to be completed,” LaMalfa continued.
“The state is $68 billion in debt, hasn’t laid a single inch of track and is over $120 billion short.”
“Biden and Newsom sure know how to waste your money.”
And fellow California Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte also blasted the project, noting that even when it is operational, its ridership will fall short of covering the expected operating costs.
“I believe it is inappropriate for the federal government to subsidize the California High-Speed Rail Authority,” Obernolte told Fox News Digital.
“This rail system is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, and even if it is ever completed, its projected ridership won’t come close to covering its operating costs — meaning that taxpayers will be asked to continue subsidizing it forever.”
“This is not a wise or appropriate use of taxpayer money.”
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NOTHING Joe Biden is doing to date has been a wise or appropriate use of taxpayer money, but notwithstanding, Joe is doing it anyway, because in less than a year, he has another election to buy while he and the DEMOCRATS loot our treasury, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Shortly after taking office in 2019, Newsom acknowledged in his first State of the State address that he would scale the project down from its original ambitious plan, saying it would cost too much and take too long to stay the course.
He noted during his remarks that “there’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency.”
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HALLMARKS, people, of the DEMOCRATS and Joe Biden today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
“Let’s be real.”
“The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long.”
“There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during his first State of the State address in February 2019.
“Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to LA.”
“I wish there were.”
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As an engineer, and as an American citizen, I find this all incredible, and here we come to more BIDEN POLITICAL BULL****, which is all we have had from Joe Biden right from the get-go. to wit:
Months later, the Trump administration penned a scathing letter to California, informing the state that it was rescinding the multi-billion-dollar grant awarded for the project under the Obama administration.
Former Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Ronald Batory wrote that California “has no foreseeable plans, nor the capability, to pursue that statewide [High-Speed Rail] System as originally proposed.”
In June 2021, the Biden administration said it would reverse that decision and restore the funding.
“This investment has already created over 11,000 good-paying union jobs, and California high speed rail is going to save people time, make it easy to travel across the state for the first time in history, and reduce carbon emissions by as much as 2 million metric tons — comparable to taking 432,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year,” White House spokesperson Robyn Patterson told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Patterson characterized criticism aimed at the project as “hot air.”
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And here, before my blood pressure blows off the top of my head and makes a mess all over the computer keyboard, I am going to pause for station identification and a long series of political commercials touting ALL the benefits delivered to us by the Joe Biden administration to date, and then we will be back with more FAMOUS BIDEN BOONDOGGLES and just plain STUPIDITY!
Paul Plante says
UNREALITY, people, and Life in the Land of WTF!
It’s like we are living trapped in a spoof concocted by the writers of National Lampoon in conjunction with the writers of the Firesign Theater, and here I am referring to a bizarre State Of The Union article titled “Hunter Biden Accuses Republicans Of Attempting To Send Him Into Relapse” by Andrew Sanders on 14 December 2023, where we have Hunter, supposedly a high-dollar SUPER LAWYER, and supposedly a rational adult, acting like a idiotic crybaby and moron, which doesn’t preclude him from being a lawyer, just as it didn’t preclude his dullard father from being one, either, in what was either an obvious sympathy grab, or the ravings of somebody truly insane, to wit:
In a recent podcast interview, Hunter Biden expressed a belief that Republicans are attempting to provoke a substance abuse relapse to harm his father’s presidency.
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OH BOO HOO HOO HOO HOO!
The mean Republicans are going to force Joe Biden’s degenerate druggie son to go back on drugs?
This stuff is just incredible, people, but Hunter is on a roll here, so let’s go back for more, and one has to wonder if this was scripted by Hunter’s top criminal lawyer Abbe Lowell in partnership with DEMOCRAT IMPRESSARIO Lanny Davis, to wit:
He suggested that such actions were not about him but rather an attempt to destroy the presidency.
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Ah, yes, people, that’s what it has to be all about, which is why Hunter is going to have a relapse and become a druggie again, and maybe start spending real big bucks on SWEET COCAINE and HIGH-PRICED HOOKERS like he was doing on his own before the Republicans tried to destroy the presidency, but there is still more to come, so let’s get back to it as follows:
“I recognize that none of this is necessarily about me,” Hunter Biden said.
“They are trying to in their most illegitimate way, but rational way, they’re trying to destroy a presidency.”
“And so it’s not about me and their most base way, what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle and so therefore destroying the presidency in that way.”
“And so I realized that, that it’s not about me,” he added.
“And then the second thing that I realize is that these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives, that they’ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they’re going to inflict on the rest of the world.”
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And with that said, what more can be said other than time to take another station break so I can stop shedding tears I am laughing so hard here!
Paul Plante says
And here, not having posted since 14 December, 2023, I frankly find myself back at my original post where I stated that my response to Wayne Creed as to why I had not been posting was that there is so much bull**** being literally heaved at us from all directions at once by the Biden regime to cover over Joe’s cratering poll numbers, and the fact that Joe is actually trailing Trump in the polls, with Americans rating the economy under Trump as being far better than it is under Biden and his signature, eponymous Marxist economics scheme labeled “BIDE-O-NOMICS” ( see, CCM, August 13, 2023, “Op-Ed: On BIDE-O-NOMICS” http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/op-ed- … s/#respond ) that it had been impossible to sort it all out before the next barrage came raining down on our heads, so that I had been living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin, and right above here, I made the statement that it’s like we are living trapped in a spoof concocted by the writers of National Lampoon in conjunction with the writers of the Firesign Theater, which takes us to a Fox News story titled “New York Times issues correction after misquoting Hunter Biden’s comments about business dealings” by Nikolas Lanum on 16 December 2023, where we had as follows, to wit:
The New York Times has issued a correction after the paper misquoted Hunter Biden when he denied his father, Joe Biden, was financially involved in his business dealings.
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YAWN!
And this is all getting patently ABSURD, because by now, it is a matter of record that Hunter was giving Joe half of Hunter’s “salary,” which was derived from Hunter’s business dealings, so Joe was obviously financially involved.
That’s patently a NO-BRAINER!
Which takes us back for more, to wit:
Hunter made the statement during a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill, the same day he was scheduled to be deposed behind closed doors.
His comments were not accurately reported by the Gray Lady paper, which made note of the article change.
“An earlier version of this article misquoted Hunter Biden.”
“He said, ‘My father was not financially involved in my business,’ not, ‘My father was not involved in my business.’
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And this quibbling about two obviously untrue statements by the New York Times, which in that same story, was accused in an essay in The Economist by former Times opinion editor James Bennet of having “lost its way,” stating therein that “The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” adding that the Times is now becoming a publication in which the American progressive elite “talks to itself” about a United States that “does not really exist,” is really quite tiresome, and that that takes us to where I want to go in that story, which is as follows:
White House Spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations Ian Sams recently accused CNN anchor Phil Mattingly of pushing GOP talking points when he asked whether Hunter had intentionally used the “financially involved” language.
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Which raises the question of just who in the Hell is Ian Sams, besides an idiot, and why should we believe anything he says, despite his fancy title, which means exactly nothing, given the Biden white house, which is NOT Congress, has nothing whatsoever to do with either oversight or investigations, and given that he works for Joe Biden, a serial liar who himself has no credibility about anything anymore?
Going back to that story, we have more, as follows:
The line of questioning led to a tense exchange, with Sams disputing the premise of Mattingly’s conclusion.
“It’s one of Jim Jordan’s favorite little shiny objects, is to try to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what they’re focused on,” he said, referencing Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Favorite little shiny objects?
HUH?
What on earth kind of moronic statement is that?
And what about this bit of imbecility: is to try to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what they’re focused on?
“Is to try?”
What kind of sentence structure might that be?
And people, there is absolutely NOTHING semantic here, period.
Cut the cake any way you want, but Joe Biden was getting money from Hunter, end of story!
Ah, but we are supposed to believe this DRIVEL that Joe really didn’t know what his son Hunter was up to, which can only be true if Joe Biden is completely brain-dead, an explanation I would certainly accept as true, which again takes us back for more “semantics” and “favorite little shiny objects” from Joe Biden’s worthless and discredited white house, to wit:
Sams also suggested that Republicans have been using “semantic games” to distract from “the actual truth,” claiming the allegations against Biden have been “debunked.”
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No, Ian, the only one who has been debunked here is YOU, which again takes us back for this load of horsecrap from Joe Biden, to wit:
The White House and Biden have maintained that the president was “never in business” with his son.
Biden has also said he never spoke to his son about his business dealings, but evidence – like email records and testimony from Hunter Biden’s former business partners – presented by House Republicans in their investigations seem to contradict those statements.
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And that takes us back in time to a New York Post story titled “White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe” by Jon Levine on October 8, 2022, where we have more about Ian Sams, to wit:
The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
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Yes, we are, people – Joe Biden is stealing tax payer dollars from us to hire idiots like Ian Sams to insult us by telling us infantile, transparent lies, and this all reminds me of “TRICKY DICK” Nixxon telling us “I’M NOT A CROOK” as he tried to deny he had anything to do with the Watergate break-in, for which lies he was eventually facing impeachment, with his complicity in the cover-up being made public upon release of incriminating tapes, which eroded his political support so that his impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate became a certainty, so he resigned from office under Section 1 of the 25th Amendment on August 9, 1974.
Going back to the Post article we have this to consider as Joe steals money from us to try and protect himself and son Hunter, to wit:
Battening down the hatches should the GOP regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.
In May, the White House poached Richard A. Sauber, the top attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to serve as a “deputy counsel to the president” tasked with handling House oversight probes.
Ian Sams, a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, was hired to run official comms for the team.
White House records show the two men will take home $155,000 and $110,000 respectively.
And the team is only expected to grow, the Washington Post reported — indicating that its staffing and operational expenditures will balloon further.
“Americans deserve transparency from President Biden about his family’s suspicious business dealings.”
“But instead of providing transparency, the White House is hiring staff at the American taxpayers’ expense to stonewall congressional oversight and accountability.” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is on track to chair the House Oversight Committee next year if Republicans retake the House.
“Let’s be clear: no amount of Biden White House staff or stonewalling will stop Republicans’ quest for transparency and accountability on behalf of the American people,” he added.
The party’s marquee probe will focus on Hunter Biden and what connections his father, President Biden, had to his shady overseas business dealings.
President Biden has consistently denied any such connections, even as a growing body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that is not the case.
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So, yes, people, for telling us lies about Joe Biden and his son Hunter that only a mindless fool could believe, this Ian Sams, whose net worth is listed as from $500k to $1 million, is getting $110,000 of our tax dollars!
WHY?
WHY DO WE ACCEPT THIS ABUSE?
WHY DO WE TOLERATE JOE BIDEN TREATING US AS MINDLESS IDIOTS?
Paul Plante says
BIZARRE BEYOND BELIEF, people, and MURKY (not fully explained or understood, especially with concealed dishonesty, as in “the murky world of the Biden family”) as all get out!
How else can this Biden administration, which is a product of the intentional DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA to produce a nation full of ignorant people
incapable to rational thought, as it was never demanded of them in their
formative years, be explained?
And knowing something of American presidential history, I seriously believe it has to be the most corrupt presidential administration to come down the pike in the entire history of this nation since its inception as a nation subsequent to the War of Revolution, and for Joe Biden, that is quite an accomplishment.
BUT, people, we are to believe otherwise.
What we are to believe is that Joe Biden, a law school graduate, albeit near the bottom of his class, ranking 76th in his class of 85 students in 1968, when the dullard Biden earned a Juris Doctor degree, and a United States senator beginning on January 3, 1973, and ending on January 15, 2009, was totally clueless as to what his brother “Jimmy the Chin” and his son Hunter were up to, to earn their living, even though Hunter was giving Joe half of his “salary?”
(cue Sgt. Schultz, “I know nothing,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo )
Uh, okay, sure, hokey dokey, dude, whatever you say, Joe! (cue “Lies” by Linda Ronstadt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywY_ppvyj-Y )
Which takes us to a National Review article titled “Americore Gave James Biden $600k Loan on Promise He’d Deliver Funding from Middle East, Trustee Says” by Brittany Bernstein on 19 December 2023, where we have some insight on that question of what Joe’s family was doing while Joe knew absolutely nothing about what they were doing, because Joe had a firewall between he and they, so he wouldn’t know what they were doing when they handed Joe money he didn’t work for derived from what they were doing that he knew nothing about, to wit:
Carol Fox, an Americore Chapter 11 trustee, told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that the now-bankrupt healthcare company previously provided a $600,000 loan to James Biden on the promise that he could bring in funding from the Middle East that never materialized.
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And it is important to note that she is NOT a Republican, nor is she a member of congress, in case this Ian Sams dude, who bills himself on his Linkedin site as a communications professional and strategist, with experience conveying both political and policy objectives on the record, who is a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, which speaks volumes itself about his own communication skills, and who is now Joe Biden’s White House Spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations, a pretentious title for someone Joe has LYING for him, comes along and tries to accuse her of pushing GOP talking points, which takes us back to the story for more, to wit:
On March 1, 2018, after Americore wired a $200,000 loan to James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account, James Biden sent a payment of the same amount to Joe Biden for an alleged loan repayment.
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See, this is all really legit, people, just one brother paying back another brother, which raises the unanswered question of where “BLUE COLLAR JOE,” the poorest member of the U.S. senate, got the $200 GRAND from to loan to Jimmy, but since Jo himself knows nothing about any of this because of that firewall, we will never know, so moving right along, back to the story we go to this (OMG):
Fox previously filed a lawsuit against James Biden claiming he made “representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
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Jimmy’s political connections?
I wonder who that could be, but it can’t be Joe, because, uh, well, it just can’t be, because Joe was never in business with either Jimmy or Hunter, which takes us back again, to wit:
The suit alleged that Americore sent $600,000 to James and Sara Biden’s personal bank accounts in total and demanded James Biden repay Americore the full amount.
James Biden ultimately agreed to a settlement payment of $350,000.
Fox told the committee in a transcribed interview on Monday that she saw no records or documentation of the loan from Americore to James Biden and that the company instead chose to provide a loan with no documentation based on the promise that James Biden could bring in funding from the Middle East, a person familiar with the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings told National Review.
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And he we come to the MURKY part, people, as follows:
Fox said the money James Biden ultimately paid to his brother could have come from two possible sources: predatory loans or senior citizens’ money fraudulently invested by James Biden’s business partner, Michael Lewitt.
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Don’t you just love this stuff?
Going back for yet more of everything Joe Biden knew absolutely nothing about, because he never talked with his family members about this kind of stuff, we have:
In September, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Lewitt and his investment advisory firm, Third Friday Management.
The complaint claims misrepresentations and omissions regarding a change in the investment strategy of the Third Friday Total Return Fund, L.P. to suddenly change course “without disclosing to investors, many of whom were elderly, that it had begun making loans to a distressed (now bankrupt) company that acquired and operated struggling rural hospitals.”
In the lawsuit, Fox previously alleged James Biden had helped procure “an ill-advised bridge loan from a hedge fund that had a deleterious impact on the financial affairs of the Debtor and ultimately forced Debtors into bankruptcy, as [James Biden] never delivered the promised large investment from the Middle East.”
Fox said she had not seen the $200,000 check from James Biden to Joe Biden until her transcribed interview on Monday.
She said in her experience, she would try to claw back amounts from a subsequent transferee depending on the dollar amount.
She said she considers $200,000 to be a significant sum of money.
James Biden’s attorney previously dismissed Republican lawmakers’ interest in the payment.
“The Oversight Committee’s description of the $200,000 check is highly selective and misleading,” attorney Paul Fishman said.
“The Committee has the bank documents that show both the loan Jim received from his brother in January 2018 and the repayment by check six weeks later.”
“At no time did Jim involve his brother in any of his business relationships.”
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What the committee DOES NOT have is the source of the $200 GRAND Joe gave to Jimmy – how did Joe come up with that kind of ready cash when he was so poor?
And here, let’s pause for station identification, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because if the creek don’t rise, and the dam don’t break, we will be right back with more!
Paul Plante says
Yes, people, the DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA is a real phenomenon and it is described by Wikipedia as the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture.
Originated in 1933, the term “dumbing down” was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: “[to] revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence”.
Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter, and usually involves the diminishment of critical thought by undermining standard language and learning standards, thus trivializing academic standards, culture, and meaningful information.
In his work “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996), an American astronomer and science communicator, whose famous quotes included “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas,” something the Biden administration and its main-stream and legacy media including the NY Times, which rag was accused in an essay in The Economist by former Times opinion editor James Bennet of having “lost its way,” stating therein that “The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” adding that the Times is now becoming a publication in which the American progressive elite “talks to itself” about a United States that “does not really exist,” are all guilty of, BY INTENT, stated thusly:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
Yes, people, the CELEBRATION of IGNORANCE, which brings me to the front page of the December 20. 2023 edition of the Hearst publication, the Albany, New York Times Union, itself a veritable FONT OF GROSS IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY, and this headline, to wit:
“HOCHUL, WE NEED TO DISCUSS SLAVERY!”
To which I can only reply, HUH?
Slavery?
With ALL the problems besetting this nation in decline, the flood of migrants across the border thanks to Joe Biden’s plan to REPOPULATE America, the massive budget deficits that threaten education and police protection, Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, etc., we need to talk about SLAVERY?
WHY?
In New York state, where “DITZY KATHY,” a progressive liberal DEMOCRAT is governor, slavery was abolished almost TWO HUNDRED years ago in 1827, so why today, almost TWO HUNDRED years later, do we need to discuss it?
Talk about misdirectio0n and misplaced priorities and SHEER STUPIDITY, here we have it staring us in the face in bold print on the front of the Albany Times Union, so talk about living in the LAND OF WTF, here we are, people!
The future is now and the enemy is the DOWNRIGHT DUMB AND STUPID DEMOCRATS like Joe Biden and “DITZY HATHY” Hochul!
Time for a station identification break before I puke all over my keyboard in disgust!
Melody says
I agree with a lot of points made by Mr. Plante, however I can not understand a disabled veteran supporting a man who says injured soldiers are “suckers and loosers.”
Paul Plante says
Hi, Melody, you sound nice, and I appreciate you commenting, but can you help us out here by clarifying your enigmatic comment about however you can not understand a disabled veteran supporting a man who says injured soldiers are “suckers and losers” by telling us exactly who that disabled veteran might be, and who it was that made that statement?
Paul Plante, VN 1969 says
I can’t either, Melody, and I don’t even bother to try to.
It’s America and people are free to think what they want to think without needing my permission to do so.
You must have more leisure time than I do if you are wasting your time wondering why somebody thinks the way they do.
Have you tried the simple expedient of asking them why?
Paul Plante says
On while we are on the subject of the PROPAGATION OF PURE STUPID by the Democrats and the Biden regime in America, there is no better example that I can put forth than an ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday to create a new commission to study reparations and racial justice.
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And for the record, it should be noted here that Hochul, known as “DITZTY KATHY,” along with William J. Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Andrew M. Cuomo and Letitia A. James, was an “Elector” pledged to former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D).
Going back to the article, it continues, as follows, to wit:
The state commission will be tasked with examining the legacy of slavery, “subsequent discrimination against people of African descent, and the impact these forces continue to have in the present day,” according to Hochul’s office.
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And what BULL**** that is, given that “Tish” James, famous for wasting state fiscal resources prosecuting Trump in every possible way she can, is BLACK, as is Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, and Carl E. Heastie, the head of the New York assembly, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, leader of the NY senate, and Antonio Delgado, a.k.a. AD The Voice, who is president of the NY senate as well as “DITZY KATHY’s” lt, governor.
Going back to the article, we have more, as follows:
The commission will be composed of nine members: three appointed by the governor, three appointed by the speaker of the state Assembly (Heastie) and three appointed by the president of the state Senate (Delgado).
The New York task force will analyze the history and lasting impacts of slavery in both the state and New York City, including the capture and transport of Africans to the region, the sale and acquisition of slaves, the benefits New York received from such transactions, the treatment of slaves and more, the legislation creating the commission stated.
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As to that history, and the treatment of slaves in New York, and one would think the governor of the state would be well aware of this, given it is HIGH SCHOOL or even GRADE SCHOOL history, courses the airhead Hochul apparently skipped, an 1881 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine contained an article entitled “A Glimpse of an Old Dutch Town,” which article mentioned the principal Albany holidays of Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter and Pinksterfeest (now known as Pinksterfest).
About Pinksterfeest, Harper’s explained:
“The Pinkster festivities commenced on the Monday after Whitesunday, and now began the fun for the Negroes, for Pinkster was the carnival of the African race.”
The venerable “King of the Blacks” was “Charley of Pinkster Hill,” so called because he was the principal actor in the festivities.
“Charles originally came from Africa, having in his infancy been brought from Angolo, in the Guinea Gulf; and when but a boy, he became the purchased slave of one of the most ancient and respectable merchant princes of the olden times, Volkert P. Douw of Wolvenhoeck.”
“Charles’ costume as king was that of a British brigadier general – ample broadcloth scarlet coat with wide flaps, almost reaching to his heels and gaily ornamented everywhere with broad tracings of bright gold lace.”
“His small clothes were of yellow buckskin, fresh and new with stockings blue and burnished silver buckles to his well-blacked shoes.”
“And when we add the three cornered cocked hat, trimmed also with gold lace and which so gracefully sat upon his noble globular pate, we complete this rude sketch of the Pinkster king.”
Both he and his followers were covered with Pinkster Blummies – the wild azalea or swamp apple.
The procession started from 82 State Street and went up State Street to Bleecker Hill, on the crown of what was the Bleecker Burying Ground.
In front of the king always marched Dick Simpson and Pete Halenbeck (both former slaves), the latter the “Beau Brummel” of his time.
During Pinkster Day, the Negroes made merry with games and feasting, all paying homage to the king, who was held in awe and reverence as an African King.
In the evening there was a grand dance, led by Charles and some beauty, to the music of Pete Halenbeck’s fiddle.
Albany’s Black population had celebrated a spring carnival in their homeland.
Over the years so many African traditions were incorporated into Pinkster that it became an African-Dutch holiday.
It was the most important African holiday in New Netherland.
On Pinkster, Albany swelled with black residents as those who lived in rural areas migrated to the city for the festivities.
Booths were set up around the city square (today’s Academy Park) where many black vendors sold refreshments such as berries, herbs and beverages.
Drinking, game playing, dancing and music from different cultures dominated the festivities.
King Charles ruled over the day awarding prizes and issuing proclamations.
Around 1880, John J. “Uncle John” Williams said that he had been born in 1809 and belonged to Colonel Philip P. Staats, father of Barent and Peter Staats, both physicians in Albany.
Williams said that Pinkster Day was a religious day, partly pagan and partly Christian, in Africa.
He said that he remembered as a child that Albanians native to Africa would annually dance their wild dances and sing in their native language on Pinkster Day.
He said that in Albany, Pinkster would last an entire week.
Williams remembered King Charles and said that Charles had come from royal blood.
He confirmed that King Charles had been purchased in Angola in the Guinea Gulf when he was an infant.
Williams remembered that Adam Blake was the Master of Ceremonies for the event.
He said that the Blake family had been the servants of the Patroon Van Rensselaer and Blake was a grand Master of Ceremonies.
Jackie Quackenboss, another former slave, was also one of the main attractions, beating on a kettledrum he made by stretching a sheepskin over an eel pot.
Quackenboss set the rhythm for all of the dancing.
An article written around 1850 said:
Pinkster Hill!
What pleasant memories of my boyhood does that name bring up!
That hill was famous as the gathering place of all the Colored People of the city and of the county for miles around, during the Pinkster festival in May.
Then they received their freedom for a week.
They erected booths, where gingerbread, cider and apple toddy were dispensed.
On the hill they spent the days and evenings in sports, in dancing and drinking to their heart’s content.
I remember those gatherings with delight, when old King Charley … dressed in his gold-laced scarlet coat and yellow breeches used to amuse all the people with his antics.
On one occasion Charlie took me on his shoulders and leaped a bar more than five feet in height.
He was so generously treated because of his feat that he became gloriously drunk an hour afterward and I led him home just at sunset.
King Charles’ uniform of red coat and yellow breeches were most likely a British General’s uniform, probably Volkert Douw’s uniform from the French & Indian War.
King Charles was always ready for a good time and was also famous as the jockey for Heer (Mr.) Douw’s racehorses.
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In “Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they Existed Previous to the Revolution” by Anne MacVicar Grant, another work Hochul should be aware of, but obviously isn’t, hence her name “DITZTY KATHY,” the author, in her 1808 memoir of her stay in the Albany area during the 1760s, she states as follows with respect to slavery in New York, to wit:
In the society I am describing, even the dark aspect of slavery was softened into a smile.
And I must, in justice to the best possible masters, say, that a great deal of that tranquility and comfort, to call it by no higher name, which distinguished this society from all others, was owing to the relation between master and servant being better understood here than in any other place.
Let me not be detested as an advocate for slavery when I say that I think I have never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians.
One reason was, (for I do not speak of the virtues of their masters) that each family had few of them, and that there were no field negroes.
They would remind one of Abraham’s servants, who were all born in the house, which was exactly their case.
They were baptized too, and shared the same religious instruction with the children of the family; and, for the first years, there was little of no difference with regard to food or clothing between their children and those of their masters.
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And here I am going to pause for station identification to let my blood pressure come back down, for I must say as an older American that this stupidity and gross ignorance on the part of this state’s DEMOCRATIC leadership, Hochul, Heastie, Delgado, Stewart-Cousins, which is symptomatic of the DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA to produce this crowd of MORONS who claim to be our “leaders” really gripes me, as to how far down we have come as a nation in my lifetime to the point of where we are now a clown-show third-world country, especially here in sorry New York state, which is why people are fleeing this ignorant, debt-ridden ****HOLE for a better life elsewhere.
Paul Plante, VN 1969 says
And while we are waiting on Melody to come back in to edify us on exactly what she is on about above here, which certainly is a mystery to me, as are so many things today in a world that no longer makes sense to me as I watch the PROPAGATION OF PURE IGNORANNCE by the Biden PROPAGANHDA MACHINE and its main-stream and legacy media enablers, and mindless idiots like liberal progressive DEMOCRAT “DITZY KIATHY” Hochul of New York who feels that of all the serious subjects today we should be talking about, the preeminent one in her misguided and warped opinion is SLAVERY,
with regard to disabled veterans being suckers and losers, an opinion “DITZY KATHY” and SKULKER DEMOCRATS like Joe Biden and Charley “CHUCK” Schumer would share with her, and why Melody, who sounds nice, would think I, as a disabled veteran would support any of that pack of losers again mystifies me, but each to his or her own, it being America, afterall, or it was the last time I looked, in another thread in here, where the CCM posted that “Americans are such suckers, they’ve fallen for every single BS war in my lifetime,” and “They don’t even bother to look into the actual cause or facts of any of them,” I posted in response that as a VEET NAM veteran, which shrapnel in my neck near my spine forces me to have to admit to, that yes, as a PATRIOTIC American citizen who bought into the BULL**** “DOMINOS ARE FALLING” political theory underlying our involvement in VEET NAM, a war H.R. McMaster, in his Preface to “Dereliction of Duty – Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, AND THE LIES THAT LED TO VIET NAM,” copyright 1997. told us who listened that the war took the lives of fifty-eight thousand Americans and well over one million Vietnamese, and it left Vietnam in ruins and consumed billions of American dollars, nearly wrecking the American economy, and IT LED AMERICANS TO QUESTION THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AS NEVER BEFORE, I enlisted in the Army as result, I was indeed one of those SUCKERS, although back then, for someone like me living out in the country, there was no way for someone like me to fact-check or debunk the BULL****, and as McMaster also said at p.37 of “Dereliction of Duty,” although U.S. advisors were fighting with South Vietnamese units and U.S. pilots were flying combat missions in South Vietnam, Kennedy denied that Americans were involved in combat, and Vietnam attracted little public or congressional attention, as Vietnam was far from front-page news and Americans still believed that their government told them the truth, me being one of them.
Such it was and such it is!
Bite the bullet, suck it up, chalk it up to experience and move on, which brings us to this moment in time right now, where above in the National Review article titled “Americore Gave James Biden $600k Loan on Promise He’d Deliver Funding from Middle East, Trustee Says” by Brittany Bernstein on 19 December 2023, we have “Jimmy the Chin” Biden’s attorney Paul Fishman telling as follows:
“At no time did Jim involve his brother in any of his business relationships.”
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Which means in plain language that “Jimmy the Chin,” Joe’s brother who wasn’t in business with Joe, because of Joe’s “firewall” between Jimmy and Joe’s son Hunter, so that Joe did not have a clue as to what Jimmy and Hunter were up to, to get the money they were paying Joe for work he did not do and services he did not provide, because the “firewall,” was SCAMMING Americore, the now-bankrupt healthcare company that previously provided a $600,000 loan to Jimmy on the promise that he could bring in funding from the Middle East that never materialized, which means Jimmy was running a con on them, which Joe knew nothing about, because Joe wasn’t involved in that business deal, where Jimmy claimed that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections, which was not a reference to Joe, because Joe wasn’t involved in that scam.
And with that all cleared up, including the fact that yes, I was indeed a BIG SUCKER to have enlisted to fi9ght in DEMOCRAT Lyndon Baines Johnson’s FIASCO in VEET NAM, let’s cut to a commercial break and station identification, and after thirty-two hours of political commercials from the Biden campaign and the DNC telling us how better off we all are because of BIDE-O-NOMICS, we will be back with more on the PROPAGATION OF PURE STUPID in America by the Biden regime and the Democrats, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS, people!
That is the only way “DITZY KATHY” Hochul, herself a lawyer like Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, who Burisma owner Zlochevsky described as being dumber than his dog, “TISH” James and Antonio Delgado, can be described, and let’s be frank here, people, and not kid each other, once a nation or state sinks to this level of gross stupidity and ignorance in its so-called “leaders” and their media enablers and apologists such as ABC News, which prints it as the politicians feed it to them verbatim with making an effort to do any fact-checking as they are themselves too ignorant and lazy to do, as is displayed by Hochul and company in the ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, as those of us who actually do study history know well, there is no coming back, and it is a downhill run into benighted ignorance from here, which takes us back to that story for more, to wit:
The commission will also examine the lingering negative effects of slavery and discrimination on the living descendants of slaves and other people of African descent, according to the legislation.
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Lingering negative effects of slavery and discrimination on the living descendants of slaves and other people of African descent, like Antonio Delgado, with a net worth of $429,004 in 2018, and Carl Heastie, one of the richest politicians in the United States according to Forbes & Business Insider with a net worth $5 Million, last updated December 11, 2023. and Andrea Stewart-Cousins, also one of the richest politicians in the United States according to Forbes & Business Insider with a worth $5 Million, last updated December 11, 2023, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James, with a net worth of $15 million?
Uh, okay, people, and what a crock of crap that all is, but we are talking DEMOCRATS here, so what else can we expect, and let us be clear here, this reparations thing is nothing but a SCAM on the people of New York – a blatant money grab, and nothing more.
And if Kathy Hochul and company really are serious about studying true discrimination, they should read the Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Commisso says Cuomo’s exit was followed by retaliation under Hochul –
Woman who accused Cuomo of groping alleges she was shuffled around Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration before being told to ‘hit the pavement’” by Brendan J. Lyons on December 21, 2023, where we have some real discrimination, by Hochul’s office itself, to wit:
ALBANY — The woman who accused Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of groping her during a workplace encounter alleges she was demoted and shuffled through various jobs in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration before being told last year by a high-ranking staffer that she should “hit the pavement” and seek employment outside the Executive Chamber.
The Times Union obtained new details of the Hochul administration’s handling of 35-year-old Brittany Commisso’s job assignments — and her interaction with top officials in that office — through court and payroll records, interviews with current and former staff members, a review of contemporaneus text messages, and a timeline provided by Commisso and her attorney, Brian D. Premo.
The information reveals that the unusual treatment of Commisso by some of Hochul’s top staff members began the day after Cuomo announced his resignation on Aug. 10, 2021.
His departure followed the release of a state attorney general’s report that concluded he had sexually harassed or acted inappropriately with multiple women while cultivating a toxic work environment.
Cuomo has denied the allegations.
Cuomo’s decision to exit midway through his third term came five months after the Times Union first reported Commisso’s allegation that he had groped her breast three years ago at the Executive Mansion — an account that remains the most serious sexual misconduct accusation he has faced.
That incident, which Cuomo has said never happened, was also detailed in the attorney general’s report.
Premo said that retaliation included his client no longer being given overtime and also being assigned far fewer duties in her job as an executive assistant to the governor.
Under Hochul’s administration, they allege, the situation worsened.
Premo filed a summons in state Supreme Court in Albany on behalf of Commisso contending “(then-)lieutenant governor (Hochul) demoted her from the position of executive assistant to the governor, removed her from the front office, and assigned her to the demeaning task of answering telephones in the lieutenant governor’s office until moved to other offices, including loss of overtime, ostracism, given little or no work, demotion, and loss of career opportunities and advancement.”
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Now, there is some real discrimination, but since Commisso, is white, not BLACK, why that makes it alright, doesn’t it, and once again, I am going to pause for station identification before this ignorant crap from Hochul and company makes me puke and ruin my keyboard, but stay tuned, because there is much more on this story of the DEMOCRATS trying to LOOT money from the New York state treasury and the pockets of white taxpayers in the state, so don’t change that dial!
Paul Plante says
And going back to New York’s liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor “DITZY KATHY” Hochul, who puts the capital “D” in the expression “DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS” as she demonstrates to the candid world just how stupid and ignorant a human being can be in America today and still hold high elected office, which is a real statement about the benighted ignorance of the people who put her there, going back to the ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, we have “DITZY KATHY” spouting more ignorance as follows:
According to the New York Historical Society, as many as 20% of colonial New Yorkers were enslaved Africans — one-fifth of the population at the time, Hochul said Tuesday during a press conference in New York City announcing the commission.
“It’s not talked about a lot.”
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Well, DUH, Kathy!
How about it’s not talked about, at all, because this is no longer colonial New York, in case you hadn’t, the British are no longer in charge, ALL those people are long since dead and forgotten, and we have moved on, and now, we are confronted with a whole host of problems in OUR times today, the massive state debt under your administration, people leaving this ****-hole in droves because of you with the resultant loss of congressional representation, discrimination against white women and disabled veterans by your administration, no environmental protection by your department of environmental conservation which protects polluters not people, no public health protection by your worthless health department, no equal protection of law, the so-called “migrant crisis” courtesy of Democrat Joe Biden, so why on earth should we be living in a past well over two hundred years ago and talking about slavery in colonial America, when our problems are today and tomarrow?
Going back to ABC, we have this stupid statement from “DITZY KATHY,” to wit:
“That’s a problem,” Hochul said.
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NO, Kathy. that’s NOT a problem – you are the problem, so we talk about YOU today, not some distant yesterday over and gone, which takes us back for more, to wit, because when it comes to spouting ignorance, “DITZY KATHY” has it in great quantity, to wit:
“Here in New York, there was a slave market where people bought and sold other human beings with callous disregard.”
“It happened right on Wall Street for more than a century.”
“And even though it officially closed when slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, our state still remained a dominant player in the illegal slave trade.”
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And SO WHAT?
What relevance does that have to anything today, when the leadership of the state assembly and senate and your lt. governor look pretty BLACK to me!
Going back to reality, we have this:
Three in 10 U.S. adults say descendants of people who were enslaved in the United States should be repaid in some way, while seven in 10 people say these descendants should not be repaid, according to a Pew Research Center survey published in November 2022.
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And that is DEMOCRACY, so let’s move into the troubled future, instead of dwelling in the past, as “DITZY KATHY” is doing here, to wit:
“Former slaves and their children, and their children, and their children across our nation have been haunted for generations by racism and disenfranchisement,” Hochul said Tuesday.
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Like Barack Obama, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Antonio Delgado, and Lloyd Austin and General Michael X. Garrett, and Colin Powell and Tiger Woods?
Going back to the article:
“Millions of people, even though free on a piece of paper, were still trapped by Jim Crow [laws], stripped of their rights, even including the right to participate in our democracy, the right to vote.”
“And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.”
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YES, Kathy, DOWN SOUTH and that was by the DEMOCRATS, YOUR people and Joe Biden’s people!
And going back once again, we have this:
“The truth is, we are all held back when millions of our neighbors struggle to lift their families up generation after generation, struggle to give their kids a good education, quality health care that they deserve, struggle while fighting the indignities of racism,” Hochul said.
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Yup, French Canadians, the Irish, the Italians, Catholics, Jews.
In fact, in the year 1700 the Legislature of New York enacted a law to hang every Popish priest “who should come voluntarily into the province.”
So how about REPARATIONS for all of them?
It is about justice, afterall.
Paul Plante says
And as we talk about the DEMOCRATS’ efforts to “PROTECT DEMOCRACY” as they work to impose their DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIOT (Joe Biden’s flood of illegal immigrants) on us by restricting ballot access (see, for example, ABC News, “Biden’s Democratic challengers hit ballot access roadblocks” 24 December 2023) to just one man for president, that being the senile Joe Biden, as they work to remove Trump from the ballot, I would like to go back to the ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, and this statement in that article by liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor of New York, “DITZY KATHY” Hochul, a Biden elector who helped put Joe Biden in power over us, to wit:
“Millions of people, even though free on a piece of paper, were still trapped by Jim Crow [laws], stripped of their rights, even including the right to participate in our democracy, the right to vote.”
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And from there, I would like to go to these two following statements of FACT, to wit:
* DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH DISCRIMINATION; and
* DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH SLAVERY.
Think I’m kidding?
NOT A JOKE. people, which takes us to the grade school history term the “CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY,: which is defined thusly:
The first known democracy in the world was in Athens.
Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century B.C.E.
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And then let us look at the subject, SLAVERY IN ATHENS, where we have as follows, and this is high school history, to wit:
Slaves in Athens were acquired in three primary ways: war, piracy, and trade.
Enslaving war captives was a common practice in ancient Greece.
Most slaves acquired from war were probably non-Greek, although it is probable that Athens also enslaved some Greeks as a result of wars.
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As I say, people, it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE that DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH SLAVERY, which takes us back for more high school history on that subject, to wit:
Who is the Greek god of slavery?
Ananke is the powerful deity that rules compulsion, constraint, restraint, or coercion, and presides over all forms of slavery.
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And this:
Servitude was widespread in Greek antiquity.
Athens alone was home to an estimated 60,000–80,000 slaves during the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with each household having an average of three or four enslaved people attached to it.
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And what about DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH DISCRIMINATION?
Let’s look, to wit:
Greek women had virtually no political rights of any kind and were controlled by men at nearly every stage of their lives.
The most important duties for a city-dwelling woman were to bear children–preferably male–and to run the household.
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There, people, is a capsule summary of what DEMOCRAT DEMOCRACY has in store for us who are white and non-DEMOCRATS, and a rosy future for them it will be, in their minds anyway.
So where is “DITZY KATHY” Hochul getting this REPARATIONS BULL**** from?
For that answer, let’s go to a FOX News article titled “New York governor’s reparations commission slammed as divisive: ‘Slap in the face'” by Kyle Morris on 23 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
Hochul’s speech on Tuesday was followed by a brief address from Rev. Al Sharpton, who thanked the governor for signing the bill despite warnings from her political allies.
“And I know her political advisers told her it is too risky.”
“But she did it because it’s right,” he said.
“I met with her last Thursday on several issues that we’re dealing with nationally, and she told me she had decided to sign this bill and she said that it’s going to be unpopular to some, but I’m going to do what’s right.”
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And of course it would be Alvin “PEANUTS” Sharpton, who is a hate-filled, whithered husk who hates white people because of his implicit biases in his DNA going back probably millennia, something we all need to be honest about with regard to Al Sharpton.
So why is Hochul submitting then?
That answer is found in a Newsweek article entitled “BLM Leader: We’ll ‘Burn’ the System Down If U.S. Won’t Give Us What We Want” by Meghan Roos on 6/25/20, where we had a real bad-ass BLACK LIVES MATTER dude named Hawk Newsome discussing the use of TERRORISM to achieve Al Sharpton’s political goals in our times today, to wit:
A leader of Black Lives Matter’s New York chapter on Wednesday said the movement was prepared to “burn down this system” if the U.S. does not work with participants to enact real change.
“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it,” said Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, during an interview with Fox News.
“This country is built upon violence,” Newsome said, pointing to the American Revolution and modern American diplomacy as examples.
“The moment people start destroying property, now cops can be fired automatically.”
“What is this country rewarding?”
“What behavior is it listening to?”
“Obviously not marching,” Newsome said.
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Yes, people, “DITZY KATHY” Hochul is negotiating with TERRORISTS to make white people into debt-slaves to BLACK people, because she knows that TERRORISTS like this Hawk Newsome dude aren’t kidding when he says BLACK people like him will indeed “burn down this system” if they don’t get what they want, which is money from WHITEY, which of course is EXTORTION, and that is exactly what Hochul, a craven, is submitting to here.
And stay tuned, for when we return, it will be to a New York Post story titled “Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income” by Diana Glebova on 26 December 2023, so don’t change that dial!
Paul Plante says
And before we get to that New York Post story titled “Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income” by Diana Glebova on 26 December 2023, for a look at what is INCREDIBLE DEMOCRAT INJUSTICE brewing, where liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor of New York Kathy Hochul is submitting to EXTORTION demands from BLACK terrorists threatening to “BURN DOWN THE SYSTEM” if Hochul doesn’t give them what they want, which is political power over the white people they hate, by taking upon herself the power to set aside RULE OF LAW and CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS by holding accountable white people who did not commit crimes for the crimes against BLACK people committed by the DEMOCRAT PARTY after the Civil War, let’s for a moment go back to the FOX News article titled “New York governor’s reparations commission slammed as divisive: ‘Slap in the face’” by Kyle Morris on 23 December 2023, where we have as follows from “DITZY KATHY” Hochul as to who she intends to hold accountable and responsible for slavery in colonial New York, and the terror tactics of the DEMOCRATS after the Civil War against BLACK people and Republicans in the South to keep them from voting, just as they are trying to do again today, in the case of the Republicans, anyway, to wit:
“I know the word ‘reparations’ brings up a lot of conflicting ideas for people.”
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And NO, Kathy, there are no “conflicting ideas” at all, except perhaps in
your devious warped and twisted mind, because the word REPARATION in America has a very simple meaning for all of us, despite your attempts at semantic games here, to wit:
REPARATION: the making of amends FOR A WRONG ONE HAS DONE, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged, as in “the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim.”
In other words, a convicted criminal pays for his or her crimes, which means AFTER DUE PROCESS has been afforded the accused, and GUILT has been ESTABLISHED, or the second meaning is the compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state, as in “the Treaty of Versailles imposed heavy reparations and restrictions on Germany,” which takes us back to more Hochul drivel, to wit:
“A lot of people instinctively dig in when they hear it without really thinking about what it means or why we need to talk about it,” Hochul said in announcing the commission’s creation.
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And WRONG again, Kathy – I am “digging in” because I am NOT a mindless stupid DEMOCRAT, and I am capable of rational thought and critical thinking, and I know exactly what it means, and thus, why we DO NOT need to talk about it, or conversely why people like myself DO need to STAND UP to talk about what exactly it is that you are about here, which is an attempt by yourself to grant yourself literal dictatorial power over us and our lives just as Hitler did in Germany.
And talk about “failure theater” on the part of Hochul that is intended to be a shiny object to distract people from how Hochul is totally incapable of doing the basics of governing, it’s no coincidence that she has rushed out this new distraction to take our minds off the whole host of problems in OUR times today caused by her, Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS, like unaccountable government, the massive state debt under Hochul’s administration at the state level, and the massive debt at the federal level under Biden, along with crippling BIDENFLATION thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, and people leaving this third-world ****-hole state in droves because of Hochul’s liberal progressive policies with the resultant loss of congressional representation for this sorry state, along with discrimination against white women and disabled veterans by Hochul’s administration, and no environmental protection by her worthless department of environmental conservation which protects polluters not people, along with no public health protection by her worthless health department, no equal protection of law, the so-called “migrant crisis” courtesy of Democrat Joe Biden, so why on earth should we be spending time talking about a past well over two hundred years ago and talking about slavery in colonial America, when our problems are today and tomarrow?
And from her language, it is crystal clear that this is really a done deal, and this so-called reparations commission is yet another of her favorite little shiny objects, to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what she is really focused on, which is granting herself DICTATORIAL POWER, which takes us back to that article about who she is declaring GUILTY for the crimes of others, and thereby holding the INNOCENT accountable for those crimes, to wit:
Hochul also noted at the time that Americans whose families arrived in the U.S. after the end of slavery were still responsible for addressing its impact on Black communities.
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LIKE HELL, Kathy!
When were those people put on trial?
When exactly was it that those people were afforded CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS OF LAW?
Where is the EVIDENCE against them?
Getting back to Hochul, she continues heaping guilt on people with no DUE PROCESS, as follows:
“I think of the immigrants and the children of immigrants who’ve come here since the end of slavery,” she said.
“They will say, ‘We had no involvement in slavery […]'”
“‘None of our relatives were slave owners.'”
“And there’s part of me that worries about leaping into this conversation because of the racial divisions, strife it could sow.'”
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DAMN RIGHT, Kathy, and now, that train has left the station and is rolling down the tracks, and the STRIFE you are sowing has been sown, which again takes us back for more Hochul, to wit:
Hochul continued, “These huddles and tired masses came here to seek a better life […]”
“Slaves, people who were enslaved, didn’t come here willingly to pursue a dream, but they came in bondage to live a nightmare.”
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So now, it is only right that INNOCENT white people should have to live a nightmare in bondage to BLACK HATERS like Al Sharpton and BLACK TERRORISTS like this Hawk Newsome?
Going back for more of this incredible crap spew, we have as follows:
“And we have to ask, do those of us whose family came here to pursue a dream not have a role to play in ending a nightmare?”
“Yes, yes we do.”
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YES, WE DO, BY VOTING OUT OF POWER EVERY DEMOCRAT OFFICE HOLDER AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT STARTING WITH JOE BIDEN AND MOVING ON FROM THERE!
Paul Plante says
And while we are on this subject of REPARATIONS for BLACK people based on a misguided premise that people with white skin today are responsible for slavery in British-controlled Colonial New York, where slavery has been outlawed now for almost TWO HUNDRED years, and for crimes committed by such DEMOCRAT TERROR GROUPS as the Red Shirts, the White League, the Knights of the White Camelia, and the Ku Klux Klan in the Southy after the Civil War, and thus, should be forced to have to pay REPARATIONS to aggrieved BLACK PEOPLE like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods for INJUSTICES suffered by them at the hands of white people in British-controlled Colonial New York, and the South after the Civil War, before we go to a Washington Examiner story titled “Reparations splitting Democrats and putting obstacles in Biden’s path to reelection” by Jack Birle on 27 December 2023, let’s go to the New York Post story titled “Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income” by Diana Glebova on 26 December 2023, where we have as follows on that same subject from liberal progressive DEMOCRAT Dean Phillips, a Democrat who has consistently voted in support of President Joe Biden’s positions who has a net worth of $77 million in 2018, making him one of the wealthiest members of Congress, and who in 2023, announced his intent to challenge Biden for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election, to wit:
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire – Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips broke with President Biden’s views on reparations and universal basic income in an exclusive interview with The Post, revealing new details about his campaign platform.
Phillips (D-Minn.) has gradually been rolling out his policy proposals since launching his campaign in late October, with his website promising more will be coming “as he listens to people across America.”
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And if he was truly listening to REAL AMERICANS, as opposed to the LEFT-WING liberal progressive DEMOCRATS, known as “PINKOS,” who are his political supporters, what he would have heard and realized was that according to a Pew Research poll conducted in 2022, 68% of adults oppose reparations for descendants of slaves, compared to only 30% who are in favor of such action, but being himself a liberal progressive DEMOCRAT, he is going with the minority, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
But in a half-hour conversation with The Post at his New Hampshire campaign headquarters, Phillips confirmed he would embrace paying reparations to African-Americans for slavery and experiment with universal basic income — both proposals associated with the left wing of the Democratic Party.
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To which I reply, good for him, of he intends to pay those REPARATIONS out of his pocket, which he can clearly afford to do, but don’t come looking for me to pay, because I AM NOT the one guilty of any of those crimes, which is enough of him for one day, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner article titled “Reparations splitting Democrats and putting obstacles in Biden’s path to reelection” by Jack Birle on 27 December 2023, to wit:
Reparations for descendants of slaves gained steam in various cities and states in 2023, leaving Democrats divided on how to move forward and possibly hurting President Joe Biden’s reelection chances in 2024.
New York became the latest state to authorize a task force to examine whether descendants of slaves should receive reparations for past racism and injustices when Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed the bill creating the task force into law last week.
Hochul called on all residents in her state to “be the patriots and rebuke, and not excuse, our role in benefiting from the institution of slavery.”
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HUH?
Be patriots?
Is she kidding us here?
Kathy Hochul can’t stand real patriots like me, and this is the same Kathy Hochul featured in a New York Post story titled “Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting” by Tim Hoefer on August 25, 2022, where we have the real Kathy Hochul standing up, to wit:
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said.
“You are not New Yorkers.”
If you can move beyond the frankly disgusting political partisanship and intolerance, her message is fiscally irresponsible, even dangerous.
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And yes, indeed, it is a very dangerous message, as well as a disgusting message, as this same Hochul is now asking us white people to be PATRIOTS and accept guilt for crimes against BLACK people we did not commit, which takes us to the definition of a PATRIOT, as follows:
PATRIOT: One who loves his/her country and zealously guards its welfare; especially, a defender of popular liberty.
As to what a REAL PATRIOT looks like in real life, I offer up this YouTube video of the June 8, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cXdWg5pAgY where I can be seen and heard in the video doing exactly that – zealously guarding my country’s welfare, starting with the corrupt town I reside in, and as to my country, it is a REPUBLIC with liberty and justice FOR ALL, regardless of skin color, and so a spirit of PATRIOTISM demands that I stand up in here, the only forum in America available to me as a poor elderly disabled veteran to be able to do so, to rebuke Kathy Hochul for her efforts to sow strife and cause racial divisions for political gains for herself and her DEMOCRAT party, by blaming alleged crimes against BLACK PEOPLE like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods on white people like myself who did not commit those crimes, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“Today, this is our opportunity, New Yorkers,” she said at a press conference last week.
“All of us can be the heroes and do the hard work of acknowledging the ugly truths of the past, and do our part to keep [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s] dream alive and help bend the whole universe a little closer to justice by our actions here today.”
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JUSTICE?
Holding white people who didn’t commit any crimes of being guilty of committing crimes against BLACK PEOPLE like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods is JUSTICE?
Like hell it is!
It is a PERVERSION of JUSTICE, plain and simple, and that is an indisputable fact!
Paul Plante says
Were I to be asked as an older American to summarize EVERYTHING that I think is wrong at EVERY LEVEL of what purports to be “government” in America from the bottom to the top, and from the top back to the bottom, and every level in between; be it town, village, city, county, state and federal, I would simply point to and offer up what I am saying in this YouTube video of the June 8, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cXdWg5pAgY where I can be seen and heard in the video zealously guarding my country’s welfare, starting at the town level in the corrupt town I reside in, and the YouTube video of the September 14, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTSiQs53aw where I come in at 7:02, doing the same, and when put into more detailed words it comes out as “failure theater” with totally unaccountable government at ALL LEVELS, massive state debt, massive debt at the federal level under Biden, crippling BIDENFLATION thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, no environmental protection, no public health protection, no equal protection of law, and the so-called “migrant crisis” courtesy of Democrat Joe Biden, to menti0n just a few things.
In the video of the September 14, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting @ 10:12, I can be heard saying, “but facts in Poestenkill don’t make a difference, they don’t, we just make stuff up here,” and that is true not only in that corrupt, anti-veteran ****hole of a town, but all the way up the chain of command to Joe Biden himself, who makes it up as he goes, with no thought whatsoever as to what the ramifications of his actions will be, because Joe lacks imagination and thus is totally incapable of engaging in critical thinking, which starts with a thorough examination of what one’s actions or lack of actions will cause to happen before such actions are actually taken or withheld.
As can be clearly seen in both videos, public officials, despite any empty oaths they swear to uphold the law or a Constitution, because those oaths themselves can’t be enforced against a public official who is foresworn, can therefore lie with impunity and can whitewash and cover-up corrupt practices and environmental crimes, right out in plain sight, because there is NO WAY to hold them to account, just as there is no way to hold Joe Biden, or Kathy Hochul, for that matter, to account, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner article titled “Reparations splitting Democrats and putting obstacles in Biden’s path to reelection” by Jack Birle on 27 December 2023, where we have New York’s liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor and Biden ELECTOR Kathy Hochul stating as follows, to wit:
“All of us can be the heroes and do the hard work of acknowledging the ugly truths of the past, and do our part to keep [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s] dream alive and help bend the whole universe a little closer to justice by our actions here today.”.
BE HEROES”
DO OUR PART TO KEEP DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DREAM ALIVE?
BEND THE WHOLE UINIVERSE A LITTLE CLOSER TO JUSTICE BY OUR ACTIONS HERE TODAY?
DO TELL, Kathy, but that is all BULL****, because Dr. Martin Luther King DID NOT have any kind of dream regarding “justice” for white people, because Dr. Martin Luther King DID NOT believe in justice for white people, as Joe Feagin, the Ella C. McFadden Professor in Sociology and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University makes incandescently clear in the Texas A&M Today article titled “What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About Systemic Racism” by Lesley Henton, Texas A&M University Division of Marketing & Communications on January 15, 2022, to wit:
“We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400-plus years now,” Feagin said.
“Whites are the main racial villains in this story and have most of the political and social power to change that racial discrimination and inequality now.”
“We cannot have a truly free and democratic society, with ‘liberty and justice for all’ until we do that.”
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Which is yet more whiney liberal progressive BULL**** of the kind that one would expect to be spewing forth from an ignorant liberal progressive college teacher, and I for one am not admitting to myself, or anyone else for that matter, including Dr. King, Kathy Hochul and Al Sharpton that “We whites created slavery,” which is pure ignorant liberal progressive BULL**** given that Athens, the CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY, alone was home to an estimated 60,000–80,000 slaves during the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with each household having an average of three or four enslaved people attached to it, the Native Americans had slaves, including the white Jesuit Isaac Jogues, a slave of the Mohawks, while the Cherokee in 1809 held nearly 600 enslaved Africans, a number that increased to almost 1,600 in 1835, and to around 4,000 by 1860, after they had removed to Indian Territory, and the BLACK AFRICANS in AFRICA, known as the “White Man’s Grave” in reference to the perils that European explorers encountered in the interior of Africa due to illness, wild animals, and hostile tribes, leaving a large portion of Africa was unexplored for a long time, HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY all, had BLACK SLAVES, which is where the white man got them from, including Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi, an Afro-Arab slave trader who by 1895 had acquired “seven ‘shambas’ [plantations] and 10,000 slaves.”
Nor am I guilty of having anything to do with JIM CROW segregation, which referred in U.S. history to any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the DEMOCRAT-controlled South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
From the late 1870s, DEMOCRAT-controlled Southern state legislatures, no longer controlled by so-called carpetbaggers and freedmen, passed laws requiring the separation of whites from “persons of colour” in public transportation and schools.
The segregation principle was extended by the DEMOCRATS to parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between Blacks and whites as equals.
As to racial discrimination, Al Sharpton is a walking, talking POSTER CHILD.
Which takes us to an essay published in 1969 by Dr. Martin Luther King titled “A Testament of Hope,” where Dr. King, the hero of Hussein Obama and Kathy Hochul, who wants to IMPOSE Dr. King’s version of “JUSTICE FOR WHITEY” on us, stated as follows on the subject:
“Justice for black people will not flow into this society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory…”
“White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.”
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RADICAL CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF OUR SOCIETY?
Like making white people SUBSERVIENT to BLACK people like Al Sharpton and Hawk Newsome, who wants to “BURN DOWN OUR SYSTEM” if he doesn’t get his way, words which if spoken by a white person, as opposed to a BLACK person like Hawk Newsome, would have that white person immediately branded by the DOJ and the FBI as a RIGHT-WING DOMESTIC TERRORIST, as Kathy Hochul wants to do with these REPARATIONS for BLACK people like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods?
Going back to Dr. King, in his 1958 book “Stride Toward Freedom,” he wrote, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
As to “JUSTICE,” it is defined as the “quality of being just,” and “conformity with the law,” while the word “JUST” means “fair, evenhanded and impartial in acting or judging” and “adhering to high moral standard; upright; honest,” and “legally valid; legitimate.”
Thus, in New York, JUSTICE, i.e. “conformity with the law,” is found in Section 1 of Article I, the Bill of Rights of the same New York State Constitution Hochul is sworn to support, which states that “no member of this state,” which would white people, shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof,” while §11 of Article I, the Bill of Rights, states that no person, which again would include white people, shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof, and by singling out white people, as Hochul is doing, and accusing them, WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE, of being guilty of crimes against BLACK people before they were even born, Hochul is in fact DENYING white people of the equal protection of the law, WHICH IS NOT JUSTICE!
NO JUSTICE FOR WHITE PEOPLE. NO PEACE, and it is just as simple as that!
Paul Plante says
And enough about that DEMOCRAT REPARATIONS bull****, which along with ABORTION is supposed to capture the hearts and minds of the people of America to take them off the failing and flailing presidency of DEMOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, whose approval rating is heading into9 the toilet, because outside of those two things, the DEMOCRATS have absolutely nothing else to offer the people of America.
And that takes us back to BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe’s signature, eponymous Marxist economics scheme, and how ******* stupid we all are because we don’t know how much better we all are thanks to Joe and BIDE-O-NOMICS, which has caused a true economic miracle in America according to Joe and his various mouthpieces in the main-stream and legacy media, which in turn takes us to a Daily Express US article titled “Our most dangerous and costly challenges are primarily Joe Biden’s causing, says GRANDE” by Peggy Grande on 31 December 2023, where we have as follows:
Many of us remember the children’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Poor Alexander starts the day with gum in his hair after falling asleep with it in his mouth and ends the day having to wear his railroad train pajamas, which he hates.
The hours in between are filled with one disappointment and disaster after the next, leading him to conclude that some days just can’t be salvaged – hence labeling it a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Many Americans are similarly concluding that we have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
Unlike the fictional character Alexander though, whose problems are typical of a young child, the disappointments and disasters that have infused the nation in 2023 are monumental and consequential.
And sadly, many were avoidable.
Several of our most dangerous and costly challenges are primarily Joe Biden’s causing, or his actions have made bad situations worse.
Yet the President continues to roll from one merry vacation to the next, seemingly without a care in the world.
Even with plummeting poll numbers, he remains remarkably tone-deaf to the economic suffering of the American people.
Is he in denial?
Does he not know how bad things are?
Is he not being told?
Does he not care?
Is he lying to try and cover up his messes?
None of these options increase public trust – or give hope that things will improve in 2024.
In fact, this week, as President Biden was leaving the White House en route yet another holiday, he shifted blame onto the media for their reporting.
When asked about his outlook for the economy in 2024 Biden replied, “All good.”
“Take a look.”
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And actually what he said after that was as follows:
“Start reporting it the right way.”
Ah, yes, people!
Classic DICTATORIAL Biden in action – Joe knows how good the economy really is, even if we, the “GREAT UNWASHED,” as Joe and his media enablers and apologists call us – people too stupid to0 know when we have it so great – and that is all that counts, to Joe, anyway!
And that takes us to a Fox News article titled “Media spent 2023 trying to convince financially strapped Americans that economy is ‘booming’ under Biden” by Gabriel Hays on 30 December 2023, for this insight, to wit:
A major trend among mainstream media outlets and pundits in 2023 was them attempting to convince Americans the economy has been doing well under President Biden.
A majority of Americans consistently tell pollsters that they believe the economy is doing poorly, however, leading to a disconnect of sorts as conditions on the ground don’t appear to match with positive economic data like low unemployment and a booming stock market.
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And here, as somebody down at the bottom of the economic ladder with no hopes of moving up a rung or two in this lifetime, I have to say when people can’t pay their bills and have trouble putting food on the table, who gives a damn about what the unemployment level might be and what the stock market is doing, as if either plays a part in our lives?
As to the stock market, according to a Reuters article titled “S&P, Nasdaq begin 2024 with lower close as Apple, big tech weighs” by David French on January 2, 2024, we have this, to wit:
Jan 2 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed the first trading session of 2024 lower, weighed by a fall in Apple shares after a broker downgrade and declines among other big-tech names triggered by a move higher by Treasury yields.
The S&P 500 lost 27 points, or 0.57%, to end at 4,742.83 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 245.41 points, or 1.63%, to 14,765.94.
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So, HOORAY and WHOOP-DE-DOO for the stock market!
As was proven in 1929, what goes up also can come do9wn, and rapidly so.
And that takes us to another Reuters article titled “US construction on solid ground; manufacturing under pressure” by Lucia Mutikani on January 2, 2024, where we have this:
While construction spending is holding its own despite the higher borrowing costs, manufacturing continues to struggle.
S&P Global said on Tuesday that its manufacturing PMI fell to a reading of 47.9 in December amid a steep decline in new orders.
That was revised down from the preliminary reading of 48.2 and lower than 49.4 in November.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction in manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy.
The decline in factory activity was mirrored across the globe, with manufacturing in the euro area contracting for an 18th straight month and Asia’s manufacturing powerhouses taking a hit due to China’s patchy economic recovery.
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So, really, people, how is the economy doing?
Think about it and we will be back right after a break for station identification, so don’t change that dial!
Paul Plante says
As to BIDE-O-NOMICS and the US economy as seen through the blind eyes of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a dictator in fact in America, according to a Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, we have as follows:
The White House began the new year Tuesday by touting President Joe Biden’s economic record despite a majority of people voicing displeasure with the president’s economic stewardship in a slew of recent polls.
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But see, people, we are the “GREAT UNWASHED,” so it only figures that we would not know when we were well off, which is why we need a DICTATOR over us, pursuant to the premise in Hobbes’ Leviathan that an absolute monarchy is the best form of government.
Going back to that article, it continues, as follows:
“We’re headed in the right direction as it relates to the economy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of those positive trends during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC.
“We pay attention to the data that showed consumer confidence was up, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created.”
“We saw unemployment at under 4% for 22 months.”
“Those things matter.”
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Those things matter?
To whom?
Who out there pays attention to the consumer confidence readings, which mean essentially nothing?
And speaking of consumer confidence, in August of 1929, it was at an all time high as people were feeling very exuberant about the economy, and Yale economist Irving Fisher was jubilant.
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau,” he rejoiced in the pages of the New York Times.
On Sept. 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had swelled to a record high of 381.17, reaching the end of an eight-year growth period during which its value ballooned by a factor of six.
That, of course, was before the bubble began to burst in a series of “black days”: Black Thursday, October 24, when the market dropped by 11 percent, followed four days later by Black Monday, when it fell another 13 percent; and the next day, Black Tuesday, when it lost 12 percent more.
After witnessing nearly a decade of growth, most economists, investors, and captains of industry believed that the market’s natural direction was up.
The beginning of the crash struck them not as a sign of financial doom, but as an opportunity for bargains.
Following the first of the black days, the New York Times was full of positive predictions: “I have no fear of another comparable decline,” said the president of the Equitable Trust Company.
Many of those optimists, including Fisher, went broke by mid-November, when the Dow had lost nearly half its pre-crash value.
Fisher’s reputation likewise plummeted.
And such is the version of American history that I learned in grade school, back when we were supposed to actually know something about the America that preceded our entry into the world as young Americans after WWII had just been concluded, and the rug-chewing madman Hitler was in his grave.
As to the economy and how it is really doing, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Wall Street tumbles to sharply lower close as abrupt sell-off snaps rally” by Stephen Culp on December 20, 2023, where we have this little burst of REALITY, to wit:
FedEx shares tumbled 12.1% after the package delivery company missed quarterly profit estimates and cut its full-year revenue forecast as it battles United Parcel Service in what is shaping up to be a weak holiday season.
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A weak holiday season?
But that couldn’t be, because, ah, well, you see, consumer confidence is up!
So it must be that FedEx simply does not know what it is talking about!
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US holiday retail sales grow 3.1%, down from prior year, Mastercard says” on December 26, 2023, for this economic news, to wit:
Dec 26 (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rose 3.1% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, as shoppers looked for last-minute Christmas deals amid big promotions, a Mastercard report showed on Tuesday.
The increase is lower than the 3.7% growth Mastercard forecast in September and last year’s 7.6% rise as higher interest rates and inflation pressured consumer spending.
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INFLATION CAUSED BY BIDE-O-NOMICS PRESSURED CONSUMER SPENDING WHILE HIGHER INTEREST RATES WERE AS A RESULT OF JOE BIDEN’S FEDERAL RESERVE TRYING TO FIGHT THE INFLATION CAUSED BY JOE BIDEN’S BIDE-O-NOMICS.
But hey, people, nothing to fear, because, ah, well hey, you know, consumer confidence is up, which takes us back to that article, to wit:
Arun Sundaram, an analyst at CRFA Research, said many shoppers waited for Black Friday and Cyber Monday to make holiday purchases and finished the final sprint during Super Saturday.
“Consumers are still spending, but they’re still price conscious and want to stretch their budgets,” Sundaram said.
He said the weeks between Cyber Monday and Super Saturday were a “soft period” for spending, but shoppers used the final weekend before Christmas to look for “big deals.”
Ecommerce sales grew at the slower pace of 6.3% compared to last year’s 10.6% as the popularity of online shopping came off pandemic highs, the report showed.
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So much for high consumer confidence, which means exactly nothing in the grand scheme of things, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing mired in weakness, economy heading for slowdown” by Lucia Mutikani on December 1, 2023, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing remained subdued in November, with factory employment declining further as hiring slowed and layoffs increased, more evidence that the economy was losing momentum after robust growth last quarter.
Economic activity is cooling as higher interest rates crimp demand.
The ISM said that its manufacturing PMI was unchanged at 46.7 last month.
It was the 13th consecutive month that the PMI stayed below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing.
That is the longest such stretch since the period from August 2000 to January 2002.
Comments from manufacturers were mostly downbeat and cited the need to reduce inventory levels.
Makers of computer and electronic products said the “economy appears to be slowing dramatically.”
Miscellaneous manufacturing firms said “customer orders have pushed into the first quarter of 2024, resulting in inflated end-of-year inventory.”
Producers of food, beverage and tobacco reported that “our executives have requested that we bring down inventory levels considerably, and it has started causing customer shortages.”
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And then we had a Reuters article titled “US factory orders fall 3.6% in October” on December 4, 2023, where we had this economic news, to wit:
Dec 4 (Reuters) – New orders for U.S.-made goods fell more than expected in October, marking the biggest monthly drop in roughly three and a half years, constrained by weakening demand for durable goods and transportation equipment and bolstering the view that high interest rates are beginning to bite into spending.
Factory orders fell 3.6% after a downwardly revised 2.3% in September, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Monday, the biggest monthly drop since April 2020.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast orders would decline 2.8%.
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But take heart, people, because all is well!
How do I know?
Karine Jean-Pierre, who knows these things, told me so!
And she wouldn’t lie to us, would she?
YEAH, RIGHT, of course she would because that is what Joe Biden pays her to do!
Paul Plante says
I honestly believe that this Karine Jean-Pierre has to be one of the STUPIDEST people on the face of the planet, and because she is the PROPAGANDA MINISTER for American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a dictator in fact in America, she seems to think that she too can be a little dictator, dictating to us what it is we have to think about matters of importance to us, which flies right in the face of what is known here in America, where I am a CITIZEN, not a mindless, cud-chewing CONSUMER (a person or thing that eats or uses something), where intellectual liberty gives people, that being us, the taxpayers of this nation who pay an exorbitant amount of money for the poor excuse of a federal government that we get in return from this Biden regime, the RIGHT to think for ourselves and it respects individual dignity and self-rule, which freedom allows people like me to form their own ideas and opinions by questioning the world around them, something I fought and bled for in Viet Nam to protect, and so, I for one do not appreciate it being denied to me here in America, where I have been a CITIZEN for over seventy-five years, by an ignorant crap=spewing idiot like Karine Jean-Pierre, who quite obviously DOES NOT even make an attempt to check what is actually going on in the world before she starts to spew her BULL**** version of what is going on in the world to us, as if it is we who are the stupid ones, and not she, and she obviously is to0tally ignorant of AMERICAN HISTORY, believing that she does not need to know it, on an assumption that none of us are aware of anything other than what she tells us to believe.
And here I am talking about what is known as DEBT-FUELED CONSUMERISM, one of the root causes of the GREAT DEPRESSION that began in 1929, when the stock market did the unthinkable and CRASHED!
For example, in her spew of ignorant rubbish in the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, she said as follows:
“We’re headed in the right direction as it relates to the economy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of those positive trends during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC.
“We pay attention to the data that showed consumer confidence was up, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created.”
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Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US job openings, quits near three-year low as labor market eases” by Lucia Mutikani on January 3, 2024, where we have some economic reality that the idiot KJP is blissfully unaware of, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. job openings fell to nearly a three-year low in November as the labor market gradually cools, which could pave the way for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates this year.
Americans are also feeling the shift in the labor market, with the report from the Labor Department on Wednesday showing the number of people quitting their jobs, most likely for higher paying positions, dropping to the lowest level since February 2021.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, were down 62,000 to 8.790 million by the last day of November, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report.
That was the lowest level since March 2021.
There were 128,000 fewer open positions in the transportation, warehousing and utilities industry.
Medium-sized and large companies accounted for the total decline in open jobs in the private sector.
Hiring continued to lag, falling 363,000 to 5.465 million, the lowest level since April 2020.
The professional and business services sector reported a decline of 163,000.
The hires rate dropped to 3.5%, also the lowest in nearly four years, from 3.7% in October.
Resignations decreased 157,000 to 3.471 million, the lowest level since February 2021.
The drop was led by the professional and business services sector, where quits decreased 77,000.
The quits rate, viewed as a measure of labor market confidence, fell to 2.2%.
That was the lowest level since September 2020.
News on manufacturing, which has been bruised by the higher borrowing costs, remains downbeat.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported on Wednesday that its manufacturing PMI increased to 47.4 in December after being unchanged at 46.7 for two straight months.
It was the 14th consecutive month that the PMI stayed below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing, the longest such stretch since the August 2000-January 2002 period.
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Which takes us back to 1933, and economist Irving Fisher, who himself went bust in 1929 because he had borrowed heavily to invest in a stock market he thought would keep going up, explaining as a CAUSE of the GREAT DEPRESSION that to keep up with their house, auto, and other debt payments, people cut back on their spending, which, he said, was the major reason consumer demand dropped, which caused more price and wage deflation, less investment, falling output by companies, and layoffs.
STAY TUNED!
Paul Plante says
It is said that people who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, but personally, I think people in America who don’t know history are either stupid, like Karine Jean-Pierre, and wish to remain ignorant, or they have been deprived of a proper education to keep them ignorant, so they can’t question what is going on in the world around them – the ideal GOOD AMERICANS, like the GOOD GERMANS in Germany during WWII.
Wikipedia, incidentally, defines GOOD GERMANS as follows: Good Germans is an ironic term — usually placed between single quotes such as ‘Good Germans’ — referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way.
Going back to the crap spew of Karine Jean-Pierre, aka KJP or “BINDER” in the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, she said as follows:
“We pay attention to the data, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created.”
And guess what, BINDER, so do I, and you have no different data than I do to peruse, and as we hear about all these HIGH PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden tells us that he personally is creating, this is what I have on that very subject from the CNBC article titled “Private payrolls added 164,000 in December, beating expectations, ADP says” by Jeff Cox on January 4, 2024, to wit:
A rebound in leisure and hospitality led the way, as the sector added 59,000 positions, ADP reported.
Hotels, restaurants, bars and similar establishments were leaders in job creation after getting eviscerated in the early days of the Covid pandemic, but that trend tailed off in recent months.
The sector also led in wage gains, with annual growth of 6.4%.
Construction contributed 24,000 to the total, while the other services category, which includes dry cleaning and other support businesses, added 22,000.
Financial activities increased 18,000.
There were only a few categories down on the month, with manufacturing off 13,000 and information services and natural resources and mining both seeing a decline of 2,000.
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So, high-paying good union jobs?
Uh, sure, BINDER!
And while we are on the subject of the same DEBT–FUELED CONSUMERISM that resulted in the GREAT DEPRESSION, which used to be a mandatory subject of study in HIGH SCHOOL, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US bankruptcies surged 18% in 2023 and seen rising again in 2024 -report” on January 3, 2024, where we have as follows:
Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. bankruptcy filings surged by 18% in 2023 on the back of higher interest rates, tougher lending standards and the continued runoff of pandemic-era backstops, data published Wednesday showed, although insolvency case volumes remain well below the level seen before the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Now, focus on the phrase “the continued runoff of pandemic-era backstops,” because that is an important element here in what is coming next.
Consumers have been spending because Joe Biden used borrowed government money to load up their pockets with cash, to give them the ILLUSION, not the reality, of “wealth.”
An example is the fact that because I have good credit, at one point, I had four different offers of $250,000 lines of credit, which means I am really a MILLIONAIRE, right?
But that is pure BULL**** and I would be as stupid as Karine Jean-Pierre if I were foolish enough to think otherwise.
So people are running out of stimulus money and they are finding out that they are not really “wealthy,” at all and now, as they always do, the chickens are coming home to roost, and the bills are coming due, with no more money coming from Joe to pay them, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Total bankruptcy filings – encompassing commercial and personal insolvencies – rose to 445,186 last year from 378,390 in 2022, according to data from bankruptcy data provider Epiq AACER.
Commercial Chapter 11 business reorganization filings shot up by 72% to 6,569 from 3,819 the year before, the report said.
Consumer filings rose 18% to 419,55 from 356,911 in 2022.
“As anticipated, we saw new filings in 2023 increase momentum over 2022 with a significant number of commercial filers leading the expected increase and normalization back to pre-pandemic bankruptcy volumes,” said Michael Hunter, vice president of Epiq AACER.
“We expect the increase in number of consumer and commercial filers seeking bankruptcy protection to continue in 2024 given the runoff of pandemic stimulus, increased cost of funds, higher interest rates, rising delinquency rates, and near historic levels of household debt.”
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And ALL of that is a direct result of BIDE-O-NOMICS – the runoff of pandemic stimulus which helped to cause BIDENFLATION, the increased cost of funds as a result of the federal reserve fighting the BIDEFLATION caused by Joe’s stimulation money, higher interest rates caused by a rise in ten-year treasury note interest rates, rising delinquency rates as people are getting squeezed by BIDEFLATION at the same time their Biden stimulation money is running out, and near historic levels of household debt.
Hello, 1929!
Going back to the story, we have more, as follows:
Household debt did, in fact, stand at a record high $17.3 trillion at the end of the third quarter, according to data from the New York Federal Reserve.
Financial conditions for businesses and households have tightened significantly over the last two years thanks to the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes to contain inflation.
Rates on mortgage loans, for instance, in the second half of last year shot to their highest since the start of the century.
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Reality is a real bitch, isn’t it!
And going back to the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, we have BINDER telling us as follows:
Jean-Pierre noted how Biden continues to reiterate that “the job is not done” and that the White House knows it needs “to do more” to continue lowering costs for families across the United States.
She said that further implementation of Biden’s past legislative victories, including the bipartisan infrastructure law and the ean-Pierre noted how Biden continues to reiterate that “the job is not done” and that the White House knows it needs “to do more” to continue lowering costs for families across the United States.
She said that further implementation of Biden’s past legislative victories, including the bipartisan infrastructure law and the CHIPS and Science Act, will result in additional savings for households.
“As we move forward into 2024, the president’s priority, as well as lowering costs for the American people, is going to make sure that we implement, we implement those pieces of legislation,” she continued.
“I think that’s how we deal with whatever may come our way, is making sure that we’re moving forward in implementing those key pieces of legislation.”
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And that takes us to another Reuters article titled “US chip stocks tumble after strongest year since 2009” by Noel Randewich on January 3, 2024, where we have more reality related to Joe Biden’s so-called CHIPS and Science Act, which Joe and BINDER tell us will result in additional savings for households, to wit:
Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. chip stocks added to a string of losses on Wednesday, with Wall Street’s main semiconductor benchmark tumbling from record highs following its strongest year since 2009, when the sector bounced back after the financial crisis.
Drops of over 2% in Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Broadcom weighed most on the PHLX semiconductor index, which was down 2.1%.
The chip index has now declined almost 7% since reaching a record high close on Dec. 27.
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And hey, how about that stock market, now will you:
Reuters
“S&P, Nasdaq begin 2024 with lower close as Apple, big tech weighs”
By David French
January 2, 2024
Jan 2 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed the first trading session of 2024 lower, weighed by a fall in Apple shares after a broker downgrade and declines among other big-tech names triggered by a move higher by Treasury yields.
The S&P 500 lost 27 points, or 0.57%, to end at 4,742.83 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 245.41 points, or 1.63%, to 14,765.94.
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Reuters
“Wall St notches second lower finish as 2024 starts with profit-taking”
By David French
January 3, 2024
Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes ended the second session of the year down again in extended profit-taking on Wednesday after a strong finish to 2023, with minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December meeting failing to shake off the funk hanging over markets.
It was the first time the benchmark S&P 500 index has started the year with two straight declines since it kicked off 2015 with a three-session skid.
It is also its worst two-day result, on a percentage basis, since late-October.
The S&P 500) lost 38.02 points, or 0.8%, to end at 4,704.81 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 173.73 points, or 1.18%, to 14,592.21.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 284.85 points, or 0.76%, to 37,430.19.
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Reuters
“S&P, Nasdaq extend year-start skid to three; Dow higher on financials”
By David French
January 4, 2024
Jan 4 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed lower on Thursday, extending their losing streak that kicked off 2024, although the Dow Jones Industrial eked out a win on the back of financial stocks and strong jobs data.
For the S&P 500, this is the worst start to a year since it began 2015 with a three-session skid, as tech-focused investors continued to take profits after a blistering rally in the final weeks of last year.
The S&P 500 lost 16.13 points, or 0.34%, to end at 4,688.68 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 81.91 points, or 0.56%, at 14,510.3.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10.15 points, or 0.03%, to 37,440.34.
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But hey, people, just because it is going down doesn’t mean that it really isn’t going up, so nothing to see here, people, and now as George W. Bush famously said – GET OUT THERE AND DO WHAT YOU DO BEST, WHICH IS SPEND. SPEND, SPEND!
And when you run out of money, don’t worry, because Joe Biden will be there to bail you out!
Paul Plante says
There actually was a time in my life, this being many, many years ago, when I was young, when I truly thought our national government was the pinnacle of truth, honor and justice.
Now, I rate the whole pitiful lash-up, including the DANGEROUS and TOTALLY WORTHLESS DEMOCRATS and the sorry Republicans, the DICTATORIAL presidency and the congress, as NOT WORTH A DAMN, period, and the last place I would expect to find truth, honor and justice would be in Washington, DC, and especially in the Biden white house, which is packed chock-a-block with LIARS, idiots and fools, all of whom are arrogant in the extreme, especially this BIDEN PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, aka KJP and BINDER, which takes us back to her claim in the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, that “We pay attention to the data, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created,” as if she and Joe Biden and his pack of idiots and fools had access to some kind of “data,” a very pretentious (attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed) sounding term when it comes from out of the mouth of KJP, that we, the so-called “GREAT UNWASHED” in America outside the Washington Beltway, do not have access to which is just plain old-fashioned HOG****, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US economy cranks out jobs at brisk clip in December; wages increase” by Lucia Mutikani on January 5, 2024, where we have some data of our own to consider, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in December while raising wages at a solid clip, casting some doubt on financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates in March.
There were, however, some cracks in the closely watched employment report from the Labor Department on Friday.
The economy added 71,000 fewer jobs in October and November than previously reported.
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And there is the BULL**** game this DICTATORIAL Biden administration has been playing with us, which is to INFLATE the job numbers to impress the easily impressable, while at the same time giving Joe and BINDER something to brag about, and then, five minutes later, when nobody is looking any more, having moved on to the next TWEET on TWITTER, now X for some unexplained reason, put out the true numbers which are lower.
But moving along here as we fact-check BINDER, something the BIDEN APOLOGISTS and ENABLERS in the main-stream and legacy media are clearly afraid to do, as it would be both homophobic and racist, which gives BINDER double immunity to spew her MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION and plain old-fashioned outright lies, we have more “data,” as follows:
Household employment fell sharply and the workweek was on average slightly shorter than in November.
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But that of course cannot be true, because it flies right in the face of the PROPAGANDA NARRATIVE being fed to us by BINDER on behalf of the DICTATORIAL BIDEN REGIME, which takes us to this, to wit:
The economy added 2.7 million jobs in 2023, a sharp step-down from the 4.8 million positions created in 2022.
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And WHOA, people, STOP THE PRESSES here!
Can that be true, that in 2023, the economy ONLY added 2.7 million jobs, which is a sharp step-down from the 4.8 million positions created in 2022?
I mean, well, hey, BINDER told us EIGHTEEN MILLION, and she would never lie to us, would she, paragon of virtue that she is, so it must be Reuters who are wrong here!
And with that said, since these are Joe’s own figures we are being given here by Reuters, let’s see where all these HIGH-PAYING UNION JOBS really are, to wit:
Government hiring as state and local authorities try to bring education staffing back to pre-pandemic levels led the rise in employment last month, with 52,000 jobs added.
Government payrolls growth averaged 56,000 jobs per month in 2023, more than double the average monthly gain of 23,000 in 2022.
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Government jobs?
Uh, okay, but since the government doesn’t produce anything, other than a lot of hot air, we certainly can’t count those as manufacturing related, unless we are counting manufacturing BULL**** as manufacturing jobs, which takes us back to Joe’s own numbers, which aren’t adding up to EIGHTEEN MILLION, to wit:
Employment in the healthcare sector increased 38,000, spread across ambulatory healthcare services and hospitals.
Unseasonably mild weather boosted hiring at construction sites, with payrolls in the industry rising 17,000.
Leisure and hospitality employment gained 40,000.
Retail employment rose 17,400.
Professional and business services payrolls rose 13,000, but temporary help services shed another 33,300 positions.
Employment in the sector, seen as a harbinger for future hiring, has declined for 11 straight months.
Manufacturing jobs increased 6,000.
But employment in the transportation and warehousing industry fell 22,600.
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Manufacturing jobs increased by 6,000?
I thought it was EIGHTEEN MILLION!
I must not have heard right, I guess.
And hey, how about that stock market now will you!
Let’s take a look and see by going to the Reuters article titled “Wall Street posts small Friday win, but first weekly decline in ten” by David French on January 5, 2024, where we have this HUGE GOOD NEWS which proves that just because it is going down doesn’t mean it’s not really going up, just like it did in 1929, to wit:
Jan 5 (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes endured a topsy-turvy session on Friday but ultimately closed marginally higher, although the small gains did not stop the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite from starting 2024 with their worst weekly showing in months.
All three benchmarks recorded their first weekly declines for ten weeks: the S&P 500 dropped 1.54%, while the Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.26%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.59%.
For the S&P 500, it was its worst weekly performance since late October, while the Nasdaq posted its worst week since late September.
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Spurious data, people, so disregard it, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Friday’s session saw markets gyrate throughout the day, as investors absorbed the latest macroeconomic data which offered contrasting views on when interest rate cuts may begin.
Initially, robust jobs data in a report from the Labor Department, which showed U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in December, doused expectations of rapid easing of interest rates, pushing futures lower.
However, a survey from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) then showed activity in the services sector fell in December, pointing to a weaker economy.
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Activity in the services sector fell in December, pointing to a weaker economy?
No way, Jose!
That can’t be right, because it flies in the face of what Karine Jean-Pierre is telling us, and since she is always right, that has got to be wrong as there is no other politically-correct way to look at it!
So what did the stock market do?
Let’s look, to wit:
On Friday, the S&P 500 gained 8.56 points, or 0.18%, to end at 4,697.24 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 13.77 points, or 0.09%, to 14,524.07.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.77 points, or 0.07%, to 37,466.11.
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Sing HALLLUJAH, people, and say AMEN, because like it did in 1929, the stock market came roaring back up on Friday, so happy days are here again!
And after a break for station identification, we will be right back with news on the service sector, and MAGA-nomics, a new term KJP has invented for us, so don’t change that dial!
Paul Plante says
I don’t know about anyone else in here, especially young people in America with no basis for comparison, but I cannot believe that I am sitting here in what used to be the United States of America, now the DISUNITED ****HOLE of America, listening to the absolutely stupid and ignorant spew of pure political garbage that pours forth from Washington, DC on a daily basis, through DEMOCRAT apologists in the main-stream and legacy media that are the organs of the propagation of IGNORANT political bull**** for the Biden white house.
For a vivid example of ignorant political BULL**** being spewed forth to the American people by the Biden white house, we have this Fox News story titled “Biden admin shifts blame as national debt reaches historic high of $34 trillion” by Brandon Gillespie on 4 Januay 2024, as follows:
The Biden administration spared no time in attempting to shift blame toward Republicans over America’s national debt reaching a historic high of $34 trillion this week despite President Biden having been in office for nearly three full years.
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And what a surprise, because the Biden regime SHIFTS BLAME for everything Joe Biden has ****** up, which takes us back to the AIRHEAD IDIOT BIDEN PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, as follows:
“If you look at that data, there’s a trickle down debt.”
“If you think about it, Republican tax cuts are responsible for about 90% of it — of the increase in the debt as a share of the economy over the last two decades, excluding emergency spending,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed during Wednesday’s press briefing.
Despite the new record high, Jean-Pierre argued Biden had taken action to lower the debt, including signing the Inflation Reduction Act, which some experts predicted would actually cost the U.S. more than originally projected, and “cracking down on wealthy tax cheats” through actions like growing the IRS.
“His agenda would cut the deficit another $2.5 trillion by making the wealthy pay their fair share.”
“So that is what the president has done.”
“What we’ve seen on the other side is the complete opposite.”
“What they’ve tried to do is continue to give a tax break to the millionaires and billionaires, and what they have actually put forward would add more than $3 trillion to the debt,” she added.
Fox Business reporter Edward Lawrence pressed Jean-Pierre on her claims, noting the length of time Biden had already been in office, as well as that the U.S. had added $10 billion per day to the national debt without a reduction.
But she doubled down.
“Republican tax cuts are responsible for 90%, 90% of the increase in the debt.”
“90%.”
“That is something that Republicans are responsible for,” she responded.
“[The president] put forth legislation like lowering the deficit by $1 trillion, and that’s part of lowering prescription drug costs and cracking down on the wealthy tax cheats.”
“That’s what he’s done,” she said.
“And meanwhile, yeah, you know what?”
“The GOP, congressional Republicans, what they want to do is they want to continue with their MAGAnomics.”
“What they’ve proposed will add $3 trillion to the debt,” she added.
Last year, Biden was scrutinized by several liberal fact-checkers for claiming his administration had reduced the budget deficit by $1.7 billion dollars, a critical step in lowering the national debt.”
“Some called the claim “misleading,” and “lacking context.”
In May, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office revealed that the federal government under Biden had run a near-$1 trillion federal deficit in the “first seven months of fiscal year 2023.”
It found that in those months alone, the federal government had racked up $928,000,000,000.
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So now, as the SILLY SEASON begins its acceleration towards the November presidential elections, we can expect to be barraged continuously with this new term KJP and the white house PROPAGANDA TEAM have invented, that being MAGANOMICS, which is BAD, in contrast to BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is good.
And of course, “TOODLES” Yellen, a die-hard idiot and Biden cheerleader is back on the scene in a Forbes article titled “‘Soft Landing’ Achieved: Janet Yellen Says Goal Reached After Recession Fears—But Some Still Skeptical” by Molly Bohannon on 6 January 2024, as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview on CNN on Friday that the U.S. has achieved a “soft landing” after years of concerns about the U.S. economy following the Covid-19 pandemic and high inflation rates — a scenario many economists once thought unlikely.
“What we’re seeing now I think we can describe as a soft landing and my hope is that it will continue,” Yellen said on CNN on Friday.
Yellen gave credit for the soft landing to the American people and President Joe Biden, saying: “The American people go to work every day, participate in the labor market, form new businesses, but President Biden has tried to create incentives that give Americans the tools they need to help this economy grow.”
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EXCEPT THERE HASN’T BEEN A SOFT LANDING, and “TOODLES” is doing what she does best, which is lying to us on behalf of Joe Biden, as if we were too stupid and uninformed to know the difference, while the mindless, thumb-sucking PEABRAINS at CNN, who fact-check NOTHING spewed forth by the Biden regime, let he get away with i9t, which makes them DISSEMINATORS of MISINFORMATIO(NH, DI(SINFORMATION and OUTRIGHT LIES, as we clearly see from a CNBC article titled “Fed’s Barkin sees likely soft landing ahead but notes rate hikes still a possibility” by Jeff Cox on January 3, 2024 where we have the other side of that story, to wit:
Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin on Wednesday expressed confidence that the economy is on its way to a soft landing, but obstacles remain that will require caution from him and his fellow policymakers.
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And WHOA, Tom, you have to be wrong, because “TOODLES” Yellen, who far outranks you as a former fed chair for Hussein Obama and treasury secretary for Joe Biden says we are already there, and since she would NEVER lie to us, being as pure and holy as HILLARY Clinton and the driven snow, so it must be you, Tom, but then, let’s not be all that hasty here to come to a quick judgment here based on what “TOODLES” Yellen, a known prevaricator and Biden cheerleader is saying, so let’s go back for more of what Tom is telling us, to wit:
“We’re making real progress,” Barkin, a voting member this year on the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, said in prepared remarks for a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“Now, everyone is talking about the potential for a soft landing, where inflation completes its journey back to normal levels while the economy stays healthy.”
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POTENTIAL FOR A SOFT LANDING?
WTF?
I thought we were here, wheels down and all good to go, so back to Tom for further explanation we go:
He compared the Fed’s job to a pilot bringing an airplane in for a landing, and noted four risks ahead: The economy could “run out of fuel” and growth could reverse; “unexpected turbulence” such as geopolitical events or the banking shock that hit in March 2023; the possibility of “approaching the wrong airport,” where inflation holds above the Fed’s 2% target; and a “delayed landing,” where demand holds unexpectedly high, boosting inflation.
“The airport is on the horizon.”
“But landing a plane isn’t easy, especially when the outlook is foggy, and headwinds and tailwinds can affect your course,” Barkin said.
“It’s easy to oversteer and do too much or understeer and do too little.”
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So, okay, Tom, I’ll buy into that – we have a long way yet to go before wheels down SAFELY back on earth.
And as to “TOODLES” Yellen and Joe Biden, their SO(FT LANDING will look just like the plane in this picture, to wit:
https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/video/downed-united-states-airplane-on-fire-news-footage/mr_00003906
Paul Plante says
What is a shallow thinker?
According to Collins English Dictionary, it is an adjective applied to someone lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; someone who is superficial, a shallow-minded Pollyanna.
A shallow thinker just looks at first-order consequences.
A deep thinker, on the other hand, looks at the whole chain of effects, impacts, and outcomes.
Shallow thinkers are incapable, and sometimes too lazy, to look at all sides of an issue or to explore the issues deeply before making judgment or decision.
Merriam-Webster answers the question “what is the meaning of shallow thinking” by telling us it means lacking in depth of knowledge, thought, or feeling, as in a “shallow demagogue,” and if anyone thinks I am talking about American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior here, along with his commerce secretary Gina Marie Raimondo, born May 17, 1971, who is an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist, and his treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, and the rest of the people Joe has selected to surround him and advise him, like Tony Blinken and his witless sidekick Jake Sullivan, they are dead on the money, especially with respect to Joe, who is the ALPHA, the leader of that pack (cue The Shangri-Las – Leader of the Pack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5vFOpVGjVc ).
As to the question “what is short-sighted thinking,” Cambridge Dictionary tells us that it means “not thinking enough about how an action will affect the future”
A related term, “psychological myopia,” which Joe Biden is quite clearly afflicted with, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, refers to the tendency in decision makers like Joe Biden to focus on information immediately related to their judgment and to ignore other, less prominent, pieces of information, so9 that because Joe Biden often ignores pieces of information in his decision-making processes, it makes him think short-sightedly, and it is we, the American people who are paying and will continue to pay the price for that that, and if anyone thinks otherwi8se, they are as short-sighted as is Joe Biden and his pack of self-serving idiots that he has surrounded himself with, which takes us to a Fox News article titled “Giant offshore wind project axed in blow to Biden’s green goals” by Thomas Catenacci on 4 January 2024, where we have this clear example of the toxic mix of short-sightedness and shallow thinking that permeates the Biden administration from bottom to the very top, to wit:
The cancelation of Empire Wind 2 comes weeks after the Biden administration formally approved it and its counterpart, Empire Wind 1, in November.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) and Energy Department have both endorsed the project, while the White House has referred to it as a success story of “Bidenomics.”
“Under President Biden’s leadership, the American offshore wind industry is continuing to expand rapidly — creating good-paying union jobs across the manufacturing, shipbuilding and construction sectors,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Nov. 21 after green-lighting Empire Wind 2.
“Today’s approval of the sixth offshore wind project adds to the significant progress towards our Administration’s clean energy goals.”
DOI added that “Bidenomics and the President’s Investing in America agenda are growing the American economy from the middle out and bottom up.”
The agency also said the Empire Wind projects would support President Biden’s lofty green energy goals.
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Except Joe Biden’s “lofty green energy goals,” which I refer to as Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM is and always was a PIPE DREAM (an unattainable or fanciful hope or plan), which takes us back to that article, to wit:
Global energy developers Equinor and BP announced Wednesday they are canceling the contract for a massive wind project slated for construction off the coast of New York.
The two companies said they had reached an agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to terminate the offshore wind renewable energy certificate for their Empire Wind 2 project.
Equinor and BP explained that commercial conditions, namely inflation, interest rates and supply chain disruptions, prevented its contract for the project from remaining viable.
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Yes, people, BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS coupled with HIGH INTEREST RATES as the federal reserve tries to fight the BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to this, to wit:
“Commercial viability is fundamental for ambitious projects of this size and scale.”
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And my goodness, people who’d a thought it?
Certainly not Joe Biden, Jennifer Granholm and Deb Haaland, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
It also comes shortly after energy developer Orsted canceled its Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 twin projects which were also approved and hailed by the Biden administration.
Orsted also blamed negative economic conditions.
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And with that said, let’s head to a commercial break and a pause for station identification, but don’t change that dial, because if the dam don’t break, and the creek don’t rise, we will be right back with more about this FIASCO that is the administration of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a DICTATOR anywhere in the world, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of this DICTATORIAL Biden regime continually lying to us through its teeth while its enablers and apologists in the main-stream and legacy media like CNN, which serves as a PROPAGANDA ORGAN for the failing and flailing Biden regime, spew forth MISINFOMATION and DISINFORMATION and more outright lies on behalf of Joe Biden himself, let’s go to an article in the Western Journal titled “Biden Campaign Holding Coaching Sessions with Establishment Media, Invoking Special ‘Spreadsheet'” by Allison Anton on 9 January 2024, where we have this latest news to come out about how the Biden campaign is trying to RIG this upcoming presidential election in its favor, to wit:
Most of us are aware by now that the establishment media is in the pocket of the Democrats.
But this new revelation from the Biden campaign takes it to a whole other level.
In a move that would make most citizens wonder if they’re living in North Korea rather than the United States, word has leaked out that the Biden administration is holding coaching sessions with the press, where the Biden campaign can tell political reporters and commentators “what they’re getting wrong.”
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And seriously, people, as the lies spew forth constantly and continually from Joe Biden and his lackeys like Deb Haaland and Gina Raimondo, and Jennifer Granholm and Ian Sams and REAR ADMIRAL John “JACK” Kirby and Karine Jean-Pierre, can we be at all surprised to find ourselves now being compared to North Korea, another DICTATORSHIP the BIDEN DICTATORSHIP seems to be modeling itself on?
Not hardly, is my thought, and that brings us to this definition of “free press” from Wikipedia, to wit:
What is the free press theory?
A free and independent press has been theorized to be a key mechanism of a functioning, healthy democracy. In the absence of censorship, journalism exists as a watchdog of private and government action, providing information to maintain an informed citizenry of voters.
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Thankfully, we still have the Cape Charles Mirror to provide that function for us, which function the DICTATORIAL Biden regime wants to suppress, which takes us to this definition that applies to the Biden regime policies, to wit:
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy and political plurality. It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting.
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Which accurate description of the Biden regime takes us back to the Western Journal article, to wit:
According to news site Semafor, two insiders revealed that “during meetings with reporters from outlets like The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, campaign officials have invoked a coverage spreadsheet laying out areas where the team believes their reporting has fallen short.”
“They’re also using it as an opportunity to tell them what they’re getting wrong,” per the outlet.
Further, Biden campaign staffers “[are] scheduled to meet in the coming days with political reporting teams from ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, and others in Wilmington.”
According to Semafor, these meetings between the press and the major figures of the Biden campaign, such as his “campaign manager, deputies, and other high-ranking advisors,” were “off-the-record,” suggesting that we plebeians were never supposed to know about them.
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And my goodness, people, of course we are not supposed to know about the authoritarian Biden regime using its political muscle to RIG this upcoming presidential election by SUPPRESSING TRUTH, while feeding us a barrage of lies about Joe Biden, instead, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Apparently, though, the meeting with The New York times didn’t go so well.
(Perhaps the journalists working for one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country didn’t appreciate being told how to do their job.)
Once this news leaked on X, users there did not hold back, mocking the administration for implementing such a ridiculous strategy.
According to Fox News, President Joe Biden’s frustrations seem to stem from the coverage he receives in contrast to former President Donald Trump.
As originally reported in Semafor, “campaign officials have chafed at some of the coverage of former President Donald Trump, feeling that outlets are too focused on his legal troubles and haven’t paid enough attention to some of his incendiary recent statements on the campaign trail.”
As reported in Fox News, the White House also expressed frustration this past December regarding coverage of the economy and was further frustrated by the reporting of Biden’s negative over his more positive poll results.
As ridiculous as the scenario of career politicians and campaign staffers dictating to the press on how they should cover the president’s campaign is, it is indicative of something more sinister at work in the intersection of the media and the government.
The whole point of the press is that it’s supposed to be independent from the government.
It’s the free press after all; the press should not just be a propaganda tool for a political party, and it absolutely should not be receiving private coaching sessions from the sitting president’s campaign staff as to how report on the president correctly.
There are two major issues on display here.
Number one, the fact that the Biden campaign had no issue with stepping over the line that is supposed to separate the press and the government speaks volumes as to how the Biden administration views the power it has been granted by the American people.
Number two, that so many major news organizations so readily agreed to meet with the Biden campaign off the record (or at least seemed to) is nothing short of shocking.
The press should never have even entertained the idea, let alone conducted what seem to have been multiple meetings on the subject.
Instead of trying to improve the Biden campaign, at least by perhaps walking back some of Biden’s more controversial moves, the campaign staff instead secretly meet with the press with the intent of, essentially, instructing the media on how to report on Biden’s campaign.
The Biden campaign’s move to dictate to the press how it should report on Trump and Biden should be deeply concerning to every American.
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Indeed, it is!
Hence this series of articles about the PROPAGANDA spewed forth by the Biden regime, courtesy of this GRAND PALLADIUM of our LIBERTY, the venerable Cape Charles Mirror!
Paul Plante says
So, this morning we have DEMOCRAT VOTER SUPPRESSION in New Hampshire, as well as Hatch Act violations by the staff of Joe Biden including his PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, Ian Sams, and Joe’s cabinet secretaries to whom the Hatch Act applies , who is quite obviously, openly and blatantly running his re-election campaign from out of the oval office in the corruption-tarnished white house in Washington, D.C. using GOVERNMENT RESOURCES, which include government time, government titles, and the authority of an employee’s official position, as if they were his personal property, as opposed the property of the CITIZENS of America to whom the AUTOCRAT Biden is responsible to for his conduct in office, which takes us to Chapter 36 of the “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States” written by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Joseph Story and published in 1833, where we have as follows regarding this sorry and pitiful administration of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the most openly corrupt president in this nation’s history as well as the most incompetent and inept, to wit:
No man, who has ever deeply read the human history, and especially the history of republics, but has been struck with the consciousness, how little has been hitherto done to establish a safe depositary of power in any hands; and how often in the hands of one, or a few, or many, of an hereditary monarch, or an elective chief, the executive power has brought ruin upon the state, or sunk under the oppressive burden of its own imbecility.
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THE EXECUTIVE POWER HAS BROUGHT RUIN UPON THE STATE DUE TO THE OPPRESSIVE BURDEN OF ITS OWN IMBECILITY!
Story obviously had prescient vision and saw Joe Biden coming from a long way back when he wrote those words in 1833, which takes us to VOTER SUPPRESSION in New Hampshire by Joe Biden, himself,
By way of background, the Democratic primary in the New Hampshire has been mired in controversy ever since national Democrats, at the specific request of the DICTATOR Biden, decided to boot New Hampshire from its historic spot as the country’s first primary, relying on Joe Biden’s argument that the state isn’t representative of his voters or the country.
So much for DEMOCRACY in the weird world of Joe Biden.
DICTATOR Biden last year backed an effort by national Democrats to push New Hampshire’s contest later in the 2024 cycle, despite a state law mandating that it hold the first primary, and because of the dispute, the national party threatened any candidates who appeared on the Granite State ballot with penalties, and when New Hampshire didn’t move the primary as Joe Biden required it to, the party stripped the delegates it would have awarded — making the Jan. 23 contest purely symbolic, and the DICTATOR Biden said he won’t officially be on the ballot.
Which brings us to a Fox News story titled “New Hampshire’s attorney general fires off cease and desist letter to DNC over ‘deceptive’ comments on primary” by Paul Steinhauser on 9 January 2024, where we learn as follows, to wit:
New Hampshire’s Republican attorney general is taking aim at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for what he argues are “false, deceptive, and misleading” comments about the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
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Of course, the category “false, deceptive, and misleading” comments covers EVERYTHING that comes out of the corrupt Biden white house, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Formella cited a Jan. 5 letter sent to (state Democratic Party chair Ray) Buckley by the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee — which oversees the party’s nominating calendar — telling the state party chair to inform local Democrats that New Hampshire’s upcoming presidential primary — which is in violation of the national party’s 2024 nominating calendar — is “meaningless.”
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In other words, Joe Biden through his DNC is STRIPPING the voters of New Hampshire of their votes, because Joe Biden doesn’t like how they use them, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The state attorney general said calling the primary meaningless violates New Hampshire voter suppression laws.
The development is the latest in a more than yearlong family feud between DNC and Democrats in the state that for a century has held the first primary in the race for the White House.
Democrats for years have knocked both Iowa — whose caucuses kicked off both major parties’ nominating calendars for five decades — and New Hampshire as unrepresentative of the party as a whole because the state has a largely White population with few major urban areas.
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And DEMOCRACY in Biden World therefore should not include those voters, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
While Republicans aren’t making major changes to their schedule, the DNC last year overwhelmingly approved a calendar proposed by President Biden to move South Carolina to the lead position on Feb. 3.
The president and supporters of the new calendar argued that it would empower minority voters, upon whom Democrats have long relied but have at times taken for granted.
But New Hampshire has a nearly half-century-old law that mandates that it hold the first presidential primary, a week ahead of any similar contest.
To comply with the DNC, New Hampshire would have needed to scrap its state law protecting its first-in-the-nation primary status and expand access to early voting.
In November, New Hampshire Secretary of State announced that the state’s 2024 presidential primary would be held on Jan. 23, eight days after Iowa’s Republican caucuses.
The state faces sanctions from the DNC, which could result in the loss of half of New Hampshire’s delegates to next summer’s national convention.
And the holding of an unsanctioned primary has led the president to keep his name off the New Hampshire ballot.
The DNC letter last week to Buckley stated that “the NHDP must take steps to educate the public that January 23rd is a non-binding presidential preference event and is meaningless and the NHDP and presidential candidates should take all steps possible not to participate.”
“No delegates or alternates shall be apportioned based on the results of the January 23, 2024 event,” the DNC added.
The state attorney general’s office, in their letter, noted that “regardless of whether the DNC refuses to award delegates to the party’s national convention based on the results of the January 23, 2024, New Hampshire democratic Presidential Primary Election, this New Hampshire election is not ‘meaningless.'”
The letter goes on to state that the “RBC’s statements to the contrary are false, deceptive, and misleading” and constitute “an attempt to prevent or deter New Hampshire voters from participating in the January 23, 2024, New Hampshire democratic Presidential Primary Election.”
There are plenty of Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire who see the upending of their lead-off positions as sour grapes from Biden, who finished a disappointing fourth in the 2020 Iowa caucuses and fifth in the New Hampshire primary — before a second-place finish in Nevada and a landslide victory in South Carolina propelled him toward the nomination and eventually the White House.
Paul Plante says
Anyone who has ever bothered to read and study human history, and the history of republics, including ours, has been struck with the consciousness, especially today with this corrupt dictatorial Biden administration, of how very little was done in our Constitution, today, a worthless rag not even fit to be used for toilet paper, to establish a safe depositary of power in the hands of our elective chief, so that today, the executive power in the hands of the corrupt, inept and incompetent Joe Biden is bringing ruin upon OUR nation, as it sinks under the oppressive burden of Joe Biden’s imbecility.
To talk about ethics violations and Hatch Act violations by the members of the corrupt, inept and incompetent Biden administration is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500 or a NASCAR race at Darlington or Talladega, which is to say, it is a complete waste of time, because absolutely nothing will be done to rein it in, as all those people, starting with Joe Biden himself, are completely unaccountable to the American people, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US budget deficit for December up 52% to $129 billion” on January 11, 2024, where we have as follows on the harm Joe Biden is doing to our nation with his fiscal profligacy and his fiscal irresponsibility, to wit,
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. federal government posted a December deficit of $129 billion, up $44 billion or 52% from a year earlier as outlays rose while receipts fell from December 2022 levels that were swelled by pandemic-deferred tax payments, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday.
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Outlays, of course, are all this money Joe Biden is handing 0ut to MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES in CORPORATE AMERICA, as we see in the Reuters article titled “US plans $162 million award to Microchip Technology to boost production” by David Shepardson on January 4, 2024, to wit:
Last month, Raimondo told Reuters she expected to make about a dozen semiconductor chips funding awards in 2024, including some running into billions of dollars that could drastically reshape U.S. chip production.
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For the record, Gina Raimondo, according to her own bio, is what is called a VENTURE CAPITALIST.
Going back to the Reuters article on the PUBLIC DEBT Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm are racking up as they freely spend OUR tax dollars on PIE-IN-THE-SKY and Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, we have this, to wit:
The Treasury said that outlays for December rose 3% to $559 billion, a December record, partly as a result of higher Social Security outlays and interest on the public debt.
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INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC DEBT, people!
Did somebody out there actually believe all this money Joe Biden is blowing through came for free?
And how is Joe paying for that interest on the PUBLIC DEBT he is racking up?
By borrowing yet more money at interest, which takes us to a Reuters story titled “Wall Street little changed after inflation, labor market data” by Chuck Mikolajczak on January 11, 2024, where we have this from Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina, to wit:
“People are still worried about supply in the Treasury market.”
“Is there going to be sufficient demand to soak that all up?”
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The somewhat misleading term “supply” in the Treasury market means MORE DEBT being sold to the MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES in the world who can afford to buy it, and to whom we pay interest, as well as countries like China, to whom we also pay interest, which brings us back to Reuters for more reality, to wit:
Receipts for the month fell 6% to $429 billion.
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And how about that!
Could it be from all these TAX EXEMPTIONS Joe Biden is handing out to CORPORATE America?
Going back to Reuters, the story continues, as follows:
For the first three months of the 2024 fiscal year that started Oct. 1, the federal deficit reached $510 billion, up $89 billion, or 21% from the year ago period.
Public debt interest costs for December rose to $119 billion, up 11% or $12 billion from December 2022, due to higher debt levels and a higher weighted average interest rate of 3.11%.
This rate was three quarters of a point higher than a year earlier.
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And meanwhile, just yesterday, we had this from Reuters, to wit:
“Rising shelter, healthcare costs lift US consumer inflation in December” by Lucia Mutikani on January 11, 2024
So much for Joe Biden’s INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, people!
IT’S A LOAD OF CRAP!
HumanPuddin says
My only question in response to this article, and the numerous essays written in response in the comments; is why did you come back?
Paul Plante says
A good question!
A sense of societal duty and because, quite frankly, I like it here.
As to societal duty, an outdated concept I relaize, I don’t want to be another GOOD AMERICAN who says nothing, blinds himself to reality, and hides in his basement cowering in fear like the GOOD GERMANS did during the reign of the rug-chewing madman Hitler.
Paul Plante says
SILENCE GIVES CONSENT!
Those who stand for nothing fall for everything!
I’m not one of them!
Paul Plante says
And why am I here, HumanPuddin?
Because there is NO PLACE else in America where a CITIZEN who knows what citizenship in a REPUBLIC requires of CITIZENS can say what I can say here.
Outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, we have been very effectively silenced.
Try commenting on a news story in the mainstream and legacy media, and it is impossible!
Try commenting to the writer of a news story in the mainstream and legacy media, and it is impossible!
It is like they are in sealed bunkers.
And TWEETING gibberish on TWITTER is not communicating on issues of importance!
It is spouting gibberish, period!
As to voting and democracy which we hear so much about today, how very fragile our democracy is that it has to be protected by putting it into the hands of a DICTATOR to keep it away from and safe from people who might abuse it by voting for someone other than the DICTATOR who is protecting democracy from those people, the original colonists believed that only freeholders, i.e. free persons who owned land, should vote because only they had a permanent stake in the stability of society.
Frankly, I think we need to go back to that, myself.
Take the right to vote away from DEMOCRATS who are intent on destroying America, because they don’t deserve it, especially anyone who voted for Joe Biden’s INSANE WOKE BULL**** and his INSANE DEI which takes us to Boeing and the door that blew off that plane at 16,000 feet, to wit:
In a X post on Wednesday, billionaire Musk asked if customers wanted to fly in an airplane made by a company that prioritizes DEI hiring over safety management.
“Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?,” Musk wrote.
“That is actually happening.”
Musk’s post is a reply to James Lindsay’s post exposing a 2022 SEC filing from Boeing.
In the filing, Lindsay underlined Boeing’s INCENTIVE PLAN change which CHANGED FROM REWARDING LEADERSHIP FOR increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to REWARDING THEM IF THEY HIT DEI TARGETS.
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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This is ******* insane, HumanPuddin, if you don’t mind me saying so, prioritizing Joe Biden’s BULL**** INSANE WOKE DEI over safety, and this is the WOKE BULL**** Joe Biden and those who voted for him are forcing on America, to its detriment, which is why they all should be stripped of their right to vote, pending psychiatric analysis, and where else but the Cape Charles Mirror can a citizen like me get to say that?
NOWHERE is that answer.
As for me, I would rather walk than fly BOEING!
Paul Plante says
And if ANYONE in America, or the world, or the universe in the case of all the space aliens looking in, needed any more proof that DEMOCRAT Joe Biden is not only totally incompetent and clueless, but knows absolutely nothing whatsoever about OUR nation he is the supposed head of, its history, which he rejects as being racist because it includes stories of white people, and our Constitution, which he similarly rejects because it was written by white people, they need go no further than these very ignorant and patently stupid words uttered by the dim-witted, senile Joe the other day, Friday, at the Nowhere Coffee Co. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, to wit:
“My name is Joe Biden and I work for the governor (Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro) and the senator (DEMOCRAT Bob Casey).”
And what an absolutely and totally moronic statement that is, which is classic Joe Biden at his idiotic best, because Joe Biden, as president, does not work for any state governor, nor does Joe work for any senators, regardless of what state or political party they might be from or associated with.
And it is exactly this kind of incredible ignorance that makes Joe Biden such a clear and present danger to OUR Republic and OUR future as a people and as a nation.
Governors happen to be the heads of the fifty states that comprise what were once the united states of America, and U.S. senators, who are supposed to represent the interests of the state they have been elected from, not the interests of the DEMOCRAT party, are members of a SEPARATE branch of OUR national government and their specific purpose in OUR national government are defined in Article I of OUR Constitution, where in Section 1 is stated that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
As to the dim-witted Biden’s relationship with the Senate, Section 2 of Article II states as follows:
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for.
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NOWHERE does OUR Constitution state or imply that as president, Joe Biden “works” for state governors, or US senators, and to their credit, some people in that town called Joe out for exactly what he is – a LOSER!
Why Joe was even there, babbling like an idiot was to pitch his BIDE-O-NOMICS as being successful in small-town America, an absurd statement that, as follows:
“If you notice, they’re (we American people) feeling much better about how the economy is doing.”
“What we haven’t done is letting them know exactly who got it changed.”
“Everybody’s doing better and they believe it.”
“They know it.”
“And it’s just beginning to sink in.”
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What really is sinking in is the indisputable fact that BIDENFLATION is still going up, which means prices are still going up, especially car insurance, the nation’s spiraling DEBT is still going up, the amount of UNPRODUCTIVE money we pay in interest to MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES and foreign countries is still going up, the federal reserve is deep in the hole in debt and will continue to be there for years to come, consumer debt is at record highs, and defaults on debt are on the rise.
Hardly a rosy picture, people, unless you are blind and insane.
Paul Plante says
SAFETY LAST, people!
DEI first!
So says Joe Biden as we see in an article in The Western Journal titled “DEI in Action: FAA Pushes to Hire People with ‘Severe Intellectual’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Disabilities” by Jack Davis on 15 January 2024, where we have BIDE-O-NISM in action as follows:
The federal agency tasked with protecting America’s air travel is looking for a few good people with “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” in order to get the job done.
The Federal Aviation Administration is part of the sprawling federal Department of Transportation led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
In the “Diversity and Inclusion” section of its website, the FAA said it “actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with disabilities.”
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring.”
“They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism,” the agency said, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process.
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It is so Joe Biden that he wants to staff OUR federal government, and especially the FAA with people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability, putting them at the head of the list of people he wants hired as government employees, which is some real sick ****.
Going back to the article, it continues as follows:
The question of who is watching America’s skies was raised after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in midflight on Jan. 5.
X CEO Elon Musk offered his thoughts on Boeing’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies Wednesday in a post on X that read, “Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?”
“That is actually happening.”
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In another article on that specific case of the door panel blowing off Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 while it was at 16,000 feet and climbing to cruising altitude after departing Portland, Oregon, for Ontario, California, causing the depressurization of the cabin, with the plane having to make an emergency landing, Musk’s post cited a 2022 SEC filing from Boeing about Boeing’s incentive plan change which CHANGED FROM rewarding leadership for increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to rewarding them if they hit DEI targets.
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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And of course, the WOKE crowd out there attacked Musk, saying that people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability are as qualified as anyone else in this country to hold those high level management jobs at Boeing, as we see in a story in The Hill titled “Civil rights organizations slam Musk over diversity tweets” by Nick Robertson on January 10, 2024, as follows:
Two of the country’s leading civil rights organizations went after Elon Musk on Wednesday after the tech billionaire linked a safety scandal that has grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 jets to diversity hiring efforts.
Dozens of 737 Max 9 aircraft have been grounded since Friday after a window panel blew out of an aircraft midair due to loose bolts.
Inspections have found similar loose bolts in other aircraft, causing major safety concerns.
In the wake of the news, X owner Elon Musk claimed, without evidence, that diverse hiring initiatives at Boeing and United Airlines have made air travel less safe.
“People will die due to [diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)],” one Musk post read.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson denounced the comments, attacking Musk and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, for harboring hate speech.
“Reminder to Elon Musk: providing a home for the proliferation of hate speech and white supremacist conspiracy theories kills people,” he wrote.
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion cultivates a more inclusive society.”
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Which takes us back to The Western Journal article, as follows:
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, who chairs Do No Harm — a group dedicated to protecting health care from “radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” — found a similar challenge facing the aviation industry’s watchdog agency, he told Fox News.
“The aviation industry has a responsibility for traveler safety just as the health care industry has a responsibility for patient safety,” said Goldfarb, a retired professor and the former associate dean for curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
“These responsibilities outweigh other factors when considering applicants to work in those fields.”
“People with disabilities who can successfully complete the task should never face discrimination,” he said.
Goldfarb said current policies are “creating opportunities for so-called oppressed groups by lowering standards for entry into those fields and thereby endangering the safety of those which it’s designed to serve.”
“Some endeavors simply do not lend themselves to identity politics.”
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Words which will be totally lost on Joe Biden. Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg and the FAA!
As for me, I would rather walk than fly Boeing!
Paul Plante says
I happen to be a certified disabled veteran, which means exactly nothing to ANTI-VETERAN Joe Biden, and when I read that Joe Biden has made it a priority to load up OUR federal government, and especially the FAA with people with disabilities targeted by Joe himself to include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, this as we read about poor Tony Blinken, a member of Joe’s misnamed NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL along with Jennifer Granholm and John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, being “stranded” in Davos, Switzerland after the his personal modified Boeing 737 jet experienced a “critical malfunction” so that Tony had to take a smaller jet back to the US, with his “team” having to fly commercial, which marks yet another high-profile safety incident for Boeing, which stresses Joe’s DEI mover safety, and had several of its 737 Max 9 jets grounded by the FAA after a viral incident earlier this month after an Alaska Airlines flight On January 5 experienced a sudden blowout of a door plug while 16,000 feet in the air above Oregon, prompting several passengers to sue both Boeing and the airline, with the Washington state-based aircraft manufacturing company being in the spotlight in recent years for its jets’ questionable safety, as a total of 346 people have been killed over the course of two Boeing jet crashes in 2018 and 2019, and another 2018 incident in which a woman was killed after being sucked out of the plane when an engine explosion shattered a window in mid-flight, this after Boeing and its top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, have lobbied Washington for years to loosen safety regulations in order to cut costs and boost profits, I truly have to wonder if I am trapped somehow in a spoof of reality in National Lampoon magazine, or as I wondered in the CCM many years ago, whether I am really down a rabbit hole somewhere in some strange land where reality as I once thought I knew it has been stood on its head to make it totally unrecognizable.
And speaking of a disconnect from reality as we outside the Washington beltway, where Joe Biden lives in his own strange little world known commonly as LA-LA LAND, one of his pack of WITLESS DEMOCRATS named Maxwell Alejandro Frost, born January 17, 1997, an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 10th congressional district since 2023 who attended Valencia College but dropped out before his senior year, and who has been “organizing” since around 2012, when he was active with Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, has introduced legislation in congress to tear down the Statue of Liberty, which he says is “our largest symbol that tells people to come here.”
EXCEPT IT DOESN’T!
And that statement goes to show just how stupid and ignorant someone can be, and still be elected as a DEMOCRAT to congress.
No wonder the dude dropped out of college.
According to history as I learned it, and as the National Park Service itself tells it, in 1865, a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States.
This monument would honor the United States’ centennial of independence and the friendship with France.
French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi supported de Laboulaye’s idea and in 1870 began designing the statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World.”
The Statue of Liberty never was intended to tell anyone in the world what to do or where to go, and it certainly didn’t tell people to come here, as this moron progressive “cancel culture” DEMOCRAT who wants to tear down the Statue of Liberty believes in his obviously warped and twisted mind.
According to Wikipedia, the poem this DEMOCRAT is mistaking for the reason the Statue of Liberty was built, titled “The New Colossus,” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) who wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).
In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal’s lower level.
The poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the “Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty” to raise money for the pedestal’s construction.
Lazarus’s contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts.
Initially, she refused but writer Constance Cary Harrison convinced her that the statue would be of great significance to immigrants sailing into the harbor.
“The New Colossus” was the first entry read at the exhibit’s opening on November 2, 1883.
It remained associated with the exhibit through a published catalog until the exhibit closed after the pedestal was fully funded in August 1885, but was forgotten and played no role at the opening of the statue in 1886.
In 1901, Lazarus’s friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
As to the text of the poem, it reads as folows:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
The title of the poem and the first two lines reference the Greek Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a famously gigantic sculpture that stood beside or straddled the entrance to the harbor of the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC.
Paul Auster wrote that “Bartholdi’s gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but ‘The New Colossus’ reinvented the statue’s purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world.”
John T. Cunningham wrote that “The Statue of Liberty was not conceived and sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it quickly became so as immigrant ships passed under the torch and the shining face, heading toward Ellis Island.”
And now a CANCEL CULTURE PROGRESSIVE OBAMA DEMOCRAT wants to tear all of that down, as the PROGRESSIVES are doing with so much of America’s history, which “The View” co-host Sara Haines recently told us should make us feel bad, because it’s important that it makes us feel bad.
THIS IS AN INSANE ASYLUM WE ARE STUCK IN!
Paul Plante says
DEMOCRACY is on the ballot in America this coming November, people!
So says American autocrat and dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a dictator anywhere in the world, who has taken Soviet dictator Joe Stalin as his role model, so that to Joe, and the DEMOCRATS, protecting democracy, which, thanks to Joe and the DEMOCRATS, is very weak and fragile in the USA, means taking away the vote from those who might use it the wrong way, by voting for someone other than Joe or the DEMOCRATS.
To protect democracy in America, Joe and the DEMOCRATS even found it necessary to SUPPRESS the vote in New Hampshire because Joe and the DEMOCRATS do not like the demographics there.
Too many white people they say, and white people shouldn’t get to vote, because they are white.
That’s how Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS are protecting democracy in America, that as Joe was featured in an article in The Hill titled “Biden tells Sharpton he’s running because of Trump’s anti-democratic statements” by Julia Mueller on 16 January 2024, where in response to a question to Joe from the Reverend in an interview on Sharpton’s radio show “Keepin’ It Real,” “What made you decide to run for reelection, what was the thing that really closed in your head saying, ‘I can’t go now. I have to do this four more years,’” Joe replied that Trump is “the most anti-democratic … president in American history.”
And then, in an article in the Independent titled “Biden warns Americans ‘it’s you and me vs extreme Maga Republicans’ after Trump’s Iowa victory” by Joe Sommerlad on 17 January 2024, where we had this blather from Joe to consider, to wit:
President Joe Biden has responded to Donald Trump’s landslide win in the Iowa caucuses by warning American voters it’s “going to be you and me vs extreme Maga Republicans”.
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And Joe’s continued use of that term MAGA, which stands for MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, to denigrate Trumjp0 makes Joe sound so stupid and uninformed, and afraid of somebody of wants to make America great again while Joe is concentrating on running it into the ground.
Going back to that story, we then have this:
Soon after, the Biden campaign issued its first round of fundraising emails in response to the Iowa caucuses outcome, appealing for donations from concerned Democrats.
“If Donald Trump is our opponent, we can expect vile attacks, endless lies, and massive spending,” the campaign warned in its message to supporters.
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While with Joe Biden as our president, not only can we expect vile attacks, endless lies, and massive spending, but we in fact are getting them, to our detriment, which takes us to a story in the Western Journal, while we are on the subject of democracy in action in the age of Joe Biden, titled “US Journalist Gonzalo Lira Dies in Ukrainian Prison After Criticizing Biden and Zelenskyy Regimes” by Michael Schwarz on 16 Janaury 2024, where we see exactly how DEMOCRACY BIDEN STYLE really does work, to wit:
Democratic regimes must suppress free speech and imprison those who dissent.
After all, democracy depends on it.
Tucker Carlson reported Friday on social media that American journalist Gonzalo Lira had died in a Ukrainian prison.
Lira had languished in prison since July “for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments,” Carlson wrote on X.
“Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture.”
“Several weeks ago we spoke to his father, who predicted his son would be killed,” Carlson wrote.
Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments.
At the time of his arrest, Lira resided in Ukraine.
On social media, he regularly posted reports and opinions regarding the state of the country’s war with Russia and the nature of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government in Kyiv, the nation’s capital.
As part of a 5-minute introduction to his interview with Lira’s father, Carlson showed clips of the detained journalist’s reports.
“In the West, all of the propaganda has said that, you know, Zelenskyy’s a hero, a Winston Churchill figure, and the Kyiv regime are just angels and stuff like that.”
“No, they’re bloodthirsty murderers, the Kyiv regime. I’m telling you right now,” Lira said in one of them.
Carlson noted that the journalist was arrested for posting such reports inside a “supposed democracy.”
After his release from prison, Lira tried to flee the country.
According to his last posted video, the journalist nearly reached the Hungarian border before being arrested again.
In that video, Lira predicted his fate.
“I will definitely be sent to a prison labor camp, where I will most certainly die,” he said of what would happen to him should Ukrainian security forces catch up to him near the border.
They did.
And according to his father, the journalist’s prediction came true.
While Lira lived, Carlson called him “a political prisoner in a country that we were told was free.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. government showed indifference to the journalist’s welfare.
“The Biden State Department is uninterested in the fate of this American citizen.”
“In fact, of course, they support his imprisonment,” Carlson said.
Predictably, the establishment media followed the Biden administration’s lead.
For instance, last month, Business Insider described Lira as a “Russian propagandist.”
The same article noted with disapproval that both Carlson and X owner Elon Musk had raised awareness of his plight.
“Carlson himself has generated controversy for promoting Kremlin propaganda and being highly critical of US support for Ukraine,” the outlet said.
Musk, meanwhile, “has increasingly championed right-wing causes and rhetoric.”
Thus did Business Insider assure its readers that they need not concern themselves with the journalist’s fate.
After all, if Carlson and Musk supported him, then he must have deserved imprisonment.
In May, when asked about Lira’s initial arrest, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller gave an evasive and disingenuous answer.
“We obviously support the exercise of freedom of speech anywhere in the world, and I’ll leave it at that,” Miller said in response to a reporter’s question.
The Biden administration, of course, does not support free speech but in fact has tried to suppress it.
Even Lira’s death barely elicited a reaction from administration officials.
In fact, according to journalist Breanna Morello, the State Department resorted to something resembling a form letter.
“EXCLUSIVE: The State Department just responded to my request for comment regarding Gonzalo Lira’s death.”
“You’ll notice the State Department doesn’t say Gonzalo Lira’s name.”
“This appears to be a generic statement,” Morello said in an X post on Saturday.
Nor did the State Department answer Morello’s inquiries.
“They also won’t address my questions which were: During Lira’s detainment, did the State Department ever reach out to the Ukrainian government on Gonzalo Lira’s behalf?”
“If so, how many times and when?”
“Is the State Department in touch with Gonzalo Lira‘s family?” she added.
Of course the State Department had nothing to say.
In the minds of Biden administration officials, every dissenter’s imprisonment or death strikes a blow for democracy.
Paul Plante says
Some time ago now, in or about May of last year, Joe Biden, the dictator of America and self-proclaimed LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD responded as follows in an interview with MSNBC broadcast, when asked why in his opinion he is the right person for the job of CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of the United States of America and COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of its military at his advanced age, to wit:
“Because I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people.”
“And I’m more experienced than anybody that’s ever run for the office.”
“And I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.”
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WISDOM?
Joe Biden?
Not hardly, people.
KNOWS MORE THAN THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE?
Maybe with respect to using his political connections to enrichen his family, or running an international crime syndicate, while getting his palm greased and his pocket stuffed.
But outside of that, Joe don’t know doodly-squat about anything, starting with national defense.
MORE EXPERIENCED THAN ANYBODY THAT’S EVER RUN FOR THE OFFICE?
Yeah, right, Joe, you’re way more experienced than anyone in America at being stupid and making bad judgments while being short-sighted and not considering the consequences of your actions which make messes others have to then clean up.
That’s what you’re experienced at – being a creepy loser.
PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE HONORABLE (deserving of respect or high regard)?
The dude who has stripped the people of New Hampshire of their right to participate in a free and fair presidential primary because he thinks they are too white?
Honorable?
Worthy of respect?
NOT HARDLY!
PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE EFFECTIVE?
He’s effective, alright – effective as running up our national debt on his INSANE GREEN DREAM, and making our lives more difficult and expensive with his BIDENFLATION as a result of his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to an article in The Telegraph titled “Energy bills must rise to pay for net zero, says Siemens Energy boss” by Matt Oliver, Szu Ping Chan on 22 January 2024 for a touch of some of the reality that is yet to come in our lives, thanks to Joe Biden’s PIE-IN-THE-SKY INSANE GREEN DREAM, to wit:
The German boss of Britain’s biggest wind turbine maker has warned energy bills will have to keep rising to pay for the green transition as he attacked “fairytale” thinking about net zero.
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Yes, people, “fairytale” thinking about net zero by Joe Biden and his people, and of course energy bills will have to keep rising to pay for Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM.
Who in this country was stupid enough to think or believe otherwise?
Getting back to reality, that story continues as follows:
Joe Kaeser, chairman of Siemens Energy, suggested higher energy bills were inevitable as turbine makers grapple with huge losses, forcing them to pass on costs to their customers.
Mr Kaeser said manufacturers had become locked in a harmful “rat race” to build ever-bigger turbines and claimed developers and governments were in denial about the costs this entailed.
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Governments were in denial about the costs?
THAT IS JOE BIDEN HE IS REFERRING TO THERE, people!
Yes, he is, which takes us back for more, to wit:
He also warned that inflation is battering industry balance sheets and warned of separate growing problems with faults and breakdowns in the sector.
Mr Kaeser told The Telegraph: “Every transformation comes at a cost and every transformation is painful.”
“And that’s something which the energy industry and the public sector – governments – don’t really want to hear.”
“I believe that for a while [customers] need to accept higher pricing.”
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There is reality, people.
When Joe Biden told us his GREEN ENERGY was going to make our energy bills cheaper, the dude was lying to us through his teeth, which is what Joe has much more experience doing throughout his lifetime as a career politician than any other presidential candidate in the history of this nation.
And while those lies might be effective in gulling the 25% in America who cleave to Joe Biden’s standard, lying to the rest of the American people is hardly honorable, and in fact is quite craven.
Paul Plante says
Isn’t it something how all these disasters, like the flooding of San Diego, are occurring during the reign of Joe Biden.
And you know things in crime-ridden America under Joe Biden and the criminal-friendly DEMOCRATS are really going to hell on Joe Biden’s watch when you read in NBC News, a pro-Biden outlet, a story titled “For the first time ever, In-N-out closes one of its stores” by Mirna Alsharif on 24 January 2024 that In-N-out is closing its only Oakland location because of “ongoing issues with crime,” the company said Tuesday, making this the first time the company has ever closed a location in its 75-year history.
“We feel the frequency and severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates leave us no alternative,” Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a statement Tuesday.
“Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers and associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies,” Warnick said.
The restaurant “remains a busy and profitable” location, but In-N-Out’s top priority is its employees and customers, Warnick said.
“We cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment,” Warnick said.
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An unsafe environment thanks to the crime-friendly policies of Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS who only have to offer us BIG ON ABORTION, SOFT ON CRIME, CHAOS, MASSIVE DEBT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLOODING ACROSS OUR OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, WEAK ON NATIONAL SECURITY, and UNSAFE SKIES as GO WOKE AND GO BROKE comes home like the chickens to roost at Boeing, which corporation stresses Joe’s DEI over safety, and had several of its 737 Max 9 jets grounded by the FAA after a viral incident earlier this month after an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5 experienced a sudden blowout of a door plug while 16,000 feet in the air above Oregon, prompting several passengers to sue both Boeing and the airline, with the Washington state-based aircraft manufacturing company being in the spotlight in recent years for its jets’ questionable safety, this after Boeing and its top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, have lobbied Washington for years to loosen safety regulations in order to cut costs and boost profits.
By way of review with respect to Joe’s DEI and UNSAFE SKIES in America, we had an article on the subject in The Western Journal titled “DEI in Action: FAA Pushes to Hire People with ‘Severe Intellectual’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Disabilities” by Jack Davis on 15 January 2024, where we had this to consider, to wit:
The federal agency tasked with protecting America’s air travel is looking for a few good people with “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” in order to get the job done.
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Yes, people, you are reading that correctly, as bizarre a policy as it might seem if you are not yourself WOKE, as we see in the “Diversity and Inclusion” section of the FAA website, where Joe Biden’s FAA under failed DEMOCRAT presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, said it actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with targeted disabilities which are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process.
And not only is Joe pushing this insane policy on our national government, putting people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in high management positions, but on corporate America, as well, especially if they want government grants or loans, which takes us to 2022 SEC filing from Boeing about Boeing’s incentive plan change which CHANGED FROM rewarding leadership for increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to rewarding them if they hit DEI targets, to wit:
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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Which brings us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing faces new pressure as United questions MAX 10 order” by Shivansh Tiwary, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tim Hepher on January 23, 2024, where we had this, to wit:
Jan 23 (Reuters) – United Airlines raised questions over the fate of billions of dollars of 737 MAX 10 jets on order from Boeing, piling pressure on the planemaker as it struggles to prevent the grounding of a smaller model further upsetting confidence.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Tuesday said the airline, which says it has ordered 277 of the MAX 10 jets with options for another 200, would build a new fleet plan that does not include a model already mired in regulatory and delivery delays.
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ALREADY MIRED IN REGULATORY AND DELIVERY DELAYS!
This is like a scene straight out of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.
Going back to that article about what happens to a corporation that forgets what it in business to do, and instead embarks on a social engineering program to curry favor with Joe Biden, to wit:
U.S. regulators have grounded most of Boeing’s MAX 9 jets for checks after a plug replacing an unused exit door tore off an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, forcing an emergency landing.
“I think the MAX 9 grounding is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back for us,” Kirby said in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday.
Boeing shares fell almost 1%.
In a statement after Kirby’s comments, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said: “We have let down our airline customers and are deeply sorry for the significant disruption to them, their employees and their passengers.”
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Except when we are talking SAFE SKIES, dude, SORRY DON’T CUT IT!
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing to pause 737 production for quality stand down on Thursday” on January 23, 2024, where we have this, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Boeing will hold a quality stand down Thursday at the Seattle-area location where it makes 737 aircraft, pausing production and delivery operations for a day, the company announced on Tuesday.
During the stand down, employees will attend quality workshops and “pause, evaluate what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and make recommendations for improvement,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Stan Deal.
Boeing announced it would hold sessions with workers on Jan. 16 as part of a larger list of actions it is taking after the grounding of a portion of the 737 MAX 9 fleet earlier this month following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet.
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Boeing has to stop actually working on the planes it isn’t building correctly or properly to remind its workers what it is they are actually there to be doing, as opposed to focusing on each other’s preferred personal pronouns and how to tell someone who is queer from someone who is gay, so you don’t misgender them, as well as how to walk on eggshells around a co-worker with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability so you don’t set them off, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Exclusive: Boeing presses suppliers on tightening bolts after loose parts found in 737 MAX 9 checks” by Valerie Insinna and David Shepardson on January 23, 2024, where we had Joe Biden’s DEI at Boeing in the spotlight, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Boeing issued a bulletin to its suppliers late last week that laid out practices to ensure bolts are properly torqued after multiple airlines reported loose hardware during inspections of the grounded 737 MAX 9, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
The U.S. planemaker said that it is “imperative” that suppliers meet quality requirements, according to a Jan. 17 memo seen by Reuters, issued weeks after an accident when a panel ripped off of a 737 MAX 9 jet while in mid-air.
“Ensure that work instructions are mistake-proof and quality is continuously monitored – particularly torquing requirements,” it states.
The bulletin suggests suppliers document torque requirements on work instructions, require mechanics to record how much torque is applied when fastening components, and ensure tools are properly calibrated to ensure bolts are properly tightened.
Boeing declined to comment.
The updated guidance follows the Jan. 5 accident when an Alaska Airlines flight had to conduct an emergency landing after the panel, called a door plug, was blown off.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 MAX 9 planes with the door panel configuration.
The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet determined whether the four bolts that attach the door plug to the fuselage were ever installed on the Alaska Airlines plane, but it is also too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the accident, NTSB head Jennifer Homendy told reporters Thursday.
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And what an incredible statement that is from Jennifer Homendy, Joe Biden’s NTSB head, probably herself a DEI hire from the sounds of it, that it is too early to say missing or loose bolts on the door that blew off the Alaska Airlines were the root cause of the door blowing off the plane.
Getting back to that story of GO WOKE AND GO BROKE, we have more as follows, to wit:
Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said in an NBC News interview that aired Tuesday that the airline found “some loose bolts on many” MAX 9s during inspections.
“My demand on Boeing is, what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in house?” Minicucci said.
United Airlines, which has also found loose parts on MAX 9s, on Monday reported a wider-than-expected loss in the quarter through March due to the grounding of the MAX 9.
Boeing continues to work with the FAA to unground the aircraft and is “taking immediate actions to strengthen quality across the 737 production system.”
FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker told Reuters on Jan. 12 it was “pretty clear” the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 cabin blowout was a manufacturing issue, not a design problem.
Whitaker noted MAX 9 issues that the MAX 9 has about 500,000 parts – and it is critical to ensure all bolts are properly tightened.
“We’re certainly not looking at every part, but so you have to have a quality control system that does that … and (is) robust enough to see if something is not properly assembled.”
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Quality control under Joe Biden?
Not going to happen, people, because Joe doesn’t have a clue as to what quality is in the first place.
Paul Plante says
There was a time in my life, many years ago it now was, when I believed that our national government was composed of the best and brightest among us, and their mission in our national government was to keep the wheels of government turning smoothly to keep us safe from harm so we could live productive lives in peace, and who knows, but that it might actually have been true, once upon a time.
There was a time when I thought our national government told us the truth, and would not lie to us.
Viet Nam disabused me of that silly notion.
And now, as I hear about Joe Biden staffing up our national government with people Joe has personally identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process that puts people with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism at the head of the hiring process with respect to those not afflicted with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, I truly have to wonder at what could possibly be going through Joe Biden’s head or going on in his head that would have him thinking and believing that staffing our national government with people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in decision-making positions is somehow good for our nation and its national security.
And the only answer I can come up with is that Joe Biden is insane.
Past the point of no return and not coming back around that bend in this lifetime, anyway.
And as a result, I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that this national government under Joe Biden can keep us safe, as opposed to be the clearest danger to our American way of life and our well-being as a people that there is on the horizon in any direction, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet – Seattle Times” on January 24, 2024, where we have more on the door plug story, and how many bolts hold the door plug in place, after being told by Joe’s NTSB head Jennifer Homendy, who may well be one of those who suffer from severe intellectual disability, and thus was put at the head of Joe’s hiring list for the position of NTSB head, that it was too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the door plug accident, to wit:
Jan 24 (Reuters) – The door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 jet this month was removed for repair and reinstalled by Boeing’s mechanics at its Renton assembly line, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Boeing declined to comment on details that are under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The report follows an earlier one from Reuters that said Boeing has a key role in installing and checking the part, made by fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which was spun off from Boeing in 2005.
Sources told Reuters that Boeing typically removes the panel and replaces it, while a source familiar with Boeing’s standard industrial processes insisted Boeing only adjusts or removes the panel if there are signs it was installed incorrectly.
The panel is a plug in place on some 737 MAX 9s instead of an additional emergency exit.
A diagram of the 737 MAX 9 door plug posted by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows the plug held down by four bolts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-is-panel-that-blew-off-plane-made-how-did-it-break-2024-01-09/
The NTSB has not yet determined whether the plug was properly attached, or whether the bolts were installed.
The Seattle Times’ report was partly derived from an anonymous commenter on an article that appeared on the aviation website Leeham News.
The question of who carried out the final fitting is increasingly being seen as likely to be at the centre of a tug- of-war over responsibility between Boeing and its former unit.
Boeing shares were down 0.9% on Wednesday.
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There was a time when I was young, when the saying was: “IF IT AIN’T BOEING, I’M NOT GOING!”
Now, in this day and age of Joe Biden, where nothing the national government has its hands on can be trusted to work right, it has become: “IF IT’S BOEING, I’D RATHER WALK!”
Paul Plante says
“IF YOU CAN’T BUILD THEM RIGHT. THEN WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU BUILD THEM!”
That, people, is a very stern message being sent to Boeing from that sector of the Federal Aviation Administration of OUR National government that has not yet taken over by an army of epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, sent there by Joe Biden to fill high-ranking decision-making positions, which stern message to Boeing from the FAA puts Joe’s INSANE DEI policy in place at Boeing directly in the national and world spotlight as it should be in a sane and rational world, which takes us to a Reuters story titled “FAA bars Boeing from increasing MAX output but ends partial grounding” by David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher on January 24, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late on Wednesday tightened pressure on Boeing by barring the troubled planemaker from expanding production of its best-selling 737 MAX narrowbody planes, following “unacceptable” quality issues.
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Yes, people, “unacceptable” quality issues as a result of stressing Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy as opposed to safety, and thankfully, somebody at FAA in a position of authority recognized the problem for what it was and had the courage to step in here and say, STOP THE NONSENSE, THIS DEI INSANITY HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH, which takes us back to Reuters for more, as follows:
The unprecedented decision looked set to deepen turmoil at Boeing even as the FAA also agreed to allow the 737 MAX 9, which was grounded after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, to resume flying once inspections were completed.
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Yes, people, an unprecedented decision because never in our nation’s history have we had an American president pushing such an INSANE policy as this on OUR national g0vernment and the aerospace industry, and putting human lives and public safety in grave jeopardy as a result, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ability to resume flying was a relief to U.S. operators Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which had been forced to cancel thousands of flights and aim to begin returning the planes to service on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
But the FAA decision to keep Boeing from expanding production will have wide-ranging effects across the industry.
Boeing is seeking to increase production of its single-aisle 737 MAX family to keep pace with demand and close a gap in the jet market with European planemaker Airbus.
Analysts have expressed concerns that extra scrutiny of Boeing factories following the MAX 9 door plug blowout would temper production increases for the smaller and more widely sold MAX 8, a key source of cash for Boeing and many suppliers.
“We will not agree to any request from Boeing for an expansion in production or approve additional production lines for the 737 MAX until we are satisfied that the quality control issues uncovered during this process are resolved,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said.
“The quality assurance issues we have seen are unacceptable.”
Clarifying the order, the FAA subsequently told Reuters: “That means Boeing can continue producing at the current monthly rate, but they cannot increase that rate.”
Boeing said it would continue to cooperate “fully and transparently” with the FAA and follow the agency’s direction as it took action to strengthen safety and quality.
The FAA offered no estimate of how long the limitation would last and did not specify the number of planes Boeing can produce each month.
The FAA’s decision could impact plans to stand up a new 737 MAX line in Everett, Washington, by mid-year 2024, following the end of production of Boeing’s iconic 747 in the massive plant.
The line, set to be the fourth 737 line overall and the first outside Renton, is needed to meet strong demand.
Boeing declined to comment on any potential impact on the Everett line.
Once accused of being too soft on Boeing, the FAA has toughened oversight since earlier MAX crashes led to a worldwide grounding, but Wednesday’s intervention opens new territory, experts said.
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And Wednesday’s intervention opened new territory precisely because Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy was the cause of that new territory having to be opened and thank goodness for us that there was somebody at the FAA with the courage to stand up to Joe Biden’s INSANITY and open that new territory before another air disaster could occur thanks to Joe Biden.
Paul Plante says
And recapping recent events in here as we explore what Joyce Hall@ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM called my “incorrect ideas,” which I am, in her words, supposed to keep to myself, as opposed to making them public in the Cape Charles Mirror, lest my “incorrect ideas” somehow pollute the minds of those who would vote for Joe Biden, the first Biden to be a WORLD-CLASS LAUGHING STOCK in the long history of this planet, and give them “incorrect ideas,” as well, which would be good for this nation and healthy for our warped and twisted politics which have poor Joyce Hall thinking and actually believing, as unbelievable as that can be, that in the United States of America, you can only vote for either a DEMOCRAT or a REPUBLICAN for president, and what an outlandish and patently ridiculous an idea that is, according to a Reuters article titled “Biden faces pressure to strike Iran after US troops killed” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on January 29, 2024, the killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more on January 28 2024 by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he’s been reluctant to do out of fear of igniting a broader war.
According to Reuters, Biden’s response options could range anywhere from targeting Iranian forces outside to even inside Iran, or opting for a more cautious retaliatory attack solely against the Iran-backed militants responsible, experts say.
So what then are Joe Biden and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe, Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta doing about it?
How about fundraising and talking gibberish, as we see in a Western Journal article titled “‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Tries to Attack Trump, But Garbled Mess Is All That Comes Out of His Mouth” by C. Douglas Golden on 25 January 2024, where we had some classic Joe Biden gibberish, as follows:
“We’ll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with uhhiminauhwemerica unless you want to get the benefit,” Biden said.
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Now, I’m not a trained linguist, so I don’t know what language Joe lapsed into there, although some who are linguists believe it is a form of Martian from during their Classic Imperial Period, which with Joe well could be, given he’s the president, and they know that kind of stuff, even if we commoners don’t, which takes us to a FOX News article titled “Biden blasted for his ‘best gibberish yet’ in Wisconsin brewery speech: ‘Different language’” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, where we had this burst of pure Biden gibberish, to wit:
Social media users tore into President Biden on Thursday after he made a series of verbal stumbles during an address at a Wisconsin brewery.
Biden gave his speech at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, where he touted his economic record – aka “Bidenomics” – and the success of his bipartisan infrastructure legislation in a bid to shore up support for his 2024 re-election bid.
However, online onlookers were distracted from the economic talking points by an extended gaffe Biden made about the brewery and its beer.
Partway through his remarks, he appeared to mumble, “The beer brewed here, it is used to make the brew beered here.”
While most of the sentence was unintelligible, he seemed to add, “Ooh, Earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes.”
“I wonder why…”
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And quite truthfully, I wonder why, myself, when Joe is confronted with war in the Middle East of his own making as he broadcasts incompetence, weakness, senility and no grasp of reality to all the candid world – why he is out there touting BIDE-O-NOMICS and fundraising, when because of him, American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, where Joe is held in contempt as a weakling and a fool.
As to fundraising by the members of Joe’s NSC, which is also held in contempt, as it should be, composed as it is of fools who know nothing at all about national security, according to a Reuters article titled “Yellen says Biden’s policies help US middle class more than Trump’s” by David Lawder on January 25, 2024, we have this about “TOODLES,” to wit:
CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday drew a stark contrast between President Joe Biden’s economic policies and those of former President Donald Trump, arguing that Biden’s approach has produced the “fairest recovery on record” and will reap more benefits for the middle class.
Two days after Trump tightened his grip on the Republican 2024 presidential nomination with a comfortable victory in the New Hampshire nominating contest, Yellen sought to turn the tide in Chicago on low voter approval ratings for Biden’s handling of the economy, declaring that incomes were now outpacing subsiding inflation.
She told the Economic Club of Chicago that improving signals from the economy, including stronger-than-expected GDP data on Thursday, showed that recession fears were over, inflation was subsiding and middle class job opportunities were rising, thanks to Biden’s infrastructure and clean energy investments.
“I think Americans do believe inflation is under control,” Yellen said.
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And no, “TOODLES,” we don’t believe inflation is under control, because it isn’t, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing sector on cusp of recovery in January – ISM” on February 1, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing stabilized in January amid a rebound in new orders, but inflation at the factory gate picked up.
With orders picking up, goods inflation is stirring after months of deflation.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers increased to 52.9 from 45.2 in December.
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Going back to “TOODLES,” we have more of her nonsense, as follows:
Yellen plans to step up her positive talk on the economy, visiting a job training center in Milwaukee on Friday, a day after Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, to talk up $5 billion worth of infrastructure spending in the state, considered a major battleground in the Nov. 5 election.
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While American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, good old Joe is out there BUYING VOTES on borrowed money we are on the hook for, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
In prepared remarks, she said the major components of “Bidenomics” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law – were aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
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Drive the economy?
How about off the track, over a berm and into the weeds?
Which takes us to a FOX News story titled “Karine Jean-Pierre does victory lap, touts Biden putting ‘equity’ at the center of economic approach” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, for this warped view of reality from Joe’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, to wit:
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Thursday that American consumers are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies, added jobs and is getting critical infrastructure done.
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Americans are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies?
She’s lost in space somewhere, maybe on Mars, or Jupiter, or the Dog Star area of outer space, out near the TWILIGHT ZONE, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The government official told CNN that Americans are feeling better about the economy thanks to Biden’s policies, which he and his team have dubbed “Bidenomics.”
Host Phil Mattingly prompted Jean-Pierre’s points by bringing up recent consumer sentiment numbers that appear to show that Americans are starting to feel better about their finances.
“My question for you, as he goes into this big moment…”
“Do you feel like the corner is being turned right now, people are getting it, that it’s landing and that, not only will this not be a drag heading into a campaign season, this is actually going to be a benefit for the president?”
Jean-Pierre agreed, saying, “You just said it!”
“Consumer sentiment.”
“People are feeling what the economy is doing.”
She then said this budding good feeling and better economy is all because of the president’s work.
“And we have to remember, this didn’t happen by accident.”
“What we’re seeing with the trends – with the economic trends – it’s because of what this president has done,” she said.
Providing points on what Biden has done specifically, she continued, “He has put equity at the center of everything that he’s talked about when it comes to the economy.”
“14 million jobs created.”
“Last year, 2.7 million jobs created.”
“Unemployment under 4%.”
“Wages are up.”
“That matters.”
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Well, KJP, what about those American soldiers killed in the Middle East?
Don’t they matter, too?
Which means it’s time to take a station break for station identification and a host of political commercials from TEAM BIDEN and the DNC telling you how much better off you are today under Joe Biden than you would have been under Trump, but don’t change that dial because if the creek don’t rise and the dam don’t break, we will be back with more about Joe Biden holding political fundraisers while American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, so don’t touch that dial.
can forces in the Middle East have been attacked more than 150 times by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and off the coast of Yemen since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.
But until Sunday’s attack on a remote outpost known as Tower 22 near Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria, the strikes had not killed U.S. troops nor wounded so many.
That allowed Biden the political space to mete out U.S. retaliation, inflicting costs on Iran-backed forces without risking a direct war with Tehran.
Biden said the United States would respond, without giving any more details.
Republicans accused Biden of letting American forces become sitting ducks, waiting for the day when a drone or missile would evade base defenses.
They say that day came on Sunday, when a single one-way attack drone struck near base barracks early in the morning.
In response, they say Biden must strike Iran.
“He left our troops as sitting ducks,” said Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton.
“The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East.”
The Republican who leads the U.S. military oversight committee in the House of Representatives, Representative Mike Rogers, also called for action against Tehran.
“It’s long past time for President Biden to finally hold the terrorist Iranian regime and their extremist proxies accountable for the attacks they’ve carried out,” Rogers said.
Former President Donald Trump, who hopes to face off against Biden in this year’s presidential election, portrayed the attack as a “consequence of Joe Biden’s weakness and surrender.”
The Biden administration has said that it goes to great lengths to protect U.S. troops around the world.
One Democrat openly voiced concern that Biden’s strategy of containing the Israel-Hamas conflict to Gaza was failing.
“As we see now, it is spiraling out of control.”
“It’s beginning to emerge as a regional war, and unfortunately the United States and our troops are in harms way,” Democratic Representative Barbara Lee said, renewing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian war.
NOT SO SIMPLE
Democratic Representative Seth Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq as a Marine, urged against Republican calls for war, saying “deterrence is hard; war is worse.”
“To the chicken hawks calling for war with Iran, you’re playing into the enemy’s hands — and I’d like to see you send your sons and daughters to fight,” Moulton said.
“We must have an effective, strategic response on our terms and our timeline.”
Experts caution that any strikes against Iranian forces inside Iran could force Tehran to respond forcefully, escalating the situation in a way that could drag the United States into a major Middle East war.
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, said striking directly inside Iran would raise questions for Tehran about regime survival.
“When you do things overtly you represent a major escalation for the Iranians,” Lord said.
Charles Lister of the Washington-based Middle East Institute said a likely response would be to go after a significant target or high-value militant from Iran-backed groups in Iraq or Syria.
“What happened this morning, was on a totally different level than anything these proxies have done in the past two to three months… (but) despite all of the calls to do something in Iran, I don’t see this administration taking that bait,” Lister said.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was unclear what the second and third order effects would be in going after Iran.
“Unless the U.S. prepared for an all out war, what does attacking Iran get us,” the official said.
Still, Lord and other experts acknowledge that Israel had hit Iranian targets in Syria for years, without dissuading Iran, including four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials in Damascus on Jan. 20.
The United States has also struck Iranian-linked targets outside of Iran in recent months.
In November, the U.S. military said it struck a facility used not only by Iran-backed group but also by the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
But Lister said the U.S. had gone after Iranians outside of Iran in the past, like the 2020 strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, and only yielded a response during a limited period of time.
“So to an extent, if you go hard enough and high enough, we have a track record of showing that Iran can blink first,” Lister said.
Reporting by Phil Stewart and Idrees; additional reporting by Simon Lewis; editing by Paul Thomasch and Diane Craft
https://www.reuters.com/world/political … 024-01-29/?
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Paul Plante says
In her diatribe above here @ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM, Joyce Hall, who appears to believe that all we have between us and total chaos leading not only to the end of the world, but the end of time, itself is the senile idiot Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, hardly a comforting thought, poses this following thought that it behooves each and every one of us over the age of say, twelve, to give some real serious consideration, to wit:
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy?
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And the answer to her question as to where of where are the politicians with ethics and brains is NOWHERE in the Biden administration, nor on Joe’s so-called NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe himself, along with Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, and if anybody out there is willing to put their security in the hands of that pack of incompetent idiots, they truly deserve their fate.
And ethics and brains are especially missing in Joe’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, starring Karine Jean-Pierre, aka “KJP,” aka “BINDER,” and REAR ADMIRAL John “JACK” Kirby.
As to KJP, the first black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST for Joe Biden, who is about equity, afterall, making it a priority of his administration to give top government jobs, especially in the FAA, to epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, in a recent interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, stated quite truthfully as follows, to wit:
“I can’t listen to that nutjob.”
“I can’t believe anything she says,” Nehls said.
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So in answer to Joyce Hall’s question above, there is one politician with ethics, brains, and empathy in Washington. D.C., anyway.
As to KJP, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology in 1997, and a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, in 2003, in the course of doing so, she obviously learned NOTHING about American government or basic governmental economics, which is what qualifies her to be Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER.
And she obviously doesn’t read the daily news, nor does she keep up with current events, like what the yield on the ten-year government note is doing, like yesterday, for example, when a RED HOT JOBS NUMBER Joe and KJP are raving about as supposed “proof” of how well BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing, when the ten-year yield shot up by 16 basis points to 4.02%.
And according to a CNBC article titled “10-year Treasury yield tops 4% after surprisingly strong jobs report” by Sophie Kiderlin on February 2, 2024, we had this bit of news, to wit:
Wage growth data in the report pointed to continued inflationary pressures.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was double what economists expected.
On a yearly basis, wages spiked 4.5%, more than the 4.1% consensus estimate.
A stronger-than-expected jobs report adds to the likelihood that interest rate cuts will not come as soon as investors had hoped, especially after Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week noted that a March rate cut is unlikely.
“The Fed threw some cold water on the idea of a March rate cut less than 48 hours ago, and today’s surprisingly strong jobs report won’t dry things off,” wrote Chris Larkin, managing director at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley.
“It’s definitely not the type of data the Fed had in mind when they said they wanted to see more evidence that inflationary pressures were under control.”
“If similarly hot numbers continue to roll in over the next couple of months, investors may become less confident about how soon the Fed will cut rates, and by how much,” Larkin added.
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There, people, is reality staring us commoners who are being forced out of Joe Biden’s MIRACLE ECONOMY right in the face because the longer the fed has to keep interest rates high, the longer we are going to keep- getting royally screwed on the economic front.
So Joe is borrowing BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of dollars at a high interest rate that he is handing out like candy to buy votes with, and it is those jobs Joe is creating with borrowed money that are causing the inflation the fed is trying to fight with high interest rates.
As to Joe and “TOODLES” borrowing more and more money, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury to borrow $760 billion in Q1, lower than forecast” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on January 29, 2024, where we have more reality we are not going to get from Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, or his ignorant media apologists and enablers like CNN Host Phil Mattingly, to consider, as follows:
NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Monday said it expects to borrow $760 billion in the first quarter, $55 billion below the October estimate primarily due to forecasts for increased net fiscal flows and higher cash balance.
The Treasury also announced it expects to borrow $202 billion in the second quarter, as it projects a cash balance of $750 billion at the end of June.
It also said in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Treasury borrowed $776 billion in net marketable debt, in line with estimates released in October.
The Treasury will announce its refunding news, which will outline the upcoming auction sizes for bill, notes and bonds, on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT).
It will likely announce a final quarter of nominal coupon auction size increases as the government’s financing needs remain high.
TD projects funding requirements to rise gradually to $1.85 trillion this year and $1.9 trillion next year, as it anticipates fiscal deficits increasing in the coming years.
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Yes, people, INCREASING FISCAL DEFICITS, thanks to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, which according to “TOODLES” Yellen, a key member of Joe’s NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, are aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
WHAT CRAP!
And to keep my blood pressure from blowing off the top of my head, time for another break for station identification, but don’t go away, because with this Biden administration in power in America, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, it is guaranteed that there is much more idiocy and stupidity yet to come, so stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
As to Joe’s BLOW-OUT jobs report, which Joe welcomed saying “America’s economy is the strongest in the world,” something he and KJP and “TOODLES” Yellen attribute to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS,” those being a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, these are the figures which I find hard to attribute to BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
* Professional and business services (74,000)
* Health care (70,000)
* Retail trade (45,000)
* Government, driven by federal government hiring as well as local government, excluding education (36,000)
* Social assistance (30,000)
* Manufacturing (23,000)
* There were also job gains in construction, transportation and warehousing, utilities, leisure and hospitality sectors
* The mining and logging industry shed 6,000 jobs.
In any event, those figures mean higher interest rates for longer, which means economic pain for us common citizens who are not EXUBERANT BINGE CONSUMERS for longer, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Bowman sees inflation falling, calls for caution on rate cuts” on February 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Feb 2 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Friday said she expects U.S. inflation to decline further, but flagged worries about upward price pressure from rising wages and warned against cutting interest rates too soon.
But stronger-than-expected job market data published Friday suggests a pickup in wage growth and a stalling out of last year’s progress toward labor market rebalancing, she said, adding that labor market tightness could keep underlying inflation elevated.
Bowman voted with her Fed colleagues on Wednesday to keep the Fed’s policy rate on hold in the 5.25%-5.5% range, where it has been since last July.
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Which takes us to another Reuters article titled “US factory orders rise moderately in December” on February 2, 2024, where we have this economic reality to consider, to wit:
Manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, is being constrained by high interest rates.
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And the high interest rates constraining manufacturing are as a direct result of the fed fighting BIDENFLATION, so, yes, people, BIDE-O-NOMICS is what is responsible for OUR ECONOMIC PAIN here in America as a result of BIDENFLATION, and don’t let Joe Biden lie to you and tell you it has to be something else causing it, with Joe BLAME-SHIFTING last week, saying “there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation,” as Joe’s administration takes aim at grocery chains, sending an election-year suggestion that the companies lower prices on goods from milk to eggs and bread, with Jared Bernstein, the chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a virtual meeting with reporters, telling them, “Our message is a very clear one that the president has and will continue to lean into, which is, if you’re a company whose input prices have come down and you’re not passing those savings along to the consumer, he will call you out.”
OK, Joe, you da man, alright, with that tough talk of yours as you hit up these same people for the more than $97 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of last year, which makes you quite the HYPOCRITE, Joe, which in turn takes us to a Reuters article titled “Biden visits Michigan autoworkers as Gaza protests threatened” by Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal on February 1, 2024, where we have this bit of truly uninformed idiocy from Joe, to wit:
Before heading to Michigan, Biden attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
He said he was working to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict, including a two-state solution for Palestinians and bringing home the hostages still held following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
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That so-called “two-state solution,” which we have been hearing about since back when Hillary’s husband Bill was president, if not before, is BULL**** and has been BULL**** since the 1930’s, which goes to show just how ignorant not only Joe, but everyone, including those at that prayer breakfast, and the media and everyone who listens to Joe and believes a single word he says, about anything, are about HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY, as we clearly see by going to “World Wars And Revolutions” copyrighted 1943, by Walter Phelps Hall, PhD, of Princeton, where we have that HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY, as follows:
The history of Palestine during the twenty years armistice between two European wars was confused, hectic, contradictory.
In 1917 it was the happy thought of the British government that this ancient foyer of Jewry might become again a Jewish national home, and to make it such, the British government publicly pledged itself.
In doing so, it forgot two important facts: first, that the Arabs in Palestine outnumbered the Jews eight or nine to one; and second, that those Arabs who had enlisted to help the British drive the Turks and Germans back through Palestine and Syria into Asia Minor during the last half of the war considered, rightly or wrongly, that Britain had promised an independent Arab state which would include Palestine.
Britain, however, stuck by her word to the Jews.
There had been no such formal pledge (not exactly true, as Lawrence of Arabia had made such a pledge to the Arabs during the war to entice them to fight the Turks, but he was blown off by the Brit government when the war concluded, thus selling out the Arabs, who have long memories) to the Arabs as there had been to the Jews; and furthermore, such assurances (i.e. Lawrence) as had been given the former were not to be interpreted, so said the British, as including Palestine.
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And still the Jews flocked into Palestine.
The advent of Hitler in Germany stimulated their advent greatly, so much so that in 1935 no less than sixty thousand reached the land of promise, and the Jews by that date had increased to almost one-third of the entire population.
Thereupon, the next year the Arabs declared a general strike in which a thousand lives were lost.
This resulted in the British sending a Royal Commission to Palestine in 1937 to investigate and recommend.
It produced a voluminous report which angered both Jew and Arab.
The Commission proposed that Palestine be divided into two separate countries, one Jewish, one Arab.
The mandate of the League of Nations, which Britain held, was to be ended, but the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, sacred to both Jew and Arab as well as to Christian, were to continue under British protection and were to belong to neither of the two new countries.
The Report was a counsel of despair.
The two new states would be too small to be self-sufficient units, for the total area of even the undivided Palestine was only approximately that of Wales or Vermont.
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And here we have this MORON Biden today thinking we are all as stupid as he and his administration are with respect to HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY!
Sorry, Joe, but it just is not so – we are not all as stupid and ignorant as are you and your supporters and enablers and apologists, so stop trying to treat us as if we are, because it is quite insulting for us to be compared to you and yours that way.
Paul Plante says
And going back to this statement, “President Joe Biden welcomed the report saying ‘America’s economy is the strongest in the world'” from the Reuters article titled “US labor market sizzles with blowout job growth, solid wage gains” by Lucia Mutikani on February 2, 2024, is that at all a true statement by Joe that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
Afterall, we just had an article from The Hill titled “Powell: ‘The US is on an unsustainable fiscal path’” by Taylor Giorno on 5 February 2024, where we had fed chief Jerome Powell stating as follows, to wit:
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said “the U.S. is on an unsustainable fiscal path” in a “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley released Sunday.
“The U.S. federal government’s on an unsustainable fiscal path.”
“And that just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy.”
“So, it is unsustainable.”
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So, if in fact the U.S. federal government under Joe Biden is on an unsustainable fiscal path, which means that the debt is growing faster than the economy, can it at the same time be true that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
And before we address that pertinent question, let’s go back to that article in The Hill for this statement, to wit:
The U.S. national debt topped $34 trillion for the first time ever in early January, just over three months after surpassing the $33 trillion mark, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury.
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Yes, people, in just three months, Joe Biden BLEW THROUGH a TRILLION DOLLARS OF BORROWED MONEY AT INTEREST that we are on the hook for, to create this ILLUSION of an economy, which in turn takes us to the definition of exactly what is an economy in the first place, which takes us to an Investopedia article titled “Economy: What It Is, Types of Economies, Economic Indicators” by Will Kenton on December 17, 2023, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
What Is an Economy?
An economy is a complex system of interrelated production, consumption, and exchange activities that ultimately determines how resources are allocated among all the participants.
The production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services combine to fulfill the needs of those living and operating within the economy.
Understanding Economies
An economy encompasses all of the activities related to the production, consumption, and trade of goods and services in an entity, whether the entity is a nation or a small town.
No two economies are identical.
Each is formed according to its own resources, culture, laws, history, and geography.
Each evolves according to the choices and actions of the participants.
These decisions are made through some combination of market transactions and collective or hierarchical decision-making.
Capitalism requires a market-based economy.
Communism requires a command-based economy.
Types of Economies
In the modern world, few nations are purely market-based or purely command-based.
But most lean toward one or the other of these models.
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Now, historically, i.e., before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen came along to TRANSFORM our economy, the United States was mostly a market-based or “free market” economy which allowed people and businesses to freely exchange goods and services according to supply and demand.
In that prior system, producers determined what was sold and produced, and what prices to charge, and if they expected to succeed, they had to produce what consumers wanted and charge what consumers were willing to pay.
Through these decisions, the laws of supply and demand determined prices and total production, so that if consumer demand for a specific product increased, production would tend to increase to satisfy the demand, while the increased demand caused prices to rise until consumers balked and cut back on their purchases, which would cause demand for the product to decline and prices would have to decline as a result.
According to theory, anyway, this constant tug of supply and demand would allow a market economy a tendency to naturally balance itself, for as the prices in one sector rise with demand, the money and labor needed to fill that demand would shift to those places where they’re needed.
That was all before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen, who are TRANSFORMING our economy, through BIDE-O-NISM, into a command- based economy which depends on Joe’s central government controlling the production levels, pricing, and distribution of goods, as is also the case in Cuba and North Korea, as Joe’s command-based economy attempts to supersede the workings of supply and demand, with Joe determining what can be produced, i.e. electric cars, and can’t be produced, i.e. ICE cars, while also determining who those products cannot be sold to, thus putting control of the world marketplace firmly in Joe Biden’s grip.
And that takes us to the question of what is a debt-fueled economy, which is what we have under Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to the Positive Money website and an article titled “Debt-Driven Growth” by Mira Tekelova, where have as follows on the ramifications of BORROW HEAVILY AND SPEND LAVISHLY BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The more one explores the broad impact of debt, the more apparent it becomes that bank-credit constitutes a dysfunctional form of money.
An economy based almost entirely upon bank-credit and debt experiences an intense drive for growth, regardless of need or demand.
Bank credit engenders financial dependence, injects instability and fosters growth-distortions, both within an economy and throughout the international arena.
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As to the term debt-fueled growth, which is what we now have under BIDE-O-NISM, it refers to an economic situation in which growth is financed by ever increasing levels of debt, so that today in America with a population of 331.9 million in 2021, American households were carrying a total of $17.29 trillion in debt as of the third quarter of 2023, with average household debt of $103,358 as of the second quarter of 2023.
Rising debt, of course, reduces business investment and slows economic growth, not the opposite, as was one of the lessons that should have been learned from the GREAT DEPRESSION, but obviously wasn’t, while it also increases expectations of higher rates of inflation and erosion of confidence in the U.S. dollar, which takes us to a Bloomberg article from October 3, 2017 titled “The benefits of debt-fueled growth don’t last forever: IMF” by Matt Padanyi, to wit:
Economic growth propped up by debt-fueled consumer spending increases the risk of a major financial collapse, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
The latest edition of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report examined the relationship between household debt and consumer spending, and showed that near-term economic growth bolstered by borrowing often leads to medium-term costs associated with higher debt levels, especially in advanced economies.
“In the short term, an increase in the household debt-to-GDP ratio is typically associated with higher economic growth and lower unemployment, but the effects are reversed in three to five years,” according to the report.
“Moreover, higher growth in household debt is associated with a greater probability of banking crises.”
“These adverse effects are stronger when household debt is higher and are therefore more pronounced for advanced than for emerging market economies, where household debt and credit market participation are lower.”
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Which brings us back to Joe Biden telling us that “America’s economy is the strongest in the world” while fed chief Jerome Powell is telling us that the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path.
So who is right, people, Joe or Jerome?
Think about it while we take another break for station identification, and then we will be right back with more chaos from Joe Biden yet to come, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial.
Paul Plante, RVN 1969 says
And speaking of chaos, which is all Joe Biden has to offer us and the world, according to Rigzone, oil jumped up to $76.22 a barrel in New York today as Joe continues to conduct his air strikes in Iraqinam, making the Middle East even more volatile, prompting major owners of shipping in all sectors to avoid the region, which of course is going to drive up shipping prices, contributing to more BIDENFLATION yet to come as the cost of a gallo9n of gas where I am jumped up $.10 gallon.
But where I want to go right now isn’t there, but to comments attributed to Joe, a famous SKULKER (someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity. especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) during the Viet Nam war in The Independent story titled “Biden says he has to ‘hold my Irish temper’ as he rages at ‘Donald Hoover Trump’ in fiery campaign speech” by Andrew Feinberg on 6 February 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden told a group of donors to his re-election bid on Sunday that the mere thought of his predecessor’s callous attitude towards the nation’s military veterans and honoured war dead forces him to expend extra energy to keep his anger in check.
Speaking to guests who’d assembled to hear him speak at a Henderson, Nevada fundraiser, Mr Biden was working through what has become a standard recitation of his record since taking office in 2021 when he turned to the matter of former president Donald Trump’s attitude towards men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the United States.
He told attendees: “I have to hold my Irish temper” when it comes to that subject.
The matter that so evokes Mr Biden’s anger is a series of comments first reported by The Atlantic regarding Mr Trump’s attitude towards American war dead.
In an October 2020 article, the magazine revealed that the then-president had infamously told his staff that he did not want to make a visit to an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because rain would have caused damage to the byzantine combover he uses to hide his baldness.
He reportedly asked senior staff members: “Why should I go to that cemetery?” and remarked that it was “full of losers”.
He also later disparaged US Marines who lost their lives during the battle that stopped Imperial Germany’s movement towards Paris in the First World War as “losers”.
Mr Biden, whose late son and namesake, Joseph Robinette Biden III – better known as Beau Biden – served overseas during the Iraq war and later died from a brain tumour thought to have come from exposure to toxic burn pits there, told the crowd that he was “glad” he wasn’t with Mr Trump during that 2018 trip because he was not sure what he’d have done had he heard those comments, effectively implying that he might have turned violent.
“I’m glad I wasn’t with him.”
“I’m not sure what I would’ve done.”
“He said they’re all suckers and losers,” he said.
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EXCEPT, according to Snopes, which is no friend to Trump, there is NO PROOF that Trump actually said those words, nor is there any record that he did, which makes Joe out as the serial liar that he is, and has been, but let'[s go to Snopes and see what we see, to wit:
Did Trump Call Fallen Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’?
Nur Ibrahim
Published Oct 4, 2023
In early October 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden and a former member of Donald Trump’s presidential administration resurrected a years-old accusation against Trump that allegedly revealed his true opinion of U.S. military troops.
According to the claim, Trump once called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” while talking to people in his inner circle.
Trump and his allies have denied the accusation since it first emerged in 2020, shortly before the election between Trump and Biden.
Whether performative or authentic, Trump’s apparent support for soldiers in the U.S. military, both active and veteran members, has been part of his presidential campaigns.
Following a story by The Atlantic, a number of reputable news outlets reported on the alleged comments in 2020, relying entirely on anonymous sources from his administration.
However, there appeared to be no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.
Moreover, since Snopes did not witness the in-question comments firsthand, we can’t say for certain whether Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
How the Accusations Emerged
Citing anonymous officials from the administration, the 2020 article by The Atlantic, titled, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’,” unpacked Trump’s trip to Paris in 2018 when he allegedly did not want to visit a cemetery of American war dead.
The visit was cancelled.
Trump Allies Deny the Claims
The White House blamed the canceled cemetery visit on poor weather.
Responding to The Atlantic’s reporting, Trump said the accusation was “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.”
Trump strongly denied calling fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers.”
Speaking to reporters on Sept. 3, 2020, upon returning from a campaign rally to Washington, D.C., just after the report came out, Trump said: “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes.”
“There is nobody that respects them more.”
“No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?”
Just days later, Zach Fuentes, a former White House aide who left the administration in early 2019 and was with the president on the Paris trip and presumably near him during the in-question conversations about the cemetery visit, stood up for Trump in an interview with Breitbart.
Referring to Gen. John Kelly, who was with Trump during the trip as his chief of staff, he said, “I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather.”
“Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?”
Reporting on Fuentes’ interview with Breitbart, The Washington Post noted that the phrase “I did not hear…” is not the same as “it didn’t happen.”
Furthermore, there was no evidence of Kelly being around Trump to hear the alleged comments.
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who said he was on the trip, also issued a denial to Fox News, days after the article came out, saying it was “simply false.”
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied the claims in an interview with Fox News in September 2020.
He said, “I was with him for a good part of that trip, if I’m thinking about this visit and the timing right, and I never heard him use the words that are described in that article.”
“Just, I never saw it.”
How the Claims Resurfaced in 2023
On Oct. 2, 2023, Biden’s official account on X resurfaced the accusation, saying Trump once allegedly “referred to American service members as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.'”
In sum, the claim stemmed from a story by The Atlantic, which relied on anonymous, second-hand reports of Trump’s alleged words; there was no independent footage or documented proof to substantiate the in-question comments; and Trump vehemently denies that he once called service members “losers” and “suckers.”
While it was certainly possible that he said those things, Snopes was unable to independently verify the claim.
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And let me make it clear that I am no fan of Trump’s.
I didn’t support him then, don’t support him now, didn’t vote for him then, and won’t vote for him now BUT I also am not a fan of Joe Biden, and I don’t like getting lied to him, and I don’t like a liar serving as our Commander-in-Chief, especially a SKULKER like Joe Biden.
How very low we have become as a nation when the very best we can do for our “leader” is a liar like Joe Biden.
And now, definitely time to break for station identification!
Paul Plante says
And before we can go to Joe’s recent comments to workers from the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas, where he told them, “We’re coming back, we really are. we have the best economy in the world,” we have to consider some recent news, including a report from U.S. DOJ special counsel Robert Hur, that really call into question the state of Joe’s mental acuity (a person’s ability to reason, focus, and recall information at optimum speeds) as we have him talking about talking with people who are dead, which because Joe is president, he actually might be able to do, as well as his memory of when he was Hussein Obama’s vice president, which first takes us to a Fox News story titled “Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996” by Bradford Betz on February 6, 2024, where we have as follows:
President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
The comments came while Biden was warning of the dangers of a potential second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Nevada.
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And how about the dangers of a second Biden presidency, people, because they are quite high as we see by going to a GB News story titled “Joe Biden in new toe-curling gaffe as President stumbles through speech and appears to forget Hamas” by George Bunn on February 7, 2024, for thi9s bit of embarrassment involving Joe, to wit:
Joe Biden appeared to stumble through a key speech about the Middle East conflict in the latest in a series of gaffes.
The 81-year-old President was giving an update to the conflict in the Middle East at the White House.
However, he appeared to stumble through his speech, including briefly forgetting the name of Hamas.
It comes as there have been concerns over the President’s age from both the left and right wing.
The US President said: “There is some movement…and I don’t wanna…I don’t wanna.”
“[After a pause] Choose my words…there’s some movement.”
“There’s been a response…from the uh…there’s been a response from the opposition.”
“But – yes I’m sorry – from Hamas but it seems to be a little over the top.”
“We’re not sure where it is…there’s continuing negotiation right now.”
Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice said: “This is sad to see, but President Biden is visibly & clearly no longer fit to be leader of the free world.”
Martin Daubney said: “For the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office.”
“Enough is enough.”
“He can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.”
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And from there we go to an NBC News story titled “In his second mixup this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders” by Zoë Richards and Tara Prindiville on February 8, 2024, where we have more on Joe’s declining mental state, as follows:
President Joe Biden on Wednesday twice referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl instead of former Chancellor Angela Merkel while detailing a 2021 conversation at campaign events.
It was the second time this week that Biden recalled speaking with a European leader who had died years earlier.
Biden’s gaffes on Wednesday came at a series of fundraisers in New York as he described conversations he said he had with European leaders at a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the U.K. in 2021, months after the Jan. 6 riot.
Biden said at both events that “Helmut Kohl,” who died in 2017, had asked him how he would respond if he read about people storming the British Parliament and killing officers “to stop the election of a prime minister.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president’s remarks weren’t his first mixup of European leaders this week.
While speaking at an event in North Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden confused Francois Mitterrand, the former French president who died in 1996, for French President Emmanuel Macron in his retelling of an encounter with the French leader at a summit during his first year in office.
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Which takes us to the most damning information about just how serious Joe’s declining mental state really is in a CNBC story titled “Biden ‘willfully’ kept classified materials, had ‘poor memory’: Special counsel” by Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan on February 8, 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,” Department of Justice special counsel said in a report released Thursday.
The FBI found classified documents, which by law should have been given back to the U.S. government when Biden ended his second term as vice president in January 2017, in the garage, office, and basement den of his Wilmington, Delaware, home, Hur’s report said.
The documents included classified material about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Biden’s entries about national security.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” Hur wrote in his nearly 400-page report.
“He knew he kept classified information in notebooks stored in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so,” the special counsel said.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the special counsel said.
‘Hazy’ Memory
Hur’s bluntly detailed lapses in Biden’s memory when he was questioned for the probe.
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur wrote.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the special counsel said.
“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
“Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”
Hur said that he expected that Biden’s lawyers would use these memory gaps as a defense if he were prosecuted.
“In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall,” the special counsel wrote.
A ‘historic figure’
Hur’s report said that the materials recovered from Biden’s home spanned his career in national office from 1973 when he became a U.S. senator from Delaware, and through his two terms as vice president under former President Barack Obama, from 2009 through early 2017.
Biden during his career “has long seen himself as a historic figure,” and during that time collected papers and artifacts that were connected to “significant issues and events in his career,” the report said.
“He used these materials to write memoirs published in 2007 and 2017, to document his legacy, and to cite as evidence that he was a man of presidential timber,” Hur wrote.
“As vice president, Mr. Biden received and stored classified materials at the White House, his official residence at the Naval Observatory, his private home in Delaware, and — very briefly — his rental home in Virginia,” the report said.
“He relied on staff to help deliver, store, and retrieve these classified materials.”
“Mr. Biden was known to remove and keep classified material from his briefing books for future use, and his staff struggled — and sometimes failed — to retrieve these materials,” Hur wrote.
“These gaps in the tracking and retrieval of Mr. Biden’s classified materials made it more difficult to determine when, how, and why many of the classified documents later found in Mr. Biden’s home and think tank ended up where they did not belong.”
“The Afghanistan documents were ultimately found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware home: in a badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil, and synthetic firewood,” the report said.
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So make of that what you will, people, but as for me, I am with the dude who said quite truthfully that for the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office because he can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.
And stay tuned, for when we return from a break for station identification, we will be right back with more from the whacky world of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, so don’t touch that dial!
J Wheaton says
Allow me to correct you because you always seem to throw in half-truths
Shipping is avoiding the area, the area being the Red Sea because of the Israel – Palestine conflict
. But yeah, you keep going on….
Paul Plante says
J Wheaton, what a surprise and what a pleasure to see you coming in here to give us all some much needed amusement in our lives in these very troubled times we find ourselves in thanks to the BELLICOSITY and BELLIGERENCE and JINGOISM (extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy) of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the very first Biden in the history of the world to become such a historical figure in the mold of an Alexander the Great, a Caesar Augustus, a Joe Stalin, or an Idi Amin, and let me say once again, as you keep proving over and over not only to the world, but to the solar system, where you are held in very high esteem by the Martians, the Venusians, and the Uranians, and the galaxy and the universe, as well, that you are an honest-to-gosh, real deal make no mistake about it HOOT, and America and the world are better places because of it, which is why you are so loved the world over, even more so than Taylor Swift, which is really saying something.
And to the chaos DICTATOR Biden is causing in the Middle East, where the Red Sea happens to be located, and to help you out with understanding current events, something you still are obviously having cognitive issues with as a result of your conditioning and indoctrination which has robbed you of your ability to be able to reason things through, shipping is avoiding the area, the area being the Red Sea, because the ham-handed, short-sighted, shallow-thinking Joe Biden, who now talks to dead people, and has forgotten who Hamas is, is escalating tensions over there, as we see by going to a Rigzone article titled “Oil Rallies Amid Cease Fire Uncertainty” by Bloomberg and Julia Fanzeres on February 8, 2024, where we have some reality you are so obviously not cognizant of on the situation over there, to wit:
Strikes in Iraq are increasing the chances of a broadening conflict in the Middle East — boosting energy-supply risks — and providing tailwinds for crude markets, said Daniel Ghali, a commodity strategist at TD Securities.
At the beginning of the session, Ghali expected commodity trading advisers to increase their total buying by 30% of their maximum position.
Signs of crude’s momentum also showed further along the futures curve, with Brent’s prompt spread — the difference between its two nearest contracts — strengthening to 63 cents in backwardation, the highest in three months, excluding volatile contract expiration dates.
Adding to concerns of supply disruptions, major shipping companies are warning that the security situation in the Red Sea is continuing to deteriorate.
Swaths of the merchant fleet have been avoiding the waterway since attacks by the Houthis began in mid-November.
The area grew even more volatile after the US and UK launched airstrikes in the middle of last month, prompting major owners in all sectors to avoid the region.
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“Volatile,” J Wheaton, means liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.
And to help cure you of your ignorance, a major task that, let’s drop back to a Reuters article titled “Biden faces pressure to strike Iran after US troops killed” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on January 29, 2024, where we have some relevant background you are obviously unaware of, as follows:
American forces in the Middle East have been attacked more than 150 times by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and off the coast of Yemen since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.
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Off the coast of Yeman, J Wheaton, means the Red Sea, where Joe Biden is making things more volatile, so that major shippers are now taking the long way around as opposed to transiting through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, which is robbing Egypt of transit fees.
Going back to that same article, we have as follows:
One Democrat openly voiced concern that Biden’s strategy of containing the Israel-Hamas conflict to Gaza was failing.
“As we see now, it is spiraling out of control.”
“It’s beginning to emerge as a regional war, and unfortunately the United States and our troops are in harms way,” Democratic Representative Barbara Lee said, renewing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian war.
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As I said above, J Wheaton, and as you are helping me to prove, CHAOS is all Joe Biden has to offer us and the world, and that is according to Democratic Representative Barbara Lee, which of course is going to drive up shipping prices, contributing to more BIDENFLATION yet to come as the cost of a gallon of gas where I am jumped up $.10 gallon.
And then we go to a Business Insider article titled “A Houthi missile got so close to a US destroyer the warship turned to a last-resort gun system to shoot it down: report” by Ella Sherman and Jake Epstein on 1 February 2024, for more on the volatile situation Joe Biden has created in the Red Sea, to wit:
A Houthi anti-ship cruise missile fired into the Red Sea came within a mile of a US Navy destroyer on Tuesday, a report said, close enough that the American warship turned to its close-in weapons system — a last line of defense.
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And from there we go to an AFP article titled “US strikes 10 Huthi drones, downs unmanned Iranian aircraft” on 1 February 2024, to see how Joe Biden is escalating tensions in the area, as follows:
The Huthis began targeting Red Sea shipping in November, saying they were hitting Israeli-linked vessels in support of Palestinians in Gaza, which has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war.
US and UK forces have responded with strikes on the Huthis, who have since declared American and British interests to be legitimate targets as well.
In addition to military action, Washington has sought to put diplomatic and financial pressure on the Huthis, redesignating them as a terrorist organization earlier in January after previously having dropped that label soon after President Joe Biden took office.
But the Huthis’ attacks have persisted, with the rebels saying Wednesday that they targeted an American merchant ship bound for Israel with “several appropriate naval missiles that directly hit the vessel.”
Maritime security firm Ambrey said a commercial vessel was reportedly targeted with a missile southwest of Aden, and that the ship reported an explosion on its starboard side, but did not mention its nationality.
Earlier, the Huthis said they fired multiple missiles at American destroyer the USS Gravely — a claim that came after CENTCOM said the warship downed an anti-ship cruise missile launched “from Huthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Red Sea.”
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In closing, J Wheaton, it makes me feel good about myself and all warm and squishy inside when you give me these opportunities to conduct interventions to help you cure your benighted ignorance, for which opportunities I am very thankful as the compassionate person that I am.
Paul Plante says
And as American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who just posted a photo of himself on X, formerly TWITTER, with laser beams shooting out of his head, which picture ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000 ) alone should serve to scare the living crap right out of the Iranians and the Huthis and all those militias in Iraqinam and Syria who are among Joe’s many enemies and have them trembling in fear while groveling at Joe’s feet and begging for mercy, it is indeed that scary looking, takes us closer and closer to war in the Middle East in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so it would be imperative that Joe should be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, Time had an interesting and insightful article on the subject of Joe’s WAR OF CHOICE in the Middle East, where he hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating, titled “The U.S. Navy Is Sinking in Middle East Sand” by Gil Barndollar on 13 February 2024, where we have as follows on that serious subject, given how short-sighted and shallow-thinking the senile Joe Biden, who lashes out right and left like a blind rattlesnake with his so-called “military might, really is, to wit:
The U.S. has a range of options for dealing with Yemen’s Houthis, none of them good.
But a long campaign of naval strikes and interception against them, as is now being floated by the Biden Administration and outside experts, is certainly the worst response of all.
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Which of course is why we can expect Joe Biden, who has never fought in a war, being a SKULKER during the Viet Nam war, or won a war (think Afghanistnam) in his entire life, to go that route, because it is stupid, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because it means the U.S. Navy continuing to sink into Middle East sand for an unachievable goal all while losing ground in the far-more important Pacific.
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Except Joe and his WORTHLESS National Security Council consisting of him, Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta don’t know the goal is unachievable, and so will believe the opposite, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have summoned Tomahawk cruise missiles and Top Gun pilots from the deck of the USS Eisenhower.
The newly-renamed Operation Poseidon Archer is just two weeks old, and the Biden Administration is already drawing up plans for a longer effort, despite admitting that defeating the Houthis is not viable.
There is a risk of escalation in the Middle East, especially with the death of three U.S. soldiers after a drone strike in Jordan.
But the effects on the U.S. Navy will be predictable, because they have all happened before: overworked ships and sailors, expenditure of precious precision munitions, and a continued punt on the pivot to the Pacific.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the crown jewel of American military might.
Its 5,000 sailors and 90 jet-strike aircraft can guarantee sustained ship-to-shore pummeling of adversaries and the purported deterrence this provides — in effect modern gunboat diplomacy.
In any geopolitical crisis, it’s said the U.S. President will demand to know where the carriers are.
For the past two decades, throughout the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT), the answer has usually been the Middle East.
From 2001 to 2015, United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which includes North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, had at least one carrier assigned at all times.
As late as 2020, the Middle East drew almost as much carrier presence as the entire Pacific.
Because of this relentless demand, carriers often have their deployments extended or are “double-pumped,” conducting back-to-back deployments without a major maintenance period in between.
The last three carriers deployed in the Mediterranean were all extended: the USS Gerald R. Ford was at sea for 239 days, the USS Harry S. Truman for 285, and the USS George H. W. Bush for 257.
This overwork has consequences.
After the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower did two sets of double pumps, its subsequent 14-month maintenance period ballooned to 23 months because of wear and tear.
The utility and survivability of carriers in a major war are also in question.
In 1982, the legendary Admiral Hyman Rickover stunned Congress by testifying that in a war with the Soviet Union, U.S. aircraft carriers would survive for “48 hours.”
In the four decades since, the carrier’s vulnerability has dramatically increased.
Anti-ship missiles have become far more accurate and long-ranged since Rickover’s testimony, as the unrefueled range of an aircraft carrier’s air wing has shrunk from well over 1,000 nautical miles to barely 600 now.
This leaves carrier commanders with two unpalatable options: stay out of enemy range but become operationally irrelevant or sail close enough but put a $13 billion vessel and its 5,000 sailors at risk.
The narrow waters of the Persian Gulf and chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and Yemen’s Bab-el Mandeb only magnify this dilemma.
Yet the overworked carrier fleet and questions about its utility in a major war are only part of the larger problem of U.S. naval overstretch.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. Navy has become addicted to global “presence” as a demonstration of its value to the nation.
Over the past two decades, the Army and Marine Corps could point to their efforts, successful or not, on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
To maintain its status and budget, the Navy also needed to contribute, at sea and ashore.
With the all-volunteer military stretched to the breaking point, the Pentagon started looking to the Navy to step in.
Some 120,000 sailors would go on to serve on land during the GWOT.
Many of these sailors, especially the reservists who are critical in any major war, have become “sailors in name only,” their naval proficiencies and mindset atrophying due to prolonged service ashore.
All of this significantly strained U.S. naval manpower, causing ships to deploy undermanned and for longer durations.
The Navy’s overstretch may have also contributed to a pair of tragic accidents.
In 2017, a pair of Navy destroyers, the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, collided with civilian ships in the Pacific in separate incidents, killing 17 sailors.
A report on the collisions found that rest and training were sacrificed for naval presence.
One of the Navy’s most senior retired enlisted sailors, Fleet Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Kingsbury, explicitly blamed the Navy’s GWOT augmentation program for the degraded safety culture that led to the McCain and Fitzgerald disasters.
The future looks grim for the overworked fleet.
Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Navy is facing an unprecedented recruiting crisis, fueled in part by fatigue from time away from home during extended deployments.
In an all-volunteer force, sailors will vote with their feet.
A shrinking fleet is the likely outcome, regardless of how many warships America has.
The most immediate danger of overstretch, though, is munitions not manpower.
The opening Jan. 12 strike on the Houthis expended 80 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, more than half the missile’s annual production.
In the near term, expending hundreds of these missiles in a tertiary operation like Prosperity Guardian could have major impacts in a far more important theater in the Pacific.
Precision strike missiles like the Tomahawk are vital to the U.S. military’s ability to deter, and if necessary, defeat a Chinese attack in the Pacific — a contingency where the Navy will be carrying most of the fight, unlike in America’s Middle East wars.
The U.S. may already lack sufficient precision munitions for a shooting war with China.
The Navy’s newest Middle East operation adds further risk to the service’s most essential mission.
On September 10, 2001, the U.S. was the unchallenged global superpower, with naval preeminence as the bedrock of American military dominance.
The U.S. Navy outgunned China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) by more than 100 warships.
China had no aircraft carriers and just 21 diesel submarines.
Some 20 years later, America’s sailors look out at a different world.
PLAN is now the world’s largest navy (though the U.S. Navy still boasts more tonnage).
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is nearing its sea trials.
In the time since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, PLAN has commissioned 313 ships.
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would struggle mightily to defeat a Chinese fleet that was an afterthought just two decades ago.
The future trajectory is even worse: Chinese shipbuilding capacity now exceeds that of the U.S. by a factor of 200, according to unclassified data from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Rebuilding the U.S. Navy is a long-term project that has barely begun, despite lip service from both political parties for years.
Ships, to say nothing of shipyards, are not built overnight.
Lost time and lost opportunities cannot be recovered.
But the U.S. can stop digging its navy into a deeper hole through Middle East-driven overwork of ships and sailors.
Fixing the fleet requires snapping the CENTCOM noose as quickly as possible.
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And that, people, is not going to happen!
ANOTHER BIDEN QUAGMIRE WILL BE THE RESULT INSTEAD!
Paul Plante says
And while American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior is posting photos of himself on X, formerly TWITTER, with laser beams shooting out of his head ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000 ) in what I consider to be a vain effort to scare the living crap right out of the Iranians and the Huthis and all those militias in Iraqinam and Syria who are among Joe’s many enemies and have them trembling in fear while groveling at Joe’s feet and begging for mercy, as he tries to stoke a new war in the Middle East where he hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so that it would be imperative that Joe should be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, let’s take a look at the CHAOS Joe is creating here with our economy, thanks to Joe’s war efforts which are escalting tensions in the Middle East, coupled BIDENFLATION in this country as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS by going to Rigzone on February 13, 2024, where we see that West Texas Intermediate rose 1.2% to settle near $78 a barrel, pushing past its 200-day moving average of about $77.40, which raises the possibility of additional upward momentum, which of course will impact the price of gasoline as we head further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to November and the presidential elections.
And according to a CNBC article titled “10-year Treasury yield shoots higher as January CPI is hotter than expected” by Lisa Kailai Han, Alex Harring and Karen Gilchrist on February 13, 2024, thanks to BIDENFLATION, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note added 15 basis points to 4.32%, while the yield on the 2-year Treasury climbed 19 basis points to 4.664%, while Tuesday’s data on BIDENFLATION added to doubts that the federal reserve would be able to lower the cost of borrowing several times this year, which has been a centerpiece of equity market bullishness in recent months, with Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer at Regan Capital telling us, “Bond yields have not peaked and we believe that a 10-year Treasury yield with a 5-handle is more likely than a 3-handle in 2024,” because “Persistent inflation, full employment and strong growth may delay the Fed’s rate cuts.”
With respect to BIDENFLATION, food prices moved higher, while real weekly earnings fell 0.3%, and electricity costs rose 1.2%, despite Joe Biden and his team of morons telling us that Joe’s GREEN ENERGY using windmills and solar panels was going to make electricity cheaper, not more expensive as is the case.
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Wall St ends sharply lower as hot inflation sparks sell-off” by Johann M Cherian, Ankika Biswas and Carolina Mandl on February 13, 2024, where we see that thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, Wall Street’s main indexes tumbled after a higher-than-expected consumer inflation reading pushed back market expectations of imminent interest rate cuts, driving U.S. Treasury yields higher with the result that the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest one-day percentage drop in nearly 11 months, with the S&P 500 losing 68.14 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 282.64 points, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 522.05 points.
Another Reuters article titled “Rising rents push US inflation higher; rate cuts still expected in 2024” by Lucia Mutikani on February 13, 2024 informed us that grocery food inflation increased 0.4%, the largest gain since January 2023, boosted by more expensive sugar and sweets as well as fats and oils, fruits and vegetables, with prices for hotel and motel rooms rebounding as did those for airline fares in January while motor vehicle insurance prices increased further, and medical care services increased 0.7%, with the cost of hospital services surging 1.6%, the most since October 2015, and the cost of health insurance also rose solidly.
So much for OBAMACARE making health insurance less expensive, which was always a BULL**** empty political claim.
And then we drop back a day to February 12, 2024 and another Reuters article where we learn that for the first four months of the fiscal year, the deficit rose $72 billion, or 16%, to $532 billion as costs to service the national debt rose, as did outlays for Social Security, Medicare and military programs related to Joe’s war mongering in the Middle East, with the Treasury’s interest cost on the public debt growing $18 billion, or 35%, in January compared to a year earlier due to a higher weighted average interest rate now at 3.15%, as well as higher debt levels, so that for the fiscal year to date, debt interest costs were up $96 billion, or 37%, to $357 billion, outpacing outlays for Medicare, as the Treasury also reported higher costs for military programs due to expenditures for military personnel operations and maintenance, so that for the first four months of fiscal 2024, those were up $32 billion, or 13%, to $283 billion.
So besides posting photos of himself with laser beams shooting out of his head as if he were some kind of space alien with superhuman powers, what is Joe doing about all that ECONOMIC CHAOS his misguided policies have created?
According to an article by AS USA titled “President Biden calls for an end to ‘shrinkflation’” by Jeffrey May on February 12, 2024, in a pre-Super Bowl video release by the White House’s social media team, Joe is calling on companies to put an end to “shrinkflation,” as if this mess Joe has created were their fault and not his, which message from Joe to the people of America about SHRINKFLATION, the cause of all our misery and woes can be viewed here:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1756713597864988940
And off to a break for station identification we go, and when we return, it will be to discuss SHOCK AND AWE as Joe’s VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN in the Middle East gets underway. so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
Paul Plante says
So, yes, p0eple, SHOCK AND AWE as Joe’s VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN in the Middle East gets underway, with Joe even conducting strikes using B-1 bombers, originally designed for low-level penetration during the Cold War, on Iran proxy militia targets in Syria and Iraq, as Joe, the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of our entire military, from top to bottom and from the middle out, as well as the HEAD or TOP DOG as that leader is called of the NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, which consists of Joe, who according to the Daily Mail on February 14, 2024, after defending his memory against claims that he couldn’t even remember when his beloved son died, he lost the news cycle by referring to the Egyptian president as the “president of Mexico,” and Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses along with the hapless and clueless Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, plans a multi-layered campaign against these militias, relying on airpower for containment and punishment, which in the end is pure political BULL****, because it has never worked before and won’t work now.
Consider how many tons of bombs were dropped during Operation Rolling Thunder on March 2, 1965, when the USAF began a systematic bombing campaign against North Vietnam named ROLLING THUNDER which idiot planners in Washington, D.C. HOPED would provide a morale boost to South Vietnamese forces and interdict the flow of supplies going south, and discourage North Vietnamese aggression, a PIPE DREAM, since the aggression was caused by, as is the case now in the Middle East by an unwanted foreign military presence, where 864,000 tons of bombs and missiles were dropped, 152,399 attack sorties from Navy and Marine Corps aircraft were flown, while 153,784 attack sorties from Air Force aircraft were flown, along with a dramatic increase in electronic warfare, intelligence operations, and air-air-missile technology, and still Operation Rolling Thunder was a failure because the Air Force simply could not effectively interdict North Vietnam’s supply routes to the South, and in Clausewitzian terms, rolling thunder failed because it was not an effective political instrument because it did not achieve its stated goal of compelling to North Vietnamese to do our will.
Joe, who has never fought in a war and knows absolutely nothing about war and has never won a war, running as he did like a scared rabbit out of Afghanistnam, where despite his technological superiority, Joe was unable to defeat some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen in that country, and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, which is incompetent, want us to believe, and we would be fools and idiots if we did, that overall, these recent strikes are supposed to serve as a reminder of the U.S.’s ability to initiate sustained air campaigns and maintain pressure on various insurgent and militia groups, except that too is BULL**** precisely because Joe cannot do that without flying his planes and pilots and maintenance crews into the ground, as if Joe can fly those planes on a non-stop basis without them needing maintenance, and as if Joe has infinite amounts of ammunition, rockets and bombs, which he doesn’t.
And while this is all going on, what, pray tell, is NSC member Janet “TOODLES” Yellen doing about protecting and safeguarding OUR NATIONAL SECURITY?
How about her being out there in BATTLEGROUND states politicking for Joe Biden?
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we see from a Reuters article titled “Yellen says inflation moving down, market reaction a ‘tremendous mistake'” by Andrea Shalal on February 14, 2024, where we have as follows, keeping in mind that this is the same “TOODLES” Yellen who told admitted to being dead wrong about inflation being transitory in this CNBC video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-gmBHCVKgA , to wit:
DETROIT, Feb 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that recent consumer price inflation data was “a tad higher” than expectations, but Americans should focus on longer-term declines in inflation trends and a strong economy and rising wages.
“I think it is a tremendous mistake to focus on minor fluctuations and to have failed to see the longer-term and bigger trends.”
“And the trend here is that inflation is moving decisively down,” Yellen told the Detroit Economic Club, where she appeared with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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And she is so far out of touch with the reality I reside in, it isn’t funny, because in my reality, where I have essentially been forced out of the economy, PRICES ARE STILL GOING UP, despite her claim that the RATE of PRICE INCREASES is coming down, as if that mattered, which it doesn’t.
What matters is the bottom line on the grocery receipt, or the line with “this amount owed” on the insurance bill, and on and on and on, things “TOODLES” Yellen, who according to Forbes is worth an estimated $20 million, doesn’t know about and certainly doesn’t have to worry about with her government salary of $235,600, which takes us back to Reuters for more from “TOODLES” of Joe’s NSC, to wit:
Yellen told reporters that Americans had been through a hard time with COVID and prices of some significant things – rental housing and food – were higher than before the pandemic, but wages were also increasing more than prices were.
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Which is not true according to a CNBC article titled “Prices rose more than expected in January as inflation won’t go away” by Jeff Cox on February 13, 2024, where we learned that adjusted for the decline in the average workweek, real weekly earnings fell 0.3%, which takes us back for more NSC member “TOODLES” Yellen politicking for Joe Biden, while Joe is setting the Middle East on fire, to wit:
Yellen was visiting Detroit on a swing through the election battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania to tout U.S. President Joe Biden’s economic policies, including infrastructure, health care and clean energy investments, and try to persuade skeptical voters the economy is performing well, with falling inflation and historically low unemployment.
Yellen’s remarks this week build on earlier stops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.
Pennsylvania and Michigan are among the seven states Biden’s reelection campaign considers election battlegrounds because their voters’ preferences could swing to either party and determine the outcome of November’s race.
But the administration’s repeated efforts to showcase its economic successes have thus far failed to convince the American public, according to recent polls.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Biden is running six percentage points behind Republican frontrunner former President Donald Trump, with voters focused on immigration challenges, Biden’s age and still unhappy about the economy despite big improvements since he took office in 2021.
Asked which person dead or alive she would like to have lunch with, Yellen chose influential 20th century British economist John Maynard Keynes.
“He changed the way all of us understand business cycles, public policy and financial markets.”
“And a long time ago, Richard Nixon said, ‘we’re all Keynesians now,'” Yellen said, adding: “He really had deep insights into how economies work.”
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And if Keynes were to have lunch with “TOODLES,” what he likely would say to her is “Janet, you are a ******* idiot who doesn’t understand anything about economics, driving the United States deeper and deeper into debt as you are doing, and you don’t understand a single word I said either, so you aren’t a ‘Keynesian,’ you’re an A-HOLE,” which takes us back to a Forbes article titled “‘Soft Landing’ Achieved: Janet Yellen Says Goal Reached After Recession Fears—But Some Still Skeptical” by Molly Bohannon on 6 January 2024, as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview on CNN on Friday that the U.S. has achieved a “soft landing” after years of concerns about the U.S. economy following the Covid-19 pandemic and high inflation rates — a scenario many economists once thought unlikely.
“What we’re seeing now I think we can describe as a soft landing and my hope is that it will continue,” Yellen said on CNN on Friday.
Yellen gave credit for the soft landing to the American people and President Joe Biden, saying: “The American people go to work every day, participate in the labor market, form new businesses, but President Biden has tried to create incentives that give Americans the tools they need to help this economy grow.”
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EXCEPT THERE HASN’T BEEN A SOFT LANDING, and “TOODLES” is doing what she does best, which is lying to us on behalf of Joe Biden, as if we were too stupid and uninformed to know the difference, as we see in a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Barr: ‘Bumpy’ path to 2% inflation means soft landing jury still out” by Howard Schneider on February 14, 2024, where we have “TOODLES” being refuted on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Hotter-than-expected inflation in January shows that the United States’ path back to 2% inflation “may be a bumpy one,” Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said on Wednesday, adding it was too early to be assured price stability will be restored without a significant blow to jobs or economic growth.
“It’s very early to say whether we end up with a soft landing or not,” Barr said, referring to the Fed’s hoped-for outcome where inflation returns to the Fed’s target without a large rise in the unemployment rate.
“I’d be very careful about where we are in that process,” with the Fed facing a “difficult” decision on how long to maintain the target rate of interest at the current 5.25% to 5.5% range, Barr said at a National Association for Business Economics conference.
The Fed is “confident we are on a path to 2% inflation,” Barr said in a prepared speech at the event.
But a recent report showing prices rose faster than anticipated in January, “is a reminder that the path back to 2% inflation may be a bumpy one.”
“We need to see continued good data before we can begin the process of reducing the federal funds rate,” Barr said, adding he backed the “careful approach” to cutting rates advocated by Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed policymakers.
“It is a difficult set of judgments to make in the current context because there are no clear historical parallels,” given the current situation’s roots in the coronavirus pandemic, he said.
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And that takes us back to Reuters and “TOODLES” Yellen politicking for Joe Biden with DEMOCRAT Gretchen Widmer, to wit:
When asked the same question, Whitmer, a Democrat, said she would choose Yellen, whom she had introduced as an inspiring role model – “She is a badass.”
“She eats, breathes and sleeps economics” – and because she had only been able to spend 10 minutes with her before the event on Wednesday.
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No, Gretchen, “TOODLES” Yellen is not a badass.
She is an idiot for thinking the American people are uniformed fools who can’t see through her outright lies, distortions of reality, misinformation and disinformation, and you are an idiot for believing a single word she says.
Paul Plante says
Is it truly necessary to be a loser and a fool to work in high levels of government in Washington, D.C.?
Seems so to me, anyway, and here, I am now referring to a Fox News article titled “US downs more Houthi drones; American public ‘lulled into complacency’ by Navy’s power, defense official says” by Louis Casiano, Jennifer Griffin on February 17, 2024, where we have the latest on Joe Biden’s WAR OF CHOICE in the Middle East where our Joe, who thinks of himself in a grandiose manner as a “historical” figure, which he is certainly turning out to be as a laughing stock on the world stage, the first American to9 be such in our entire history as a nation, hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so that it would be imperative that Joe must be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, where we have an ignorant, out-of-touch with reality, so-called “senior defense official” in the Biden administration whining and mewling and puling like a whiney baby, as follows, to wit:
U.S. forces shot down four Iran-backed Houthi drones Friday after the terror group fired four anti-ship ballistic missiles earlier, a senior defense official told Fox News.
The senior defense official told Fox News that the American public has gotten lulled into complacency, thinking it is easy for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down.
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DEAD WRONG, dude!
First of all, who has been lulled gotten lulled into complacency, thinking it is easy for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down, is “FIGHTING JOE” Biden and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, which consists of Joe, who according to the Daily Mail on February 14, 2024, after defending his memory against claims that he couldn’t even remember when his beloved son died, lost the news cycle by referring to the Egyptian president as the “president of Mexico,” and Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses along with the hapless and clueless Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, none of whom have even the slightest clue as to what the Navy is involved in over there, focused as they all are on getting Joe re-elected.
As to the American public, they have not gotten lulled into complacency, thinking it is easy for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down, precisely because they really aren’t paying any attention to what is going on over there, being quite bored with the whole business, and if they somehow were, they wouldn’t have a clue as to how hard or easy it is for the Navy to do something.
Said another way, the American people have gotten quite bored with all of Joe’s many conflicts and to protect their emotional energy, they have simply tuned them out, as I largely have, because with Joe Biden, we have seen this movie before, and like the last several times, with the senile Joe Biden in charge, this is not going to end good for America.
And if the American people were in fact aware of how hard it is for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down, what the hell are they supposed to do about it?
Which thought takes us back for more, to wit:
Should a Houthi missile strike a U.S. warship, “the escalation that will follow is very serious and should give people pause,” the official said.
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YAWN!
Yeah, right, dude.
And what is Joe Biden going to do about it, keeping in mind a Time article titled “The U.S. Navy Is Sinking in Middle East Sand” by Gil Barndollar on February 13, 2024, where we were informed that senile old Joe, in his opening SHOCK AND AWE Jan. 12 strike on the Houthis expended 80 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, more than half the missile’s annual production, which didn’t do ****-all with respect to deterring the Houthis from doing anything other than continuing their attacks on Joe’s navy, as we see in another Fox News article titled “After months fighting Houthis on the USS Eisenhower, sailors face a new kind of sea threat” on February 15, 2024, as follows:
Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis, and are now more regularly also defending against a new threat — fast unmanned vessels that are fired at them through the water.
While the Houthis have launched unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the past against Saudi coalition forces that have intervened in Yemen’s civil war, they were used for the first time against U.S. military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea on Jan. 4.
In the weeks since, the Navy has had to intercept and destroy multiple USVs.
It’s “more of an unknown threat that we don’t have a lot of intel on, that could be extremely lethal — an unmanned surface vessel,” said Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, commander of Carrier Strike Group Two, of which the Eisenhower is the flagship.
The Houthis “have ways of obviously controlling them just like they do the (unmanned aerial vehicles), and we have very little fidelity as to all the stockpiles of what they have USV-wise,” Miguez said.
The Houthis began firing on U.S. military and commercial vessels after a deadly blast at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17, a few days after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
The Eisenhower has been on patrol here since Nov. 4, and some of its accompanying ships have been on location for even longer, since October.
In those months the Eisenhower’s fleet of fighter and surveillance aircraft have worked non-stop to detect and intercept the missiles and drones fired by the Houthis at ships in the Red Sea, Bab-al-Mandeb strait and Gulf of Aden.
But the USV threat, which is still evolving, is worrisome, Miguez said.
“That’s one of the most scary scenarios, to have a bomb-laden, unmanned surface vessel that can go in pretty fast speeds.”
“And if you’re not immediately on scene, it can get ugly extremely quick,” Miguez said.
That pace has meant the ships have spent four months at a constant combat pace with no days off with a port call.
That takes a toll on sailors, the commander of the Eisenhower, Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill said in an interview with The Associated Press aboard the Eisenhower.
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Which takes us back to the Time article, where we have this reality confronting us, to wit:
The U.S. has a range of options for dealing with Yemen’s Houthis, none of them good.
But a long campaign of naval strikes and interception against them, as is now being floated by the Biden Administration and outside experts, is certainly the worst response of all.
Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have summoned Tomahawk cruise missiles and Top Gun pilots from the deck of the USS Eisenhower.
The newly-renamed Operation Poseidon Archer is just two weeks old, and the Biden Administration is already drawing up plans for a longer effort, despite admitting that defeating the Houthis is not viable.
But the effects on the U.S. Navy will be predictable, because they have all happened before: overworked ships and sailors, expenditure of precious precision munitions, and a continued punt on the pivot to the Pacific.
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Which of course, Joe Biden and his so-called “defense officials,” incompetent Democrat political hacks given government jobs by Joe because they can’t make it in the real world, are totally unaware of, which takes us back to the Fox News article titled “US downs more Houthi drones; American public ‘lulled into complacency’ by Navy’s power, defense official says” by Louis Casiano, Jennifer Griffin on February 17, 2024, as follows:
“People have gotten too used to us being really good at shooting these incoming missiles down,” the official added.
“They don’t realize how hard it is to do and the strain on the sailors manning the radar.”
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No, dude, don’t blame shift any of that to the American people.
Who doesn’t realize how hard it is to do and the strain it puts on the sailors manning the radar is COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the most incompetent and clueless CIC we have had in the history of this nation, and probably the most incompetent CIC in the history of the world, as well.
This is Joe Biden’s WAR OF CHOICE, not ours.
He started it without asking our permission, and it is he that owns it, not the American people who are powerless to stop the madman from acting against our best interests.
And with that, let’s cut to a break for station identification, but don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more mindless CHAOS from the Joe Biden administration, so stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
And talk about a “whole of government” approach to getting Joe Biden re-elected, notwithstanding that the Hatch Act, which Joe totally ignores, as if it, like every other law, does not apply to him, prohibits public officials from using their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the results of an election or nomination, Joe has a “full court press” going, and here I am now talking about Lael Brainard, who Joe announced on February 14, 2023 as a key member of his economic team, with her serving as Director of Joe’s National Economic Council, with Joe telling us at that time that Lael was one of the country’s leading macroeconomists who was bringing Joe, who himself knows absolutely nothing about the subject, an extraordinary depth of domestic and international economic expertise, with her having previously served at CEA, NEC, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, so that she is a trusted veteran across our economic institutions, which means she is politically reliable and can be trusted to say what needs to be said when i9t needs to be said, like now to get Joe re-elected, and according to Joe, who himself is totally clueless as to how everyday Americans live, unlike him, supposedly, Lael understands how the economy affects everyday people, which is horse****, plain and simple, because Lael is as clueless as is Joe Biden about how the economy affects everyday people, because like Joe, Lael Brainard, a Washington insider who began her political career in 1997, serving as deputy national economic advisor and deputy assistant to the president during the Clinton administration, where she helped build a new White House organization to address global economic challenges such as the Asian financial crisis and China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
Thereafter, having proved her political reliability, on March 23, 2009, Lael was nominated by Hussein Obama to serve as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and after that, Hussein nominated her to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in January 2014, being confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 61–31 on June 12, 2014, and beginning her term on June 16, 2014.
Then, on November 22, 2021, Joe Biden nominated Brainard to be the vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, with her initial nomination being returned to Joe on January 3, 2022, due to it expiring at the end of the year.
Undaunted, Joe simply renominated her the following day, so that on April 26, 2022, her nomination was confirmed by the Senate by a 52–43 vote, with all Democrats present and seven Republicans voting in favor of her confirmation.
And then, as was stated above, Lael was selected by Joe as Director of the National Economic Council, which was established in 1993 to advise the President on U.S. and global economic policy, it being part of the Executive Office of the President, and by Executive Order, the NEC has four key functions, those being to coordinate policy-making for domestic and international economic issues; to give economic policy advice to the President; to ensure that policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President’s economic goals; and to monitor implementation of the President’s economic policy agenda.
As to Lael’s lack of credibility, she was quoted in a Financial Times article titled “Fed governor plays down inflation risks as ‘transitory surge’ – Lael Brainard says central bank should be ‘patient’ in pursuing loose monetary policy” by James Politi in Washington and Colby Smith in New York on May 11, 2021, as follows:
A senior Federal Reserve official has called on the US central bank to be “patient” in pursuing its ultra-loose monetary policy, dismissing inflation worries and highlighting “uneven” improvements in the labour market.
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In the above article where I pondered whether it is truly necessary to be a loser and a fool to work in high levels of government in Washington, D.C., I was actually thinking of Lael Brainard at the time, based on those wrong-footed comments from her above, on inflation being transitory, who is now out there touting BIDE-O-NOMICS for Joe, as if we would believe a word she says after her telling us on May 11, 2021, six months before Joe nominated her to be the vice-chair of the Federal Reserve on November 22, 2021, that inflation was transito9ry when it was anything but.
And thereafter, in a July 19, 2021, speech, old Joe marked the first six months of his administration by celebrating the nation’s economy, which he hailed as experiencing “the fastest growth, I’m told, at this point in any administration’s history.”
Getting himself all puffed up with how great he and his administration are, Joe then got on a roll as follows:
“We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases,” Biden said.
“Some folks have raised worries that this could be a sign of persistent inflation.”
“But that is not our view.”
In a reference to Lael at that time, who is now out there on the campaign trail for Joe as his Director of the National Economic Council touting BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe continued by saying, “Our experts believe, and the data shows, that most of the price increases we’ve seen are expected to be temporary.”
And two months later, in a Marketwatch article titled “Fed’s Brainard says spike in inflation this year is ‘transitory’” by Greg Robb on September 27, 2021, Lael was back reinforcing Joe Biden’s political message on inflation of July 19, 2021, as follows:
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard on Monday laid out a strong case for the central bank to maintain low interest rates, saying that the spike seen in inflation this year was transitory and the labor market was far from healed.
“High inflation readings from the spring and early summer were disproportionately driven by a few sectors experiencing specific supply bottlenecks,” Brainard said.
“As those COVID related disruptions subside, most forecasters expect inflation to move back down towards our 2% long-run objective on its own.”
“That’s the sense in which currently high inflation is likely to be transitory,” Brainard said.
“I expect inflation to decelerate, and pre-COVID inflation dynamics to return when COVID disruptions dissipate,” Brainard said.
She said it is uncertain how fast inflation will slow down over the remainder of this year and next year.
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And how wrong she was!
Which got her promoted!
Welcome to the whacky world of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and boy, is it ever a doozy!
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Not being accountable to the American people, who in the grand Washingtonian scheme of things count for nothing in the BIG PICTURE, and not being held to account by Joe Biden himself, as he wants them out there telling us lies about Joe, while feeding us MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION about the economy, these public officials like Lael Brainard who are out there on the campaign trail for Joe, touting him and his
BIDE-O-NOMICS while blaming BIDENFLATION on corporate greed, this as that same alleged corporate greed helps fuel the Wall Street rally that the Biden campaign attributes to Joe’s BIDE-O-NOMICS, can feed us any bull**** they choose to feed us with impunity.
As to the Wall Street rally, which TEAM BIDEN is taking the credit for, as if BIDE-O-NOMICS is the cause of it, and Joe Biden the architect of it, we see that happening in a Fox News article titled “Lincoln Project adviser demands Democrats start calling Biden a ‘great president'” by Hanna Panreck on February 18, 2024, as follows:
Stuart Stevens, an adviser for the Lincoln Project, recently claimed Democrats need to start calling President Biden a “great president,” and not just a “better choice” than former President Trump.”
“A plea to my Democratic friends: It’s time to start calling Joe Biden a great president.”
“Not a good one.”
“Not a better choice than Donald Trump.”
“Joe Biden is a historically great president.”
“Say it with passion backed by the conviction that it’s true,” he wrote in an op-ed for the New Republic.
The president’s message has largely focused on Trump and making the election a choice between Biden and the former president, who they deem is a threat to democracy.
“Stop the nonsense that only a weak opponent gives Joe Biden a chance to win.”
“It’s more than wrong — it’s dangerous, completely misjudging Donald Trump’s strength,” Stevens wrote.
He cited strong unemployment numbers and the stock market hitting record highs, as well as student loan forgiveness for three million borrowers.
Stevens argued Biden “met the moment,” and told Democrats to “wake up and show some gratitude.”
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Show gratitude to Joe Biden?
NOT HARDLY!
In America, dude, we don’t do that groveling kind of bull****.
Joe Biden is beholden to we, the American people, not the other way around, as if this were the old Soviet Union and Joe Biden were instead the butcher Joe Stalin.
And why, pray tell, is the stock market up?
In an article titled “Wall Street ends higher, lifted by Uber, Lyft and Nvidia” by Noel Randewich and Johann M Cherian on February 14, 2024, this is what Reuters tells us:
Expectations the Fed will cut interest this year have fueled a rally on Wall Street in recent months that has sent the S&P 500 to record highs.
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While in another Reuters article titled “Wall Street slides as hot producer price data crimps rate cut bets” by Carolina Mandl, Amruta Khandekar and Ankika Biswas on February 16, 2024, we are told as follows as to why there is a rally on Wall Street, to wit:
The S&P 500 closed above 5,000 for the fourth time this year thanks to robust corporate earnings and surging enthusiasm around artificial intelligence.
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Robust corporate earnings?
How about OBSCENE PROFITS, people which takes us back to March 28, 2022, and a PRESS RELEASE by Bernie Sanders titled “NEWS: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sanders Statement on President Biden’s Budget Proposal” where we have as follows on that same subject that is fueling Joe Biden’s stock market rally today, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 – Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Monday issued the following statement after President Joe Biden released his fiscal year 2023 federal budget proposal:
I thank the President for submitting his budget proposal to Congress and I look forward to reviewing it closely.
At a time when corporations are making obscene profits by charging outrageously high prices for gas, food and rent, we need a budget that takes on the unprecedented corporate greed that is taking place in America today by enacting a windfall profits tax and preventing corporations from ripping off working families.
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HUH?
Preventing corporations from ripping off working families?
When is that supposed to happen, dude?
Which then takes us to Lael Brainard and her parroting Joe Biden’s claims of corporate greed fueling BIDENFLATION, as opposed to BIDE-O-NOMICS being the cause of BIDENFLATION, and here I am referring to a CNBC article titled “Lael Brainard slams food companies for ‘shrinkflation’ as White House attacks price gouging” by Rebecca Picciotto on February 13, 2024 to wit:
“If you look at some of the staples, like eggs or milk, they have come down.”
“But consumer brands, instead of actually lowering prices, they’ve shrunk packaging,” Brainard said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.”
“That’s the shrinkflation that the president is really calling attention to.”
Brainard’s comments came hours after the consumer price index showed inflation trending above expectations, coming in 0.3% higher in January.
In particular, food prices slid up 0.4% during the month.
Consumer brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and more have raised prices over the past year to keep profits afloat.
Shrinkflation, the practice of reducing product sizes while keeping prices the same, is Biden’s latest line of attack against corporations, which he debuted on Super Bowl Sunday.
Both the White House and Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign have touted inflation recovery as a key accomplishment of his economic agenda, dubbed Bidenomics.
But consumers have yet to feel the relief on their wallets and they blame Biden for it, according to recent polls.
Instead, Biden has pointed the finger at corporate price-gouging tactics, which he says are the real driver of sticky high prices.
“The president is going to continue emphasizing that input costs have come down, supply chains have healed,” Brainard said.
“He’s going to keep calling on corporations to pass those savings on to the American consumer.”
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Joe Biden is going to keep calling on corporations to pass those savings on to the American consumer?
At the expense of Joe’s Wall Street rally?
Don’t hold your breath, because it is not going to happen?
And now it is time to break for station identification. but don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back!
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And while we are on the subject of corporate profits fueling the Wall Street rally Joe Biden is attributing to BIDE-O-NOMICS as he takes credit for making it happen, it seems like only yesterday that we were reading a Reuters story titled “GlobalFoundries forecasts hit as chip customers seek advanced processes, clear inventory” on February 13, 2024, where we learned as follows:
Feb 13 (Reuters) – GlobalFoundries forecast its first quarter below market estimates on Tuesday, as some customers continue to clear excess chip inventory while others opt for more advanced manufacturing processes which are not provided by the contract chipmaker.
Customers in end markets such as communications infrastructure and data center have been working down existing chip inventory, weighing on demand for GlobalFoundries.
Shares of the company were down 4%.
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And see, people, that simply is not good, not good at all, that shares in GlobalFoundries should be down, at all, let alone 4%, because that calls into question just how effective BIDE-O-NOMICS really has been, which takes us back to that story for more detail, as follows:
GlobalFoundries expects its first-quarter revenue to be in the range of $1.50 billion to $1.54 billion, compared with analysts’ average estimate of $1.76 billion, according to LSEG data.
“We remain cautious on the outlook for 2024, and are closely monitoring for signs of improved demand in the macroeconomic indicators while our customers actively manage down their inventory levels,” Caulfield said.
GlobalFoundries expects adjusted profit per share to be in the range of 18 cents to 28 cents in the first quarter, versus analysts’ estimate of 46 cents.
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And here, with all that in mind, to see BIDE-O-NOMICS in action in a bid to boost the stock price of GlobalFoundries as a way of showcasing just how effective BIDE-O-NOMICS really is with respect to causing Wall Street rallys, just six short days later, we are reading a story in the Albany, New York Times Union titled “GlobalFoundries wins $3 billion from feds for massive expansion – Chipmaker to sign largest CHIPS Act funding deal to date, paving way for $12.5 billion expansion that includes long-anticipated second fab in Malta” by Larry Rulison on February 19, 2024, where we learn how Joe Biden is going to step in and save GlobalFoundries and create a lot of real high-paying jobs to boost Joe’s chances in the polls come November, as Joe pours out federal dollars in a bid to buy this upcoming election, to wit:
The White House will announce Monday a $3.1 billion federal aid package it has negotiated with GlobalFoundries to help the semiconductor company undertake a historic $12.5 billion expansion in Saratoga County and Vermont, work that would include the construction of a second computer chip factory at its Fab 8 headquarters in Malta.
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Yes, people, under Joe Biden, it is considered sound economic policy to use borrowed federal funds at interest to build a second factory to make the product the first factory is making, but doesn’t have customers for.
That is how Joe is going to build back better to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out to make America an industrial behemoth that would be the wonder of the modern world to showcase the greatness of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who is following the economic blueprint used by Soviet dictator Joe Stalin to make the old Soviet Union the industrial powerhouse and envy of the world that it was under Stalin, who Joe Biden hopes to emulate here as he does the same for America, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Officials said the money would help add more than 1,000 jobs at the new factory at the company’s Saratoga County headquarters and GlobalFoundries’ operation in Essex Junction, Vt.
The federal funding will come from the U.S. Commerce Department through the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act authored by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York and signed by President Joe Biden in 2022.
The CHIPS law provides an unprecedented amount of money and support for computer chip companies to expand manufacturing and supply chains in the United States.
It was enacted as a rising China increasingly is seen as a geopolitical adversary to the U.S. and Taiwan, where the majority of high-end chips are made.
“This is such a big day,” U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo said during a conference call with reporters on Sunday.
“A big day for our country, and a big day for New York and Vermont.”
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HUH?
A big day for our country?
How so, Gina?
I recall reading a Fox News story titled “Whatever happened to the global chip shortage?” by Bret Baier and Amy Munneke on 28 March 2023, where we were informed as follows:
President Biden has been traveling across the country to meet with state leaders in an effort to ramp up semiconductor production across the United States.
“America is coming back.”
“We’re determined to lead the world in the manufacturing of semiconductors,” President Biden said Tuesday.
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And that is what this is all about people – THE GREATNESS AND MAJESTY OF AMERICAN DICTATOR JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JUNIOR!
Joe is determined to lead the world in the manufacturing of semiconductors, and by God, that is going to happen, even if Joe doesn’t have a market for them, because Joe doesn’t know about needing markets, never having worked a day in his life as anything but a hack politician getting his palm greased and his pocket stuffed while feeding off the taxpayers, which agai takes us back to that story, to wit:
Nearly three years ago, the coronavirus pandemic exposed the first signs of U.S. vulnerability when it came to semiconductor manufacturing.
“The reality is we had a whole world clambering for electronics to work at home and to study at home, and those electronics are chock full of chips.”
“So, no surprise, demand for chips just went off the charts,” Semiconductor Industry Association President John Neuffer said.
Neuffer said most U.S. fabs were operating at full capacity but they couldn’t keep up with the demand needed.
Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law last year following a bipartisan push from lawmakers.
It’s incentivized companies to build and manufacture on U.S. soil.
“We eventually were able to catch up.”
“That’s the short term.”
“The CHIPS Act is really for the long term,” Neuffer said.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke about the CHIPS for America Program on “Special Report” this past February.
Semiconductor companies have been able to apply for those incentives through the initiative.
“Congress has sent $52 billion to us here at the Commerce Department and it’s our job to invest that, working with companies to make chips in America,” Raimondo said.
“Every governor out there thinks the next chip factory will be in their state.”
“They will compete.”
“I’m sure they’ll put incentives on the table and that’s what they should do.”
Many companies began breaking ground on new facilities and expansions before the CHIPS Act was officially signed, including New York-based GlobalFoundries.
“We need the right economics to continue to add capacity in the U.S.,” GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield said.
“We have a facility that needs to grow to full scale in upstate New York in what we call Fab 8.”
“The chips will be an integral part of the economics to close the funding gap, to create that capacity that can compete globally against all the players in manufacturing.”
Since the end of 2022, at least 23 new chip fabs have been announced and nine will increase production, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Companies including Intel and TSMC have announced plans to build new fabs in Arizona.
“Nationwide, we have suppliers that all over the country that’ll be providing the tooling and the materials needed to build the best semiconductor chips in the world,” Kelly said.
“These are also jobs that you don’t need a four-year degree to get and you can actually get a salary you can raise a family on.”
U.S. domestic production is expected to increase in the near future, but competing abroad with Taiwan could take some time.
“I would say it’s going to take us years.”
“The CHIPS funding gives us the tools we need to start manufacturing these semiconductor chips here,” Kelly said.
“What it means for our country: that we don’t have to go across the Pacific Ocean to get something so critical that’s in everything that has an on/off switch.”
Caulfield pointed out it took around three decades to create the imbalance in semiconductor production around the world.
“This didn’t happen overnight for our industry,” Caulfield said.
“It’s going to take decades to correct that issue.”
“So this is a good start and the sooner we get going on this as an industry, the better we’ll be.”
“Probably the biggest issue we still need to contend with is to make sure the demand for all this capacity we want in the U.S. materializes,” Caulfield said.
“The last thing we want to do is in industry, create capacity in the U.S. and have it go underutilized.”
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THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IN INDUSTRY IN AMERICA, people, IS TO CREATE, AS JOE BIDEN AND GINHA RAIMONDO ARE DOING, THOUGHTLESSLY, CAPACITY IN THE U.S. AND HAVE IT GO UNDERUTILIZED, SO WHY THEN ARE THEY DOING IT, OTHER THAN TO BUY AN ELECTION?
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And while we are on the subject of Joe Biden blatantly using taxpayer dollars to goose the stock market in a bid to create the illusion of a vibrant and flourishing economy in order to make his BIDE-O-NOMICS look like an American success story so that Janet “TOODLES” Yellen and Lael Brainard have something to tout out there on the campaign trail as they stump for Joe, let’s take a look at Plug Power, whose stock price is another beneficiary of Joe’s largesse with taxpayer dollars.
According to its website, Plug Power helps businesses achieve greater productivity and sustainability in an electrified world through hydrogen and fuel cells.
Going back to November 5, 2023, we find Plug Power making national news related to Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM in an article by Larry Rulison in the Albany, New York Times Union titled “Could new hydrogen discovery provide cheaper form of ‘green’ hydrogen? – French scientists found that underground hydrogen is more plentiful than previously expected, although extracting it could be a different story,” where we are informed as follows, to wit:
COLONIE — Both the Biden and Hochul administrations are making huge investments into the production of “green” hydrogen — a manmade form of hydrogen that is made from water using renewable energy.
And Plug Power, the Latham fuel cell maker, has also made huge bets on seeking to become one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of green hydrogen — considered by some to be a nearly perfect emissions-free energy source to replace fossil fuels in transportation, power plants, houses and businesses.
When using renewable, non-emissions electricity sources like wind or solar power, electrolysis produces what’s known as green hydrogen.
That’s the business that Plug Power is in.
The company has been building green hydrogen plants all across the United States and also internationally as governments across the globe seek to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of fossil fuels.
The company’s efforts, which have been supported by both the state and federal government with tax breaks and other financial assistance, have led it to become the world’s largest producer of green hydrogen, although the market is very small compared to the overall hydrogen market.
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TAX BREAKS, people, and OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, which is called CORPORATE WELFARE!
Joe Biden and his pack of DEMOCRATS go on and on and on, blaming Trump and the Republicans for the huge deficit as a result to them handing out tax breaks to rich Americans, but Joe and the DEMOCRATS are doing the same exact thing, as we clearly see right above here, which takes us forward in time to November 11, 2023, and a story in TheStreet titled “Plug Power collapses after ‘going concern’ warning from hydrogen developer” by Martin Baccardax, where we have as follows, which will require a GOVERNMENT BAIL-OUT by Joe Biden to fix to keep Joe’s Wall Street Rally going, to wit:
Plug Power shares plunged lower Friday after the hydrogen-fuel-cell developer warned that it may not be able to continue operations amid supply chain disruptions and a severe cash burn rate.
Plug Power, which provides fuel cells for electrified industrial vehicles used by Amazon and Walmart, also posted weaker-than-expected third quarter sales of $199 million last night, thanks in part to what it described as “unprecedented hydrogen supply challenges” in the north American hydrogen market.
In a later filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, however, Plug Power also added that given its current cash position and expected capital spending, there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
The group is seeking a $1.5 billion loan from the Department of Energy, as part of its green hydrogen network financing, but funds are unlikely to being flowing into the Latham, New York-based group until early next year.
“To alleviate the conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, management is currently evaluating several different options to enhance the Company’s liquidity position, including the sale of securities, incurrence of debt or other financing alternative,” Plug Power said.
“The Company’s plan includes various financing solutions from third parties with a particular focus on corporate level debt solutions, investment tax credit related project financings and loan guarantee programs, and/or large scale hydrogen generation infrastructure project financing,” Plug Power added in the 10-Q filing.
Plug Power shares were marked 28.8% lower in pre-market trading to indicate an opening bell price of $4.22 each.
KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Sangita Jain, who carries a ‘sector weight’ rating on Plug Power stock, said the lack of a detailed financial plan amid the ‘going concern’ warning is troubling.
“Management reiterated the myriad options being considered including project finance, ABLs, advances against restricted cash and inventory draw down,” she said.
“But nothing has been decided despite elevated cash burn and the unrestricted cash & available for sale securities balance declining from $2 billion at the end of last year to around $500 million at the end of the third quarter.”
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So, without MASSIVE LIFE SUPPORT from Joe Biden using taxpayer dollars which we peons and serfs are on the hook for, Plug Power was not a viable business, which takes us to a Bloomberg article on Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM titled “A $30 Billion Meltdown in Clean Energy Puts Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk” by David R Baker, Saijel Kishan and Jennifer A Dlouhy on November 30, 2023, where we have this hard look at the reality Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm all think we are too stupid to grasp, because they all are, to wit:
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — No one expected the transition from fossil fuels to be easy.
But a year after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law promised billions of dollars for America’s switch to clean energy, some of the nation’s most ambitious renewable power projects have been shelved, electric car sales are missing targets and investors are fleeing the sector in droves.
The result is a $30 billion collapse in US clean energy stocks in the last six months — a market many investors expected to flourish in the aftermath of the law’s passage.
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NOTE: TO BE AN “INVESTOR,” ALL YOU NEED IS MONEY, NO BRAINS OR INTELLIGENCE IS REQUIRED!
Scanning down that story, we then come to this:
The giddy enthusiasm that followed the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage evaporated, wiping out a quarter of the market value of US companies in the S&P Global Clean Energy Index in the six months ended Nov. 27.
It’s a meltdown that underscores the obstacles standing in the way of Biden’s ambitious climate goals.
Along with sky-high financing costs, clean energy companies face the problems of winning over potential neighbors for their projects, securing government permits and plugging into a creaky power grid unable to handle all the renewable power that’s planned.
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The sky-high financing costs these projects are facing, of course, are as a direct result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to Bloomberg for more of the reality that escapes Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm, to wit:
The warnings are clear: America’s road to achieving a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035 is getting rockier by the day.
The specter of bankruptcies now haunts the sector.
It was only two years ago that Wall Street investors and bankers headed to Scotland for a global climate meeting, waxing lyrical about net-zero emissions goals and the profits to be made from the shift to cleaner energy.
That’s a stark contrast to the current mood as the world convenes again for climate talks at the COP28 summit this week in Dubai.
Biden’s sweeping climate law offers at least $374 billion in tax credits and other incentives to spur the energy transition.
Many saw it as a grand experiment to test whether subsidies, rather than top-down government mandates, would be enough to accelerate a change the planet desperately needs.
Instead, the US remains far off track for reaching Biden’s goal of a net-zero economy by 2050.
Companies such as Plug Power Inc. are building hydrogen production plants, but potential users have been slow to sign supply deals, since switching from natural gas to hydrogen usually means installing expensive new equipment.
In mid-November, Plug Power issued a going-concern warning, an accounting term that means the business may be illiquid within 12 months.
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But have no fear, people, because as we will, “BAIL-OUT JOE” Biden is coming to the rescue with gobs of federal money to pull Plug Power’s fat back out of the fire, and when we return from our break for station identification, that story will continue, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
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The derogatory term “pipe laying” in American politics, which is exactly what we are seeing going on here with respect to Joe Biden drawing on every single slimy DEMOCRAT political trick in their book to rig elections, in this case of BIDEN PIPE LAYING, using taxpayer dollars to provide “good paying union jobs” building factories and infrastructure for corporate America, goes back to the late 1830s, and was used to denounce corruption, as was the case with one antebellum editorial denouncing “internal improvements” and “canal enlargement” as ways to buy working-class votes, which is exactly what Joe Biden is doing here with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to the saga of Plug Power, which Joe Biden is going to transform from an UGLY DU&CKLING into a WALL $TREET DARLING, and a relevant Reuters article titled “Wall St ends lower as investors weigh fresh employment data” by Noel Randewich and Amruta Khandekar on December 6, 2023, where we have as follows on where Plug Power has been, before Joe Biden, like a WHITE KNIGHT on his steed, came forth to rescue it like a damsel in distress, to wit:
Plug Power fell 5.9% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the hydrogen fuel cell firm to “underweight” from “equal weight.”
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As was stated above, without MASSIVE LIFE SUPPORT from Joe Biden using taxpayer dollars which we peons and serfs are on the hook for, Plug Power was not a viable business, which reality was reflected in that Morgan Stanley downgrade, which downgrade, of course, impacted on the efficacy of BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is supposed to keep Wall Street humming along through the campaign season, reaching new records every day thanks to Joe Biden and his BIDE-O-NOMICS, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the world since Joe Stalin and his five-year plans built back the Soviet Union better with an economy that worked from the bottom up and middle out, and from there, to see how this story progresses with more CORPORATE WELFARE on the way, we next go to a Fox News article titled “White House unveils strict hydrogen regulations in victory for environmentalists” by Thomas Catenacci on December 23, 2023, where we have this development to consider, to wit:
The White House unveiled highly anticipated guidance placing significant restrictions on the type of hydrogen power development eligible for generous federal tax credits.
The proposed guidance, released Friday morning in a joint announcement by the White House, Treasury Department and Department of Energy, tethers the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) highest production credit of $3 per kilogram of hydrogen produced to tight green energy standards.
“The Inflation Reduction Act’s hydrogen tax credit will help build a clean hydrogen industry that will be critical in reducing emissions from harder-to-decarbonize sectors like heavy industry and heavy transportation,” John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy czar, said in a statement.
“Today’s announcement will further unprecedented investments in a new, American-led industry as we aim to lead and propel the global clean energy transition,” added Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
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Ah, yes, people, “PIPE LAYING” in an election year on a massive scale fueled by FEDERAL DEBT we are on the hook for, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“Hydrogen has the potential to clean up America’s manufacturing industry, power the transportation sector and shore up our energy security all while delivering good-paying jobs and new economic opportunity to communities in every pocket of America.”
Overall, the hydrogen production tax credits are some of the most generous clean energy incentives earmarked under the IRA, Democrats’ massive climate and tax bill President Biden signed in August 2022, and are worth up to $100 billion.
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TAX CREDITS, people!
And what, pray tell, is a tax credit?
Quite simply, a tax credit is a dollar amount that you can subtract from your income tax to reduce your overall tax liability, so that, while a tax refund simply represents the difference between the taxes you paid versus the taxes you actually owe, a tax credit is a benefit that directly reduces your tax burden, and that takes us to June 9, 2023, and a “Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on House Republicans’ Tax Scam 2.0,” where we see BIDEN-ESQUE HYPOCRISY and BULL**** SLINGING on a grand scale, to wit:
The GOP Tax Scam 2.0 once again makes clear the House Republicans’ values: their priority isn’t reducing the deficit or out-competing the world, their priority is giving handouts to rich special interests and corporations at the expense of everyone else.
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HUH?
Does this little BIDEN NINNY (a foolish or stupid person or simpleton) think we are all stupid and uninformed just because she, Joe Biden, everyone in his administration, and by extension, every DEMOCRAT in America and the world who support Joe Biden are all stupid and uninformed and don’t know up from down?
How about rewording that so that it correctly states that it is the BIDEN TAX SCAM once again making incandescently clear the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S values: Joe’s priority isn’t reducing the deficit!
Joe’s priority is giving handouts to rich special interests and corporations at the expense of everyone else, so that when Joe goes to his HIGH DOLLAR FUNDRAISER$, those rich special interests and corporations have some spare coin to stuff Joe’s pockets with!
Going back to June 9, 2023, and a “Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on House Republicans’ Tax Scam 2.0,” we have more BIDEN-ESQUE HYPOCRISY and BULL**** SLINGING on a grand scale, to wit:
Just days ago, House Republicans were demanding devastating cuts to programs hard-working Americans count on — from health care to public safety to Meals on Wheels — in the name of “deficit reduction.”
Today, they are proposing to spend hundreds of billions on tax breaks for big corporations.
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The republicans are proposing to spend hundreds of billions on tax breaks for big corporations?
How about Joe Biden is right now spending hundreds of billions on tax breaks for big corporations is more like it, which means that it is Joe Biden who is prioritizing tax breaks for big corporations, delivering those tax giveaways to large profitable corporations, while raising energy costs on American families by thousands of dollars a year, which takes us back to the Fox News article titled “White House unveils strict hydrogen regulations in victory for environmentalists” by Thomas Catenacci on December 23, 2023, to wit:
The legislation marked the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to spur the growth of hydrogen generation, which remains a nascent technology requiring billions of dollars in investment to achieve large-scale production.
However, the formulation of the tax credits has sparked an intense debate in recent months, leading to delays in issuing Friday’s guidance, as a result of the potential carbon emissions produced in the production of hydrogen.
The credits will be available for 10 years, starting on the date a hydrogen production facility is placed into service for projects that begin construction before 2033.
The IRA includes four tiers of credits, ranging from $0.60 per kilogram to $3 per tier, which are determined based on the carbon intensity of that production.
In addition, the guidance requires that, beginning in 2028, hydrogen developers’ electricity generation is sourced from a clean source on an hourly basis, the most stringent timescale.
In other words, the electricity generated for electrolysis must be produced within an hour of hydrogen production from that electricity.
And the final key provision for hydrogen produced using electricity mandates clean energy is sourced from a project in the same region.
Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) and the Clean Hydrogen Future Coalition, in addition to hydropower and nuclear groups, have argued strict regulations like those unveiled Friday will deter investment, increase the cost of hydrogen, lead to fewer projects in the coming years and discriminate against existing low-carbon power sources.
“The guidance announced today by the Biden-Harris administration will place unnecessary burdens on the still nascent clean hydrogen industry,” FCHEA President and CEO Frank Wolak said Friday.
“The nation needs commonsense solutions for this tax credit that are aligned with the congressional intent to spur robust economic development and create jobs while reducing carbon emissions.
“Congress intended the tax credit to spur domestic clean hydrogen production and allow the United States to maintain an international competitive advantage, not to be an inadvertent backdoor to regulate use of the electric utility grid,” he added.
“The United States cannot achieve its climate goals without clean hydrogen, and these proposed regulations and requirements will unnecessarily hold back our domestic industry, driving investment, manufacturing and technology leadership overseas.”
Marty Durbin, the president of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute, said the guidance will “stunt the growth of a critical industry before it has even begun.”
Andy Marsh, the CEO of hydrogen fuel cell systems developer Plug Power, added the framework will “fall woefully short in achieving the administration’s decarbonization objectives.”
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And since there is more yet to come, here is a good time to take a break for station identification, but don’t change that dial, because we will be right back with more!
Paul Plante says
“BLUNDERING JOE” Biden is a big bag of hot wind with respect to his specious claims and BIDEN BOBANCE that BIDE-O-NOMICS creates good, high-paying union jobs while building an economy that works for everybody from the bottom up and middle out, as we will clearly see by going back to the Plug Power saga starting with a Reuters article titled “Plug Power jumps on govt loan, liquid green hydrogen production start” by Mrinalika Roy and Tanay Dhumal on January 23, 2024, where we have BIDEN CORPORATE WELFARE for failing businesses that can’t make it on their own goosing Plug Power’s stock, which in turn gooses the stock market, and by doing so, makes BIDE-O-NOMICS look good to the rich investor class who profit off of BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
Jan 23 (Reuters) – Plug Power said on Tuesday that it has secured over $1 billion in government funding and started producing liquid green hydrogen at its Georgia plant, sending the company’s shares up about 20% in morning trade.
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And there is BIDE-O-NOMICS in action, people,land make no mistake about it, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The hydrogen fuel cell firm said it has finalized a term sheet negotiation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) for a $1.6 billion loan facility.
The company has been facing liquidity issues amid supply challenges in the liquid hydrogen market in North America, and had raised going concern doubts in November.
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The company has been facing liquidity issues and had raised going concern doubts in November precisely because the business is not really viable as we can readily by referring to an excellent engineering analysis on the subject titled “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” by Ulf Bossel, who studied Mechanical Engineering in Darmstadt (Germany) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he received his Diploma Degree (fluid mechanics, thermodynamics) in 1961, and after a short work period at BBC, he continued his graduate education at the University of California at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1968 for experimental research in the area of space aerodynamics, and after two years as Assistant Professor at Syracuse University he returned to Germany to lead the free molecular flow research group at the DLR in Göttingen, leaving that field for solar energy in 1976, where he was founder and first president of the German Solar Energy Society, and started his own R&D consulting firm for renewable energy technologies, and in 1986, BBC asked him to join their new technology group in Switzerland where he became involved in fuel cells in 1987 and later director of ABB’s fuel cell development efforts worldwide; and Baldur Eliasson, who studied Electrical Engineering and Astronomy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he received his doctorate in 1966 on a theoretical study of microwave propagation, and then he worked for three years as radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena before joining the newly founded Brown Boveri (later ABB) Research Center in Switzerland in 1969, where he is in charge of ABB’s Energy and Global Change Program worldwide and reports directly to ABB’s Chief Technology Officer, while representing ABB in a number of international programs, where, for example, he is Vice Chairman of the “R&D Program on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies” of the International Energy Agency and has received many international awards for his contributions to environmental sustainability, where we find in Section 8.1 The Limits of a Pure Hydrogen Economy, as follows:
The results of this analysis indicate the weakness of a “Pure-Hydrogen-Only Economy” as depicted in Figure 14.
All difficulties with the pure Hydrogen Economy appear to be directly related to the nature of hydrogen.
Most of the problems cannot be solved by additional research and development.
We have to accept that hydrogen is the lightest of all gases and, as a consequence, that its physical properties do not fully match the requirements of the energy market.
Production, packaging, storage, transfer and delivery of the gas, in essence all key component of an economy, are so energy consuming that alternatives should and will be considered.
Mankind cannot afford to waste energy for idealistic goals, but economy will look for practical solutions and select the most energy-saving procedures.
The “Pure-Hydrogen-Only Solution” may never become reality.
The degree of energy waste certainly depends on the chosen path.
Hydrogen generated from rooftop solar electricity and stored at low pressure in stationary tanks may be a viable solution for private buildings.
On the other hand, hydrogen generated in the Sahara desert, pumped to the Mediterranean Sea through pipelines, then liquefied for sea transport, docked in London and locally distributed by trucks may not provide an acceptable energy solution at all.
Too much energy is lost in the process to justify the scheme.
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PLUG POWER IS PIE-N-THE-SKY regardless of how many taxpayer dollars Joe Biden wastes on it, precisely because hydrogen is the lightest of all gases and, as a consequence, its physical properties do not fully match the requirements of the energy market, so that production, packaging, storage, transfer and delivery of the gas, in essence all key component of an economy, are so energy consuming that alternatives should be considered, which isn’t going to happen with Joe Biden and his INSANE GREEN DREAM in control of things, which takes us back for more, to wit:
It also planned a $1 billion equity raise earlier this month.
“This funding, when received, will support the development construction and ownership of up to six hydrogen production facilities, significantly advancing green hydrogen deployment in the United States,” CEO Andrew Marsh said during an investor call.
“With our Georgia plant operational, and the Tennessee plant coming online, we expect a significant reduction in costs,” he added.
Talking about the Georgia plant, Marsh said while “the construction took slightly longer than expected”, the facility will bolster Plug’s supply of liquid hydrogen being delivered to its customers for material handling operations, fuel cell electric vehicle fleets, and stationary power applications.
The plant, which the company said is the largest liquid green hydrogen plant in the U.S. market, is designed to produce 15 tons per day (TPD) of liquid electrolytic hydrogen.
“The DoE loan facility seems well baked, but we have to wait until the second half of 2024.”
“Seems they are getting the finance options they need and wiggling out of a very tight spot,” said Craig Irwin, an analyst at Roth Capital Partners.
As companies are moving towards their net-zero emission targets, hydrogen, a zero-emission gas at point-of-use, serves as both a fuel and as energy storage, helping them reduce their carbon footprint.
The company said the production is expected to positively impact its bottom line and provide an additional step change in fuel margin expansion.
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Which takes us back to Joe Biden’s BOBANCE about creating good high-paying jobs, which we see isn’t happening here, anyway, in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Plug Power starts hiring freeze as the company’s finances tighten – Company is also expecting to receive a $1.6 billion loan from the Energy Department” by Larry Rulison on January 23, 2024, to wit:
COLONIE — Latham fuel cell maker Plug Power has instituted a hiring freeze and is planning to increase prices on its products a week after it raised concerns over its financial stability.
Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh also revealed that the company is in the final stages of obtaining a $1.6 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy that could be drawn down on starting in the second half of 2024 to help with the cost of building six new clean hydrogen manufacturing plants.
Hydrogen is used to power Plug Power’s fuel cells, and the company recently completed its first industrial-sized facility to produce hydrogen from water using electrolysis.
“We’re grateful for our partnership with the Department of Energy and look forward to our continued collaboration, which will play a pivotal role in scheduling our forthcoming plants in Texas and New York,” Marsh said Tuesday during the company’s 2024 business outlook conference call with stock analysts.
Shares of the company surged 32 percent to $3.75 during mid-day trading, although that number is significantly lower than its stock price from a year ago, when shares were trading north of $17.
The news comes a week after Plug Power announced it had activated a sale of up to $1 billion in stock as it started to run low on cash and issued a “going concern” warning that cast doubts on Plug Power’s ability to keep operating.
Plug Power had only $110 million in unrestricted cash at the end of the third quarter of 2023, compared to $690 million at the end of 2022.
The company says it will have $150 million in capital expenses in 2024 to complete clean hydrogen plants in New York, Texas and Tennessee.
Most hydrogen produced in the world today is made from methane, meaning it releases carbon into the atmosphere when produced.
Plug Power is seeking to create a new market for so-called green hydrogen made from water that can be used to power its fuel cells and used by other companies seeking to reduce carbon emissions.
Plug Power lost $283 million during the third quarter of 2023 and has yet to turn an actual profit as it expands into capital-intensive ventures on clean hydrogen production in the U.S. and abroad.
Hydrogen-powered fuel cells only largely emit water vapor as a byproduct, making it a good fuel to use to combat climate change caused by carbon emissions from fossil fuels like natural gas and petroleum.
Plug Power makes fuel cells for vehicles and stationary applications like data centers.
Marsh said that during the hiring freeze, positions will be eliminated through attrition.
The company has several thousand employees, with its headquarters in Latham and a fuel cell factory in Bethlehem.
“While adopting a more conservative outlook, we remain dedicated to leading the industry and building the company prudently,” Marsh said.
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And so much then for all those good high-paying jobs Joe says he is creating because it sure does look like they are frozen here.
Paul Plante says
A farce is defined as something that was supposed to be serious, like Constitutional government in America, but has instead turned ridiculous, as in the Joe Biden administration in the United States of America, which takes us back to the Fox News article titled “White House unveils strict hydrogen regulations in victory for environmentalists” by Thomas Catenacci on December 23, 2023, where we have this stupid talk from Biden’s idiot Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to consider, to wit:
“Today’s announcement will further unprecedented investments in a new, American-led industry as we aim to lead and propel the global clean energy transition,” added Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
“Hydrogen has the potential to clean up America’s manufacturing industry, power the transportation sector and shore up our energy security all while delivering good-paying jobs and new economic opportunity to communities in every pocket of America.”
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And so does FAIRY DUST, people, have the potential to clean up America’s manufacturing industry, power the transportation sector and shore up our energy security all while delivering good-paying jobs and new economic opportunity to communities in every pocket of America, and it might actually do a much better job of it than hydrogen.
And let’s be frank here, people – this is all high school chemistry, and it has all been well known now for years and years and years, and in fact, hydrogen’s potential as an electrical energy source was first discovered and demonstrated in 1839 by the Welsh physicist Sir William Robert Grove.
And going back to “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” by Ulf Bossel and Baldur Eliasson, which was published in 1997, fully 27 years ago now, if one googles the title, one finds it listed on the website of Jennifer Granholm’s own Department of Energy, which has to have one wondering why it is that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has zero qualifications to be an energy secretary, knowing nothing herself about the subject, has never tried to educate herself on the subject so she wouldn’t sound like such a dumbass ignoramus as she does in that Fox News article above here, which takes us to that publication, as follows, for what Jennifer Granholm should know cold, but obviously doesn’t, to wit:
With this study we present an analysis of the energy required to operate a pure hydrogen economy.
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Yes, people, making so-called “GREEN” hydrogen, itself a stupid term, since all hydrogen is hydrogen which is a colorless gas, by electrolysis is very energy intensive process, and here we have Jennifer’s own Department of Energy quoting from “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” on that very subject, to wit:
Unfortunately, the process of hydrogen production is always associated with energy losses.
Making hydrogen from water by electrolysis is one of the worst energy-intensive ways to produce the fuel.
It is a clean process as long as the electricity comes from a clean source.
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Said colloquially, for every dollar you put in, you maybe get back fifty cents.
As to how clean the water must be, we have a recently published technical paper on that subject from the British Royal Society of Chemistry Jennifer Granholm should be familiar with as Energy Secretary titled “Impact of impurities on water electrolysis: a review” by Hans Becker, James Murawski, Dipak V. Shinde, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Gareth Hinds and Graham Smith published a year ago on 14th March 2023, where we have as follows on that subject:
It’s well known that the water supplied to the electrolyser must be of high purity.
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And to produce that high quality water before the electrolysis process to producc “GREEN” hydrogen can even begin requires an expenditure in infrastructure, given it takes approximately 99.208 pounds, or 11.88 gallons of water to produce 11.0231 pounds or 1.06 gallons of hydrogen, which is only enough to fill the storage tank in a typical passenger fuel cell electric vehicle, and while kilogram of hydrogen (2.2 pounds) holds 39.4 kWh of energy, it typically costs around 52.5 kWh of energy to create via current commercial electrolyzers, which takes us back to “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” where we have more as follows:
High-grade electricity from renewable or nuclear sources is needed not only to generate hydrogen, but also for all other essential steps of a hydrogen economy.
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In other words, merely producing the hydrogen is but one step in a very energy intensive process to get that hydrogen, which must be packaged by compression or liquefaction and transported by surface vehicles or pipelines and stored and transferred to the end user, and all those costs are what make up the “hydrogen economy,” and here is one major glitch in this Biden INSANE GREEN HYDROGEN DREAM, because all they are looking at is production, which takes us back again to “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy,” to wit:
In this study, the energy consumed by each stage is related to the energy content (higher heating value HHV) of the delivered hydrogen itself.
The analysis reveals that much more energy is needed to operate a hydrogen economy than is consumed in today’s energy economy.
In fact, depending on the chosen route the input of electrical energy to make, package, transport, store and transfer hydrogen may easily double the hydrogen energy delivered to the
end user.
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So for every dollar you put in, you get back a whopping fifty cents, which takes us to another technical paper done for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of Jennifer Granholm’s U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in 2009, titlled “State-of-the-Art Hydrogen Production Cost Estimate Using Water Electrolysis” published for the U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Program in September 2009, where we have in the Conclusions as follows:
• The current (2009) state-of-the-art cost for delivered hydrogen from electrolysis for a forecourt refueling station ranges from $4.90/kg-H2 to $5.70/kg-H2 dispensed at the pump, with a base-case estimate of $5.20/kg-H2. This base-case estimate of $5.20/kg-H2 includes an electrolysis production cost of $3.32/kg-H2 and compression, storage and dispensing costs of $1.88/kg-H2.
• The current (2009) state-of-the-art plant gate cost for hydrogen from a central electrolysis operation ranges from $2.70/kg-H2 to $3.50/kg-H2 with a base-case estimate of $3.00/kg-H2. These costs are evaluated at an assumed renewable-based electricity cost of $0.045/kWh, which was supplied to the Panel by DOE and based on wind-generated electricity.
Which takes us to a HyrdrogenInsight article titled Shell scraps plan to build 48 new hydrogen filling stations in California, for which it had been awarded $40.6m grant” on 18 September 2023 by Leigh Collins, where we see this federally-funded HYDROGEN BOONDOGGLE happening, as follows:
Shell has quietly scrapped previously announced plans to build 48 new light-duty hydrogen filling stations in California, despite having been awarded $40.6m of government grants back in 2020 for the initiative.
And last month, the oil giant closed five of its existing hydrogen refuelling stations in the state, leaving it with only three in operation.
“We can confirm that Shell has discontinued its plan to build and operate additional light-duty vehicle fueling stations in California,” a company spokesperson tells Hydrogen Insight.
ANALYSIS | It is now almost 14 times more expensive to drive a Toyota hydrogen car in California than a comparable Tesla EV
“We will continue to invest in hydrogen in a disciplined manner, with a focus on hard-to-abate sectors such as industry and heavy duty transport and emphasis on key regions where we have competitive advantage and strong adjacencies with our existing business.
“Shell remains active in hydrogen in California where we operate three heavy-duty stations as part of project ZANZEFF: Zero and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities Shore to Store Project.”
In other words, the company has now closed all its car-focused hydrogen filling stations in California and has formally scrapped plans to build more.
On 9 August, Shell announced that it “will temporarily close hydrogen operations at five light duty stations [in California] due to operational issues”, adding: “It is unknown at this time when each site will reopen”.
However, the statement to Hydrogen Insight suggests that these closures — in San Francisco (two), Sacramento, Berkeley and Citrus Heights — are permanent.
Formal rejection of funding
Shell had been awarded $7.3m from the California Energy Commission (CEC) in December 2020 for the first eight of the 48 new filling stations, from a total allocated pot of $40.58m (subject to future appropriations and funding allocations).
However, the funding appears to never have been actually been sent to Shell.
In July, the company formally rejected the funding, telling the CEC that “political and economic uncertainty in the initial stages of market deployment present a significant risk in further investment”, according to a letter obtained by local news website CalMatters through a public records request.
“These barriers need to be overcome in order to enable future investment from Shell in this segment of the market,” said the note, written by Abhishek Banerjee, Shell’s hydrogen commercial manager in the US.
He also wrote that the project had encountered difficulties getting permits and sourcing green hydrogen, and faced high construction costs.
The California-based trade body Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership states on its website that H2 filling stations cost an “estimated” $2m to build, a sum that might be difficult to ever recoup, given that only 17,284 fuel-cell cars have ever been sold or leased in the state.
California’s largest H2 fuel retailer, True Zero, which operates 37 of the 53 hydrogen filling stations in the state, recently hiked the price of H2 at all its pumps to $36/kg, up from around $30/kg.
As recently as April 2021, it was charging just $13.14 per kilo.
According to Hydrogen Insight calculations, this now means a Tesla EV is now roughly 14 times cheaper to run than a Toyota hydrogen car in the state.
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And with that said, let’s pause for station identification to let sink in the serious economic ramifications to all of us as a result this INSANE GREEN HYDROGEN ENERGY push by Joe Biden and Jennifer Granholm that we are going to be on the hook for, and after ten hours of some good Infomercials as to why you should buy yourself a hydrogen-powered car to combat the CLIMATE CRISIS, we will be right back.
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says
Before we go back to that incipient BIDEN GREEN HYDROGEN BOONDOGGLE, for a real good look at just how stupid and short-sighted and frankly idiotic this Biden crowd including Gina Raimondo really are as they push Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM on us, let’s go to an article in the Albany, New York Times Union titled “Semiconductor manufacturing expected to strain NY electrical grid – The recently announced expansion of GlobalFoundries will bring another large load project to New York as the electric grid’s reliability margins narrow” by Molly Burke York Times Union on February 26, 2024, where we have BIDEN STUPID ON THE HOOF, as follows:
ALBANY — As some of New York’s most influential politicians celebrate the infusion of federal money to expand the GlobalFoundries Fab 8 campus in Malta, questions remain about the ability of the state’s electrical grid to meet the needs of another high-demand project.
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Those “influential” politicians start with Democrat Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, and never in my life have I seen such a bunch of thumb-sucking losers in charge of things as is this crowd, throwing around BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars without a clue as to the true ramifications of their actions on the stability of America, which is not theirs to destroy.
How long now has it been known that these CHIP FABS are energy hogs?
That answer is years!
How long has it been known that New York is heading towards an energy deficit?
Years again, but notwithstanding, plow ahead with an energy-consuming project because as part of his Stalinesque FIVE-YEAR PLAN to build back America better to create an economy that works for everybody from the bottom up and middle out, it is what Joe Biden, who has never worked a real job in his life and knows nothing about anything other than getting his pocket stuffed and his palm greased as a hack politician, wants, and what Joe wants, he gets, which takes us back for more of this short-sighted idiocy, to wit:
The project will expand the current semiconductor manufacturing plant while adding a second facility, estimated to be 358,000 square feet, that GlobalFoundries said will triple their capacity.
But the process of manufacturing semiconductors requires significant energy to power operations, with estimates that the Micron plant near Syracuse will use up to 928 megawatts by 2035.
One megawatt powers roughly 750 to 1,000 households.
In 2023, prior to the major expansion’s announcement, GlobalFoundries had plans on file with local municipalities noting that its structures would run on 195 megawatts when completed.
The new multi-billion dollar expansion will bring a significant jump in that required energy.
The Times Union reported in January 2023 that the growing semiconductor industry would place a strain on the electrical grid’s reliability margins.
The growth comes as the state is transitioning energy sources toward renewables and away from fossil fuels to meet requirements in New York’s ambitious Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, signed into law in 2019.
The climate law requires that 70 percent of statewide electricity come from renewable energy by 2030, and that New York’s electricity system is completely emission-free by 2040.
The New York Independent System Operator — a not-for-profit that manages the state’s electrical grid and marketplace — estimated in its Jan. 12 quarterly report on reliability that approximately 260 megawatts of large loads were installed across the state in recent years.
That amount is projected to increase to 764 megawatts in 2025, reducing the reliability margin during normal operations and weather to less than 100 megawatts.
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People, frankly, this is insane, and yet, it is also reality, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The Independent System Operator’s comprehensive reliability plan estimated that the reliability margin could be eliminated within the decade.
“When considering the impact of proposed large load projects, the available statewide reliability margin decreases and approaches a deficiency in 2030 for higher demand scenarios,” the plan says.
The estimates face more dire predictions if New York experiences extreme weather — like a sustained heat wave of 95 degrees or higher — which is becoming more common due to the effects of climate change.
Low reliability margins, which measure the electrical grid’s “insurance policy” of extra power to be used for high demand of electricity or unforeseen circumstances, could lead to brownouts and increased reliance on emergency energy purchases from neighboring states or regions.
The increase in “large load projects” — which use significant amounts of energy to operate — is projected to be a risk to the reliability of the state’s power grid if new renewable energy resources are not introduced at a similar rate.
“This has been a concern for quite some time and now it is a red light concern,” said Gavin Donohue, president of the Independent Power Producers of New York.
“We’ve gone from yellow to red.”
A study by David Brooks, an electrical engineer at Harvard University, that was co-authored with Udit Gupta and others, shows that by 2030 the computing sector will use 20 percent of electricity globally, and that chip manufacturing “accounts for most of the carbon output attributable to hardware systems,” both due to its energy consumption and its release of greenhouse gases during the process.
The Fab 8 plant annually manufactures 400,000 wafers — which are later divided into computer chips — that are in demand by 60 percent of the market.
The expansion is receiving $1.5 billion in federal funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to upgrade and expand its manufacturing plants in New York and Vermont.
The grant comes from the $52 billion federal commitment to aid the U.S. computer chip industry to expand manufacturing capacity and the supply chain amid growing economic and technological threats from China.
GlobalFoundries was the first chip manufacturer to be awarded a CHIPS grant under the program, which is overseen through the Commerce Department.
GlobalFoundries is also getting a loan of federal money along with state and potentially local government subsidies to help pay for a $12.5 billion investment at Fab 8 and at its chip factory in Essex Junction, Vt., outside of Burlington.
New York’s Green CHIPS program, which was signed into law by Hochul in 2022, will provide $575 million in tax credits to GlobalFoundries for the expansion.
Empire State Development, which runs the Green CHIPS program, will also commit $15 million in workforce development funding to the GlobalFoundries project.
The Green CHIPS program also requires that GlobalFoundries enter into a “sustainability plan” with Empire State Development to use fully renewable energy for the site’s electricity with “potential onsite solar energy infrastructure and onsite battery storage systems.”
GlobalFoundries already receives a discounted 15 megawatt allotment from ReCharge NY, a program run by the New York Power Authority.
That allotment is expected to increase after consideration at NYPA’s board of directors meeting in March.
The project is also getting $30 million from the state for infrastructure investment in the expansion.
ReCharge NY incentivizes businesses and nonprofits to stay in New York with 7-year contracts providing access to discounted hydro and market energy sources.
In 2023, high-load businesses like GlobalFoundries saved an average of $250,000 per megawatt compared with market rate.
The program sources 455 megawatts of power from hydro-electric sources in Western and Northern New York, while procuring 455 megawatts from market sources.
ReCharge NY currently has 66 megawatts of unallocated power, Paul DeMichele, a spokesperson for NYPA, said.
The Independent System Operators most recent annual report showed that two years ago, 22 percent of the market was from hydro-electric power, 21 percent was from nuclear power, 4 percent from wind and less than 1 percent from solar, while more than 51 percent came from oil and gas.
The strain of the “large load project” is expected to narrow the reliability margin as a project is brought onto the grid through an interconnection process.
Kevin Lanahan, a spokesman for the Independent System Operators, said that the pace of new renewable energy sources is not matching the pace of retiring fossil fuel-based energy leaving the grid, leading to an overall decline in the total megawatts available on New York’s grid.
Donohue, who is also a member of the New York Climate Council, which was tasked with developing a scoping plan to meet the goals of the climate act, said that New York needs “honest assessments” about how energy-demanding projects can be brought to the state while prioritizing the reliability of the electrical grid.
“The pace of promises in New York does not keep up with the pace of play,” Donohue said.
“New York is a very difficult state to build anything and even more complicated when it’s an energy infrastructure project, regardless of the fuel source.”
“… At the end of the day, reliability is paramount.”
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And reliability with Joe Biden in charge is going right out the window!
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of MASSIVE CORPORATE WELFARE funded by borrowed money at interest, known as FEDERAL DEBT, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Chips firms seek double $28 bln US subsidies available, Commerce Dept says” by David Shepardson on
February 26, 2024, where we have as follows on the subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Monday most chips companies seeking government subsidies will get significantly less than they have sought, since the government received requests for more than double the $28 billion it plans to award.
Raimondo said companies in leading edge chips manufacturing have requested more than $70 billion.
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That is by way of background.
Where I wanted to go in that article is to here, to wit:
The $52.7 billion Chips and Science program approved by Congress in August 2022 includes a $39 billion program to subsidize chip production and related supply chain investments, and the awards will help build factories and increase production.
Earlier this month, Raimondo said Commerce would award a $1.5 billion grant to GlobalFoundries, the first major award.
“These are highly complex, first-of-their-kind facilities.”
“The kind of facilities that TSMC, Samsung, Intel are proposing to do in the United States – these are new-generation investments – size, scale complexity that’s never been done before in this country,” Raimondo told Reuters this month.
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Yes, people, they have never been done here in this country, and the consequence is that non-technical political hacks like Gina Raimondo who is pushing Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM on us like a good little political soldier haven’t a clue as to what really is needed besides a building to make these projects viable, like large amounts of water, and large amounts of electricity.
Where are these coming from, especially in Arizona, which gets less than 13 inches (33 centimeters) of average annual rainfall as America’s second driest state behind Nevada, which meteorologist say averages less than 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) of rain per year compared to the national average of about 30 inches (76 centimeters)?
The answer is that people like Gina Raimondo don’t have a clue.
Stay tuned!
More to come.
Paul Plante says
So that we can understand what is going on here with the Commerce Department handing out all this taxpayer money to these large corporations, some of which are foreign-owned and foreign-based, like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, which has its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, by way of some essential background as to exactly what role Democrat Gina Marie Raimondo, born May 17, 1971, a year after I returned to this country from service as a combat infantryman in America’s war of choice in Viet Nam, who is an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist who has served Joe Biden since 2021 as the 40th United States secretary of commerce, and her commerce department are supposed to be playing in our lives as American citizens, now more or less bystanders in what used to be our nation, let’s go to an excerpted chapter from the 1988 book “From Lighthouses to Laserbeams: A History of the US Department of Commerce,” where we have the following American history on that subject to consider, to wit:
On March 4, 1913, nearly 125 years after the Constitution established promotion of the general welfare as one of the great goals of government, President William Taft signed legislation creating the Department of Commerce.
It was the desire to promote the general welfare through expansion of commerce and industry that had brought the delegates to the fateful meeting in Philadelphia and made the Union possible.
The period between the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had been tumultuous, marked by discord among the newly independent states.
Trade had become particularly troublesome.
At the time, much of the commerce between states was conducted along the Atlantic seaboard and via the waterways flowing into the Atlantic or the inland rivers.
The Articles of Confederation allowed each state the freedom to create regulations, tariffs, and currency and to tax neighboring states using their ports and throughways for interstate or foreign commerce.
In 1785, legislators from Virginia and Maryland recognized the need to work together to ensure mutually profitable commerce on the shared waterways of the Potomac River and agreed to meet.
George Washington, interested in plans to finance navigational improvements that would push the Potomac route westward to the Shenandoah and Ohio Valleys, offered the hospitality of Mount Vernon for the conference.
A 13-point agreement, covering tidewater navigational rights, toll duties, commerce regulations, fishing rights and debt collections, was drawn.
Mt. Vernon Conference
The success of the Mount Vernon Conference led James Madison to write Washington about a proposal for a meeting with commissioners from other states to discuss matters of interstate commerce.
A resolution appointing commissioners was introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates.
The Virginia commissioners were to meet with other state delegates “to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony.”
In 1786, representatives from five states convened in Annapolis “to take into consideration the trade and commerce of the United States.”
At this meeting, Alexander Hamilton, in a proposal cosigned by James Madison and Edmund Randolph, recommended a general meeting of all the states at a future convention.
The mandate was to be broader than that of the Annapolis meeting, because, as Hamilton said, the delegates had been “induced to think that the power to regulate trade is of such comprehensive extent and will enter so far into the general system of the federal government, that to give it efficacy, and to obviate questions and doubts concerning its precise nature and limits, may require a correspondent adjustment of other parts of the federal system.”
U.S. Constitution
This third meeting, which was held in Philadelphia in May, 1787, and presided over by George Washington, resulted in the replacement of the Articles of Confederation with a new United States Constitution, which was adopted on September 17, 1787.
As Hamilton had foreseen, an “adjustment” was made, a profound adjustment that fundamentally restructured the government.
A national executive was authorized and new powers were given to the Congress.
These included the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.”
Among the proposals which were considered at the Constitutional Convention was one by Gouverneur Morris on August 20, 1787, to create a council of state “to assist the President in conducting the public affairs.”
Morris recommended that the third member be a “Secretary of Commerce and Finance, whose responsibilities would include recommending such things as may in his judgment promote the commercial interests of the United States.”
The Constitution, however, made no provision for a council of state, although soon after Washington took office, the Department of Foreign Affairs (July 27, 1789), renamed the Department of State (September 15, 1789), the War Department (August 7, 1789) and the Treasury Department (September 2, 1789) were created to help administer the new government.
Treasury was given responsibility for business and commerce.
The Secretaries of these departments and the Attorney General, who had been appointed under the act of September 24, 1789, became members of the first Cabinet.
Two States
With the new government in place, North Carolina and Rhode Island, the only two states yet to ratify the Constitution, found that their commerce and manufactures were to be treated in the same manner as those of any foreign country if they were not part of the United States.
North Carolina joined on November 21, 1789; Rhode Island on May 29, 1790.
Commercial and industrial interests thus provided the vital key needed to open the door to the drafting of the Constitution and to its final acceptance by the 13 existing states.
George Washington, in his first address as President, said: “The advance of agriculture, commerce and manufactures by all proper means will not, I trust, need recommendation.”
In December 1795, the House of Representatives created a Committee of Commerce and Manufactures as a third standing committee.
(The Senate established a Commerce Committee in 1816.)
Navy Department
Before the turn of the 19th century, another executive department was added.
The Navy Department was created on April 30, 1798, because of the impending war with France.
In 1829, the Postmaster General was officially invited by President Andrew Jackson to join the Cabinet.
The Department of the Interior came into being in 1849, and although broader duties had been proposed its focus became land and Indian affairs.
In 1870, the Department of Justice was created.
In 1884, Congress established a Bureau of Labor in response to the urgings of labor.
It was constituted as a separate department in 1888, but without Cabinet status.
Agriculture was the first industry of the country to be accorded an executive department by the Congress.
The Department of Agriculture was authorized by the act of February 9, 1889.
Panic of 1893
By the mid-1890s, depression conditions which followed the “Panic of 1893” had caused the newly formed National Association of Manufacturers to set as a principal goal the formation of a Department of Commerce and Industry, which would include the independent Department of Labor and other agencies.
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As an aside, the Panic of 1893 was a depression set off by the failure of two of the largest employers in the country: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company with the result that the stock market plummeted as businesses that had borrowed heavily to invest in railroads went bankrupt.
Going back to the history, it continues as follows:
Instead, in 1898, Congress created a U.S. Industrial Commission to investigate a number of economic and social problems, including the growing impact of corporate trusts on the national welfare.
Even when the Twelfth Census in 1900 showed that the aggregate value of manufacturing products of the United States exceeded $13 billion, approximately four times the value of all the products of agriculture, Congress did not respond to the pleas of business for a Cabinet agency for commerce and industry.
By this time, the enormous growth of business, industry, commerce and banking between 1850 and 1900 had resulted in an increase of the national wealth from under $5 billion to $88 billion, 20 percent of which was in the hands of fewer than 4,000 men.
Great Wealth
Some of these were among Theodore Roosevelt’s “malefactors of great wealth,” who had benefited from the nation’s rapid change from an agrarian society to an industrial one powered by steam engines, gasoline automobiles, electricity, telegraphs, and other inventions ranging from crude washing machines to zippers.
Problems with transportation of increased volumes of materials and goods had already led to the establishment of an Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887 to regulate railroad rates and access.
At the end of the 1890s, with the assistance of President William McKinley’s “Open Door” policy of actively promoting exports, the value of American manufactured goods sold abroad had almost tripled, and total foreign commerce had passed the $1 billion mark as exports exceeded imports for the first time.
What was to be called the great commercial invasion of Europe had begun.
Still, Congress did not act on proposals for a Cabinet department for commerce until Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency and recommended creation of a combined Department of Commerce and Labor in his first State of the Union message in 1901.
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Teddy Roosevelt was known as a “trust buster” who took the view that the President as a “steward of the people” should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution,” and as President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.
Going back to the history, we have more as follows, to wit:
Roosevelt wanted the new department to have the power to investigate corporate earnings and to guard the rights of the workingman.
Spurred by the President, once again Congress considered a proposal for a Department of Commerce.
When the debate in Congress concluded, the advocates of a Department of Commerce agreed to a compromise with those seeking a Cabinet voice for labor.
For the first time in the Nation’s history, a vote was scheduled on the creation of a new executive department with a dual title, the Department of Commerce and Labor.
Years: 1903-1913
On February 14, 1903, Congress approved legislation (S.359) creating a Department of Commerce and Labor and President Theodore Roosevelt signed the bill (32 Statute 825) that same day.
Two days later, Roosevelt nominated his personal secretary, George B. Cortelyou, to be the first Secretary.
He was sworn in on February 18, 1903.
The new Department of Commerce and Labor was one of the largest and most complicated in Government.
It included a Bureau of Corporations, Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of Navigation, Light House Board, Steamboat Inspection Service, Bureau of Statistics, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Census, Bureau of Fisheries, and the still to be organized Bureau of Manufactures.
The Department of Labor became once more a Bureau of Labor and accounted for only one percent of all personnel.
Promoting Commerce
Charged with fostering, promoting and developing foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States, the Department’s work was to include:
* investigating management of corporations (except railroads) engaged in interstate commerce;
* administering the Lighthouse Service, including the establishment and maintenance of aids to navigation;
* taking the census;
* making coast and geodetic surveys;
* collecting and publishing statistics on foreign and domestic commerce;
* investigating markets for American products;
* inspecting steamboats and enforcing laws pertaining thereto for the protection of life and property;
* supervising Alaskan fur-seal and salmon fisheries;
* monitoring merchant vessels, including their registry, measurement, licensing, entry, and clearance;
* applying immigration law; and
* collecting information on hours of labor, earnings, and means of promoting material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity.
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Today, do we see Gina Raimondo making any attempt whatsoever to promote social, intellectual and moral prosperity in this country?
Going back to the history we have more as follows:
The Secretary also was required to make special investigations as requested and to report annually to the President on Department activities.
The youngest department had responsibility for some of the oldest programs in government: The maintenance of lighthouses was authorized by Congress in 1789.
The first census was conducted in 1790.
Thomas Jefferson signed legislation creating a “Survey of the Coast” in 1807.
The Treasury Department started keeping statistics on waterborne foreign commerce in 1820 and organized an Office of Weights and Measures in 1836.
Within five months, when all transfers were complete, the Department of Commerce and Labor grew from one official, the Secretary, to a total of 10,125 people in Washington and the country at large.
Cortelyou served only a year before being called to manage Roosevelt’s presidential campaign in June, 1904.
But his successor, California congressman Victor H. Metcalf, found that the work of organizing the Department had been “as thorough and complete” as was possible.
During Metcalf’s tenure, the Bureau of Manufactures, which would be most directly related to the primary function of the Department — the promotion of industry and commerce — was established in 1905 with an $11,020 appropriation and provision for seven employees, including a bureau chief and assistant messenger.
Secretaries
There were two more Secretaries of Commerce and Labor over the combined Department’s limited lifespan, Oscar S. Straus, an entrepreneur and former U.S. Minister to Turkey (1906-1909), and Charles Nagel, a politician and Missouri supreme court justice (1909-1913).
The Department became the increasing focus of requests for information of every kind — scientific, sociological, statistical, and commercial.
By 1912, manufactures accounted for 47 percent of exports, up from 32 percent in 1902 and 18 percent in 1892, with a total value exceeding $1 billion for the first time.
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In our times today, in a Reuters article titled “US economy on firmer footing heading into first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on February 28, 2024, we have as follows on exports:
The goods trade deficit increased 2.6% to $90.2 last month, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said in a separate report on Wednesday.
Exports rose 0.2% to $170.4 billion, but were outpaced by a 1.1% jump in imports to $260.6 billion.
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And again, some more history:
In a report to Roosevelt, Straus summarized the climate in these words: “Our age has been very properly called an era of commercial development and expansion, and the United States, by reason of its many exceptional advantages, its boundless natural resources, and possessing a growing, intelligent, energetic, enterprising, and self-reliant population, is reaping a greater share of industrial and commercial prosperity than any of the other nations of the world.”
As the need for ever-expanding markets for manufactures intensified and workers moved from farm to factory in greater numbers, labor brought increasing pressure for separation of the Department’s functions and independent Cabinet status.
President William Taft signed legislation on March 4, 1913, his last day in office, splitting the combined department.
Labor was given Cabinet status and the designation of the Department of Commerce and Labor was changed to the Department of Commerce.
It had taken more than a century for the Congress to establish an executive department exclusively devoted to the commercial and manufacturing interests of the Nation.
Paul Plante says
What we are seeing here, people, quite simply, is the continued transformation of our national economy we were warned about by Biden Treasury Secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen in her “Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on the State of the U.S. Economy in Chicago, Illinois” on January 25, 2024, where “TOODLES” said to all o9f us here in America, and in the world, as well, if not the whole of the galaxy, “I’m honored to be here at the Economic Club of Chicago to talk about the middle class in America: from when the pandemic hit, to the recovery, to what’s ahead.”
And “what’s ahead” from then is where we are now, with Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo implementing Stalin-Era Central Planning in America using the Commerce Department as her vehicle for doing so, which in turn is making her a literal CZAR OF BUSINESS here in America, where Gina gets to choose who is going to be a winner, and who she is going to have be the losers, with federal government money being the determining factor with regard to who gets to be the one, versus who is made the other by Gina, which takes us back to “TOODLES” on January 25, 2024, where we had more on BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDE-O-NISM, as follows:
Overall, the Biden Administration has put in place the most extensive set of policies and investments to benefit the middle class and grow the economy that our country has seen in my lifetime.
Our economic plan is improving lives and laying the foundation for a new future for middle-class families and communities across the country.
The President and I understand that many Americans have long felt a deeper pessimism about the economy, going back far before the pandemic.
Due to the longer-term trends that I described, life is still harder than it should be for the middle class in this country.
To change this, our modern supply-side strategy is designed to build off of our historic recovery and continue charting a new course.
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Yes, people, Joe and “TOODLES” are indeed charting a new course, and they are using Joe Stalin’s first FIVE-YEAR PLAN as their model, because the Soviet Union’s achievements were tremendous during the first five-year plan, which yielded a fifty-percent increase in industrial output, and if it worked for DEMOCRAT ICON Joe Stalin in the Soviet Union, it should work for Joe Biden and the MIDDLE CLASS of America, as well, even if it leaves behind those of us on the bottom, which takes us back to January 25, 2024 and more “TOODLES,” as follows:
We’re focused on boosting our economic capacity in order to deliver robust and shared economic growth.
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And that is what we are seeing Gina Raimondo about here, with her grants of money to the likes of Plug Power, essentially a ZOMBIE BUSINESS, without an influx if government money to keep it functioning, and GlobalFoundries, which again takes us back to “TOODLES” out there on the campaign trail politicking her little heart out for Joe while trying her best to sell us on the BIDEN BRAND, for more, as follows:
Our aim is to make middle-class lives better: for the short haul and for the long haul.
Infrastructure
We started with infrastructure.
Our country’s infrastructure has been deteriorating for decades.
In the Trump Administration, the idea of doing anything to fix it was a punch line.
But this Administration has delivered.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a $1.2 trillion investment in our nation’s infrastructure.
It is bringing new opportunities within reach for middle-class families.
It’s creating new construction jobs that do not require a college degree.
It’s providing access to clean water and to better internet.
It’s helping goods get to consumers faster and at lower cost.
These changes are happening everywhere in America, not just on the coasts or in wealthier communities.
Treasury analysis shows that funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is especially going to states with the lowest-rated public infrastructure and lower median household incomes.
Through infrastructure investment, we’re helping build a new future for people and places that have historically been left behind.
Manufacturing and Energy
Infrastructure is just the beginning.
The CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are reinvigorating American manufacturing, including through incentivizing private sector investments.
Companies have announced over $600 billion in manufacturing and clean energy investments since the start of the Administration.
These investments will fuel our economic growth and increase our economic security.
But I want to emphasize today how they’ll change middle-class lives.
The reinvigoration of manufacturing means new jobs for middle-class Americans, especially in places where potential exists, but opportunity has failed.
The IRA provides incentives to locate projects in low-income communities and in energy communities where the local economy has historically been dependent on fossil fuels.
These incentives are working.
Investments are growing faster in energy communities and in greater amounts.
Since the IRA was passed, 70 percent of IRA-related investments have been in counties where the employment rate is below the national average and 86 percent have been in counties with college graduation rates below average.
We’re also working to make sure these jobs are good ones.
The IRA’s prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements help ensure fair wages and pathways into new industries.
The President and I are also strong supporters of unions.
Union members typically have higher wages, by around 10 to 15 percent.
They have greater access to critical fringe benefits, such as retirement benefits, medical benefits, and life insurance.
Union members also benefit from more scheduling predictability and better workplace safety.
My own academic work has found that these non-monetary factors are a key driver of job satisfaction.
And we know it’s not just good jobs that matter to people.
What follows them also matters, so we’re working to support Americans in planning for retirement.
The American Rescue Plan provided support to multiemployer pensions, protecting millions of pensions, including restoring benefits for thousands of workers and retirees who had had their benefits cut.
In October, we proposed a new rule that cracks down on additional barriers to retirement security, such as junk fees.
None of these policies are aiming to recreate an earlier era.
This country and the world have changed and we cannot go back.
What we need is a new future rooted in upgraded infrastructure and a modern tax system, fueled by twenty-first century industries, and with the middle class at its center.
The Administration is building the foundations of that future.
Our economic agenda is far from finished.
There’s much more the President and I would like to do to support the middle class.
When the expanded Child Tax Credit expired, millions of children were pushed back into poverty.
It is still too hard to be a working parent.
We need to get American families access to affordable childcare and other support for their children.
As these children get older, they should be able to get a good education, including through free community college, and receive training that prepares them for good jobs.
As they work, they should be able to afford quality housing near economic opportunities.
And as they get older, they should be able to retire with dignity.
We need to do more here too.
The obstacles the middle class has faced for decades will not disappear overnight.
But this Administration is fighting the right fight: for economic policy that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
It’s what motivated me to become an economist and has been the central mission throughout my career.
And it has shaped this Administration’s actions as we have responded to the pandemic, as we have driven a strong and fair recovery, and as we are putting in place the building blocks for continued growth.
If we keep at it, America will continue its progress in overcoming the challenges facing the middle class.
The middle class has always driven the success of our country.
It will continue to lead our future.
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And with all of that to consider, it is time to take a break for station identification, but don’t change that dial because we will be back with more on BIDE-O-NISM, which in simple terms, is defined as a one party system of government with the Joe Bidene in charge of everything, and in which each class, including the semi-fascists, the MAGAtards, the BASKET OF DEPLORABLES, and the DREGS OF SOCIETY have their distinct place, function, and representation in the government, with some being very much more equal than those below them in the social hierarchy that separates Biden Democrats from everybody else in America, while the individual, that being us, is subordinated to the state and control is maintained by military forces, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
And seriously, people, anymore, as this story of BIDE-O-NISM in America continues to be told, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, a GRAND PALLADIUM of OUR LIBERTY, where do we even begin, anymore to try and make sense out of what makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, at all.
First of all, consider that despite Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution containing two clauses, those being the Appropriations Clause and the Statement and Accounts Clause, wherein is clearly stated that “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time,” which Kate Stith from the Yale Law School states is part of the “job description” of Congress, “Like the appropriations requirement, this [Statement and Accounts] requirement states not a power but a legislative duty that has been interpreted to require an annual budget,” we in fact have no budget, period.
To the contrary, according to a Reuters article titled “Biden signs stopgap spending bill to avert government shutdown, White House says” on March 1, 2024, Joe Biden has signed into law a short-term stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown, the White House said on Friday, which is a recipe for fiscal disaster, as it quite literally gives Joe Biden a BLANK CHECK to spend as recklessly as he chooses, with we, the people getting handed the bill.
Think I’m kidding, people?
Not a joke as we see by going to a CNBC article titled “The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days” by Michelle Fox on March 1, 2024 for this dose of reality we are all facing as a result of Joe Biden’s incredible FISCAL PROFLIGACY, with no one having a clue as to where all this money is disappearing to, to wit:
The debt load of the U.S. is growing at a quicker clip in recent months, increasing about $1 trillion nearly every 100 days.
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Yes, people, you are indeed reading that right: Joe Biden is blowing through a TRILLION DOLLARS in three months with no accountability or oversight whatsoever as to where that money has went, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4, after briefly crossing the mark on Dec. 29, according to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
It reached $33 trillion on Sept. 15, 2023, and $32 trillion on June 15, 2023, hitting this accelerated pace.
Before that, the $1 trillion move higher from $31 trillion took about eight months.
U.S. debt, which is the amount of money the federal government borrows to cover operating expenses, now stands at nearly $34.4 trillion, as of Wednesday.
Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion.
Moody’s Investors Service lowered its ratings outlook on the U.S. government to negative from stable in November due to the rising risks of the country’s fiscal strength.
“In the context of higher interest rates, without effective fiscal policy measures to reduce government spending or increase revenues,” the agency said.
“Moody’s expects that the US’ fiscal deficits will remain very large, significantly weakening debt affordability.”
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And as Joe Biden just proved there on March 1, 2024 by signing that BLANK CHECK short-term stopgap spending bill, there are no effective fiscal policy measures in place to reduce government spending or increase revenues, nor will there be, so long as the worthless congress and the American peo9ple give Joe Biden carte blanche to spend as much as he wants on whatever he wants with no accountability, which takes us back in time to Justice Joseph Story and how he defined the relationship between the two clauses in his Commentaries on the Constitution, to wit:
“The power to control and direct the appropriations constitutes a most useful and salutary check upon profusion and extravagance, as well as upon corrupt influence and public speculation.”
“And to make their (Congress) responsibility complete and perfect, a regular account of the receipts and expenditures is required to be published, that the people may know, what money is expended, for what purposes, and by what authority.”
And all of that is now gone, people, long gone, and we are fools for letting it happen right before our eyes, which takes us back to circa 1936, and H.L. Mencken in “On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe,” wherein is stated as follows, which in turn describes exactly where we are today in America with the FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND PROFLIGATE Joe Biden in power, to wit:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
That great and glorious day in America when the plain folks of the land reached their heart’s desire at last and adorned the White House with a downright moron named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior occurred in November of 2020, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, which takes us back to H.L. Mencken in “Prejudices: Third Series,” where I swear he seems to be talking about me:
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.”
“Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable…”
Paul Plante says
For the record, a “snollygoster” is a shrewd, unprincipled person, while a “throttlebottom” is an innocuously inept and futile person in public office, which terms seem to describe Biden Treasury Secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen quite well, while her “Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on the State of the U.S. Economy in Chicago, Illinois” on January 25, 2024, is nothing more than a farrago of hopes, wishes, and just plain nonsense, which has “TOODLES” coming across as bumfuzzled, which is to say “in a state of bewilderment; confused or perplexed,” which in turn makes her out as an “ultracrepidarian,” which is to say “one who is presumptuous and offers advice or opinions beyond one’s sphere of knowledge,” and a “fopdoodle,” to boot, which means “TOODLES” is seen as insignificant, and here, since we just had a raft of economic news with which we can fact-check “TOODLES.” let’s go back to “TOODLES” on January 25, 2024, where we had this from “TOODLES” on BIDE-O-NOMICS, as follows:
Overall, the Biden Administration has put in place the most extensive set of policies and investments to benefit the middle class and grow the economy that our country has seen in my lifetime.
Our economic plan is improving lives and laying the foundation for a new future for middle-class families and communities across the country.
The President and I understand that many Americans have long felt a deeper pessimism about the economy, going back far before the pandemic.
Due to the longer-term trends that I described, life is still harder than it should be for the middle class in this country.
To change this, our modern supply-side strategy is designed to build off of our historic recovery and continue charting a new course.
The reinvigoration of manufacturing means new jobs for middle-class Americans, especially in places where potential exists, but opportunity has failed.
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So, people, how about her statement that the reinvigoration of manufacturing means new jobs for middle-class Americans, especially in places where potential exists, but opportunity has failed?
Have Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen actually managed to do that – reinvigorate manufacturing in America?
If so, then why just the other day did Reuters have an article titled “US manufacturing contracts further” by Lucia Mutikani on March 1, 2024, where we learned as follo9ws, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing slumped further in February, with a measure of factory employment falling to a seven-month low amid layoffs, but there were signs activity was on the cusp of rebounding.
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If it is slumping, it counters the claim by “TOODLES” that she and Joe Biden have reinvigorated it, but let’s not make a hasty judgment here, so back for more we go:
The ISM said its manufacturing PMI fell to 47.8 last month from 49.1 in January.
It was the 16th straight month the PMI remained below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing.
That is the longest such stretch since the period from August 2000 to January 2002.
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How “TOODLES” gets “reinvigorated” out of that is a mystery to me, where the common meaning of the word “reinvigorate” is to give new energy or strength to something, which isn’t happening to manufacturing, which takes us back to Reuters for more, to wit:
So-called hard data from the government and Federal Reserve show manufacturing mostly treading water.
The ISM survey’s forward-looking new orders sub-index dropped to 49.2 last month after rebounding to 52.5 in January.
Production at factories was subdued, with the sub-index declining to 48.4 from 50.4 in January.
Customer inventories were considered too low for a third straight month, with shortages of some goods reported.
While that augurs well for future orders and production, there was a slight hint of supply chain constraints.
The survey’s measure of supplier deliveries rose to 50.1 from 49.1 in the prior month.
A reading above 50 indicates slower deliveries.
“For the second month, supplier responsiveness appears to be ‘stiffer,’ meaning some suppliers are struggling to keep up,” said Timothy Fiore, chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.
Factory employment continued to shrink, with layoffs accounting for half of efforts by companies to reduce headcount.
Manufacturers also reported hiring freezes.
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So much for Joe and “TOODLES” reinvigorating manufacturing in America, then, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US mortgage rates rise for a fourth-straight week, Freddie Mac says” by Amina Niasse on February 29, 2024, where we see what Joe Biden and his BIDE-O-NOMJICS are doing to the middle class in America, to wit:
NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage rates rose for a fourth-straight week, Freddie Mac reported on Thursday, reaching a two-month high and again becoming a factor impeding traffic among rate-sensitive prospective home buyers.
“The recent boomerang in rates has dampened already tentative homebuyer momentum as we approach the spring, a historically busy season for homebuying.”
“While sales of newly built homes are trending in a positive direction, higher rates and elevated prices continue to pose affordability challenges that may leave potential homebuyers on the sidelines,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist.
High mortgage rates eroded buyer traffic last year as tight inventory and home price gains limited affordability.
Home sales remain under pressure, with pending home sales retreating by 4.9% in January, according to National Association of Realtors data.
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The higher rates are caused by BIDENFLATION as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to another Reuters article titled “US pending home sales fall in January as high mortgage rates deter buyers” by Amina Niasse on February 29, 2024, for more of what BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing to the middle-class in America, to wit:
NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) – Pending U.S. home sales retreated in January, a report on Thursday showed, as buyers continue to struggle with still-high mortgage rates.
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales index fell 4.9% to 74.3.
The increase in pending sales in December was revised sharply lower to 5.7% from 8.3%, even as the index value for that month was revised higher, reflecting NAR revisions for 2023.
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And from there, we go to a CNBC article titled “Key Fed inflation measure rose 0.4% in January as expected, up 2.8% from a year ago” by Jeff Cox on February 29, 2024 for more on BIDE-O-NOMICS< to wit:
Inflation rose in line with expectations in January, according to an important gauge the Federal Reserve uses as it deliberates cutting interest rates.
The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy costs increased 0.4% for the month and 2.8% from a year ago, as expected according to the Dow Jones consensus estimates.
Headline PCE, including the volatile food and energy categories, increased 0.3% monthly and 2.4% on a 12-month basis, also as forecast, according to the numbers released Thursday by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Services prices increased 0.6% on the month while goods fell 0.2%; on a 12-month basis, services rose 3.9% and goods were down 0.5%.
Within those categories, food prices accelerated 0.5%, offset by a 1.4% slide in energy.
On a year-over-year basis, food was up 1.4% while energy fell 4.9%.
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And from there we go back to a Reuters article titled "Services drive US prices higher in January; inflation gradually cooling" by Lucia Mutikani on February 29, 2024, for this look at the Biden economy, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 29 (Reuters) – U.S. prices accelerated in January amid a surge in the costs of services like housing and finance, but the annual increase in inflation was the smallest in three years, keeping a mid-year interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve on the table.
The report from the Commerce Department on Thursday also showed consumer spending slowing last month, restrained by decreases in outlays on goods, including motor vehicles, furniture and other long-lasting household equipment.
Services, which also include healthcare, restaurants, hotels and motels as well as recreation, are at the heart of the U.S. central bank's fight against inflation.
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index increased 0.4% last month.
Services prices jumped 0.6%, the most since last January, after climbing 0.3% in December.
They were boosted by a 0.6% rise in the cost of housing and utilities.
The cost of financial services and insurance surged 1.3%, likely reflecting higher share prices.
Prices for services at restaurants, bars, hotels and motels rose, as did those for recreation and healthcare.
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Healthcare, of course, under BIDE-O-MOMICS, was supposed to be coming down, not going up like it is, which takes us back to Reuters again, to wit:
PCE services inflation excluding energy and housing shot up 0.6% last month, the most since March 2022, after rising 0.3% in December.
The so-called super core inflation increased 3.5% on a year-on-year basis in January after rising 3.3% in December.
The super core inflation has risen at a 4.1% annualized rate in the past three months.
Policymakers are watching the super core measure to assess progress in their battle against inflation.
With inflation picking up, price-sensitive consumers slowed their spending last month.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, rose 0.2% after increasing 0.7% in December.
When adjusted for inflation, spending fell 0.1% after rising 0.6% in December.
A Conference Board survey on Tuesday showed consumers less upbeat about the jobs market in February.
Income was boosted by a 3.2% cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security recipients and a special dividend paid by Costco Wholesale Corp.
But a sharp increase in taxes combined with inflation left income at the disposal of households unchanged after a 0.3% rise in December.
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So there we have some actual data to consider, people.
Does it really mean anything, however, when we have "TOODLES" Yellen telling us how good we all are doing thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS in America?
Stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of Joe Biden, and his secretary of the treasury Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who told us on January 25, 2024 that Joe Biden’s economic plan is improving lives and laying the foundation for a new future for middle-class families and communities across the country, and that life is still harder than it should be for the middle class in this country, so that to change that, their modern supply-side strategy is designed to build off of our historic recovery and continue charting a new course, one focused on boosting our economic capacity in order to deliver robust and shared economic growth, with their aim being to make middle-class lives better for the short haul and for the long haul, because this country and the world have changed and we cannot go back, and the obstacles the middle class has faced for decades will not disappear overnight, but she and Joe and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm and Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg are fighting the right fight for economic policy that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives, which is what motivated “TOODLES” to become an economist and has been the central mission throughout her career as she and Joe are putting in place the building blocks for continued growth, and if they keep at it, America will continue its progress in overcoming the challenges facing the middle class, which class has always driven the success of our country, and will continue to lead our future, imposing a Soviet-Union style centrally planned economy, also known as a command economy, on the United States of America, which is an economic system where a government body, in this case, Joe’s commerce department, makes economic decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods, for proof of that statement, let us go to an asiafinancial article titled “US Starts Funding Awards to Ramp up Chip Production at Home” on December 12, 2023, where we are informed as follows on that subject of Joe’s Soviet-era “command economy,” which is the economic system of Cuba, North Korea, Belarus, China, Iran, and Russia, as follows:
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has begun announcing major funding awards that aim to fire up US production of computer chips.
Raimondo said she expects to make around a dozen funding awards within the next year, including multi-billion-dollar announcements that could drastically reshape US manufacturing of semiconductors.
Meanwhile, California chip giant Nvidia was being encouraged to sell semiconductors to China – but not their top-of-the-range AI products.
Raimondo announced the first award on Monday – $35 million to a BAE Systems facility in Hampshire to produce chips for fighter planes from the “Chips for America” semiconductor manufacturing and research subsidy programme approved by Congress in August 2022.
“Next year we’ll get into some of the bigger ones with leading-edge fabs,” Raimondo told reporters.
“A year from now I think we will have made 10 or 12 similar announcements, some of them multi-billion dollar announcements.”
US wants 20% of chips made at home
In an interview, Raimondo said that the number of awards could go higher than 12.
She said she wants the percentage of semiconductors produced in the United States to rise from about 12% to closer to 20% – though that is still down from 40% in 1990 – and to have at least two “leading-edge” US manufacturing clusters.
In addition, she wants the US to have cutting-edge memory and packaging production and to “meet the military’s needs for current and mature” chips.
Raimondo noted that the US currently does not have any cutting-edge manufacturing production and wants to get that to about 10%.
Raimondo said the programme has received more than 550 statements of interest and nearly 150 pre-applications, full applications, and concept plans.
And given the extensive interest, there would be many disappointed companies.
“We have national security goals and we need to make our investments to hit those goals and we’re going to do that,” she added.
Raimondo said US officials were talking with Nvidia Corp about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips to China but emphasized that it cannot sell its most advanced semiconductors to Chinese firms.
The Commerce secretary said Nvidia “can, will and should sell AI chips to China because most AI chips will be for commercial applications.”
She added: “What we cannot allow them to ship is the most sophisticated, highest processing power AI chips, which would enable China to train their frontier models.”
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The lure of a centrally-planned economy for Joe Biden and his administration, of course, as we can glean from the speech of “TOODLES” Yellen on the subject on January 25, 2024, is that some of the advantages of the system are the equal distribution of wealth, reduced inequality, low level of unemployment, and maximized social welfare, which in America is known as BIDE-O-NISM.
As we young Americans learned back in the 1950s in social studies, centrally planned economies such as Joe Biden has imposed on America are different from market economies, where these decisions are the result of thousands of choices by producers and consumers.
In a centrally-planned economy such as is BIDE-O-NOMICS, the production of goods and services is often done by state-owned enterprises, although as we are seeing here from Ginja Raimondo, independent companies may also be incorporated into economic planning, but prices, wages, and production schedules are to be set by a centralized bureaucracy located in Washington, D.C.
According to Investopedia under “Theory of Central Planning,” advocates of central planning like Joe Biden, “TOODLES” Yellen and Gina Raimondo believe that the government can direct economic investment more efficiently than private actors, especially towards social goals with lower potential for profits and since the planning authority, in this case the Biden administration, has more resources, think TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, than any single company or business, government projects can also benefit from economies of scale that supposedly make government projects more productive in the long run.
But in order to coordinate among different producers and resources, central planning typically requires a highly educated technical bureaucracy, which creates something of a paradox for socialist countries like America under Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NISM, since the bureaucrats may take the role of a de facto ruling class, as we are seeing here in the case of Gina Raimondo, and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen.
And with that before us for our consideration, let’s cut to a commercial break with twenty hours of high-quality infomercials informing us all of the good life that beckons us if only we will give Joe Biden four more years to get BIDE-O-NISM firmly in place here in America to make it a socialist worker’s paradise, and then we will be right back with more, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
Paul Plante says
In all truth, I have to say that the very last thing I thought I would be talking about here in America in my later years would be an American president imposing on America the economic system of Cuba, North Korea, Belarus, Iran, and Russia, but such is the case today under DEMOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and when you consider that those other governments all have “strongman” rulers as Joe wishes to be here in America, an autocratic dictator subject to no one and nothing but himself, it is easy then to see the appeal for Joe of what is known as a command economy which puts all power over our lives in the hands of Joe Biden, negating the role the worthless congress is supposed to play in what was supposed to be a democratic society of, by, and for the American people where RULE OF LAW, not will of Joe Biden, was supposed to prevail.
As an example of Joe Biden taking over control of the American economy, let’s go back to a Fox News article titled “Biden’s bizarre plan to nationalize American innovation – Innovation rule would give Biden power to dictate prices on any product derived from government research” by Andrei Iancu, an undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 2018 to 2021, and co-founder and co-chairman of the Council for Innovation Promotion, on March 1, 2024, where we see another aspect 0f BIDE-O-NISM, which in simple terms, is defined as a one party system of government with the Joe Biden in charge of everything, and in which each class, including the semi-fascists, the MAGAtards, the BASKET OF DEPLORABLES, and the DREGS OF SOCIETY have their distinct place, function, and representation in the government, with some being very much more equal than those below them in the social hierarchy that separates Biden Democrats from everybody else in America, while the individual, that being us, is subordinated to the state, which is to say, Joe Biden, and control is maintained by military forces, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance, in action, to wit:
The Biden administration has unveiled a radical proposal to reshape the underpinnings of America’s innovation economy.
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And yes, people, “radical” is Joe Biden’s other middle name, which takes us back to this story of the implementation of BIDE-O-NISM in America, to wit:
Through the lure of federal research dollars and a sweeping reinterpretation of a 44-year-old bipartisan law, the forces of the ideological left within the administration seek to impose price controls throughout the American economy, effectively holding private industry hostage to its demands.
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Which happens to be governmental regimentation of industry and finance, in action, whichy takes us back to Fox for more, to wit:
At the center of this power grab is a provision of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, pioneering legislation widely credited with launching the modern American innovation economy.
Bayh-Dole ingeniously aligned the private-sector profit motive with the public good by allowing universities and small businesses to own and license patents emerging from federally funded research.
The act’s design trusted decentralized markets — not central planners — to transform patented discoveries into beneficial products.
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And it is exactly those decentralized markets that the autocratic dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, wants to replace with central planners, the main one of whom is Joe, himself, which again takes us back to Fox for more, to wit:
This incentive-based structure catalyzed America’s scientific leadership and directly sparked bold innovations in fields as disparate as computing and agriculture to medicine and transportation.
The provision of Bayh-Dole that progressive activists have long sought to wield as a cudgel against private industry is known as “march-in” authority, which allows the government to take over a patented product if one of four narrow triggers is met.
Legislators included it as a stopgap to deter anyone from acting on the hypothetical impulse of acquiring a patent in order to prevent it from being developed into a product.
This hypothetical has never materialized, so the government has never once marched in.
This is not surprising.
Companies will commercialize patented products or license other companies to do so if there is money to be made.
This fundamental principle of capitalism is somehow lost on the Biden administration, which now wants to seize patents if the price of a product is “unreasonable,” whatever that means.
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That fundamental principle of capitalism, however, is not so much lost on the Biden regime as it is disbelieved by the Biden administration which takes us back to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University, on April 1, 2021, where we have Joe’s treasury secretary, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, an architect and true believer in BIDE-O-NISM, quoted as follows:
As Yellen once remarked: “Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention?”
“Certainly not.”
And so, BIDE-O-NISM provides the federal government with that “right” of routine intervention in the affairs of corporate America, which again takes us back to Fox for these further details, to wit:
But Bayh-Dole has no trigger that is even remotely related to a product’s price.
Nor has any administration, Democrat or Republican, since the statute passed 44 years ago ever interpreted it to include a bureaucrat’s judgment that a product costs too much.
Until now.
In a bizarre and lawless document that seems to reflect the far-left’s capture of the Biden administration, the White House unveiled in December a proposal to use the threat of march-in to dictate prices on any product derived from federally funded research.
The door would be open for bureaucrats to seize patents and ruin entire businesses if they disagree with the market price of anything, from microchips and surgical devices to implantable biomaterial and agricultural technologies.
By proposing something so radical, the Biden White House has gone public with a road map allowing de facto nationalization of all discoveries arising from federally funded research institutions, many of which emerge from the nation’s leading universities.
The administration envisions scrutinizing licensing agreements through a political lens, micromanaging the economy under the guise of assessing the “fairness” of prices.
No field escapes unscathed.
In one scenario within the guidance, administrators suggest that insufficient market availability of vehicle safety communication devices warrants seizing patents and taking over the business.
The guidance has no limiting principle and would apply even if the government invested a dollar while private industry invested millions on an invention.
In defending the draft guidance, Biden’s Federal Trade Commission egregiously mischaracterizes the Bayh-Dole Act as a “statute designed to safeguard public health needs against patent holders’ private interests.”
This distortion wrongly implies that private interests are inherently contrary to public ones.
Government takeover of private industry, in the name of protecting public need, is un-American and strains far from our founding principles: the Federalist Papers recognized that for both patents and copyrights, “The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals.”
Americans have always known that private incentive aligns with public good.
The administration would upend this fundamental principle.
The true scope of the administration’s gambit goes beyond even economics.
Property rights become a pawn the progressive left is happy to sacrifice to advance its sweeping agenda.
One group writing in support of the proposal urges that in assessing a march-in petition, bureaucrats analyze a company’s commitment to collective bargaining and diversity quotas.
Make no mistake: Weakening or eliminating patent rights to advance political agendas will chill private sector risk-taking, technological progress and access to cutting-edge inventions.
The only good that can come of this outrageous proposal is to reveal the wild-eyed ambition within the ranks of the administration.
The next question is whether President Joe Biden himself embraces this vision.
Entrepreneurs, investors and university researchers want to know.
If not, he must wholly disavow this destructive proposal before it does more harm.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on the subject of BIDEN BOBAUNCE (boastful behavior, boasting; a boast) by Joe Biden going into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the November 2024 presidential elections, along with being barraged by PURE POLITICAL BULL**** you have to be an idiot or moron to believe, and OUTRIGHT OUTRAGEOUS LIES from TEAM BIDEN and Joe, himself, let’s drop back in time to February 2, 2024, and the “Statement from President Joe Biden on the January Jobs Report” where we have this excellent example of PURE BIDEN BOBAUNCE right in the first sentence, to wit:
America’s economy is the strongest in the world.
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Which statement is pure horse****.
We are a beggar nation on the world stage that can’t defend its own borders so deeply mired in ever-increasing debt that we need to depend on money coming in from China as they pick up our debt at interest in order to keep the doors of our worthless government open.
But let’s get back to Joe on February 2, 2024, because we have a GREAT BIG LIE based on a FRAUD ON THE PUBLIC coming from Joe in the very next sentence, to wit:
Today, we saw more proof, with another month of strong wage gains and employment gains of over 350,000 in January, continuing the strong growth from last year.
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And that, people, simply is not true, which to say, it is a falsehood!
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we clearly see from a CNBC article titled “U.S. job growth totaled 275,000 in February but unemployment rate rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on March 8, 2024, where we have Joe’s BIG WHOPPER exposed for all the world to see, to wit:
Job creation topped expectations in February, but the unemployment rate moved higher and employment growth from the previous two months wasn’t nearly as hot as initially reported.
February was a step higher in growth from January, which saw a steep downward revision to 229,000, from the initially reported 353,000.
Job growth in December also was revised down to 290,000 from 333,000, bringing the two-month total to 167,000 fewer jobs than initially reported.
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A STEEP DOWNWARD REVISION, people, means that on February 2, 2024, Joe was using a GROSSLY EXAGGERATED FIGURE in that self-serving press release, which is a FRAUD on the public by Joe Biden, who we will NOT HEAR apologizing to us in March for outright lying to us in February about the January jobs figure, which takes us back to Joe’s February 2, 2024 press release for more BIDEN BULL**** as follows:
Our economy has created 14.8 million jobs since I took office, unemployment has been under 4% for two full years now, and inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.
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And Joe’s statement that the economy has created 14.8 million jobs since Joe took office is obvious BULL**** based on INFLATED JOB NUMBERS as we can see from these revisions alone, which revisions always come after the fact, when nobody is looking.
And that statement by Joe that inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year, is similarly misleading, and in fact, is a contrived number intended to be misleading, as we see in a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Powell still expects rate cuts, but inflation progress ‘not assured'” by Howard Schneider on March 6, 2024, to wit:
Reports bolstering the “soft-landing” narrative, such as encouraging figures on services prices on Tuesday or signs of slowing consumer spending, have been counterbalanced by others showing inflation stuck in significant ways, such as from still-rising shelter costs, or evidence of unexpected economic strength, such as January’s outsized gain of more than 350,000 jobs.
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Going Back to Joe running his mouth on February 2, 2024, telling us how great he is, and how we are lucky to have him in the white house instead of somebody truthful and competent, we have more as follows:
It’s great news for working families that wages, wealth, and jobs are higher now than before the pandemic, and I won’t stop fighting to lower costs and build an economy from the middle out and bottom up.
I’ll continue to stand in the way of efforts by Congressional Republicans to enact massive tax giveaways for the wealthy and big corporations; cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; and raise costs for American families.
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Joe Biden is going to stand in the way of efforts by Congressional Republicans to enact massive tax giveaways for the wealthy and big corporations?
BULL****, when it is Joe himself who is handing out tax giveaways right and left to big corporations like TSMC in Taiwan, as we see in a Reuters story titled “TSMC to win more than $5 billion in grants for a US chip plant, Bloomberg reports” on March 8, 2024, as follows:
March 8 (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, is set to win more than $5 billion in federal grants from the U.S. government for setting up a chipmaking plant in Arizona, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
TSMC and the U.S. Commerce Department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
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And with that said, let’s cut to station identification and a commercial break for twelve full uninterrupted hours of high-class infomercials from TEAM BIDEN touting all the Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS have done for the American people to make their lives better than any other American president have ever made them, and then, we will be right back.
Paul Plante says
And we are right back with a story from Fox News titled “Top red state official demands answers on Biden executive order ‘attempting to register’ illegals to vote” by Andrew Miller on March 11, 2024, where we see how just how Joe Biden is using his executive orders in his WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT approach to getting more criminals and illegals to be able to vote DEMOCRAT in the upcoming November presidential election to throw the contest Joe’s way in a rigged election rigged by Joe himself, to wit:
Mississippi’s Secretary of State has sent a letter to President Biden’s Department of Justice asking it to stop enforcing a Biden executive order that he warns is being used to attempt to register ineligible convicts and illegal immigrants to vote.
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Actually, those ineligible convicts and illegal immigrants are Joe’s political base, so of course he is going to do anything and everything he can to secure for them the right to vote for Joe come November, which takes us back to Fox, to wit:
“As you are aware, on March 7, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order No. 14019 which sought to turn the Department of Justice agencies from their historical missions of law enforcement to voter registration and get out the vote operations,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week.
“These efforts are an intrusion into state matters and are a misuse of federal revenue and resources.”
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And of course Joe is intruding into state matters, misusing of federal revenue and resources, to do so, because Joe doesn’t believe in state matters, and federal revenue and resources are Joe’s to misuse, because nobody can stop him from doing so, which again takes us back to Fox, to wit:
“In addition, it appears that these efforts have led to agencies under your charge attempting to register people to vote, including potentially ineligible felons and to co-opt state and local officials into accomplishing this goal.”
The executive order in question was signed by Biden in 2021 and was billed as an attempt to combat racial discrimination and “protect the right to vote” and instructed government agencies “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”
In his letter, Watson outlines concerns that the executive order “forces the U.S. Marshals Service” to “modify agreements with jails” that require them “to provide voter registration materials and facilitate voting by mail.”
“According to the Marshals Service, they are modifying 936 contracts or intergovernmental agreements to require state and local government complicity in the potential registration of ineligible prisoners to vote,” the letter states.
“It further requires the Department of Justice to facilitate voter registration and mail voting for individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.”
“This program creates numerous opportunities for ineligible prisoners to be registered to vote in Mississippi.”
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And my goodness, people, of course it does, because Joe wants every vote he can get, and that is how he is getting them, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Watson told Fox News Digital that he is not confident the Biden administration is paying close attention to the voting status of the individuals involved.
“Forgive me for not necessarily trusting the Biden administration but in Mississippi we’ve got rules and regulations dealing with who can vote when it comes to felons, there are disenfranchising crimes in our state and I don’t specifically think that the Biden administration cares crossing those T’s and dotting those I’s when it comes to making sure these folks can or can’t vote, they’re going to register them, including illegal aliens in custody so we’ve got major issues and that’s what led to writing this letter to Attorney General Garland,” Watson told Fox News Digital.
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Dude, you need no forgiveness since you are among the majority, not the minority, who don’t trust the untrustworthy Biden administration to do anything right, or follow the laws as written, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Watson’s letter explains that the program “provides prisoners with misleading information concerning their right to both register and vote in Mississippi – a right which they may not have.”
“For example, many of the people in the custody of the Marshals are convicted felons whom Mississippi law deems ineligible to vote.”
“Additionally, many of those in custody only have fleeting ties to Mississippi and do not meet the residency requirements necessary to be a Mississippi voter,” the letter says.
Watson wrote that Mississippi jails are being prompted to “work with other reliable sources of voter information to assist federal prisoners with voter registration, voting by mail, and notification of upcoming elections.”
“We are unaware of any contact with our Office, which begs the question, which organizations are the Marshals using to accomplish this demand?” The letter asks.
“Many outside groups performing voter registration and vote harvesting services are partisan entities with a history of being unreliable.”
“There have been documented instances of these groups providing incorrect directions to voters.”
“It is not proper for the Federal government to push partisan groups into the voting process in Mississippi or any other state.”
The letter specifically addresses concerns that illegal immigrants in the Mississippi prison system could potentially be registered to vote through this executive order if the program is not closely monitored.
“Our understanding is that everyone in the Marshals’ custody is given a form advising them of their right to register and vote,” the letter says.
“Providing ineligible non-citizens with information on how to register to vote undoubtedly encourages them to illegally register to vote, exposing them to legal jeopardy beyond their immigration status.”
Watson’s letter says that it is “quite shocking” that the Biden administration would “expend tax dollars and vital law enforcement resources” on a program “that risks bloating state voter rolls with ineligible and non-citizen voters” during a time when millions of illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border.
Watson told Fox News Digital that this is an “urgent” matter with a presidential election just 8 months away.
“If you look at what’s going on at the border when you’ve got so many illegal aliens pouring into our country, imagine the efforts used to get them to register to vote and that’s what this is all about,” Watson told Fox News Digital.
“It’s about control, it’s about continuing their power, and unfortunately that puts our country in a terrible position, so it’s immediate and it’s something where we hope they will respect our request to stop the program.”
“The information we want to see is which prisons they’re working in in Mississippi, we’ve asked them to prove to us the documentation, what exactly are you doing in our prisons?”
“We want to make sure we understand which prisoners you’ve been talking to, so we can understand whether or not they’re eligible to vote and I think it’s incumbent upon all of the states to take this notice up and to push back as hard as we can because with this election coming up in November it is incredibly important to the future of our country.”
“What we have left of it.”
Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital he applauds Watson’s letter warning about a program that “puts election integrity and voter confidence at risk” for “political gain.”
“The Biden Administration is aggressively pursuing a partisan get-out-the-vote scheme using taxpayer dollars,” Snead said.
“Nothing is off the table, from using law enforcement resources to potentially register ineligible voters and even non-citizens, to the recent announcement that the administration will use taxpayer dollars to pay students to coordinate with left-wing organizations and mobilize youth voters.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Department of Justice for comment but did not receive a response.
Paul Plante says
As I have stated elsewhere, I wasted several hours over the weekend going through, word for word for word, the transcript of what was called Joe Biden’s supposed state of the union address, which transcript in reality was nothing more than the script for a cheap, ignorant, poorly-written melodramatic production like a religious revivalist meeting, with singers in the background singing out an angry Joe Biden’s praises as Joe spouted out his vitriol, which production in reality was pure cornpone political tripe and theater that cast Joe not in the role of an American president but more like a carnival barker trying to whip up enthusiasm for Little Egypt’s last show of the evening, or a patent medicine grifter peddling snake oil to the unwitting and unwary, with his shills in the crowd, just as Joe had his shills there during his performance the other night, with Joe’s shills in the audience, according to the AP version of the transcript, yelling BOOO on cue at various moments in the speech, or “four more years,” reminiscent of a Trump political rally, which analysis takes us to another analysis in the Newsweek article titled “Biden Did Himself No Favors With Angry, Partisan State of the Union | Opinion” by Paul du Quenoy, President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute, on March 12, 2024, where we had as follows on Joe’s so-called state of the union address, to wit:
State of the Union addresses have long been dull, pro forma affairs.
Loud cheers resound, offering the pretense of unity over division.
Policy disagreements are buried under unifying values.
The leader soberly rattles off platitudes about achievements and aspirations, often illusory.
The union’s “state” is always “strong,” and the nation’s “best days” invariably “lie ahead.”
No longer.
President Joe Biden’s third and very possibly last State of the Union address descended from this act of staid but dignified statesmanship to what Democrats think they need to shore up his increasingly doubtful reelection bid.
In his 67-minute address, reportedly the result of months of intense preparation, Biden was bitter and angry, delivering many of his lines in the loud and cranky tone of a frustrated family patriarch who commands no respect, marshals no enthusiasm, and fears his legacy will spill down a drain of derision.
It was not “presidential” by any stretch.
It was hysterical and vulgar, desperate and cheap.
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And consider that all along, Newsweek has been very PRO-JOE BIDEN, so this story is indeed interesting to see come forth, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Long gone was the “unifier” of those few halcyon days in early 2021, when the newly inaugurated Biden peered out from the armed camp that Washington, D.C., had become to promise he would pursue a moderate course to settle divisions and curb the vitriolic partisanship of former president Donald J. Trump’s term.
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In actuality, however, Joe Biden has NEVER been a “unifier,” nor has he ever tried to be, which takes us back to September 17, 2018 and a story in The Daily Wire titled “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl, where we had the DIVIDER Joe Biden in action, doing what he does best, which is dividing people, not unifying them, to wit:
Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.
Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.
And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.
“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.
“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
“This time they have an ally.”
“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
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Yes, people, if you are not for Joe Biden, then you are a DREG OF SOCIETY, which takes us back to Newsweek for more, to wit:
Now Biden is a hyperpartisan, blaming the Republicans — who control neither the presidency nor the Senate nor the Washington bureaucracy — for all of his many problems, from Ukraine to border control to tax policy.
He broke firm and laudable precedent to take a swipe at the Supreme Court, the Justices of which attended the speech but by tradition registered no reaction to it, for overturning Roe v. Wade, even though the result has been a pro-choice surge in state abortion referendums and the election of Democrats in several important races.
Biden claimed Republicans would cut entitlements to fund a tax cut for the rich despite the Republican House majority’s failure to act on entitlements at any time during his presidency.
He countered with his own plan to introduce yet more punitive taxation on “wealthy” Americans.
We heard surprisingly little about Biden’s supposed “achievements,” which his loyalists — and those who benefit from his increasingly obvious cognitive decline — tout with nauseating regularity despite all evidence to the contrary and in the face of massive popular disappointment.
Instead, the president lashed out, once again broad brushing half the country as authoritarian fascist enemies of democracy on par with the Nazis, the Confederacy, and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Biden has largely avoided mentioning Trump throughout his presidency — perhaps a wise move.
Trump currently outclasses him in opinion polls on virtually every issue, as well as in general competence, physical and mental ability, and, according to almost all recent surveys, the popular vote in the all-but-certain rematch that awaits us in November.
But as Biden gets cagier and undoubtedly more worried about his dubious reelection prospects, he simply cannot ignore Trump.
Although Biden never said his name (unlike Laken — or, as Biden mispronounced it, “Lincoln” — Riley, a nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant on Biden’s watch) in the speech, he referred to his “predecessor,” “the former Republican president,” 13 times.
There can be no doubt that as November approaches, the race will become increasingly brutal, personal, and negative — characteristics that, Democratic strategists may wish to note, heavily favored Trump in 2016.
Comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt, a trope to which his flatterers never tire of resorting, struck another point about Biden.
With a coterie of Washington politicos and a congressional Democratic Party either convinced of, or willing to play along with, the illusion of the incumbent’s soundness and importance, there is now less chance than ever that he will be replaced as the Democratic candidate, as some have speculated.
Given his grumpy demeanor, that is probably good news for the Trump camp.
Either way, Thursday’s State of the Union did nothing to convince the 82 percent of Americans who believe Biden is simply too old for the presidency to change their minds.
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And yes, color me on of them!
Old Joe is way past his “sell by” date!
Time for Joe to go!
Paul Plante says
And yesterday brought us two interesting pieces of news, one being a March 12, 2024
Statement from President Joe Biden on the February Consumer Price Index where Joe, a notorious serial liar and purveyor of myths and tall tales says his top economic priority is lowering costs, with the second being a Reuters article titled “US February budget deficit climbs on interest costs, tax refunds” on March 12, 2024, where we are informed by Joe’s own treasury department under BIDE-O-NOMICS architect Janet “TOODLES” Yellen of the harm BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDE-O-NISM are doing to our nation, and our national security, as well as to the lives of common American citizens, while a third is a Reuters article titled “Gasoline, shelter costs boost US prices; inflation still slowing” by Lucia Mutikani on March 12, 2024, where we learned as follows about where Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS has taken us as a nation and as a people, with this being the report Joe Biden is commenting on above as favoring BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices increased solidly in February amid higher costs for gasoline and shelter, suggesting some stickiness in inflation that further diminishes the chances of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut before June.
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What Joe then said in his Statement from President Joe Biden on the February Consumer Price Index, was as follows:
My top economic priority is lowering costs and today’s report shows we continue to make progress on that front.
Inflation is down two-thirds from its peak and annual core inflation is the lowest since May 2021.
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Except inflation is hardly down and in fact is continuing to rise, bringing prices up with it, which takes us back to Reuters on inflation, to wit:
The consumer price index rose 0.4% last month after climbing 0.3% in January, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.
Gasoline prices rebounded 3.8% after declining 3.3% in January.
Shelter, which includes rents, rose 0.4% after advancing 0.6% in the prior month.
But prices for cereals and bakery products rose while meat, fish and eggs were slightly more expensive.
In the 12 months through February, the CPI increased 3.2%, after advancing 3.1% in January.
The annual increase in consumer prices has slowed from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022, but progress has stalled in recent months.
President Joe Biden used the report to drum up support for a $7.3 trillion budget unveiled on Monday.
“We have more to do to lower costs and give the middle class a fair shot,” Biden said in a statement.
“The budget I put forward yesterday would take on Big Pharma to lower prescription drug costs.”
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI increased 0.4% in February after rising by the same margin in January.
Shelter was also the main driver of the so-called core CPI.
Rents increased 0.5% after gaining 0.4% in January.
The cost of healthcare was unchanged after rising 0.5% in the prior month.
Airline fares accelerated 3.6% while motor vehicle insurance cost 0.9% more.
Services excluding energy increased 0.5% after shooting up 0.7% in January.
The rise in the so-called super core services excluding shelter slowed to 0.5% from 0.8% in the prior month.
Goods prices rebounded by 0.4% after falling 0.3% in January.
They were boosted by increases in the prices of apparel.
Used cars and trucks prices jumped 0.5%.
Core goods prices rose 0.1%, the first increase since last May, after falling 0.3% in January.
A separate report from the Atlanta Fed showed its sticky-price CPI, a weighted basket of items that change price relatively slowly, increased 4.0% on an annualized basis in February after rising 6.7% in January.
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Which takes us to March 12, 2024 and the Statement from President Joe Biden on the February Consumer Price Index, where we have this empty political blather from Joe, as follows:
Congressional Republicans have no plan to lower costs — their only plan is more tax giveaways for big corporations and the wealthy while cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
I won’t let them.
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Which takes us to the Reuters article titled “US February budget deficit climbs on interest costs, tax refunds” on March 12, 2024, where the reality of what continuing harm BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing to America thanks to Joe Biden’s OUT-OF-CONTROL PROFLIGATE SPENDING OF BORROWED MONEY, including Joe’s tax give-aways for big corporations, is made incandescently clear, to wit:
March 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. federal budget deficit grew in February with outlays surging as annual tax-filing season kicked into gear and interest costs on the national debt kept rising, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
The deficit last month was $296 billion, 13% larger than the $262 billion shortfall in February 2023.
Outlays for the month grew 8% to $567 billion – a record for the month – while receipts rose 3% to $271 billion.
For the first five months of the fiscal year, the deficit rose by $106 billion, or 15%, to $828 billion as interest costs on the national debt rose.
The Treasury said both receipts and outlays were records on a year-to-date basis, with receipts up 7% to $1.856 trillion, and outlays up 9% to $2.684 trillion.
Individual tax refunds, which are deducted from receipts, were $58 billion, up 11% from 12 months earlier.
Interest expenses on the $26 trillion national debt continue to grow rapidly, with debt-servicing costs up 67% from February 2023 to $76 billion, a record for the month.
On a year-to-date basis, interest on the public debt rose 41% to $433 billion and for the first five months of the fiscal year was exceeded only by Social Security in individual line item expenses.
The weighted-average interest rate on Treasury securities rose to 3.2% in February from 2.52% a year ago and 3.15% in January.
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And the rise in the weighted-average interest rate on Treasury securities which is taking debt servicing costs ever higher is directly related to the adverse impacts of BORROW-AND-SPEND BIDE-O-NOMICS.
Which brings us to time for a break for station identification, but don’t go away and don’t touch that dial, because we shall we right back with more of the story of ho0w one man named Jospeh Robinette Biden, Junior is doing the seemingly impossible by single-handedly destroying America in just one presidential term.
Paul Plante says
Never in my life have I seen such a carnival of buncombe as is this Biden administration, which is a toxic mixture of stunned confusion and bewildered confusion blended with a dollop of dumbfounded confusion thrown in for flavor to create the disjointed tangle that is the administration of American dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the very first Biden ever to achieve world-class ****-up status as has our Joe.
Consider that just the other night, on 7 March 2024, an angry and vitriolic Joe Biden used his State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of the 118th US Congress to start his re- election campaign in earnest, telling us as follows about how truly great a person Joe Biden really is compared to anyone else you might mention, and how great his BIDE-O-NOMICS is for America and the American people, as follows:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
Unemployment at 50-year lows.
A record 16 million Americans are starting small businesses, and each one is a literal act of hope, with historic job growth and small-business growth for Black and Hispanics and Asian Americans.
Eight hundred thousand new manufacturing jobs in America and counting.
Where is it written we can’t be the manufacturing capital of the world?
We are and we will.
Wages keep going up.
Inflation keeps coming down.
Inflation has dropped from 9 percent to 3 percent — the lowest in the world and [trending] lower.
The landing is and will be soft.
And now, instead of — importing foreign products and exporting American jobs, we’re exporting American products and creating American jobs — right here in America, where they belong.
And it takes time, but the American people are beginning to feel it.
Consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring.
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But is any of that true?
For example, Joe tells us that now, our economy is literally the envy of the world, but if that were truly the case, how then can Joe reconcile that claim of his with a Reuters story titled “Fed report says small businesses faced financial, inflation challenges in 2023” by Michael S. Derby on March 7, 2024, where we have as follows with respect to the problems BIDE-O-NOMICS is causing small business owners in America, to wit:
March 7 (Reuters) – Small business continued to recover last year from the hit they took for the pandemic while facing financial challenges tied to higher interest rates and still hard-to-find workers, according to a report released Thursday by the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks.
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Higher interest rates are as a direct result of BIDENFLATION caused by PROFLIGATE BORROW-BIG-AND-SPEND_MASSIVELY BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“A majority of firms said that higher interest rates were affecting their business in some way, most often in the form of increased debt payments,” according to the latest Small Business Credit Survey, with it adding “firms experienced challenges with rising costs and paying operating expenses in the year leading up to the survey.”
The report, released by the Cleveland Fed, was based on a survey of just over 6,000 firms with fewer than 500 employees, conducted between September and November last year.
The survey horizon captured firms’ sentiments in the wake of what had been a very aggressive campaign of central bank rate rises aimed at cooling inflation.
Those actions lifted the central bank’s target rate range from near zero levels in the spring of 2022 to the current setting of between 5.25% and 5.5% with the July hike.
The report found that almost all responding firms faced financial challenges last year, with the most common issue being tied to rising costs for goods and services as well as higher wages.
That said, some 77% of firms flagged rising costs as a problem, which was down from 81% who said the same thing in 2022.
In terms of debt, the report found that last year the share of small businesses with outstanding debt held steady, but those who borrowed had more debt to manage.
The report said 39% of firms had more than $100,000 in outstanding debt, up from 31% who were in the same position in 2019.
The report also said 34% of respondents said making debt payments was a challenge and 54% of firms tied higher rates to increased debt costs.
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On March 7, 2024, we had an angry Joe Biden, who might have been exhibiting what is known as “‘ROID RAGE,” telling us that the “landing is and will be soft.”
Meanwhile, in a Fox Business News article titled “Janet Yellen warns inflation decline might not be ‘smooth'” by Megan Henney and Edward Lawrence on March 13, 2024, we had Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen seemingly singing a different song, to wit:
EXCLUSIVE: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that inflation could face a bumpy return to normal after back-to-back reports showed that price pressures within the U.S. economy rebounded at the start of the year.
In a sit-down interview with FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence, Yellen pushed back against stagflation concerns and maintained that progress on inflation has not stalled.
“I wouldn’t expect this to be a smooth path month to month, but the trend is clearly favorable,” she said.
“That said, President Biden’s top priority is addressing the issue of high costs that concerns so many Americans.”
Prices for everything including groceries, new cars and health insurance surged in 2021 and 2022 as the result of rampant inflation, which was caused by pandemic-induced disruptions in the global supply chain, an extremely tight labor market and increased consumer demand fueled in part by stimulus cash.
While inflation has fallen considerably from a peak of 9.1% notched during June 2022, it remains above the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal.
And when compared with January 2021, shortly before the inflation crisis began, prices are up a stunning 18.49%.
High inflation has created severe financial pressures for most U.S. households, which are forced to pay more for everyday necessities like food and rent.
The burden is disproportionately borne by low-income Americans, whose already-stretched paychecks are heavily affected by price fluctuations.
Progress on inflation has largely flatlined since June, with the consumer price index hovering at or above 3% for the past nine months, stoking concerns on Wall Street over the possibility of “stagflation.”
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And in an article in The Hill titled “Yellen says she regrets saying inflation was ‘transitory’” by Taylor Giorno on March 13, 2024, we had this same “TOODLES: Yellen crying the blues about being wrong as wrong could be about inflation back in 2021, as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she regrets describing inflation in 2021 as “transitory,” the term several Federal Reserve and Biden administration officials used to describe the pandemic-induced price surges they initially thought would be temporary.
“I regret saying it was transitory.”
“It has come down.”
“But I think transitory means a few weeks or months to most people,” Yellen said during an interview with FOX Business Network’s Edward Lawrence on Monday.
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As to Joe Biden’s “soft landing, that article tells us as follows:
The runway for the soft landing may be a bit bumpy as inflation is proving to be stickier than usual, but Yellen, a former Fed chair, was optimistic about the overall downward trend in price pressures.
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So, is the landing soft as Joe tells us it is?
Should we believe him because he is the president?
And then Joe told us on March 7, 2024 that now, instead of importing foreign products and exporting American jobs, we’re exporting American products and creating American jobs right here in America, where they belong.
So, okay, Joe, but then, dude, what about a Reuters story titled “US trade deficit widens in January on imports” on March 7, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in January amid a jump in goods imports, a trend that if it persists could see trade subtracting from economic growth this quarter.
The trade deficit increased 5.1% to $67.4 billion, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Thursday.
Data for November was revised to show the trade gap rising to $64.2 billion instead of $62.2 billion as previously reported.
Imports increased 1.1% to $324.6 billion in January.
Goods imports shot up 1.2% to $263.4 billion.
Imports of capital goods as well as those of motor vehicles parts and engines were the highest on record, which bodes well for business investment on equipment.
Services imports rose $0.5 billion to an all-time high of $61.3 billion.
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So, what is up with that, people?
Is Joe, at his best nothing more than a bumfuzzled fopdoodle and throttlebottom, getting his signals crossed here, or something?
Is he confusing imports for exports?
Does he even know the difference between the two?
And then Joe told us that he personally and singlehandedly created fifteen million new jobs in just three years, which he says is a record, a record, just to make his point clear, which takes us to a CNBC article titled “U.S. job growth totaled 275,000 in February but unemployment rate rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on March 8, 2024, where we have this look at where those jobs Joe says he created really are, to wit:
Job creation skewed toward part-time positions.
Full-time jobs decreased by 187,000 while part-time employment rose by 51,000, according to the household survey.
From a sector standpoint, health care led with 67,000 new jobs.
Government again was a big contributor, with 52,000, while restaurants and bars added 42,000 and social assistance increased by 24,000.
Other gainers included construction (23,000), transportation and warehousing (20,000) and retail (19,000).
Most recently, companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and SAP have announced substantial reductions in their workforces.
Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said this was the worst February for layoff announcements since 2009, in the late days of the global financial crisis.
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So where, oh where, are all these high-paying manufacturing jobs Joe is talking about creating?
And what about Joe saying that consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring?
If that is so, and it must be, because Joe Biden said it, and Joe afterall is the president, and the president is never wrong, because he is always right, then what about this Reuters article titled “NY Fed: Consumer outlook on longer-term inflation hit snag in February” by Michael S. Derby on March 11, 2024, to wit:
NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) – The public’s expectations around the longer-run trajectory of inflation deteriorated in February, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.
The deterioration in longer-run inflation expectations is likely to unsettle Federal Reserve officials, who are now in the preparation phase for their March 19-20 Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
Fed officials believe that where the public expects inflation to go strongly influences where it stands today.
They’ve repeatedly flagged the relative stability of longer-term expectations as a reason they are confident inflation will return to the target.
Officials have also warned the road to lower inflation will likely be uneven and bumpy.
Some recent inflation data has proven stronger-than-expected, which may have influenced the recent round of expectations data.
Respondents were a little more downbeat on job market prospects and said last month that their views on credit access had also sagged.
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So, is consumer confidence really soaring, people?
Or is this simply more empty BIDEN BOBAUNCE intended to gull the weak-witted in America and the easily fooled?
Think about it, because November is on its way!
Paul Plante says
And yes, people, disjointed, and indeed, demented, as in the demented Biden administration policies are not well connected or well ordered, and therefore are often confusing as we see in a Reuters article titled “Yellen says US moving to ensure domestic EV maker success despite China’s exports” by David Lawder on March 13, 2024, where we have this drivel from Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen to consider, to wit:
ELIZABETHTOWN, Kentucky, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday said President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to ensure the success of its domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry in the face of China’s growing exports in the sector and heavy government subsidies.
Asked whether the United States needs new tariffs on Chinese EVs, Yellen told reporters at a new battery materials plant in Kentucky: “I don’t want to get ahead of where we are, but it is a commitment that President Biden has made … that we’re going to want our domestic industry to be successful.”
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And with those statements from “TOODLES,” here we are, back to BIDE-O-NISM, Joe’s COMMAND ECONOMY, out of which comes BIDE-O-NOMICS, and its related BIDENFLATION, and by way of review, a “Command economy” or “Communist economy,” also known as a “Central Planned Economy” is an economy where decisions on what to produce, how to produce and for whom are taken by the government in a centrally managed bureaucracy.
For those of us with memories that extend farther back in time than just a few minutes ago, we recall that the Soviet Union often announced ‘5-year plans’ where targets for steel production would be created, and as we learned in 7th grade social studies, in the period 1928-40 and after the Second World War, these Five-year plans were very successful in terms of expanding the Soviet Union’s industrial production, so that for a period, the Soviet Union achieved very rapid rates of economic growth.
However, by the 1960s, the system was struggling with corruption, inefficiency and a lack of incentives, and the rapid economic growth of the Stalin years also occurred against a backdrop of political repression.
As to the problems we can expect from BIDE-O-NISM, Joe Biden’s Americanized version of STALINISM in the Soviet Union, they are as follows:
* Governments are poor at predicting future trends.
* Inflexible. Difficult to respond to shortages and surpluses
* Greater scope for corruption
* Planned economies often associated with greater political repression
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As to Joe taking steps to ensure the success of his government-subsidized domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry, consider the Reuters article titled “EV start-up Fisker prepares for possible bankruptcy filing, WSJ reports” on March 13, 2024, where we have a hurdle for Joe to overcome if he wants his government-subsidized domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry to be successful, to wit:
March 13 (Reuters) – Electric-vehicle start-up Fisker has hired restructuring advisers to assist with a possible bankruptcy filing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Earlier this month, Fisker flagged going-concern risks, job cuts and a pause in investments into future projects until it secures a partnership with a manufacturer.
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As those with memories will recall, this is the second time Fisker is going bankrupt, with Joe Biden having been its chief cheerleader the last time around.
But Joe’s problems don’t stop there, and as proof that Joe’s government is as poor at predicting future trends as any other fourth-rate banana republic, all we need do is go to a Reuters article titled “Lucid forecasts annual vehicle production below estimates” on February 21, 2024, where we have as follows:
Feb 21 (Reuters) – Lucid Group forecast annual vehicle production far below analysts’ estimates on Wednesday, on signs that demand for its luxury electric vehicles will slow down as high interest rates pinch consumer budgets.
Shares of the company fell around 5% in extended trading.
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And those high interest rates killing Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM are caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The company expects to make 9,000 units for the full-year 2024 compared with estimates of 22,594 according to five analysts polled by Visible Alpha.
The company made 8,428 vehicles in 2023.
The Saudi Arabia-backed company took to slashing prices once more for its Air sedans last week to counter sagging demand at a time when the EV industry is seeing a slowdown.
The company also missed estimates for fourth-quarter revenue hit by a slowdown in deliveries as consumers grapple with high costs.
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And they are not the only getting hurt by BIDE-O-NOMICS, as we see from another Reuters article titled “Rivian cuts jobs, sees annual production below estimates” on February 21, 2024, to wit:
Feb 21 (Reuters) – Rivian said on Wednesday it would cut its workforce by 10% and forecast EV production this year that widely missed estimates, hurt by downtime for factory upgrades and slowing demand for electric vehicles due to high interest rates.
Shares of the company tumbled about 17% in extended trading after Rivian said it expects to produce 57,000 vehicles in 2024, well below estimates of 81,700 units, according to eight analysts polled by Visible Alpha.
It produced 57,232 vehicles last year.
“We firmly believe in the full electrification of the automotive industry, but recognize in the short-term, the challenging macro-economic conditions,” CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement on Wednesday.
Amazon.com-backed Rivian has been burning through cash to ramp up production of its R1S SUV and R1T pickup trucks as it spends on building a new factory in Georgia and loses thousands of dollars on every vehicle it builds.
The company’s cash burn comes at a time when demand for EVs has slowed, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk warning that high interest rates are making cars unaffordable.
After shying away from reducing the price of its vehicles last year despite a price war sparked by Tesla, Rivian this month cut the price of its R1T pickup trucks and R1S SUVs by $3,100.
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And then Bloomberg puts the icing on the cake in a story titled “Investors Flee Tumbling EV Upstarts Once Hailed as ‘Next Tesla’” by Esha Dey on February 25, 2024, where we have as follows with respect to Joe Biden’s COMMAND ECONOMY, to wit:
(Bloomberg) — There was a time when the backing of some of the world’s deepest pockets and the mere ambition to sell electric cars was enough to inspire confidence in the stocks of upstarts Rivian Automotive Inc. and Lucid Group Inc.
Now investors have all but thrown in the towel on the shares.
All it took was a fresh dose of reality from the two companies this week around cooling demand for EVs.
Rivian, which makes electric pickups, SUVs and delivery vans and counts Amazon.com Inc. as its top shareholder, said its production will stay flat at last year’s levels.
It also announced plans to shrink its workforce again.
Lucid, majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, projected only a slight increase in output over 2023.
Both forecasts fell far short of analysts’ expectations.
For investors, the sense of gloom has been building since October, when Tesla Inc. warned of sagging interest in EVs.
Though shares of the EV giant have fared poorly since then, losing around 20% and massively underperforming the broader market, the impact on smaller rivals like Rivian and Lucid has been nothing short of disastrous.
Shares of Irvine, California-based Rivian are down by about 44% since Tesla’s October warning — the first in a series of grim outlooks from global EV-makers and suppliers — and closed Friday at a record low.
Newark, California-based Lucid has dropped some 33% in the same period, and isn’t far above its own nadir.
Still, had it not been for their wealthy backers — Amazon has a 17% stake in Rivian, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund holds roughly 60% of Lucid, data compiled by Bloomberg show — the stocks could be looking far uglier.
“The presence of these names is a comfort to investors and a cushion to the price,” Mazza said.
“If these stocks were just relying on the EV hype, then they will be down much worse.”
Overall, the biggest concern is that these cash-burning, unprofitable companies will struggle to sell cars at a time when even industry-leader Tesla — by far the biggest seller in the US market — is cutting prices to boost demand.
And while Tesla’s profits and large-scale production allow it to compete by lowering prices, Rivian and Lucid have neither of those advantages.
“For these car manufacturers, investors want to see demand,” said David Wagner, portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors.
Rivian’s latest results suggest it will take several quarters to emerge from its production stoppage with a leaner cost structure and a redesigned platform, he said.
“In the meantime, I think skeptics will be scrutinizing the cash balance and ringing alarm bells,” Wagner said.
“So if there is no multiple expansion and no growth — what else is the stock supposed to do?”
Both Rivian and Lucid are now worth a fraction of the prices they fetched at their public-market debuts in 2021.
Rivian’s market value is around $9.6 billion, and Lucid’s is about $6.9 billion.
That’s a long way down from their $153 billion and $91 billion valuation peaks, respectively, in 2021.
Wall Street analysts are losing confidence as well.
Analysts’ average 12-month price targets for Rivian and Lucid fell nearly 20% just this week.
Meanwhile, the outlook for EVs broadly just keeps getting worse.
Global sales of EVs are estimated to grow 20% this year, to about 16.7 million units, according to BloombergNEF’s most recent analysis.
That’s a marked cooling from the 33% jump seen in 2023.
“Trying to be the ‘next Tesla’ is turning out to be an expensive strategy,” Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note Friday.
“As EV startups turn into restructuring stories, whoever finds a sponsor has the best chance.”
Paul Plante says
To put where we are today in America with respect to what passes for national politics in some kind of rational and logical perspective, notwithstanding these are hardly logical and/or rational times we find ourselves immersed in, with an angry and ranting Joe Biden in the white house, an autocrat cut from the same cloth as Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Joe Stalin of the old Soviet Union, or Idi Amin of Uganda, who reportedly boasted that he kept the decapitated heads of political enemies in his freezer, although he said that human flesh was generally “too salty” for his taste, I would like to cut to an on-line publication called Reason and Meaning and an article titled “H. L. Mencken: On Politics (Bayard vs. Lionheart),” a political essay written on July 26, 1920 by Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), who was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English who commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements in his time, in that case, nine years before the Wall Street Crash that led to the GREAT DEPRESSION, where we start with the famous quote of his one hundred four years ago which describes to a TEE where we are with Joe Biden adorning the white house today, to wit:
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“We move toward a lofty ideal.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H. L. Mencken
And that takes us to the article, which begins as follows:
Henry Louis Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
Known as the “Sage of Baltimore,” he was one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century.
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I have to confess here that Mencken is high up on my list of political commentators, and I am unaware of any today who have his insight into politics, politicians themselves, and how the game of politics is played, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
On July 26, 1920, Mencken published an op-ed in the Baltimore Evening Sun titled “Bayard vs. Lionheart,” which was later included in a volume of his essays: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe.
Mencken’s essay ponders how it is that political candidates are so often the worst of people—without honor or conviction.
As Mencken puts it:
“It is not often, in these later days of the democratic enlightenment, that positive merit lands a man in elective office in the United States; much more often it is a negative merit that gets him there.”
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And keep in mind that he was writing those words in 1920, and one hundred four years later, with Joe Biden in the white house, they are as true now as they were back then, which again takes us back to the article for more, to wit:
One of the main reasons that the voters often choose the worst people to lead them is that the masses fear thoughtful people, people with deep and sophisticated ideas:
“In the face of this singular passion for conformity, this dread of novelty and originality, it is obvious that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life.”
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Today, one hundred four years later, we don’t find that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life.
To the contrary, we find that they don’t even get in, which again takes us back to the article, to wit:
And the voters have themselves to blame for the incompetent and immoral people they choose for public office.
Voters are:
“… unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob emotions.”
“… when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. …”
“The larger the mob, the harder the test.”
“In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by the force of his personality.”
“But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.”
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Today, in our times, that man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum is named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and because of that, not only have we been stuck with him and his fiscal profligacy in the white house, but we are seriously threatened with four more years, which takes us to the rest of the Mencken quote above, to wit:
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men.”
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“We move toward a lofty ideal.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Which takes us back to the author’s conclusion on November 29, 2016, to wit:
To be honest, I think that it is every bit as much moral vice as intellectual vice that will doom the American empire in our present moment.
I truly fear that we are moving to an even more more fascist, plutocratic state than the one we are already in.
I hope I’m wrong.
But it is hard just so hard to see how the situation will change without radical intellectual and moral enhancement of human beings.
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Keeping in mind that that was written eight years ago in 2026, with our gift of hindsight, we can truthfully say that the even more fascist, plutocratic state than the one we were in then came to Washington, D.C. in January of 2021 when Joe Biden was installed as president, and lo and behold, here we are today!
Paul Plante says
And now that the momentous occasion of what hopefully will be Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address has come and gone, and I have had ample time to go through the transcript word for word for word, let’s go back to February 20, 2024, and a Fox News article titled “Biden campaign aims to use State of the Union address as reset after damning Special Counsel claims: Report” by Nikolas Lanum, where we have this insight into Joe’s political thinking going into the BIG EVENT, much like having been able to interview Travis Kelce before the Superbowl to find out if having Taylor Swift in the audience would make him a nervous fumblefingers, or like Joe, could he “man up” and deal with it, or a chat with Muhammad Ali before the “RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE” on October 30, 1974 when boxer Muhammad Ali, nicknamed “The Greatest,” reclaimed the word heavyweight title by winning the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:.
Officials close to President Biden believe the upcoming State of the Union address could be an opportunity to reset or “neutralize” public perceptions about his age and memory before the November election.
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And good luck with that, say I, because in an article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, all that prep work to try and make Joe Biden out as something he isn’t with a blustery and windy speech devoid of any actual intellectual content failed to move the needle, on bit, to wit:
It is hard to exaggerate the psychological boost Democrats derived from Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address.
Fears that Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail — or worse yet, hide from voters — were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness.
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And believe me, people are wondering where SLEEPY JOE Biden who is rumored to fall asleep face first in his mashed potatoes and peas after six o’clock at night, got that fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness from!
Is Old Joe doing like Sweet Jane, living On Reds, Vitamin C And Cocaine, and some steroids thrown in to induce some “ROID RAGE” in Joe, long with massive hits of Viagra to make Joe look virile and studly?
Going back to that POST-GAME ANALYSIS, it goes on as follows:
His team’s strategy for winning in November was on full display as the president chipped away at public skepticism about his record and identified Republicans with deeply unpopular policy positions and their deeply unpopular nominee.
But while the State of the Union did wonders for Democratic optimism, there’s simply not much evidence that it changed many minds about Joe Biden’s job performance or flipped many votes from Republican to Democrat.
The president’s job-approval ratings remain subpar.
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And with that POST-GAME analysis before us, and the reality it represents, let’s go back to the locker room pre-game for more on what TEAM BIDEN was thinking before having Joe, their CHAMPION, go into the arena, to wit:
According to a Monday report from Axios, Biden’s allies plan to spend hours on the text of his speech as well as the president’s physical preparation to turn the prime-time address into a campaign victory.
“Everyone around him is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden said.
“The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [criticizing Biden’s memory] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”
Biden officials are hoping that the public response to the address will be similar to last year, when the president claimed that Republicans aimed to cut Social Security and Medicare programs.
Plans to re-energize Biden’s 2024 campaign follow the recent Hur report, which investigated the president’s handling of classified documents, after the prosecutor, in his final report, noted that Biden struggled to remember details such as when his son died.
While Hur’s report decided not to prosecute Biden for criminal wrongdoing, it characterized the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and led to a flurry of questions from reporters and commentary from left-leaning pundits.
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Which takes us to an analysis of the Hur Report in the Wall Street Journal titled “Opinion | ‘My Memory Is Fine’: Another Unforgettable Denial of Reality” by Gerard Baker on February 13, 2024, to wit:
“I am not a crook.”
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
A president denying reality is nothing new.
Sometimes it’s a self-protective lie.
Sometimes it’s a mangled emanation from the brain of a tired leader.
Sometimes it’s a contorted verbal formula to convince the rest of us that our perception of obvious truths is somehow false.
It rarely works.
On each of these occasions, the incumbent president failed to convince anyone, and in each case the political plight that prompted the denial in the first place helped ensure that his party lost the next presidential election.
“My memory is fine” looks set to join these presidential protestations as verbal monuments to futility.
The intensity of the denials by the White House and its allies of last week’s devastatingly succinct description of the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory “ by special counsel Robert Hur is proof that they know it’s true.
The surest testimony to the accuracy of Mr. Hur’s assessment is that they reserved their greatest ire not for the description itself, but for his temerity in writing it.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, told CBS on Sunday that the special counsel’s 388-page report was a “really shabby work product and completely out of bounds for a prosecutor.”
But for political purposes, whether Mr. Hur took liberties with his brief by waxing about Mr. Biden’s mental faculties is immaterial.
The president’s handlers make clear by their behavior that they know it to be true as well as the public does.
Mr. Biden has held fewer press conferences and given fewer interviews than any president since Reagan.
For the second year in a row he skipped the traditional Super Bowl interview, usually a soft pass tossed this way so he can spike the ball in the end zone in front of more than 100 million Americans.
The leader of the free world is a fragile ornament, wrapped in cotton wool, protected by aides from falls and gaffes, sheltered by staff (and in Mr. Biden’s case by much of the media) from accountability, gently cocooned from the risk of doing or saying anything he can’t control.
This amounts to a fraud on the American public.
But it’s an inescapable feature of reality denial that once you’ve started, you can’t stop.
Mr. Biden may not be able to remember names of foreign leaders dead or alive or place important countries on the right continent, but, like everyone who has ever run for the office, he still thinks he’s the right man for the job.
It would be a high-wire act to drop a presidential nominee on the voting public 11 weeks before Election Day.
Democrats would be asking many Americans to choose someone nominated two months before they vote.
No, the reality denial will have to continue for another nine months.
And then, four more years.
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Which brings us up to where we are today, which is on a downhill run with Joe Biden in power, but stay tuned, because the saga of Joe Biden is far from over, so don’t touch that dial!
Paul Plante says
Having studied the supposed political reasoning behind it, and having actually read through the transcript of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, in actuality, a poorly written political stump speech that had nothing to do with the actual state of the union, on March 7, 2024, I was reminded of a political essay by H.L. Mencken titled “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, where the “Sage of Baltimore” laid down the “rules” that govern the preparation and content of political speeches not only in his time, but in our times today, since those rules for what should be or should not be included in a political speech are inflexible and unchanging, as we shall see by examining the evidence, starting with the Mencken essay, to wit:
On the question of the logical content of Dr. Harding’s harangue of last Friday I do not presume to have views.
The matter has been debated at great length by the editorial writers of the Republic, all of them experts in logic; moreover, I confess to being prejudiced.
But when it comes to the style of a great man’s discourse, I can speak with a great deal less prejudice, and maybe with somewhat more competence, for I have earned most of my livelihood for twenty years past by translating the bad English of a multitude of authors into measurably better English.
Thus qualified professionally, I rise to pay my small tribute to Dr. Harding.
Setting aside a college professor or two and half a dozen dipsomaniacal newspaper reporters, he takes the first place in my Valhalla of literati.
That is to say, he writes the worst English I have even encountered.
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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And it is the same today with Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU which indeed reminded me not only of stale bean-soup, but especially, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
As Mencken said on March 7, 1921, it is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it, and these words written then, in 1921, about a speech by Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Ohio Republican who was the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923) and whose term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, apply equally well today about Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU. and well they should, since Joe’s SOTU followed this same formula laid down some one hundred years or more ago, to wit:
It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
It is rumble and bumble.
It is flap and doodle.
It is balder and dash.
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And yes, people, those are the main ingredients needed for a successful political speech by an American president today in our times. as we all witnessed on March 7, 2024 when a visibly angry (“ROID RAGE”?) and clearly agitated Joe Biden delivered his bombastic SOTU, only omitting mention of E PLURIBUS UNUM, and ENDEAVOR TO PERSEVERE, whi8chy takes us back to a short history of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today.
With resp0ect to Harding, in a 1948 poll conducted by Harvard University, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. conducted a survey of scholars’ opinions of the presidents, ranking Harding last among the 29 presidents considered.
As to Harding’s windy speeches, the style of which Joe Biden has adopted as his own today, before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality….”
A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding’s speeches “an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.”
So too today with Joe Biden’s speeches and especially his SOTU, which was full of empty platitudes but totally devoid of actual intellectual content, to wit:
“Folks, America cannot go back.”
“I am here to- — tonight to show what I believe is the way forward, because I know how far we’ve come.”
Uh, okay, sure, Joe, whatever you say!
“Turning setback into comeback.”
“That’s what America does.”
“That’s what America does.”
Ah, the inspiration pours forth!
“I say to the American people: When America gets knocked down, we get back up.”
“We keep going.”
“That’s America.”
“That’s you, the American people.”
“It’s because of you America is coming back.”
“It’s because of you our future is brighter.”
“It’s because of you that tonight we can proudly say the state of our Union is strong and getting stronger.”
That, people is a pure example of political rhetoric dragging itself out of the dark abysm of pish, as it crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
That is rumble and bumble combined with flap and doodle with the right amount of balder and dash mixed in to make it all absolute political hogwash.
Going back to Harding, he born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, and became the publisher of a newspaper.
Harding’s undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics.
He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor.
He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention.
In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, which he found “a very pleasant place.”
An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained, “He looked like a President.”
Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the 1920 Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding.
He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote.
Republicans in Congress easily got the President’s signature on their bills.
By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise – “Less government in business and more business in government.”
Behind the facade, not all of Harding’s Administration was so impressive.
Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment.
Alarmed, he complained, “My…friends…they’re the ones that keep me walking the floors nights!”
Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of 1923, taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.
“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration,” he asked Hoover, “would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?”
Hoover urged publishing it, but Harding feared the political repercussions.
He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration.
In August of 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack.
And with that history stated, let’s cut to a break for station identification and an INFOMERCIAL starring Hillary Clinton pitching THIGH MASTERS and SHAMWOWS, but don’t touch that dial, because when the INFOMERCIAL is over, we will be back with more, so stay tuned!
Paul Plante says
It is well known in our times today that reading, as I do on a daily basis, consistently improves concentration and critical thinking skills while strengthening brain network connectivity, so that when I am reading the transcript of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU, and come across bombastic (forceful and confident in a way that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect) drivel from Joe such as “Above all, I see a future for all Americans; I see a country for all Americans; And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America,” it is those critical thinking skills that have me saying, WTF, this man is an idiotic lunatic!
Above all, Joe Biden sees a future for all Americans?
Oh, really!
I wonder what he has in store for me?
And Joe sees a country for all Americans?
I mean, seriously, people, how can you take this **** seriously and consider it to be even remotely “presidential” in nature, or related in any way to the actual state of the union, which was what Joe was supposed to be there to talk about, but mended up- way wide of the mark.
And then there is this Biden-esque verbal gem, to wit:
“And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America.”
Now, seriously, people, doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourselves and all warm and squishy inside hearing Joe crooning those words in your ear in dulcet, mellifluous and euphonious tones?
And of course it does.
But who is Joe trying to kid there?
Joe Biden is not President for all Americans; he has never been President for all Americans; and he never will be President for all Americans, and that is an indisputable fact.
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we clearly see from a Daily Wire article titled “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl on September 17, 2018, where we have the real Joe Biden standing up and being heard as he bellowed and blustered about Trump supporters, to wit:
Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.
Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.
And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.
“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.
“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
“This time they have an ally.”
“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
“And instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice, dignity, safety for all, the president uses the White House as the literal — literal — bully pulpit, callously — callously — exerting his power over those who have little or none.”
Biden got himself lathered up into a full froth as he waxed poetic about his and “Barack’s” thoughts on Trump.
“Barack and I agreed to remain silent for a while to give this administration the chance to get up and running in the first year,” Biden said.
“God forgive me,” he added, making the sign of the cross as the audience applauded.
“Those who try to excuse this kind of prejudice in the name of culture, I say, ‘Prejudice is prejudice and humanity is humanity — it is a crime,'” Biden said, urging those in the room to continue to oppose Trump.
“Our work is not yet done by any stretch of the imagination.”
“The stakes are much too high.”
And then he went even further.
“This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America’s soul,” Biden said.
Biden’s wife, Jill, also got in on the act before introducing her husband.
“There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully.”
“There’s nothing that’s more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn’t belong,” she said.
“There is nothing that makes us want to pick a fight more than that,” she said.
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And with those words from “CREEPY JILL” Biden before us, it is again time to cut to a break for station identification and when we will get back we will have H. L. Mencken telling us about the inner secrets, the Zen, if you will, or Tao, of good political speech writing, to wit:
But I grow lyrical.
More scientifically, what is the matter with it?
Why does it seem so flabby, so banal, so confused and childish, so stupidly at war with sense?
If you first read the inaugural address and then heard it intoned, as I did (at least in part), then you will perhaps arrive at an answer.
That answer is very simple.
When Dr. Harding (president Warren G. Harding) prepares a speech he does not think of it in terms of an educated reader locked up in jail, but in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand.
That is to say, the thing is always a stump speech; it is conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech.
More, it is a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that the speaker has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
Such imbeciles do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures.
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And gestures Joe Biden has by the bushel basket full as he gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so stay tuned.
Paul Plante says
So, going back to the article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, where we were told that Democrat fears that Joe Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness on March 7, 2024 when Joe delivered his political stump speech misnamed as a State of the Union address, which it clearly was not, not having anything whatsoever to actually do with the actual state of the union, which is hardly strong with Joe Biden in power, we see Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today, so that like president Harding, when Joe and his handlers prepare a speech, they too think of it in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand upon which Joe Biden rises high above the assembled crowd and gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so that in Joe’s style, like that of Gamaliel before him, there is pressure, ardency, effortcy, gasping, a high grunting, Cheyne-Stokes breathing.
Like that of Warren G. Harding, Joe Biden has a style that rolls and groans, struggles and complains, the style of a rhinoceros liberating himself by main strength from a lake of boiling molasses, as Mencken said of Harding in the political essay “A Short View of Gamalielese” in The Nation on April 27, 1921.
As with Harding, a speech by Joe Biden on anything, about anything, or about a lot of nothing, as far as that goes, is always a stump speech conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that Joe Biden has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
As was the case with Harding and remains the case today with Joe Biden, twin sons of different mothers at least as far as political speeches are concerned, such imbeciles as can sit or stand through a speech delivered by Joe Biden do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures, such as the following concluding words from Joe Biden’s fake SOTU on March 7,k 2024, to wit:
I believe in you, the American people.
You’re the reason we’ve never been more optimistic about our future than I am now.
So, let’s build the future together.
Let’s remember who we are.
We are the United States of America.
And there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
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And doesn’t that just warm the cockles of your hearts, people, to know that an American president, with all his cares and worries, still has time to believe in YOU, and he wants you to know that you’re the reason Joe and “CREEPY JILL,” who husband Joe is, have never been more optimistic about our future than Joe and “CREEPY JILL” are now?
And going back to Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula for political speeches laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, Joe and his handlers know that Joe’s followers can’t understand many words of more than two syllables, but that is not saying that they do not esteem such words.
On the contrary, as was the case when Harding was president, they like them and demand them, because the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, such as “to lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done,” enchants them, and they like phrases which thunder like salvos of artillery, such as “overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond.”
Yes, people, let that thunder sound, and Joe’s acolytes and followers will take all the rest on trust.
Quoting Mencken, because he got it right, if a sentence of Joe’s begins furiously and then peters out into fatuity, such as “my message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away; We will not bow down; I will not bow down,” Joe’s listeners are still satisfied, because if a phrase has a punch in it like that one does, they do not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word slips off the tongue like a ship going down the ways, such as “in a literal sense, history is watching,” they are content and applaud it and wait for the next.
As H.L. Mencken said in his essay “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, and it applies to a career hack politician like Joe Biden today, brought up amid such hinds, trained by long practice to engage and delight them, Dr. Harding carries his stump manner into everything he writes, as does Joe Biden today, and as was the case then, the stump speech, put into cold type such as the transcript of Joe’s SOTU that I read, maketh the judicious to grieve, but roared from an actual stump, or a metapho9rical stump in the case of Joe’s SOTU on March 7, 2034, with arms flying and eyes flashing and the old flag overhead, it is certainly and brilliantly effective.
Read Joe’s SOTU and it will gag you, as it did me.
But hear it recited with grand gestures to ram home its periods, and you will begin to understand it, keeping well in mind that a tight fabric of ideas would weary and exasperate Joe’s audience because what it wants, and what Joe delivered with his SOTU on March 7, 2024, is a simple loud burble of words, a procession of phrases that roar, a series of whoops.
And here once again, we will take a break for station identification while we cut to a Youtube video of Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea giving us a preview of what to expect from an upcoming video of Hillary Clinton and Lauren Boebert performing “Booty” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , so stay tuned and we will be back with more.
Paul Plante says
Now, here is a relevant existential question for our exciting times today – is it possible that the text or script of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on March 7, 2024 was not written by actual humans, but was instead concocted by an ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE engine out of various bits and pieces of other political speeches in the long history of political speeches, not only in America, but everywhere in the world since the beginning of time, given that AI would “know” all that stuff, even if a mere human wouldn’t, plus AI would also have the added advantage of knowing the demographics of all the voters out there and especially their IQs, so that AI could then tailer the SOTU to the widest possible audience that could be depended on to waste its time watching and listening to a speech, any speech, by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior?
Having read the speech, I would have to say that it is a distinct possibility, anyway, not that it would change anything, of course, whether AI prepared the speech, or some humans, or a roomful of monkeys with typewriters, for that matter, because as far as SOTU’s go, it is indeed a lousy one which whether prepared by AI or humans presumes we are all of us too stupid to know the difference about anything, because Joe Biden and his followers all are.
For example, look at this hysterical and delusional horse**** from the beginning of Biden’s SOTU where he intoned in a sonorous voicc as follows:
“In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.”
“And he said, ‘I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.’”
“Hitler was on the march.”
“War was raging in Europe.”
“President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary time.”
“Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.”
“Tonight, I come to the same chamber to address the nation.”
“Now it’s we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.”
“And, yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.”
“Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today.”
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What hype, what blather, what cheap theatrics, because there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all “unprecedented” in this particular moment in the history of the Union, other than we are now stuck with Joe Biden in the white house, a serial liar who makes Lyndon Baines Johnson seem truthful by comparison.
And “SLEEPY JOE” Biden is going to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment?
Well, as for me, I’m already awake, and I have been awake for some long time now, and the last person I would listen to or believe about any moment in time would be Joe Biden.
And not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today?
Oh, really, Joe?
Do tell!
How about freedom and democracy are under assault at home because YOU are trying to make sure that you are the only name on the ballot for president come November!
And what makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack at — both at home and overseas at the very same time?
BULL****, Joe!
Ukraine, which Joe is the supporter and enabler of, is a FASCIST DICTATORSHIP, where there is NO FREEDOM OR DEMOCRACY, period!
Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
Putin is not “on the march” as senile and hysterical and delusional Joe says.
To the contrary, Putin of Russia isn’t marching anywhere because Putin of Russia is BOGGED DOWN in a quagmire called Ukraine.
And Putin of Russia is sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
YEAH, RIGHT, Joe!
Which brings us to this absoluteIy ridiculous statement from Joe, to wit: If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you: He will not.
Uh, okey dokey, Joe, you da man!
If you are saying it, it has to be true!
So, see what I am saying here about Biden thinking we are all stupid?
A person has to be totally brain-dead to believe a word of that Biden horse****, and that is a fact!
And that takes us back in time to April 27, 1921 and a political essay by H.L. Mencken in The Nation titled “A Short View of Gamalielese,” from which essay, if AI prepared Joe’s SOTU, it got its stylistic inspiration as follows, giving us what can now be called NEO-GAMALIELESE, or BIDENESE, to wit:
What else is there is the style.
It is the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse.
Its aim is to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration by giving it the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell.
The nuclear thought is not smothered in the process, as Democratic aesthetes argue, nor is it true that there is sometimes no nuclear thought at all.
It is always present, and nine times out of ten it is simple, obvious, and highly respectable.
But it lacks punch; it is devoid of any capacity to startle and scorch.
To give it the vigor and dignity that a great occasion demands it is carefully encased in those swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then, the charge being rammed home, it is discharged point-blank into the ears and cerebrums of Christendom.
Such is the Gamalian manner, the secret of the Gamalian style.
That style had its origin under circumstances that are surely not unknown to experts in politico-agrarian oratory.
It came to birth on the rustic stump, it developed to full growth among the chautauquas, and it got its final polishing in a small-town newspaper office.
In brief, it reflects admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience at which it was first aimed, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell.
Such an audience has no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas.
Of all ideas, indeed, it is suspicious, but it will at least tolerate those that it knows by long hearing, those that have come to the estate of platitudes, those that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases.
Above all, it distrusts perspicuity, for perspicuity is challenging and forces one to think, and hence lays a burden on the mind.
What it likes most of all is the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables — the more incomprehensible the better.
It wants to be bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech.
It wants to be entertained by orators who are manifestly superior — fellows whose discourse is so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it leaves them gasping.
Let the thunder sound, and it takes all else on trust.
If a sentence ends with a roar, it does not stop to inquire how it began.
If a phrase has punch, it does not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word stings, that is enough.
Trained to the service of such connoisseurs. Dr. Harding carries over the style that they admire into his traffic with the Congress, the effete intelligentsia, and the powers and principalities of Europe.
That style is based upon the simplest of principles.
For every idea there is what may be called a maximum investiture — a garb of words beyond which it is a sheer impossibility to go in gaudiness.
For every plain word there is a word four times as big.
The problem is to think the thing out in terms of harmless banality, to arrange a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then to translate them, one by one, into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power — to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice — to dignify the sense by all the arts of sorcery.
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And so, we have Joe Biden’s SOTU – terms of harmless banality arranged in a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then translated one by one into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice.
Paul Plante says
Now, with respect to Joe Biden’s misnamed “State of the Union” address on March 7, 2024, which address was nothing more than a poor combination of a predictable and boring political polemic (a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something) mixed up with a contrived jeremiad (a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; as in “the jeremiads of a puritan president like Joe Biden warning of moral decay and the loss of the soul of America if Donald Trump is elected instead of Joe Biden”), if we go to the Congressional Research Service website under “History, Evolution, and Practices of the President’s State of the Union Address: Frequently Asked Questions” updated January 12, 2018, what we find out about what a real, not faux as this one was, State of the Union address should consist of, as follows:
Summary
The State of the Union address is a communication from the President to Congress in which the
chief executive reports on the current condition of the United States and provides policy
proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
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Did Joe Biden actually do that on March 7, 2024, or even attempt to do that, report on the current condition of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year?
Of course not.
According to the White House transcript, this is how Joe started his show off on March 7, 2024, in what I consider to be a very belligerent (hostile and aggressive; as in “a bull-necked, belligerent old man”), condescending (having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority) and unpresidential manner, to wit:
(The President presents his prepared remarks to Speaker Johnson.)
Your bedtime reading.
Tony!
Thank you.
Looking for Jill.
Good evening.
Good evening.
If I were smart, I’d go home now.
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Your bedtime reading?
What a flippant and frankly childish thing for Joe Biden to say in a fit of pique (a feeling of anger, especially caused by someone damaging Joe Biden’s feeling of being proud of himself: as in Joe Biden stormed into the room in a fit of pique), where flippant behavior by Joe Biden on March 7, 2024 is defined as showing or having a rude attitude of not being serious esp. by trying to be amusing when most people expected Joe to be serious.
Going back to the SOTU itself, a real SOTU, not Joe Biden’s hollow mockery or pretend SOTU, the address originates in the Constitution (Article II, Section 3, clause 1), which requires that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
That, people, is what OUR Constitution says, but Joe Biden DOES NOT go by OUR Constitution, and so he just makes **** up as he goes, which takes us back to the Congressional Research Service, as follows, and this is quite relevant to the subject at hand, which is that Joe Biden’s SOTU wasn’t written to be read, but was instead the script for a cheap, televised drama show, to wit:
How Have Advances in Technology Affected the Address?
Advances in technology have dramatically affected the format, audience, and impact of the
address.
President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first annual message by radio broadcast, in
1923.
President Truman’s 1947 State of the Union message was the first to be broadcast by
television.
Free air time for the President’s message and the opposition response is currently
provided as a public service by commercial, public broadcast, and cable networks.
President George W. Bush’s 2002 address was the first to be streamed live from the White House website.
In his 2013 address, President Obama’s Administration produced an “enhanced broadcast” that
included infographics that accompanied his remarks.
Commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers, successive Presidents learned to use the occasion as an appeal to the nation; the message evolved from being a report to Congress to a direct address to the American people, a platform from which the President
announced, explained, and promoted his legislative agenda for the coming year.
In 1965, Lyndon Johnson changed the time of his address from the traditional mid-afternoon to 9:00 P.M., to better attract the largest number of television viewers.
The message traditionally draws a large audience:
President Obama averaged 38.7 million over the seven addresses he made.
The largest audience recorded in recent years was 66.9 million, for President Clinton’s 1993 Address to the Joint Sessions of Congress (not officially a State of the Union address), while Clinton’s 2000 address attracted the fewest viewers in recent times, at 31.5 million.
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So, despite what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service makes patently clear, the whole process has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the nation to the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7,k 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
So, whether AI prepared the text of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address or whether it was written by humans, it was prepared in the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse, the aim of the exercise being to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration (the solemn or emphatic declaration or statement of something, as in “I fear that Joe Biden offered only unsupported asseveration”), that being the hope and plea to reelect Joe Buden when he is the very last thing this nation needs four more years of, by giving Joe’s forlorn hope the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell, and following the formula laid down about a hundred years ago now by Warren G. Harding, to give Joe’s diatribe and political harangue on March 7, 2024 the vigor and dignity that what Joe Biden thought was a great occasion demanded of it, Joe’s polemic was carefully encased in swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then discharged point-blank from the roaring and thundering mouth of Joe Biden straight into the ears and cerebrums of so much (32.2 million people) of the candid world as had the stomach to watch the show, a show which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better, so that as was the case on March 7, 2024, the audience was bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech, so that the audience and media ended up being entertained by a fellow whose discourse was so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it left them gasping, as the Biden thunder sounded, and sentences ended with a roar.
Paul Plante says
So, think about this, people, as we consider the distinct possibility that Joe Biden’s entire SOTU performance, from the moment he came on stage as it were, to the rousing strains of “HAIL TO THE CHIEF,” which is what Joe Biden is in America, anyway, was scripted and directed not by human agency, but by AI, which everybody today who knows anything about anything knows is smarter that any human and knows way far more than a human could know in 20 or 30 lifetimes, how on March 7, 2024, when a visibly angry Joe Biden imperiously walked into the House Chamber of the U.S. Capital. where he is being impeached by his social and political inferiors, belligerent Joe, clearly looking for a fight, striding in as the conquering hero as if he were accoutered in Royal Purple with a golden torc around his bull neck, silver and gold arm rings adorning his massive arms, and a diadem around his brow, in a very surly mood, indeed, which captured the moment instantaneously and made the show all Joe Biden, for not only the people of America to see, but also the people and leaders of every dictatorship out there, and especially Putin of Russia, Xi of China, the dude in North Korea with the wild haircut, and the Houthis, who are using Joe Biden’s navy boats for target practice, that Joe Biden is the MAN THAT AM, somebody not to **** with if they know what’s good for them, a message as well for the Republicans as Joe tossed a copy to the speaker of the house as if tossing table scraps to a dog, telling him, “Your bedtime reading,” how all these many important separate and disparate little details, like Joe Biden’s all-important demeanor, that make or break a theatrical production, as someone with experience in the genre like Wayne Creed could well tell us, how difficult it is the make a theatrical production happen so seamlessly and flawlessly as this one did, that it does indeed smack of the first State of the Union address in America having been prepared by AI, and not human agency.
And what were the results of the experiment?
Let’s check the headlines from that evening and the following day to see:
AP News: Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump …
Spectrum News NY1: Biden lays out agenda in fiery State of the Union speech
U.S. News & World Report: Fiery Biden Takes on Trump in State of the Union Address
Reuters: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the …
France 24: Biden attacks Trump, defends democracy in fiery State of …
The Hill: Biden’s fiery State of the Union shows he’s miles ahead of ‘ …
CNBC: Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery …
BBC: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech
Washington Post: Biden delivers State of the Union with fiery political tone
ABC News: 7 takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union – ABC News
NBC News: Biden turns the State of the Union into a fiery campaign …
USA Today: Takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union
The New York Times: Biden Takes His Fiery State of the Union Pitch on the Road
Vanity Fair: Joe Biden Didn’t Mince Words for Republicans in Fiery …
CBS News: Biden hits campaign trail after fiery State of the Union address
YouTube · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
CBS News: California Republicans respond to Biden’s fiery State of the …
Le Monde.fr: Biden attacks Trump and warns US democracy at risk in …
NBC News: ‘Wake up’: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union
France 24: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery … – France 24
NBC4 Washington: State of the Union 2024: Biden delivers fiery …
KQED: 6 Key Takeaways From Biden’s Fiery State of the Union …
Washington Post: Biden campaigns in Pa. following feisty State of the Union …
FOX 2 Detroit: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union speech – FOX 2 Detroit
The Independent Record: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
The Bismarck Tribune: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
Financial Times: Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump on ‘democracy and …: Mar 7, 2024 — Joe Biden vowed to fight for “democracy and freedom” in the US and around the world in a fiery, unabashedly political speech to Congress in …
Facebook · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
Lincoln Journal Star: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
U.S. News & World Report: Biden’s Fiery State of the Union
FOX 11 Los Angeles: Biden delivers fiery SOTU address – FOX 11 Los Angeles
The Bay State Banner: President Biden lights up the chamber in fiery State of …
WFMJ.com: Biden delivers fiery state of the union
Albany Democrat-Herald: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
NJ Spotlight News: Biden takes on his ‘predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union …
So isn’t it interesting how universal, except a few instances where “feisty” was used instead, the use of the word “fiery” (emotional or easily made angry: as in “He’s known for his fiery temper”) was in all those headlines, as if coordinated.
And wha