Archive for 2022
November 6, 2022
ROBERT STEINBUCH: Live Free or DEI Hard.
JUST SWITCH PARTIES, DUDE, YOU’RE DEMEANING YOURSELF AS A DEMOCRAT: Joe Manchin demands Biden apologize for ‘offensive and disgusting’ coal comments.
“BENEATH HIM?” HAHAHAHA! Obama’s dishonest midterm pitch was beneath him. It wasn’t beneath him. It was him.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden Shouts “No More Drilling. There is no more drilling!” at New York Rally.
UPDATE: Biden accuses oil companies of ‘war profiteering’ & threatens windfall tax.
President Biden threatened on Monday to seek a new windfall profits tax on major oil and gas companies unless they ramp up production to curb the price of gasoline at the pump, an escalation of his battle with the energy industry just a week before the midterm elections.
—The New York Times, October 31st.
OPEN THREAD: Good evening. Please have a seat on the couch, someone will be with you shortly.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Astronomers have detected another ‘planet killer’ asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way? “As well as having a diameter greater than 1km, an asteroid also needs to have an orbit that crosses Earth’s to be considered potentially dangerous. In the case of 2022 AP7, any threat is centuries down the track. The important point is it has been detected and can now be tracked. This is the best possible outcome.”
I THINK ELON HAS GIVEN THE OTHER TECH COMPANIES COVER TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE: Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week – WSJ. “Facebook parent Meta in October forecasted a weak holiday quarter and significantly more costs next year wiping about $67 billion off Meta’s stock market value, adding to the more than half a trillion dollars in value already lost this year. The disappointing outlook comes as Meta is contending with slowing global economic growth, competition from TikTok, privacy changes from Apple, concerns about massive spending on the metaverse and the ever-present threat of regulation.”
Nobody at these companies has worried about unemployment for many years, and it shows in their behavior.
RELAX, THE CHANCE THAT YOUR LIFE WILL EVER BE SAVED BY A VEGAN OR A PHILOSOPHER IS TINY: Should you save a dying stranger if you know they eat MEAT? Oxford philosopher controversially argues that it can be ethical to let them die because of the suffering they cause to animals. Not enough grip strength in either group, generally speaking.
JOE BIDEN GOES UNDER THE BUS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, AND A NEW CONTENDER EMERGES: “The big challenge is what happens after that. How can Democrats possibly not make Harris the nominee? Is their base really going to tolerate throwing the first black vice president off a cliff in favor of [Josh Shapiro,] some five-foot-tall white dude from Pennsylvania? I just don’t see it, and if certain factions try to make that happen, it’s going to get really nasty. Never mind that Gavin Newsom is obviously going to run as well. We may see the most vicious, combative Democrat primary in history going into the 2024 election, and I’m here for it.”
NEW YORK TIMES OWNER PASSES ON PRESIDENTIAL BID: Tom Cotton passes on 2024 presidential run after considering campaign. “The senator has been reaching out to donors, supporters and senior Republicans over the last few days to inform them of his plans, according to two people familiar with his deliberations. Cotton has attributed his decision to family concerns, saying that a national campaign would take him away from his two young sons, who are seven and five years old.”
JEFF DUNETZ: Remembering Kristallnacht–The Night Of Broken Glass. “Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, was a nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany. It began on the evening of November 9, 1938, and continued through the next day. There were earlier ‘pogroms’ in Germany, but Kristallnacht was much more than just a pogrom. Kristallnacht was the day Hitler’s final solution came out of the closet. There were anti-Jewish riots in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. It was the night the Holocaust began.”
HE’S EXPENDABLE NOW: CNN Crushes President Joe Biden With Fact Check.
It may not be something that CNN watchers are used to seeing, but President Joe Biden got hammered by a fact check from the network.
“Gas prices weren’t over $5 when Biden took office. The Social Security hike isn’t a Biden achievement. The Trump tax cut didn’t ‘only’ go to the top 1%. Biden didn’t cut the debt in half. Biden didn’t get Congress to pass a law to forgive student debt,” CNN fact checker Daniel Dale said.
“The unemployment rate. Biden said at the Florida rally on Tuesday: ‘Unemployment is down from 6.5 to 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years.’ He said at the New Mexico rally on Thursday: ‘Unemployment rate is 3.5% – the lowest it’s been in 50 years.
“But Biden didn’t acknowledge that September’s 3.5% unemployment rate was actually a tie for the lowest in 50 years – a tie, specifically, with three months of Trump’s administration, in late 2019 and early 2020,” the fact checker said.
“Since Biden uses these campaign speeches to favorably compare his own record to Trump’s record, that omission is significant.
“The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in October; that number was revealed on Friday, after these Biden comments. The rate was 6.4% in January 2021, the month Biden took office,” he said.
And of course, low information leftist voters can’t understand why the press has pivoted suddenly: Liberals rage after New York Times reports on Biden’s ‘verbal fumbles’: ‘Trying to destroy us.’
A New York Times piece pointing out President Biden’s gaffes from his Tuesday speech angered liberals on Twitter.
Furious leftists on the platform swarmed the Times senior political reporter Maggie Haberman‘s tweet linking to the story, viciously insulting her and the report for making Biden and Democrats look bad.
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Haberman drew more attention to the story by retweeting it from her own account. She may have anticipated some backlash for the piece, however, as she turned off Twitter replies to her post.
Even so, plenty of angry liberals quote-tweeted her post, and made their displeasure apparent.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Mark Copelovitch blasted Haberman and Baker for the piece. He tweeted, “1. ‘Excuse me,’ he said, ‘the war in Ukraine.’ 2. Beau very well may have died of brain cancer due to Iraq burn pit exposure. 3. ‘More pronounced’…were you not alive in the 1980s/90s/00s to hear Biden?”
He continued, saying, “4. Most of them haven’t been gaffes” and added, “5. Grow up.”
User Jill Levy lamented, “She is trying to destroy us.”
User “Beth” wrote, “It’s really sad what you think your job is, with your giant f—ing megaphone, during an attempted fascist takeover of our democracy.”
But the answer is quite simple: The media bail on Biden: “All polling points to Biden’s majorities in the House and Senate being wiped out come the November midterm elections. When that happens, and I mean the very next day, these innuendos and grumblings for Biden to step aside will become full-bore primal screams, and he won’t be able to survive them.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN CONSISTENT MESSAGING: Biden Boasts That Gas Cost ‘Over $5 When I Took Office’ – It Was Actually Only $2.39 a Gallon.
Flashbacks, before the midterms loomed large in what’s left of Joe’s brain:
● Biden seeks to make half of new U.S. auto fleet electric by 2030.
● Biden last year: “We will take, literally, millions of automobiles off the road — off the road, saving tens of millions of barrels of oil, dealing with cleaning up the air. This is not hyperbole; this is a fact.”
● Granholm: California’s New Gas Vehicle Sale Ban ‘Could Be’ a National Model. “Elex Michaelson [of Los Angeles’ Fox affiliate] asked [Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm], ‘California made national headlines by becoming the first state to say, by 2035, we’re not going to have any gas-powered vehicles that are new that are being sold. You can still drive your old ones, but you can’t sell new ones. Do you like this concept?’ Granholm responded, ‘Yeah, I do. I think California really is leaning in. And of course, the federal government has a goal of — the president has announced — by 2030 that half of the vehicles in the U.S., the new ones sold would be electric.’”
● Kinsley Gaffe: State Dept. official slammed for saying he prefers high gas prices.
● Buttigieg Whines About Americans Not Wanting Electric Cars.
And all of the games with gas prices:
More malarkey: “Let’s debunk some myths: My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production.”
Joe Biden, it’s time to meet Joe Biden!
● Biden’s plan to cancel Keystone pipeline signals a rocky start with Canada.
—The Washington Post, January 19th, 2021.
● Success: Biden Gets the High Gas Prices He Promised.
—The Pipeline, June 17th.
● Biden pulls 3 offshore oil lease sales, curbing new drilling this year.
—The Washington Post, May 12th.
● Biden administration won’t appeal judge’s ruling revoking Gulf of Mexico drilling leases.
—The Washington Post, February 28th.
Flashbacks: Why Aren’t Democrats Dancing for Joy About Sky-High Gas Prices?
In the service of reducing carbon emissions, Democrats have long openly worked to raise the price of fossil fuel energy. They have done so by proposing carbon taxes, cap-and-trade schemes, higher leasing fees, and other measures to jack up costs so people burn less of it. This is why Barack Obama said, in answer to a related question about electricity, that his energy plan would make prices “necessarily skyrocket.” This is why Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna praised BP’s CEO less than six months ago for pledging to reduce oil and gas production by 40% by 2030. Reductions in oil production and rising gasoline prices are part of the Democrats’ agenda and the Paris climate agenda.
There’s even more to it than that. Over the past decade, the Democrats’ overt hostility toward fossil fuels has even driven companies in the industry to sideline production, purely for public relations purposes, while prioritizing meaningless, politically correct carbon emissions goals. How can Democrats suddenly feign outrage at their incredible success in influencing the industry?
Is it a mystery why Democrats aren’t doing a sack dance and celebrating the salvation of planet earth?
There’s the small matter of their political survival, of course. It would be unseemly — like doing a jig at an Irish funeral — to celebrate other people’s pain. And it would cost many Democrats who are secretly jubilant about high gas prices their political careers.
Instead, Democrats are pretending to look for a way to “ease consumers’ pain.”
In September of 2019, after CNN’s seven hour “climate change town hall,” Bryan Preston wrote, “Seriously, if you see all of the above — which is just a sample — and vote for any of these people for any office at any level, it’s on you. If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela.”
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
● “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So despite Biden claiming today that high gas prices are Putin’s fault, is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
● Americans Need To Pay More for Gas To Defend ‘Liberal World Order.’
● Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
● The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
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NEW VIDEO FROM AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Californians Move to Texas, Episode 4: The Gun Range.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Pandemic amnesty: Is it time?
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WELL, THEY ALREADY KNOW HOW TO CODE, SO MAYBE THEY’LL SWITCH TO MAKING SOLAR PANELS: Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week.
The layoffs are expected to affect many thousands of employees and an announcement is planned to come as soon as Wednesday, according to the people. Meta reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September. Company officials already told employees to cancel nonessential travel beginning this week, the people said.
The planned layoffs would be the first broad headcount reductions to occur in the company’s 18-year history. While smaller on a percentage basis than the cuts at Twitter Inc. this past week, which hit about half of that company’s staff, the number of Meta employees expected to lose their jobs could be the largest to date at a major technology corporation in a year that has seen a tech industry retrenchment.
A spokesman for Meta declined to comment, referring The Wall Street Journal to Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statement that the company would “focus our investments on a small number of high priority growth areas.”
Earlier: Zuckerberg’s Empire Collapses.
WHAT NOT TO BUY: Volkswagen Group Pulls Twitter Advertising. “Earlier this week, General Motors pulled its Twitter advertising. Now Volkswagen Auto Group is following suit. . . . Volkswagen Auto Group owns Volkswagen, Seat, Cupra, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Ducati, and Porsche.”
THE PROBLEM IS, EVERYONE NOTICES HIGH PRICES: Dem pollster Mark Penn: Democrats have stupidly become “inflation deniers” before midterms.
Update: Link now fixed.