THANKS, BIDEN: Gavin Newsom is Exploiting Your Federal Tax Dollars to Fund More Abortions in California. “California, for its part, got a whopping $42.3 billion bailout from Biden’s corrupt legislation. The Democrats funneled them this money even though California was already running a budget surplus, not in some dire revenue crisis. Now, Newsom and co. are flush in cash at our expense. And, of course, they’re using that surplus to fund abortions, which means that federal taxpayers are also, directly or indirectly, subsidizing California abortions. Thanks, Biden.”

CRISES BY DESIGN: Biden admin cancels massive oil and gas lease sale amid record-high gas prices.

The Biden administration canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease sales pending before the Department of the Interior Wednesday, as Americans face record-high prices at the pump, according to AAA.

The DOI halted the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, along with two lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. The move comes as Biden has taken a few actions to combat high gas prices, despite his administration’s generally hostile approach to the oil industry.

“Due to lack of industry interest in leasing in the area, the Department will not move forward with the proposed Cook Inlet OCS oil and gas lease sale 258,” a DOI spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement Thursday.

“The Department also will not move forward with lease sales 259 and 261 in the Gulf of Mexico region, as a result of delays due to factors including conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed lease sales,” the spokesperson added.

The spokesperson also told FOX Business that “there are 10.9 million acres of offshore federal waters already under lease to industry,” and “of those, the industry is not producing on more than three-quarters (75.7% or 8.26 million acres).”

Federal law requires DOI to stick to a five-year leasing plan for auctioning offshore leases. The department had until the end fo the current five-year plan – due to expire on June 30 – to complete the sales.

A source familiar with the Cook Inlet lease confirmed to FOX Business that the DOI received no comments indicating specific company interest in leasing during the scoping period.

Within his first week in office, President Biden signed an executive order temporarily suspending new oil and gas leases on federal lands. The administration resumed the new leasing last month following court challenges against the ban. The administration is appealing a ruling in which Judge James Cain, a Trump appointee, struck down the ban.

Earlier: “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 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.”

Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.

Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned

Seen in Cleburne, TX, last night:

JIM TREACHER: Biden Lies About the Vaccine He Took on Live TV.

“I think the [Trump] administration deserves some credit, getting this off the ground with Operation Warp Speed.”

Biden told the truth for once, so of course now he has to take it back.

Now, if this dishonest White House had said the vaccine wasn’t widely available, that would be arguable. I didn’t get mine until April 2021. But saying there was no vaccine available at all is a damn lie and they know it.

It’s such a huge lie that even their own stenographers are balking at it:

Exit quote: “I sure am glad I didn’t vote for him or tell anybody else to vote for him. Never Trump doesn’t mean Never Think.”

IT’S QUIET HERE: Time to liven things up. I have noticed around Tennessee where we live, there are even more MGTOW (men going their own way). Today I saw a man driving his truck with “Going John Galt” around the license plate, another guy running his own house washing business and many other guys becoming entrepreneurs because of the crazy housing market. All these men are leaving the world of bosses and discrimination. People wonder where all the workers are because there are few at the restaurants and stores but the gig economy or self-employed businesses are everywhere–the gig economy makes up around 36% of the workforce now. At least when you are self-employed, you can trust your employer not to screw with you and treat you poorly for being male. Anyone else notice an uptick in men working for themselves?

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Ultra-Maga Edition.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Valano Men’s Long Sleeve Shirts UPF 50+ Sun Protection. #CommissionEarned

THE LAST SALEM WITCH TRIAL:  On this date in 1878 (yes, that’s 1878, not 1678), the last witch trial opened in Salem, Massachusetts.  Sort of.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Dual Dash Cam with Built-in GPS. #CommissionEarned

I THINK THEY’RE AFRAID WOKE-ISM IS CONTAGIOUS:  Researchers offer alarming reason ‘why aliens have never visited Earth’.

KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANT:  Today’s blacklisted American: Professor’s suspension for having an opinion now more than 100 days long, with no end in sight.

I PRAY NOT. THIS COULD GET VERY BAD:  Are the COVID vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes.

THE, WHAT?   Fisher Price Offers RuPaul Drag Queen Set for Littles.

BURN IT TO THE GROUND, THEN SALT THE GROUND:  Pedophile apologist hired by Johns Hopkins child abuse center.

THEY HATE US, THEY REALLY HATE US:  Joe Biden Versus We the People.

OKAY, OKAY, I CONCEDE, THIS IS A BETTER NAME THAN FICUS (FRAUD IN CHIEF OF THE US):  POTATUS Speaks, A Nation Groans.

THE OPPOSITE IS MORE LIKELY TO BE TRUE:  Is Killing Babies Necessary for Labor Rights and Good for the Economy?

THE TRUTH IS RUSSIA THREATENS EVERYONE:  Ukraine: Moscow Threatens Finland Over NATO, Russia Supposedly Lost Battalion in Failed River Crossing.

Red Tsar Vlad is most seriously displeased.

IT’S ALSO HARMFUL TO CALL TODDLERS IN ADULT BODIES ADULTS:  Pro-Choice Caucus: It’s ‘Harmful’ to Call Abortion a ‘Choice’.

IT WILL BE HUNDREDS. WITH DUBIOUS SARTORIAL CHOICES:  Climate Crazy Intensifies as Extinction Rebellion Vows to Send ‘Millions of People on to the Streets’.

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