HE’LL DO LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT END HIS WAR ON AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION: Biden To Ease Sanctions On Socialist Venezuela, Releases Maduro’s Convicted Narco Trafficker Nephews.
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October 6, 2022
ABOUT THAT KAMALA HARRIS CAR ACCIDENT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE EVEN HEARD OF…: Another Secret Service Scandal?
HE WON’T; HIGH PRICES SUIT HIS HANDLERS JUST FINE: US oil and gas industry MOCKS Biden after OPEC announced production cuts: Energy groups say administration now has no choice but to come ‘crawling back’ to domestic producers in bid to lower prices.
DRESS UP TWICE AS HARD: Here’s What Happened When a Concerned Mom Dressed Like Drag Queen at a School Board Meeting.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Multiple Russian Fronts Collapsing. “Kreminna seems to be the next big target for Ukrainian forces to take in Luhansk, allowing them to cut a major supply line and directly threaten Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.”
Plus this from ISW’s daily roundup:
The fragmentation of the Russian nationalist information space could have significant domestic impacts and could even affect the stability of Putin’s regime. Putin will be unable to meet the mutually exclusive demands of various groups. Kadyrov and Prigozhin are pushing for a change in the way Russia fights the war to one more suited to their unconventional modes of mobilizing personnel and fighting. The veterans have been pushing for a more traditional overhaul of the Russian higher military command and MoD and for putting Russia on a conventional war footing and the Russian MoD. Russian milbloggers are currently defending the Kremlin’s selection of uniformed commanders while continuing to attack the MoD and making a variety of extreme demands and recommendations of their own—all the while reporting on Russia’s frontline failings in detail even as the MoD tries to silence them. Putin cannot afford to lose the support of any of these groups, nor can satisfy them all as the war wears on and Russian troops continue to sustain losses. The shocks of the Kharkiv and Lyman defeats, energized by the partial mobilization and its poor management, have exposed these deepening fissures within Putin’s core constituencies to the view of all Russians. They could even begin to seed the notion that Putin is not fully in control of his own base. The ramifications of such a development for his regime are hard to predict.
Impossible, really. Although it this war is perhaps more likely to end in Moscow than it is to end in someplace like Mariupol.
THE ONE WHO LOOKS PRESIDENTIAL ISN’T THE PRESIDENT, OR AT LEAST NOT YET: DeSantis Flashes His Alpha-Dog Energy in Meeting With Diminished Biden.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress To Set Leaders, Agenda For Next 5 Years. “Having used anti-corruption campaigns to take potential rivals out of play, President Xi Jinping is fully expected to be named to an unprecedented third term as the party’s general secretary.”
HE’S FLAILING: Joe Biden Plans to Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Yet Again. “Fox News reports that Biden plans to release 10 million barrels from the reserve.”
That will cover five days of OPEC’s output reduction.
DOGS BITES MAN/SCORPION STINGS FROG: Tony Bobulinski claims Hunter Biden ‘defrauded’ him.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Can a Republican Majority Rein In the Lawless DOJ? “The party has an annoying history of talking a big game when it’s in the minority, then just behaving like grandstanding bureaucrats once it’s back in the majority.”
NO, SHE REALLY DOESN’T: The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich. Now, She Wants To Ban Her Colleagues From Trading.
Pelosi’s portfolio has performed remarkably well during periods of financial turmoil, her financial disclosures show. Her estimated net worth skyrocketed at the onset of the Great Recession, going from $31.4 million in 2008 to $101.1 million in 2010, a 220 percent increase in a window where the S&P 500 decreased by 13 percent. The speaker also reaped a significant return during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing her estimated net worth jump from $106 million in 2019 to $171.4 million in 2021, an increase of 60 percent.
Government ethics watchdogs noted glaring loopholes in the Pelosi-backed stock trading bill they say will create new avenues for lawmakers to secretly profit from their positions in Congress.
“To say the bill is weak … would be an understatement. The bill is dangerous. It would undermine what little ethics we have in our federal government,” former director of the Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub said of the measure.
Shaub noted that the bill would enable lawmakers to enter into “fake blind trusts.” Typical blind trusts, in which a lawmaker’s assets are handled by an independent manager, require trustees to divest whatever officials put in the trust. But the Pelosi-backed bill would exempt trustees from the divestiture requirement, Shaub said.
Cap government officials’ annual returns at the 7% household investors hope to earn, with any excess taxed at 100%.
It’s patriotic!
WHOSE NATION IS IT, ANYWAY? Why Do the Chinese Commies Have Their Own Police Station in New York?
HEH: Czechs troll Russia with mock annexation of Kaliningrad. “A petition is now circulating to pry Kaliningrad from Russia’s hands, with one Russian news site reportedly taking the suggestion seriously.”
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Matt Margolis: Republicans Are Winning Where We Least Expected Them To. “But perhaps more shocking than any of these is the fact that a Republican may be elected governor of Oregon.”
Chris Queen: When Will Generation X Get a Chance to Lead? “An aging cohort of Boomers and older politicians in both parties grip their positions of power as tightly as they can.”
Yours Truly: I Know the Woke Military’s Dirty Little Secret. “My wife grew up on Air Force bases in Europe. She went to almost nothing but DOD schools. I don’t dare show her this story because you don’t break the heart of the woman you love.”
October 5, 2022
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Biden’s Won’t Reveal Who He’s Been Meeting With in Delaware.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Oklahoma Governor Calls for Statewide Ban on Medical Gender Experiments on Minors.
ARE VOTERS FINALLY CATCHING ON TO FETTERMAN’S MENTAL IMPAIRMENT? Analysts Move Pennsylvania Senate Race from ‘Lean Democrat’ to ‘Toss Up.’
NOBODY RESPECTS, LIKES, OR FEARS HIM: Biden Begs OPEC for More Oil Again, Gets Massive Cut Instead.
NEWS PEOPLE REPORTING ACTUAL NEWS: Liberal Media Concedes GOP Momentum Before Midterms.
COLORADO: Broomfield poised to pass numerous gun rights restrictions despite near certainty of lawsuits. “Broomfield’s involvement in the ‘regional approach’ to gun control comes as no surprise, as the mayor, one other council member and the wife of another council member have close ties to gun control activist organizations Mom’s Demand Action, Gifford’s Law Center, and Every Town for Gun Safety. Two of the groups have written most of the language being used in the ordinances.”
HMM: How polio came back to New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed. “How polio reemerged in New York this year remains the subject of investigation, but public health officials believe the virus originated overseas in a country that still uses the oral polio vaccine. American health officials stopped using the oral vaccine more than 20 years ago because it contains live virus that can — in rare circumstances — mutate to become virulent, but it is still common in other countries.”