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Click over to view the presentation. It appears there was significant fraud and manipulation of the vote. The numbers of apparently fraudulent or unverifiable ballots exceeds the margin of victory for Biden. Other Georgia counties apparently have similar problems. If the results were reversed, the national media would be on this story like flies on shit. Since it calls into question the Biden victory, media ignore it and claim the analysis and investigation are fraudulent.
America should switch back to paper ballots and prevent digitization of the vote until after counts and recounts.
Remember this:
Ed Morrissey:
“…Infuriating indeed, but not for the reasons Joe Biden’s defenders claim. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates refused to take Biden’s call as he sought increased oil production to help lower gas prices in the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ostensibly, the snub relates to a demand for support against Iranian proxy terrorists, but it goes deeper than that on both ends:
The White House unsuccessfully tried to arrange calls between President Biden and the de facto leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as the U.S. was working to build international support for Ukraine and contain a surge in oil prices, said Middle East and U.S. officials.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan both declined U.S. requests to speak to Mr. Biden in recent weeks, the officials said, as Saudi and Emirati officials have become more vocal in recent weeks in their criticism of American policy in the Gulf.
“There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen,” said a U.S. official of the planned discussion between the Saudi Prince Mohammed and Mr. Biden. “It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil].”
Biden’s defenders reacted with outrage late yesterday after this news broke. Some demanded an end to US arms sales to both countries and other reprisals, but those apologists have short memories. It was Biden who started this diplomatic-insult cycle by insisting in 2019 that he would turn Saudi Arabia into a “pariah” state over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. Remember this from the Democratic primary debate in Atlanta, via Jim Geraghty?
MITCHELL: Mr. Vice President, the CIA has concluded that the leader of Saudi Arabia directed the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The State Department also says the Saudi government is responsible for executing nonviolent offenders and for torture. President Trump has not punished senior Saudi leaders. Would you?
BIDEN: Yes, and I said it at the time. Khashoggi was, in fact, murdered and dismembered, and I believe on the order of the crown prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them, we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. There’s very little social redeeming value of the — in the present government in Saudi Arabia.
And I would also, as pointed out, I would end — end subsidies that we have, end the sale of material to the Saudis where they’re going in and murdering children, and they’re murdering innocent people. And so they have to be held accountable.
Was that a defensible position after the murder of Khashoggi? Sure, as long as the administration that pursued that policy made sure we wouldn’t need the Saudis for anything else — such as the Abraham Accords, intel, and most especially oil production concessions. When your administration’s policy is to restrict American oil and natural gas production and increase the regulatory cost associated with it, alienating one of the friendlier sources for emergency import boosts is, well, rather stupid.
That’s not the only reason why the Saudis don’t want to take Biden’s call:
The Saudis have signaled that their relationship with Washington has deteriorated under the Biden administration, and they want more support for their intervention in Yemen’s civil war, help with their own civilian nuclear program as Iran’s moves ahead, and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed in the U.S., Saudi officials said. The crown prince faces multiple lawsuits in the U.S., including over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
The Emiratis share Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen against the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, officials said. Both governments are also concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address other security concerns of theirs and has entered the final stages of negotiations in recent weeks.
The Iranians have conducted a low-level war (and sometimes not so low-level) against the Sunni states, especially the Saudis. The Houthis in Yemen are part of an encirclement program by the IRGC to eventually make Iran the dominant power in that region. Rather than recognize that point, Biden and his team are busy giving away the store in talks with Russia and Iran in a bizarre menage-a-trois with America’s worst enemies. Biden’s about to throw the Sunni world under the bus at the precise moment when they took a massive risk in moving toward normalization with Israel.
Now the White House and its fantasy-thinking supporters wonder why the Saudis and the UAE won’t take Biden’s call to beg them to pull his domestic-politics chestnuts out of the fire. Are you kidding me?
This once again demonstrates that Biden and his White House team don’t have a strategic brain cell between them. They were handed a major strategic advantage in accelerating domestic oil production and utterly squandered it to pander to progressive environmentalists. They had a friendly Sunni bloc that had gone to some risk to create an anti-Iran alliance in the Middle East, and Biden decided that he’d rather work with Tehran while making our allies in containment of Iran the “pariahs” — and threw in with Vladimir Putin to make it work. It would be difficult to craft a more idiotic strategic plan on purpose than Biden has put together in just a little over a year in office.
That’s what should infuriate people — that Biden has stiffed our allies while sucking up to the countries that despise us, all to no benefit whatsoever to anyone…”
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Congress wastes time on foolish virtue signaling instead of taking care of the nations’ pending business:
Hard at Work Solving Today’s Most Urgent Problems, Congress Passes Anti-Lynching Act
Of course it is already illegal to kill people no matter what you call it.
Does anybody think there is an “epidemic” of lynching in America today?
The last time America had a serious lynching problem was the post Civil War 1870’s. Democrats disguised in hoods and calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan were lynching Black Americans to prevent them from voting or holding public office.
Democrats.
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Literally in the DARK OF NIGHT, the Democrat controlled Rules Committee met at 1:30 am – 2:30 am and passed the HORRENDOUS $1.5 TRILLION Omnibus bill.
They did NOT tell anyone or announce this debate on the bill until after midnight!
We woke up to 2,741 pages and we vote today! pic.twitter.com/lUGTjwxBno
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 9, 2022
My words exactly.
Our rights come from God, not government.
The government has no business maintaining lists of American citizens who purchase guns.
This is long overdue.
We need solutions to the homeless problem, not more spending on Democrat fantasies, or new Democrat-controlled bureaucracies.
Face the hard facts and deal with them using common sense.
Eric Worrall:
“…I believe there will always be another hobgoblin, there is no standing still when it comes to debunking nonsense. Millions of years of being everyone’s lunch has geared our brains to assume the worst, made it way too easy for some people to believe the unbelievable. But evolution has also given us brains, logic, reason, and the internet – the tools we need to ridicule empty scare stories like the climate crisis or the plastic crisis, and hopefully keep purveyors of such myths from doing too much harm in the future…”
Too complex to excerpt here. It is worth your time to click over for details on exactly what oil and gas leases are, where they are, what the government has been doing with them, some likelihoods on potential for finding oil and gas on a lease, why so many leases are open (they’re not productive), and other issues relating to oil and gas production.
If you believe the president’s spokesperson and the biased liberal media, it’s on you. They manage to tell something of the truth and lie at the same time. The media are too lazy, or too uninterested to actually report facts.
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American Petroleum Institute: Biden ‘Misusing Facts’ When Talking About Unused Drilling Permits
“…Despite reassurances from the White House that it is doing nothing to discourage oil companies from opening new drill sites, President Joe Biden’s allies in Congress just months ago pressured oil executives to decrease outputs because of climate change, raising questions about the Democratic Party’s strategy to lower prices for consumers.
In late October, for example, the House Oversight and Reform Committee called in the CEOs of Exxon, BP, Shell, and Chevron to explain what steps they are taking to produce less oil and gas, with Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) alleging that “the world can’t wait” any longer. At the time, gas prices were hovering around a 10-year high.
The hearing has gained new relevance as a global gas shortage has pushed prices to an all-time high. Prices are rising even more due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with no sign of falling after Biden’s announcement that the United States will no longer accept Russian oil imports. Those facts have left Democrats scrambling for a solution before the November midterms as Republicans demand that the White House encourage domestic oil drilling operations.
The president said on Tuesday that his administration’s policies are not “holding back domestic energy production,” echoing comments from Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who said that “federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas” before mentioning the thousands of unused pre-approved oil and gas drilling leases.
“You can draw a direct line from how the Democrats marauded energy production yesterday to the unprecedented pain Americans are feeling at the pump today,” said CounterPoint Strategies president Jim McCarthy, a policy adviser for leading energy companies.
Some Democrats, such as Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.), have demanded that domestic oil companies dramatically curtail their domestic operations. At the same time, Khanna has called for the United States to end its dependency on oil imports from countries such as Russia.
In one exchange during the October hearing, Khanna pressed Shell president Gretchen Watkins on whether she agreed that “under the Paris agreement that … we need to have oil and gas production declining every year.” After she answered that the company believes “that hydrocarbon demand needs to reduce if we’re going to get to net zero [emissions] by 2050,” Khanna demanded to know whether Shell will decrease its production by 2 percent each year, a figure initially offered by the company in 2019.
“This is what happens when left-wing Democrat fantasies meet reality. Khanna and other Democrats spent most of the fall trying to strangle the life out of oil and gas companies and are now feigning surprise and evading responsibility at the outcome,” said McCarthy…”
“…Here are nickel futures. Russia supplies 12% of the world’s supply. Gee, I wonder why it has a spikey thing on the end?
The main market for Nickel futures trades at the London Metal Exchange. Don’t try to trade them, because they suspended trading. A Chinese company had a huge short and had to get out. That added a lot of pressure to a market that was already on its way to the moon. They are still sorting things out as I write this.
For what it is worth, nickel is an essential element in the battery of an electronic vehicle. The other is lithium. Most of that is mined in China although they found a huge deposit in Nevada. Of course, the Green movement wants the lithium in Nevada to stay in the ground yet they agree with Buttigieg that we all should be buying electric cars. Green people are out of touch with reality. When the wheel was invented in the Stone Age, they’d have kept dragging things around.
Nickel’s rally, and the reliance on Russia for supply is going to make electronic cars a lot more expensive. Stainless steel just got a lot more expensive too. How many things does stainless steel go into?
As an old dinosaur commodity trader, I checked out some of the hard-core ag markets to see what they have been doing. It will be no surprise to astute readers of this blog that the prices across the board are higher than they used to be. Principally, you can blame the level of government spending for that increase. Inflation happens when there are too many dollars chasing too few goods. The Fed printed dollars, and the Federal government helicoptered them into the pockets of Americans. That guaranteed inflation. Biden’s Build Back Better would increase the rate of inflation, not decrease it.
Two quick ways to decrease inflation are to increase interest rates and really drop the level of government spending. The second will work better than the first.
When you see moves like this in one market, you start to think about margin calls. Since futures are traded on margin, big moves force exchanges to increase the amount of money they want from traders to hold positions. That happens in rallies as well as breaks. I can recall being short hogs and watching the stock market meltdown in 2008. Because of the margin calls in stock futures, it carried over to agriculture futures. It didn’t matter what the underlying supply/demand fundamentals were, every market was going south because people were selling to raise cash for margin.
Here is wheat. Wheat is the main product of Ukraine. I know that Cargill, ADM, and the other big grain companies have huge operations there but I haven’t heard a peep from them. Being typically corporate, even after their ship got hit with a Russian missile, Cargill didn’t rock the boat (pun intended). Easier to close a McDonald’s than it is a farm operation…
…One problem for producers is that often there are government regulations that get in the way. President Biden is full of shit when he says he is producing more oil. His first actions in the oval office cut off oil exploration. If he’s serious about bringing the pain to Russia and not American citizens, he’d lift that series of Executive orders immediately. We’d be drilling in Alaska. For your information, Alaskan oil production is at its lowest level in years even though prices have been rising. Gee, I wonder why?
Biden is a chicken and won’t take on the radical left-wing of his party. He’s killing the country by not doing it. What’s morbidly funny to me is Biden’s son Hunter was on the board of directors of a Ukrainian oil company. Ignore whether he was qualified or not. It’s clear he wasn’t. Why is a former Vice President who is supposed to be so “green” allowing his son to be on the board of directors of an oil company?
Maybe the Presidential limo should be electric.
I hear people say “markets are broken” or words to that effect when strange stuff happens. It’s just that they don’t understand it, can’t figure it out, or had things go against them when prior to the move all their internal logic told them something different.
Markets work. There are markets in everything. There are always costs and opportunity costs. People’s preferences create supply and demand curves. Markets are beautiful things. Even when huge price swings happen, that just creates opportunity. If Biden reversed his pedantic Executive orders for the American energy industry tomorrow and go back to the Trump policy, the price of crude would drop in response. That’s because expectations would radically change.
Markets are why the famous bet Julian Simon made worked out for him. Conveniently, the person he bet, Paul Erlich, with was a welcher and didn’t pay. Leftists are like that. They have an excuse for everything and blame someone else for their mistakes…”
As gas prices hit record highs, remember what Joe Biden promised in 2020: "No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period. Ends." https://t.co/gOpjzwzsUy
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2022
Sarah Raskin, Biden's nominee to the Federal Reserve, wants oil & gas companies cut off from financing. She described oil & gas as "assets society no longer needs."
If Joe Biden is serious about lowering the cost of gas, he should immediately withdraw her nomination. pic.twitter.com/shIys6ZOzM
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2022
Last June, Biden blocked oil leasing in Alaska.
This oil could have helped lower the cost of gas—instead, Biden is begging Venezuela and Iran to increase production. https://t.co/gsHGgCYzgo
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2022
Average Gas Price on January 6, 2021 Was $2.25 per Gallon; Now over $4.10
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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1501333401999187970
The cockamamie:
WH: ‘Energy Independence’ Comes from Reducing Fossil Fuels
Joe Nuts: Boosting Production Won’t Lower Costs; Electric Cars Will…
Jerry Brown: Don’t Expand Oil and Gas, Because Climate Change Like War
Democrat Merkley Calls for ‘Climate Emergency’ to Solve Oil Crisis
Need to ‘Have the World Transition’ to Green Energy to Undercut Russia
U.S. Crude Oil Imports up 40.6% Under Biden Compared to Trump
Kamala Harris Attacks Truckers for Pollution as ‘People’s Convoy’ Protesters Hit D.C.
Imagines a World of Electric Trucks and Buses, Zero Emissions
Democrat-Led States Have ‘Highest Gas Prices in the Country’
The response from Dems:
DEM TESTER: CREATE ENERGY JOBS HERE, ‘WE SHOULDN’T BE ADVANCING’ IRAN, VENEZUELA
MANCHIN: ‘GO BACK’ TO DOMESTIC PRODUCTION ‘WE’VE HAD BEFORE’
Manchin, Tester: Why is Biden asking hostile regimes to solve US energy problems?
MENENDEZ: BIDEN SAID MADURO WAS A SECURITY THREAT FIVE DAYS AGO!
Gabbard: Our Leaders Have an ‘F-you Attitude’ Toward Americans
Texas Dems to Biden: Drill, baby, drill
America’s response:
Poll: Less than 25 Percent Strongly Believe Joe Biden Is Mentally Fit, Healthy, Stable
REPORTER: What can you do about skyrocketing gas prices?
BIDEN: "Can't do much right now. Russia's responsible." pic.twitter.com/UZrBUEsliQ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 8, 2022
Related. Can you imagine the media outrage if Trump said this?
https://twitter.com/AColdBeer/status/1501349616767307783
“…I am a strong supporter of energy freedom. I support the ability of the American people to choose the type of vehicles and fuels that best meet their transportation needs. Consequently, I am strongly opposed – as are most Americans – to the idea that government should mandate energy technologies or fuels…”
“…When a blue jurisdiction (state or local) obsesses about what kind of appliances you have, they have pretty much raised the white flag on their day job. They can’t or won’t address crime, education, homelessness etc., so they make decisions about whether you can have gas stoves or gas water heaters in your home — decisions that rightly belong to homebuyers, home builders and homeowners. Whether it is to distract, to satisfy their urge to make decisions for others or to virtue signal, it is an acknowledgment that they have failed. It brings us directly to the question of who should make decisions about your new house and what kinds of appliances are in it. What authority does the government have to restrict personal choice in this arena?…”
There are so many things wrong with this statement that it would take pages of text to parse, deconstruct, and debunk each of the underlying assumptions built into the statement.
This is a statement by a top government official. They will use high gas prices that resulted from their own policies and were subsequently exacerbated by international affairs to push Americans to buy electric vehicles. They have not evaluated the energy grid requirements to satisfy electric vehicles on a national basis, or charging station construction, or other issues related to this short-sighted decision. Combine this with their irrational push for green energy in the form of solar and wind, and very quickly the price of energy will skyrocket, shortages will develop, blackouts will occur, low-income folks will bear the brunt of these bad decisions.
They think the public is stupid. They think you are stupid.
Democrats.
Vote for Democrats and this is what you will get.
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Biden cuts energy production.
Prices go up.
Ukraine war breaks out.
Prices continue to go up, but faster.
Biden blames Ukraine war, calls for more green energy, reaches out to Venezuela.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 8, 2022
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Mr Autumn Man walking down street with coffee in sweater over plaid collared shirt enjoying the fact that high fuel prices will probably only effect a handful of fat stupid MAGA Boomers in Pennsyltucky who drive Hummers pic.twitter.com/ker2uSLV3E
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 8, 2022
The inimitable David Burge:
the important thing is that we stop replacing US oil production with Russian imports, and start replacing US oil production with Iranian imports
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 7, 2022
