Is it not funny how it’s called “CGI” - which is also what’s used to produce highly realistic fake animation in movies?
“We need to secure the border and fix the immigration system. It’s not only the right thing to do - it’s the economically smart thing to do. Let’s get it done once and for all!”
“Our schools are open. Let’s keep it that way. Our kids need to be in school.” “We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police. It’s to fund the police. Fund them! Fund them! Fund them with the resources and training - resources and training they need to protect our communities!”
“There’s something happening in America. Just look around, and you’ll see an amazing story - the rebirth of pride that comes from stamping products ‘Made in America,’ the revitalization of American manufacturing.” “Companies are choosing to build new factories here when just a few years ago, they would have gone overseas. That’s what is happening.”
But as much as these statements about fixing the border and opening schools and funding the police and bringing manufacturing jobs back home sound like Trump, they actually belong to President Biden.
Maybe he should first apologize for helping obstruct such initiatives up to now?
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You believe any of that and I have a bridge which I’m offering for sale on the cheap.
I’ll believe Biden is serious when he stops paying Putin seventy million dollars each day for his oil. And even Nancy Pelosi agrees with me on this!!
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Satire roundup. Most of the covid stuff I’ll post in that thread instead, since there’s a lot going on.
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He’s distancing himself from the AOC’s, Bernies’, and other far left demagogues. Biden has historically been a centrist inside the Democratic party, not a socialist nutcase.
Thoughtful article on policing and why, I suspect, many of these ideologically driven crusades (“defund the cops”, “end bail”, etc) have been so disastrous where they’ve actually happened.
My main point is this: making sudden and dramatic changes to policing will probably always turn out badly, and should be avoided. You may think police are too heavily involved in providing mental health services, but taking police out of mental health calls completely? That’s going to turn out badly. Police may be making too many traffic stops, but completely banning them? That’s also going to turn out badly. Even if you are very convinced that a particular criminal justice intervention isn’t useful right now , that doesn’t mean it is always worthless. Changes to policing should be implemented gradually, with a careful eye towards identifying the optimal level of police intervention—not simply eliminating it.
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really good article worth reading that even anti-police types should be able to read without getting uptight
Maybe the walls aren’t closing in after all.
Hard to build a case on RE values when there’s a lot of room for discretionary valuation and opinions can differ. Fraud needs a lot more than that.
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Axios reporting this morning, and this article is featured on Drudge’s page:
Biden considering trip to Saudi Arabia to beg for more oil
You know, this guy Biden is a REAL piece of work. First he pisses off the Saudis and their Arabian peninsula buddies by cozying up to Iran and offering to send Iran billions of dollars. Then he turns around and begs the Saudis to help him by sending us oil.
And of course we don’t even need that oil. We have lots of it here if Biden would agree to longer term contracts with our oil companies. They are not gonna invest MILLIONS of dollars to develop new oil sources when Biden’s short term contracts place all that money at risk in the future.
When I signed up for development of my (personal) natural gas reserves years ago, I agreed to allow the gas company to extract natural gas from my land in perpetuity. On that basis they turned around and invested literally millions of dollars to allow them access to and removal of that natural gas. And of course they pay me royalties on every cubic foot of natural gas they extract. But it never would have occurred to me to LIMIT the time they have to access my natural gas. And had I tried, they would have told me to go pound sand. Trust me, I know. I personally negotiated my lease and it was the most challenging negotiation I’ve ever experienced.
So now Biden is trying to get our American oil companies to produce oil, but with a limited time frame. That is BS. It’s not gonna happen! The oil company executives are a whole lot smarter than Biden ever was. And he never was all that smart.
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with friends like these, the Iranian edition.
The Justice Department source said prosecutors, FBI agents, and intelligence community personnel involved in disrupting the plot against Bolton are frustrated and angry that there have been no indictments and suspect political foot-dragging. The official added that Bolton and Pompeo were asked to sign nondisclosure agreements in return for their being briefed on classified intelligence related to the threats against them. Bolton and Pompeo declined to comment for this story.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards particularly despise Bolton and Pompeo, who they see as leading President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” sanctions strategy against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime. But the primary motive for the plots against them is believed to be rooted in Iran’s desire to avenge the January 2020 U.S. drone assassination of Quds Force’s commander, Qassem Soleimani.
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It is so frustrating listening to the news. The Biden administration desperately wants to stop buying oil from Putin, literally financing his extermination of kids, women, and men in Ukraine, paying him to destroy the entire country. But:
At the same time Biden is 100% beholden to his fanatical, insane global climate change supporters, who believe as follows:
Fossil fuels extracted abroad will have less climate impact, when burned, than fossil fuels extracted in North America.
This, of course, it total BS. The impact, if it even exists which is questionable, is the same. In fact, as far wiser people than Biden have been saying:
The extraction process itself, in North America, has much less impact than the less sophisticated, dirty, extraction processes abroad.
None of this penetrates the thick skulls of Biden and his obsessive, frenzied, stubborn, rabid, and single-minded supporters.
A popular phrase from my college days comes to mind:
You cannot teach calculus to a cat.
Biden, and his cadre of sycophants, are quintessential cats.
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Republican voices virtually silent in the face of one Biden failure after another!
Joe Biden is blessed to have virtual assholes as his political opposition. The Republicans have more anti-Biden political ammunition now than at any time during his woebegone administration. Yet Republicans, as always, are frightened and reticent when it comes to beating the drums and stating the obvious. Let’s look this over:
Biden still cannot get those replacement planes to Poland so Ukraine will have desperately needed fighters. He is dawdling and now there are reports the deal amazingly could fall through!!! This is a no brainer but Biden self-evidently has no brain.
Biden is actively soliciting oil from American enemies and from despots. He has actually sent an emissary to Maduro in Venezuela! He is trying to purchase oil from Iran! And after pissing them off big time, he is begging the Saudis to help him. Biden is incompetence on parade. And yet:
At the same time Biden and his lackeys steadfastly refuse to support or solicit energy production in North America, and IN PARTICULAR not here in the USA. This is sheer insanity. It is the sort of policy you get when Greta Thunberg is placed in charge of White House energy decisions. Biden is as anti-American as any President in our history.
But through all of that, as target rich a political environment as ever has existed, the pathetic Republicans are cowering as usual in their little corner, afraid to call Biden out on his overwhelming policy failures or on his manifest ineptitude. Biden is not just the most indecisive and incompetent POTUS we’ve ever had, he is also the most fortunate.
If Trump were in office Putin would be reeling by now. Instead, at least where Biden is concerned, he has to be smiling.
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It’s like teaching pigs to fly - wastes your time and annoys the pig.
I think the drums are beating fine on their own. Why push a story (which can then be discredited simply because you’re pushing it) when the story writes itself?
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That’s not really accurate. Oil prices are not a domestic issue, it’s a global market. I’m pretty sure we are a net exporter of oil. The [immediate] problem is that no supplier can make up for the loss of 5% global production should Russian oil be banned. The price of oil is skyrocketing because no one wants to be the 5% of the market who gets left without any oil. We may have plenty, but it’s other buyers are still bidding up the price because someone is going to end up short. Banning the exportation of domestically produced oil is the only thing Biden could do to really help the situation for us.
On a side note, any country not willing to shoot themselves to make a point to Putin should be able to score a really sweet deal on all that oil Russia is unable to sell on the global market. And I’m sure Putin is laughing at all the stupid westerners who are voluntarily causing themselves so much pain as some sort of misguided revenge against him. Punishing ourselves to spite him is just playing into his game.
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So now Biden has finally decided to halt oil imports from Putin’s Russia. He obviously has conjured a way to do so without in any way supporting or encouraging our own American drillers. God forbid Biden should put America or Americans first. That is not the way far left fringe people do things. And Biden is the leader of the far left fringe. He reeks of American hatred.
It is completely accurate. And nothing could be more obvious . . . unless one is consuming the left wing Kool-Aid.
OK, so you’re saying were Trump still President and offering our domestic drillers free rein, instead of purposefully hamstringing them as Biden has done, that prices would be as they are now? That is silly. Are you unaware of the strictures Biden has imposed on our domestic industry literally from day one of his regime? Inform yourself and cease defending the indefensible.
Sure it’s a global market. But we do not have to bow down to foreign overlords given the amount of oil we have here in North America. All we have to do is to allow and encourage its development, as Trump did, and tell Greta to go **** herself.
Again, sounds like more left wing talk around their Kool-Aid pitcher. We have enough oil here in North America to supply ourselves and Europe. And we have the advanced technology to develop it. All we are missing is the political will to do so.
Do you have even a faint idea of how far our oil and natural gas extraction technology eclipses anything else anywhere in the world? I’ll bet you’ve never even heard of George Mitchell, an American pioneer who ranks right up there with Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, Glenn Curtiss, and other equally transformative Americans. The reasons Mitchell does not get the respect and recognition he well deserves are rooted in politics, pure and simple, and the unending stream of BS that spews from the left in this country 24/7/365!
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You sooooo completely missed my point. No matter how much more we may produce, it’ll go for global market prices - which will still be driven high because a significant global supplier is about to go offline. We arent a net importer of oil, but all the oil we buy, regardless of where it comes from, is subject to market pricing.
Then you clearly dont understand the implications of what I said. Banning the exportation of oil would keep our oil here, and - most importantly - create an entirely new domestic market, and remove us from the pressures of the global market. That is unequivically a conservative concept, isolating us from the rest of the world. If we are consuming what we produce, then it wouldnt make any difference if Russian oil was marketable, wouldnt matter what the Saudis do, etc, etc. But absent that happening, our oil prices are going to remain subject to market-influencing events around the world.
You seem to think that absent rules and regulations, our domestic producers would be able to just flip a switch and overnight replace the Russian oil on the market. That simply isnt possible.
Shin - with your response you did exactly what you and I have long criticized the liberals of doing. It wasnt exactly what you wanted to hear, so it must be debunked as mindless drivel from the other side, and followed with a rambling rant that’s unrelated to the point you’re responding to. You may not like the left-wing Kool-Aid (and you know full well that neither do I), but in this instance you expanded that dislike to everything that’s liquid.
Again, someone is going to use this Russian oil. So Putin is laughing his ass off at all this self-inflicted harm we’re causing to ourselves. If someone wanted to serious affect Russia, they’d slap a price cap on their oil, not banning it but make it so the Russians only get $25/barrel regardless of the current market price.
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True. But have you ever heard of supply and demand? In North America there is the ability to overwhelm on the supply side. All that is lacking is the political will. And there is no reason we should not export to our friends in order to help wean them off Putin’s oil.
There is nothing conservative about restraining trade when oil is abundant. And the lack of abundance you cite is owing primarily to politics.
You might be surprised. And just think where we would be today, how much better off we would be, had Trump been reelected. Biden is viciously anti-fossil fuels because his green supporters demand that stance.
There are times I wonder. I think of these words from Barry Goldwater:
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
In all things today’s toothless Republicans would do well to grow a spine. They make me sick.
Really? If we could provide oil to Europe? Sure Russia will always be able to sell oil somewhere. But NOT ENOUGH to keep their economy upright and finance their war in Ukraine. Oil and natural gas are Putin’s prime sources of income. And he needs every dollar he can get, especially now.
I fully support Biden’s (albeit late) decision to halt purchase of Russian oil and natural gas. If he had not been targeting our domestic producers from the first day he took office the hit to American pocketbooks would be much more moderate. I still worry that Biden will not turn loose our domestic oil and natural gas producers. Quite simply, his fanatical climate change supporters will not permit it.
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