[rjnwmill]

How times have changed…for some of us.

I was at the doctor yesterday. I was offered a flu shot or a Covid booster. They wanted two weeks between the jabs in case there was a reaction.  They wanted to be able to identify the cause. This is the first time I’ve been asked to wait between jabs. I took the flu shot.

Two years ago, I believe I would have pressed for the Covid vaccine first.

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[rjnwmill]

Q:  How do you spell

D-U-M-B   F-U-C-K-S?

A:  Gavin Newsom, Democratic Legislators in Sacramento and local political types running California cities.

And Newsom and the rest of our D F brigade suggests now is a great time to add a plethora of illegals for good measure, shall we?  (The asshole is out touting the policy successes of the Biden/Mayorkas crew.)

 

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[rjnwmill]

Yea…to the administration’s “innovative” Remain in Texas policy.

Texas AG Paxton made an interesting statement post impeachment. Alleging Biden was behind the attempted removal from office, he suggested that they buckle up.

The political kabuki is just ramping up and the “legal strategy” of the administration is questionable at best.

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[rjnwmill]

I saw an article that suggested the administration intends to refill the SPR. (However the weekly EIA data doesn’t show much accumulation to date.)  Simultaneously, China is now stockpiling crude.

When I wear my tin foil hat, I explain this coincidence easily. Biden needs something to sell in the second and third quarter of 2024 to cook the inflation numbers to support his reelection bid. I mean it worked like a charm during the 2022 off year cycle. China is accumulating oil now so they can liquidate excess reserves to support the Biden re-election effort as well. They have their best “friend”/stooge they own in the Whitehouse and see the advantages with four more years from their Manchurian Candidate.

Biden liquidated roughly 250,000,000 barrels to buy the democrats some wiggle room on inflation over the summer and fall of 2022. We can all watch the weekly EIA numbers to see how this unfolds as the 2024 cycle approaches.

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[rjnwmill]

Mick, it might be a bit more complex than crude grades. Here are some “facts” for you to consider.

China makes $20,000 EV’s. US manufacturers make $50,000 EV’s.

The UAW knows this. Hence a bias to four day work weeks and outsized wage expectations.

EV’s require 40% less labor than internal combustion engines.

Biden’s energy policy has the potential to significantly hollow out living wage manufacturing employment. Perhaps like coal miners they can become programmers, design AI chips?  Big problem for union support and the industrial Midwest voters.

EV sales are below expectations. What increases the adoption rate given the limited market for low range vehicles?  Unlike Granholm, most don’t have staff to illegally park in charging spaces until they arrive.

And knowing this, our government voluntarily restricts our fossil fuel industry that offers competitive wage rates to domestic workers.

Personally I’m not a big believer in climate change. Presuming to understand change cycles that are tens even hundreds of millennia long with 150 years of data seems implausible. Hell we don’t understand the birth of the universe and we can actively observe events from millions of years ago. Instead I view it more as a global over population challenge. But that’s a discussion for another day.

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[rjnwmill]

Investments in shorter development lead time energy sources, see shale, are constrained by supply chain issues, capital constraints and acreage availability. Production from shale investments are short tail. As production declines from these sources, the government is using policy uncertainty to depress investment in long lead projects. Good luck with that approach to constrained supply.

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[rjnwmill]

[quote quote=7668]We better not be selling Bud Light…[/quote]

😂😂😂

You always focus on what’s important!

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[rjnwmill]

Right you are. He ain’t under oath. He’s simply lying publicly.  He’s a senile, geriatric fool.  And the company he keeps, Blinken the campaign manager and the letter from the Intel mavens.  Mayorkas and our secure border.  Austin and our Afghan withdrawal and his gender fluid military.  And last but not least, killing a generation of young Ukrainian and Russian men with our arms and not acknowledging that we are poking a nuclear armed bear.  Soft peddle this bull shit if you want.

But let me pose a simple question I saw recently;

”What if the best candidate a head hunter could submit had a history of indictments, impeachments, rape, fraud and bankruptcies.?”

The choice is binary.  Take the failing, senile fool.  You’ll have no idea who’s running the show so there can be no accountability.  I’ll take the other guy.  I’ll know the egotistical narcissist is in charge and I’ll know who to blame if the train goes off the rails.  (East Palestine response to a toxic spill reference is intended.)

And to think, it’s you and I that are “the headhunter”.

 

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[rjnwmill]

“If it isn’t Joe, then…who?”

Well we know Kamala has been fully qualified to be President for going on three years.

Or Fetterman is an obvious choice.  In fact he’s a no brainer.

 

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[rjnwmill]

You’ve hit the mail on the head. No one can get in the way of bureaucrats indulging other people’s children. Got to subsidize mental instabilities wherever you can find them…and undermine basic social institutions that have a role to play in the child’s well being.

I can’t think of an institution that is so badly misreading the wishes of their customers/market. Eliminating/marginalizing parental involvement in the lives/development of their children makes the Bud Lite marketing mavens look like rocket scientists.

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[rjnwmill]

538 statistical mavens suggest Trump is likely/probable however by no means a lock.

What Are Trump’s Chances Of Winning The GOP Primary?

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[rjnwmill]

Scarier still, we’re paying people to write this shit that he delivers. The puppeteers  who are actually running the country. Damn, what a bunch of incompetents.

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[rjnwmill]

Mick, the El Niño impact is different in California. The warmer equatorial water surface temperatures and the more southern swing of the jet stream brings increased rainfall to CA during the winter season.

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[rjnwmill]

Wellll, count me as skeptical. What commends him for the job?  The fact he approved and submitted to the court a flawed plea deal that would have terminated further investigation?  The fact he and his staff allowed the statute of limitations to run on obvious additional tax charges?  Or perhaps the fact he and his staff insured that investigators couldn’t pursue the facts that suggest Don Biden was involved in the grift?

I see nothing in the appointment that suggests that Garland/the President want to open the Kimono in the interest of transparency and governmental accountability.

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[rjnwmill]

“Nobody is Innocent,  Just Not Guilty.”

the workings of our politics captured in a sentence. Wonderful.

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