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The word Biden appears zero times in this story from the NYT. https://t.co/0QoofQA8Y4
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 16, 2022
No mention of Biden and the logistics of the fall of Afghanistan in the NY Times or the NPR stories about the anniversary. Apparently ABC ran a long video on the fall and also didn’t mention Biden. Left-wing Twitter is out to try to blame Trump today, which has been interesting.
Bad things that happen during the Biden administration happen TO the Biden administration, not BECAUSE of the Biden administration.
Producer prices fell (with gas / oil prices). Probably shouldn’t have been a surprise. Feeds the greedy corporation narrative.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
Creeping up according to Rasmussen’s tracking poll. Only down 9 points.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-deadly-gamble
Here’s a good explanation of the (recent) history that lead to the invasion. I think we can all agree that the initial sanctions were garbage. Yesterday’s announced sanctions were the result of Germany reassessing its energy policy and realizing they’ve taken the wrong path since the 1990’s.
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1498094616704217090
Oh, and they finally decided to devote 2% of their GDP to defense… because they realize that their part of the world isn’t the safe haven they thought it would be.
#Germany vs. #France carbon emissions comparison. The choice is obvious – clean and reliable #nuclearenergy is the only way in achieving #netzero. #Nuclear. pic.twitter.com/j4qjpgGZyQ
— Uranium Trends (@UraniumTrends) January 22, 2022
Yooooo 🇩🇪, I hear you guys might need some energy? Look at how quickly the French were able to decarbonize in response to the oil shocks with a little ⚛️ magic. Just sayin' pic.twitter.com/LqPSZhpTtX
— Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼 (@AngelicaOung) February 22, 2022
I get it. Source, etc. But this isn’t a Ukraine or recent development.
Germany’s CO2 emissions haven’t budged since 2009, despite a $580 billion investment in renewables and a 50% ⬆️ in electricity costs. Meanwhile, France produces 1/10 of the emissions Germany does and pays just over 50% of the bill. How? Nuclear power. https://t.co/2qTZlwTiZO
— Rosatom Global (@RosatomGlobal) March 2, 2019
How is the US doing on energy policy?
Federal regulators reverse decision to extend nuclear plant license in Florida. Turkey Point station near Miami would have been permitted until 2052.
The environmental group Beyond Nuclear argued that climate change risks were not taken into account. https://t.co/srqT20DKeY
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) February 25, 2022
You read that right. The NRC decided to REVERSE itself and not renew the licenses for two nuclear plants because some “environmental” group called “Beyond Nuclear” said the renewal applications didn’t factor in effects from climate change. Beyond stupid. We are not a serious country when it comes to carbon emissions.
[quote quote=5629] On the right you have a huge network of self-reinforcing talking points and echo chambers that many conservatives listen to, read, watch, etc. with much more regularity because it tends to be much more personality driven with talk shows, blogs, podcasts, etc. [/quote]
I see your allegation and raise an actual media echo chamber, with evidence. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html
As Malley and representatives of the State Department, including Wendy Sherman and Secretary of State John Kerry, engaged in formal negotiations with the Iranians, to ratify details of a framework that had already been agreed upon, Rhodes’s war room did its work on Capitol Hill and with reporters. In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,” he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
This is still going on to a ridiculous extent. Ron Klain whined to the press, and this was the result:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/
What about all the “inflation is good, actually” pieces that came out around Thanksgiving? Like NBC suggesting that Americans not serve turkey to cut costs… on the “Today” show?
What about more recently? https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1471258774136664067
Aside from priorities, is this even true? Is there any good reason to believe that inflation hits low-income households especially hard? 1/ https://t.co/72hxWaL5zW
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 11, 2021
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/inflation-good-bad-winners-losers/index.html
I also believe it will be Newsom, based on his behavior, and him being so confident he’s running ads in Florida and Texas.
That being said, he’s a Patrick Bateman level sociopath. He’s responsible for:
- The homeless problem through his Housing First policy, which flips programs (and the accountability / incentives that goes with them) that work on their head, and repackages them a “compassionate” approach. It’s been a failure, and started the rapid decline of San Francisco. When he became governor, he exported that program throughout the state, and voila! Homelessness is everywhere. LA got affected the most.
- Lockdowns and closed schools. The two issues that lead to the unsuccessful recall. When the recall was unsuccessful, he implemented the vaccine requirement for schools to punish the electorate. He can do this because California is dominated by the big cities. The education achievement numbers are coming out. They’re a disaster for California.
- The largest / only loss of population in California since it became a state. I get it. People may be leaving for affordability issues, etc., and continuing to vote like they aren’t fleeing policies, but man, that should be a disqualifying black eye.
- Government waste. Who got that $500M that he spent on PPE? It never got delivered. What happened to the $2.7B for water storage projects? Not one project has even gotten started. $9.95B for high speed rail? How many miles of track have been laid? How many acres of land have been set aside for a test track? What about $20B in EDD fraud?
- Income inequality. It’s gotten worse. California has the highest supplemental poverty measure of any state (only DC is higher!). See number 3.
- Crime. It’s not all Gavin’s fault, because the voters got suckered into approving a couple propositions that have been terrible. He’s been lying about it, though. And he actively appointed ACLU lawyers and criminal reform advocates into advisory positions, the parole boards, and other areas where the Governor affects crime. Becerra and Bonta (both appointees) have been soft on crime, and more interested in harassing legal gun owners than punishing criminals. Oh, and there’s been a moratorium on executions.
- Education. I get it. COVID disrupted education. But it didn’t have to…. But the state of education in California is dismal. Look at the science testing numbers. The percentage of students meeting and exceeding standards is below 50% for language skills, below 40% for math, and below 30% for science. They’ve each dropped about 1-2% through COVID.
Gavin Newsom has a record. It isn’t a good record.
We were warned about Joe's Lying ..
In 1987~
Lying mattered to the News Media and Voters …Watch for the comment at the end … pic.twitter.com/9cD3PS4x8q
— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) July 29, 2022
And yet Gavin Newsom is spending time attacking Ron Desantis in Florida, and trying to get people to move to California. Claiming that Californians have freedom when he mandated lockdowns, the vaccine in order to keep your job, the vaccine for your kids to go to school, etc.? California even places restrictions on where public employee (other than the governor when he’s on vacation) can go. Do you want to talk about AB5?
lmao jokes on you there is no middle class in california https://t.co/b3levSMGLp
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) July 5, 2022
Good explainer. In short, centrally planning / attempting to get easy credit by appealing to environmentalists / globalists created the crisis.
My favorite new talking point is that there is inflation everywhere, so it’s clearly not Joe Biden’s / the Democrats’ fault. 1) We live in a global economy, and 2) inflation spreads along trade routes, particularly when you’re running up record trade deficits. It’s not like this is a new concept.
https://msh.councilforeconed.org/lessons.php?lid=68371
Back in the 14th century, Mansa Musa of Mali went on the Hajj, and brought so much gold (and gave it away) that he caused hyperinflation in Cairo, Medina, and Mecca for approximately a decade. Granted record-keeping back in those days wasn’t great, but all three cities reported that the price of gold dropped by a lot for almost a decade. Given how important trade was back then, it’s unlikely that it had no effect.
Bobby Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter said. https://t.co/C9hVTkglLY
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 29, 2022
Well, her source / head of security denies telling her the story, and the driver denies being assaulted / that Trump tried to grab the wheel. Even the Washington Post thought the testimony smelled funny. The committee itself then played video showing that Trump was not in the limo, as the witness said the rumor was reported, but in an SUV. Either way, the whole thing was implausible.
Here's the thing. The committee has Secret Service testimony that would seemingly corroborate or dispute what Cassidy Hutchinson said today, but it wasn't played. Unclear why.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 28, 2022
Also, the “handwritten note” wasn’t hers.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-white-house-attorney-disputes-cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony/
People who work with the attorney (and Trump himself noticed this when he put out his response) back up that the attorney’s handwriting is distinctive and she did not write the note. It’s one thing to get something wrong because it is rumor / hearsay. It’s another to get something wrong that you claim you did.
What’s the credibility jury instruction? If you find the witness’s testimony is false as to one thing, you can disregard part or all of their testimony? This reminds me of how organizations find leaks: by putting out implausible rumors and seeing how / if they get reported to the press.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ishapiro/status/1541491241678000128
The political question doctrine formerly left the Court out of a lot of thorny issues. Finding a constitutional right to abortion (taking advantage of the proclivities of the justices at the time) resulted in the politicization of the Court. What is interesting to me is that Breyer now joins dissents that ten years ago, he may not have joined. So be it.
Justice Thomas is bearing the brunt of the left’s attacks, but he has been the most intellectually consistent justice since joining the Court.
https://stanforddaily.com/2021/09/02/ras-strike-indefinitely-after-stanford-fails-to-meet-demand/
Revised alcohol and drug policy to end the “open door policy.”
