About three dozen House Democrats have signed a letter asking President Biden to renounce his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, according to reports. A promise from the president to give up his nuclear capabilities as commander in chief could take the same power away from future presidents.
"Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks," the letter from Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., and obtained by Politico reads. "Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment." Panetta's office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox News. The congressman said in a Monday tweet that he is "calling on" Biden "to install checks [and] balances in our nuclear command-and-control structure."
The letter continues: "While any president would presumably consult with advisors before ordering a nuclear attack, there is no requirement to do so. The military is obligated to carry out the order if they assess it is legal under the laws of war. Under the current posture of U.S. nuclear forces, that attack would happen in minutes."
Democrats offered some alternatives to sole nuclear authority, such as requiring the vice president and House speaker to agree with a launch order from the president before it is executed, according to Politico. Presidents have continually passed down a briefcase containing all the necessary materials to dial up a nuclear strike using a specific code, often referred to as the "nuclear football."
Democrats previously expressed concern with former President Trump having access to such power. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in January, for example, said she spoke with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley about protecting nuclear codes from an "unhinged president."
Pelosi said she spoke to Milley on Jan. 5 "to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike."
The football was passed over a long distance when Biden took office after Trump because the former president did not attend the new president's Inauguration. It is usually handed off between presidents on Inauguration Day.
Just the latest example, stacked on the mountain of recent examples that Joe Biden is completely unqualified to be president. And that his being there is a danger to everyone on this planet.
He threatens to cripple the U.S. economically, and crush our recent energy independence, that Trump gave us for the first time in 70 years. Biden instantly ended the Canadian Keystone XL pipeline, hurting both Canada and the U.S., and likely forcing Canada to permanently give all that oil to China. Biden plans to end fossil fuel production in the U.S., but with no reliable fuel source to replace it. Events of the last two weeks in Texas make clear the suicidal nature of that,
Ending U.S. oil and natural gas production cuts off cheap U.S. supply of fuel to Western Europe, and encourages Russia to engage in extortion of Europe, when Russia becomes the only energy source available for Europe. This encourages not only Russian leverage by extortion, but wars as well.
Biden (or more likely his puppetmasters, as Biden stares vacantly into space, and a nurse wipes the drool off his chin) is also ramping up another proxy war in Syria with increased troops and military action. Further wars that Trump avoided, despite pressure from establishment "experts" of both parties, who hated Trump for not caving in to their unnecessary wars for profit.
U.S. weakness that encourages Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and radical Islam to new and dangerous aggression and expansion. As are the Mexican drug cartels on our Southern border. They're clearly thrilled that a weak incompetent leader like Biden is in charge and Trump is out, and they're right back in business. Endangering the U.S., endangering the world. Whereas Trump with a wise use of soft power and diplomacy, made the world a far safer place.
After Trump I question the wisdom of having the President having the lone power to launch nukes. I’m not the bitter and hateful partisan that you are WB. I never felt that way with other republican presidents but trump really scared a lot of people outside of your cult. His reaction to his people invading and beating on cops as they tried stopping the election from being certified would have been scary enough but knowing that sociopath had the power to launch a nuke strike made it even scarier.
After Trump I question the wisdom of having the President having the lone power to launch nukes. I’m not the bitter and hateful partisan that you are WB. I never felt that way with other republican presidents but trump really scared a lot of people outside of your cult. His reaction to his people invading and beating on cops as they tried stopping the election from being certified would have been scary enough but knowing that sociopath had the power to launch a nuke strike made it even scarier.
Because Trump launched so many nuclear strikes.... As president, Trump skillfullly pushed back the aggression of Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. And completely annihilated ISIS in Syria and Iraq. WITHOUT starting any wars. Trump proved himself to arguably better exert soft power than any U.S. president EVER.
I'm not hateful or bitter, it's YOUR OWN PARTY that wants to take away Biden's ability to control our nuclear weapons. And it's not "bitter" for me to point out the terrifyingly obvious, that Biden can't even read his scripted comments off a cue card.
Just today, Biden couldn't remember the name of the defense secretary that he allegedly appointed ! In that same press conference, he couldn't even remember the name of the Pentagon !
I don’t watch videos and I wouldn’t watch one posted by someone who plays the bias card on anything they don’t like than feels entitled to post Hannity propaganda. I watched enough Trump the previous 4 years suggesting bleach injections to gushing over Putin. Trump by any measure left the country in far worse shape than when he came into power. I don’t think you can even work the stats that show his failure.
I don’t watch videos and I wouldn’t watch one posted by someone who plays the bias card on anything they don’t like than feels entitled to post Hannity propaganda. I watched enough Trump the previous 4 years suggesting bleach injections to gushing over Putin. Trump by any measure left the country in far worse shape than when he came into power. I don’t think you can even work the stats that show his failure.
That's hilarious from a guy who gets his facts from Media Matters, and other far-Left sources.
Hannity is a partisan, unquestionably. But he presents quotes and sources that are undeniable. Things Joe Biden and others in his administration said on-camera that are absolutely beyond denying, that Hannity plays the video of, and often quotes even from the New York Times and Washington Post, Politico, CNN, MSNBC, Factcheck and Politifact, showing that the facts cited are undeniable, even to the liberal media.
Here's some Senate confirmation testimony of Vanita Gupta, who the Biden administration wanted to appoint to the third highest position in the DOJ. Her own self-incriminating posts are thrown in her face over and over, and she denies what she clearly advocated online over and over on social media less than 9 months ago. In classic Democrat style, she just repeatedly evades the question, changes the subject, and denies what she clearly said as somehow not representing the full context. These people are America-hating Bolshevik fanatics, and it truly terrifies me that many are being appointed to positions of power in government of a nation they want to destroy, many of them clearly saying that. In this one case, Gupta's nomination has been retracted.
The Clintons, the Obamas, Bernie Sanders and many of their staffers openly quote and praise Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Hugo Chaves, Che Gueverra, Saul Alinsky and other marxist fanatics. In the case of Bernie Sanders, he has for over 50 years praised every Communist regime in the last century, and yet has absolutely nothing good to say about our free capitalist Constitutional republic.
Democrats in the Clinton and Obama administrationss, openly praised and quoted Mao, Hugo Chaves and other communist and anti-American leaders. And I've posted the video of them saying it many times. Anita Dunn, Ron Bloom, Cass Sustein, Mark Lloyd, on and on. They openly talk about wanting to dismantle and de-platform any free speech they don't like. People in the campaigns of major Democrat presidential candidates such as Sanders, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have endorsed taking away 2nd Amendment rights, while simultaneously de-funding and taking away police protection, denying citizens the ability to be protected, or to protect themselves! Eliminating protection of our southern border from illegal criminals, and wanting to "crush" all conservative dissent and free speech rights. Wanting to de-platform all conservative news from cable television.
Which perfectly follows the models of Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Mao, all the murderous dictators they admire and quote. What people within the Democrat leadersship have openly said they would like to do here, what they are trying to actually do. Silencing all dissent. Putting their opposition in Gulags and "re-education centers". Taking away Trump supporters' children and raising/indoctrinating them by leftist state officials. And many Democrats even openly talking about killing Republicans. Project Veritas, among others, have caught many Democrat campaign officials and staffers openly boasting on-camera about these plans, which I've posted here repeatedly.
These are the maniacs who are truly running the government now, for which Joe Biden is just a figurehead. If Biden has any clue what is going on, he is a willing participant enabling this Bolshevik power grab, the destruction of our Constitutional republic.
I don’t watch videos and I wouldn’t watch one posted by someone who plays the bias card on anything they don’t like than feels entitled to post Hannity propaganda. I watched enough Trump the previous 4 years suggesting bleach injections to gushing over Putin. Trump by any measure left the country in far worse shape than when he came into power. I don’t think you can even work the stats that show his failure.
That's hilarious from a guy who gets his facts from Media Matters, and other far-Left sources.
Hannity is a partisan, unquestionably. But he presents quotes and sources that are undeniable. Things Joe Biden and others in his administration said on-camera that are absolutely beyond denying, that Hannity plays the video of, and often quotes even from the New York Times and Washington Post, Politico, CNN, MSNBC, Factcheck and Politifact, showing that the facts cited are undeniable, even to the liberal media.
I can’t remember the last time I was on the Media Matters site and it’s probably been a couple of years since I’ve posted something from that site. Compare that to your steady output of Hannity while bitching about bias and it’s not hilarious but pathetic. What I’ve come to expect though.
And while you stew in partisan hatred Biden just signed a bill that will lift a lot of kids out of poverty. Real values imho.
While Hannity injects his editorial opinion, he is quoting and citing facts without twisting them out of context. Hannity is conservative opinion, yes, but also nightly often quotes or directly interviews award-winning journalists such as John Solomon, Mollie Hemingway, and even on a number of occasions Bob Woodward, and other highly regarded experts such as Alan Dershowitz, among others.
That is a far distance away from the pure malicious paraphrasing and distortion on a daily basis that Media Matters deliberately indulges in, lying about the facts in a fanatic attempt to destroy Fox News and other conservative media, deliberately misleading the public. As opposed to Hannity, who simply presents the facts that the 80% liberal media doesn't want to report.
I don't "stew in partisan hatred" of Biden. I simply state the facts. Biden is not making the decisions, he is a clueless grinning buffoon being used by others. The cultural marxist lunatics in your party just signed a $ 1.9 trillion bill with money the nation doesn't have, the largest spending bill in U.S. history. And it's purpose is not to help "kids out of poverty" or to help anyone else. It is to consolidate power of your Democrat-Bolshevik party in its quest for absolute power and authoritarian one-party rule. Less than 9% of that bill goes to Covid-19 funding or "the poor".
This legislation pays decades of debt piled up by irresponsible Democrat governors and mayors, it funds far-left groups like the Planned Parenthood, and universities and National Education Association and other teacher unions, and federal employee unions such as in the DOJ, IRS and other federal agencies, where they reward Democrat political leaders, and these same political leaders get them raises and benefits way out of proportion to those of the private-sector taxpayers who fund their salaries. This bailout bill rewards Democrat failure and debt, and punishes states like Florida and Texas that havee been economically and fisscally responsible. This latest 1.9 trillion is a slush fund to aid Democrat candidates and their allies on into the 2022 and 2024 elections. Just as Obama's "Stimulus" bill and "omnibus" bills did in 2009. Only the deficit spending is far higher now. And it is essentially state-run capitalism that Democrat leaders use to force the dependency of ALL Americans on Democrat leaders and their Democrat allies, for housing, for healthcare, and for everything else.
This is not caring or generosity or "help for children". This is a Democrat weapon for control. What Obamacare did to require everyone to buy their product, this legislation is to do the same to every other aspect of the economy: energy, housing, whatever, it requires taxation and dependency on the Democrats and their allies in every aspect of their lives. This is an authoritarian takeover.
And it was voted for right down party lines, because there was not even an effort to work with Republicans. After multiple bipartisan bills while Trump was president, this, the first under Biden, was completely divisive and partisan, and that divisiveness and lack of attempt to work together at all was completely on the Democrat side. And even so, there still were even a few Democrats who wouldn't vote for it.
"Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. I ask every American to join me in this cause.” President Joe Biden spoke these words at his Jan. 20 inauguration. Since that day, we have seen everything but unity. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle just forced a costly bill through Congress disguised as relief—a bill that will burden our children and grandchildren with a debt they cannot repay.
After emphasizing the importance of unity, President Biden and the Democrats fully rejected attempts to work together to find bipartisan solutions to the ongoing pandemic. Instead, they opted to ram through a hyper-partisan agenda. Throughout this rushed process, my Republican colleagues and I introduced more than 250 amendments to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness in this relief package. All but one of our amendments were rejected on straight party lines. Certainly, this can’t be the unity the President had in mind.
Just days before I was sworn into office, the 116th Congress passed a $900 billion bipartisan COVID relief package that was signed into law. Since the pandemic started, approximately $4 trillion has been allocated and roughly $1 trillion remains unspent. Instead of spending taxpayer funds we don’t have on partisan pet projects like pension bailouts or a Silicon Valley subway, Congress should be focused on domestic issues like infrastructure repair, healthcare and ensuring unspent funds reach individuals and small businesses truly in need.
House and Senate Democrats used a budget tactic called reconciliation to pass this costly $1.9 trillion partisan spending spree innocently called the American Rescue Plan. This package is cluttered with provisions that will harm small businesses and stifle the economy, yet the plan fails to target those most in need of COVID assistance.
Despite $60 billion in unspent school funding from prior relief packages, this package allocates another $100 billion to schools without requiring them to open. Thankfully, our schools in Florida are open, but across the country, millions of kids are still struggling with online learning. They continue to fall farther behind because the president refuses to honor the science and stand up to the teachers’ unions. While targeted relief is crucial to help American families, borrowing money against our children’s future for a partisan wish list is irresponsible. The Congressional Budget Office estimates our economy will grow by 3.7% this year without this spending spree. The U.S. economy is currently healthier than previously projected, yet Democrats chose to add to our staggering national debt instead of focusing on targeted relief. Even some of the president’s closest economic advisers warn that it’s precisely this overspending that could cause interest rates to spike and send our economy into recession.
At a time when unity is the stated goal, my Democrat colleagues categorically reject any attempts to work together. I came to Washington to help make a positive difference in the lives of the people of Florida’s 15th Congressional District, but Democrats’ continued dismissal of any input from the Republican side of the aisle silences our constituents. I opposed this reckless partisan spending package because it does too little for those most in need while saddling our youth and future generations with its exorbitant price tag. Congress must do better. _________________________________________________
U.S. Rep. Scott Franklin is a former Lakeland city commissioner in his first term in Congress. He represents Florida's U.S. House District 15.
The gop talking points you presented debunked. This was a good bill imho that is popular even with a lot of republicans outside of the beltway. Unity is nice but let’s face it, you guys can’t even accept losing an election. The party is currently eating it’s own for those few who chose country over corrupt trump. Glad Biden got this out. Republicans can try to misinform all they want as the result helps people that actually need help. They voted for the stimulus that bailed out the cruise line industry, this got a solid no.
The gop talking points you presented debunked. This was a good bill imho that is popular even with a lot of republicans outside of the beltway. Unity is nice but let’s face it, you guys can’t even accept losing an election. The party is currently eating it’s own for those few who chose country over corrupt trump. Glad Biden got this out. Republicans can try to misinform all they want as the result helps people that actually need help. They voted for the stimulus that bailed out the cruise line industry, this got a solid no.
That's some carefully worded deceitful liberal spin. It's like an unedited press release directly from the Biden White House.
The fact is, less than 9% of the $1.9 trillion is going to actual covid relief. The rest is a Trojan horse that goes to the Democrat/Left and their allies, and hundreds of billions to pay off the debt of Democrat-governed cities and states, debt that FAR precedes the Coronavirus crisis and lock-downs, funds targeted to sweep away accountability for DECADES of Democrat-governed states' irresponsible spending policy. It punishes states that have been fiscally responsible, and it rewards states that have done the wrong thing at every turn.
The piece-of-shit Democrat party is in the process of destroying the country, allowing hundreds of thousands of criminals and Covid-infected illegal-immigrant scum into our country. Biden is even releasing illegals who are Covid-positive and busing them to scattered cities all across the country, to spread Covid, criminals, and new welfare dependents to already Covid-strained regions. HOW IS THAT "CHOOSING COUNTRY"?!? The talking points you are fronting are absolute shit garbage. Completely untrue. THE OPPOSITE of true. Trump was rebuilding this country, jobs, factories, border security, energy independence, national sovereignty, increasing wages, and rebuilding our military, and crippling the world's worst players (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea) with punishing sanctions that prevented them from funding new aggression. The only purpose of the policy Biden and his puppetmasters are enacting is to destroy what Trump created, and to hurt the American people. And replace them with a Democrat-compliant foreign electorate.
The stimulus checks are being sent to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ! Hidden in the "Covid relief" bill is forcing U.S. taxpayers to pay for all the processing and economic aid for all these lawless third-world illegal immigrant scum who shouldn't even be here.
There are also earmarks for museums, Planned Parenthood, and thousands of other liberal-progressive causes and Democrat-supporting leftist groups. And as I said, over 91% of that is unrelated to helping Americans stricken by Covid and the lockdowns. Most of that 1.9 trillion is a slush fund, to aid Democrats and their political allies through the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Already debunked the 9% lie WB. Sourced actual amounts. Honestly, why bother lying?
The "de-bunking" is what's a lie.
It is a fact that less than 9% of that funding goes to Covid-19 relief, and that the majority of it goes to bailing out Democrat cities and states with hundreds of billions in (newly printed) federal dollars, debt stacked up from DECADES of irresponsible Democrat leadership. California being a prime example.
That is not "Covid relief". That is DEMOCRAT relief. And it is done by printing another $1.9 trillion that our nation doesn't have, with newly printed currency and no assets to back it up, that makes every dollar we each have in the bank worth less. And on top of that, the Biden administration is talking about another 3 trillion in infrastructure spending with money we don't have, that will also be printed in new dollars. Our national debt now exceeds out annual GNP for the first time ssince World War II. We are entering Weimar Republic territory. This is the path to collapse of the dollar.
According to The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, a “generous definition of Covid-related provisions tallies some $825 billion,” in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, while the rest goes towards “bailouts for Democratic constituencies, expansions of progressive programs, pork, and unrelated policy changes.”
The editors conclude that it’s disingenuous to call it a COVID relief bill when in reality it’s a “progressive blowout for the ages that does little for the economy but will finance Democratic interest groups for years.”
Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld called the bill the “political version of money laundering” and compared it to “Breaking Bad,” whose main character Walter White bought a car wash to launder money for his illicit meth business.
“I’m going to point out something that is either so obvious it is idiotic or so obvious it is brilliant,” Gutfeld said on “The Five.” “The stimulus is a device for the government to give itself more money, think about it, we are watching an entity writing a check to itself, sure, we are getting some money out of it, which was oh, by the way, our money to begin with, but this is now a political version of money laundering.”
He continued, pointing to the “Breaking Bad” reference: “Our government is laundering our money to indulge their constituencies and their causes, they see the pandemic as their car wash. They are pushing billions through it through programs, through pork and bailouts, using people’s suffering as their cover.”
1) Biden has signed executive orders to stop the Canadian Keystone XL pipeline, that instantly eliminated 15,000 high-paying American jobs (each about $200,000 a year), and also signed a bill to stop oil drilling on federal land and adjacent private lands. Where Trump had made the U.S. energy-independent and therefore insulated from foreign wars in nations we previously got oil from, and draining about a trillion a year leaving our U.S. economy and going to nations like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mexico and Venezuela, countries that hate us, to build their economies and their ability to wage war and oppress their own people, Trump had eliminated that for the first time in 70 years. These nations no longer had the revenue to wage war, they had less money to even protect their tyrannical regimes from revolution by their own people. And they were not involving us in new wars, despite many deep state/globalist insiders pushing Trump to launch a new war in Iran or North Korea. Now with Biden in office dropping sanctions or enforcing them less strongly, these genocidal regimes are back in business!
2) Biden signed executive orders that immediately stopped construction on the almost completed Southern border wall. Despite that the materials are piled up RIGHT THERE on the border, that would only take a few more days to complete. Stopped cold, and another 5,000 high-paying jobs immediately eliminated. In one section, there was only about 1/2 mile left to close the wall. The materials to close that gap are now rusting in a pile a few hundred yards away. And guess where the illegals are now pouring in every night into that county? Yes, through that half-mile gap. Biden telegraphed for a year he would stop deporting illegals, and would instantly stop construction of the wall. Give them free health insurance! Give them Covid checks! Which has happened, encouraging an instant flood of illegals across our border. In that one county they estimate about 3,300 adults and about 800 minors a day flooding in. The Mexican drug cartels and human trafickers are back in business, each making an estimated $14 million a day on the crisis Biden created. The cartels LOVE Biden!
In Democrat states, people are still trapped in lockdowns, unable to work, and children unable to go to school. But Biden and the Democrats allow thousands **EVERY DAY** to flood across our borders, not even screened for Covid-19, catch and release,free to move God knows where within the U.S., with absolutely no screening for disease or criminal history. Murderers, rapists, drunk drivers, child predators, human traffickers, drug cartels, people with all kinds of diseases, just running wild across America. The cartels LOVE Biden and the Democrats.
3) Biden is ramping up trillions in new spending, with money the nation doesn't have. Again, fast-tracking a collapse of the U.S. dollar, with trillions more in new printed currency, with nothing to back its value. The Weimar Republic plan.
4) Biden is pushing for crushing new taxes, on people who are still struggling to recover from Covid-19 shutdowns. Many have lost their jobs and businesses and homes, been evicted. And Biden's solution is.... the most punishing tax increases in 50 years? Insane.
5) Biden is weakening the U.S. by re-entering the Paris Accord, that further cripples U.S. businesses, despite that without being in the Paris Accord, the U.S. decreased its environmental emissions by 3%, better than any nation in the agreement! And that the Paris Accord gives the world's worst polluters (China, India, Iran, Pakistan...) no requirement to comply as "developing nations", while the U.S. is crippled and the other nations continue to pollute with ever greater annual emissions. Even John Kerry admitted the U.S. complying while these nations don't makes no difference.
6) Biden reversed Trump policy and now fully finds the World Health Organizaion (WHO) just like before, requiring no change in policy or leadership. Which just encourages them to go on as a lapdog of China and infect the whole world again. With Trump, he enacted a common sense de-funding of WHO until they change their policies and leadership to prevent a similar crisis. Biden just hoses away billions and openly encourages corruption and a repeat of the same crisis happening again.
7) Ultimately, a "C R 1" passed through the House and now an "S 1" bill in the Senate, that is nothing less than a corrupt Bolshevik takeover of our election system to have it controlled by the Democrat party for the next hundred years. The end of our 2-party system and all Constitutional checks and balances. And after that, taking away guns, and increasing restrictions of freedom by the ruling Democrat-Bolshevik party, until there is nothing left. Absolutely the end of our Constitutional republic, with no checks and balances left on Democrat-Bolsheviks' absolute power. After which the complete destruction of the nation will begin in earnest.
And that's not even a complete list. In less than 60 days, but with these alone Biden and the Democrats have put this nation on the path to national suicide. Even in Biden's first 60 days, the only thing keeping it from collapsing is the strengths Trump created in his previous 4 years as president:
* Trump's rebuilding of our military. * Trump's border wall, and securing the Southern border, and the now-crumbling alliances toward that end with Mexico and Central American countries. * Trump's building the strongest economy in over 50 years, that allowed the country to bounce back quickly from the tyrannical Covid-19 lockdowns in Democrat states. * And most importantly, the fast-tracked vaccine Trump pushed for, that NEVER would have occurred under an incompetent corrupt Biden, or probably under any other president of either party. If Trump were still president, the immunization would be closer to completion, but it is occurring anyway, IN SPITE OF Biden, certainly not because of him.
Biden is running this country on the last fumes of the great engine that Trump built, that they "resisted" kicking and screaming every steep of the way for 4 years, and in spite of them, Trump prove in the end with each that he was right and they were wrong. And now they want to destroy it, just because Trump built it. More than that, they want to destroy THE NATION that Trump was elected in 2016 just in time to save from 30 years of their Marxist/globalist plans. I pray to God we can survive 4 years of Biden. I have my doubts. And the Democrats cheer like Biden wasn't destroying us. Cheer for a "leader" who can't remember anything that isn't written in advance for him on a note card by his puppetmasters.
Washington, March 25 - Neftegaz.RU. U.S. refiners have turned to Russian oil and petroleum products to fill the gap that sanctioned Venezuelan crude and drastically reduced OPEC shipments have left in U.S. imports, despite the energy standoff between the U.S. and Russia, Oilprice analysed.
In 2020, the U.S. imported more oil and refined products from Russian than from Saudi Arabia, with Russia’s share of American oil exports at a record-high 7%, Bloomberg News has estimated based on customs and EIA data. Russia mostly displaced the market previously held by Venezuela - now unable to sell its heavy oil to U.S. refiners because of the American sanctions on Nicolas Maduro’s regime.
U.S. oil imports from Russia exceeded last year even the imports from OPEC’s top producer and de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, which - after briefly flooding the U.S. market with its crude in April 2020 - drastically cut shipments to the most transparent market to help inventory drawdowns amid collapsing fuel demand globally.
As per Bloomberg calculations, the U.S. imported on average 538,000 barrels per day of oil and oil products from Russia last year. This was higher than the average American imports of oil from Saudi Arabia, which is estimated to have shipped on average 522,000 bpd to the U.S..
Russia thus became the 3rd-biggest oil supplier to America in 2020, according to Bloomberg’s estimates. In 2019, the top 5 sources of U.S. total petroleum, including crude oil, imports were: Canada, with 49 % share of imports Mexico with 7% Saudi Arabia with 6%, Russia also with 6% Colombia with a 4% share
Valero and ExxonMobil were the biggest buyers of Russian oil and oil products last year, according to customs data cited by Bloomberg. Most of the oil that U.S. refiners buy from Russia is not crude oil, but fuel oil they use to produce gasoline in the absence of Venezuelan heavy oil supply to complement the imports of heavy Canadian crude from the oil sands.
Energy consultants and analysts told Bloomberg that they haven’t seen any concern in the White House about the rising imports of oil from Russia, while the new U.S. Administration continues to threaten sanctions on partners of the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 project in Europe.
Under Trump, that might have been a temporary concern. But as Biden is with executive orders crushing the infrastructure to domestically produce that oil, our foreign oil -dependency will only increase over the coming months.
The chaos in the biden administration continues. NO ONE in the Biden administration is apparently in charge of resolving the border crisis. Which mean an estimated 6,000 Covid-infected illegals, drug cartels and other criminals, terrorists and predators will continue flooding over our borders every day, released into our country unscreened and untested, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
This is good for our nation... how? Only if you hate America and want to endanger the American people does this make any sense. Or in other words, only if you're a Democrat.
Which crushes small housing investor landlords, and helps the corporate housing investors (i.e., large Democrat campaign donors) get an even larger market share, to further destroy the middle class.
But hey, nothing to see here, everything's great under Biden. It's NOT AT ALL like we're moving toward corrupt one-party authoritarian rule.
Oh, the irony.... from the guy who has already said he'd prefer to be like a Jewish guard at Auschwitz. Pandering to the authoritarian liberal mob, to be the last one thrown in the ovens.
I make"vulgar" look good, you mentally ill wanker.
The profanity-laden hysteria and personal invective you post, and I'm the "mentally ill wanker" ?
I think it's pretty clear you're the one with issues, I just cite the facts. I don't speculate that the Left is dangerous and has violent Bolshevik intent, I just cite, source and link exactly what they themselves say of their stated intentions. I know it's something you're unfamiliar with, but the rest of us call those FACTS.
Mexican criminal cartels—not U.S. border communities, nor illegal immigrants—are the beneficiaries of President Joe Biden’s open border policies. Biden’s neglect of border security is feeding the money-making machine of the Mexican cartels, a criminal enterprise that exploits immigrants by taking their money—and sometimes their lives.
“[The cartels] have the northern border of Mexico sealed,” Jay Whetten, a rancher residing in Cochise County, Arizona, told me in an interview. “Nobody comes through that border illegally without their authorization.”
In May 2021, Border Patrol encounters with illegal immigrants from the Mexican border increased 674% as compared to May 2020, demonstrating the magnitude of the increase in business for Mexican cartels. And, according to a veteran Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officer, these are only the crossings of which Border Patrol is aware. The officer, who wished to remain anonymous, has extensive border experience and estimates the number to be 20% higher. He told me in an interview, “The cartel makes more money on people than they do on dope.”
For illegal immigrants, working with the cartels is their only option. According to Dan Cantu, a recently retired Border Patrol agent, no one “freelances”—or crosses into the U.S. from the Mexican border without cartel permission. In most cases, those who try are instantly killed. “They call those [who cross on their own] ‘chapulines’ … which means grasshoppers in Spanish,” Cantu told me in an interview. “It’s common knowledge that the minute they try to freelance—as soon as they do—smugglers and recruiters [for the cartels] will notice … [and] they’ll flat out kill them.”
According to Cantu, cartel scouts oversee certain zones or corridors of the border. They patrol ridge lines and mountains in search of “chapulines” walking on their own. If found, the chapulin is approached by a scout and asked for a code. Those who don’t know the code, Cantu told me, are often tied to a tree and beaten, raped, or killed by cartel operatives.
“The chapulines experience all kinds of torture,” Cantu emphasized, “because [the cartels] have got to send a message … there is a price for attempting to traverse the border yourself.”
The message, says Cantu, is clear: “Do not attempt to do this yourself.”
Cantu gave a chilling example of how the cartels punish “chapulines”:
I debriefed a smuggler who said, ‘If you go up to a certain mountain, you’ll find seven bodies.’ In this case, the bodies were [freelance] drug smugglers [killed by the cartel].
The [cartel] left the [marijuana] bundles with the chapulines and put a tag on [their bodies] that said, ‘Por ser chapulin’—‘for being a chapulin.’ They didn’t even care about [taking] the marijuana.
The message was: ‘Do not do this, you will die and it isn’t worth it.’
‘Por ser chapulin’ on a little sign pinned to his chest. All the other drug smugglers that use that particular trail would see that. It’s a strong message … it’s a pretty strong message.
Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch, explained to me in an interview how the cartels’ control of the Mexican border is driven by profit and dehumanizes the people they traffic. Farrell, a former Army counterintelligence officer, has over 18 years of experience investigating the U.S.-Mexican border, including a narco terror plot against Chicago launched from Juarez, Mexico. “When Americans hear about the humanitarian crisis at the border,” said Farrell, “they should remember that it is fueled by a sophisticated criminal enterprise that is subsidized by the Biden administration’s failure to secure our border.”
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was listed in Forbes magazine as one of “The World’s Most Powerful People” from 2009 to 2014 and in Forbes “World’s Billionaires List” in 2012. “The Mexican cartels have a valuation greater than Walmart,” said Farrell. “They are not a bunch of thugs hanging out in a trailer someplace.” As Farrell explained, illegal immigrants who pay cartels are considered “contraband units” that must be moved across the border, not valuable human beings.
“Once they cross the border… humans are a commodity that are expendable. If they die in the desert, the ‘coyotes’ won’t be held accountable,” Farrell said. “Let’s say an alien is injured and can’t continue. They will leave them to die in the desert. A coyote would never leave a bundle of drugs out in the desert.” This is corroborated by Arizona rancher John Ladd, who told me he has found 14 dead bodies on his property, which runs along the border wall—bodies of immigrants who crossed illegally into the U.S.
Illegal immigrants by the thousands are risking their lives daily to cross into the U.S., with the “help” of a brutal criminal enterprise, rather than through a safe and legal process. This is the direct result of foolish and deliberate choices made by Biden. The Biden administration’s reversal of Trump-era border policies—despite its false narrative of “humane” immigration—has given Mexican cartels an enormous opportunity to exploit immigrants for financial gain. This criminal and inhumane system is a direct consequence of Biden’s open-door policies and willful neglect of border security. ____________________________
Shea Bradley-Farrell, Ph.D., is president of Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research, and Education and a policy fellow at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
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Originally Posted by WB
My cited evidence, vs. your easily disproven lies. The sources I've cited are telling the facts.
The liberal media you guys cite have been proven to be liars over and over. They OPENLY BOAST that factual journalism "is over-rated", and that their job is to prop up the Democrat narrative and slander Trump any way they can.
How many times do I have to beat you morons over the head with the facts:
Your unhinged liberal cultism is put on display by the facts you ignore, even as you try to perpetuate another false narrative, that conservatives and other independent thinkers are "cultists" for rejecting the clearly false narrative and exhibiting critical thinking. But you cling to liberal media lies, even after the ethics and credibility of your mainstream liberal sources have been PROVEN discredited liars, dozens of times over. And openly say they are proud to be liars, for your Deep State/Democrat cult.
Thank you for two decades of showing yourself to be an insufferable prick that alienated everyone at this board by being unable to show the same respect he demands of everyone else. Again, go fuck yourself.
What's that? You appreciate fucking yourself so you keep this round-and-round going. That's demented. Get help. This is why no one loves you and you couldn't even keep friends on an internet message board.
No, there's just no point to what you're saying, and this sums up EVERY POST of yours so well :
Originally Posted by Iggy
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Your posts are just pure antagonism with no meaningful content, because you're a miserable foul piece of excrement, and everything you post is the equivalent of vandalism, with no further point worth responding to. Other than pointing out what you are.
Although "incompetence" only half gets it right, because it's clear at this point that these are deliberate failures by figurehead Biden, and the puppet-masters in his administration who are truly running things. To the American people who see gas prices doubling, the collapse in Afghanistan, hyperinflation in food prices, huge layoffs of 30% or more due to vaccines that don't even prevent infection of spread of Covid, but are now mandating the layoff of already short -staffed police, fire, teachers, doctors, nurses, military, and other government and private sector employees, is a policy calculated to create chaos and collapse our society.
If Biden were a Russian or Chinese spy sent to destroy America, he and his Bolshevik administration could not be doing more damage to our country. And it is not by accident, it is by design. It is deliberate.
Steve Hilton gives an interesting alternative perspective on his show. He was previously an advisor to British prime minister David Cameron, so has the perspective of someone who has overseen things from the highest level of government. He also has run a business/tech company. His show is equally critical of Democrats, and of Republicans who are part of the same "swamp" of self-serving political ccorruption, who are more interested in cashing in on their political position than acting in the best interests of the nation and its people. * Lisa Boothe's comments about how Biden's presidency has been built on lies from the very beginning, deliberately misrepresenting the true facts at every turn from the start, particularly resonated for me. * Former ICE director Tom Homan detailing the actual extent of illegal immigration under Biden, deliberately hidden from the American people. * Jonathan Turley, talking about the over-reach of federal power, "flipping of the script" of what was intended in the Constitution, destroying the checks and balances that are supposed to prevent creation of an authoritarian federal state. * Merrick Garland's weaponization of the DOJ and FBI against Jan 6th protesters, and now against parents simply voicing opposition to critical race theory and mandatory Covid-19 vaccines for their children, re-branded by Garland as "domestic terrorists" and sending the FBI to intimidate an arrest them, to further silence first amendment political dissent.
A good overview of some, not all, of the crises the Biden Administration has deliberately created.
A new Quinnipiac poll dropped on Tuesday, and it’s a doozy for President Joe Biden, whose approval rating just keeps reaching new lows.
According to the poll, which surveyed 1,342 adults nationwide between Oct. 15 and 18, Biden’s approval has dropped to 37 percent — despite the fact that only 23 percent of respondents were Republicans. The poll was D+4. Only 38 percent of those surveyed said they have a “favorable” impression of the president. That’s less than Trump’s 39 percent “favorable” rating in the same poll, despite the sample group leaning blue.
The poll indicates Biden’s approval has slipped across demographic groups. Not only is he a staggering 39 points underwater with white men (26 percent approve to 65 percent disapprove), but he’s also lost the support of white women and Hispanics. Approval among white women is down to 40 percent, with 53 percent disapproving, a 13-point deficit. And among Hispanics, it’s a gaping 18-point difference (33 percent approve to 51 percent disapprove).
The Democrat president’s support hasn’t just waned in quantity, but especially in quality, with enthusiasm swinging against the president. In other words, Biden’s critics dislike him more passionately than his supporters like him. While only 18 percent of respondents indicated that they “approve strongly” of how Biden is handling the presidency, 43 percent said they “disapprove strongly.”
The poll also shows that more than half the country believes we’re worse off now than a year ago (52 percent), as the president who vowed to “shut down the virus” instead has routinely mangled COVID-19 messaging and sent the economy spiraling into disaster, with worker shortages, supply and shipping crises, skyrocketing inflation and high prices, and medically coercive vaccine mandates that have led to strikes and unjust terminations.
Though the White House likes to say these failures are a result of the administration’s preoccupation with stamping out COVID and “saving lives,” polling shows the American people aren’t fooled. When asked, “What is the most urgent issue facing the country today[?]” the plurality responded that it’s the economy (19 percent), not COVID-19 (16 percent). Close behind is immigration at 14 percent, as the Biden administration continues to exacerbate its humanitarian crisis on the southern border.
It's worth noting that this was a liberal poll weighted with a higher number of Democrats than they are as an actual ratio of the counrty, and polls a smaller number of Republicans. So as low as this poll shows Biden, it is still actually a better spin than the real numbers would reflect.
Shocking (not) that polls like election results are only acceptable when you like them WB,
I've said multiple times that polls, whether they gel with my opinion or the reverse, are a "survey of the uninformed", that it measures public perception rather than their knowledge of the actual facts. That I like when they agree with my opinion, but either way they are not absolute.
But in this case... As I showed in the above link at Redstate.com, that shows a list of ALL polls and an average of all polls, there is a clear and growing universal disdain and massive drop in support for Biden and the Democrat-Bolsheviks, not just one outlier poll. Because the Democrat leadership have demonstrated such contempt for even the grassroots Democrats who voted for them, who voted for Biden as a promised moderate, whose policy has gone instead hard-left radical, the furthest radical-Left ever in U.S. history, and are ramming their covert agenda down all our throats:
* Biden lying about what his generals advised him to do in Afghanistan, and Biden did the exact opposite of what he was advised, with hundreds of Americans STILL, EVEN ALMOST 90 DAYS LATER, trapped in Afghanistan, threatened, abducted, and tens of thousands of our Afghan allies, some of them spouses and children of U.S. veterans, trapped in Afghanistan and threatened, some of them beheaded. With the Biden administration doing NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to rescue them. The opposite of helping, actually obstructing private attempts to rescue them and fly them out to neighboring nations. Biden has not even mentioned the hostages trapped in Afghanistan in about 80 days. No effort to help them.
* Biden immediately cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, and banned oil drilling on public lands and adjacent lands that Trump had previously opened up to drilling. Making the U.S. oil independent and a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the first time in over 70 years. And then Biden pretends he doesn't know why oil prices are rising, when the Democrats deliberately created an artificial scarcity to make oil prices "necessarily skyrocket" (Barack Obama's publicly stated vision in 2008) , to push the American public to use so-called green energy sources instead. This is all deliberately caused by the Democrats. And it is not only creating artificial scarcity and a price rise in the U.S., but also worldwide, thinning the global supply of oil by suddenly and arbitrarily slashing U.S. oil production overnight.
* Through spiking oil prices, Biden has caused a stifling of employment with stay-at-home subsidies for workers, thus thinning the labor pool, implementing laws and executive orders that prohibit non-union truckers in California, further thinning available labor at ports to unload ships, and creating a scarcity of truckers to transport good from ports to retail stores across the country, through firing at least 20 to 30% of workers nationwide overnight: police, firemen, hospital doctors and nurses, restaurant workers, dock workerss, truckers, military contractors. ALL these things combined are creating shortages of goods, an increase in prices, and causing the closing of many businesses. ALL this is Biden's fault, both Biden and his puppetmasters. * inflation caused by the above closures and labor scarcity.
* Multiple huge new Democrat trillion-dollar spending bills, that are basically slush funds for Democrats to reward their friends and punish their enemies, to consolidate Democrat authoritarian power over the entire nation. - A $1.9 trillion deceitfully named "Covid relief bill", of which in truth at most 9% was actually used for Covid programs, the rest used for funding Planned Parenthood, NEA, PBS, and other Democrat allies. - A currently proposed (and failing) $3.5 trillion "Infrastructure bill" that is another Trojan horse for Democrat Bolshevik power consolidation, buried within it a proposal to take away power of individual states to legislate their own individual election laws and allow either party equal election monitoring and ability to challenge elections as corrupt, with new rules only allowing the party in power (the Democrats) to challenge or monitor elections, and once that happens Democrats with a federalized central control over all state elections has permanent control of all future elections, and the Democrats never lose another election. Sen Joe Manchin just today said that the lower $1.75 trillion proposal is another Democrat trojan horse, that the bill initially priced at 1.75 trillion actually opens a door that requires further spending that would rise to or exceed the initial $3.5 trillion price tag. He called his own party's bill a smoke and mirrors deception, and called for honesty and a fully written bill, not another "you have to pass it to see what's in it" scam.
* Critical race theory in schools, that as demonstrated in Loudon County and other very blue regions. When even parents in very DEMOCRAT regions show up angry at PTA meetings and demand teaching critical race theory be abolished and that PTA leftist radicals who snuck it in to schools resign, teacher unions wrote to the DOJ, and then attorney general Comrade Commissar Merrick Garland weaponized the FBI to declare parents domestic terrorists (just like the Jan 6th false narrative) to be "domestic terrorists", to suppress parents from overturning the schools' radical Democrt-radical-orchestrated Cultural Marxist /CRT curriculum. The results of that power grab, at both the DOJ and PTA levels, is being seen tonight in the governor races in Virginia and New Jersey, both deeply blue states that (by the highly disputable official Nov 2020 numbers anyway, if not unquestionably rigged ) both New Jersey and Virginia in just oen year now have swung almost 20 points the other way, where both Republican candidates are winning by 3 and 4-point margins. Because of outrageous over-reach on Critical Race Theory in a secretive and deceitful manner by Democrats, in schools and states nationwide. Likewise the Covid-19 vaccination mandates for teachers and children, despite that even many vaccinated people get Covid anyway. There is no science to back the vaccine mandates, the vaccine neither stops infection or speead of the virus, even after vaccination. And children are more likely to die of vaccine complications than by covid infection itself.
* Hyperinflation
* Open borders
* offering $450,000-per child "compensation for emotional trauma" to ILLEGALS breaking into our country, putting millions in their accounts, while Democrats in the proposed 3.5 trillion "Infrastructure Billl" are legislating a more than doubling of the current 75,000 IRS agents, adding another 87,000 agents. And new laws buried in the (again deceitfully named) "Infrastructure Bill" forcing banks to report any transaction of $600 or more to the IRS, so they can harass and audit any halfway influential into bankruptcy and submission, from billionaires to blue-collar Republicans they want to target.
On and on, the Bolshevik authoritarian controls introduced, and the holy war on a independent and conservative dissenting thought, using the full weight of the IRS, FBI, ATF and other federal law enforcement branches, the DOJ, the CIA, NSA, OSHA, using the education system (through CRT and Covid vaccine purges) , using military contractor companies (and their Covid purges of dissenting employees), mandating Covid-purges of employees in any large company with 100 or more employees , and in every other weaponized branch of the federally controlled public and private sector, to crush and destroy all opposition to the Democrat-Bolshevik rationalized Covid-power grab. But even doctors and nurses, those most familiar with the science on Covid and the vaccine offered, are refusing immunization, and are choosing unemployment rather than compliance. That tells you a great deal, right there. Held up as heroes for 18 months, and then suddenly demonized by the Democrats and Orwellian liberal media, fired for allegedly being a"super-spreaders". These doctors and nurses have been on the front line of Covid treatment every day, are the people who best know the vaccine mandate is a lying Democrat narrative, not backed by the science.
The ultimate goal of the Democrats is socialism, or outright communism with no "socialist" or "Democrat-Socialist" euphemisms. The Democrat leadership's goal is absolute control of every aspect of Americans' lives, where people cannot even feed themselves and survive through a job, or keep a home without government assistance. The goal of Democrats is to create individuals' complete dependency on a Democrat socialist state for everything they have, so as to guarantee they will re-elect the Democrats who have set up and provide everything they need to survive. Because that worked so well in Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Vietnam, Camodia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua...
For over 100 years, every one of these marxist regimes has seen complete collapse of their economies, and authoritarian zealots keeping a grip on power only by through football fields of unmarked mass graves of the bodies of their political dissenters, each with signs of torture and a uniform bullet to the back of the head. THESE are the fanatical regimes that Obama, Hillary, Biden, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar and the rest of the Democrat-Left admire and emulate. I've quoted them many times before :
Ron Bloom, Obama's transportation czar: "We agree with Mao, that capitalism is mostly a sham, and that power is mostly administered at the barrel of a gun..."
Mark Lloyd, Obama's FCC "diversity czar", discussing Hugo Chaves' seizure and takeover of Venezuela news media: "Very effective, and a good model to follow."
All cultural marxist radicals to the core. Many key Obama officials. And many similar-minded officials that are less visible behind-the-scenes puppetmasters in the Biden administration: Susan Rice, Anthony Blinkin, Kamala Harris, Lloyd Austin, Janet Yellin, Xavier Bacera, Denis McDonough, Alejandro Mayorkas, Avril Haines, Ron Klain. All previously in high positions int he Obama administration, now given even more power to advance their radicalism in the Biden administration. These hidden officials are the actual power and source of radical policy, for which Biden is just the half-conscious figurehead.
These Democrat lunatics routinely fantasize about putting Trump supporters in Gulags (Project Veritas again, said by seversal Bernie Sanders' highest campaign officials, recorded saying it on video.)
Multiple Democrat campaign consultants on social media were ecstatic about Rep. Scalise and others being shot at and almost killed, at the Congressional baseball game, describing the shootings as "a good start" and openly hoping for more Republicans shot ! Not just random basement-dwelling yokels, these comments were said by Democrat pollsters and aides!
A PBS lawyer executive (taped by Project Veritas) called for HHS to take away children of Republicans/Trump supporters and have them raised by the state to break their parents' ability to instill them with conservative values.
Jennifer Rubin of the New York Times called after the Nov 2020 election to "Crush the Republican party so completely it can never come back."
Former Bill Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich called in an editorial for former Trump officials to be forced to confess their crimes in publicly televised show trials. Literally, those kind of "five minutes hate" show trials come straight from Stalinist Russia and Maoist China.
On and on. These are just a few examples.
The Democrat party expresses its hatred for Trump supporters and broader Republicans, calls for violence against them as somehow justified, calls for them to be put in Gulags and tormented, crushed, humiliated, EXACTLY the tactics of the Soviet Russians and the Maoist Chinese. Even Democrat media rhetoic has the same wording and talking points as the Chinese Communist government. And somehow grassroots Democrats don't see the radicalism and danger to the entire country from this, the outright marxist radicalism. These Clinton, Obama and Biden officials openly admire people like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Che Gueverra, Chaves, the Sandinistas, Saul Alinsky, and openly advocate their lawless tactics of violence and intimidation. And even when Democrat leaders have implemented massive weaponized abuse by government on their political opposition, it somehow doesn't register to grassroots Democrats in their indoctrinated minds that these Democrat leaders are destroying our Constitutional republic and moving toward a similar genocide as the marxist regimes they admire, that these Clinton/Obama/Biden appointees emulate, in no uncertain terms. Democrats from the grassroots to the leadership level openly advocate this weaponization of government, its violence, and its purges.
Although it's comforting that up to 20% of Democrat voters are repulsed by this marxist power grab, and voted for 2 Republican governors tonight.
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