Biden Stopping Oil

Biden still not trying to increase oil production. 

https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/white-house-responds-to-more-us-oil-drilling-we-dont-need-to-do-that_4538421.html

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chevron-hits-back-says-biden-trying-impose-obstacles-energy-delivery

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/06/16/exxonmobil-response-to-biden-n2608859

Despite President Biden’s claims that he’s doing everything he can to fight inflation, it’s clear he’s not.

Looking only at oil and gas production in the US, we see that we are still far behind the trend we were on before the pandemic.

Little doubt that Biden‘s anti-fossil fuel policies are negatively impacting supply, resulting in higher prices.

April 2022 Interior Secretary Deb Haaland “we continue to appeal the court injunction requiring us to allow leases and permits and I have used my authority to reduce by 80 precent the areas to lease, impose stringent environmental safeguards, and ensure the American people receive their fair share.”  

May 2022 - Biden administration imposed much higher carbon cost standard in review process

Biden fighting wrong war

Instead of decisively helping Ukraine defeat Russia by sending more weapons with more capabilities sooner rather than later Biden focuses his efforts on forcing the country to allow children to have irreversible life altering surgery  

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-directs-hhs-to-expand-access-to-transgender-care-including-for-children

By By Bret Stephens NYT

Five sentences sum up the war in Ukraine as it stands now.

The Russians are running out of precision-guided weapons. The Ukrainians are running out of Soviet-era munitions. The world is running out of patience for the war. The Biden administration is running out of ideas for how to wage it. And the Chinese are watching.

Moscow’s shortfalls with its arsenal, which have been obvious on the battlefield for weeks, are cause for long-term relief and short-term horror. Relief, because the Russian war machine, on whose modernization Vladimir Putin spent heavily, has been exposed as a paper tiger that could not seriously challenge NATO in a conventional conflict.

Horror, because an army that cannot wage a high-tech war, relatively low on collateral damage, will wage a low-tech war, appallingly high on such damage. Ukraine, by its own estimates, is suffering 20,000 casualties a month. By contrast, the U.S. suffered about 36,000 casualties in Iraq over seven years of war. For all its bravery and resolve, Kyiv can hold off — but not defeat — a neighbor more than three times its size in a war of attrition.

That means Ukraine needs to do more than slow down the Russian Army. It needs to break its spine as quickly as possible.

But that can’t happen in an artillery war when Russia can fire some 60,000 shells per dayagainst the roughly 5,000 that the Ukrainians have said they can get off. Quantity, as the saying goes, has a quality all its own. The Biden administration is providing Ukraine with advanced howitzers, rocket launchers and munitions, but they aren’t arriving fast enough.

Now is the moment for Joe Biden to tell his national security team what Richard Nixon told his when Israel was reeling from its losses in the Yom Kippur War: After asking what weapons Jerusalem was asking for, the 37th president ordered his staff to “double it,” adding, “Now get the hell out of here and get the job done.”

The urgency of winning soon — or at least of putting Russian forces into retreat across a broad front, so that it’s Moscow, not Kyiv, that sues for peace — is compounded by the fact that time isn’t necessarily on the West’s side.

Sanctions on Russia may do long-term damage to its capacity to grow. But sanctions can do only so much in the short term to dent Russia’s capacity to destroy. Those same sanctions also exact a toll on the rest of the world, and the toll the world is prepared to pay for solidarity with Ukraine isn’t unlimited. Critical shortages of food, energy and fertilizer, along with the supply disruptions and price increases that inevitably follow, can’t be sustained forever in democratic societies with limited tolerance for pain.

Meanwhile, Putin appears to be paying no great price, whether in energy revenues (which are up, thanks to price increases) or in public support (also up, thanks to some combination of nationalism, propaganda and fear), for his war. Hoping he might die soon of whatever disease might be ailing him — Is it Parkinson’s? A “blood cancer”? Or just a Napoleon complex? — isn’t a strategy.

What more can the Biden administration do? It needs to take two calculated risks, based on one conceptual breakthrough.

The calculated risks: First, as retired Adm. James Stavridis has proposed, the U.S. should be prepared to challenge the Russian maritime blockade of Odesa by escorting cargo ships to and from the port.

That will first mean getting Turkey to allow NATO warships to transit the Turkish straits to the Black Sea, which could entail some uncomfortable diplomatic concessions to Ankara. More dangerously, it could result in close encounters between NATO and Russian warships. But Russia has no legal right to blockade Ukraine’s last major port, no moral right to keep Ukrainian farm products from reaching global markets, and not enough maritime might to take on the U.S. Navy.

Second, the U.S. should seize the estimated $300 billion in Russian central bank assets held abroad to fund Ukraine’s military and reconstruction needs.

I first proposed this in early April, and Harvard’s Laurence Tribe and Jeremy Lewin laid out a convincing legal case several days later in a Times guest essay. The administration has cold feet on grounds that it could violate U.S. law and set a bad financial precedent — which would be good arguments in less dire circumstances. Right now, what’s urgently needed is the kind of financial wallop to Russia that other sanctions have failed to inflict.

Which brings us to the conceptual breakthrough: The fight in Ukraine will have a greater effect in Asia than it will in Europe. The administration may reassure itself that it has sufficiently bloodied the Russian military that it won’t soon be invading anyone else. That’s true as far as it goes.

But if the war ends with Putin comfortably in power and Russia in possession of a fifth of Ukraine, then Beijing will draw the lesson that aggression works. And we will have a fight over Taiwan — with its overwhelming human and economic toll — much sooner than we think.

The bottom line: The war in Ukraine is either a prelude or a finale. President Biden needs to do even more than he already has to ensure it’s the latter.

Hot Yes Existential No

Actually NO indication that current heat wave is due to climate change. 

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-9f9?utm_source=email&s=r

Biden’s Afghan Disaster

Al-Qaeda reportedly operating with "increased freedom of

movement" inside of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

following Democrat President Joe Biden's disastrous

pullout from the country last summer, which resulted

in the deaths of numerous U.S. Military personnel.“

https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N22/333/77/PDF/N2233377.pdf

Not Good - Politicization of Justice

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/06/doj-plays-hardball-on-peter-navarro-arrest/

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/06/05/new-york-attorneys-accused-of-firebombing-police-car-given-generous-plea-deal/

CDC Unmasked

Last year the CDC used a widely criticized study to recommend  that children continue to wear masks in school.

Now, the University of Toronto has shown that the study that the CDC used was indeed flawed because of the limited abound of data used and it’s lack of inclusion of important variables. 

The University of Toronto replicated the CDC study but with a much larger and more meaningful data set. The results? No significant relationship between mask mandates and case rates. These results persisted when using regression methods to control for differences across districts.

“School districts that choose to mandate masks are likely to be systematically different from those that do not in multiple, often unobserved, ways. We failed to establish a relationship between school masking and pediatric cases using the same methods but a larger, more nationally diverse population over a longer interval. Our study demonstrates that observational studies of interventions with small to moderate effect sizes are prone to bias caused by selection and omitted variables”

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4118566

Biden lacks energy

Despite President Biden’s claims that he’s doing everything he can to fight inflation, it’s clear he’s not.

Looking only at oil and gas production in the US, we see that we are still far behind the trend we were on before the pandemic.

Little doubt that Biden‘s anti-fossil fuel policies are negatively impacting supply, resulting in higher prices.

April 2022 Interior Secretary Deb Haaland “we continue to appeal the court injunction requiring us to allow leases and permits and I have used my authority to reduce by 80 precent the areas to lease, impose stringent environmental safeguards, and ensure the American people receive their fair share.”  

May 2022 - Biden administration imposed much higher carbon cost standard in review process

Black lives really do not matter to BLM

Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?

Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will change.

Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.

Racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force exists (though rare), it's  bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.

BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy, lack of agency) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.) 

https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2021/10/wheres-biden-lebron-blm-102521.html

This is Sad

The Brown Opinion Project recently asked their undergraduates: Do you think America is the greatest country in the world?

Only 12.9 percent of undergraduates answered yes, while 74.7 percent answered no. 

This isn’t a surprise with the false narratives that Democrats and liberals embrace and propagate. 

Hannah Nicole Jones and the New York Times continue to push the false narrative that slavery was the centerpiece of America’s Founding and also the very reason for the American Revolution. Actually slavery was very contentious at the time of the revolution and Constitution and it was only “the Great Compromise” between the Northern and Southern states that allowed this country to form. This tension remained a crucible of discontent that resulted in the Civil War where over 650,000 Northerners (equivalent to over 9 MILLION of todays US population) died to end slavery. 

And then you have left wing “historians” like Howard Zinn that look at specific times of history and then focus on a single narrow negative aspect to conclude and EDUCATE students that America’s history is horribly negative. Yes, if you look at Columbus and the effect of Europeans coming to America it was horrible for Native Americans.  But in context, in the history of the world, it is far from unsual that a much lower technology population  be displaced by a much higher technology population when new lands were discovered. 

I believe America is the greatest country in the world because of the freedom and opportunities it provides to ALL. And yes I believe in American exceptionalism. 

It’s parenting NOT systemic racism

The problems of poverty, pathology and inequality in the United States are not primarily due to poor schools, discrimination, or low incomes. The primary cause is parents. Parents without time, skills or values are the most significant problem. 

And being a single parent must make it much much more difficult. 

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/the-parent-trap-review-of-hilger.html

Cure(lockdown) worse than disease?

So maybe the FDA (and Twitter,  Facebook AND  teacher’s unions and Democrats) were wrong and actually did more damage than good with their position on lockdowns and their censoring and silencing if opposing views. 

In October 2020 a group of scientists including world renowned epidemiologist s and infectious disease doctors advised (The Great Barrington Declaration) the US to protect the vulnerable from COVID but to NOT lockdown because

the harm the lockdown would do to the rest of society. Not only was the advice ignored it was silenced and censored by Democrats supported by the administrative state at the CDC and FDA, teacher unions and social media. 

Why?  Who knows for sure. But keeping the lockdown in place was hurting the economy and Trump

A major study by Johns Hopkins University earlier this year concluded that global lockdowns have had a much more detrimental impact on society than they have produced any benefit, with researchers urging that they “are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

Way to go Joe! More Afghan fallout

 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/07/asia/afghanistan-taliban-decree-women-intl/index.html

Record ILLEGAL Immigration

Biden’s policies are a mess AND put many innocents at risk and allow Mexican cartels to get rich.

I support immigration. A lot of immigration. But legal immigration, with a mix of merit based  (engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, doctors, mathematicians, etc.) and opportunity-based (poor people who want to work hard, adopt American values, and get ahead). 

(Note-The numbers are the apprehensions. We do not know how many people get through without being apprehended)

Democrats Hypocrisy

Last year the Democrats lied to support their claim of an insurrection by dramatizing Officer Sicknick's death.  They proclaimed him a hero, had his body laid in honor at the Capital and orchestrated a national mourning.  However, Officer Sicknick died of a stroke unrelated to the Capital riot.

Last week a heroic Texas National Guardsman dove into the Rio Grande river to save two struggling illegal immigrants.  Unfortunately Bishop Evans drowned in the effort.

You won't hear much more than a peep from the Democrats.

Why?

Maybe they used the Sicknick's death to build their false narrative of an insurrection.

And maybe the death of a heroic guardsman helping to protect the border doesn't fit their political narrative.

Biden continues dithering

 

Democrats don’t really care

Is anyone else curious as to why we aren’t seeing the widespread riots and protests over white police shooting of  Lyoya, unarmed black man now?  It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that the country now has a Democrat President now could it? Hmmmm. 

Biden pays to not work

Health and Hu­man Ser­vices Sec­re­tary Xavier Be­cerra on Wednes­day ex­tended the na­tional pub­lic-health emer­gency for an­other 90 days. Why? Be­cause per­ma­nent cri­sis means more de­pendence on gov­ern­ment.

The Fam­i­lies First Coro­n­avirus Re­sponse Act of March 2020 sus­pended food-stamp work re­quire­ments for able-bod­ied adults with­out de­pen­dents dur­ing the emer­gency. These in­di­vid­u­als nor­mally can’t re­ceive ben­e­fits for more than three months over a three-year pe­riod un­less they work or par­tic­i­pate in a work-train­ing pro­gram. Con­gress also boosted ben­e­fits, so the av­er­age monthly pay­ment is now dou­ble ($240 per per­son) what it was in 2019.

Con­gress also in­creased Med­icaid fund­ing for states dur­ing the emer­gency on the con­di­tion they don’t re­move ben­e­fi­cia­ries from their rolls, even if they earn too much to qual­ify. Med­icaid en­roll­ment has swelled by more than 14.6 mil­lion (20%) since Feb­ruary 2020—more than gained cov­er­age from Oba­ma­Care.

 

Biden fixing wrong problem

In 2020 in Chicago only 139 out of the 11,258 firearms seized (1.2%) were ghost guns.

In 2019 in Philadelphia police seized 95 ghost guns out of the 4,264 guns they confiscated (2.2%.)

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/11/numbers-undercut-biden-administration-claims-ghost/

Joe's Jobs Come Up short

 

People still aren't working

Leading vs Dithering

 https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2022/04/slovakia-leads-biden-not-so-much.html