[RealClearPolitics] A few minutes before midnight Saturday [7-19-2021], President Biden walked through the humid summer heat back to the White House, stopping briefly to respond to shouted questions over the din of Marine One’s whirling helicopter blades and still distant thunderstorms. A reporter asked, will inflation go down?
"I’m hoping," Biden replied. And so is everyone else at the White House.
Outside economists were warning last July that high prices were a sign of coming high inflation. "But that’s not our view," the president said a year ago today. He had consulted with his economists, and they had reviewed their charts, and Biden waved away the alarm bells.
"Our experts believe, and the data shows," Biden said, "that most of the price increases we’ve seen were expected and expected to be temporary."
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"Oh... and it's Putin's fault."
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Someone in the government PLEASE read a first-year economics textbook. PLEASE.
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[NYP] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stunned a Republican member of Congress Tuesday by asking him to help subsidize electric vehicle purchases while millions of Americans struggle to fill up their gas-powered cars.
"The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles," Buttigieg told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee — just before asking Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) to "reconsider opposing the reduction of EV upfront prices with tax credits."
"So you’re saying the more pain we have, the more benefit we’re going to get?" a flabbergasted Gimenez asked Buttigieg.
"Of course — no," Buttigieg chuckled as Gimenez said: "I think that’s what I heard you say."
"No, no," the laughing transportation secretary insisted. "That’s what you heard me say?"
"Yeah, that’s what I heard you say," the lawmaker insisted.
"I know you want me to say it so bad," Buttigieg responded. "Honestly, sir, what we’re saying is that we could have no pain at all by making EVs cheaper for everybody, and we’d love to have your support on that."
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What about subsidies to build out more energy generation as we don't have enough for lots of EVs now? What about making sure we have all the inputs needed to make them (Most cobalt and lithium needed comes from Russia)? What about the fact that EVs are 5 times more carbon polluters during their construction?
How about you go fuck yourself while jumping of Golden gate bridge?
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One of the most asinine car commercials I have seen: Ford all-electric F-150 saves his wife and kiddies from the dark. By draining his truck's batteries. At night. In a power failure. Suppose he needs to make an emergency run to the hospital with a drained batter, what then?
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Just subsidize a wind-powered car and cut out the middle man. I recommend a subsidy of $1 per vehicle. Run that idea by David Hogg, he did a good job with his pillow idea. He ought to be ready for a new challenge.
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In a recent test an all electric Ford pulling an EMPTY 3,000 pound trailer was able to travel only 85 miles.
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From Longmont to Denver, mostly. From Denver to Castle Rock, that is an elevation change of nearly 1000 feet up. 5280 downtown Denver, 6214 feet in Castle Rock.
Remember, the next time you're bossed
["Doh!" "Again!"] and they claim all is lost,
Their aim is to hurt you In nomine virtue
With EVERY "externalized cost."
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My dentist said he's gonna get a Tesla. I just laughed at him. The next trip to the dentist should be some combination of interesting and painful...
[Just the News] In the final hours of the Trump presidency, the U.S. Justice Department raised privacy concerns to thwart the release of hundreds of pages of documents that Donald Trump had declassified to expose FBI abuses during the Russia collusion probe, and the agency then defied a subsequent order to release the materials after redactions were made, according to interviews and documents.
The previously untold story of how highly anticipated declassified material never became public is contained in a memo obtained by Just the News from the National Archives that was written by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just hours before Trump left office on noon of Jan. 20, 2021.
Meadows' memo confirmed prior reporting by Just the News that Trump on Jan. 19, 2021 declassified a binder of hundreds of pages of sensitive FBI documents that show how the bureau used informants and FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and misled both a federal court and Congress about flaws in the evidence they offered to get approval for the investigation.
The declassified documents included transcripts of intercepts made by the FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the bureau used to investigate whether Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
In the end, multiple investigations found there was no such collusion and that the FBI violated rules and misled the FISA court in an effort to keep the probe going.
The documents that Trump declassified never saw the light of day, even though they were lawfully declassified by Trump and the DOJ was instructed by the president though Meadows to expeditiously release them after redacting private information as necessary.
"I am returning the bulk of the binder of declassified documents to the Department of Justice (including all that appear to have a potential to raise privacy concerns) with the instruction that the Department must expeditiously conduct a Privacy Act review under the standards that the Department of Justice would normally apply, redact material appropriately, and release the remaining material with redactions applied," Meadows wrote in the memo.
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The only surprise here would be if anyone ever gets punished.
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I'm wading through this, which was written 4 years ago. Don't think anyone has gone to prison yet, doubt they ever will. I can't recommend the book. I don't wish to be responsible for any additional angst it may cause relative to the host of crooked bastids which comprise our government.
The thing Jarrett misses, or fails to mention is everyone inside the beltway political stratum is fully aware of what is going on. It's a moderate sized aquarium, they all know the deal. Other than bloviate, finger point, or do talk-shows, they continue to do nothing. I'm not certain Jarrett's treatment of the disgusting Carter Page is accurate either.
The ability of anyone in Washington to point to another country anywhere in the world, and suggest 'regime change' is well beyond my comprehension.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] American voters know that Hunter Biden was involved in some shady business deals and they believe Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... benefited from these deals. A survey coming out this morning at 11 am from Rasmussen Reports confirms America’s perceptions of the Bidens.
Americans know about Hunter Biden’s corrupt deals overseas in Russia, Ukraine, and China. We have reported on these deals over the past few years. We never thought a family could be as corrupt as the Clintons but the Bidens may actually be.
Secret Service records validated that Joe Biden was a beneficiary of Hunter’s business deals. Peter Schweizer uncovered this.
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In Other News: Tiger Woods acknowledges Hole 10, toughest hole at Augusta National.
[NYPOST] As with nearly everything befalling his train wreck of a term (which has "just" 30 months to go!), Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... is guilty more of accelerating a corrosive trend than of causing it. He entered office notorious for his gift of the gaffe, a thin-skinned lemming so dull that when one of his presidential bids was torpedoed by a plagiarism scandal, it turned out he had chosen another mediocrity — former British Labour leader Neil Kinnock — to steal from.
Through a half-century of rhetorical misadventure, Biden has never been taken seriously — including by President Barack Obama How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then... , who, confoundingly, plucked Biden from the scrap heap to be his running mate after serving with him in the Senate ... and famously slipped an aide a "Shoot. Me. Now." note he’d scribbled during one of Biden’s logorrheic discourses. (Obama discouraged Biden’s yen to succeed him in 2016 and did not back the 2020 presidential bid until Biden had the nomination sewn up, even then cautioning Democrats, "Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f- -k things up.")
It is not just Biden but the presidency itself whose power to persuade, and just as important to instill fear in rogue regimes, has suffered diminution. Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... supporters concede that their man is not to be taken "literally," an epithet etched in stone even before two fraudulent months of post-election "stop the steal" claptrap triggered a riot at the Capitol — and it should not be ignored that Trump’s apparently imminent third bid for the presidency is premised not merely on maintaining the fiction but on making adherence to it a litmus test of loyalty
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This article is the kind of part truth but mostly fiction the left loves to read.
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^ I agree. It says basically nothing we don't already know, then adds some shit about Trump's complicity in a 'riot'. The NY Post what can you expect?
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It's NR's Andy McCarthy. A NeverTrumper who loves and defends the DOJ and FBI. Fucking clown
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Andy must be a closet Trumpist:
It should matter when an American president speaks. But more than in words, credibility lies in a president’s demonstrated commitment — by behavior, by policy — to America’s vital interests. Even if there’s no hope for Biden, that means the bully pulpit can recover … with the right president.
But we had one, committed to America's vital interests, and who demonstrated results. But ... there were the mean tweets....
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Obama discouraged Biden’s yen to succeed him in 2016 and did not back the 2020 presidential bid until Biden had the nomination sewn up, even then cautioning Democrats, "Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f- -k things up."
You're telling me Biden stole that election all by himself?
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81 Million, McCarthy. 81 Million.
Image control piece. "I wasn't wrong, but gosh golly geez this is a lot of Bad Luck."
[NY Post] Just go away, and take that POS fambly with you
Strike two!
Bill de Blasio dropped his bid to represent the left-leaning 10th congressional district in Congress Tuesday, admitting that "it’s not going work out."
"I’ve really listened carefully to people and it’s clear to me that when it comes to this congressional district, people are looking for another option. And I respect that," the former mayor said in a video statement posted to Twitter.
"Even though this is not going to work out, I hope you know how much I appreciate you and we’re gonna do a lot together to make this city better in the future."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYP] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stunned a Republican member of Congress Tuesday by asking him to help subsidize electric vehicle purchases while millions of Americans struggle to fill up their gas-powered cars.
[Just the News] In the final hours of the Trump presidency, the U.S. Justice Department raised privacy concerns to thwart the release of hundreds of pages of documents that Donald Trump had declassified to expose FBI abuses during the Russia collusion probe, and the agency then defied a subsequent order to release the materials after redactions were made, according to interviews and documents.
I'm wading through this, which was written 4 years ago. Don't think anyone has gone to prison yet, doubt they ever will. I can't recommend the book. I don't wish to be responsible for any additional angst it may cause relative to the host of crooked bastids which comprise our government.
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
[NY Post] 
