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It's a family business where there's a legally necessary division of labor.
Those not holding elected office manage promotion, customer acquisition and customer relations, among other thing by selling vouchers paintings and by promising aspiring customers that services will be rendered upon payment.
These bought services are then indeed totatlly coincidentally rendered by relatives holding elected office.
[Fox News] In an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, Lemon asked,
"Does the president have the stamina, physically and mentally, do you think to continue on even after 2024?"
"Don, you're asking me this question," a visibly stunned Jean-Pierre exclaimed. "Oh my gosh. He's the president of the United States."
The press secretary then laughed and told Lemon that she, 47, sometimes struggles to keep up with Biden, 79. Keep up with the gaffe corrections, or his naps?
"That is not a question that we should be even asking," she added. "Just look at the work he does. And look how he's delivering for the American public." That question was only appropriate for Trump. Jean-Pierre then brushed off criticisms from a New York Times report that surfaced earlier this week that questioned the president’s mental capabilities as "hearsay" and "not what we care about." Right, nobody cares about the New York Times. Waitaminute...
The article quoted several prominent Democrats who questioned whether Biden was the best choice to lead the party into the 2024 election. Concerns about Biden’s age and ability to lead the Democratic Party have also extended to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, 71, Axios reported.
Jean-Pierre added: "We care about how we are going to deliver for the American people. How we're going to make their lives better. That's what the president talks about. That is his focus and that's what we'll continue to focus on." He's doing a terrific job; just ask him!
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If the goal is to destroy the country, no one can question his enthusiasm, stamina, and grasp of what needs to be done. If the goal is to harm the maximum amount of citizens and obliterate our founding principles, Joe is the man for the job.
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He will impose an excess profit tax unless they spend those profits producing at an. ‘expected value’ loss. Watch them move corporate location to Switzerland (following a number of international drilling and service companies.)
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Nah, they will pass a bill to hit them with extra fees/taxes that can be exempted if they donate to charities and political organizations. Of course the companies will know that only left leaning ones will be accepted by the IRS so there is your new tax loophole and the money goes into more corrupt politicians and their supporters.
Washington CNN — President Joe Biden is calling on major oil refinery companies to take “immediate actions” to ramp up supply, telling them in a new letter that “historically high” profit margins are unacceptable at a time when Americans continue to see soaring prices at the gas pump.
The letter is part of Biden’s effort to shift blame for soaring gas prices, which have become a major political problem, though the reality remains that there is not much he can do about it.
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This dummy can't even demonized the refiners properly. There is no spare refining capacity. There won't be anytime soon, thanks in large part to his party's environmental policies and bureaucrats.
More like corporate cronyism which is what we have had for over 150 years now. Just keeps getting worse.
I'm a capitalist and a libertarian. And the government I see right now is a weird mix between banana republic and facism. The "elite" are plundering the nation for all it's worth and the businesses are helping as hard and fast as they can as they get rich off it as well. Mean while the middle class gets squeezed and gets smaller every year.
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
Exit quote: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....... is "really aware" of the recent stock market decline, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday when asked about the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost all of its gains since Biden took office.
The Dow closed Monday at its lowest point since January 2021 as soaring inflation and rising interest rates spur fear of an economic recession.
Before the recent stock slide, Biden often touted the market doing well, though he usually made a point of saying that he didn’t regard it as the only important economic indicator.
For example, Biden said Jan. 7, "the stock market — the last guy’s measure of everything — is about 20% higher than it was when my predecessor was there. It has hit record after record after record on my watch, while making things more equitable for working-class people. At the same time, we’ve created jobs, reduced unemployment, raised wages."
On Monday afternoon, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy confronted Jean-Pierre with that quote, saying, "President Biden once bragged about the stock market hitting ’record after record after record on my watch.’ How about now?"
"All the gains from President Biden’s time in office have been wiped out," Doocy added.
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Credit idiot/woke CEOs also.
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[Fox Business - June 3] Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says he does not expect another oil refinery to be built in the U.S. ever again, pointing to decades of federal government policies as the reason why.
"There hasn’t been a refinery built in this country since the 1970s," Wirth said at Bernstein's Strategic Decisions Conference this week, when asked about the prospect of new capacity being added in the Gulf of Mexico. "I personally don’t believe there will be a new petroleum refinery ever built in this country again."
"Capacity is added by de-bottlenecking existing units by investing in existing refineries," he explained. "But what we’ve seen over the last two years are shutdowns. We’ve seen refineries closed. We’ve seen units come down. We’ve seen refineries being repurposed to become bio refineries. And we live in a world where the policy, the stated policy of the U.S. government is to reduce demand for the products that refiners produce."
The Biden administration has sought to ease the rising prices by releasing a record 180 million barrels from the already-depleated Strategic Petroleum Reserve over six months starting in March, and by urging both foreign and domestic producers to increase output.
Wirth said that is just what the industry is doing. "We raised our Permian [Basin] production growth outlook to 15% this year," he said. "So the narrative you hear that the industry is not growing production is not true. We are growing production and our industry is growing production."
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With Putin's military setting up shop in Central America, taking out the US refinery on the Gulf Coast will be Target Numero Uno.
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Time to remove any agency or administrative layer created since 1970 in the national government. Get it off the throats of Americans.
[Federalist] After heavy rains triggered flooding and rockslides in Yellowstone National Park this week, federal officials shut down Wyoming’s largest tourist destination while the state’s at-large lawmaker remains fixated on an effort to indict former President Donald Trump.
On Monday, the National Park Service announced a full evacuation of the park, which is larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, and closed its five entrances to visitors.
"Due to record flooding events in the park and more precipitation in the forecast, we have made the decision to close Yellowstone to all inbound visitation," said Yellowstone superintendent Cam Sholly in a press release keeping the park closed at least through Wednesday. "We will not know timing of the park’s reopening until flood waters subside and we’re able to assess the damage throughout the park."
At the same time that Wyoming’s largest attraction shut down, the state’s sole congresswoman, Liz Cheney, was in Washington D.C. conducting the second episode of her beloved Jan. 6 Committee’s Soviet-style show trial to prosecute Trump and his supporters. So far, a single tweet Tuesday afternoon is the extent of Cheney’s public addressing of the flooding that’s shut down her state’s top recreational space which drew 4.9 million visits last year and added more than $444 million to local communities in 2020.
The flooding is "probably the worst thing that’s happened disaster-wise since the fires of ’88," said Jeff Olson, a resident of Cheney’s adopted hometown, in an interview with Jackson Hole News & Guide. "To have all five entrances closed because of one event during the summer season? It’s crazy."
In 1988, fires ravaged the park all summer burning down about 800,000 acres, or more than a third of the park, according to the National Park Service.
The last two press releases from Cheney’s office, however, are each transcripts of her remarks in Monday’s Jan. 6 hearing. Despite the fact that half of her state is under the jurisdiction of the federal government, the Wyoming lawmaker is also no longer on the House Natural Resources Committee, having instead embraced her vendetta against Trump and his supporters as a hallmark of her time in the lower chamber.
Cheney has faced rising criticism about her absence from the state as she uses her remaining time in Congress to spar with Trump. The Wyoming representative serves as vice chair of the Democrats’ weaponized Jan. 6 Committee, where her appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi followed a prohibition on members appointed by the House minority leader. In April, a Federalist analysis of campaign finance data in her race against Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman revealed Cheney is relying on Beltway donors to fund a fourth term. Only 2 percent of the incumbent congresswoman’s total contributions, with $10 million to spend this cycle, came among Wyoming constituents.
On a rare visit to the state in February, Cheney snubbed voters to mingle with reporters instead.
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So? She's not in any executive branch, and she was elected to serve in DC. She's a swamp creature, sure, but there's nothing she could be doing to help anyone.
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During the 2016 election campaign Trump went after George Bush/Dick Cheney. Liz lied to her constituents to get elected into power to take out Trump for 'Dick and Bush', Inc..
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Well. She is washed up...
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...The Other Side (TM) justifiably (IMHO, YMMV) crucified Ted Cruz when he went on vacation during a TX. Apparently they're more tolerant of this sort of thing depending on the "Republican".
And have been wondering for a few weeks now if La Cheney won't throw a Hail Mary and try crossing the aisle.
[Breitbart] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... (R) is ahead of his Democrat challenger, failed presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... , by 19 points, according to a new poll.
Blueprint Polling found that 56 percent of Texas voters support Abbott, compared to 37 percent support for O’Rourke. An additional seven percent of Texas voters remain undecided ahead of November’s general election.
These latest poll numbers are the first to come out since O’Rourke crashed Gov. Abbott’s presser in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting. During the presser O’Rourke interrupted, he told the governor, "You’re doing nothing," in regards to school safety.
O’Rourke’s outburst prompted the Uvalde mayor to call O’Rourke a "sick son of a bitch."
"He needs to get his ass out of here/ Sir, you’re out of line! Sir, you’re out of line! Please leave this auditorium.," the mayor told O’Rourke. "I can’t believe... you’re a sick son of a bitch," the mayor continued, "that would come to an event like this to make political issues."
The latest poll numbers show that O’Rourke’s stunt backfired and harmed his gubernatorial campaign.
Blueprint Polling surveyed 603 Texas voters from June 8 to June 10. The poll’s margin of error is 3.9 percent.
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Move over New York's AOC (D). Here comes MAGA's Mayra Flores (R) all the way from Texas's Rio Grande who just flipped a reliably Dim district to Republican.
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He is comic relief. I expect him to appear in drag soon. Maybe he will transition. As a CIS white male generic lib, Beta is detrimental to the left as he is unelectable and energizes the right.
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Here's hoping the Dem donors keep flushing money on this pathetic asshole's campaigns!
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Beto is the distraction and fall guy for demoncrat's failures. Nothing more.
[AmericanThinker] Before the 2020 presidential election, I became curious about political polls claiming that Joe Biden had a ten-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump. At that time, Trump was addressing crowds in the thousands. When he was not barricaded in his basement, Biden was lucky to draw a crowd of a hundred. That did not seem right.
So I did some research and concluded that the polls were undercounting Republicans. In one of the articles, which you can read here, I predicted the silent Trump vote to be north of two percent of the electorate. I was not the first to consider this, but I was one of the first to make a prediction.
Polling organizations would not admit their polls were biased against Republicans. However, it turned out my estimate was too low by half. In fact, the polling error for the 2020 election was roughly 4% nationwide, the largest in the last 40 years.
Fast-forward to today. Inflation is 8+ percent, the price of food and gasoline is way up, crime is up, there is a nationwide shortage of baby formula, and don't get me started on the border crisis. Yet Joe Biden's job approval is close to 40% positive. That means almost four out of every ten Americans think Joe is doing a good job if you believe the RealClearPolitics average. And I don't.
It is possible that Biden's job approval is being helped by positive coverage from the news and social media. But I am not buying that, either. Spin can go only so far, and even rank-and-file Democrats have to fill their gas tanks and buy groceries.
The big difference between today and two years ago is that pollsters will now admit that their results are systemically biased against conservatives. For example, in an article published in Vox, pollster David Shor said:
For three cycles in a row, there's been this consistent pattern of pollsters overestimating Democratic support in some states and underestimating support in other states. It happened in 2018. It happened in 2020. And the reason that's happening is because the way that [pollsters] are doing polling right now just doesn't work.
Pollsters face two fundamental problems. One is developing an accurate voter turnout model that predicts who is likely to vote. The other is getting an unbiased measurement of what voters think, known as a random sample.
The turnout model is usually based on demographic distributions and historical voting records. If pollsters get the model wrong, it can bias their results. For example, in the 2020 election, most turnout models did not account for Republicans who rarely vote, participating in larger numbers than predicted.
The second problem is getting a random sample of the electorate. Unfortunately, in recent elections, this has become increasingly difficult to do. Although there are several theories as to why this is happening, it boils down to two issues. One is technology, and the other is a lack of trust in political polls.
As recently as the 1990s, pollsters could count on getting a random sample of responses to telephone surveys, but not anymore. Although most Americans have a cell phone, prohibitions on auto-dialing cell phones mean that pollsters continue to call landlines. This is problematic because landlines have a different demographic from the general population. And many of them have Caller ID, allowing voters to see who is calling.
Explanatory details at the link.
On top of nonresponse bias, another fly in Democrat approval numbers is that most polls currently sample registered voters rather than likely voters. Nate Silver believes that midterm polls of registered voters tend to lean toward Democrats.
We estimate that on average in midterm years since 1990, registered voter polls have had a 2.6 percentage-point Democratic bias — compared against likely voter polls, which have been unbiased.
If the polls are overestimating approval numbers for Biden and other Democrats, how bad is it? The political climate today is different since the 2020 election, but the Democrat poll bias seems intact, which was 4% nationwide. Since nonresponse bias, 4%, and registered voter bias, 2.6%, should be mutually exclusive, we can add them together. This gives us a total Democrat bias of roughly 6.5%
What does this mean? Until pollsters switch to sampling likely voters right before the election, you can subtract a solid 6 percent from Joe Biden's approval numbers. And if nothing changes before the election, any Democrat who leads by 3 percent or less is likely to lose.
Democrats had better pray I am not underestimating the number of hidden Republican voters, as I did in 2020.
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Typically after people catch on to their games the liberals change their terminology. This happens every decade or so. liberals become progressives become lefties become third wave socialists, etc.
I'm wondering if they are checking out possible replacements for the term Democrat after the 2022 midterm beating or if they'll wait until 2024. Maybe replace the donkey symbol with a dead horse.
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Just remember that for polling companies to sell their services, they have to keep the rubes on the fishing line. You come to them with - hey, look, the numbers say you're about to be blown out of the water, and the rubes and their money will probably go elsewhere to be lied to.
The idea used to be, candidates assert their policy for governance, their genuine philosophy and consistent principles, and polling will see how people react to it. If they like it, you will be chosen to serve in office.
What has now become the rule, is they poll to determine what people find most beneficial individually, and craft a messaging theme to sell them on the idea of giving you power to get it. Not a genuine consistent policy, just promises and vague phrases like "fighting for you". Blacks in America have been biting at that hook for well over 80 years.
We have devolved from common purpose as fellow citizens, to tribal and cultural grouping, always divided by haves and have nots, with the "other" as de-facto enemy to be controlled and dis-empowered, in a zero-sum mindset. From land of opportunity and individual responsibility to mandated "equity" (from equality of opportunity to equal outcome).
Remember, in polling, information about you is the product they sell to people seeking power over your life, career, finances and safety. Imagine if you answer polling question that you are helping build an economic, cultural and political target folder on yourself...
#5
People who vote for what they want to hear should be disqualified from voting. Politicians who tell people what they want to hear and then behave differently should be ejected from office.
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Jean-Pierre then brushed off criticisms from a New York Times report that surfaced earlier this week that questioned the president’s mental capabilities as "hearsay" and "not what we care about."
...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.......
"Capacity is added by de-bottlenecking existing units by investing in existing refineries," he explained. "But what we’ve seen over the last two years are shutdowns. We’ve seen refineries closed. We’ve seen units come down. We’ve seen refineries being repurposed to become bio refineries. And we live in a world where the policy, the stated policy of the U.S. government is to reduce demand for the products that refiners produce."
[Federalist] After heavy rains triggered flooding and rockslides in Yellowstone National Park this week, federal officials shut down Wyoming’s largest tourist destination while the state’s at-large lawmaker remains fixated on an effort to indict former President Donald Trump.
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
[AmericanThinker] Before the 2020 presidential election, I became curious about political polls claiming that Joe Biden had a ten-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump. At that time, Trump was addressing crowds in the thousands. When he was not barricaded in his basement, Biden was lucky to draw a crowd of a hundred. That did not seem right.
