Joe Biden Discussion

[The Green Barbarian]

Joe Biden has hampered domestic energy industry while pleading for more foreign oil
Energy expert Dan Kish tells Fox News Digital: 'Americans are taking it in the shorts' under Biden

President Biden has taken a number of steps to curb domestic fossil fuel production since taking office but has still turned to foreign dictators for oil as prices have ticked up.

The Biden administration has aggressively pushed its climate agenda, which includes a transition from fossil fuels to green energy, over its first 20 months in office. For example, it has taken aim at oil and natural gas pipelines, restrained leasing on federal lands and waters, moved forward with stringent climate disclosure rules for the private sector and introduced burdensome environmental regulations.

"Americans are taking it in the shorts because the Biden administration has basically declared war on American affordable, abundant energy," Dan Kish, a senior fellow at free-market think tank Institute for Energy Research, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-bi ... oreign-oil

[Pappywinkle]

Biden issues federal pardons for 'simple possession' of marijuana

Officials estimate about 6,500 people with federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana will benefit.

No-one is currently in federal prison solely for possession of marijuana. Most convictions occur at state level.

But the federal pardons will make it easier for people to get employment, housing, and education, Mr Biden said.

As a presidential candidate, Mr Biden promised to decriminalise cannabis use, as well as expunging convictions.

"Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit," Mr Biden said on Thursday.

He added that non-white people were statistically far more likely to be jailed for cannabis.

As a White House candidate, Mr Biden was criticised for writing a 1994 crime bill that stiffened penalties for drug crimes and led to more incarceration of minorities.

The Democratic president said he would call upon all state governors to issue their own marijuana pardons.

He is also directing the Department of Justice and the Department of Health to review how cannabis is classified under federal law.

"We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin - and more serious than fentanyl," said Mr Biden. "It makes no sense."

Recreational marijuana is already legal in 19 states and Washington DC. Medical use is legal in 37 states and three US territories.

However, the drug remains illegal at the federal level, even in states where it can be legally bought and used, meaning people there could still be convicted for possession in certain circumstances.

The pardons come a month before November's congressional mid-term elections, which will determine the power balance in Washington for the last two years of Mr Biden's term.

Life for Pot, a website advocating for the release of non-violent marijuana offenders, noted that there are no known federal prisoners that will be affected by Mr Biden's measure, tweeting: "This is window dressing."

Cannabis company shares jumped on the stock market by around 20% with news of Mr Biden's pardons.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63166964

[Pappywinkle]

Biden will attend COP27 — the U.N’s climate change summit — in Egypt

President Biden will travel to Egypt to attend this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a trip that is not yet public.

Biden’s planned attendance at the climate conference will give a boost to the gathering, which had been at risk of delivering little concrete action amid disputes over ambition and funding.

The developing world has been asking for sharply more assistance from the rich nations that are responsible for the bulk of global warming over history. But those industrialized nations have been reluctant to make any promises.

Now Biden, who also attended last year’s conference in Scotland, will have a chance to showcase the progress his administration has made in the past year – and to cajole other countries to make similar efforts. Climate advocates say the Inflation Reduction Act will help deliver a boost to green industries that can outlast the Biden administration, helping to bypass some of the climate whiplash that comes from sharply different visions toward global warming from Democrats and Republicans.

China, in particular, has exploited U.S. divisions on climate change to present itself as a more reliable global partner and to evade pressure to reduce its own emissions more quickly. Biden’s visit could help pull more nations toward the U.S. camp.

Globally, many climate policymakers have welcomed the legislation, even if some have also said they still wished the United States would commit more toward helping other countries around the world. So Biden will address a largely friendly audience – potentially a respite after the midterms – while being confronted with demands to help the most vulnerable nations.

The trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, will be the first leg of a multination trip for Biden that is expected to include stops in Cambodia and Indonesia for major global summits, including the G20.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... mit-egypt/

[liisgo]

How does any politician make such a stupid statement and actually think his/her effort is enough to fool so many. So, Biden, you obviously do not like Musk, but really dude, you think people are stupid enough to go along with your incredibly idiot attempts like this. Detroit leading the world in electric vehicles? GM, you led???
Well, clearly some will go along with it.


Biden had repeatedly claimed that General Motors, under Chief Executive Mary Barra, leads the electric-vehicle revolution in the U.S.

"In the auto industry, Detroit is leading the world in electric vehicles. You know how critical it is?" Biden said last November.

"Mary [Barra], I remember talking to you way back in January about the need for America to lead in electric vehicles. I can remember your dramatic announcement that by 2035, GM would be 100% electric. You changed the whole story, Mary. You did, Mary. You electrified the entire automotive industry. I’m serious. You led, and it matters.”

In 2021, Tesla delivered nearly a million electric vehicles, compared with fewer than 25,000 units at GM, which had to suspend production of the Chevy Bolt and Chevy Bolt EUV for a safety problem.

[liisgo]

nice work Joe.

New research finds that since President Joe Biden took office, American workers have seen a drop in their real wages.

A study by the Federal Reserve Bank has revealed that as Americans are struggling with soaring prices, they have suffered the steepest loss in wages adjusted for inflation in 25 years.

Over two-thirds of workers report their paychecks have been unable to keep up with rising prices.

"We find that a majority of employed workers' real (inflation-adjusted) wages have failed to keep up with inflation in the past year," the study said. "For these workers, the median decline in real wages is slightly more than 8.5%."

"Taken together, these outcomes appear to be the most severe faced by employed workers over the past 25 years," the researchers said.

[PoplarSoul]

This is what I heard yesterday.
Not bad.

In the last 2 years:
The largest investment in the middle class since FDR.
The largest investment in infrastructure since Eisenhower.
The largest investment in healthcare since Obama.
The largest decrease in the deficit since Clinton.
First gun bill since Clinton.
Prescription drug cost coming down for seniors.
Fastest job growth in American history.

[Pappywinkle]

Biden vows ‘consequences’ for Saudi Arabia after oil output cuts

Joe Biden, the United States president, has warned Saudi Arabia that there will be “consequences” after a global cartel of oil-producing countries led by the kingdom and Russia announced that they would cut oil production despite Washington’s objections.

His remarks on Tuesday come a day after influential Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the US must immediately freeze all cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including arms sales.

“There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done with Russia,” Biden said in an interview with CNN.

“I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind. But there will be, there will be consequences.”

Last week, the OPEC+ group said it would slash oil production targets by two million barrels a day, defying pressure from the US.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, said the decision aimed to stabilise the oil market – not drive up prices – amid interest rate hikes by central banks and the prospects of a global recession.

But critics argued the production curbs raise oil prices globally, which generates more revenue for Russia to continue to fund its war in Ukraine, despite Western sanctions on its economy. The move was also seen as a diplomatic slap in the face for the Biden administration as it prepares for November’s critical midterm elections next month.

“This is really seen to benefit the president’s political adversaries in the US,” said Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett, reporting from Washington. “High energy prices are not good for the president politically,” she added. “The other reason the White House is not happy about this is the fact that this is really seen as aligning with Russia.”

But Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Tuesday defended the move, saying it “was purely economic and was taken unanimously by the [organisation’s] member states”.

“OPEC+ members acted responsibly and took the appropriate decision,” he told Al-Arabiya television station.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/ ... utput-cuts

[The Green Barbarian]

This is what I heard yesterday.
Not bad.

In the last 2 years:
The largest investment in the middle class since FDR.
The largest investment in infrastructure since Eisenhower.
The largest investment in healthcare since Obama.
The largest decrease in the deficit since Clinton.
First gun bill since Clinton.
Prescription drug cost coming down for seniors.
Fastest job growth in American history.

What far Left extremist echo chamber was that from? Just such a load of horse .

The Biden-Pelosi-Schumer deficits are a catastrophe

While the Biden administration brags that it “cut” the federal government’s annual deficit in half in Fiscal Year 2022, the reality is that the $1.4 trillion deficit is not a triumph but a travesty.

The “decline” in the deficit reported on Oct. 11 comes despite, not because of, any of Biden’s actions as president. And the remaining deficit’s size remains gargantuan and grotesque.

When the famously high-spending Barack Obama left office, the then-most-recent deficit (FY 2016) was $587 billion. Even after adjusting for inflation, that’s just $720 billion in 2022 dollars – or just barely one half the size of Biden’s deficit. And, to repeat, Obama’s own deficit was outrageously high.

For another comparison, again allowing for inflation, then-President Bill Clinton’s1994 deficit of $203 billion – which was considered so bad that it was a major cause of the backlash that swept Republicans into a House majority for the first time in 40 years – was only 29% as large as Biden’s.

The only reason the deficit “declined” in the past year is that it had been artificially (and astronomically) expanded in the two prior years because of coronavirus-relief funds approved first by former President Trump and then, at an even higher level, by Biden. It was akin what would happen to a family budget if for two years the family were forced to spend an extra $100,000 annually for cancer treatments, and then the treatments and extraordinary costs ended. The new family budget would now be far lower, but not because the family suddenly became frugal. It would be a wonderful thing that the cancer was now in remission, but the family budget would merely be returning closer to its norm.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/th ... 9d640da513

[gertlush]

Oooo, scary! Big bad Bidens gonna give ya consequences...

[The Green Barbarian]

Saudis say Biden asked to hold oil production cut until after midterms

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has claimed the US requested it hold off on reducing oil production until after the midterm elections — and denied the cut meant it was taking Russia’s side in its war against Ukraine.

In a Wednesday night statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said the decision by the OPEC+ cartel to reduce production by 2 million barrels per day beginning next month was made in “a purely economic context.”

However, Riyadh did acknowledge that it had made clear to the White House “that all economic analyses indicated that postponing the OPEC+ decision for another month, according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences.”

The Wall Street Journal initially reported Tuesday that the Saudis shrugged off pleas by the Biden administration to push back the production reduction, which is set to send gas prices spiking ahead of the Nov. 8 elections.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/saudis-sa ... s%20Alerts

[Pappywinkle]

President Biden Says 'I Would Meet' with Vladimir Putin to Discuss Brittney Griner's Release

U.S. President Joe Biden said he would be open to meeting with Vladimir Putin if the Russian president was willing to discuss the release of imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner.

Speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper Tuesday night, Biden said that would be the only reason he would talk with Putin at the G20 summit in Indonesia next month.

"Look, I have no intention of meeting with him, but look, if he came to me at the G20 and said, 'I want to talk about the release of Griner,' I would meet with him, but that would depend," Biden said.

He again spoke about the possibility while addressing reporters outside of the White House on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Biden also said that there has been no movement from Putin on the possibility of a prisoner exchange with Griner and another American imprisoned in Russia, Paul Whelan.

Biden told Tapper that he doesn't believe there is a need to speak with Putin outside of specific issues, while alluding to the war Russia has waged against Ukraine since February.

"He's acted brutally, I think he's committed war crimes, and so I don't… see any rationale to meet with him now," he said on CNN.

In August, Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison. The sentence came after she was arrested at a Russian airport in February when officials allegedly found vape cartridges containing hash oil in her luggage.

Since then, the Biden Administration's attempts to negotiate with Russia for Griner's release have been unsuccessful, including a "substantial offer" made by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

https://people.com/sports/president-bid ... ey-griner/

[The Green Barbarian]

Biden’s lies, outright fabrications repeatedly dismissed, downplayed and softened by media
Reporters look the other way when Biden ‘constantly lies with impunity,’ Joe Concha said

The media has long downplayed and softened President Biden’s decades-long history of falsehoods, as most recently evidenced by a euphemism-filled New York Times report that referred to outright fabrications and lies as "folklore" stories with "factual edges shaved off."

The Times finally discovered Biden’s trouble with the truth on Tuesday but was widely mocked for using mealy-mouthed language in the report.

The Times noted Biden has lied about being "raised in the Puerto Rican community at home," his academic record, his life story, being arrested when protesting civil rights, being arrested in South Africa, pinning a Silver Star on a Navy captain and even the timeline when he rode on Amtrak to visit his sick mother, among other things. He’s told other unbelievable stories that the Times failed to mention, such as the claim he confronted a gang leader named "Corn Pop" in the 1960s.

But instead of flatly calling Biden a liar, the Times said he "embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political identity."

"Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences," the Times reported.

The Times also claimed former President Trump "lied constantly" and "Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale" and took the Republicans-pounce approach by declaring, "Biden’s critics have seized on his falsehoods to depict him as either a purposeful liar or a forgetful old man."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bidens-is ... ened-media

[Pappywinkle]

Biden admin declares post-Cold War era ‘definitively over’

The post-Cold War era is “definitively over,” the Biden administration declared in a new national security strategy, describing its intention to compete ferociously against China and Russia — while also collaborating with them on global threats like climate change.

The long-awaited National Security Strategy, delayed by the invasion of Ukraine, serves as a reference point for Biden administration officials to coordinate policies across the government. The congressionally mandated document encapsulates President Joe Biden’s thinking on the state of the world and how his administration will navigate challenges to the homeland and global order.

In a foreword, Biden calls this the “decisive decade to advance America’s vital interests.” The U.S. will do so in three ways before time runs out, according to the document: investing at home to strengthen the local economy, society and defenses; growing coalitions and alliances; and modernizing and strengthening the military.

That will allow the U.S. the take on the most pressing problem, per the strategy: “powers that layer authoritarian governance with a revisionist foreign policy” — that is, China and Russia.

That will require complicated maneuvering on the part of the administration, which also said in the strategy that it plans to simultaneously work with China, Russia and allies to curb pandemics, slow climate change and boost food and energy security. That’s how the administration hopes to break with the Cold War paradigm of “with us or against us” even in a new age of great-power rivalry: The countries with which the U.S. will steadfastly compete can still be engaged as partners in solving global problems.

China “is the only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do it,” the administration declares in the strategy. To win that competition, the Biden administration says it will help countries meet their needs without the reciprocation China typically expects, work to maintain peace between China and Taiwan, align a diplomatic approach toward China with allies, and work with Beijing on areas where U.S. and Chinese interests align.

“We can’t let the disagreements that divide us stop us from moving forward on the priorities that demand that we work together, for the good of our people and for the good of the world,” the document reads.

As for Russia, which the document says “has chosen to pursue an imperialist foreign policy with the goal of overturning key elements of the international order,” the U.S. will proceed to punish the country for the invasion of Ukraine. But, just like with China, the Biden administration is open to working with Russia in areas where a partnership can be “mutually beneficial.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/1 ... r-00061428

[gertlush]

Sounds like it was written by a 5 yr old

"We are gonna beat the commies, save the glaciers, help the peeples blah blah blah"

[Pappywinkle]

Fox News Blasts Joe Biden for Being a…Loving Father Who Cares About His Son

On Monday evening, at the nine o’clock hour, Fox News’ Sean Hannity aired an explosive story about the president of the United States. It was so deeply shocking and perverse that many people have said they can’t believe it was allowed by network censors, or that they didn’t insist Hannity at least read a disclaimer beforehand like, “We want to warn our viewers about the content we‘re about to air, which we strongly suggest not be watched in the company of children.” Honestly, it was so disturbing that we’re having difficulty recounting it now. But here goes. On Monday, Fox News revealed that President Joe Biden, as in, the man who has access to the nuclear codes…

…loves his son.

Yes. Not only that, but he appears to be compassionate? Devoted? Understanding of the difficulties people face in life and unwilling to turn his back on his child? Can you see why Fox knew they had a blockbuster story on their hands?

The above quote came from a voicemail obtained by the Daily Mail. In the full recording, Biden can be heard adding: “I’m here no matter what you need. No matter what you need. I love you.” In other words, IMPEACH HIM NOW.

“It’s actually sad,” Hannity told his viewers of the message. “Now that voicemail reportedly came at the exact same time Hunter lied on a gun application to buy a handgun.” To be sure, Hunter Biden is under federal investigation, and The Washington Post reported last week that “agents investigating President Biden’s son…have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase. However, as HuffPost notes, there has been “no evidence to suggest Joe Biden was aware of the gun purchase.” And the voicemail in question has nothing to do with that either way.

Hunter Biden has been open about his struggles with drug addiction, which the right has frequently attacked him for. During the first 2020 presidential debate, as Joe Biden was talking about his son Beau, who died of brain cancer 2015, Trump interrupted him to call Hunter a deadbeat. “Hunter got thrown out of the military,” Trump said. “He was thrown out, dishonorably discharged…for cocaine use, and he didn’t have a job until you became vice president.” Biden replied: “My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people we know at home, had a drug problem. He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it. And I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10 ... an-hannity