DeSantis puts ‘Brandon’ on blast for ‘100% intentional and man-made’ economic crisis in America June 3, 2022 | Melissa Fine
At a signing of the Freedom First Budget, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tore into President Joe Biden for the economic crisis now hitting already struggling Americans.
“We have to look at what we’re doing against the backdrop of what’s going on in Washington, D.C. and particularly, there’s a fella by the name of ‘Brandon’ that people talk about that we have to contend with,” he said, sparking laughter from those in attendance.
“I see this news report where Biden is so frustrated that his approval ratings are in the toilet,” DeSantis continued. “He can’t understand. He’s lashing out at his staff. He’s blaming other people. He’s blaming the media, even though he gets the most sycophantic media coverage that any president has ever gotten. Compare how they treated Trump with how they treat Biden. It’s night and day.”
“And so, he’s trying to make excuses,” the governor said, “and I’m just thinking to myself, you know, what has he done since he came into office?”
DeSantis launched into a damning list of Biden’s failures, starting with his “war” on energy independence.
“He immediately, immediately waged war against American energy production,” he said. “You see record gas prices in the United States? Well, that’s a big reason why — because of his policies.”
The governor then took aim at the soaring inflation, which has hit its highest level since 1981, as noted by American Wire News.
“You look at what they did in terms of fiscal and monetary, printing and borrowing trillions and trillions of dollars,” DeSantis said. “What did you get for that? The most sustained inflation this country has seen in over 40 years.”
As the Consumer Price Index hit 8.3% in April — compared to 4.2% in April 2021 — even State Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had to admit she was wrong about her inflation predictions.
But, as DeSantis pointed out, printing money wasn’t Biden’s only crime against the economy.
“He advocated for and imposed mandates and restrictions related to COVID, including having people fired from their job based on getting a COVID jab or not,” said DeSantis, who kept Florida free from authoritarian COVID measures.
“That has had a hugely negative impact on the economy,” he continued, before pivoting to the supply chain crisis. “And he failed to take leadership and take decisive action to alleviate the supply chain crisis that we’ve seen, really beguiling not only this country but places around the world.”
“And so,” concluded DeSantis, “he has created the circumstances that have led to this resounding disapproval of what he has done. He would have been better off — and we would be better off — if he had simply got into office and did nothing than what he has done so far.”
DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw tweeted the governor’s comments, along with one on her own.
“@GovRonDeSantis lights up Brandon for the 100% intentional and man-made economic crisis hitting our country,” she wrote.
While trolls descended upon Pushaw’s tweet with predictable, disparaging comments, supporters of the wildly popular governor drowned them out.
“Best Governor in the United States,” tweeted one user.
DeSantis is the wQke educated Trump 2.0 alternate in 2024... look at them swoon over him. smh. If he is elected POTUS, pack your bags. Even Mickey Mouse hates him.
COMMENTARY Published June 3, 2022 “THE BIDEN BLITZKRIEG” Biden is Destroying USA as Fast as Nazis on Meth By Wayne Allyn Root
I’m a Jewish American and I understand my history. The speed with which Biden and his Marxist handlers are destroying America and the US economy has never been seen in world history- except for Nazi Germany.
I call this “THE BIDEN BLITZKRIEG.”
Because I compare what’s happening to America today to the Nazi Blitzkrieg. The Nazi Army conquered Europe at a speed never before seen in world history. Do you know how the Nazi’s did it?
Hitler pumped his troops with METH (ie speed).
That’s right, the Nazi Army was literally drugged with speed. They became super human speed freaks who could run, fight and kill 24/7 for weeks on end- until their bodies collapsed and died of a heart attack, or they were killed in action. This is how Hitler conquered each country in Europe in a matter of days.
Let’s now reflect on the speed and depth of the destruction of America and the US economy by this “BIDEN BLITZKRIEG.” It takes your breath away. We are being attacked and destroyed from a thousand different directions at once. The speed of the attack is stunning.
Biden must be employing an army of lawyers, bureaucrats, regulators, and radical Marxist activists on meth, to carry out this vicious 24/7 attack on the American people and American business.
Bookmakers across the world have made Donald J. Trump the huge favorite to win the presidency in 2024. All that’s well and good. But I have bad news for America. We aren’t going to make it to 2024. America is hanging by a thread.
America and the US economy are being destroyed so fast, I’m not even sure we can make it to the November midterms.
Ask the smartest billionaires in America. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, just warned that an “economic hurricane” is about to hit America. Then John Waldron, the President of Goldman Sachs, added that he has never seen so many major “shocks to the system” facing our economy at one time.
The richest man on the planet Elon Musk said this week he has “a super bad feeling about the economy” and asked his top executives to stop all hiring worldwide.
What are these nonstop “shocks to the system” all these brilliant billionaires and Wall Street titans are talking about?
Read ‘em and weep…
GDP (economic growth) is collapsing. Interest rates are rising. Inflation is exploding. Home sales are cratering.
The stock market has just suffered the worst few months since the 1929 stock market crash- which of course led to The Great Depression.
Gas is headed for shortages, gas lines and $10 per gallon.
Grocery prices are exploding to unimaginable levels.
The supply chain is ruined. Massive food shortages are coming.
Baby formula shortages are getting worse. There are one-mile lines across America when government airlifts in baby formula. Airlifts? America now looks like “the Fall of Saigon.”
It’s only going to get much worse this summer. Energy experts are promising mass blackouts of the electric grid across America this summer.
Then there’s the massive crime and theft wave enveloping America’s Democrat run big cities. Under Joe Biden and his Marxist handlers…
America has become a “third world craphole.”
Don’t forget open borders. Biden is desperate to open the floodgates and allow the whole world in. If Biden gets his way and Title 42 is lifted, millions of the world’s poorest and sickest migrants and violent criminals will pour through our open borders.
Let’s not forget Democrats want to take our guns away. I’ve seen a movie where only the government, military and police have guns. It’s called “Schindler’s List.”
Forced experimental vaccines also remind me of the Nazi regime. And just in time for the midterm elections, I predict we’ll see attempts to bring back lockdowns, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. What a perfect time for crisis!
Add in censorship, banning, intimidation and persecution of conservatives, patriots and even parents at PTA meetings by government agencies like the DOJ and FBI. Exhibit A is the arrest of high-ranking Trump official Peter Navarro this week.
Then there’s the education system trying to brainwash and indoctrinate our children with communist, anti-American, anti-white, transgender and sex identity ideology.
And don’t forget Biden’s provoking Putin again and again- daring him to start World War 3. Does Biden want to provoke a nuclear Armageddon, or EMP attack to turn America into “Mad Max?” Is this all about selling out the USA to China?
This is a total decline, destruction and collapse of America- happening at a speed none of us has ever seen.
This is “the Biden Blitzkrieg.” It’s now clear we’re dealing with radical Marxist traitors combined with Nazis on meth.
Wayne Allyn Root is known as “the Conservative Warrior.” Wayne’s new #1 bestselling book is out, “The Great Patriot Protest & Boycott Book.”Wayne is host of the nationally-syndicated “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” on USA Radio Network, daily from 6 PM to 9 PM EST and the “WAR RAW” podcast. To find out more about Wayne Allyn Root and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Bidenflation Gas Prices Approach a Grim Milestone By J.D. Rucker • Jun. 4, 2022
Never in the history of the United States has gas eclipsed $10 per gallon at an actual gas station. That may change very soon as Bidenflation hits Mendicino, California. As reported by ABC7:
Each week, the price of gas across the country – but especially in California – gets impossibly higher. Just before Memorial Day, the Chevron on Alameda de las Pulgas in Menlo Park hit $7.25 a gallon.
Then, this week, one Chevron in Los Angeles was selling gas for more than $8 a gallon. And now, we’ve spotted gasoline costing $9.50 a gallon at a gas station in Mendocino, along the northern California coast not too far from Fort Bragg.
Some would note that since this is an independent station and the only gig in town, they are price-gouging. But the sheer fact that they must charge this much just to “make ends meet,” as the station owner claims, is indicative of an economy that is in the process of totally collapsing.
Restaurants Adding Inflation Fees Amid Razor Thin Margins BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, JUN 04, 2022 - 02:00 PM
As restaurants across the country feel the squeeze from rising inflation, a tight labor market, and minimum wage increases on an industry with notoriously thin margins, owners are passing along the pain in the form of various fees tacked onto the tab, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Fees for a “noncash adjustment,” “fuel surcharge,” or “kitchen appreciation” have been showing up on more bills lately. Industry analysts say this wave of surcharges is mostly being driven by restaurants trying to cope with the impact of rising inflation and a tight labor market on their bottom lines. In addition, Mastercard and Visa in April raised transaction fees for many merchants. -WSJ
According to point-of-sale software developer Lightspeed, fee revenue has nearly doubled from April 2021 to April 2022, based on a sample of 6,000 restaurants on their platform. Restaurants adding service fees increased by 36.4% over the same period.
"As the costs of doing business have changed, we’ve seen more merchants leverage this tactic," said exec Peter Dougherty.
The fees are effective in part because unless people are paying close attention, many fail to notice them. When the bill arrived following a mid-April dinner at Romano’s Macaroni Grill, Lizzie Stephens was about to grab her wallet to pay. Instead, she pulled out her phone to Google the “temporary inflation fee” she noticed had been added to her check.
“I was just like—wow, now we’re getting fees at a restaurant, too?” said Ms. Stephens, 34 years old, who lives in the Stockton, Calif., area.
Inflation has hit the average restaurant operator to the tune of 17.5% since last year, according to NPD Group. Consumer spending in restaurants, meanwhile, rose just 5% during the same period.
These charges are nothing new. In February, one restaurant charged a "Temporary Inflation Fee" of $2 on a $15 bill - or 13%.
"These are the more cost-sensitive verticals that have a huge demand or need to pass through their credit-card transaction fees against this backdrop of the rising costs," said Jonathan Razi, founder and chief executive of CardX, which allows merchants to pass along credit-card swipe fees to consumers in the form of surcharges. The company, which was acquired in November by Stax, had 2,600 clients as of November.
In April, Minneapolis-area restaurant chain Rock Elm Tavern took heat over a 3% "wellness fee" added to checks. Co-owner Troy Reding said the company added the fee right before the pandemic in order to offer health-insurance to its 140 employees who work at least 25 hours per week. Reding will be raising the fee to 5% this fall.
"We’ll see if this supply-chain mess straightens out a bit, see if the labor pool comes back at all," said Reding. "If costs continue to escalate, part of our strategy is gonna be to figure out new and added benefits that we can add to retain the people we have and try and attract new people from other hospitality ventures."
Media Group Backed By George Soros And Obama Staffer Buys Conservative Latino Radio Stations Ahead of Midterms David Hawkins June 4, 2022
A Democrat-led media group is making a move to challenge conservative dominance over talk radio in the Spanish-language market and will buy 18 major Spanish-language radio stations owned by the TelevisaUnivision network including a leading conservative station Miami’s Radio Mambí.
According to WLRN, the Latino Media Network (LMN) is buying the stations. The new media company is headed by Stephanie Valencia, a Latino outreach director for former President Barack Obama, and Dem activist Jess Morales Rocketto.
They will buy the stations for $60 million according to the report. LMN is a startup in the media space and raised $80 million from “leading Latino investors” and an investment group, Lakestar Finance, associated with major Dem donor George Soros.
A Univision spokesperson confirmed the sale to WLRN.
The move comes as a response to conservatives dominating the talk radio business in English and Spanish.
The Dem Party blamed Biden’s poor showing in Florida on Spanish language stations spreading ‘misinformation’ about Biden and the Dems.
That is what the Dems do when they lose, blame ‘misinformation.’ But many Dem strategists were sounding the alarm about the Latino to shift to the GOP way before the election and especially in places like South Florida.
The GOP was not expected to make gains along the Texas Mexico border during the 2020 election (they did in a major shocker) but everyone even the Dems now blaming ‘misinformation’ for their loss knew the GOP was going to clean up in Florida.
The group is buying important AM and FM stations located in 10 of the country’s largest Latino markets, including Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston and Las Vegas.
Other LMN investors are Hollywood actress Eva Longoria and radio entrepreneur Tom Castro.
Valencia said: “Latinos are constantly trying to navigate the ocean of information.
“In some cases that is disinformation, in some cases that is very one-sided communication.
“In the Latino community radio still plays such an important part, and in places like Florida it obviously plays a critically important part.
“From some of the research we’ve seen, upwards of 70% of Latinos are getting their news and information about politics and elections from places like YouTube” and that Latino’s “are looking for trusted voices.
The Dems were furious Radio Mambí (WAQI 710 AM) called Biden a “socialista” who would turn the USA into Venezuela. So they bought it and wil shut down that kind of talk.
Valencia said:
“There are elements of Radio Mambí that are really important to preserve. It has been an important part of the community and experience in Miami.
“But we do believe in balanced journalism.
“As Latinos drive population growth in the United States and with minority media on the decline, now is the time to be investing in more resources to create content for Latinos by Latinos,” Valencia said.
This inflation is out of control, but what some don't get is it's a 'tax' on consumers, and what it will do to business.
For me, a tiny little business guy - this week was just under $200 in fuel. Of course, I pass it on - to the end consumer. Gas prices outrageous, food prices out rageous, insurance going up - everything going up.........
Yet some don't seem to care? Or, worse, they blame trump, and putin, then try to put the 2 together.
When your rent skyrockets, as it should to just keep up, don't gripe and moan. When your a/c shuts off this summer due to forecasted brown outs all over the country? Don't gripe and moan.
Military jets scrambled and Secret Service evacuated Biden to secure location after aircraft enters airspace near president's beach house PAUL SACCA June 04, 2022
President Joe Biden was evacuated to a secure location on Saturday afternoon after an aircraft entered the restricted airspace near his beach house in Delaware.
President Biden was rushed to a fire station when a light aircraft violated the restricted airspace over the president's home in Rehoboth Beach, according to the Daily Mail.
CBS News White House reporter Bo Erickson wrote on Twitter, "At 12:52p, I saw @POTUS motorcade race into the Rehoboth Fire Station. I saw President Biden through the window of a SUV. Right before the motorcade, I saw 2 military jets flying low over the beach town. The press pool is not with the motorcade."
A neighbor said a small white plane flew near Biden's home around 12:45 p.m., then two military-style jets were scrambled and flew into the area.
The 79-year-old president was spotted in the back of an SUV as his motorcade raced away from the beach house.
Rehoboth Beach Fire Chief Chuck Snyder told Erickson that Secret Service informed him at 12:48 p.m. that the president and the first lady were being taken to the station "because of a threat."
Snyder said President Biden and Jill Biden remained in the SUV while it was parked inside the fire station garage. He added that the fire department has participated in drills with the Secret Service previously in case the president needed to be evacuated.
A White House official told the White House press poll, "A small private plane entered restricted airspace, all indications are by mistake, and precautionary measures were taken. There was no threat to the President or his family," according to CBS News senior White House correspondent Ed O'Keefe.
The U.S. Secret Service issued a statement on the incident:
Shortly before 1 p.m. today a privately owned aircraft entered the restricted airspace over Rehoboth Delaware after mistakenly entering a secured area. The aircraft was immediately escorted out of the restricted airspace. Preliminary investigation reveals the pilot was not on the proper radio channel, was not following the NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen) that had been filed and was not following published flight guidance. The United States Secret Service will be interviewing the pilot. The president's motorcade reportedly left the fire station at 1:29 p.m.
The Washington Post Is Having a Bad Year... This Week By Brad Slager | Jun 04, 2022 5:15 PM ET
A once-proud bastion of journalism, WaPo has devolved into a clown show.
It is the paper built on the heritage of Woodward and Bernstein, of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. Names like Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham hang above Washington, D.C., to this day. Movies have been made centered on the Washington Post newsroom.
But today, the news outlet is closer to resembling a three-camera comedy filmed before a live studio audience. Once regarded as the paper of record in our nation’s capital, it has become in recent years a source of mockery. What had previously been seen as the paragon of journalism is today a case study of media mirth.
It’s where Jennifer Rubin pens pieces that would be embarrassing to anyone in possession of the ability to feel shame. It is where the truth-averse Glenn Kessler plies his trade as a ‘fact’-checker, and Max Boot rewrites the same column-once a week-decrying Trump and the Republicans. Today, reading the paper is like visiting a home that has not updated the photos on the mantle since the 1980s, a place with framed accomplishments from generations past, and dotted with trophies from long-matriculated schools.
As morosely comical as things have become, this week was especially bad for the Post. Things began poorly with a strained attempt to deflect the nation’s horrendous economic conditions away from the president. In pieces dripping with condescension and bolstered with sub-Schoolhouse Rock animation, you could almost feel them patting readers on the head as the overarching message they were delivering was, “Don’t blame Joe.”
From there, things turned darkly comical. First, the jury returned a verdict on the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial-of-the-sedentary, and it proved to be a blight for the Post. At the center of the trial was an opinion piece Heard had written in the Post, and the jury found in favor of Depp concerning no fewer than three items of defamation she penned in the column.
This prompted the paper to tack on a lengthy Editor’s Note at the opening of the column, attesting that the things she had been found liable for were from the piece. The entire basis of this was that Heard pledged to donate millions of dollars to the ACLU, and the organization had ghostwritten the column, leading to Depp filing his defamation suit. It is a remarkable development for a major paper to declare it printed the item that was found libelous in court.
At the same time, a shooting took place at a Tulsa hospital, and the coverage in the Post veered from the hysterical to the slanderous. A former patient, distraught over lingering pain, sought out his doctor and killed him, as well as others in the hospital, before taking his own life. The Post framed the entire episode around race, citing the infamous Tulsa race riot, which the governor described as hatred. Never mentioned in the piece: the race of the shooter, who was a black man. As I mentioned on my latest “The Lie-Able Sources” podcast, the gun narrative was clearly written beforehand and the details had to be rearranged–once they realized there were inconvenient facts.
Then on Friday, even more asinine drama unspooled. First, there were hysterics, when writer Dave Weigel did the unthinkable: He retweeted someone’s tasteless joke. This completely innocuous move was blown up by a co-worker, Felicia Sonmez. Not only did she find a way to become offended by something completely divorced from her, but she also took to social media to out Weigel as some kind of social aggressor.
The paper was actually compelled to respond, with Weigel forced to apologize, and no one at the Post was grownup enough to see the sheer idiocy of this episode over a joke that Weigel never told.
Then came the real humiliation for the masthead, from that perpetual source of embarrassment, Taylor Lorenz. In her latest article, the writer was covering video accounts that experienced traffic surges and revenue benefits by posting videos from the Depp-Heard trial. The recidivist fabulist Lorenz was exposed as having claimed to have reached out to a number of the account holders, who had not in fact been contacted. She had also misattributed details about these accounts in her article, leading to more shame on the paper.
First, the Post stealth-edited the article to correct the inaccuracies, then after being contacted by Fox News on the matter, a formal correction was issued. Then, in amazing fashion, a second and lengthier correction had to be issued that night. Numerous aspects of the article had to be changed; three people whom Lorenz asserted were contacted had not been, and the specifics behind a number of claims needed correcting. This was a trainwreck of a piece, and the Post appears content to cover for this reporter with a track record of problems.
These would be astounding issues for a news outlet to experience over a course of time. To see all of the above playing out in a matter of days–within a truncated week–is head-spinning. Making it all the worse is that it is a paper that used to lodge in the firmament of news organizations. Yet, the Washington Post is displaying a level of internal dysfunction one might expect from a tabloid weekly.
Report: Baby Formula Supply Will Be Sparse Well into July Even as Abbott Resumes Production at Michigan Plant NICK GILBERTSON 4 Jun 2022
Baby formula will reportedly be in short supply well into July, even though Abbott Laboratories resumed production at its Sturgis, Michigan, factory Saturday, according to a report.
In a statement, Abbott said the Michigan plant will start with the production of “specialty and metabolic formulas, with initial EleCare product release to consumers beginning on or about June 20.”
The company will begin making Similac formula and other regular products after prioritizing the specialty formulas, “with supplies hitting stores several weeks later,” the Walls Street Journal reported, citing “a person familiar with the matter.”
Part of Abbott’s statement reads:
We understand the urgent need for formula and our top priority is getting high-quality, safe formula into the hands of families across America. We will ramp production as quickly as we can while meeting all requirements. We’re committed to safety and quality and will do everything we can to re-earn the trust parents, caregivers and health care providers have placed in us for 130 years.
On February 17, Abbott announced it had initiated a voluntary recall of formula products, including EleCare, Similac, and Alimentum, following consumer complaints that four infants who had consumed products manufactured at the plant developed bacterial infections. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched investigations into the matter, and the CDC did not discover a connection between the bacterial infections and the Sturgis lab, according to a May 16 press release from Abbott.
Though the “factory had produced roughly one-fifth of the infant formula in the country,” as the Wall Street Journal noted, and the void in production would have ramifications for one of the countries’ most vulnerable populations, an official in the Biden Administration claims President Joe Biden was not informed of the crisis until April, Breitbart News reported.
On Wednesday, White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told CNN’s The Lead:
We were informed by the FDA of the closure in February. And from that point, the FDA and the staff across the administration, in all of the relevant agencies in the White House, was working to try to address the issue. Part of the reason why production has increased and the companies that were here today have been able to increase production by as much as they have is they’ve been working on this issue now for months. But it took too long for Abbott to agree to a consent decree, and once it was clear that that facility was not going to be able to come back online sooner, then it was clear that we were going to have a more significant challenge. So, at that point, the president was informed.
Abbot announced it had reached an agreement regarding a consent decree with the FDA to restart production at the facility in its May 16 release.
anybody notice SB is more outraged over baby formula than he is about dead kids?
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Yet some don't seem to care? Or, worse, they blame trump, and putin, then try to put the 2 together.
Who "doesn't care" arch? Are you pretending this doesn't impact all of us?
And who do you blame? Do you believe the factors that created this situation all happened in 18 months? Do you think any of us believe it all happened under Trump? Because that's certainly not what I believe. Every president and party in power has spent like drunken sailors for a very long time now. Eventually there's a price to pay for that. The bill has come due. It's the cumulative effect of that over a long period of time.
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When your rent skyrockets, as it should to just keep up, don't gripe and moan. When your a/c shuts off this summer due to forecasted brown outs all over the country? Don't gripe and moan.
And how is griping and moaning helping you?
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
anybody notice SB is more outraged over baby formula than he is about dead kids?
I don't think he's outraged at all. I think he's $.40 with vids. The only reason I click his thread is to clear the notifications on the PP front page.
His time is his to waste. My time is better spent elsewhere.
Feckless Biden Says Americans Have to Get Ready for More Blackouts as Energy Infrastructure Nears Breaking Point by Mary Villareal June 5, 2022
For a couple of years, rolling blackouts have been regular occurrences in the state of California, the Midwest and the Deep South. Now, the Joe Biden administration is saying that people have to get ready for even more blackouts this summer as the energy infrastructure nears breaking point.
In the June 3 episode of “Zoon Politicon,” commentator Holly Seeliger talked about the problems brought about by the Biden administration’s push for green energy.
With the grid system not nearly producing enough electricity, a vast swath of land from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts as drought takes its toll amid power plant and supply chain woes.
John Bear, CEO of Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which serves the Midwest corridor from Minnesota to the Texas Panhandle, said that energy shortages move the area in the direction of rotating blackouts. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation also lists the Midwest as the one being at the highest risk for energy cuts.
The Federal Electricity Regulatory Commission, an independent body that oversees the U.S. electric grid, estimates that power prices in the region may soar up to 233 percent at the peak of summer, which is boosted by high demands as temperatures rise and gas prices continue to soar.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also estimates that the average summer temperatures across the U.S. will be between 50 and 80 percent higher than normal.
The Biden administration’s effort to transition six energy grids to a decarbonized system is also part of the problem. According to Bear, part of the effort is phasing out fossil fuel units before new batteries are available. The White House also previously announced Biden’s long-term strategy to decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050, but under these efforts, each of North America’s six electricity grids will see power capacity decline.
Reliability crisis could create dangerous outages in Texas, California Significant outages have already been faced by the Texas grid over the winter storm in February 2021, which killed 246 people. The grid is set to lose 2.9 gigawatts of gas, coal, and nuclear capacity this year, as well. Meanwhile, the grid run by Bear will lose 3.2 gigawatts of power due to retiring coal plants, which will not be replaced. (Related: Rolling blackouts to affect over a billion people as energy crisis worsens.)
Republican commissioners on the FERC and some industry groups argued for a slower transition to avoid energy shortfalls. One of its members, Mark Christie, said they were headed for a reliability crisis, as they are not yet ready for such a move.
Democrats on the commission, on the other hand, are pushing that power transmission issues are the reasons for periodic blackouts, not the energy transition.
California grid operators, in contrast, have also warned that the state faces a risk of blackouts during the next three summers due to power supply shortages. This prediction is based on an analysis of existing power supplies, with new sources expected to come online and the potential of extreme events, including potential gaps between electricity supply and peak demand.
The state is also trying to shift to cleaner energy, although it isn’t the best long-term solution to power issues. Droughts make hydropower less available, while wildfires reduce electricity transmission, according to the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission. (Related: NERC: Power grid problems, intense heat could lead to widespread blackouts in North America this summer.)
California’s electricity blackouts are likely to return this summer due to supply shortages. The most precarious window for electricity supply shortages is in the early evenings after solar power stops working, and September is expected to be the most problematic month.
Follow PowerGrid.news for more updates about energy sources this summer.
Watch the video below for more information on what to expect about power and energy distribution in the U.S. this summer.
Remarkable Admission, Pete Buttigieg Announces Biden Inflation Plan is to Create Increased Dependency State and Apply Socialist Economics, Biden Led Govt to Provide Medicine, Childcare, Housing and Food June 5, 2022 | Sundance | 460 Comments
Here is one succinct interview containing the smorgasbord of far-left policies the people behind Joe Biden are proposing as the solution to the inflation crisis they have created. It is remarkable to see it all packed into one 8-minute segment. There is so much crazy in here it would take a week of articles to unpack it.
The ultra-leftist Biden Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, appears on ABC with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the solutions to the massive economic collapse that looms all around us. Within the interview Buttigieg states the Biden administration goal is to use the high cost of living (policy driven inflation) as an opportunity for the government to take over household expenses and create equity via government distribution.
If reasonable people do not intervene quickly, the executive branch and legislative branch will move to begin subsidizing and controlling medicine, childcare, housing and food costs by diverting tax dollars into the social equity system. Depending on income, the Biden administration plans to offset higher prices for Americans by providing the essential services and products they need. In essence, Democrat-Socialism with a filter of equity in distribution, ie “enhanced dependency.” WATCH:
Remarkably, Stephanopoulos references one of the most insane New York Times op-ed’s ever written around economics {ARTICLE HERE}. Within the reference, the Democrat legislative proposal is for the government to take over the purchasing of essential products like food, fuel, gasoline and medicine. The government would then distribute those products. The entire premise is based on some academic leftist theory of economics that is just nuts. It looks nothing like capitalism.
The baseline for the approach contains the premise that inflation is driven by too many people chasing scarce goods. Thus prices are rising. This is how the Democrats look at inflation and explain the problem. Their solution is for government to buy the food at the prices they claim people cannot afford, and then sell the food at prices they claim the people can afford. [Replace ‘food’ with any item they determine]
Notice in the interview when Buttigieg is challenged about the high cost of gasoline, he complains that oil companies are not drilling enough to generate the oil and refinery capacity that we need. Essentially, the oil companies are to blame for not creating more supply.
Now, pause, and think about that.
The same Pete Buttigieg voices strong opposition to any further exploitation of oil and natural gas. Buttigieg and the Biden administration vociferously advocate for green energy transition with extreme urgency and apply punitive punishment toward any opposition. Moments later, they are blaming the oil and gas industry for not providing enough supply….
…. Do you know what that advocacy conflict sounds like? That conflicted and twisted mental outlook is the psychology happening in abusive relationships. If you had made me a better sandwich, I wouldn’t have needed to punch you in the mouth. If the oil companies we restrict were doing the things we restrict them not to do, then things would be better.
Because the oil, gas, farms or (fill_in_the_blank) etc are not doing their jobs correctly – as to predict the damage caused by govt policy and offset the consequences – then government must take over the controls of the industry and manage the process. History rhymes…
Sure. It's not the Dems fighting to keep wages low. It's not the Dems refusing that all Americans have healthcare. It's not the Dems fighting against unions so workers have some say in how they're treated. It's not the Dems trying to stop people from going into huge debt for higher education.
You sure can't see the forest for the trees.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Sure. It's not the Dems fighting to keep wages low. It's not the Dems refusing that all Americans have healthcare. It's not the Dems fighting against unions so workers have some say in how they're treated. It's not the Dems trying to stop people from going into huge debt for higher education.
You sure can't see the forest for the trees.
Pit, they only address the minimum wage. In the long haul, look at all the handout. They paid people to stay home.
I think you are the one who needs to take a look at things.
We have both expressed our opinions so we can leave it there.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Now we have the President of Mexico snubbing our president....how times have changed is a few short months...Pitiful
In snub to Biden, Mexico's president won't attend US-hosted Summit of the Americas
Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Monday he will not attend the Americas Summit in Los Angeles because the US government did not invite all the governments of the region. () WASHINGTON – Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Monday that he is skipping this week's Ninth Summit of the Americas, a blow to President Joe Biden as he tries to unite the region to address migration.
“There cannot be a summit if all countries are not invited,” López Obrador said at a press conference Monday after the United States refused to invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the summit.
He said Mexico's foreign affairs secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, will attend the summit instead. López Obrador said he will meet with Biden in July.
López Obrador has been threatening to boycott the summit if the United States didn't invite every country in the region, including the autocratic leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The Biden administration said they do not want to invite countries that have not upheld democratic principles.
López Obrador's absence is likely to be seen as a snub to Biden as the U.S. prepares to host the summit for the first time since its inception in 1994. The summit is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
The White House has said climate change, COVID-19 and the economy are going to be among some of the issues discussed.
But a priority for the administration is migration. The United States has seen record levels of migrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year. In April, the United States saw a record number of border encounters for that month in more than two decades.
The Biden administration has tried to work with key countries in the region, including Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, to address the root causes of migration.
López Obrador might not be the only key official who is skipping out on the summit.
Newly-elected Honduras President Xiomara Castro previously indicated that she would not attend the summit if some countries were excluded from the event.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
80% of Americans Say Biden’s Economy Is “Badly Underwater” By M Dowling -June 6, 2022
More than eight in 10 Americans (83%) now say that the economy is either an extremely or very important issue in determining how they will vote. That is according to the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll.
In the poll, 80% of Americans say that inflation is also an extremely or very important factor in how they will vote and for gas prices, it is 74%.
Joe Biden’s approval ratings for his handling of these key issues are all well underwater, suggesting trouble for the president and Democratic candidates ahead of the midterm.
Only 37% approve of Biden’s handling of the economic recovery, and even fewer approve of his handling of inflation (28%) and gas prices (27%) ABC reports.
Who are the 37% who approve – I want to meet them because I can’t believe they exist.
Among Americans who report they are very enthusiastic to vote in November, the economy and inflation are the most important issues. Currently, Republicans outnumber Democrats in their stated enthusiasm to vote in the midterms, according to IPSOS.
RNC Research tweeted, “Biden is a serious drag on Democratic candidates nationwide … he is badly underwater on all of the top issues”
“I know that even with today’s good news, a lot of Americans remain anxious, and I understand the feeling,” Biden said.
He thinks the economy is just fine and this is why nothing will get better.
You conservatives hate Mexicans anyway so why do you care. You didn’t care when the Mexican president was criticizing trump, so don’t be fake now, peen. Keep that same energy you had during the trump era.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Here We Go Again: Biden’s CDC Recommends Masks For Monkeypox MARY ROOKE STAFF WRITER June 06, 2022 10:47 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) upgraded the monkeypox alert to level 2 on Monday, advising travelers to practice enhanced precautions, including wearing a mask.
The CDC advised wearing masks after closely monitoring cases of monkeypox that have lately been reported in numerous countries, including the U.S., reported Fox News.M ET
The agency appears to have updated its website, erasing any direction advising travelers to wear masks. Instead, the CDC recommends travelers avoid close physical contact with infected people, wash their hands with soap and water, and avoid touching their eyes, nose and mouth.
“People usually become infected with the monkeypox virus through contact with the skin lesions or bodily fluids of infected animals or humans (alive or dead), including respiratory droplets, or through contact with materials contaminated with the virus,” according to the CDC’s notice.
The CDC said monkeypox is a rare disease found throughout Central and West Africa, especially in tropical rain forests. People infected with the disease have been found in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australia, according to the agency.
“Some cases were reported among men who have sex with men. Some cases were also reported in people who live in the same household as an infected person,” the CDC reported. (RELATED: Monkeypox Outbreak Appears To Be Driven By Gay Sex, Health Authorities Say)
The U.S. has 31 confirmed cases of monkeypox, according to the CDC. The agency reported several states with confirmed cases including California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
One of Florida’s four cases was also included in the U.K.’s case count because the person tested positive while in the U.K., according to the CDC.
The agency advised that antivirals developed for smallpox and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are among the limited therapy options for monkeypox.
Yes, it's great to say we both gave our opinions. But you can't make up your own set of facts. Who is it you're calling "they"?
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Unemployment Insurance Relief During COVID-19 Outbreak
On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which provided additional flexibility for state unemployment insurance agencies and additional administrative funding to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The PUA program provides up to 39 weeks of benefits, which are available retroactively starting with weeks of unemployment beginning on or after January 27, 2020, and ending on or before December 31, 2020.
All of this "paid them to stay home" nonsense you claim started with Trump in the spring of 2020. So having your own opinion is fine, but you can't have a different set of facts. At least you can't claim they're facts and not get called on it.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Some people are bitter because, UNDER trump, poor people (well over half the country) got stimulus handouts to ease the pinch. Some of that stimulus continued under Biden, and when it came time to return to "normal" people responded in an unexpected way. Now those things are all considered Biden's fault by the right. They feel this way because the workforce shifted and people decided that giving up their lives, or merely risking their health for corporate greed and serving the "that's below me" crowd wasn't as important as a living wage going forward. It's easy to spot those that can't grasp this simple, yet perplexing chain of events.
House Democrat: ‘It’s harder to get the news through Fox than Russian television’
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) blasted Fox News on Tuesday, saying the network’s coverage makes it hard for politicians to get news to conservative viewers.
“I know CNN and the new leadership is looking at going more toward the middle and getting a broader viewership but Fox has the predominance of the Trump supporters and Republicans,” Cohen said during an interview on CNN. “And it’s harder to get the news through Fox than it is to get it in Russia through Russian television.”
Critics of Fox have panned the network over its coverage plans for Thursday’s first hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which do not include live coverage on its main cable channel.
Fox News Channel averages millions of viewers in primetime each night. The network announced on Monday evening it would cover the proceedings in full on Fox Business Networks and via its other verticals on streaming and online. It will also make that coverage available for all of its local affiliate stations to air if they choose to.
Ratings figures show Fox’s audience dwarfing that of competitions CNN and MSNBC, both of which plan to carry Thursday’s hearing in full. Recent surveys have found more Democrats watch Fox than competitors, a byproduct of the conservative media giant carrying a larger overall audience.
Cohen, who is not on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, predicted it could be “hard to get across” the points the panel is trying to hammer home with American voters about former President Trump and his role in the riot.
“There’s a middle ground that we’ve always called the suburban housewife, independents who will listen and who will recoil at what they learn …” Cohen said.
The congressman’s comparison of Fox News to Russian media comes amid the country’s ongoing war in Ukraine, which state media has covered glowingly while the Kremlin cracks down on the vast majority of independent media covering the bloody conflict.
I agree with Fox and the other right-wing media's lies on a 24/7 repeating cycle being an issue, but all bias across both sides in media needs to be tuned down quite a bit. The problem is individuals like Carlson taking those biases to new scummier and scummier low levels. It only works short-term to drive viewership and control the narrative, but then it starts doing lasting damage to our democracy IMO. BOTH sides are guilty to some extent. Carlson just stands out as a giant of misinformation and creepyness following the same ilk as Alex Smith and Limbaugh. But the left has plenty of extreme views in broadcasting; yeah Joy Reid, I'm looking at you. Her move to the counter-Tucker show has turned her into the same person on the other side. Those voices could use some toning down right along with Trucker.
Talk about a slippery slope. Not a fan of this woman. And I'm sure she is to close to the political and criminal POV to realize how FASCIST she sounds.
I'd like to point out to my friend on the right that fascist unAmerican thinking is not an exclusively right-wing thing.
She's another one that said all the right things to run as a progressive to get elected. But sadly the only thing progressive about her is that she gets progressively more corrupt, petty, stupid, and self-serving as time goes on.
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