It’s Friday, May 14th, 2021…but before we begin, allow us to offer some random thoughts on the ever-worsening passing scene:
Random Thought (A). TLJ suggested the Colonial Pipeline shutdown should at least lead Americans to conclude we need more pipelines, to which we promptly responded, “No, The Left will claim it’s a clear indication an immediate and total shift to electric vehicles is in order.” Hat tip to The Boss for the linked article which proves our point.
Random Thought (B). Any question Hamas would never have attacked Israel if The Donald still occupied the Oval Office? Or perhaps there’s something about releasing $235M of aid to terrorists with no strings attached that just brings out the worst in them.
Miller: “We gotta hold this shit together ima still play the back role g I ain’t never turning my back on gang whatever got going on y’all ina door wit me stand on business ima stand on my business to make sure mfs got what they need.” Chicago phone number: “Sayless.” Miller: “We gone win this *war* we losing the battle but this a marathon not a race.”
We can only assume Mr. Miller meant “sprint”, as a marathon is still a race.
So while our new SecDef is focused on rooting out White supremacists in our Armed Forces (i.e., any White male with Conservative political beliefs), in an eerie replay of the Obamao’s Fast & Furious fiasco, the illicit activities of three Black soldiers have claimed actual lives.
BTW, gangs infiltrating our Armed Forces has been a problem dating back decades. Funny Lloyd Austin isn’t concerned about gangbangin’ supremacists of color.
Random Thought (D). Though we recognize the results of the 2020 election cannot be overturned, we’ll never believe multiple efforts by Dimocrats to impose illegal, last-minute election law alterations, or to exclude Republican observers from the vote counting in cities such as Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit, or the zero-dark-thirty flood of nearly 100% ballots for Biden in various states didn’t involve and weren’t intended to perpetrate electoral fraud on a massive scale.
Random Thought (E). We’re glad to see the CDC has finally grasped what the rest of us, unschooled though we are in the complex sciences of epidemiology and virology, understood to be the case months ago. Which fairly screams the question, if all our supposed leaders are “following the science”, why isn’t this policy nationwide?!? We note 46*’s contribution to the announcement of this long-overdue milestone was to warn us the pandemic will not come to an end until it is tackled globally. Trust us, this is another way of saying his handlers don’t WANT this to end. And the timing can’t have anything to do with attempting to distract from The Groper’s ineptitude in dealing with all his various and sundry crises.
P.S. We wish for once some Republican would question Kerry’s climate change myth in its entirety.
Random Thought (G). We were struck by Mayor Pete’s response to a CNBC host’s question regarding whether infrastructure shouldn’t be limited to the types of things within his purview as Secretary of Transportation. You can view the entire clip, as it’s not very long, but the Money Quote comes at the 2:02 mark, at which point Pothole Pete clearly confirms he’s living in an alternate reality:
Sure we’ve got a $100 trillion, ’cause in Pete’s world, all we need to do is print it.
Now, here’s The Gouge! And be sure to make it to the end, ‘cuz we saved the best for last.
First up, the Morning Jolt responds to 46*’s continuing illegal immigration prevarications with an emphatic…
“The truth of the matter is, nothing has changed,” President Biden insisted in his press conference on March 25. “It happens every single, solitary year: There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. That happens every year.”
…Biden told NBC News that he “inherited a Godawful mess” from Trump at the border, but in January, CBP had only 78,443 encounters at the southern border. The first big jump came in February when it rose to 101,120, and then it continued rising into March. Hey, what happened in late January?
These are cold, hard numbers which prove that Biden’s assessment of the situation in late March was completely wrong. Whether or not Biden wanted to tell Central America that the border is open, his first moves on immigration — halting construction of border fencing, new guidelines to ICE agents to sharply curb arrests and deportations, an attempted moratorium on deportations, proposing a path to citizenship — all sent a signal to migrants and human traffickers that the door was wide open and everyone was welcome.
…There is only one way that people in the poorest and most isolated communities in Central America will disbelieve the false promises of human smugglers and coyotes and understand that the border is not open. It requires the U.S. president to send a clear signal, loudly, frequently, and publicly, that U.S. immigration laws are still enforced, and that those caught crossing the border illegally will be criminally charged and quickly deported…”
Yeah, fat chance.
Next, NRO‘s Charlie Cooke recounts what happens when a biased press, overeager for any hint of dirt on a rising Republican, runs with a story they know to be false, as he tells the twisted tale of…
That’s Rebekah Jones on the left, Theranos’ Lyin’ ‘Lizbeth Holmes on the right.
“This is a story about Rebekah Jones, a former dashboard manager at the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), who has single-handedly managed to convince millions of Americans that Governor Ron DeSantis has been fudging the state’s COVID-19 data.
When I write “single-handedly,” I mean it, for Jones is not one of the people who have advanced this conspiracy theory but rather is the person who has advanced this conspiracy theory. It has been repeated by others, sure: by partisans across the Internet, by unscrupulous Florida Democrats(Is there a different variety?!?) such as Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, and on television, by (GASP!!!)MSNBC in particular. But it flows from a single place: Rebekah Jones. To understand that is to understand the whole game. This is about Jones, and Jones alone. If she falls, it falls.
And boy does it deserve to fall…”
Can you say, “Russian collusion” or “Dan Rather”, boys and girls? We KNEW you could!
Since we’re on the subject of scam artists, also courtesy of NRO, Phil Klein writes…
“Many conservatives have observed this week that with a poor unemployment report, inflation on the rise, a gas crisis, and the Middle East in turmoil(Let’s not forget an uncontrolled southern border, a rising China, nuclear Iran and deliberately divisive social agenda!), Joe Biden’s presidency is starting to look a lot like Jimmy Carter’s.
Taken literally, this is obviously premature. The Colonial Pipeline has already resumed operations. Israel and Hamas won’t be fighting at this level of intensity forever. And two concerning economic reports do not constitute a longer-term trend.
That having been said, this week has been an indication that the honeymoon period of the Biden presidency is coming to an end…”
A grace period, we must note, his predecessor was never granted.
And in the EnvironMental Moment, courtesy of the WSJ via Jeff Foutch, Mark Mills reveals the truth behind…
“The International Energy Agency, the world’s pre-eminent source of energy information for governments, has entered the political debate over whether the U.S. should spend trillions of dollars to accelerate the energy transition favored by the Biden administration. You know, the plan to use far more “clean energy” and far less hydrocarbons—the oil, natural gas and coal that today supply 84% of global energy needs. The IEA’s 287-page report released this month, “The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions,” is devastating to those ambitions. A better title would have been: “Clean Energy Transitions: Not Soon, Not Easy and Not Clean.”
The IEA assembled a large body of data about a central, and until now largely ignored, aspect of the energy transition: It requires mining industries and infrastructure that don’t exist. Wind, solar and battery technologies are built from an array of “energy transition minerals,” or ETMs, that must be mined and processed. The IEA finds that with a global energy transition like the one President Biden envisions, demand for key minerals such as lithium, graphite, nickel and rare-earth metals would explode, rising by 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900% and 700%, respectively, by 2040.
The world doesn’t have the capacity to meet such demand. As the IEA observes, albeit in cautious bureaucratese, there are no plans to fund and build the necessary mines and refineries. The supply of ETMs is entirely aspirational. And if it were pursued at the quantities dictated by the goals of the energy transition, the world would face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges, along with geopolitical risks.
The IEA stipulates up front one underlying fact that advocates of a transition never mention: Green-energy machines use far more critical minerals than conventional-energy machines do. “A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired power plant,” the report says. “Since 2010, the average amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation capacity has increased by 50% as the share of renewables has risen.” That was merely to bring wind and solar to a 10% share of the world’s electricity.
As the IEA notes dryly, the transition is a “shift from a fuel-intensive to a material-intensive energy system.” That means a shift away from liquids and gases whose extraction and transport leave a very light footprint on the land and are transported easily, cheaply and efficiently, and toward big-footprint mines, the energy-intensive transport of massive amounts of rocks and other solid materials, and subsequent chemical processing and refining…”
In other words…
Moving on, we submit for your perusal a septet of selections sure to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
(1). Writing at NRO, Douglas Carr proposes a way lawmakers could respond to MLB’s Georgia Boycott which might even garner some Dimocratic support, provided Progressives are serious about taxing billionaires.
(2). Though we find Marc Thiessen’s take on the Liz Cheney kerfuffle of interest, centering as it does around the rather intriguing factoid Liz was in synch with The Donald (93%) far more frequently than Elise (78%), what we find more interesting is Thiessen, like Cheney, still describes the brief occupation of the Capitol as an “insurrection“, just as he similarly continues to claim Trump was somehow responsible, a belief most outside the Beltway don’t share.
(4). Though we understand Senator Barasso’s point, the ChiComs aren’t playing Joe Biden, they’re paying Joe Biden…along with a lengthy list of other American luminaries who’ve put personal profit above their nation’s security.
This couldn’t have anything to do with Wretched attempting to divert attention from her refusal to come clean about who footed the bill for the private jet she took to visit her father in Florida in violation of her own COVID travel advisory?
Inquiring minds also have to wonder whether Whitmer has the faintest understanding a going concern would infinitely prefer to slug it out in court and risk losing some portion of its net profits rather than shutting down and losing its entire stream of revenue. As Jim Freeman noted, echoing what we’ve so often observed, if politicians like Wretched Gretchen didn’t have double standards, they’s have no standards at all.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Breeze…
…Balls Cotton…
…the lovely Shannon…
…and last, but never least, Major Jon:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with our HeresySection, courtesy today of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who, in a blinding moment of unaccustomed honesty admitted when it comes to the cheapest, least environmentally-damaging way to transport the petroleum products and natural gas on which our entire civilization depends…
To which The Groper’s degenerate son responded…
Reports Granholm will be hauled before the Grand High Climate Inquisitor first thing Monday…
…remain unconfirmed…but highly likely.
Magoo
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Video of the Day
Ben Shapiro gives us an accurate assessment of the latest Hamas terrorist assault on the sovereign state of Israel, the only truly functioning democracy in the Middle East. The clip is a bit lengthy, but it’s well worth your time to get the facts.
Tales of The Darkside
As if America’s enemies didn’t already have reason enough to dismiss our resolve.
On the Lighter Side
Everything you wanted to know about tree crickets…but didn’t care enough to ask!
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