Postal Service, Biden Can’t Deliver On EVs

I & I Editorial Board     

"Practicality and principled stewardship of taxpayers’ dollars were apparently never a consideration. It was all about Biden’s legacy."

"Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s bizarre and frankly childish behavior during testimony before Congress wasn’t the U.S. Postal Service’s worst moment last week. That came two days later.

DeJoy, appearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, was told by Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia that he is “responsible for the fall of the Postal Service and the lack of accountability.” DeJoy retorted that “this Congress is responsible for it falling apart” and insisted he was “trying to fix” the post office.

He then told McCormick that “you’re talking to yourself” and covered his ears with his hands like the “hear no evil” monkey. (See it for yourself here.)  

"Appalling as that was, DeJoy’s antics were overshadowed when the Washington Post reported that even after the Biden administration committed $3 billion to buy electric delivery trucks for the post office, the contractor it hired, Oshkosh, has delivered only 93 of what was supposed to be 3,000 EV trucks by now.

“ 'Postal Service’s electric mail trucks are way behind schedule,” the Post says. “The delays put Biden’s climate goals at risk.” (Concern for the phantom danger of “climate change” outweighs the gross incompetence of the federal government in the eyes of the Post.)

"The “historic” White House initiative that was ultimately to deliver 60,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles to the post office has been “plagued by manufacturing mishaps and supplier infighting,” says the Post. Rather than building 80 a day, as was the expectation, the company is cobbling together just one." . . .

USPS’ long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

Scientists Officially Declare End of ‘Climate Emergency’ During Prague Climate Conference

 Legal Insurrection

"Since wind and solar power are costly, intermittent and more environmentally destructive per TWh generated than any other energy source, governments should cease to subsidize or to prioritize them, and should instead expand coal, gas and, above, all nuclear generation."

"Legal Insurrection readers will recall that in my post on the United Nations climate conference in Azerbaijan this week, its president boldly declared that oil and gas were a ‘gift from God’.

"The eco-activists attending the event were enraged.

"The climate cultists will likely be working themselves up into even more hysteria because of another climate conference that occurred mid-November in the Czech Republic city of Prague.

"The Czech division of the International Climate Intelligence Group (Clintel) organized a two-day climate conference in Prague on November 12-13, 2024, where climate scientists declared that the “climate emergency” is over. The conference concluded with a communiqué drafted by the participating scientists and researchers that targeted the climate hysteria promoted by the United Nations body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

‘The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which excludes participants and published papers disagreeing with its narrative, fails to comply with its own error-reporting protocol and draws conclusions some of which are dishonest, should be forthwith dismantled.’

This declaration supports the conclusions of the major Clintel report, The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC.

Moreover, the scientists at the conference declared that even if all nations moved straight to net zero emissions, by the 2050 target date the world would be only about 0.1 C cooler than with no emissions reduction.

So far, the attempts to mitigate climate change by international agreements such as the Paris Agreement have made no difference to our influence on climate, since nations such as Russia and China, India and Pakistan continue greatly to expand their combustion of coal, oil and gas.

The cost of achieving that 0.1 C reduction in global warming would be $2 quadrillion, equivalent to 20 years’ worldwide gross domestic product.

"The declaration has 18 different point referencing climate science and facts that counter the narratives being pushed by the IPCC and those who want to push their green agendas. I have listed the first six below (which should be familiar to Legal Insurrection readers); there remainder can be found in the copy of the declaration." . . . More here.

Day 2: Dump The Paris Climate Agreement

 I & I Editorial Board 

 "It is simultaneously meaningless and dishonest, a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist."

"During Donald Trump’s first successful presidential campaign, he promised to pull the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. He was unable to do so until the day after the 2020 election he lost, and the reprieve lasted only a little more than two months because Joe Biden rejoined the pact the day he was inaugurated. It’s another one of the many of Biden’s messes that Trump has to clean up.

"The U.S. should have never been a part of the Paris Agreement. Committing our country to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which means reductions in fossil fuel use, is foolish. Reaching the made-from-thin-air global temperature target: requires government mandates, restrictions and increased spending on politically trendy but expensive and unreliable renewable energy; stunts economic growth; limits our choices, leaving many of them to be made by globalist elites; and is an abdication of our national sovereignty.

"It is simultaneously meaningless and dishonest, a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist.

“ 'The Paris Agreement has always been an expensive farce, a symbolic gesture masquerading as a global solution,” writes Charles Rotter in the Watts Up With That? blog. “Its main purpose? To transfer wealth from productive nations to the politically corrupt under the guise of ‘climate justice.’ Of course, China — the world’s largest emitter — sits pretty with vague promises and no actual obligations. Trump’s exit from this scam is as much common sense as it is a necessity.”

"Trump couldn’t withdraw the first time from the Paris deal until November 2020, because he was handcuffed by the previous administration, which wanted to fundamentally transform this country and saw the agreement as an instrument of destruction.

“ 'President Obama’s negotiators wanted to ensure that it would take time for the U.S. to get out if there was a change in leadership,” the BBC explained. So “no country could give notice to leave the agreement until three years had passed from the date of ratification,” and then it had to provide a 12-month notice to the United Nations. Trump served that notice on Nov. 4, 2019, signaling that the U.S. would formally withdraw on Nov. 4, 2020." . . .

Kamala Harris’s Climate Czar: Fossil Fuel Industry Is ‘Death Cult’; Contains the word "fascism" as usual

 Breitbart

"The Kamala Harris campaign has tapped eco-loony Camila Thorndike as its “climate engagement director,” a far-left activist who says oil and gas workers are part of the “toxic patriarchy.”

"This “race against fascism is still too close,” Thorndike stated last week. “The only way to stop Trump’s Project 2025 from wrecking our progress and lives is to take action.”

"In early September, the Harris-Walz campaign brought on Thorndike, who had worked for Sen. Bernie Sanders as a legislative aide drafting climate-related policies, and who served in a senior director post at Rewiring America.

"While with Sanders, Thorndike said there is “something evil” about the fossil fuels sector, adding that “there’s no greater source of harm than continuing to cook the planet.”

As pointed out by the attentive folks at the Washington Free Beacon, Thorndike has a history of radical climate activism, in which she has attempted to demonize anyone associated with fossil fuels.

In one post, she said she has had no children because of the fear they would die young, asserting that “the fossil fuel industry’s ecoterrorism” is “great birth control.” . . .

   Climate Change Activists Endorse Kamala Harris

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jet-Setting Climate Doomer, Endorses Kamala Harris to ‘Help Save the Planet’    . . .“Now he’s promised the oil and gas industry that’ll get rid of any regulation they want in exchange for a billion-dollar donation.”

"The final claim is based on an anonymously-sourced Washington Post article from May; Trump has only received about $14 million from oil and gas industry donors this cycle.

“Climate change is killing the earth and ruining our economy,” DiCaprio continued. “We need a bold step forward to save our economy, our planet, and ourselves. That’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris.”

"Shockingly, the actor touted Harris’s tie-breaking vote on the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which he describes as “the most significant climate action in U.S. history.” The law has haunted Harris’s campaign, as it did nothing to stop soaring prices, and President Joe Biden has even admitted it was deceptively named." . . .

Climate Change: The Greatest Psychological Operation We Never Needed (Redux)

 David T. Cloft; AFNN

"So here we are, united by a crisis that doesn’t really exist, but feeling pretty good about ourselves for caring so much. It’s like the biggest, most well-intentioned hoax ever pulled on humanity."

"Well, folks, we’ve been had. Turns out, climate change was never really about saving the planet. It was a cleverly orchestrated psychological operation designed to give humanity a common goal—because apparently, the planet didn’t actually need saving. According to the real science (not to be confused with “the science” aka Fauci) the Earth is doing just fine on its own, thank you very much. But as the Russian philosopher Dostoyevsky—once said, humans need a struggle to be happy. And what better struggle than fighting an invisible, impending climate catastrophe?

"Our political leaders, who are clearly much smarter than us, figured this out long ago. They saw a world without purpose, where people were content watching Netflix and complaining about the Wi-Fi. How do you unite a fractured humanity when people can’t even agree on pineapple as a pizza topping? Simple: you invent a global crisis! Enter climate change. It’s the perfect bogeyman—vague, everywhere, and completely unavoidable. Who cares if the real science says the planet isn’t going up in flames? We need a good struggle, and they gave it to us.

"In their infinite wisdom, the powers-that-be decided that the climate crisis was noble enough to rally us all together. After all, saving the planet sounds a lot better than admitting we just needed something to freak out about. Plus, who’s going to argue with polar bears and melting glaciers, right? It’s the perfect emotional hook. If you question it, you’re not just a skeptic—you’re a villain, hellbent on destroying Mother Earth herself. That’s some next-level psychological manipulation, and you’ve got to hand it to them: it worked.

"The truth is, this whole climate operation wasn’t about actual data or facts. It was about giving humanity a shared purpose. Because, let’s face it, we’re happier when we have a collective enemy, whether it’s asteroids, aliens, or the impending doom of rising sea levels. And if the science doesn’t quite back up the claims, well, details, schmetails. The important thing is that we’re all together in this fight—even if the fight itself is about as real as Bigfoot."

Climate Change: The Greatest Psychological Operation We Never Needed

American Free News Network

 . . ."So here we are, united by a crisis that doesn’t really exist, but feeling pretty good about ourselves for caring so much. It’s like the biggest, most well-intentioned hoax ever pulled on humanity." . . .

"Well, folks, we’ve been had. Turns out, climate change was never really about saving the planet. It was a cleverly orchestrated psychological operation designed to give humanity a common goal—because apparently, the planet didn’t actually need saving. According to the real science (not to be confused with “the science” aka Fauci) the Earth is doing just fine on its own, thank you very much. But as the Russian philosopher Dostoyevsky—once said, humans need a struggle to be happy. And what better struggle than fighting an invisible, impending climate catastrophe?

"Our political leaders, who are clearly much smarter than us, figured this out long ago. They saw a world without purpose, where people were content watching Netflix and complaining about the Wi-Fi. How do you unite a fractured humanity when people can’t even agree on pineapple as a pizza topping? Simple: you invent a global crisis! Enter climate change. It’s the perfect bogeyman—vague, everywhere, and completely unavoidable. Who cares if the real science says the planet isn’t going up in flames? We need a good struggle, and they gave it to us.

"In their infinite wisdom, the powers-that-be decided that the climate crisis was noble enough to rally us all together. After all, saving the planet sounds a lot better than admitting we just needed something to freak out about. Plus, who’s going to argue with polar bears and melting glaciers, right? It’s the perfect emotional hook. If you question it, you’re not just a skeptic—you’re a villain, hellbent on destroying Mother Earth herself. That’s some next-level psychological manipulation, and you’ve got to hand it to them: it worked." . . .

CBS News Welched, Vance Soared

  Ed Morrissey – HotAir

"During last night's live blog, I received the same basic message from multiple people: Why couldn't these two be running at the top of their tickets? That reaction came less from a desire to see either be president, but more from an appreciation of the return of the traditional debate, comity, and at several times, mutual graciousness.

"None of that helped Tim Walz, however. And neither did CBS News and its moderators, Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan -- although Lord knows they tried to do their best to rescue the Democrat.

"David Muir and Linsey Davis got a deluge of criticism for interfering in the one presidential debate on ABC News with one-sided "fact-checks," clearly corrupting the process in favor of Kamala Harris. CBS News promised its moderators would not conduct any fact-checking. It took them less than 20 minutes to violate that, interjecting at least twice to contradict J.D. Vance, and then cut off his microphone when he attempted to rebut their "fact check." 

"Nor was that their only attempt to rescue Walz. Throughout the debate, O'Donnell and Brennan would ask Vance to clarify claims and frame context for his one-minute rebuttals, while simply allowing Walz to frame his own rebuttal times. This happened throughout the debate, and it created the exact same three-on-one dynamic that plagued the ABC debate. 

"Plus, the question sets were essentially copied from Muir and Davis, designed to give Walz the most breathing room. After spending a few minutes on Iran, foreign policy largely disappeared from the questions, although both candidates brought it up. We had no questions on China policy, Taiwan, military readiness, or the deficit. Instead, we got child care and "democracy," which Vance turned into a debate on censorship and caught Walz sputtering over it. 

"The moderators chose sides again, and provided yet even more reasons for Republicans to demand new platforms other than media outlets to run these events." . . .

Exclusive: Expert Calls Out VP Debate Moderators’ Climate Lies – PJ Media   . . ."The CBS vice presidential debate moderators, Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, tried to tie Hurricane Helene to “climate change” and pressured both Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz to endorse government climate action. But “the notion that this is a man-made or -enhanced or -caused weather event is just without a foundation,” Milloy explained." . . .

. . ."Milloy cited an “ironic” article he found from last year saying people were moving to Asheville, NC, which has since been devastated by Helene, “because they thought it would be … safe climate wise. And of course, you know, climate is a ridiculous reason to do anything. They should have been thinking about the weather.” After all, “those mountains get storms,” Milloy pointed out, “it's a flood-prone area. And this time they got a really big one, and no one was ready for it, because I guess they're imagining that emissions are a problem.”. . .

American Liberty In The Balance

  Issues & Insights 

 "Either way, the Democratic Party is serious about quashing speech that inconveniences its campaign to establish a political power base that cannot be challenged. Liberty is on the ballot this fall, just as it is every time a Democrat runs for office anywhere in this country."

"John Kerry, maybe the most pompous politician of our lifetimes, admits that the First Amendment is an obstacle to the Democrats’ hard-left agenda. It’s a deeply disturbing statement perfectly in line with the party’s irrepressible authoritarian urges.

"At last week’s Sustainable Development Impact Meetings of the World Economic Forum, Kerry, a long-time U.S. senator from Massachusetts, secretary of state for four years of the eight-year Obama nightmare, Joe Biden’s climate czar and a failed presidential candidate, acknowledged that his party wants to censor speech that it doesn’t approve of.

“ 'Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence,” he said. “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”

"This was ominously followed by his warning that “there are some people in our country who prepared to implement change by other means.”

"His party will take that as a reference to Jan. 6. But the rest of us should understand that he’s saying that Democrats can take power the easy way or the hard way – so just turn it over to us in November and we won’t have to be more coercive than we already are.

"Kerry also complained that “it’s really hard to govern today.” This simply means that Democrats are finding that getting their way with policy is more difficult than in the past because the dissenting voices are now being heard on social media and from news sources that don’t believe it’s their job to put Democrats in office and keep them there.

"It’s impossible to watch the video without feeling the chill winds of censorship. Yet there’s no surprise. The political left began to abandon free speech through political correctness, then slowly, as if it had been part of a grand long-term plan, move on to government suppression of speech." . . .

Why Is Kamala Still Losing?

 "The process by which Kamala obtained the nomination was decidedly un-democratic, and then the party … spent weeks hiding the candidate from media curiosity." Yet I can't help but recall our prediction of the "red wave" that wasn't.TD

AfterMath

The American Spectator   "Nobody wants Kamala Harris to win this election more than do her celebrity media friends, who are willing to forfeit their credibility to drag her across the finish line. ABC News, whose blatantly one-sided “fact-checking” during Harris’s debate with Donald Trump was widely criticized, has seen its ratings tumble in the aftermath.

"What’s remarkable is not just the absolute shamelessness of the media’s pro-Democrat bias — they’re so far in the tank for her, their “news coverage” is just an endless campaign ad for Harris — but the fact that it doesn’t seem to be helping. The one story they’re not reporting is the most important of all: Kamala Harris is losing this election.

"Don’t take my word for it. Go look at where Harris stands in the polls today, and then compare her numbers to what the polls showed for Joe Biden on the same day in his 2020 race against Trump, and for Hillary Clinton in her 2016 race against Trump. In both of those previous two elections, most polls were slanted in favor of the Democratic candidates, so that Trump did better in the final official vote tallies than he did in the polls. This track record of error in favor of Democrats provides the proverbial “grain of salt” with which everyone should consume public polling.

"Fortunately, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon and the rest of the crew at RealClearPolitics (RCP) have made it easy for anyone to compare current presidential poll numbers to those in 2020 and 2016. These comparisons show Harris to be underperforming Biden and Clinton to such an extent that a Trump victory in November is the most likely outcome." . . .

. . ."Nothing quite like this had ever happened before, and the top-down imposition of Harris as the candidate was done by the same party that had spent years claiming that Trump must be defeated (indeed, must be sent to prison!) because he posed an existential threat to “our democracy.” What kind of democracy is it, where party insiders force the incumbent to quit his reelection bid and then pick a substitute candidate who never got a single primary vote for president?" . . .

Momala Harris and the expanding maternalistic state - Burton Abrams

"Momala is on record saying she would abolish the Senate’s 60-vote rule needed for closure on a filibuster to enact the Green New Deal to save the planet from climate change. The Green New Deal is one of Kamala’s dumbest economic policy suggestions. (Huge economic costs with little if any benefits.)" 

Spoiled brat’: Greta Thunberg arrested at Gaza protest in Copenhagen

 Sky News (msn.com)  Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested at a Gaza protest in Copenhagen. 

“Honestly, she is a tragic person,” Ms MacSween told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio. “She’s a spoiled brat.”

'Doom Goblin' Greta Thunberg:  "Kevin O'Sullivan and Isabel Oakeshott discuss Greta Thunberg's shift from climate change to protesting over Gaza, criticizing her lack of logic and the financial benefits they claim her family has gained from her activism. They express alarm over Ed Miliband's extreme green policies, which they believe will drive the nation into poverty."

Greta is ongoing fodder for satire at the Babylon Bee:

Having Solved Climate Change, Greta Thunberg Turns Attention To Middle East Peace   "People around the world sounded a celebratory cry this week, as having completed her quest to solve climate change, Greta Thunberg turned her attention to achieving peace in the Middle East.

"The renowned climatological expert and professional activist rested from her finished work fixing the earth's climate problems and set her sights on bringing all nations of the Middle East together in lasting peace and harmony.

" 'You thought I could only tackle climate change? How dare you!" Thunberg said as she sternly admonished reporters gathered at an anti-Israel protest in Malmo, Sweden. "Nothing can withstand the onslaught of Greta Thunberg. All those who stand in my path will be destroyed. I eradicated climate change in a few short years simply by giving some speeches and sitting in the road to block traffic. I will now focus my full power on bringing about lasting peace in the Middle East. Look upon me, ye mighty, and despair!"

"Upon hearing about Thunberg turning her attention toward resolving the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Israeli leaders scrambled to convene special meetings to discuss their options. "We were not expecting this," one high-ranking Israeli official said under the condition of anonymity. "We thought we had the situation well in hand, but as soon as we heard the name ‘Greta Thunberg,' our hearts froze. THE Greta Thunberg?! The impish creature that solved climate change? We may need to surrender and give Hamas whatever they ask. What other choice do we have?"

"At publishing time, a coalition of Middle East nations was preparing to negotiate a peace agreement on the condition that Thunberg promises never to visit the region."

Much more at the Tunnel Wall

Nobody's Buying Cow Farts in These Parts

  HotAir

"For all the joy being peddled by Cacklin' Kamala and the Fascist Fabulist, they're not really all that "fun." For all the rewriting of contemporary history to wipe away those unsightly burps in their resumes that either frighten voters, anger them immensely, or cause such fits of hilarity that take some time to subside, Americans are all-too familiar with who Ms Harris is. And are constantly bewildered by the kaleidoscopic web of background stories available as her running mate's biography fills out...and out.

"They are both pretty nasty, shallow pieces of work who have gotten away with skating by on the mediocrity of their beings for so long that they would rather we didn't dwell on such trifles.

"There are pretty new facades being erected for us to ooh and ah at.

"What I mean by that is the shift we've seen in Harris's evolving positions, and not from years ago - some from as late as this past spring. You'll remember the 87K new IRS agents the Biden-HARRIS administration hired after Harris's tiebreaking vote in the Senate? Part of the justification for those bazillions of new agents was to go after people who weren't reporting tips." . . .

CLIMATE CHANGE IS SO EXTREME WE HAVE TO BE ABSOLUTELY SILENT OR WE GET OUR ASTERISKS HANDED TO US  "That's a winning message there.

"And trust democrats, lunatic fanatics for control that they are, NOT to take the hint from the electorate that their climate policies are overreaching insanity based on pseudo-science and Green grifting fever-dreams.

"No, oh, Heavens, no.

"What Democrats and progressives take from those warning signals are to curl into fetal balls and hope the storm passes by, so they can emerge and inflict more pain on the country should they prevail in November.

"Oh, if they can only keep their yaps shut for another 70 days or so.

"Well, their partners in the grift aren't helping things one bit.

"It's not bad enough that the Eat the Bugs cabal is still agitating to take the meat off of your plate. As they can't do that immediately, in the interim, the same people who spaz about genetically modified grains want to genetically dicker with cattle so they don't fart.

Ford Cuts Back EV Production Due To Lousy Sales

The Lid

"Far-Left Ruining Auto Biz Because Of Unproven Climate Change Hypothesis"  People just aren't buying the whole thing.

. . ."One reason for the lousy economy the Biden/Harris administration created was their love of the climate change hypothesis. Well, not exactly love. More likely, it’s because their far-left base believes that CO2 will melt the ice caps, throwing Earth’s entire land mass underwater. Because of the Biden/Harris’ far-left base belief in the still unproven climate change hypothesis, the Biden/Harris administration damaged a working economy to placate their far-left base." . . .

Harley-Davidson Motorcycles Dumps Woke Diversity Policies after Customer Outcry    "The current CEO of motorcycle maker Harley Davidson is a whacked out, left-wing, lunatic who pledged to drive his company down the street of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), but after a public outcry, the company is announcing they are abandoning that campaign.

"CEO Jochen Zeitz — who is not even an American — was heard touting his DEI obsession and telling the media how he intended to force Harley to become a woke juggernaut because America is too stupid and evil to be allowed to think for themselves.

"But Harley fans did not take the news very well. Many began flooding social media with criticism and a boycott effort was launched." . . .

"Just shut the hell up and make stuff for us to buy. We don’t need your moralizing."

Thank Robby Starbuck for the anti-woke drive.

The Woke 2024 Olympics: Where Men Were Allowed to Punch Women

 Dennis Prager   Women who devoted their lives to the grueling sport of boxing and the goal of one day winning an Olympic gold medal were cheated out of the possibility. 

"Former President Donald Trump said essentially the same thing. Vice President Kamala Harris has thus far said nothing."

"This past weekend, two biologically male boxers won gold medals in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. On Friday, Imane Khelif of Algeria won the gold medal in the women’s welterweight division. On Saturday, Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan won the gold medal in the women’s featherweight division.

"As reported by Boxing News, the oldest boxing publication in the world:

" 'Khelif has documented male XY chromosomes. Khelif—along with Lin Yu-Ting, of Taiwan—was banned from boxing at the world championships last year, this because of the fact that Khelif, and Yu-Ting, was proven to be biological male.”

"Why did the International Olympic Committee allow biological men to box women?

"The reason is that the IOC is a woke organization. And given that the Olympics took place in a particularly woke locale—Paris—the games featured almost everything that the word “woke” represents.

The games opened with a drag queen mockery of Christianity.

Due to farm animals’ alleged impact on climate, 60% of the Olympic athletes’ food was vegan (not even vegetarian). According to The Australian, the Australian government flew in “more than 700 kilograms of eggs and a ton of extra meat” to feed Australian athletes.

Also to combat climate change, athletes’ dorms were not allowed to have air conditioning. They were to be cooled, in the words of The Washington Post, “by other cooling methods.” But few countries relied on “other cooling methods,” so they shipped in portable air conditioning units—all of which ended up doing what many green policies do: increasing the “carbon footprint.”

And true to its wokeness, the IOC forced women boxers to fight biological males. The IOC allowed male boxers to fight women despite the males having been previously banned from women’s boxing by the International Boxing Association ... 

https://spectator.org/

Where Does Joe Biden Rank Among America's Worst Presidents?

 Stephen Moore (townhall.com)

"Even the one statistic that Biden boasts about -- job creation -- is a mirage. Most of the jobs were government or health care jobs. With the government borrowing $2 trillion a year, there is no reason the government should be hiring more workers."

"President Joe Biden's time in the White House is mercifully coming to an end. He's now officially a lame duck with six months to go.

"Biden was a victim here of a corrupt Democratic machine (with a complicit media) that thought it could pull off a grand election-year deceit despite Biden's failing cognitive abilities. The establishment and a compliant media convinced millions of primary voters that he was of sound mind and ready to serve four more years. This lust for power put America in danger. How could they be so unpatriotic?

"So where will Biden stand in the history books? He wasn't a failed president because of his declining cognitive abilities. It was his policies that wrecked America.

"From his first days in the Oval Office, he governed from the far left on everything from climate change to radical income redistribution to massive government expansionism to racial politics to a "blame America first" foreign policy to his dangerous weaponization of every agency of government, from the IRS to the State Department to the FBI to the Justice Department and perhaps even the Secret Service. He made Richard Nixon look like an amateur.

"It's hard to point to a single policy that he got right. On the economy he was catastrophically bad. The trillions of dollars of debt he rang up bought nothing. He sent inflation to the highest levels in almost 40 years. The average family lost $2,000 of income after inflation during his reign. Test scores fell. More people died of COVID-19 during his presidency than in former President Donald Trump's -- despite the availability of the vaccine.

"Interest rates rose. Home ownership became a pipe dream for young people. Homeowners faced mortgage payments that doubled. Biden declared war on American energy. He put America back into the corrupt Paris Climate Accords. The rest of the world went on using more fossil fuels than ever. By impeding U.S. oil and gas production and pipelines, he played into the hands of our enemies -- China and Iran." . . .

Here is my list, starting with the worst: . . .

Why Gavin Newsom Must Never Become U.S. President

  American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Newsom is unqualified to be president of the United States for the same reasons he is unfit to be governor of California.

"This is what Gavin Newsom offers America. This is the scam—the historic, tragic, malevolent agenda that Newsom and the people he represents have resolved to inflict on the world." 

gavin newsom - Imgflip

"As President Biden’s age threatens to derail his reelection campaign, waiting in the wings and trying not to appear too eager is Gavin Newsom. It’s not easy. Wanting to be president with an intensity that might make Gollum’s lust for the One Ring appear prosaic, California’s governor knows that if Biden drops out, he’s the oddsmakers’ favorite.

"But there is absolutely nothing Gavin Newsom has ever done that qualifies him to be president of the United States. If Newsom becomes the next U.S. president, he will accelerate a process that is already well underway and must be stopped at all costs: turning all of America into California.

"There are glaring examples of California’s over-the-top embrace of progressive extremism. Identity politics. Race and gender “equity.” Decriminalizing crime and hard drugs. A complete failure to manage the state’s homeless, much less help them. An obsession with climate change that has inspired laws that reach into virtually every facet of life. Shortages of energy, water, and housing. And prices for goods and services so punitive that millions have fled.

"Under Gavin Newsom’s watch, the state is devolving into feudalism: a massive underclass that can’t survive without government assistance, supervised by an elite minority that will retain political power by continuing to dole out that assistance. The formula is simple: make life progressively more difficult for ordinary Californians, tell them their travails are the result of bigotry and climate change, then secure their votes by offering them more government benefits.

"And herein lies Newsom’s biggest crime, one shared by the progressive elites that run California and intend to take over the world. It is the biggest lie of modern progressivism—the corrupt foundation of their power. Newsom and his ilk are telling California’s middle class that what they have attained is socially unjust and ecologically unsustainable. They tell us that the ideals of equity and environmentalism compel us to live in high-density, low-impact housing, utilize shared transportation, and limit our consumption of anything that elevates our “carbon footprint.” And they are telling us that our taxes must be utilized to offer these same limited amenities to anyone who is “underserved,” “historically disadvantaged,” “unhoused,” or in any way a victim of “systemic discrimination.”

"All of these assertions are monstrous lies. California is unaffordable because of decades of political choices, escalating every year, that have created high prices for everything. And more to the point, the elites that Newsom is part of and represents are themselves profiting from all of these policies that have condemned most Californians to lives of constant work and constant economic struggle. Which is to say that Newsom’s lies about the “climate crisis” and the alleged pervasive ongoing scourge of bigotry are not even noble lies in the service of achieving a better future for all. They are lies in the service of corruption, a con job designed to further enrich and empower a small elite." . . .

Responding to Hezbollah's Strategic Offensive

  CarolineGlick.com

"Hezbollah is burning a swathe through northern Israel. The nature reserves, grazing land, fields and orchards are burning to the ground. Military bases, including several strategic assets, are incurring major damage. More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed. Businesses are bankrupt. And some 80,000 Israelis are living in hotels with no sense of when they may be able to go home.

"Hezbollah has significantly increased the pace and lethality of its attacks on the Upper and Western Galilee, and the Golan Heights in recent weeks, as well as extended its attacks to the Mount Carmel area and the Jezreel Valley.

"Haifa, Acre and Tiberias have all been subjected to missile, drone and rocket assaults. During Shavuot on Wednesday, Hezbollah shot more than 200 projectiles at Israel. On Thursday, more than 100 more continued and expanded the fires, destruction and mayhem.

"The Israel Defense Forces claim that Hezbollah’s actions haven’t broken the mold of tit-for-tat assaults that Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging for the past eight months. On Tuesday night, the Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on the Nasser Unit of Hezbollah’s southern command. The Nasser unit is a division-sized formation responsible for Hezbollah’s operations along the border with Israel.

"The unit’s commander, Taleb Sami Abdullah, and three of his senior staff were killed in the raid. The IDF’s claim that Hezbollah’s massive missile, drone and rocket barrages on Wednesday and Thursday, and into Friday, are a tit-for-tat supports Hezbollah’s line that its massive aggression is a legitimate reaction to Abdullah’s assassination.

"The IDF’s claim is, to be sure, self-defeating. But that’s not the main problem.

"The main problem with the IDF’s assertion is that it ignores the strategic logic of Hezbollah’s operations. Hezbollah isn’t attacking in response to any specific Israeli operation. It is attacking to achieve its strategic goals. Hezbollah isn’t simply abusive; it is waging a strategic war with clear long-term and intermediate strategic objectives." . . .

All this must please campus designer scarf people no end. But what if they are also climate activists fighting pollution and climate change? Like, for instance, Greta Thunberg, who Rita Panahi of Sky News calls a "doom goblin"?

Vietnamese Community Furious Over L.A.'s 'Jane Fonda Day'

 Warner Todd Huston (breitbart.com) 

  "She has also said she often apologizes to American Vietnam veterans whenever she meets them."

"Vietnamese activists in L.A. are furious over the county’s declaration of April 30 as “Jane Fonda Day.”

"Only days after county officials announced the homage to the 86-year-old actress, members of the Vietnamese community were outraged.

"Activists immediately retaliated against the celebration by dubbing the month as “Black April,” referring the fall of Saigon, according to the Los Angeles Times.

"Fonda, who has been denigrated as “Hanoi Jane” for decades, is notorious not just for opposing the U.S. war effort but for actually traveling into North Vietnamese territory and giving aid and comfort to the Chinese-backed enemy.

“ 'She may be a very strong activist for climate change, but besides that, we also view her as being a person who was very cruel to the rights of the South Vietnamese people during the antiwar protests,” said L.A. resident Phat Bui, chairman of the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California.

"Bui also sent a letter to county officials to change the date and added that choosing “such a date can inflict so much pain to our community and to the Vietnam War veterans.”

"U.S. forces fled the South Vietnamese Capitol on April 30, 1975. Members of L.A.’s Vietnamese community gather every April 30 to memorialize that dark day.

"Republican State Sen. Janet Nguyen blasted the county, saying Fonda Day was “alarming and profoundly disrespectful to over half a million Vietnamese Americans in California.”

" 'Rep. Michelle Steel, also a Republican, also blasted the county.

“To elevate Hanoi Jane over the Vietnamese Community, Americans who sacrificed their lives, and the loved ones they lost to communism, is deeply offensive to the freedom-loving Vietnamese Americans who bear such tragic and painful memories of the Vietnam War,” Steel said." . . .