With CPI now hitting 8.5%, Jen Psaki's bid to blame Putin gets old fast

 

Monica Showalter

"Because of the actions were taken to address the 'Putin Price Hike,' we are in a better place than we were last month, but we expect March ... CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to 'Putin's Price Hike', and we expect a large difference between core and headline inflation, reflecting the global disruptions in energy and food markets," Psaki said.

. . .She still claims that the whole fiasco was Russian president Vladimir Putin's doing, and America's economy is simply helpless in the face of Russia's gargantuan and merciless economic shadow.

"In other words, the mighty $21.4-trillion American economy is subordinate to the whims, the crushing boot, of a feudal, puny, and stunted Russian economy, which at $1.65 trillion GDP doesn't even best Texas's, the latter of which clocked in at $1.9 trillion in 2021.

"Gas prices are cited as the root of the inflation, and Psaki gaslights with alacrity on the matter in her statement above, but none of what she says has any basis in fact.

"The U.S. imports about 60% of its oil from foreign suppliers now that Joe Biden has ended U.S. energy independence.  Of that 60%, 8% was from Russia, and according to NBC News, that amounted to about 2% of what the U.S. consumed.  Cutting off Russian oil imports, as Congress has forced Biden to do, doesn't exactly make a significant dent in U.S. oil availability, even if the global price of oil goes up.  And amazingly, energy production is still being repressed here in the States by Biden, which could fill that hole in a matter of three or four months according to energy industry insiders.  Joe prefers to beg dictators to make up the difference, as well as squander the strategic reserves, and yell loudly about "going green."  And somehow, that tiny impact is enough to send food prices spiraling to ever higher levels, as the FDA warned last month here. ". . .

Manchin: Quit the "Putin price hike" blame-shifting on inflation already – HotAir

The dotted line is Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Oh, wait, it's not.

It's Biden's inauguration. pic.twitter.com/4JYsxGBqDd

— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️‍🌈 (@brad_polumbo) April 11, 2022

. . ."It’s been a long, strange trip from “dissent is patriotic” and “the resistance” on the Left to “criticizing our Dear Leader is treasonous,” eh? The criticism in this case is well earned, especially for the gaslighting attempts to claim that inflation only became a problem when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. As the above chart shows, annualized inflation went above the 2% target used by the Federal Reserve immediately after the passage of Biden’s bloated American Rescue Act in March 2021, and with the exception of a short pause in the late spring has been accelerating ever since. 

11 Examples Of How Evil Is Growing In America Like A Cancerous Tumor

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

11 Examples Of How Evil Is Growing In America Like A Cancerous Tumor - Freedom Outpost (investortimes.com)

"Have you heard of “arterial tapping,” “flakka” or “cyberextortion”?  In America today, just about every conceivable type of evil that you could possibly name is growing, and we are even inventing new kinds of evil that the world has never seen before.  It is very easy for us to point to the looting and violence in Baltimore and call that evil, but there is far more to the social decay of America than just that.  The foundations of our society are rotting and decaying in thousands of different ways, and our biggest problem as a nation is what is found inside our own hearts.  We have rejected the values and principles that were handed down to us by previous generations of Americans because we believed that we knew better than they did.  But now look at us.  Our country is falling apart all around us, and we only have ourselves to blame.  The following are 11 examples of how evil is growing in America like a cancerous tumor…". . .

#2 A school principal in Wisconsin is in hot water for approving a poster that encourages young men to protect the character of the young women they are taking to prom.  In the old days, this would only be common sense.  But these days, the poster is being condemned as “sexist” and has created a national scandal…

 #10 So much of our social decay is rooted in the decline of the American family.  Sadly, the truth is that our families have been steadily deteriorating for decades.  The following comes from a recent article by Dennis Prager…

. . ."Jonathan Cahn, the author of The Mystery of the Shemitah, believes that America is making many of the very same mistakes that ancient Israel did…

“They Drove God Out Of The Government. They Worshiped Idols And Served Other Gods. They Celebrated Immorality And They Persecuted Righteousness. The Blessings Of God Were Removed And Replaced With Judgments,” He Said. 

Pope Francis Abandons Christ’s Cross to Appease Muslims

 Raymond Ibrahim  "Pope Francis is at it again. Although it is traditional for papal podiums to depict the crucifix, during his recent visit to the island of Malta, Pope Francis ditched the cross lest he offend Muslim migrants.  As the archdiocese of Malta openly admitted, “The podium will not be adorned with a crucifix, given that the majority of migrants are Muslim.”

"Instead, the podium backdrop used by Francis consisted of recycled plastic bottles with red blobs meant to highlight the two primary reasons Francis was visiting Malta -- to defend migrants and the environment: “When you look deeper, you will see that the sea is made of recycled plastic bottles, because there is more plastic than fish in our sea,” artistic director Carlo Schembri explained. “And the red blobs are life jackets -- the lives of people lost at sea.”

"While this was meant to highlight the hazards illegal Muslim migrants experience crossing the Mediterranean, one wonders but doubts if Francis remembered the dozens of Christians who were intentionally thrown overboard and drowned in the Mediterranean by their Muslim counterparts for their faith.

"Meanwhile, Dr. Philip Beattie, an economist at the University of Malta, explained the reality of his island’s migrant situation: “The majority of the illegal immigrants trafficked to Malta on rickety boats leaving the Libyan coastline are not genuine refugees, but economic migrants -- and are mainly Muslim young men aged between 18 and 28.”

"Beattie also got to the heart of the matter:

Saint Paul preached “Christ crucified -- a stumbling block to Jews and
foolishness to Gentiles” [1 Cor. 1:23] when he brought the gospel to Malta. The Apostle boasted in the scandal of the Cross. Why is the pope ashamed of the Cross before Muslims, especially during Lent?

"Perhaps it’s not just shame; perhaps Francis, whose Maltese mission was to support the many Muslim migrants who have flooded the tiny island, removed the cross as a precaution, lest irate Muslims cause a scene and thus compromise his presentation of them as poor victims in need of more state aid and concessions.  After all, and as is well documented in this article, past and present, Muslims have engaged in an unwavering pattern of desecrating and destroying the cross, including in Christian cemeteries.

"The fact that this shameful spectacle took place in Malta is especially ironic, . . ."

Saudi television viciously mocks Biden

Thomas Lifson  "The whole world knows that Joe Biden is a husk of a man, mentally and physically not up to the job.  On top of the danger that his sheer incompetence poses for Americans comes the risk that enemies and less friendly countries (and even allies) will be tempted to defy or take advantage of the vanished leadership at the top of the federal government.

"One country that has moved away from the status of ally thanks to the Biden administration's insane backing of Iran through giveaway "negotiations" over restoring the JCPOA nuclear deal is Saudi Arabia.  Media there are careful not to offend the government, so the following broad satire of an utterly decrepit Biden no doubt reflects government attitudes toward the man occupying the post that used to be called "leader of the free world."

"Via Grabien:

And then there is this:

https://youtu.be/ybRwtU8odCc

For the first time i see the Saudi TV mocking the US administration. pic.twitter.com/8vPtU0txJ8

— Asaad Sam Hanna (@AsaadHannaa) April 12, 2022

What is a ghost gun?

Guns with the serial number obliterated

‘The Five’ react to Biden’s new gun ban - YouTube

 No, "ghost guns" are not the weapon of choice of criminals.

"Of course he will not reference the very easily identifiable fact that most crimes involving firearms is committed with handguns. How about legislatures create harsher penalties for crimes involving firearms and prosecutors and judges enforce those harsher penalties."

Pelosi Said That AOC Wanted to be 'Queen Bee' of the Left –

 PJ Media  "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that radical Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal were vying to be the “queen bee” of the left in Congress, and it almost cost the party their majority in 2020.

"The revelation appears in the new book This Will Not Pass by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.

"Pelosi is worried that her party’s radical cultural policies will doom Democrats going forward."

Daily Mail:

She reportedly told one senior lawmaker that Democrats had alienated Asian and Hispanic immigrants with loose talk of socialism and callousness about abortion.

The 82-year-old Italian Catholic speaker said that with immigrant communities, ‘Democrats had not been careful enough about the way they spoke about abortion among new Americans who were devout people of faith,’ according to excerpts obtained by Punchbowl News.

Pelosi’s chief spokesperson Drew Hammill told DailyMail.com of the excerpts: ‘Many books will be written about the challenges of legislating during the pandemic and a period of unprecedented Republican obstruction, and we won’t be commenting on the works that substitute gossip for fact.’

"Many Hispanic immigrants have come from failed socialist states in Central and South America. The last thing they want to see is a government going down the exact same path that caused them to leave their homes in the first place.".. . .

AOC vs PELOSI cartoon – Besttrumpmemes.com

Brian Stelter Invites Guest to Trash Fox News, Gets Shocked When He Turns the Tables Against CNN

 Brian Stelter Invites Guest to Trash Fox News, Gets Shocked When He Turns the Tables Against CNN – RedState

. . ."His focus on Fox News can at times seem like he’s covering for his own network’s numerous issues in reporting and management.

"That brings us to his show this weekend, which featured Yale assistant professor Joshua Kalla as a guest. Kalla ran a study on partisanship in media coverage, which almost assuredly meant that he would be blasting Fox News for what they do and don’t cover and how they cover issues. And, to be fair, he did.

"But Kalla insisted that Fox News isn’t the only guilty party.". . .

Yale's Joshua Kalla Tells Brian Stelter CNN is Partisan (mediaite.com)   Video

U.S. Military changing uniform regulations, fitness standards to be more woke, inclusive; Democrat-mandated

"Chesty" Puller: The Most Decorated Marine In American History (brain-sharper.com)  What vwould General "Chesty" Puller think of all this"
Marines On Peleliu - Bing images Circle all the "woke" and "Inclusive" Marines in these photos.

 U.S. Military changing uniform regulations, fitness standards to be more woke, inclusive - American Thinker   "Various branches of the U.S. military, long steeped in tradition, are now making changes… to accommodate wokeness.

"For example, the U.S. Marine Corps is altering its uniform regulations. The erstwhile “Leathernecks” are introducing new maternity clothes for pregnant Marines. Other changes include an allowance of increased hair length, the edging up of one's hairline, and additional manicure options for female Marines. I guess this shouldn’t be too surprising since even the Navy SEALS have gone woke."

"First Lt. Phillip Parker, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Training and Education Command, recently told the Marine Corps Times the changes are intended to help "positively impact diversity, equity and inclusion.”

"Inclusion? In the Marines? Is this a good idea? Would femininity have aided the Devil Dogs on Bataan or Corregidor in WWII? Should people of all genders, ages and physical fitness levels be welcomed into the Corps? Should diversity, equity and inclusion trump combat readiness and effectiveness and the ability to protect and aide your fellow Marine —and, if necessary—carry him off the battlefield…dead or alive?

"Not to be outdone, the U.S. Army has made significant changes to its fitness program. The six-event Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) will no longer be meant to prepare soldiers for combat, but instead will simply serve as a general fitness assessment. It will also have different scoring standards for men and women across different age groups. Most of the standards will be lowered, of course, after a congressionally mandated report from Rand Corporation found that nearly half of the service’s women could not pass earlier standards for the test.". . .

Finally, in a stirring show of diversity, equity and inclusion, all branches of the military will announce that their service members may choose to wear rainbow, lesbian or transgender pride flag pins on their uniforms in place of the traditional unit pins or pins of the American flag. Now that’s cohesiveness. Bring on China.

If you have a family tradition of being and voting Democrat, remember this is no longer THAT Democrat Party. They have morphed into something grotesque, an aberration. TD 

Did Sgt. John Basilone say triggering and insensitive things in this HBO scene from "The Pacific"?

America is still paying the price for Hillary Clinton’s treachery

 Michael Goodwin

[Sussmann's] trial, scheduled for next month, has the potential to be a breakthrough in Durham’s long-running effort to reveal voluminous wrongdoing by Clinton and the federal government against the Trump campaign. 

"However this era of angry polarization, crime and violence ends, it will be left to historians to decipher how America got so far off track. Instead of building on our unprecedented prosperity and role as the world’s ultimate superpower, we declared war — cultural, political and social — on each other. Even our nation’s Founders are not spared. 

"The reasons will be better understood in hindsight, but it’s hard to believe the 2016 presidential campaign won’t be seen as an inflection point. Our move toward disunion didn’t begin then, but it certainly gained steam and vitriol during and after the election of Donald Trump. 

"Two recent developments illustrate how that campaign remains a radioactive hot spot. With both developments centering on Hillary Clinton, they underscore her role and the depths of her venality. 

"Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of her, proof emerges that she was even more duplicitous than we knew. 

"The first evidence came in a little-noticed decision from the Federal Election Commission. It ruled on a complaint from the Coolidge Reagan Foundation that Clinton and the Democratic National Committee violated federal law by hiding how they funded the odious Christopher Steele dossier, perhaps the most destructive disinformation document in United States history. ". . .

11. She came from the same hard-working, underprivileged background just like abuela.

Is this the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency?

Democrats; the party chosen by an uninformed, poorly educated electorate. TD

 Mail & Guardian Online.  "Do the Ukraine war and the action of the US, EU and UK spell the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Even with the peace talks recently held in Turkey or the proposed 15-point peace plan, as the Financial Times had reported earlier, the fallout for the dollar still remains. For the first time, Russia, a major nuclear power and economy, was treated as a vassal state, with the US, EU and UK seizing its $300-billion foreign exchange reserves. 

"Where does this leave other countries, who also hold their foreign exchange reserves largely in dollars or euros?

Supply chain worries

"The threat to the dollar hegemony is only one part of the fallout. The complex supply chains, built on the premise of a stable trading regime of the World Trade Organisation principles, are also threatening to unravel. The US is discovering that Russia is not simply a petrostate as they thought, but that it also supplies many of the critical materials that the US needs for several industries as well as its military. This is apart from the fact that Russia is also a major supplier of wheat and fertilisers.

"Seizing Russia’s funds means that the faith in the US as the world’s banker and in the dollar as the global reserve currency is in question. Why should countries maintain any trade surplus and bank it abroad if that surplus can be seized at will through sanctions imposed by the West? 

"The promise of a dollar as the world’s reserve currency was that all surpluses in dollars were safe. With the seizure of the Afghan central bank’s $9.5-billion, and allocating $7-billion out of it, the US has shown that it considers the dollar reserves of another country, held by the US’ central bank, as its money. " . . .

Biden, Who Viciously Smeared Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh, Proclaims KBJ Subjected to ‘Most Vile Accusations’

 Legal Insurrection

“I knew the person I nominated would be put through a painful and difficult confirmation process. But I have to tell you, what Judge Jackson was put through was well beyond that. There was verbal abuse. The anger. The constant interruptions. The most vile, baseless assertions and accusations.” – Joe Biden

 

"On Thursday and with the help of three purported Republican Senators (Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski), President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the highest court in a 53-47 vote, becoming one of the most radically left-wing Justices and the first one who cannot define what the word “woman” means in our nation’s history.

"In remarks made on the South Lawn of the White House during a Friday victory lap ceremony, Vice President Kamala Harris declared that America lived up to her ideals “through the confirmation of the first black woman to the United States Supreme Court.”

"Shortly thereafter, Biden spoke and the word “history” was thrown in numerous times, just so people would remember that it was supposedly only through Joe Biden, who openly bragged during his 2020 presidential campaign about being able to work alongside segregationist Senators in the 1970s, that the nomination of a black woman to the Supreme Court was made possible.". . .

I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but I knew the person I nominated would be put through a painful and difficult confirmation process. But I have to tell you, what Judge Jackson was put through was well beyond that. There was verbal abuse. The anger. The constant interruptions. The most vile, baseless assertions and accusations. 

For nearly 2 years, Senate Democrats — including Joe Biden — filibustered the nomination of then-California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the D.C. Circuit.

She likely would have been the first Black female Justice.

Democrats only pretend to care about diversity. pic.twitter.com/SEmzoe09zG

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 28, 2022

Liar and demagogue: Biden’s obsessive lies – small and large – are big trouble for America (nypost.com)

It would be bad enough if Biden only told personal tall tales. But his reality distortion field now extends to national policy. He routinely insists “all the economists” back his plans, writes off inflation as a temporary spike, insists the border surge is just “seasonal,” even calls his disastrous Afghan bugout a “success” (while falsely claiming his generals didn’t object).

 

McConnell: If I'm Majority Leader in the Senate, McCarthy the Speaker -- 'We'll Make Sure Joe Biden Is a Moderate'

 Breitbart  "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that Republicans would “make sure Joe Biden is a moderate” if they retake Congress in the midterm elections.

"Anchor Dana Perino said, “I want to ask about the midterms next anyway. You have a great way of transitioning, sir. Inflation, gas, and groceries. this is on everybody’s mind. What would be different for Americans if Republicans win back the majorities in the House and Senate this year?”

"McConnell said, “Well, our agenda next year, if we are fortunate enough to be in the majority, will be focused on exactly what you and I have been talking about. Crime, education, beefing up the defense of our country. The president’s request for the Defense Department, this year’s request, doesn’t even keep up with inflation. We’ve got a war going on in Ukraine. We’ve got big power competition with the Russians and the Chinese. We need to meet the demands of the international situation. So all of those will be on our agenda.”

"He added, “We will not have the presidency for two more years. Obviously, we will have to work with the administration to see what we can agree on, but … let me put it this way. Biden ran as a moderate. If I’m the majority leader in the Senate and Kevin McCarthy is the speaker of the House, we’ll make sure Joe Biden is a moderate.' ”