Friends, our glorious leader is miffed at the Saudis. They're cutting oil production, and thus raising gas prices, at a most inconvenient time, from a Democratic Party perspective. And that means they have to pay, because nothing is more important to world peace and what not than electing Democrats. My latest article addresses the Biden Administration's "election interference", which the mainstream media naturally won't find troubling in the least...
Timing Is Everything
With the polls in many key midterm races agonizingly close,
victory or defeat in November will hinge largely on a single question: are
Americans merely anxious about our faltering economy, or have they definitively
hit the panic button?
As inflation
escalates, the housing
market stalls, stock portfolios
wither, and even the job
market grows more adverse, Americans are rightly expressing concern, but
almost every economist agrees that the worst is yet to come. In 2023, we are
told, soaring interest rates will choke
off economic growth (if there was any to speak of, that is), producing
intense economic misery. The Democrats' only hope is that the severity of the
situation hasn't yet dawned on most swing voters. And that hope is not entirely
in vain. The media isn't harping on economic weakness nearly as obsessively as
it would be if, say, Republicans were in power in Washington, D.C., and that
gives the Left reason to be cautiously optimistic.
This
electoral calculus is precisely the reason why Americans should be appalled at
recent reports that the Biden Administration pressured
the Saudis and OPEC to delay their announcement of oil production cuts from
early October until November or December. No doubt Biden and his cronies would
claim that there was a sound policy rationale for such a request, based on the
national interest, but the obvious effect of such a postponement would be to
prevent gas prices from rising in the short term, and thus to save the
Democrats' bacon as they face electoral “armageddon” (to borrow a phrase from
Sleepy Joe himself) in November. Democrats realize that falling gas prices
in the last few months are one of the only pieces of good economic news on
hand, and that propitious development has undergirded a recovery for Team Blue
in the polls. This also explains why Biden is draining
the strategic petroleum reserve at historically high rates: politically,
the Democrats need cover from the charge that their economic stewardship is
leading Americans to inflationary perdition. Without that cover, provided by
falling gas prices, their goose is cooked.
Now that
Biden's attempts to get the Saudis to change course have failed, though, and
the OPEC decision to cut production has been confirmed, Biden is promising
unspecified “consequences” for the oil-rich kingdom, and his press secretary is
claiming
that the Saudis have “align[ed] their energy policy with Russia’s war aims and
against the American people.” (By this logic, if the Saudis really
opposed Russian aggression, they'd just give away their oil for free – that
would show Putin!)
Arguably,
these statements from Biden and his minions are threats designed to force Saudi
Arabia to adjust its energy policies to suit the short-term political interests
of Democrats. President Trump was impeached, lest we forget, in 2019 for making
requests of Ukraine that were seen as helpful to his campaign and prejudicial
to the political interests of Joe Biden. Presumably, though, given the
massively altered political realities that obtain in October 2022, the
Democratic Congress will see this particular episode of “election interference”
in an entirely different light. What was impeachable and an “abuse
of power” then will be excused and even applauded now. As the French might
put it, “C'est la guerre.”
If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that, for Democrats, the moral and intellectual distinctions that exist between their interests and those of the nation as a whole are absolutely inconsequential and possibly even inconceivable. That should make everyone who isn't a Democrat very worried.
And here it is at World Net Daily:
https://www.wnd.com/2022/10/bidens-saudi-gambit-amounts-election-interference/
***
In other news, the ghost of Vincent Van Gogh will be happy to learn that 21st-century "climate activists" are considerably crazier than he ever was. Read all about it here:
And there's BIG BIG news in the world of social media: Trump's "Truth Social" app is now available in the Google Play store. Why Google relented and allowed the app after demurring for so long I'm not sure, but this is a major development that will facilitate pluralism on the web. I applaud Google's move, which officially makes the company...slightly less evil. Kudos! I guess now I better follow through on my idle boast and become a Truth Social subscriber myself...
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/truth-social-app-goes-number-one-google-play-store
Ray to Nick
ReplyDeleteWhat sort of a country and world did you expect with a bunch of damn fools running it?
Hmm. Has there ever been a time when damn fools WEREN'T in charge? The problem nowadays is that the fools are just as foolish, but the fools-in-command have the massive financial, bureaucratic, and technological resources of the modern state at their disposal. Ergo, their foolishness can do more damage than ever before. A sobering thought.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The far left captured dems are as always, committed to using any means necessary to retain and gain all important POWER. Their cynical and lawless manipulation of any significant institution is guaranteed of them. Their attempted timing of Saudi and OPEC oil policies is utterly characteristic of them and fully predictive of how it will be should they achieve the total sway they seek.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Western culture has, since the '60s, disastrously ceded inappropriate deference to callow youth. The result is youthful energy turned loose to to freely exercise its terrible power. Counterintuitive change and reflexive iconoclasm are thus forced on our culture.The picture of the desecration of treasured art you posted symbolizes this abomination .Some cultures keep youth in a deservedly subordinate status until it has demonstrated maturity.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: If Musk closes his deal, that, together with Truth Social's advance and what it might suggest of some grudging reform of Google ,together with CNN's apparent change of attitude , it bodes much, much ill for the bigoted professionally disgraced MSM. It must be in response to increasing public revulsion for this discredited ,ehh, "enterprise" and its disingenuous promotion of far left screed and its despised source, the organized America haters. Our fanatically intended dictators and executioners may, if they receive a well deserved electoral whomping along with the above ,receive a staggering body blow.
ReplyDeleteJack, it must be tough for the Dems to work so feverishly to flood the country with oil (albeit temporarily) when they reflexively despise fossil fuels. They're approaching a level of hypocrisy that may be, even for them, unsustainable...
ReplyDeleteJack, that's an instructive review of recent victories that the right has won in social media and in broadcast news. What you describe are fairly minor, tactical retreats by these paragons of leftism, but we'll take what we can get -- and the election may indeed produce many more, and much more consequential, retreats on their part.