Brandon Hits The Campaign Trail On Jobs, Mostly Forgets Economic Issues

By William Teach November 5, 2022 – 10:30 am

Well, hey, what else is he going to talk about?

Biden stumps on job growth, as voters dread inflation

President Joe Biden has notched an envious record on jobs, with 10.3 million gained during his tenure. But voters in Tuesday’s midterm elections are far more focused on inflation hovering near 40-year highs.

That’s left the president trying to convince the public that the job gains mean better days are ahead, even as fears of a recession build.

Presidents have long trusted that voters would reward them for strong economic growth, but inflation has thrown a monkey wrench into the already difficult probability of Democrats’ retaining control of the House and Senate.

Economic anxieties have compounded as the Federal Reserve has repeatedly hiked its benchmark interest rates to lower inflation and possibly raise unemployment. Mortgage costs have shot upwards, while the S&P 500 stock index has dropped more than 20% so far this year as the world braces for a possible downturn.

Biden is asking voters to look beyond the current financial pain, saying that what matters are the job gains that he believes his policies are fostering. The government reported Friday that employers added 261,000 jobs in October as the unemployment rate bumped up to 3.7%.

What few stories mention is that most of the jobs gains are simply a rebound from the 25 million lost during the Chinese coronavirus, a goodly chunk lost because Democrats shut things down, closing businesses, picking winners and losers, deeming some non-essential, locking people down. I can say, my industry has not recovered. Employment is down by about 30-40%. There’s no point in having that many in sales. I won’t blame Joe for it, though.

“If you have a job, it’s small comfort to know that the job market is strong if at the same time you feel like every paycheck is worth less and less anyway,” said pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson. “Inflation is such political poison because voters are reminded every day whenever they spend money that it is a problem we are experiencing.”

Few in the national media are asking Joe, his people, and Democrats running for an elected position what Democrats have done and what they will do to ease inflation, food costs, clothes costs, and so forth.

Pizza for Thanksgiving? It might be a dinner option due to inflation

The higher cost of living right now is making many Americans question whether they’ll be able to afford the traditional Thanksgiving dinner this year.

The demographic that is feeling the most financially pinched, according to a new survey, is Gen Z — “who are opting for meals of soup, salad and pizza” this year, as an “Outnumbered” panel noted on Thursday.

One in five Americans doubt that they’ll have enough money to cover the costs of the usual Thanksgiving meal this year, according to the study by Personal Capital.

The survey found that young people with limited incomes may be celebrating a “friendsgiving” this Thanksgiving — featuring pizza, not turkey, as a top choice.

Butter is up 37%. The average cost of turkey is up from $1.19 a pound to $1.99. Travel costs are way up. Eggs are way up. And, no, you cannot blame this all on Biden: there are other factors in play to go with Biden and the Democrats ignoring the economy.

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Dementia Joe: U.S. To Be Making Only EVs in 3035

By William Teach November 5, 2022 – 7:15 am

It would simply be a slip of the tongue and no big deal if it wasn’t a constant with this guy. People do it all the time. My favorite was when Bush 43 boo-boo’d

During his presidency, George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth also experienced some entertaining public exchanges. In May 2007, the queen appeared alongside Bush as he delivered a public speech during her visit to the White House.

Bush mentioned some of the queen’s earlier visits saying, “You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in seventeen-sev… in 1976.” After his mistake, he looked to the queen to see her reaction. She looked back at him with “the look that only a mother could give a child,” Bush joked to the live audience (via YouTube).

Bush made gaffes all the time. However, Biden looks just sad, lost, and not all there when he constantly does it

Joe Biden Boasts Only All-Electric Cars Will Be Manufactured in America by ‘3035’

President Joe Biden mistakenly boasted on Friday that American auto companies would be ready to make all of their vehicles electric by the year “3035.”

The president spoke about auto companies during a speech in San Diego about subsidizing American semiconductor chip manufacturing.

During his speech, Biden recalled a meeting he had at the White House with American auto company CEOs, including General Motors CEO Mary Barra, whom he has met several times since taking office.

He mistakenly stumbled over the name, sounding as though he said “Amy Barrett” before correcting himself and saying “Chairman Barra.”

The president recalled that Barra called him up after the meeting and told him that General Motors would go “all-electric.”

He said that Barra “called me up and said they’re going to go all-electric by 3035. Every other company signed up to do the same thing.”

Biden was trying to refer to the pledge by General Motors to go all-electric by the year 2035, but was off by 1,000 years.

And, yet, Biden is still traveling around in a big fossil fueled limo. Go figure.

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“Moderate” Democrats Realizing That The Message Has Been Pretty Bad

By William Teach November 5, 2022 – 7:00 am

What’s the difference between the hardcore Leftist Democrats and the moderates? At the end of the day, most of the moderates are voting on lots of the far left legislation, and talking it up in their campaigns

Democrats aim to hold the line against heavy U.S. midterm election losses

If Abigail Spanberger, a moderate congresswoman from a liberal-leaning Virginia district outside Washington loses her re-election bid on Tuesday, it could be the harbinger of a midterm bloodbath for the Democratic Party.

That was why Spanberger was at a winery this week imploring volunteers to hit the phones. Her once-comfortable lead had shrunk to nothing.

“We have a toss-up race,” she said. “There is work to be done.”

A winery, eh? Nothing like hobnobbing with the rich rather than talking to the peons.

The grim outlook has some Democrats second-guessing their party’s midterm messaging, which has emphasized the threat Republicans pose to abortion rights and democracy in a year when voters have said they are most concerned about the economy and violent crime.

Polls continue to show voters frustrated over high consumer prices and blaming the party in power from President Joe Biden on down. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Oct. 31-Nov. 1 showed 69% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, compared with just 18% who said it was headed in the right direction.

Those are “America in the height of Wuhan Flu” wrong track numbers

At campaign events, Spanberger details a laundry list of legislative victories under Biden: massive infrastructure and climate bills, and measures to lower prescription drug costs and boost domestic semiconductor production.

A former CIA officer, Spanberger has criticized her party’s progressive wing and has attempted to appeal to independent voters. She was first elected as part of a Democratic wave in 2018 when Donald Trump was president.

“I have a voting record, a proud record of accomplishment,” Spanberger told the crowd at the winery on Wednesday.

But Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic consultant and former Senate leadership aide, said it is difficult for voters irate about energy and food prices to view those actions as making a difference in their day-to-day lives.

“People don’t want to hear about their accomplishments,” Mollineau said. “They’re not feeling them.”

No, the average voter really doesn’t care. They don’t see all that stuff as super awesome (the semiconductor was bipartisan, and forces in government and out are trying to stop mining) when all their costs of living are rising rising rising. Here’s Gov Scott Walker

Not surprisingly, the media seems just as out of touch as most liberal candidates. Case-in-point: Chuck Todd of NBC News was interviewing New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, my former colleague, the other day and this was their exchange:

Mr. Todd: “Why are you supporting an election denialist? And do you think the inflation issue is enough to sort of rationalize support for somebody who thinks school buses of voters are going to show up in New Hampshire?”

Mr. Sununu: “Yeah, let me tell you, you’re in a bubble, man. I love you, Chuck, but you are in a bubble if you think anybody’s talking about what happened in 2020, or talking about Mar-a-Lago and all that. I know the press loves to talk about it. People are talking about what is happening in their pocketbooks every single day when they have to buy groceries or fill up gas or right now.”

Mr. Sununu nailed it. They are living in a bubble.

They really do not get it.

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Bummer: A GOP Wave Will Mess With Brandon’s Climate (scam) Agenda

By William Teach November 4, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Is this the agenda where Biden took a long fossil fueled flight (with backup jumbo jet and fighter jet protection) to Albuquerque, then a big fossil fueled convoy to his official speech (designed to reduce his cost for what is a campaign trip), then a fossil fueled convoy to his DNC speech, then back to the plane? Then on to San Diego, repeating all the use of fossil fuels? Then to Chicago today? While trying to force you to reduce your use of fossil fuels?

What’s at stake for Biden’s climate agenda in the midterms

If Republicans take control of the House, Senate, or both in the midterms, they have every incentive to turn the rollout of Democrats’ singular achievements into a political disaster. At stake is $370 billion in incentives for electric vehicles, electric appliances, clean energy, and pollution reduction, passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act this summer on a party-line vote.

Elections have consequences. So we’ve been told

Republicans can’t scrap any part of the law as long as President Joe Biden remains in office; any attempt would face a presidential veto, even if it managed to pass the Senate filibuster threshold. What Republicans can do is gum up the works of the bill’s massive climate programs. In the majority, they would have additional powers to call in agency officials for hearings and issue subpoenas — all tools that could be used to disrupt the implementation of both the IRA and the bipartisan infrastructure law passed a year ago.

Never ignore the power of the Republican beltway folks to get squishy and do nothing.

Some of this should sound familiar. Twelve years ago, Republicans swept the House in the midterms and applied the same strategy to the stimulus law meant to help recovery from the late-2000s Great Recession. The most memorable strategy was the GOP’s attack over Solyndra, a company that went bankrupt two years after the Department of Energy provided it $535 million in loan guarantees.

Strategy? This is real. It happened. And it left a huge environmental mess.

But climate spending makes up the majority of the law and will be under scrutiny as well.

So, the Inflation Reduction Act isn’t about inflation reduction?

The organization was even more frank about its priorities at a conference with industry leaders in Minneapolis in September. A recording from the event (first reported by the New York Times) revealed the group’s plans to work with House Republicans to ramp up oversight.

The recording, also reviewed by Vox, shows AGA’s top lobbyist Allison Cunningham warning about the impact of the law’s $2.8 billion environmental justice block grants to community-based nonprofits focused on cutting environmental pollution. “We’re concerned that this can be used or applied to support gas ban efforts at community levels,” said Cunningham. “And again, there’s a lot of different opportunities for community groups or other kinds of groups who haven’t been as skilled as long to be eligible for grants, maybe not proper training.” Another area Cunningham warns about is funding that “includes language on reducing indoor toxins and indoor air pollution.”

This suggests that some of the programs Republicans plan to target will be the law’s funding helping communities, particularly low-income ones, cut their pollution. These kinds of programs pose a threat to gas utilities because those utilities make their profits from putting more pipes in the ground to connect gas to new buildings. Any effort to stop that growth of a captive gas customer base undermines the companies’ future.

All the IRA does is increase the cost of energy for the poor, making them even more energy deficient, making them more vulnerable to being dependent on government

Another tactic the GOP is considering, according to the Washington Post, is using the debt limit and government shutdown to make cuts to clean energy and climate spending. While agencies are funded through mid-December, Republicans could seek budget cuts in the future that slow down work even further.

Yeah, but, the GOP usually caves. And, weirdly, few are investing in any of this stuff unless government is giving them big handouts.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 4, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that would be great for solar panels, you might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a good guy with a gun stopping a brutal attack.

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Brandon Says “We’re Going To Free Iran”

By William Teach November 4, 2022 – 10:30 am

What does this actually mean in terms of policy? And, will Biden’s people walk this back by the time this post gets published at 1030am?

Biden vows to ‘free Iran’ in West Coast campaign speech

Biden Brain SlugU.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to “free” Iran, and said that demonstrators working against the country’s government would soon succeed in freeing themselves.

“Don’t worry, we’re gonna free Iran. They’re gonna free themselves pretty soon,” Biden said during a wide-ranging campaign speech in California, as dozens of demonstrators gathered outside holding banners supporting Iranian protesters.

Biden did not expand on his remarks or specify what additional actions he would take during the remarks at MiraCosta College near San Diego.

The White House’s National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Seven weeks of demonstrations in Iran were ignited by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran’s morality police.

The NSC was probably rather shocked when they saw the statement, and hung their heads trying to figure out how to weasel their way out of this.

What the short piece didn’t mention is why people are protesting Brandon

(AP) Biden made the comments as supporters in the crowd held up cellphones displaying the message “FREE IRAN.”

The Biden administration has faced growing criticism from Iranian American activists who are calling on the White House to abandon its efforts to resurrect the Iran nuclear deal because of the protests.

Any sort of deal would give Iran lots and lots of money and freedom, just like the previous one, since it isn’t Iran trying to get the deal in place, it’s Biden. Give the Biden admin some props, though, as they are trying to get Iran removed from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Why they’re on it in the first place is a travesty, but, entirely business as usual for the United Nations.

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Your Fault: Major Glaciers To Disappear By 2050

By William Teach November 4, 2022 – 7:15 am

Here we go again

Climate change: Major glaciers worldwide to disappear by 2050

Some of the world’s most famous glaciers, including in the Dolomites in Italy, the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the United States, and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, will disappear by 2050 because of global warming, whatever the temperature rise scenario, according to a UNESCO report.

The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO, which monitors some 18,600 glaciers across 50 of its World Heritage Sites, says one-third of those are set to disappear by 2050.

While the rest can be saved by keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) relative to pre-industrial levels, in a business-as-usual emissions scenario, about 50 percent of these World Heritage glaciers could almost entirely disappear by 2100.

The study “shows these glaciers have been retreating at an accelerated rate since 2000 due to CO2 emissions, which are warming temperatures”, UNESCO said.

See, if you agree to pay taxes and give up your freedom and modern lifestyle we can save half of the glaciers. Which disappear during interglacial periods. And Holocene warm periods. It’s all about the fear mongering. But, hey, remember, this is all a science

Climate change forecasts more rainbows

Climate change will increase opportunities to see rainbows, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa. The study’s authors estimate that by 2100, the average land location on Earth will experience about 5% more days with rainbows than at the beginning of the 21st century. Northern latitudes and very high elevations, where warming is predicted to lead to less snow and more rain, will experience the greatest gains in rainbow occurrence. However, places with reduced rainfall under climate change—such as the Mediterranean—are projected to lose rainbow days.

So, more rainbows and less rainbows. How do they know?

A team including students at UH M?noa looked at photographs uploaded to Flickr, a social media platform where people share photographs. They sorted through tens of thousands of photos taken around the world, labeled with the word “rainbow,” to identify rainbows generated from the refraction of light by rain droplets.

Then, the scientists trained a rainbow prediction model based on rainbow photo locations and maps of precipitation, cloud cover and sun angle. Finally, they applied their model to predict present day and future rainbow occurrences over global land areas. The model suggests that islands are rainbow hotspots.

That’s it. That’s their scientific study. Looking at people’s photos of rainbows.

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Mayor Of Crazytown: MSNBC Democrat Says GOP Win Will Bring “Brutal Authoritarian System”

By William Teach November 4, 2022 – 7:00 am

When it comes to politics, I always think of that old Simpsons bit where Marge was trying to sell real estate and Lionel Hutz said “there’s The Truth (shakes head), and then there’s The Truth (big smile).” The house is not dilapidated, it’s a fixer upper. Politics is usually the latter, right? Not with Democrats. Now it’s just straight up lying, making stuff up, and all fearmonger

MSNBC’s Beschloss: GOP Midterm Victory Will Bring ‘Brutal Authoritarian System,’ Our Children Will Be Arrested, Killed

MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss said Wednesday on “All In” said that if Republicans take the majorities in Congress, American democracy will end, and “our children” will be jailed and killed by a “brutal authoritarian system.”

Beschloss said, “Six nights from now, we could all be discussing violence all over this country. There’s signs that may happen, may God forbid. That losers will be declared winners by a fraudulent election officers, or a secretary of state candidates, or governors, or state legislatures. We could be six days away from losing our rule of law and losing a situation where we have elections that we all can rely on. Those are the foundation stones of democracy.”

He continued, “A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of. But if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed. We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away.”

Of course, he’s playing to the unhinged barking moonbat base which watches MSNBC. And you know they all think this. Look at the number of times Dems from Biden on down have stated that losing the midterms means the end of democracy.

This is where the whole “Republicans want to end Social Security and Medicare” are coming from. Democrats have to do this, because they cannot talk about their record or plans on issues like the economy, inflation, energy, illegal immigration, and crime.

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St. Greta Admits That Capitalism Must Go In Order To Hit Her Climate Doom Scams

By William Teach November 3, 2022 – 3:45 pm

Are people finally starting to get it? This is not about science. I’ve been saying this since around 2004

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Every once in a while the members of the climate cult will admit what it’s really all about

St. Greta(UK Telegraph) From a climate change campaigner to presenting a new far-Left political agenda against “racist” capitalism – meet the new Greta Thunberg.

The 19-year-old Swedish activist has announced that as well as tackling her usual area of climate action and awareness-spreading, she has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system.

Calling for a “system-wide transformation” at her book launch in London, she claimed that the world’s current “normal” – dictated by the people in power – has caused the climate breakdown.

She said: “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.

“It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”

Ms Thunberg added: “If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting.”

Surprise? What economic and political systems does St. Greta want? The article doesn’t say. Maybe her book does.

Released last week, the book includes around 100 contributions from various climate experts, including writer Naomi Klein, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chief of the World Health Organization, and Thomas Piketty, the economist.

Klein has expressed many times that she wants capitalism gone, and replaced with, at best, a command economy, with the government controlling everything. She’s actually been somewhat disappeared for a few years, because she keeps telling the truth about the cult. Here’s from back in 2014

(National Post) According to Canadian social activist and perennial agitator Naomi Klein, the really inconvenient truth about climate change is that it’s not about carbon: it’s about capitalism.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is focused on exposing how the relentless pursuit of growth has locked us in to a system that’s incompatible with a stable climate. The bottom line is, the reality of global warming has forced civilization into a hard choice: Either continue on as usual, committing the planet to growing inequality as the effects of climate change escalate and disproportionately affect the poor, or try a radically different path.

This is what they all mean when they yammer about system change. And it all leads to authoritarian government. Weird, eh?

Ms Thunberg told Samira Ahmed, the BBC journalist, during a question and answer part of the evening that “fascist movements offering easy, false solutions and scapegoats to complex problems are growing and becoming more normalised”.

When asked by Ms Ahmed whether she thought it was as simple as making laws that outlaw things, she responded: “There are many [things we can do], but while we do these things that we can do within our current system, we have to realise that we need a system-wide transformation.

“We need to change everything because right now our current system is on a collision course with the future of humanity and the future of our civilization”.

Interesting, because that’s exactly what the cult of climastrology wants, a Progressive (nice Fascism) system, where the government is in charge of everything.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 3, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a lake that will soon disappear from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on a Massachusetts wind farm project no longer being viable.

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