Another Federal Judge Says Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Illegal

By William Teach November 11, 2022 – 7:00 am

Who wants to bet that Biden and his people ignore the rulings?

U.S. judge declares Biden’s student debt relief plan unlawful

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, ruled in a lawsuit backed by the Job Creators Network Foundation on behalf of two borrowers.

The debt relief plan had already been temporarily blocked by the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while it considers a request by six Republican-led states to enjoin it while they appealed the dismissal of their own lawsuit.

Biden’s plan has been the subject of several lawsuits by conservative state attorneys general and legal groups, though plaintiffs before Thursday had struggled to convince courts they were harmed by it in such a way that they have standing to sue.

The plan would saddle working and middle class taxpayers with paying off loans that people legally signed for, often getting degrees that can’t bring in the money to repay the loans. And then there are people who are making $100k a year, claiming they cannot repay.

Pittman in a 26-page ruling wrote that the HEROES Act – a law that provides loan assistance to military personnel and that was relied upon by the Biden administration to enact the relief plan – did not authorize the $400 billion student loan forgiveness program.

“The Program is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated,” Pittman wrote.

I’m sure Biden will appeal, but, will he and his people work hard to fight? He got what he needed, lots of youths getting out and voting, minimizing the damage in the midterms. Biden may not even try to take it to the Supreme Court, because, come 2024, Biden and the Dems can promise to fight for loan forgiveness if they re-elect Biden and give him Congress.

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Bright Spot: Parental Rights Group Notched A Lot Of Wins

By William Teach November 10, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Democrats think they own your kids

When it comes to the basics, yes, the schools are rather in charge. When schools start playing their games in teaching stuff like all the white kids are racists, telling kids they are trans (and don’t tell your parents), hiding what they are teaching from parents, it’s a problem. Parents have always been involved, and should be

‘Vote Like A Mother’: Parental Rights Groups Notch Key School Board Wins Across The Country

Grassroots organizations, focused on parental rights in education, are celebrating key victories in school board races across the country.

Moms for Liberty, a coalition of parents working towards transparency in education, and the 1776 Project PAC, a political group that helps school board members against Critical Race Theory get elected, saw many of their endorsed candidates win seats on school boards. Their wins in states such as Florida, Maryland, Indiana and Michigan flipped several school boards, the organizations told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Last night was a disappointing night for Republicans in many parts of the country, but we’re happy to say we were very successful in key races in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, Maryland, which were by far the biggest places we targeted,” Aiden Buzzetti, head of coalitions and candidate recruitment for the 1776 Project PAC, told the DCNF. “We also officially flipped our 100th school board since our first election in November 2021.”

Results of school board elections from Nov. 8 are still being reported but the 1776 Project PAC is beginning to see victories; in Brandywine, Michigan, four 1776 Project PAC candidates won, flipping the school board to a conservative majority, according to the 1776 Project PAC. All three 1776 Project PAC candidates running for Carroll County school board in Maryland won, shifting the majority of the school board.

If you are a parent who doesn’t want their kids exposed to Moonbattery, this is great news. They need to keep it going.

Conservatives also made key pick ups on two state’s board of education; the Texas State Board of Education will hold a Republican majority, 10-5, after all 15 seats were up for grabs, the Dallas Morning News reported. Conservatives won all the open seats on the Kansas State Board of Education making the majority of the board conservative, 7-3, KCUR News reported.

See, too often Conservatives ignore key positions, allowing Democrats, including the wackjobs, to take over.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 10, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible early snow from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on student loan borrowers planning spending sprees as their debt is “forgiven”.

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Young Climate Cultists Upset That Adults Aren’t Listening

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

It’s always amusing when these youths whine, because they have little in the way of real world experience and knowledge. They don’t really know How Things Work, especially since you can bet that the majority of them who have graduated college or are in college aren’t taking degrees in anything that truly give them valuable knowledge

Fed up young climate activists: ‘Adults aren’t listening’

The climate change generation is saying officials are talking too much, listening too little and acting even less. And they are fed up.

“Instead of talking about how to solve the climate crisis, they negotiate about how to continue polluting,” said Mitzy Violeta, a 23-year old indigenous activist from Mexico. “Youth movements are realizing the solution isn’t going to be in international gatherings,” like the one taking place in Egypt.

“We’re upset with the inaction that’s being done,” said Jasmine Wynn, 18, of the environmental group Treeage. (the group is as far left as you’d expect, and is all about forcing Other People to change by government decree)

With decades of warmer and extreme weather ahead of them, young climate activists envision a future that has them frustrated and anxious, according to more than 130 activists questioned by The Associated Press. Most of them said they think their strikes and protests are effective. But lately in high-profile, attention-grabbing actions, a handful of activists have gone beyond skipping school to targeting art work, tires and fossil fuel depots.

And what actions are they taking in their own lives? How about we just ban them from using fossil fuels, living in anything but a tiny home, buying new clothes, taking a thousand and one photos and videos to upload to social media, and streaming the hell out of everything?

At one of the more traditional protests in New York City in September, 14-year-old Truly Hort said she was scared about the future: “I’ve always had all these dreams, and now I’m like ‘God, I can’t do that.’”

The trouble, she said, is that leaders talk about what they hope to do, “but it’s not a lot of people taking action.”

Also mentioning her anxiety at the same protest 16-year-old Lucia Dec-Prat said, “it’s one thing to worry about the future and it’s another to get out there and do something about it.”

Adults have mentally abused these children with their stories of Extreme Doom

Governments and international organizations are advancing too slowly to fight climate change, many of those interviewed said about climate conferences. A vast majority of activists asked agreed with Greta Thunberg’s characterization of climate negotiations as all talk and no action, or “blah blah blah,” as the Swedish activist put it in a speech last year.

“So rather than just making noise to contribute to the blah blah blah, make noise for action. I think that has to be the critical thing,” said 25-year-old Jevanic Henry of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. “We are driving action.”

Sounds like they are trying to force people to take action against their will. This whole thing has been about Fascist politics for decades. Being pushed by people who won’t, again, practice what they preach.

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Brandon’s Pushing “Nature Based Solutions” For Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach November 10, 2022 – 7:15 am

It almost looks like Biden wants to turn military bases into hippy style nature preserves, making larges swathes unusable for training

Biden promises billions for ‘nature-based solutions’ to climate change

The Biden administration said it will direct billions of taxpayer dollars toward “nature-based” climate change solutions, which includes plans for “bringing the power of nature to maximize the value and resilience of military bases.”

The White House on Tuesday released its “Roadmap for Nature-Based Solutions to Fight Climate Change,” which the White House says will “put America on a path that will unlock the full potential of nature-based solutions to address climate change, nature loss, and inequity.” It said $25 billion worth of current and pending projects are already aligned toward this goal.

“Nature-based solutions” means actions to protect or restore ecosystems that are also “solutions to societal challenges,” such as the conservation of natural areas that help boost resilience to flooding or heat.

I actually don’t mind this that much: there’s nothing wrong with conserving nature and “re-naturing”, as it’s termed, areas. It’s environmentally sound, and nature is good. It’s just linking this to the idiocy of ‘climate change’ and inequality. Stop. Please. They really do not have to add the cult stuff to the environment.

One element of the roadmap calls on the Department of Defense to create a guide for “nature-based solutions for Military Installation natural resources management planning.” That guide will “provide military installation planners and managers with current and actionable information on the appropriate use of nature-based solutions; the current state of science and observed performance reliability; and other considerations regarding design, cost and benefits, implementation, and operations and maintenance.”

In other words, this is going to take a huge chunk of the military budget, turn soldiers into gardeners, interfere with training. Great plan

The plan calls for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to consider “nature-based solutions” as alternatives for all projects that have the potential to affect floodplains or wetlands. It said FEMA has already started to make things easier for “disadvantaged communities” to fund projects with “nature-based solutions.”

In addition to finding “nature-based solutions” for military installations, the administration said it would look for similar solutions for “energy, the economy and national security.” For example, the administration is rating Department of Energy sites for climate sustainability and wants the department to also rate sites on environmental justice and cultural resource protection.

Does anyone else see rising costs for anything the government does and the private sector does? And the need to seriously expand the federal workforce to do this? And giving lots more power to the Central Government? This could have been so easy, non-silly, non-culty, and bipartisan.

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Is Trump Done After The Red Sprinkle Election?

By William Teach November 10, 2022 – 7:00 am

It bears repeating: you had

  • Unpopular president, who is checked out on inflation and cost of living increases, completely blew it on Afghanistan and Ukraine, takes the weekend off almost every weekend, is hyperpartisan, and typically in DementiaLand
  • Elected Democrats who are divorced from the working and middle class, and tell us to buy EVs and solar panels to save a little bit of money
  • High gas prices, and diesel is in short supply
  • Democrats ignoring and even causing rising crime
  • Citizens saying the country is on the wrong track and they are very unsatisfied
  • Democrats pushing abortion up to birth, CRT, and transgender madness, and replacing women with transgenders
  • The COVID tyranny, including firing citizens who would not take the vaccine, which we now find out doesn’t do all that much. And masking children

And so much more. Yet, you saw what happened. The GOP could end up with fewer Senate seats, and, should just barely have control of the House. Some Trump endorsed candidates won, too many lost. So…

Midterm election results raise DeSantis’s stock, scramble 2024 calculus for Trump

The 2022 midterm results Tuesday helped set the stage for the 2024 Republican nomination, further elevating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the chief rival to former President Donald Trump, should both men formally enter the race.

But it also injected new uncertainty into a presidential race that, until Tuesday, had been viewed as Trump’s to lose, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican operatives and others keeping tabs on the nascent 2024 battle.

DeSantis, they said, clearly saw his stock rise in a party that has grown increasingly tired of being dragged down at the ballot box by Trump. But Trump’s grip on a strong plurality of Republican voters appears firm, despite a string of losses on Tuesday by his acolytes, and Republicans are still trying to determine if DeSantis could unseat the long-reigning king of the GOP.

Longtime conservative radio host and blogger Erick Erickson wrote in his newsletter that DeSantis’s performance Tuesday night reminded him of another governor who beat expectations in a strong year for Democrats and later went on to serve two terms in the White House: George W. Bush.

Former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany urged Trump to skip campaigning for Herschel Walker in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff, lest he cost Republicans control of the Senate a second time in a row.

The New York Post, a tabloid that’s long been one of Trump’s favorite reads, declared DeSantis “DeFUTURE” of the Republican Party in a splashy front page on Wednesday celebrating his win. And other conservative news outlets continued drifting away from Trump.

“Trump is done,” said a veteran Republican operative.

Erickson was certainly in the Trump Derangement Syndrome bleachers, though, not to the degree of those at places like The Bulwark. That said, there are plenty of people who supported Trump, not necessarily the Trump Train, who say it’s time to move on. I’ve always said that Trump needed to tone it down against everyone excluding the Media and elected Democrats, and, even then, spend more time saying what he and his admin were doing rather than battling the media. Use honey rather than vinegar with Republicans and those who could attempt to sway. He did a poor job in explaining what he and his admin were doing, what Republicans were doing, and what they were trying to do and wanted to do.

His action during COVID were mostly right: it wasn’t the federal government’s job to do most stuff, it was the job of the states. He was right to block flights from China, then Europe, just a little late on that. Instead of truly explaining it, he battled with the media. And he’s still battling too much. And battling with Republicans, like DeSantis. The ideas of fighting back against the Dems and Credentialed Media are great, and the ideas are there. He’s just not the best to push them. He showed Republicans they can fight back. They don’t have to be get along go along anymore. We don’t need bull in a china shop anymore. We need more smooth, like a DeSantis, and Abbott, a Kristy Noem, to name a few.

If DeSantis does run, it will look bad for Trump, because Ron and his team are masters of turning things around, for bringing receipts. At one point I was enthused by Palin: but, then she pulled her will she won’t she for the 2012 elections, then was forced to say she wouldn’t. And was showing she was spending zero time learning about national and international issues. I moved on (and caught a lot of crap for it), and it is time to move on from Trump. He’s not really helping.

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Good News: Brandon Has Ignored Diesel Fuel Issues

By William Teach November 9, 2022 – 3:42 pm

There’s already been two big price spikes this year due to the cost of diesel. Just wait till the next one hits

Biden overlooked diesel fuel inflation. Why that’s extra bad for the economy.

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanFor the last six months, President Biden and his top advisors have obsessed over gasoline prices, for obvious reasons. That’s because no single price rattles consumers as much as the cost of gas, which crept up to a new record high of $5 per gallon in June. So it comes as no surprise that soaring gas prices corresponded directly with Biden’s sinking approval rating.

Since then, gas prices have fallen by about $1.10 per gallon. Biden may have helped a little by releasing oil from the US strategic reserve. Market forces, tough, have been a bigger factor. Still, that hasn’t stopped Biden from touting the drop in prices and claiming he deserves the credit.

But Biden has largely ignored another important type of fuel: diesel fuel, which is critical for the production and transportation of many everyday products. There’s a reason for Biden’s silence: Diesel prices remain uncomfortably high, and they’re contributing to food inflation and other consumer pain points. Around the same time gas hit $5, diesel hit a record high of $5.81 per gallon. Gas prices are now 22% below their peak, but diesel is just 8% lower. On a year-over-year basis, gas prices are up 15% while diesel is up 43%.

That plays a huge part in all your food and clothes and stuff, because diesel trucks deliver those goods. Autos are up $400-$1400 this year, much of it due to the price of diesel.

The American Farm Bureau Federation sent a letter to Biden on November 4 drawing attention to the problem. “Our nation’s food supply is driven by diesel,” Farm Bureau president Zippy Duvall wrote. “High diesel prices are severely impacting our farmers and ranchers, causing increased costs to consumers, and adding to food insecurity.” While the pace of gasoline inflation has moderated substantially in recent months, food inflation has generally gotten worse, and now stands at 13% year-over-year. Wages are only rising by around 5%, so it takes a bigger chunk of the family paycheck to fill the refrigerator.

The US energy market is complex and there’s no single cause for higher diesel prices. Part of the explanation is a 4% reduction in diesel refining capacity that began in 2020, when oil prices crashed and many producers lost money. There’s less refining capacity for gasoline, too, which is why the “spread” between the cost of oil and the cost of refined products has been higher than normal for most of this year—there’s a bottleneck in the conversion of crude oil into consumer products, which tends to push the cost of finished products up.

We’re potentially looking at not just low levels of diesel, but, a big shortage. Which will drive prices up, and then food and goods prices will go up. Biden’s choices are limited: it’s something that should have been addressed long ago, just like with the continuing baby formula shortage. He’s not worried, because he’s rich, and the taxpayer is picking up the tab for most of his food.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 9, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow because Other People won’t take the bus, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on your feel good stories of the day.

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Bummer: Warmists Are Missing Hot Water, Food, And Trash Cans At Climate Conference

By William Teach November 9, 2022 – 10:30 am

Don’t they want to save the planet? Hot water requires lots of energy to make. Food, especially meat, is bad for the planet, we’re told. The Egyptian government should ban the use of fossil fuels, so, all those 10K+ 40K+ attendees will have to find alternative ways to get home, rather than fossil fueled flights. Anyhow, the NY Times doesn’t see anything wrong with Warmists missing out on things

A Few Things Are Hard to Find at the Conference: Hot Food, Water and Trash Cans

On the third day, the smell of burgers wafted through the air. All around the courtyard of the vast conference complex where this year’s United Nations global climate summit is being held, hungry delegates perked up.

“I haven’t eaten much here,” said Sylvia Muia, a Kenyan reporter for Climate Tracker who had followed her nose Tuesday afternoon to a line that stretched across the entire courtyard. At the front of it was a kiosk selling $12 burgers, the first hot food available in the area all conference.

Told that kiosk workers had promised more food by Wednesday, she laughed. “That’s a bit late,” she said. “Uh, we’re already starving.”

It was early days yet, but COP27 was already drawing joking comparisons to the Fyre Festival, the catastrophically fraudulent 2017 music festival in the Bahamas where attendees were left clawing for wet mattresses and cold sandwiches when the luxury villas, pig roasts and celebrity acts that had been advertised failed to materialize.

The conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh had plenty of headliners, not to mention real beds. But a distinct shortage of food and water as some 40,000 delegates descended on the conference was causing audible consternation.

Yeah, 40K took long fossil fueled trips to Sharm el-Sheikh to complain about Other People using fossil fuels. You won’t find any stories about the attendees traveling around in private EVs.

But Monday and Tuesday, as world leaders claimed the summit stage and the crowds grew, most of the climate activists, oil and gas executives, government negotiators, and other dignitaries found themselves waiting in hot, hourlong lines at a handful of kiosks selling overpriced Nescafe coffee and pastries, which ran out by midafternoon.

The world leaders were not much better off. The VIP tent where they sat before delivering their speeches was empty of food by about 6 p.m. Monday.

Are we seriously supposed to fee bad for these people? They could have done this by video-conference, rather than all those fossil fueled trips.

Before the summit, Egypt had announced that Sharm el-Sheikh would go green. Cloth bags and biodegradable food packaging replaced plastic cutlery and bags; recycling bins were supplied, and solar panels went up. The delegates shuttled around in electric buses or buses fueled by natural gas, which Egypt said burns cleaner than other fuels.

But, there were lots of traffic jams, so, people had to wait 45 minutes for a bus! ZOMG!

At the venue, it was easy to find colorful new bins for recycling paper, plastic and cans. But places to throw away other waste were scarce.

By day’s end Monday, many of the recycling bins were filled with trash.

Why did they have so much that couldn’t be recycled? Bad, bad Warmists.

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Daily Caller: Call It The Red Wedding

By William Teach November 9, 2022 – 7:51 am

So, what happened?

GOP Hopes Dashed On The Rocks

Republicans under-performed across the country Tuesday, with Donald Trump-endorsed nominees losing or trailing in swing districts and Senate and gubernatorial races.

Trump endorsed more than 400 candidates across the 2022 midterms, according to Ballotpedia, making his presence felt in swing races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona. In all three states, Trump-endorsed candidates have under-performed.

Fox News and NBC have projected that Democrat John Fetterman will defeat Republican Mehmet Oz in the Keystone State, and Democrat Josh Shapiro is projected to defeat Republican Doug Mastriano in its gubernatorial contest. Trump’s endorsement helped Oz through a heavily-contested primary, despite misgivings from many conservatives.

Both Masters and Lake won divided primaries that pitted Trump endorsees against candidates supported by former Vice President Mike Pence. They trail Democrats Mark Kelly and Katie Hobbs, respectively. Many polls had shown Lake with a small lead against Hobbs, who refused to debate the Republican and was hobbled by a racial discrimination lawsuit.

Masters and Walker still have a chance, it’s pretty close. Ron Johnson is holding on by the skin of his teeth. In Nevada, Laxalt has a slight lead. All four would need to win for the GOP to take the Senate by the barest of margins. Democrats have also flipped a few House seats that Republicans should have won

Republicans only needed to net five seats to take back the House of Representatives, and are still likely to do so. GOP challengers have picked up at least two seats in New York, and Republican Anna Paulina Luna won the Tampa-area district vacated by Democrat Charlie Crist.

We’ll have to see how this ends up. Even minor control is better than no control. For governor, Stacy Abrams and Beto RunsForEverything lost tight races. DeSantis annihilated Charlie Crist, and even flipped the Miami-Dade area Red, which also helped Marco Rubio destroy Val Demmings.

Kari Lake still has a chance in Arizona, just behind Hobbs with 67% reporting. Massachusetts and Maryland flipped to Democrat, but, that’s really not too unexpected. Oregon is too close to know, that would be a big pickup for the GOP. Pennsylvania was pretty much a blowout, with the Dems keeping the gov’s mansion. Lee Zeldin is down 5%, so, that’s rather disappointing after the trends, but, he gave it a shot. Disappointing is Michigan. How do those people re-elect Whitmer, who totally, well, fucked them during COVID? She was pretty much the most dictatorial governor in the nation.

Add that all up, and no wave. Probably control of the House. What happened? Good question. Maybe Democrats really got out the vote better. You would have thought with the state of the economy, inflation, crime, and the border, plus Biden’s poor poll numbers, the GOP would have done much better. How did Independents break? We’ll have to wait for those numbers. And, here’s a big one: how did Trump’s influence do? Because it doesn’t look like he helped. He may have hurt, much like Obama hurt Democrats in 2010, 2012.

There is a bright spot

Tighter GOP grip on North Carolina legislature, high court limits Democrats’ options

The political landscape in North Carolina tilted further toward Republicans in Tuesday’s elections, giving the party control of the state Supreme Court, a larger majority in the state House and a supermajority in the state Senate for the final two years of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s second term.

But Republican legislative and judicial gains on Tuesday — the GOP swept four statewide appellate judge races, too — could weaken Cooper and Democrats’ ability to shape policy debates in the same manner. Hot-button social issues such as abortion, transgender rights and school curriculum could move to the fore under more solid Republican control.

Senate Republicans won 30 seats in the 50-member chamber, up from their previous 28-seat majority. In the House, Republicans won 71 seats in the 120-member chamber, two more than they previously held and just one shy of the 60% threshold needed to override gubernatorial vetoes without any support from the other party. That small victory offered Cooper and Democrats a bit of solace.

What do other states look like? Florida Republicans gained 4 seats in their Senate. Still waiting on House numbers. Other states are seeing some movement towards the GOP in their general assemblies.

At the end of the day, even just controlling the House is better than nothing. It would stop the Democrats extreme agenda. It’s not a great consolation prize, but, it is what it is.

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