Bummer: Liberals Are Getting Tired Of Joe’s Foreign Policy

By William Teach March 19, 2021 – 10:30 am

Is Joe being smart about foreign policy? Was he basically left with little choice by the Trump administration? Is he biding his time, trying to force other things through first? Well, many Democrats have had enough of being tough on Iran

Liberals Grow Impatient With Biden’s Foreign Policy Decisions

Earlier this week, Biden administration officials passed around with bemusement some words of praise from an unexpected source: Jared Kushner.

In an opinion essay for The Wall Street Journal, Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser on Middle East issues, said that President Joe Biden “did the right thing” and had “called Iran’s bluff” by refusing to make new concessions to lure Iran into talks about restoring a nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration.

Kushner may have meant well, but his seal of approval compounded a problem for Biden by inflaming liberal allies already disappointed that his nuclear diplomacy with Iran had not made swifter progress.

“I would take this in the Biden White House as a giant, blinking red light that maybe what I’m doing is not right because Jared Kushner is finding ways to praise it,” said Benjamin Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser under former President Barack Obama who worked closely on the 2015 nuclear agreement, speaking Wednesday on the “Pod Save the World” podcast.

Iran is just one of several foreign policy issues frustrating Biden’s base two months into his presidency. Although Biden delighted them with several swift actions — among them rejoining the Paris climate accord and withdrawing support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen — he triggered frustration by ordering an airstrike in Syria and declining to punish the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, over the brutal murder of a dissident journalist and U.S. resident, Jamal Khashoggi.

But, what they’re most upset about is not kowtowing to Iran. They really, really, really want to bow to Iran, not caring what it means, and, a lot of that is because liberals hate Israel and Jews.

On Wednesday, Biden fueled the discontent when he conceded in an interview with ABC News that it would be “tough” to meet a May 1 deadline, set under the Trump administration, to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, a high priority for liberals impatient to end what they call “endless” American wars.

Sounds like they should have voted for Trump who would have made the deadline.

The Middle East, which Biden officials hope to de-emphasize as they turn America’s attention to China, is the source of many complaints. Topping the list is Biden’s decision not to unilaterally rejoin the Iran nuclear deal by reversing harsh sanctions imposed on Iran by Trump after he abandoned the agreement in 2018.

Iran says it will not talk, much less scale back its advancing nuclear program and comply with the deal’s limits, until Biden acts.

Supporters of the original deal, including Obama administration officials who helped to design it, say the passage of time only allows for political opposition to build at home and for events in the dangerous region to trigger an escalation.

Told you, Iran is their most important thing in foreign policy. Why? Seriously, why do liberals want to normalize relations and such with Iran so badly? A nation that says death to America and death to Israel routinely. One which is directly responsible for hundreds, if not more, of American deaths, and thousands of injuries.

Anyhow, it’s a long article, worth the read.

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There’s A Right To Fight Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach March 19, 2021 – 7:06 am

Well, sure, people have a right to fight climate change, at least here in the U.S., where we have freedom to do things we want, right? They’re welcome to agitate for redress of grievance. They’re welcome to give up their own use of fossil fuels, take the bus, ride the train, walk or bike, go vegan, live in a tiny home, turn the AC up to 80 and the heat down to 60. Take short showers and only use 2 sheets of TP. But, that’s not what they mean by a Right to fight

Restoring Financial Regulators’ Right to Fight Climate Change

The Biden administration has pledged to make the climate crisis a top-tier issue, authorizing a “whole of government” to take on climate change. That would mean the responsibility to legislate environmental action wouldn’t be left up only to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, but would extend to all agencies, including financial regulators.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

This is why we can’t have nice things: climate cultists think that the Executive Office legislates. They don’t seem to understand or have knowledge of the document that is meant to guide all government in the United States. Seriously, literally the first paragraph after the preamble reads “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” The Framers thought the Legislative body was more important than the Executive, having a huge section on the Legislative first, with the Exec described in Article II. And, let’s not forget, prior to the 17th Amendment the Senate was composed of senators hand picked by state general assemblies, so, they were each voting for the legislative priorities of their own individual states, not their parties or “consciousness.”

Already, over the past few weeks, Biden’s Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will update its guidelines on how climate risks should be disclosed to investors, and launched a task force to focus on climate-related compliance and misconduct. The SEC has also refused to help ExxonMobil block a shareholder vote on a climate-change resolution. (Although the commission did just let the company reject a shareholder proposal to force the operation to disclose what it plans to do with its untapped fossil fuel assets.)

Do they have the statutory power to do this? Perhaps, since Congress has been negligent over the years in giving Executive Office agencies way to much power and latitude to do as they choose.

For much of the latter third of the 20th Century, corporate law was dominated by the idea best summarized in economist Milton Friedman’s influential 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom that “Corporations have no higher purpose than maximizing profits for their shareholders.” In the last decade, however, shareholders have begun to push for more responsible corporate citizenship, particularly with regards to climate change.

If shareholders aren’t pushing for a return on investment, then what’s the point in being a shareholder? Oh, right, these people are left-wing kooks, pushing Modern Socialism.

Shareholder advocacy organizations are planning to legally challenge the previous administration’s attempts to clamp down on corporate climate action, and the Biden administration is not expected to let many of Trump’s financial policies stand.

WTF is a shareholder advocacy organization? Is that like people who don’t hold shares who demand that those who do Comply with their demands? Why can no one mind their own business these days, especially when it has to do with Forcing Other People to comply?

As chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which works to shield the economic system from crashes, Yellen also has the ability to push all federal regulators to enact strong climate policies, such as strict limitations on fossil fuel investments. The council could also take the aggressive steps to take any other actions it deems appropriate to address climate risks, even banning fossil fuel investments altogether.

I’ll say it again: the fossil fuels companies should refuse to sell their product to these groups/agencies if they take these actions.

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Democrats Vote To Allow Illegal Alien Gang Members And Murderers To Be Eligible For Amnesty

By William Teach March 19, 2021 – 6:44 am

Who’s surprised by this? Democrats just want amnesty, period. They don’t care who these people are. They don’t want to have vetting in place, they just want to give them all amnesty quickly, before voters realize how utterly bad and insane this is

Five Democrats Flip-Flop to Allow Illegal Immigrant Gang Members to Get Amnesty

Five Democrats flip-flopped Thursday to allow illegal immigrant gang members to obtain amnesty through the American Dream and Promise Act.

Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN), a former Duluth, Minnesota, police officer, offered a motion to recommit on H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise, a bill that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. The motion to recommit, if passed, would mandate that the bill go back to the committees of origin, and they would have to add Stauber’s amendment before it could come up for a floor vote again.

Stauber’s amendment would ensure that gang members could not receive amnesty under H.R. 6. Specifically, it would ensure that federal authorities could use state or federal data on their criminal history to deny an illegal immigrant’s amnesty petition. H.R. 6 does not allow federal authorities to do this.

Stauber’s amendment would also allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deport illegal immigrant gang members.

Stauber said, at one point

Under H.R. 6, information provided in an application for a green card may not be used for the purpose of immigration enforcement – even if DHS denies the application or it’s withdrawn.

This means that if an applicant has a murder conviction, a rape conviction, or if the applicant is a gang member, and DHS knows about it because of the application, DHS can’t refer that person for removal.

The person could be convicted of raping a child and they wouldn’t be removed. Instead, they’d be eligible for amnesty. An we all know that this so-called pathway to citizenship won’t be a multi-year process like all those who go through the normal citizenship process; instead, they’ll be lip service paid, and these illegals will be granted citizenship within a few months or so. Even with criminal backgrounds, with little understanding of English, with little to no understanding of US civics.

Democrats blocked Stauber’s motion, with 203 Republicans in favor of the motion and 216 votes against the motion.

Not one Republican voted against. Not one Democrat voted to block illegal alien killers, rapists, and gang members from getting amnesty.

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Old And Busted: Not Raising Taxes On People Making Less Than $400K A Year

By William Teach March 18, 2021 – 6:11 pm

What was that old saying about Obama, something about every promise having an expiration date? Who was in the Executive Office with him?

And here we go

Psaki said at her daily press briefing that the proposed $400,000 threshold for tax increases applies to “families” rather than individuals.

The clarification significantly lowers the tax-hike threshold announced by Biden in an ABC News interview that aired Wednesday.

Biden’s interview statement appeared to indicate the cutoff would be $400,000 in individual income.

How soon till it drops to $100K? Then $50? Lower?

Of course, all his climate apocalypse scam stuff will raise everyone’s taxes.

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China Joe Admin Pushing Companies To Adopt Climate Cult Dogma

By William Teach March 18, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Because this has everything to do with science and not with hardcore Progressive (nice Fascism) policies, you know, where government controls private entities

U.S. pushing companies to help fight climate change

Federal regulators are pushing corporate America to reckon with the cost of climate change, arguing that global warming poses significant peril not only to the environment but to the U.S. economy.

On Wednesday, Rostin Behnam, the acting chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced that he is establishing a unit to focus on the role of complex financial derivatives in understanding and pricing climate-related hazards. That follows a request on Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission for public input on how to require companies to disclose “consistent, comparable, and reliable information on climate change” risks to investors. (snip)

In recent weeks, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve have highlighted the ballooning costs of extreme weather linked to climate change and flagged the potential danger to businesses, banking and investments that could come from a rocky transition away from an economy rooted in fossil fuels.

“Climate change poses a major threat to U.S. financial stability, and I believe we must move urgently and assertively in utilizing our wide-ranging and flexible authorities to address emerging risks,” Behnam said in a statement to The Washington Post. He added that the agency’s “unique mission” and its attention to risk and prices “puts us on the front lines of this effort.”

Blah, blah, blah, it’s all just an attempt to force Other People to comply with the climate cults beliefs, while those like Joe do jack and squat to reduce their own carbon footprints and go net zero. Though, Joe does try, what with being locked down in the White House.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen — who in her confirmation hearings called climate change “an existential threat to not only our environment but also our economy” — has established a new senior position for climate matters. And the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday requested public input on how to revise disclosure rules to include “consistent, comparable, and reliable information on climate change.” The Federal Reserve is also examining climate risks.

“No, we have no idea why the cost of doing business is going up, along with good, products, and services.” Will they mandate this stuff, like the good little authoritarians they are? And, good news, this stuff is also international

Sovereign Rating Cuts Coming to Those Who Ignore Climate Change

A failure to cut pollution will cost governments around the world billions, according to University of Cambridge economists who used artificial intelligence to forecast climate change’s effect on sovereign credit ratings.

If emissions continue at current levels, 63 countries will see ratings downgrades of more than one notch by 2030, acording to the group, which includes Moritz Kraemer, S&P Global Ratings’ former chief sovereign ratings officer. The U.S. grade would drop by two notches, and as much as three levels for Germany, India and the Netherlands. Even meeting Paris Agreement commitments will mean an average cut of 0.65.

So, just wondering, does this apply to all those nations who stayed a part of the Paris Climate (scam) agreement and then really did nothing? BTW, nice Fascism doesn’t mean they’re nice, it means that they are doing this for your own good, whether you want it or not. Because they Know Better than you. And you will be made to comply.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 18, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a tropical forest growing in the north due to climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post highlighting a mind numbingly, ridiculous comment on the 1st Amendment.

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Crimes Against Cooking: Barveque Plans To Expand Production Footprint

By William Teach March 18, 2021 – 10:30 am

Isn’t this against the law in most Southern states, including North Carolina?

New ‘Carolina Smokehouse’ putting a different spin on barbecue – it’s plant based

This is what real barbecue looks like, made from pig

This is what real barbecue looks like, made from pig

Plant-based barbecue producer Barveque will expand its footprint and employee base in Cornelius, in the Lake Norman region near Charlotte, with what it’s calling “the world’s largest plant-based smokehouse.” How’s that for a new kind of pig pickin’?

The company disclosed the new earlier this week.

The approximately 10,000 square foot facility, to be named the Carolina Smokehouse, will open in July 2021, said the company. It plans to continue operating in its current facility that will eventually be turned into innovation space.

The company anticipates that it could produce 800,000 pounds of Barveque products as it scales up to meet surging demand.

“As we grow to keep up with demand for Barvecue products, we decided that it was time to expand production and lead the way in the plant-based barbecue market,” said Barveque founder and CEO Lee Cooper.

Well, good for them, expanding in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. Not many businesses can say that. It’s still a crime against barbecue, calling it barbecue. Not many things truly Offend me, but, this might get there

According to Future Marketing Insights (FMI), the global market for plant-based pork is projected to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent between 2020 and 2030.

There’s no such thing as plant-based pork. It’s not pork. It’s plant. It’s nothing like pork. And it darned sure ain’t barbecue. Heck, barbecue is not a verb down South, it is a noun. Period. You do not go out and barbecue. You go cook some barbecue. You smoke it. As a verb, you grill out. If you try and serve me this fake stuff, I will be Triggered. I’m going to go work my aggression and sadness off at the gym.

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Surprise: Higher Frequency Of Tropical Systems Due To Better Observation, Not Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 18, 2021 – 8:30 am

Who would have seen this coming? Somebody is going to have to do some serious walking back of reality once the Cult of Climastrology starts coming after him (via Watts Up With That?)

Should the hurricane season begin earlier?

The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on 1 June. But over the past six years, significant storms have been forming earlier than this. So does the hurricane season need to start earlier – and is climate change to blame?

At a regional meeting of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week, meteorologists and officials will be discussing a possible change to how the hurricane season is defined.

“The 2020 hurricane season was one of the most challenging in the 40-year history of [the] WMO’s Tropical Cyclone Programme,” says WMO Secretary-General Prof Petteri Taalas.

“The record number of hurricanes combined with Covid-19 to create, literally, the perfect storm.”

The hurricane season has officially started on the 1 June since the mid-1960s, when hurricane reconnaissance planes would start routine trips into the Atlantic to spot storm development.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, though, named storms have formed prior to the official start about 50% of the time.

Must be due to you eating lots of burgers and taking fossil fueled trips

And the way they are defined and observed has changed significantly over time.

“Many of these storms are short-lived systems that are now being identified because of better monitoring and policy changes that now name sub-tropical storms,” Dennis Feltgen, meteorologist at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) told BBC Weather.

Certainly, even 20 years ago, there were not as many ways to identify systems. Going back 50 years? Way, way less. Before the late 70’s most were identified by ships and planes, not satellites, which have become better and better.

Is climate change playing a role?
The number of named storms has increased over the decades, but there is no real evidence this is the result of a warming world.

Dr McNoldy notes “the big shift in counts is simply that there were several inactive seasons from 1981-1990 and several active seasons from 2011-2020”.

“Once that inactive period drops out of the average, and is replaced by the active, it will increase the numbers”

The overall increase from 1961 is also likely to be due to better technology, along with observations over the Atlantic Ocean.

Since satellites came along in the 1980s, we can spot and monitor the development of tropical cyclones and name them when they meet the threshold.

We are simply able to record more.

I’m sure the climate cultists will find a way to say this is all bunk and your fault.

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Almost Half U.S. States Sue Biden For Revoking Keystone Pipeline

By William Teach March 18, 2021 – 8:18 am

During the Trump era, Democrats sued Trump for doing things that were pro-America, and because they had Trump Derangement Syndrome. During the China Joe era, Republicans are suing Biden as he does things bad for Americans

21 states sue Biden for revoking Keystone XL permit

Biden Brain SlugA coalition of states with Republican attorneys general sued President Biden on Wednesday over his decision to revoke a key permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The lawsuit from 21 states, led by Texas and Montana, argues that revoking the cross-border permit is a “regulation of interstate and international commerce” that should be left to Congress and that Biden’s move was an overreach.

The Republican attorneys general also argued that the decision was arbitrary and capricious.

Some of the states represented in the lawsuit have Democratic governors, including Kentucky and Kansas, though all of them have Republican attorneys general.

“Cabinet Defendants’ actions … have the possibility of depriving States and local governments of millions of dollars in revenues. Yet, far from providing a reasoned explanation for why they are taking their actions, they have not provided any reason at all,” the suit states.

Let’s not forget that even Obama’s State Department found that the pipeline was safe, and much better than transporting fossil fuels over long stretches of road and rail. But, Keystone XL caused butthurt in enviroweenies, becoming their Main Cause, so, Biden has tried to end it. Which means, get this, Canada will send the oil to their west coast and on to China.

In a statement on the lawsuit, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) called Biden’s cancellation of the permit “an empty virtue signal to his wealthy coastal elite donors.”

“The power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce belongs to Congress – not the President. This is another example of Joe Biden overstepping his constitutional role to the detriment of Montanans,” he added.

Joe doesn’t care about the loss of jobs, nor the rising cost of fuel and energy. His is paid for, plus, he got plenty rich via his government jobs. I suspect Joe, well, really his advisors, will create plenty more opportunities for lawsuits going forward.

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Climahysteric John Kerry, Who Was In Vietnam, Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flight

By William Teach March 17, 2021 – 6:44 pm

If you don’t get the Vietnam thing, an old joke from 2004. Regardless

Well, at least he’s not flying his even more world killing private jet, right? Some are trying to defend him saying he took it off to take a drink. Not sure about you, but, I just drop it down a bit to take a sip, especially when I flew to Newark over Christmas. When I’m at work indoors. At the gym. I don’t take it off. And, if it was just a sip, where’s the bottle? Why is he reading? Why did the American Airlines crew not say something?

https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/1372292506264682505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1372292506264682505%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2021%2F03%2F17%2Famerican-airlines-says-theyre-looking-into-this-photo-of-maskless-first-class-passenger-john-kerry%2F

Who wants to bet nothing happens? Further, that looks like first class: think the average government worker would be given permission to fly first class? Or did Kerry pay for the entire ticket himself (yeah, right)? Anyhow, just another climahypocrite. He could have taken the train from Boston to DC.

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