He’s not a leader. Not a chief. Not a manager. Not even a supervisor. He’s just a parrot, and an abysmal one at that.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/...2/loose-ends-145.php

The Wall Street Journal reports today on how the Biden Administration is holding quiet meetings with American oil companies asking them to . . . increase production of oil and gas. This—after canceling the Keystone Pipeline, closing off federal oil and gas leasing, revoking existing permits on public land, and pressuring the financial sector to choke off capital to oil and gas:

"The relationship between the White House and U.S. oil companies has sunk to a new low at a moment when President Biden needs the industry most.

Oil company executives have become openly frustrated with a Biden administration that spent months shunning the industry, only to start urging in recent weeks that it produce more oil to alleviate rising gasoline prices.

In closed-door meetings with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm over recent weeks, oil executives have made few promises about raising output, say people familiar with the matter, and explained that it may be months before higher oil prices lead to resurgent U.S. production."

"It’s important for the American oil-and-gas industry to address near-term energy demands while also recognizing that they need to begin transitioning their companies,” said Energy Department spokesman David Mayorga.

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It's hard to describe how fucked up our country is because of biden and the DEMs


oh, did you know who will really benefit from going to electric cars ? China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/1...gSource=articleShare

China has 14 times the electric car battery-making capacity of the United States

Chinese company CATL is building a vast factory more than three times the size of Tesla and Panasonic’s electric car battery gigafactory in the Nevada desert.
CATL holds one-third of the global electric-car-battery market

Chinese batteries. I remember issues with laptop and phone batteries. And still a hassle to transport and take on planes.

So yes, by all means, let’s make Chinese batteries ubiquitous in cars so that they can burn our houses down. Good times ahead.

WH song message "We need a little Christmas"

video at

https://twitter.com/townhallco.../1474049649220763652

CTH comment:

You can look at this as the immediate knee-jerk reaction to the white house realizing the "winter of death" narrative was received with ridicule. So they swing the pendulum in the other direction, and end up with both approaches looking stupid.


adding. The Northwell Health choir is a real thing and they sound good. Too bad the WH didn't go just w them and not "winter of death"

https://www.northwell.edu/choir

They sound muffled.
However the black masks fit the season of the winter of death well.
No mask for thee elitist.

Please do read this:


https://www.americanthinker.co...ere_be_monsters.html

NY Times: Kamala Harris gripes her media coverage would be better if she was White man

Hillary Clinton: 'There is a double standard' for women

Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly expressing discontent with the news coverage surrounding her performance as the nation's second-highest office holder, citing her race and gender.

According to a piece by The New York Times, Harris has been privately complaining to her allies that the media's coverage of her would be better if she were any of her 48 White male predecessors, and has reportedly confided in them about the difficulties she's facing with her assigned portfolio from the White House.
The Times' piece, which focused on Harris' struggle to "define herself" within the Biden White House, noted that she held no "headlining role" when it came to some of the administration's most difficult decisions and that she was caught between criticism that she wasn't performing the job well and resentment from supporters that she was being "undercut" by the West Wing.

The Times noted Harris' historically low approval rating and that a number of high profile staff members opted to depart their jobs less than a year into Harris' term. It also reported she was reaching out to prominent figures like Hillary Clinton to help determine her future direction.

Ms. Harris has privately told her allies that the news coverage of her would be different if she were any of her 48 predecessors, all of whom were white and male," it added. "She also has confided in them about the difficulties she is facing with the intractable issues in her portfolio, such as voting rights and the root causes of migration."

The Times reported that the White House was pushing back on criticism of Harris and quoted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who claimed Harris' assigned tasks were "incredibly demanding" and suggested she wasn't actually taking credit for her accomplishments.

Some have suggested Harris and Buttigieg are rivals gearing up for a face-off in the 2024 presidential election should Biden decide not ro run. Biden, who turned 79 last month and is the oldest president in history, told ABC News on Wednesday that he would seek re-election if he was healthy.

The Times also expanded on the counsel Clinton gave Harris about being in her position as a woman in politics.

"There is a double standard; it’s sadly alive and well," Clinton said. "A lot of what is being used to judge her, just like it was to judge me, or the women who ran in 2020, or everybody else, is really colored by that."

Clinton has complained on a number of occasions that sexism and misogyny were the reasons she lost the 2016 presidential election to former President Trump.

The Times added that the two speak over the phone every few months and Clinton has visited Harris in her office.

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., also defended Harris to The Times, claiming there was a double standard that went further than Harris' gender.

"I know, and we all knew, that she would have a difficult time because anytime you’re a ‘first,’ you do,’" Bass said. "And to be the first woman vice president, to be the first Black, Asian woman, that’s a triple. So we knew it was going to be rough, but it has been relentless, and I think extremely unfair."

Bass added that she thought Harris was already the front-runner to be the next Democratic presidential nominee, despite it not being immediately clear if Biden planned to run for reelection in 2024.

PLAYING THE RACE CARD IS OLD
Here is the link: https://www.foxnews.com/media/...age-better-white-man

Meh. The American thinker seems to prepare articles about as well as MSDNC.

Got to admit, they didn’t miss a single hit button topic to say nothing about.

https://thefederalist.com/2021...at-california-ports/

Joe Biden, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and other Democrats are hiding, not fixing , congestion at California’s ports.

the problem is worsening

At recent press conferences, Biden administration and California officials bragged about a 37 percent drop in the number of containers stacked more than eight days on land at Los Angeles and Long Beach; a 20 percent reduction in the number of container ships spending more than nine days at the docks; and a more than 40 percent drop in the number of ships waiting within 40 miles of both ports.

The whole truth is: The container pile-up has moved elsewhere and increased. Ships wait longer to berth. The ship queue has moved farther offshore.

Even more containers wait offshore. They sit on a Los Angeles and Long Beach ship queue that increased 30 percent between late October and early December.

the 150,000 additional floating containers wait longer, as do all other floating containers. Wait times more than doubled between mid-October and early December, from about 11 days towards 24 days.

The number of ships waiting within 40 miles of Los Angeles and Long Beach declined because most now wait more than 40 miles away. As of early December, 34 were within 40 miles while 62 were farther away.

Scattering waiting ships across the Pacific Ocean eliminates the aerial photos that embarrassed President Biden, Buttigieg, California Democrats, bureaucrats, and others. However, scattering vessels did not shorten the ship queue. The queue set another record high in early December.

Borrowed from a comment posted at the Treehouse (H/T Ausonius). Follow the link below to read the entire message.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has arisen as a Gray Champion in our Fourth Turning*: allow me to offer salient excerpts from his Christmas Message to The American People.

He courageously exposes the global conspiracy to control us through fear, technology, and gullibility as exactly that: a global conspiracy!

I hope the excerpts lead you to reading the entire message: it will be worth your time!

Message for American People - Archbishop Vigano - December 18 - 2021

“DEAR AMERICAN PEOPLE, DEAR FRIENDS, for two years now, a global coup
has been carried out all over the world, planned for some time by an elite
group of conspirators enslaved to the interests of international high
finance.

This coup was made possible by an emergency pandemic that is based on the premise of a virus that has a mortality rate almost analogous to that of any other seasonal flu virus, on the delegitimization and prohibition of effective treatments, and on the distribution of an experimental gene serum which is obviously ineffective, and which also clearly carries with it the danger of serious and even lethal
side effects.

We all know how much the mainstream media has contributed to
supporting the insane pandemic narrative…

…(It is) part of a criminal plan hatched by the World Economic Forum, the UN, the WHO, and a galaxy of organizations and foundations that are ideologically characterized as clearly anti-human and – this needs to be said clearly – anti-Christian.

One of the elements that unequivocally confirms the criminal nature of the Great Reset is the perfect synchrony with which all the different Nations are acting, demonstrating the existence of a single script under a single direction. …

…Political and religious leaders, representatives of the people, scientists and doctors, journalists and those who work in the media have literally betrayed their people, their laws, their Constitutions, and the most basic ethical principles.

The electoral fraud of the 2020 presidential election against President Trump has shown itself to be organic to this global operation, because in order to impose illegitimate restrictions in violation of the principles of law it was necessary to be able to make use of an American President (i.e. Biden, The Manchurian Marionette) who would support the psycho-pandemic and support its narrative…

…The Democratic Party, part of the deep state, is carrying out its task as an accomplice of the system…

…How have we come to be consideredenemies by those who govern us, not in support of the common good, but rather tofeed a hellish machine of death and slavery?…

…The answer is now clear: throughout the world, in the name of a perverted concept of freedom, we have progressively erased God from society and laws. We have denied that there is an eternal and transcendent principle, valid for all men of all times, to which the laws of States must conform. …

…we have allowed the Law of God and the law of nature to be violated, legitimizing the killing of children in the womb, even up to the very moment of birth; the killing of the sick and the elderly in hospital wards; the destruction of the natural family and of Marriage…

…These natural moral principles of the Greco-Roman world found their fulfillment in Christianity, which built Western civilization by giving them a supernatural impetus.

Christianity is the strongest defense against injustice, the strongest garrison against the oppression of the powerful over the weak, the violent over the peaceful, and the wicked over the good, because Christian morality makes each of us accountable to God and our neighbor for our actions, both as citizens and as rulers….

…The Son of God, whose Birth we will celebrate in a few days, became Incarnate in time and in history in order to heal an ancient wound, and to restore by Grace the order broken by disobedience. …

…Dear American brothers and sisters! Dear Patriots! this is a crucial moment for the future of the United States of America and of the whole of humanity.

But the pandemic emergency, the farce of global warming and the green economy, and the economic crisis deliberately induced by the Great Reset with the complicity of the deep state, are all only the consequence of a much more serious problem, and it is essential to understand it in depth if we want to defeat it. This problem is essentially moral; indeed, it is religious.

We must put God back in the first place not only in our personal lives, but also in the life of our society. …

…Yours must therefore be a work of truth, bringing to light the lies and deceptions of the New World Order and their anti-human and antichristic matrix….”

See:

https://theamericanreport.org/...the-american-people/

For an excellent summary of the interpretation of History William Strauss and Neil Howe as a cycle of the mass psychologies of the generations, see:

https://archivesmb.wordpress.c...-the-fourth-turning/

quote:

NY Times: Kamala Harris gripes her media coverage would be better if she was White man

But she only got the nomination by being a “black woman.” Quite the conundrum! I think she should pull a reverse Dolezal, who are we to question her race or gender identity?

quote:

Originally posted by Strambo:

quote:

NY Times: Kamala Harris gripes her media coverage would be better if she was White man

But she only got the nomination by being a “black woman.” Quite the conundrum! I think she should pull a reverse Dolezal, who are we to question her race or gender identity?

I don't think Mike Pence got that much press/face time. But then again, Mike Pence actually DID something useful while V.P., instead of just laugh and cackle like a friggin' hyena. Just sayin'...

Hmmm. I think she should google Dan Quayle. The press didnt cut him any slack and he was quite white and male.

Someone should ask Harris if she knows how to spell potato, or maybe POTATUS...

During a call where Jill & Joe spoke to kids calling into NORAD, a father throws in a “Let’s go Brandon” and Joe agrees.



President Biden got a visit from a Christmas troll Friday when a father participating in the annual White House NORAD Santa-tracking call used the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” the slangy stand-in for “F— Joe Biden.”

The dad, identified only as Jared from Oregon, wished the president and first lady Jill Biden a merry Christmas before adding the anti-Biden phrase at the end of his family’s portion of the call.

“Merry Christmas and let’s go Brandon,” the father said as he signed off.

“Let’s go Brandon, I agree,” Biden said without missing a beat.

It was unclear from Biden’s reaction if he knew what the phrase meant.

Link

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Originally posted by sdy:
WH song message "We need a little Christmas"

video at

https://twitter.com/townhallco.../1474049649220763652

CTH comment:

You can look at this as the immediate knee-jerk reaction to the white house realizing the "winter of death" narrative was received with ridicule. So they swing the pendulum in the other direction, and end up with both approaches looking stupid.


adding. The Northwell Health choir is a real thing and they sound good. Too bad the WH didn't go just w them and not "winter of death"

https://www.northwell.edu/choir

Maybe its just me, but I think it in incredibly bad taste and tone deafness to have dancing nurses 'performing' for you when hundreds if not thousands of nurses have been fired or are on the chopping block to be fired. Regardless, I still have nothing but contempt and disgust for this administration and president.

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Maybe its just me, but I think it in incredibly bad taste and tone deafness to have dancing nurses 'performing' for you when hundreds if not thousands of nurses have been fired or are on the chopping block to be fired. Regardless, I still have nothing but contempt and disgust for this administration and president.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I agree. But don't touch the race issue! This dope and his stupid sidekick don't have a clue. BTW did Hunter have some of his artwork on display?

Holy mashed taters for brains!

quote:

Originally posted by konata88:
He’s not a leader. Not a chief. Not a manager. Not even a supervisor. He’s just a parrot, and an abysmal one at that.

Be careful there konata88.

Mars_Attacks or Screaming Cockatoo might take exception to your disparaging remark about parrots.