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Seriously, can you believe how low this administration has dragged this country in just over one year? It is now the Berlin airlift to get baby formula to starving infants in the most powerful country to ever exist. Incredible.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/...campaign=android_nyp

And worst of all, this won't solve anything because 1) Europe can't produce enough formula for themselves and the US, and 2) this doesn't fix anything related to the problem(s) that created this (i.e. getting US production back online). Again, we are being ruled over by complete retards.

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How much more do we have to witness before this buffoon is impeached. These career politicians know the deal. Do your job!

Just a couple more years unless you want the second in command idiot in charge.

Yes please. Bring on the stammering pole smoker. Let's work through them one at a time and show the entire world how asininely stupid and incompetent these people are. Biden or Harris, no difference in my book given neither of them are or would be in charge anyway.

If this passes the Senate companies will just stop selling products instead of losing money. Prices will stay high and there will be more shortages. Then what, rationing?

The Republicans should give the Democrats a win on this one and then sit back and watch the train wreck and the Democrat implosion. Remember the Big Guy in charge and his party will be the ones people think about when they pull that voting lever. The Democrats are trying to shift the blame of high prices to Republicans who they will say (untruthfully) sided with the oil companies to keep prices high. They never expect it to pass the Senate, they just want to blame the Republicans. Let's give this to the Democrats to own. Beat them at their own game for once. Maybe then enough people will wake up to the fact that their policies are unsustainable and they are leading us to ruination. Hopefully before they actually take us beyond the brink of disaster.

"Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself"


House Passes Fuel Price-Gouging Measure
Republican concerns over price controls echoed by prominent economists

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...m_campaign=ZeroHedge

The House of Representatives passed the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act by a vote of 217–207 on May 19, moving the country closer to greater government involvement in energy markets as gasoline prices soar to new heights.

The legislation, H.R. 7688, would allow President Joe Biden to declare an “energy emergency.”

Such an emergency would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to target people who sell fuel at a price that’s judged to be “unconscionably excessive” or that “indicates the seller is exploiting the circumstances related to an energy emergency to increase prices unreasonably.”

That presidential emergency proclamation would last 30 days, but could be renewed indefinitely “as the president deems appropriate.”

The measure would also prioritize FTC enforcement actions against firms with $500 million or more in annual wholesale or retail consumer fuel sales.

While 217 Democrats voted for the legislation, 203 Republicans and four Democrats voted against it.

During the debate, Democrats and Republicans clashed over the causes of record-high gasoline prices.

While Republicans emphasized new regulations and decisions against domestic energy under the Biden administration, Democrats pointed out that record-breaking energy prices have been accompanied by billions of dollars in profit for oil and gas firms.

“Our residents are so fed up with corporate greed,” said Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a supporter of the measure.

Tlaib spoke in front of a large poster that listed the 2021 profits of various large oil companies, including Shell and Chevron.

Republican John Joyce (R-Pa.) stood beside a poster that illustrated the long lines of cars at gas stations during the 1970s, when the United States implemented price controls in an attempt to deal with rising gas prices caused by OPEC’s oil embargo.

The poster was labeled “Socialist Price Fixing.”

“Instead of creating price controls that would lead to less production and massive gas shortages, we need to rely on the energy that lies beneath the feet of my constituents in Pennsylvania,” Joyce said.

Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) ran through a laundry list of Biden administration actions that he said contributed to the rise in gas prices. These included the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate-related disclosure proposal.

As Armstrong noted, the Biden administration already pushed the FTC to investigate rising gas prices late last year.

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said House Republicans were mischaracterizing the scope of the legislation.

“We’re not giving the FTC the authority to set the price.”

Yet the legislation itself defines violations in terms of “unconscionably excessive” prices, raising questions about how the benchmark for such a judgment would be set and by whom.

Pallone also claimed that “the problem is oil companies don’t want to increase production.”

“You cannot ask oil and gas companies, particularly onshore companies, to increase production when the infrastructure doesn’t exist to get that product to market,” Armstrong said during his own testimony, citing the Duke pipeline and other pipeline projects that have been scuttled in recent years.

Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) attempted to recommit the measure to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, addressing concerns raised by that committee’s ranking member, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). His motion failed by a vote of 220–201.

The House also passed two amendments to the legislation.

The first, introduced by Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), would mandate an FTC investigation into alleged price gouging, including through cuts to refinery capacity. It passed by a 217–205 vote.

The second, introduced by Chris Pappas (D-N.H.), creates a new FTC unit to monitor fuel markets. It passed by a vote of 214–207.

The Sierra Club, an environmental organization aligned with the Democratic Party, praised the measure on social media, tagging their Twitter post with the hashtag #blamebigoil.



Tim Stewart, president of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association, said the legislation’s language is vague, setting a troubling precedent.

“The poorly written bill gives the president discretion to declare that gasoline or diesel fuel is ‘unconscionably excessive’ and to determine if your neighborhood gas station is guilty of exploiting an ‘energy emergency,’” Stewart told The Epoch Times. “None of these terms are defined, so they can mean whatever the president says, and these price controls can be continued indefinitely.

“This should set off alarm bells across all industries and markets, because while today might the price of gasoline … tomorrow’s ‘unconscionably excessive’ pricing might apply to anything from the price of wheat to health care to airfare to housing.”

Prominent Democratic economists, including Harvard professor Larry Summers and former Obama administration economist Jason Furman, have also voiced concerns about the legislation, with Furman describing it as “dangerous misguided nonsense” on Twitter.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) didn’t respond to requests for comment by press time regarding how they intend to vote on any Senate version of the legislation.

Hmmm, Venezuela anyone?

Nothing will piss off Americans more than having to sit in line 3-4 hours for gasoline and then pay 6-10 dollars per gallon for the privilege. Let the Democrats own it.

“Democrats pointed out that record-breaking energy prices have been accompanied by billions of dollars in profit for oil and gas firms.”
Would these be the same democRATs that profited from the Plandemic by chance? Or just the ones that take part in legalized insider trading for representatives? Hypocrites.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Hmmm, Venezuela anyone?

We are they!



Have had empathy for those poor folks for a long time... they did not vote this in. It was a color revolution just like we've had here.

They need to go full retard and go after our retirement accounts

I'm sure we won't take that lying down like the Venezuelans did

Biden goes to South Korea and makes a fool of himself coming off Air Force 1 wearing a mask, and immediately removes it when he has human contact.

https://hotair.com/karen-towns...ications-job-n470831

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby is being moved into the White House

article questions whether this is to possibly lead to replace or supplement Karine Jean-Pierre

The person that allowed her to be a spokesperson has embarrassed blacks.

Was it done on purpose? Even though I dislike Obozo, I can’t imagine him being this stupid to approve this fiasco. I’m thrilled it’s an embarrassment to the “big guy”. He’s a bum.

The most awkward public speaker in the galaxy.

"He he yes, cla- let's clap for that!! he he yeah clap!!"

Did The Biden Administration Just Give A Boost To The Hunter Biden Defense?

https://jonathanturley.org/202...unter-biden-defense/

The Justice Department this week sued former casino mogul Steve Wynn for allegedly working as an agent for China. The lawsuit under the Foreign Agents Registration Act is bad news for Wynn, but it may be a win for another potential target: Hunter Biden.

By bringing this action as a civil lawsuit, the Justice Department may have undercut the ongoing investigation by David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, into Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings. This civil suit doesn’t necessarily bar Weiss, but Biden’s team can now argue that criminally charging him with a FARA violation would be inconsistent with contemporary investigations.

I recently testified in Congress on FARA prosecutions and noted that the Justice Department had largely dropped civil actions under the act in favor of criminal charges. Special counsel Robert Mueller targeted various Trump officials with FARA, using the law to investigate, search or charge attorneys from Paul Manafort to Rudy Giuliani to Victoria Toensing.

I testified earlier that “after ramping up prosecutions in the last decade, the Justice Department has created precedent for the criminalization of what were previously treated as administrative violations. From Paul Manafort to the current investigation of Hunter Biden, there remain questions as to whether Justice Department will operate under a single, coherent and predictable standard.”

Some in the administration may be hoping that this charge will compel a consistent approach that would effectively decriminalize any violations under investigation in Delaware.

The feds sued Wynn over his effort to intervene in the case of Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, a billionaire real-estate magnate and critic of the Chinese government. Beijing wanted the businessman back in China and hoped to persuade the US government to deny him a visa.

Wynn spoke to President Donald Trump about the case, a call that carried added weight due to Wynn’s position as the Republican National Committee’s finance chairman.

Wynn has interests in Macau, and his intervention was allegedly appreciated by high-ranking Chinese officials. The Justice Department asked Wynn to register as an agent, but he declined.

What is most striking about this case is how serious it is, particularly compared with past criminal cases like the prosecution of Paul Manafort. Here, Sun Lijun, then the Chinese vice minister for public security, was allegedly organizing the lobbying effort in 2017 and contacted figures like Elliott Broidy, a former RNC finance chairman, and Nickie Lum Davis, a top Trump fundraiser. Both Broidy and Davis later pleaded guilty in prosecutions.

The question is why Broidy was criminally prosecuted in 2020 under FARA, including for work on the Guo matter, yet the Biden administration suddenly decided that the Wynn part of the deals should be treated as a civil matter. This is coming at the very time a grand jury is reportedly considering charges against Hunter Biden that could include FARA violations.

Wynn not only allegedly acted at the request of Chinese officials but was able to make direct contact with Trump to lobby him on the issue. He had no apparent interest in Guo, who would face a dire future if deported to China. But he had major financial interests in China, and the investigation yielded other criminal charges.

A huge high-profile case like Wynn’s is not simply left to local prosecutors. Main Justice is often involved in such investigations and charging decisions. Other agencies can also be involved.

The decision to depart from the earlier cases and proceed civilly could not come at a better time for Hunter Biden. If the Justice Department applied the same approach used in the Paul Manafort case, Biden would be looking at the serious prospect of a felony charge.

Biden discussed the possible need to register in light of his extensive work on behalf of foreign interests in what many view as blatant influence peddling. This work happened during the same period as the Wynn work. In 2017, Biden texted his business associate Tony Bobulinski: “No matter what it will need to be a U.S. company at some level in order for us to make bids on federal and state-funded projects. Also we don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act] which is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know. James [Biden] has very particular opinions about this so I would ask him about the foreign entity.”

There was ample reason to worry given the wide array of foreign clients and their interest in using Hunter’s access and influence. The president’s son was working with CEFC, a Chinese Communist Party-linked company led by Ye Jianming. The Justice Department criminally charged one of Ye’s associates, Patrick Ho, in 2017 under the FCPA. The first call he reportedly made after his arrest was to James Biden, who said that he was trying to reach his nephew, Hunter.

Hunter worked on a joint venture between an entity called Sinohawk and CEFC. He had extensive dealings with Chinese figures as well as officials in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries. Emails referred to meetings with his father, then vice president. In 2014, he wrote to former business partner Devon Archer about an upcoming trip to Ukraine by “my guy” — his dad. He noted that it should “be characterized as part of our advice and thinking — but what he will say and do is out of our hands.” (Archer would later be criminally convicted of fraud in a separate matter).

Hunter Biden arranged meetings between his father and Ukrainian and foreign clients. He also continued to express his concerns over registration laws, noting that executives at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma “need to know in no uncertain terms that we will not and cannot intervene directly with domestic policymakers, and that we need to abide by FARA and any other U.S. laws in the strictest sense across the board.”

He never, however, registered. Like Wynn, he maintained that his work for foreign interests stayed short of the FARA line despite the broad interpretation the Justice Department gave in past criminal cases. Compared with those other cases, Hunter Biden seems well over the line. In United States v. Chaudhry, a US resident pleaded guilty under FARA for efforts to influence various US think tanks’ views on US-Pakistani relations.

Now the Justice Department has departed from years of criminal charges in favor of civil charges. Many of us have questioned the need for criminalization of these charges and the broad sweep of FARA. But the timing of the Biden administration’s sudden change could not have come at a more opportune time for the president’s son.

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You know your regime is in trouble when CNN...CNN!!! is openly questioning your administration official on live TV:

"How do we get to the point where the United States of America has to airlift baby formula from another country in order to feed its children?"

not the first time biden has said this

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-gas-prices-n2607670

Biden touted an alternative energy "transition" as gas prices continue to wreak havoc on American families and the broader U.S. economy.


Biden:

"Here's the situation. And when it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it's over, we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,"

DEMs force oil prices up, and subsidize "alternative" energy

Two weeks ago, the Biden Administration halted oil and gas leasing on more than one millions acres in Alaska and the Gulf Mexico. Today, Biden touted asking OPEC to pump more oil while claiming his focus is on bolstering the U.S. economy.

^^^Absolute proof for the doubters that high gas prices are intentional right there.

Secretary Granholm should be charged with perjury. Lying bitch.