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is he in contention for worst modern day president or all time?

Full steam ahead, it makes no sense why

He already is.

Even Carter had a Nuclear Engineering degree, served in the Navy, was a Governor, and was actually pretty honest. Misguided and weak, but I don't think he lied nearly as much or was as clueless or fundamentally corrupt.

Biden is wrong, and stupid, and angry, and stubborn, and meaner than Trump ever was. Biden is mean to anyone who answers a real question - even citizens at public events, and especially conservative news reporters. Trump was more like a comedian poking fun at hecklers, and generally his targets deserved it.

Calling whiter than white Liz Warren Pocahontas for her false claims to be Native American that benefitted her career was hilarious. She is guilty of ethnic appropriation yet the left hasn't shunned her. Probably because Native Americans don't have mouthpieces like Al Sharpton.

Biden is truly the Manchurian Candidate. He and his family are owned by China. I'm sure they have dirt a mile deep on Hunter - probably compromised him with underage girls and drugs when he was in China, not to mention all the bribes intended for Joe.

And don't forget Harris is the worst VP ever. She isn't even a passable politician at all and can't even sound convincing in any speech. She is the living embodiment of Julia Louis-Drefus' "VEEP" character.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

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is he in contention for worst modern day president or all time?

Full steam ahead, it makes no sense why

Not according to the libs, socialist and other varieties of Democrats in Blue States, he’s great and this horrible economy is guess who’s fault?

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And the 9 mm comment? Guys his age tend to idolize the .45 ACP and say the 9 mm is weak. But then, he probably failed math. Damn those fractions!

Another 9mm vs. .45 ACP thread?

Biden's Energy Inflation Is No Accident
By Jerome Corsi

In a press conference last week following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Japan, President Biden praised the escalating price of gasoline as a positive step toward realizing the Democratic Party’s dream of enacting the Green New Deal.

“[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it is over, we will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden said. Biden followed these comments by giving lip service to the millions of Americans forced to spend an increasing percentage of their disposable income on putting gasoline in their vehicles.

According to a study recently by economist Dr. Edward Yardeni, American families are now paying what amounts to $5,000 per year to put gasoline in their automobiles, a painful increase from just $2,800 a year ago.

In late May, the average gallon of gasoline in the U.S. hit a record high of $4.59, about 51 percent more than a year ago. By contrast, the price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline on January 20, 2021, the day President Biden took the oath of office, was $2.38/gallon.

Californians are now paying $6.00 for a gallon of gas, a level the rest of the United States may soon experience. “With expectations of strong driving demand in the summer months, the U.S. retail price could surge another 37 percent by August, to a national average of $6.20/gallon,” predicts Natasha Kaneva, the head of commodities research at JP Morgan.

On May 27, 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) reported that the price of Brent crude oil (the world standard) had risen to $119.81/barrel. By comparison, the cost of Brent crude oil averaged $41.96/barrel in 2020, the last year of the Trump administration.

Natural gas prices in the United States have nearly tripled in the last year amid increasing supply fears. In late May, natural gas prices in the U.S. surpassed the $9.00 per million BTU (British Thermal Units), the highest price since the 2008 recession. “There’s almost no ceiling for natural gas,” Kent Bayazitoglu explained. “You can reduce your driving a lot easier than you can reduce your natural gas consumption.

At the end of May, more than a million households in New York City metropolitan area were 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an average of $1,427.71 in debt and shut-offs increasing. Middle-class Americans are experiencing the brunt of the current inflation spike. “For the middle class, a larger share of their budget goes toward gasoline,” explained Peter Mueser, a chancellor’s professor at the University of Missouri who studies labor economics.

“It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns,” President Biden said in his 2021 State of the Union speech. But with the cost of gasoline rapidly edging toward $6.00/gallon, many Americans are questioning whether driving to work is worth the increased marginal impact rising gasoline costs have on their relatively fixed disposable income.

Biden’s statement in Japan refused to acknowledge that his administration bears a significant causal link to increased energy prices in the United States and worldwide. The Biden administration has made a series of decisions reversing Trump administration energy policies by shutting down the Keystone pipeline and canceling offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

The Biden administration is developing into a sad repeat of the Carter administration’s economic policies, as evidenced by a redux of the 1979 stagflation that brought the type of double-digit inflation and stagnant economic growth we are again seeing today. Ethanol was the rage during Carter’s 1973 OPEC oil embargo crisis. With President Carter entirely onboard with the peak oil crowd, his administration championed ethanol as the way America would achieve energy independence. In sharp contrast, under President Trump’s strong support for hydrocarbon fuels, the United States defied all peak oil predictions, becoming a net exporter of oil and a world leader in oil and natural gas production.

On August 20, 2019, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, announced that the United States established new production records, with U.S. petroleum and natural gas production increasing in 2018 by 16 percent and 12 percent, respectively. The EIA further announced that the United States surpassed Russia in 2011 to become the world’s largest natural gas producer and surpassed Saudi Arabia in 2018 to become the world’s largest petroleum producer. The EIA report noted that the 2018 increase in the United States, which boomed under the Trump administration, constituted “one of the largest absolute petroleum and natural gas production increases from a single country in history.”

In his recently published 2022 book Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less, energy expert Alan Epstein points out that the “secret sauce” behind the exceptional cost-effectiveness of fossil fuels is “generations of economic innovation and achievement specifically applied to the remarkable attributes of fossil fuels: natural storage, natural concentration, and natural abundance.” 1/

Suppose we had a battery the size of a flashlight battery that could store enough solar energy to light a city. If solar technology that powerful existed, the entire world would drop hydrocarbon fuels instantly to switch to these new, powerful solar batteries.

Suppose we had a wind energy storage device equally as powerful. Suppose ten wind turbines placed a few miles outside a metropolitan area could provide all the electricity that the city and suburbs needed for a week, whether or not the wind blew. Again, a mighty wind energy capacity would dislodge hydrocarbon fuels from their current position as the world’s preferred energy choice.

The physics of solar and wind power, however, limit their usefulness. The sun does not shine in the sky at night, and the equinox, two times each year, marks the point where a day lasts for twelve hours and night occurs for twelve hours in both the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres. As with every other component of Earth’s weather and climate systems, the wind is also variable.

Wind and solar devices capture no energy when the wind does not blow, and the sun does not shine. Current technology for generating and storing solar and wind energy is limited. Installing solar and wind energy collection devices requires enormous facilities that use up vast territory.

The cost of providing sufficient backup or storage to run a stable electric grid from wind or solar power could multiply the cost of generating electricity by a factor of five or more, given the problem of intermittency. Intermittency is an inherent problem of wind and solar power. The generation of wind and solar power energy fluctuates wildly between day and night because of seasonal variations and weather events. While wind and solar technologies are advancing, the ability to create a mighty wind or solar battery the size of a flashlight battery is nowhere on the horizon. Today, solar and wind power lack the scalability to provide reliably operating, utility-scale electricity generation able to supply energy 24/7 for large metropolitan areas globally.

While the Biden administration is determined to impose the Green New Deal on Americans through a series of executive decisions and regulatory actions aimed at constraining the supply of hydrocarbon fuels, the inescapable conclusion is that double-digit inflation that includes prohibitively escalating energy costs is political suicide. Jimmy Carter’s failure to end stagflation ushered in the era of Paul Volker and dramatically increased interest rates, setting the stage for the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

“Woke” Democrats controlling the White House and the House of Representatives are repeating Carter’s mistake. Biden in the White House and Pelosi in the House risk retaining political power in their blind determination to pursue a radically green ideology founded more on their anti-capitalist sentiments than on the complex empirical realities of energy physics and economics.

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

a real favorite DEM trick

use our tax dollars to buy votes

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ian-college-students

The Biden administration says it will cancel federal student loans for some 560,000 borrowers who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain.

Under the new action, hundreds of thousands of students who attended the now-defunct chain will receive $5.8 billion in full loan discharges – the largest of its kind in the Department of Eduction's history.

"As of today, every student deceived, defrauded and driven into debt by Corinthian Colleges can rest assured that the Biden-Harris Administration has their back and will discharge their federal student loans," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. "For far too long, Corinthian engaged in the wholesale financial exploitation of students, misleading them into taking on more and more debt to pay for promises they would never keep."

Those who have a remaining balance on their debt will also get refunds on payments they have already made, Education Department officials said.

Students who have paid off their school loans will not be eligible.

At its peak, Corinthian was one of the nation's largest for-profit college companies, with more than 110,000 at 100 campuses across the country.

Awwww…the puppet is upset that no one takes him seriously and they have to clean up after his constant off script verbal diarrhea.

It’s bad when NBC(!) has turned on your administration and is now openly discussing what a dysfunctional mess with a Rodney Dangerfield of Presidents as it’s figurehead:

Inside a Biden White House adrift

^^^ First ABC, now NBC...do you think they've come up with a strategy that gets them around Biden's failsafe? If the MSM turns on Biden then the whole "administration" will get tarred so badly that no one's worried that Kamala could possibly replace Joe as the Squatter In Chief.

Meanwhile, this seems to be the very definition of being the Head Donkey In Charge:

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Beyond policy, Biden is unhappy about a pattern that has developed inside the West Wing. He makes a clear and succinct statement - only to have aides rush to explain that he actually meant something else. The so-called clean-up campaign, he has told advisers, undermines him and smothers the authenticity that fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he's not fully in command.

Uncah Joe, a Republican would've fired the staff second-guessers. Can you not fire members of your own staff?

over ten years ago I argued and argued w people that obamacare would be a disaster

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...et-spike-53-percent/

Democrats are in total control of the federal government and about 13 million Obamacare recipients are about to receive notice of a 53 percent premium price increase.

The only thing that will stop reality from hitting these 13 million is if Congress acts to extend the subsidies, which will cost the American taxpayer $70 billion over three years.

Hey, remember when Obama and his media fact-checkers told us Obamacare would DECREASE the deficit?

The premium increases would be substantial if Congress does not act, with an average rise of around 53 percent, affecting roughly 13 million people, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Middle class people making more than 400 percent of the federal poverty line would be especially hard hit, given that they would go back to not being eligible for any financial assistance and have to pay the full cost of their premiums.

These Obamacare recipients are trapped. They have no place to go. No competition to turn to. And no upstart will come along to try and make everything work better and cheaper. You can’t compete with a rigged system as powerful as the federal government.

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Thank GOD (seriously...on bended knee) I was just able to cancel the Oshit-head Care that I was FORCED to procure when I got placed on UNPAID LEAVE at my place of employement. The good news.....the company came to the realization (but won't admit it publicly) that the Covid Scamdemic is a HOAX and they brought all of us back online. I guess they figured they could get 355 pilots back on line in a matter of weeks instead of MONTHS for a new-hire. I returned to full-time duty 20-May. Our case is still in court at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals...

Many employers offer only high deductible plans that turn health insurance to catastrophic plans. Seeing a doctor for something minor costs $150 to $400. A physical with labs can easily run $1500.

The only option for many with employer based insurance is to not use it until there's an emergency.

I just looked up the number of people on obamacare

https://obamacarefacts.com/sig...-enrollment-numbers/

The total in obamacare plans from the federal program and the state programs is 14.5 million.

Think about that.

millions of those people had plans they liked 12 years ago, but obamacare canceled those policies because they weren't up to obamacare "standards".

As I remember it was 5 to 6 million people who had policies canceled.

But given we have 14.5 million on obamacare, that is less than 5% of U.S. population.

(no doubt there are diff ways to look at this). But we destroyed healthcare in the U.S. for a few percent to get policies under obamacare.

And as noted above, unless you are very poor, you can't afford to routinely use the insurance because of high deductibles.

This is what the DEMs drove down our throats.

^^ Then it should be relatively easy to get repealed if the Dems lose big in the next couple of elections. Dem politicians may be married to OCare, but if less than 5% of the people are signed up for OCare then there aren't enough people dependent on it to matter politically.

Yes, yes, Republicans suck, yadda yadda yadda. If the voters insist on repeal then, realistically, there's nothing preventing repeal.

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Many employers offer only high deductible plans that turn health insurance to catastrophic plans. Seeing a doctor for something minor costs $150 to $400. A physical with labs can easily run $1500.

The only option for many with employer based insurance is to not use it until there's an emergency.

High deductible plans are awesome. Less premium same coverage, just have to self insure the first $1,500 +/-. I fully fund my HSA which more than covers the worst case out of pocket I would have to pay. If I don't use it, it rolls forward for the next year. If I never use it I can use it for retirement. HSAs work like an Roth IRA for medical expenses. After you retire and are on madicare you can pay for your supplemental plan with triple tax free money.

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High deductible plans are awesome.

Try having 3 young kids and a wife and EVERY TIME you go to the doctor, you get a bill for $200-$300

I wouldn’t use the term “awesome” ever with a HDHP

I like the concept of high deductible, but the premiums kept getting jacked up higher. If premiums went down then it is a good option.

The plan we had at work put the first $20k on us. Our premiums were about nearly $1k per month, which meant we were obligated to spend $12k even if we never went to the doc, then the next $8k was on us!

Somehow they had figured the math so it was always the first $20k on the employee. The low-deductible plan had really high premiums. So the gamble was whether the family would have a lot of claims or not. If not, go with high deductible.

Obamacare marketplace plans were all inflated price premiums with a tax credit to make them look cheaper. The taxpayer subsidizes those plans. The insurance companies are getting a free ride on our backs.

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I wouldn’t use the term “awesome” ever with a HDHP

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It is sure AWESOME for insurance company execs.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:


High deductible plans are awesome.

Try having 3 young kids and a wife and EVERY TIME you go to the doctor, you get a bill for $200-$300

I wouldn’t use the term “awesome” ever with a HDHP

Couldn't agree with you more. The comment is utterly ridiculous. Before Obamacare, the poor could cobble together various subsidized plans, with no one going without essential medical treatment. This same group now ends up with little or no premium, but racks up thousands in debt annually.

Add children to the equation, a few serious adult illnesses requiring inpatient care, or high tech treatment and diagnostics, and you're deep in the hole. The debt-collection industry is booming.

Instead of "self-insured", you could call this "self-uninsured".

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...iden-speech-n2608161

Speaking from the East Room of the White House Thursday night -- shortly before jetting off to the beach in Delaware for the weekend -- President Joe Biden tripled down on his calls for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and repeated the false claim a previous ban from 1994-2004 reduced mass shootings.

President Biden stated that the Second Amendment is “not absolute,” then segued into a gun control push that included at least eight different gun law proposals.

video at:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1532510137134600192


Here are a list of Biden’s proposed gun controls:

Ban “Assault Weapons”
Ban ‘high capacity” magazines.
If banning is not possible, then raise purchase age for AR-15s and similar rifles to 21
“Strengthen background checks”
“Enact [a] safe storage law”
“red flag law”
“Repeal the immunity of gun manufacturers from liability.”
Address the mental health crisis

Biden elaborated on the “assault weapons” ban proposal, saying that the previous ban (1994-2004) specifically banned “nine categories of semiautomatic weapons, like AK-47s and AR-15s.”

He added, “We should limit how many rounds a weapon can hold? Why in God’s name should an ordinary citizen be able to purchase an ‘assault weapon’ that holds 30 rounds magazines that let mass shooters fire hundreds of bullets in a matter of minutes?”

He said, “I also believe we should have safe storage laws and personal liability for not locking up your gun.”

He added, “If you own a weapon, you have a responsibility to secure it….if you don’t [lock it up] and something bad happens you should be held responsible.”

“For so many of you at home, I want to be very clear, this is not about taking away anyone’s guns,” Biden said before announcing he wanted to ban all “assault weapons” including AK-47s and AR-15s as well as magazines holding 30 rounds.

“I respect the culture, tradition, the concerns of lawful gun owners,” he claimed.

Biden’s speech quickly turned sharply partisan as he blamed Republicans for blocking gun control proposals.

“My God. The fact that the majority of the Senate Republicans don’t want any of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote, I find unconscionable,” he said. “We can’t fail the American people again.”

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Speaking from the East Room of the White House Thursday night -- shortly before jetting off to the beach in Delaware for the weekend -- President Joe Biden tripled down on his calls for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and repeated the false claim a previous ban from 1994-2004 reduced mass shootings.

'Any' Repub senator who might have even considered discussing this topic prior to this BS should completely refuse after this moronic diatribe. I can't believe I actually sat through the entire thing tonight.

And just to dovetail onto the back of Biden's verbal stupidity tonight, this black attention whore in the House saw a chance for some attention today and went for it. These people are simply ridiculous children. If this clown wants my guns, I'm more than willing to email him my address and what time I'll be home tomorrow so he can come see me about it.

Biden’s handlers must know of the red tsunami coming in November because pushing unpopular gun control crap 5 months before a crucial mid-term election is just blindingly stupid.