I should be enured to this shit by now, but each and every time I read accounts like this, it makes my blood boil. I pray for the day these evildoers face a reckoning.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearc...en-on-polls-n2637314




It is obvious. ok
notice the bobbing heads of wisdom

Back to the matter of the SPR.

Recall that FJB sold SPR oil to the ChiComs, as reported by the Institute for Energy Research (and elsewhere) -

Biden Sold China SPR Oil at a Discount - 7/22/2022

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Earlier this month, IER posted a blog that said the Department of Energy (DOE) sold China almost 1 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The real number is almost 6 million barrels of which 4 million barrels were sold to China in November 2021—before the Russian invasion of Ukraine—and at a discount to oil sold on the market. In the November sale, oil was sold on average for $63 per barrel, or over eight dollars less than the average price of oil per barrel that month.

In April 2022, the DOE sold 950,000 barrels to Unipec at $103.30 a barrel for a total of about $98 million, according to a DOE report. In July 2022, DOE sold another 950,000 barrels to China for around $119 per barrel for a total of about $113 million, according to the FY22 Emergency Drawdown No. 3A Successful Awards Report. The Biden administration is selling SPR oil to China while China is buying Russian oil at a discount despite sanctions on Russia. China International United Petroleum & Chemical Co., Unipec, chartered at least 10 tankers so far this month to transport Russian oil that is loaded from Kozmino port—a five-fold increase on the number of hired tankers booked for trade a month earlier. China spent $18.9 billion on Russian oil, gas and coal in the three months that ended in May—almost double the amount from a year earlier, according to customs data.

SPR oil is sold to the highest bidder, and some of the businesses entitled to make bids are American subsidiaries of foreign corporations like Unipec, the trading arm of the China Petrochemical Corporation, which is wholly owned by the Chinese government. China purchased that oil from U.S. emergency reserves to bolster its own stockpile for strategic use. China has been buying large quantities of oil for its reserves since the early COVID lockdowns when prices were low due to demand destruction.

Biden ordered the Department of Energy to release a total of about 260 million barrels of oil stored in the SPR over the last eight months. The SPR’s level has fallen to about 485 million barrels of oil, the lowest level since August 1985, according to the Energy Information Administration. The current level is 20 percent lower than its level recorded days prior to Biden’s first release in late November. That is in contrast to President Trump, who in March of 2020, ordered DOE to fill the SPR to its maximum capacity by purchasing 77 million barrels of American-made oil beginning with an initial purchase of 30 million barrels. While former U.S. Presidents saw the need to fill the SPR and keep it full for its intended emergency uses, Biden is showing he cares little for the national security issues related to these sales. Releasing SPR oil goes along with his promise to do away with fossil fuels.

Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz introduced the No Emergency Crude Oil to Foreign Adversaries Act. The legislation, if passed, would prevent future SPR sales from going to China, Russia, North Korea or Iran. The No Emergency Crude Oil to Foreign Adversaries Act would:

* Prohibit China, Russia, North Korea and Iran from receiving future SPR exports unless the Secretary of Energy produces a waiver for one of the countries. The Secretary of Energy would only produce a waiver if it was determined that SPR sales abroad would serve America’s national security interests.

* Require the Department of Energy to issue a report to Congress within 180 days after this bill becomes law outlining SPR sales made after Nov. 23, 2021. This report would detail the route oil sales took to their country of destination, who refined the oil and who owns those refinement facilities.

Biden continues to use U.S. oil and gas resources foolishly (SPR) or not at all, as illustrated by his leasing hiatus on federal lands and waters. He could get more U.S. oil production by just promoting investments to develop new fields in the United States by allowing lease sales on public lands and allowing oil and gas pipelines to be built rather than canceling Keystone’s permit or placing more regulatory hurdles on their approval via the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC is supposed to be an independent agency but it appears that the Biden administration does not know what that means.

SPR Sales

On November 23, 2021, Biden announced that the Department of Energy would accelerate the congressionally-mandated SPR release of 18 million barrels of oil and release an additional 32 million barrels. At that time, the oil price was $76.75 a barrel and the gasoline price was $3.40 per gallon—43 percent higher than when Biden took office.

On March 1, 2022, Biden announced a second SPR release of 30 million barrels. The oil price was $95.72 a barrel on February 28 and increased to $103.41 per barrel on March 1 and $123.70 a barrel on March 8—the highest oil price since the 2008 recession. The average price of gasoline increased from $3.61 a gallon on February 28 to $4.10 per gallon a week later—72 percent higher than when Biden took office. The gasoline price has not dipped below $4 a gallon since the March 1 release.

On March 31, 2022, Biden announced the largest SPR release to date, ordering the Department of Energy to release 180 million barrels of oil from the SPR between April and September. Biden predicted it would lower gasoline prices by 10 to 35 cents per gallon. The price of oil was $107.82 a barrel on March 30 and while it dropped a bit on March 31, remaining around $100 per barrel through April, it increased to $114.20 per barrel on May 16. In mid-May, gasoline prices hit multiple all-time highs and the price was $4.62 a gallon on May 31—the day after Memorial Day.

Due to demand destruction and China’s lockdowns because of its zero COVID policy, oil prices are now in the low $100 per barrel and gasoline prices in the United States as of July 19, 2022 average $4.495 per gallon–42 percent higher than a year ago and 89 percent higher than when Biden took office on January 20, 2021.

Conclusion

President Biden is hurting U.S. national security by selling SPR oil to China, who is adding those sales to its strategic reserves. Biden keeps thinking that his SPR sales are lowering gasoline prices, but after each announcement, prices went up. The current decline in gasoline prices is due to demand destruction and China’s lockdowns because of its zero COVID policy. If Biden truly wanted oil and gasoline prices to be lower he would offer legitimate lease sales on public lands and have his administration approve pipelines that are critically needed to get oil and natural gas to users. While on the campaign trail, Biden said that he wanted to end America’s use of conventional energy such as coal, oil, and natural gas. And he is doing a good job of promoting policies and regulations that will do just that.

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And here we are now with gas at ~$3.50/gal in this area, the summer travel season approaching and a depleted SPR that FJB and his puppet-masters and minions will not be able to game the market with, I hope that the voters will place the blame for their thinning wallets squarely where it needs to be!

FJB!

Watched a bit of Varney and Co. this morning during breakfast. I was blown away by this segment. Here’s the graphic you’ll see in the video.

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Arrests of Chinese Nationals Who Crossed the U.S. Border Illegally
FY 2021 — 342
FY 2022 — 1,987
FY 2023 — 24,125
FY 2024 — 22,233

6 months remain in FY 2024

Can’t seem to embed the segment from Varney. Here’s a link to his show. The video segment is called: “ Biden administration’s actions speak ‘louder than words’: Tom Homan”

Link

Seems like that alone would be sufficient reason to dramatically increase border security.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearc.../1775231958311743679

So now the biden administration doesn't support Taiwan.

https://twitter.com/Breaking91...e2iUm-EKlA_iGoA&s=19

https://www.breitbart.com/midd...nyahu-in-phone-call/

President Joe Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Thursday between the two leaders, threatening a loss of U.S. support for the war if Israel does not comply.

President Biden spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Netanyahu. The two leaders discussed the situation in Gaza. President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps. He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the Prime Minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home. The two leaders also discussed public Iranian threats against Israel and the Israeli people. President Biden made clear that the United States strongly supports Israel in the face of those threats.

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President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable and warned Israel to take steps to address the crisis or face consequences, a stark statement from Israel’s staunchest ally.

The 30-minute conversation was the two leaders’ first phone call since an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza. The killings have set off a furor inside the White House and Biden has been described as reaching a new level of frustration with Israel’s campaign.

“President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” the White House said in a statement shortly after the call wrapped. “He made clear that US policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

Biden also said Israel needed to “announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers.”

Speaking in Brussels after the call, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the stakes clear: “If we don’t see the changes that we need to see, there’ll be changes in our own policy,” he said. However, neither Blinken nor National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, speaking later at the White House press briefing, detailed what those potential policy changes could be.

Kirby said the US “would hope to see some announcements of changes here in the coming hours and days – and I’ll leave it at that.”

Biden is set to green light an $18 billion sale of fighter jets from the United States and Israel and the administration recently authorized the transfer to Israel of over 1,000 500-pound bombs and over 1,000 small-diameter bombs, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The president has called for a temporary ceasefire that includes the release of hostages held by Hamas, and has repeatedly said he does not want Israel to undertake a ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, where scores of displaced Gazans have sought shelter. He again called for a temporary ceasefire in the call with Netanyahu on Thursday.

“He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the prime minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home,” the White House said in its statement following the call.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04...ck-deaths/index.html

Bibi won’t, but he should tell Biden F U. Netanyahu has too much class and is too strategic to do it but that is what Biden needs to hear.

Biden is getting to be a bigger buffoon day by day. I just caught the tail end of it on Fox Business News, Dementia Joe just said that he’s so popular with the Greeks that he’s called Bidenopolis.

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
Dementia Joe just said that he’s so popular with the Greeks that he’s called Bidenopolis.

And then he stood there with that goofy grin on, waiting, as if to say, "this is where you all are supposed to applaud me. You peons."

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https://www.breitbart.com/midd...nyahu-in-phone-call/:

President Joe Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Thursday

Biden "demands?" We have a word for this: chutzpah

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”He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the prime minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home,” the White House said in its statement following the call

Translated to English: his numbers with voters of Arabic backgrounds and college students are way down so it’s time to pull out all the stops to bring those back up.

And can’t lose Rashida Tilab’s support either….

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He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers.

More of the same. But, but but it's for the chillren schtick that the Democrats always use when the fact is these people care for nothing else but themselves, money and power. Same people tried to force everyone in the country to inject poison into themselves under great duress that is now causing people to drop dead. Biden and company do not have the slightest understanding of what humanitarian suffering even is and would have no interest in stopping it if they did. As long as it's not them experiencing any of the suffering.

Of course they didn’t

Anything to protect Dementia Joe and Buttplug and to stick it in the eye of flyover country Trump voters:

https://x.com/ap_climate/statu...027633744015838?s=46

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...inese-president.html

OH MY GOD!! BIDEN HAS LOST 'THE ROCK'!!

Who gives a fuck? This guy showed his ass after Maui. No one should be listening to him.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohns.../1776230142404162011

March jobs report released today:

Good news, Bidenomics is a smashing success!

Gotta love these propaganda outlets all too eager to prop up this demented old fool:

https://x.com/ap/status/1776231341043925356?s=46

Abandoned property is what it was. They probably held several years over her head to get a guilty plea.


DOJ demands prison time for Ashley Biden diary thief

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...ry-thief/ar-BB1l2NCb

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a New York district judge to sentence the woman who stole first daughter Ashley Biden’s diary to four to 10 months in prison for the crime.

​​Prosecutors for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York had initially sought a sentence of six months of home confinement, followed by three years of supervised release, for Aimee Harris, who pleaded guilty in August of 2022 to conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the diary theft.

Harris came across the first daughter’s diary, tax records, private family photographs and her cellphone in September 2020, during a stay at a home in Delray Beach, Fla., where President Biden’s daughter had previously been living, according to the DOJ.

More at link

Biden keeps pushing us towards war

NATO is going to “build a bridge” towards Ukraine becoming a member state of the defensive alliance, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on the organisation’s 75th birthday.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member states met in Brussels at the alliance’s headquarters on Thursday to toast the 75th anniversary of its founding, among them U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken who like others used the occasion to discuss renewed Russian aggression and the potential place of Ukraine among its members. He emphasised the view, already articulated multiple times by NATO leaders in recent years, that “Ukraine will become a member of NATO”.

What he left unsaid, however, was the conditions that generally come with the statement, that this membership would be when Ukraine is in a fit state to join, including not being occupied by a foreign power.

Blinken said:

…the support for Ukraine, the determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid. We will do everything we can, allies will do everything they can, to ensure Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia’s ongoing aggression… Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership, and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward… we will see very strong support for Ukraine moving forward with its relationship going forwards with NATO.

But we are equally focussed as I said on the immediate, and on Ukraine’s needs today, tomorrow, the day after to help it withstand this ongoing aggression from Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined that in granular detail, saying Ukraine doesn’t meet the criteria to be a member state.

He said in 2023 that: “It is also clear that we then have to discuss which security guarantees can be given in a post-war situation. But we are far from there yet. Now we are concentrating on what is coming up… NATO’s criteria include a whole series of conditions that Ukraine cannot currently meet.

https://www.breitbart.com/euro...says-antony-blinken/

are the DEMs so desperate that the only way biden can win is if we get engaged war ? It looks like biden keeps throwing matches into explosive situations

https://www.foxbusiness.com/po...student-loan-handout

The Biden administration is reportedly preparing to take a second crack at broad student loan forgiveness for millions of Americans after the Supreme Court struck down its first attempt.

Citing people familiar, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the administration will roll out proposed regulations offering sweeping bailouts as early as next week, and "the president’s advisers hope to use the rules to begin canceling waves of student debt in the run-up to the November election."

President Biden's initial student loan handout plan, which would have provided up to $20,000 in debt relief to borrowers who make less than $125,000, was rejected last year by the Supreme Court, which found the administration did not have the authority to cancel the debt. That program was expected to cost the government more than $400 billion.

The president's forthcoming attempt at sweeping debt cancellation comes as polling shows he is struggling with younger voters compared to his first White House run, and another controversial student loan handout is expected to be challenged in court.