All_Pro_Bills

Imagine if this was Florida or Texas? But no, its Saudi Arabia. If Trump was still in office I can here the statements from the WH press corps demanding he condemn the move and cancel the trip. But this is ahead of Biden's planned visit where among other things he'll beg for increase oil output from the Kingdom. An edict issued that's in conflict with every domestic principal of equality and diversity that exists. But I guess international relations are different and Washington looks the other way when it comes to strategic foreign "allies". I looked at fact checker source USAToday for any hint of the story and the required moral outrage but didn't find it. Puts Joe in a pickle so what are odds it sees the light of day in the MSM? Story below. Weeks ahead of President Biden's much anticipated trip to Saudi Arabia, where he'll meet with crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom is cracking down on any items, including toys, with a rainbow on them. The commerce ministry put clothing and toy stores on notice over "rainbow colors" in the capital of Riyadh - saying such items will now be banned as they "contradict the Islamic faith and public morals and promote homosexual colors targeting the younger generation."

What I think is of no consequence to events. I'm not using force and violence to silence and crush anyone that disagrees with their rule. That's the Washington establishment. Why do you always support them? Are you a federal employee or working on a grant?

Exactly! And the establishment's zeal for going after him while members of the political class and the groups and organizations under their protection get a "free pass" from the consequences of their actions only reinforces and confirms that belief .

What I learned from yesterday's Father's Day gathering is that Joe Biden and the Democrats are in deep do-do. Nobody is listening to these excuses. The more excuses they make up the bigger the hole they dig for themselves. Maybe man-up and admit you own it Joe? And rather than beg Saudi Arabia for forgiveness and more oil maybe stay home and deliver that message to your citizens? Family and friends that we're sympathetic to social causes, Democrat leaning voters, and certainly far-from Trump "supporters" expressed dismay at the state of things and have "had it" when it comes to Biden and his crew of misfits. Even in my Blue state I get the feeling the mid-terms are going to be a bloodbath for the President. More amazing is everything is likely to get worse!

My view is based on two conclusions. One, renewables can't replace the energy output of fossil fuels at a national scale without some drastic reduction in individual energy consumption and living standards. The technologies have been around for decades and they're not cost effective and totally inferior when it comes to reliability and output. Unless you're holding your breath for the promised technological improvements and breakthroughs and plan to completely eliminate the use of oil to produce materials inputs and run renewable factories, we need to look somewhere else. Two, the Earth's climate is changing and whether some or all of it is because of human activity and some or all of it is the Earth's "natural" climate system anything we "can" do likely won't have much impact. And "save the planet"? That to me is nonsense. The planet will survive for at least a couple billion years longer. Even if it takes hundreds of thousands of years to regenerate from the damage humans have caused. I think what these climate activists don't say in polite company is their primary conclusion is there are just too many humans on the planet and eliminating a lot of them over time will produce the necessary impact. Which conflicts with the constant and eternal growth model western economies are based on. Another issue for another time. I'm not suggesting the the "free market" is perfect but over time its proven to be more effective than the central planning model. And given our government's propensity to screw up pretty much screwed up everything for the past 25 years I have no faith they could plan and execute something as complex as replacing the primary energy source of the entire country. As for tax subsidies, I could argue Solar and renewable industry isn't fundamentally different from any other industry that receives special treatment. Federal, State, and local subsidies, tax deductions and credits exist to locate facilities and buy solar panel installations and EV's.

What she really meant. Press Sec: "We are going to reverse the progress of human civilization employing energy sources with greater efficiency replacing less efficiency sources with unreliable renewables that depend on the weather to produce lower energy output at higher costs and therefore by design a lower standard of living for all Americans. With the exception of the political and power elite along with the wealthy our administration represents that will continue to have access to gasoline for the cars, natural gas to heat their mansions, jet fuel for their private jets, and diesel fuel for their private yachts ".

Joe and his cast of idiots have either intentionally or just through incompetence and stupidity done almost everything possible to make matters worse. November could see the biggest swing in the House ever. Not to mentions State and local election impacts. Stick a fork in Joe already. He's well done at just 1 1/2 years of the 4 year term. The scary thing is how bad it is already the thought of the VP taking over is even more frightening. It will be a mess making a bigger mess. Today's Option Expiration of some $3.4T in bets could provide the fuel for a decent short squeeze rally this afternoon. Then a holiday Monday. But longer term we're doomed. I don't think these clowns at the Fed have the intent or the desire to tank the economy, tank the stock markets, and tank the debt markets and the US government just to fight an inflation problem they mostly created. Also, watch as the dollar sucks the life out of emerging market plays, Euro, Yen. Not a lot of people are paying attention but Japan is totally broken and is sinking fast. With Europe close behind. And the US in the on-deck circle.

No criticism or questioning of the glorious, eternal, all-powerful, and omnipotent leader or the party or any program or edict is allowed. In the modern day "Disinformation" fighting version of the Emperors New Clothes fable the child questioning the official narrative around the "settled science" of the existence of the magic invisible thread of the Emperors suit was hauled off to a Black Site for re-education along with the parents.

Hey, Billstime would say you can never miss an opportunity to hate on dead people! 😇

I think its because the White House Oval Office is occupied by the real President. How much longer does this guy last? By November we'll all look back at today and reminisce how good it was back then.

I don't have a lot of free time anymore since I'm busy working and taking on a second job because of inflation and deteriorating economic conditions.

The only bomb here is a fake President sitting in a fake Oval Office and an administration in way over their heads destroying the world's largest economy.

There's a bigger chance of Jesus coming down from Heaven and ringing my doorbell to ask me to bring him up to speed on what's been happening for the last 2,000 years than there is the DOJ is going to get some sort of conviction against Trump based on the proceedings and "evidence" of this Committee.

On top of it all the Abbott baby formula plant at Sturgis Michigan was knocked out of commission by flooding caused by major thunderstorms just 9 days after restarting production of baby formula. Baby's just can't catch a break here. So far the administrations response is to blame Putin for the storms and to enlist the support of all able-bodied menstruating "men" to produce enough breast milk to replace the plant capacity that's currently offline. To the administration's astonishment no milk has been produced through their program to date. MIA VP Harris has been assigned to investigate although her whereabouts are unknown and to date nobody has been able to identify the location of her hiding spot. The suspicion of administration activists is that racism and white privilege are at work here. Truth is the first paragraph is real and the second paragraph is "fake news". But given how completely disconnected from reality these delusional idiots are, tell me honestly it doesn't sound like something they'd do?

If you check US DOE EIA stats you'll find daily domestic production average is down 8 percent from the 2020 inauguration week vs. the latest reported week of June 2022. Companies are not investing as much in new capacity. Why do that when governments tell you that your industry is being phased out by their decree? Why not let the market decide that? No, climate activists decide. Because the science is settled. One things about science is its never settled as new and sometimes contradictory and sometimes supportive information and discoveries happen by researchers and scientists The industry, through the API, has responded to Biden's threats with a letter outlining 10 specific things the administration can do right now to assist the industry. Doubtful they'll do any of them. Biden is set to go begging the Saudi's for more production. Why the same level of green house gas emissions produced by consumption of Saudi oil is somehow different if its produced through use of domestic oil production must be one of those "settled science" mysteries.

Dear Joe - When you took office you told the oil industry they were no longer needed in the "Green" economy while every federal agency and department blocked and regulated out of existence existing refining capacity and any plans for new refining capacity. And now you're threatening them with action unless they refine more product. I expect old age has slowed the mind but what's the excuse for the rest of your collective brain-trust? Should we talk about cancelled and shutting down pipelines here too? I expect you're more concerned about losing the majority in Congress at this point than you are worried about the hardships faced by America families.

Good responses. I welcome the civil and respectful back and forth. So see bold above. Regards..

OK. I give up! You're lucid and ingenious response (that my point is really stupid) to what I incorrectly believed was a coherent argument has got the best of me. In the face of your overwhelming brilliance how could my argument citing the history and record of our government's propensity to engage in endless wars for almost 25 years with nothing tangible to show for it except mountains of debt, thousands of American soldiers dead, wounded, or disabled, and countless civilian deaths in almost a dozen countries have anything to do with the desire to get involved in yet another war!

What else can we expect to hear? We have a Committee 100% comprised of Washington establishment Trump haters. Political party representation is irrelevant. Not a single witness or piece of evidence or question is allowed that might contradict their preconceived conclusions. Any Representative that might have been "friendly" to Trump was vetoed and excluded from the Committee by Pelosi, in violation of the committee charter. Since when does the majority leader dictate to the minority who they can appoint on a House committee? That tells you all you need to know as the fix was in from the start. That's one reason many have fought subpoenas. As the Committee itself violates the rules governing its existence it is therefore illegitimate so how can their subpoenas be anything but illegitimate too? It's a reasonable legal argument. But the objective isn't legitimacy, or to gather evidence, uncover the truth, and forward information to the DOJ for potential prosecution. Its to discredit Trump and eliminate him from the political scene. What they don't want are a lot of "America first" candidates winning elections in November 2022 in the House or Senate, or in contests at the State level. In 2016 Trump, by accident, crashed their party and became President. Without ever holding any other political office and without any "grassroots" political support system in place with elected officials at lower levels of government holding the same objectives. That made it easy for the establishment, comprised of both major political parties to obstruct and block almost everything. In 2022 the America First movement, and Trump, are out to correct that problem. That's the threat the Committee is worried about, not 1/6. The intent of the committee is to use the insurrection narrative to discredit any and all 2022 American first type candidates and label them as supporters of the insurrection. Dangers to democracy. The biggest threat to our nation. For the Democrats its going to be one of the only themes they can run as as the administration's record to date has been nothing but horrendous. Polling numbers reflect their desperation which will only grow as November approaches and conditions in the country worsen. The last thing the Washington establishment wants are representatives of the people coming to Washington to put the interests of America and American's in general ahead of their agenda. I should add my conclusion that from all the current and coming chaos that neither political party is going to survive in their current form and "moderates" disenchanted with their respective political party affiliation will form together into a 3rd party that will eventually take charge.

Yeah, I'm the one that doesn't know what I'm talking about. Thanks for setting me straight. I finally understand that the US military industrial complex, or establishment, or deep state, or global empire if you please, is in reality an altruistic organization spreading good will and cheer across the globe asking nothing in return. Now I see the light. How could I possibly have thought they're a bunch of raging psychopaths intend on waging continuous war forever and have no regard for life or liberty? And what a tremendous record of success! Its just amazing how well its going for the Ukrainians compared to life before the Americans showed up on the scene in 2014. I can't wait to see which lucky country we're going to "help" next.

You're the person consistently advocating for war so that kind of makes you the fascist. I've been clear on my views. I think the US establishment doesn't care what the outcome is here, win or lose, as long as the goal of weakening Russia is achieved. They're not interested in "saving" anyone. And if it takes Zelensky fighting the Russians down to the last soldier and civilian and than that's fine with the Washington war party. If Washington stayed out of it and left it to Ukraine, Russia, and the European States to settle the disagreements war could have easily been avoided.

Shouldn't your ire be directed at the UK Daily Mail for daring to question the narratives generated by the establishment war machine rather than the messenger here?

Politicians follow Friedman's law of how money is spent. The part about spending somebody else's money on yourself where cost doesn't matter but quality does or spending it on somebody else where neither cost or quality matter. The spending "their personal funds" is something they're not good at. They make a living spending the taxpayers money and putting them in debt while living the life of a financial parasite. Producing nothing of value anyone in the private sector would trade for hard currency. I applaud your financial discipline and its put you in a position of strength that most American's do not have because of circumstances and lots of frivolous spending. I call it living though the infinite funding model of life which is based on the idea the good times never end. My dad used to say unless you have some degree of financial independence you'll never have any real freedom or security. Want to know the source of inflation. https://usdebtclock.org/ In the time it takes to read this post the US government will be another $100K in debt.

Believe it or not I did not vote for Trump or Biden or Clinton in the past 2 elections. It would matter who the Democrat is though in 2024.

I'd like Trump to go away because he's the wrong person at the wrong time in 2024. A victory would mean another 4 year term of Democratic obstruction. The country will need somebody in the White House, from either party, that is actually committed and capable of pulling everyone and the country together. That means dumping the fringe ideologues on both extremes of the political spectrum and focusing on the core of American beliefs and values. Unfortunately for all of us, 1 1/2 years into the term, Biden and his administration have already demonstrated they're not up to that task. So expect things to do down hill from here until minimum 2024.