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Biden admin to sell strategic oil reserves to CCP
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Biden admin to sell strategic oil reserves to CCP
ReplyDeleteOh lordy, America is an oil exporter again.
But it's just 5 million barrels of oil, and not all of that is going to China. By comparison, the US consumes 19.78 barrels of oil per day (on average), we're talking about selling off enough oil to fuel American consumption for 5 hours, 57 minutes, and roughly 20 seconds.
Ermahgerd it's the Teapot Dome scandal!
I say we sell beamish to China... it's only one US citizen and that's only 3x10^-11 % of our citizens. Would his vote be missed?
DeleteThrow in all-I-can-eat Laziji (General Tso's chicken) and I'll consider it ;)
DeleteBiden's cashing out a little government property rather than taxing the country for more revenue, and probably made a small profit for the Department of Energy. There isn't even enough molehill here to make a mountain from.
FJ be like "NOOOOOOOO! That was MY three quarts of crude oil Biden sold!"
DeleteDon't worry beamish, that oil won't be coming back to us inside a hypersonic cruise missile aimed at a US CVBG.
DeleteIt WAS from the sale of a US "Strategic" oil reserve asset, after all.
DeleteIncluded in my post today:
DeleteAbout 1.6 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve — a monthly record — was shipped out in October 2021, according to data from market intelligence firm Kpler.
All three supertankers went to Asia.
“Given the ongoing pace of the current SPR release — 12 million barrels in the last two months and the biggest weekly release so far last week at 3.1 million barrels — it’s fair to assume more SPR barrels are going to leave U.S. shores in the weeks ahead,” said Matt Smith, an oil analyst at Kpler.
In November Biden and his Lackey Granholm said they were still thinking about using the Reserves. How much did Hunter get for these shipments? In April more shipments went to Europe.
Don't worry beamish, that oil won't be coming back to us inside a hypersonic cruise missile aimed at a US CVBG.
DeleteI honestly wouldn't know how to worry about that.
Is Wal-Mart going to tell Xi to attack America?
I don't know, beamish, are Hunter and TBG going to green-light Xi's re-patriotization of Taiwan?
DeleteI think Russia's slog in Ukraine gives pause to any Chinese ambitions to invading an island that has been preparing for such a war for nearly a century. Taiwan's got a FAFO (f*ck around, find out) confidence decidedly and realistically much higher than the Ukrainians do.
DeleteChina's not going to do a damned thing but get our new Christmas decorations made for this year. Like we tell them to do every year.
Anyone found any more details on the weapon used to assassinate former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe? Investigators are saying the weapon was homemade, and the video of the attack shows one shot and a lot of smoke. The attack produced three wounds. I'm thinking it was some crude type of blunderbuss or black powder improvised shotgun. Japan has some of the strictest anti-gun ownership laws in the world. Just goes to show where there's a will, there's a way. No gun control law could have stopped this tragedy.
ReplyDeleteI'd look to China for ties to the assassin.
DeleteThe Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere lives.
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DeleteSwords were deemed illegal in Japan to demean the Samurai class.
DeleteHonor also "died" the very day the Japanese government confiscated swords from the Samurai class, and the government thereafter proclaimed that only "it" was so worthy as to remain "armed" and therefore capable being trusted to behave with honor.
Do you trust Joe Biden's "honor"? When he bans guns, he's admitting that doesn't trust in yours.
A life lived perpetually on your knees is not a life worth living.
DeleteA man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. - Harold Macmillan
DeleteBy the standards of the rest of the world, we overtrust. So far it has worked very well for us. - Charlie Munger
If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated. - Allison Croggon
Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glue that holds business relationships together, that is trust, and this trust is purely based on integrity. - Brian Tracy
Trust is a currency; you can't afford not to invest in it. Interestingly enough, trust can only be built, maintained, and repaired through conversations. - Juliana Vergara
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. - Stephen Covey
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. - Stephen Covey
Trust has to be the highest value in your company, and if it’s not, something bad is going to happen to you. - Marc Beniof
In G_d we trust. Government is NOT G_d.
DeleteAmerican exceptionalism begins and ends in the trust and reliance we place upon our fellow citizens, independent of the government. It was born in this exceptionalism, and will die without it. For a people deprived of moral agency by their government are immoral and damned. Their government has usurped their agency and placed responsibility for all wisdom and justice in their laws and enforcing agents. And no government can survive a citizenry devoid of morality and incapable of responsibilities and assignations of honor.
DeleteYou can rely on la clemenza di Tito if you so desire. But I, for one, will rely always place my complete reliance upon the will and agency of my fellow citizens, and NOT their government.
China... completed the task?
DeleteInteresting, if true. With Abe's party still in power in Japan, his legacy of re-militarization of Japan to counter China and North Korea will probably go on steroids now.
DeleteMotive?
DeleteTC,
ReplyDeletethe video of the attack shows one shot and a lot of smoke. The attack produced three wounds
I thought it was two shots and two wounds.
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ReplyDeleteThe "good news" just keeps on coming: The Biden Administration Sold 950,000 Barrels of Precious Strategic Petroleum Reserve Oil to a China Firm Which Hunter Biden Just Happens To Own a Huge Stake In!
ReplyDeleteSheesh.
Great advert for hiring Hunter, huh!
DeleteThe Russia threatening to nuke us is not an enemy, but the China that is heavily reliant upon trade with the US is an enemy?
DeleteI miss the days when the right could lecture the left on foreign policy.
AOW,
DeleteI thought it was two shots and two wounds
Reports are spotty. What I've been able to piece together is one shot, three wounds (one torso, either back or chest, and two in the neck).
The weapon has been described as 40 cm long, by 20 cm high (~15 inches x ~7.5 inches), and the police are treating it like an explosive device. Reading between the lines, IMHO, it was a pipe made into a zip gun to fire a shotgun shell at close range, and thus might resemble a pipe bomb.
I miss the days when the Right's foreign policy was to benefit the United States of America and not do the World Economic Forum's bidding.
DeleteMeanwhile, in NYC, the DA's office takes the side of the attacker! The real victim is the man who defended himself: José Alba.
ReplyDeleteOh I know all about that. WOW! Because the defender is either latin or white! If he were black no one would say boo! Thank Obama, Biden, and the ever giving clan of BLM for this mess. And the Mayor of NY says he cannot speak about the district attorney? What a crock of bull!
DeleteOver at Bunkerville's site today: U.S exports 74% of U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas to Europe -- never mind the suffering here in our homeland.
ReplyDeleteKinda shows who our Government REALLY works for, don't it?
DeleteA conspiratorial minded person would say that is what us helping provoke a war between Russia and Ukraine was all about. Shut down the Russia pipeline into Europe, and let us start making money selling Europe LNG.
DeleteI'm a firm believer in follow the money. Usually, when there is a global conflict involved somewhere, there's also a pipeline
Funny how times change. 20 years ago, I would be considered a liberal Democrat for making such a statement.
DeleteI heard about this on the news. That should be coming to the American people but they are bankrupting us!
DeleteFunny how times change. 20 years ago, I would be considered a liberal Democrat for making such a statement
DeleteWell, that's why I'm here ;)
Russia's customer service sucks. What's wrong with America making money?
Europeans (whose governments are as stupid as ours) made a multi-billion dollar deal with an angry, untrustworthy bear, while simultaneously poking it.
DeleteShipping in LNG when you have a pipeline right to your doorstep is horribly inefficient, but very very good for the LNG industry.
Not a thing, beamish. Until, that is, we discover that all America's oil has gone chasing higher prices (and profits) in Europe and a cold winter hits the US. Maybe we should just let Europe buy their oil from their neighbors, Russia, Iran, et al instead of fixating upon the "feel-good morality" inherent in the practice of cultural capitalism instead of actual capitalism.
DeleteThe great thing about the old pre-1968 capitalism was that back then, all money was green. Now the money's 'greeness" depends upon its' ESG rating and the blessings of the World Economic Forum's (WEFs) Davos Man.
DeleteCuz I really don't think that US Consumer Karen can tell where the gas in my gas tank cares from
Deletebtw beamish - What's the neocon of Zelinsky's $750b Ukrainian/ Muh-Russia reconstruction bill going to be?
Delete^^ "neocon share"^^ above
DeleteCuz, I, for one, am unimpressed by your dancing Zelinsky and don't particularly want to shove dollar bills into his pants..
Delete...in the name of Ukwainian Fweedom!
Delete748 million European lives not threatened by neo-Stalinism?
DeletePerhaps we should exit NATO and then ask the Swedes, Finns, and Ukrainians if they STILL want to join.
Delete...for the low cost of nine weeks of US government spending....
Delete...adding to the $10 trillion of Fed's no-interest-paying "off-the-books" debt holdings. How many zero's can we add to that magic money, beamish, before our inflation rate matches Venezuela's?
Delete... the money's 'greeness" depends upon its' ESG rating and the blessings of the World Economic Forum's (WEFs) Davos Man.
DeleteAh yes, the World Economic Forum... wielders of $5 billion dollars annually. Let me know when their economic power approaches 3% of the GDP of the state of Alabama.
I think I'd have a heart attack if I worried about as much trivial stuff as you do FJ.
The point of the WEF's ESG rating isn't about "Their" spending money, it's about making YOU pay for their spending priorities by making sure YOU can't use carbon energy sources, etc.
DeleteWhen your "digital wallet" no longer allows you to buy ammo for your SKS's, come talk to me about ESG ratings.... of course by then, it'll be WAY too late.
DeleteEvery corporation in the world has an ESG rating, and if you want investment money, you'd better raise yours.
Delete...and the guys who make that rating and can break your corporation (ala Tesla)... the WEF.
DeleteWanna raise your corporate ESG rating, beamish? Just hire a whole staff of ESG administrators to audit and track you inflows and outflows of cash... making sure you're only buying your sh*t from the "right" green companies? That alone ups your "rating". As for "social"... you are committed to "diversity" in employment, aren't you?
DeleteJust how 'equity' oriented is your company?
DeletePersonally, I'm getting a bit tired of seeing every company newsletter stuffed with "Diversity and Inclusion Committee" actions. But hey, you probably head the Committee.
DeleteI'm good on SKS rounds. If every law enforcement and national guard member in my state came after me, I have enough ammo to shoot each of them twice before I would have to worry about tapping my plinking and hunting reserves or switching to a different gun ;)
Delete(I'm sure my finger would get tired though)
I don't see the danger of a centrally planned economy that you do. There's never been a centrally planned economy in history that worked, and von Mises and Hayek have already done the masterwork on refuting the idea of a centrally planned economy ever working.
Toss in Konkin's agorism for good measure. We can smoke and drink and shoot stuff "the government says you can't buy" and discuss "ESG ratings" further while watching pirated movies.
Universal EGS Reporting Standards don't reek of centralized bureaucracies? Who knew?
DeleteWhen you get paid to self-inject a bureaucratic cancer into your own corporate body, I guess that's just free market capitalism. Maybe I should get those government subsidized solar panels after all.
DeleteTheranos wasn't a one-off beamish. Silicon Valley is chasing the ESG dragon, big time.
DeletePersonally, I'm getting a bit tired of seeing every company newsletter stuffed with "Diversity and Inclusion Committee" actions. But hey, you probably head the Committee
DeleteOh those meetings are fun... You get to be less productive, er, not productive at all, for a couple of hours on the company dime and sometimes there's even doughnuts unless some asshole starts bitching about gluten or diabetes.
My dad (dang, thinking about my dad alot lately) used to sabotage meetings like that. He worked for a company owned by Toyota that sent a diversity trainer all the way from Japan to talk about American racism, and he pestered her about the Ainu people and the Bataan death march and the rape of Nanking and Unit 731... had the woman in tears lol.
Joe Biden Pledges to Retain the Killing of Unborn Babies as National Priority, Signs Executive Order Saying Abortion “is essential to justice, equality, and our health, safety, and progress as a Nation”
DeleteLook, Joe Biden just raised the 'governance' component of every US Corporation's ESG rating a point... aren't you excited, beamish? Who needs 'central planning'?
I have to laugh at Paul Cockschott types who think they've solved von Mises' Economic Calculation Problem by pointing at WalMart's supply distribution... and all the gobbledegook handwaving they do to avoid admitting there is a market that will set price signals. Basically "communism will work if it's not really communism but rather yucky capitalism." The state will burn through quite a bit of resources kicking in doors to make sure people aren't hoarding carbohydrates and proteins. A controlled economy won't work, and can't work.
DeleteI'll see your ESG rating and raise you a guy that will turn the brake rotors in your car for a bag of weed.
...and I'll raise you a Ferengi solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict for a $750 billion Zelinsky proffered Reconstruction demand.
DeleteEven WalMart has a 2% (at least) shrinkage problem (shipping damage, employee theft, shoplifting) because von Mises' economy Calculation Problem can not be denied. ;)
DeleteFerengi solution...
DeleteHey, those Japanese bastards were told to leave the Roosevelt family's opium holdings alone...
They should have took the hint when he sent the Flying Tigers ;)
As for me, I ain't trading my space weed for all the turned brake drums in Chino, CA.
DeleteCentralized bureaucracies grow and bloat, but never become more efficient. They can't.
DeleteThink of all the cops sitting on the side of the road, burning up gasoline, wearing engines out, but mostly not driving anywhere. Now put a cop on every intersection doing the same thing. What are they going to do to fund that? Raise speeding tickets to $1 million?
The cop on the side of the road is your company's "diversity coordinator." ;)
DeleteEichmann was just doing his job... "See my pretty paperwork!"
Empires run on bread and circuses, beamish. But only until the Praetorians run out of extorted funds. And America's citizens ran out $30 trillion ago.
DeleteRussia's no longer taking your paper, beamish. Saudi, India, and China are exiting the neolib bldg. The only BRIC left is Brazil.
DeleteThat works both ways. Do you think China is buying oil from us in Yuan?
DeleteNot when something like $13 Trillion in US dollars is sitting in global currency reserves. Who gets paid when that money is traded for a different currency? Yep. We do.
Here's an interesting rebuttal to the doomsday prophets, you may or may not find myth-shattering.
We can all predict that we will someday die. Nailing down the day and hour we will die, not so certain. Same with economics. That which does not kill us has in fact made us stronger.
No beamish, some things actually kill you. We have a cancer. It's called "cultural capitalism".
DeleteIf you said "crony capitalism" I'd be inclined to agree. One man's inflation is in fact another man's pay raise. Corporations are riding what, 60% profits, right now atop a price-driven demand shock? In the boardrooms of corporate America, the crisis is certainly not going to waste. Investors are as happy as a pig in mud, and that includes foreign investors looking for a safe place to make their money work for them rather than the other way around.
DeleteOn the government side...the national debt is near meaningless side by side with the national wealth to be collected over time to pay that debt... $110 Trillion in property and real estate, another $45 to $60 Trillion in untapped natural resources and unexploited minerals, technology making around $700 Trillion in oil and natural gas accessible... and over time, the values of these grow as well. Measured this way, we have the fuel to launch out GDP higher and higher, if some small government libertarian like me lit the fuse.
We're going to be fine, and around for quite a bit longer. We didn't build this moneymaker over the last 80 years to do anything but.
Even the Jehovah's Witnesses stopped putting a date on doomsday. Total economic collapse has been "predicted" at least 5 times in my lifetime. It seems to be the hardest lottery to hit.
DeleteCultural capitalism didn't begin as crony capitalism. But that is where it has ended up. Do-goodism should be restricted to "Benefit Corporations" and non-profits, not corporations with a fiduciary responsibility towards their shareholders.
Delete...and now to embed ESG ratings and their bureaucracies in every for-profit corporation in the land, turning them all into mini- B corps? It's INSANITY!
DeleteCorporate "political correctness" is already WAY out of control. This is WOKE on steroids.
DeleteI'm with you in opposition to the goo-goos ("good government") types putting in an express lane to hell with their good intentions. No amount of pollution controls or import restrictions or tariffs or sanctions are going to "save the Earth," much less stop the next tectonic plate shift from giving Indonesia and Japan a tsunami bath or turning southern California into an island. Nobody but nobody blamed the Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Penitubo volcanic eruptions on fracking. We were smarter in decades past, for sure. Nowadays it seems problems are exaggerated in scale if not invented ex nihilio from bad science fiction and acid trips. Let's all go see the movie about the Moon falling on a little hen's head. Only science can save us! Only, it isn't science.
DeleteWhere we depart is on your fears of ESG ratings. As soon as they become the bad thing you claim they will, investors and consumers will cast them off like a bad rash. Joe Rogan will own Spotify and Dave Chappelle will own Netflix and Elon Musk will own Twitter long before woke makes them broke. The invisible hand will fist the shit out of products and services nobody wants. Cancel culture will be drowned out by Eminem. Entropy is the law... no power given means the system dies. Ask the Dixie Chicks. Out of 330 million people in America, I'd guess less than 1% could name one of their songs much less tell you what they look like.
You can even be soundly voted out of the Oval Office if enough Americans are offended by what you're doing. The nation is safe.
Who's going to tell investors and consumers, beamish? Fox News? The ABC, NBC, CBS? Elon, "I withdraw my offer on Twitter", Musk? The Harvard/Yale/Columbia indoctrinated newsrooms at the Post, Journal and Times? The Silicon Valley APP Algorithm code writers that censor un-pc talk?
DeleteHave fun at your next Diversity Committee struggle session.
...and always remember, Silence is complicity! (I stole that from the anti-racists).
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DeleteComing to and ESG Committee soon, Stakeholder capitalism. Shareholders are just soooo bourgeois!
DeleteOn a different note, the Wisconsin Supreme Court just banned drop boxes, meaning that the ILLEGAL practice that ROBBED DJT of his election in 2020 will NOT be repeated. :)
ReplyDeleteAnybody think that the Jan 6 Committee will take notice and stop calling the STEAL, "the big lie"?
Delete:P
DeletePolls suggest somewhere to the tune of 65% of the party of Trump say Jan 6 was a “legitimate protest”.
DeleteToo harsh of an assessment?
Given the ruling, 35% were fooled by fake news.
DeleteFJ, I wouldn’t expect anything less than the full blown cognitive dissonance from someone who’s still an admitted Trump boot licker.
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DeleteRJW,
DeleteYour ATDD is showing.
AOW, I’m a hard sale when it comes to polished turds.
DeleteOpps, ^ RJW, not AOW.
DeleteDid I drop one in your punch bowl, RJW?
DeleteIf only you could fish it out before it's too late... I'm sure your Kool-Aid would taste soooo much better.
Delete“This decision reveals just the tip of the iceberg of Wisconsin’s election integrity problems,” said Thomas More Society Special Counsel Erick Kaardal in a statement. “And the worst of it [i]s that it was all coordinated with the blessing of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.”
DeleteThersites, I’ve never considered you of a reasonable sort but considering the topic at hand, that FA believes the 35% who don’t believe Jan 6 was a “legitimate protest” have been subjected to fake news, who’s really doing the gaslighting here?
DeleteWho is denying an uncomfortable reality that doesn’t sit well with your unhinged agenda?
You.
Delete..or you would explain why Wisconsin voting officials, who are PAID to know the law, violated their own Constitution in 2020.
Delete...and why it was "okay this time", but they would never again do so.
DeleteIn the "most secure election in history"... turns out that the votes cast in Wisconsin weren't very secure at all. In fact, they were unConstitutionally insecure.
DeleteThere’s that cognitive dissonance again, the uncomfortable feeling that occurs when two beliefs come into conflict. You know, as Trump and other top so-called conservatives have admitted out loud that the more people vote, the less chance of Rs winning. Yet, you still want to abide by the constitution and other justifications.
DeleteNothing new has emerged to support the big lie. The conservative state supremes removal of drop boxes is an obstacle in hopes of discouraging voting, thus giving the party of scum an advantage.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Thersites, I was talking to FA about why he believes that the 35% of republicans who don’t view the Jan 6 attack as a “legitimate protest” was a result of being exposed to fake news. I mean, unless all those vids were edited, I fail to see how anyone sane would justify it as within the law.
DeleteSo if I’ve come up short on your demand list of distracting questions, get over it.
Motte and bailey now? Please.
DeleteActs which if continued, would grant an actual insurrection legitimacy.
DeletePerhaps your Jan 6 committee should now consider the consequences of their dereliction of investigative responsibilities.
Delete...instead of engaging in the entertainment of their political base with political theatre and show trials.
Delete"Protesting a proven unconstututional act is the very definition of a legitimate protest."
DeleteThere it is again, that need of fabrication of reality to justify your desired conclusion.
Trump lost in accordance with the nation’s lawful constitutional process. All state’s results were certified to be accurate and legitimate by it’s lawfully authorized state officials. All recounts, publicly tabulated, were presented and affirmed in Congress. THAT IS THE ONLY LEGITIMATE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS THAT EXISTS. ANY DEVIATION FROM THAT PROCESS WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.
And yes, that definitely includes the deliberate effort of a riled-up mob to stop the final step of the process because they didn’t happen to like the outcome.
NONE of the endless accusations of a stolen election have been backed up with credible supporting evidence. NONE.
Why did these baseless claims get shot down in every court in the land? Because lawyers, congressmen, Tucker Carlson, Rudy, your Youtube memes and so on can stand on stage in front of a live camera and spew that horseshit to their Basket of Gulibles all day long and baseless documentaries can be sold to these gulibles- all without consequences. BUT, they cannot lie to a judge in a courtroom as they'd be disbarred or and/or charged with a crime.
Dispute it rationally if you like. You can't.
But even if you do have some rabbit hole glitter to support your debunked unconstitutional gaslighting, it still comes up short of calling the smashing of the Capitol windows and the illegal entry-which hundreds are now lawfully behind bars for- a "legitimate protest".
And on top of that, Trump went to Klan rally after Klan rally for 4 years telling you gullibles: (maybe not verbatim) "okay fools, so here's the plan. If I lose in Nov, that means the election was rigged. Got it? If I don't win, you get mad because you've been cheated".
And you and the basket couldn't wait for another slurp of the heavy syrup.
To borrow TC's expletive (I think), Jesus on a pogo stick!
FACT: Certified by state officials who acted illegally and were proven to have violated their Constitution and their oaths to uphold them.
DeleteWhat does that make any "legitimate process" that proceeded upon THAT basis?
Fruit of the poisonous tree.
QED
Now you can argue that the "Good Faith Exception" should apply, but the question made was one of the "legitimacy" of the protest.
DeleteAnd it has proven to be 100% legitimate.
DeleteOther than providing a definition of a legal metaphor, you provided nothing.
DeleteI'll concede that a protest is legitimate as long as it's a protest. Once the protest turns into a riot, it's no longer legal.
And then there's the argument of if it was ever intended to be a protest at all.
What occurred on Jan 6 was not a legal act. And it's been far from being 100% proven otherwise.
Moving the goalposts again? Legitimate and legal are different terms. If we now apply it to "protest"...then no protest could ever be considered "legitimate." Is THAT your position?
DeleteWas Trump at the "riot" (illegal part) or the protest (legal part)?
DeleteAnd why call the latter a "protest"?
Delete...but not the former?
Delete...the FRAUD or MALFEASANCE of Constitutionally bound officials whom you refuse to investigate.
DeleteMissing piece that didn't post above the comment above:
Delete...as the legitimate cause for an actual insurrection has already been established.
...and "legitimate" not in terms of US Law, but of <a href='https://chrisberg.org/2010/06/the-divine-violence-of-slavoj-zizek/">Divine Violence</a>... as an UNALIENABLE Right.
Delete...and "legitimate" not in terms of US Law, but of Divine Violence... as an UNALIENABLE Right.
DeleteMuch as the "Divine" was used in the US Declaration of Independence which PRECEEDED its' Constitution.
Deletebtw - The term "Divine Violence" was coined by Slavoj Zizek... an avowed ATHEIST. It has nothing to do with religion.
DeleteFor such violence is not only "legitimate"... it is also above all earthly "legitimacy" and is considered by the Left to be "Divine".
Deleteps - Why do you think Trump's lawyers and advisors kept Trump away from the Capitol (riot/illegal protest part)? He's legally "clean" that way (but perhaps not "legitimately" clean). But by saying, "Trump DEMANDED to be taken to the Capitol"... you merely "legitimize" him in the eyes of Trump supporters. Thanks, btw.
DeleteIs that enough "rabbit hole glitter" for you? Or do I pull a 13 Vendémiaire and send Murat for the Canons at your next "mostly-peaceful" BLM protest?
Deletemostly-peaceful=somewhat illegal
Delete...but NOT necessarily "illegitimate".
DeleteBut, but, but BLM!! Omitting of course, Antifa, straggling looters, and "stand by" white supremist to muddy the water of peaceful protests.
DeleteNaw FA, not moving any goalposts. You can split hairs over definitions and where Trump was or wasn't but a mob ramming doors, smashing windows, and stampeding law enforcement to gain illegal entry to trash and spread feces on the floor doesn't quite cut "legitimate". It just doesn't fall into a legal public expression of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action.
And by all appearances and exposed evidence, it was an orchestrated seditious coup from the beginning.
I'll call Murat then. Good to know.
DeleteCuz when you can no longer "use your words" and make your argument, that is when violence happens. And since you obviously can't, acta non verba!
DeleteTo borrow TC's expletive (I think), Jesus on a pogo stick!
Delete"Buddha on a bicycle" is more likely to come from my keyboard, but I have used that one as well lol.
The January 6th Boogaloo in the Capitol building was one prong of a many-pronged attack by the Trumpenproletariat on Biden's legitimate election win.
Those screeching "legitimate protest" now will of course flip if Biden should be voted out of office and people who enjoy a government that does nothing going on a rampage to "protest" it.
I'm optimistic that with enough petition signatures, Vladimir Putin will allow the US Republican Party to have its former foreign policy platform back. Cross fingers.
DeleteThey'll have to rip it out of the WEF's cold dead hands first.
DeleteYawn.
DeleteAfter Russia's losing ~35,000 soldiers to run after the "threat" of 900 Ukrainian "Nazis," losing billion dollar ships to thousand dollar drones, threatening to "freeze Europe to death" with lack of fuel easily replaced by the US and the Middle East (and at a lucrative and incentivized profit by both), threatening to "starve the world to death" that was mostly using US agriculture and fertilizers already, now we're back to the "threat" of a lumberingly slow and noisy submarine that NATO can track better than Russia's own "navy" can that took the Russians 40 years to build and is of dubious operational status.
What's next, Christmas decoration shortages from China?
I'm cleaning out from under my bed in case I need to be scared later.
TC,
DeleteAgain, we agree in the long run, but right now, Russia is locking up Eastern Ukraine. I think you said either you are a farmer or know farmers, so you know that for this year's planting, fuel and fertilizer are more that double over a year ago.
Hug your chains as long as you like, beamish.
DeleteAs for the Wi Supreme Court... :)
^^belongs in front of the Thersites July 9, 2022 at 9:11:00 AM CDT comment above^^
ReplyDeleteWhich originally read: "Cus you avoided addressing the question entirely and made excuses, instead."
ReplyDeletebtw - Did the US Supreme Court succumb the corporate interests of "Big Coat Hanger" in the Dobbs decision? Cus you avoided addressing the question entirely and made excuses, instead.
ReplyDeleteExcuses that would logically infer you a "mentalist" capable of reading the minds and thoughts of others, and thereby proving that you are not making a serious argument.
ReplyDeleteHere's the problem. Production needs to be increased PERIOD. And you can't do that when you have BRANDON around to do it. He attacked it from day one, in office, about 1150 oil and gas rigs were in operation then, and . Now we've gotten up to about 760. We are 400 rigs down. NOT GOOD!
ReplyDeleteFIRE THAT DUMBO who stole the White House and allow Lease sales open the Pipelines, and Permits
FIRE THAT DUMBO who stole the White House and the prices will come down as oil starts flowing again.
Too many catfights in this house any more. I have resorted to scrolling quickly through comments to see if any are worth reading, and usually decide that none are. Just people calling each other names. I may miss something worthwhile once in a while, but it's not worth wasting time on all the chaff. Too bad. I used to look forward to reading this site daily.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness Jayhawk, this is the Friday "Get it off your Chest" post where pretty much anything, within reason goes.
DeleteMost of the other times, ppl stay pretty much on topic. Even when we disagree.
And for me, while I seldom agree with where the lead posters, AOW, Warren and Silver come from, I learn a lot reading them as often as they post.
And, for what it's worth, as a target of some of the anonymous stupid posts, they've done a pretty good job patrolling that and sending it to the rubbish bin. At least as it pertains to the left leaning commenter.
I have resorted to scrolling quickly through comments to see if any are worth reading, and usually decide that none are.
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Largely agree.
Dave Miller
DeleteI wish it was limited to the Friday "Get It Off Your Chest" threads. Sadly, it's not.
Jayhawk,
DeleteI have resorted to scrolling quickly through comments to see if any are worth reading, and usually decide that none are.
The blogosphere is crazy during any election season. This election season seems to be worse than most -- and there are weeks to go. **sigh**
What's more, Blogger has made changes making it impossible to delete comments en masse.
**sigh**
Furthermore, as a rule, we allow free speech -- within certain limits, of course.
The administrators here do not babysit this blog. We have lives!
Biden is a transnational crime syndicate. Do the math on his SAR's. If even factoring in the prior two decades, his financial laundering is mind blowing. And yet, he has never been brought to account! It is a failure of governance.
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Tammy,
DeleteI don't see how the Biden Family will be held to account. Like the Clinton Family, the Biden Family consists of a bunch of slippery grifters.
And, yes, this is a failure of governance!
Let us recall the words of John Adams in October 1798:
DeleteOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Now read the entire paragraph:
DeleteWhile our Country remains untainted with the Principles and manners, which are now producing desolation in so many Parts of the World: while she continues Sincere and incapable of insidious and impious Policy: We shall have the Strongest Reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned Us by Providence. But should the People of America, once become capable of that deep <, Start deletion,[. . .], End,> simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which assumes the Language of Justice and moderation while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming Pictures of Candour frankness & sincerity while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World. Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by <, Start deletion,[. . .], End,> morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition <, Start deletion,and, End,> Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Tammy and AOW,
DeleteTimely comments. Remember what they got Manafort on? Making money in Ukraine. Many Americans had their snouts in that trough, but Manafort's downfall was he was on the wrong side. In Ukraine and in the US.
The fact that the two parties are fighting over the Supreme Court is one more clue that we are circling the toilet bowl.
DeleteJames Madison said that our Constitution requires “sufficient virtue among men for self-government,” otherwise, “nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.”
DeleteAs for Adams, I'm not sure who gets to say who is or isn't moral and religious in today's times but my vote wouldn't go to an admitted sexually assaulting vagina grabber doing a bible photo stunt or the white supremist and Talibangelicas supporting him.
To Biden voters, virtue lies in quietly and meekly allowing the government bureaucracy to run amok whilst silently selling your country out for a guaranteed salary for your incompetent, drug addled children and pretending not to know about it. 4Chan has cracked Hunter's phone. Prepare to hear about "Russian involvement". @@
DeleteMuh Russia!
Delete...cuz only Russians would be smart enough to crack Hunter Biden's password... Password123!
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DeleteMoral and Religious, writ large and applied in a secular context, is as simple as not acting as if you are a god unto yourself, respecting others, and voluntarily abiding by a set of commonly agreed-upon standards of morality.
ReplyDeleteMuch of modern-day America has none of that.
Moral relativism (the actual problem) doesn't have legs to stand and march with that a commonly agreed upon standards of morality didn't give it. Nobody can be a "hypocrite" (the worst thing evah, I tell ye!) without a codex of rules to thump at them.
ReplyDeleteIf you're saying our problem is we no longer have a shared set of values and mores, then I agree.
DeleteThere is some overlap. It's not that there isn't a shared morality (otherwise there's no sting in anyone labelling someone a hypocrite), but rather that there's a widespread belief that sins are absolved by Whataboutisms and tu quoque fallacies.
DeleteI think too many people are also lacking in toleration. Live and let live for Pete's sake.
DeleteThe America we love, and the American that we remember exists today ONLY because of people like you and I who will not bow down, or surrender to the Looney Left and their crazy, Marxist, and Socialist policies, the idiotic anti-American policies and ridiculous Executive Orders issued by a President that is Selile, and delusional, who walks like he has one foot in the ground. Who can’t make a speech without stumbling , and stuttering so much that by the time he remebers what he was going to say, he forgets where he is.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of us Patriots want this man’s term in office OVER, and concluded it’s the only way that our beloved Country can continue to exist, because we are on a route to destruction.
Why do so many people just do nothing and be complicit in the face of injustice? Why do we just sit around and do nothing while our country continues to sink? While our Cities, and Towns become “Sanctuary Cities” for these ILLEAGEL’S from Biden’s Open Border to over run us to feed off of our sympathy, while these mobs that contain Drug Dealers, Rapists, Gang Bangers, Sex Traffickers, and even Murders?
We need to Fight for our 2nd Amendment Rights, we need more Parents turning the tide at Schoolboard Meetings, Women speaking up about how the Transgender movement has hurt our Children, we need more people training to use firearms in case of an emergency, we need NEW People Being Elected who hold traditional American values as examples. We need to get RID of these Bleeding Hearts that are filling the office’s of District Attorney’s, like the one in Manhattan, New York, who lets the Criminals go, while punishes the Victim just like he is doing to that poor man from the “Bodega” where he allegedly stabbed a VIOLENT man to death after the enraged man came around the counter and attacked him and beat him up over a bag of chips. Where there was Clear Video of his defending himself from the APE shoveing the clerk over the counter it became a case of self defense!
That clerk should never had been charged with murder, he was simply defending his STORE, AND HIS LIFE with what he had to do when someone who appears to be trying to rob him, and hurt him.
We’ve all seen these things before, we’ve seen the cases of people’s action in light of violent crimes being committed right in front of them. From the horrific and disgusting case of people just standing around waiting for a train was woman was raped in a subway, as many of them are, and even thrown onto the subway tracks for NO REASON.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember what happened to ALL those poor children during the Uvalde tragedy by that swore to protect us, there had been calls to not merely be bystanders to injustice, but upstanders who will do whatever they can to stop it. These could be the traditionally heroic acts such as fighting off the perpetrator, or running in to rescue children as some parents bravely did in Uvalde despite the INACTION of the police. Speaking up when someone’s getting bullied, taking a girl home from a party to make sure she gets home safe.
By Saying Something when you See Something Be the one to make the 911 call when no one else does. … In all cases, whether or not you’re in a position to directly intervene the point is we can all do something to help.
What sort of country do you want to live in? What sort of country do you want Your Children to grow up in? What sort of neighborhood and town are you happy to be in? For me, the answer would be one that is safe first and foremost, one where the laws are followed and applied.. Where crime is non-existent or will be Swiftly Dealt With when it’s not.
Where you can feel a sense of safety with your fellow citizens and neighbors.
, I’d like a country where people feel National Pride in Our Identity as Americans, where you are not ashamed to Stand Up for the playing of our National Anthem, and BOO when someone doesn’t but rather “Takes a Knee!
Where our President does Good, and our Economy Booms. . Where we have a strong defense, and where the rest of the world respects us, a Country that puts its Citizens first before other global interests, and hasn’t forgotten our Freedom , and our Rights, and our Free Speech..
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Sadly, this is not currently the case in America and in many communities. Policies now enable sanctuary cities, uncontrolled illegal immigration and our own President is sending these INTRUDER all over the Nation in the Dark of night. ,And rather hold us hostage to line their own pockets. And NOT somewhere that teaches our kids to question their Gender, and to weaken our military, and who puts America Last, and to Silence Conservative Voices and brand anyone from the opposition party as bigots, and racists, because we are the ones who stand up to all this lunacy, and won’t BOW Down to it. We won’t be brainwashed to promote the Left’s agenda against America.
Look at the Crime rates since the illegal’s have been bussed into your community. Look at what you could afford a year ago that you can’t now. Look at what your kids are being taught in school. Look at the questions you’re afraid to ask in fear of being labeled a racist, because you President says o. . If you aren’t liking what you see, then it’s time to speak out and Vote these Leftists out, All of them, form Biden, to Pelosi, to Schumer, Schiff, AOC, ALL OF THEM. .We can not afford to just standing by, it’s as simple as that!
Do NOT be afraid to be labeled “that mom” who speaks up at the school board meetings.
Backing the Police, and the Millitary, and NOT Black Lives Matter. And NOT the person who takes a knee, and won’t stand up during our National Anthem.
Standing by your Daughter’s right to a fair playing field in her sport.
Raise your Son to be a Man. And DON’T allow your School to have Bathrooms that allow Boys dressed like Girls etc. .
The good news is that the Country is Waking Up from this nonsense, more and more have decided to speak out.. Towns, and States are becoming for 2nd amendment rights, parents turning the tide at schoolboard meetings, women speaking up about how the trans movement has hurt them, more people training to use firearms in case of an emergency, people being elected who hold traditional values for some examples.
Lets Keep our Country Great
Amen to that!
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