Monday, July 15, 2024
Sunday, July 14, 2024
The irony: Joe Biden twice said tonight we're going to settle this at the Battle Box
He did say ballot at the beginning, so he's one for three:
The left's answer is always to call the other guy what you are
Zack Beauchamp for Vox:
Biden is a steady leader but in a poor position to handle a crisis; Trump is a demagogue who is more likely to raise tensions rather than lower them.
Jonathan Turley: This moment did not occur in a vacuum, it occurred in a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage
President Biden has stoked this rage rhetoric. In 2022, Biden held his controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced Trump supporters as enemies of the people. Biden recently referenced the speech and has embraced the claims that this could be our last democratic election. ...
As soon as Trump was elected, unhinged rage became the norm as with Kathy Griffin featuring herself holding the bloody severed head of Trump. ...
For months, people have heard politicians and press call Trump “Hitler” and the GOP a Nazi movement. Some compared stopping Trump to stopping Hitler in 1933. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) declared Trump “is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated.” He later apologized. ...
The media has been quick to denounce reckless rhetoric from the right while largely ignoring the same language on the left. That included threats against conservative Supreme Court justices before the assassination plot against Brett Kavanaugh.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) went to the steps of the Supreme Court and called out Kavanaugh by name: “I want to tell you, (Justice Neil) Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” ...
This moment did not occur in a vacuum; it occurred in a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage.
Read the whole thing here.
She's poison: Nancy Pelosi is the worst one of them all, sent a clear message to the extremists eleven days ago
This is not a normal election where you want to win, if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time. This is something that is undermining our democracy. He must be stopped. He cannot be president!
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Why you pay more for natural gas AND electricity: The utility mark-up of natural gas average prices over Henry Hub spot prices has never been higher than in 2024, 40% of electricity is generated by natural gas in the US, the largest source
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| A record 672% in the first half of 2024 |
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| 675% in the first quarter of 2024, a new record |
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| 669% in the second quarter of 2024: "Energy prices are coming down" lol |
The rarely uttered but all-important truth: Energy prices lie at the root of all price pressures
Energy-heavy transportation and warehousing operations saw prices fall in the early and final purchasing stages of their business, PPI data showed. That indicates that supply-side pressures are easing, Kurt Rankin, senior economist with PNC Financial Services, wrote Thursday.
“The downward-trending energy PPI pace, which lies at the root of all price pressures in the US economy, implies that the second half of 2024 will see diminishing cost pressures from producers’ own energy bills, as well as the cost of shipping goods to retailers,” Rankin wrote.
The final two paragraphs, here.
Don't be fooled. High energy prices remain the main drag on the economy.
A presidential administration biased against fossil fuels, which still accounted for 81% of primary energy production in the US in 2022, is shooting itself in the foot when trying to fight inflation and explains the persistence of the problem which most elites predicted would only be transitory.
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| Gasoline prices remain Obama-like, not Trump-like in the first half of 2024 |
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| Natural gas prices remain highly elevated in the first half of 2024 and ticked up again |
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| Electricity in the US has never cost more than under the recent, lunatic Biden administration |
Friday, July 12, 2024
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