Midterm Capers
Link to quote: Biden says the price of gas was 'over five dollars' when he took office, data shows it was $2.39 | Fox Business
Joe Biden is trying to provide the message and democrats are out using dirty tricks.
Schumer caught on hot mic talking to Biden about the Senate race.
"The most common price of gas in America is $3.39, down from over five dollars when I took office," Biden said. "We need to keep making that progress by having energy companies bring down the cost of a gallon of gas that reflects the cost of paying for a barrel of oil.
Biden made the comment during a speech on the CHIPS Act in Syracuse, New York .
However, the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the week ending Jan. 25, 2021, shortly after Biden took office, was $2.39, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline didn't hit $5 until June 2022, which is well over a year after Biden took office."
Biden says the price of gas was 'over five dollars' when he took office, data shows it was $2.39 | Fox Business
In the meantime, a new accuser has mysteriously come forward to claim that Herschel Walker pressured her to get an abortion way back in the early 90's. Georgia is the state that democrats feel is all important in holding onto the Senate. This new accuser, like the previous one has come forward on the eve of the election. It's what we call democrat dirty work, and the stink is very familiar. A few cycles ago the Washington Post unveiled a story of underage dating involving Roy Moore as soon as he won the GOP nomination for the Alabama Senate race. That time it was the determining factor in that race. We all know what democrats did to Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.
This time it looks like it won't work:
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic on Thursday telling President Joe Biden that things were "going downhill" in the Georgia Senate race with less than two weeks to go before the midterm elections. "The state where we're going downhill is Georgia," Schumer said of Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock's highly charged reelection bid. "It's hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker."
Hot Mic Catches Schumer Warning Biden About Herschel Walker's Chances (businessinsider.com)
And there is yet another unconscionable act:
"The Air Force will “hold accountable” whoever leaked confidential records holding private information about the sexual assault of a Republican House candidate and former officer , two GOP congressmen said Wednesday. Reps. Jim Banks and Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) said in a joint statement that Air Force watchdog Lt. Gen. Stephen Davis had told them the service took “full responsibility” for the release of Jennifer-Ruth Green’s confidential personnel records to an unnamed political research firm."
“On yesterday’s [Tuesday’s] call, the Air Force took full responsibility for improperly releasing Lt. Col. Green’s confidential personnel records to an opposition research firm just weeks before the midterm election,” the congressmen said. “Lt. Gen. Davis informed us that the leaker has been identified and will be held accountable.” The document also made its way to Politico reporter Adam Wren, who published the information in an Oct. 7 profile of Green despite her pleas to keep the assault private. Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring told The Post Tuesday that the documents were “obtained by a public record request and provided to Politico by a source.”
Air Force docs on GOP candidate's assault leaked to Dem shop (nypost.com)
In case you are wondering who Jennifer-Ruth Green is, she is the Republican candidate for Indiana's 1st Congressional District.
The same candidate that the Congressional Black Caucus refuses to endorse. Instead, the organization will endorse her white male opponent, Rep. Frank Mrvan.
The Week:
GDP Report: "The Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product , the broadest measure of goods and services produced in the economy, grew by 2.6% over the last three months. The numbers show a rebound after the economy shrank in the first six months of this year." " Consumer spending grew just 1.4% over the same period."
GDP boost too little, too late to help Democrats, strategists say | Fox News
Covid Report:
WASHINGTON—The Covid-19 pandemic that has killed millions worldwide “was most likely the result of a research-related incident” in China, and not natural transmission of a virus from animal to human, a new report by Republicans on the Senate health committee concludes. The study cites details about the early spread of the SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes Covid; the fact that no animal host has been identified nearly three years into the pandemic; and troubled biosafety procedures at labs in the Chinese city of Wuhan to buttress its conclusion.
Covid-19 ‘Most Likely’ Leaked From Lab in China, Senate GOP Report Says - WSJ
Sen Mendez is under investigation again: "Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is under federal investigation, his advisor confirmed Wednesday, seven years after the senator was previously indicted for alleged bribery and corruption—which prosecutors are reportedly now investigating him for again."
Sen. Bob Menendez Under Federal Investigation—Again (forbes.com)
Alito speaks out on devious leak: "Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Tuesday night that the leak of the draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade this year endangered the lives of justices by putting a target on their backs. “It was a great betrayal of trust by somebody, and it was a shock, because nothing like that had happened in the past, so it certainly changed the atmosphere at the court for the remainder of last term,” Alito said at an event at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation in response to a question about how the leak has affected the court. “The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination, because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us,” he added. The court also overturned its related 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the ruling in June."
Alito says leaked abortion opinion made conservative justices 'targets for assassination' (cnbc.com)
Musk takes control of Twitter & cleans house: “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of healthy beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,” he added, saying that his vision for Twitter would counter polarization and extremism in traditional media. “That is why I bought Twitter. I didn’t do it because it would be easy. I didn’t do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love.”
‘I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love:’ Elon Musk drops a new statement as his Twitter takeover inches closer and says he won’t turn it into a ‘free-for-all hellscape’ (msn.com)
What Have We Learned:
On Tuesday night John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz had their only debate. Many votes had already been cast. The Fetterman campaign must have thought it would have been worse to not debate than to allow their candidate to take the stage at the last minute. Whether it is right or wrong, Fetterman will likely lose undecided votes because of that decision. As we all now know he struggled that night. He also contradicted himself on fracking. Oz on the other hand came off as well polished and in command. Most important of all, Oz avoided attacking Fetterman personally. He was able to go after Fetterman on the issues of values, crime and immigration.
Democrats and the media have tried to make the election about abortion and Donald Trump. The voters are showing that the election will be about inflation, crime and the policies of Joe Biden. In certain polls on the issues, January 6th rates nineteenth. Democrats are also learning that Hispanics can think for themselves.
For months the media constructed and floated a narrative that the GOP had questionable candidates: "election deniers" and democrats even donated about $40 Million to those very candidates in the GOP primary elections, thinking they would be easier to defeat. It now appears that all of it backfired. American voters are energized by the terrible policies of Joe Biden. We will be seeing a red wave and it will carry both far right, as well as more moderate Republicans to victory.
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Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple
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And we even have a new name for the state of Illinois: Pritzkerville!
Darren Bailey's campaign is doing so poorly he actually asked God to give him a miracle win, on camera.
Bailey who 100% sounds like a hick, never had a prayer. 80% of the voters of Illinois are in the Chicago area, and I have never seen anyone who talks like a hick elected to county or city wide office up here.
Plus, last but not least, he's a fundamentalist Christian Trumpster. He's going to lose by 15-20 points.
Pritzker has a 9 point lead and most likely will prevail. It will be one of the few things democrats can hold onto in 11 days.
Our 3rd largest city elected Lori E. Lightfoot as its mayor. That tells us all we need to know about what that city has become.
Illinois used to be a very purple state, with both Republicans and Democrats winning governorships and U.S. senate seats on a regular basis. That changed over the past couple decades as the Republican Party became more and more crazy. The upper middle class "Republican" suburbs of Chicago dont like all that noise and started voting for Democrats , enough to tip the balance of power on a so far permanent basis.
No John, Chicago died and it wasn't the way Paper Lace thought.
" and then there was no sound at all, cept the clock upon the wall......"
Aretha Franklin or Nowhere Man?
just a verse from the song by paper lace , the night chicago died ..
think it pretty much says whats happening or will happen election eve while the votes are tallied . .
Now the beatles song "Nowhere man " kinda fits the current head executive in government in a way .....
Earworms abound today .
I recall it from long ago.
think it pretty much says whats happening or will happen election eve while the votes are tallied .
You're on to something!
maybe ... maybe not ...
As Al Capone once said: "In Chicago anything can happen."
So people aren't buying the bullshit the Democrats are selling.
Evidently not.
The words "most likely" are used for the purpose of spreading misinformation and disinformation, because they sure as hell aren't proof.
They were Jen Psaki's most useful tools.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis brings his wife Casey DeSantis on stage during a campaign event for Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance run by Turning Point Action in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S., August 19, 2022. (REUTERS/Gaelen Morse)
Musk plans to end lifetime Twitter bans
https:// trib.al/7yBxfmz
Let the liberal freak out begin.
And right on cue.................
Your right on cue is about an hour late.
LOL.
So you've been freaking out for an hour now. That can't be healthy.
He's my hero!
When he spends some of those billions to end hunger or homelessness or some other noble deed please let me know.
Here you go:
Isn't he talking about yanking that support?
Get back to me when he ends hunger or homelessness or some other noble deed.
He has to end hunger too?
He's offered to donate billions to the UN once they proved that his donation would end world hunger. So far, all the UN has offered him is crickets chirping.
Ya, I'm sure!
Yep
Good, because by now you should know that I'd never lie to you and can always support my statements with facts.
It's easy to find verification of this, isn't it? Even from left-wing sources.
That's nice.
That's the thing. All of Musk's wealth is in his stock portfolio.
He doesn't actually have the money in the bank. It is all on paper.
Also I don't think his tesla stock is worth 6 billion.
Exactly, who among us would trade our fungible assets for his $210B on paper?
I was wrong. Tesla is worth 700 billion. How I don't get.
If the stock market crashes, I will not be the one jumping out of a window.
I know that is very comforting.
I dont think Musk's ego is small enough to allow him to not interfere with the day to day workings of twitter.
He will screw it up, make a mess of things, and then pretend nothing happened. And the right will call him a genius.
He will rid the place of bad actors and bad policies. Free speech is now on the table over at Twitter.
And that is what the left is freaking out about. They will have to find a way to deal with the opposing opinion.
Their beloved Obama told them:
“I’ve heard some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative or they don’t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women,” Obama said. “I gotta tell you I don’t agree with that either. I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.”
Even Barry acknowledged the need for opposing opinion. I guess he used too many big words and they didn't understand him.
That's "the rub" with the left having an eloquent speaker.
Exactly, just look at his failures:
What a loser.
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats call in their biggest star, Barack Obama, on Friday in the hopes that the former president can excite voters in Georgia and help the party hold onto a critical U.S. Senate seat."
AKA: The last minute Hail Mary!
“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of healthy beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,”
Oh, he's my saviour! He's bringing world peace through Twitter!!!!
Big fucking deal.
It is for America
and the coming election!
It really is no big fucking deal for America or the coming election. Makes no difference whatsoever to America or the coming election.
Again, Big fucking deal.
Let me remind you that in 2020 Twitter and all the other social media platforms (except this one) censored the Hunter Biden Laptop story. Many voters later said that would have changed their vote if they had known.
That equaled a big deal in the 2020 election.
No need to remind me of a nothinberder. There was nothing to it.
I don't believe you.
Where's the proof?
Who are those 'many voters'?
It didn't equal dick in the 2020 election.
Is that what you're hanging your hat on regarding the 2020 election - the nothingberder Hunter laptop story? That would have given him the election eh?
Nothing was censored regarding the alleged Hunter Biden laptop story because there was nothing to censor
On the laptop?
Here:
After the election they finally admitted it
So the proof is on the laptop.
As Adam Schiff would say: "It's in plain sight."
"'Again, Big fucking deal."
And yet, it seems to piss you off
Not pissed off at all. Y'all got nothing, as usual.
The oil industry may get a new lease on life
But just remember:
Four months ago I did a poll seeking the NT members' predictions about the results of the midterms. 21 members voted and the results of the poll were as follows:
Democrats win majority in both House and Senate 4
Republicans win majority in both House and Senate 12
Democrats get majority in the House and Republicans get majority in the Senate 1
Republicans get majority in the House and Democrats get majority in the Senate 4
Let's see if the majority of the members are going to be right.
I recall it vividly.
11 days and counting..
Oh, before I forget:
Elon Musk just FIRED Vijaya Gadde, the woman who made the call to suspend Donald Trump permanently.
She was cruel, why permanently suspend someone just because they wanted to overthrow the US government and told a violent mob at the Capitol , on twitter, to "remember this day forever" ?
Who knows, he could have come back as what we here call a "rereg!"
"Illinois Gov. Pritzker defers decision on student COVID-19 vaccine mandate to legislature."
Evidently, it's a hot potato during an election.
Speaking of big, hot potatos...
Darren Bailey doesnt have a prayer Vic, dont get your hopes up.
It doesn't look like he does. Illinois deserves what it gets. The state of the big corrupt democratic machine, which can't pay its lavish pensions, is a disgrace. The city of Chicago now a dirty shell of itself. The next President should make it impossible to bail Illinois out.
Send that right over to Karine Jean-Pierre.
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There is still hope for her, she is such a terrible liar that you can tell she has a nugget of integrity left. Unlike Psaki who is beyond help.
Lol, ya that is the difference. One was bad as a liar, the other a pro!
Thanks for admitting all the people who promoted Russian collusion without evidence are liars.
Has anyone got a copy of that evidence Adam Schiff promised us? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Election integrity storm brewing in PA: Over 250k ballots sent to voters with unverified ID
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/brewing-election-integrity-storm-pa-over-250k-ballots-sent-voters?utm_source=sf&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twjs
Vic people who are registered to vote can vote, whether by mail or in person. They check the signatures on the ballots to the signatures in the voter registry. It is a totally reliable system.
And for all we know it is Republicans who want to game the system. Lets investigate every state where a Republican wins by less than 10 points.
Who is they and how is the signature checked?
How ballot signatures are verified in Arizona
Voters have to sign the front of the ballot envelope so election officials can check to make sure it came from the correct voter.
PHOENIX — With all this attention on mail-in voting during the 2020 election, you might be wondering how election officials know the ballot turned in is from the right voter.
A big part of verifying this is checking signatures.
But before we get into that, it is important to note the verification process starts much sooner for those on the permanent early voting list. Voters get a form to confirm their address or change their address a few months before elections.
Okay, back to signatures.
Voters have to sign the front of the envelope their ballot is in so election officials can check to make sure the ballot came from the correct voter.
A county recorder or another election official compares the signatures on the envelope with the voter’s signature from their voter registration, according to a spokesperson from the secretary of state’s office.
For the next layer of protection, the election official should also look at signatures from other documents like early ballot request forms or past voting documents.
If the signatures match, the county recorder marks the unopened envelope showing that they were satisfied with the signature.
The envelopes remain unopened until they can be counted. Ballots that do not make it past this step cannot be counted.
Ballots that aren’t counted are tracked and reported.
If the signatures do not look to match up, the county recorder will try to contact the voter by phone, text, email or mail.
It is done more or less this way across the whole country.
Do you really think that is being done?
Do you think it is accurate?
Senate GOP report on COVID origin suggests lab leak is "most likely"
https:// trib.al/2gTn8qK
"The departure of former CEO Parag Agrawal is a singular advance for free speech."
"Horrified and disgusted by the reports that Paul Pelosi was assaulted in his and Speaker Pelosi's home last night. Grateful to hear that Paul is on track to make a full recovery and that law enforcement including our stellar Capitol Police are on the case.'.....Mitch McConnell.
Biden:
‘We Went to 54 States in 2018’
Since taking over as anchor of Fox News Sunday, Shannon Bream has increased the show’s ratings with the younger demographic. It is the only Sunday public affairs program that has double-digit percent gains year to year with the 25-54 age demographic.
https:// forbes.com/sites/debbikic kham/2022/10/28/talking-travel-with-fox-news-sunday-anchor-shannon-bream/ …
Bream has a spectacular and diverse CV. I'm happy that her new show is doing so well.
She earned it. She filled in wherever Fox needed her.
Biden threatens oil companies with "higher tax" if they don’t increase production
https:// trib.al/DmA3bp1
Woo Hoo!!!! cuz they need to be paying higher taxes. Add to that higher tax the very low volume of diesel fuel available in the country to where they are warning that some areas / suppliers could run out of fuel this winter due to the low supply. They say any interruption won't be long-term, but it could happen. And what happens when a commodity gets in short supply? Of course, it's cost goes up.
As both the taxes and any possible higher costs for fuel for delivering such items to stores such as food, etc are always passed along to the consumer... what joy... higher prices just in time for Christmas.. What a gift this Administration keeps giving to the citizens.. I'm really looking forward to it, cuz my food bill hasn't gone up enough...
(just in case anybody misses it (as we have several here on NT who cannot for the life of them recognize it) this entire post is SARCASM. And any good sarcasm must have an element of truth in it.)
Well done!
Walker hits back at Obama: "Put my resume against his resume"
https:// trib.al/Rv5Hhic
Take that Barack!