Losing a son in Iraq and blackmailing Saudi Arabia
Link to Quote: https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/saudis-say-biden-asked-to-hold-oil-production-cut-until-after-midterms/
Joe Biden's green energy policies continue to bite him in the ass. Thursday the Biden administration admitted that it had asked he Saudis to delay the OPEC+ vote to cut oil production until the next OPEC meeting...in other words, until after the midterm elections. The Saudis refused. That leaves Biden with rising gas prices going into the election plus the embarrassment of being caught making such a politically driven request. Biden is outraged that the people he called killers wouldn't help him.
Now he is launching a threat:
“When the House and Senate gets back, they’re going to have to — there’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done, with Russia,” Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Tuesday night. “I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind,” the president added. “But there will be — there will be consequences.”
https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/saudis-say-biden-asked-to-hold-oil-production-cut-until-after-midterms/
Is the US under Biden going to drastically change it's relationship with Saudi Arabia?
Democrats appear ready to do just that. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Robert Menendez caled for a freeze on all US cooperation with Saudi Arabia. Are we in the end trading weapons for oil? Trying to blackmail a foreign leader? Where is Alexander Vindman?
Cutting off arms sales to Saudi Arabia will only hurt US industry. In the end, if these progressive morons make good on these threats the only thing they will achieve is to hurt the U.S. economy (as if they haven't hurt it enough) and to push whatever remaining allies we have in the Middle East further into the arms of Russia and China.
The Week:
The trial of Igor Danchenko: "FBI supervisory counterintelligence analyst Brian Auten was the first witness in the trial of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as the primary sub-source for Steele's anti-Trump dossier and has been charged with five counts of making false statements to the bureau. Auten testified that he and a group of FBI agents went overseas in early October 2021 to speak with Steele about the dossier. During questioning by Special Counsel John Durham on Tuesday, Auten said that during those meetings the FBI offered Steele $1 million if he could corroborate allegations in the dossier. Auten testified that Steele could not do so.
Auten also said that the FBI had no corroboration of allegations in the dossier but nevertheless took that information and inserted it into the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
"On October 21, 2016 [the date of the Carter Page FISA application], did you have any information to corroborate that information?" Durham asked.
"No," Auten said, confirming that the FBI began receiving Steele’s reports, later known as the dossier, on Sept. 19, 2016, and submitted its first FISA application on Page on Oct. 21, 2016."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-probe-fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1-million-corroborate-trump-allegations-dossier
Mayorkas big lie: "Documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation following a Freedom of Information Act request are casting fresh doubts on last year’s whipping controversy concerning U.S. Border Patrol agents.
According to the newly released emails, Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was aware the popular narrative that Border Patrol agents whipped a group of Haitian migrants was false hours before he declared the incident “horrific” during a White House press conference. One of Mayorkas’s staffers sent him an email less than three hours before the press conference relaying the account of photographer Paul Ratje, who took the viral photos and said the salacious account of what happened was false.
“I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said in a quote provided to Mayorkas. “He [Border Patrol agent] was swinging it [reins] but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”
Rather than using the information he was provided to correct the narrative, Mayorkas perpetuated the media’s misleading account of the incident by suggesting that something requiring investigation had occurred.
“I want to assure you that we are addressing this with tremendous speed and tremendous force,” Mayorkas said at the time. “The facts will drive the action we take.”
https://news.yahoo.com/dhs-secretary-mayorkas-informed-whipping-143320293.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Subpoena for Trump: "The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol voted to issue a subpoena to former President Donald Trump , seeking to compel him to provide documents and testimony under oath . The panel voted 9-0 to issue the subpoena.
The former president could comply with the subpoena and testify. He could appear before the committee and assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, a step he took recently in a New York probe of his financial dealings . Mr. Trump could go to court to contest the legitimacy of the subpoena. Or he could refuse to testify, potentially setting up a high-stakes legal standoff.
Legal experts said it was unlikely that Mr. Trump would cooperate, and he issued a statement criticizing the committee."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-subpoena-what-you-need-to-know-11665699519?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
Core Inflation rate rises: " The core consumer price index, which excludes food and energy, increased 6.6% from a year ago, the highest level since 1982, Labor Department data showed Thursday. From a month earlier, the core CPI climbed 0.6% for a second month."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/core-us-inflation-rises-40-123213300.html
What have we learned?
We now know, thanks to John Durham, that the FBI was willing to do whatever it took to harm then President Donald Trump. It began with "Crossfire Hurricane," an investigation based on hearsay. The FBI would later offered the author of the Steele Dossier $1 Million to verify his own information. He couldn't do it. Nevertheless the FBI used the unverified dossier, not once, not twice, not three times, but 4 times to obtain FISA warrants to spy on/investigate Carter Page. According to the FISA rules, that we once heard carried great penalties, everything in a warrant application had to be verified. In one case an FBI lawyer even lied on the application. The Justice Department Inspector General ultimately documented 17 significant omissions and inaccuracies in those applications. None of the FBI agents were ever held accountable and maybe none ever will be, but John Durham has put them on trial in the court of public opinion.
Inflation will be with us for a while. For our friends on the left: Inflation, once unleashed, is tough to conquer. The Fed is now raising interest rates and they have a long, long way to go. No more free rides in the stock market and the new mortgage rate is at 6.92%. Biden and the democrats own it all. He spent over $3 Trillion in his first year alone. They can't do anything now about inflation or even gas prices. We may be rid of most of them soon, but how long will it take to pick up the pieces?
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"We shall overcome!"
Sounds like a repeat of Obama's famous "After the election I'll have more flexibility."
Lol, there is a time element involved!
"Sen. Joe Manchin’s approval rating dropped by double digits in his home state of West Virginia, which makes him one of the most unpopular senators, according to a recent Morning Consult poll."
Gee, I wonder what he did wrong?
He was a trusting soul, wasn't he?
Like Terry Malloy, he could have been a contender!
Like other Biden policies, this isn't going to end well for the US.
Come on. We all know this isn't an "investigation". It s a pathetic political smear campaign.
As a sidebar - I noticed the other seed was locked.
It wasn't well thought out, was it?
Come on. We all know this isn't an "investigation". It s a pathetic political smear campaign.
The dems really think everyone is stupid.
As a sidebar - I noticed the other seed was locked.
This Friday I get 2 weekly reviews!
It wasn't thought out at all. But then again, what has been thought completely through with this administration.
The other wasn't up long before somebody locked it. Must have ruffled some feathers.
The world to them is the one they knew in Derrick Bell's classroom. It doesn't seem to work out here in the real world.
Biden's entire presidency isn't going to end well for the US!
The "founding father" of CRT/DEI propaganda and activism knew exactly what he was "teaching".
As I recall, he did have a defender.
"The Committee waited until its last scheduled hearing and just before the House is expected to flip to GOP control. It seems a case of planned obsolescence since there is little time or means to produce such testimony in the remaining time."....Jonathan Turley
"Ohio voters to decide whether to ban noncitizens from casting ballots in state."
"While Ohio’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races have received the bulk of the attention ahead of the November general election, voters will also decide on who can vote.
Issue Two , pushed by Secretary of State Frank LaRose, would require that only a citizen of the United States, who is at least 18 years old and has been a registered voter in the state for at least 30 days, be eligible to vote in any state or local election in Ohio. It also stops local governments from allowing a person to vote in local elections if they are not legally qualified to vote in state elections."
It seems logical that only citizens should be voting, but we need it enacted into law.
What defies logic is why non citizens would be allowed to vote in the first place.
You are 100% correct. The problem is that founders never thought that they would have to codify the rights of citizenship. After what happen in California and with what the left has done, we now know we do.
I'm not sure I agree with the part where it states 'has ben a registered voter in the state for at least 30 days'. The right to vote is a Constitutional right. I would rather this be changed to allow them to register and cast a provisional ballot. Otherwise there's no fighting back against restrictions against other Constitutional rights such as requiring insurance and/or training before you can buy a gun.
I agree that only citizens should be voting.
The founders never included it in the Constitution. Should Republicans control all three branches of government it needs to be the first order of business.
The Biden admins diplomatic efforts around the world are a joke and a very bad one at that.
This is just one more example of it .....
A total snoozefest when regarded outside of the realm of unhinged MAGA.
For you maybe. 80% of the country admits to what the FBI has become.
Yeah sure, yesterday we saw evidence that a "sizeable" amount of FBI agents were sympathetic to the Jan 6th insurrectionists.
The idea that any law enforcement agency in the United States is liberal or "leftist" , let alone the FBI, is hilarious.
They are certainly not the ones in charge.
It is a fact.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. wouldn't be able to restore their credibility at this point.
The fact that some people apparently haven’t noticed a clear left leaning bias in the FBI, and/or simply refuse to admit it, is just pathetic.
Just plain pathetic.
Remember when they told us that you couldn't screw around with a FISA warrant application? How everything in the application had to be verified? The penalties?
Now we saw what the penalty was....Nothing!
Reality has a liberal bias. What's pathetic are the dumb fuck rightwing conservative Neanderthals who believe in some fantasy 'deep State' liberal cabal running things like the FBI from the shadows. The only ones who believe such nonsense are those poor sad gullible suckers with their heads shoved up Trumps ass.
The FBI itself isn't biased, but obviously each individual FBI agent is going to have some sort of political bent. Some are conservative Trumper's trying to protect rightwing conservative insurrectionists and neo-fascists while others are more liberal progressives trying to save our country from those same violent piece of shit neo-fascists who tried to overturn an election and install their pompous Cheeto Benito into power.
"Newly disclosed email shows FBI official was warned after Jan. 6 that a "sizeable" number of bureau employees sympathized with Capitol rioters and would not be motivated to investigate."
FBI official was warned after Jan. 6 that some in the bureau were 'sympathetic' to the Capitol rioters (nbcnews.com)
I guess it was simply strange and unfortunate coincidences, like the same agents appearing in investigations involving Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that have an extreme bias against Donald Trump and for Hillary Clinton or that an FBI lawyer would lie on a FISA application in order to violate the civil rights of Carter Page.
Anyone who believes Strzok's texts prove some FBI conspiracy is fucking deluded. As I said, individual agents do have political bias, we all do. The agency itself is not biased and is not being run by some fantasy liberal shadow government, only tin foil hat wearing dumb shits believe that kind of horse shit.
“Anyone who believes Strzok's texts prove some FBI conspiracy is fucking deluded.”
Imagine the number of people it would take to keep any conspiracy a secret…especially in this day and age of leaks and the money to be made.
It’s much easier to simply spread misinformation than to do the hard work of verification.
I go by actions. The fraudulent FISA application and 4 FISA Warrants based on the unvetted Steele Dossier is enough for the rational mind.
Me too. So when are the Republicans going to kill the FISA Court? Oh... never you say? Damn.
So when are the Republicans going to kill the FISA Court?
Why does this not surprise me? The POS democrats led by Carter and the Klansman Byrd created it and you now expect republicans to clean up after them.
You mean the Court that was instituted because of foreign terrorism needs to be killed because Barack Obama weaponized it against US citizens and opposition candidates?
Said no unbiased person ever .....