Even before he got into office, Joe Biden was promising to hamper domestic energy production and instead focus on the ‘existential threat’ of climate change:
And upon taking office, Biden did exactly that, bypassing normal rule-making procedures and using executive orders to shut down the Keystone pipeline and numerous other domestic energy projects. At the time, ‘cause-and-effect theorists’ pointed out the obvious consequences to these actions, namely higher energy prices that translate into higher everything prices.
Now that these theories are turning into reality in the form of $5/gallon gas and outrageous grocery bills, Joe Biden is once again prepared to ignore normal rule-making procedures and instead order the nation’s largest oil companies to increase production. Yet even when a normal person would admit they were wrong and beg forgiveness, Biden continues to lie and blame everybody else for our problems:
Of course, normal-thinking people understand the ‘post hoc ergo propter hoc’ fallacy and realize that just because gas has increased $1.70 since the invasion doesn’t mean it’s ALL because of the invasion. But Biden is going to continue to hammer that talking point:
It’s like he doesn’t think we can remember that gas was rising long before Putin invaded Ukraine and ‘forced’ Biden to stop buying Russian oil — once again completely ignoring the normal law-making process. (For a defender of democracy, he sure seems uninterested in following its laws.)
As Biden continues his historic slide in the polls and the GOP wins formerly blue areas in Texas, the administration is reduced to peeing on our legs and telling us it’s raining. (Side note: It seems that Hispanic voters are much more interested in traditional family values than being woke. This is bad, bad news for Democrats.) So while Americans get a reality check every time they make a purchase, the Biden administration looks more and more like The Party issuing their final command.
They’re certainly changing people’s lives, although only the already-connected are made better off by government raining money down from Mount Vernon. I’m sure the proposed ‘windfall profit’ tax will (somehow?) fight inflation and bring costs down for Americans. And if it doesn’t, we know who to blame:
SimComm have you ever thought of doing a post on the effects c19 policies, etc., have had on sbo's?
I don't think a lot of people on these stacks' understand the implications because it appears very few have owned a business.
The whole redistribution of wealth concept, etc could be made interesting for the average folks
He is in "good" company: what remains of swedish nuclear power annually dumps the equivalent of 88 TWh of (very, very) hot water from the cooling systems, instead of using it to for heating of residences. There's nothing wrong with the water, it's no more radioactive than seawater normally is, it contains no more pollutants (in fact, it contains less than nornal drinking water to protect the cooling systems) and is perfectly safe.
Yet, to appease the hysterical Greens and the communist party and various other mentally substandard humans, it is simply dumped. 88 TWh might not be that much in a US perspective, but for a nation of 11 000 000 million where hydro-electric dams produce less than that, it's a lot to waste just to keep the neurotics happy.
I'd say as an outside observer seeing the US follow the same pattern as western EUrope (or leading, it's a chicken or egg-problem anyway) you need to get rid of any and all politicians such as Biden, because whatever they say or do, it is not in your best interest as a nation or a people/bunch of peoples. And to stand against the political-corporate machine, you need to stand united as a people, united in opposing their tyranny whatever labels they trie to hide it behind because all those labels (gay, white, black, latinx, differently abled and so on) are designed only to cause dissent and strife and make oppositon impossible. Divide; et impera.