Reply With QuoteHow much energy will the world need
Will green energy be able to meet our future demands?
What will be the impact to the environment?
Are we being played?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDOI-uLvTnY
Saving the planet: Green Energy & Biden
Remember when we were energy independent? It seems like such a short time ago. Biden claims it’s not his fault. Claims it’s the pandemic, Putin, even Trump. And we should stop complaining, people living in our 54 states (yes, Biden said that) have it better than other countries suffering inflation as well.
Before we go full out on saving the planet by 2050, shouldn’t we ensure we have the technology and the resources in place to preserve our essential needs today?
While the Biden administration is spending billions on sustainable energy, mandating what processes individuals will have to follow, disregarding the pollution involved in mining rare earth materials, ignoring pollution from disposal of green energy materials, infrastructure deficiencies, weather related issues, more disadvantages appear to prove Biden’s fossil fuel elimination policies suck!
Energy Crises
Gas prices are averaging $3.69 and once again rising – an over 50% increase since Biden took office. Home energy costs are significantly increasing.
Diesel prices have increased 33% for November deliveries and are expected to go higher. The national average price for diesel today is $5.30 per gallon and is expected to go up 15 to 20 cents in the next few weeks.
Reserves for diesel this time of year have not been this low since 1951, with the greatest shortfall in the Northeast region including New York and New England. Diesel inventories in the New York/New England markets are facing an acute crisis, down over 50% since last year and at the lowest level since 1990. It is estimated there is only one-months reserves available.
Southwest Water Crisis
The U.S. government warned on Friday that it may impose water supply cuts on California, Arizona, and Nevada to protect the Colorado River and its two main reservoirs from overuse, drought, and climate change.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation unveiled three possible action plans: one to impose cutbacks, another to allow western states to work out a reduction plan on their own, or a third and least likely option of taking no action.
Besides protecting drinking water supplies, the proposed federal action might also preserve hydroelectric production at the country's two largest reservoirs.
Seven states operate under a 100-year-old compact distributing Colorado River water, but that agreement has come under increasing strain from the worst drought in 1,200 years, which has been exacerbated by climate change. Friday's notice said that among the cutback options being considered was decreasing the amount of water set aside for consumption in the 2023/24 water year by the three states of the so-called Lower Basin: California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Lake Mead was at 29% of capacity on Friday and Lake Powell 24%. If they fall much lower, they will be unable to generate hydroelectric power for millions in the west.
For the poor out there, the low-income, the 60% of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck worrying how they will ever meet the mandated energy related costs of going green, not to worry, Uncle Joe has that money tree on the south lawn, and he promises to help get us there.
How much energy will the world need
Will green energy be able to meet our future demands?
What will be the impact to the environment?
Are we being played?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDOI-uLvTnY
Now pitching for the Democratic Party, Obama
Obama has been brought in to try to save the Democratic Party from mid-term election disaster. The Dems are now in disaster mode and they and their media lackeys are taking any approach to save a sinking ship.
Joe Biden delivered Democrats’ closing economic argument of the midterm election season. The president acknowledged Americans’ struggle to cope with painfully high inflation, while touting the progress his administration had made toward a post-pandemic recovery. He closed his remarks with a stark warning: if Republicans win control of Congress, they would create “chaos” in the economy. Then he waded into the crowd to shake hands and snap selfies.
They say that keeping Biden in a relatively low profile is part of a concerted strategy designed for an unpopular president in a challenging election year. So they brought in the ‘big gun’ (Obama) in the eleventh hour to energize the base.
The New York Times authored a long report today embellishing Biden’s accomplishments and referring to recent polls indicating the Dems are gaining strength; “they’re in it again”.
While Biden and Obama are charging the Republicans as being the party of hate, the party of extremists, the party threatening America’s democracy, they urge their base to not be like their opponents, not to incite disorder.
Biden declared that the violent assault last week on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi only underscores the danger of elevating candidates who embrace election conspiracies as several Republican nominees for state and federal office have done. No assaults on Republicans, right? No conspiracy / extremists in the Democrat Party, right?
I would image most voters have made up their minds, many have already voted, and this is all considered claptrap. Unlike Biden’s declaration that this election should not be considered a referendum on his policies and the state of the economy, it damn well is. Despite all the propaganda and hype, it is primarily on the economy, inflation, crime, an open border costly in resources and humanitarian tragedy, etc.
We will shortly know what America thinks. Especially from those voters who have had enough of the so-called inclusive and tolerant party that has been labeling fellow Americans deplorables, terrorists, fascists, uneducated, a non-compassionate / hate mongering class.
Climate Action Council plan must be realistic for N.Y.
Another Voice /Energy policy
BY DOTTIE GALLAGHER
New York's Climate Action Council (CAC) is scheduled to finalize its Scoping Plan to meet the emissions reduction and clean energy targets of the state's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in January. These goals, which include using 70% renewable energy by 2030 and being 100% zero-emitting by 2040, are the most progressive and ambitious of any state in our nation – and we should all be proud of that distinction.
To produce a realistic and attainable plan, however, we all must be part of the solution.
Earlier this year, the CAC held several public input meetings and received thousands of comments from businesses, individuals and organizations expressing concerns about energy supply, reliability, and cost. To date, the CAC has not acknowledged those concerns or assured ratepayers that it is including these vital factors in its final recommendations.
Recently, New York's leading energy, business and labor groups jointly produced a roadmap that will meet the Climate Act's goals in a practical, achievable manner. The Independent Power Producers of New York, Business Council of New York State, New York State AFL-CIO, and New York State Building & Construction Trades Council developed seven principles to address the shortcomings of the current Scoping Plan. They are: Maintain a safe, reliable, and resilient energy infrastructure; communicate impacts on energy consumers and businesses; create and retain high-quality union jobs; leverage the power of markets to achieve decarbonization; reduce emissions from all sectors, including transportation and heating; promote development and maintenance of needed energy infrastructure; and support fuel and technology diversity.
The CAC's current plan does not address these principals adequately, creating significant concerns for businesses and residents regarding its reliability, affordability, and feasibility. As our region continues to battle inflation, recover from the pandemic, and compete in an ever-changing economy for top talent and jobs, the prospect of an environment where energy is neither available nor affordable is seriously alarming. *
These seven principles were formed using real data, research, and forecasts. This is what's required for true success – without putting unwarranted financial burdens on WNY businesses and families.
Please join the Buffalo Niagara Partnership in expressing these concerns to our state lawmakers before it is too late. Let's make sure we can actually power our economy tomorrow and for years to come.
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Spot on!
Maintain a safe, reliable, and resilient energy infrastructure!
* The CAC's current plan does not address these principals adequately, creating significant concerns for businesses and residents regarding its reliability, affordability, and feasibility. As our region continues to battle inflation, recover from the pandemic, and compete in an ever-changing economy for top talent and jobs, the prospect of an environment where energy is neither available nor affordable is seriously alarming.
The national plan is no better!
The U.S. states people are fleeing (and the ones they are moving to
Forbes
https://www3.forbes.com/leadership/t...-wnb/?slide=25
Top Outbound States
12. Pennsylvania
11. North Dakota
10. Wisconsin
9. Utah
8. Kentucky
7. Ohio
6. Massachusetts
5. Kansas
4. Connecticut
3. New York
2. New Jersey
1. Illinois
Top Inbound States
10. Alabama
9. Colorado
8. North Carolina
7. South Carolina
6. Washington
5. South Dakota
4. Nevada
3. Idaho
2. Oregon
1. Vermont
Interesting and surprising.
Biden doesn't understand Big Oil is funding his green fantasy
Does Biden understand much of anything? He has been wrong on so many things in his entire political career, in every office in which he has served. He has also failed to unite this country, making it even more polarized. He is incredibly good at blaming others for his failures.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...bec6b3e0e0aebd
The oil industry is already serving three masters: consumers with highly inelastic demand, investors who know Western oil demand will peak in the next decade as clean energy investments pay off, and the global governments expecting them to fund the net zero transition. Biden can make their jobs easier in the short run by deregulating domestic drilling and granting further drilling permits, but he has nobody to blame but himself for the current supply crunch.
She’s back! Hillary 2.0
Hillary Clinton is back and I am no longer just a deplorable, racist, sexist, xenophobe, but am now condescendingly considered stupid as well if I don’t understand the threat to my way of life if the Republicans take over the Senate and House in the mid-term election.
As an independent, nay, lifelong ‘blank’ unaffiliated registered voter, my democracy, freedom of speech, and wellbeing is more under threat by the current administration’s policies that has resulted in economic turmoil, inflation, a potential energy crisis, crime, a border crisis, and green energy mandates that threaten the reliability of the energy infrastructure and consumer affordability.
Hillary Clinton questions whether voters 'really understand' what’s at stake in the midterm elections
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...e51dda7002f10e
Host Joy Reid asked whether Clinton believed that voters properly understand the threat the country faces with Republicans projected to retake the House and possibly the Senate in the fall. Clinton responded that she believes Americans don’t "really understand" what that could mean.
"I think that with all of the noise that we’ve gotten in this election season I don’t think that people are really able to grasp that. But more importantly, I’m not sure they really understand the threats to their way of life. They may think that whoever’s chairing a committee, you know, kind of abstract. But the Republicans in the House and others like the chair of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee [Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.] are on record saying they’re going to put Social Security and Medicare up for a vote," Clinton claimed.
Clinton repeatedly denounced Republicans for "violent rhetoric" that she claimed led to the attack on Pelosi’s husband and was "disqualifying for people who are running for office" and further proof that the GOP is a threat to democracy.
Pelosi the way she has stood with Republicans as well as Democrats in times of real terror like on Jan. 6. So ask yourselves, please, why would you entrust power to people who they themselves are unable to see how terrible it is that someone may be attacked in their home or don't really care because they somehow think it'll get them votes or get them elected? This is a real threat to the heart of democracy," Clinton said.
“I know we’re all focused on the 2022 midterm elections, and they are incredibly important, but we also have to look ahead because, you know what, our opponents certainly are. Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they’re not making a secret of it," Clinton said.
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A violent group, those extremist right wing Republicans, eh? Fortunately, we see none of that from the fringe left wing or ‘woke’ crowd, eh?
Those inciteful Republicans have to take a lesson from the great uniter. Biden was only ‘gaffing’ when he called half the voters fascists, or parents terrorists.
The Democrats don’t have much to run on, are falling behind in the polls, and somehow, they think by demeaning voters not agreeing with them that this tactic will work. What are they thinking?
There he goes again
The emperor has no clothes!
People are miserable and angry at Biden for his policy failures. Instead of addressing voters on what the kitchen-table issues that most impact them like the economy, inflation, crime, and the border crisis, he offers no solutions / consolations. He blames Trump and the MAGA Republicans for a threat to our democracy. When asked whether Biden considers Republican voters a threat to democracy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared no.
“American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election,’ Biden said in a speech at Washington D.C.’s Union Station.
Biden attempted to pivot the conversation to the protection of American democracy at a time voters say they are most worried about the economy and the high cost of living due to inflation. Crime remains another top concern.
Republicans accused him of trying to change the topic at a time voters give Biden low marks on how he has dealt with the economy and as the GOP sees a surge in momentum in the polls ahead of next Tuesday's election.
'We the people must decide whether the rule of law will prevail or whether we will allow the dark forces and thirst for power put ahead of the principles that have long guided us,' he said. He painted the midterm election as a battle between democracy and autocracy.
With just six days left before the election:
1) 42%: That’s President Joe Biden’s job approval rating.
2) 61%: That’s the number of likely voters who say that Biden hasn’t paid enough attention to the most important problems facing the country.
3) 51%: That’s the number of likely voters who say the economy is the key issue in determining their vote. Abortion is at 15%.. That is proof positive that we are in for another “it’s the economy, stupid” election.
4) 28%: That’s how many likely voters say things are going “very” or “fairly” well in the country. More than 7 in 10 (72%) say things are going “pretty” or “very” badly.
5) 75%: Three quarters of likely voters say the economy is in the midst of a recession.
With nothing to run on the president is once again gaslighting, frightening and further diving the country with rhetoric that says: “You think things are bad under me, things will get worse under the Republicans.
Why do the Democrats let this man out of the basement. They appear to have quieted other left radicals like Sanders, the Squad, and Warren.
The Republicans will cut SS & Medicare benefits if they win the midterm elections
More 11th hour desperation and fear mongering in lieu of not having a message on today’s relative kitchen-table issues!
Biden has repeatedly said he will not agree to cuts to Social Security, which provides retirement and disability pay to 66 million Americans, or Medicare, which provides health insurance to about 64 million people. He has also accused all Republicans of putting both programs on the chopping block, based on the possible outcomes of proposals put forth by two Republican senators, which party leaders have not embraced.
Republican leaders who would decide what legislation the House and the Senate would consider if their party won control of Congress have not said specifically what, if anything, they would do to the programs.
The fact that Republicans are openly talking about cutting the programs has galvanized Democrats in the final weeks of the midterm campaign. Biden has made securing Social Security and Medicare a late addition to his closing economic messaging, and Democratic candidates have barraged voters with a flurry of advertisements claiming Republicans would dismantle the programs and deny older adults benefits they have counted on for retirement.
Biden has repeatedly said he will not agree to cuts to Social Security, which provides retirement and disability pay to 66 million Americans, or Medicare, which provides health insurance to about 64 million people. He has also accused all Republicans of putting both programs on the chopping block, based on the possible outcomes of proposals put forth by two Republican senators, which party leaders have not embraced.
"You've been paying into Social Security your whole life. You earned it. Now these guys want to take it away," Biden said during a visit to Hallandale Beach, Fla., on Tuesday. "Who in the hell do they think they are? Excuse my language."
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said this year that a bill to sunset those programs every five years "will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda."
Still, the fact that key Republicans are openly broaching spending cuts to Social Security and Medicare – or declining to rule them out – is a break from former President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to leave the programs intact.
Social Security and Medicare are programs predicted to become underfunded in the next 10 years. Innovative approaches new to be examined how to fund and extend the programs. More scare tactics by a Democratic Party at the 11th hour to distract from the fact they do not have a message that resonates with the average American on issues today that really matter.
Seven facts Biden ignored about Social Security in his speech to Florida retirees
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/pers...7fdd1d1a6c1b7d
President Joe Biden claimed that Democrats will protect Social Security and that Republicans threaten its future in a speech Tuesday in Hallandale Beach, Florida. But the “reality” Biden portrayed is misleading and undermines Social Security’s future.
Social Security’s future is not secure. The program is running out of time and money, and recent increases in debt and spending have crowded out options for reform.
The following are seven things Americans deserve to know so that they can make informed decisions about their own futures and about which Social Security reforms would be best for them.
1. Workers’ Social Security taxes aren’t set aside for their retirement.
2. Social Security is not secure.
3. Social Security has a $20.4 trillion shortfall.
4. The cost of inaction is exponential.
5. Social Security is a bad deal for current and future workers.
6. Democrats’ plan for Social Security would hasten insolvency and exacerbate shortfalls.
7. Democrats’ plan for Social Security would require a $3,000 tax hike for a typical household.
Social Security reform is difficult, and Americans need to recognize that. Disingenuous proposals have no place in much-needed discussions and action to preserve and improve Social Security.
Congress can refocus the program on its original purposes; namely, providing financial security and protecting seniors from poverty. By reducing Social Security’s drag on personal incomes and nest eggs, it’s possible to make more people—and the entire economy—better off.
Americans clamoring for a third party for a third party
At a time when the majority of Americans are being hammered by inflation, voice living paycheck-to-paycheck, bombarded with conflicting reports on surging crime, Democrats denying there is a border crisis, escalating hatred and divisiveness, the public is being put in a position of not trusting its own government or a two-party political system that refuses to act in the best interest of its citizenry.
Over half of Americans believe that both Democrats and Republicans do such a poor job that a third major party is needed.
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0ix3r...SvFwa&hl=en_US
Just two political parties have long dominated American government and voters of both parties are voicing discontent with their own party. Over half of Americans believe that both Democrats and Republicans do such a poor job that a third major party is needed
A study by the Pew Research center found that 61% of U.S. adults today find the Republican Party unfavorable, while 57% shared the same sentiment toward the Democratic Party. About a quarter of Americans say they have an unfavorable view of both major parties, a considerable jump from just 6% in 1994.
Some experts suggest that the two-party system could be blamed for the political polarization we find in America. "It's a two-party system and you have to pick one side or the other," said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at New America. "If we are in a situation in which one party believes that the other party winning the election would be so disastrous to the country that maybe we should intervene to prevent the other party from winning, then you don't really have a democracy anymore." (Sound familiar?)
More than half — 56% of Americans — believe the current parties do such a poor job that a third major party is needed, according to a survey by Gallup. Indeed, minor parties are seeing an uptick in support and interest in recent years.
Watch the video to find out more about why an increasing number of Americans would like the option of voting for a third party – and why it most likely will not happen or have any impact.
The Democratic message is not resonating with the public – and for good reason
Have we no eyes to see what is transpiring in America? No ears to listen to other media outlets except the biased left-leaning media outlets? The left is demanding we ignore what we can see and hear.
American families / voters are not stupid, are tired of being spoken condescendingly to, demeaned, and told that their democracy is in jeopardy should they not vote for democrats in the mid-term elections. Biden and the Democrats claim the economy is strong, inflation is a word made up by Republicans to scare the public, surging crime is a perception fostered by the Republicans, parents are terrorists, the border is secure, and anyone thinking otherwise is a fascist, uneducated bumpkin.
Economy / Inflation
The economy is strong says Biden. Since the February after Biden was sworn in last year, some 10.3 million jobs have been created. That is a higher number than all of the recent modern presidents — a reflection of the fact that Biden took over as the economy was roaring back after the coronavirus pandemic where some 2—25 million jobs were lost.
The unemployment is low at 3.5% says Biden belying the fact that many people left the job market and no longer considered unemployed. The job participation rate is low. The voters are not buying Biden’s rosy economic landscape. The disconnect can be explained by historically high inflation hurting household budgets. Inflation has been running at the fastest pace in decades — an 8.2% annual rate in September, according to the consumer price index.
Wages have not kept pace, workers have seen their inflation-adjusted earnings fall on Biden's watch. Median weekly earnings have fallen more than 3% since Biden took office, when inflation is taken into account, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Workers are getting paid more dollars, but they are also being forced to spend much more of that money to purchase the same goods they did before Biden entered the Oval Office.
Other
Biden has long been noted as embellishing the truth, not being accurate, outright lying. But he gets away with it in the leftwing media because his blunders and lies don’t compare to Trump, and/or because all
Biden has claimed in recent months that the U.S. has the fastest-growing economy in the world, his student debt forgiveness program passed Congress by a vote or two, and Social Security benefits became more generous, thanks to his leadership. None of that was accurate.
"On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks," he declared. The problem: That increase was the result of an automatic cost-of-living increase prompted by the most rapid inflation in 40 years. Biden had not done anything to make retirees' checks bigger – it was just a byproduct of the soaring inflation that the president has vowed to combat.
In stops across the country in recent weeks, Biden has also credited himself with bringing down the federal budget deficit – the gap between what the U.S. owes and what it earns.
"This year the deficit, under our leadership, is falling by $1.4 trillion," he said last week in Syracuse, New York. "Ladies and gentlemen, the largest ever one-year cut in American history on the deficit."
Left unsaid was the fact that the deficit was so high in the first place because of pandemic relief spending, including a $1.9 trillion economic aid package the president pushed through Congress in 2021 and which was not renewed. Biden was in effect claiming credit for not passing another round of emergency assistance.
White House officials have sometimes been forced to awkwardly correct Biden's claims. Other times, they have doubled down on them.
Once a country energy independent, no longer under Biden policies, Biden chastises petroleum industries for their greed and continues to boast that he will put them out of business – all while we continue to deplete our nation’s strategic petroleum reserves and where escalating home energy costs are adversely impacting households.
The more recent presidential pronouncement at a forum in October that the student debt relief program passed Congress was perhaps the most head-scratching. It never went before Congress and passed by the two votes claimed by Biden.
Biden said in September gas prices were averaging below $2.99 a gallon in 41 states and the District of Columbia, they were actually $1 higher. The White House corrected the transcript of his remarks and said it was a one-time unintended slip.
We are being led by an incompetent ship of fools. The question is not whether a red wave is coming, but will we be better off when it does.
A Republican victory will be a win for democracy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...aee9c9a7e064e3
This week, and for the second time this year, President Joe Biden used public resources to go on television and claim that unless you give him unlimited power for life, you are placing democracy in danger. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Something is very wrong with this poor man and with all the Democratic partisans who, without a hint of self-consciousness, make this authoritarian and anti-democratic argument in favor of democracy. Biden's serious-sounding exhortation that "you can't love your country only when you win" is actually a scathing indictment of the Democratic Party and its members' conduct after every presidential election they lost this century.
The fact that some people — candidates and prominent speakers for both parties, mind you — have denied election outcomes is harmful.
Given that Biden's credibility today is so low, and his approval even lower, his ominous-sounding speech on Wednesday was just a tamer echo of his infamous Red Light Special speech from September. Not since the dark days of the late George W. Bush presidency has any president seemed so small and insignificant. But it would be a mistake to let him get away with insulting voters' intelligence like this yet again.
Certainly, some in the left-wing media tried to make this speech significant. Historian Michael Beschloss took to the MSNBC airwaves (of course) to compare Biden to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He insinuated that a civil war is about to break out and that a democratic election in Republicans' favor would actually be very un-democratic.
"Six nights from now, we could all be discussing violence all over this country," he said. "There are signs that may happen, may God forbid, that losers will be declared winners by fraudulent election officers or secretary of state candidates or governors or state legislatures."
Notice the election denial. Isn't it impressive how the defenders of democracy, while arguing about the dangers of election denialism, frequently engage in it themselves and encourage others to engage in it whenever they see or expect an adverse election outcome? But he went on, "We could be six days away from losing our rule of law and losing a situation where we have elections that we can rely on." So now he's not just trying to deny the results of next week's election but also all future elections — that is, if Republicans even let us have elections in the future, right?
In his embarrassing television performance, Beschloss said a Republican victory would be much like a return to the one-party authoritarian Jim Crow South, complete with modern-day Klansmen organizing violence against random people over the internet. And yes, he even trotted out the Hitler comparison. It was gross.
We should not have to explain this, but any truly democratic election process can have multiple outcomes. If you don't trust people to vote for the candidates they prefer — election denials, scandals, gaffes, warts, and all — then by definition, you don't even believe in democracy, so how can you pretend to defend it? This is where Biden and Beschloss and all these other panicking partisans have placed themselves now. They just lack the self-awareness to realize it.
The Democrats' emotional manipulations really know no bounds. Vote for us, they say, or else elections are over forever. Wow, nobody ever thought of that one before.
Here's a better idea: Ignore these Chicken Littles pretending they care about democracy — all they really care about is the Democratic Party. Ignore people who say that the nation is on the edge of a civil war. Ignore people who deliberately turn up the heat by claiming that everyone who disagrees with them is a fascist or a Nazi. The coming election will decide a lot of issues, and there probably won't be any more violence than there is on a typical Tuesday.
In fact, voters are not going to act based on Jan. 6 show trials or whatever pretend threats to democracy Republicans are supposed to be posing. They also won't punish Democrats for their own transgressions against democratic norms — their very recent threats involve packing the Supreme Court and illegally deputizing social media companies to suppress free speech online about various topics, including Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In the real world, voters are going to decide based on whether they feel they are better off today than they were in January 2021. Real wages are down significantly since Biden took office. Gasoline is about $1.50 more expensive. The stock market is down. Crime is up. And thanks to the inflation Biden helped create with his American Rescue Plan, interest rates have been raised to prohibitively high levels for many people who would otherwise like to buy.
If voters make their choices based on these factors, they will be upholding democracy by participating in the sacred process of choosing leaders more competent than Biden and the Democrats in Congress who worked so hard to derail the post-COVID recovery. For democracy, that's going to be a win.
Howard Stern: 'Saving democracy' is biggest issue, 'hillbillies don't realize it'
Most likely the Democrats are going to take mid-term losses in Congress and in state government elections. They keep doubling down on their personal attacks against their opponents labeling them in the most offense manner and using celebrities in the process whose opinion is worth little. Yes, Republicans use the same distasteful approach. But Howard Steen calling Republicans ‘hillbillies’ is quite the stretch for the ‘shock jock.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...b092b9405b664e
Howard Stern told listeners Monday that "saving democracy" ought to be the most important issue in the midterm elections on Tuesday.
“That’s the only f****** issue on the table," he said during his SiriusXM radio show. He brushed off concerns over the economy, claiming it's a "worldwide" issue and blaming it on the war in Ukraine.
"I don't know how some of these hillbillies don't realize it," Stern added.
Polls routinely show inflation and the economy as top issues for voters, often followed by gas prices, crime, immigration, and abortion. Despite this, Stern said, “I would love to tell the people out there who think that’s not a big issue: The sad fact is you’ve never lived under an authoritarian regime."
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‘Hillbilly’ – a derogatory labeling for a class of people. Adds a little more to the Democratic lexicon of deplorable, racist, sexist, xenophobic, parent terrorist, fascist…. All those despicable voters who will cast votes for Republicans hoping there is a change in direction in the country allowing them to put food on their tables, walk the streets safely, have their kids get a good education, see their border secure and free from illicit drugs entering the country and killing our citizens.
Trump should not run in 2024 nor be the face of the Republic Party
The USA had a chance to self-correct on Election Day but declined. Yes, the incredibly inept Joe Biden is now checked by Congress but just barely. The repudiation of him should have been epic. It wasn't. Millions of Americans voted for economic weakness, violent crime, immigration chaos, and woke terror. They hated and feared Trump and his merry band of election deniers even more.
As columnist Marc Thiessen wrote: “This is a searing indictment of the Republican Party, a searing indictment of the message that we have been sending to the voters. They’ve looked at all of that, and looked at the Republican alternative, and said no thanks. The Republican Party needs to do a really deep introspection look in the mirror right now because this is an absolute disaster for the Republican Party, and we need to turn back.” Thiessen assailed “radical candidates” who “put the Republican Party in a terrible position.”
There were enough radical Republican deniers who turned off voters. None so arrogant, narcissistic, condescending as Trump. Who else would dare to openly say: “I think if they win, I should get all of the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all,” Trump told NewsNation, adding: “But it will probably be just the opposite.”
And ever since some of his election candidates loss he took to blaming others for their loss – even his own wife and daughter. He taunted his losing candidates and even winners like DeSantis, threatening them should they choose to run in 2024.
As the midterm results rolled in Tuesday night and the "red wave" long hoped for by Republicans hadn't materialized, many pundits and journalists across the spectrum pointed their fingers. Not only is Trump deeply unpopular, but he also supported a bunch of horrible Senate candidates – his 2020 election denier loyalists.
After Trump’s scathing rebuke of DeSantis today, one message should be crystal clear now that DeSantis’ way is way to a national majority. Trump’s way is the way to a national minority.
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