Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

The hidden cost behind clean energy

The new normal is the old abnormal. Cultural dementia, narrative manipulation and outright lying are denying Americans of the truth while terrifying and silencing them to compliance.

Climate change, global warming, whatever is real. Efforts to control carbon emissions are warranted and valued. Biden’s and leftwing supporters are placing an unwarted burden on Americans in their approach to reach sustainable energy constraints in unreasonable time phases and at overburdening costs to Americans.

There is no green ‘transition’ to renewable energy. China and India are playing us for fools

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...739bc70c&ei=21

We’re constantly told nowadays that an “energy transition” is underway, from the fossil-fuel powered world of yesterday to the renewables-powered one of tomorrow. But is this actually happening? It’s a question on many minds these days, and one that comes with varying answers depending on who’s answering.

For Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global and author of best-selling books like The Prize and The New Map, the answer is complex and fraught with uncertainty, far more than policymakers in the western developed world would like. I was able to interview Yergin recently in the wake of the publication of a new study that is a joint project between S&P Global and the International Energy Forum (IEF). The study, titled “Shaping a Living Roadmap for Energy Transition,” assesses the status of what is referred to as the energy transition, and finds it has in fact evolved into a set of widely disparate transitions among nations in differing geographies and with differing states of economic and societal development.

“I think that what drove this study on energy transition is the sense that the last two years have demonstrated that it is more complicated and indeed more challenging than just drawing a scenario and putting numbers on it and saying this is how it would happen,” Yergin says, adding that priorities of national energy security have risen to increased prominence in the wake of Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.

What it all boils down to is this: the prevailing narrative being pushed by policymakers, activists and much of the western news media of an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy. The direction and pace of whatever transition ultimately occurs will be dictated by real-world complexities and events, not by schemes promoted in Brussels, Washington DC, and London.



The hidden cost behind the US push for green energy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...f9514ad2&ei=14

In the U.S., climate change-related incidences have increased, showing a rise in wildfires, heatwaves, floods, poor air quality, and many more threats that are driving our push toward green energy sources. But these green sources require critical minerals to be incorporated into the technology.

A major mineral required for this technology is cobalt, which is primarily sourced from the Haut-Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Research by the University of Lubumbashi has shown a significantly increased risk of birth defects among the children of parents who have worked in the region’s cobalt mines.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden: The emperor has no clothes.

It has been difficult for a lifelong ‘blank’ to watch the disinformation spouted by the Biden administration and its media lackeys and trying to determine whether Democratic voters were sucking up propaganda meant to counter a nation in decline. Apparently not according to current polls like the following.

More voters say Biden untrustworthy, a poor leader

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0o1fC...SvFwa&hl=en_US

President Joe Biden is underwater on nearly every descriptor offered to judge a president, according to a new poll.

The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll, conducted in conjunction with Noble Predictive Insights, found that 49% of voters say Biden is not a strong leader compared to 36% who say the opposite. The survey also found that 49% say Biden does not have the judgment to serve effectively, while 40% say he does.

The survey also found that a solid majority of 66% of those surveyed say the country is headed in the wrong direction and slightly over half, 54%, disapprove of the job Biden is doing.

“With older voters, younger voters, he’s underwater,” Mike Noble, founder of Noble Predictive Insights, the group that conducted the poll, told The Center Square. “Same thing with males and females. He performs much worse with males. He is -22 with males and only -8 with females. That’s a huge gender difference.”

Noble pointed out that four in 10 Democrats think the country is going in the wrong direction, along with seven in 10 independents.

Biden’s approval rating has suffered in part because of the rapid rise in inflation during his presidency and the chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Biden has taken ongoing fire for allegations that he and his family benefited from overseas business dealings from his time as vice president during the Obama administration. The House Oversight Committee leadership has released witness testimony, FBI informant documents and bank records backing up allegations that the Biden family and associates received about $20 million from entities in China, Ukraine, Romania, Russia and Kazakhstan via about 20 shell companies.

At the same time, IRS whistleblowers testified that Biden’s Department of Justice interfered in the investigation into Hunter Biden, who allegedly spearheaded the overseas deals and is now facing tax and gun-related charges.

Noble said those allegations have eroded Americans’ trust in Biden and have helped offset the legal troubles facing former President Donald Trump, putting the two at a near tie in a potential general election faceoff.

A plurality of those surveyed, 47%, say Biden is not trustworthy while 40% say he is, and 40% say Biden is corrupt, compared to 43% who say he is not.

As The Center Square previously reported , the same poll found that in a potential general election matchup, Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump has 41% support compared to Biden’s 44% support, while 15% remain unsure.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Social Security: The elephant in the room

As a senior receiving Social Security benefits for a number of years, I found a report today both relevant and chilling regarding Social Security and its potential impact on todays and future recipients.

This spring the Social Security Board reported that its trust funds will be depleted in 2034, a year earlier than last year's projections, which means that in a decade the government will be able to pay only 80 percent of the benefits it has promised to Americans. Everyone knows that this crisis must be faced. Everyone knows that most politicians do not want to face it.

Ten years allows politicos from both parties time to kick the can down the road, right? Not when you consider shocking and even more significant that the percentage of Americans whose savings for retirement today is zero: 49.5. This shows that we now are talking about more than the retired. We are talking about the people who, years and decades from now, cannot afford to retire. This may be the biggest demographic element, aside from gender, in the electorate.

With half of the country without a cent in retirement, according to the respected Employee Benefits Research Institute, there is a real crisis looming in financial planning. That also is a potentially large voting bloc. They will need Social Security.

You now know why Trump, and many of his competitors for the Republican nomination, find themselves in lockstep with their principal rival, President Joe Biden. They are saying "hands-off Social Security”.

Which is why Trump said in January that "Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security to help pay for Joe Biden's reckless spending spree.

“The Trustees [of Social Security] continue to recommend that Congress address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely fashion to phase in necessary changes gradually," Kilolo Kijakazi, acting commissioner of Social Security, said earlier this year. It is the truth that dare not speak its name in a political campaign.

This year's COLA amounted to an 8.7% bump for Social Security benefits. In 2022, it was 5.9%. Some observers expect that an increase in the range of 2.7% to 3.2% remains a strong possibility.

Even more troubling for seniors already receiving Social Security benefits is that the 5.9% and 8.7% increases of the last two years does not cover the rate of inflation that has taken place in the last 2-1/2 years under Biden. It has been estimated that the cost-of-living expenses has increased by $7,900 from two years ago – overall increase in living expense increasing 16.7%, food by 19.7%.

49% of Americans have no retirement savings. 70% of Americans claim living paycheck-to-paycheck, having no opportunity to save. Biden claims his policies are working and the economy is strong. Who’s the fool here?

Will this become a 2024 presidential campaign issue? Probably not. Immigration spending and choosing the right pronouns are deemed more important to the fools on the Hill.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Voters turning against Biden

As the delusional Biden continues to spout his foreign and domestic policies are working and is puzzled why the American voter and their families aren’t buying, an astonishing backlash is taking place where the public is detesting and distrusting him more than the Donald.

It is unlikely either will last and/or become their parties endorsed candidate, but the current polling is astonishing.

Poll finds Trump's big lead grows, as GOP voters dismiss indictments

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0o3Ol...SvFwa&hl=en_US

Well, there's no debate about this: Right now, the Republican Party would easily re-nominate Donald Trump for 2024. And it's not close.

The former president now holds his largest lead over his rivals in our polling amid his recent legal troubles. In fact, most of his voters cite those troubles as yet one more reason to show him support.

Trump voters' affinity for him seems to insulate the former president from attacks whether he debates this week, because voters basically say they aren't receptive to such criticism. Instead, a whopping nine in 10 GOP primary voters want the other candidates to focus on making the case for themselves, but not against Trump.

Republican primary voters and debate watchers want to hear candidate plans for lowering inflation, among other policy goals — especially since most of them think the economy will be in recession next year. (However, partisan lenses deeply color those views.)

But desire to hear about inflation far outranks items like stopping abortions or putting limits on diversity programs. Voters want to hear about reducing crime, stopping illegal immigration, gender identity, etc.

And in that vein, strictly anti-Trump sentiment isn't enough for the Democrats to win right now.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Enough of the embarrassment and shame

What more will it take to make Democrats stop the Biden trainwreck display. Is this shadow of a man, a frail and cognitively diminished individual, becoming more unpopular and embarrassing when touting domestic and foreign policy successes that Americans disprove. Is this the man you want continuing as president now – much less re-elected in 2024?

Using this diminished individual as political leverage to defeat Trump is unconscionable – especially when Biden’s trust, and credibility is under attack, and deemed no better than the hated Trumpster. Biden declares he doesn’t believe in polls because he has lost touch with reality.

The Democrats presidential hope in 2024 lies with keeping Trump off the ballot. They believe Trump’s legal issues will preclude him from being on the ballot. Yet, Trump has not been charged with insurrection or even incitement in the January 6th White House breach.

Pity the American voters. 2 X 0 is still zero!

Biden’s cognitive decline worsening

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...51b21433&ei=11

Pathetic display!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden is toast!

The president is upset over his son’s troubles. But he’s even more rattled because House investigators have begun to reveal evidence of his own complicity in his family’s overseas business dealings. And that evidence is slowly being corroborated by both bank records and eyewitnesses, including Hunter’s former close friend and business partner Devon Archer. The public is finally beginning to grasp that, without Joe Biden, there is no business.

If the voice of 70% of Americans declaring the country is headed in the wrong direction, Biden having a 40% approval rating, the majority of Americans not wanting him to run, and last night’s GOP debate doesn’t result in the cognitive defective Biden resigning his 2024 presidential campaign, the clamor for Michelle Obama to enter the race should be enough to scare old Joe and a great majority of Americans. This is the best the Democrats have to offer. Seriously!

As Biden, America is in decline in so many ways.

I thought the GOP debate was worth the listen, especially with Trump not there to suck the oxygen out of the room.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Schools permitting students to “identify as horses, dinosaurs and cats” reportedly under investigation

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...ac5e01fa&ei=29

Schools are reportedly “frightened of doing the wrong thing,” so teachers allow kids to identify as animals and communicate as ones.

The make matters worse, one Wales student does not speak in plain English but meows. One student explained, “The teachers are not allowed to get annoyed about this because it’s seen as discriminating.” The student added, “It’s distracting to sit in a lesson and have someone meow to a teacher rather than answer in English.”

A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told The Telegraph, “We understand why these reports will be concerning for parents.” They added, “Teachers have a responsibility to encourage their students to engage respectfully with those they disagree with,” adding teachers “should also not be teaching contested opinions as fact, shutting down valid discussions and debates.

A spokesperson for the Safe Schools Alliance, Tracy Shaw, said teachers are walking on eggshells for “they become frightened of doing the wrong thing” after recent controversies over gender identity. Shaw spoke about the educators, “They think they are being kind by affirming these behaviors, but they are not being kind because they are likely to be missing all sorts of things that are going on in that child’s life.”

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The world has gone mad! The inmates are running the asylum.

This can’t possibly happen in America, right?

[Lee Chowaniec]

This Is What No One Tells You About Used Electric Car Batteries

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...4ddac947&ei=25

• End-of-life electric vehicle batteries are carefully collected and recycled, rather than ending up in landfills, thanks to strong environmental safeguards in the US.

• The recycling process involves shredding the batteries and separating the materials into plastics, aluminum, cobalt, lithium, etc. for manufacturing new battery packs.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Bernie Sanders on Joe Biden

Never a Bernie Sanders fan, I agree that age is not a deterrent for an individual in the political world if that person has cognitive acuity, integrity, and leadership skills befitting their office.

Sanders says that he met with Biden recently and not only finds Biden capable but adds it is ‘what he stands for’ is more important than his age. Like abortion, that women have a right to control their own bodies. Like climate change, a federal minimum wage hike and reforms to prescription drug prices, could be more important to voters than Biden’s age.

“I think that we have got to bring the entire progressive community, (to) defeat Trump or whoever the Republican nominee will be, (to) support Biden,” Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.

At the same time, Sanders said, progressives can “demand that the Democratic party, not just Biden, have the guts to take on corporate greed and the massive levels of income and wealth inequality that we see today.”

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Yes, Mr. Sanders, abortion, minimum wage, and lower prescription drugs could very well play a factor with the American voter, as well as low unemployment, etc.

However, that does not take away from over 60% of voters expressing not wanting to see him on the ballot in 2024, declaring that his age and cognitive acuity are big factors; his foreign and domestic policy failures; where voters are now very concerned with the border crisis; crime; immigration and costs; inflation (60% of voters claim living paycheck-to- paycheck); the war in Ukraine; education; homelessness.

Mr. Sanders is the typical loyal party hack defending the defenseless! Defending an inept president and administration responsible for America’s decline.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Threat to our democracy

More than 80 percent of voters say they are worried about the state of democracy in the U.S., according to a new Bipartisan Policy Center/Morning Consult poll released exclusively to The Hill on Tuesday.

Eighty-two percent of voters said they are worried about democracy in the U.S., including 40 percent who said they are “very worried.” The concern is evident among Republicans and Democrats, with 84 percent of voters in each party saying they are concerned about the state of democracy in the country.

However, the poll shows that 59 percent of Americans do not have confidence in political parties to reach across the aisle to pass bipartisan solutions. Sixty-two percent of Republicans lack confidence, compared with 50 percent of Democrats.

Sixty-seven percent of respondents said it was “very important” for both parties to work together to pass bipartisan legislation on the economy. Eighty-eight percent of voters named inflation as a top concern, and 84 percent said it was having an impact on their spending habits and finances. Meanwhile, 73 percent of voters said they were concerned about job loss due to the rise in artificial intelligence. Forty-six percent said they feel negatively about the rise in artificial intelligence usage and services.

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It appears neither party really cares what the American people want. Voters overwhelmingly do not want to see Trump or Biden on the 2024 ballot. The leadership of each party has their own agendas and neither seems willing to compromise or produce bipartisan solutions.

Trump is an asinine, arrogant, vindictive, self-serving, unprofessional political tool who will never work for compromise, and is unable to heal and unite this country. Chris Christi is the only one with the stones to request his resignation.

Two-beer Biden is looking more-and-more like the fragile senile, cognitive impaired tool of the Marxist left wing Democratic Party. Despite his gaffes, lies,
corruption, inability to even read a teleprompter, and policy failures, the mainstream media has involved itself in substantive, sinister dishonesty.

Media bias is nothing new, but this goes further. For almost four years there has been a concerted, sustained and so far successful effort by supposedly independent media organizations to elect, defend and preserve in office the nation’s leading Democrat. It is immanent throughout the coverage of this president and mostly takes the form of misrepresenting reality by willfully ignoring or suppressing anything that undermines him—what we might call journalism of omission.

America is in decline. The American voter appears not buying the media propaganda. The left is coming for your cars, your stoves and appliances, your free speech, your children, and now your beers.

[Lee Chowaniec]

America’s decline: Political tribalism

Tired of the hypocrisy, the propaganda, the lies, the corruption, the divisiveness propagated by Democrats and Republicans and their biased media lackeys? Yeah, me too.

How in good conscience can one defend the defenseless?

Every once and awhile a media report gets published featuring populism and politics, exhorting commonality, and unity. I found the following report revealing and its absence of political influence was refreshing,.

Powerful lessons exist where populism, music, and politics mix

https://daily.gazette.com/article/281895892811183

Of course, politicians never let a little thing like the fact that they don't know what the heck they're talking about stop them from talking.

Anthony posted on Facebook that he has spent the past decade "getting to know tens of thousands of other blue-collar workers on job sites and in factories." Many of them, he wrote, are "SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated."

After the debate, he tweeted: "I. Don't. Support. Either. Side. Politically. Not the left, not the right. I’m about supporting people and restoring local communities."

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trump, Biden, and Pelosi, oh my!

The bias leftwing media savaged Trump for his legal issues today and costs that will hurt him immensely, his lying, his threat to democracy, his unpopularity and unfavorable ranking where less than 40% of his own voters don’t want to see him on the ballot in 2024. “He is unworthy.” they claim. Hey, I’m okay with that.

These same media types gushed over Biden’s domestic and foreign policy strategies, Bidenomics, decreasing inflation, low unemployment number, and an overall economy improvement where all Americans are prospering – despite 60% of Americans polled declare they are living paycheck-to-paycheck, and where 54% declare having no savings left after paying their bills where gas, food and energy process are still rising.

FOX host Jesse Waters had a different take on Biden and Pelosi (the San Fransico diva).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...baea3e64&ei=27

Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have a message for you this Labor Day weekend: America is in perfect health, and if you don't believe that, you're in a cult. The two oldest, most corrupt, and most conniving politicians of the last half-century whose policies are responsible for the high crime, open borders and low wages should have some humility. They should have some empathy.

In fact, both should be red in the face after strangling us with pandemic protocols, burning through all our money and then blaming Russia for inflation. But when you're that old and that well protected, you assume a sense of arrogance that casually drips from your lips, knowing that what you say won't be fact-checked, won't be questioned.

We've reached the point in the Biden administration where they can just lie to your face and the country accepts being lied to, and on the Sunday shows this week, every pundit will call Trump the liar. This is what happens when they call the Afghanistan evacuation a success, COVID a success, high gas prices and inflation all a success. They even called the Maui response a success. Do the people of Maui think it was a good summer?

More… https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...baea3e64&ei=27

Trump, Biden, and Pelosi, all no longer worthy for office! Aren't they embarrassed?

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden: How much longer?

How much longer can we expect the great gaffer / liar to embarrass America? Bidenomics is a failure; crime is rampant; our border is not secure; gas / energy / food inflation continues.

Biden is inept, cognitively diminished, and unfit to continue. He is no longer able to lead his party; most likely not running his party, rather a detriment and embarrassment to the Democratic Party. He is losing out in popularity and trust and his age is being used as the reason.

Stupid is as stupid does!

17 of the DUMBEST Things Biden Said

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...&ei=15#image=1

War of the Bozos

Trump vs. Biden in 2024. Please Lord - not!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Struggling in New York State

The country is struggling. Sold by President Biden, his administration, and liberal media tools as an investment in the future, Bidenomics is failing to deceive the American people who are living in reality and unable to sustain today’s ever-increasing food, gas, and energy prices. No, Mr. President, ‘our economy has never been better’ is nonsense!

Skyrocketing interest rates are taking many Americans out of the housing market. Credit card debt is at an all-time high. Our national debt is not sustainable. Crime goes unabated. Our Sovereign national borders are porous. 200,000 migrants crossed our southern border last month. Immigration and Ukraine are draining resources that should be making life better for our citizens.

If that weren’t enough, we are living in New York, the once Empire State now a declining state as well.

A recent survey of annual living expenses in each state shows that New Yorkers need to make significantly more than most other states just to get by. The survey, conducted by GoBankingRates.com ranks New York State as the fourth most expensive place to live.

According to the survey, most New Yorkers aren't making a living wage. According to ZipRecruiter, the average annual salary in New York State is $50,800 or $24 an hour. Unfortunately, earning this much won't keep your head above water and will seriously impact your ability to save for the future.

According to the survey, single earners in New York need to make at least $73,226 annually in order to get by. That means that anyone making less than that is struggling.

Compared with our peer metros, Buffalo Niagara’s workforce is older and our labor force participation rate lags. Accelerating our problem is a declining number of people. Sadly, New York State continues to lead the nation in population loss and outmigration. In fact, over the last few years, New York has lost nearly half a million people.

While the biggest pain point for Buffalo Niagara employers is their inability to attract and retain talent, our region has higher poverty rates and lower household income levels than our counterparts. More than 38,000 individuals in our community are employed but living under the federal poverty level. Another 69,000 working individuals across the region are considered economically vulnerable. In many cases, these individuals are working multiple jobs and are still unable to properly support their family. This mismatch is our biggest regional challenge.

Insurance premiums are double-digit increasing in Western New YORK.

With New York City being a ‘shelter’ city, avoiding housing asylum seekers would be considered a betrayal of its values. There are now 100,000 asylum seekers in New York Cit, Mayor Adams is trying to change its shelter policy, shipping migrants to other locations and not getting the federal assistance he requests.

A writer in today’s Buffalo News’ opinion column posted: Donald Trump is many things, among them, television game show host, serial adulterer, pathological liar, thief, insurrectionist, terminal narcissist, and adjudicated rapist in a civil trial. He has been indicted in four different jurisdictions and charged with a total of 91 felonies. He expresses no remorse, no shame, but rather, brags that he wears these criminal charges as a badge of honor as the world's television cameras are focused upon him as he repeatedly surrenders to authorities.

Trump may be all that, but Biden is president, and all this suffering is on him!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Joe Biden is underestimated the mainstream media and left propagandists tell us. Biden will be flooding the opening football weekend with media messages telling us of his accomplishments. The thriving economy, low unemployment, decreasing inflation, a president who has done more than done more to secure the border than any previous president.

While Biden and the media paint this rosy picture Biden’s approval rating is only 42%, 70% of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and 73% of voters voice he is too old and cognitively diminished to serve another term.

Others remember his accomplishments as:

Botched Afghanistan withdrawal
Historic inflation crisis
New record high gas prices in all 50 states
7.2 million illegal border crossings amid the worse border crisis on record
Prolonged supply chain shortages
Record personal credit card debt for Americans
Record unsustainable national debt
Return to energy dependence and sky-high energy bills
Rampant crime and record homicide rates in a dozen major cities
Weaponization of federal government against political opponents
Lowest test scores among K-12 students in decades
Higher vacation rate than any president in modern history
Labeling American parents ‘domestic terrorists’
Hunter Biden scandals. 61% of voters believe Joe is involved and equally as corrupt as Trump

Biden will be dropping out of the race. But then what. Trump as president? UGH! Harris, Newsom? Double UGH!