We’re part of BRICS (think I’ve mentioned it a couple of posts above).
Which means our wonderful government’s busy flip-flopping between BRICS and the West, as they don’t want to have any revenue streams drying up.
Also, I’m getting fed up with talks of a “Great Reset”, most especially Klaus Schwab. People just want to live their lives in peace, but this guy want to throw this world upside-down.
Gah.
And Putin’s holding Europe hostage, if they want gas (most especially Germany) for their industries etc, they’ll need to pay in rubles for gas…
I don’t like how often the phrases “Great Reset” and “New World Order” seem to float around at the minute — almost as much as I dislike the calibre of the people throwing them around.
America’s hegemony is in tatters so what we need now isn’t Chinese or Indian hegemony, we need a Totally New™ hegemony apparently
What we really need is for everyone to refuse to pay their taxes. Governments can’t govern if they can’t write cheques.
Heh. Gas prices are high, so let’s allow sales of E85 in the summer (It’s always available locally so I guess this is regional). Except… Wheat and grains are also in short supply with rising prices, so we can have high gas prices and higher food prices, as well as higher food prices because of shipping costs rising due to higher fuel prices.
Also, let’s tap the strategic reserve… No, let’s not. I have never favored this response, that fuel has to be replaced at some point, and releasing $2 a gallon gas to replace it in a few months with $5 a gallon gas is just silly. One million barrels out of the 18 million we use a day or week or whatever is going to be barely noticeable at the pump.
The fact remains that we have an administration that is against the expansion of fossil fuels and the market realizes that. Biden and his people are on record complaining about companies that produce fossil fuels and that has a chilling affect on the industry. Not to mention the actions taken his first 10 days or so of office that shut down many in process projects. Any oil company jumping at the request to start additional production is just setting themselves up to be shut down 10 months down the road.
A good start to fixing this would be to start auctioning off leases again, not a single successful auction since Biden took office. But at this point I think we are done with $2 gas no matter what, between inflation and the world situation it’s just not coming around again.
Essentially the DA has now cost the county whatever amount she settles on for her lawsuit. Dumbass.
In other news,
Between canceled interest and the erosion of principal due to inflation, the prolonged pause has already saved student debtors a bunch of money. But the benefits are awfully lopsided. As Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows, medical doctors have received $48,500 in relief versus $29,500 for people with law degrees, $4,500 for people with bachelor’s degrees, and a measly $2,000 for those who didn’t finish their degree and are objectively most in need of help.
Between this and pushing to put the SALT deduction back in place the current administration is benefiting the wealthy pretty nicely.
In other other news, 30% of products were out of stock in grocery stores in the first week of April, compared to 11% November 2021. But what you can find was 7.9% more expensive than this time last year, and 10.1% more expensive to make. (I have seen up to 8.9 and 11.5% so maybe even more than that) The government is not seeing a recession coming, but they didn’t see inflation either, so whatever.
Even the new stupid laws don’t allow charging the recipient of an illegal abortion, just the provider. And from what I can see, that applies even if she is also the provider.
Bloomberg reports that Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order for increased inspections of trucks coming in from Mexico for a week resulted in a lot of food that had to be thrown out. The immediate effect is it cost Texas hundreds of millions of dollars, but the total cost is $4.23 billion when the effects of not being able to use the materials to manufacture products and make food is factored in.
Did you feel it? Did you feel the massive shock to the entire country on Thursday when Mike Lindell filed his preliminary injunction to get rid of all voting machines? Did it rock you to your core when nothing was held back, when there was total transparency, changing everything? Were you amazed that he could have waited until February 2023 to do this but got it all ready in just ten days back when he announced the filing last month?
No? Really?
Me, neither. I guess everything didn’t go right. Something must have happened to make him fall flat on his face again. Maybe it was the “Antifa things” that sabotaged his cyber symposium last year. Or maybe it’s the “porno things” he’s been talking about recently.
Mike, buddy, every time you do this, you make yourself look more like a joke than you did the time before. But I know you’ll keep trying. You’ve convinced yourself that you’re saving the country and you keep saying that people will come up to you and tell you that they see now you’ve been right all along. You’ll keep going until there’s nothing left of the My Pillow company because you’ve spent everything to support Trump.
What it comes down to is he didn’t have to con you specifically. He didn’t come to you to get your help in anything. You came to him, latching onto him. You volunteered to be a part of the con. I think it’s going to destroy you, but even after it does, you will still refuse to wise up. You’ll scrabble around in the ruins of what you once had, trying to find any little scrap you can hold up as the proof you failed to show us so many times before. You’ll keep trying to change the unbelievers so they can admit to you that you are their savior, the savior of voting in the United States.
Leaking the draft of a Supreme Court decision is going to have consequences that go far beyond what whoever leaked it was attempting to do. I’ve read multiple articles from people all over the political spectrum that are pretty freaked out and pissed about this.
In addition, they have likely done the opposite of what they intended as it’s very likely the splash this has made in the news will have calmed down by the election where if it came out at the end of June as predicted then it could have affected the election more. As it is the story is more about the leak than the decision.
A decision Congress had 30 years to fix. Creating laws through the judiciary is always subject to this and if people wanted abortion to be a settled topic instead of a political football they would have written the law to reflect their wishes. Gay marriage is sitting in the same place. And, eventually Constitutional Carry, as soon as two more states put it in place look for advocates to start using the same arguments used to justify the court ruling on gay marriage.
Anyway, I expect the leaker to get some serious time in prison.
Lindell’s now blaming the Roe v. Wade leak distracting from the more important coverage of the election fraud. Because of course it is. Right, Mike. Sure, buddy.
And in the play stupid games, win stupid prizes category, during the time Greg Abbott ordered a quagmire to disrupt transportation at the Texas border, Mexico shifted some of its deliveries over to New Mexico. That worked well enough that Mexico has now made it permanent. No more commerce will enter the U.S. through Texas. New Mexico gets all of that revenue from now on.
Correction to my last message. It’s the primary border crossing that’s being shifted from Texas to New Mexico. Texas may still get some revenue but it will be way down from what it was before. It will also be way down due to another project that’s been affected.
Work has been underway to create one rail line that connects Canada, the US and Mexico so shipments don’t have to switch between carriers and don’t have to offload cargo then onload it again when you get to a different country. Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National had been bidding on buying Kansas City Southern, which reaches from Kansas City all the way down to Mexico City. CN has a similar coast-to-coast network in Canada as CP, including a line that runs down to Louisiana.
CP’s bid was accepted in September. As you can see by the map below, that creates a huge transportation network for moving goods. About $8.7 billion in annual revenues, and it will help with automobile manufacturing. An often-cited study showed that vehicles effectively cross the border between the US and Canada seven times during production, so that can be reduced, or at least the costs will be reduced if it still has to be transported that many times. Plus, there will be growth from whatever new manufacturing and infrastructure that will be built up along the combined line.
This new USMCA Mazatlan-Canada rail line will be affected by Mexico’s decision to move their port of entry to New Mexico. Here’s a picture of the new crossing point. It will actually be a few miles west at San Jerónimo-Santa Teresa.
KCS doesn’t connect there. Union Pacific does, but its border crossing and two of its lines that run northeast go through Texas.
In order to avoid Texas completely, separate trackage rights will need to be obtained from Burlington Northern-Sante Fe rail lines if the CP-KCS merger is going to go through. This will route traffic north through New Mexico into Colorado and Kansas, before reconnecting with the KCS segment.
Otherwise, the merger needs to be called off, and CP and CN will have to start over with trying to merge with BNSF instead of KCS if the goal is to have one company with one rail line connecting Mexico to Canada.
All because Greg Abbot wanted to play a stupid game.
I’m not a fan of censorship, but sometimes you do get a post which will cause mayhem on any forum, and which need to be removed in order to keep the peace. That I have no problem with.
But I do have an issue with censorship removing valid posts just because the moderator (or somebody else) have a strong objection to said post (for example outing the moderator or owner or whatever for corrupt practices etc).
silly laws ought be punished with death by volcano or something like that.
More often than not lawmakers doesn’t think about the consequences of their laws, they only want to push it through because of some pressing need or small dick syndrome, and when it all said and done, people’ll go “duh, now it affects X, Y and Z…”
They knew exactly what they were doing. They knew how completely unconstitutional it was. They did it anyway. The idea was to chill free speech, which they succeeded at, thankfully only temporarily. They’ll keep trying because ‘one rule for me, another for thee’ is just how they roll.
Anyone know if new 49 star flags are available? I expect Texas to secede and rename themselves Gilead just about any day now.
