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Friday, July 8. 2022

Friday morning links


 Why These Frogs Make ‘the Grossest Blunder in Sexual Preference’


James Caan dead at 82.  


I didn't know he had a small part in Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce with Jack Lemmon 


 When Spiegelman's Maus Was Challenged, Sales Spiked. How school board members lashed out against dirty words


 Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says he wants CNN to be a network where both Democrats and Republicans can be heard


 Peak Woke? The ultra-progressive mindset maintains its grip on institutional power, but in terms of what people actually believe, it’s on the downswing.


 Having Relatives Report Highland Park Shooter Threatened To Kill Everyone Is Apparently Not A Reason To Deny A Gun Permit


 Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China


 NEWSOM VS. DESANTIS—YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!


 I think The New York Times is scared ... and more than a little racist


 NY Times Smears Mayra Flores As “Far Right Latina”…


VDH:  The Disappearing American?


 NY Times on the left's renewed interest in nuclear power


I do not worry about the "climate," but nuke power is a good thing 


 Chicago's holiday weekend death toll was higher than the mass shooting on the 4th and resident wonder why no one cares


 Oregon health equity official claims ‘urgency is a white supremacy value,’ Gutfeld has some questions


Saved by Fossil Fuels. To avoid summer blackouts, environmentally obsessed California must turn to out-of-state fossil fuels. Its regulatory climate is the key barrier to achieving its renewable goals.


 Trump’s former chief of staff says he would not support him in a Republican primary


 "That did not happen": Secret Service doubling down in dispute over Hutchinson testimony


 TGIF: Bye Bye Boris and other topics


 What Liberals Get Wrong About the Second Amendment


 Clueless Democrats Are in Full 'Let Them Eat Cake' Mode Now


TIME IS NOT ON KYIV’S SIDE: TRAINING, WEAPONS, AND ATTRITION IN UKRAINE


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re Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China

This explains the shipments to China:

Biden Sold Oil From Emergency Reserves To Chinese Gas Giant Tied To His Scandal-Plagued Son

https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/08/biden-sold-oil-from-emergency-reserves-to-chinese-gas-giant-tied-to-his-scandal-plagued-son/
#1 feeblemind on 2022-07-08 10:31 (Reply)
Nick Mulvaney is a talented politician and a hard worker, and he ran like epsom salts right through Elizabeth Warrens' corrupt edifice like he should have - but it was a great political opportunity for him as well and he made full use of it. He's still a RINO though. Nobody cares what he thinks about a Trump primary.
#2 Aggie on 2022-07-08 10:59 (Reply)
Trump seems to be the barometer for whether someone in the GOP is a principled person of ideas or a bootlicking organ grinder's monkey for the left. Mick failed the smell test
#2.1 Trangbang68 (Link) on 2022-07-08 11:56 (Reply)
I am amazed that Trump supporters continue to think that being loyal to him is the same as being principled, but prefering to see him gone (I voted for him but would not again) makes one worthy of vile insults. This is what makes all populisms frightening, that people forget that they are Americans.

Trump always had flaws. He was still better than many alternatives. Blind loyalty to him is not being principled.
#2.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-07-08 14:50 (Reply)
Hmm.....But who is showing blind faith, here? My only comment was that Mulvaney is talented but a political opportunist, and continues to be, by making comments about primaries that accomplish nothing but self promotion; He's in no position to influence them, and he's not in competition for the race; he's just putting his face forward. That doesn't make him a RINO, but his past affiliations and expressed sympathies do.

Joe Biden has just finished promoting the sale of much of our strategic petroleum reserves, and about 1M barrels of it has been sold to a Chinese company (UNIPEC, the trading arm of SINOPEC, owned by the CCP) that is a major holding of a Private Equity firm that his son founded - the one who reserves '10% for the Big Guy' - but he won't disclose whether he still owns his part of it. What would the response from Democrats have been, were this Trump?

Now the important part: What has the response to this juicy issue actually been on the part of Congressional Republicans? A nasty letter to the Energy Secretary and a handful of back-bench Republicans squeaking out protests for their local news stations. Nothing from the leadership. Would you say they put America First?

The Tea Party was a great concept, but without leadership, it was hollowed out from within by just such characters in no time at all, with the rest taken care of by the Obama Administration and its IRS. Who would you have, to lead? Right now the front bench is all RINOs, all the way down - including a senator from Texas who just sponsored and passed a gun control bill, from Texas of all places.
#2.1.1.1 Aggie on 2022-07-08 15:48 (Reply)
Yeah, I don’t think that Trump supporters are the ones that have forgotten that they are Americans. The elite - not my term for them - are much worse than Trump. Have you not heard, or do you prefer to ignore the vile things they say against the patriotic Americans; the bitter clingers; the deplorables; irredeemable (you can’t get much more vile than that)? I’ll grant that Trump is his own worst enemy, but I’ll happily vote for him over whom ever the marxists democrats run in 2024. Populist, seems to be just another term that the left hurls at people that love their country and enjoy the benefits of liberty. The same with jingoism and all the phobic terms that they have concocted.

I think there is no denying that Trump has caused a great panic among the elite; the globalist; the new world order types. The ones that have no love for their country, only their power and bank account. The ones that believe that mankind is a danger to the world, and that need to be culled. They have dropped their masks and are in a rush to dominate. They care not one bit how many people must die in order to retain power. We’ve seen this movie before.
#2.1.1.2 B. Hammer on 2022-07-08 21:13 (Reply)
The uniparty and media still think Trump was the start of the rino follies. He's not. They had plenty of warning when the Tea Party formed and somehow cannot fathom that people were rebelling against the old rino party all along. Boehner and Ryan sure didn't get it and apparently neither does McConnell or McCarthy. The MSM still can't relate it as a political rebellion against socialism, favoritism, and mediocrity.
#2.2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-08 14:42 (Reply)
Residents wonder why no one cares!!

The "residents" are just as much at fault. They hate the police. They jump on the chance to accuse the police of being racists. They support those thugs who attack the police. They don't police their own children and young adults. The problem is theirs. They need to take care of business in their communities. They need to stop using the racism excuse for everything. They need to support the police. And most of all they need to stop voting for people based on race. Their politicians (that look like them) are corrupt and are in it for the money and power and don't care about their own people.
#3 OneGuy on 2022-07-08 11:21 (Reply)
"TIME IS NOT ON KYIV’S SIDE"

Opinions are like assholes...

It has always been unlikely that Ukraine could win. That they have done this well proved 90% of the experts wrong. The goal for Ukraine is:
1. to fight for their country and freedom no matter the odds.
2. To make the cost so great to Russia that they agree to something less than a total win and dominance of all of Ukraine.

Most of those who comment on Ukraine are merely weaving their biases into it to get their views out there. In general they are wrong and have been wrong all along.

When all is said and done a few years from now it will be said that Russia won! BUT it can also be said that Russia can not afford another "win" like they will get in Ukraine.
#4 OneGuy on 2022-07-08 11:29 (Reply)
And the US state dept and CIA can't afford a loss in the Ukraine, but they will lose. They had no business stirring up crap in Ukraine, but the neocon empire builders just couldn't resist. They even dragged the Europeans into the quagmire. The Europeans are finally beginning to revolt against their leadership that fumbled their way into shortages of all kinds due to shutting Russia down and opening up the EU to Schwab and the WEF policies.
#4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-08 15:07 (Reply)
"And the US state dept and CIA can't afford a loss in the Ukraine"

I don't agree. If Ukraine loses as expected it will make NATO stronger. That is a win for the U.S. and Europe. If Ukraine pulls out a peace agreement after a long battle and only retains half their country that too will make NATO stronger and that is a win/win for the U.S.

It was always Putin's intent to take back some of the countries they lost when the USSR collapsed. A lengthy battle will take all the fun out of that idea for Russians even if they win. The Ukraine was always the first step in a take back Eastern Europe agenda. But Russia is losing so many soldiers and equipment that it is a real wakeup call for them.

The odds are against Ukraine, they won't "win". But they have a fair chance of not "losing" everything.

I can guarantee you that every European country today has a much stronger commitment to NATO than they did a year ago. That is a good thing.

NATO needs to find a reason to expel Turkey.
#4.1.1 OneGuy on 2022-07-08 18:59 (Reply)
Nato needs to declare bankruptcy and disappear. Its only current function is to act as the reserve combat team for the state dept and CIA.
#4.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-08 20:55 (Reply)
NATO is the best thing that has happened to Europe. The EU is pretty much the worst thing that has happened to Europe. The EU needs to go away not NATO. Russia is a serious threat to Eastern Europe. If Europe doesn't stand together than Russia will take back every country it controlled in the 60's.
#4.1.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2022-07-09 10:56 (Reply)
No one ever mentions my favorite movie with James Caan: "Freebie and the Bean" (1974).
#5 RetiredSOF on 2022-07-08 11:31 (Reply)
"NY Times on the left's renewed interest in nuclear power"

I'm not surprised that the left's starting to consider nuclear power as 'green'. The lights are starting to flicker. Their wallets are being hit hard - and there's nothing that gets attention like a heating or cooling bill that doubles or triples... even when you're trying hard to 'save energy'.

Maybe, just maybe, they'll get behind nuclear power and push.
#6 JLawson (Link) on 2022-07-08 11:54 (Reply)
I'm only woke when I get out of bed in the morning. Well, unless I have a nap later..."WOKE", to me, is stupidity. (Your milage may vary...)

Over and out, I'm GONE!! Have a nice day, if you can.
#7 Sam L. on 2022-07-08 13:35 (Reply)
getting multiple reports from my nurse friends about kids 2 and 3 years old having seizures. It is ONLY happening on vaccinated kids, and symptoms start 2 to 5 days after the COVID vaccine. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/two-and-3-year-old-kids-with-seizures The new normal.
#8 JustMe on 2022-07-08 15:27 (Reply)
Re the Secret Service/Hutchinson story:

I don't know if people like Ed Morrisey are stupid, naive, or a bit of both, but the Democrats knew exactly what they were doing with Hutchinson, that it was all a fantasy, unsupportable and untrue, and that they'd be found out. But they still did it because they knew it would work. Millions of people believe the story, the damage was done, and there will be no repercussions. This has been the pattern for years and it's because there is no longer a functioning adversarial press. Now there's also the massive influence of big tech serving the leftist elite and promoting the narrative.

Remember the Facebook meeting after the '16 election, when the execs were sobbing and and blubbering about how they hadn't done enough to keep Trump from winning? That was just a glimpse of the reality we're living now, and it's how the 2020 election was actually stolen.
#9 SK on 2022-07-08 15:43 (Reply)
QUOTE:
What Liberals Get Wrong About the Second Amendment . . . The Second Amendment does not refer to “muskets”; it refers to “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” “Bear” means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be carried by the people.

Sure, which is why, in America, you can buy fully-automatic machine guns, RPGs, Stinger missiles, and nerve gas grenades at your local Five & Dime.
#10 Zachriel on 2022-07-09 08:00 (Reply)

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