Guest essay by Eric Worrall
During Thursday’s Presidential debate, President Biden made a clear statement that he intends to transition away from the oil industry. My question – what part does Burisma play in this plan?
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Would you close down the oil industry?
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I would transition from the oil industry, yes.
TRUMP: Oh, that’s a big statement.
BIDEN: It is a big statement.
KRISTEN WELKER: Why would you do that?
BIDEN: Because the oil industry pollutes. It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time. And I’d stop giving federal subsidies to the oil industry. He won’t give federal subsidies to solar and wind. Why are we giving it to the oil industry?
TRUMP: We actually do give it to solar and wind. And that’s maybe the biggest statement, in terms of business, because basically what he’s saying is he’s going to destroy the oil industry. Will you remember that, Texas? Will you remember that, Pennsylvania? Oklahoma? Ohio?
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Source (Includes video): https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/22/joe-biden-i-would-transition-from-the-oil-industry-because-it-pollutes/
Obviously a scheme to shut down the US fossil fuel industry incurs a risk that the fossil fuel industry might be “transitioned” too quickly, that an energy gap might develop as the US fossil fuel industry is decommissioned.
Just speculating here, but perhaps that is why Biden’s son built a relationship with Burisma. Thank’s to Hunter Biden’s foreign oil and gas industry contacts, if a large transitional energy gap develops as US fossil fuel assets are decommissioned, say if the decommissioning process proceeds too quickly, companies like the Ukrainian gas giant Burisma will be able to step in, and help fill the gap between US supply and demand for energy by selling their product to the USA.
As long as politicians listen to activists instead of the technically competent, we’re going to get this sort of swill.
As long as China is paying them to ignore China….
We could go black tomorrow and it would not make one bit of difference
China. Yes that’s absolutely got to be ignored by the GND crowd. Imagine plastering solar panels and wind turbines all over the landscapes of the world. Where is the bulk of solar panel charge control and grid interface electronics located? ( Hint.. begins with a C). So Joe Biden committed to a massive transfer of US grade currency to C…. Pretty much the same result for Wind turbines and although the US isn’t building nuclear these days, there is another country that is. (Hint…begins with a C).
China is already communist. Therefore, you can ignore them.
Russia is a conservative democracy, China is a capitalist dictatorship. Only the American left still thinks communism is a good idea.
Iraq under Saddam was also a democracy.
As is Venezuela, Iran, Zimbabwe, Cuba, etc etc. You vote one time for socialism/fascism/communism, from that point forward that is all you get to vote for. At least until you rise up and eradicate said practitioners of socialism/fascism/communism, and that is a bloody process which leaves destruction and death in its wake. Just as socialism/fascism/communism do.
While there may be elements of capitalism in the Chinese economy, only someone who knows nothing of capitalism would refer to China as a capitalist country.
Lee, the renewables industry has nothing to do with altruistic claptrap. The Bidens (alleged) business dealings with China were around energy. All of this is about greed, this whole industry is driven by greed.
Australia has two billionaires who are a good way into getting a 10 gigawatt solar installation built in the Northern Territory, yes that’s right 10 gigawatts! This is a single solar installation. One of these greedy fools is a mining magnate, the other, from an IT background, is a green activist who is heavily invested in renewables.
They claim that they have identified the location, somewhere near Tennent Creek. They must have totally hoodwinked the indigenous population, I doubt that they have any idea that they are selling out ‘country’. This, ‘country’ is one of the most important things to the Aboriginal people.
They claim that they are trying to reduce the footprint of land from 15,000 hectares (37,065 acres) to 12,000 hectares (29,652 acres). And they will need to bulldoze the lot! What happens to the displaced animals, those that aren’t killed in the process?
To get a concept of the size, 15,000 hectares is 150 square kilometres (or close to 60 square miles). So now imagine driving for 150 kilometers (or 60 miles) and having half a kilometer deep (or mile) of solar panels on either side of you for the entire distance!
I might be wrong, it’s hard to find the truth anywhere, but that could be around 37.5 million solar panels. And on the subject of truth, based on solar industry that has been completed, and those being built or proposed in our region, that original figure of 15,000 hectares that they are claiming to aim to reduce, should be at least 30,000 hectares! The figures don’t add up. And who is responsible for disposing of all these panels.
Now here’s the worst of it, nearly all the power from this site will go to Singapore! The mining magnate, much like Joe, is mates with the Chinese. His ore likely goes to China to be processed. The panels all come from China. The billionaire greeny obviously doesn’t give two hoots about the environment, he’s stands to make alot of money to destroy it!
Here’s a link so you know I didn’t make all this up.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/sun-cable-earmarks-site-for-10gw-solar-farm-at-cattle-station-south-of-darwin-60771/amp/
Sadly, that’s not the worst of it. The Western Australian government has granted major project status to a 26 gigawatt of wind and solar capacity in the Pilbara region. That’s right, 26 gigawatts! I can’t even imagine the footprint of that project, and there are many Aboriginals living on ‘country’ here. This $50 billion dollar project is set to be cabled off to Asia too.
The Pilbara region is a tourist destination. I have a link for this project too.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/huge-50bn-pilbara-green-hydrogen-hub-granted-major-project-status-17416/amp/
This tells you why Biden is so keen to promote all forms or renewables. This tells you why the ‘worse than we thought’ propaganda scenarios are regularly ramped up. The phrases such as, “we must act on renewable energy quickly, before it’s too late”.
It’s all to do with off the scale greed. We must stop subsidies, and we must insist that they have proper recycling prepaid for all renewables projects. Better still we need to put an end to this madness.
I wish we had some politicians with the guts that Trump has.
Trump has guts?
No, he just has businesses that he favours, he has no problems with the Paris Agreement per se, just that it will disadvantage the USA.
Adam Gallon, you obviously don’t know anything about Donald Trump. He has guts and he is a patriot. He is not President in order to enrich himself. For many years he stayed out of politics and maintained that he would only get involved if nobody else would step up and fight for America. He saw the current liberal and RINO mess and decided it was time for him to get involved. Yes, that takes a big ego, but it doesn’t mean he is wrong or that he has bad intentions.
Trump has a lot more guts than does an anonymous internet troll who’s only job qualification is whining about people who have been more successful than him.
Mods
Have you reviewed my response to Lee L? It was relevant to his post,
“Imagine plastering solar panels and wind turbines all over the landscapes of the world”, and I think the readers would be entertained by the links.
Thanks Mods
China have Hunter Biden caught between a rock and a hard drive.
…speaking of activists
1970…..we only have 10 years to save the planet
1980…..we only have 10 years to save the planet
1990…..we only have 10 years to save the planet
2000…..we only have 10 years to save the planet
2010…..we only have 10 years to save the planet
2020…..Biden….we only have 10 years to save the planet
…Biden has been a politician the whole time
Correction: in 1970, the “end of the earth” was in just five years, ten at the most, since the Population Bomb was to lead to mass starvation of the U.S. and we could expect nearly 200,000 to die of hunger annually within our borders, according to the wise, old sage Dr. Paul Erlich, who still draws a paycheck 50 years later with the same, dire, and non-happening predictions.
The word “starvation” can also be replaced by nuclear winter, air pollution, population-explosion, polluted water; any number of dire and never-happening predictions.
Don’t forget the great global cooling that was going to compound the matter.
Little late but looks like Plagiarism which is normal for Joey
Latitude,
You are exactly right. Here’s an example of us being told that we only have 10 years left by the UN back in 1989:
https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
PETER JAMES SPIELMANN June 29, 1989
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
“Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Excess carbon dioxide is pouring into the atmosphere because of humanity’s use of fossil fuels and burning of rain forests, the study says. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than it radiates, much like a greenhouse.
The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.
Brown said if the warming trend continues, ″the question is will we be able to reverse the process in time? We say that within the next 10 years, given the present loads that the atmosphere has to bear, we have an opportunity to start the stabilizing process.″
He said even the most conservative scientists ″already tell us there’s nothing we can do now to stop a … change″ of about 3 degrees. ”
Mike: So we did very little for 31 years and what happened?
Answer: The planet greened up. Crop yields/world food production soared higher. Violent tornadoes decreased. Polar bear populations increased and most life flourished.
Cold still kills 15 times more humans than heat(down from 20 times) and 200 times more life than heat.
But there has been a small uptick in heat waves and flooding from the global warming.
A climate OPTIMUM for life based on all authentic scientific standards…..biology, agronomy, climate…… etc.
But a climate CRISIS based on politics.
Correct. They march to the advocacy drummer each and every day. It was most noticeable under Obama with speeches written to attack anyone who disagreed in the Hillary style of attack the voter technique.
Remember that China has substantial rare earth deposits (as you know, used in batteries) and would win hugely if the USA, indeed the West, opted for ‘green’ energy. The corrupt Biden would give them that.
That’s a good point.
Canada, US, Australia and Africa have large resources of rare earths shut in by predatory pricing and illegal mining in China. One project in Quebec has resources of over 200 million tonnes of ore (ferro- carbonatite) outcropping on surface with a couple of percent rare-earth elements with good values in Neodymium – the main RE metal used in wind turbine magnets (neodimium is doped with dysprosium, which is also available from these deposits).
This large deposit is one of numerous ones in a chain that extends from southern Quebec (north of Vermont and New Hampshire to northern Ontario. The city of Montreal is built over one of them (Mount Royal from which the city derives its name). Development of this one and others was halted when China began dumping RE around 2011.
That’s why they bought him.
“Rare earth” isn’t so rare but the labor and safeguards cost to extract it in countries that care about people and environment make the difference to business bottom line.
The USA has huge reserves of Rare Earths too, China however, can control the price, so can make it uneconomical for US companies to mine & refine them. The latter being the most expensive bit.
Sadly Adam, the processing of rare earth materials are up there with the most toxic in the world, and China doesn’t give the environmental damage it has and continues to do a second thought.
MN’s governor Kim Jim Walz wants to be fossil fuel free too. These people are nutz.
And the silly senator Tina Smith stood outside a bunch of solar panels in MN…in MN! We can go days without sun. Lunacy.
And who’s going to clean them off in the winter when they’re covered in snow? I’ve seen several solar panel projects here in MI, which have the same drawbacks – snow covered in winter, and I remember one November back in the ’80s when we got 13 _hours_ of sun unobscured by clouds for the entire month! Complete total insanity, but then our governor is also known as Her Majesty, Queen Gretchen the First.
I thought she was The Wicked Whitmer of the North.
My mistake
Hadn’t heard that one before, but I’m stealing it! 😀
We’ll heat them with diesel. (rolls eyes)
And a whole lot of Americans of all races are seeing that they are corrupt and want to take away our way of life. I don’t think any possible amount of cheating in the election is going to see them through to a win. Biden is toast. But really unless the Republicans can hold the senate, Trump will be forced on the defensive and the promise of what could have been the next four years eliminated.
The only way to stop fanatics is to defeat them and best it be done in the political arena and not buy other much more messy and potentially bloody means.
“But really unless the Republicans can hold the senate, Trump will be forced on the defensive and the promise of what could have been the next four years eliminated. ”
Trump said last night at the debate that he thought the Republicans are going to win the House of Reprsentatives. Republicans only need to turn about 16 seats to have the majority.
No Nancy Pelosi standing in the way! Think of that! Can you believe she has been holding up monetary relief for millions of people for over three months, and is doing so purely for political purposes! The voters need to punish Nancy and the Democrats for playing politics with people’s lives. And I think they will.
It sure would be sweet if the Republicans made a clean sweep: President, U.S. Senate and U.S. House. The United States would make about 50-years worth of reforms in four years under those circumstances.
Lots of things need reforming: The School system for one. I just heard Trump say at a rally he is holding that in his next term he wants to take on the way young people are educated. He wants to remove the leftwing propaganda from the school systems.
Unfortunately Tom–republicans do not stand united to get things done like the dems do. You have to admire their individuality and ability to think issues through and come up with different opinions, the way our system was designed to do. But it is way hard to get things done and reformed because of this. So even if it happens, not a whole lot will get done. The best you can say is that more harm won’t be inflicted and we’ll go through this in 4 years again.
I hope so. My son is a Bernie bro 🙁
Seriously? Just because Trump said something doesn’t mean it is true or even likely. No
polls show the republicans winning the House of Representatives. And the majority of them
show the Democrats winning the senate and Biden being the clear winner for the presidency.
And I am not sure why you think that there would be 50 years of reforms if there was a Republican clean sweep. The last time there the Republicans controlled all branches of power
was between 2016-2018 and there were 2 government shutdowns. The Republicans are clearly
incapable of running the US government.
“Seriously? Just because Trump said something doesn’t mean it is true or even likely. No
polls show the republicans winning the House of Representatives. And the majority of them
show the Democrats winning the senate and Biden being the clear winner for the presidency.
Trump has his own internal polls and they are better than the biased polls put out by the Leftwing Media. If Trump says there is a chance the Republicans may win the U.S. House, then he is seeing something that causes him to say that.
All the polls in 2016 had Trump just as far behind Hillary as they have Trump behind Biden today. Their methodology was flawed in 2016, and they haven’t changed a thing in 2020.
“The Republicans are clearly incapable of running the US government.”
And Biden couldn’t run a chook raffle ….. unless there were little girls present !
Fact is , that before the covid farce, the USA was doing extremely well, DESPITE the Trump Derangement Syndrome from the Dumbocrats and the deep state blocking many of the things that would have made USA great again.
You can’t seriously want Biden to win.. not even you are THAT DUMB, izzy !
The mainstream polls are completely fraudulent, and are made to push a narrative, not reflect actual support. When you sample 10% more Democrats, of course the Democrat candidate will have close to 10% higher ranking in the poll. They also like to oversample Never Trumpers for their “Republican” sample set. Lots of ways to skew a poll to get the result you want.
Izaak
What I don’t get is why you have any faith in the polls they issue. Anyone that has watched with even an iota of objectivity can see that almost all of them are intended to influence the electorate and not present a accurate sample to try and indicate the true situation at a given time. If we seated politicians based on a consensus of polls, the Republican party would have gone the way of the dinosaurs long ago.
Comparing a newly seated congress with Republican control of both houses to what happened in the first two years with Trump is not valid. Many a new Republican seated would owe their position to Trump. That was not the case in 2016.
But regardless, the fact is that DC is corrupt through and through and many of the older politicians owned by special interests or outside interests. No congress person in either house has written a bill for many years that has made it into law. The bills that get through have all been written by special interests on K street.
The Republic is broken and even two terms of Trump having a compliant congress would not be able to fix it all. But the Senate is the chamber that has the Constitutional control over seating judges and eight years of Conservative judges/justices is a great back stop to help prevent the demise of the Republic for some time to come.
Polls showed Hillary winning by 3 to 5% and that the Dems would have major pickups in both the House and Senate in 2016.
The reason for polls being wrong in 2016 still exist and are even more pronounced this year.
rah, like most progressives, Izaak has complete faith in anything that tells him what he wants to hear. Much like his selective climate filters.
Rah,
There is plenty of reasons to believe the polls. The first one is that polling companies
make money by being accurate. People are not going to commision a poll from companies
that have a track record of being wrong. Politicans in particular need accurate polls so that they know where to place ads, which states to campaign in etc and accuracy will be far more valuable than telling people what they want to hear.
Secondly in both 2016 and 2018 the polls were essentially correct. In 2016 the national level polls got the popular vote correct to within a percent while state level polls had a Trump victory as being within the margin of error. Prior to election day Nate Silver for example gave Trump a 30% chance of winning which was fairly accurate given that he lost the popular vote. Pollesters also realised the errors with their sampling (not enough whites without college degrees being the main one) and improved so that in 2018 they were much more accurate.
Currently Biden is ahead by 9 percent and has been since February. Similarly he is ahead in most swing states by more than the margin of error. Polls can be twice as wrong as they were in 2016 and Biden would still be president. Alternatively they could be wrong in favour of Biden in which case there would be a landslide victory for him.
Trump might win in November but at the moment all the indications are that he is behind and not making up any ground. He best attribute is his ability to campaign and he is doing a good job motivated his committed supporters but he is continuing to drive away moderates and the uncommitted.
“The first one is that polling companies make money by being accurate.”
No, they don’t. They make money by providing their customers with what they want.
“People are not going to commision a poll from companies that have a track record of being wrong.”
People commission polls from companies who will give them the poll results they want.
“Politicans in particular need accurate polls so that they know where to place ads, which states to campaign in etc and accuracy will be far more valuable than telling people what they want to hear.”
Which is why politicians do their own polls, and don’t rely on a third party to do it for them. Public polls exist to tell people how to vote, not to determine how people will vote.
“Trump might win in November but at the moment all the indications are that he is behind and not making up any ground.”
And Hillary Clinton has a 98% chance of winning.
“People are not going to commission a poll from companies that have a track record of being wrong”
Ahh….. so none of the companies that got it so wonderfully WRONG last election are involved….. Is that what you are saying .. ditzy ?
I give up. It’s horse and water again.
There is a consistent pattern of many pollsters adjusting their polls in the last 7-10 days before the actual election. That pattern shows them always tightening the race in a manner to try and still show the person their customer(s) wanted to win doing so but be within the margin of error when their conclusion is proven wrong in the real world. Even Gallup does it and has been doing it for almost their entire history.
The popular vote doesn’t means SQUAT! And CA allowing noncitizens to vote skews it anyway. Fact is I don’t give a damned about the popular vote, no matter who wins because we live in a Republic founded by wise men that knew that pure democracy does not work! The electoral college prevents the tyranny of the majority. It is in place for the same reason we have a two chamber congress with one chamber having two senators for each state regardless of that states population. And thankfully, an essential characteristic of the electoral college is that it makes it quite difficult to steal a national election by cheating.
“There is plenty of reasons to believe the polls. The first one is that polling companies”
Wanna put your money where your mouth is Izaak?
Straight up I say Trump wins! Your polls you believe in claim he won’t.
I’m never adverse to taking money from foolish people.
The person that loses donates a C-note to this sites kitty.
“The popular vote doesn’t means SQUAT! And CA allowing noncitizens to vote skews it anyway.”
If you take out CA and it’s potential illegal votes, President Trump won the popular vote in the other 49 states by 1.4 million votes.
Izaak, if you were as smart as you think you are, you would know that there are two types of polls. Internal polls, and polls that are intended for release to the public.
The only purpose of these external polls is to influence the public.
They were never intended to be accurate, that’s what the internal polls are for.
Fred, Izaak is one of those people who will tell you that the climate models are basically correct. His only committment is to advancing the cause of his ideology. Be it climate change, or blind support of any far left candidate. He says what needs to be done.
Crickets on the offer to wager so offer wiihdrawn
Can’t be checking this thread for days.
And suppose you live in Alaska? No sun the whole winter.
I guess we all have to be like Mosher and live on the proper longitude line.
Buh bye, Pluggs, you blew it big time by saying what you actually intend to do to America.
We had that for the first two years of Trump’s Presidency. But we also had Mitch McConnel and Paul Ryan leading their respective Houses. Ryan is gone but McCarthy is his clone. Mitch has been and will continue to be going out of his way to make sure that any appointee that requires Senate approval is going to be an obstructionist.
2hotel, Always nice when the liberals accidently tell the truth about something. Very Rare! Very damning!
Actually they tell the world exactly what they intend all the time, people just don’t listen till it is too late. DJT listened and is taking action to stop them, precisely why Americans hired him.
Sounds like what Justin Trudeau and the Greens are doing with Alberta.
Yes, his Royal Majesty Prime Minister Justin the Trudope is all in on climate change. Although, Canada will be obliterated in the next ice age.
China. Yes that’s absolutely got to be ignored by the GND crowd. Imagine plastering solar panels and wind turbines all over the landscapes of the world. Where is the bulk of solar panel charge control and grid interface electronics located? ( Hint.. begins with a C). So Joe Biden committed to a massive transfer of US grade currency to C…. Pretty much the same result for Wind turbines and although the US isn’t building nuclear these days, there is another country that is. (Hint…begins with a C).
And what the Liberals did to the lakeshore communities in rural Ontario.
https://stopthesethings.com/2020/10/23/germanys-fascists-march-again-with-effort-to-crush-all-community-opposition-to-wind-power/
Ukrainia is only a transit country for Russian gas. Say no more.
A worth read: The systematic crime families of the USA
or:
One minute we were America, then next we were China…
BIDEN: “Because the oil industry pollutes.”
Translation: “Because it is a fossil fuel, the burning of which adds “carbon pollution”.
What a liar. #Bidenusuck.
Let’s hpoe, he can’t remember tomorrow.
Let’s hope, he can’t remember tomorrow.
Who? Bdien or Biden?
Sorry state-of-affairs that such a person could ever be elected to vice-president of the US.
And still might be president.
Sorry state of affairs sums up US politics. Trump, Biden & Clinton, were these really the best candidates you could come up with?
I, personally, would like to see Trump be president for life because I think he has done and will do a very good job.
Trump *is* about the best we can do, and his best is pretty damn good.
And to cap it all off, Trump is not a crook, which has been certified by four years of the most intense investigation of a president in history, whereas Hillary and Biden are crimnals, who have both actively tried to undermine the Constitution of the United States in their lust for personal political power.
I wonder what utopian vista Adam hails from? Must be wonderful to be practically perfect in every way!
Good catch on that little debate exchange, Eric. The proof of how lame the Biden declaration was came this morning when CNN analyst declared the Biden “I would transition from the oil industry, yes.” statement as “an unforced error”, which is CNN-speak for “profoundly stupid” as regards a democrat. Vote early and vote often!
Biden is very uninformed and out of touch. Having worked in the energy business in many forms (offshore E&P construction / coal / nuclear ) since 1974 I can assure you that solar and wind renewables are a bad choice and offer terrible RoI. It is impossible, even were there the will, to replace current energy production using a combination of coal, nuclear, oil and gas, with anything other than a combination of hydro, fossil fueled plant and a lot more Nuclear / Salt reactors / PBMRs and some solar furnaces because wind and solar are polluting, horribly expensive and unreliable. The problem has come about with government allowing social workers, lobbyists, lawyers and the Geckos to predict and manage what should undertaken by engineers and scientists – and qualified ones not Green dreamers. The future is electric up to a point but future electricity generation must come in great proportion from Nuclear which is relatively cheap and safe (unless the plants are staffed by idiots or they are built on a fault line). Oil is cheap and plentiful and should continue to be used in the most efficient way. If the Green Agenda is followed the future is California with brown outs no Air Conditioning and miserable conditions which will have been imposed unnecessarily by eco-Loons.
Biden is leading the polls for the highest position in the world. He has already risen to the second-highest position in the land without having to produce any original thoughts. Millions of Americans listen to his every word even though he has lost over 50 percent of his mental capability. He has sniffed many women and girls will no repercussions. He has made millions with no effort of his own. Do not underestimate him. Like Forrest Gump’s Drill Sargent says he is a GD genius.
Good things happen to you when the Leftwing Media is on your side and carrying your water.
I doubt millions of Americans listen to his every word. They’ve tuned him out. He draws nobody to his events. They don’t want to hear his gaffes over and over. They don’t want to hear him talk about his positions or give opinions on issues. They don’t even ask him about packing the Supreme Court.
He is the Democrat candidate opposing Trump and has the force of the media and Democrat behind him. It’s not genius. It’s default.
You are no doubt right but how do you become the default? Just stay in the game and keeping plugging (and not just your bald head) and someday you may get lucky.
Someday people will decide you are the most easily manipulated candidate. Then you will be financed and backed by the propaganda machine. You only need to smile, wave and read from a script.
You really think that many voting democrat are voting for Biden and not against Trump? That is what is happening. Those voting for Biden would vote for any democrat. It has been that way for a very long time. Here is a classic with Bob Hope from back when an actor/comedian could say such a thing and keep working in Hollywood:
https://youtu.be/4a6YdNmK77k
Oh, how times have changed. Bob Hope delivered that perfectly.
On behalf of geckos everywhere, I object to your slanderous association of us with social workers, lobbyists, lawyers.
In case you haven’t noticed, we geckos feed at ceiling level.
We are not bottom-feeders like the aforementioned social workers, lobbyists, lawyers.
You are assuming they really care about all of that. What they envision is a modern day feudal society and you remember how much concern the ruling classes had for the serfs under feudalism.
For a non existing problem?
What is alarming is how many non thinkers there are in America besides Joe Biden. We have to attach blame in part to the fake news outlets that use fake news to sell their papers and advertising, not caring if non thinkers blindly believe it is true. The damage this has done two our country!
“We have to attach blame in part to the fake news outlets that use fake news to sell their papers and advertising,”
I would say the fake news is the main avenue for misleading people, and they not only do it to sell papers and advertising, but also to sell a leftwing ideology. The entire Leftwing Media is now a propaganda organ for the Democrats.
Ha, CNN and MSNBC have lost viewership as did ESPN. NONE of them have changed their bias and in fact all have doubled down on it this election cycle. The old argument that it’s about advertising revenue is obviously a lie.
New York Times, LA Times. The big city newspapers are losing money hand over fist.
The people of America are sick and tired of being called all manner of filthy names by college educated f**kbags who can’t get or hold a real job.
What is alarming is how many non thinkers there are in America besides Joe Biden.
Result of the infiltration/destruction of the education & judicial systems and at one time a “relatively” objective media.
Going from memory here….
Mr. Biden opened the section with a declaration that we face an existential crisis and that we must take action now.
President Trump responded legitimately by attacking the proposed actions. He did not, however, attack the underlying premise of an existential crisis.
Brother Trump, good on you for cleaning up the cobwebs, but you really need to kill the spider.
He’s only one person. One person against millions of blood-sucking black-widow spiders.
Spiders don’t suck blood
Actually many do, along with other bodily fluids. Just like Democrats.
“…a risk that the fossil fuel industry might be “transitioned” too quickly…”
Too quickly? That implies that there are realistic technologies awaiting development to make the wind blow harder and all the time, and the sun to shine 24 hours per day. All we need to then is to give time for these developments to be complete and then we turn off the oil.
Nuts!
Sadly the CEO of my pension fund, Mr Looney from County Kerry who runs BP, is on record as saying BP will ‘transition’ from grown up energy production to windmills and solar mirrors to provide the worlds energy.
It appears that not all the lunatics are members of the American Democrat party, they are out there in charge of the asylums.
Laundered, renewable, socially inoculated, redistributive greenbacks. It would be green to not invest in the Green blight.
Patrick: remember that US Democrats which we call lefties, are far to the right of “rightie” pols in EU and UK. In UK, the Conservative Party and the Labour Party are like football teams now. Only their jerseys are different. There used to be a Liberal Party, but with the néomarxiste putsch, Conservatives slid into their spot and ever farther left. Corbyn of Labour (now retired) took to wearing a Lenin cap to be sure there would be no confusion. This is why the CEO of BP is so pink.
The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned
And while Biden read a book on Marx, the quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark the day the oil died, we were singin’
Bye, bye miss American pie…….
Apologies to Don Mclean
When Kristen Welker asked “Why would you do that?”, I don’t think she meant “why would you kill the oil industry”, I think she meant “why would you admit in public that you want to kill the oil industry”. She realized the potential damage to his campaign that admission could have with voters in Oil states.
Hunter Biden, based on his extensive smoke&fly expertise, will be nominated in charge of the transition to fuel-free aviation…
Thanks, Flight Level, that made me laugh…almost as hard as last night when Joe named his revised Obamacare health-care plan “Bidencare”. What a maroon!
Regards,
Bob
Respects Bob,
I’ve watched the recording of the event and can’t figure out if not being American I miss the point or, is it that Joe Biden exhibits the body language of a cornered crook and speaks like one.
The consequences of his internal psychological stress to refute reality are vastly perceivable.
I would be very uncomfortable to have him on board and would ask the cabin crew to locate and discreetly establish friendly contacts with ABP’s (Able Bodied Passengers) … Just in case he blows a fuse and looses it all in an argument with someone.
BR, tailwind !
Flight Level, what’s up with Biden’s eyes? I couldn’t figure it out.
Regards,
Bob
Well Bob,
Avery good question indeed. However I’m not the specialist to answer it in it’s full extend. For me eyes behavior are part of that “being uncomfortable with” part.
Nevertheless I can refer to crew safety and prevention workshops. Where we’re told that being uncomfortable with someone’s eyes could mean that the concerned person suffers from schizophrenia and/or consciously conceals potentially harmful intentions.
BR, tailwind,
FL
There are some countries closer, but still far far away, to a renewable energy transition. Those countries will be the canaries in the coal mine and already some have stopped singing. Despite all the renewable hullabaloo the world is still increasing its’ use of fossil fuels to the point that fossil fuel use is expanding faster than the solar and wind that’s supposed to be replacing it. What’s wrong with this picture and who is looking at it? Developing countries certainly don’t care what drives their progress ….. do they?
risk that the fossil fuel industry might be “transitioned” too quickly
Considering there is no affordable, viable, reliable alternative (other than nuclear, which is unpalatable to the people that want to do away with cheap, reliable fossil fuel energy), any “transition” is too quick.
Oil isn’t just fuel thousands of products are made from it including pharmaceuticals. Where will America get all those when they can’t make their own. China, Russia?
You hit the nail on the head. Politicians like Biden have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. What’s your cell phone going to be covered with tomorrow? Steel? Wonder what your operating distance will be? How abut the keyboard used with your computer? Going to make it out of steel? It would probably help our steel industry – except where is the coal to make the steel going to come from? How about the lenses in Ol’ Joe’s reading glasses? What do you suppose those are made from? it probably ain’t glass!
Just sit and look around you sometime Joe. My guess is that you have absolutely no idea how much stuff around you is made from plastic (read as oil!).
If there were to be an artificial, politically-created shortfall of natural gas in the U.S. thanks to the economic illiterates and the innumerates (read Biden and the Green Blob), the biggest beneficiaries would likely be Russia (Gazprom has Western-audited proved natural gas reserves that are 4× ExxonMobil’s BOE-equivalent proved reserves), Qatar and Iran (the South Pars/North field is the world’s largest known gas field).
The greedy do not care about the people, only about their own power and money.
Biden stands to become one of the richest people on the planet if he can get himself elected. Then all of that will transition to his children and grand-children… The “Kennedy syndrome V2.0”.
I do not personally “like” Trump, but that is not important. What is important is his policies. He has done more to clean up government than anyone other president I can remember. That’s probably because the government has become so bloated and corrupt with Tech and Green influence. I do wish someone would hide his dang smartphone so he couldn’t tweet anymore.
“Obviously a scheme to shut down the US fossil fuel industry incurs a risk that the fossil fuel industry might be “transitioned” too quickly, that an energy gap might develop as the US fossil fuel industry is decommissioned.”
Fossil fuels are not only used to create energy. And even there no one has come up with a viable alternative. And don’t say nuclear because no one has built one in decades and there is still no place set for storing the waste.
But again, with out fossil fuel you can’t make metal, cement, glass, brick, asphalt, plastics, rubbers, nitrogen fertilizer….How are you all planning to do with out them?
Would everyone please grow up and start acting like adults on this eliminate fossil fuel nonsense.
Mr. Gasioli, you are asking the impossible.
Hmmmm . . . I’m just wondering what the US military thinks of Biden’s plan to “transition from the oil industry”.
Outside of nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, all of the Navy relies almost totally on oil-derived fuels. In additional, the Army and Air Force rely on oil-derived fuels for basically anything that moves on the ground or flies through the air. You think Sleepy Joe has a plan for how wind, solar and water will be used to replace all those critical oil-fueled ICE’s (including jet fuel- and natural gas-powered turbines) used by the military to defend the USA? . . . forget about it!
Perhaps natural gas can be used to replace oil-based fuels for the military? . . . no, it cannot because its energy density is too low, even with relatively high pressure storage tanks. And just imagine the cost of replacing all existing military motors to run on either natural gas or electrical batteries!
And it’s not just fuel . . . no vehicle of any kind could move very long without lubricating oils, and that includes all personal and commercial vehicles.
Beyond this, Sleepy Joe appears oblivious as to all of the direct products and petrochemical feedstock products that are derived from oil and that are critical to manufacturing an extraordinary range of products in the US . . . from plastics (including synthetic fabrics), to rubbers (can you say “tires”?), to fertilizers (need food?), to asphalt (need roads and road repairs?), to insecticides, to pharmaceutical drugs. (more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochemical ).
We need a US President that actually thinks, rather than one that just parrots a meme and thereby ends up inserting foot into mouth.
Doesn’t matter, the many Democrats want to get rid of the Dept of the Defense. After all good socialists never attack each other.