Joe Incompetent

Adam Smith was trying to be consoling when he said “there’s a deal of ruin in a nation.” Yes, there is. But Joe Biden is testing the limits of that home truth.

by Roger Kimball for American Greatness

When it comes to the Biden Administration, my advice is: forget the ideology, concentrate on the incompetence. 

Yes, the Biden Administration has gone all-in on the leisured Left agenda, throwing its hat in with the race-baiters, icky sexual exotics, climate fanatics, and other wardens of wokeness. 

All that is destructive, not to mention deeply unattractive.

But even worse than the preening, self-indulgent theatrics of these unhappy would-be censors and commandants is the mind-boggling ineptitude of this administration. 

Thanks to soon-to-be-former Representative Liz Cheney (RINO-Wyo.), we’ve been hearing a lot about January 6, 2021, lately. But not only was that the day that some of Donald Trump’s supporters traipsed around the Capitol building. It was also, as it turns out, a day that provided a nice contrast between the Trump and the Biden Administrations. I am not thinking about the differences in comportment between the two but energy costs under Donald Trump compared with those costs under Joe Biden. Since Biden seems bent on fulfilling his promise to destroy the coal industry and stop all drilling, it is not surprising that the cost of energy has skyrocketed over the last year. One wag sent around a “Never Forget January 6th” notice listing the prices of fuel on that day in 2021:

• Regular gas was $1.99
• Premium was $2.14 
• Diesel was $2.21 

Earlier today, I was driving around my town in Connecticut and saw that regular gas was $4.99 9/10 and Diesel was $6.30. In some places in California, gas is flirting with the $10 mark. Maybe Joe wants us all to follow his example and take to the bicycle. His own experience with the machine seems like a metaphor for his entire administration. 

Of course, higher energy costs mean higher everything costs. Bought an airline ticket lately? That’ll cost you 30-40 percent more than it did when Trump left office. Used cars have undergone a similar adjustment upward. Milk, bread, coffee, and eggs are 15-20 percent more now than they were a year ago. Joe Biden says that this isn’t his fault because inflation is raging everywhere in the Western world and, besides, it is worse “everywhere else.” 

But it isn’t worse everywhere else. The latest official inflation rate in the United States is 8.6 percent. (Were inflation calculated the way it was in 1980, it would be about 15 percent.) As Matt Margolis points out at PJ Media, inflation in Germany is currently running at about 7.9 percent, in France at 5.2 percent, in Japan at 2.5 percent, in India at 7.04 percent, in Canada and Italy at 6.8 percent, and in Saudi Arabia at 2.2 percent. 

Margolis links to a painful exchange between Peter Doocy of Fox News and Biden’s remarkable new press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Why, Doocy wanted to know, was the president saying inflation was worse everywhere else when it wasn’t? Jean-Pierre’s nonanswer was revealing, not just for its mendacity but for its stupidity and its incompetence. 

A lot of the Biden Administration is summed up in Jean-Pierre. If you know anything at all about her, you know that she is the first black lesbian to serve as White House press secretary. That is presented as an accomplishment, but it is nothing of the kind. It’s the same with Ketanji Brown Jackson, the embryo Supreme Court Justice-in-waiting who is tapping her foot until Stephen Breyer retires. What are Jackson’s achievements? Why, she will be the first black female on the Court. But again, that’s not an accomplishment. That is just identity politics in action. 

It turns out that all of Biden’s accomplishments are of this nature: that is, they are not accomplishments at all. They are just politically correct gestures masquerading as policy. Biden’s “historic” sanctions against Russia were supposed to deliver a crippling blow—which they seem to be doing, but against the United States, not Russia. The ruble is at a four-year high, Russia’s gold reserves are among the most robust in the world, and its revenue from oil jumped to $20 billion in May, roughly what it was before Putin invaded Ukraine in February. 

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who talked tough for about 15 minutes when Russia first invaded Ukraine, has been busy back-peddling and accommodating, rather than confronting, Vladimir Putin. “Germany’s New Resolve on Russia is Already Flagging,” shouts a headline from the Hudson Institute. “In effect,” that essay reads, “Scholz has attempted to substitute spending for leadership.” Sound familiar? 

The implications for Ukraine are dire: Russian President Vladimir Putin may not have won the war, but he may yet win the peace—especially if Scholz teams up with French President Emmanuel Macron, who has been pushing for an end to the war at terms favorable enough to Putin that he is spared any “humiliation.” To that end, Scholz and Macron will travel to Kyiv this week with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. 

Maybe they will bring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy some new duds. The green T-shirts have worn out their welcome. 

Scholz and his entourage may not have any Biden officials in tow, but he will have the Biden Administration along in spirit. The name of Biden’s policy towards Russia is “hurt America first.” His sanctions do bite, but they are mostly biting the American consumer. Meanwhile, Russia has halted natural gas supplies to much of the EU, cutting Dutch, Danish, and German contracts. Back in February, as he was announcing his first round of sanctions against Russia, Biden said, “I want to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump. This is critical to me,” he added. So critical that the price of gas has more than doubled in the few months since he made that remark. 

The simple truth is that the Biden Administration is a shambles. Adam Smith was trying to be consoling when he told a British soldier during the American Revolution that “there’s a deal of ruin in a nation.” There is indeed. But Joe Biden is testing the limits of that home truth. 

On the Fringe and SGT Report- June 19

 

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Neil Oliver, The Great Resetters are Intent on Retaining Post-Pandemic Power and Control Through Fear and Finance

Neil Oliver uses language to hack the great red pill vending machine and feed the masses.   In his weekly monologue today, Oliver notes the great resetters, the alliance of multinational corporations and government leaders, are intent on using fear and finance to build the post-covid control mechanisms over the people within western society.

Create massive costs, destabilize the people, manipulate the crisis and leave the common family left trying to figure out what is happening.  Government and bankers using fear and finance respectively; both leveraged against the people, while drumbeating the continued nonsense of climate change and the need to ‘save the planet’.  Video and Transcript below, well worth WATCHING and Reading:

El Erian Thinks the FED Will Flip-Flop on Rates in Response to Demand Side Contraction

Mohamed El-Erian, a Blooomberg Opinion contributor, cracks me up in his efforts to avoid speaking directly.  Generally, El-Erian knows the situation, he was one of the first to identify the issue with inflation in March 2021.   However, he continues avoiding any mention that the U.S. economy is already in a negative position for growth.

Consider this…. In this interview El-Erian says he believes the Fed will flip-flop and lower rates in reaction to what is happening in the economy.  Keep in mind, the only reason for the Fed to reverse rates so quickly is if the economy is already in a demand side contraction and the latest .75% increase in rate is being done into a negative GDP environment.

Of course, the reality is exactly that.  The U.S. economy is already contracting, mostly because of inflation chewing up the supply side, and the Fed is factually raising interest rates into an economy already in a demand side recession.  But everyone must pretend that’s not the case, so here’s El-Erian saying Jerome Powell is going to end up reversing himself, flip-flopping, which doesn’t make sense if you don’t first establish that the economy is right now shrinking as he speaks.  WATCH:

France's Emmanuel Macron set to lose majority - projection

 

Less than two months after he was re-elected president, Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose control of the French National Assembly after a strong performance by rival parties.

His centrist Ensemble coalition is on course to win parliamentary elections, according to projected results.

But he is set to lose dozens of seats and would struggle to push his reforms.

A left-green alliance is projected to come second, but Marine Le Pen's far-right party have also done well.

Mr Macron had more than 300 seats in the outgoing parliament and defeated Ms Le Pen's National Rally convincingly in the presidential election in April. To maintain his outright majority he needed 289 seats but Sunday's projection of around 210 to 250 seats is worse than the pollsters expected.

Far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left-green alliance called Nupes is set to win 150 to 180 seats, while the far-right National Rally is on course to go from eight seats to between 80 and 100, says TF1 TV.  

An early casualty for the government came on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, where a secretary of state, Justine Benin, lost her seat and will have to resign. But a number of high-profile ministers were at risk, including Europe Minister Clément Beaune and Green Transition Minister Amélie de Montchalin.  

What are they offering?

President Macron has promised a "new method" of governing with greater involvement from civil society. He's proposing:

• A National Council for Refoundation made up of local people to make France more democratic
• Reforms to tackle the high cost of living and action towards full employment and carbon neutrality
• Pension reforms and gradually raising the retirement age to 65

The left-green alliance wants:

• Retirement lowered from 62 to 60
• Minimum wages (known as Smic) to go up by about 15% to €1,500 a month
• A freeze on the prices of basic essentials and the creation of a million jobs.  

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61859881   

Report Claims 'Assault' on Dan Crenshaw and Staff by Some on the Right

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

The Texas GOP convention has been going full swing in Houston. They already had some drama with people booing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), after–at least initially–seeming to be going along with “red flag” laws in the compromise deal that Republicans, including Cornyn, had tentatively worked out with Democrats. It’s unclear if that deal will ultimately go through.

But on Saturday there was a report that some people on the right assaulted Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) at the convention, according to Mediaite, who also claimed witnesses said “Proud Boys” were involved in the tussle.

“They got physical with multiple people, including hitting them with cameras,” a witness at the scene said. “His campaign manager was assaulted by being pushed aggressively into a pillar.”

In looking at the video that Mediaite cites, there doesn’t appear to be any physical “assault” on Crenshaw, although there is a lot of screaming at him by Alex Stein, calling Crenshaw a globalist and “Eyepatch McCain.” Then there appears to be a lot of pushing of Stein, followed by one of the people– who grabbed Stein–stumbling back. That’s all the video shows, and Mediaite doesn’t say who the “witness” is that supposedly said that there was more.

I didn’t see any visible Proud Boys involved in the tussle in that video. Now, perhaps there’s another video that shows more, but this one doesn’t show much. There was a picture of Mediaite had of people outside the venue in Proud Boys attire.

Crenshaw fired back at Stein in a tweet.

Mediaite notes that the term “Eyepatch McCain” is one that Tucker Carlson has used, so now the left is taking the Mediaite story that claims Crenshaw and his staff were assaulted, comparing it to Jan. 6, and now blaming Carlson for it. Carlson of course had nothing to do with whatever went on in this exchange. But at this point, they will try to pin anything on Carlson, because they’re trying to do in his show.

But if you thought that the left gave a darn about Crenshaw or anyone on the right, for that matter, people on the left also attacked Crenshaw, claiming that somehow it was his fault because, according to them, he “f–ked around” with Nazis.

Here’s a sample:

Of course, anyone to the right of them is a “Nazi.” Moral of the story, when it comes to people on the left? It’s always and only about how they can use the incident to attack everyone on the right, even Crenshaw.

Congress Finds Even More Reasons To Disregard The Bill of Rights

There’s nothing so dangerous as a politician who undermines the Bill of Rights during a moment of tragedy or crisis.

by J.B. Shurk for The Federalist

With news that Congress is on its way to passing new gun control laws that will make it easier for bureaucrats to disarm law-abiding Americans, the United States is once again repeating the egregious mistake of responding to a perceived “emergency” by crippling constitutional protections for Americans’ unalienable rights.

First we had the post-9/11 passage of the Patriot Act and its creation of a national security surveillance state that tracks and records Americans’ digital communications despite the absence of probable cause, legal warrants, or explicit consent. Then we had the Department of Homeland Security’s recent flirtation with a “disinformation board” meant to regulate speech and censor points of view at odds with the government’s officially sanctioned “narratives.”

Now we have a renewed push for “red flag” laws intended to deprive Americans of their weapons without proper due process or criminal conviction. Over the last 20 years, America’s First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments have been under sustained attack, and, amazingly, it has been elected officials sworn by oath to “support and defend” those same amendments who have led much of the charge.

There’s nothing so dangerous as a politician who undermines the Bill of Rights during a moment of tragedy or crisis. Those rights, set forth as the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution as a redundancy to make explicitly clear what is beyond the scope of the federal government’s enumerated powers, are not wishy-washy suggestions meant to be ignored during times of “emergency.” On the contrary, it is during such times when their safeguards become most critical.

Ever-Encroaching Government Power

After suffering a terrorist attack, or enduring the ravages of lockdowns, or reeling from the staggering loss of young murder victims, trading freedom for the alluring promises of peace and security is at once reckless and irresistible. That is why our first ten amendments are a necessary line in the sand, so to speak, a caution from one generation of Americans to the next about the dangerous predilection of ever-encroaching government power to descend toward outright tyranny.

In this way, the Bill of Rights represents both a prohibition against illegitimate government action and a kind of easily digestible warning label counseling ordinary citizens: should your government attempt to infringe these most basic rights, then you will know that your continuing freedom is in jeopardy.

Too many elected officials today speak of the protections within the Bill of Rights as if they were created out of thin air and can be erased as indiscriminately as they are perceived to have been written down. It should be noted that many of the original ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution and its subsequent first ten amendments feared later generations would come to this erroneous conclusion.

Some opposed to the explicit adoption of a Bill of Rights thought it unnecessary, since the federal government’s powers were already strictly limited to those enumerated. They also worried that guaranteeing certain specific rights might have the perverse effect of endangering American freedoms not affirmatively recorded.

The Ninth and Tenth Amendments’ dual assurances that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” and that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” were meant to redress this risk. The Bill of Rights, in other words, provides expansive protection for individual liberty, constrained only by those powers constitutionally delegated to the federal government.

Unalienable Natural Rights

This moral idea — that personal freedom should be maximized and government power minimized — has always been revolutionary. It recognized that all legitimate power first originates with the people before they voluntarily cede some of their power to a functioning government. Conversely, when Congress decides that it may disregard the express prohibitions set forth in the Bill of Rights in order to pursue its own policy preferences, then it resurrects that same system where those with power “rule” and those without power “obey.”

To have any value, individual rights must belong wholly to the people. If personal freedoms were understood as nothing more than “gifts” from the government to the people, then they would be reduced to mere “privileges” either granted or denied according to the state’s prerogative. For unalienable natural rights to have substantive meaning, they must be inherently possessed by individual Americans, immune from the vagaries of government whim.

For free speech, the right to self-defense, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and due process to protect Americans ably from the potential threats of government tyranny, they must exist irrespective of any government action seeking their dilution or outright abrogation. Whereas man-made laws may sway from side to side when a nation faces heavy winds, it is imperative that unalienable natural rights never bend.

Congress always has a good reason for disregarding the Bill of Rights. It’s just a “red flag” law targeting “crazies with guns.” It’s just a little warrantless surveillance meant to stop “domestic extremists.” It’s just a little regulation of speech necessary to counter “disinformation” and “lies.” Every new restriction on Americans’ freedom is always touted as instrumental to “saving lives.”

Rights Not Privileges

There’s never any time, it seems, to stop and ask: who will be empowered to judge which Americans are “crazy” or “extremist” or “spreading lies”? Who will be given the authority to decide which Americans have unalienable rights and which Americans do not? When rights are reduced to nothing more than government “privileges,” after all, it matters a great deal who will be handing out those “gifts.”

As Congress and President Biden look to undermine the Second Amendment with new gun control laws this year, don’t forget the hidden costs. When rights remain as strong as oak, they endure regardless of any perceived “emergency.” When rights become as malleable as plastic, though, they melt quickly under even the gentlest sun.

Release the Cat Stories!

When the going gets rough, the media runs fluff.

posted by Dianny at Patriot Retort

On Friday, just a couple of hours after the Bidens boarded Marine One for yet another weekend at the beach, CNN launched the opening volley in Operation Release the Cat Stories.

Can you blame them?

Our economy is on the cusp of a recession. Inflation hasn’t been this bad since 1981. Gas prices are at record highs. And most Americans are downsizing their summer vacation plans because they just can’t afford to go anywhere.

But no matter how bad things get for the country, nothing will get in the way of old Peepaw Joe flying out of DC to spend the weekend at his vacation house in Rehoboth Beach. And since the optics of having the president who’s overseeing this disastrous economy refuse to give up his weekends on the beach while Americans suffer are really bad, it isn’t entirely surprising that the media thinks it’s time to release the cat stories.

When the going gets rough, the media runs fluff.

And since the cost of ice cream is rising, launching another ice cream deflection would probably be counterproductive. It’s much safer to release the cat stories.

They’ve used Willow the cat as a distraction before. After ice cream, she’s the media’s go-to option to distract Americans from old Joe’s cascading failures.

The goal is to make the Bidens look less entitled and out of touch than they are. And, hey, normal people have pets, don’t they?

So this is what CNN brought us yesterday:

Read this segment and tell me you don’t feel your glucose level rising:

Whether a cat can appreciate a sojourn by the sea remains questionable, but for Willow, the Rehoboth house is one of several changes of scenery she gets to appreciate as a presidential pet.

“Willow often spends the weekends with the First Family, including in Rehoboth, Wilmington, and Camp David,” the first lady’s press secretary Michael LaRosa told CNN.

When she is not being whisked away for the weekend, Willow has privileges to roam the White House. She is predominantly restricted to the White House executive residence’s private second and third floors, where CNN is told Willow particularly enjoys the solarium, a bright space above the South Portico, where she “receives lots of attention from the Executive Residence staff.” In Wilmington and at Camp David, “she often sits on the porch in the sun,” says LaRosa.

This is why I am skeptical of the claims that the news media is turning on Joe Biden. Sure, there have been some negative stories lately. But at the end of the day, like in any codependent, unhealthy relationship, the media will always return to stand by Joe’s side.

And if that means distracting the public with stupid stories about the Bidens’ cat Willow, then release the cat stories!

Hillary Gives What She Says Is the Definitive Word on Whether She'll Run in 2024

Mike Miller reporting for RedState 

If we’ve learned anything about Hillary Rodham Clinton over the last 30 years, it is this: when her lips are moving, chances are better than not that she’s lying. At the very least, she carefully couches her words and is disingenuous as hell. At her relative worst, it is Hillary who is guilty of the very charges she trumps up (pun intended) against her adversaries. It is from this viewpoint that I write this political analysis.

During an interview with the Financial Times about the state of the Biden presidency, former President Donald Trump, her own political career, the 2024 presidential race, Hillary is asked the question:

Might Hillary run in 2024, which would be her third effort, depending on how things play out for Biden?

Asked flat-out whether she could foresee any circumstances in which she’d throw her housecoat hat into the 2024 ring, she declares:

No, out of the question. First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that.

We’ll revisit that comment in a minute.

Calling the notion of a Republican winning the presidency in 2024 “so frightening,” as transcribed by Fox News, Hillary went full-metal hyperbolic about “standing on the precipice of losing our democracy.”

We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window.

Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.

Before we continue, lemme fix that last line — “whatever does not help you win should not be a priority” — for Hillary: “You should do whatever you must do to win. At any cost. That should be your only priority.”

There, much better. Much more Hillaryesque. 

As to Trump running, Hillary basically said the same thing that anyone with a brain who has paid even a modicum of attention to Donald Trump over the last 16 months would say.

I think if he can he’s going to run again. Follow the money with Trump — he’s raised about $130 million sitting in his bank account that he used to travel around, to fund organizing against elections… I don’t know who will challenge him in the Republican primary.

To Hillary’s point, if when Trump officially announces his candidacy, it will be interesting to see how other potential Republican candidates play — or don’t play — their hands.

Part of me thinks prime contenders like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and perhaps Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, would decide to forego a run if Trump runs, and wait until 2028 — knowing full well that the Trump loyalists would do their damnedest to destroy them.

Now I’m not so sure. Perhaps multiple Republican candidates will jump into the race, regardless of what Trump does. And I do think it’s all but certain that former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has shared his belief that Trump should be primaried in 2024, will enter the race.

Now, let’s get back to Hillary’s “No, out of the question” declaration that she won’t run in 2024.

I don’t believe her for a Chappaqua minute. Think about it. We’re talking about a bloodthirsty woman, who has believed since at least 2008 that the Oval Office desk was her rightful destiny; her all-but-promised gilded throne, as if by birthright. Chicago Jesus Barack Obama first dashed those dreams when the Democrat state media anointed him in 2008 — not Hillary.

Then 2016 rolled around — and there was Donald Trump; a unique force in politics who, in retrospect, was the only Republican candidate among the original17 who could have — and did — beat Hillary, leaving Her Highness seething. Then the added humiliation of addled Joe Biden, who campaigned from his basement and half the time didn’t know what day it was, swooped away with the nomination and into office in 2020. Imagine being Hillary Rodham Clinton, watching Biden on a daily basis.

Don’t you wonder what Hillary might be thinking? Oh, hell yeah, you do — so do I.

So, here’s the deal, as Biden likes to say. Notice how Hillary carefully couched the first words out of her mouth in response to the 2024 question: “No, not a chance. First of all, I expect Biden to run. He wants to run.” So, what? There are untold millions, no doubt, of terrified Democrats who not only don’t want Biden to run; they really don’t want Kamala Harris anywhere near their 2024 presidential ticket.

So, riddle me this: Let’s pretend Democrat Party elders show up on Hillary’s Chappaqua doorstep and beseech her to run. I know, far-fetched — but stay with me. “For the good of the party,” they tell her. Is there any chance in hell she wouldn’t jump at the chance? Of course, there she would — she’d be all over it.

The Bottom Line

Whatever happens, one — this one — hopes like hell that the 2024 Republican presidential candidate has the sense to look to the future; not relitigate the past. After all, the silver platter that will be handed to the Republicans by the disastrous Biden presidency will be one for the ages — from which we should feast.

Could Republican voters screw it up? You betcha.

 

Article by Kevin Roberts (President of the Heritage Society) in The Daily Caller

Sorry Libs, You Can’t Replace Dads With Government

It’s been said that America can always be counted on to do the right thing, once we have exhausted all the other alternatives. As of Father’s Day 2022, America has spent about 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood — and the collateral damage is all around us.

Broken families. Gutted communities. Betrayed women. Terrified children. Busy morgues. And overflowing prisons. 

The evidence is so overwhelming that it’s not really controversial anymore. Children who grow up without their fathers — especially in communities where fatherlessness has become the norm —carry the heaviest social, economic and psychological cross social science can measure. The mountain of data is nothing short of Himalayan.

Children raised in single-parent homes constitute:

• 63% of teen suicides;
• 90% of runaways and homeless children;
• 85% of behavior disorder patients;
• 71% of high school dropouts;
• 75% of teenagers in substance abuse rehab centers;
• 85% of young prison inmates.

This is what we have to show for the trillions of dollars spent and the decades of research conducted. If there was a way for a social worker or a bureaucracy or a government check to fill the Dad-shaped hole in America’s broken families, we would have found it by now.

It doesn’t exist. Three generations of elites — from Washington to Hollywood — have promised young Americans that severing the natural connections between sex, marriage, commitment, kids, and parenthood would be “liberating.” As the statistics above show, it’s been anything but.

The only solution to fatherlessness is fathers. And we have to figure out a way to say so, even in these hypersensitive times.

Our culture has gone to such laudable lengths to de-stigmatize single motherhood that we now accidentally denigrate married fatherhood. We work so hard to affirm non-traditional gender roles and family structures that we have forgotten just how valuable they have always been.

Fatherhood isn’t about being a male. It’s about being a man. Fatherhood harnesses masculinity to the good of society, so the community benefits along with the family, and each individual father as he grows into his vocation. The strength, courage, dependability, honesty, accountability, gentleness, toughness and protectiveness that define real masculinity keeps children safe, wives happy, and trouble at bay. A fish may or may not need a bicycle, but women and children very much need men.

We know what actual toxic masculinity looks like. It looks like boys raised without men: insecure, vulgar, misogynistic, angry, ignorant, violent, confused and above all, scared.

In every poor community in America, from opioid-riddled Appalachia to violent inner cities, every boy who doesn’t know how to be a man and every girl who doesn’t know she deserves one, is crying out into that empty void in their homes and in their hearts, “Father, father, why have you abandoned me?”

That question cannot be answered, or that agony soothed, with universal health care or a “Build Back Better” plan. The measurable, material benefits of intact families — the second income and additional caregiver — are the least important ones. What really matters is not what fathers do, but what they are.

For two generations now, America’s elite institutions have devalued what they are, through a welfare state that penalizes work and marriage, through an education system that punishes boyishness and a culture that scolds chivalry as abusive and masculinity itself as toxic. It turns out, dads are just one more thing our failed elite class was wrong about.

Father’s Day is a reminder that what our broken culture, struggling single moms, frightened kids need is not another program or policy, but a person.

Dads: accept no substitutes.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/18/opinion-sorry-libs-you-cant-replace-dads-with-government-roberts/ 

 

 

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Powell: “Rapid changes are taking place in the global monetary system that may affect the international role of the dollar”

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

The sanctions against Russia have essentially been futile.  The Russian economy continues growing, oil sales continue taking place, imports and exports continue unabated, albeit with some inconveniences for the people inside Russia – but without impact on the Russian government.  However, what the western sanctions against Russia were successful in speeding up, was an alternative global trading system for 70 percent of the world economies who continue trading with Russia.

That’s the background for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to state yesterday, “rapid changes are taking place in the global monetary system that may affect the international role of the dollar.”  Additionally, as the proverbial ‘west’ follows the corporate instructions from the World Economic Forum, Powell now expands his points to note the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is also being reviewed.  WATCH:

This is not some grand conspiracy, ‘out there‘ deep geopolitical possibility, or foreboding likelihood as an outcome of short-sighted western emotion.  No, this is just a predictable outcome from western created events that pushed specific countries to a natural conclusion based on their best interests.

You can debate the motives of the western leaders who structured the sanctions against Russia, and whether they knew the outcome would happen as a consequence of their effort, but the outcome was never really in doubt.  Personally, I believe this outcome is what the west intended. The people inside the World Economic Forum are not stupid – ideological, yes, but not stupid. They knew this would happen.

Think of “The Great Reset” or “Build Back Better” or climate change, as examples of WEF instructions.

The NATO and western government response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was a quickly assembled system of financial sanctions intended to cripple the Russian economy.  However, Russia responded to those actions with countermoves on the trade front, beginning to establish the first ever non-Euro and non-dollar-based trade system.  In essence, a financial trading system created by the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

Therefore, if we think about the current status of geopolitics and international finance, the NATO/Western response now involves a priority of controlling and protecting the previously established financial structures of global trade.  A NATO effort to avoid the cleaving is now underway as an outcome of the sanctions against Russia.

The finance ministers of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) decided to create their own financial mechanisms to continue trade between nations of similar disposition.  Once the internal issues inside the BRICS alliance are resolved, and once the mechanisms are created, then other nations will be able to decide to join or not.  The great global cleaving will commence.

(Reuters – April 2022) – Russia, hit by Western sanctions, has called on the BRICS group of emerging economies to extend the use of national currencies and integrate payment systems, the finance ministry said on Saturday.

[…] On Friday, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told a ministerial meeting with BRICS, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, that the global economic situation had worsened substantially due to the sanctions, the ministry’s statement said.

The new sanctions also destroy the foundation of the existing international monetary and financial system based on the U.S. dollar, Siluanov said.

“This pushes us to the need to speed up work in the following areas: the use of national currencies for export-import operations, the integration of payment systems and cards, our own financial messaging system and the creation of an independent BRICS rating agency,” Siluanov said.

International payment cards Visa and MasterCard suspended operations in Russia in early March and Russia’s biggest banks have lost access to the SWIFT global banking messaging system.

Russia set up its own banking messaging system, known as SPFS, as an alternative to SWIFT. Its own card payment system MIR began operating in 2015.

[…] They were part of Moscow’s efforts to develop homegrown financial tools to mirror Western ones, to protect the country in case penalties against Moscow were broadened.

The finance ministry said BRICS ministers have confirmed the importance of cooperation in efforts to stabilise the current economic situation.

“The current crisis is man-made, and the BRICS countries have all necessary tools to mitigate its consequences for their economies and the global economy as a whole,” Siluanov said. (link)

For a deep dive on BRICS, as predicted by CTH, {SEE HERE}.  The bottom line is – the 2022 punitive economic and financial sanctions by the western nations’ alliance against Russia was exactly the reason why BRICS assembled in the first place.

The multinational corporate control of government is exactly what the BRICS group foresaw when they first assembled during the Obama administration.  When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem.

In the bigger picture, the BRICS assembly are essentially leaders who do not want corporations and multinational banks running their government. BRICS leaders want their government running their government; and yes, that means whatever form of government that exists in their nation, even if it is communist.

BRICS leaders are aligned as anti-corporatist.  That doesn’t necessarily make those government leaders better stewards, it simply means they want to make the decisions, and they do not want multinational corporations to become more powerful than they are.  As a result, if you really boil it down to the common denominator, what you find is the BRICS group are the opposing element to the World Economic Forum assembly.

The ‘western’ countries run by multinational corporations are in Yellow, the countries who have not yet chosen a side are in GREY:

The BRICS team intended to create an alternative option for all the other nations. An alternative to the current western trade and financial platforms operated on the use of the dollar as a currency.  Perhaps many nations will use both financial mechanisms depending on their need.

The objective of the BRICS group remains simply to present an alternative trade mechanism that permits them to conduct business regardless of the opinion of the multinational corporations in the ‘western alliance.’  The recent comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, are accepted against this backdrop.  The financial contest is now between two sets of competing forces.

It’s not so much a “great reset,” it’s more akin to a global cleaving.

In hindsight the inflection point was COVID and all of the western government allies following the same economic lockdown and massive govt spending program demanded by the WEF assembly.  The western group planned to exit their spending crisis through the “Build Back Better” agenda, a new world economic structure based on renewable energy.

The people behind Joe Biden are collapsing the U.S. economy in the ongoing drive to attain this new economic transformation.  The American people are suffering through the consequences with massive increases in energy costs which are driving the costs of everything else, including food.