Thursday, July 14, 2022

Spoiler Alert: It’s All a Scam

This is war. We need to go on the offensive. It starts by describing the four corners of deceit, exposing them, and actually taking them back. It is late, but never too late.


Here is the hard-discovered truth. 

The Left, which now controls all the centers of power and the commanding heights of the world economy, seeks to codify their ideology as science, and thereby make it irrefutable. You can’t disagree with it or you are a kook or insurrectionist. You are outside what Thomas Kuhn, called the “paradigm of normal science.” 

Think about it. Everything these authorities tell you is true is, in fact, precisely the opposite of the truth.

Global warming is a hoax. 

Universities are about indoctrination, not education. 

Government is a form of manipulation with a two-tiered justice system. 

The media is fake and journalism died long ago. 

The financial system is a Ponzi scheme. 

Trump did not collude with Russia. 

The border is wide open. 

Inflation is not transitory. 

Defunding the police increases crime. 

The pandemic did not originate in a wet market from pangolins. 

Joe Biden is illegitimate. 

Crackhead Hunter is not innocent. 

Epstein didn’t kill himself. 

Black Lives Matter and critical race theory are not about racial justice. 

Women are not men and vice versa. 

Virtue signaling isn’t about virtue. 

Religion is not malevolent. 

The late, great Rush Limbaugh was one of the first to visualize and expose the “four corners of deceit” in our culture that altogether combined, suffice to lie to students, citizens, and the American people. 

The four corners of deceit are: government, academia, science, and the media. I had a hard time coming to this radical conclusion myself, as I wanted to believe otherwise, was not a conspiracist, and have attained all the laurels on offer from our current system. Just read my memoirDavos, Aspen & Yale. I have been behind the elite curtain. 

Like an Orwell novel, the clock is striking 13 in America. The farm animals on top know it and are so cynical they are laughing all the way to the bank and the voting booth. The populace, like lemmings, just goes along. What else can they do? As in the Thomas Hardy tale, Far From the Madding Crowd, the sheep, listless and unknowing, just fling themselves off the cliff, one after the other. 

Hardy’s title comes from Thomas Gray’s famous 18th-century poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”: 

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learned to stray; 
Along the cool sequestered vale of life, 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Yes, it would be nice to retreat into some Benedict Option or, like the infamous and unpretentious Amish, to a more bucolic and sequestered way of life, unpolluted by modern life, off the grid, without technologies, free from the IRS and G-men. 

Play some Wagner. Romanticism has a strong streak in our civilization but it is, in fact, delusional. Try as you might, you cannot opt out of reality. We are part of the whole and it is everywhere, dictating everything. They will get you, regardless what you do or where you go.

There is no turning back. 

We live in an era of frauds, con-men, and liars. Truth, beauty, and the good have been corrupted or forgotten and lost. There may exist “a remnant,” for whom another future beckons but it won’t be found in a Jonah Goldberg substack, podcast, or some video game with a captivating title. Besides, the only person listening to that smarmy Goldberg character and nonstop NeverTrumper, is probably his own mother. 

A remnant implies that as one of the last survivors of humanity, you set out alone or alongside other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies. The end-goal is to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost. The remnant is a recurring theme throughout the Hebrew and Christian Bible. You could describe it as “what is left of a community after it undergoes a catastrophe.” That is where we find ourselves. Yes, it is that bad; that urgent. This is not some managed, gradual decline, a passing fad, or a cavalier WEF reset. It is the end as we know it. 

The only possibility at reformation has to start with vengeance and end in retribution. The motto of my Scottish clan forbearers rings true, in Gaelic, “vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.” Air an adhbhar sin, mar seo tha an Tighearna ag ràdh, Feuch, tagraidh mise do chùis, agus nì mi dìoghaltas air do shon. Repeat that three times fast, it will get you in the mood. Cue the “Braveheart” music and paint your faces. N

Many on the Right dream up strategies to reverse the “long march” preached by Marxists such as Rudi Dutschke and Antonio Gramsci as a way to restore our fallen institutions. Many millions are raised to fund yet more in-depth research at meaningless think tanks or named chairs at ruined universities. Still more is devoted to weak-kneed candidates without balls who are conservatives in name only. They go along to get along and accomplish nothing. 

When will we ever learn? 

This is war. We need to go on the offensive. It starts by describing the four corners of deceit, exposing them, and actually taking them back. It is late, but never too late. 

When Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met in early August 1941 on the battleship HMS Prince of Wales in the mid-Atlantic, they made an action plan. Facing the formidable foe of Nazism, they agreed to the Atlantic Charter, and a church service was held on deck for which Churchill chose the hymns. He chose “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and afterwards made a radio broadcast explaining his choice.

“We sang ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ indeed,” Churchill recalled, 

and I felt that this was no vain presumption, but that we had the right to feel that we were serving a cause for the sake of which a trumpet has sounded from on high. When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals . . . it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation.

 Can we do it again?




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Gavin Newsom’s Weird Idea of ‘Freedom’ ~ VDH

Newsom resembles a pathetic owner of a once successful but now run-down, high-priced gas station without clients.


In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Governor Gavin Newsom hit upon the bizarre idea of boasting in commercials that California is America’s true “free” state. 

Part of his ad campaign is to attack Florida—currently run by Newsom’s possible rival, Governor Ron DeSantis. 

Yet, with the most burdensome regulations and high tax rates, Newsom’s California is arguably the most unfree state in the union.

In return for these steep costs, the state’s public institutions, infrastructure, and services are among the country’s worst. 

California’s once-vaunted freeway system is near the bottom of all state comparisons. California’s Highway 99, which runs the length of the Central Valley, is one of the deadliest roads in America based on miles driven. 

Over half the nation’s homeless crowd the state’s major cities. One-third of America’s welfare recipients have flooded into the state. A fifth of the resident population lives below the poverty line. Well over a quarter of Golden State residents were not born in the United States. 

California public school test scores consistently fall among the bottom 10 states. San Francisco has the highest per capita property crime rate in the country. 

The recently recalled San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and his soon to be recalled Los Angeles counterpart George Gascón have nearly ruined their cities. Both are iconic of multibillionaire George Soros’ nationwide efforts to undermine the entire criminal justice system. 

State residents are not free to drive safely because of their decrepit freeways. They are not free from filthy and toxic sidewalks or dangerous physical assault in their major cities. 

Public school children are not free to enjoy competitive educations. San Franciscans are not free to park their cars without fearing that they will be vandalized or stolen. 

The destruction of these freedoms is in direct proportion to the confiscatory taxes that the state collects—the highest bracket of income and gasoline rates in the nation, among the highest sales taxes, and property taxes that soar due to inflated assessments in spite of a 1978 state constitutional amendment. 

Currently, California faces brownouts due to the longstanding, deliberate curtailment of electrical generation plants. 

Yosemite’s historic redwood forest is currently threatened with what are now customary California summer conflagrations. 

The destructive, dirty forest fires reflect a deliberate state policy of not gleaning the forests of dead trees, but rather letting the flammable debris serve as “natural” fodder for bugs and birds. 

The state has not built a major reservoir in nearly 40 years. 

In rarer wet years, millions of acre-feet of runoff and snowmelt simply cascade to the sea. Releasing such vital water apparently enhances 19th-century riparian landscapes—and discourages its own agribusiness.  

Amid Newsom’s anti-Florida ad campaign, the governor was vacationing at the upscale digs of his Montana in-laws—escorted by his ample state-paid security detail. That is odd, given Newsom’s California labels Montana a homophobic hellhole, and will not even reimburse state employees who dare to convention there. 

Hypocrisy and elite virtue signaling, however, are now trademarks of California politicians—and illustrate how little elected officials care for the victims of their ideological agendas.

Newsom bragged about his tough California mask mandate although it did not lower COVID deaths per capita in any measurable degree than did the policies of the red states he so often trashes. He violated his own COVID mandates by dining at the upscale French Laundry restaurant and hanging out unmasked with Magic Johnson. 

Newsom has done nothing to remedy his state’s soaring gas prices, terrible schools and infrastructure, or spiking crime. But he did virtue signal about giving illegal aliens millions of state dollars in COVID relief. 

Rather than develop California’s rich gas and oil reserves, Newsom promised strapped motorists that he would send them a one-time fuel gift of $400.   

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), likewise, hectors Californians to mask and quarantine—all the better for her to sneak around unmasked at her hairdresser’s, or to jet to the beaches of Tuscany. 

Former senator and current Chinese government lobbyist Barbara Boxer retired to an estate in Rancho Mirage. Recent Governor Jerry Brown isolated himself on his 2,500 acres in Grass Valley—idyllic locations far away from the education, infrastructure, and urban disasters that exploded under their tenures. 

So it is Orwellian for Newsom to brag about a “free” California that supposedly will entice Floridians or Texans. In truth, over the last decades hundreds of thousands of Californians and billions of dollars of wealth fled the now inert California for a far freer Florida and Texas, among other states. 

By voting with their feet and bank accounts, California’s expatriates considered these destinations far superior to their home state: safer, cheaper, better managed, and freer. 

Newsom resembles a pathetic owner of a once successful, but now run-down, high-priced gas station without clients. In jealousy, he flails and screams at the newer, gleaming competitor across the street, with superior service, lower prices, and better value—and jam packed with his own former but now wiser customers.



Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, dies at 73





Ivana Trump,
Donald Trump's First Wife,
Dies at 73




Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife and mother of three of his children, has died aged 73.

"She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life," Mr Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social.

Ms Trump, who was born in the Czech Republic, married the former president in 1977. They divorced 15 years later in 1992.

They had three children together - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump.

The pair were notable public figures in New York in the 1980s and 1990s, and their split was the subject of intense public interest.

After their separation, Ms Trump went on to launch her own lines of beauty products, clothing and jewellery.

She also described raising the three Trump children in her 2017 memoir Raising Trump.

She wrote then that her relationship with Mr Trump had improved since their divorce, and said she spoke to him about once a week.



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The White House Thinks You Are Stupid


Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Inflation topped nine percent for the first time since 1981 on Wednesday, marking another escalation in consumer prices. Real wages also plummeted -3.6 percent, as Americans continue to have their finances squeezed from all sides.

There’s no end in sight, either. Even as consumer prices explode, Democrats in Washington are working to spend another few trillion dollars. As for any empathy concerning the plight of those in the poor and middle-class, don’t go to the White House for any. This was the statement they put out.

Let me translate that for you: You are stupid.

That’s the message the White House is conveying by putting out that insulting, nonsensical statement, in response to an inflation report that came in at nearly 15 percent higher than when Biden took office. Remember, the 9.1 percent number for last month is being compared year over year to June 2021. But inflation had already spiked over four percent by that point in Biden’s tenure.

Besides, the excuses being given don’t make any sense. Take the idea that energy represents almost half the monthly increase shown in the report. So, what? That would still mean inflation is at about 8.9 percent, higher than May’s 8.6 percent, and a record-high under the current president. That’s the positive spin the White House wants to roll with? Really?

Apparently, it is, because again, they think you are stupid. They truly believe they can wave their hand, call numbers that were just released “out-of-date,” and complete some kind of Jedi mind-trick on the American people. Eggs cost 33 percent more than they did a year ago. Coffee is up 15 percent. Meat products are up double digits. And Biden’s message is “those numbers are out of date.” You’ve got to be kidding me.

Even the mention of gas prices being down 30 cents–but supposedly not being reflected in the June report–is false. As of this writing, only 13 days in July have passed. That means that the majority of the days being cited by the White House where gas prices decreased are reflected in the June report.

This game of pretending Americans are idiots isn’t a new thing either. The Biden administration has been playing it for a long time.

How many times were we told inflation wasn’t going to be an issue? That it would be transitory? That it had plateaued? That it was set to decrease (that was just last month)? Time and again, Biden and his handlers have made proclamations that are based on nothing at all. It’s gaslighting of the highest order, and they keep doing it because they think they can get away with treating Americans like they are idiots. Heck, they are doing the same thing regarding the recession that has already arrived, pointing at the sky and insisting it’s not blue.

Voters need to show this president and his party in November that they aren’t going to be treated like children. That’s the only way to push back on the arrogance and disinformation constantly coming from the White House.




The Party of Violence

Antifa At Large in Portland | City Journal

Article by Meriam Matthews in The American Thinker


The Party of Violence


Democrats are openly the party of violence and death. Their policies fail so they must advocate violence to get them implemented.

Democrats and their spinoff-isms promote and glamorize abortion, the killing of human beings. Barack Obama notoriously stated that he didn’t want to see women being “punished with a baby.” Elizabeth Warren said that women who go to crisis pregnancy centers are met by people who “want to do them harm.” Liberals clearly believe that giving birth is not desirable but killing babies is.

They are big on defunding the police which increases the crime rate because criminals roam free to commit more crimes. This isn’t rocket science. And so the crime rate skyrockets. Chicago, the deadliest city in the country, kills more people per weekend than were killed in the Parkland shooting. Democrats running these high-crime cities do not seem the least bit perturbed by violent crimes. They make no effort to put repeat criminals in jail and in fact, liberal DAs refuse to bring charges against the people who are serially killing other people.

Democrat-run San Francisco and Los Angeles are suffering from huge spikes in the crime rate but the locals seem content to continue electing Democrats who clearly have a soft spot for criminals and crime.

Chuck Schumer called for violence against Supreme Court justices:

 

"I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

During the 2020 riots, Democrats in the media and in government actually praised rioters and arsonists and cheered them on.

Regarding same, Vice President Kamala Harris said,

"Protestors should not let up. They’re not gonna let up and they should not."

Overall, we have these other calls to violence going back to 2017. From Lauren Boebert's website:

 

  • In 2008, President Obama said, “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Source
  • In June 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters said, “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, at a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Source
  • In June of 2018, then Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be.” Source
  • In 2017, Senator Tim Kaine said, "So, the way we get outside the bubble is we take advantage of this tremendous public outcry against the administration… What we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box, and now there's the momentum to be able to do this.” Source
  • In August 2020, Rep. Ayanna Pressley said, “There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.” Source
  • In October 2018, former Attorney General Eric Holder said, “If they go low, we kick them.” Source
  • In June 2017, Johnny Depp said, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?” Source
  • In September 2018, Carol Cooke said, “Where is John Wilkes Boothe when you need him?” Source
  • In January 2017, Madonna said, “Yes, I’m angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.” Source
  • In August 2017, Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” Source

The question is this. Why are Democrats so married to the use of violence to get their agenda passed, or does the question answer itself?  Democrats know in their alleged hearts that the people of America do not like their agenda, but that doesn't matter because Americans are too dim to know what is good for them.

Perhaps this is the answer:  BlackRock CEO and WEF globalist Larry Fink publicly stated that force should be used where there is recalcitrance:

Behaviors are going to have to change and this is one thing we are asking companies, you have to force behaviors and at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors.

This attitude is not limited to companies but like scum, it floats and covers the entire American landscape. We on the Right have got to understand that the Left has no inclination to gain our acceptance for their policies or for changing hearts and minds. They want to use force and they are using force to get acquiescence for their policies. It doesn't matter to them that we abhor their policies. They believe they are right and they want to rule. It's the age-old Lord Acton sentiment, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The Left have abandoned the representative form of governance and have adopted an authoritarian form of government using violence when they think it's necessary. Millions of dollars are flooding the coffers of organizations that thrive on violence. The Constitution be damned.

These people must be jettisoned if America is to remain free. We're already on a knife's edge of liberty. We don't need the Left pushing us over.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/the_party_of_violence.html 

 







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Biden Says Willingness to Restart the Iran Nuclear Deal Has Nothing to Do With Iran Trying to Kill Americans


Levon Satamian reporting for RedState 

President Joe Biden says he is willing to work with Iran and restart the Iran nuclear deal after former President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal.

In 2018, when Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, he said:“We cannot prevent an Iranian bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement … Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”

In 2015, under the nuclear deal, Iran agreed to dismantle most of its nuclear program and open its facilities to large-scale international inspections in exchange for billions of dollars worth of sanctions relief. In 2018, Trump pulled the United States out of the deal, and in 2021, Biden announced that the United States would return to the deal if Iran began complying again.

On numerous occasions, the Taliban and mullahs of Iran have chanted “death to America.” In August of 2021, RedState’s Nick Arama reported how Clarissa Ward, a CNN reporter, embarrassingly described how the Taliban was chanting “death to America.”

“They’re just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time. It’s utterly bizarre.”

Bizzare, indeed. Ward also said that the group chanting “death to America” told her to stand to the side because she is a woman. Yet she called the chants “friendly.”

Now, Biden wants to negotiate with the Taliban regarding the Iran nuclear deal. Biden noted that this negotiation has nothing to do with Iran trying to kill Americans.

One of the goals of this deal was to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. According to numerous experts on the matter, if all parties stick to their pledges, the deal almost undoubtedly achieves that goal for longer than a decade. That is the trade-off, but Iran would get billions of dollars worth of sanction relief. So this deal is not all black and white.

But looking at this from the lens of negotiating with a group that chants “death to America,” you would think the Biden administration would think twice before negotiating with them. The same group has also chanted, “death to America, death to Israel.” Israel is a strong ally to America.

Former United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, spoke about the Biden administration’s attempt to resuscitate the nuclear deal on Fox News.

“Iran is selling drones to Russia and attacking American troops, and President Biden still wants to make a deal with the Ayatollahs … It’s a slap in the face to Israel and our Arab allies, and dangerous for America.”

As Biden negotiates with Saudi Arabia on oil, if the administration rejoins this nuclear deal, it would be a disaster, as Iran would be getting billions of dollars while they continue to threaten the United States.




‘Christian Nationalism’ is woven deep into America’s fabric

 

George Washington takes his oath on a 1767 King James Bible (artwork in the U.S. Capitol)

 

Article by Molly Slag in The American Thinker


‘Christian Nationalism’ is woven deep into America’s fabric


A few days ago, I encountered for the first time an alarming term in the MSM and blogosphere: “Christian Nationalism” The reason I find it alarming is its enormous potential for controversy and chaos. Obviously “Christian Nationalism” is a political movement intending to establish—or restore—America as a Christian Nation. But what does that term mean? In the hands of the Progressives, that term will undoubtedly be rendered “theocracy,” The purpose of this essay is to head off the “theocracy” accusation by unpacking what the term means in the context of American history and law.

You can go here for a quick, but comprehensive, review explaining exactly why the USA and each and every one of the fifty states is a common law jurisdiction. One huge clue to the cognitive meaning of the term “Christian Nation” lies implicit in the fact that, from time immemorial, both English and American courts have held that “Christianity is part of the common law.” This principle has been affirmed in numerous English and US federal and state supreme court decisions, notably including the 1824 Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Updegraff v. Commonwealth and the 1844 United States Supreme Court decision in Vidal v. Girard’s Executors.

It is important to understand immediately that the reference to Christianity in the stated principle that “Christianity is part of the common law” is not to Christian theology—that is, not to the “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost” doctrine underlying Christian worship. It is, instead, a reference to Christian morality; that is, to Judeo-Christian morality, which is to say to Biblical morality. The reference is to the Decalogue and certain stand-alone moral rifle shots such as the prime directives “Be holy!” and “Choose life!” It is not a reference to baptism, penance, the Eucharist, etc.

Because the United States and each of the fifty states is a common law jurisdiction and Christianity is part of the common law, it would seem to follow that those 51 jurisdictions are collectively a Christian nation. The United States Supreme Court affirmative precisely this principle in the 1892 United States Supreme Court decision of Church of the Holy Trinity v. US in which the court’s opinion by Justice David Brewer declared “This is a Christian Nation.”

 Moreover, in 1947, two years after the end of WWII, President Harry Truman affirmed this status by writing to Pope Pius XII that “This is a Christian nation.”

So, there we have it. The American Christian Nation is the USA as it emerged from WWII, having, for the second time in the 20th Century, pulled the planet’s chestnuts out of the fire.

But then, in the 1960s, came the Progressive attacks, skillfully targeting the foundations of that Christian Nation. Because the Progressives understand that the American Christian Nation is built on family, the family is built on marriage, and marriage is built on righteous sexuality, the Progressives have focused their attacks on these three pillars, family, marriage, and righteous sexuality.

A measure of the success of these Progressive attacks can be seen in comparing the culture of “then” with that of “now.” For example, in 1977, the supreme court of the looney-blue state of Washington affirmed a public school teacher’s termination on grounds of “immorality” because he was a homosexual. Such a result would be unimaginable today.

As for myself, having entered that Christian Nation in a Norman Rockwell painting shortly before D-day, I have already outrun my allotted span, and have witnessed the steady collapse of that nation as it fell prey to lie after lie and hoax after hoax until, today, it faces a powerful shrieking insane domestic enemy intent on the total destruction of that nation. And yet, today, we also find ourselves suddenly and inexplicably blessed by Donald Trump with a Supreme Court courageously determined to follow the law, which has opened before us a vision of a road to restoration of the nation the founders bequeathed us. Can we successfully travel that road?

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/christian_nationalism_is_woven_deep_into_americas_fabric.html 

 







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Mexican President Lopez-Obrador Offers to Bail Out the US from the Biden Created Energy Crisis, and Supply Electricity to Texas


Gasoline in Mexico is $3.12/gal.  Gasoline in the United States is $4.78/gal

The media did not give this much attention; however, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador thoroughly, albeit diplomatically, dressed down Joe Biden over his economic and energy policy during a Tuesday visit to the White House.

You might remember that together with a host of south and central American leaders, Mexican President Lopez-Obrador refused to attend Joe Biden’s Latin-America summit last month {Go Deep}.  With that in mind Obrador’s media remarks in the oval office are quite remarkable in their pointedness.

The video and audio are tenuous, and the delay for interpretation makes following the flow of AMLO’s comments a little challenging.  However, if you read the transcript you can clearly see how AMLO is diplomatically undressing Biden over the economic issue of U.S. energy policy.  It would appear that AMLO is not part of the great western reset and has no intention on inflicting the pain that is deliberately being created by other western leaders.  [Video at 23:30, Transcript BelowWATCH:


Now keep in mind that socially AMLO is a soft-socialist (immigration).  However, he is also a strong economic nationalist who has previously expressed a strong dislike for the influence of multinational corporations in Mexico.  AMLO is not a World Economic Forum acolyte.  AMLO is on team BRICS.

In these remarks, AMLO is very pointedly telling Joe Biden that his U.S. energy policy is seriously flawed.  It is really quite remarkable.

AMLO tells Biden that Mexico will continue investing in expanded refining of gasoline, and he is willing to sell that gasoline to American companies because Joe Biden will not issue permits to expand gasoline refining capacity in the United States.  Additionally, AMLO affirms his position on further oil development in Mexico and then, here comes the kicker,…. offers to expand electricity sales to the United States, including supplying Texas with electricity because both the Biden administration and Texas are not developing their own energy resources.

AMLO is telling Biden that Mexico will increase energy subsidies to the United States if Biden asks him to.  Think about that.

[Transcript] – PRESIDENT LÓPEZ OBRADOR:  (As interpreted.)  Yes, I fully coincide with what you have proposed, President Biden.  And I could summarize everything we’ve been saying in five basic items of cooperation.

Number one, since the energy crisis started, Mexico has used 72 percent of its crude and fuel oil exports to United States refineries — 800,000 barrels a day.

Therefore, we decided that while we’re waiting for prices of gasoline to go down in the United States — and I hope that Congress approves or passes your proposal, Mr. President —

PRESIDENT BIDEN:  It has gone down for 30 days in a row.  (Laughs.)

PRESIDENT LÓPEZ OBRADOR:  (As interpreted.)  — of lowering — lowering prices, yes.  That’s it.

In the meantime, while we’re waiting for prices to go down, we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow Americans who live close to the borderline so that they could go and get their gasoline on the Mexican side at lower prices.

And right now, a lot of the drivers — a lot of the Americans — are going to Mexico, to the Mexican border, to get their gasoline.

However, we could increase our inventories immediately.  We are committed to guaranteeing twice as much supply of fuel.  That would be considerable support. 

Right now, a gallon of regular costs $4.78 average on this side of the border.  And in our territory, $3.12. 

Let me clarify something, and I also want to take advantage of this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President.  Most of this gasoline, we are producing it in the Pemex refinery that you allowed us to buy in Deer Park, Texas.

Two, we are putting at the disposal — or sending at the disposal of your administration over 1,000 kilometers of gas pipelines throughout the southern border with Mexico to transport gas from Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, and California for a volume that can generate up to 750 megawatts of electric energy and supply about 3 million people.

Three, even though the USMCA has made progress for the elimination of tariffs, there are still some others that could be immediately suspended.  And we could do the same with some regulations, regulatory measures, and tedious procedures or red tape in terms of trade related to foodstuffs and other products so that we can lower prices for consumers in both our countries, always being very careful in the protection of health and the environment.

Four, starting a private-public investment plan between our two countries to produce all those goods that will be strengthening our markets so that we can avoid having importations from other regions or continents.

In our country, we shall continue producing oil throughout the energy transition.  With the U.S. investors, we are going to be establishing gas-liquefying plants, fertilizer plants, and we shall continue promoting the creation of solar energy parks in the state of Sonora and other border states as well.

And we’re going to accomplish this with the support of thermal electric plants and also through transmission lines to produce energy in the domestic market, as well as for exports, to neighboring states in the American union, as for instance, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.  

It’s also important to mention that, two months ago, we took the sovereign decision of nationalizing lithium in Mexico.  This is a fundamental mineral, a fundamental input to advance in our purpose not to depend on fossil fuels.  And this will be available for the technological modernization of the automotive industry among our great countries — the countries of the USMCA. 

Five, orderly migration flow and allowing arrival in the United States of workers, technicians, and professionals of different disciplines.  I’m talking about Mexicans and Central Americans with temporary work visas to ensure not paralyzing the economy because of the lack of labor force. 

The purpose of this plan would be to support and to have the right labor force that will be demanded by the plan you proposed and that was passed by Congress of using $1 trillion for the construction of infrastructure works.  (read more)

Mexican President Lopez-Obrador is offering to bail out the United States energy crisis.

A crisis that Joe Biden has created.

We have officially gone through the mirror.

This is jaw-dropping.