In an effort to ease fossil-fuel reliance, an MIT spinoff plans to dig the deepest holes on Earth

Environmentalists have long dreamed of a way to reach those depths to tap the potential geothermal energy in those rocks, but the technological and financial barriers have been too great. Now, officials at an MIT spinoff say they’ve figured out how to drill as deep as 12 miles into the Earth’s crust, using a special laser that they say is powerful enough to blast through granite and basalt like a knife through soft butter.
— Boston Globe, 3/18/22

Again, we’re witnessing the arrogance of the scientific class willing to conduct experiments without the input of any of the people who’d have to bear the brunt of any negative results.

Regardless of who funded the creation of COVID-19, to date 6,090,076 have died from these experiments go awry. No one has accepted responsibility, no one has been punished, thus there’s no deterrent from this occurring again. Given the latest outbreak in China, who’s to say what’s being accidentally or intentionally released?

So,  environmentalist MIT scientists want to drill deep into the Earth in an attempt to harness geothermal energy.

What could go wrong and if something does go wrong, who would we then trust to fix it (if even possible)?

An eerily similar scenario was the subject of a 1965 disaster movie of which the poster slogans were, “Thank God it’s only a motion picture” and “Today’s terrifying look into what might happen tomorrow”….

The arrogant always make it sound so easy.

In the coming years, Quaise Energy, named for a section of Nantucket, plans to dig some of the deepest boreholes in history to reach rocks that can exceed temperatures of 1,000 degrees and surface a kind of heavy steam that has the potential to provide a nearly unlimited supply of clean energy anywhere in the world. By the end of the decade, they plan to capture the steam and use it to run turbines at power plants.

The problem is the best laid plans don’t always go according to said plan and these people are playing with forces they really can’t comprehend. There’s a reason why the Earth was created the way it was and some things that are beneath the crust is there for a reason as opposed to being on the surface. What happens if the energy that’s supposed to be there gets siphoned off?

But the challenges of mining such subterranean energy remain great — and risky. Previous efforts to dig such deep holes have even triggered earthquakes.

“There are unknowns, and we might not understand some of the risks,” said Jody Robins, a senior geothermal engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. “But until we do this, we won’t know.”

Given the recent results of scientific experimentation, let’s hope they get this right the first time. There was no “Crack in the World” sequel and for all the right reasons.

President Joe Biden’s approval with the American people are setting new lows on an almost daily basis and we’re hearing the term “buyer’s remorse” more and more when it comes to those who eagerly voted for him and now regret it.

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Only 6% of Biden Voters Think Things Are Going Very Well in America

Some of these remorseful voters want him gone now!

50% Support Biden’s Impeachment

While it’s nice that some people are FINALLY coming around, it’s too fucking little; too fucking late.

Only an arrogant liberal Democrat could watch the 2020 presidential campaign and see that Joe Biden was not only unfit to compete, but should have known he’d be a lousy president, especially with an incompetent running mate that couldn’t even get out of the starting gate when she tried to run for the same office. But their hatred for President Trump overrode what little common sense their brains could handle and they voted for this functionally-deteriorated old man anyway.

Now that reality is socking them in the mouth on a daily basis, President Biden is no longer good for the country and they want a change. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. Many of the problems stem from Biden executive orders signed on his first day in office; not because there were problems that required his immediate attention. It was all about immediately reversing the policies of Donald Trump because he could and it’s what his supporters demanded.

And what were the near-immediate results?

Punishment.

Gas Prices

Many of these Biden voters are whining about gasoline prices. Now that it’s personally and negatively affecting them, let’s remind these Democrats that thanks to Donald Trump, the United States was a net exporter of energy. We had so much oil, we were selling it to other nations, thus our gas prices were quite low.

For the future of U.S. energy—and for the entire world—it’s difficult to overstate how much could be at stake in next week’s election. Just don’t expect to see that reflected in the price of oil.
— Fortune, 10/29/20

Oh, really…?

What a difference a year and a president makes.

That is, until Joe Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline project thus hundreds of good-paying jobs and sent the price of oil upward. Within days of his taking office, gas prices began to rise and Biden begs our petroleum competitors to pump more oil for the US to buy. He later tapped into the Strategic Oil Reserves in a futile attempt to slow the rise of gas prices. Didn’t work.

We were okay until Democrats voted for Joe Biden.

COVID-19

Joe Biden and his protectionist media blamed Donald Trump for coronavirus deaths on a near-daily basis during the campaign. Let’s not forget, COVID-19 was an unknown and no one could predict its potential peril and the world got no assistance from its nation of origin: China. Despite his creation and implementation of Operation Warp Speed, getting vaccines to all who wanted them in near-record time, Joe Biden pledged that he and he alone would end the pandemic, and even made statements we all know are untrue to this day.

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
— President Biden, 7/22/21

More Americans have now died from COVID-19 under Biden than Trump, yet all we get from Joe is blaming those who are (at this point) still free to choose whether they want a vaccine or not. More and more who are vaccinated are contracting the virus, the medical “experts” who insisted the man-made “gain-of-function” research accusation was conspiracy theory is now busted because it was all about the all-important grant money, and some in power still demand their populace wear masks and/or get the jab while blowing off their inconvenient mandates behind close doors.

Biden is resisting all processes that could finally lead to s sense of normalcy in the nation because bossing Americans around is much more fun.

We were okay until Democrats voted for Joe Biden.

Inflation / Food Prices

Forcing people to do anything, in a free country, has its perils. It can even lead to pushback and when you mix higher gas prices, inflation, and truckers who don’t want to get vaccinated: a perfect storm. Not only does the cost of food start to rise, but the availability of products becomes an issue.

Not since the months leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union did we ever see pictures of empty store shelves in major metropolitan cities. Thanks to Joe Biden, we have new images to choose from. We may be hearing more complaints because some of the areas are closer to Washington D.C. where overpaid federal employees and contractors shop have bare grocery aisles and we already know how gluttons freak at the possibility of missing a meal. These fed employees can afford to horde food which could also be a reason why certain shelves are empty, but when they get down to the canned goods in their pantries, the whining will take on a heightened shrillness.

We were okay until Democrats voted for Joe Biden.

Illegal Immigration

Under Donald Trump, enforcement of our immigration laws was a campaign issue he ran on in 2016 and kept by the end of his first term. Illegal immigration was at a historic low, thanks to the border wall in construction under his watch. Most Americans, including Latinos, were happy with the result. Democrats and their illegal immigration nonprofit advocates hated it, thus it was an almost immediate imperative that the policy is dismantled.

On Day One, Joe Biden delivered.

We now have, literally, millions of people from around 150 countries who’ve not only violated our southern border but too many have been set free within the United States. They’ve been given bus and plane tickets to a destination of their choosing (how fucked up is that?) and in many cases are given phones, cash cards and housing at taxpayer’s eventual expense. Americans are being directed harmed by those with criminal records and we’ve yet to see what will come from those who came from terrorist states and whose actions will be green-lighted.

We were okay until Democrats voted for Joe Biden.

Crime

During the summer of 2020, Americans witnessed an unprecedented level of anarchy, violence, looting, injury, and death at the hands of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and their sympathizers. Cities were set ablaze and police officers were targeted for assassination. It all made for great video, distributed by the corporate media that repeatedly gaslighted the American: the protests were “mostly peaceful”.

Biden voters looked the other way when Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, personally helped raise bail for those who looted, burned and took over city blocks after overrunning the police and burning down their stations.

Despite the record-breaking number of homicides in 2020 alone, Joe Biden and his administration blow off the carnage.

On Fox is Jeanine Pirro talking about ‘soft-on-crime consequences. I mean, what does that even mean, right? So, there’s just an alternate universe on some coverage. What’s scary about it is, a lot of people watch that. They think that the president isn’t doing anything to address people’s safety in New York and that couldn’t be further from the truth.
— Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, Pod Save America, 1/25/22

Tell that to the families of slain police officers or parents of toddlers hit by stray gunfire in Democrat-run cities.

Well, it’s easy to blow off a crime wave when you work for the President of the United States and have round-the-clock armed Secret Service protection. But when congressmen and other politicos fall victim to carjackings, stores on 5th Avenue and Rodeo Drive have been cleaned out by thieves in soft-on-crime, George Soros-installed prosecutors, the Trump-hating celebrity elite are now being inconvenienced (if not in fetal positions in their safe rooms). Crime is suddenly an issue to Democrats who would never watch Fox News.

We were okay until Democrats voted for Joe Biden.

There are many more reasons why Democrats have now decided they made a mistake in voting for Joe Biden. Not so fast on the forgiveness.

Despite their insistence of restoring our stature in the world after Donald Trump, Americans have died due to Biden administration incompetence. Peace-loving hippy Democrats and their ignorant brood will never give Trump laudatory credit for not starting one war while in office, but Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan has put the world on notice that the United States is no longer a trustworthy ally when they have no problem leaving their own people, as well as billions in lethal weaponry, behind in a terrorist-run territory. Biden’s federal law enforcement agencies have been sicced on parents who got a look at what liberals were teaching children behind closed classroom doors and didn’t like what they saw.

Agendas were not allowed to be cast aside even though it resulted in rapes and the systematic dismantling of women’s sports.

Prior to casting their vote in November 2020 (or way before), they enjoyed a nation with low gas prices, employment that was rebounding after the initial pandemic shock, and political overreach by politicians and unelected health bureaucrats, a deficit that would be paying itself down via the proven regulation-decreased Trump economy. As a law-and-order president, actions would have been taken to address rogue prosecutors who’ve put the public in harm’s way.

But no, Donald Trump had to be stopped because of his mean Tweets. Heaven forbid as we now have a president (who unlike his predecessor gave the American people his thoughts multiple times per day) where weeks go by between formal, scripted press conferences and careless gaffes punctuated in-between.

After five-plus years of the Russia-collusion hoax that was an obvious sham to anyone with common sense (and a Hillary Clinton/DNC creation to any liberal who dares read), Democrats demanded Trump be removed immediately. His presidency was constant in a state of interruptus by a hostile media who insisted we all ignore the very positive results of his policies and elect a different president simply because they said so.

This is the same Democrat, legacy media that certified unverified rumors from countless “anonymous”, “unnamed” sources as long as the allegation was damaging to Trump. If the accusations were proven false, there would be no apologies, in fact, the New York Times and Washington Post still proudly display their Pulitzers for Russia, Russia, Russia. This is the same Democrat, legacy media in collusion with Big Tech that gleefully censored Hunter Biden’s laptop perversities and 17% of Biden voters said had they known about Hunter, they wouldn’t have voted for his father.

Bullshit.

The whole world knew social media was censoring that story. It’s just a question of whether or not Democrats wanted to accept the ugly truth. They declined because of their self-righteous Trump hatred, based on fake news-turned investigations-turned impeachments. They wanted their pound of flesh and issue big middle fingers to all those who support him.

They got their way, the world is paying the price, and now they want some absolution via ignorance?

The problem is it’s not just a question of demanding conservatives play that forgiveness game because liberals demand it. Their free choice to vote for Joe Biden will be felt for a little less than three more years. If Biden gets tossed within that time, we get Kamala Harris. If she gets tossed, these same people will demand yet another loser Democrat assume the position.

It’s like Democrats who flee the crime and tumult of blue states to safer, cheaper red states. Once they get there, they’ll take the first opportunity to vote for the next destructive Democrat. These so-called remorseful Democrats say they want Biden out but would vote for a Democrat replacement in a heartbeat. They’d even jump at the chance to vote for a narcissistic socialist like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because they’d want to be part of a trending hashtag.

These are the same remorseful Democrats who still want a “green energy” policy to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles and promote wind power. They’ll hyperventilate once they have to choose between lights at night and powering their phones.

Sorry, Democrats.

The only reason why so many liberals have turned on Joe Biden is not because of the increasing damage being done to the nation and the world by their misguided votes. They’re having “buyer’s remorse” because the pain is personally affecting them and that’s what’s most important.

They’re not getting, and should NEVER get a pass because Biden voters don’t deserve it and, despite what they say today, would do it all again tomorrow.

Or 2024….

Now that Democrats are looking at a worse shellacking than experienced during the Obama administration, their media is going to do everything they can (as they did in 2020) to make Americans believe that things aren’t as bad as they are. With that, get ready for their standard manipulation poll strategy.

So, WHO are these less-than-30% of Americans who supposedly don’t want to see Donald Trump run in 2024?

Some news organizations commission polls, or even have their own polling units, to create headlines. Yes, polls appear to be click bait that also employs useless media backbenchers. The most important thing very seldom shared with audiences, and buried on the polls themselves, is the methodology: the political breakdown of the respondents. And in most cases, more Democrats are polled than Independents and there are routinely fewer Republicans polled than anyone else, so the results are predetermined to fit a liberal media narrative to order.

In the case of this AP-NORC poll, a combined 64% of Democrats and Independents didn’t want to see Trump run again vice 36% of Republicans who would.

What this says is that the left is terrified of another Trump campaign. We all remember the Democrat media coddling, social media censorship of damaging stories about Joe Biden and his family, and now that Americans will know the clear contrast between liberal policies that brought illegal immigration run amok, inflation out of control, foreign policy few nations respect, crime rampant in the streets, damaging racist education indoctrination, climate change low on the to-do list, a botched COVID-19 response, gas and energy prices making it hurt, an insulated president and staff who avoid accountability and want to stay the course versus the four years of economic prosperity under Donald Trump.

As usual, when the Biden administration and the media tell you one thing, know the opposite is probably the truth.

Okay…?

Far left site “PoliticusUSA” gave, what in retrospect” is the most ironic and humorous take on what liberals hoped what would be vice the predicted disaster the Biden administration currently is.

The Adults Are Back In Charge As Joe Biden Adds Experienced Leaders To Cabinet
by Jason Easley

The title is enough to require shielding of computer monitors from improperly inhaled liquids nationwide.

Joe Biden chose experienced crisis leaders to fill key posts in foreign policy and national security in his administration.

The Biden campaign announced in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA:

Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced key members of his foreign policy and national security team including Antony Blinken, Secretary of State; Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security; Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor; and John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

Biden’s State Department are the last people an American in distress overseas would call for emergency assistance. See: Afghanistan. Since Biden’s ending construction of President Trump’s border wall and the subsequent, historic flood of illegals into the United States, “Homeland Security” is non existent, especially now that potential criminals and terrorists can just walk on in. The Supreme Court beats down his executive orders, legislative proposals and mandates. After explaining away and supporting the 2020 Summer Riot season, crime is out of control in almost every Democrat-urban mecca. He’s unified the nation by isolating those who had the nerve not to vote for him and others who dare not obey his vaccine mandates. With all the tools left to this administration (Operation Warp Speed) and a promise by Biden to end the pandemic, more people have died on his watch than under Trump. There are daily excuses offered to explain the runaway inflation that’s making everyone outside of The Beltway noticeably poorer and frustrated. Schools are still remote teaching to the health and educational detriment of the students. Women are now replacing transgenders as an endangered species. The good news is that our premiere law enforcement agencies have determined who the nation’s greatest threat are: parents. Biden’s policies are making it easy for white people to dislike black people.

But, we’re combating climate change!

These experienced, crisis-tested leaders will start working immediately to rebuild our institutions, renew and reimagine American leadership to keep Americans safe at home and abroad, and address the defining challenges of our time — from infectious disease, to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cyber threats, and climate change.

You feelin’ it?

Joe Biden’s approval numbers are now almost the same as Donald Trump’s were at this point in their presidencies, despite the wall-to-wall media hate-fest Trump endured. Compare that to the softball treatment given to an obviously cognitive-declining old man who only answers questions from selected reporters when he’s not instructed to walk away.

President-elect Joe Biden said, “We have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and foreign policy. I need a team ready on Day One to help me reclaim America’s seat at the head of the table, rally the world to meet the biggest challenges we face, and advance our security, prosperity, and values.

It’s clear he’s still in need.

This is the crux of that team. These individuals are equally as experienced and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative. Their accomplishments in diplomacy are unmatched, but they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet the profound challenges of this new moment with old thinking and unchanged habits — or without diversity of background and perspective. It’s why I’ve selected them.”

These “individuals” are more than adept at cashing taxpayer funded paychecks that have them living large within the D.C. bubble. As far as earning those paychecks for a job well done, the American people have been ripped off again.

Joe Biden is stressing experience and competence. Trump promised to hire the best people and filled his administration with incompetent loyalists and lackeys. Joe Biden is building an executive branch that can hit the ground running and clean up the mess left behind by Donald Trump.

Yes, “incompetent” Trump loyalists who made the United States energy independent (cheap gasoline), the lowest number of illegals crossing our southern border ever, historically low unemployment rate for blacks and Latinos, no wars and an almost warm-and-fuzzy relationship with Russia and North Korea. Donald Trump was just about to nail down a field-leveling deal with China until COVID-19 was suspiciously unleashed.

Everything just sucked under Trump, liberals were enjoying the fruits of “incompetent” loyalists but now that everyone is feeling the pain their votes have inflicted, many have voter regret.

The adults are back in charge, and the American people are about to be reminded of what it’s like to have a competent government working for them.
— PoliticusUSA, 11/23/20

Too little, too late. And let’s not get started on Kamala Harris….

How long before this post is deleted?

From the onset of the COVID-19 mask mandates, mostly implemented by power-tripping progressives, we’ve seen the expected result. Masks strewn on sidewalks, streets, an/or anywhere they can be discarded without the inconvenience of having to either carry it home or find a trash can.

However, it’s now become a health and environmental emergency….

As Laura’s pointed out numerous times, these soiled masks should be also considered bio-hazards as the collection of COVID-19 on either side of the mask is a potential health hazard.

A study from the University of Portsmouth found mask litter increased by 9,000% in the first seven months of the pandemic and could have led to further spread of the virus. During their study, researchers discovered two million littered masks were collected across 11 counties. A government spokeswoman said it is “vital” waste is correctly disposed of. Researchers from the university believe the plastic pollution caused by face mask litter could last hundreds of years.

Professor Steve Fletcher, from the University of Portsmouth, said: “Without better disposal practices, an environmental disaster is looming.”

The university is now calling on the government to create new policies for enforcing waste disposal.
— BBC, 9/11/21

Turns out she’s backed by the science.

It’s telling this study was conducted in the UK and not (yet) in the United States.

Imagine telling those who like to get in our faces to pick up their mask trash; many of whom who’ve had problems to this day cleaning their own room. Just ask mom. And now we’ll again see how far their sense of environmental and health justice goes against their inner pig instincts where it’s easier to just toss their fluids anywhere because someone else will pick it up.

It was used as a visual aid during Al Gore’s propaganda piece “An Inconvenient Truth”; the only problem is that was yet another simple case of garbage in, garbage out.

Mann’s “hockey stick” graph, first published in 1998, was featured prominently in the U.N. IPCC 2001 climate report. The graph showed a spike in global average temperature in the 20th Century after about 500 years of stability. Skeptics have long claimed Mann’s graph was fraudulent.

Climate change skeptic Dr. Tim Ball called Mann out and as we all know, liberals have no sense of humor when they’re the butt of the joke.

Professor Mann is a climate professor at Penn State University. Mann filed his action in 2010 for Ball’s allegedly libelous statement that Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn State.” 
— ClimateChangeDispatch.org, 8/24/19

After years of lawsuits, bolstered by years of Mann’s failure and/or reluctance to offer his hockey stick-climate change research into a courtroom for scrutiny, his case was finally thrown out of court and Mann was required to pay Dr. Ball’s court costs. In reality, this is a VERY big deal, given the media, activist, political craziness that essentially arose from bad data.

In 2003 a Canadian study showed the “hockey stick” curve “is primarily an artifact of poor data handling, obsolete data and incorrect calculation of principal components.” When the data was corrected it showed a warm period in the 15th Century that exceeded the warmth of the 20th Century.

Whoops.

And Dr. Ball’s victory was not just a monetary price paid….

Dr Ball, now affirmed as a courageous champion of honest science, has assured his place in the annals of real climate science. His gift to the world was sacrificing eight of his senior years, when he could have been enjoying his retirement, to exposing key players in the biggest science fraud of all time.
— Principia-Scientific.org, 8/23/19

How huge is this really?

Given the near total blackout of media coverage on this lawsuit resolution, like the Trump-Russia-collusion hoax, some people will never admit they were wrong, especially when millions of taxpayer dollars in the form of education and research grants are at stake. Let’s not even include the political rhetoric surrounding all things “climate change”. Too many people, colleges, laboratories, and activist dot orgs have much to lose should the world ever come to grips with the fact that a disproportionate few are eating quite well off lies.

In his own words, Dr. Tim Ball explains the genesis of the multiple failed lawsuits against him, the use of SLAPP lawsuits to silence any kind of dissent, the lie called that “97% consensus”, the origin and intent of the United Nations’ tyrannical Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the implications for the “climate change” debate, going forward.

Yet another Thank You to Dr. Ball for (as he has done for us many times over the last decade plus) generously giving us his valuable personal time to do what he’s always done best: teach.

We’ve made the case before that it’s very easy to predict events 50 to 100 years from now (or 12) when few will be around to call you on it. Both Al Gore and now Barack Obama have proven they know they’ve been spewing bullshit for years and their actions prove it.

Al Gore predicts that our shores will be flooded and sea-bordering cities will sink beneath the water leaving millions of people homeless. His narration tells the audience that, due to global warming, melting ice could release enough water to cause at 20-foot rise in sea level “in the near future.”
— ScienceLine.org, 12/1/08

As many of us are sensitive and may have experienced something as traumatic as a flooded basement after a freak torrential rain, if you knew a house has the potential to float away “in the near future”, why would you buy it?

That is, if you knew it wasn’t true but saying so could make you a lot of money.

In a move that critics may cite as his own inconvenient truth, former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a house in secluded Montecito, Calif., to their real estate holdings.

The couple spent $8,875,000 on a gated ocean-view villa on 1 1/2 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, according to real estate sources familiar with the deal. The Italian-style house has high ceilings with beams in the public rooms, a family room, a wine cellar, terraces, six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms in more than 6,500 square feet of living space.
— World Property Journal, 5/13/10

Granted, he’s not on the water line per se but when the pending flood arrives, Gore’s home would be in the zone where much tumult would ensue and anyone in his right mind, who truly believed in the whole “rising oceans” thing, would have purchased property far inland. That is, if what he was saying was something he truly believed.

Add former president Barack Obama, who also implored his supporters that there’s this “97% consensus” of scientists who say climate change is real, and he also says the oceans are rising at a perilous rate.

Oceans and their nearby regions are also highly vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate — a once-distant threat that is now very present and is affecting ecosystems and shoreline communities on every coast. Rising sea levels, coastal storms, and a growing risk of erosion and flooding are looming realities faced by seaside towns.
— Barack Obama, Presidential Proclamation: National Oceans Month, 5/31/16

Well, that sounds like a good reason to avoid purchasing property at “shoreline communities on every coast” because of eventual “coastal storms, and a growing risk of erosion and flooding” at “seaside towns”. That is, again, if what he was saying was something he truly believed.

Despite the White House denying it, President Barack Obama is believed to have bought a beachfront Hawaii home with a celebrity past. Located in a secluded section of Honolulu, the property was once used in the filming of the hit television series Magnum P.I.

The property recently sold to a newly-formed LLC, with Marty Nesbitt—a close personal friend of Obama—signing the paperwork. It is likely that Obama bought the home using the LLC and his friend as a proxy. With the President’s term ending in less than two years, the timing gives him (and wife Michelle) just enough time to complete renovations. Either that, or Nesbitt is a big fan of the Aloha State and Magnum P.I., has $8.7M laying around, and shrouds his real estate deals in secrecy. But we wouldn’t bet on that.
— American Luxury, 3/26/15

Now, this house is right on the water; susceptible to a “rising ocean” that would almost totally submerge his home. Not a very good investment for someone who says bad things are coming.

Especially when you do that stupid thing twice….

Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly trying to buy a sprawling estate in Martha’s Vineyard from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck. The home is on the market for $14.85 million, and features seven-bedrooms and nine bathrooms inside the 7000 sq ft main residence.

Outside the main house, there’s 29 beachfront acres, a pool, chef’s kitchen, outdoor fireplace, and two guest wings.
— Daily Mail (UK), 8/22/19

Obviously, very few of those who’ve been forced to endure valuable classroom time watching “An Inconvenient Truth” or voted for and supported Barack Obama will ever get an up close and personal opportunity to ask both why they scared the bejeezus out of millions of children, prompting visuals of dying-by-drowning, while millions more try and pick up their lives after losing everything now floating aimlessly out to sea.

But there is always wisdom in some of our most simple of sayings and whomever came up with “Do as I say, not as I do” must have been in close proximity to P. T. Barnum who supposedly said, “There’s a sucker born every minute”.

Speaking of suckers, add President-Select Joe Biden’s “envoy for climate” John Kerry….

John Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz just plunked down a small fortune to purchase a historic property up island, far from the madding crowds that characterize Edgartown and Oak Bluffs in the summer.

Indeed, the former secretary of state, who likes to consider himself a man of the people, will be very hard to find at Seven Gates Farm, an exclusive enclave in Chilmark. Kerry and his wife — using a private trust to negotiate the deal — shelled out $11.75 million for the spectacular 18-acre property overlooking Vineyard Sound.
— Boston Globe, 4/26/17

And when you’re a hypocritical elitist, all you have to add is, “private”.

But when you’re talking about numbers this big, there can’t be just one bad apple. There are probably thousands that just haven’t been outed yet.

The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.
— NBC News, 12/18/13

Funny how there’s brief mention of Beale’s being a “climate change expert” in the NBC News piece. If he did nothing at his job, what does that say about the cause?

Beale, who is serving a 32-month sentence in the federal prison in Cumberland, Md., for pleading guilty to felony theft of government property, spent most of his career devising regulations under the Clean Air Act that are justified by science few have seen and no one has peer-reviewed, according to a report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
— Daily Signal, 2/10/15

It also must be nice knowing you can be brazen beyond what no employee in the private sector would get away with in a few days, let alone years, all because you were a great foot soldier for the planet!

Beale, an NYU grad with a masters from Princeton, was earning a salary and bonuses of $206,000 a year, making him the highest paid official at the EPA. He earned more money than the agency’s administrator, Gina McCarthy, according to agency documents.

One of the reports states, Beale took 33 airplane trips between 2003 and 2011, costing the government $266,190. On 70 percent of those, he traveled first class and stayed at high end hotels, charging more than twice the government’s allowed per diem limit. But his expense vouchers were routinely approved by another EPA official, a colleague of Beale’s, whose conduct is now being reviewed by the inspector general, according to congressional investigators briefed on the report.

Top EPA officials, including McCarthy, attended a September 2011 retirement party for Beale and two colleagues aboard a Potomac yacht.
— NBC News, 12/18/13

There were many red flags but when you believe you’re above being questioned and punishment, a federal employee can get away with things very few of us in the real world could… at least for awhile.

Seven weeks after the cruise, Beale told McCarthy that he’d banked some vacation time and would be using it to fill his final months at the EPA. His official retirement, therefore, wouldn’t begin until around January or February 2012.

He went off the radar after that, and everyone assumed he was retired.

But in November 2012, more than a year after the party on the Potomac, an HR employee went to McCarthy with cause for concern: Beale was still drawing a paycheck for his full salary of $206,000, including the 25-percent retention bonus that was supposed to be temporary—years after the incentive should have expired.

Investigators later put dollar amounts on his crimes: $437,901 in fraudulent retention bonuses, $58,127 for the “D.O. Oversight” absences, $8,000 for the parking spot, and so on. Altogether, he cost taxpayers $886,186.
— The Washingtonian, 3/4/14

Unlike businesses in the private sector which must be productive to meet a bottom line, the federal government has no bottom line to meet. When it needs money to keep operating, it seizes its operating capital from taxpayers. The only people keeping them accountable for work actually done is them.

We see how well that worked over the years and there’s NOTHING to convince us it’s not happening now on a grand scale.

UPDATE

It appears not much as changed within the federal government when it comes to those violating public trust for their own personal benefit, and too many are allowed to walk away relatively unpunished with their retirements intact.

Take, for example, the DEA executive who just this week was found to have engaged in nepotism by routing hundreds of thousands of dollars to contractor jobs for his son and retired colleagues or friends.

… authorizing a total of $340,280 in spending, including a raise, specifically for his son’s contractor position; and took actions in contravention of appropriate procedures to hire two former DEA colleagues as contractors in his chain of command, including the spouse of a retired former colleague…
— Findings of Misconduct by a Senior DEA Official for Violating Ethics Regulations

The official also engaged in a “lack of candor,” the investigative file showed. Despite the established wrongdoing, criminal prosecution “was declined” and “the senior DEA official retired from his position.” In short, he kept his retirement benefits.

Likewise, the inspector general had harsh words for the FBI special agent in charge (SAC) who used the bureau’s official garage to perform repairs on his and other employees’ personal vehicles, calling it, among other things, a “dereliction of supervisory responsibility,” and a misuse of tax dollars for “private gain.”

And then there was the FBI lawyer who got caught in an embarrassing criminal act at the Marine Corps barracks (MCB) commissary in Quantico, Va. “The FBI attorney admitted to placing numerous cosmetic items, valued at $257.99 and belonging to the MCB Quantico Exchange, into her purse without the intention to pay for them and did not pay for them before leaving the store. The FBI attorney further admitted that between February 2016 and her arrest in February 2018 she had shoplifted at the MCB Quantico Exchange one to two additional times, and at other private retailers in the area on two to three occasions,” the inspector general reported on May 14.

The investigation concluded her conduct violated federal criminal law and FBI policy regarding unprofessional conduct. But here was the outcome: “Criminal prosecution was deferred pending the FBI attorney’s completion of 125 hours of community service, after which all charges were dismissed.”

Two weeks ago, another DOJ official, an assistant U.S. attorney, escaped charges even after it was documented that he violated federal laws by possessing, transporting and consuming marijuana-laced edibles that he claimed he needed to treat back pain. He also was caught lying about his wrongdoing and ‘fessed up only when his estranged wife threatened him during their divorce proceedings. Nonetheless, “criminal prosecution by federal and state authorities was declined,” the IG reported May 30.
— The Hill, 6/13/19

These people wouldn’t hesitate in busting us to the fullest extent of the law, but when they commit crimes, they’re taken care of by their own.

This is not reassuring at all.

To be fair, on January 21, 2019 when Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke at the MLKNow event in New York City honoring Martin Luther King Jr., she was not the first Democrat to think black people are intellectually inferior, thus could be told something that defies common sense.

But she did.

So, instead of being an adult and admitting she was wrong, Ocasio-Cortez not only claimed we all heard her wrong but we would’ve been really stupid to have taken her literally.

So, from now on we suggest that anything said by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not be fact checked. That would hurt her fragile feelings.

But you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to literally accept anything she says as factual.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a 5k in Queens Saturday that she billed as “a Family Fun Run supporting U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal on the Saturday following Earth Day.”

But many of the 400 runners didn’t realize their $30 registration fees were going directly into the lawmaker’s campaign coffers.
— New York Post, 4/27/19

This can no longer be excused as political naïveté. This is intentional, devoid of conscience and wrong.

Even kids as young as 3 became unknowing political donors — ponying up $20 fees to join a kids’ 1k.

Some participants felt fooled.

“The site says it’s to benefit her environmental plan,” said one supporter who would not give his name. “If it is going to go directly to her campaign they should have said so.”

And thanks to the narcissistic arrogance of the youthful left, knowledge of their being screwed is justified.

Another did not mind.

“Even if that’s so,” said a female runner of her money going directly to a campaign, “it’s because it’s her plan and she is the one we need to push it.”

The “Green New Deal” is all about screwing the climate change dupes. Democrats have screwed their constituents as long as there have been Democrats. Ocasio-Cortez has learned well.