Gasoline prices climbed 48.3% between Biden’s inauguration and Putin’s invasion. This week’s average gallon of regular hit a record $4.31, up 81% under Biden.
— New York Post, 3/18/22

It was Wanda Sykes who during a stand-up said, “You got to stick with your lie” and those within the Biden administration are stuck on script.

A benefit of an intellectually dishonest, partisan media, is you can lie and the so-called government watchdogs have your back.

The Biden administration, and the left in general, assumes the public is stupid thus they can say anything they want and you’ll believe it. Aside from the fact they include their liberal base into the mass of stoopids, Americans with actual functioning eyes and have the ability to remember how things were prior to January 20, 2017 know that we’re being dealt a heaping tablespoon of bullshit on an almost daily basis.

Both parties clearly recognize that Democrats’ chances of survival in the midterm elections could come down to whether Americans blame Biden or Russian President Vladimir Putin for skyrocketing prices at the pump.
— Roll Call, 3/9/22

The truth may come out ONLY after a midterm Democrat “shellacking” forced introspection where just maybe they shouldn’t have played so fast and loose with dishonesty.  Until then, enjoy having your intelligence insulted on a daily basis (meaning are Democrats are least affected).

All one can do is ask who the hell is this 41%?

Those who hate all things Donald Trump is an obvious answer as it continues to this day, but what else can be attributed to the defiance of the left to admit all of the pain of the last year and the next three years is technically all on them?

Whether we’re talking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, most anchors and pundits on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, the network news channels, academia, the entertainment industry, they got a significant amount of people to believe they had the answers to all that ailed them. And they got people to buy it; like, snake oil salesmen!

In popular culture, a particular kind of confidence trick is associated with the snake oil salesman, in which the travelling salesman purports to be a doctor (with dubious credentials), selling fake medicines with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence. To increase sales, an accomplice in the crowd (a shill) will often attest to the value of the product in an effort to provoke buying enthusiasm. The “doctor” will leave town before his customers realize they have been cheated.
— Wikipedia

It doesn’t take much to be either the salesman or the shill nowadays because it’s lucrative to be able talk shit effectively and with conviction, and as long as it’s the opposite proposed by Donald Trump and/or Republicans, any obviously stupid remedy can be peddled and sold.

While during the first days of his administration, Joe Biden cancelled the contract for the Keystone XL pipeline resulting in almost immediate gas price jumps, who really thought this was a good thing? Obviously Biden was given a mandate from his supporters to undo anything and everything President Trump successfully enacted as punishment for years of mean Tweets.

While during the first days of his administration, Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s border wall that resulted in the lowest numbers of illegal alien entry into the United States ever and the subsequent spike in border crossings to historic new highs, who really thought this was a good thing?

When people across the world watched the thoroughly mismanaged withdrawal of the American presence in Afghanistan, complete with people trying to cling to Air Force cargo planes taking off and falling to their deaths, unprotected servicemembers blown to bits at the airport gate, the Taliban inheriting billions in state-of-the-art weaponry abandoned, and an unknown number of Americans left behind enemy lines, who really thought this was a good thing?

When Americans are seeing a momentous jump in gasoline prices that results in almost everything, from empty grocery aisles to clothing to heating oil (it IS still winter), approaching all-time records due government-induced inflation, who really thinks this is a good thing?

Now that we’re finding out (something many of us already knew) almost everything we were told for the last two years from the Centers for Disease Control, federal health officials, parroted by politicians and the media was either wrong or a lie, who still demands everyone “follow the science”?

The thing that angered most people who in many cases tarred-and-feathered predatory snake oil salesmen, was not just that they ripped people off from their hard-earned money, but they took advantage of those who were susceptible to the smooth talk. People were angered that they were made fools of. That also took a certain amount of honest retrospection for those people to admit they were suckered.

But today, we have millions who have the benefit of a education believing they are incapable of being duped, thus also being very wrong.

No matter how much damage they see all around them (and may even be personally experiencing), they believe they are too intellectually superior to have done something now so evidently stupid as to have supported and voted for Joe Biden. To spare themselves the indignity of enduring dirty looks, some may have removed the Biden-Harris bumper stickers off their cars, but that’s as far as they’ll allow their pride to be harmed.

We’re now seeing the self-righteous sanctimonious who clogged our televisions, lecturing us on the need for vaccinations, boosters, mask mandates, remote learning, shutdowns, now backtracking, telling us the coast is clear and now THEY are allowing us to carefully ease back to normal while hoping never to address all the demands they made of Americans we now know were either unnecessary or just plain wrong. And the world knows the dozens of examples of those in power who inflicted restrictions on their constituents while breaking those same restrictions behind closed doors over booze or a really good meal.

The problem is these same people will continue to given themselves ego boosts by voting for Democrats like Biden again, if given the chance. It won’t matter how clearly bad for the nation this person may be; as long as it’s not a Republican, they’ll support those who STILL want police defunded, energy-killing climate change policies advanced, more of the world’s poor (and fentanyl) to cross into our country, foreign adversaries happily awaiting the next “strongly worded letter” coming from our State Department, and keep children masked and negatively affected.

Let’s never forget what the nation would look like today if Donald Trump had been allow to have a second term. Aside from a stable, if not record-breaking economy, liberals would still be protesting in the streets and snake oil salesmen and women would be telling us not to believe the low gas prices and inexpensive food, etc. They’d be telling us all how horrible the country is, hoping to say it loud enough to get a response from  the president.

Tarring and feathering the snake oil class might be considered a form of assault today but it’s not listed as a specific crime.

That says a lot of how much swindlers were despised by the unwilling duped. The willing and self-excused are another problem all together.

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert reminded viewers that it’s just two weeks until the midterm elections. He played footage of Obama’s appearance at a Democratic rally where he spoke about his love of facts with a number of pointed references at Trump’s inability to tell the truth. “Oh the truth?” Colbert said. “That is so 2015, Grandpa. We might as well be dancing to Uptown Funk with the Left Shark.”
— The Guardian, 10/24/18

Funny, in 2015 Stephen Colbert made some rather astonishing admissions, given his whole job up to that point was supposedly political satire.

Wow. Contrast that with the Stephen Colbert we see today, he’s either a hypocrite, a liar or both.

On any given late weeknight, you can find Stephen Colbert lambasting President Trump for his entire opening monologue, there are no calls for civility, in fact almost everything he said during the 2015 interview has been thrown out the window. While he tried to come off as measured, Colbert admitted he knew nothing about politics which meant his “conservative” persona was a creation of writers and not based on any personal frame of reference.

Aside from knowing “nothing” about politics but gladly depicting a “conservative blowhard” for years on Comedy Central for Jon Stewart, Colbert was just another actor wearing a mask, aspiring to come off as an expert.

Yeah. There’s a confessional aspect to wearing a mask – you know, the same reason why it’s easier to confess behind a screen to a priest than face-to-face. And so by – the character was a 10-year confession, perhaps of, you know, indulging ego and appetite through the person of this character. Then you go on stage as yourself, and you’re responsible for everything you say.

And there’s a natural – I think there’s a natural inclination to pull your punch because you have to be responsible for what you’re saying. You cannot hide behind the mask. And also – that if you talk about politics all the time – well, isn’t that what that other guy did? Why would I – or we talk about the news all the time. Well, isn’t that what – then how am I changing in any way?

And now I have no qualms about being sharp and satirical and highly opinionated and saying whatever’s on my mind as quickly as I can and not worrying about that – I’m playing the same game. I know I’m not playing the same game. But it took me a little while to realize that the character was not in danger of re-emerging.
— NPR, 12/30/16

Stephen Colbert is another high-paid fraud and a liberal Hollywood mouthpiece who, like other Democrat celebrities, are short on substance because they really don’t know what they’re talking about but as long as they can get partisan talking points out to the American people on a daily basis with no pushback, it keeps things simple for hypocrites like him and others.

You are “Googley”.

At a regularly scheduled all hands meeting, some Google employees and executives expressed their own personal views in the aftermath of a long and divisive election season.

“Personal views” and “values” they can act upon….

For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings. Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products.

Only someone who assumed the video wasn’t watched would formally issue such bullshit.

To the contrary, our products are built for everyone, and we design them with extraordinary care to be a trustworthy source of information for everyone, without regard to political viewpoint.
— Google spokesperson

See for yourself if that’s really how things went down shortly after the 2016 election….

Okay, time for a group hug.

The hubris: they actually record their public whine-fests, label them “confidential” because they’re too important for simple Americans to comprehend, they’re #snowflake cowards, and these are valuable enough for the privileged “Googlers” to view on demand: probably for therapeutic reassurance (with a joint or two).

Co-founder Sergey Brin can be heard comparing Trump supporters to fascists and extremists. Brin argues that like other extremists, Trump voters were motivated by “boredom,” which he says in the past led to fascism and communism.

VP for Global Affairs Kent Walker argues that supporters of populist causes like the Trump campaign are motivated by “fear, xenophobia, hatred, and a desire for answers that may or may not be there.”
— Breitbart, 9/12/18

One would think Soviet-born Brin would appreciate the perils of forced group-think and enforcement, but like too many who immigrate here to take advantage of our freedoms, he ultimately believes our nation should resemble the #shithole his family fled.

While my initial response to government regulation is negative, Google’s liberal elitist influence on the American people (especially impressionable young people) is no longer something that should be brushed off as incidental.

FLASHBACK

Google is facing renewed controversy over its alleged intolerance toward conservatives at the company, after a class action lawsuit filed by former engineer James Damore disclosed almost 100 pages of screen shots of internal communications in which employees discuss sensitive political issues.

Seriously, some are wearing “Google-Noogler-Intern-Employee” propeller beanie caps.

Screenshots of internal communications reveal numerous employees appearing to support the idea of being intolerant toward certain points of view, such as one post arguing that Google should respond to Damore’s memo by “disciplining or terminating those who have expressed support”.
— The Guardian (UK), 1/8/18

That said, until political persecution is prosecuted and fined just like any other kind of discrimination, this will continue and anyone not one of THEM will be targeted at their weaponized, search engine whims.

The problem is campaigns using data from Facebook to target potential voters is nothing new. While Zuckerberg and Senate Democrats are acting all shocked the activity happened, all was different in the ramp up to 2012’s Obama reelection campaign and Facebook was all too willing to assist.

TIME: Friended: How the Obama Campaign Connected with Young Voters

According to Obama’s former 2012 “director for media analytics” Carol Davidsen….

The media didn’t appear to object to the Obama campaign’s ability to obtain access to Facebook users and even got higher-ups within to almost brag about what they did.

The Obama leaders not only wanted all the lists to be able to talk to one another, they also wanted people to be able to organize their friends and family members.

But this third piece of the puzzle provided the campaign with another treasure trove of information and an organizing tool unlike anything available in the past. It took months and months to solve, but it was a huge breakthrough. If a person signed on to Dashboard through his or her Facebook account, the campaign could, with permission, gain access to that person’s Facebook friends. The Obama team called this “targeted sharing.” It knew from other research that people who pay less attention to politics are more likely to listen to a message from a friend than from someone in the campaign. The team could supply people with information about their friends based on data it had independently gathered. The campaign knew who was and who wasn’t registered to vote. It knew who had a low propensity to vote. It knew who was solid for Obama and who needed more persuasion — and a gentle or not-so-gentle nudge to vote.
— Washington Post, 7/28/13

Facebook’s allowing the Obama campaign to “do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side” may or may not have been legally ethical, but despite how Zuckerberg and the Democrats are portraying what happened in 2016, it’s been done before and on a far greater scale. This was also another example where the media said one thing (“the campaign could, with permission, gain access”) and reality being something else entirely.

Zuckerberg faced some rather uncomfortable music on Capitol Hill on the topic….

In 2012, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated, let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends. According to a July 2012 MIT Technology Review article, when you installed the app, “it said it would grab information about my friends: their birth dates, locations, and ‘likes.’ “

The campaign boasted that more than a million people downloaded the app, which, given an average friend-list size of 190, means that as many as 190 million had at least some of their Facebook data vacuumed up by the Obama campaign — without their knowledge or consent.
— Investors Business Daily

Maybe the hashtag #FacebookObamaCollusion is more apropos.

Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.

The two-page synopsis also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government, according to two national security officials.

During March 3rd’s CNN “New Day”, anchor and Democrat cheerleader Alisyn Camerota again ran the edited confirmation hearing clip. We have presented the confirmation hearing segment and CNN’s deceptive edit of the complete question by Senator Franken to Jeff Sessions in context.

Attorney General Sessions was clearly responding to Franken’s question about the CNN “story” and should have NEVER recused himself from any investigation of Russian hacking that supposedly denied Hillary Clinton her rightful place as President of the United States.

And as luck would have it, later in the day House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi got caught telling a whopper herself….

The California Democrat told POLITICO Playbook on Friday morning that she had never met with the current Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. A file photo from Pelosi’s 2010 meeting with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, however, shows Kislyak at the table across from her.
— Politico, 3/3/17

Politico: Photo contradicts Pelosi’s statement about not meeting Kislyak
CBS News: Trump tweets about Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi photos with Putin, Russian envoy
ABC News: Trump accuses Pelosi of ‘close ties to Russia,’ demands investigation

As of March 4, 8:30am EST, no mention of the Pelosi lie on CNN’s front page.

It’s going to be a long weekend.

Facebook: March for Science
It is time for scientists, science enthusiasts, and concerned citizens to come together to make ourselves heard! This is a public page for discussion about a march on Washington by scientists and science enthusiasts.

Sorry, this is NOT about the concern of scientists about carbon footprints. This is all about the possibility that scientists who make a very good living on monitoring the climate stand to lose their livelihoods.

About the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense….”

With an annual budget of $7.5 billion (FY 2016), we are the funding source for approximately 24 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

There have been many opportunities for so-called scientists to march. It appears their sole motivation in 2017 is not the health of the planet, but their wallets.

And if you look at what the activists propose, it’s clear they exempt themselves from their possible environmental impact while denying the world’s poor the right to develop their natural resources so they can enjoy a lifestyle that doesn’t include sickness and early death.

Meteorologists can’t tell us what the weather will be this weekend but we’re all supposed to change our way of life because “scientists” can tell us what the weather will be hundreds of years after they’re dead and can’t be held publicly and/or legally accountable.

As long as these “scientists” can perpetuate the climate change “consensus” lie, they can continue to make their car and mortgage payments, eat very well, and enjoy a relatively calm, federal grant-paid job that doesn’t include an end date.

You won’t see this story circulated much because racial harassment and oppression is more rampant than the holier-than-thou media will readily admit.

Former and current black employees on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against Atlanta-based CNN, Turner Broadcasting and New York based parent company Time Warner for racial discrimination.

The 40-page lawsuit filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Georgia said blacks – especially black males – are discriminated against in evaluations, compensation and promotions. Blacks receive “disproportionately lower scores on evaluations,” the lawsuit alleges.
— Atlanta Journal Constitution, 12/7/16

See any black people in these pics…? Didn’t think so.

It says based on data provided by Turner, blacks are terminated at a higher rate than whites and promoted at a significantly slower rate. And the lawsuit said written and unwritten policies and practices for performing evaluations and promotions discriminate against blacks. Those policies “allow supervisors to essentially handpick candidates through word of mouth for available positions and make promotion decisions on the basis of subjective criteria,” the lawsuit said. “This system prevents qualified African-Americans from competing equally for positions or even knowing that they are available.”

How familiar this sounds.

Bob was the only black department head at his last media job and for some reason only took home a little more than half in salary as his colleagues. This after being awarded the company’s Employee of the Year in his second year.

But we’ve also been to many cable, network news, and radio station lobbies where we see a lot of black people who just happen to be security guards. When you go upstairs, things get quite white in a hurry. The producers, production staff, interns, etc.: almost all white. We honestly believe it’s not as much blatant racism as it’s intimidation of someone who actually does more than just the minimum to get a paycheck. There are mediocres of all races and genders in all industries, but some are clearly more protected thus comfortable than others.

Liberal Hollywood was much worse.

According to Bob, in some of the post production suites it was common (at least in the mid-90’s) to hear racist and sexist comments made by white senior personnel, and women and minorities couldn’t say anything because that whole “You’ll never work in this town again” thing was THE deterrent to filing any kind of complaint.

“Upon information and belief,” the suit says, “African-American employees have had to endure racial slurs and prejudicial biases from superiors such as, ‘it’s hard to manage black people’ and ‘who would be worth more: black slaves from times past or new slaves.’”

Nepotism also runs rampant as, in some cases, the only prior experience some new hires have in television is the fact that they’ve watched it.

One black person who is safe in cable news is Al Sharpton, as well all know the very costly shitstorm that would occur if he were to be held accountable for lousy ratings and released altogether.

Oh, and by the way….

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit filed by current and former black employees of Time Warner, owner of Turner networks including CNN, TNT and TBS.
— Associated Press, 7/26/17

Don’t expect the broadcasting and cable news channels to make much of this. Not because they’d be picking on one in their own industry, but because the very liberals who point fingers of disdain towards Republicans and conservatives are quite the racists themselves. And some of the entities on the right aren’t far behind.

The U.S. ranks 14th in education
The U.S. ranks 2nd in ignorance
The U.S. ranks 24th in literacy
The U.S. ranks 17th in educational performance
The U.S. ranks 11th in fourth grade math
The U.S. ranks 6th in fourth grade reading
The U.S. ranks 23rd in PISA science score
The U.S. ranks 15th in tertiary graduation rates

And while the notion of the transgender bathroom is something parents (especially the parents of females which we predicted would be the line crossed) many have issues with, normalizing behind the backs of said parents is something the left is quite experienced at and continues on unabated to this day.

LGBTQ Nation: New children’s song explains bathrooms and bigots in best possible way
Children’s musician Mr. Loops, aka Jon Lewis, is out with a new song that aims to break the message down to its most simple and humane. He hopes the song and accompanying video will help start a positive and empathetic dialogue. It is one many find difficult to have, especially with children.

Don’t ya just love when liberals want to engage in a “dialogue” after the damage is done. It’s usually in a medium or venue where alternative views are limited if not squelched, and distributing their views from a position of authority to those whose limited life experience garners minute resistance is yet another example of the authoritarian, cowardice of those who have easy access to America’s youth.

Elite law students want their finals postponed because of grand jury decisions. Not everyone is sympathetic.

Their opening remarks are weak, to say the least.

We have been traumatized over and again by the devaluation of Black and Brown lives. We are falling apart.

Recent events have unsettled our lives as students. We have struggled to compartmentalize our trauma as we sit and make fruitless attempts to focus on exam preparation.

Our trauma will be present with us on exam day, our trauma is inhibiting us from sleeping at night, and our trauma is ever-present among the words in our textbooks. Moreover, the violence that the law has done to Mike Brown and now Eric Garner is a legal violence that affects and implicates us all. We are now asked to use the same legal maneuvers and language on our exams this Monday that was used to deny justice to so many Black and Brown bodies. In being asked to prepare for and take our exams in this moment, we are being asked to perform incredible acts of disassociation that have led us to question our place in this school community and the legal community at large.

We need time to process and breathe. We need your support. We need it now.

We expect the following:

1. 1. 1. That faculty and administration recognize our trauma as legitimate and worthy of a response
      2. That students who have been deeply affected by recent events be allowed to postpone exams
      3. That an emergency event occur on Monday, December 8, 2015 for the administration, faculty, and students to discuss the concerns of students of color in the wake of recent events

Signed,

The Columbia Law School Coalition of Concerned Students of Color

What a bunch of “people of color”, self-centered, privileged, victim wannabes.

Using the Brown and Garner tragedies to get out of taking finals is lame and as the sentiments of resentment flood in, this latest attempt of victimization will further inhibit “people of color” from gaining employment in many of our nation’s law firms; not because they are “people of color” but because of their potential of wanting special treatment based on sympathy and exhibited weakness.

The law is all about precedent and being able to have total recall of precedent.

When the final verdict of the UVA rape incident end in a result female students don’t like, will they be too “traumatized” to take their finals? We could be talking discrimination…? When a gay incident happens, will they be too “traumatized” to take a final? Precedent will have been set.

Let’s be real; most of us wanted a reason to not take a final. We just didn’t think exploiting a national tragedy was the best way to do it. We just studied up and took the fucking exam. These “students of color” are lazy, wanted an excuse to get out of something all other students had to do, and #blacklivesmatter was convenient.

No one will want this crop of lawyers to represent them, and their future whining will not fall on deaf ears.

They’ll be taken as a joke and deservedly so.