Get ready to drop a MOAB on the Black Hills near Mt.Rushmore!




The Biden administration will reportedly phase out the use of plastic cutlery in all federal departments to combat “climate change.”

The administration announced the plan in July as part of its “Mobilizing Federal Action on Plastic Pollution: Progress, Principles, and Priorities,” per the New York Post.

“The President is committed to taking ambitious actions… to end plastic pollution and is calling upon the global community to do the same, with the goal to reduce the global production and consumption of virgin plastics,” the White House said.

The White House said that it will eliminate single-use plastics like “plastic and polystyrene food and beverage containers, bottles, straws, cups, cutlery and disposable plastic bags.” The order came after a previous executive order reducing the sale of single-use plastics on public lands.

“[T]he Biden-Harris Administration is announcing a new goal to phase out federal procurement of single-use plastics from food service operations, events, and packaging by 2027, and from all federal operations by 2035,” the White House said. “Meeting the new goal… will further agencies’ obligations under the [previous] Executive Order.”

WHAT YEAR IS IT, JOE? While giving a speech on his administration's efforts to address "climate change," President Joe Biden pledged to hit conservation goals by the year 2020. "We're on our way!" he exclaimed. pic.twitter.com/VMANFraa97

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 20, 2023

The administration did grant an exception in cases of “national security.”

“The head of an agency may exempt particular agency activities and related personnel, resources, and facilities from the provisions of this order when it is in the interest of national security, to protect intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure, or where necessary to protect undercover law enforcement operations from unauthorized disclosure,” the White House said.

Some Republican lawmakers called the order “laughable” and “absurd.”

“The world’s on fire and he’s worried about plastic forks,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told the Daily Mail.

“It’s more messaging and ridiculousness, and it’s a direct shot to that whole industry,’” said Sen. James Lankford (R-OK). “It’s also clearly not where everybody is. It’s going to raise costs for a lot of folks so it seems to be just irrelevant on deficit issues.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/06/biden-admin-to-eliminate-plastic-cutlery-in-federal-govt-for-climate-change/ 

Can someone tell Joke he's not in charge anymore? That would be great.

Just think of all the CLIMATE CHANGE that all that touristyness causes at tMt.Rushmore! 😰

At least Joe recognizes the implications to national security.

That Joe guy is pretty weird. 🤨

I know! He says weird stuff, right?

Have you noticed everything suddenly seems to be focused on Kamala Harris? Where's Joe Biden?

It's Biden who supposedly is still occupying the Oval Office. But if you look at his public schedule over the past week, he's done three things:

He met the Americans who came back after the deal with the Russians.
He had a phone call with the King of Jordan.
He did an interview with CBS.

That seems to be it. For a whole week. In the middle of the campaign. With things blowing up in the Middle East, Americans being injured in Iraq, and the market taking a dive.

The Biden-Harris team seems to want Kamala to take center stage without Biden having to give up the Oval Office officially. But that isn't how the system is supposed to work. They're likely hoping they can sneak her past the voters with the basement strategy that she's employing right now, not taking any questions from the media or doing any interviews.

But now a clip from the CBS interview with Biden has dropped, and he was trying to stir up fear about what might happen with the election.

"Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025?" Robert Costa asked Biden.

"If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all," Biden said first. He then corrected himself, saying if Trump loses, he's not confident at all. His brain is just mush. While the video released by NBC reflected this, their written story did not reflect what he first said.

What is he actually saying here? If Trump loses then is Biden saying he wouldn't transfer power to Kamala Harris? Does he even understand what he's saying?

"He means what he says," Biden stated, talking about Trump and continuing to try to whip up fear about him. "We don't take him seriously. He means it!"

Biden then repeated the false bloodbath hoax. Trump said if Biden won, it would be a bloodbath, talking in the context of the economy and specifically the auto industry, meaning people would suffer economically from Biden's bad policies.

Then he said something about what they are trying to do in the local districts where they count the votes. I don't know what he's talking about there. But again he seems to be falsely implying that the Republicans are going to be doing something shady to the voting. Talk about election denialism and stoking fears.

This follows the wild statement from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) saying it would be up to Congress to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that Trump was disqualified because of the 14 Amendment and then they were going to need "civil war conditions."

It isn't Trump talking about "mobs." It isn't Trump threatening the Supreme Court. It isn't Trump being anti-democratic and tossing the votes of more than 14 million people to the side in a coup.

It's Democrats who keep suggesting something is going to happen.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/08/07/biden-already-trying-to-stir-up-fear-about-what-would-happen-after-election-n2177877 


Now, do we believe the DNC is a terrorist organization?

Just over a year ago, we commented on the "massive" revisions that the statistical arm of Biden administration's Department of Energy - the Energy Information Administration (EIA)...

Adding to those who questioned the 'fabrication' that:

Zoom forward a year and the 'revisions' across multiple (government-supplied) macro data items are now well known and widespread... and statistically noteworthy that the revisions tend to be negative (implying the initial data was 'optimistic')...

Payrolls (7 of the last 10 months have seen downward revisions)...

Consumer Confidence (9 of the last 12 months have seen confidence revised lower)...

The situation has become so widespread that even the mainstream media is forced to admit that there is something odd going on.

Specifically, circling back to our initial thoughts, Reuters reports this morning that a string of dramatic revisions to official U.S. oil consumption data have unnerved market participants who rely on the figures to trade.

The EIA published a monthly update last week that showed U.S. oil consumption at a seasonal record in May as motorists burnt more gasoline than even before the pandemic.

That data conflicted with weekly updates published that month showing oil and fuel demand struggling to even match last year's levels.

The EIA says the weekly figures for May were off because preliminary readings overestimated gasoline output and undercounted exports. The agency does not expect weekly estimates to be as accurate as monthly data, but to be consistent in showing general trends.

Of course it just happens that the initially 'weak' demand figures helped lower crude and gasoline prices at a time when inflation was rearing its ugly head once again and Bidenomics was hitting the wall. And as is the case with payrolls revisions (or consumer confidence), traders reactions to the revisions are dramatically less sensitive than they are to the original prints.

However, as Reuters reports, these discrepancies (we are being polite) are starting to make market participants question the version of reality they are being sold.

"It makes you wonder why anyone is paying attention to the weekly numbers," said Tom Kloza, head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). Many fuel marketers have expressed disbelief over the revisions the EIA made to its numbers in May, he added.

A trader at one of the largest commodities distribution firms said the revisions left them befuddled, and warned such changes could ultimately hurt consumers as decisions on how much fuel to import are influenced by the EIA data.

"It's a trend that's a little concerning to me," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan says.

"The EIA has been the bedrock for analysts, but skeptics may be gaining more validity to arguments that the EIA numbers aren't jiving to the real world."

Since when did the 'real world' have anything to do with macro data during an election year?

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/numbers-arent-jiving-real-world-huge-revisions-leave-traders-questioning-biden-admins-energy 

^^^CLICK THE LINK^^^

That's the only way you're going to see those charts. Have fun matching them to the Biden regime's fantasy numbers. Maybe some "fact checker" cat hoarding website will shoot it down, but we all know they're liars and providing cover for their communist pals.

Time to kick Grandpa and the male officers wearing dresses out of the room.





The Pentagon on Thursday was asked by a reporter during the daily briefing whether Ukraine forces' use of American weapons in its ongoing Kursk incursion is "consistent" with US policy of what Ukraine can and cannot do with US weapons. It has become clear that Ukrainian troops are currently using American weapons to attack Russian territory, troops, civilians, and infrastructure.

Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh answered without hesitation that "yes it is consistent with our policy" and explained that Washington has supported the need for "crossfire" from Ukraine back across the border onto Russian positions from which it is being attacked, even if that is on Russian territory. She framed what is happening in Russia's Kursk oblast—an offensive which has entered day four—as 'defensive' in nature.

Singh still tried to point out that it remains US policy for Ukraine to avoid striking deep into Russian territory using American arms; however, when pressed about the scenario of a direct attack on Moscow, she simply said: "I’m not going to put a specific range on it" and thus refused to rule it out. But she did caveat that "we still don't support long-range attacks into Russia." Singh additionally explained, "I'm not gonna draw a circular map for you here of where they can and cannot strike." The Kremlin is likely to remain unconvinced when hearing this clear escalation in rhetoric from the Pentagon where attacking the Russian capital is discussed, even if theoretically. Watch the full exchange related to the Kursk offensive below:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ylNecjNUYIc?si=ONCnQFv-VITDNdCT

Needless to say we have entered incredibly dangerous times in this major proxy war when the Pentagon's daily press briefing is openly talking about strikes on Moscow.

The Ukrainian cross-border offensive, which may have involved up to 1,000 men, began early Tuesday morning and was led by fast moving armored vehicles, which were able to penetrate up to 10km into Ukraine. Moscow says that it has observed US-supplied equipment being utilized in the attack on Russian soil.

A prior Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) statement said, "Video monitoring data shows that Lancet loitering munitions destroyed a US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, a Kazak armored vehicle, a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier and an infantry fighting vehicle in their firing positions." Newsweek also confirmed based on video evidence.

The MoD further said that dozens of armored vehicles breached the border and were operating inside Russia amid a major response to push out the invaders which has included airpower.

As of Friday, the fighting in Kursk is in its fourth day, which is unprecedented for a Ukrainian military incursion inside Russia. Ukraine has simultaneously stepped up its cross-border drone attacks, reportedly hitting an important military airfield in the Lepetsk region, impacting a facility where glide-bombs are stored. According to the latest:

Ukrainian drones struck a key military airfield in Russia's Lipetsk region, as Kyiv continues its largest offensive on Russian soil since the start of the war.

Ukrainian forces targeted the airfield in Lipetsk — roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the border with Ukraine — on Thursday night, hitting warehouses and a number of unspecified objects in the vicinity of the airport, Ukraine's General Staff of Command said in a Google-translated Telegram post.

Earlier in the week, the Ukrainian offensive led to the evacuation of thousands of people and a state of emergency being announced in Kursk.

https://t.co/gFNPNABAAS  pic.twitter.com/ICwIPMhR72
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 9, 2024

The timing of this high-risk assault is interesting, happening at a time where Ukraine has been on a slow and steady retreat in the Donbass. Ukraine needed something 'big' to both distract Russia's military command from front line operations and as a blow to Moscow's morale.

And now Kiev is pressing the Biden White House to let it use ATACMS long-range missiles to strike deeper into Russia.

"This will give them the leverage they need for negotiations with Russia — this is what it’s all about," Mikhail Podoliak, a senior advisor to President Zelensky, told The Washington Post.

On Thursday, Zelensky himself had said Russia needs to "feel" the consequences of its invasion and war. "Russia brought the war to our land and should feel what it has done," he said.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 The US believes that the current situation in the Kursk region does not threaten an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict 🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/QxsJJJHcjp
— Roberto (@UniqueMongolia) August 8, 2024

It is now looking like Ukraine will actually seek to maintain hold over parts of Kursk Oblast, and its officials have dubiously claimed to have captured approximately 100 square kilometers of territory. Ukraine also says it has taken hundreds of Russian soldiers as prisoners.

According to The Washington post as well as Ukrainian media sources:

The Ukrainian leadership has approached the US for permission to use ATACMS to target Russian territory after the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) conducted an incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast. This could allow Kyiv to hold the territory they have pushed into, according to The Washington Post, citing an anonymous advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The long-range missiles are planned to be used to strike Russian military airfields from which Russian aircraft conduct bombing raids on Ukrainian positions. According to the source, such a political decision would help the AFU maintain control over parts of the Kursk Oblast.

US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), AFP

Based on the above-mentioned words of the Pentagon press secretary where she noticeably did not verbalize limits on striking Moscow, this potential greenlight from Washington to use ATACMS on Russian territory is looking more likely by the day.

President Putin will see this as the US much more directly entering the war, and has previously set firm red lines on such a scenario.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-refuses-rule-out-strikes-moscow-shocking-exchange-ukraines-incursion-kursk 


Putin will arm Iran, Turkey, North Korea with anything and everything. Then again, you already know the drill:

The DNC is a terrorist organization.

The FBI is the SS for the DNC.

The presstitutes in the Free Press are a Goebbels wet dream.

This is why the USA should stop tampering with other countries’ wars. Get in it or stay out of it. We seem to tailor our assistance in order to protract the violence and destruction. This should be NATO and the EU cleaning up their backyard, not the USA tinkering around with rules of engagement in which we have no skin in the game.

I totally agree.

Their own neighbors DGAF. Ukraine is half NeoNazi to begin with. People forgot John "Mavericky" McCain and Lindsay "Peace Dove" Graham went there and met with the leadership at the time and photos of then under NeoNazi flags and salutes in the background. Crazy stuff...contrast that with Trump's call and Impeachment and it makes total sense. Not saying a case for war. Putin might be taking out the trash. Sad for the innocent.

America has no place being there funding this and Iran against Israel. War is a total last result and people want to forget Ukraine shredded the Minsk Agreement that held peace.

They’re trying to compare Biden to LBJ. LBJ was working his azz off getting stuff done for Democrats. Joe continues his schedule of naps and pudding cups. I’m glad Joe isn’t taking the opportunity to screw up America like LBJ did. At least there’s that.

Reporter: “Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025”

Joe Sanostra: “if Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all!”

Cut (because there is an edit/cut)

Joe Sanostra: “I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all”.

https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1822962027901395242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1822962027901395242%7Ctwgr%5E0a8a27f0a266985c609fa04c408f3b1b87999b39%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fbidens-freudian-slip-if-trump-wins-therell-be-no-peaceful-transfer-power 

I'm filling in for DMV today. Enjoy.

I heard Joe Sanostra is getting a custom tailored Carhartt hoodie, instead of a gold watch, and an office beside Fetterman's.

Ray I didn't know you were a Qbert, and have been for years. Welcome.

My, my, look at all of the name calling & insults in the first 50 posts of this thread. Shame.

Maybe we should dox them to teach them a lesson.:-k

I didn’t call anyone names (in the first 50 posts of this thread……)

To be fair though, DrafterX was joking, BGZ was at the tail end of his time here and I’m not sure if he was burning his tracks or 💩 posting (but he also quit talking to me), Teedubya also at the tail end here unless he’s one of the recent fake handles posting 💩.

That’s been done recently. Can we not do it again please?

^

Sarcasm, Jeebs. 🙂

Biden Bummed To Realize That All He Had To Do To Stay In Race Was Not Show Up To Debate And Never Speak To Reporters Ever

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The most popular American president in human memory was "incredibly bummed" to realize that he could have stayed in the presidential race if he had just not answered questions or never once spoken to the media.

"Wha…did that broad just get my place — you know, the thing — by not talking to the press?" Biden reportedly stuttered in frustration. "Like, well…come on, Jack! I only had one job and I blew it…well…anyway."

According to sources within the White House, Biden was incredibly crestfallen to hear that he had fallen for the elementary blunders of talking to the press and attempting to answer their questions. However, his sorry could hardly compare to the rage of his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. "She saw that all he would have had to do is shut up for a few months, and she kinda lost it," said an aide, who spoke under condition of anonymity. "It really threw her for a loop. She started screaming something about the best laid plans of mice and men and weeping sorrowfully on various pieces of furniture in the Oval Office. It was weird."

At publishing time, Biden had also been disappointed to learn that he might have been able to assume the presidency during his tenure as VP if he had just slept with the boss, too.

I’m traumatized lol