Well… We were warned.
Has anyone noticed the US foreign policy catastrophe that’s going on in the Middle East in the last few weeks? You guys forgave Saudis 9/11, waged trillion dollar wars on their behalf and now these Gulf theocracies, supposed US allies, are refusing to pick up Biden’s calls and are best buddies with Assad’s regime.
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Joe is using the Vulcan mind meld combined with the 4D chess algorithms to combat the 1400 year long game…
Of course they’ll cry like a baby why Iran drops a missile or two on them. What a world.
They “bothered to admit it” because they are priming the public for Biden to be pushed out of office, obviously.
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lol… Yeah, now it’s going to get bad at the border. Cause it’s been peaches up to this point…
I don’t know what they are priming for. It may be that charges are pending for Hunter even his dad can’t get him out of. Or perhaps they are going to push him out, for Kamala. And if they push her out, then it’s Pelosi. Ugh. This country is dying. It makes me sad that we let the inmates take over the asylum.
My bro just floated a thought-provoking theory about how recent US culture wars subconsciously seeped into US foreign policy discourse. In domestic politics, the general idea seems to be to try to out-victim the other side and overstate the effects of real or imagined words/slights/actions - in other words, signal your weakness and vie for the coveted spot of a persecuted underdog.
Now, the Administration seems genuinely puzzled that their recent, almost ritualized self-inflicted humiliations and public displays of weakness are not being rewarded in the geopolitical arena.
Whether it’s signaling a imminent capture of Kyiv, begging China to intercede or the fact that MBS and bin-Zayed aren’t talking Biden’s calls (while talking calls from the PM of Japan about the very same topic - oil production), these actions lend some credence to the theory.
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Observing what identity politics have done to the US, one can almost understand the CCP being paranoid dictators stuffing anyone who doesn’t identify as CCP loyalists in camps. Almost.
We noticed. We also noticed how incompetent and nearly irrelevant our European allies are in times of crisis.
Well, I thought I would wait a year and see how we all did on our conversation.
How is Biden working out for you now? Still happy and think this is better than Trump’s mean tweets and crappy communicative skills? I guess some people like $5 gas, 9% cpi, leaving billion dollars of equipment to the Taliban. But, Kamala can spell “Vote”. I think my original posts held up pretty well.
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How have you gone about determining that these things you mention have been caused by the Biden admin’s policies?
Maybe I read your post wrong, but that is my inference.
Do you think this might have something to do with it?
I’m sure this executive order is doing a lot to keep prices down.
That’s part of it, but I think the root of the rot involves a fundamental rejection of reality to varying degrees coupled with an irrational belief in the power of storytelling and narrative-weaving. At the end of the day, people will believe their lying eyes, unless you put the screws to them.
Thomas Sowell has written about the concept of self-congratulation as a basis for policy, and I think there’s a lot of that going on that’s backed by feel-good narratives devoid of any basis in reality. This sort of navel gazing is only really possible in a society where our basic needs are so thoroughly fulfilled that self-congratulatory policies emerge and become popular, no matter how socially destructive they may be.
The danger is when the ruling class gets so entrenched in the nonsense that the easily recognized bad outcomes become so unbelievably disconnected from the narrative that simple media censorship and bias don’t cut it any more. We already have a serious problem with censorship here in the USA, which already puts us closer to a CCP or Putin set of tactics for dealing with problematic journalists than I care to be.
Hence my ongoing rants against our woke left for the last several years…
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How do you quantify that? We have had climate policies before that had minimal impact on the price of gas.
Which ones come to mind?
Sorry, I haven’t kept the receipts. Luckily winter seems to be winding down.
Do you think the administration’s policies have helped or hurt gas prices? It seems rather obvious to me, from the words of Joe Biden and the contents of the executive order he signed, that his policies are intended to restrict the supply of domestic oil. It seems rather obvious that this policy has been successful in that aim.
What is your take on Joe Biden’s campaign statements and Executive Orders as President of The United States as they relate to energy prices?
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Personally, I think it is 100% pure coincidence that gas prices started going up after Uncle Joe took office. Also, supply and demand is pure voodoo economics.
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Like Carter, he’s a well-meaning Democrat with all of the right ideas getting swept up by the unfortunate currents of history that materialized during his term.
Fortunately for Uncle Joe, he is unaware of his failures…
A quick google confirms that unlike Joe, Carter was actually fairly intelligent -Naval Academy plus in the Navy’s nuclear submarine program.
Biden might be a well meaning Democrat, but my impression of him is that he is a mean spirited individual at heart. Plus all those plagiarism issues from his past. Not like Carter as a human being.
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