July 6, 2022
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Biden's strategic oil reserve release shipped to China
By Rick Manning
Americans received a nasty surprise when they learned today that much of the oil released from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been exported rather than refined domestically in the U.S. to lower the cost of gasoline at the pump.
President Joe Biden’s on-going million barrel a day release of oil from nation’s oil reserve has depleted it to levels not seen since 1968. All at a time when the Biden administration has engaged in wholesale war against domestic energy producers under the guise of forcing energy transformation on America.
You might ask who is getting our oil that is being drained from what effectively is our military’s national security oil savings bank.
Reuters reports that China is one of the June recipients of the formerly strategic oil. China, let that set in. The same China which has been in a one-sided war against the United States for at least a decade. The same China which has been increasing their natural gas drilling and oil production, while the Biden administration has squashed domestic U.S. production.
In response to the Biden policy induced high cost of gasoline, the Biden administration began a policy to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in October of 2021.
Remember that this is the same Biden administration that is gutting plans for new oil and natural gas leases here in America. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended the plan which includes the possibility of offering zero new leases over the next five years through a written statement, “From day one, President Biden and I have made clear our commitment to transition to a clean energy economy,” encouraging the public to weigh in on our future now.
By continuing to release the reserve oil, the Biden administration is attempting to replace domestic oil production that they have shuttered by spending the nation’s oil savings account in the hopes no one notices. Haaland’s statement reveals that they are also hoping their well-organized zombie environmental bots will comment on their zero federal oil lease plan in sufficient numbers to justify moving forward with it. Obviously ignoring the millions upon millions of voters who will be turning Democrats out at the polls in November due to their insane America Last energy policies.
Let’s be clear. Depleting our nation’s military’s ability to survive wartime oil shortages by releasing our oil reserves for political purposes is dangerous and foolhardy, but allowing that oil to be exported to China rather refined to lower gasoline prices in America reveals the Biden administration to be politically stupid, militarily blind and callous to those Americans who are suffering in their determination to transform our economy. The same dependency that European leaders find themselves in when dealing with Russia, that has resulted in U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude flowing to Europe at “rates never seen before,” according to OilPrice.com
It would be unbelievable, if we hadn’t witnessed the first eighteen months of the Joe Biden presidency.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2022/07/bidens-strategic-oil-reserve-release-shipped-to-china/
Video: Clarence Thomas is the unsung hero of the Supreme Court
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpAn8rVwNc
Labor Market Predicto
July 6, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in anticipation of the latest jobs figures to be released on July 8:
“I predict that the June jobs report that comes out this upcoming Friday, July 8, will signal the beginning of the end of the jobs boom. This won’t likely show up through a massive uptick in the unemployment rate, but rather by a continued downward trend on hours worked by the average worker with perhaps a slight increase in the unemployment rate.
“The news is providing scattered reports that job offers are being rescinded, and some prominent companies, like Tesla, are beginning the layoff process. The new unemployment insurance claims report remains in what would traditionally be described as low, it is troublesome that claims have crept up steadily and significantly over the past three months in almost stealth increases.
“Independent economic analysis by Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is predicting that our economy is likely currently in a recession, and employers feeling the combined pinch of anticipated sky-high labor cost increases due to inflation and uncertain economic times ahead, will likely be shifting labor resources to pay the most productive employees and shed those who contribute least to the bottom line. This is the natural course of business, and I expect the upcoming June unemployment report to reflect the beginning of this cycle.”
To view online: https://getliberty.org/2022/07/labor-market-predicto/
Market Research Foundation: The radical left is losing the Gender War with young people – including Democrats
A new survey out of the Southern Poverty Law Center – an organization that could hardly be accused of a right-wing bias – just proved the left is losing the gender war.
SPLC just released a vast report warning supporters that “hard right ideas” are gaining significant traction in the United States, especially when it comes to gender ideology.
The survey shows the radical left’s gender ideology is particularly unpopular with younger Americans, including younger Democrats, and it is baby boomers, not Gen X, Millennials or Gen Z, who are its strongest proponents.
This finding contradicts the mainstream narrative that younger Americans are the most rabidly anti-traditionalist group, though you’d be forgiven for buying into that assumption if you’ve spent much time perusing Blue Check Twitter.
However, when asked directly about the core tenets of the radial left’s gender ideology, younger Democrats show serious reservations about modern feminism and the transgender movement.
The survey found nearly half of Democrat men (47%) under age 50 believe “gender ideology has corrupted American culture” while only 20% of Democrat men over age 50 agree.
While opposition to the radical left’s gender ideology is strongest among young men, over a third (37%) of younger Democrat women also say gender ideology has corrupted American culture.
Younger Democrats also admit the transgender movement is a threat to children, with 42% of younger Democrat men saying that the transgender movement is a threat to children and 40% saying it is “trying to indoctrinate children.” Over a third (34%) of younger Democrat women agree that the transgender movement is actively indoctrinating children.
As Front Page Mag pointed out in their analysis, there is a vast generational divide among Democrat men when it comes to views on feminism. “While only 2% of boomer liberal men agreed that “feminism has done more harm than good”, 46% of young male Democrats, a majority, believe that is the case.
The polling results indicate Democrat men under 50 now oppose feminism at slightly higher rates than Republican men over 50.
SPLC summed up the survey’s findings with a dire warning:
“Taken together, these results suggest that a sizable proportion of men across the political spectrum, as well as large numbers of right-leaning women, perceive the progress made toward transgender rights and gender equality as potential threats.”
While these numbers may seem odd, there is ample evidence younger Americans, particularly men, are moving to the right on a number of issues.
Market Research Foundation found Gen Z is widely supportive of conservative policies that put Americans first including limited government, non-interventionalist foreign-policy, strong border security and cuts to foreign aid.
On illegal immigration, our survey found 81% of Zoomers say immigrants must follow the rules to become citizens even if they are difficult.
We also found 58% of Zoomers say it doesn’t matter if illegal immigrants cause problems; if they came here illegally, they need to leave or go through the proper procedures to stay.
This stance is supported by 86% of Zoomer Republicans, 61% of Zoomer Independents, and even 42% of Zoomer Democrats.
On foreign intervention, we found 70% of Zoomers think the U.S. should stay out of international conflicts and only become involved when we are forced to.
Support for non-interventionism is highest among Zoomer Independents (71%), while an equal share of Zoomer Republicans and Democrats support non-interventionism (68%).
We found a full 73% of Zoomers agree with an “America First” philosophy, where the primary goal of any law or policy must be to focus on the needs of Americans, even if they are not in line with the interests of foreign nations and allies.
Why the marked split of younger Democrat men from the far-left? There are a myriad of reasons, but three that come to mind are popular male figureheads speaking out against leftist ideology, the fact that younger men tend to get their news through decentralized channels rather than CNN, and the fact that gender ideology is now institutionalized, not the edgy landscape it once was.
First, popular male figureheads – think Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Kanye West and Jordan Peterson – who were once viewed as more or less political centrists, have firmly distanced themselves from the far-left. Their rejection of the far-left – and the far-left’s subsequent harassment of them – has shown young men the leaders they admire, even Elon who is far from a traditional “conservative”, are anti-leftist group think.
Second, younger men skew toward the hyper-online, getting their news through Right Wing Twitter, Gab, Parler, and a network of Discord groups and other decentralized chat groups. Younger Democrats are not sitting down to watch 60 Minutes, leaving them to arrive at their views by coming face to face with the left’s blatant agenda, instead of getting a filtered version through the mainstream media.
Last, it is not exactly controversial to suggest that young people, especially young men, often go through phases of rejecting elements of the mainframe culture. In the modern age, the left is the mainstream culture.
You can’t order an Uber, a sandwich, or a pair of flip flops without the gay flag following you around like an omen. The radical left’s aggressive gender ideology is no longer edgy but baked in and institutionalized.
With increasingly perverse “pride” celebrations featuring unclothed adults riding bicycles in front of grade-schoolers to growing reports of transgender ideology infecting the public school system to the abortion-on-demand left’s violent meltdowns in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision, it is not surprising young Democrats are taking a hard look at where they stand on gender issues.
To view online: https://marketresearchfoundation.org/2022/06/30/the-radical-left-is-losing-the-gender-war-with-young-people-including-democrats/