Good morning my Glib and Gliberinas! And what a lovely morning it always is!
Biden has paused oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands for 60 days.
Impossible as the corporate media told us that it was a lie that he planned on banning fracking.
Attorney Butch Bowers to represent Trump during Senate trial.
Democrats continue to be insane.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Biden has paused oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands for 60 days
Biden is raising energy prices and fucking the economy in the ass. I hope anyone who actually voted for this gets what they voted for, good and hard.
Yes but we’re getting what they voted for good and hard as well.
And you know any bad results will be blamed on Trump.
Of course!
Just like when Obama’s “recovery” efforts made things worse the official and “Fact Check: True(tm)” response was that Bush just made things so bad that there was just nothing poor little powerless Obama could do!
That was until Trump fixed it by getting rid of most, if not all, of the progressive bullshit Obama enacted with a pen. Then it was Obama’s stuff that made the economic boom happen…
These people really want to make sure everyone lives in a made up version of reality.
Not only a made up version of reality, but specifically the reality they themselves make up.
The fucking asshats that told us we can’t drill our way out of the artificially created (by them of all things) energy deficit will tell us Trump was not successful at drilling our way out of it while not admitting the reason we are back to an energy deficit is that they reversed his policies that drilled our way out of the problem their policies create.
Anybody paying attention will notice that Biden’s flurry of activity is all about RE-regulating everything to death. He’s actively throwing up roadblocks.
Trump largely just cancelled a bunch of shitty regulations and economy choking measures.
Even a casual observer would have to notice that Trump was for less government interference, and Biden is for more.
But only about 20% of Americans are paying attention.
We heard there was more mystery money to be deposited in our accounts.
Classic government-offers-crutches-after-breaking-our-legs scenario.
And then they pose for a photo op as they generously bail us out with Monopoly money.
It is about picking winners and losers, and the new fascist left wants to make sure government has and keeps that power. It is an absolute necessity for their existing globalist movement and to allow them and their selected few to steal from tax payer provided lucre.
Yep. And about 1% of Canadians.
The one move that helps some of the world’s worst actors and anti-freedom countries, fucks over U.S. energy independence, and screws the people already slammed by horrible elitist globalist policies in the US, is this Biden reversal on fracking (as if you couldn’t see that coming). Now that Canadian oil will end up going to China – which is precisely why Obama resisted that XL pipeline – and the price of oil will go up because we will no longer be an exporter and undermining OPEC, which benefits countries that economically depend on oil sales like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
^This. And we aren’t allowed to build new nuke plants, or even think about switching to more modern, safer, scalable, molten salt thorium reactors.
DON’T YOU EVEN SCIENCE, BRO???
That thorium reactor could melt down and blow up in a 500 Gigaton nuclear explosion killing off Gaia!
/Any studies major that has zero physics/chemistry background and got their nuke info from Hollywood movies
What part of “NUCULAR REAKTOR!” do you not understand?
nuclear + salt = extra bad
It makes you a mutant with high blood pressure.
Oh Tonio… Sexy, sexy Tonio…
Stopping fracking will only hurt icky flyover red states like Oklahoma and the Dakotas. Who cares about those racist deplorables anyhow?
/progtard while pumping gas in his car and paying his natural gas bill.
Cool avatar! I’d do an alien!
I married an alien. She’s naturalized now.
*narrows gaze*
My beloved gal is fully invested in the idea that it’s a new day in America. Each morning she points me to her stock investments as proof.
Tried to get to the point of “will your opinion change when gas is over 4 dollars and our GDP is under 3% over the next two years?” But she ain’t taking the bet.
Sigh.
Raising energy prices is a major ass fuck. Raising energy prices amidst artificially imposed mass unemployment should be a crime.
Amazing how old Joe managed to piss off our closest neighbor on Day One. He just dove right in and started fucking up.
I suspect Mexico is also less than excited about Joe starting up the Central American migrant caravans again, as well.
Let’s hope he keeps fucking up. If the GOP can take back the House in ’22, it might… well, slow the decline. A little bit.
^This. But that will be tough as they almost have most Americans convinced (fooled) into thinking that the GOP is the party of racism and white supremacy.
I’m not so sure the GOP takes back the Congress in 22, there are plenty of people who have woken up and realized the GOP doesn’t really believe in all the crap they’ve been spewing for 40 years, that Republicans really are nothing more than Democrats in the slow lane. The symbol for the GOP shouldn’t be an elephant, it should be a possum.
While you are correct about that, there is the “anyone but the incumbent vote.”
Also, I’m sure the GOP is about to engage in sincere self-examination and figure out how to reposition itself for the post-Trump… [loses it like Chris Farley during a skit]
Legit LOL!
I think it is next to impossible for them not to take it back. Between safe seats, GOP doing the redistricting and a midterm election, flipping a handful of seats is pretty much assured.
So, yeah, probably, the GOP will find a way to screw it up.
The saddest thing is that eventually people tire of their miserable economic situation enough to no longer give a damn about chicken little accusations of racism and white supremacy, and that’s when the real racism and white supremacy start.
What makes you think that? The GOP _hated_ Trump. For the most part, they’re _for_ most of this. As long as Raytheon is handing out the big checks, the GOP is very happy.
The GOP is the party of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush (one of which I assume will be the nominee in 2024). They mouth vaguely limited government platitudes to remain in power, but they do absolutely nothing to limit government expansion.
It wasn’t about pissing our sibling to the north as much as kowtowing to the pimp nation run by fascists still pretending to be marxists in South East Asia that he is bought and paid for bye.
The WaPo actually “fact-checked” the statement that Biden would ban fracking and found it to be “false”.
They don’t even try to hide it.
It was false then, and now it’s true. What’s so hard to understand about this?
Fact Check says this statement is false. We have always been at war with Eastasia. Friend Computer says to report to the nearest disintegration chamber.
Remember, Happiness is Mandatory, Citizen.
Will “Friend Computer” be a product of Apple or Alphabet, do you think?
Tencent
That reminded me to check on if the Paranoia game had made it to Steam… looks like it got pulled from the Epic store a couple months/weeks after release, and radio silence from the publishers. Reviews were middling/average for it.
That information is above your clearance level, citizen
IIRC he’s only banning “new leases on federal land”, whatever that means.
It means the existing contracts are a hassle to break so the path of least resistance is to stop progress rather than try to claw it back.
President Not-Trump can do no wrong. He’s rebuilding America.
Build
Back
Better
Bend
Over
Peasant
Bend
Over
Odious
Peasant
It’s just the gubmint giving you a lil boop! Nothing to worry about!
Boop!
I prefer
Baby
Got
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Build
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Bitter
Attorney Butch Bowers to represent Trump during Senate trial
Why bother? The only conviction for impeachment is removal from office, which Trump does not hold. And the senate has no authority under the constitution to try a private citizen.
Although I’m sure we can count on enough worthless shit Republicans to go along with the farce.
I wonder what Level 99 Senate Mage Mitch has in mind. You have to try thinking several moves ahead to even guess.
He’s already accused Trump of inciting insurrection. At this point, he pretty much has to vote to convict.
He’s supposed to be good at playing the rules, but he’s not majority leader any more, so there’s not much he can do to prevent the trial.
Nah, he can vote “moot.” That will let him suck up to both sides by saying “gawrsh, that orange Man is os very very bad, but there’s just nothing we can do about it. We need a law to give us the power to prosecute private citizens.”
That would be my best guess at this point.
Known knowns. The known unknowns are in Mitch’s mind. I’m not suggesting he somehow has a miracle pro-Trump plan or anything ridiculous and nonsensical like that, just that he’s usually several moves ahead.
I think there is a lot of… wrangling going on in the senate right now, so I would guess that this is part of his positioning for how the GOP goes forward. And, no, I am not thinking some sort of 7th-dimensional chess type BS, but with the Senate divided 50/50 with the push going to the house (Kamala toes the line) he needs to be very careful about how he plays things.
One of the things that have been striking to me is that there is a whole lot of talk about the D’s having taken the Senate, but they really haven’t. All they have is the ability to break a tie, which isn’t nothing but isn’t everything. They have to keep all their members cracked down (and the R’s have to do the same). But there is a lot of wrangling going on right now, so what things really mean versus what they appear to mean is not the same.
Points well taken.
I think the first real indication we will have on how things are going to go is their adoption of rules for this session, specifically the rules for filibuster. I believe those rules are adopted by majority vote; if Schumer can eliminate or gut the filibuster, that will really weaken opposition to the tsunami of leftist horseshit heading their way from the House. And it will show that the Dem Senators will tow the leftist lion.
That is the biggy. But, again, they have to have all 50 of their senators on board before Kamala, she-wolf of the SS, comes into play. This isn’t as easy as they make it out in the trailers.
On the other side of that is that the Republicans also need all of their senators on board to get to the tie. The Democrats appear to have a much stronger whip game then the Republicans.
A conviction also allows them to prevent him from holding public (assume federal) office in the future. That is what they are claiming to be scared of, a Trump 2024 campaign.
I don’t see him running again, even if they don’t ban him.
Show trial; another big, demoralizing propaganda piece.
Ding, ding, ding. But I think the mean-spiritedness of it all will be remembered by the American people and the GOP might re-take the House of Representatives in 2022.
All this talk about unity and reconciliation is nothing but smoke & mirrors. These people want revenge. They are furious that the fucking unwashed deplorable serfs almost wrecked their credentialed elite globalist racket. They will never tolerate another attack on the system they have created to benefit themselves and their offspring. Fuck the unwashed idiots! And fuck them good. Revenge and making examples is the name of the game.
They want revenge as their number 1 priority, but coming in at a close number 2 is to serve as a warning to others who might want to run on draining the swamp, being proud of being American, and negating economy-killing regulations.
This. I feature the situation going very dark in the next few months. Some of these people want blood.
Well, duh. How else are you supposed to achieve unity?
In order to preserve democracy, the incumbents need to determine which candidates the tax cattle are permitted to vote for.
Except “disqualification to hold positions of “trust or profit” “disqualifies people from appointed offices, not elective offices.
Ah. Thanks. No SCOTUS for him.
Bah, he’ll just get a waiver like the SecDef does.
You’d think the Democrats would remember their own living counter-example of impeachment not meaning disqualification.
They also have an example that a criminal conviction doesn’t disqualify someone from office.
Nor does impeachment and removal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings
My guess is the grand compromise from the Turtle will be that Trump is convicted but not permanently barred from office. Which is what they want. The first President convicted, along with impeached twice, will be how Trump is remembered. Dirtier than Nixon.
This is about making sure Trump can’t ever run again (forcing them to steal another election, which might not be as easy to do without the whole Kung Flu shit to hide behind). It has also been sold to the republican establishment types as a move to protect them from him taking it out on them and stealing team red voters. Team blue actually hopes team red falls for this nonsense, because they want to be the only viable political party (we won with a 98% result!).
The question I have is how is the Supreme Court going to rule when the Constitutionality of impeaching an ex-office holder is brought into question? And is that why Nancy Pelosi is holding off on sending the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate, she’s waiting until the Democrats can appoint 6 Marxist law professors to the New and Improved 15-Justices Supreme Court? Or is Nancy just dragging this thing out for maximum effect of keeping Trump in the news, Trump being the greatest gift God ever gave to the Democrats and the news media (but I repeat myself)?
Hmmmm, does he sue to overturn just to spite them? Law Glibs – would he have to have an actual offer of an appointment in order to have standing, or is the mere status of conviction enough?
Roberts has to decide whether or not he’s going to show up for the trial.
I relish his pain.
Rand Paul should say “Eric Ciaramella” just for giggles.
Oh god, so much this!
I’d wager #1. Nancy doesn’t want to tip the boat.
I’d argue that it is constitutional. The Congress may not have been in session, or may have been busy with other matters, etc. As long as the impeachment is for conduct in office, whether the person still holds office anymore is to my mind irrelevant. You can prosecute someone for embezzlement even after they’ve left the company they embezzled from, after all. And in the broader case of judges and appointed officials, this would provide them a gameable loophole to get out of legislative accountability.
As to the punishment side, they obviously cannot remove Trump once he’s already gone, but there is another punishment they can elect to effect: they can preclude him from holding office again. I thought that included elected office as well, but WTF said above it doesn’t. That questions seems more legally interesting to me than “can you impeach someone for conduct in office once they’ve left said office” (which seems a pretty trivial “yes” to me, though perhaps the President is a special case).
Trump has already been impeached by the House, so that is a moot point. The senate then conducts a trial to decide whether or not to convict for purposes of removal from office. That brings up two issues: Trump has already left office, so the trial, even if constitutional at this point, would be ridiculous, akin to digging up Cromwell’s corpse to behead it for retroactive treason. The other issue is that the senate has no constitutional authority to try a private citizen, which Trump now is.
“which might not be as easy to do without the whole Kung Flu shit to hide behind”
You actually think the public health theater will be gone by 2024? I have bad news for you.
COVID-23 is 78% WORSER than COVID-19!
After COVID there was NRS, after NRS, there was UBT
I am sorely disappointed that Trump would have anyone other than Wood and Powell handle his Senate defense. That circus deserves some clowns.
“We do and the leases will be reviewed by our team we just have only been in office for less than a day now,” Psaki said.
And what are the odds those reports have already been prepared and are sitting on somebody’s desk waiting to be dropped off at the New! Improved! White House?
Zero. They were moved into the white house in the first shipment along with the Depends cabinet and pudding cup refrigerator.
Let me guess, the review team is led by Hunter Biden?
Morning, Banjos
An existing Keystone pipeline currently transports oil from Alberta to Illinois and Texas.
Dig it up and recycle the steel into windmills.
MANDATE 2020
RIP John Prine, double cancer survivor but tragically taken away by the Commie Cooties just last year. Is there any evil that Trump wont do?
The fact that CNN took down their Covid death total graphic as soon as Biden was Inaugurated tells you all you need to know about it.
Are you serious??
How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?
Lovingly – sheer narcissistic adoration.
Yes, they are secure in their belief that they doing the work of the righteous.
I think what you mean is that they want to convince the general unwashed masses that they are on the side of the angels, but these fuckers, if we stay in that religious vein, are definitely serving the fallen angel’s cause, and they know it. These are evil people.
I wish I was making it up.
-1 Sam Stone
-1 Illegal Smile
Saw this happening on the tweets last night. Full article today.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/01/22/national-guard-troops-moved-to-a-cramped-parking-garage-complain-of-ingratitude-after-being-ordered-to-bug-out-of-capitol-building-they-came-to-protect/
https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1352603144577048576/photo/1
I’m sure Snopes and WaPo will be along shortly to tell us this is fake news.
Wow, they couldn’t even give up their tennis courts so that volunteer guardsmen (and women) protecting their worthless asses could have a roof and heat. This is beyond despicable.
Why the fuck do they have private tennis courts within the capitol at all?
Wanna play tennis? Join a fucking tennis club with your own goddamn money.
I find it interesting that most of the time the Guard is called up to act as conscript labor, not for any military purpose.
I filled and threw a lot of sandbags back in the Flood of ’93.
That’s how the Romans built their ROADZ, no?
The show is over, so fuck you deplorables. Maybe they did this after the video emerged of a whole lot of these guards turning their back to the Biden motorcade.
The Congresscritters should have just put up cardboard cutouts of National Guardsmen like the NFL stadiums do.
They knew there was no actual threat; it was all for show.
And this is how you campaign for future office. Cawthorn just scored.
https://www.thefreedomtimes.com/2021/01/22/watch-rep-cawthorn-delivers-pizza-to-soldiers-sheltering-in-parking-garage-offers-for-them-to-sleep-his-office/
The Freedom Times should get a new masthead. This one looks a little, uh, Germanic.
Dems are after that guy too.
And we aren’t allowed to build new nuke plants, or even think about switching to more modern, safer, scalable, molten salt thorium reactors.
That’s not really clean energy!
If not for the tax subsidies, nuclear would be eleventybillion times more expensive than solar, and fossil fuels would be twentyseventybillion times more expensive.
/Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Union of Concerned Scientists
20,70,000,000,000!!!!!1111
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to the best little oasis of sanity in this desert of derp!
Man, I can’t wait to pay more for energy! Hopefully the new administration will enact a bunch of regulations that will fuck up my industry, so I can start earning much less. That will be cool! Especially as they continue to hammer the dollar, making what I have managed to save worth much, much less.
Ahhh, progress.
Let’s go!
And you ride yourself over the fields,
And you make all your animal deals,
And your wise men don’t know how it feels,
To be thick as a brick.
I look at the T.V
Your America’s doing well
I look out the window
My America’s catching hell
I just wanna know
Which way do I go
To get to your America?
Spin me back down the years, and the days, of my youth
Draw the lace and black curtains, and shut out the whole truth
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul.
The soldier, whose unit initially was put up in a local hotel, said that many later-arriving Guard troops had to find places to sleep in the Capitol.
At first, they were sleeping in the basement, then in the fifth-floor tennis courts, the soldier told Military Times. Then it was back to the basement.
Wait, what?
BURN IT THE FUCK DOWN.
TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST!! HOOT HOOT!!
GET HIM! HE IS NOT ONE WIRH THE BODY!!
Got some new convid email to the entire company about how it is imperative and REQUIRED (it actually isnt that we put our shame muzzles on when away from our desks. I guess someone snitched on me. Anyway, if I am to participate I might as well go all in.
When I was wearing my plague dosctor mask out in public, literally nobody gave me shit about it, which surprised me. Now that the weathe is cols, I should start wearinf it agin. The lenses fogging might be a problem though.
Me: https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200409_172427-scaled.jpg
Of course I’ll probably just get something from these fine people.
https://www.minimallycompliantmasks.com/
When I went to the uparmored and armed-guarded doctor’s office, they had a big poster about which masks were acceptable and which were not. Ahm’a thinkin’ those wouldn’t get you through the mantrap.
Wear your chin diaper and shut up you fucking serf!
I was never a Trumpster but I liked how he tried to get out of the way and let the market roam. This shit has 1974 written all over it. All of that underpriced oil is going directly to China.
“This shit has 1984 written all over it”
FIFY.
Anyway, if I am to participate I might as well go all in.
Or you could wear one of those stupid V For Vendetta masks.
Was that supposed to be Guy Fawkes?
Given Mrs. Q’s situation and upcoming events I may be intermittent for some time. I will, however, to continue with the cheesecake as much as I can. You know where to find me.
Friday Funbags!
https://archive.li/QZRzx
Getting close! Good luck, brother!
In bad news, Mira Furlan has passed, making it even less likely that a B5 cast reunion can happen.
In news that may have some larger ramifications, an Ohio court blamed the government, not the ‘vid for the shutdowns, specifically in relation to a restaurant insurance policy.
clicked on article, side questionaire popped up:
Is your restaurant business focused on recovery or growth in 2021?
Possible answers:
Yes
No
I didnt get to the article, the stupid hurt too bad.
I don’t get any popups, but then I’ve got my browser set to aggressively block scripts and ads. Part of the takeaway:
I was just about to post that in ref to Hayek’s post above. Sounds like West Nile Virus.
When B5 has a cast reunion, they can get the Beatles to play it.
The warm-up act will be Sigfried and The Righteous Brother.
The reunion was already going to be difficult with Vir, Franklin, Garibaldi, G’Kar and Sinclair dead.
…that was the joke.
And you left out a couple of people.
She always seemed like a nice person, That’s too bad.
Goodest of mornings to you all, Glibs! There have been 144 carjackings in Chicago in 2021.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/21/as-police-investigate-carjackings-and-related-crimes-victims-say-sense-of-security-is-gone/
Hold on a moment, folks – some late breaking information is coming in. I’m now being told that the number is actually up to 148 since the link I posted earlier was published.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/22/4-more-carjacking-reported-within-4-hours-overnight/
Have a terrific day!
Seven a day
That’s impressive
Well, I make sure to eat foods high in zinc and I take vitamin E supplements.
If that’s your definition of “carjacking” remind me to never sit in your car without using a disposable seat cover.
In the spirit of unity, let’s call it Chicago Ridesharing.
I’m a little (or a lot) confused about Climate Change. Do we want warmer weather or cooler weather? I’m all for doing my part but if given a preference I’d like warmer winters and cooler summers, can we do that?
Do we want change or no change? I can live with heating my house in the winter and cooling it in the summer but I want to make sure I have my priorities right. Youngsters like Biden have me worried that I could have been wrong my whole life.