Jim Bratten
U.S. Pays for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
To understand how Joe Biden is paying for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, these numbers explain it. In the last six months of 2021, these were U.S. oil imports from Russia:
Month Barrels Per Day Avg. Cost Per Day
July 761,000 $57 million
August 795,000 $56 million
September 630,000 $47 million
October 635,000 $53 million
November 595,000 $48 million
December 405,000 $35 million
The last month the U.S. imported oil from Russia, the month before Trump gave the U.S. our energy independence in 2019, we bought 16,000 barrels. Under the Biden Regime, after Joe shut off the U.S. oil spigot, the purchase from Russia exploded, as you can see above. Joe Biden shut down U.S. energy production to give the business to Russia.
And now he considers buying oil from Iran.
This headline appeared in the Washington Free Beacon on February 28: “Biden Admin. Relies on Russia to Finalize Iran Nuclear Deal as Putin Invades Ukraine” (And who said Vladimir Putin couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time?) The plan, now said to include Communist China at the table, exemplifies the foreign policy idiocy and lack of a grip on reality that is the Biden Regime and its State Department. This policy is extremely dangerous.
Slinging his usual tripe, Biden told the nation, “My administration is using the tools, every tool at their disposal, to protect American families and businesses, from rising prices at the gas pump.” Then he warned the oil companies not to take advantage of the damage HE had done. “You know we’re taking steps to bring down the cost; but oil companies should not… hike their prices to raise profits.” Castigate your own nation’s energy companies and denigrate their profitability; then go buy oil from America’s enemies.
Another Marxist on the Inside
A woman named Minyon Moore is vetting the Supreme Court nominees of Joe Biden. As a board member of Marxist Black Lives Matter, Minyon has been around. She:
o worked in the Clinton administration
o was a senior advisor in both of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns
o is a board member of the BLM Global Network Foundation
o strongly promotes critical race theory, and
o fully supports the “Defund the Police” movement
Ah, the perfect woman to decide who Joe should choose as nominees for SCOTUS…
Headline seen in the Washington Examiner on February 16: “Amazon boots Black Lives Matter off Amazon Smile as scrutiny intensifies” – maybe a reaction to the fact that BLM cannot account for $60 million in funds.
Look at this headline from the Daily Mail: “BLM ‘transferred millions to Canadian charity run by wife of co-founder for Toronto mansion’” And this one from Black Enterprise: “BLM co-founder under fire for purchasing million-dollar homes in white neighborhoods” Or this headline from the New York Post: BLM co-founder tied to other groups with spending ‘red flags’”
Could Ms. Moore possibly shed any light on this? Ask the Democrat Party. They bailed out BLM and now own it.
Trump’s Title 42 policy Upheld by Court
A federal court has upheld former President Donald Trump’s Title 42 border policy.
To combat the raging Covid-19 pandemic, President Trump signed a series of health initiatives aimed to curb the spread of the Wuhan virus from the illegal alien border invasion.
Among the policies enacted, Trump focused on aliens illegally crossing the border who could easily transmit the virus. Title 42 required aliens applying for asylum to stay in their home countries instead of being allowed to stay in the U.S.
Since entering the White House, Joe Biden has repeatedly attempted to overturn that public health policy but has been hit by many legal challenges.
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the Biden Regime must continue to use the Trump-era policy. “It is likely that [Title 42] grants the Executive sweeping authority to prohibit aliens from entering the United States during a public-health emergency; that the Executive may expel aliens who violate such a prohibition…” the three-judge panel wrote in a unanimous opinion.
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