Biden bungles US economy

 Tucker Carlson:

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A lot of unprecedented things happening, but honestly, not all of them are shocking. For example, it probably shouldn't surprise you that once they got their hands on real power, the same lunatics who don't believe in Human Biology immediately made a serious mess of our economy, it took them less than six months to do it.

First, they acted like the U.S. dollar had no value. They spent money like they just printed it for the occasion, which needless to say they had. And predictably, we wound up with frightening levels of inflation, which for the record, they still deny exists.

But inflation does exist as you know, well, if you live here. Corn prices to name just one example of a staple commodity that is now out of control have risen by 50 percent just since January.

But that wasn't bad enough, the lunatics then decided to make it even worse than that. So they paid millions of Americans more than they make at work just to stay home and do nothing. To justify doing this, they used the word COVID quite a bit, but it had nothing to do with the pandemic, they just wanted to break the system and so they did.

And the rest of us immediately wound up with a bewildering combination of rising unemployment in the middle of a severe labor shortage. So at the very same time we found ourselves with too many workers and also too few workers. That doesn't even make sense. But thanks to their policies, that's now exactly what we have.

And then finally, in case 2021 didn't remind you enough of a grimmer version of the 1970s, we now have serious gas shortages in a country that was recently energy independent.

All along the East Coast of the country today, people couldn't fill up their cars. Take a look at the footage. It looks like Venezuela.
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An emergency? No. If they ran out of weed, that would be an emergency. Don't worry, says "The New York Times." None of this is real.

It's a conspiracy theory. Your eyes are lying to you. You're hysterical.

In a piece today, "The New York Times" reported that, quote: "Since the pipeline shutdown, there have been no long lines at gas stations." Then apparently someone in "The New York Times" newsroom found a working television and the paper deleted that line from the article a few hours later, without ever acknowledging it had included the line in the first place. That was the paper, but for their readers on social media who presumably will believe absolutely anything, "The New York Times" did not even bother to change the lie. That tweet is still up, quote: "Since the shutdown there have been no long lines or major price hikes for gasoline."

Right? Not at all.

Except in the State of Georgia, where as of 3:00 p.m. this afternoon, almost six percent of all gas stations had no gasoline. In Virginia, that number was almost eight percent of all gas stations. In North Carolina, it was eight and a half percent. In Metro Atlanta, the biggest city in the south, more than 20 percent of all gas stations, more than a fifth had no gasoline to sell. That is an energy crisis.

Why is it happening? Well, the official explanation is that some mysterious gang of cyber criminals hacked the software at a major American fuel supplier called Colonial Pipeline. Colonial Pipeline handles more than two million barrels a day. That's roughly half the East Coast entire supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.

And that's not a small problem in a country like every country on Earth that still relies almost entirely on fossil fuels to survive. But don't worry, says your new Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, formerly the incompetent Governor of Michigan, quote: "It's not that we have a gasoline shortage, it's that we have the supply crunch." Oh, it's a supply crunch and that's very different from a shortage at least in some theoretical way that's important to Jennifer Granholm.

So what is the White House doing about this supply crunch that is not a shortage? Well, here's the answer from Anne Neuberger, who is the confirmed non-genius who somehow serves as the Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technologies.
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Colonial Pipeline, Anne Neuberger would like to remind you is a quote, "private company." And as a matter of principle, the White House does not get involved in the affairs of private companies, not unless private companies were to use the wrong pronoun in a sentence, in which case the F.B.I. would arrive with a SWAT team and make televised arrests.

But in cases where the mere fuel supply of the entire eastern seaboard is at stake, Anne Neuberger and her friends at the White House strongly prefer a hands-off approach. They are situationally libertarian that way.

What is this about? Well, you know. On some level, let's be honest about it, the White House approves of this disaster. Yes, some gas stations are closed tonight, but soon enough, the lunatics plan to close all of them, close every gas station in the entire United States, shuttered forever, to make way for some new as yet not quite defined means of transportation that will magically replace the gasoline engines that we have used for more than a hundred years.

This is a Green Revolution. So, who cares about some old pipeline?

Remember that on his first day in office, Joe Biden shut down a pipeline.
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The alleged "fact-checkers" at Facebook try to convince us that Biden is not responsible for the increased cost of gasoline at the pump.  They are simply not credible.   Most Americans probably get angrier about Biden's election every time they pass a gas station these days.  They are not only angry at the Biden administration, they are also angry at the Democrats who support this garbage.

Then there is the price of lumber that has risen more than 250 percent.  Inflation is running rampant in several sectors of the economy and Biden appears clueless as to why.  He is also clueless as to why paying people not to work means there are job openings that are not being filled.  Democrats seem to favor Americans consuming less to save the planet while ignoring the pollution of China and other countries.  He is determined ot lower the US standard of living and make the US weaper.