THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JANUARY 24, 2024 AT 10:16 PM
Paul Plante says:
Isn’t it something how all these disasters, like the flooding of San Diego, are occurring during the reign of Joe Biden.
And you know things in crime-ridden America under Joe Biden and the criminal-friendly DEMOCRATS are really going to hell on Joe Biden’s watch when you read in NBC News, a pro-Biden outlet, a story titled “For the first time ever, In-N-out closes one of its stores” by Mirna Alsharif on 24 January 2024 that In-N-out is closing its only Oakland location because of “ongoing issues with crime,” the company said Tuesday, making this the first time the company has ever closed a location in its 75-year history.
“We feel the frequency and severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates leave us no alternative,” Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a statement Tuesday.
“Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers and associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies,” Warnick said.
The restaurant “remains a busy and profitable” location, but In-N-Out’s top priority is its employees and customers, Warnick said.
“We cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment,” Warnick said.
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An unsafe environment thanks to the crime-friendly policies of Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS who only have to offer us BIG ON ABORTION, SOFT ON CRIME, CHAOS, MASSIVE DEBT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLOODING ACROSS OUR OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, WEAK ON NATIONAL SECURITY, and UNSAFE SKIES as GO WOKE AND GO BROKE comes home like the chickens to roost at Boeing, which corporation stresses Joe’s DEI over safety, and had several of its 737 Max 9 jets grounded by the FAA after a viral incident earlier this month after an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5 experienced a sudden blowout of a door plug while 16,000 feet in the air above Oregon, prompting several passengers to sue both Boeing and the airline, with the Washington state-based aircraft manufacturing company being in the spotlight in recent years for its jets’ questionable safety, this after Boeing and its top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, have lobbied Washington for years to loosen safety regulations in order to cut costs and boost profits.
By way of review with respect to Joe’s DEI and UNSAFE SKIES in America, we had an article on the subject in The Western Journal titled “DEI in Action: FAA Pushes to Hire People with ‘Severe Intellectual’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Disabilities” by Jack Davis on 15 January 2024, where we had this to consider, to wit:
The federal agency tasked with protecting America’s air travel is looking for a few good people with “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” in order to get the job done.
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Yes, people, you are reading that correctly, as bizarre a policy as it might seem if you are not yourself WOKE, as we see in the “Diversity and Inclusion” section of the FAA website, where Joe Biden’s FAA under failed DEMOCRAT presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, said it actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with targeted disabilities which are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process.
And not only is Joe pushing this insane policy on our national government, putting people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in high management positions, but on corporate America, as well, especially if they want government grants or loans, which takes us to 2022 SEC filing from Boeing about Boeing’s incentive plan change which CHANGED FROM rewarding leadership for increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to rewarding them if they hit DEI targets, to wit:
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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Which brings us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing faces new pressure as United questions MAX 10 order” by Shivansh Tiwary, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tim Hepher on January 23, 2024, where we had this, to wit:
Jan 23 (Reuters) – United Airlines raised questions over the fate of billions of dollars of 737 MAX 10 jets on order from Boeing, piling pressure on the planemaker as it struggles to prevent the grounding of a smaller model further upsetting confidence.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Tuesday said the airline, which says it has ordered 277 of the MAX 10 jets with options for another 200, would build a new fleet plan that does not include a model already mired in regulatory and delivery delays.
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ALREADY MIRED IN REGULATORY AND DELIVERY DELAYS!
This is like a scene straight out of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.
Going back to that article about what happens to a corporation that forgets what it is in business to do, and instead embarks on a social engineering program to curry favor with Joe Biden, to wit:
U.S. regulators have grounded most of Boeing’s MAX 9 jets for checks after a plug replacing an unused exit door tore off an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, forcing an emergency landing.
“I think the MAX 9 grounding is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back for us,” Kirby said in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday.
Boeing shares fell almost 1%.
In a statement after Kirby’s comments, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said: “We have let down our airline customers and are deeply sorry for the significant disruption to them, their employees and their passengers.”
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Except when we are talking SAFE SKIES, dude, SORRY DON’T CUT IT!
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing to pause 737 production for quality stand down on Thursday” on January 23, 2024, where we have this, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Boeing will hold a quality stand down Thursday at the Seattle-area location where it makes 737 aircraft, pausing production and delivery operations for a day, the company announced on Tuesday.
During the stand down, employees will attend quality workshops and “pause, evaluate what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and make recommendations for improvement,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Stan Deal.
Boeing announced it would hold sessions with workers on Jan. 16 as part of a larger list of actions it is taking after the grounding of a portion of the 737 MAX 9 fleet earlier this month following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet.
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Boeing has to stop actually working on the planes it isn’t building correctly or properly to remind its workers what it is they are actually there to be doing, as opposed to focusing on each other’s preferred personal pronouns and how to tell someone who is queer from someone who is gay, so you don’t misgender them, as well as how to walk on eggshells around a co-worker with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability so you don’t set them off, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Exclusive: Boeing presses suppliers on tightening bolts after loose parts found in 737 MAX 9 checks” by Valerie Insinna and David Shepardson on January 23, 2024, where we had Joe Biden’s DEI at Boeing in the spotlight, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Boeing issued a bulletin to its suppliers late last week that laid out practices to ensure bolts are properly torqued after multiple airlines reported loose hardware during inspections of the grounded 737 MAX 9, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
The U.S. planemaker said that it is “imperative” that suppliers meet quality requirements, according to a Jan. 17 memo seen by Reuters, issued weeks after an accident when a panel ripped off of a 737 MAX 9 jet while in mid-air.
“Ensure that work instructions are mistake-proof and quality is continuously monitored – particularly torquing requirements,” it states.
The bulletin suggests suppliers document torque requirements on work instructions, require mechanics to record how much torque is applied when fastening components, and ensure tools are properly calibrated to ensure bolts are properly tightened.
Boeing declined to comment.
The updated guidance follows the Jan. 5 accident when an Alaska Airlines flight had to conduct an emergency landing after the panel, called a door plug, was blown off.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 MAX 9 planes with the door panel configuration.
The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet determined whether the four bolts that attach the door plug to the fuselage were ever installed on the Alaska Airlines plane, but it is also too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the accident, NTSB head Jennifer Homendy told reporters Thursday.
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And what an incredible statement that is from Jennifer Homendy, Joe Biden’s NTSB head, probably herself a DEI hire from the sounds of it, that it is too early to say missing or loose bolts on the door that blew off the Alaska Airlines were the root cause of the door blowing off the plane.
Getting back to that story of GO WOKE AND GO BROKE, we have more as follows, to wit:
Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said in an NBC News interview that aired Tuesday that the airline found “some loose bolts on many” MAX 9s during inspections.
“My demand on Boeing is, what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in house?” Minicucci said.
United Airlines, which has also found loose parts on MAX 9s, on Monday reported a wider-than-expected loss in the quarter through March due to the grounding of the MAX 9.
Boeing continues to work with the FAA to unground the aircraft and is “taking immediate actions to strengthen quality across the 737 production system.”
FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker told Reuters on Jan. 12 it was “pretty clear” the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 cabin blowout was a manufacturing issue, not a design problem.
Whitaker noted MAX 9 issues that the MAX 9 has about 500,000 parts – and it is critical to ensure all bolts are properly tightened.
“We’re certainly not looking at every part, but so you have to have a quality control system that does that … and (is) robust enough to see if something is not properly assembled.”
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Quality control under Joe Biden?
Not going to happen, people, because Joe doesn’t have a clue as to what quality is in the first place.
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WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JANUARY 25, 2024 AT 5:57 PM
Paul Plante says:
There was a time in my life, many years ago it now was, when I believed that our national government was composed of the best and brightest among us, and their mission in our national government was to keep the wheels of government turning smoothly to keep us safe from harm so we could live productive lives in peace, and who knows but that it might actually have been true, once upon a time.
There was a time when I thought our national government told us the truth, and would not lie to us.
Viet Nam disabused me of that silly notion.
And now, as I hear about Joe Biden staffing up our national government with people Joe has personally identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process that puts people with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism at the head of the hiring process with respect to those not afflicted with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, I truly have to wonder at what could possibly be going through Joe Biden’s head or going on in his head that would have him thinking and believing that staffing our national government with people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in decision-making positions is somehow good for our nation and its national security.
And the only answer I can come up with is that Joe Biden is insane.
Past the point of no return and not coming back around that bend in this lifetime, anyway.
And as a result, I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that this national government under Joe Biden can keep us safe, as opposed to being the clearest danger to our American way of life and our well-being as a people that there is on the horizon in any direction, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet – Seattle Times” on January 24, 2024, where we have more on the door plug story, and how many bolts hold the door plug in place, after being told by Joe’s NTSB head Jennifer Homendy, who may well be one of those who suffer from severe intellectual disability, and thus was put at the head of Joe’s hiring list for the position of NTSB head, that it was too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the door plug accident, to wit:
Jan 24 (Reuters) – The door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 jet this month was removed for repair and reinstalled by Boeing’s mechanics at its Renton assembly line, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Boeing declined to comment on details that are under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The report follows an earlier one from Reuters that said Boeing has a key role in installing and checking the part, made by fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which was spun off from Boeing in 2005.
Sources told Reuters that Boeing typically removes the panel and replaces it, while a source familiar with Boeing’s standard industrial processes insisted Boeing only adjusts or removes the panel if there are signs it was installed incorrectly.
The panel is a plug in place on some 737 MAX 9s instead of an additional emergency exit.
A diagram of the 737 MAX 9 door plug posted by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows the plug held down by four bolts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 024-01-09/
The NTSB has not yet determined whether the plug was properly attached, or whether the bolts were installed.
The Seattle Times’ report was partly derived from an anonymous commenter on an article that appeared on the aviation website Leeham News.
The question of who carried out the final fitting is increasingly being seen as likely to be at the centre of a tug- of-war over responsibility between Boeing and its former unit.
Boeing shares were down 0.9% on Wednesday.
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There was a time when I was young, when the saying was: “IF IT AIN’T BOEING, I’M NOT GOING!”
Now, in this day and age of Joe Biden, where nothing the national government has its hands on can be trusted to work right, it has become: “IF IT’S BOEING, I’D RATHER WALK!”
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Paul Plante says:
There was a time in my life, many years ago it now was, when I believed that our national government was composed of the best and brightest among us, and their mission in our national government was to keep the wheels of government turning smoothly to keep us safe from harm so we could live productive lives in peace, and who knows but that it might actually have been true, once upon a time.
There was a time when I thought our national government told us the truth, and would not lie to us.
Viet Nam disabused me of that silly notion.
And now, as I hear about Joe Biden staffing up our national government with people Joe has personally identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process that puts people with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism at the head of the hiring process with respect to those not afflicted with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, I truly have to wonder at what could possibly be going through Joe Biden’s head or going on in his head that would have him thinking and believing that staffing our national government with people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in decision-making positions is somehow good for our nation and its national security.
And the only answer I can come up with is that Joe Biden is insane.
Past the point of no return and not coming back around that bend in this lifetime, anyway.
And as a result, I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that this national government under Joe Biden can keep us safe, as opposed to being the clearest danger to our American way of life and our well-being as a people that there is on the horizon in any direction, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet – Seattle Times” on January 24, 2024, where we have more on the door plug story, and how many bolts hold the door plug in place, after being told by Joe’s NTSB head Jennifer Homendy, who may well be one of those who suffer from severe intellectual disability, and thus was put at the head of Joe’s hiring list for the position of NTSB head, that it was too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the door plug accident, to wit:
Jan 24 (Reuters) – The door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 jet this month was removed for repair and reinstalled by Boeing’s mechanics at its Renton assembly line, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Boeing declined to comment on details that are under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The report follows an earlier one from Reuters that said Boeing has a key role in installing and checking the part, made by fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which was spun off from Boeing in 2005.
Sources told Reuters that Boeing typically removes the panel and replaces it, while a source familiar with Boeing’s standard industrial processes insisted Boeing only adjusts or removes the panel if there are signs it was installed incorrectly.
The panel is a plug in place on some 737 MAX 9s instead of an additional emergency exit.
A diagram of the 737 MAX 9 door plug posted by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows the plug held down by four bolts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 024-01-09/
The NTSB has not yet determined whether the plug was properly attached, or whether the bolts were installed.
The Seattle Times’ report was partly derived from an anonymous commenter on an article that appeared on the aviation website Leeham News.
The question of who carried out the final fitting is increasingly being seen as likely to be at the centre of a tug- of-war over responsibility between Boeing and its former unit.
Boeing shares were down 0.9% on Wednesday.
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There was a time when I was young, when the saying was: “IF IT AIN’T BOEING, I’M NOT GOING!”
Now, in this day and age of Joe Biden, where nothing the national government has its hands on can be trusted to work right, it has become: “IF IT’S BOEING, I’D RATHER WALK!”
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JANUARY 27, 2024 AT 7:34 PM
Paul Plante says:
“IF YOU CAN’T BUILD THEM RIGHT. THEN WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU BUILD THEM!”
That, people, is a very stern message being sent to Boeing from that sector of the Federal Aviation Administration of OUR National government that has not yet been taken over by an army of epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, sent there by Joe Biden to fill high-ranking decision-making positions, which stern message to Boeing from the FAA puts Joe’s INSANE DEI policy in place at Boeing directly in the national and world spotlight as it should be in a sane and rational world, which takes us to a Reuters story titled “FAA bars Boeing from increasing MAX output but ends partial grounding” by David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher on January 24, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late on Wednesday tightened pressure on Boeing by barring the troubled planemaker from expanding production of its best-selling 737 MAX narrowbody planes, following “unacceptable” quality issues.
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Yes, people, “unacceptable” quality issues as a result of stressing Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy as opposed to safety, and thankfully, somebody at FAA in a position of authority recognized the problem for what it was and had the courage to step in here and say, STOP THE NONSENSE, THIS DEI INSANITY HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH, which takes us back to Reuters for more, as follows:
The unprecedented decision looked set to deepen turmoil at Boeing even as the FAA also agreed to allow the 737 MAX 9, which was grounded after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, to resume flying once inspections were completed.
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Yes, people, an unprecedented decision because never in our nation’s history have we had an American president pushing such an INSANE policy as this on OUR national government and the aerospace industry, and putting human lives and public safety in grave jeopardy as a result, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ability to resume flying was a relief to U.S. operators Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which had been forced to cancel thousands of flights and aim to begin returning the planes to service on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
But the FAA decision to keep Boeing from expanding production will have wide-ranging effects across the industry.
Boeing is seeking to increase production of its single-aisle 737 MAX family to keep pace with demand and close a gap in the jet market with European planemaker Airbus.
Analysts have expressed concerns that extra scrutiny of Boeing factories following the MAX 9 door plug blowout would temper production increases for the smaller and more widely sold MAX 8, a key source of cash for Boeing and many suppliers.
“We will not agree to any request from Boeing for an expansion in production or approve additional production lines for the 737 MAX until we are satisfied that the quality control issues uncovered during this process are resolved,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said.
“The quality assurance issues we have seen are unacceptable.”
Clarifying the order, the FAA subsequently told Reuters: “That means Boeing can continue producing at the current monthly rate, but they cannot increase that rate.”
Boeing said it would continue to cooperate “fully and transparently” with the FAA and follow the agency’s direction as it took action to strengthen safety and quality.
The FAA offered no estimate of how long the limitation would last and did not specify the number of planes Boeing can produce each month.
The FAA’s decision could impact plans to stand up a new 737 MAX line in Everett, Washington, by mid-year 2024, following the end of production of Boeing’s iconic 747 in the massive plant.
The line, set to be the fourth 737 line overall and the first outside Renton, is needed to meet strong demand.
Boeing declined to comment on any potential impact on the Everett line.
Once accused of being too soft on Boeing, the FAA has toughened oversight since earlier MAX crashes led to a worldwide grounding, but Wednesday’s intervention opens new territory, experts said.
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And Wednesday’s intervention opened new territory precisely because Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy was the cause of that new territory having to be opened and thank goodness for us that there was somebody at the FAA with the courage to stand up to Joe Biden’s INSANITY and open that new territory before another air disaster could occur thanks to Joe Biden.
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Paul Plante says:
“IF YOU CAN’T BUILD THEM RIGHT. THEN WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU BUILD THEM!”
That, people, is a very stern message being sent to Boeing from that sector of the Federal Aviation Administration of OUR National government that has not yet been taken over by an army of epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, sent there by Joe Biden to fill high-ranking decision-making positions, which stern message to Boeing from the FAA puts Joe’s INSANE DEI policy in place at Boeing directly in the national and world spotlight as it should be in a sane and rational world, which takes us to a Reuters story titled “FAA bars Boeing from increasing MAX output but ends partial grounding” by David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher on January 24, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late on Wednesday tightened pressure on Boeing by barring the troubled planemaker from expanding production of its best-selling 737 MAX narrowbody planes, following “unacceptable” quality issues.
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Yes, people, “unacceptable” quality issues as a result of stressing Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy as opposed to safety, and thankfully, somebody at FAA in a position of authority recognized the problem for what it was and had the courage to step in here and say, STOP THE NONSENSE, THIS DEI INSANITY HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH, which takes us back to Reuters for more, as follows:
The unprecedented decision looked set to deepen turmoil at Boeing even as the FAA also agreed to allow the 737 MAX 9, which was grounded after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, to resume flying once inspections were completed.
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Yes, people, an unprecedented decision because never in our nation’s history have we had an American president pushing such an INSANE policy as this on OUR national government and the aerospace industry, and putting human lives and public safety in grave jeopardy as a result, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ability to resume flying was a relief to U.S. operators Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which had been forced to cancel thousands of flights and aim to begin returning the planes to service on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
But the FAA decision to keep Boeing from expanding production will have wide-ranging effects across the industry.
Boeing is seeking to increase production of its single-aisle 737 MAX family to keep pace with demand and close a gap in the jet market with European planemaker Airbus.
Analysts have expressed concerns that extra scrutiny of Boeing factories following the MAX 9 door plug blowout would temper production increases for the smaller and more widely sold MAX 8, a key source of cash for Boeing and many suppliers.
“We will not agree to any request from Boeing for an expansion in production or approve additional production lines for the 737 MAX until we are satisfied that the quality control issues uncovered during this process are resolved,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said.
“The quality assurance issues we have seen are unacceptable.”
Clarifying the order, the FAA subsequently told Reuters: “That means Boeing can continue producing at the current monthly rate, but they cannot increase that rate.”
Boeing said it would continue to cooperate “fully and transparently” with the FAA and follow the agency’s direction as it took action to strengthen safety and quality.
The FAA offered no estimate of how long the limitation would last and did not specify the number of planes Boeing can produce each month.
The FAA’s decision could impact plans to stand up a new 737 MAX line in Everett, Washington, by mid-year 2024, following the end of production of Boeing’s iconic 747 in the massive plant.
The line, set to be the fourth 737 line overall and the first outside Renton, is needed to meet strong demand.
Boeing declined to comment on any potential impact on the Everett line.
Once accused of being too soft on Boeing, the FAA has toughened oversight since earlier MAX crashes led to a worldwide grounding, but Wednesday’s intervention opens new territory, experts said.
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And Wednesday’s intervention opened new territory precisely because Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy was the cause of that new territory having to be opened and thank goodness for us that there was somebody at the FAA with the courage to stand up to Joe Biden’s INSANITY and open that new territory before another air disaster could occur thanks to Joe Biden.
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 2, 2024 AT 10:14 PM
Paul Plante says:
And recapping recent events in here as we explore what Joyce Hall @ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM called my “incorrect ideas,” which I am, in her words, supposed to keep to myself, as opposed to making them public in the Cape Charles Mirror, lest my “incorrect ideas” somehow pollute the minds of those who would vote for Joe Biden, the first Biden to be a WORLD-CLASS LAUGHING STOCK in the long history of this planet, and give them “incorrect ideas,” as well, which would be good for this nation and healthy for our warped and twisted politics which have poor Joyce Hall thinking and actually believing, as unbelievable as that can be, that in the United States of America, you can only vote for either a DEMOCRAT or a REPUBLICAN for president, and what an outlandish and patently ridiculous an idea that is, according to a Reuters article titled “Biden faces pressure to strike Iran after US troops killed” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on January 29, 2024, the killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more on January 28,2024 by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he’s been reluctant to do out of fear of igniting a broader war.
According to Reuters, Biden’s response options could range anywhere from targeting Iranian forces outside to even inside Iran, or opting for a more cautious retaliatory attack solely against the Iran-backed militants responsible, experts say.
So what then are Joe Biden and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe, Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta doing about it?
How about fundraising and talking gibberish, as we see in a Western Journal article titled “‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Tries to Attack Trump, But Garbled Mess Is All That Comes Out of His Mouth” by C. Douglas Golden on 25 January 2024, where we had some classic Joe Biden gibberish, as follows:
“We’ll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with uhhiminauhwemerica unless you want to get the benefit,” Biden said.
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Now, I’m not a trained linguist, so I don’t know what language Joe lapsed into there, although some who are linguists believe it is a form of Martian from during their Classic Imperial Period, which with Joe well could be, given he’s the president, and they know that kind of stuff, even if we commoners don’t, which takes us to a FOX News article titled “Biden blasted for his ‘best gibberish yet’ in Wisconsin brewery speech: ‘Different language’” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, where we had this burst of pure Biden gibberish, to wit:
Social media users tore into President Biden on Thursday after he made a series of verbal stumbles during an address at a Wisconsin brewery.
Biden gave his speech at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, where he touted his economic record – aka “Bidenomics” – and the success of his bipartisan infrastructure legislation in a bid to shore up support for his 2024 re-election bid.
However, online onlookers were distracted from the economic talking points by an extended gaffe Biden made about the brewery and its beer.
Partway through his remarks, he appeared to mumble, “The beer brewed here, it is used to make the brew beered here.”
While most of the sentence was unintelligible, he seemed to add, “Ooh, Earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes.”
“I wonder why…”
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And quite truthfully, I wonder why, myself, when Joe is confronted with war in the Middle East of his own making as he broadcasts incompetence, weakness, senility and no grasp of reality to all the candid world – why he is out there touting BIDE-O-NOMICS and fundraising, when because of him, American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, where Joe is held in contempt as a weakling and a fool.
As to fundraising by the members of Joe’s NSC, which is also held in contempt, as it should be, composed as it is of fools who know nothing at all about national security, according to a Reuters article titled “Yellen says Biden’s policies help US middle class more than Trump’s” by David Lawder on January 25, 2024, we have this about “TOODLES,” to wit:
CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday drew a stark contrast between President Joe Biden’s economic policies and those of former President Donald Trump, arguing that Biden’s approach has produced the “fairest recovery on record” and will reap more benefits for the middle class.
Two days after Trump tightened his grip on the Republican 2024 presidential nomination with a comfortable victory in the New Hampshire nominating contest, Yellen sought to turn the tide in Chicago on low voter approval ratings for Biden’s handling of the economy, declaring that incomes were now outpacing subsiding inflation.
She told the Economic Club of Chicago that improving signals from the economy, including stronger-than-expected GDP data on Thursday, showed that recession fears were over, inflation was subsiding and middle class job opportunities were rising, thanks to Biden’s infrastructure and clean energy investments.
“I think Americans do believe inflation is under control,” Yellen said.
end quotes
And no, “TOODLES,” we don’t believe inflation is under control, because it isn’t, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing sector on cusp of recovery in January – ISM” on February 1, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing stabilized in January amid a rebound in new orders, but inflation at the factory gate picked up.
With orders picking up, goods inflation is stirring after months of deflation.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers increased to 52.9 from 45.2 in December.
end quotes
Going back to “TOODLES,” we have more of her nonsense, as follows:
Yellen plans to step up her positive talk on the economy, visiting a job training center in Milwaukee on Friday, a day after Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, to talk up $5 billion worth of infrastructure spending in the state, considered a major battleground in the Nov. 5 election.
end quotes
While American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, good old Joe is out there BUYING VOTES on borrowed money we are on the hook for, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
In prepared remarks, she said the major components of “Bidenomics” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law – were aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
end quotes
Drive the economy?
How about off the track, over a berm and into the weeds?
Which takes us to a FOX News story titled “Karine Jean-Pierre does victory lap, touts Biden putting ‘equity’ at the center of economic approach” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, for this warped view of reality from Joe’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, to wit:
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Thursday that American consumers are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies, added jobs and is getting critical infrastructure done.
end quotes
Americans are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies?
She’s lost in space somewhere, maybe on Mars, or Jupiter, or the Dog Star area of outer space, out near the TWILIGHT ZONE, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The government official told CNN that Americans are feeling better about the economy thanks to Biden’s policies, which he and his team have dubbed “Bidenomics.”
Host Phil Mattingly prompted Jean-Pierre’s points by bringing up recent consumer sentiment numbers that appear to show that Americans are starting to feel better about their finances.
“My question for you, as he goes into this big moment…”
“Do you feel like the corner is being turned right now, people are getting it, that it’s landing and that, not only will this not be a drag heading into a campaign season, this is actually going to be a benefit for the president?”
Jean-Pierre agreed, saying, “You just said it!”
“Consumer sentiment.”
“People are feeling what the economy is doing.”
She then said this budding good feeling and better economy is all because of the president’s work.
“And we have to remember, this didn’t happen by accident.”
“What we’re seeing with the trends – with the economic trends – it’s because of what this president has done,” she said.
Providing points on what Biden has done specifically, she continued, “He has put equity at the center of everything that he’s talked about when it comes to the economy.”
“14 million jobs created.”
“Last year, 2.7 million jobs created.”
“Unemployment under 4%.”
“Wages are up.”
“That matters.”
end quotes
Well, KJP, what about those American soldiers killed in the Middle East?
Don’t they matter, too?
Which means it’s time to take a station break for station identification and a host of political commercials from TEAM BIDEN and the DNC telling you how much better off you are today under Joe Biden than you would have been under Trump, but don’t change that dial because if the creek don’t rise and the dam don’t break, we will be back with more about Joe Biden holding political fundraisers while American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, so don’t touch that dial.
Paul Plante says:
And recapping recent events in here as we explore what Joyce Hall @ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM called my “incorrect ideas,” which I am, in her words, supposed to keep to myself, as opposed to making them public in the Cape Charles Mirror, lest my “incorrect ideas” somehow pollute the minds of those who would vote for Joe Biden, the first Biden to be a WORLD-CLASS LAUGHING STOCK in the long history of this planet, and give them “incorrect ideas,” as well, which would be good for this nation and healthy for our warped and twisted politics which have poor Joyce Hall thinking and actually believing, as unbelievable as that can be, that in the United States of America, you can only vote for either a DEMOCRAT or a REPUBLICAN for president, and what an outlandish and patently ridiculous an idea that is, according to a Reuters article titled “Biden faces pressure to strike Iran after US troops killed” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on January 29, 2024, the killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more on January 28,2024 by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he’s been reluctant to do out of fear of igniting a broader war.
According to Reuters, Biden’s response options could range anywhere from targeting Iranian forces outside to even inside Iran, or opting for a more cautious retaliatory attack solely against the Iran-backed militants responsible, experts say.
So what then are Joe Biden and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe, Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta doing about it?
How about fundraising and talking gibberish, as we see in a Western Journal article titled “‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Tries to Attack Trump, But Garbled Mess Is All That Comes Out of His Mouth” by C. Douglas Golden on 25 January 2024, where we had some classic Joe Biden gibberish, as follows:
“We’ll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with uhhiminauhwemerica unless you want to get the benefit,” Biden said.
end quote
Now, I’m not a trained linguist, so I don’t know what language Joe lapsed into there, although some who are linguists believe it is a form of Martian from during their Classic Imperial Period, which with Joe well could be, given he’s the president, and they know that kind of stuff, even if we commoners don’t, which takes us to a FOX News article titled “Biden blasted for his ‘best gibberish yet’ in Wisconsin brewery speech: ‘Different language’” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, where we had this burst of pure Biden gibberish, to wit:
Social media users tore into President Biden on Thursday after he made a series of verbal stumbles during an address at a Wisconsin brewery.
Biden gave his speech at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, where he touted his economic record – aka “Bidenomics” – and the success of his bipartisan infrastructure legislation in a bid to shore up support for his 2024 re-election bid.
However, online onlookers were distracted from the economic talking points by an extended gaffe Biden made about the brewery and its beer.
Partway through his remarks, he appeared to mumble, “The beer brewed here, it is used to make the brew beered here.”
While most of the sentence was unintelligible, he seemed to add, “Ooh, Earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes.”
“I wonder why…”
end quotes
And quite truthfully, I wonder why, myself, when Joe is confronted with war in the Middle East of his own making as he broadcasts incompetence, weakness, senility and no grasp of reality to all the candid world – why he is out there touting BIDE-O-NOMICS and fundraising, when because of him, American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, where Joe is held in contempt as a weakling and a fool.
As to fundraising by the members of Joe’s NSC, which is also held in contempt, as it should be, composed as it is of fools who know nothing at all about national security, according to a Reuters article titled “Yellen says Biden’s policies help US middle class more than Trump’s” by David Lawder on January 25, 2024, we have this about “TOODLES,” to wit:
CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday drew a stark contrast between President Joe Biden’s economic policies and those of former President Donald Trump, arguing that Biden’s approach has produced the “fairest recovery on record” and will reap more benefits for the middle class.
Two days after Trump tightened his grip on the Republican 2024 presidential nomination with a comfortable victory in the New Hampshire nominating contest, Yellen sought to turn the tide in Chicago on low voter approval ratings for Biden’s handling of the economy, declaring that incomes were now outpacing subsiding inflation.
She told the Economic Club of Chicago that improving signals from the economy, including stronger-than-expected GDP data on Thursday, showed that recession fears were over, inflation was subsiding and middle class job opportunities were rising, thanks to Biden’s infrastructure and clean energy investments.
“I think Americans do believe inflation is under control,” Yellen said.
end quotes
And no, “TOODLES,” we don’t believe inflation is under control, because it isn’t, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing sector on cusp of recovery in January – ISM” on February 1, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing stabilized in January amid a rebound in new orders, but inflation at the factory gate picked up.
With orders picking up, goods inflation is stirring after months of deflation.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers increased to 52.9 from 45.2 in December.
end quotes
Going back to “TOODLES,” we have more of her nonsense, as follows:
Yellen plans to step up her positive talk on the economy, visiting a job training center in Milwaukee on Friday, a day after Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, to talk up $5 billion worth of infrastructure spending in the state, considered a major battleground in the Nov. 5 election.
end quotes
While American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, good old Joe is out there BUYING VOTES on borrowed money we are on the hook for, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
In prepared remarks, she said the major components of “Bidenomics” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law – were aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
end quotes
Drive the economy?
How about off the track, over a berm and into the weeds?
Which takes us to a FOX News story titled “Karine Jean-Pierre does victory lap, touts Biden putting ‘equity’ at the center of economic approach” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, for this warped view of reality from Joe’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, to wit:
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Thursday that American consumers are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies, added jobs and is getting critical infrastructure done.
end quotes
Americans are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies?
She’s lost in space somewhere, maybe on Mars, or Jupiter, or the Dog Star area of outer space, out near the TWILIGHT ZONE, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The government official told CNN that Americans are feeling better about the economy thanks to Biden’s policies, which he and his team have dubbed “Bidenomics.”
Host Phil Mattingly prompted Jean-Pierre’s points by bringing up recent consumer sentiment numbers that appear to show that Americans are starting to feel better about their finances.
“My question for you, as he goes into this big moment…”
“Do you feel like the corner is being turned right now, people are getting it, that it’s landing and that, not only will this not be a drag heading into a campaign season, this is actually going to be a benefit for the president?”
Jean-Pierre agreed, saying, “You just said it!”
“Consumer sentiment.”
“People are feeling what the economy is doing.”
She then said this budding good feeling and better economy is all because of the president’s work.
“And we have to remember, this didn’t happen by accident.”
“What we’re seeing with the trends – with the economic trends – it’s because of what this president has done,” she said.
Providing points on what Biden has done specifically, she continued, “He has put equity at the center of everything that he’s talked about when it comes to the economy.”
“14 million jobs created.”
“Last year, 2.7 million jobs created.”
“Unemployment under 4%.”
“Wages are up.”
“That matters.”
end quotes
Well, KJP, what about those American soldiers killed in the Middle East?
Don’t they matter, too?
Which means it’s time to take a station break for station identification and a host of political commercials from TEAM BIDEN and the DNC telling you how much better off you are today under Joe Biden than you would have been under Trump, but don’t change that dial because if the creek don’t rise and the dam don’t break, we will be back with more about Joe Biden holding political fundraisers while American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, so don’t touch that dial.
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 3, 2024 AT 12:02 PM
Paul Plante says:
In her diatribe above here @ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM, Joyce Hall, who appears to believe that all we have between us and total chaos leading not only to the end of the world, but the end of time, itself, is the senile idiot Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, hardly a comforting thought, poses this following thought that it behooves each and every one of us over the age of say, twelve, to give some real serious consideration, to wit:
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy?
end quote
And the answer to her question as to where oh where are the politicians with ethics and brains is NOWHERE in the Biden administration, nor on Joe’s so-called NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe himself, along with Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, and if anybody out there is willing to put their security in the hands of that pack of incompetent idiots, they truly deserve their fate.
And ethics and brains are especially missing in Joe’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, starring Karine Jean-Pierre, aka “KJP,” aka “BINDER,” and REAR ADMIRAL John “JACK” Kirby.
As to KJP, the first black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST for Joe Biden, who is about equity, afterall, making it a priority of his administration to give top government jobs, especially in the FAA, to epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, in a recent interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, stated quite truthfully as follows, to wit:
“I can’t listen to that nutjob.”
“I can’t believe anything she says,” Nehls said.
end quotes
So in answer to Joyce Hall’s question above, there is one politician with ethics, brains, and empathy in Washington. D.C., anyway.
As to KJP, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology in 1997, and a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, in 2003, in the course of doing so, she obviously learned NOTHING about American government or basic governmental economics, which is what qualifies her to be Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER.
And she obviously doesn’t read the daily news, nor does she keep up with current events, like what the yield on the ten-year government note is doing, like yesterday, for example, when a RED HOT JOBS NUMBER Joe and KJP are raving about as supposed “proof” of how well BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing, when the ten-year yield shot up by 16 basis points to 4.02%.
And according to a CNBC article titled “10-year Treasury yield tops 4% after surprisingly strong jobs report” by Sophie Kiderlin on February 2, 2024, we had this bit of news, to wit:
Wage growth data in the report pointed to continued inflationary pressures.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was double what economists expected.
On a yearly basis, wages spiked 4.5%, more than the 4.1% consensus estimate.
A stronger-than-expected jobs report adds to the likelihood that interest rate cuts will not come as soon as investors had hoped, especially after Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week noted that a March rate cut is unlikely.
“The Fed threw some cold water on the idea of a March rate cut less than 48 hours ago, and today’s surprisingly strong jobs report won’t dry things off,” wrote Chris Larkin, managing director at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley.
“It’s definitely not the type of data the Fed had in mind when they said they wanted to see more evidence that inflationary pressures were under control.”
“If similarly hot numbers continue to roll in over the next couple of months, investors may become less confident about how soon the Fed will cut rates, and by how much,” Larkin added.
end quotes
There, people, is reality staring us commoners who are being forced out of Joe Biden’s MIRACLE ECONOMY right in the face because the longer the fed has to keep interest rates high, the longer we are going to keep getting royally screwed on the economic front.
So Joe is borrowing BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of dollars at a high interest rate that he is handing out like candy to buy votes with, and it is those jobs Joe is creating with borrowed money that are causing the inflation the fed is trying to fight with high interest rates.
As to Joe and “TOODLES” borrowing more and more money, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury to borrow $760 billion in Q1, lower than forecast” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on January 29, 2024, where we have more reality we are not going to get from Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, or his ignorant media apologists and enablers like CNN Host Phil Mattingly, to consider, as follows:
NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Monday said it expects to borrow $760 billion in the first quarter, $55 billion below the October estimate primarily due to forecasts for increased net fiscal flows and higher cash balance.
The Treasury also announced it expects to borrow $202 billion in the second quarter, as it projects a cash balance of $750 billion at the end of June.
It also said in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Treasury borrowed $776 billion in net marketable debt, in line with estimates released in October.
The Treasury will announce its refunding news, which will outline the upcoming auction sizes for bill, notes and bonds, on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT).
It will likely announce a final quarter of nominal coupon auction size increases as the government’s financing needs remain high.
TD projects funding requirements to rise gradually to $1.85 trillion this year and $1.9 trillion next year, as it anticipates fiscal deficits increasing in the coming years.
end quotes
Yes, people, INCREASING FISCAL DEFICITS, thanks to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, which according to “TOODLES” Yellen, a key member of Joe’s NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, are aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
WHAT CRAP!
And to keep my blood pressure from blowing off the top of my head, time for another break for station identification, but don’t go away, because with this Biden administration in power in America, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, it is guaranteed that there is much more idiocy and stupidity yet to come, so stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
In her diatribe above here @ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM, Joyce Hall, who appears to believe that all we have between us and total chaos leading not only to the end of the world, but the end of time, itself, is the senile idiot Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, hardly a comforting thought, poses this following thought that it behooves each and every one of us over the age of say, twelve, to give some real serious consideration, to wit:
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy?
end quote
And the answer to her question as to where oh where are the politicians with ethics and brains is NOWHERE in the Biden administration, nor on Joe’s so-called NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe himself, along with Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, and if anybody out there is willing to put their security in the hands of that pack of incompetent idiots, they truly deserve their fate.
And ethics and brains are especially missing in Joe’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, starring Karine Jean-Pierre, aka “KJP,” aka “BINDER,” and REAR ADMIRAL John “JACK” Kirby.
As to KJP, the first black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST for Joe Biden, who is about equity, afterall, making it a priority of his administration to give top government jobs, especially in the FAA, to epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, in a recent interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, stated quite truthfully as follows, to wit:
“I can’t listen to that nutjob.”
“I can’t believe anything she says,” Nehls said.
end quotes
So in answer to Joyce Hall’s question above, there is one politician with ethics, brains, and empathy in Washington. D.C., anyway.
As to KJP, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology in 1997, and a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, in 2003, in the course of doing so, she obviously learned NOTHING about American government or basic governmental economics, which is what qualifies her to be Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER.
And she obviously doesn’t read the daily news, nor does she keep up with current events, like what the yield on the ten-year government note is doing, like yesterday, for example, when a RED HOT JOBS NUMBER Joe and KJP are raving about as supposed “proof” of how well BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing, when the ten-year yield shot up by 16 basis points to 4.02%.
And according to a CNBC article titled “10-year Treasury yield tops 4% after surprisingly strong jobs report” by Sophie Kiderlin on February 2, 2024, we had this bit of news, to wit:
Wage growth data in the report pointed to continued inflationary pressures.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was double what economists expected.
On a yearly basis, wages spiked 4.5%, more than the 4.1% consensus estimate.
A stronger-than-expected jobs report adds to the likelihood that interest rate cuts will not come as soon as investors had hoped, especially after Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week noted that a March rate cut is unlikely.
“The Fed threw some cold water on the idea of a March rate cut less than 48 hours ago, and today’s surprisingly strong jobs report won’t dry things off,” wrote Chris Larkin, managing director at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley.
“It’s definitely not the type of data the Fed had in mind when they said they wanted to see more evidence that inflationary pressures were under control.”
“If similarly hot numbers continue to roll in over the next couple of months, investors may become less confident about how soon the Fed will cut rates, and by how much,” Larkin added.
end quotes
There, people, is reality staring us commoners who are being forced out of Joe Biden’s MIRACLE ECONOMY right in the face because the longer the fed has to keep interest rates high, the longer we are going to keep getting royally screwed on the economic front.
So Joe is borrowing BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of dollars at a high interest rate that he is handing out like candy to buy votes with, and it is those jobs Joe is creating with borrowed money that are causing the inflation the fed is trying to fight with high interest rates.
As to Joe and “TOODLES” borrowing more and more money, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury to borrow $760 billion in Q1, lower than forecast” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on January 29, 2024, where we have more reality we are not going to get from Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, or his ignorant media apologists and enablers like CNN Host Phil Mattingly, to consider, as follows:
NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Monday said it expects to borrow $760 billion in the first quarter, $55 billion below the October estimate primarily due to forecasts for increased net fiscal flows and higher cash balance.
The Treasury also announced it expects to borrow $202 billion in the second quarter, as it projects a cash balance of $750 billion at the end of June.
It also said in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Treasury borrowed $776 billion in net marketable debt, in line with estimates released in October.
The Treasury will announce its refunding news, which will outline the upcoming auction sizes for bill, notes and bonds, on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT).
It will likely announce a final quarter of nominal coupon auction size increases as the government’s financing needs remain high.
TD projects funding requirements to rise gradually to $1.85 trillion this year and $1.9 trillion next year, as it anticipates fiscal deficits increasing in the coming years.
end quotes
Yes, people, INCREASING FISCAL DEFICITS, thanks to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, which according to “TOODLES” Yellen, a key member of Joe’s NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, are aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
WHAT CRAP!
And to keep my blood pressure from blowing off the top of my head, time for another break for station identification, but don’t go away, because with this Biden administration in power in America, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, it is guaranteed that there is much more idiocy and stupidity yet to come, so stay tuned.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 3, 2024 AT 9:09 PM
Paul Plante says:
As to Joe’s BLOW-OUT jobs report, which Joe welcomed saying “America’s economy is the strongest in the world,” something he and KJP and “TOODLES” Yellen attribute to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS,” those being a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, these are the figures which I find hard to attribute to BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
* Professional and business services (74,000)
* Health care (70,000)
* Retail trade (45,000)
* Government, driven by federal government hiring as well as local government, excluding education (36,000)
* Social assistance (30,000)
* Manufacturing (23,000)
* There were also job gains in construction, transportation and warehousing, utilities, leisure and hospitality sectors
* The mining and logging industry shed 6,000 jobs.
In any event, those figures mean higher interest rates for longer, which means economic pain for us common citizens who are not EXUBERANT BINGE CONSUMERS for longer, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Bowman sees inflation falling, calls for caution on rate cuts” on February 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Feb 2 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Friday said she expects U.S. inflation to decline further, but flagged worries about upward price pressure from rising wages and warned against cutting interest rates too soon.
But stronger-than-expected job market data published Friday suggests a pickup in wage growth and a stalling out of last year’s progress toward labor market rebalancing, she said, adding that labor market tightness could keep underlying inflation elevated.
Bowman voted with her Fed colleagues on Wednesday to keep the Fed’s policy rate on hold in the 5.25%-5.5% range, where it has been since last July.
end quotes
Which takes us to another Reuters article titled “US factory orders rise moderately in December” on February 2, 2024, where we have this economic reality to consider, to wit:
Manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, is being constrained by high interest rates.
end quote
And the high interest rates constraining manufacturing are as a direct result of the fed fighting BIDENFLATION, so, yes, people, BIDE-O-NOMICS is what is responsible for OUR ECONOMIC PAIN here in America as a result of BIDENFLATION, and don’t let Joe Biden lie to you and tell you it has to be something else causing it, with Joe BLAME-SHIFTING last week, saying “there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation,” as Joe’s administration takes aim at grocery chains, sending an election-year suggestion that the companies lower prices on goods from milk to eggs and bread, with Jared Bernstein, the chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a virtual meeting with reporters, telling them, “Our message is a very clear one that the president has and will continue to lean into, which is, if you’re a company whose input prices have come down and you’re not passing those savings along to the consumer, he will call you out.”
OK, Joe, you da man, alright, with that tough talk of yours as you hit up these same people for the more than $97 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of last year, which makes you quite the HYPOCRITE, Joe, which in turn takes us to a Reuters article titled “Biden visits Michigan autoworkers as Gaza protests threatened” by Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal on February 1, 2024, where we have this bit of truly uninformed idiocy from Joe, to wit:
Before heading to Michigan, Biden attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
He said he was working to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict, including a two-state solution for Palestinians and bringing home the hostages still held following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
end quotes
That so-called “two-state solution,” which we have been hearing about since back when Hillary’s husband Bill was president, if not before, is BULL**** and has been BULL**** since the 1930’s, which goes to show just how ignorant not only Joe, but everyone, including those at that prayer breakfast, and the media and everyone who listens to Joe and believes a single word he says, about anything, are about HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY, as we clearly see by going to “World Wars And Revolutions” copyrighted 1943, by Walter Phelps Hall, PhD, of Princeton, where we have that HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY, as follows:
The history of Palestine during the twenty years armistice between two European wars was confused, hectic, contradictory.
In 1917 it was the happy thought of the British government that this ancient foyer of Jewry might become again a Jewish national home, and to make it such, the British government publicly pledged itself.
In doing so, it forgot two important facts: first, that the Arabs in Palestine outnumbered the Jews eight or nine to one; and second, that those Arabs who had enlisted to help the British drive the Turks and Germans back through Palestine and Syria into Asia Minor during the last half of the war considered, rightly or wrongly, that Britain had promised an independent Arab state which would include Palestine.
Britain, however, stuck by her word to the Jews.
There had been no such formal pledge (not exactly true, as Lawrence of Arabia had made such a pledge to the Arabs during the war to entice them to fight the Turks, but he was blown off by the Brit government when the war concluded, thus selling out the Arabs, who have long memories) to the Arabs as there had been to the Jews; and furthermore, such assurances (i.e. Lawrence) as had been given the former were not to be interpreted, so said the British, as including Palestine.
**********
And still the Jews flocked into Palestine.
The advent of Hitler in Germany stimulated their advent greatly, so much so that in 1935 no less than sixty thousand reached the land of promise, and the Jews by that date had increased to almost one-third of the entire population.
Thereupon, the next year the Arabs declared a general strike in which a thousand lives were lost.
This resulted in the British sending a Royal Commission to Palestine in 1937 to investigate and recommend.
It produced a voluminous report which angered both Jew and Arab.
The Commission proposed that Palestine be divided into two separate countries, one Jewish, one Arab.
The mandate of the League of Nations, which Britain held, was to be ended, but the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, sacred to both Jew and Arab as well as to Christian, were to continue under British protection and were to belong to neither of the two new countries.
The Report was a counsel of despair.
The two new states would be too small to be self-sufficient units, for the total area of even the undivided Palestine was only approximately that of Wales or Vermont.
end quotes
And here we have this MORON Biden today thinking we are all as stupid as he and his administration are with respect to HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY!
Sorry, Joe, but it just is not so – we are not all as stupid and ignorant as are you and your supporters and enablers and apologists, so stop trying to treat us as if we are, because it is quite insulting for us to be compared to you and yours that way.
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Paul Plante says:
As to Joe’s BLOW-OUT jobs report, which Joe welcomed saying “America’s economy is the strongest in the world,” something he and KJP and “TOODLES” Yellen attribute to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS,” those being a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, these are the figures which I find hard to attribute to BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
* Professional and business services (74,000)
* Health care (70,000)
* Retail trade (45,000)
* Government, driven by federal government hiring as well as local government, excluding education (36,000)
* Social assistance (30,000)
* Manufacturing (23,000)
* There were also job gains in construction, transportation and warehousing, utilities, leisure and hospitality sectors
* The mining and logging industry shed 6,000 jobs.
In any event, those figures mean higher interest rates for longer, which means economic pain for us common citizens who are not EXUBERANT BINGE CONSUMERS for longer, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Bowman sees inflation falling, calls for caution on rate cuts” on February 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Feb 2 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Friday said she expects U.S. inflation to decline further, but flagged worries about upward price pressure from rising wages and warned against cutting interest rates too soon.
But stronger-than-expected job market data published Friday suggests a pickup in wage growth and a stalling out of last year’s progress toward labor market rebalancing, she said, adding that labor market tightness could keep underlying inflation elevated.
Bowman voted with her Fed colleagues on Wednesday to keep the Fed’s policy rate on hold in the 5.25%-5.5% range, where it has been since last July.
end quotes
Which takes us to another Reuters article titled “US factory orders rise moderately in December” on February 2, 2024, where we have this economic reality to consider, to wit:
Manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, is being constrained by high interest rates.
end quote
And the high interest rates constraining manufacturing are as a direct result of the fed fighting BIDENFLATION, so, yes, people, BIDE-O-NOMICS is what is responsible for OUR ECONOMIC PAIN here in America as a result of BIDENFLATION, and don’t let Joe Biden lie to you and tell you it has to be something else causing it, with Joe BLAME-SHIFTING last week, saying “there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation,” as Joe’s administration takes aim at grocery chains, sending an election-year suggestion that the companies lower prices on goods from milk to eggs and bread, with Jared Bernstein, the chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a virtual meeting with reporters, telling them, “Our message is a very clear one that the president has and will continue to lean into, which is, if you’re a company whose input prices have come down and you’re not passing those savings along to the consumer, he will call you out.”
OK, Joe, you da man, alright, with that tough talk of yours as you hit up these same people for the more than $97 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of last year, which makes you quite the HYPOCRITE, Joe, which in turn takes us to a Reuters article titled “Biden visits Michigan autoworkers as Gaza protests threatened” by Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal on February 1, 2024, where we have this bit of truly uninformed idiocy from Joe, to wit:
Before heading to Michigan, Biden attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
He said he was working to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict, including a two-state solution for Palestinians and bringing home the hostages still held following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
end quotes
That so-called “two-state solution,” which we have been hearing about since back when Hillary’s husband Bill was president, if not before, is BULL**** and has been BULL**** since the 1930’s, which goes to show just how ignorant not only Joe, but everyone, including those at that prayer breakfast, and the media and everyone who listens to Joe and believes a single word he says, about anything, are about HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY, as we clearly see by going to “World Wars And Revolutions” copyrighted 1943, by Walter Phelps Hall, PhD, of Princeton, where we have that HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY, as follows:
The history of Palestine during the twenty years armistice between two European wars was confused, hectic, contradictory.
In 1917 it was the happy thought of the British government that this ancient foyer of Jewry might become again a Jewish national home, and to make it such, the British government publicly pledged itself.
In doing so, it forgot two important facts: first, that the Arabs in Palestine outnumbered the Jews eight or nine to one; and second, that those Arabs who had enlisted to help the British drive the Turks and Germans back through Palestine and Syria into Asia Minor during the last half of the war considered, rightly or wrongly, that Britain had promised an independent Arab state which would include Palestine.
Britain, however, stuck by her word to the Jews.
There had been no such formal pledge (not exactly true, as Lawrence of Arabia had made such a pledge to the Arabs during the war to entice them to fight the Turks, but he was blown off by the Brit government when the war concluded, thus selling out the Arabs, who have long memories) to the Arabs as there had been to the Jews; and furthermore, such assurances (i.e. Lawrence) as had been given the former were not to be interpreted, so said the British, as including Palestine.
**********
And still the Jews flocked into Palestine.
The advent of Hitler in Germany stimulated their advent greatly, so much so that in 1935 no less than sixty thousand reached the land of promise, and the Jews by that date had increased to almost one-third of the entire population.
Thereupon, the next year the Arabs declared a general strike in which a thousand lives were lost.
This resulted in the British sending a Royal Commission to Palestine in 1937 to investigate and recommend.
It produced a voluminous report which angered both Jew and Arab.
The Commission proposed that Palestine be divided into two separate countries, one Jewish, one Arab.
The mandate of the League of Nations, which Britain held, was to be ended, but the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, sacred to both Jew and Arab as well as to Christian, were to continue under British protection and were to belong to neither of the two new countries.
The Report was a counsel of despair.
The two new states would be too small to be self-sufficient units, for the total area of even the undivided Palestine was only approximately that of Wales or Vermont.
end quotes
And here we have this MORON Biden today thinking we are all as stupid as he and his administration are with respect to HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY!
Sorry, Joe, but it just is not so – we are not all as stupid and ignorant as are you and your supporters and enablers and apologists, so stop trying to treat us as if we are, because it is quite insulting for us to be compared to you and yours that way.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 5, 2024 AT 7:28 PM
Paul Plante says:
And going back to this statement, “President Joe Biden welcomed the report saying ‘America’s economy is the strongest in the world'” from the Reuters article titled “US labor market sizzles with blowout job growth, solid wage gains” by Lucia Mutikani on February 2, 2024, is that at all a true statement by Joe that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
Afterall, we just had an article from The Hill titled “Powell: ‘The US is on an unsustainable fiscal path’” by Taylor Giorno on 5 February 2024, where we had fed chief Jerome Powell stating as follows, to wit:
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said “the U.S. is on an unsustainable fiscal path” in a “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley released Sunday.
“The U.S. federal government’s on an unsustainable fiscal path.”
“And that just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy.”
“So, it is unsustainable.”
end quotes
So, if in fact the U.S. federal government under Joe Biden is on an unsustainable fiscal path, which means that the debt is growing faster than the economy, can it at the same time be true that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
And before we address that pertinent question, let’s go back to that article in The Hill for this statement, to wit:
The U.S. national debt topped $34 trillion for the first time ever in early January, just over three months after surpassing the $33 trillion mark, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury.
end quote
Yes, people, in just three months, Joe Biden BLEW THROUGH a TRILLION DOLLARS OF BORROWED MONEY AT INTEREST that we are on the hook for, to create this ILLUSION of an economy, which in turn takes us to the definition of exactly what is an economy in the first place, which takes us to an Investopedia article titled “Economy: What It Is, Types of Economies, Economic Indicators” by Will Kenton on December 17, 2023, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
What Is an Economy?
An economy is a complex system of interrelated production, consumption, and exchange activities that ultimately determines how resources are allocated among all the participants.
The production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services combine to fulfill the needs of those living and operating within the economy.
Understanding Economies
An economy encompasses all of the activities related to the production, consumption, and trade of goods and services in an entity, whether the entity is a nation or a small town.
No two economies are identical.
Each is formed according to its own resources, culture, laws, history, and geography.
Each evolves according to the choices and actions of the participants.
These decisions are made through some combination of market transactions and collective or hierarchical decision-making.
Capitalism requires a market-based economy.
Communism requires a command-based economy.
Types of Economies
In the modern world, few nations are purely market-based or purely command-based.
But most lean toward one or the other of these models.
end quotes
Now, historically, i.e., before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen came along to TRANSFORM our economy, the United States was mostly a market-based or “free market” economy which allowed people and businesses to freely exchange goods and services according to supply and demand.
In that prior system, producers determined what was sold and produced, and what prices to charge, and if they expected to succeed, they had to produce what consumers wanted and charge what consumers were willing to pay.
Through these decisions, the laws of supply and demand determined prices and total production, so that if consumer demand for a specific product increased, production would tend to increase to satisfy the demand, while the increased demand caused prices to rise until consumers balked and cut back on their purchases, which would cause demand for the product to decline and prices would have to decline as a result.
According to theory, anyway, this constant tug of supply and demand would allow a market economy a tendency to naturally balance itself, for as the prices in one sector rise with demand, the money and labor needed to fill that demand would shift to those places where they’re needed.
That was all before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen, who are TRANSFORMING our economy, through BIDE-O-NISM, into a command- based economy which depends on Joe’s central government controlling the production levels, pricing, and distribution of goods, as is also the case in Cuba and North Korea, as Joe’s command-based economy attempts to supersede the workings of supply and demand, with Joe determining what can be produced, i.e. electric cars, and can’t be produced, i.e. ICE cars, while also determining who those products cannot be sold to, thus putting control of the world marketplace firmly in Joe Biden’s grip.
And that takes us to the question of what is a debt-fueled economy, which is what we have under Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to the Positive Money website and an article titled “Debt-Driven Growth” by Mira Tekelova, where we have as follows on the ramifications of BORROW HEAVILY AND SPEND LAVISHLY BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The more one explores the broad impact of debt, the more apparent it becomes that bank-credit constitutes a dysfunctional form of money.
An economy based almost entirely upon bank-credit and debt experiences an intense drive for growth, regardless of need or demand.
Bank credit engenders financial dependence, injects instability and fosters growth-distortions, both within an economy and throughout the international arena.
end quotes
As to the term debt-fueled growth, which is what we now have under BIDE-O-NISM, it refers to an economic situation in which growth is financed by ever increasing levels of debt, so that today in America with a population of 331.9 million in 2021, American households were carrying a total of $17.29 trillion in debt as of the third quarter of 2023, with average household debt of $103,358 as of the second quarter of 2023.
Rising debt, of course, reduces business investment and slows economic growth, not the opposite, as was one of the lessons that should have been learned from the GREAT DEPRESSION, but obviously wasn’t, while it also increases expectations of higher rates of inflation and erosion of confidence in the U.S. dollar, which takes us to a Bloomberg article from October 3, 2017 titled “The benefits of debt-fueled growth don’t last forever: IMF” by Matt Padanyi, to wit:
Economic growth propped up by debt-fueled consumer spending increases the risk of a major financial collapse, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
The latest edition of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report examined the relationship between household debt and consumer spending, and showed that near-term economic growth bolstered by borrowing often leads to medium-term costs associated with higher debt levels, especially in advanced economies.
“In the short term, an increase in the household debt-to-GDP ratio is typically associated with higher economic growth and lower unemployment, but the effects are reversed in three to five years,” according to the report.
“Moreover, higher growth in household debt is associated with a greater probability of banking crises.”
“These adverse effects are stronger when household debt is higher and are therefore more pronounced for advanced than for emerging market economies, where household debt and credit market participation are lower.”
end quotes
Which brings us back to Joe Biden telling us that “America’s economy is the strongest in the world” while fed chief Jerome Powell is telling us that the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path.
So who is right, people, Joe or Jerome?
Think about it while we take another break for station identification, and then we will be right back with more chaos from Joe Biden yet to come, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial.
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Paul Plante says:
And going back to this statement, “President Joe Biden welcomed the report saying ‘America’s economy is the strongest in the world'” from the Reuters article titled “US labor market sizzles with blowout job growth, solid wage gains” by Lucia Mutikani on February 2, 2024, is that at all a true statement by Joe that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
Afterall, we just had an article from The Hill titled “Powell: ‘The US is on an unsustainable fiscal path’” by Taylor Giorno on 5 February 2024, where we had fed chief Jerome Powell stating as follows, to wit:
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said “the U.S. is on an unsustainable fiscal path” in a “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley released Sunday.
“The U.S. federal government’s on an unsustainable fiscal path.”
“And that just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy.”
“So, it is unsustainable.”
end quotes
So, if in fact the U.S. federal government under Joe Biden is on an unsustainable fiscal path, which means that the debt is growing faster than the economy, can it at the same time be true that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
And before we address that pertinent question, let’s go back to that article in The Hill for this statement, to wit:
The U.S. national debt topped $34 trillion for the first time ever in early January, just over three months after surpassing the $33 trillion mark, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury.
end quote
Yes, people, in just three months, Joe Biden BLEW THROUGH a TRILLION DOLLARS OF BORROWED MONEY AT INTEREST that we are on the hook for, to create this ILLUSION of an economy, which in turn takes us to the definition of exactly what is an economy in the first place, which takes us to an Investopedia article titled “Economy: What It Is, Types of Economies, Economic Indicators” by Will Kenton on December 17, 2023, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
What Is an Economy?
An economy is a complex system of interrelated production, consumption, and exchange activities that ultimately determines how resources are allocated among all the participants.
The production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services combine to fulfill the needs of those living and operating within the economy.
Understanding Economies
An economy encompasses all of the activities related to the production, consumption, and trade of goods and services in an entity, whether the entity is a nation or a small town.
No two economies are identical.
Each is formed according to its own resources, culture, laws, history, and geography.
Each evolves according to the choices and actions of the participants.
These decisions are made through some combination of market transactions and collective or hierarchical decision-making.
Capitalism requires a market-based economy.
Communism requires a command-based economy.
Types of Economies
In the modern world, few nations are purely market-based or purely command-based.
But most lean toward one or the other of these models.
end quotes
Now, historically, i.e., before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen came along to TRANSFORM our economy, the United States was mostly a market-based or “free market” economy which allowed people and businesses to freely exchange goods and services according to supply and demand.
In that prior system, producers determined what was sold and produced, and what prices to charge, and if they expected to succeed, they had to produce what consumers wanted and charge what consumers were willing to pay.
Through these decisions, the laws of supply and demand determined prices and total production, so that if consumer demand for a specific product increased, production would tend to increase to satisfy the demand, while the increased demand caused prices to rise until consumers balked and cut back on their purchases, which would cause demand for the product to decline and prices would have to decline as a result.
According to theory, anyway, this constant tug of supply and demand would allow a market economy a tendency to naturally balance itself, for as the prices in one sector rise with demand, the money and labor needed to fill that demand would shift to those places where they’re needed.
That was all before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen, who are TRANSFORMING our economy, through BIDE-O-NISM, into a command- based economy which depends on Joe’s central government controlling the production levels, pricing, and distribution of goods, as is also the case in Cuba and North Korea, as Joe’s command-based economy attempts to supersede the workings of supply and demand, with Joe determining what can be produced, i.e. electric cars, and can’t be produced, i.e. ICE cars, while also determining who those products cannot be sold to, thus putting control of the world marketplace firmly in Joe Biden’s grip.
And that takes us to the question of what is a debt-fueled economy, which is what we have under Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to the Positive Money website and an article titled “Debt-Driven Growth” by Mira Tekelova, where we have as follows on the ramifications of BORROW HEAVILY AND SPEND LAVISHLY BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The more one explores the broad impact of debt, the more apparent it becomes that bank-credit constitutes a dysfunctional form of money.
An economy based almost entirely upon bank-credit and debt experiences an intense drive for growth, regardless of need or demand.
Bank credit engenders financial dependence, injects instability and fosters growth-distortions, both within an economy and throughout the international arena.
end quotes
As to the term debt-fueled growth, which is what we now have under BIDE-O-NISM, it refers to an economic situation in which growth is financed by ever increasing levels of debt, so that today in America with a population of 331.9 million in 2021, American households were carrying a total of $17.29 trillion in debt as of the third quarter of 2023, with average household debt of $103,358 as of the second quarter of 2023.
Rising debt, of course, reduces business investment and slows economic growth, not the opposite, as was one of the lessons that should have been learned from the GREAT DEPRESSION, but obviously wasn’t, while it also increases expectations of higher rates of inflation and erosion of confidence in the U.S. dollar, which takes us to a Bloomberg article from October 3, 2017 titled “The benefits of debt-fueled growth don’t last forever: IMF” by Matt Padanyi, to wit:
Economic growth propped up by debt-fueled consumer spending increases the risk of a major financial collapse, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
The latest edition of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report examined the relationship between household debt and consumer spending, and showed that near-term economic growth bolstered by borrowing often leads to medium-term costs associated with higher debt levels, especially in advanced economies.
“In the short term, an increase in the household debt-to-GDP ratio is typically associated with higher economic growth and lower unemployment, but the effects are reversed in three to five years,” according to the report.
“Moreover, higher growth in household debt is associated with a greater probability of banking crises.”
“These adverse effects are stronger when household debt is higher and are therefore more pronounced for advanced than for emerging market economies, where household debt and credit market participation are lower.”
end quotes
Which brings us back to Joe Biden telling us that “America’s economy is the strongest in the world” while fed chief Jerome Powell is telling us that the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path.
So who is right, people, Joe or Jerome?
Think about it while we take another break for station identification, and then we will be right back with more chaos from Joe Biden yet to come, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 8, 2024 AT 10:15 PM
Paul Plante, RVN 1969 says:
And speaking of chaos, which is all Joe Biden has to offer us and the world, according to Rigzone, oil jumped up to $76.22 a barrel in New York today as Joe continues to conduct his air strikes in Iraqinam, making the Middle East even more volatile, prompting major owners of shipping in all sectors to avoid the region, which of course is going to drive up shipping prices, contributing to more BIDENFLATION yet to come as the cost of a gallon of gas where I am jumped up $.10 gallon.
But where I want to go right now isn’t there, but to comments attributed to Joe, a famous SKULKER (someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity. especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) during the Viet Nam war in The Independent story titled “Biden says he has to ‘hold my Irish temper’ as he rages at ‘Donald Hoover Trump’ in fiery campaign speech” by Andrew Feinberg on 6 February 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden told a group of donors to his re-election bid on Sunday that the mere thought of his predecessor’s callous attitude towards the nation’s military veterans and honoured war dead forces him to expend extra energy to keep his anger in check.
Speaking to guests who’d assembled to hear him speak at a Henderson, Nevada fundraiser, Mr Biden was working through what has become a standard recitation of his record since taking office in 2021 when he turned to the matter of former president Donald Trump’s attitude towards men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the United States.
He told attendees: “I have to hold my Irish temper” when it comes to that subject.
The matter that so evokes Mr Biden’s anger is a series of comments first reported by The Atlantic regarding Mr Trump’s attitude towards American war dead.
In an October 2020 article, the magazine revealed that the then-president had infamously told his staff that he did not want to make a visit to an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because rain would have caused damage to the byzantine combover he uses to hide his baldness.
He reportedly asked senior staff members: “Why should I go to that cemetery?” and remarked that it was “full of losers”.
He also later disparaged US Marines who lost their lives during the battle that stopped Imperial Germany’s movement towards Paris in the First World War as “losers”.
Mr Biden, whose late son and namesake, Joseph Robinette Biden III – better known as Beau Biden – served overseas during the Iraq war and later died from a brain tumour thought to have come from exposure to toxic burn pits there, told the crowd that he was “glad” he wasn’t with Mr Trump during that 2018 trip because he was not sure what he’d have done had he heard those comments, effectively implying that he might have turned violent.
“I’m glad I wasn’t with him.”
“I’m not sure what I would’ve done.”
“He said they’re all suckers and losers,” he said.
end quotes
EXCEPT, according to Snopes, which is no friend to Trump, there is NO PROOF that Trump actually said those words, nor is there any record that he did, which makes Joe out as the serial liar that he is, and has been, but let's go to Snopes and see what we see, to wit:
Did Trump Call Fallen Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’?
Nur Ibrahim
Published Oct 4, 2023
In early October 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden and a former member of Donald Trump’s presidential administration resurrected a years-old accusation against Trump that allegedly revealed his true opinion of U.S. military troops.
According to the claim, Trump once called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” while talking to people in his inner circle.
Trump and his allies have denied the accusation since it first emerged in 2020, shortly before the election between Trump and Biden.
Whether performative or authentic, Trump’s apparent support for soldiers in the U.S. military, both active and veteran members, has been part of his presidential campaigns.
Following a story by The Atlantic, a number of reputable news outlets reported on the alleged comments in 2020, relying entirely on anonymous sources from his administration.
However, there appeared to be no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.
Moreover, since Snopes did not witness the in-question comments firsthand, we can’t say for certain whether Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
How the Accusations Emerged
Citing anonymous officials from the administration, the 2020 article by The Atlantic, titled, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’,” unpacked Trump’s trip to Paris in 2018 when he allegedly did not want to visit a cemetery of American war dead.
The visit was cancelled.
Trump Allies Deny the Claims
The White House blamed the canceled cemetery visit on poor weather.
Responding to The Atlantic’s reporting, Trump said the accusation was “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.”
Trump strongly denied calling fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers.”
Speaking to reporters on Sept. 3, 2020, upon returning from a campaign rally to Washington, D.C., just after the report came out, Trump said: “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes.”
“There is nobody that respects them more.”
“No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?”
Just days later, Zach Fuentes, a former White House aide who left the administration in early 2019 and was with the president on the Paris trip and presumably near him during the in-question conversations about the cemetery visit, stood up for Trump in an interview with Breitbart.
Referring to Gen. John Kelly, who was with Trump during the trip as his chief of staff, he said, “I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather.”
“Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?”
Reporting on Fuentes’ interview with Breitbart, The Washington Post noted that the phrase “I did not hear…” is not the same as “it didn’t happen.”
Furthermore, there was no evidence of Kelly being around Trump to hear the alleged comments.
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who said he was on the trip, also issued a denial to Fox News, days after the article came out, saying it was “simply false.”
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied the claims in an interview with Fox News in September 2020.
He said, “I was with him for a good part of that trip, if I’m thinking about this visit and the timing right, and I never heard him use the words that are described in that article.”
“Just, I never saw it.”
How the Claims Resurfaced in 2023
On Oct. 2, 2023, Biden’s official account on X resurfaced the accusation, saying Trump once allegedly “referred to American service members as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.'”
In sum, the claim stemmed from a story by The Atlantic, which relied on anonymous, second-hand reports of Trump’s alleged words; there was no independent footage or documented proof to substantiate the in-question comments; and Trump vehemently denies that he once called service members “losers” and “suckers.”
While it was certainly possible that he said those things, Snopes was unable to independently verify the claim.
end quotes
And let me make it clear that I am no fan of Trump’s.
I didn’t support him then, don’t support him now, didn’t vote for him then, and won’t vote for him now BUT I also am not a fan of Joe Biden, and I don’t like getting lied to by him, and I don’t like a liar serving as our Commander-in-Chief, especially a SKULKER like Joe Biden.
How very low we have become as a nation when the very best we can do for our “leader” is a liar like Joe Biden.
And now, definitely time to break for station identification!
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Paul Plante, RVN 1969 says:
And speaking of chaos, which is all Joe Biden has to offer us and the world, according to Rigzone, oil jumped up to $76.22 a barrel in New York today as Joe continues to conduct his air strikes in Iraqinam, making the Middle East even more volatile, prompting major owners of shipping in all sectors to avoid the region, which of course is going to drive up shipping prices, contributing to more BIDENFLATION yet to come as the cost of a gallon of gas where I am jumped up $.10 gallon.
But where I want to go right now isn’t there, but to comments attributed to Joe, a famous SKULKER (someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity. especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) during the Viet Nam war in The Independent story titled “Biden says he has to ‘hold my Irish temper’ as he rages at ‘Donald Hoover Trump’ in fiery campaign speech” by Andrew Feinberg on 6 February 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden told a group of donors to his re-election bid on Sunday that the mere thought of his predecessor’s callous attitude towards the nation’s military veterans and honoured war dead forces him to expend extra energy to keep his anger in check.
Speaking to guests who’d assembled to hear him speak at a Henderson, Nevada fundraiser, Mr Biden was working through what has become a standard recitation of his record since taking office in 2021 when he turned to the matter of former president Donald Trump’s attitude towards men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the United States.
He told attendees: “I have to hold my Irish temper” when it comes to that subject.
The matter that so evokes Mr Biden’s anger is a series of comments first reported by The Atlantic regarding Mr Trump’s attitude towards American war dead.
In an October 2020 article, the magazine revealed that the then-president had infamously told his staff that he did not want to make a visit to an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because rain would have caused damage to the byzantine combover he uses to hide his baldness.
He reportedly asked senior staff members: “Why should I go to that cemetery?” and remarked that it was “full of losers”.
He also later disparaged US Marines who lost their lives during the battle that stopped Imperial Germany’s movement towards Paris in the First World War as “losers”.
Mr Biden, whose late son and namesake, Joseph Robinette Biden III – better known as Beau Biden – served overseas during the Iraq war and later died from a brain tumour thought to have come from exposure to toxic burn pits there, told the crowd that he was “glad” he wasn’t with Mr Trump during that 2018 trip because he was not sure what he’d have done had he heard those comments, effectively implying that he might have turned violent.
“I’m glad I wasn’t with him.”
“I’m not sure what I would’ve done.”
“He said they’re all suckers and losers,” he said.
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EXCEPT, according to Snopes, which is no friend to Trump, there is NO PROOF that Trump actually said those words, nor is there any record that he did, which makes Joe out as the serial liar that he is, and has been, but let's go to Snopes and see what we see, to wit:
Did Trump Call Fallen Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’?
Nur Ibrahim
Published Oct 4, 2023
In early October 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden and a former member of Donald Trump’s presidential administration resurrected a years-old accusation against Trump that allegedly revealed his true opinion of U.S. military troops.
According to the claim, Trump once called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” while talking to people in his inner circle.
Trump and his allies have denied the accusation since it first emerged in 2020, shortly before the election between Trump and Biden.
Whether performative or authentic, Trump’s apparent support for soldiers in the U.S. military, both active and veteran members, has been part of his presidential campaigns.
Following a story by The Atlantic, a number of reputable news outlets reported on the alleged comments in 2020, relying entirely on anonymous sources from his administration.
However, there appeared to be no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.
Moreover, since Snopes did not witness the in-question comments firsthand, we can’t say for certain whether Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
How the Accusations Emerged
Citing anonymous officials from the administration, the 2020 article by The Atlantic, titled, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’,” unpacked Trump’s trip to Paris in 2018 when he allegedly did not want to visit a cemetery of American war dead.
The visit was cancelled.
Trump Allies Deny the Claims
The White House blamed the canceled cemetery visit on poor weather.
Responding to The Atlantic’s reporting, Trump said the accusation was “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.”
Trump strongly denied calling fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers.”
Speaking to reporters on Sept. 3, 2020, upon returning from a campaign rally to Washington, D.C., just after the report came out, Trump said: “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes.”
“There is nobody that respects them more.”
“No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?”
Just days later, Zach Fuentes, a former White House aide who left the administration in early 2019 and was with the president on the Paris trip and presumably near him during the in-question conversations about the cemetery visit, stood up for Trump in an interview with Breitbart.
Referring to Gen. John Kelly, who was with Trump during the trip as his chief of staff, he said, “I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather.”
“Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?”
Reporting on Fuentes’ interview with Breitbart, The Washington Post noted that the phrase “I did not hear…” is not the same as “it didn’t happen.”
Furthermore, there was no evidence of Kelly being around Trump to hear the alleged comments.
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who said he was on the trip, also issued a denial to Fox News, days after the article came out, saying it was “simply false.”
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied the claims in an interview with Fox News in September 2020.
He said, “I was with him for a good part of that trip, if I’m thinking about this visit and the timing right, and I never heard him use the words that are described in that article.”
“Just, I never saw it.”
How the Claims Resurfaced in 2023
On Oct. 2, 2023, Biden’s official account on X resurfaced the accusation, saying Trump once allegedly “referred to American service members as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.'”
In sum, the claim stemmed from a story by The Atlantic, which relied on anonymous, second-hand reports of Trump’s alleged words; there was no independent footage or documented proof to substantiate the in-question comments; and Trump vehemently denies that he once called service members “losers” and “suckers.”
While it was certainly possible that he said those things, Snopes was unable to independently verify the claim.
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And let me make it clear that I am no fan of Trump’s.
I didn’t support him then, don’t support him now, didn’t vote for him then, and won’t vote for him now BUT I also am not a fan of Joe Biden, and I don’t like getting lied to by him, and I don’t like a liar serving as our Commander-in-Chief, especially a SKULKER like Joe Biden.
How very low we have become as a nation when the very best we can do for our “leader” is a liar like Joe Biden.
And now, definitely time to break for station identification!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 9, 2024 AT 11:42 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we can go to Joe’s recent comments to workers from the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas, where he told them, “We’re coming back, we really are. we have the best economy in the world,” we have to consider some recent news, including a report from U.S. DOJ special counsel Robert Hur, that really calls into question the state of Joe’s mental acuity (a person’s ability to reason, focus, and recall information at optimum speeds) as we have him talking about talking with people who are dead, which because Joe is president, he actually might be able to do, as well as his memory of when he was Hussein Obama’s vice president, which first takes us to a Fox News story titled “Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996” by Bradford Betz on February 6, 2024, where we have as follows:
President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
The comments came while Biden was warning of the dangers of a potential second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Nevada.
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And how about the dangers of a second Biden presidency, people, because they are quite high as we see by going to a GB News story titled “Joe Biden in new toe-curling gaffe as President stumbles through speech and appears to forget Hamas” by George Bunn on February 7, 2024, for this bit of embarrassment involving Joe, to wit:
Joe Biden appeared to stumble through a key speech about the Middle East conflict in the latest in a series of gaffes.
The 81-year-old President was giving an update to the conflict in the Middle East at the White House.
However, he appeared to stumble through his speech, including briefly forgetting the name of Hamas.
It comes as there have been concerns over the President’s age from both the left and right wing.
The US President said: “There is some movement…and I don’t wanna…I don’t wanna.”
“[After a pause] Choose my words…there’s some movement.”
“There’s been a response…from the uh…there’s been a response from the opposition.”
“But – yes I’m sorry – from Hamas but it seems to be a little over the top.”
“We’re not sure where it is…there’s continuing negotiation right now.”
Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice said: “This is sad to see, but President Biden is visibly & clearly no longer fit to be leader of the free world.”
Martin Daubney said: “For the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office.”
“Enough is enough.”
“He can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.”
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And from there we go to an NBC News story titled “In his second mixup this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders” by Zoë Richards and Tara Prindiville on February 8, 2024, where we have more on Joe’s declining mental state, as follows:
President Joe Biden on Wednesday twice referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl instead of former Chancellor Angela Merkel while detailing a 2021 conversation at campaign events.
It was the second time this week that Biden recalled speaking with a European leader who had died years earlier.
Biden’s gaffes on Wednesday came at a series of fundraisers in New York as he described conversations he said he had with European leaders at a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the U.K. in 2021, months after the Jan. 6 riot.
Biden said at both events that “Helmut Kohl,” who died in 2017, had asked him how he would respond if he read about people storming the British Parliament and killing officers “to stop the election of a prime minister.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president’s remarks weren’t his first mixup of European leaders this week.
While speaking at an event in North Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden confused Francois Mitterrand, the former French president who died in 1996, for French President Emmanuel Macron in his retelling of an encounter with the French leader at a summit during his first year in office.
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Which takes us to the most damning information about just how serious Joe’s declining mental state really is in a CNBC story titled “Biden ‘willfully’ kept classified materials, had ‘poor memory’: Special counsel” by Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan on February 8, 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,” Department of Justice special counsel said in a report released Thursday.
The FBI found classified documents, which by law should have been given back to the U.S. government when Biden ended his second term as vice president in January 2017, in the garage, office, and basement den of his Wilmington, Delaware, home, Hur’s report said.
The documents included classified material about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Biden’s entries about national security.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” Hur wrote in his nearly 400-page report.
“He knew he kept classified information in notebooks stored in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so,” the special counsel said.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the special counsel said.
‘Hazy’ Memory
Hur’s bluntly detailed lapses in Biden’s memory when he was questioned for the probe.
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur wrote.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the special counsel said.
“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
“Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”
Hur said that he expected that Biden’s lawyers would use these memory gaps as a defense if he were prosecuted.
“In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall,” the special counsel wrote.
A ‘historic figure’
Hur’s report said that the materials recovered from Biden’s home spanned his career in national office from 1973 when he became a U.S. senator from Delaware, and through his two terms as vice president under former President Barack Obama, from 2009 through early 2017.
Biden during his career “has long seen himself as a historic figure,” and during that time collected papers and artifacts that were connected to “significant issues and events in his career,” the report said.
“He used these materials to write memoirs published in 2007 and 2017, to document his legacy, and to cite as evidence that he was a man of presidential timber,” Hur wrote.
“As vice president, Mr. Biden received and stored classified materials at the White House, his official residence at the Naval Observatory, his private home in Delaware, and — very briefly — his rental home in Virginia,” the report said.
“He relied on staff to help deliver, store, and retrieve these classified materials.”
“Mr. Biden was known to remove and keep classified material from his briefing books for future use, and his staff struggled — and sometimes failed — to retrieve these materials,” Hur wrote.
“These gaps in the tracking and retrieval of Mr. Biden’s classified materials made it more difficult to determine when, how, and why many of the classified documents later found in Mr. Biden’s home and think tank ended up where they did not belong.”
“The Afghanistan documents were ultimately found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware home: in a badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil, and synthetic firewood,” the report said.
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So make of that what you will, people, but as for me, I am with the dude who said quite truthfully that for the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office because he can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.
And stay tuned, for when we return from a break for station identification, we will be right back with more from the whacky world of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, so don’t touch that dial!
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Paul Plante says:
And before we can go to Joe’s recent comments to workers from the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas, where he told them, “We’re coming back, we really are. we have the best economy in the world,” we have to consider some recent news, including a report from U.S. DOJ special counsel Robert Hur, that really calls into question the state of Joe’s mental acuity (a person’s ability to reason, focus, and recall information at optimum speeds) as we have him talking about talking with people who are dead, which because Joe is president, he actually might be able to do, as well as his memory of when he was Hussein Obama’s vice president, which first takes us to a Fox News story titled “Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996” by Bradford Betz on February 6, 2024, where we have as follows:
President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
The comments came while Biden was warning of the dangers of a potential second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Nevada.
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And how about the dangers of a second Biden presidency, people, because they are quite high as we see by going to a GB News story titled “Joe Biden in new toe-curling gaffe as President stumbles through speech and appears to forget Hamas” by George Bunn on February 7, 2024, for this bit of embarrassment involving Joe, to wit:
Joe Biden appeared to stumble through a key speech about the Middle East conflict in the latest in a series of gaffes.
The 81-year-old President was giving an update to the conflict in the Middle East at the White House.
However, he appeared to stumble through his speech, including briefly forgetting the name of Hamas.
It comes as there have been concerns over the President’s age from both the left and right wing.
The US President said: “There is some movement…and I don’t wanna…I don’t wanna.”
“[After a pause] Choose my words…there’s some movement.”
“There’s been a response…from the uh…there’s been a response from the opposition.”
“But – yes I’m sorry – from Hamas but it seems to be a little over the top.”
“We’re not sure where it is…there’s continuing negotiation right now.”
Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice said: “This is sad to see, but President Biden is visibly & clearly no longer fit to be leader of the free world.”
Martin Daubney said: “For the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office.”
“Enough is enough.”
“He can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.”
end quotes
And from there we go to an NBC News story titled “In his second mixup this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders” by Zoë Richards and Tara Prindiville on February 8, 2024, where we have more on Joe’s declining mental state, as follows:
President Joe Biden on Wednesday twice referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl instead of former Chancellor Angela Merkel while detailing a 2021 conversation at campaign events.
It was the second time this week that Biden recalled speaking with a European leader who had died years earlier.
Biden’s gaffes on Wednesday came at a series of fundraisers in New York as he described conversations he said he had with European leaders at a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the U.K. in 2021, months after the Jan. 6 riot.
Biden said at both events that “Helmut Kohl,” who died in 2017, had asked him how he would respond if he read about people storming the British Parliament and killing officers “to stop the election of a prime minister.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president’s remarks weren’t his first mixup of European leaders this week.
While speaking at an event in North Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden confused Francois Mitterrand, the former French president who died in 1996, for French President Emmanuel Macron in his retelling of an encounter with the French leader at a summit during his first year in office.
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Which takes us to the most damning information about just how serious Joe’s declining mental state really is in a CNBC story titled “Biden ‘willfully’ kept classified materials, had ‘poor memory’: Special counsel” by Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan on February 8, 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,” Department of Justice special counsel said in a report released Thursday.
The FBI found classified documents, which by law should have been given back to the U.S. government when Biden ended his second term as vice president in January 2017, in the garage, office, and basement den of his Wilmington, Delaware, home, Hur’s report said.
The documents included classified material about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Biden’s entries about national security.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” Hur wrote in his nearly 400-page report.
“He knew he kept classified information in notebooks stored in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so,” the special counsel said.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the special counsel said.
‘Hazy’ Memory
Hur’s bluntly detailed lapses in Biden’s memory when he was questioned for the probe.
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur wrote.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the special counsel said.
“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
“Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”
Hur said that he expected that Biden’s lawyers would use these memory gaps as a defense if he were prosecuted.
“In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall,” the special counsel wrote.
A ‘historic figure’
Hur’s report said that the materials recovered from Biden’s home spanned his career in national office from 1973 when he became a U.S. senator from Delaware, and through his two terms as vice president under former President Barack Obama, from 2009 through early 2017.
Biden during his career “has long seen himself as a historic figure,” and during that time collected papers and artifacts that were connected to “significant issues and events in his career,” the report said.
“He used these materials to write memoirs published in 2007 and 2017, to document his legacy, and to cite as evidence that he was a man of presidential timber,” Hur wrote.
“As vice president, Mr. Biden received and stored classified materials at the White House, his official residence at the Naval Observatory, his private home in Delaware, and — very briefly — his rental home in Virginia,” the report said.
“He relied on staff to help deliver, store, and retrieve these classified materials.”
“Mr. Biden was known to remove and keep classified material from his briefing books for future use, and his staff struggled — and sometimes failed — to retrieve these materials,” Hur wrote.
“These gaps in the tracking and retrieval of Mr. Biden’s classified materials made it more difficult to determine when, how, and why many of the classified documents later found in Mr. Biden’s home and think tank ended up where they did not belong.”
“The Afghanistan documents were ultimately found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware home: in a badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil, and synthetic firewood,” the report said.
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So make of that what you will, people, but as for me, I am with the dude who said quite truthfully that for the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office because he can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.
And stay tuned, for when we return from a break for station identification, we will be right back with more from the whacky world of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, so don’t touch that dial!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 10:15 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who just posted a photo of himself on X, formerly TWITTER, with laser beams shooting out of his head, which picture ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000 ) alone should serve to scare the living crap right out of the Iranians and the Huthis and all those militias in Iraqinam and Syria who are among Joe’s many enemies and have them trembling in fear while groveling at Joe’s feet and begging for mercy, it is indeed that scary looking, takes us closer and closer to war in the Middle East in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so it would be imperative that Joe should be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, Time had an interesting and insightful article on the subject of Joe’s WAR OF CHOICE in the Middle East, where he hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating, titled “The U.S. Navy Is Sinking in Middle East Sand” by Gil Barndollar on 13 February 2024, where we have as follows on that serious subject, given how short-sighted and shallow-thinking the senile Joe Biden, who lashes out right and left like a blind rattlesnake with his so-called “military might, really is, to wit:
The U.S. has a range of options for dealing with Yemen’s Houthis, none of them good.
But a long campaign of naval strikes and interception against them, as is now being floated by the Biden Administration and outside experts, is certainly the worst response of all.
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Which of course is why we can expect Joe Biden, who has never fought in a war, being a SKULKER during the Viet Nam war, or won a war (think Afghanistnam) in his entire life, to go that route, because it is stupid, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because it means the U.S. Navy continuing to sink into Middle East sand for an unachievable goal all while losing ground in the far-more important Pacific.
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Except Joe and his WORTHLESS National Security Council consisting of him, Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta don’t know the goal is unachievable, and so will believe the opposite, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have summoned Tomahawk cruise missiles and Top Gun pilots from the deck of the USS Eisenhower.
The newly-renamed Operation Poseidon Archer is just two weeks old, and the Biden Administration is already drawing up plans for a longer effort, despite admitting that defeating the Houthis is not viable.
There is a risk of escalation in the Middle East, especially with the death of three U.S. soldiers after a drone strike in Jordan.
But the effects on the U.S. Navy will be predictable, because they have all happened before: overworked ships and sailors, expenditure of precious precision munitions, and a continued punt on the pivot to the Pacific.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the crown jewel of American military might.
Its 5,000 sailors and 90 jet-strike aircraft can guarantee sustained ship-to-shore pummeling of adversaries and the purported deterrence this provides — in effect modern gunboat diplomacy.
In any geopolitical crisis, it’s said the U.S. President will demand to know where the carriers are.
For the past two decades, throughout the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT), the answer has usually been the Middle East.
From 2001 to 2015, United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which includes North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, had at least one carrier assigned at all times.
As late as 2020, the Middle East drew almost as much carrier presence as the entire Pacific.
Because of this relentless demand, carriers often have their deployments extended or are “double-pumped,” conducting back-to-back deployments without a major maintenance period in between.
The last three carriers deployed in the Mediterranean were all extended: the USS Gerald R. Ford was at sea for 239 days, the USS Harry S. Truman for 285, and the USS George H. W. Bush for 257.
This overwork has consequences.
After the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower did two sets of double pumps, its subsequent 14-month maintenance period ballooned to 23 months because of wear and tear.
The utility and survivability of carriers in a major war are also in question.
In 1982, the legendary Admiral Hyman Rickover stunned Congress by testifying that in a war with the Soviet Union, U.S. aircraft carriers would survive for “48 hours.”
In the four decades since, the carrier’s vulnerability has dramatically increased.
Anti-ship missiles have become far more accurate and long-ranged since Rickover’s testimony, as the unrefueled range of an aircraft carrier’s air wing has shrunk from well over 1,000 nautical miles to barely 600 now.
This leaves carrier commanders with two unpalatable options: stay out of enemy range but become operationally irrelevant or sail close enough but put a $13 billion vessel and its 5,000 sailors at risk.
The narrow waters of the Persian Gulf and chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and Yemen’s Bab-el Mandeb only magnify this dilemma.
Yet the overworked carrier fleet and questions about its utility in a major war are only part of the larger problem of U.S. naval overstretch.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. Navy has become addicted to global “presence” as a demonstration of its value to the nation.
Over the past two decades, the Army and Marine Corps could point to their efforts, successful or not, on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
To maintain its status and budget, the Navy also needed to contribute, at sea and ashore.
With the all-volunteer military stretched to the breaking point, the Pentagon started looking to the Navy to step in.
Some 120,000 sailors would go on to serve on land during the GWOT.
Many of these sailors, especially the reservists who are critical in any major war, have become “sailors in name only,” their naval proficiencies and mindset atrophying due to prolonged service ashore.
All of this significantly strained U.S. naval manpower, causing ships to deploy undermanned and for longer durations.
The Navy’s overstretch may have also contributed to a pair of tragic accidents.
In 2017, a pair of Navy destroyers, the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, collided with civilian ships in the Pacific in separate incidents, killing 17 sailors.
A report on the collisions found that rest and training were sacrificed for naval presence.
One of the Navy’s most senior retired enlisted sailors, Fleet Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Kingsbury, explicitly blamed the Navy’s GWOT augmentation program for the degraded safety culture that led to the McCain and Fitzgerald disasters.
The future looks grim for the overworked fleet.
Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Navy is facing an unprecedented recruiting crisis, fueled in part by fatigue from time away from home during extended deployments.
In an all-volunteer force, sailors will vote with their feet.
A shrinking fleet is the likely outcome, regardless of how many warships America has.
The most immediate danger of overstretch, though, is munitions not manpower.
The opening Jan. 12 strike on the Houthis expended 80 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, more than half the missile’s annual production.
In the near term, expending hundreds of these missiles in a tertiary operation like Prosperity Guardian could have major impacts in a far more important theater in the Pacific.
Precision strike missiles like the Tomahawk are vital to the U.S. military’s ability to deter, and if necessary, defeat a Chinese attack in the Pacific — a contingency where the Navy will be carrying most of the fight, unlike in America’s Middle East wars.
The U.S. may already lack sufficient precision munitions for a shooting war with China.
The Navy’s newest Middle East operation adds further risk to the service’s most essential mission.
On September 10, 2001, the U.S. was the unchallenged global superpower, with naval preeminence as the bedrock of American military dominance.
The U.S. Navy outgunned China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) by more than 100 warships.
China had no aircraft carriers and just 21 diesel submarines.
Some 20 years later, America’s sailors look out at a different world.
PLAN is now the world’s largest navy (though the U.S. Navy still boasts more tonnage).
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is nearing its sea trials.
In the time since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, PLAN has commissioned 313 ships.
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would struggle mightily to defeat a Chinese fleet that was an afterthought just two decades ago.
The future trajectory is even worse: Chinese shipbuilding capacity now exceeds that of the U.S. by a factor of 200, according to unclassified data from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Rebuilding the U.S. Navy is a long-term project that has barely begun, despite lip service from both political parties for years.
Ships, to say nothing of shipyards, are not built overnight.
Lost time and lost opportunities cannot be recovered.
But the U.S. can stop digging its navy into a deeper hole through Middle East-driven overwork of ships and sailors.
Fixing the fleet requires snapping the CENTCOM noose as quickly as possible.
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And that, people, is not going to happen!
ANOTHER BIDEN QUAGMIRE WILL BE THE RESULT INSTEAD!
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Paul Plante says:
And as American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who just posted a photo of himself on X, formerly TWITTER, with laser beams shooting out of his head, which picture ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000 ) alone should serve to scare the living crap right out of the Iranians and the Huthis and all those militias in Iraqinam and Syria who are among Joe’s many enemies and have them trembling in fear while groveling at Joe’s feet and begging for mercy, it is indeed that scary looking, takes us closer and closer to war in the Middle East in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so it would be imperative that Joe should be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, Time had an interesting and insightful article on the subject of Joe’s WAR OF CHOICE in the Middle East, where he hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating, titled “The U.S. Navy Is Sinking in Middle East Sand” by Gil Barndollar on 13 February 2024, where we have as follows on that serious subject, given how short-sighted and shallow-thinking the senile Joe Biden, who lashes out right and left like a blind rattlesnake with his so-called “military might, really is, to wit:
The U.S. has a range of options for dealing with Yemen’s Houthis, none of them good.
But a long campaign of naval strikes and interception against them, as is now being floated by the Biden Administration and outside experts, is certainly the worst response of all.
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Which of course is why we can expect Joe Biden, who has never fought in a war, being a SKULKER during the Viet Nam war, or won a war (think Afghanistnam) in his entire life, to go that route, because it is stupid, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because it means the U.S. Navy continuing to sink into Middle East sand for an unachievable goal all while losing ground in the far-more important Pacific.
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Except Joe and his WORTHLESS National Security Council consisting of him, Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta don’t know the goal is unachievable, and so will believe the opposite, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have summoned Tomahawk cruise missiles and Top Gun pilots from the deck of the USS Eisenhower.
The newly-renamed Operation Poseidon Archer is just two weeks old, and the Biden Administration is already drawing up plans for a longer effort, despite admitting that defeating the Houthis is not viable.
There is a risk of escalation in the Middle East, especially with the death of three U.S. soldiers after a drone strike in Jordan.
But the effects on the U.S. Navy will be predictable, because they have all happened before: overworked ships and sailors, expenditure of precious precision munitions, and a continued punt on the pivot to the Pacific.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the crown jewel of American military might.
Its 5,000 sailors and 90 jet-strike aircraft can guarantee sustained ship-to-shore pummeling of adversaries and the purported deterrence this provides — in effect modern gunboat diplomacy.
In any geopolitical crisis, it’s said the U.S. President will demand to know where the carriers are.
For the past two decades, throughout the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT), the answer has usually been the Middle East.
From 2001 to 2015, United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which includes North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, had at least one carrier assigned at all times.
As late as 2020, the Middle East drew almost as much carrier presence as the entire Pacific.
Because of this relentless demand, carriers often have their deployments extended or are “double-pumped,” conducting back-to-back deployments without a major maintenance period in between.
The last three carriers deployed in the Mediterranean were all extended: the USS Gerald R. Ford was at sea for 239 days, the USS Harry S. Truman for 285, and the USS George H. W. Bush for 257.
This overwork has consequences.
After the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower did two sets of double pumps, its subsequent 14-month maintenance period ballooned to 23 months because of wear and tear.
The utility and survivability of carriers in a major war are also in question.
In 1982, the legendary Admiral Hyman Rickover stunned Congress by testifying that in a war with the Soviet Union, U.S. aircraft carriers would survive for “48 hours.”
In the four decades since, the carrier’s vulnerability has dramatically increased.
Anti-ship missiles have become far more accurate and long-ranged since Rickover’s testimony, as the unrefueled range of an aircraft carrier’s air wing has shrunk from well over 1,000 nautical miles to barely 600 now.
This leaves carrier commanders with two unpalatable options: stay out of enemy range but become operationally irrelevant or sail close enough but put a $13 billion vessel and its 5,000 sailors at risk.
The narrow waters of the Persian Gulf and chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and Yemen’s Bab-el Mandeb only magnify this dilemma.
Yet the overworked carrier fleet and questions about its utility in a major war are only part of the larger problem of U.S. naval overstretch.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. Navy has become addicted to global “presence” as a demonstration of its value to the nation.
Over the past two decades, the Army and Marine Corps could point to their efforts, successful or not, on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
To maintain its status and budget, the Navy also needed to contribute, at sea and ashore.
With the all-volunteer military stretched to the breaking point, the Pentagon started looking to the Navy to step in.
Some 120,000 sailors would go on to serve on land during the GWOT.
Many of these sailors, especially the reservists who are critical in any major war, have become “sailors in name only,” their naval proficiencies and mindset atrophying due to prolonged service ashore.
All of this significantly strained U.S. naval manpower, causing ships to deploy undermanned and for longer durations.
The Navy’s overstretch may have also contributed to a pair of tragic accidents.
In 2017, a pair of Navy destroyers, the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, collided with civilian ships in the Pacific in separate incidents, killing 17 sailors.
A report on the collisions found that rest and training were sacrificed for naval presence.
One of the Navy’s most senior retired enlisted sailors, Fleet Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Kingsbury, explicitly blamed the Navy’s GWOT augmentation program for the degraded safety culture that led to the McCain and Fitzgerald disasters.
The future looks grim for the overworked fleet.
Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Navy is facing an unprecedented recruiting crisis, fueled in part by fatigue from time away from home during extended deployments.
In an all-volunteer force, sailors will vote with their feet.
A shrinking fleet is the likely outcome, regardless of how many warships America has.
The most immediate danger of overstretch, though, is munitions not manpower.
The opening Jan. 12 strike on the Houthis expended 80 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, more than half the missile’s annual production.
In the near term, expending hundreds of these missiles in a tertiary operation like Prosperity Guardian could have major impacts in a far more important theater in the Pacific.
Precision strike missiles like the Tomahawk are vital to the U.S. military’s ability to deter, and if necessary, defeat a Chinese attack in the Pacific — a contingency where the Navy will be carrying most of the fight, unlike in America’s Middle East wars.
The U.S. may already lack sufficient precision munitions for a shooting war with China.
The Navy’s newest Middle East operation adds further risk to the service’s most essential mission.
On September 10, 2001, the U.S. was the unchallenged global superpower, with naval preeminence as the bedrock of American military dominance.
The U.S. Navy outgunned China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) by more than 100 warships.
China had no aircraft carriers and just 21 diesel submarines.
Some 20 years later, America’s sailors look out at a different world.
PLAN is now the world’s largest navy (though the U.S. Navy still boasts more tonnage).
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is nearing its sea trials.
In the time since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, PLAN has commissioned 313 ships.
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would struggle mightily to defeat a Chinese fleet that was an afterthought just two decades ago.
The future trajectory is even worse: Chinese shipbuilding capacity now exceeds that of the U.S. by a factor of 200, according to unclassified data from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Rebuilding the U.S. Navy is a long-term project that has barely begun, despite lip service from both political parties for years.
Ships, to say nothing of shipyards, are not built overnight.
Lost time and lost opportunities cannot be recovered.
But the U.S. can stop digging its navy into a deeper hole through Middle East-driven overwork of ships and sailors.
Fixing the fleet requires snapping the CENTCOM noose as quickly as possible.
end quotes
And that, people, is not going to happen!
ANOTHER BIDEN QUAGMIRE WILL BE THE RESULT INSTEAD!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p ... ent-899597