THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 15, 2022 AT 10:25 AM
Paul Plante says:
V. THE SUPREME COURT FULFILLED NO “IDEOLOGICAL AGENDA” IN DECIDING DOBBS!
As was stated above, we come across the term “ideological” in connection with Dobbs in what can only be called an ignorant USA TODAY article titled “Remind me why the Biden administration is in court fighting publication of the ERA?” by Carli Pierson, a New York licensed attorney and opinion writer with USA TODAY as well as being a member of the USA TODAY Editorial Board, on 1 October 2022, as follows:
In order to fulfill an ideological agenda, our highest court has decided to roll back women’s rights by reading the Constitution without regard to the Equal Protection Clause or the bedrock principle of stare decisis, requiring courts to abide by precedents laid down as applicable to a similar set of facts.
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Now think on that for a moment, people – in deciding Dobbs as they did, did the Supreme Court in fact fulfill (bring to completion or reality; achieve or realize) an ideological agenda, where the word “ideological” is an adjective that describes political, cultural, or religious beliefs, and where ideology is a body of ideas, and those who agree with the main idea of something take an ideological stand to support it?
Or is that horsecrap, plain and simple?
Has the Supreme Court been waiting around all these years waiting for the opportunity to strip the women of America of their Constitutional rights because of some ideological belief on the part of the Supreme Court that women in America should be kept barefoot and pregnant and chained to the bedpost with only enough chain to reach the kitchen stove as the Democrats and those with their own ideological belief in abortion like Joe Biden, Karmela Harris and AOC would have us believe?
Did the Supreme Court have any control whatsoever in bringing Dobbs before itself?
Or is that the responsibility of those in Mississippi who brought the suit in the first place?
And the answer to the first question is no, while the answer to the second question is in the affirmative.
The pro-abortion ideologues (an adherent of an ideology, especially one who is uncompromising and dogmatic) in the Democrat party, itself an ideology (a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy, as in “the ideology of democracy”) would have us believe that the Supreme Court has been out hunting around for some people willing to bring some lousy legal arguments before it so it could use those lousy legal arguments to strip women of a Constitutional right as part of an ideology of the Court, and that is just plain stupid, as only the Democrats can put forth stupid.
The Supreme Court does not control the legal arguments that are brought before it in legal briefs by the plaintiffs and defendants, and had no control over the legal arguments put before it in Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization et al.
The Supreme Court responds to those legal arguments once made, and what we have been doing in here is countering Democrat lies by going directly to the reasoning of the Court itself in Dobbs, which we will do again once more right now, to wit:
(3) Workability.
Deciding whether a precedent should be overruled depends in part on whether the rule it imposes is workable — that is, whether it can be understood and applied in a consistent and predictable manner.
Casey’s “undue burden” test has scored poorly on the workability scale.
The Casey plurality tried to put meaning into the “undue burden” test by setting out three subsidiary rules, but these rules created their own problems.
And the difficulty of applying Casey’s new rules surfaced in that very case. Compare 505 U. S., at 881–887, with id., at 920–922 (Stevens, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).
The experience of the Courts of Appeals provides further evidence that Casey’s “line between” permissible and unconstitutional restrictions “has proved to be impossible to draw with precision.” Janus, 585 U. S., at ___.
Casey has generated a long list of Circuit conflicts.
Continued adherence to Casey’s unworkable “undue burden” test would undermine, not advance, the “evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles.” Payne, 501 U. S., at 827.
(4) Effect on other areas of law.
Roe and Casey have led to the distortion of many important but unrelated legal doctrines, and that effect provides further support for overruling those decisions. See Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U. S. ___, ___ (KAVANAUGH, J., concurring in part).
(5) Reliance interests.
Overruling Roe and Casey will not upend concrete reliance interests like those that develop in “cases involving property and contract rights.” Payne, 501 U. S., at 828.
In Casey, the controlling opinion conceded that traditional reliance interests were not implicated because getting an abortion is generally “unplanned activity,” and “reproductive planning could take virtually immediate account of any sudden restoration of state authority to ban abortions.” 505 U. S., at 856.
Instead, the opinion perceived a more intangible form of reliance, namely, that “people [had] organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society . . . in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail” and that “the ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.” Ibid.
The contending sides in this case make impassioned and conflicting arguments about the effects of the abortion right on the lives of women as well as the status of the fetus.
The Casey plurality’s speculative attempt to weigh the relative importance of the interests of the fetus and the mother represent a departure from the “original constitutional proposition” that “courts do not substitute their social and economic beliefs for the judgment of legislative bodies.” Ferguson v. Skrupa, 372 U. S. 726, 729–730.
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And there we have it, people, in the Court’s own words.
So it is YOU, the jury of public opinion, that gets to decide in your own mind who the real ideologists are in this matter.
I and the Cape Charles Mirror have done our part as responsible citizens of civilized society to bring this vital information before you so you would have it to consider calmly and dispassionately before the November 2022 mid-terms, which are of vital importance to the continuation of our Republic here in the United States of America.
Now, it is up to YOU!
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 14, 2022 AT 7:57 PM
Paul Plante says:
And people wonder why we have price inflation:
Reuters
“Aluminium spikes 7% after report of U.S. ban of Russian supplies”
Reuters
October 12, 2022
LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Aluminium prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) soared on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported that the United States was considering a ban on Russian aluminium in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Benchmark aluminium was up 3.3% at $2,309 a tonne at 1612 GMT after briefly spiking 7.3% to $2,400 a tonne.
The Biden administration is considering raising tariffs on Russian aluminum to levels so punitive they would effectively ban Russian aluminium producer Rusal, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed people familiar with the decision-making.
The White House and the Treasury Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.
Rusal is the world’s largest aluminium producer outside China, supplying the world with 6% of its needs estimated at around 70 million tonnes this year.
It too did not immediately respond to request for comment.
A ban would almost certainly send prices soaring.
After the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Rusal and the LME barred its metal in 2018, aluminium prices rose 30% over the course of a few days.
The LME last week launched a discussion paper on the possibility of banning Russian aluminium, nickel and copper from being traded and stored in its system.
Sources in the metal industry say there is concern that Russian metal producers will be unable to sell their metal and will deliver it to registered LME warehouses, which could distort prices.
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Paul Plante says:
And people wonder why we have price inflation:
Reuters
“Aluminium spikes 7% after report of U.S. ban of Russian supplies”
Reuters
October 12, 2022
LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Aluminium prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) soared on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported that the United States was considering a ban on Russian aluminium in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Benchmark aluminium was up 3.3% at $2,309 a tonne at 1612 GMT after briefly spiking 7.3% to $2,400 a tonne.
The Biden administration is considering raising tariffs on Russian aluminum to levels so punitive they would effectively ban Russian aluminium producer Rusal, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed people familiar with the decision-making.
The White House and the Treasury Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.
Rusal is the world’s largest aluminium producer outside China, supplying the world with 6% of its needs estimated at around 70 million tonnes this year.
It too did not immediately respond to request for comment.
A ban would almost certainly send prices soaring.
After the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Rusal and the LME barred its metal in 2018, aluminium prices rose 30% over the course of a few days.
The LME last week launched a discussion paper on the possibility of banning Russian aluminium, nickel and copper from being traded and stored in its system.
Sources in the metal industry say there is concern that Russian metal producers will be unable to sell their metal and will deliver it to registered LME warehouses, which could distort prices.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 16, 2022 AT 5:41 PM
Paul Plante says:
And seriously, people, how can any sane and rational person think anything other than this is madness and insanity, what Joe Biden is doing to the global economy, which like it or not, we happen to be a part of, BY CHOICE, with his ULTRA-NATIONALISTIC AMERICA ONLY policy which seeks to crush the economy of any nation Joe Biden is unable to compete fairly with?
To aid in considering the responsible, adult answer to that question, we have the following financial or economic fallout as a direct result of Joe’s intentional policy to harm China through economic warfare, to wit:
Marketwatch
“Chip stocks crushed to two-year low as more tech, AI ban to China add to woes”
By Wallace Witkowski
October 7, 2022
The chip sector melted down Friday for its third 6% one-day drop of the year after U.S. regulators moved to pump the brakes on China’s military ambitions as it issued wider restrictions on semiconductor and AI technology that can be sold to the world’s second-largest economy.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce expanded its list of chip technology that requires a license to be sold to China — essentially a euphemism for a ban if the license can be denied — and the PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had been down around 3% before the news broke, dropped to close the session down 6.1% at 2,356.75, a closing level that investors last saw on the uptick in early November 2020.
News of the ban was served fresh on the back of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. issuing a $1 billion shortfall warning on expected sales to PC customers late Thursday.
That followed last week’s revenue forecast from memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc., which was about $1 billion below Street expectations, prompting analysts to ask whether 2022’s sudden chip glut is worse than the one in 2019.
AMD shares led the fall for chip stocks with a 13.9% drop to close at $58.44, with Micron shares down a modest 2.9% at $52.91.
The Commerce Department’s wider list adds to one from September that focused on AI tech from Nvidia Corp.
Shares of Nvidia fell 8% to close at $120.76 Friday.
Nvidia shares melted down last month when the graphics processing unit maker disclosed the list of products that needed a license to sell to China, primarily the company’s A100 and H100 data-center AI technology, and estimated a potential $400 million hit in expected third-quarter revenue if licenses were denied.
The ban just added to Nvidia’s bleed-out year as it has cut its outlook not just once, not just twice, but three times.
Elsewhere in the sector, shares of Intel Corp. fell 5.4% Friday, while shares of Qualcomm Inc. declined 3.5% and Broadcom Inc. shares fell 4%.
Shares of Texas Instruments Inc., which happens to be the largest U.S. supplier of auto chips, fell 4.4%.
As for the third-party fabs that produce the silicon wafers that become microchips, shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares declined 6.2%, and GlobalFoundries Inc. shares fell 5.2%.
Shares of Marvell Technology Inc., which in August disappointed with its data-center forecast, also took an 11.7% beating to close at $42.35.
Over the course of 2022, the SOX index has fallen 40% on the year, with shares of both AMD and Nvidia in a freefall of nearly 60%, while the S&P 500 index has shed 24%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has dropped 32%.
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Do we have a MADMAN at the helm of the Ship of State?
Is it way past time for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to save the United States of America from the madness, lunacy and insanity of Joe Biden who is making war on China on his own without our INFORMED CONSENT in direct contradiction of what Joe said would be the case in his Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 21, 2021, at United Nations Headquarters, New York, New York, where we had Joe blowing hard with regard to his JINGOISM, to wit:
THE PRESIDENT: Make no mistake: The United States will continue to defend ourselves, our Allies, and our interests against attack, including terrorist threats, as we prepare to use force if any is necessary, but — to defend our vital U.S. national interests, including against ongoing and imminent threats.
But the mission must be clear and achievable, undertaken with the informed consent of the American people and, whenever possible, in partnership with our Allies.
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IS JOE BIDEN’S MISSION TO CRUSH AND DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF CHINA CLEAR AND ACHIEVABLE?
HAS JOE SOUGHT OUR INFORMED CONSENT WITH REGARD TO HIS ULTRANATIONALISTIC POLICY TO CRUSH AND DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF CHINA?
OR HAS JOE SIMPLY DICTATORILY AND AUTOCRATICALLY IMPOSED IT ON US?
Think it over, people, while there is still time.
And if you don’t like the direction Joe Biden is taking this country in with his ULTRANATIONALISM, then be sure to exercise your right to vote in November to put the hobbles on Joe and a Martingale bit in his mouth!
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Paul Plante says:
And seriously, people, how can any sane and rational person think anything other than this is madness and insanity, what Joe Biden is doing to the global economy, which like it or not, we happen to be a part of, BY CHOICE, with his ULTRA-NATIONALISTIC AMERICA ONLY policy which seeks to crush the economy of any nation Joe Biden is unable to compete fairly with?
To aid in considering the responsible, adult answer to that question, we have the following financial or economic fallout as a direct result of Joe’s intentional policy to harm China through economic warfare, to wit:
Marketwatch
“Chip stocks crushed to two-year low as more tech, AI ban to China add to woes”
By Wallace Witkowski
October 7, 2022
The chip sector melted down Friday for its third 6% one-day drop of the year after U.S. regulators moved to pump the brakes on China’s military ambitions as it issued wider restrictions on semiconductor and AI technology that can be sold to the world’s second-largest economy.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce expanded its list of chip technology that requires a license to be sold to China — essentially a euphemism for a ban if the license can be denied — and the PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had been down around 3% before the news broke, dropped to close the session down 6.1% at 2,356.75, a closing level that investors last saw on the uptick in early November 2020.
News of the ban was served fresh on the back of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. issuing a $1 billion shortfall warning on expected sales to PC customers late Thursday.
That followed last week’s revenue forecast from memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc., which was about $1 billion below Street expectations, prompting analysts to ask whether 2022’s sudden chip glut is worse than the one in 2019.
AMD shares led the fall for chip stocks with a 13.9% drop to close at $58.44, with Micron shares down a modest 2.9% at $52.91.
The Commerce Department’s wider list adds to one from September that focused on AI tech from Nvidia Corp.
Shares of Nvidia fell 8% to close at $120.76 Friday.
Nvidia shares melted down last month when the graphics processing unit maker disclosed the list of products that needed a license to sell to China, primarily the company’s A100 and H100 data-center AI technology, and estimated a potential $400 million hit in expected third-quarter revenue if licenses were denied.
The ban just added to Nvidia’s bleed-out year as it has cut its outlook not just once, not just twice, but three times.
Elsewhere in the sector, shares of Intel Corp. fell 5.4% Friday, while shares of Qualcomm Inc. declined 3.5% and Broadcom Inc. shares fell 4%.
Shares of Texas Instruments Inc., which happens to be the largest U.S. supplier of auto chips, fell 4.4%.
As for the third-party fabs that produce the silicon wafers that become microchips, shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares declined 6.2%, and GlobalFoundries Inc. shares fell 5.2%.
Shares of Marvell Technology Inc., which in August disappointed with its data-center forecast, also took an 11.7% beating to close at $42.35.
Over the course of 2022, the SOX index has fallen 40% on the year, with shares of both AMD and Nvidia in a freefall of nearly 60%, while the S&P 500 index has shed 24%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has dropped 32%.
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Do we have a MADMAN at the helm of the Ship of State?
Is it way past time for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to save the United States of America from the madness, lunacy and insanity of Joe Biden who is making war on China on his own without our INFORMED CONSENT in direct contradiction of what Joe said would be the case in his Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 21, 2021, at United Nations Headquarters, New York, New York, where we had Joe blowing hard with regard to his JINGOISM, to wit:
THE PRESIDENT: Make no mistake: The United States will continue to defend ourselves, our Allies, and our interests against attack, including terrorist threats, as we prepare to use force if any is necessary, but — to defend our vital U.S. national interests, including against ongoing and imminent threats.
But the mission must be clear and achievable, undertaken with the informed consent of the American people and, whenever possible, in partnership with our Allies.
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IS JOE BIDEN’S MISSION TO CRUSH AND DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF CHINA CLEAR AND ACHIEVABLE?
HAS JOE SOUGHT OUR INFORMED CONSENT WITH REGARD TO HIS ULTRANATIONALISTIC POLICY TO CRUSH AND DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF CHINA?
OR HAS JOE SIMPLY DICTATORILY AND AUTOCRATICALLY IMPOSED IT ON US?
Think it over, people, while there is still time.
And if you don’t like the direction Joe Biden is taking this country in with his ULTRANATIONALISM, then be sure to exercise your right to vote in November to put the hobbles on Joe and a Martingale bit in his mouth!
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 21, 2022 AT 9:18 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as we stay abreast of developments stemming from Joe Biden’s declaration of economic warfare against his hated and feared enemy China, we have from Reuters on that subject as follows:
“China holds emergency talks with chip firms after U.S. curbs -Bloomberg News”
Reuters
October 20, 2022
Oct 20 (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology convened a series of emergency meetings over the past week with leading semiconductor companies, seeking to assess the damage from the U.S. chip restrictions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The ministry summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co and supercomputer specialist Dawning Information Industry Co to attend closed-door meetings, the report said.
This month the Biden administration passed a sweeping set of export controls aimed at slowing Beijing’s technological and military advances, including sales restrictions on certain advanced chips and chip equipment tools.
Experts have said the new rules will have a broad impact, slowing China’s efforts to develop its own chip industry and advance commercial and state research involving military weapons, artificial intelligence, data centres and many other areas that are powered by supercomputers and high-end chips.
According to the Bloomberg report, many of the participants at the meetings argued that the U.S. curbs spell doom for their industry, as well as China’s ambitions to untether its economy from American technology.
On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for his country to “win the battle” in core technologies in his full work report as he kicked off the once-every-five-years Communist Party Congress.
Experts have said the work report could signal an overhaul in Beijing’s approach to advancing its tech industry, with more state-led spending and intervention to counter U.S. pressures.
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So it looks like “game on” for Joe.
And us, as well.
Stay tuned.
Joe Biden’s war of choice on China has just begun, and if Joe’s war of choice on Putin and Russia is any measure, we are going to suffer for it!
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Paul Plante says:
And as we stay abreast of developments stemming from Joe Biden’s declaration of economic warfare against his hated and feared enemy China, we have from Reuters on that subject as follows:
“China holds emergency talks with chip firms after U.S. curbs -Bloomberg News”
Reuters
October 20, 2022
Oct 20 (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology convened a series of emergency meetings over the past week with leading semiconductor companies, seeking to assess the damage from the U.S. chip restrictions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The ministry summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co and supercomputer specialist Dawning Information Industry Co to attend closed-door meetings, the report said.
This month the Biden administration passed a sweeping set of export controls aimed at slowing Beijing’s technological and military advances, including sales restrictions on certain advanced chips and chip equipment tools.
Experts have said the new rules will have a broad impact, slowing China’s efforts to develop its own chip industry and advance commercial and state research involving military weapons, artificial intelligence, data centres and many other areas that are powered by supercomputers and high-end chips.
According to the Bloomberg report, many of the participants at the meetings argued that the U.S. curbs spell doom for their industry, as well as China’s ambitions to untether its economy from American technology.
On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for his country to “win the battle” in core technologies in his full work report as he kicked off the once-every-five-years Communist Party Congress.
Experts have said the work report could signal an overhaul in Beijing’s approach to advancing its tech industry, with more state-led spending and intervention to counter U.S. pressures.
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So it looks like “game on” for Joe.
And us, as well.
Stay tuned.
Joe Biden’s war of choice on China has just begun, and if Joe’s war of choice on Putin and Russia is any measure, we are going to suffer for it!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 23, 2022
Op-Ed: On Joe Biden’s Dangerous Demagoguery
This Op-Ed was written and submitted by Paul Plante.
A “demagogue,” according to the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, is “one who leads the populace by appealing to prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician.”
It is my premise herein that Democrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, is just such a “leader,” especially on the issue of abortion, leading his portion of the populace by appealing to their prejudices and passions, as we see in a Reuters article titled “Biden to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats keep Congress” by Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose on October 18, 2022, as follows:
“I want you to remember that the final say does not rest in the Court now.”
“It does not rest with extremist Republicans in Congress.”
“The final say about your right to choose.. rests with you.”
“And if you do your part and vote, Democratic leaders in Congress I promise you will do our part.”
“I’ll do my part.”
The president also cited a part of the Supreme Court ruling that said women are not without electoral or political power, suggesting they could mobilize and elect lawmakers to guarantee abortion rights.
“Let me tell you something.”
“The court and extreme Republicans who spent decades trying to overturn Roe are about to find out,” Biden said.
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With those words of Joe Biden in mind, that same source, the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, then defines the term “demagogic” as “pertaining to or like a demagogue; given to unprincipled political agitation,” and “demagoguery” as “the spirit, method or conduct of a demagogue.”
It is my premise herein based on those words of Joe’s in that Reuters article above, with regard to abortion, specifically, that Joe Biden is indeed engaging in “unprincipled political agitation” which marks him out as a modern-day demagogue.
“Demagogue” is a word that seems to have fallen out of our political lexicon, probably because it is hard to spell and has so many characters in it that it would play hob with composing a TWEET on TWITTER, although for a time, the term was being applied, rightly or wrongly, to Donald Trump,
Before that, in my memory, we have to go back to George Wallace to find an American politician branded as a demagogue.
According to an article in The Bulwark titled “Demagoguery in America” by Pejman Yousefzadeh on August 30, 2020, which article is a review of a book titled The Demagogue’s Playbook – The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump by Eric A. Posner, we have this American history to consider, as follows:
Andrew Jackson, the earliest American demagogue Posner identifies, “was able to win the presidency because by his time the original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues had eroded.”
Under Jackson, “the new populist ideology could justify destruction of the institutions, not just reform, including institutions that constrain, or lie outside the power of, the executive.”
“Only the president himself was powerful enough to lead this assault.”
In short, the new ideology justified “a leader who derives his power from the people rather than from a set of political institutions, a demagogue.”
Notwithstanding the creation of a technocracy — and the administrative bureaucracy that preceded, grew with, and enabled it — Posner tells us that populist demagogic impulses returned with a vengeance with the arrival on the scene of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy, to whom the press “flocked” because he was (here Posner borrows from historian David Oshinsky) “bizarre, unpredictable, entertaining, and always newsworthy.”
Despite the fact that McCarthy was ultimately repudiated by his Senate colleagues, the demagogic strain remained, and found at least some resonance in the public career of Alabama governor George Wallace and the presidential candidacies and presidency of Richard Nixon.
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So we have had presidents before Joe Biden who have been deemed to be demagogues, which takes us back to that article for this, which is directly relevant to the times we are in today and the dangerous demagoguery of Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, to wit:
The Demagogue’s Playbook is a well-written and -sourced work of pop-scholarship, with a narrative style that moves briskly without skimping on important historical and cultural details.
Posner’s historical judgment, however, is sometimes lacking.
For example, in discussing the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, Posner concedes that Roosevelt “used some demagogic tactics,” but argues that those tactics were justified:
First, [Roosevelt] acted during a serious emergency — actually two emergencies, the Great Depression and the start of World War II.
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And think about today, and the excuses Joe Biden is using for his demagoguery – the economy and “a war raging,” as Joe was just quoted as saying in a Reuters article titled “U.S. sells oil reserves as Biden tackles pump prices ahead of elections” by Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw and Steve Holland on October 19, 2022.
Going back to the article for more similarities between the demagoguery of FDR and the demagoguery of JRB, we have:
The creaky American constitutional system inhibits executive action, and while that may be tolerable in normal times, in a national emergency a timid executive may spell doom.
The Great Depression was already three years old when Roosevelt took office, and a new banking crisis had begun just months earlier.
Hoover was not up to the task.
Roosevelt also faced an extraordinarily complex situation in the run-up to World War II, when he sought to signal to Germany that America would come to the aid of the Western alliance while avoiding a domestic political backlash that could have hamstrung the eventual war effort.
One will not find many people nowadays who will deny that Roosevelt faced extraordinary challenges during his presidency, and that an extraordinary response was necessary.
But it is more than a little unsettling to read Posner claiming that those exigencies justified “some demagogic tactics.”
Were we to confine the use of judicious demagoguery to Roosevelt’s presidency and his response to the likes of massive global recession and another world war, perhaps we would not have much to fear from the prospect of demagoguery at the presidential level.
The obvious problem, however, is that while few presidents may encounter twin crises like the Great Depression and World War II, the emergency powers of the president are vast, and the combination of presidential demagoguery and the exercise of presidential powers at the merest suggestion of an emergency is frightening to contemplate.
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Think about how many “merest hints of emergencies” there have been under Joe Biden that are requiring him in his own view to keep expanding his powers through executive orders.
Going back to that article, it continues with this following warning, to wit:
It is worrisome enough that the powers of the presidency have considerably expanded through the decades and show no sign of lessening.
It would be worse still if we turned a blind eye to the unbounded ability of a president to engage in demagoguery in any circumstance he labels an emergency — even if no real emergency exists — because in part we are occasionally given to excusing “some demagogic tactics.”
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And with that in the record, let me pause here for all of that to sink in, and most certainly, if we do turn a blind eye to the unbounded ability of a president, in this case, clearly Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, to engage in demagoguery in any circumstance he labels an emergency — even if no real emergency exists — because in part we are occasionally given to excusing “some demagogic tactics,” then we are asking for serious trouble as a nation and as a people!
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Op-Ed: On Joe Biden’s Dangerous Demagoguery
This Op-Ed was written and submitted by Paul Plante.
A “demagogue,” according to the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, is “one who leads the populace by appealing to prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician.”
It is my premise herein that Democrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, is just such a “leader,” especially on the issue of abortion, leading his portion of the populace by appealing to their prejudices and passions, as we see in a Reuters article titled “Biden to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats keep Congress” by Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose on October 18, 2022, as follows:
“I want you to remember that the final say does not rest in the Court now.”
“It does not rest with extremist Republicans in Congress.”
“The final say about your right to choose.. rests with you.”
“And if you do your part and vote, Democratic leaders in Congress I promise you will do our part.”
“I’ll do my part.”
The president also cited a part of the Supreme Court ruling that said women are not without electoral or political power, suggesting they could mobilize and elect lawmakers to guarantee abortion rights.
“Let me tell you something.”
“The court and extreme Republicans who spent decades trying to overturn Roe are about to find out,” Biden said.
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With those words of Joe Biden in mind, that same source, the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, then defines the term “demagogic” as “pertaining to or like a demagogue; given to unprincipled political agitation,” and “demagoguery” as “the spirit, method or conduct of a demagogue.”
It is my premise herein based on those words of Joe’s in that Reuters article above, with regard to abortion, specifically, that Joe Biden is indeed engaging in “unprincipled political agitation” which marks him out as a modern-day demagogue.
“Demagogue” is a word that seems to have fallen out of our political lexicon, probably because it is hard to spell and has so many characters in it that it would play hob with composing a TWEET on TWITTER, although for a time, the term was being applied, rightly or wrongly, to Donald Trump,
Before that, in my memory, we have to go back to George Wallace to find an American politician branded as a demagogue.
According to an article in The Bulwark titled “Demagoguery in America” by Pejman Yousefzadeh on August 30, 2020, which article is a review of a book titled The Demagogue’s Playbook – The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump by Eric A. Posner, we have this American history to consider, as follows:
Andrew Jackson, the earliest American demagogue Posner identifies, “was able to win the presidency because by his time the original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues had eroded.”
Under Jackson, “the new populist ideology could justify destruction of the institutions, not just reform, including institutions that constrain, or lie outside the power of, the executive.”
“Only the president himself was powerful enough to lead this assault.”
In short, the new ideology justified “a leader who derives his power from the people rather than from a set of political institutions, a demagogue.”
Notwithstanding the creation of a technocracy — and the administrative bureaucracy that preceded, grew with, and enabled it — Posner tells us that populist demagogic impulses returned with a vengeance with the arrival on the scene of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy, to whom the press “flocked” because he was (here Posner borrows from historian David Oshinsky) “bizarre, unpredictable, entertaining, and always newsworthy.”
Despite the fact that McCarthy was ultimately repudiated by his Senate colleagues, the demagogic strain remained, and found at least some resonance in the public career of Alabama governor George Wallace and the presidential candidacies and presidency of Richard Nixon.
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So we have had presidents before Joe Biden who have been deemed to be demagogues, which takes us back to that article for this, which is directly relevant to the times we are in today and the dangerous demagoguery of Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, to wit:
The Demagogue’s Playbook is a well-written and -sourced work of pop-scholarship, with a narrative style that moves briskly without skimping on important historical and cultural details.
Posner’s historical judgment, however, is sometimes lacking.
For example, in discussing the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, Posner concedes that Roosevelt “used some demagogic tactics,” but argues that those tactics were justified:
First, [Roosevelt] acted during a serious emergency — actually two emergencies, the Great Depression and the start of World War II.
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And think about today, and the excuses Joe Biden is using for his demagoguery – the economy and “a war raging,” as Joe was just quoted as saying in a Reuters article titled “U.S. sells oil reserves as Biden tackles pump prices ahead of elections” by Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw and Steve Holland on October 19, 2022.
Going back to the article for more similarities between the demagoguery of FDR and the demagoguery of JRB, we have:
The creaky American constitutional system inhibits executive action, and while that may be tolerable in normal times, in a national emergency a timid executive may spell doom.
The Great Depression was already three years old when Roosevelt took office, and a new banking crisis had begun just months earlier.
Hoover was not up to the task.
Roosevelt also faced an extraordinarily complex situation in the run-up to World War II, when he sought to signal to Germany that America would come to the aid of the Western alliance while avoiding a domestic political backlash that could have hamstrung the eventual war effort.
One will not find many people nowadays who will deny that Roosevelt faced extraordinary challenges during his presidency, and that an extraordinary response was necessary.
But it is more than a little unsettling to read Posner claiming that those exigencies justified “some demagogic tactics.”
Were we to confine the use of judicious demagoguery to Roosevelt’s presidency and his response to the likes of massive global recession and another world war, perhaps we would not have much to fear from the prospect of demagoguery at the presidential level.
The obvious problem, however, is that while few presidents may encounter twin crises like the Great Depression and World War II, the emergency powers of the president are vast, and the combination of presidential demagoguery and the exercise of presidential powers at the merest suggestion of an emergency is frightening to contemplate.
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Think about how many “merest hints of emergencies” there have been under Joe Biden that are requiring him in his own view to keep expanding his powers through executive orders.
Going back to that article, it continues with this following warning, to wit:
It is worrisome enough that the powers of the presidency have considerably expanded through the decades and show no sign of lessening.
It would be worse still if we turned a blind eye to the unbounded ability of a president to engage in demagoguery in any circumstance he labels an emergency — even if no real emergency exists — because in part we are occasionally given to excusing “some demagogic tactics.”
end quotes
And with that in the record, let me pause here for all of that to sink in, and most certainly, if we do turn a blind eye to the unbounded ability of a president, in this case, clearly Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, to engage in demagoguery in any circumstance he labels an emergency — even if no real emergency exists — because in part we are occasionally given to excusing “some demagogic tactics,” then we are asking for serious trouble as a nation and as a people!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 22, 2022 AT 8:53 PM
Paul Plante says:
And while Joe Biden makes enemies out of Saudi Arabia and China with his “MEGA MAGA ULTRANATIONALISTIC AMERICA ONLY” policies, making the United States into a “PARIAH” nation on the world stage as we are being increasingly isolated by Joe Biden, we have the following from Reuters to consider as the madness and insanity that characterize the foreign policies of the Biden regime continues, where we find that Joe’s many enemies do not really need the United States for anything, and so, can isolate us as a “PARIAH” (A pariah state, also called an international pariah or a global pariah, is a nation considered to be an outcast in the international community) thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
“Saudi, China agree to strengthen energy cooperation – SPA”
Reuters
October 21, 2022
DUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and the director of China’s National Energy Administration Zhang Jianhua on Friday said they would strengthen their ties in the energy sector, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
The officials spoke in a teleconference call and stressed the importance of stable long-term supplies to crude oil markets, SPA said.
The Saudi minister reaffirmed earlier on Friday from New Delhi that OPEC+ is doing the right job to ensure stable and sustainable oil markets.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have been at odds since a decision by OPEC+ group of oil producers, of which Saudi is the de facto leader, to cut output even after the Biden administration sought to stay OPEC’s hand for a month with an eye on U.S. mid-term elections.
China, the world’s largest crude importer, has stuck to strict COVID curbs this year, which weighed heavily on business and economic activity, lowering demand for fuel.
But reports that Beijing is considering cutting the quarantine period for visitors to seven days have bolstered prices on Thursday despite no official confirmation of the measure.
Prince Abdulaziz and his Chinese counterpart agreed to continue cooperation efforts to maintain stability in oil markets, SPA said, adding that the Kingdom continues to be China’s most reliable partner and supplier of crude oil.
He had earlier this week spoken with the trade minister of Japan, another key client, and discussed strengthening cooperation on energy.
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Paul Plante says:
And while Joe Biden makes enemies out of Saudi Arabia and China with his “MEGA MAGA ULTRANATIONALISTIC AMERICA ONLY” policies, making the United States into a “PARIAH” nation on the world stage as we are being increasingly isolated by Joe Biden, we have the following from Reuters to consider as the madness and insanity that characterize the foreign policies of the Biden regime continues, where we find that Joe’s many enemies do not really need the United States for anything, and so, can isolate us as a “PARIAH” (A pariah state, also called an international pariah or a global pariah, is a nation considered to be an outcast in the international community) thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
“Saudi, China agree to strengthen energy cooperation – SPA”
Reuters
October 21, 2022
DUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and the director of China’s National Energy Administration Zhang Jianhua on Friday said they would strengthen their ties in the energy sector, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
The officials spoke in a teleconference call and stressed the importance of stable long-term supplies to crude oil markets, SPA said.
The Saudi minister reaffirmed earlier on Friday from New Delhi that OPEC+ is doing the right job to ensure stable and sustainable oil markets.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have been at odds since a decision by OPEC+ group of oil producers, of which Saudi is the de facto leader, to cut output even after the Biden administration sought to stay OPEC’s hand for a month with an eye on U.S. mid-term elections.
China, the world’s largest crude importer, has stuck to strict COVID curbs this year, which weighed heavily on business and economic activity, lowering demand for fuel.
But reports that Beijing is considering cutting the quarantine period for visitors to seven days have bolstered prices on Thursday despite no official confirmation of the measure.
Prince Abdulaziz and his Chinese counterpart agreed to continue cooperation efforts to maintain stability in oil markets, SPA said, adding that the Kingdom continues to be China’s most reliable partner and supplier of crude oil.
He had earlier this week spoken with the trade minister of Japan, another key client, and discussed strengthening cooperation on energy.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 23, 2022 AT 11:04 AM
Paul Plante says:
So, picking up where we left off as the clock counts down to November 8, 2022, and election day, when the fate of OUR Republic and OUR Constitution and Separation of Powers, and especially the Tenth Amendment, wherein is clearly stated, although not heard or even acknowledged by Joe Biden and the Democrats, that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
From the demagogic rhetoric of Joe Biden concerning him overruling the Supreme Court with an executive order and thereby transferring control of abortions from THE PEOPLE in the states and their elected leaders to the Democrats in the federal government, it is that amendment that is clearly under threat here, people, and make no mistake about it.
If Joe Biden and the Democrats get their way come November, that will be the DEATH of OUR Constitution as we once knew it, and we will enter a new era where the meaning of the Constitution changes on a daily basis depending on the moods, passions, emotions and feelings of the Democrats that day as to what they would like the Constitution to mean that moment, and there will be chaos, as a result.
And that takes us back to this statement from The Bulwark article titled “Demagoguery in America” by Pejman Yousefzadeh on August 30, 2020, to wit:
The obvious problem, however, is that while few presidents may encounter twin crises like the Great Depression and World War II, the emergency powers of the president are vast, and the combination of presidential demagoguery and the exercise of presidential powers at the merest suggestion of an emergency is frightening to contemplate.
end quote
And while we contemplate that, let me go to this from the The Bulwark article titled “Demagoguery in America” by Pejman Yousefzadeh on August 30, 2020, for some background history, something we become more and more devoid on a daily basis it seems, where there is absolutely no fact-checking of claims made by the Democrats and the Biden regime, to wit:
Andrew Jackson, the earliest American demagogue Posner identifies, “was able to win the presidency because by his time the original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues had eroded.”
end quote
Now, people, and yes, I do sincerely believe that the readers of the Cape Charles Mirror are mature adults who wish to be presented with facts or opinions for them to consider, as opposed to being told what it is they must think, or in too many cases, what it is they must not think if they want to be considered by Joe Biden and the Democrats as “GOOD AMERICANS,” an ironic term deriving from the term “Good Germans,” referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way, I want to pause the narrative here with this phrase from The Bulwark article before us to ponder for a moment, to wit: “the original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues had eroded.”
WHAT were those original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues that had eroded by the time of Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian democracy?
WHY did those original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues erode in the first place?
And what does that mean for us in our times today, heading into an uncertain tomarrow?
And here let me leave you with this quote by Alexander Hamilton from FEDERALIST No. 85, Concluding Remarks, from MCLEAN’s Edition on 28 May 1788 to the People of the State of New York to consider the meaning of in relation to those supposed original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues, to wit:
These judicious reflections contain a lesson of moderation to all the sincere lovers of the Union, and ought to put them upon their guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue, in the pursuit of what they are not likely to obtain, but from time and experience.
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Paul Plante says:
So, picking up where we left off as the clock counts down to November 8, 2022, and election day, when the fate of OUR Republic and OUR Constitution and Separation of Powers, and especially the Tenth Amendment, wherein is clearly stated, although not heard or even acknowledged by Joe Biden and the Democrats, that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
From the demagogic rhetoric of Joe Biden concerning him overruling the Supreme Court with an executive order and thereby transferring control of abortions from THE PEOPLE in the states and their elected leaders to the Democrats in the federal government, it is that amendment that is clearly under threat here, people, and make no mistake about it.
If Joe Biden and the Democrats get their way come November, that will be the DEATH of OUR Constitution as we once knew it, and we will enter a new era where the meaning of the Constitution changes on a daily basis depending on the moods, passions, emotions and feelings of the Democrats that day as to what they would like the Constitution to mean that moment, and there will be chaos, as a result.
And that takes us back to this statement from The Bulwark article titled “Demagoguery in America” by Pejman Yousefzadeh on August 30, 2020, to wit:
The obvious problem, however, is that while few presidents may encounter twin crises like the Great Depression and World War II, the emergency powers of the president are vast, and the combination of presidential demagoguery and the exercise of presidential powers at the merest suggestion of an emergency is frightening to contemplate.
end quote
And while we contemplate that, let me go to this from the The Bulwark article titled “Demagoguery in America” by Pejman Yousefzadeh on August 30, 2020, for some background history, something we become more and more devoid on a daily basis it seems, where there is absolutely no fact-checking of claims made by the Democrats and the Biden regime, to wit:
Andrew Jackson, the earliest American demagogue Posner identifies, “was able to win the presidency because by his time the original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues had eroded.”
end quote
Now, people, and yes, I do sincerely believe that the readers of the Cape Charles Mirror are mature adults who wish to be presented with facts or opinions for them to consider, as opposed to being told what it is they must think, or in too many cases, what it is they must not think if they want to be considered by Joe Biden and the Democrats as “GOOD AMERICANS,” an ironic term deriving from the term “Good Germans,” referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way, I want to pause the narrative here with this phrase from The Bulwark article before us to ponder for a moment, to wit: “the original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues had eroded.”
WHAT were those original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues that had eroded by the time of Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian democracy?
WHY did those original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues erode in the first place?
And what does that mean for us in our times today, heading into an uncertain tomarrow?
And here let me leave you with this quote by Alexander Hamilton from FEDERALIST No. 85, Concluding Remarks, from MCLEAN’s Edition on 28 May 1788 to the People of the State of New York to consider the meaning of in relation to those supposed original constitutional bulwarks against populist demagogues, to wit:
These judicious reflections contain a lesson of moderation to all the sincere lovers of the Union, and ought to put them upon their guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue, in the pursuit of what they are not likely to obtain, but from time and experience.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 24, 2022 AT 6:09 PM'
Paul Plante says:
It is interesting as we talk about the dangerous demagoguery of Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first appointed president of the United States, that Vanderbilt University on its website has an article titled “Civics 101: Keep Demagogues Out of Democracy” dated April 7, 2021, by Eli Merritt, Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University, which article begins as follows, to wit:
SUMMARY
UNIFYING THEME: To Keep the Republic: Strengthening Democratic Principles at Home and Abroad
Political philosophers from the Greeks to the framers of the U.S. Constitution to Abraham Lincoln all warned of the mortal danger that demagogues pose to democracies.
Vital to their understanding of that danger was their familiarity with Greek and Roman history and political philosophy.
These foundational principles of democracy should not only be taught to students in Civics 101 but deserve continued emphasis to Americans of all ages.
end quotes
As a LOYAL AMERICAN who was educated in an America in a different century and millennium than today, when things education-wise in America were vastly different from what they have degenerated to in our present time today, especially with regard to familiarity with Greek and Roman history and political philosophy, I have to wholeheartedly agree with that statement that foundational principles of democracy deserve continued emphasis to Americans of all ages, especially today when we hear modern-day demagogues going on about “sacred democracy,” while weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth while turning puce with rage over the prospect of their political opponents “stealing” their democracy from them, as though it were a playground toy they were fearful of a playground bully taking from them after giving them a wedgie and a noogie and kicking sand in their faces.
Going back to the Vanderbilt article, it continues as follows, to wit:
The preservation of a healthy constitutional democracy in the United States in the coming decades hinges critically on whether Americans heed a golden rule of this free form of government as taught throughout the ages by democracy experts like Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Livy, Edward Gibbon, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln and especially the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
The golden rule is that demagogues destroy democracies.
In their writings and speeches, these incisive political philosophers teach us that demagogues, especially those serving as heads of state, are to the body politic of democracy what cancer is to the human body.
If the cancer is not kept out, or removed, it eviscerates critical organs and eventually kills the democracy.
end quotes
Think of that, people, as we head into the November midterms with the dangerous demagogue Joseph Robinette Biden using the bully pulpit of the presidency of the United States to engage in dangerous demagoguery intended to sway the election over to his supporters by vilifying and demonizing his political opponents.
And the problem we have here, is that we are using terminology that has gone out of the political lexicon, so we lack a cultural perspective and context that would help us understand the danger Joe Biden represents to our future and the future of our Republic, of which Joe Biden is a clear and present danger with his toxic demagoguery.
For that context, let us take a trip back in time to this nation’s beginnings, to see how the term was used in the America of that time.
Now, before we go back in time, by way of review, we have our modern definition of a “demagogue,” according to the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, being “one who leads the populace by appealing to prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician.”
Is that a description of American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, people?
Does American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior lead the populace by appealing to the many prejudices and passions of his political followers, such as calling his and their political opponents “DREGS OF SOCIETY,” and “semi-fascists,” and “MAGAtards,” and “MEGA MAGA Republicans?”
Going back to the definition of demagogue, while we have Joseph Robinette, Biden, Junior before us as a perfect text-book example of one, Wikipedia informs us as follows on that subject, to wit:
A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.
end quotes
Is that Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior they are talking about there, people?
Think carefully about it, because our collective future depends on it.
As we head into the November midterms, is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior out there on the campaign trail trying to gain popularity for himself and for his faction by arousing the common people against elites?
Be truthful with yourselves, people – is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior out there on the campaign trail right now as I type these words trying to gain popularity for himself and for his faction through inflammatory and incendiary oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups like the Republicans, while exaggerating dangers to democracy, and “who you love,” and the supposed right to an abortion on demand to stoke fears?
Is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior out there on the campaign trail right now trying to gain popularity for himself and for his faction by lying for emotional effect, while using rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity, as in the Cult of Joe?
Going back to Wikipedia, we have this to consider as well, to wit:
Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.
end quotes
Think about American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior telling his followers on 18 October 2022, as follows:
“I want you to remember that the final say (on abortion) does not rest in the Court now.”
“It does not rest with extremist Republicans in Congress.”
“The final say about your right to choose rests with you.”
“And if you do your part and vote, Democratic leaders in Congress I promise you will do our part.”
“I’ll do my part.”
end quotes
With that rhetoric before us, going back to Wikipedia, we are told that historian Reinhard Luthin defined a demagogue as “…a politician skilled in oratory, flattery and invective; evasive in discussing vital issues; promising everything to everybody; appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public; and arousing racial, religious, and class prejudices – a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses.”
Ask yourselves while there is still time, people – is that Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior he is talking about there?
Is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses, and Joe is doing as I write these words in here?
And now we take a break for station identification to give you an opportunity to get to the fridge for some munchies to fortify you as you ponder that question and after a solid, uninterrupted three hours of your favorite commercials, we will be right back, so don’t touch that dial!
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Paul Plante says:
It is interesting as we talk about the dangerous demagoguery of Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first appointed president of the United States, that Vanderbilt University on its website has an article titled “Civics 101: Keep Demagogues Out of Democracy” dated April 7, 2021, by Eli Merritt, Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University, which article begins as follows, to wit:
SUMMARY
UNIFYING THEME: To Keep the Republic: Strengthening Democratic Principles at Home and Abroad
Political philosophers from the Greeks to the framers of the U.S. Constitution to Abraham Lincoln all warned of the mortal danger that demagogues pose to democracies.
Vital to their understanding of that danger was their familiarity with Greek and Roman history and political philosophy.
These foundational principles of democracy should not only be taught to students in Civics 101 but deserve continued emphasis to Americans of all ages.
end quotes
As a LOYAL AMERICAN who was educated in an America in a different century and millennium than today, when things education-wise in America were vastly different from what they have degenerated to in our present time today, especially with regard to familiarity with Greek and Roman history and political philosophy, I have to wholeheartedly agree with that statement that foundational principles of democracy deserve continued emphasis to Americans of all ages, especially today when we hear modern-day demagogues going on about “sacred democracy,” while weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth while turning puce with rage over the prospect of their political opponents “stealing” their democracy from them, as though it were a playground toy they were fearful of a playground bully taking from them after giving them a wedgie and a noogie and kicking sand in their faces.
Going back to the Vanderbilt article, it continues as follows, to wit:
The preservation of a healthy constitutional democracy in the United States in the coming decades hinges critically on whether Americans heed a golden rule of this free form of government as taught throughout the ages by democracy experts like Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Livy, Edward Gibbon, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln and especially the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
The golden rule is that demagogues destroy democracies.
In their writings and speeches, these incisive political philosophers teach us that demagogues, especially those serving as heads of state, are to the body politic of democracy what cancer is to the human body.
If the cancer is not kept out, or removed, it eviscerates critical organs and eventually kills the democracy.
end quotes
Think of that, people, as we head into the November midterms with the dangerous demagogue Joseph Robinette Biden using the bully pulpit of the presidency of the United States to engage in dangerous demagoguery intended to sway the election over to his supporters by vilifying and demonizing his political opponents.
And the problem we have here, is that we are using terminology that has gone out of the political lexicon, so we lack a cultural perspective and context that would help us understand the danger Joe Biden represents to our future and the future of our Republic, of which Joe Biden is a clear and present danger with his toxic demagoguery.
For that context, let us take a trip back in time to this nation’s beginnings, to see how the term was used in the America of that time.
Now, before we go back in time, by way of review, we have our modern definition of a “demagogue,” according to the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, being “one who leads the populace by appealing to prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician.”
Is that a description of American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, people?
Does American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior lead the populace by appealing to the many prejudices and passions of his political followers, such as calling his and their political opponents “DREGS OF SOCIETY,” and “semi-fascists,” and “MAGAtards,” and “MEGA MAGA Republicans?”
Going back to the definition of demagogue, while we have Joseph Robinette, Biden, Junior before us as a perfect text-book example of one, Wikipedia informs us as follows on that subject, to wit:
A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.
end quotes
Is that Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior they are talking about there, people?
Think carefully about it, because our collective future depends on it.
As we head into the November midterms, is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior out there on the campaign trail trying to gain popularity for himself and for his faction by arousing the common people against elites?
Be truthful with yourselves, people – is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior out there on the campaign trail right now as I type these words trying to gain popularity for himself and for his faction through inflammatory and incendiary oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups like the Republicans, while exaggerating dangers to democracy, and “who you love,” and the supposed right to an abortion on demand to stoke fears?
Is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior out there on the campaign trail right now trying to gain popularity for himself and for his faction by lying for emotional effect, while using rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity, as in the Cult of Joe?
Going back to Wikipedia, we have this to consider as well, to wit:
Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.
end quotes
Think about American autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior telling his followers on 18 October 2022, as follows:
“I want you to remember that the final say (on abortion) does not rest in the Court now.”
“It does not rest with extremist Republicans in Congress.”
“The final say about your right to choose rests with you.”
“And if you do your part and vote, Democratic leaders in Congress I promise you will do our part.”
“I’ll do my part.”
end quotes
With that rhetoric before us, going back to Wikipedia, we are told that historian Reinhard Luthin defined a demagogue as “…a politician skilled in oratory, flattery and invective; evasive in discussing vital issues; promising everything to everybody; appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public; and arousing racial, religious, and class prejudices – a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses.”
Ask yourselves while there is still time, people – is that Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior he is talking about there?
Is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses, and Joe is doing as I write these words in here?
And now we take a break for station identification to give you an opportunity to get to the fridge for some munchies to fortify you as you ponder that question and after a solid, uninterrupted three hours of your favorite commercials, we will be right back, so don’t touch that dial!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 25, 2022 AT 6:32 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as we collectively consider in here why it is so important to the future of OUR Republic and our grandchildren that we strip American autocrat and demagogue Joe Biden of raw political power by taking control of the House of Representatives and the Senate away from him in the November 2022 midterms, The Blue Review, a project of the Boise State University School of Public Service, embracing the university’s state-mandated public affairs mission, the mission of which is to promote scholarship in the public interest, had an article titled “Demagogues and Democracy” by Gregory A. Raymond, Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Boise State University and a former Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, as well as a past recipient of the Idaho Professor of the Year award from the Carnegie Foundation, on February 11, 2019, where we are given this important background information on demagogues to give us a better cultural context to understand the threat Joe Biden represents to our American way of life, and our values, and especially OUR Constitution and the fate of OUR Republic, to wit:
When the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia during 1787 to craft a new system of governance for the United States, they drew upon their knowledge of history to identify potential dangers that might one day undermine the republic.
The founding fathers believed that understanding the problems that marred previous experiences with citizen-centered rule would alert them to the perils that America could face in future.
Foremost among their concerns was the threat that demagogues posed to civil discourse and democratic norms.
end quotes
Now, think about that for a moment, the threat that demagogues pose to civil discourse here in America, and then think to yourself, my goodness, could that be Joe Biden?
By denigrating LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZENS and by dismissing them as “DREGS OF SOCIETY,” and “semi-fascists,” and “MAGAtards,” and “MEGA MAGA Republicans,” is Joe Biden a clear threat to civil discourse here in America?
Going back to the Blue Review, the article continues as follows:
The term “demagogue” (dēmagōgos) arose in Greece during the fifth century B.C.E. to describe a new breed of charismatic politicians who sought to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices.
end quotes
That is back in the beginning, when the term “demagogue” essentially meant a “popular leader,” which takes us to our times today, and a CBS News article titled “Joe Biden breaks Obama’s record for most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate” by Sophie Lewis on December 7, 2020, where we had as follows:
In 2008, Barack Obama earned 69,498,516 votes in the presidential election, the most ever.
Now, Mr. Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden, has far surpassed that tally, setting a new record with more than 81,284,000 votes (51.3% of the total) in the 2020 election.
end quotes
So, people, based on that, is Joe Biden a popularly elected charismatic politician who seek to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices?
Consider this Reuters article from October 24, 2022 titled “Biden says Republicans would cause ‘chaos’ in U.S. economy” by Steve Holland, where we have Joe Biden clearly seeking to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Under pressure over his handling of inflation, U.S. President Joe Biden took aim on Monday at opposition Republicans, warning their economic plans would cause chaos in the world’s largest economy if they won control of Congress in Nov. 8 elections.
Biden appeared before a young, energetic crowd of Democratic National Committee workers at DNC headquarters, who greeted him with chants of “Let’s go Joe!”
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Note the “Cult of Joe” atmosphere, there, people, which marks Joe Biden out as a charismatic leader.
As to Joe seeking to lead that young, energetic crowd of Democratic National Committee workers at DNC headquarters by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices, the Reuters article continues as follows:
With 15 days before the midterm elections that will determine the course of the final two years of Biden’s term, polls give Republicans a decisive edge in the U.S. House of Representatives and are showing the Senate a toss-up.
Biden seized on Republican congressional leaders statements that they may refuse to approve an increase in the U.S. debt limit next year, which could throw the United States into default unless they can scale back some of Biden’s spending priorities.
“Republicans are determined to hold the economy hostage,” said Biden.
“There is nothing that would create more chaos …”
“Republicans are going to crash the economy.”
end quotes
That, people, is hysteria-mongering, plain and simple!
Joe Biden has no rational basis for those statements, given he is talking about possible future events which he has no way of knowing if they will happen, or not, but he doesn’t need a rational basis because his cult followers, whose passions and emotions Joe is appealing to, do not need a rational reason for anything – it is enough for them that Joe Biden said it would be so.
And that is demagoguery in action, where “demagoguery” is defined as “the spirit, method or conduct of a demagogue,” where the demagogue, in this case, Joe Biden, a classic text-book example of an unprincipled politician, a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.
And with that thought stated, let me pause here, to let that all sink in with this thought that I address myself, not to your passions, but to your reason; I speak as to wise men and women.
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Paul Plante says:
And as we collectively consider in here why it is so important to the future of OUR Republic and our grandchildren that we strip American autocrat and demagogue Joe Biden of raw political power by taking control of the House of Representatives and the Senate away from him in the November 2022 midterms, The Blue Review, a project of the Boise State University School of Public Service, embracing the university’s state-mandated public affairs mission, the mission of which is to promote scholarship in the public interest, had an article titled “Demagogues and Democracy” by Gregory A. Raymond, Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Boise State University and a former Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, as well as a past recipient of the Idaho Professor of the Year award from the Carnegie Foundation, on February 11, 2019, where we are given this important background information on demagogues to give us a better cultural context to understand the threat Joe Biden represents to our American way of life, and our values, and especially OUR Constitution and the fate of OUR Republic, to wit:
When the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia during 1787 to craft a new system of governance for the United States, they drew upon their knowledge of history to identify potential dangers that might one day undermine the republic.
The founding fathers believed that understanding the problems that marred previous experiences with citizen-centered rule would alert them to the perils that America could face in future.
Foremost among their concerns was the threat that demagogues posed to civil discourse and democratic norms.
end quotes
Now, think about that for a moment, the threat that demagogues pose to civil discourse here in America, and then think to yourself, my goodness, could that be Joe Biden?
By denigrating LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZENS and by dismissing them as “DREGS OF SOCIETY,” and “semi-fascists,” and “MAGAtards,” and “MEGA MAGA Republicans,” is Joe Biden a clear threat to civil discourse here in America?
Going back to the Blue Review, the article continues as follows:
The term “demagogue” (dēmagōgos) arose in Greece during the fifth century B.C.E. to describe a new breed of charismatic politicians who sought to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices.
end quotes
That is back in the beginning, when the term “demagogue” essentially meant a “popular leader,” which takes us to our times today, and a CBS News article titled “Joe Biden breaks Obama’s record for most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate” by Sophie Lewis on December 7, 2020, where we had as follows:
In 2008, Barack Obama earned 69,498,516 votes in the presidential election, the most ever.
Now, Mr. Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden, has far surpassed that tally, setting a new record with more than 81,284,000 votes (51.3% of the total) in the 2020 election.
end quotes
So, people, based on that, is Joe Biden a popularly elected charismatic politician who seek to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices?
Consider this Reuters article from October 24, 2022 titled “Biden says Republicans would cause ‘chaos’ in U.S. economy” by Steve Holland, where we have Joe Biden clearly seeking to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Under pressure over his handling of inflation, U.S. President Joe Biden took aim on Monday at opposition Republicans, warning their economic plans would cause chaos in the world’s largest economy if they won control of Congress in Nov. 8 elections.
Biden appeared before a young, energetic crowd of Democratic National Committee workers at DNC headquarters, who greeted him with chants of “Let’s go Joe!”
end quote
Note the “Cult of Joe” atmosphere, there, people, which marks Joe Biden out as a charismatic leader.
As to Joe seeking to lead that young, energetic crowd of Democratic National Committee workers at DNC headquarters by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices, the Reuters article continues as follows:
With 15 days before the midterm elections that will determine the course of the final two years of Biden’s term, polls give Republicans a decisive edge in the U.S. House of Representatives and are showing the Senate a toss-up.
Biden seized on Republican congressional leaders statements that they may refuse to approve an increase in the U.S. debt limit next year, which could throw the United States into default unless they can scale back some of Biden’s spending priorities.
“Republicans are determined to hold the economy hostage,” said Biden.
“There is nothing that would create more chaos …”
“Republicans are going to crash the economy.”
end quotes
That, people, is hysteria-mongering, plain and simple!
Joe Biden has no rational basis for those statements, given he is talking about possible future events which he has no way of knowing if they will happen, or not, but he doesn’t need a rational basis because his cult followers, whose passions and emotions Joe is appealing to, do not need a rational reason for anything – it is enough for them that Joe Biden said it would be so.
And that is demagoguery in action, where “demagoguery” is defined as “the spirit, method or conduct of a demagogue,” where the demagogue, in this case, Joe Biden, a classic text-book example of an unprincipled politician, a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity.
And with that thought stated, let me pause here, to let that all sink in with this thought that I address myself, not to your passions, but to your reason; I speak as to wise men and women.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-709623
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR OCTOBER 25, 2022 AT 8:50 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here we have yet more madness and insanity from good old short-sighted, shallow-thinking, knee-jerking Joe Biden, who is unable to put two and two together to get a four, with all of his green dreams and schemes that are nothing more than tax-payer funded pie-in-the-sky (a fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen), to wit:
Reuters
“Analysis: Biden’s EV minerals cash fruitless without permitting reform”
By Ernest Scheyder
October 24, 2022
Oct 24 (Reuters) – Washington’s growing financial support for companies that produce metals used in electric vehicles will likely prove fruitless unless the federal government streamlines the mine permitting process, investors, executives and consultants told Reuters.
President Joe Biden last week doled out $2.8 billion to miners developing new U.S. sources of lithium, nickel, copper and other EV minerals, as well as battery parts manufacturers and recyclers.
Those grants followed August’s Inflation Reduction Act, which links EV tax credits to minerals extracted domestically or from 20 allies.
Both measures aim to spur domestic mining and push the country closer to Biden’s goal for half of all new U.S. vehicles to be electric by 2030.
But it currently takes a decade or longer to obtain a U.S. mining permit, an arduous process that frustrates miners who welcome the financial support but want more permitting transparency.
Biden’s administration has also opposed permits for several proposed mines.
“The U.S. government is saying ‘Go! Go! Go!,’ but the environmental review process is extremely cumbersome,” said Jerry Hicks at the Optica Rare Earths & Critical Materials ETF, which holds shares of Albemarle Corp, Freeport-McMoRan Inc and Glencore Plc.
“China has the infrastructure in place, and it’s going to take a long time for the U.S. to get anywhere close.”
“What I would like, if I could ask for something, is predictability,” said Arne Frandsen, chief executive of mining investment group Pallinghurst and a director at Talon Metals Corp, which received $114.8 million from Biden to partially fund a nickel processing plant in North Dakota that will supply Tesla Inc.
“It’s difficult to get capital to commit if you don’t know if you’ll get a permit in 12 months or five years.”
Yet most proposed U.S. mining projects would be new mines that face widespread pushback, several from Biden himself.
Lithium Americas Corp’s efforts to build the largest U.S. lithium mine are mired in a court battle.
Piedmont Lithium Inc, which received $141.7 million from Biden, faces opposition to its North Carolina mining project.
“What really needs to happen is not for permitting to be relaxed, but to be expedited to ensure we can build the mines that can supply the automakers,” said Jordan Roberts, a minerals analyst at consultancy Fastmarkets.
Permitting delays may paradoxically keep EV prices high by limiting the domestic supply of minerals needed to reduce battery prices, said Hicks of the Optica Rare Earths & Critical Materials ETF.
The yawning divide between America and China’s approaches to funding the EV supply chain is now a top concern for many policymakers and their advisers in the nation’s capital.
“Unless you can break ground on these sites, you’re not going to be able to take advantage of those funds,” said Abigail Wulf at SAFE, an energy-focused think tank.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-710790
Paul Plante says:
And here we have yet more madness and insanity from good old short-sighted, shallow-thinking, knee-jerking Joe Biden, who is unable to put two and two together to get a four, with all of his green dreams and schemes that are nothing more than tax-payer funded pie-in-the-sky (a fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen), to wit:
Reuters
“Analysis: Biden’s EV minerals cash fruitless without permitting reform”
By Ernest Scheyder
October 24, 2022
Oct 24 (Reuters) – Washington’s growing financial support for companies that produce metals used in electric vehicles will likely prove fruitless unless the federal government streamlines the mine permitting process, investors, executives and consultants told Reuters.
President Joe Biden last week doled out $2.8 billion to miners developing new U.S. sources of lithium, nickel, copper and other EV minerals, as well as battery parts manufacturers and recyclers.
Those grants followed August’s Inflation Reduction Act, which links EV tax credits to minerals extracted domestically or from 20 allies.
Both measures aim to spur domestic mining and push the country closer to Biden’s goal for half of all new U.S. vehicles to be electric by 2030.
But it currently takes a decade or longer to obtain a U.S. mining permit, an arduous process that frustrates miners who welcome the financial support but want more permitting transparency.
Biden’s administration has also opposed permits for several proposed mines.
“The U.S. government is saying ‘Go! Go! Go!,’ but the environmental review process is extremely cumbersome,” said Jerry Hicks at the Optica Rare Earths & Critical Materials ETF, which holds shares of Albemarle Corp, Freeport-McMoRan Inc and Glencore Plc.
“China has the infrastructure in place, and it’s going to take a long time for the U.S. to get anywhere close.”
“What I would like, if I could ask for something, is predictability,” said Arne Frandsen, chief executive of mining investment group Pallinghurst and a director at Talon Metals Corp, which received $114.8 million from Biden to partially fund a nickel processing plant in North Dakota that will supply Tesla Inc.
“It’s difficult to get capital to commit if you don’t know if you’ll get a permit in 12 months or five years.”
Yet most proposed U.S. mining projects would be new mines that face widespread pushback, several from Biden himself.
Lithium Americas Corp’s efforts to build the largest U.S. lithium mine are mired in a court battle.
Piedmont Lithium Inc, which received $141.7 million from Biden, faces opposition to its North Carolina mining project.
“What really needs to happen is not for permitting to be relaxed, but to be expedited to ensure we can build the mines that can supply the automakers,” said Jordan Roberts, a minerals analyst at consultancy Fastmarkets.
Permitting delays may paradoxically keep EV prices high by limiting the domestic supply of minerals needed to reduce battery prices, said Hicks of the Optica Rare Earths & Critical Materials ETF.
The yawning divide between America and China’s approaches to funding the EV supply chain is now a top concern for many policymakers and their advisers in the nation’s capital.
“Unless you can break ground on these sites, you’re not going to be able to take advantage of those funds,” said Abigail Wulf at SAFE, an energy-focused think tank.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-710790