Joe Biden Puts Rogue Regimes Ahead of American Families

Joe Biden is draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to keep gas prices low solely because he wants to mitigate voter wrath against the Democrats. This comes as OPEC cuts back production by 2 million barrels a day. That will drive up costs, drive up the repurchase cost for the petroleum reserve, and increase our national debt, which has now shot above $31 trillion with interest rates rising and debt service payments rising.

Biden has created this mess largely because he is subservient to rogue regimes and puts their needs ahead of Americans.  The outcome will be an emboldened China and a national security headache for the United States.

One of the reasons OPEC is going to cut production is because the majority of the Arab nations involved in OPEC are furious with Biden trying to cut a deal with Iran. Biden stopped considering the Houthi terrorists, funded by Iran, to be terrorists, and the Houthi then escalated attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

“Biden would rather empower tyrants than Texans and dictators instead of Dakotans.”

In advancing Iran’s interests at the peace table, Biden risks further destabilization in the Middle East in large part because no one really believes Iran will stop until it has a nuclear weapon. Iran is no friend of most of its Middle Eastern neighbors and wants to be the dominate power in the Middle East over and against Saudi Arabia.  This has alienated him from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others as China and Russia seek to ingratiate themselves with our long time allies.

Biden has also been highly antagonist to Saudi Arabia.  He insisted he would not meet with the de facto rule, Mohammad Bin Salman, then had to go grovel to Salman for more oil.  Now, despite the groveling to his face, Salman has responded to Biden’s knives in Salman’s back by leading OPEC to its production reduction.

Biden’s team and congressional Democrats decided to threaten both OPEC and Saudi Arabia.  Biden is signaling he is now okay with Congress pushing legislation that would purport to make OPEC legally liable for price collusion.  Good luck with that when OPEC stops sending the United States oil.  Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wants a wholesale revision of our relationship with the Saudis.  Doing either will make the Carter years look downright utopian.

Unfortunately, the Biden response further enables rogue regimes. The Wall Street Journal reports Biden is going to ease sanctions on Venezuela, a nation that brutalizes its own people, so Chevron can go get more oil. Biden has been hostile to Saudi Arabia in large part because of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote for the Washington Post.  Because the Venezuelans only kill their citizens and not Washington Post reporters, Biden is willing to help them raise more money to kill and persecute more Venezuelans.

The best response would be for the Biden Administration to open up domestic energy production. It would lower costs and create jobs. But the Biden Administration would rather alienate our Middle Eastern allies, embolden terrorist regimes, and side with murderous dictators than let Americans go to work producing our own domestic energy.  In September, the Wall Street Journal reported, “The Biden administration has leased fewer acres for oil-and-gas drilling offshore and on federal land than any other administration in its early stages dating back to the end of World War II.” Biden would rather empower tyrants than Texans and dictators instead of Dakotans.

The Biden Administration’s infatuation with getting rid of fossil fuels, something that will not happen, is driving up inflation and empowering China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.  Part of an environmentalist cult, the Biden Administration is going to destabilize the world profoundly. Right now, it is draining our domestic oil reserves and driving up the costs to fill those reserves back up just as we can least afford the payments.

Barack Obama wanted to never let a crisis go to waste. Joe Biden is manufacturing a crisis to take advantage of it, but a lot of smarter and more nefarious regimes are taking advantage of his aged infirmities and his administration’s malodorous schemes to force Americans into a lithium dependence, largely controlled by China.  Now, as gas prices rise again, expect Democrats to claim Saudi Arabia is trying to help elect Republicans.

Can I Just Say…

The two candidates for the Senate in Georgia are a real mess. Walker denies paying for an abortion he might have paid for and we now know the woman is one of the women who also birthed one of his previously unknown children. Whether you believe it or not, I have been telling you all for a year that Walker was the weakest, most vulnerable candidate the GOP could nominate in Georgia. They did so anyway because celebrity trumps credibility.

But also, Warnock ran over his wife, according to her. The Democrats would have us believe all women except Warnock’s wife. He ran away from a process server attempting to serve him papers over child custody and support. He neglected his children. He disrupted an investigation into child abuse. He had his divorce proceedings sealed and will not make them public. He’s been taking money from a church to pay for his housing despite a six-figure salary from the Senate. Democrats want to wrap Walker’s sins around the GOP and claim Warnock is a saint.

Actually, they’re both deeply sinful human beings and both the press and Democrats would prefer you pretend Walker is a devil and Warnock is a saint.

In Pennsylvania, Fetterman vandalized the sign of a black business and chased a black man down a street with a gun. He failed to pay taxes, lied about his background, and lived off his parents into his forties. Democrats are standing by him because they want control of the Senate. Republicans in Georgia are standing by Walker because they want control of the Senate. Both sides want power and because the media is on the Democrats’ side, they’re screaming about Walker while protecting Warnock and Fetterman.

All of that is to say yes, both sides have crap candidates and I totally understand why Republicans will stand by Walker, given the media’s defense and protection of Warnock and Fetterman. I wish everyone else thought good candidates and good character matter, but I totally get Republicans saying they cannot surrender with their bad candidates when the media covers for the Democrats’ bad candidates. It is an unfair and unlevel fight. These voters hate the caliber of candidates the parties are advancing but love their country so much they’ll go vote for the turd burger who doesn’t think taxpayers should have to pay to kill kids or who will defund the police or who will wreck the economy because the other turd burger keeps voting for awful policies that make the economic, crime, and cultural situation in the country worse.

But I also get many people saying “F— it,” and not voting. They think good candidates and good character count and you cannot really get good policy without good candidates and good character. If both sides are going to nominate clown candidates to star in the sh—t show of Washington, these voters are going to opt out and make it their ambition to lead a quiet life minding their own business and working with their hands so that their daily life may win the respect of others and so that they will not be dependent on anybody, including clown candidates at the sh—t show. Cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12. When you say that they need to vote to stop the bad policies they hate, they reply that you need to vote for better candidates who have the moral credibility to make the case against those bad policies.

I will show all of the above grace. We’re in a political realignment. We’re in unstable and uncharted times. All we can do is love our neighbors and show grace even to those who show us none.

Voters in Georgia are going to be asked to vote out a candidate who wants taxpayer-funded abortion on demand until birth and replace him with a man whose pull out game sucks and may not remember it all so that Republicans can control the Senate and stop the Democrats. I understand the aversion and revulsion to participating. I understand the feeling some have that they still must participate to stop policies they abhor.

How you decide is up to you. I’ll love you anyway

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