They finally won their first game after losing 20 in a row. They finished 57-105 that year, or, things did not really get any better after the terrible start.
How low can you go? The poll goes on to say that Putin saw a weak president and decided to invade Ukraine. Fair or unfair that's the way it is.
Can President Biden turn this around? Well, you never say never in politics. After all, the GOP could blow the golden opportunity ahead of them. Or they could get obsessed with 2020 recounts rather than getting some tangible things done, like school choice.
President Biden's problem is that an impression has been created, the weak leader that we don't see after 5 p.m. Or, the leader who lets the party's left wing put the talking points in the TelePrompTer.
Americans don't sense that Biden is in charge or physically up to the job.
The result is bad polls and more polls. We are not seeing the "rally around the president" during an international crisis. Instead, Americans are saying that President Biden's weakness invited the crisis.
Did I tell you paid $ 3.45 for a gallon of gasoline in Texas? Yes, Biden did that too.
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We've seen lots of cartoons with the caption "I did that," a reference to President Biden causing higher gasoline prices.
Guess what! He really did that. It's not political hyperbole. He did it, and it all started the first week of his presidency. Let's go on Memory Lane with this editorial on Tipp Insights:
On January 27, 2021, seven days into his term, President Biden issued a moratorium on new oil and gas lease permits on federal lands and waters. Republican attorneys general from 13 states sued. A federal judge sided with them, ordering the Biden administration to hold lease sales.
Not rebuffed, Biden, in June 2021, halted the Keystone XL pipeline project. The administration reluctantly held the lease sale, but another federal judge last month, to the administration's delight, canceled leases of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico.
The results have been immediate. During the first 11 months of 2021, crude production fell dramatically, to just 11.14 million barrels per day, a significant 9% drop. The decrease is a direct result of the aggressive efforts by the Biden White House to cripple oil production and distribution.
As world economies recover from the pandemic and OPEC producers and Russia refuse to increase output, a drop in U.S. energy supplies has pushed oil prices up and up.
Again, he did it. He caused your gasoline prices to go up. Worse than that, he set the table for what we are watching in Ukraine. Back to the editorial:
When Russia "invaded" Ukraine this week, the U.S. and U.K, joined by Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia, immediately announced various economic sanctions against Russia. They were best summarized by the comments of the E.U. foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles: "It will hurt a lot."
No commodity also has a more immediate impact on pocketbooks than oil. Europe, with its historically high fuel taxes, is especially vulnerable. This week, gasoline prices in the U.K. hit 150p a liter, the equivalent of $7.71 a gallon. Oil prices directly impact food costs at a time when inflation has already risen to 7.50 %, the highest in 42 years. If the level of hurt is the new metric, high street prices will hurt commoners just as badly and are unsustainable if the war continues for an extended period.
So he did it. He listened to a bunch of hysterical climate change activists rather than looking at the national security implications of cutting back energy production. The Biden administration's energy policy is run by an 18-year-old European girl named Greta. I'm sure Greta has a nice heart and means well. However, she does not understand geopolitics or how thugs like Putin use oil as a weapon.
Yes, he did that. Let's hope he will undo that and let the U.S. put its energy supplies to work for our interests.
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Call it hypersensitivity, but President Lopez-Obrador (AMLO) does not want the U.S. government asking questions about the fate of journalists in Mexico. Let's review the story from Pulse News Mexico:
One day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his concerns about the high incidence of murders of journalists in Mexico (with at least five reporters killed so far this year) and called on the Mexican government to provide “greater accountability” in the investigations of these cases, as well as better protection of reporters, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) snapped back on Wednesday, Feb. 23, calling the U.S. official “misinformed” and telling him to butt out on the matter.
Claiming that Blinken has been “duped” by his sources, which have led to him try to “interfere” in internal Mexican affairs, AMLO, speaking during his daily press conference at the National Place, said that although the murders of journalists in Mexico is “unfortunate,” thorough investigations are underway in each case.
Duped by his sources? The story here is the killings of Mexican journalists. We are up to six already in 2022. The latest is Michelle Perez Tadeo, a Mexican TV host and model. According to news reports, her body was found wrapped in sheets several days after disappearing.
Who is targeting journalists? We don't have a final answer but most of my friends in Mexico believe that criminal elements are just out to intimidate journalists, period.
Thankfully, Mexican journalists continue to do their jobs, dangerous as they may be. On this issue, Secretary Blinken is right in asking for some explanations.
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We have seen this movie before: Hungary 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968, and now Ukraine 2022. What do they have in common? We hate what we see on the screen but can't really do much about it. And Putin knows it. After all, we are not going to war over Ukraine, the same way we did not in the other two instances.
According to a new poll, Americans are not interested in getting involved in Ukraine:
Just 26% say the U.S. should have a major role in the conflict, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Fifty-two percent say a minor role; 20% say none at all.
The findings are a reminder for Biden and fellow Democrats that while the crisis may consume Washington in the coming months, pocketbook issues are likely to be a bigger priority for voters heading into the midterm elections. A December AP-NORC poll showed that Americans are particularly focused on economic issues, including rising inflation.
Anyone surprised?
Let me be clear. I hate what Putin is doing and the reckless invasion of a sovereign nation. It will cost lives and upset the financial markets. God only knows what I will pay for gasoline next week. I just paid $ 3.34 a gallon and they tell me that Texas is cheaper than elsewhere.
Biden now faces a reality that he can only play defense and react to whatever Putin is doing. Unfortunately, he also has to pick up the pieces and watch more and more reports on TV about inflation and gas prices. Putin breaks the window and Biden has to watch it. It reminds me of President Carter after the hostage rescue failed in April 1980. All that # 39 could do was to sit back and hope that the Iranians would release the hostages. Carter had no cards to play and neither does Biden. Life is unfair sometimes!
Wonder when Democrats start screaming for the guy with the mean tweets to return? Maybe they will go on MSNBC and call for a recount in those states in question. It was so much easier for the other side when all they had to do was call Trump a racist, a dictator, not interested in climate change or international arrangements.
It just keeps getting worse for Biden.
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What in the world is going on in Canada? Just last night, P.M. Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act that he'd been using since last Monday to crack down on protesters. But the Parliament had approved those "emergency" measures, as we saw in news reports.
The Emergencies Act was approved in parliament by 185 to 151, with the minority Liberal government getting support from left-leaning New Democrats.
The special measures, announced by Trudeau a week ago, have been deemed unnecessary and an abuse of power by some opposition politicians.
Am I the only person who thinks it's insane to do something this large on a purely party vote? Furthermore, the precedent set is dangerous by allowing authorities to declare certain areas as "no-go zones," allowing police to freeze truckers' personal and corporate bank accounts, and compelling tow truck companies to haul away vehicles. Also, some of the leaders were denied bail. And Trudeau did say that "the threat continues"...
How did Canada get here? This was not a national emergency. It was restricted to some cities and should have been handled as a local or provincial matter.
P.M. Trudeau and his colleagues in the Parliament sounded like a bunch of Democrats drunk on the January 6 story. They spoke of Nazi and Confederate flags, but no one saw them. P.M. Trudeau panicked and ran for the emergency powers, sort of like the Democrats in the U.S. issuing subpoenas.
It was a bad day for Canada, and a decision that P.M. Trudeau will regret.
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Back in 1980, or 42 years ago this week if you can believe that, the USSR had just invaded Afghanistan and the world was a mess. US diplomats were hostages in Iran. The economy was tanking and the dreaded inflation was about to hit the pocket books of millions of Americans. Communism was on offense in Africa and Central America. There was discontent from coast to coast, or "A crisis of confidence" as President Carter called it. Wonder why there was such a crisis of confidence? The crisis got bigger after the speech.
Sound familiar?
Back in 1980, many of us spent President Washington’s birthday watching an Olympic hockey game. It passed into the history pages as the “Miracle on Ice”. It was the first hockey game that I ever paid attention to! We didn't talk too much about hockey with our Cuban parents, as you might understand.
The U.S. beat the old USSR in the Olympic semifinals to move on to the gold game. It was a great game. In fact, listening to Al Michaels of ABC call the last minute of that game was unbelievable.
Here is the story of that day:
“In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the hockey gold.”
It gave us the uplift that we all needed back then!
Could we have another uplifting moment like that? I don't know because the 1980 Winter Olympics were in Lake Placid, New York, not communist and tyrannical China in 2022. Big difference. Also, is sports too "woke" these days to understand what defeating the other superpower on George Washington's birthday means. I don't know too many kids brought up in CRT History class.
I don't know if we could repeat the moment, but I was so happy that I got to see it and celebrate the win. Being optimistic, I hope that a future generation can enjoy what I enjoyed 42 years ago this week.
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We don't expect President Biden to say something about young men swimming as young women in the middle of the Ukraine crisis.
He's got a few other problems on his plate, too, from high gasoline prices to a general discontent from coast to coast. Sooner or later, President Biden should offer a comment about it.
Maybe a reporter can ask President Biden if he is happy about the way things have turned out in college sports.
The White House won't say whether Lia Thomas' dominance in NCAA women's swimming changes President Biden's position on transgender athletes competing in female sports.
Thomas, who previously competed on the University of Pennsylvania's men's swim team, has shattered multiple records since undergoing a gender transition and switching to the women's team.
In the past week, Thomas won Ivy League championships in three different events, breaking multiple records in the process.
Other UPenn swimmers and women's sports advocates have pointed to Thomas' dominance in calling to tighten NCAA rules on transgender athletes competing in female sports.
The White House didn't return Fox News Digital's request for comment on whether the controversy swirling around Thomas has impacted Biden's position on transgender athletes competing in female sports.
During Biden's 13 months in the White House, his administration has aggressively sought to ensure that biologically male athletes who identify as transgender girls are allowed to compete in female athletics.
So let's ask him: Is this Mission Accomplished, Mr. President? Are you happy for the young women who are watching a young man shatter their dreams, hopes and scholarships? How does the first lady feel about this? Or your granddaughter? Or what about the vice president? Where does she stand on this? Speaker Pelosi? The Squad?
Don't expect an answer anytime soon. First, the president never answers questions. Second, reporters don't ask Democrats these questions.
When does a college basketball team made up of transgenders win the Women's Final 4? Stay tuned because it's coming a lot of faster than you realize.
In the meantime, tell your athletic daughter that elections have consequences. Maybe she will remember that in November.
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It was one of the few times that then-candidate Joe Biden got out of the basement during the campaign. He said to Charlamagne tha God during a radio interview: 'If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black'. Maybe Charlamagne should revisit that comment because it has not worked so well for black Americans. Calling on Charlamagne for a follow up question.
The Biden economy is turning out to be a disaster for many of the people who voted for him, especially black Americans. This is from the New York Post:
February’s jobs report showed that US black unemployment, at 6.9%, is significantly higher than the overall 4% rate. Some areas are as bad as New York: In late 2021, black unemployment in Washington, DC stood at 15.4% vs. 8.1% overall. In Illinois, it was 13.3% vs. 7.4%. In California, 12% vs 7.2%.
Part of the issue: Blacks tend to be overrepresented in “frontline” industries (i.e., where work has to be in-person), and their wages tend to be lower. So blue-state policies that punish retail businesses and keep kids at home are going to do blacks disproportionate harm. NYC, for example, faces a 400,000-plus job deficit post-pandemic, with some 82% of those in face-to-face industries.
Another cause: Bidenomics, the big-spending, inflation-driving disaster of an economic policy that the White House has been all-in on since the inauguration.
Yes, it's been a disaster, as it always is when inflation hits any community.
The Biden administration believes that promising to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with a black woman will address this economic problem or prove that he cares about their situation. It won't, because the Supreme Court does not deal with gasoline prices or government spending, the two causes of the current economic crisis.
So if you voted for Biden you are black, according to him, but not doing very well according to reality.
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