Inflation is going from bad to worse. Old Joe’s solution seems like it will make it from worse into a disaster.
Iran is not playing well with others and no one cares.
And things in Cuba are getting worse but the colors of the radical Democrats is coming to light.
This Ain’t Even Being Looked At Right Now
According to data released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the June 2021 “Survey of Consumer Expectations” reveals that median one-year inflation expectations climbed to 4.8% — a 0.8% increase since last month.
In January, February, March, April, and May, one-year expectations were respectively 3.0%, 3.1%, 3.2%, 3.4%, and 4.0% — implying that anticipated inflation has progressively increased since the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, three-year inflation expectations — currently at 3.5% — have remained essentially unchanged since last month, though they have also increased from January levels.
We are looking and expecting to be up to 5.4% by December, the highest inflation since these statistics were recorded in 2013.
To make things more exciting, the three top credit ratings services all believe the United States is about to lose their AAA credit rating in the future. This is due to political instability and soaring national debt mostly caused by the stimulus packages during CONVID. Currently our nations debt is at $28 trillion with a big budget coming up and no plans to curb spending.
Hey, don’t blame me. I voted for the other guy.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-expectations-under-biden-hit-highest-levels-on-record
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pointing-to-national-debt-ratings-agency-issues-negative-outlook-for-us-aaa-creditworthiness
Things Are Going To Get Worse
So, what does Biden think will help the economy and lower inflation? How about pushing a $3.5 trillion dollar budget proposal through Congress in a partisan vote using reconciliation. If reconciliation is used then Republicans cannot use the filibuster to stop it.
But the bill does more than that. It actually will offer amnesty to the 11 million illegal aliens in this country (in fact, it is closer to 20 million). Illegal aliens will get visas and green cards and a pathway to citizenship. Though the bill does have some restrictions, such as criminal record, nothing else is off the table.
There’s just one problem with this: We haven’t closed the border. This was tried by Ronal Reagan in the 80’s and we had our borders over run by illegal aliens who knew they would receive amnesty if they got over. The program had to be scrapped.
Democrats have two problems here:
- Not sure reconciliation will actually allow for this amnesty provision because it is a policy change not a financial change. Reconciliation on deals with financial bills.
- Joe Manchin (D, W. Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., AZ) have already shown apprehension about the huge budget and the immigration plans. Illegal immigration is not popular (especially in Arizona) and they are from red states.
Get ready for the fireworks. The elections in 2022 couldn’t come fast enough.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/cotton-claims-dems-trying-to-slip-massive-amnesty-into-reconciliation-bill/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/border-crisis-about-to-get-a-lot-worse-with-dems-amnesty-plan-sen-tom-cotton
Iran
This is a disturbing story that seems to disturb everyone except the Biden administration.
- Masih Alinejad, who now serves as a producer with Voice of America and is the author of “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran, is an American citizen that has been fighting for the rights of the Iranian people for years.
- Her goal is to motivate dissidents in Iran to create a grassroots push for change in Iran’s government and laws. She is formerly from Iran.
- Iran sent four men who joined a fifth man who lived in California.
- They then went to Alinejad’s home in New York and tried to kidnap her and force her back to Iran, presumably, to be executed.
- The men were all arrested.
- When asked about it, Jen Psaki said that American citizens would be protected but this was not a foreign policy issue but a local law enforcement issue.
Really?
- The Biden administration has just allowed Iran to retrieve money that was being held in Asia. What did we get? Nothing.
- Biden is trying to get Iran to rejoin the Iranian Nuclear Agreement. An agreement that gave Iran a ton of money and economic freedom that they used to attack Israel. What did we get? Nothing.
- Now they are walking onto US soil, threatening to kidnap our citizens and nothing is going to be done.
This is what happens when you embolden terrorists. Why the Left seems to have a soft spot for totalitarian regimes is beyond me. They’re doing it with Iran, China and Cuba. They’ve done it with Russia and Venezuela. I just don’t get what we are getting by appeasing these people but heartache.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/while-biden-goes-soft-on-iran-iranian-regime-reportedly-directed-kidnapping-of-american-anti-regime-journalist
Cuba
Speaking of Cuba, let’s talk about what is going on over there.
- People are still being arrested. A YouTube star in Cuba was arrested while she was running a live YouTube video. It was all caught on camera.
- The Cuba government has cut off the Internet to control the spread of information.
- Peter Doocy, straight out, asked Jen Psaki if this was a protest against communism. She said it was a fight against repression and a bad economy but refused to say if communism had anything to do with it.
There also appears to be some dissent within the Cuban government itself about the crackdown on protestors. ABC International reported:
Cuban Vice Minister of the Interior Brigadier General Jesús Manuel Burón Tabit has resigned after questioning decision-making within the ministry and the Security Council, as well as the excessive use of police force to repress the demonstrations of July 11 — the day that began the wave of protests that spread throughout the island, as ABC has learned from sources close to the regime. His departure is motivated by disagreements with other commanders — differences with respect to the measures taken during the protests last weekend.
“There is trouble within the Army and differences between the military of the old guard and young generals,” say the sources consulted by this newspaper.
This is not good news for the 60-year-old revolutionary regime. Maybe the younger soldiers are looking for a new revolution. Or maybe they are just tired of killing their own people.
The Black Lives Matter organization has also shown how they are a garbage organization. They said in a statement:
Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S. federal government’s inhumane treatment of Cubans, and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo. This cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans’ right to choose their own government, is at the heart of Cuba’s current crisis. Since 1962, the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine and supplies, costing the tiny island nation an estimated $130 billion.
Without that money, it is harder for Cuba to acquire medical equipment needed to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and equipment for food production. This comes in spite of the country’s strong medical care and history of lending doctors and nurses to disasters around the world.
The people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S. government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination. United States leaders have tried to crush this Revolution for decades.
That’s right! They took the Cuban government’s side because it is the fault of the United States. This is Howard Zinn level stuff and ignores everything that the Cuban government has done in the 60 years they have been in power.
The backlash has been brutal:
- Dan McLaughlin: “‘Cubans’ right to choose their own government’ has nothing to do with the government that is subject to the embargo. Mozambique? A Marxist government that persecuted churches, plunged the country into a civil war & made a third of the population refugees? That Mozambique?”
- Mark Hemingway: “So how much of the American establishment last year went to bat for an organization that is quite predictably defending an oppressive communist regime? Also, contra this obscene statement, the Cuban communist regime remains actively racist.”
- Carlos Curbelo: “Deplorable this organization has chosen to stand with the oppressive dictators who have murdered and enslaved innocent Cubans of all colors since 1959. The people responsible for ALL the death and misery in Cuba are the mostly white men who @Blklivesmatter has now embraced.”
- Giancarlo Sopo: “Disgusting! Despite the Cuban dictatorship’s murdering and beating of protestors (many of them Black), BLM’s statement on Cuba….condemns the US, praises the Castro regime, and makes no mention of the atrocities being committed by the dictatorship.”
I love the statement and the pushback. BLM has always been a corrupt, garbage organization and now they are showing their true feathers. This just makes CRT look worse also since Conservatives have said that it is nothing more than hate for America. When BLM makes statements like these, it just proves it.
By the way, AOC and Ilhan Omar are big supporters of BLM. They have yet to weigh in on the Cuban protests.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-lawmakers-slam-marxists-of-blm-for-cuba-statement
https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-faces-massive-backlash-over-deplorable-insane-statement-on-cuba
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-psaki-refuses-to-speak-out-against-communism-in-cuba-when-asked-about-root-causes-of-crisis
https://www.dailywire.com/news/real-fractures-within-the-regime-cuban-minister-resigns-after-disagreeing-with-crackdown-on-protests
https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-blast-biden-over-crisis-in-cuba-theyll-only-allow-in-people-who-wont-vote-republican
Oops
The AP is reporting that, of the 500 people who walked stormed the Capital Building on January 6th, not one has been charged with treason or sedition charges. Most have been charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and failure to obey.
We already know that the report provided to Congress said that the main problem on January 6th was bad security and not enough security. Remember, there is video of the Capitol Police allowing the protestors into the Capitol building and even taking pictures with them.
By the way, who’s in charge of security for the Capitol Building? Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House.
The question is none of these people has been released from jail. Why not?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-treason-or-sedition-charges-for-january-6th-capitol-rioters-report
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-government-and-politics-capitol-siege-61007f50fb3ebe15a07982112f05730c
Because It’s Systemically Racist
A third judge last week struck down the Biden administration’s multi-billion-dollar farm aid program that expressly excludes whites.
- The rule is from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue bill.
- It allows for government grants to be provided for farmer who are black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander and American Indian.
- White farmers could apply for the grants but those would be converted to loans which the famers would have to pay back.
- A farmer named Robert Holman sued that the section was unconstitutional and racist (this, by the way, is an example of systemic racism).
U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson stated:
“The Court finds that Plaintiff (Holman) has shown a substantial likelihood that he will prevail on his claim that Section 1005 violates his right to equal protection under the law. Absent action by the Court, socially disadvantaged farmers will obtain debt relief, while Plaintiff will suffer the irreparable harm of being excluded from that program solely on the basis of his race.”
Thank God for the judiciary and checks and balances.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-third-judge-strikes-down-bidens-racist-farm-aid-program-that-excludes-whites