Nov302022

Episode 639 – We Are in a Time of Revolution

Democrats and a couple of squish Republicans pass a worthless bill.

Could Brazil be on the verge of a coupe?

And Iran is having a really bad couple of weeks.

 

News

Here is some news:

  • The Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act 62-38.
    • 12 Republicans joined all the Democrats.
    • The law protects religious liberty only within the home and religious institutions.
    • The law does not extend protections of people living a religious life.
    • Marco Rubio and Mike Lee each had amendments to protect religious people but they were rejected.
  • The House passed a bill that would avert a rail strike next week.
    • This was after the President decided to send the negotiations to Congress. I don’t know what this guy does all day.
    • It is unclear if the bill will pass the Senate.
    • A strike would severely hamper the supply chain. I hope you’ve started your Christmas shopping.
  • Hakeem Jeffries has been elected to be minority leader in the House.
    • He is a far Left guy.
  • Eric Adams has decided to involuntarily hospitalize the mentally ill.
    • This is a good start. Now do criminals.
    • I don’t think this goes far enough. I think we need to build an entire sanitarium system for the mentally ill and drug addicted.
    • What about the cops here? What happens when they have to deal with this people to commit them and they don’t cooperate?
    • I will also bet the ACLU will sue New York because the mentally ill are having their freedoms taken away.
  • The U.S. Men’s team moved on to the knockout round of the World Cup.
    • That means they get a huge bonus for winning.
    • That bonus is going to be split with the women. All for equality.
    • I wonder when the women win, they will be splitting their winnings with the men? I kind of doubt it.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2022/11/29/same-sex-marriage-act-passed-by/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/house-passes-biden-backed-bill-avert-rail-strike
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-to-start-hospitalizing-mentally-ill-residents-involuntarily-taking-them-off-streets-adams-announces
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-dems-elect-hard-left-rep-hakeem-jeffries-to-succeed-pelosi-as-house-leader
https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/us-womens-national-team-will-get-half-of-money-won-by-usmnt-at-world-cup/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

 

You Don’t Say

 

Why

Another amazing move by the Biden administration:

Democrat President Joe Biden faced backlash over the weekend after his administration announced it would allow Chevron to resume pumping oil in socialist Venezuela.

The move from the leftist Biden administration reversed restrictions that the Trump administration had put on companies in an effort to oust socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Always got to spit in Trump’s face.

“On November 26th, the Unitary Platform and the Maduro regime announced the resumption of talks in Mexico City; a humanitarian agreement focused on education, health, food security, flood response, and electricity programs that will benefit the Venezuelan people; and agreement on the continuation of talks focused on the 2024 elections,” the Treasury Department said in a statement. “Following this announcement and consistent with U.S. government policy, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Venezuela General License (GL) 41, authorizing Chevron Corporation to resume limited natural resource extraction operations in Venezuela.”

The statement said that the move by the administration to “provide targeted sanctions relief” was based on the Venezuelan government’s recent actions to help its people and “support the restoration of democracy.”

Some things:

  • What about education, health, food security and power in this country? Who gives an f- about Venezuela? A country that actually stole the oil rigs from Chevron under Hugo Chavez. Why would you trust these people?
  • “Restore democracy”? Is this a joke?
    • Maduro is a brutal dictator.
    • He’s killed thousands of his own citizens.
    • The people are starving while Maduro is eating steak.

This is typical America-last policy. We are going to give money to a tyrannical government instead of creating jobs here, drilling on our own lands, refining our own oil (by the way, the oil from their will be a lot dirtier than oil we’d refine) and will have to pay them with tax dollars…again.

By the way, I do love one thing here. How is drilling in Venezuela better for the environment than drilling here. Doesn’t the oil have to be transported here by trucks, trains, boats and/or planes causing more carbon output?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/put-america-last-biden-gives-chevron-greenlight-to-start-pumping-oil-in-venezuela-again

 

Brazil

Brazil could be on the precipice of civil war or a coupe.

The current president, Jair Bolsonaro. lost his election a couple of months ago to the left wing politician, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Many in the country believe that the election was fraudulent. This comes from the use of voting machines that are susceptible to fraud and hacking. Sound familiar? Bolsonaro believes there were problems with the election and has challenged the results, but he said there will be a peaceful transition.

The people, on the other hand, are not happy about this. They shouldn’t be. Lula is a socialist and has been investigated several times for corruption and served prison time. The people also see what happened to Venezuela when they put a socialist in office and saw how that country turned out.

People are in the streets. You don’t see this on the news anymore but they’re still going. Tens of thousands are in the streets and have been since the election. That was a couple of months ago. There is some violence. Mostly with Molotov cocktails. Cities like Moto Grasso are basically shut down because of the violence.

Though the military has released a report saying there was no fraud in the elections, there are rumblings within the military and there is talk with implementing Article 42 of Brazil’s constitution, which allows the military to re-instate the “proper president”. Yeah the military can do that. I do want to emphasize the military says they are not going to do that, but, apparently, it is out there.

Lula will take office on January 1 and I think he will take office. Bolsonaro, who has not really been seen by the press, is not going anywhere. I don’t think Lula is going to make massive changes to the country like Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela. But the warmth he has with China could be a problem and that’s what people are worried about.

https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-caribbean-rio-de-janeiro-e4328ee88323100cdaa1e4e461006cce

 

Iran

Iran has had a bad week:

  • They are experiencing extreme amounts of protests over the killing of a 21-year-old woman who refused to wear her head scarf by the morality police.
    • Thousands have been killed by the police and military.
    • It’s not working, women are still not wearing their head gear.
    • Of course, the mullahs are blaming the United States for orchestrating the protests.
  • The World Cup.
    • The United States Team, to stand with the Iranian protestors, posted the Iranian flag without the Islamic symbol. Iran screamed about this a demanded that FIFA kick the team out of the World Cup. The United States removed the post.
    • Iran forced the Iranian soccer players to sing their national anthem by threatening to arrest, torture and kill their family members. Remember, they refused to sing it because they were standing by the protestors.
    • Iran ended up losing to the United States and were eliminated.
    • We’ll have to see what’s going to happen to these players when they get back to Iran.

The mullahs are in trouble. They are old and extremely conservative and the people of Iran are younger, more liberal and more secular. This goes for the military too. The people of Iran are becoming westernized. I don’t know how much longer they have to rule.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63762276
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/iran-is-calling-for-the-us-to-be-thrown-out-of-the-world-cup-after-flag-change.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/26/middleeast/iran-supreme-leader-praises-crackdown-intl/index.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-it-has-proof-that-western-states-were-involved-protests-2022-11-28/