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⭐️ Doug Fir

OP-ED: When Conservative Theory Collides With Conservative Reality

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urt Schlichter: It’s always amusing when someone who has not been an active conservative and free marketer for over 40 years and did not run his own small business for nearly 30 years, as I have, gets accused of being a socialist because he refuses to pretend that the world is not as it really is. I like free enterprise. It’s in my blood; everyone in my nuclear family had his/her own business. And while I am not sure that Donald Trump‘s latest heresies to the Cult of Milton Friedman (and I’m definitely a Friedman believer) will ultimately prove efficacious, I know the current system certainly isn’t doing the job for us. And the current system isn’t anything like true free enterprise.

I’m tired of the unprincipled application of conservative principles. What we have here are many conservatives making the same fundamental error that they make about so many other things. They are assuming the world is as they wish it to be, not as it is. They are mad because real life is screwing up the application of their beautiful theories; and again, I want to emphasize, I love these theories. I would love to have a system where the courts do the courts’ proper things, the Congress does the Congress’s proper things, and the president does the president’s proper things, but that’s not our current system. I would love to have a system where immigration is rationally handled both for input and output, but that’s also not the system we have. And I would love to have as free a market as humanly possible. I would also like a pony.

But in so many areas, we don’t have a free market. The problem is that many of our co-conservatives demand that we pretend we do. They wish to govern based on that fantasy. Of course, our opponents don’t feel themselves bound to that. They do what’s to their advantage. This is how we get a situation where we are charged whatever other countries and large companies want to charge, but we are effectively barred from putting price pressure downward by the imposition of regulations and monopolies. In other words, we’re supposed to pay only what the market will bear, but we end up paying what the government and big corporations tell us we must pay.

This is not capitalism and this gives capitalism a bad name. The “principled” conservatives pretend that a free market exists where there is no free market, and they tell us that we must accept the downside of free enterprise without any of the upside. The upside is defeated, in large part, by other players who are not expected to fulfill their obligations under a free enterprise paradigm. That’s a pretty lousy deal, and it should come as no surprise that we’re tired of it.

What Trump is doing is beginning the discussion over how we resolve this problem, because us normal people getting screwed while other people benefit cannot continue. I’m tired of being told that I’m violating conservative principles by pointing out that I’m the only one expected to adhere to the conservative principles, and the people who don’t are getting a free ride.

Just last month, we had that discussion over tariffs. Of course, the default conservative position – the super-simplistic one – is tariffs bad, no tariffs good. OK, I think that’s the correct default position if you only consider the economic considerations. But there are other considerations; it’s not all about the money. There’s national security. Even Milton Friedman understood that you had to have your own on-shore bomb-making industry because you can’t rely on cheaper foreign bomb producers. But there are also cultural considerations. We destroyed the Midwest by allowing massive outsourcing of our manufacturing. According to some conservatives, I’m not supposed to notice that, but it’s hard to miss unless you’re in Manhattan or Washington, DC. The hell with that. Having millions of my fellow Americans impoverished and their communities wrecked is bad, and we should not do that. I’ll sacrifice some economic efficiency so that tens of thousands of Americans aren’t so broke that they turn to fentanyl and other social pathologies. If it makes me not a conservative to point out there are effects other than ones that involve bank accounts, you are free to call me whatever name you like. My country is more than just a profit and loss statement.

Here’s the thing. We didn’t have a free-market tariff regime before Donald Trump came along. We had America with, in many cases, significantly lower tariffs on stuff imported from foreign countries than those foreign countries put up against us. There was once a reason for that. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, it allowed the rest of the world to rebuild. We hadn’t been destroyed as many other countries had. But I just checked my watch, and it’s been about 80 years since Hitler blew his brains out. Why are we still doing this? If, after eight decades, a country is not back on its feet, it’s on its own.

All we hear from the hyper-principled gang is how raising our tariffs is terrible, but we never hear anything about how the foreigners’ higher tariffs are terrible. Once again, we bear the obligations of the free market paradigm, but don’t get the upside. I’m looking for a good argument for why, in 2025, we should generally allow foreigners to have higher tariffs on American goods than Americans put on foreign goods. Why are we forbidden from leveraging our economic power to force reciprocity with other countries? I have yet to see someone make a case for the status quo ante Trump. All I hear is about how I’m now a Democrat and maybe even a socialist for not believing we should get the short end of the stick in a non-free enterprise paradigm.

It hasn’t helped the critics’ case that the sky did not fall. Yes, there was some disruption immediately after Trump began to change the postwar order. Who would think there wouldn’t be a disruption when you’re disrupting the post-war paradigm? But the disruption seems to be dissipating. As I write this, my 401(k) has nearly recovered from the shock of Liberation Day. There might still be some problems down the road. There are plenty of people out there predicting/hoping that we’re going to have an economic convulsion that they can pin on Trump. Remember, a lot of the uproar is pure politics from people who hate him. But the fact is that the free marketers who are mad at Trump’s refusal to pretend the old tariff regime was a free-market regime have not seen their dire predictions come true. Nor have they offered any alternative to the old regime that has caused us so much non-economic damage. Their only suggestion is to keep unilaterally free marketing even harder in the face of foreigners who aren’t free marketing at all.

The same thing is true of Trump’s drug proclamation. We all know that Big Pharma has been in the pockets of Democrats and screwed Republicans over for decades, so on a purely tactical level, I don’t understand why we would sacrifice even an iota of political capital to keep our enemies happy. Defending the status quo, where drug companies charge Americans hugely inflated prices compared to the rest of the world, has a political cost. Why should we bear it so that allies of our political enemies can get even richer?

We’re hearing a lot about price controls. Price controls are a bad thing in general. But here’s the thing. Drug prices are already controlled. They are controlled by government action and regulations, which Big Pharma directly influences through direct lobbying. How is that free enterprise? Maybe it’s time we do the controlling ourselves to our advantage, since nobody seems interested in deregulating the medical industry and making it an actual free enterprise system.

We should. I was a lawyer, one of the fields that is about as close to a free market as you can get. I could charge per hour what the market could bear with very minimal regulation. The ethics rules said I could not charge “an unconscionable fee,” but what was that? Plus, there was also substantial price pressure downward. I often defended large companies. I could charge them a decent rate because I was pretty good, but somebody else was always good too and might want to undercut me. As such, we had real price competition in the legal market. Consumers could put pressure on providers, and providers could put pressure on consumers. That’s how it’s supposed to be.

But that’s not to pretend that the drug market is like that. It is super-regulated on every level, from production to testing to distribution to what can be charged by whom. Big Pharma manipulates the government via lobbying; that’s what stands in for competition in setting prices. We consumers have almost no price power regarding a product where, if you don’t get it, you literally die. 

In other words, the drug market is not a free market, but we’re being told that we have to pretend it is and not play by the rules that actually exist. In a free market, I could find cheaper drug sources. How do I do that today? For example, drugs are much cheaper in Canada. In a free market, I could go buy them in Canada. Except I can’t go buy drugs from Canada. That’s not legal. There’s no way for consumers to force prices down via consumer spending choice, yet I’m supposed to pretend there is and refuse any attempt to regulate the market to my advantage while not objecting to the current regulation of the market that is not to my advantage. Yeah, no thanks. Trump has recognized that political power sets drug prices, not competition; he’s simply using that power for our advantage rather than for Big Pharma’s. I’m unsure why that’s unprincipled. One set of rules, folks.

There is nothing wrong with belonging to the mainline Cult of Milton Friedman, but I’m not going to be part of any fanatical offshoot demanding I offer human sacrifices. If we want to convert the medical sector of our economy into a real free enterprise paradigm – something I think would be a great policy choice – then let’s do that. But the idea that we’re going to highly regulate the industry and also decree that any attempt to regulate it in our favor, as opposed to Big Pharma’s favor, violates the sacred texts is just not going to fly. I didn’t want this system, and I don’t want this system, but I’m not morally obligated to pretend this system doesn’t exist as currently constituted. None of us is. So, if Trump is going to change the rules of the rigged game so that we get screwed a little less, as he’s done on both tariffs and Big Pharma, cool. When you “principled” conservatives who demand unilateral free enterprise puritanism present me with an actual free enterprise paradigm, we can talk. Until then, we’re going to play the game by the game’s rules, and if you don’t like it, you can go ahead and call me a “socialist” again. ✪

The World Is Rejecting The ‘Green Scarcity Gospel’ & Embracing ‘Energy Abundance’

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n 2019, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg; then a high-school dropout, was invited to the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City. There, she would deliver her famous or infamous, depending on who you ask, “how dare you” speech, to which legacy media responded with an overwhelming enthusiasm. Thunberg claimed that we were at the start of a “mass extinction cycle,” and she admonished the world for ignoring the alleged crisis while talking “about money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”

What a difference only six years can make. Voters elected a president in November who signed an executive order aimed at “unleashing American energy,” and Energy Secretary Chris Wright followed the president’s order with a directive to promote “energy abundance.” 

This U-turn in views on energy isn’t limited to a change in administration in the U.S. In May 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA), which has been criticized for cheerleading emissions reductions, launched a roadmap to reach net zero by 2050, and IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol told The Guardian that “there will not be a need for new investments in oil and gas fields, or new investments in coal mines.” 

At the March CERAWeek energy conference in Houston this year, Birol was calling for more investments in oil and gas. 

This shift away from the de-growth fervor that was popular for over a decade was the overriding topic at the RealClear Energy Future Forum last Monday. Panels of experts in engineering, data centers, mining, oil and gas, and the electricity grid discussed how this change of views has impacted various aspects of the world’s energy picture. 

“I think we’ve gone from scarcity to abundance; from the green gospel of scarcity and its Trinitarian ESG god, to the promised land of abundance guided by the values of affordability and reliability,” David DesRosiers, conference co-chair and founder of the RealClear Foundation said. 

✪ When Reality Finally Hits

Mark Mills, conference co-chair and director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, discussed the role of increasing energy demand as a result of the growth of data centers and artificial intelligence. While many tech companies such as Microsoft, embraced net-zero goals, Mills explained that the energy demands of data centers forced companies to contend with the reality that although fashionable in some circles, intermittent wind and solar power are not adequate. 

“Eventually, reality rears its ugly head, and we recalibrate around what reality permits,” Mills said. 

The IEA last month released an in-depth report on how the demand for electricity will be shaped by AI in the coming years. According to the report, a single data center uses as much electricity as 2 million households. Powering one of these data centers, Mills said, requires as much natural gas every day as a single Space X rocket launch. 

“With myriads of data centers planned and announced, this means that lighting up the digital infrastructure will soon have the energy demands equivalent to reliably powering hundreds of millions of households,” Mills added.

Mills said, besides the energy to power these data centers, they will also require an abundance of materials. A skyscraper requires the same amount of materials to build a single giga-scale data center, which is a data center requiring 1 billion watt-hours of electricity every hour. The same amount of power consumed by approximately 1,100 homes in a month. 

While some have argued that increased efficiencies will address the demand, Mills pointed out that a single smartphone operating at the energy efficiency of a 1984 computer would use more electricity than an entire city block. More efficiency won’t reduce demand for energy, he explained. It will only increase how much can be done with more energy. 

✪ The Way The Grid Works

Energy abundance is not only producing more energy. The supply has to be reliable, the experts at the conference said. A few speakers pointed to the blackouts that gripped Spain and Portugal last month as an example of how dangerous an unreliable energy supply can be. Estimates place the death toll from the one-day event at seven people. 

James Robb, CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, said that the exact cause of the event is still under investigation, but there are facts that point to the overreliance on intermittent wind and solar. 

At the time of the blackout, Robb said, there was little traditional generation — coal, natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear — operating. To make wind, solar and battery power work on the grid, it has to go through an inverter, which doesn’t have the spinning inertia of generators powered by traditional sources. Grid operators need to maintain a certain frequency of power, and when there’s a disruption, spinning inertia can absorb some of the frequency changes until things stabilize. 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie explained inertia as a 100-acre lake 6-inches deep. At one end is a river flowing into the lake, like power generated on the grid. At the other end is a river flowing out of the lake, which is the demand for power. To make the grid work, the water has to be kept 6-inches deep at all times. 

“If that lake, at any point, becomes an inch deeper or loses an inch of depth, the lake ceases to operate. That’s the way the grid works. It has to be balanced at all times, and that’s the term frequency,” Christie said.

Robb said there are technologies that create synthetic inertia for wind and solar generators, but these are unproven at scale. 

“They’re not without their issues there, and one of the big challenges we always have in the electric grid with any new technology is you can study something in the lab. You can deploy…a pilot [project] on a grid somewhere. But when you try to scale it to the level of the North American grid, which is a terawatt of generation, typically in that translation from pilot to terawatt, we discover things that we don’t understand,” Robb said. 

✪ Holding Back

Despite many signs pointing to the over reliance on solar energy on the Iberian Peninsula grid as being the cause of the blackouts, other speakers noted that politics is often holding back more discussion on the problem of intermittency. 

“It is very clear that the intermittency of wind and solar had a great deal to do with shutting down the grid, but you cannot admit that if you’re in power in Spain or Portugal. Because there are liabilities,” Terrence Keely, CEO of 1PointSix, LLC, a financial advisory firm, said. 

Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global, said that between 2022 and 2023, the world’s dependence on fossil fuels was down less than one half of one percent. Yet, he said there were still contradictions coming from leaders. As an example, he pointed to British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer who recently said that Britain would increase emission-reduction efforts to 2050. 

“But he also said, ‘Oh, let me be clear with you, oil and gas are going to be in the mix for a long time.’ That really captures the struggle of people, of leaders, to kind of adjust to a reality that’s different from what has been the conventional wisdom,” Yergin said of Starmer.

As with any global shift in thinking on issues, some nations are slow to change — or reject it altogether. But the experts at the forum concluded generally that the so-called energy transition, and the de-growth attitudes that drove it for so long, are finally beginning to lose steam. ✪

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exas Governor Greg Abbott says the state has put an end to all construction of EPIC City, a massive development planned outside Dallas that was intended to be exclusively for Muslims and where Sharia Law was expected to be imposed on residents when it came to fruition.

“Texas has halted any construction of EPIC City,” Abbott declared on X:

“There is no construction taking place. The state of Texas has launched about a half dozen investigations into this project. That includes criminal investigations. And, the US Department of justice is also investigating. This matter, and similar matters, are taken very seriously, and actions are being taken to address all concerns.”

His statements came days after news that the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice had launched an investigation into the project. Last month, Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) called on the administration to carry out the probe, saying it was a discriminatory “religious settlement where Islamic principles govern not only daily life and education, but commerce.”

Cornyn said:

“A master-planned ‘community of thousands of Muslims’ could violate the constitutional rights of Jewish and Christian Texans, by preventing them from living in this new community and discriminating against them within the community. I further encourage the Department to investigate whether Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslim minorities would receive equal protection under the law in this new community. Religious-based discrimination, whether explicit or implicit, is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”

The same day, Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he was investigating communications between the East Plano Islamic Center — around which EPIC City was to be built — and officials in the Texas towns of Plano, Richardson, and Wylie.

Paxton said:

“If any local official is supporting or communicating with a real estate development that is under investigation for potential violations of state law, then it’s imperative that we are made aware of exactly what’s being communicated. We will thoroughly review these documents as part of our ongoing investigation into EPIC City and work to hold accountable anyone who breaks Texas law.”

The news of the Muslim development comes as similar projects have made headlines in Texas. Colony Ridge, a massive development outside of Houston, has become a breeding ground for crime due to an influx of illegal immigrants who have flocked to it. It is similarly under federal investigation and has been targeted by Texas officials, most recently with raids on illegal immigrants carried out in coordination with the Federal Government.

Abbott says the Islamic center is being investigated by a dozen state agencies, including whether or not its planned practice of refusing to sell or rent housing based on religion would break state law. ✪

Will Mark Carney Strut Into Parliament With A Canadian Majority Government?

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mainly media-ignored massive Canadian coup d’etat—pulled off by Prime Minister Mark Carney will be royally sanctioned by King Charles III when he makes his Speech From Throne on May 27th.

Carney’s Coup d’etat is coming at the world full-speed, starting with the swearing-in of Carney’s new cabinet, on the heels of another Liberal seat gained in the latest post-election judicial recount. “The swearing-in of Carney’s new cabinet is set to take place at 10:30 a.m. ET at Rideau Hall.” (National Post, May 9, 2025).

The “new” cabinet will likely include some of former PM Justin Trudeau’s same-old, same-old cabinet members. Disastrously, Carney’s coup d’etat from start to finish places Canada under the control of the Klaus Schwab-founded World Economic Forum (WEF), in which globalist central banker Mark Carney is one of the Communist advocating organization’s most prized members.

Carney’s coup d’etat is coming upon Canada as suddenly as one of its summer rainstorms, with mostly only Trudeau’s previously bought-and-paid-for media reporting on it, kicking off with Carney advancing from Liberal ranks as the first Canadian Prime Minister, initially arriving on the scene without a single vote before calling a Snap Election on April 28th.

Able to exploit a deeply-seated Canadian DJT syndrome by beefing up Canadians’ distrust of the American president’s tariffs and talk of annexation, Carney managed to shift the blame away from the scandal-ridden Liberal Party, and their 10-year-long Liberal economic disaster, to President Trump that left Canada bordering on bankruptcy, with countless Canadians left jobless and hungry, struggling to come up with the money to keep warm during brutal Canadian Winters.

Conservatives are still trying to come to grips with the stunning results in the April 28th election, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre up against almost 100 ‘candidates’ contenders in the race having lost his seat.

Poilievre should, but won’t, blame his loss on fighting President Trump rather than separating himself from and fighting against a Liberal installed PM Carney.

Carney’s chief Clown Act and government-funded media circus was what must been the most absurd visit to the White House of all time, one about which he had boasted to put the Leader of The Free World in his place. LOL!

Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, (Trudeau’s former babysitter), Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Public Safety Minister David McGuinty joined Carney on his recent trip to Washington, D.C., to meet U.S. President Donald J. Trump; where nothing of his repeated boasts of standing up to Trump was even apparent.

Carney’s “Elbows Up,” tough on Trump gaslighting of the Canadian Electorate passed with little media scrutiny, allowing it to fade into obscurity.

The pomp and circumstance of King Charles III opening Canadian Parliament will serve to move the ‘news needle’ away from where the coup d’etat is now: the Liberals working feverishly to change their post-election minority status to majority, having already flipped two seats and now only two seats away from majority status; with more judicial recounts happening.

The Liberals are also reaching out to the NDP to get some members to cross the floor and join what many call “Canada’s National Governing Party.”

With Canada’s sovereignty having already been ceded over to the Communist-advocating World Economic Forum—by his predecessor Justin Trudeau, Carney had the gall to tell CBC that “the decision to have King Charles open the next session of Canada’s Parliament ‘clearly underscores’ the sovereignty of the country.”

Every new session of Parliament is opened by a throne speech, a document that lays out the government’s expected direction and goals, and how it plans to achieve them.

King Charles will travel to Canada later this month and deliver the speech from the throne on May 27, it was announced Friday. “This historic honour matches the weight of our times,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday as he announced the news. He added that Queen Camilla would also join the visit.

Mark Carney ran his campaign on a largely anti-Trump platform and reiterated that Canada will always remain sovereign, independent and free. Having Charles assume his place at the centre of our parliamentary institutions is a clear signal of Canada’s unique political and national identity compared to our neighbours to the south.

Unfortunately, the vastly uninterrupted coup d’etat by a man far more dictator than leader will affect more than the country called Canada. God forbid that Canada’s WEF rule will go on to spread through the Western World.

And just to think that all of this was made possible by a clownish character, turned out in hockey jerseys with an “Elbows Up” slogan largely supported by Canada’s senior citizens, nicknamed “Boomers!”

Canada Free Press joins countless Canadians in asking: “When will the Carney Comedy end?” ✪

We Have No Moral Obligation To Forgive Or Forget The Biden Lies

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hat a remarkable coincidence that Joe Biden’s wranglers discovered he had cancer right in the middle of the revelations about how he was totally senile and everyone around him, including his very real doctor wife, covered it up. Yeah, right. His puppet masters knew, even if that human rutabaga didn’t. Stage IV prostate cancer doesn’t sneak up on you. It’s easy to detect. I know my PSA. It’s .07. I got it tested a couple of weeks ago. I get it tested every year. Weird that I have better medical care than the President of the United States, right? But you don’t believe that. And I don’t believe that. The hacks, frauds, and charlatans demanding that you believe that certainly don’t believe that.

The Democrat Party: It’s all a lie. It’s all a scam. They hid his likely terminal disease so he could be reelected, disclose it, quit, be hailed as a selfless hero and hand the country to that drooling half-twit vice president of his. We all know it. And we need to say it, loudly and often, regardless of how hard the whiners whine.

There are two categories of people who heard the “news” – well, it was only news to the American people – and immediately told us that we need to slow our roll on demanding accountability for the rudderless presidency in solemn deference to this ultra-convenient revelation.

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The first kind are nice people, too nice. Some are serial Fredocon invertebrates who always counsel weakness, submission, and silence. Some believe Christian charity requires not only prayers for him and his family but a free pass on this massive wrongdoing for everyone involved. Others have an understandable sensitivity to the subject because they had family members who suffered the same terrible illness Joe Biden has just been revealed to have; even though everybody around him must’ve known he had it for years and simply lied to cover it up. 

Well, the sissies can pound sand; they look at history and think the Vichy French were too belligerent. I’m not going to judge the others; you need to follow your conscience. But I’m also not going to listen to them. I’m going to say what I want, all the time, and I’m going to continue to point out that Joe Biden is an evil, senile, corrupt pervert, who was and is surrounded by minions interested only in retaining their prestige, power, and plunder.

The other category of people demanding that we shut up about the obvious truth that this is all part of an enormous scam are the people in on the con, the Democrat politicians, social media mouthpieces, and the regime media. But truth-shaming won’t work, not anymore. It’s remarkable how stuck in the 20th Century these Democrats and affiliates are with their narrative-molding strategies.

They really think that the old rules are still in effect, that they can leverage fake decorum to shut us up because the regime media will be able to act as censors and keep the hard questions from ever being asked. Well, today there are more than three networks and there are more than two newspapers. There’s also this thing called the Internet, and we’re going to use it to talk about how the people who put their hands inside Joe Biden’s puppet head faked his presidency for four years. 

This bogus cancer diagnosis – I don’t doubt that he has Stage IV cancer, I just doubt his handlers figured that out last week – is so obviously a flex designed to shut us up that I’m almost insulted they would pull it on us. They must think we’re Democrats too, that we’ll fall for this nonsense, that we will decide to lighten up on our righteous fury provoked by the recent revelations, in books and in the Hur tapes, about how everybody in the White House, the Democrat Party, and the regime media knew he was senile and lied to our faces for four years. That’s four years at a minimum – the dude has been an eggplant for the last ten, and even before that he was a moron. “But but but but but you’re picking on a guy with a stutter who has prostate cancer!”

Well, the fake fussy pearl-clutching over us being meanies isn’t going to work anymore. I, for one, remember their grave disappointment when Donald Trump was almost murdered, and when an innocent man was. Just the other day, I stumbled on an old Twitter thread of leftist morons explaining how the whole Butler shooting thing was a giant head fake designed to do something because of reasons and shut up, you’re all racists and literally Hitler. If Trump got a prostate cancer diagnosis, every blue state and Ivy League college campus would declare a holiday. The difference is that we’re not celebrating his disease; we’re just not granting a blanket pardon because of it.

I need to ask, “What’s the rule?” What’s the rule about the reaction we’re allowed to have to a transparent attempt to shut up any discussion about the greatest cover-up in American history? Well, let me tell you the rule. We’re going to say and do whatever we want, all the time. What are the Dems going to do about it? Tell us we’re even worse than they already say we are? I refer you to the aforementioned stuff about how we’re already literally racist Hitlers. Where do they go from there? The Left is all out of epithets, and we’re all out of patience.

I’m not demanding that you dance around in glee at Joe Biden’s misfortune.  I’m not demanding that you don’t. I’m not demanding that you do anything. You decide what you’re going to do. If you want to offer your sympathies and prayers to him and his family, go right ahead. And if you want to announce that you don’t care because this guy didn’t care about you, because he got a bunch of people killed, and he was the worst president of the last century, a century that included President Jimmy Carter, I’m not going to tell you not to do that either. You do what you want. You say what you want. And the leftists can seethe. 

It’s not about how we feel about Joe Biden, though they want to make it about that to distract us from what this is really about – accountability for the gravest crime ever committed against our democracy. J6 was just a rowdy afternoon. This was a four-year coup by faceless courtiers who no one ever voted for who presumed to sign laws, open the borders, give pardons, and send troops into combat – some of whom, through incompetence, came home inside metal boxes – in the name of a mindless marionette. Where are all the Muh Democracy people today? Telling us to let this go.

But we can’t let this go. I’m not one for congressional hearings. I think most of them are performance art, similar to the kind of performance a sketchy creep in a raincoat gives near a playground during his lunch break from his job at the Lincoln Project. But America being put on autopilot for four years is an appropriate subject for a congressional inquiry, with subpoenas, depositions, and public hearings. The alleged President of the United States, the guy with his crusty finger on the nuclear button, was senile and corrupt, and now it’s revealed that he had a debilitating illness as well. His people covered it up. That’s worth digging into. It’s worth finding out the truth. America deserves some answers about how one political party, aided and abetted by our garbage regime media, lied to us for four years of a “Weekend at Bernie’s” presidency, while who the hell knows was running our country. 

Don’t ask me for pity, and don’t try and leverage my sensibilities. We’re past that. We are way past that. Time to double down on digging deep into the Biden scandal. No prostate cancer pardons; the people who tried to pull off this coup must pay. ✪

The Trump Energy Revolution Begins

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hen Donald J. Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, he inherited a shattered energy policy; and a nation paying the price for four years of willful decline. The American energy sector, which had once been the envy of the world, was left throttled by bureaucracy, sabotaged by ideology, and entangled in a geopolitical trap of our own making.

The good news? The war on American energy is over.

The bad news? The damage is already global.

Even worse? American citizens—particularly working-class families and those on fixed incomes—were the immediate victims of President Biden’s failed energy strategies, if you can call them strategies at all.

No decision better captures the recklessness of the Biden presidency than the now-infamous LNG export freeze. This move did more to finance Vladimir Putin’s war machine than a year of Siberian oil exports—by halting new LNG terminal approvals, Biden handed Moscow an open lane to energy ascendancy.

In December 2023, over 87% of U.S. LNG exports were directed to the European Union, United Kingdom and Asian markets, pivotal in reducing European natural gas prices by more than 83% from their 2022 peaks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

During the Russo-Ukrainian war, the former administration’s indefinite pause disrupted global energy markets and bewildered America’s European allies striving to eliminate their dependence on Russian natural gas. European nations—desperate for stable gas supplies, particularly in the depths of winter—were forced to fall back on Russian fuel.

The result: a direct blow to transatlantic efforts to diversify energy imports and a weakening of Europe’s collective resolve against Russian aggression. In short, the Biden Administration’s stupefying miscalculation didn’t just undermine U.S. allies, it helped feed the Russian war machine.

Europe paid Putin for the privilege—while turning to the United States for military protection from the very threat they were funding. It was a strategic absurdity that only the climate-obsessed left could defend.

✪ The Joe Biden Years: Ideology Over Strategy

Biden entered office under the delusion that energy is a moral problem to be solved, not a strategic asset to be wielded. He campaigned on phasing out fossil fuels and governed like a man determined to prove it.

• He killed Keystone XL on Day One of his administration, sacrificing thousands of jobs to appease eco-activists who neither drill nor deliver stable energy sources.
• He gutted federal leasing, cutting off access to vast domestic reserves.
• He weaponized the Environmental Protection Agency, throttling permits and delaying infrastructure at every turn.

He also froze LNG export approvals, a gift-wrapped concession to America’s enemies disguised as a climate virtue signal. The consequences were not confined to the pump. Inflation surged. Blackouts rolled through blue—and sometimes even red states. American families paid more to heat their homes, fill their tanks, and cook their meals; while Chinese coal plants roared and Russian coffers swelled.

Biden didn’t just shrink America’s energy economy; he shrank its global influence, jeopardizing both American energy security and national security.

✪ The Trump Reversal: Energy As A Weapon Of Peace

Within days of returning to office, President Trump signed an executive order lifting the export freeze, greenlighting pending LNG applications, and signaling to the world that the era of energy appeasement is over.

It was the first step in a broader doctrine: America will produce more energy than it consumes, sell the surplus to our allies, and leave geopolitical adversaries holding the bill.

Trump understands what the permanent bureaucracy and climate aristocracy do not: energy is leverage—the kind that wins wars, shapes alliances, and determines whether nations lead or follow.

• When Europe needs gas, let them buy American.
• When Asia needs LNG, let it cross the Pacific in tankers flying the Stars and Stripes.
• When the developing world demands power, let it come from Texas and Appalachia, not Tehran or Beijing.

This is geostrategic realism that puts America’s national interests and energy sovereignty first.

✪ Energy Is Power: Biden Gave It Away

While the Left buried American oil and gas under red tape, Russia, China, and Iran understood the stakes.

• Russia used energy to finance its military and blackmail Europe.
• China cornered the market on rare earths and battery inputs.
• Iran exploited high oil prices to fund regional terror and domestic repression.

Every drilling rig shut down by Biden, every export terminal mothballed, every pipeline blocked was a strategic gift to these regimes.

✪ The Carter Playbook: Rejected This Time

The Biden White House resembled the Carter Administration in more ways than one. Both viewed energy through a lens of scarcity and guilt. Both declared war on consumption. And both saw inflation, weakness, and dependency as regrettable but necessary byproducts of “doing the right thing.”

However, Trump’s second administration is no mirror of Reagan’; as it is moving faster, harder, and with a more explicit mandate.

Reagan dismantled a failed philosophy. Trump is bulldozing an ideological empire that is intertwined with the green energy sector, which is at best unreliable and at worst a clear and present danger to national primacy.

✪ The Road To Sovereignty

Trump’s energy blueprint is as direct as it is a game-changer:

• Unleash drilling on federal lands and offshore reserves.
• Streamline permitting for refineries, pipelines, and LNG terminals.
• Expand nuclear, fast-tracking small modular reactors.
• End taxpayer subsidies for unreliable energy.
• Assert energy dominance in every diplomatic and trade negotiation.
• Reject the Paris Agreement and its unbalanced economic shackles—treaties that punish American workers while China and Russia gobble up global market share.

President Trump understands what the progressive left and its politicians refuse to grasp: No nation can afford to outsource its energy policy—not to global NGOs, not to UN technocrats, and certainly not to Beijing.

Trump’s mandate is clear: rebuild American power by restoring American energy. The tools are in place, the reserves are proven, and the moment is now.

✪ The Choice Ahead

The left insists the future belongs to wind, solar, and sacrifice. They are wrong. The future belongs to nations that can fuel themselves—and their allies. It belongs to those who are self-sufficient, not tethered to transoceanic supply chains vulnerable to disruption by calculating foes.

The future belongs to America—if it reclaims what Joe Biden gave away: the right to power its economy, project its strength, and never beg for energy again.

Under President Trump, that future is no longer hypothetical. The future is now. ✪

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