Tucker examines the price of ‘moral victory’ as the Biden administration continues to enact policies that harm the American middle class. Highlights include:
‘You may have noticed that Joe Biden announced today a new front in his ongoing war against America’s middle class. Biden didn’t frame it that way, of course, democrats rarely say what they mean, they tell you it’s about something else.”
“In this case, Biden told us it was about Vladimir Putin. Biden explained that we’re going to ‘hurt Putin’ by making it illegal for Americans to buy Russian energy. This, he said, will amount to a massive moral victory for us, we’re gonna feel great about ourselves, and at the same time will be a crushing defeat for the Russians, who of course deserve it.”
“You rarely see unity like this in a city as divided as Washington. The unity was so heady, in fact, so delightful and intoxicating that no one remembered to ask the most basic question. Why exactly are we doing this? What’s the point? Is the point to bankrupt Vladimir Putin? That might be worth doing, but this won’t do it. Putin already has ready markets around the world for his oil, starting in China and India and Turkey, so that’s not going to work.”
“Maybe the point is to force Russian troops to withdraw from Ukraine, that would definitely be worth doing, but no, that’s not the point, either.”
“So, who exactly are these sanctions aimed at? Think about it. If you want to identify the target of a penalty, consider who’s going to suffer most from it. And in this case, the answer could not be clearer — it’s middle income Americans.”
“‘It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.’ oh, but it simply is true. It’s demonstrably true and everyone knows it. On his first day in office, Biden singlehandedly killed the Keystone XL pipeline. Then, just days before Russia invaded Ukraine, weirdly, Biden’s administration shut down all new energy leases and permits on federal land. That happened. Vladimir Putin did not do that, Joe Biden did it.”
“‘Let me give you the facts here’. Now, you know when they say that the lies are coming, and indeed in this case, they arrived promptly. Because oil companies have not used all the permits they’ve received, Jen Psaki told us, that means this is their fault. They’re not trying hard enough to produce energy. They could, but they don’t want to.”
“But, wait a second, Jen Psaki. What if there’s no oil or gas underneath the permitted land? In that case, energy producers would want permits for land where the energy is. Turns out, they don’t want dry wells, they want wells that flow, but they’re not getting them thanks to the Green New Deal lobby that completely controls this administration. And if you doubt it, ask anyone who works in the energy business.”
“Here’s an idea. Let’s keep dumb people and crazed partisan demagogues away from our financial system and our power grid. They can keep the sociology department, how fun, but why don’t you stay away from the fundamentals that keep the country running? How’s that sound? That was the arrangement for decades, but no longer.”
“You must submit to total personal control by irresponsible lunatics like Elizabeth Warren, or you can serve Russia. As she put it, ‘you can’t do business in both.’ And by the way, you’d better not complain about this. Good Americans love higher gas prices. They love suffering for a cause they don’t understand.”
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