One of old Sleepy Joe’s very first moves as President, (you know, when he beat the crap out of Donny-the-Incompetent in a free, fair, and honest election) was to eliminate the Keystone XL Pipeline, cancel 9,000 leases, and revoke drilling in ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Meanwhile, during Donny’s last year in office, OPEC announced they were cutting back production. Adequate production had lowered the price too much for Saudi tastes and anybody who was paying attention to journalism knew the prices at the pump were on their way up again. That was the goal.

None of those projects Biden cancelled had produced (or moved) one drop of oil yet Biden was excoriated in the conservative misinformation bubble, and, as predictably as sunrise, the rank and file cons were told the increase was Biden’s fault and directly related to the things he cancelled. Cons are STILL out there screaming “drill, baby, drill.” They honestly believe it would lower gas prices in America because that’s the lie they were told (even though it wouldn’t and couldn’t) and, as a cherry-on-top feature, they like that it bothers people concerned about climate change.

Now there’s a report out there showing that the United States is poised to extract, in 2023, more oil and gas than we have ever extracted in any single year in our history. And, apparently, the US Government expects the trend to continue right up until 2050. That’s good news for the oil companies. Bad news for the cons, though they’ll never know about it. No one will ever tell them. Oh, it’s also bad news for the biosphere, the place where all life exists on Earth (for a little while longer).

At the upcoming COP28 summit in Dubai this week (where Biden will NOT be), countries around the world will be pushing for a reduction in fossil fuel usage, it being so damaging and dangerous. If we truly were an “intelligent species” (which, we’re not so I should stop there but…) if we truly were an “intelligent species,” we would be moving heaven and earth to get off of fossil fuels, at least burning fossil fuels, as fast as we can.

I feel like we’re all in a car, racing toward a VERY solid brick wall and our speed is only increasing. No matter how much most of the passengers shout “Stop!” the driver just keeps going faster and faster (because of that one jerk that keeps yelling “Faster, faster!”), the driver promising he’ll hit the brakes once we’re about, oh, say, two inches from the wall. (I suspect that once we’re traveling 140mph, we’re going to need more than two inches to slow down.)

I’m not enjoying this ride at all…

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The guy who murdered George Floyd demonstrated to the world that he believes that when someone is in desperate physical danger, the proper response is to sit on that person’s neck until he stops “complaining.” Recently, the guy was stabbed in prison. Turns out? Nobody sat on his neck as a treatment. They took him to a medical facility and fixed him up and he’s going to be fine.

No, I don’t really advocate for letting the guy die, but I DO wonder if the irony has struck him that all he had to do was that same, exact, right thing and he wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place…

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George Santos, if, indeed, that is his real name, faces an expulsion vote from Congress this week. He said he expects to be expelled. The guy lies like a trump so it’s hard to know what he actually expects, but he IS likely to be booted. You’ve got to do a LOT to get expelled from Congress. Hell, Lauren Boebert went to a public play being enjoyed by families – children included – maybe got a little high (we only know she “vaped”) and made a spectacle of herself before (and then after) engaging in a little public, slap-and-tickle foreplay with her date and SHE didn’t get kicked out of Congress.

But George is out. Don’t get me wrong, he should be out. He should never have been in. Had he not lied, lied, lied, he wouldn’t be in. But he did and he was and so now he’ll be put out. Good. And the BEST thing about it? The crazy caucus just got a little bit weaker. New York is going to have to hold special elections to replace him but I doubt the voters are going to be quite so complacent in this vote.

It’s a good step forward. One MAGA crazy at a time – at least until the upcoming elections where we can, hopefully, get rid of a bunch of them at once…