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On this week’s episode of “CNN This Morning,” DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison answered a question about whether or not the economy has become a bad problem for President Biden given the rise in the cost of gasoline and mortgage rates that are hitting 20-year highs by stating that the economy is not a weak spot and that “as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act, we have witnessed a sharp drop in inflation all across the country.” So, no matter how you look at the economy, you can see that we’re not headed into a recession. With this economic message, we as a nation are driving back into the future.”

Co-host Victor Blackwell asked, “Gas costs continue to go up. In the last month, they’ve gone up 25 cents, and they were a nickel cheaper a year ago.” The mortgage rates are at their highest level in more than 20 years. And the government and the Democratic Party did such an excellent job explaining a few years earlier that the President can’t do anything about that, right? We know that, but people feel this way. Is it risky to tie the President’s re-election campaign to the economy while so many people are unhappy with it? Is that one of the President’s weak spots?”

Harrison replied, “Well, it is not a weakness, Victor, considering what we’ve witnessed over time, and the way this is different from every other important country around the globe, is that the United States is, once again, at the front of the line. We fight back, and we have done so with inflation. As a result of the Inflation Reduction Act, inflation in our nation has dropped very quickly. So, no matter how you look at the economy, you can see that we’re not headed into a recession. With this economic message, we are taking a big step back into the future. So, we’re just going to keep on going. We are going to keep building more roads and bridges. We are going to keep hiring people and make sure that they have good-paying unionized jobs, instead of just those minimum-wage positions that Republicans are interested in limiting Americans to. At the end of the day, all Americans are going to see that one party continues to fight on their behalf and the other is fighting only for themselves as well as their own power.”

Author: Scott Dowdy

President Biden is using mass immigration to boost the U.S. labor market. This is happening at a time when over 44 million working-age Americans aren’t in the labor force at all, not counting those who are unemployed.

The Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler released labor data on August 21 that demonstrates that while Biden increases the number of legal and illegal immigrants in the country who are employed, working-age Americans—particularly those in the working class—are leaving the labor force at an alarming rate.

As of April, 44.3 million American-born men and women between the ages of 16 and 64 are not working at all. This is close to ten million over the figure recorded in 2000 when only 34.4 million people were not working.

However, that number does not account for the millions of Americans who are deemed to be jobless.

Since 1960, the number of American men who are working has been going down dramatically.

For instance, in 1960, 88.7% of men aged 16 to 64 who were born in the United States were employed. In 2000, it was down to 83.7%, and in April 2023, it was at 77.5 %. If the same number of these men worked today as they did in 1960, there would be 9.5 million more American-born men available for work.

The drop is even bigger for guys from the middle class.

From 1960 to 2023, the number of men with less than a bachelor’s degree who worked fell by almost 17 percentage points.

Write Camarota and Zeigler:

“This is crucial to the immigration issue since one of the justifications for accepting a large number of legal immigrants or even permitting illegal immigration is the belief that the aging U.S. population and the low unemployment rate indicate that there are insufficient employees available. But this doesn’t take into account the huge rise in the number of individuals of working age who aren’t in the labor force and don’t show up as jobless because they aren’t looking for work.”

As Breitbart News highlighted in May, the Biden administration has welcomed so many legal and unauthorized immigrants that the percentage of foreign employees holding jobs in the United States is currently higher than it has ever been.

With about 30 million foreign workers currently employed in the United States, their labor market share increased to more than 18% in 2022, the greatest level in nearly 30 years.

Camarota and Zeigler write, “Policymakers should think about getting the millions of people who aren’t working to get jobs instead of ignoring the issues and continuing to let in huge numbers of immigrants.”

Author: Scott Dowdy
14 American communities are aiming at something that is sure to be an unattainable target: prohibiting meat and dairy consumption as well as the usage of private vehicles – within the span of just seven years. This is an action that is simply downright silly and leans heavily toward authoritarianism.

The “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Organization,” which is made up of 14 significant American cities, has an “ambitious goal” of having “0 kg of meat intake,” “0 kg of dairy intake,” “3 new clothing items for each person per year,” “no private vehicles” owned, in addition to, “1 short-distance return flight (under 1500 km) every three years for each person” by the year 2030.

“C40’s future goals can be found in its 2019 study, ‘The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World,’ which is said to be reemphasized in 2023. Michael Bloomberg, a Democratic millionaire, runs the group and gives it most of its money. The group is made up of nearly 100 towns from all over the world, including Austin, Portland, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle from the United States.”

There’s one thing that all of these places have in common, and it’s the same thing that most big cities have in common.

To state the obvious, these individuals are the worst kind of snobs. There is a made-up quote that is said to have been said by the Duke of Wellington, who was against passenger trains. The Duke is said to have said that “these trains would cause trouble by making it too easy for people from lower classes to move around.” As you can see, that is exactly the way people think here:

“Climate activists are also calling for ‘climate lockdowns,’ just like there were ‘Covid lockdowns’ in the past. Ideas for a climate shutdown have included keeping people inside their homes and limiting air travel, as well as giving everyone a basic income and putting a cap on how much they can earn.”

“This is not the end of climate dystopianism. Dr. Matthew Liao, a ‘bioethicist’ with ties to the WEF, has suggested that scientists make people immune to meat by changing their genes. Liao has also talked about making people smaller through breeding or hormone treatments so that they use fewer resources.”

It’s not clear how a “maximum income limit” (which would not be applicable to politicians who take bribes) would help reduce carbon emissions unless it will be set so low that people can’t afford to travel, eat well, or keep their homes warm. It would be nice if these leftists could look at a past example to see just how effectively their plan works.

Author: Steven Sinclaire

Elon Musk’s X platform, which used to be called Twitter, is now hiring people to stop fake news and spread “credible” stories about the election, even though the Tesla CEO said he planned to make the social media site more open to free speech.

A story from Just the News says that Twitter/X is looking for people to fill two jobs that are meant to protect “information integrity” as well as “civic conversations” on the social media site.

The candidates must be “passionate” with regard to “protecting users from global disinformation,” “fighting threats to online conversational health,” and “assisting individuals to locate trustworthy information online” concerning elections.

The report said that qualified candidates must also “have an in-depth comprehension of geopolitical, misinformation, and cybersecurity trends,” and that they should be fluent in Russian, Mandarin, or Cantonese.

Critics pointed out right away that the jobs were “censorship positions,” and that team leader Aaron Rodericks is a follower of “every high-level censorship supporter in the world” on rival platform BlueSky.

Leaders of anti-disinformation groups are said to be among the names Rodericks is following.

Kristen Ruby, a social media expert, noticed in February that the Musk-owned platform still had the misleading information policy that had just been changed “civic integrity misleading information policy.”

This gives Twitter/X the right to remove, censor, and name “content that may discourage participation,” as well as content that “misleads” about political processes, causes “confusion,” or has “satirical or humorous elements.”

In the Twitter documents, Rodericks was shown to be skeptical of the U.S. government’s claims of disinformation and foreign influence. He also said that the State Dept’s Global Engagement Center “doubled their budget by vastly overstating threats.”

Just the News asked Rodericks how he could be suspicious of GEC claims and do his job as a hiring manager. He said, “Be skeptical of all claims until they are proven with evidence.”

“GEC’s research on social media was done in a very bad way,” he said. “As a government organization, they have a bigger responsibility to be right about what they say.”

Author: Scott Dowdy

UK Researchers from the University at East Anglia looked at OpenAI’s ChatGPT and found that this market-leading AI robot clearly favors leftist political groups.

The study, which was published in the book called Public Choice, shows that ChatGPT supports the Democrats in the United States, the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, and President Lula da Silva belonging to the Workers’ Party in Brazil when it is set to its usual settings.

Researchers told ChatGPT to act like a fan of different political groups and views. They then proceeded to ask the modified chatbots a series of 60 questions about their political beliefs. The answers to these questions then had to be compared to the replies that ChatGPT gave by default. This let the researchers see if ChatGPT’s default answers tend to favor certain political views. Since ChatGPT was first made available to the public, conservatives have shown that it has a clear bias.

Because the “large language groups” which run AI platforms like ChatGPT are inherently random, each question was presented 100 times and then the different answers were gathered. This helped solve problems caused by the randomness of “large language models.” Then, these multiple answers were put through a “bootstrap” (a way of re-sampling our original data) 1,000 times to make the conclusions made from the generated text even more reliable.

The study’s lead author, Dr. Fabio Motoki from Norwich Business School, said, “As more people use AI-powered systems to find facts and make new content, it’s important that popular platforms like ChatGPT produce results that are as unbiased as possible.”

“The presence of political bias can change how people see things, which could have effects on political and voting processes.”

“Our results add to worries that AI systems could make the same problems that the Internet and social media already have, or even make them worse.”

Several more tests were done to make sure the method was as good as it could be. In a “dose-responding test,” ChatGPT was directed to pretend to support extreme political views. In a “placebo test,” it had been questioned about things that had nothing to do with politics. And it was asked to act like a variety of professionals in a “profession-politics proper alignment test.”

“We are hoping that this method will make it easier to look at and regulate these technologies that are changing so quickly,” said Dr. Pinho Neto, a co-author. “By making it possible to find and fix LLM biases, we hope to increase openness, accountability, and also the public’s trust in this kind of technology,” he said.

Author: Steven Sinclaire

On the first anniversary of when he signed the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden is running a campaign to tell Americans what the law has done. It might be almost impossible to do. A year after the 13-figure climate change bill was signed into law, the Job Creators Network says, “today’s price increases are happening on a much higher price base.”

“There’s nothing to be happy about on the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act. Since it was passed, prices for goods and services have gone up a lot,” the president and CEO of Job Creators Network said in a statement.

“The bold actions of the Federal Reserve have made the inflation rate slow down, but price rises today are happening on a much higher price base. Everyone struggles to pay their bills and sees these higher prices every day,” Ortiz said. “Because of this, their real income and quality of life go down. JCN’s SBIQ national poll of small companies found that by far the biggest worry of those polled was inflation. The IRA hasn’t done anything to make this problem easier for small businesses.”

Biden’s big spin machine for the $1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act got going earlier this week when the White House started sending out comments from people who said the law had helped them.

Even people who support Biden can’t say what the bill is or what it does.

“The IRA has directly contributed to inflation since it spends hundreds of billions of dollars on expensive renewable energy,” Ortiz said. “This administration is more focused on green energy than making sure people have enough money to pay for energy.”

In fact, 76 percent of Americans said in a recent AP study that Biden’s economy is “poor.”

He said, “One thing you can’t trick people about is how inflation affects their personal finances. Everyone can see that their bills are going up even faster than their pay, even if their pay has gone up. And that’s what we mean when we say that real wages are going down,” Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney said last month on Fox Business Network.

“They have gone down a lot lately because inflation has gone down. They aren’t going down as fast as they used to, but if you go all the way back to the beginning of the Biden administration, real wages have been going down for a record 21 months in a row. This is a record number of months that real wages have been going down.”

Author: Steven Sinclaire

During a CNN interview, Janet Yellen, the secretary of the Treasury, stated that she had eaten “hallucinogenic” mushrooms in a Chinese restaurant, but added that she was actually “not aware” that the dish would have psychoactive effects.

CNN said that Yellen’s group was seen getting dinner at Yi Zuo Yi Wang, a restaurant that is also called “In and Out,” but not to be confused with the American chain. Yunnan food, which comes from an area in southwestern China close to Vietnam, is said to be the restaurant’s specialty.

The story got out when a Chinese food writer wrote on social media that Yellen’s group was at the place.

CNN said that Weibo user Pan Pan Mao stated that “When I passed the table they were sitting at on the way to the bathroom, I stopped to look at what they had ordered.”

The eatery confirmed that the Americans were there and posted “Yellen the US Treasury Secretary was actually here” in Chinese.

“The timing on the news led to speculation that it was accurate to say that she arrived to the restaurant shortly after arriving in China. Our staff said that she really liked mushrooms,” the restaurant said.

“She asked for four servings of jian shou qing, which is a type of wild mushroom that grows in Yunnan. It was a very wonderful day.”

Erin Burnett, a CNN reporter, said that the finance secretary “started a ruckus” when she ordered a dish with “what appear to be magic mushrooms.”

“Now, these dishes with wild mushrooms are sold out at all of that restaurant’s locations in China,” Burnett said. “How did it go? How was your mushroom experience?” asked the host.

“I went with a big group, and the individual who set up dinner for us placed the orders,” said Yellen. “There was a tasty mushroom dish, but I didn’t know at the time that the mushrooms could cause hallucinations. I found out later.”

“Later, perhaps when you slept and had visions, or?” Burnett joked about it.

Yellen said, “I heard that the mushrooms had no effect if they are prepared properly, and I am sure they would have been at this really nice restaurant.”

Under Yellen’s guidance, the United States’ long-term credit rating dropped from AAA to AA+. After borrowing more than $1.3 trillion in the early half of 2023.

This put the US on track to issue almost $3.2 trillion in debt in only one year, which is almost twice as much as in 2022.

Author: Scott Dowdy

During a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, President Joe Biden talked about how good the economy is and how inflation is going down, even though many Americans pay hundreds more for basic goods and services than they did two years ago.

A recent report says that Americans will pay $709 more for basic goods and services in July 2023 than they did in July 2021, when Biden took office. Mark Zandi, the top economic expert at Moody’s Analytics, says that the amount spent was also $202 more than in July 2022.

“In case you haven’t noticed, inflation is also going down,” Biden said in a speech on Tuesday. Biden gave the speech to support his “Bidenomics” plan in Wisconsin, which will be a key presidential swing state in 2024.

In his speech, Biden also said that the U.S. economy was the best in the world.

“Our business is the best in the world. You’re giving me a suspicious look, but I promise. “Check it out,” Biden said as he spoke at a plant that makes wind turbines.

Republicans have said that real wages have gone down and that inflation has stayed at 3.2%, which is nearly 2% higher than when Biden took office. In the past few weeks, gas prices have gone up and reached their highest point in months. In the last few days, the average price has gone up to $3.86 a gallon, which is the highest it has been since October 19, 2022.

“Real wages are going down and gas prices are going up,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on X. “You’re paying for bad leadership,” he said.

Biden was in Milwaukee to celebrate the passage of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” which many scientists said wouldn’t make much of a difference on inflation. The president was there at the same time.

Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University, told the Associated Press, “I can’t think of any way it would have lowered inflation so far.”

Biden has also said that the name of the law that put billions of dollars into the green energy business shouldn’t have been linked to inflation.

Biden said last week, “I wish I hadn’t called it that because it has less to do with lowering inflation and more to do with giving alternatives that lead to growth in the economy.”

Author: Blake Ambrose

President Joe Biden is tipping in his two cents while the United Auto Workers (UAW) negotiates a deal with General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis about four-year contracts.

As part of these talks, UAW President Shawn Fain wants the automakers to make compromises so that Biden’s Electric Vehicles (EVs) push won’t put American auto workers out of work and cut their pay, as has already happened.

The UAW wants Biden to make sure that GM, Ford, and Stellantis pay auto workers a middle-class wage when they move to electric vehicle (EV) plants in the future if they want billions of dollars in incentives paid for by taxpayers through the president’s Inflation Reduction Act. This is one of the UAW’s requests.

In a statement, Biden talked about a “fair transition” to EVs, but he didn’t make any promises to people who work in the car industry. Even though the UAW is worried, Biden said that the switch to EVs is necessary.

Biden said in a statement, “The need to move to a clean energy economy should be a win-win for both auto makers and unionized workers.”

“It should give workers good pay and benefits so they can take care of their families. It should also lead us to a future where the U.S. is the leader in reducing vehicle emissions and making cars that can compete both at home and abroad. Companies should use this process to make sure that their employees are involved in the next part of their industry by giving them well-paying jobs and a say in how their workplace will change.

“I want to be clear about where I stand as the Big Three car companies and the United car Workers get together to talk about a new contract one month before their current one ends. I want everyone to work together to find a fair solution.”

Already, though, Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has made a so-called “fair transition” very unfair, as it has helped automakers’ bottom lines while forcing car workers into more dangerous jobs that pay less.

Former President Donald Trump is the only Republican running for president. He wants to run again against Vice President Joe Biden and is actively trying to get the votes of car workers, since the UAW hasn’t backed the president’s re-election so far.

In particular, Trump has criticized Biden’s move to electric vehicles (EVs) as a gift to corporations that car workers will have to pay for.

Other GOP presidential primary candidates, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), have done little or nothing to get the UAW’s support or win over its members.

Author: Steven Sinclaire

James Carville, a seasoned Democratic political strategist, has started to “doubt” if the economy would be the primary emphasis for a successful presidential contender since President Biden’s popularity rating has not increased despite an economy he considers to be “quite good.”

In an interview with the Hill that was published this week, Carville noted that there is a divide between what he perceives as an “economic bounceback” and the people of America. At the same time, the White House is promoting “Bidenomics.”

“The economic recovery, by any standard, was a success… Carville told the Hill that despite a decline in prices and low unemployment rates, “people aren’t connecting the dots, and they do not believe that the economy is that healthy. They aren’t giving the president’s policies a lot of credit for it, to the degree that they believe it to be positive.

It is the economy, idiot, the operative famously posted in 1992 in the campaign offices of then-candidate President Bill Clinton. In other words, the economic issues impacting and worrying Americans are the most important subject any presidential candidate can emphasize.

Though Biden told the Hill he still thinks this to be the case, uncertainty has emerged in light of Biden’s dissatisfyingly low popularity numbers.

“Given how well the economy is doing right now, I’m beginning to have some doubts about myself. Maybe it’ll start working. People don’t always immediately sense it, he added.

For comparison, Biden’s RealClearPolitics approval rating from July 17 to August 10 was only 41.2 percent on average.

“I believe that some of it is because there has been so much emphasis placed on how horrible the economy was, how difficult it was, and whether or not recessions were imminent. That bell, in my opinion, is difficult to silence, Carville said.

Notably, the Biden administration presided over supply chain problems, record-high prices for gasoline, and inflation at its highest level in 40 years.

The president promoted “Bidenomics” this week in the state of Arizona despite Fitch reducing the country’s credit rating from AA+ to AAA this past week and Proterra, an electric bus firm that the Biden administration strongly supported, declaring bankruptcy.

Author: Scott Dowdy

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