The fact that we are in essence financing the Russian invasion of Ukraine by continuing to buy Putin’s oil and gas instead of dramatically escalating our own production is a shocking failure.
COLUMN: Saudi Arabia defeated Russia in its 2020 oil price war with a "shock-and-awe" strategy that could still work in Ukraine. But Western countries need to deploy it right now, and hit where it hurts: oil |
#OOTT
#UkraineWar
#Ukraine
via
@bopinion
I would just ask if you understand a garden in April is different than a garden in August? Do you think the same things bloom at all times? Makes me wonder if you have ever grown a plant...
Who is 'Anonymous'? After a lengthy investigation, folks inside the White House believe the overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence points to Victoria Coates, a longtime ally of
@SenTedCruz
. Read the details and decide for yourself.
Biden: "My mother had an expression: out of everything lousy, something good will happen. We have a chance to make a fundamental turn toward renewable energy, electric vehicles, and across the board."
Reports of internet being cut off in Khuzestan signifying fears in
#Iran
’s regime of protests over a rise in the price of bread. After 2019, it has been doing so early and often to thwart protests.
If I blur my eyes I can see my grandfather—80 years ago they may have been preparing for D-Day together. We are so appallingly unworthy of the sacred legacy the last of them are passing to us this year.
75 years after the Holocaust Iran is trying to eradicate the Jewish people. And it's being supported here in the United States as well--we have to acknowledge this evil and band together not simply to condemn it but to root it out for good. Saying never again isn't enough.
BREAKING: President Biden’s personal attorney says DOJ searched Biden’s Wilmington home on Friday and discovered 6 more classified documents, which they took possession of. Some of the documents were from Biden’s time in the Senate, others from his time as VP.
@FoxNews
Energy security is also national security--and US energy independence is a key strategic advantage over China that we should not voluntarily surrender.
Proud to support this legislation. This bill will fight back against the Biden admin’s radical environmental agenda & help our energy industry by:
✅Supporting blue-collar jobs
✅Keeping household energy costs low
✅Maintaining our energy independence
So what you are saying is that the “greenest administration in history” has presided over a massive expansion in domestic fossil fuels production that somehow resulted in the highest energy prices in a generation? I think we need some more tweets to get to the bottom of this…
2. U.S. production of natural gas and oil is rising and approaching record levels: More natural gas than ever this year, more oil than ever next year, and, even with a global pandemic, more oil production this past year than during the previous administration’s first year.
You could have passed the stand-alone Israel package you got in November but you forced all the Democrats in your caucus to vote against bringing it to the floor. That shame extends to them as well, as well as to all who did not condemn your calls for regime change in Israel.
As Israel is under attack from Iran, we stand with Israel and its people, and the United States will do everything we can to support Israel’s defense against Iran.
It's worth noting that the final decision to withdraw from Vietnam was not President Ford's. Congress refused to keep funding the effort in the spring of 1975. President Biden was a Democrat member of the Senate at the time, so has participated in both debacles.
🚨White House spox John Kirby seems to call out Bibi for digging in on the Philadelphi Corridor:
The deal proposal "included a removal of [the IDF] from all densely populated areas, & that includes those areas along that corridor. That's the proposal that Israel had agreed to."
Will Colombia go the way of Venezuela and it’s economic collapse now that it has elected a leftist leader ?
We take a deep dive into Latin America’s left wing politics
#TheLatest
BREAKING: Biden told Netanyahu an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize & improve the humanitarian situation & protect innocent civilians & he urged Netanyahu to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home, the White House says
Israeli forces have discovered 4 hostage bodies in Rafah.
Families are being notified.
Photo of military notifications circulated on Israeli Telegram channels —
So. Venezuela. A 🧵: The Biden-Harris Venezuela policy is straight out of the Obama-Biden 2009 Iran playbook: Offer vague words of support for the people after an obviously fraudulent election but do nothing to destabilize a regime with whom they want a deal. 1/10
"Should Arab countries be taking on the lion's share of the burden to absorb what could be over a million, if not more, refugees from Gaza?"
AOC: "That does not abdicate the United States from our historic role that we've played in the world of accepting refugees"
FULL STATEMENT: The White House urges OPEC+ to pump more oil (above and beyond the current 400,000 b/d monthly hikes the cartel is already implementing) |
#OOTT
If this could happen to Israel at one of the most rigorously guarded borders in the world, what does Biden’s open and chaotic southern border mean for American national security?
@newsmax
@RobAstorino
Humans can only survive without water for about 3 days. Gaza has run dry.
The blockade on water, food, and electricity is an indiscriminate, collective punishment and a crime.
It is cruel and unjust. To save millions of people in Gaza - nearly half children - it must end. Now.
Q: Do you hold Iran responsible for the attack?
Biden: They supply the weapons.
Q: But do you hold them directly responsible?
Biden: We will have those discussions
Q: What do you say to those in your party worried about escalation ?
Biden: we will see
I am traveling to Israel to deliver a message of friendship from the Iranian people, engage Israeli water experts on ways to address the regime’s abuse of Iran’s natural resources and pay respects to the victims of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah.
I want the people of Israel to
Rich coming from the folks who have committed $175 billion in taxpayer money over more than two years for the war in Ukraine with no “clear strategic endgame” in sight…
Lloyd Austin has given the Iranians more notice and head's up on the pending attack than he gave his boss or the American people that he was going to be out of commission. Amazing the SecDef treats the Iranians with more transparency than he does the American people.
The Biden administration is considering embracing the UN model of singling out Israel for unique isolating punishment. What a disgrace--we don't get to choose ministers in other countries.
SCOOP: The Biden admin is unlikely to engage with Jewish supremacist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, who's expected to be a senior minister in a future Israeli government formed by Netanyahu, two U.S. officials told
@BarakRavid
.
Putin’s useful idiots: how climate extremists are funding Russia’s war on American energy—my latest with my favorite unindicted co-conspirator
@JenniferStefano
thanks to
@MZHemingway
and all our friends at
@FDRLST
!
Worth noting that all those DEI offices on all our college campuses across America did nothing to stem the noxious tide of antisemitism boiling up in academia--on the contrary they were a major contributing factor promoting bigotry and hate. Good for Iowa!
A resolution proposing to officially commemorate the “Nakba” in the United States was submitted on Tuesday to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan, 13th District).
The Arch of Titus depicts the Emperor's sack of Jerusalem in 70 AD, so seeing the emblem of the modern State of Israel projected on it is extraordinary in a historical context.
Kirby is wrong—America is not “obligated” to grant visas to Iranian terrorists so they can visit the United Nations in New York.
@tedcruz
changed existing law in 2015 to give authority to the Secretary of State to deny those visas because of terrorist ties:
The White House has linked to three new climate change reports--from the Defense Department, Homeland Security, and a White House report about the effects of climate change on migration. Big day for nat sec and climate change.
Why Biden's raid of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was an empty political gimmick that will only send our precious reserves overseas and do nothing to lower prices here at home:
#BREAKING
: A Libyan ship that sailed fron Iran is responsible for the oil pollution that polluted the shores of Israel: "This is environmental terrorism," says
@GilaGamliel
The spectacle of the world’s lone superpower and largest economy—not to mention one of the three biggest producers of oil and gas—tin cupping for oil and gas in international fora is absurd.
Overnight, the White House has been briefing on the energy shortages issue, with a "senior administration official" saying that President Biden is going to use his meetings at the G20 to ask oil and gas producers to raise output |
#OOTT
Just in from Psaki: “President Biden will soon issue an Executive Order that will prohibit new investment, trade, and financing by U.S. persons to, from, or in the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine.”
Just a reminder that strong sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline with bipartisan support were available to the Senate last month and the Biden administration lobbied *against* them because they would rather block
@tedcruz
than Vladimir Putin.
Leaked doc shows how Biden administration hid evidence of Ukrainian corruption “to show solidarity with Kyiv and avoid giving fuel to a small number of Republican lawmakers critical of U.S. military and economic aid for Ukraine.” How about solidarity with American taxpayers?
Let me get this straight: Democrats in Michigan just gave 175 million taxpayer dollars to this CCP battery company to build a plant near to where the US Army trains Taiwanese counterparts?
NEW: Company behind contentious Michigan battery factory quietly registered as Chinese foreign agent, filings show
Reporting from
@JoeSchoffstall
and
@ThomasCatenacci
China's foreign minister Wang Yi tells
#MSC2022
that the sovereignty, independence & territorial integrity of every country should be safeguarded. "Ukraine is no exception," he says
I would say this one is particularly insidious. William Penn predates the United States—Ronald Reagan had to proclaim him and his wife Hannah honorary citizens. This attack is much broader. Goes back to the origins.
The purpose of defending Confederate monuments, and history of its honorable men, isn't just because they've got their gaze fixed on Lincoln, Washington, Penn, etc, next, but because the pattern is clear that they mean to rationalize erasing us, too. That's the Replacement.
RECEIVED ON A LITERAL RED CARPET by
@UN
Secretary General
@antonioguterres
: The Foreign Minister of the greatest state sponsor of terrorism IN THE WORLD.
Iran FUNDED, TRAINED, AND BACKED Hamas terrorists who murdered 1,400 human beings. Raped women, children, and corpses.
To my count this is the third Department of State statement on Houthi terrorist behavior since the Biden administration announced their intention to de-list the Houthi as terrorists. Life comes at you fast:
So if I follow this
@BarakRavid
report correctly, the Biden administration asked for Israel's help increasing the natural gas supply to Europe less than a month after the Biden administration ended support for Israel's Eastern Mediterranean natural gas pipeline...to Europe?
20 TRILLION in 10 years.
This fiscal death spiral is existential to the Republic - Congress must treat it that way.
US national debt to rise by $20 trillion over the next 10 years: CBO
#FoxBusiness
There's no
@WhiteHouse
briefing today because the Biden administration is enjoying Indigenous Peoples Day? Pro tip: The terrorists who spent the weekend murdering Americans and taking them hostage aren't taking the day off. And neither are the Israelis fighting to punish them.
The Biden administration’s regulatory assault on everyday Americans in the name of climate continues: A new Department of Energy rule will have no effect on the climate but will make housing less affordable for millions.
So this is pretty much going to be the same pattern as the classified document story isn’t it? “There was one, we took care of it by the book, nothing to see here. Oh, wait…”
EXCLUSIVE: A Chinese spy balloon crashed into the Pacific off the coast of Hawaii four months ago, U.S. officials say.
Fox News has also learned at least one Chinese spy balloon flew over portions of Texas and Florida during the Trump administration.
John Kerry admits in interview with French TV that Joe Biden had no idea about the fallout with the French from the AUKUS sub deal.
"He literally had not been aware of what had transpired"
So the list of things that have snuck up on the Biden administration and caught them completely unawares now includes: 1. The Taliban 2. The Open Border 3. Inflation 4. Putin 5. Baby Formula.
JUST IN: Initial reports show an attack this morning at US patrol base al-Shaddadi, in northeast Syria, per US official.
US troops have been attacked 165 times overall since Oct. 17: 66 in Iraq, 98 in Syria, and once in Jordan
Highlighting the graph in this tweet—Biden’s approval numbers went under water the day Kabul fell and have never recovered. That’s the story of his presidency:
.
@FiveThirtyEight
- President Biden's net approval average has reached an all-time low.
Approve: 37.6%
Disapprove: 57.0%
Net: -19.4%
---
Net approval average trends
• Nov. 9, 2022: -9.7%
• June 19, 2023: -12.2%
• JUNE 12, 2024: -19.4%
—
538: Net approval at this time (1,240
Yes and the Houthi are also launching terrorist attacks on critical energy facilities in Saudi Arabia and so are contributing to higher energy prices. You might want to put them back on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list.
We condemn the weekend attacks on Saudi Arabia by the Iran-supported Houthis and will continue to help Saudi Arabia defend its territory. Houthi attacks have targeted infrastructure, schools, mosques, and workplaces. These are attacks against civilians, and they must end.
When
@chiproytx
and I wrote this, 2023 was already the deadliest year for Israel and the Palestinians in 20 years. Now it’s 50. Congress must do everything possible to stop Biden’s policy of letting money flow to the Palestinians—and Iran:
Despite the small (but loud) Hamas Caucus, the House just overwhelmingly passed the
#IronDome
bill (420-9), reaffirming the widespread BI-PARTISAN support for
#Israel
in Congress. 🇺🇸🇮🇱
STRATCOM thinks they would benefit from the perspective of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which tells you all you need to know about the degradation of military culture under Biden.
Yes—Macron is the first one with his hand out to insist the US be the lead donor on Ukraine while France lags far behind in what is after all a European war—then tells America we are on our own with the PRC.
Macron doesn’t want Europe to get “caught up in crises that are not ours,” like Taiwan. But he is perfectly fine with relying on US security commitments to address crises like Ukraine in Europe. That’s not “strategic autonomy.” That’s strategic nonsense.
This is a “potential” espionage threat???
Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have accessed military bases and other sensitive U.S. sites, something U.S. officials, describe as a potential espionage threat
Today, I spoke with President López Obrador of Mexico. We discussed the importance of working together across our broad and deep agenda — including competitiveness, regional growth, and humane and effective efforts to reduce irregular migration.
There was an Iranian shot across the bow of global energy and shipping security in the Red Sea this weekend—carried out by their terrorist proxies the Houthi against our ally Saudi Arabia. My latest at
@NRO
:
@BasedMikeLee
is 💯 correct here. China has rolled out their 5G playbook to infiltrate, corrupt and exploit the forced “green” energy transition and undermine the energy security of all Americans. It’s almost like he’s been reading
@Heritage
’s
#ChineseHandcuffs
series!
🧵 1/ Is China using a disinformation campaign to make Americans worry about climate change in order to make America more dependent on Chinese technology, batteries, and natural resources? 🚨
BREAKING: Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen, Seize Hostages and Equipment -- State Dept tells me it is 'concerned about the breach of the compound,' demands release of hostages & equipment
This evening,
#Iran
's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who per the WSJ participated in key meetings leading up to
#Hamas
' attack, landed in
#Lebanon
and said opening new fronts against
#Israel
is a possibility.
“There is no clean drinking water, no sufficient food, and no bathrooms.”
Time is running out for children in Gaza. UNICEF is continuing to respond to their critical needs but access is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous.
And the Biden people spent all their time and energy trying to force Israel into making some devil’s deal with Hamas instead of helping Israel to actually bring the hostages home.
So in the last 24 hours:
1. “Freeze” in UNRWA funding turns out to be expedited UNRWA funding; 2. Blinken gathering options to pre-emptively recognize a Palestinian state; and now, unprecedented punitive sanctions against Israelis. Wow.
President Biden is expected to sign off on sanctions against Judea and Samaria residents who are "involved in violent attacks against Palestinians.”
According to
@BarakRavid
, the administration considered sanctions on ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich as well.
🚨BREAKING🚨
It is now being reported that DOZENS of Americans are being held hostage by the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Iran is NOT our friend.
This is TERRORISM.
We pray for the safe return of our countrymen & we pray for safety & security of our ally Israel.
An American citizen was summarily executed by a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and all we can expect from
@VP
in response is a sympathy note:
A separate statement from VP Harris on Hamas murder of Hersh Goldberg-Polin:
"On October 7, Hersh Goldberg-Polin—an American citizen—was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists. He was just 23 years old, attending a music festival with friends. We now know he was murdered by Hamas.
@tedcruz
for the win:
@SecBlinken
can’t admit the directive to revive the Obama nuclear deal with the mullahs permitted Iranian exports to balloon from
@300
,000 bpd to
@2
,000,000–says sanctions worked under
@realDonaldTrump
because Iran’s nuclear program was “in a box”???
WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz blasts Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken:
"Your foreign policy is precisely backwards from what a rational American foreign policy should be. To our friends and allies, this administration has consistently undermined, weakened, and attacked them. And
SCOOP: This attempt at appeasement is not going to drive a wedge between Venezuela and Russia. A legitimized Venezuela is in the strategic interests of Russia and Iran, which is why the visit is happening. More grease on the skids of the Frankenstein JCPOA.
SCOOP: Senior BIDEN administration officials are traveling to Venezuela today to meet with MADURO's regime.
It's part of an effort to drive a wedge between Venezuela & Russia, & is the highest-level visit by US officials to Caracas in years.
1/ Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago. He was to give MIT's prestigious Carlson Lecture on Oct. 21. The topic was to be climates of extrasolar planets. Shamefully, MIT canceled the lecture under pressure from activists who objected to his political views.
“Our focus is on making sure that we’re moving from unilateral action, which has been what has defined US policy over the last 4 years.” - False. The Trump adm. acted with allies to achieve historic results (
#AbrahamAccords
, D-ISIS, Clean Network, ERGI...)
America's great energy producing states such as Alaska, Pennsylvania and Texas can fuel us out of this mess--we don't need Russia, Iran and Venezuela to do what we can do ourselves!
The War of Independence and the French Revolution were fueled by the same aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Today, we are more committed than ever to defending them — together. Warmest wishes on Bastille Day to the people of France.
Thanks
@josh_hammer
and all my friends
@NewsweekOpinion
for publishing my latest with my old friend
@chiproytx
on the need to oppose anti-Semitism whenever it raises its noxious head:
The skepticism about NATO is entirely the doing of members who have had almost a decade to make good on the 2% of GDP pledge made in Wales and have failed to do so, including the three largest economies in the EU. Had they done what they promised this would not be happening.