{"id":146525,"date":"2023-08-28T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146525"},"modified":"2023-08-26T22:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T02:14:27","slug":"a-few-more-biden-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146525","title":{"rendered":"A few more Biden actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy week for Biden-admin-watchers&#8230; here are a few of the more egregious items:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125048 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/border2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/border2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/border2-333x333.png 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/border2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/border2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/border2.png 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First up, a Federal Judge in Texas rejected Governor Abbott&#8217;s claim that the infamous orange river balls are needed to stop an &#8220;invasion&#8221;, essentially saying that describing the immigration influx as an invasion is &#8220;politics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a United States district court. It&#8217;s not Congress. It&#8217;s not the president,&#8221; Senior U.S. Judge David Alan Ezra told lawyers for the state of Texas and the U.S. Justice Department during a hearing Tuesday, ahead of an upcoming trial. The Justice Department sued the state after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott refused to remove the buoys. &#8220;I am not here to engage in any type &#8230; of political comment in this decision.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/texas-refuses-border-buoys-migrants-doj-biden-invasion-190230948.html\">Yahoo News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Y&#8217;all do realize this buoy-barrier is 1000 feet long? That&#8217;s roughly 1\/10,000 of the border&#8230; oh, and Texas remains defiant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146530 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/th-1846447118-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/th-1846447118-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/th-1846447118-445x333.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/th-1846447118-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/th-1846447118.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And not that we are shocked &#8211; after all, we know that anything to do with the environment gives those folks wood &#8211; they have already weighed in on stoves and water heaters &#8211; next up, ceiling fans.\u00a0 One of Biden&#8217;s environmental flunkies said new regulations are a&#8217;comin&#8217;, which will SAVE YOU MONEY! Turns out to be about $4 a year in electric cost, and you know they will make fan prices skyrocket&#8230; but you&#8217;ll use <em>less electric!\u00a0<\/em> Permit me to smile.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This proposed rule would decrease the maximum estimated energy consumption permissible for large diameter and belt driven ceiling fans,\u201d committee Republicans wrote. \u201cThis rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ceiling-fan-efficiency-rule-draws-190409600.html\">The Hill<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and they guesstimate the manufacturers will need to spend around $87 million to retool to comply. The annual electric savings is supposed to be a bit under $290 million &#8211; wait for it, there are about 330 million of us. So maybe a few bucks a household. If that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146526 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/26d481442dcb85fb9e26b6ee19a95b42-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/26d481442dcb85fb9e26b6ee19a95b42-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/26d481442dcb85fb9e26b6ee19a95b42-460x333.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/26d481442dcb85fb9e26b6ee19a95b42-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/26d481442dcb85fb9e26b6ee19a95b42.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And while we are on the subject of regulatory over-reach:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Biden&#8217;s alcohol czar says Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) George Koob told the Daily Mail on Thursday that the U.S. may follow Canada&#8217;s footsteps on alcohol guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, American guidelines recommend men limit themselves to two drinks per day while women should only have one drink. The American recommendations are up for review in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s guidelines recommend only having two drinks per week.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biden-alcohol-czar-says-us-175106498.html\">The Hill<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126245 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/musk1-287x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/musk1-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/musk1-318x333.png 318w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/musk1.png 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the DOJ seems to have set its eye on Elon Musk.\u00a0 Space-X is telling refugees that they only want to &#8220;hire American&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SpaceX has come under fire from the DoJ regarding claims of deliberately excluding refugees and people granted asylum from getting jobs at the company<\/p>\n<p>Musk claims the move would have caught SpaceX in international arms trafficking violations \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/qai\/2023\/08\/25\/the-doj-sues-spacex-for-allegedly-discriminatory-hiring-practices-against-refugees\/?sh=14ce1d803053\">Forbes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Getting investigated by the United States Department of Justice for trying to hire legal Americans only. If that doesn&#8217;t put it all in a nutshell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy week for Biden-admin-watchers&#8230; here are a few of the more egregious items: &hellip; <a title=\"A few more Biden actions\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146525\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A few more Biden actions<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,518,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-biden","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}