Man Discovers His Electric Hummer Will Take 5 days to Fully Charge

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Man Discovers His Electric Hummer Will Take 5 days to Fully Charge

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The owner of an electric GMC Hummer recently posted a video showing that his car will take five days to fully charge using the basic home charging set up.

“This is a brand new hummer and it’s got the largest battery you can buy,” he announces. “250-kilowatt hours of battery in this truck.”

The narrator shows his car’s charger connected to a standard wall outlet, plugging it in and then showing the display that indicates the charge won’t be complete for five days.

“And that’s what happens when you try to charge the largest battery truck using a 120 outlet,” he adds. “Of course, you could have a level two or fast charger which would make it a lot quicker.”

According to the Post Millennial, the level two and fast EV chargers the man references are both significantly more costly to install, despite the increased charging capacity.

Several states, including New York and California, are barring the purchase of gas-powered vehicles. Many of those same states did not consider that adjusting for the change would involve producing more electricity.

In order to keep up with the demand, California implemented rolling blackouts in the summer of 2022.

EV owners in Florida discovered that the salt-water flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian caused their cars to catch fire.

The cost of producing electric vehicles is also significant.

Miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo dig cobalt out of the ground by hand. Many have been killed or crippled.

Even Alan Dangour, the Wellcome Trust’s director for climate and health, acknowledged the considerable dangers of mining cobalt in a panel appearance at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, according to the Daily Caller.

“There is now very nice evidence, in fact, on the impact it has on the health of women and children, especially it has substantial negative impact on fetal growth and fetal health,” Dangour said. “So—but that’s evidence that’s relatively new and relatively recently identified. So, the reason I’m saying this is there are trade-offs here.”

In December, President Joe Biden guaranteed that by 2030 50% of vehicles purchased in the U.S. will be electric, and the federal government will exclusively buy EVs by 2035.

California announced a similar plan, adding a ban of any non-electric vehicles by 2035.

Wyoming, meanwhile, has followed a different path. The state, which relies heavily on the fossil-fuel industry to drive its economy, recently proposed a bill to ban all electric vehicles by 2035, The Hill reported.

SHOCK: Leftist Ariz. Gov. Hobbs Buses Illegals to D.C., Despite Prior Criticism

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SHOCK: Leftist Ariz. Gov. Hobbs Buses Illegals to D.C., Despite Prior Criticism

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, D-Ariz., will continue to bus illegal immigrants to Washington D.C., despite previously lobbing criticism at former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey for taking similar action.

According to the Daily Caller, Ducey started moving migrants to D.C. to prepare for the anticipated surge of migrants that would come at the termination of Title 42.

Hobbs vocally condemned the effort, calling it a waste of taxpayer funds.

“It is not providing any real solutions for Arizona or for these migrants. Again, wasting taxpayer dollars and playing politics with people’s lives,” Hobbs told ABC 15 Arizona in November.

Despite the clear hypocrisy on Hobbs’s part, Arizona residents near the border expressed their approval with her decision to continue the policy.

”I’m thankful for the support regardless of where it comes from,” said Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines told the Daily Caller.

The state of Arizona is facing several crises as a surplus of immigrants continues making its way across the border.

“We have declared a health emergency in the county and the two biggest cities, our local community hospital has not been reimbursed for the more than 23 million directly tie to the illegals flooding our border,” Lines said.

”This president’s policies have had detrimental effects on our community that already suffers from the nation’s highest unemployment rate,” he concluded.

Arizona started busing illegal aliens to the capital in May, following the example of Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, who keeps sending illegals crossing into his state to Washington, New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Former Gov. Ducey took a lot of heat for his attempts to protect his state’s southern border, making efforts to close the gaps of the wall with shipping containers. The Biden administration sued Arizona for this attempt, calling it “trespassing.”

Even some Democrats, such as El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, are sending migrants to purported “sanctuary cities.”

Those who keep up the practice argue that they are simply assisting the immigrants in getting to their final destinations.

Washington, D.C., officials claimed that they will be welcoming migrant children into their public schools, despite the possibility that the schools are not ready to accept such a great influx of students.

Record numbers of immigrants continue to cross the border under the Biden administration’s watch, despite officials constant insistence that securing the country’s perimeter is “well on it’s way” and it should no longer be a matter of public concern.

Ex-Rep. Kinzinger Autographs Copies of Jan. 6 Report for $100 a Pop

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Ex-Rep. Kinzinger Autographs Copies of Jan. 6 Report for $100 a Pop

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Former Jan. 6 committee member and ex-congressman Adam Kinzinger is making a nice profit in his post-political career by selling autographed copies of the Jan. 6 report.

According to the Post Millennial, Kinzinger is charging $100 for a bound edition of the report—which can be found for free online. For only $60 more, customers can also purchase a signed hat.

“On January 6, 2021, the United States came perilously close to losing its democracy,” said the report’s description.

“A mob instigated by the president of the United States violently attacked the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, seeking to disrupt the certification of the electors in the presidential election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history,” it continued.

The partisan report painted former President Donald Trump as a malicious, power-hungry fiend and vastly outweighing the importance of the committee’s work.

“The attack was the culmination of a plot organized and driven by a defeated president, attempting to remain in power through a complex web of deceit, intimidation, and violence,” the description said.

“This is the official report of the investigation into the attack-perhaps the most vital congressional investigation in American history-with exhibits, and witness testimony,” it said.

Kinzinger recently announced that he was cashing in on his notoriety as a fake Republican by securing a spot as a political correspondent at left-leaning CNN.

This move did not surprise many people, especially after his farewell speech where he berated Republican voters as “racist” and “ignorant” and depicting himself as a tragic hero.

However, some speculated that his latest scheme revealed the need for a supplemental income.

Others objected the idea of even paying for such a boring and lengthy document.

Kinzinger, a former Illinois congressman, previously mocked Donald Trump Jr. for encouraging people to purchase “We the People” bibles.

“Oh the irony. The fact that some Christians dont see the problem here is more affirmation that it’s not the GOP that has failed Christians, it’s the church,” Kinzinger tweeted. “Good Pastors and Priests rise up and call this out.”

Country Singer Apologizes to RuPaul for Genre’s Lack of Wokeness

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Country Singer Apologizes to RuPaul for Genre’s Lack of Wokeness

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Singer Maren Morris took it upon herself to apologize for country music’s treatment of the LGBT community during a recent appearance on the transgender-friendly RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Speaking to drag-queen host RuPaul Charles, Morris teared up, attacking her fellow country singers for their lack of acceptance of the various sexual lifestyles while failing to cite any specific examples of intolerance.

“Coming from country music and its relationship with LGBTQ+ members, I just want to say I’m sorry,” she said, according to Trending Politics.

“And I love you guys for making me feel like a brave voice in country music,” she continued. “So I just thank you guys so much for inspiring me.”

Morris later posted a tweet celebrating herself for her extraordinary virtue.

“I’ve done some cool s**t. #DragRace is rivaling it all. Getting my jacket framed next to my Grammy. It is DONE.”

This is not Morris’s first assault on her fellow country musicians, however.

Last summer, Brittany Aldean, the “unapologetically conservative” wife of country star Jason Aldean, called transgender transition surgeries “one of the worst evils.”

“Some parents want to be accepted by society so badly, that they’re willing to make life-altering decisions for their children who aren’t old enough to fully comprehend the consequences of those actions,” Aldean said at the time. “Love is protecting your child until they are mature enough as an adult to make their own life decisions.”

Morris responded by calling Brittany Aldean an “Insurrection Barbie” and a “scumbag human” via Twitter.

Not content to limit her criticism to country music, Morris also previously engaged in a spat with former Full House star Candace Cameron Bure, a devout Christian who said that she wished to “keep traditional marriage at the core” of the American family.

Sec. of State Blinken Implicated in Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal

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Sec. of State Blinken Implicated in Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Secretary of State Antony Blinken for two years served as managing director of the think tank where President Joe Biden stashed classified documents that he illegally removed from the White House from his stint as vice president, when Blinken served as his national security adviser.

“I had no knowledge of it at the time,” Blinken claimed about his time overseeing operations for the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, one of a growing number of locations where Biden’s classified documents have been found.

Blinken isn’t the only Biden confidant with integral ties to the controversial China-linked think tank. Penn Biden Center Managing Director Michael Carpenter was a chief adviser for Biden’s Ukrainian dealings during his time as vice president.

Carpenter was also in close contact at the time with alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella, who helped Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., create a bogus Ukrainian narrative that served as a leg for the 2019 impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, according to RealClear Investigations senior reporter Paul Sperry.

The classified material found in the think tank managed by Carpenter reportedly included documents and materials relating to Biden’s dealings with Ukraine, among other countries.

Before his stint with the Penn Biden Center, Carpenter also served as the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia and Conventional Arms Control.

“All roads lead to Ukraine,” wrote Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee investigating the Biden document scandal.

Carpenter, sporting a spiffy green tie, was on stage with Biden when he boasted about his time as vice president threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless it fired a prosecutor who happened to be investigating corruption linked to the energy company Burisma.

Hunter Biden, a crack-addict with no experience in the energy sector, had been paid upwards of $80,000 a month to serve on the board of Burisma, a position he received shortly after his father was asked to oversee Ukrainian affairs as Barack Obama’s vice president.

Further entwining the web, one of Biden’s personal attorneys who discovered the classified documents was Dana Remus, who had worked with an Obama-appointed archivist to “review” Trump’s records, Sperry reported.

Remus left the White House one month before suddenly finding the classified documents.

FBI Ignored Warnings of Violent Protests at Justices’ Homes after ‘Roe’ Leak

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FBI Ignored Warnings of Violent Protests at Justices’ Homes after ‘Roe’ Leak

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Newly-released FBI emails and documents revealed that bureau officials were acutely aware of the potential for violent and disruptive protests to erupt at the homes of Supreme Court justices after the overturn of Roe, but did not act on the information.

In the immediate aftermath of the infamous leak of the court’s draft opinion that foreshadowed Roe’s demise, the FBI sent a report to several field offices and local police departments highlighting news articles about pro-abortion protests “outside the homes of the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Signal.

“After each news article listed in the FBI’s May 12 report, acronyms indicate which FBI offices have jurisdiction and an investigative interest in each event,” reported the Daily Signal.

The “investigative interest” never materialized into action, despite the report name-checking radical, pro-abortion domestic terror groups with reputations for violence and vandalism.

The report included links to articles from the Daily Mail and The Hill, with revelatory headlines like “The left-wing firebrands backing protests at SCOTUS judges’ houses.”  Another flagged article covered Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s demands for more security at the homes of the justices.

Both articles referenced the abortion-terrorists Ruth Sent Us, one of the leading activist groups that fomented and led disruptive and intimidating protests outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices.

Some warnings were sent to FBI field offices in Washington and Baltimore, while others were distributed to multiple field offices. In all cases, no action was taken in response to the dire warnings. The FBI report was obtained through an information request to the Virginia State Police.

“The FBI normally doesn’t release information to the public regarding items of investigative interest, indicating that Virginia State Police may have released the document to The Daily Signal in error,” the news outlet reported.

“What that FOIA revealed is that there is an FBI investigative interest in these stories,” said Roman Jankowski, senior investigative counsel on The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.

“Unfortunately, regardless of the theoretical investigative interest in [the] political violence of such groups as Ruth Sent Us or Jane’s Revenge, the FBI has demonstrated no interest in pursuing any investigate activity that targets any persons who are proponents for abortions,” Jankowski said.

It’s not for lack of jurisdiction. Protesting outside the home of a judge or justice in an attempt to influence a ruling is a violation of federal law.

Cully Stimson, deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, said it was “past time for this Justice Department to arrest and prosecute the protesters who have clearly and brazenly violated” the law “by picketing and parading in front of Supreme Court justices’ homes for weeks on end.”

“By not enforcing the law, the attorney general [Merrick Garland] is giving a green light to these protesters and others that it is OK to interfere and obstruct the administration of justice and harass Supreme Court justices and their families at their homes,” Stimson said, adding that “Garland should be ashamed of himself.”

Woke Colo. Astrophysicist Bemoans White Supremacy, Sexism in Space

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Woke Colo. Astrophysicist Bemoans White Supremacy, Sexism in Space

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A Colorado astrophysicist revealed herself as a leftist snowflake, claiming that her field of work is filled with white supremacy and sexism because other scientists dared to use “hyper-masculine” and “violent” language when describing stars.

In an interview with the college newspaper, Natalie Gosnell, an assistant professor at Colorado College, also claimed that she struggled to overcome the division between art and science that is rooted in “systemic racism,” according to the Daily Mail.

On her website, Gosnell claimed she wants “to cross typical disciplinary boundaries to create art-science pieces that re-inscribe outer space as feminist space.”

“Both artists and scientists are just observing things about the world, interpreting those observations, and then sharing their interpretation,” Gosnell said in her interview with the college newspaper.

“As an astrophysicist, I am a product of institutions steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy.”

Gosnell said that her fellow scientists, who are not beholden to woke dogma, use “sexist” and “racist” language to describe scientific phenomena, saying that how stars burn through their fuel and die is viewed through a “hypermasculine” lens and that these scientists use “very violent” metaphors to describe the phenomena.

As an example, she talked about how stars that take mass from other stars are labeled “bad boys,” probably referring to an article written by a popular science journalist — not a scientist — Nancy Atkinson in 2009.

“… blue stragglers [which] steal mass from companion stars by crashing into their neighbors’ are ‘stellar bad-boys,'” Atkinson wrote.

Gosnell said that she tries to combine art and science because the two fields are more similar than different.

“I think because science and art were so separate, and that’s how it is […] systemic questions within science, the often chosen metaphors [to discuss science] are very violent and hypermasculine,” she said.

“The tenants of white supremacy emerging [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism… it’s an either-or thinking and there’s no subtlety, there’s no gray area. All of this is manifested in the way we think about our research and what counts as good research, what counts as important research.”

Communist China’s Population Dropped for First Time in 6 Decades

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Communist China’s Population Dropped for First Time in 6 Decades

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Communist China announced its first overall population decline in six decades, while people are more likely to grow old than to get born.

The National Bureau of Statistics reported that, at the end of 2022, China had 850,000 fewer people than over the previous year, not counting the populations of Hong Kong, Macao and foreign residents, according to the New York Post.

In a Tuesday briefing, the bureau said that China now has a total of 1.411.75 billion people, with 9.56 million births against 10.41 million deaths.

Because the Chinese government implemented the strict one-child policy that only officially ended in 2016, the Chinese were forced to have only one child, a boy, to carry on the family name. If a woman got pregnant with a girl, the baby was killed. That resulted in men continuing to outnumber women by 722.06 million to 689.69 million.

After abandoning the policy, CCP tried to encourage families to have more than one child but failed, since it is too expensive to raise children in China’s big cities.

China has been the most populous nation for a very long time, but, due to the recent news, is expected to be soon overtaken by India, if not already.

The last time when China had a population decline was at the end of the 1950s when, because of the dictator Mao Zedong, tens of millions of people were killed due to massive famine.

Since people are not having kids or not having more than one child in big cities due to high prices, the population is going to plummet even more as China becomes even more urban than it used to be before. In 2022, the permanent urban population increased by 6.46 million to reach 920.71 million, or 65.22%. The rural population, on the other hand, fell by 7.31 million.

It is not clear how the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the population figures after the Chinese created a virus in one of their Wuhan labs.

Inflation Overshadows Biden’s Boasts on Rising Wages

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Inflation Overshadows Biden’s Boasts on Rising Wages

(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden touted Americans’ rising wages over the weekend, but a closer look shows there is more to the story.

“More Americans have health insurance than ever in history,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “Fewer families are facing foreclosure today than before the pandemic. And wages are climbing faster than prices.”

While wages have increased during Biden’s presidency, soaring inflation has eroded and often surpassed any gains for workers since Biden took office.

“Only a few months of Biden’s presidency have [we] seen wages and earnings rise faster than prices,” said E.J. Antoni, an economist at the Heritage Foundation. “Over the last two years, the American people have become demonstrably worse off with the average family losing $6,000 in purchasing power because prices have risen so much faster than wages.”

Antoni argued Biden misrepresents the data.

“[Biden] also said ‘wages are higher now than they were seven months ago adjusted for inflation’ – but real wages are LOWER than they were 8, 9, 10, … months ago, and lower than when Biden took office (conveniently omitted),” Antoni said, adding that Biden “also omits real [average] weekly earnings, which have declined even further than real [average] hourly earnings, because businesses have been reducing hours, cutting full-time jobs [and] replacing with part-time.”

Federal employees faced this reality firsthand in recent weeks.

Biden issued an executive order in December giving a wide range of federal employees a 4.6% pay increase, 4.1% as a raise and 0.5% as a cost-of-living adjustment.

That raise is much higher than the 2.7% increase from the same time last year, but neither have helped those workers keep pace with rising prices.

The 4.6% increase is far less than the rise in consumer prices.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new inflation data earlier this month that showed the overall consumer price index rose 6.5% in the previous 12 months.

This isn’t the first time Biden has given an especially rosy outlook on the economy. Biden suggested food prices were falling in a recent tweet when they have actually soared since he took office.

“For the sixth month in a row, yearly inflation is down,” Biden wrote on Twitter earlier this month. “It might be rising in economies around the world, but it’s coming down here. And gas prices, food, and more are following.”

But food prices actually rose again in December as they have for the past 12 months.

BLS data shows the “food at home” index rose 0.2% in December and 11.8% in the past year. Food away from home rose 0.4% in December and 8.3% in the last year.

“The index for cereals and bakery products rose 16.1 percent over the year. The remaining major grocery store food groups posted increases ranging from 7.7 percent (meats, poultry, fish, and eggs) to 15.3 percent (dairy and related products),” BLS said.

As The Center Square previously reported, here are some seasonally adjusted price changes for urban consumers for the major food categories in December as well as the annual numbers, according to BLS’ data:

  • Cereals and bakery products prices saw no change in December but rose 16.1% in the last year.
  • Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 1% in December and 7.7% in the last year.
    Dairy and related products prices declined 0.3% in December but rose 15.3% in the last year.
  • Fruits and vegetable prices declined 0.6% in December but rose 8.4% in the last year.
    Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials prices rose 0.1% in December and 12.4% in the last year.
  • BLS’ “other food at home” category saw a 0.4% increase in December and a 13.9% increase in the last year.

Noem Helps w/ Grocery Bills, Proposes Largest Tax Cut in S.D. History

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Noem Helps w/ Grocery Bills, Proposes Largest Tax Cut in S.D. History

(Cole Lauterbach – The Center Square) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday announced legislation that, if enacted, would repeal the state’s sales tax on grocery items.

House Bill 1075 would amount to the largest tax cut in the state’s history. Noem’s office estimates the cut would allow taxpayers to keep $102 million.

“I’ve visited dozens of grocery stores across South Dakota in recent months, and every time, I meet South Dakotans who are shocked by the rising cost of food,” Noem said in a news release. “They need relief – and we can afford to give it to them.”

The bill is sponsored by Rep. Mary Fitzgerald, R-St. Onge, and Sen. John Wiik, R-Big Stone City.

The proposal comes as residents face persistently high inflation, particularly with groceries. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said grocery items were 10% more expensive on average last November than in November 2021. Noem’s office said the Consumer Price Index for “food at home” has risen 19% in the last 2 years.

South Dakota is one of only three states without some sort of carveout in its sales taxes for grocery items. Local sales taxes will still apply if the state sales tax is repealed.

Noem initially balked at calling a special session to repeal the state’s 4.5% sales tax on groceries but named it as an initiative in her State of the State speech.

“They are no longer saving for college or to buy a new house or a new car,” Noem said on Jan. 6. “They are just barely getting by. We need to give them relief, and we can do so by giving them a $100 million tax cut by eliminating the sales tax on groceries.”

Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and prepared food would still be subjected to the state’s sales taxes under the legislation.

The bill would take effect on July 1, 2023.

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