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RUSSIA

• CLAIM: The Ukraine invasion has caused a massive spike in oil and gas prices.
  • Yes, oil prices are at 8-year highs at over $100 dollars a barrel, and this sudden spike is because of events in Ukraine… BUT...
  • TRUTH: Biden has hamstrung US energy production, including shutting down Keystone XL.
    • In 2018, US became a net exporter of petroleum for the first time in decades. SOURCE: WSJ
    • The US now imports 700K barrels of oil from Russia per day. SOURCE: NYT
    • Europe imports 2.5 million barrels.
    • This reliance on Russian oil makes it very hard to sanction their energy sector. SOURCE: Politico
    • Keystone XL would have brought 830K barrels a day. SOURCE: BBC
    • Trump warned the Germans about this. SOURCE: Twitter

ECONOMY

• CLAIM: The abysmal economy is because of RUSSIA!
  • TRUTH: The economy was a disaster FAR before Russia invaded Ukraine.
    • Inflation was 6.8% in 2021, highest since 1982. SOURCE: TheGuardian
    • Home prices hit record highs in 2021. SOURCE: WSJ
    • Supply chain shortages started ramping up in October 2021. SOURCE: ABC
    • And a record number of Americans quit their jobs in 2021. SOURCE: CNN
• CLAIM: The ‘America Competes Act’ will save the economy by targeting China!
  • TRUTH: This bill does little to actually confront China.
  • The main focus of this bill is “engineering biology.” SOURCE: Congress.gov
  • The bill: SOURCE: Heritage
    • $50 billion in subsidies for the semiconductor industry with no guardrails to prevent the new funding from benefiting China
    • $78 billion for the National Science Foundation that is unrelated to China
    • $8 billion for the UN Green Climate Fund
    • Expands fed gov involvement in education
    • Creates apprenticeship programs to edge out private businesses
    • Calls for more Fed money to K-12 education
    • Expands Trade Adjustment Assistance to ensure generous government handouts
    • And it even has a section titled “Buy American Seafood” SOURCE: Speaker.gov
• CLAIM: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill will revitalize the economy! SOURCE: WhiteHouse
  • TRUTH: WHAT’S IN THE BILL?
    • $1T total
    • $65B to expand internet access to all Americans
    • $89.9B to public transit with zero-emission vehicles
    • $25B to airports
    • $50B to protect against extreme weather
    • $21B to clean abandoned mines
    • $55B to remove lead pipes… over TEN YEARS
• CLAIM: But GREEN JOBS will fix the economy!
  • TRUTH: Will never pan out since the government has to manufacture demand for “green” products. SOURCE: Slate
  • REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE MORE FOR GREEN ENERGY.
    • Elon Musk moved his assembly plant from CA to TX because of Democrat regulations and taxes. SOURCE: DallasNews
    • Musk isn’t an outlier: More energy and tech advancements are taking place in the free market simply because free markets are better for companies in general.
    • Take, for example, the natural gas company Encana, moving from Canada to the US. SOURCE: GlobalNews
    • In the last decade, California’s regulations have caused 18,000 companies to flee the state. SOURCE: StanfordReview
  • CONTRAST WITH GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT
    • In contrast to the success of the free market, you have repeated massive failures of the government to subsidize green energy companies.
    • Solyndra, the Silicon Valley startup that the Obama Admin infused with cash, later collapsed, leaving taxpayers liable for $535 million in federal guarantees. SOURCE: WaPo
    • Same for the Obama-backed electric car battery firm A123. They received a $249 million stimulus grant... and then filed for bankruptcy. SOURCE: WaPo
    • Dollar for dollar, “green” energy produces less energy than traditional sources.
    • EXAMPLE: GERMANY - In 2020, 55.8% of their energy came from renewables. SOURCE: IEEFA
    • And as a result, they had…
      • MORE carbon emissions. SOURCE: Forbes
      • Brownouts. SOURCE: DW
      • And they have to sell their energy surpluses at a loss. SOURCE: Quartz
  • COMPARE TO FRANCE:
    • France's energy is 76% nuclear. SOURCE: EIA.gov
    • France produces 1/10 of Germany’s carbon emissions for ½ the price. SOURCE: Forbes
• CASE FOR NUCLEAR/FRACKING
  • Nuclear has 90 deaths per trillion kilowatts-per-hour: the fewest out of coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, solar, and wind. SOURCES: NewScientist, Statista
  • Coal: 100k deaths per trillion kWh
  • Oil: 36k deaths per trillion kWh
  • Natural Gas: 4k deaths per trillion kWh
  • Hydro: 1.4k deaths per trillion kWh
  • Solar: 440 deaths per trillion kWh
  • Wind: 150 deaths per trillion kWh
  • Nuclear: 90 deaths per trillion kWh
  • It’s safer and more reliable. SOURCE: Forbes
  • America’s Nuclear Navy has logged over 5,400 reactor years of accident-free operations.
  • Nuclear is cleaner than coal, gas. SOURCE: ForeignAffairs
  • You could fit all of your nuclear waste for your lifetime in a Coke can. SOURCE: NPR
  • And even fracking is safer, more reliable, and greener than shipping oil from Saudi Arabia. SOURCE: Forbes
  • AND, to top it off, cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather. SOURCE: Science Daily

SCOTUS NOMINEE

• CLAIM: Kentaji Brown Jackson is a fair judge and the best person for the job!
  • TRUTH 1: In 2001, Jackson co-authored an amicus brief in support of a law that would prevent pro-life activists from speaking with women outside of abortion clinics. SOURCE: Heavy
  • TRUTH 2: Planned Parenthood supports her nomination SOURCE: PlannedParenthood
  • TRUTH 3: She also refuses to use the words “illegal” or “alien” when referring to illegal immigrants. SOURCE: CNN

COVID

• CLAIM: Americans are getting fatigued about Covid.
  • TRUTH: True! But did you get that talking point from the PR firm, Impact Research, that’s running the CDC? SOURCE: Twitter
    • “It’s time for Democrats to take credit for ending the COVID crisis phase of the COVID war”
    • “[Democrats should] recognize that people are ‘worn out’ and feeling real harm from the years-long restrictions and take their side”
• CLAIM: Trust the Science!
  • TRUTHS: the FDA promised “FULL transparency” SOURCE: FDA.gov
    • But then proceeded to need 75 years to release the data (until ordered judge).
  • CDC withheld data on vaccine effectiveness boosters for ages 18-40 SOURCE: NYTimes.
  • “When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots.”
• CLAIM: Biden’s Covid plan is working.
  • TRUTH 1: More have died under Biden than under Trump.
    • 424,401 Trump
    • 526,089 Biden
  • TRUTH 2: Bill Gates said Omicron works as a better vaccine than the vaccines. SOURCE: NationWorldNews
    • “Sadly, the virus itself – particularly the variant called Omicron – is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines”

FOREIGN POLICY

• CLAIM: Biden’s foreign policy is a success!
  • TRUTHS:
  • Disaster in Afghanistan
    • Taliban has our BLACKHAWK HELICOPTERS. SOURCE: NYPost
    • Biden said there were 100-200 Americans left in Afghanistan. SOURCE: FactCheck
    • But then at a House hearing, Kevin McCarthy said they were told only 5400 of some 11k-15k Americans had been evacuated. SOURCE: FactCheck
    • We droned 10 civilians in Afghanistan. SOURCE: CNN
  • War in Ukraine

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