Joe Biden and/or his handlers didn’t settle for crippling the energy industry, with a predictable effect on gas prices. They are also restricting our access to lumber to build housing and even minerals required for their precious electric cars.

Regarding the minerals,

Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed to placate environmentalists, two administration officials with direct knowledge told Reuters.

Don’t worry that being forbidden from using our own resources will drive up prices by limiting supply. Biden’s handlers can just print some more money.

Speaking of rising prices, lumber has skyrocketed, lifting the cost of housing along with it through the stratosphere. The Biden Administration response to this crisis has been to make it even worse by more than doubling the tariffs on Canadian lumber from 8.99% to 18.32%:

The move to increase tariffs on Canadian lumber suppliers comes as lumber prices have risen over 275% since last April alone. Canada’s share of the US lumber market sits at around 25% as well, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Chuck Fowke, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, can hardly believe it:

“At a time when soaring lumber prices have added nearly $36,000 to the price of a new home and priced millions of middle-class households out of the housing market, the Biden administration’s preliminary finding on Friday to double the tariffs on Canadian lumber shipments into the U.S. shows the White House does not care about the plight of American home buyers and renters who have been forced to pay much higher costs for housing,” Fowke wrote.

Canada has been pushed in the direction of selling its lumber to our ChiCom adversaries instead.

In case a pattern hasn’t emerged yet, consider that Biden is releasing several Gitmo terrorists, including Saifullah Paracha, who planned to smuggle in shipping containers full of C4 for the purpose of blowing up Americans, and Ammar al-Baluchi, who helped prepare the 9/11 hijackers. Both were involved in planning to obtain “chemical or biological agents” from China to use in future terror attacks. Paracha and al-Baluchi also discussed obtaining “radiological or nuclear items” for a big al Qaeda project in the USA.

We are ruled by people who — to put it mildly — do not have our best interests at heart. If the Obama Administration represented the “managed decline” of America, the Biden Administration represents its abruptly induced decline. This would be consistent with the ideology of the radicalized Democratic Party, according to which the USA is a systemically racist and excessively Caucasian font of evil.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and SafeSpace47.

The Biden Administration is hostile to the country it rules. How else to explain its plans to share the fortunes it has been looting from us with our enemies?

Via Daily Caller:

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy urged President Joe Biden’s administration against proceeding with a plan to allocate $650 billion to foreign countries, many of which are hostile to the U.S.

The plan is essentially a multibillion-dollar transfer from taxpayers to the Chinese, Russian and Iranian governments, all of which are hostile to the U.S., Kennedy warned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a letter Tuesday. The Treasury Department plans to allocate the funds through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the form of special drawing rights (SDR) loans without congressional approval.

Who needs congressional approval? The purpose of the Legislative Branch is to pass multi-$trillion blowout spending bonanzas every few months. The Executive Branch can see to everything else. As for the Judicial Branch, that will soon be an extension of the Executive, compliments of court packing.

Our rulers don’t hide their hostility. They rub it our faces. For example:

Biden is expected to announce Tuesday or Wednesday that he is setting Sept. 11, 2021 as the new deadline for a total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to senior administration officials.

Note the date. The troops are there in the first place due to the foolish decision following September 11 to attempt nation-building rather that going after Tora Bora with enough firepower to kill anything within 100 miles. That is, the troops are a reaction to September 11. They should have been withdrawn many years ago, but to set that particular date unnecessarily emphasizes defeat at the hands of Al Qaeda’s Taliban facilitators.

It should be noted that the Taliban repeatedly violated the peace accord brokered by the United States…

That doesn’t matter. Everyone knows that Taliban terrorists will not abide by agreements. They won, so they don’t have to.

Equally alarming is the administration’s support for the Islamic terrorists running Iran. These are America’s most dedicated enemies, even if Biden’s ChiCom benefactors pose a more formidable threat.

On a tip from Varla.