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11-15-21 14:45 #5334
Posts: 428Amazing
It is amazing that the USA is in a serious decline since Biden took office and all the socialists keep bringing up past presidents and Trump. Biden has been in office for almost a year and he he is a wreck and not a word of it from the so called democrats here. I guess they are following the socialists thinking like communism in China and Russia where you can not say anything bad about the communism policies.
Afghanistan catastrophe.
Border crises worst ever.
Highest inflation in 31 years.
Wokeness.
Mishandling covid.
Falling asleep at the most important international conference.
Harris laughing about the border and inflation.
The country has serious problems and incompetent president and VP and you are still talking Russia?
People across the country are suffering because of Biden and all of you are ignoring it. You are obviously good cult followers.
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11-15-21 14:34 #5333
Posts: 428This post proves you are
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
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11-15-21 08:22 #5332
Posts: 1949Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
You pal Elvis has already flipped "Russiagate" to Biden (yeah, Russiagate, no less).
Like Russian Internet Research Agency trolls never toasted "we made America great again. ".
Like Russia never orchestrated those wikimedia leaks.
Like Putin never admitted they'd wanted Trump to win.
Like Donnie never asked Russia to dig more dirt on Hillary.
Like Donnie never laughed his ass off with Lavrov and Kisliak after firing Comey (with only Putin's TASS agency granted access to snap pictures).
Like Donnie never shared secret Israeli data with the Russians.
Like Donnie never met with the Russians alone, against all diplomatic protocols, without his aides and even an interpreter present.
Like Donnie never admired and excused Putin as a murderer. .
Like Donnie never sent his brain-damaged son to meet with Putin's agent in Trump Tower (and then taught the junior how to lie about it).
Like Donnie never told he trusted Putin more than his own 18 national security agencies.
Like hordes of Republicans don't adore Putin and his regime.
Yeah, aha.
And why does, pray-tell, every right winger is having this huge pornographic orgy right now?
I'll tell you why. Because FEDs arrested one guy who lied to Steel while he was compiling his dossier. One fucking guy.
In 2016.
For the dossier that was ordered BY REPUBLICANS.
And that's supposed to absolve him?
As if Donnie's never done anything for Russia after that dossier?
Give me a fucking break. No one can be that stupid.
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11-15-21 07:32 #5331
Posts: 5440Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
However, as was repeated countless times from the very beginning in the Mainstream Media, from Mueler's team, Trump's DOJ that busted, charged and convicted several Team Trump members for their crimes and even on this site, "collusion" with Russia was not a crime and was not something the investigators were even looking for.
True, it should have been a source of embarrassment and shame for Repubs and Trumpsters to know America's adversaries and enemies so dearly wanted their guy to win and work his magic to turn America into a shithole country.
But it wasn't and there was no "crime" that could be charged regarding it.
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11-15-21 02:26 #5330
Posts: 428Great Post
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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11-15-21 00:23 #5329
Posts: 3216Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier...h=63ba515e45e0
If we prematurely discourage investment in fossil fuels and then our dependence doesn't decline as rapidly as the Biden Administration envisions that is a recipe for shortages, higher prices, and greater dependence on foreign nations for our energy.
Like the Obama Administration, the Biden Administration initially adopted a relatively hostile position toward the fossil fuel industry. The revocation of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit and the temporary suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands were policies that signaled that the Biden Administration wants to move the country away from oil.
But what happens when Americans aren't ready to move on from oil, and new domestic supplies aren't meeting demand?
That's the position we currently find ourselves in. The Biden Administration could respond in one of two ways.
They could say High oil prices will speed up the transition to renewable energy which is certainly how they feel privately. After all, USA Officials attended the COP26 you. And. Climate Summit in Glasgow this week, where they discussed plans to reduce carbon emissions. They could tell Americans to take their medicine, live with higher gas prices, and then privately hope that hastens the transition to green energy.
But people don't like paying higher gasoline prices. So, the first irony is that the Biden Administration asked OPEC to pump more oil, undermining its COP26 messaging of reducing fossil fuel consumption. At the G-20 meeting in Rome, President Biden complained:
"The idea that Russia and Saudi Arabia and other major producers are not going to pump more oil so people can have gasoline to get to and from work, for example, is not right. "
President Biden pleaded with OPEC this week to pump more oil. Those pleas were rebuffed, and late in the week Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called on oil-producing nations to immediately increase crude supplies so people won't be hurt by high prices this winter.
The second irony in this situation is that one country that is producing a lot less oil than it was 18 months ago is the USA And policies that are hostile to the oil industry indeed that will ultimately curtail USA Oil production potentially lead us to a place like this.
Secretary Granholm seemed unclear on why USA Producers haven't ramped production back up:
"I don't know why at $80 a barrel those incentives are not there. During Covid, it was down they backed off because demand was not there because people were staying home, we know that. Now that things are back up, the production should be meeting that demand, there has been rigs that have been added but not fully."
Because of the lag between price signals and production changes, the Biden Administration needs to make decisions now to ensure domestic supplies are strong during the rest of his term. One of the most important acts the administration could do is fast-track thousands of drilling permit applications that are waiting to be approved.
The administration slowed down these approvals early in the year. The pace has picked up substantially, but that initial slowdown is being felt right now. And that, in part, is why we have to ask OPEC to pump more oil. It's a bad look for the USA, but a consequence that I warned about in my February article.
The Biden Administration should learn a valuable lesson from this. An agenda to move the USA Away from fossil fuels is a noble one. But, if in the process your policies contribute to a supply shortfall and prices skyrocket, you won't be able to see that agenda through because you will be voted out of office. That is where theory collides with practical reality.
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But there is good news for power starved Americans.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/re...lectricity.php
The share of electricity generation produced by natural gas in the United States averages 36% in 2021 and 35% in 2022 in our forecast, down from 39% in 2020. In 2021, our forecast share for natural gas as a generation fuel declines in response to our expectation of a higher delivered natural gas price. As a result of the higher expected natural gas prices, the forecast share of electricity generation from coal rises from 20% in 2020 to about 23% in 2021 and 22% in 2022.
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You cannot make this stuff up. Maybe a nickname change is due. Maybe we should call him Joe "King Coal" Biden. He he.
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11-15-21 00:02 #5328
Posts: 3216Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
You score big douche points for that one, PV.
I will try to score some douche points now too. We all really know Russiagate was all Trump's fault. How did I do?
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11-14-21 21:16 #5327
Posts: 5440Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
If not some loony fake news source, what was it? A psychic inkling? Rumors spreading through your neighborhood? A fortune cookie message? Smoke signals?
And, yeah, I'm guessing wherever it was you heard it that source will never apologize for lying to anyone foolish enough to pay attention to them.
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11-14-21 20:13 #5326
Posts: 3216Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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11-14-21 20:09 #5325
Posts: 3216Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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11-14-21 19:38 #5324
Posts: 1604Who paid originally?
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
"During the Republican primaries, a research firm called Fusion GPS was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, to unearth potentially damaging information about Mr. Trump. The Free Beacon — which was funded by a major donor supporting Mr. Trump's rival for the party's nomination, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — told Fusion GPS to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/u...-expained.html.
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11-14-21 19:27 #5323
Posts: 428Anti American behavior
Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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11-14-21 16:11 #5322
Posts: 1604Well
Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
Once again, the "actions have consequences" crowd seems to forget that the idiot in question took part in a riot at the US Capitol.
Why is it that any black person who gets shot while taking part in a protest gets the "Well, if they hadn't been there, this wouldn't have happened" treatment? But a white woman taking part in a riot at the US Capitol doesn't get the same "Well, if she hadn't been there, this wouldn't have happened" treatment. I know the fascists will try to spin this but, sorry, they are the same thing. Normal people can see this. Fascists? Not so much.
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11-14-21 14:15 #5321
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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11-14-21 10:55 #5320
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
You and TrumpShit need to stop encouraging it Elvis.