American Politics

[Xpartan]

Yeah, no way people were better off with Reagan than Carter. The economy under Carter was as good as it is today under Biden. Biden's economy is better than Trump's and Carter's economy was better than Reagan's.

Xpartan, how many times were you dropped as a child?

Was inflation this high under Trump Xpartan? Now go ahead and make your pathetic sorry ass excuses.

Oh Elvis! Don't strain yourself. Sarcasm doesn't work for everybody. I mean, have you seen Carson or Hannity trying to be funny? Not a pretty sight.

But anyway.

You're right, some people were better off with Reagan. Just like SOME people were better of with Trump. Your point?

The economy is doing great under Biden. What is it that you don't like, specifically? Inflation? Did you NOT like inflation when Trump gave his billionaire friends $2 trillion in unconditional tax cuts?

Inflation is nearing 6% this year and people are worried that it may continue to go up, returning us to the bad old days of double-digit inflation like we had in the 1970s and ’80s.

There are multiple causes. Republicans trying to blame President Joe Biden for this inflation point to the American Rescue Plan from this spring and the infrastructure plan that recently passed (and hasn’t yet put one penny into the economy). What they refuse to admit is that much of this inflation is the result of their tax cuts for wealthy Americans that has put $250 billion per year of stimulus money into our economy each year since 2018.

Economists of all stripes warned that putting that much stimulus into an already-growing economy was a mistake that would cause inflation to rise. Republicans were OK with inflation caused by tax cuts for the wealthy, but when the middle class shows up for the party looking for more jobs and higher wages, they decide it is time to take the punch bowl away.

If Republicans are serious about reducing the inflationary effects of stimulus spending, they could simply end former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy.

https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2021/...ted-inflation/

You could, of course, provide sources for your hogwash.

Nope. No, he couldn't, LOL.

[ScatManDoo]

The Wisconsin primary is only a few days away.

Wisconsin is currently a purple state. I think it used to be a blue state. It sure looked blue in 1984 for George McGovern.

Most of its state government seats are filled with republican asses. Wisconsin went for Trump in 2016, not so much in 2020.

Current campaigners for the democratic party have their grassroots efforts this week in support of police, law and order and support of Democracy.

They're happy to point out that their opposition actively defunds police (no BBB), obstructs justice in all corners, all corners!, and supported the coup efforts that opposed democracy.

These Wisconsin activists encouraged democrats across the nation to join their phone banks.

Technology allows democrats, wherever they live, to link up and make phone calls this week.

Many of the republican candidates are folks supported by Donald Trump.

To sit on election boards and serve their leader's order for future elections.

Most of these local elections in off-year voting, get decided with low (often less than 20%) election voting rates. Democrats have issues, like preserving democracy, that is going to motivate many many more voters than usual. Some of whom can give an hour or two to burn up purple phones in Wisconsin this week. I am tempted.

The Republican platform is stuck on "Flippy Floppy TrumpShit".

Which belong in a toilet in Mar-a-logShit, instead of classified top secret papers.

[ScatManDoo]

More than 11 royal guardsmen had to hold the prince in restraints as he tried desperately this morning to wake and infect his Mother, the Queen.

[ScatManDoo]

Oil companies didn't stop drilling on federal land because they wanted to shore up their bottom line.

That is exactly why domestic oil production is slowing down to a trickle.

10 to 20 years from now it is likely that more than half of new vehicles will not use gasoline as its primary fuel.

It would be foolish to spend a big part of (oil company) current budget on new drilling for new wells to produce oil in the future that won't be needed.

Buggy whip production slowed way down a hundred years ago. Canada decries that lost production capacity!

[ScatManDoo]

My post, unlike yours that is based on mushroom feed rhetoric, was based on my personal experience I. E KFC and a report from CNBC an NBC Universal outlet.

Thus your post becomes very intelligent for someone devoid of facts!
Keep on mongering but don't spent your stimulus money. You may need it with this inflation!

More nothing from a nothing.

With farm producers getting paid less.

And grocery stores charging more.

Eat a lot.

When whining a lot about inflation.

Does not think a lot.

And understands nothing, like he is.

[EatALotOpus]

They get fed an over-abundance of retard right-wing talking points and not much else.

He might not be able to stop himself from spewing some uncontrollably.

Like all helpless newborns do.

My post, unlike yours that is based on mushroom feed rhetoric, was based on my personal experience I. E KFC and a report from CNBC an NBC Universal outlet.

Thus your post becomes very intelligent for someone devoid of facts!
Keep on mongering but don't spent your stimulus money. You may need it with this inflation!

[PVMonger]

Yeah, no way people were better off with Reagan than Carter. The economy under Carter was as good as it is today under Biden. Biden's economy is better than Trump's and Carter's economy was better than Reagan's.

Xpartan, how many times were you dropped as a child?

Was inflation this high under Trump Xpartan? Now go ahead and make your pathetic sorry ass excuses.

You could, of course, provide sources for your hogwash. But then, you'd have to do research and read the articles. But everybody knows that is simply too much work for you. So you post opinion and call it fact. No wonder you watch FUX "News" and believe them.

[EihTooms]

Yeah, no way people were better off with Reagan than Carter. The economy under Carter was as good as it is today under Biden. Biden's economy is better than Trump's and Carter's economy was better than Reagan's.

Xpartan, how many times were you dropped as a child?

Was inflation this high under Trump Xpartan? Now go ahead and make your pathetic sorry ass excuses.

Well, yeah, Elvis, it looks like you did inadvertently lurch into some truth there.

Although your suggestion that Carter's economic results were as good as Biden's is highly debatable. After all, as bad as the Nixon / Ford economy and conditions were that Carter inherited and had to recovery America from, it wasn't nearly as nightmarish and disastrous as what Biden inherited from Trump and has been recovering us from at a historic clip and level.

Now, I have posted links in my previous posts for the history of Inflation, GDP Growth, Unemployment Rates, Jobs Creation or Losses by President including average annual gains, Recessions, stock market gains, etc.

Feel free to research, review, re-link and reference the actual, verifiable record and data in any and all of them to refute what you stated and that I highlighted above if you'd like.

Good luck with that. I've looked and I can't refute it.

[PVMonger]

Oil companies didn't stop drilling on federal land because they wanted to shore up their bottom line. They stopped drilling because Biden cancelled permits on all federal land. Because of this oil production dropped in USA in 2021 by over 1,000,000 barrels a day. Biden is being forced to allow more drilling and production will increase in 2022. Biden cancelled XL Pipeline which would have brought 840,000 barrels of cheap Canadian heavy crude to refineries and now we get to buy 800,000 barrels a day of Russian heavy oil at a higher price. OPEC has the most influence on oil prices and when they see USA production going down by Biden dumb policies they increase oil prices. It has been that way for 50 years. Oil companies bottom line is great. Stock prices are up 30% in January and went up 50% last year. Oil companies are paying huge dividends. Biden green policies are making oil companies rich.

You really need to stop believing what you hear on FUX "News".

1. " They stopped drilling because Biden cancelled permits on all federal land. " Hogwash. https://www.audubon.org/news/despite...ng-under-biden.

2. "XL Pipeline". Hogwash. It wasn't even built yet. Coulda, woulda, shoulda doesn't matter.

3. "Oil companies bottom line is great". https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/97364...s-oil-not-more.

4-x. All of the following articles refute your anti-Biden hogwash https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneber...h=17b42329ddfc and https://www.thebalance.com/what-make...o-high-3305654 and https://www.business-standard.com/ar...2500016_1.html and https://apnews.com/article/why-are-g...37eed6838484bd and https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50738.

But, hey, FUX "News" said Biden is to blame so, yeah, let's go with that. Sheesh.

[ScatManDoo]

This offer has been out now for close to 48 hours.

Here in California, it is around 8 PM.

There have been no takers that I know of.

I will hold my offer open for about the next 50 hours.

If you want to make this bet with me, indicate in this thread before 10:00 PM (PST) on Thursday, February 10th.

I have been concerned about the Senate seat in Georgia.

Polls seen to favor republican athlete Herschel Walker over the incumbent democrat Raphael Warnock.

We'll see how that goes.

It is now around 3:30 PM on Thursday, so my betting offer is closing in around 6 1/2 hours from now.

[ScatManDoo]

Well, that's convenient.

Lazy, but convenient, no doubt about that.

Although, if you're not willing to even consider your opponent's arguments, why start arguing to begin with?

They get fed an over-abundance of retard right-wing talking points and not much else.

He might not be able to stop himself from spewing some uncontrollably.

Like all helpless newborns do.

[Xpartan]

Obviously you're dead set in your believes and so am I so I'm not going into your rabbit hole.

Well, that's convenient.

Lazy, but convenient, no doubt about that.

Although, if you're not willing to even consider your opponent's arguments, why start arguing to begin with?

[Elvis 2008]

Let's unbundle your rambling.

First, tens of millions of American people elected Donald Trump in 2016.

Trump, for fucks sake!

The POS Trump who by then had bankrupted his core businesses, regularly stiffed his contractors, defaulted on hundreds of millions in loans, and had to be saved by infamous Deutsche bank heavily involved with Russia.

Yeah, that fucking Trump..

Yeah, no way people were better off with Reagan than Carter. The economy under Carter was as good as it is today under Biden. Biden's economy is better than Trump's and Carter's economy was better than Reagan's.

Xpartan, how many times were you dropped as a child?

Was inflation this high under Trump Xpartan? Now go ahead and make your pathetic sorry ass excuses.

[Elvis 2008]

OPEC controls prices by increasing or decreasing production.

No, they do not control prices. They used to. The USA is the swing producer. With shale, you can cut production off much more easily and quickly.

You can bloviate all you want about "the US isn't producing more oil because of Biden". I have provided numerous refutations to that nonsense but, as usual, you stick to the Fux "News" hogwash. US Oil companies aren't producing more because the stockholders want them to shore up their bottom lines.

Sorry, that is wrong. The economics of drilling is great. "Drilling economics today are better than they've ever been since the shale revolution started," Chris Wright, chief executive officer at Liberty Oilfield Services, told Reuters.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditie...omics-us-shale

Supply chain challenges and higher labor and equipment costs could be stumbling blocks for USA Shale, especially for the basins with higher breakeven prices.

Gee, and whose fault is that?

Headline CPI and core CPI popped 0. 6% (0. 65%/0. 58% unrounded) mom in January, kicking off the new year with a positive inflation surprise. This boosted the yoy rates to 7. 5% from 7. 04% for headline and 6. 0% from 5. 5% for core both the highest since 1982 as noted above.

Are you Dems going to own that or is it the pandemic or Trump's fault? How come there was not this much inflation with Trump?

Back to the article: But the oil industry still has not recovered: Still, USA Crude oil production is set to hit a new record of 12.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2023, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in the January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

On Tuesday the EIA raised its production forecast, expecting USA Crude oil production to rise to an average of 12.0 million bpd in 2022 and 12.6 million bpd in 2023 an annual record high and 200,000 bpd above last month's estimate. The previous annual average record of 12.3 million bpd was set in 2019.

End of quote.

This is not shit. It is nowhere near enough. Oil production was up as much as a million BPD a year under Obama in his last few years and was up as high as 1. 5 million under Trump.

And, by the way, was worldwide oil production in Q42021 101.33 BPD or was it 98.33 BPD? Because you said it was both.

101.33 was in Q4 2019.98. 33 was last quarter.

And USA oil production was less in 2021 than 2020. Whose fault is that? It is never Biden's fault about anything is it?

And Biden said he wanted net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He didn't call for firing the oil and gas industry.

With that statement, he may as well have.

And then look at the table from this article:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gl...finally-peaked

The number of container ships waiting for berths at the ports of LOS Angeles and Long Beach fell to 78 on Tuesday, the lowest tally in three months. That's down down 23% from 101 ships on Feb. 1 (the average for the month of January was also 101) and down 28% from the all-time high of 109 ships on Jan. 9, albeit still up 160% year on year.

Congratulations, maybe in another two years, you Dems can get that under ten like it was with Trump.

But maybe everything will be better if you Dems can get Joe Rogan and his "misinformation" off Spotify. That seems to be your #1 priority right now.

[Canada]

OPEC controls prices by increasing or decreasing production.

You can bloviate all you want about "the US isn't producing more oil because of Biden". I have provided numerous refutations to that nonsense but, as usual, you stick to the Fux "News" hogwash. US Oil companies aren't producing more because the stockholders want them to shore up their bottom lines.

And Biden said he wanted net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He didn't call for firing the oil and gas industry. But sure, FUX "News" and the one-term, twice-impeached former guy probably said that and, predictably, you bought their BS skin-baloney-and-all.

And, by the way, was worldwide oil production in Q42021 101.33 BPD or was it 98.33 BPD? Because you said it was both.

Oil companies didn't stop drilling on federal land because they wanted to shore up their bottom line. They stopped drilling because Biden cancelled permits on all federal land. Because of this oil production dropped in USA in 2021 by over 1,000,000 barrels a day. Biden is being forced to allow more drilling and production will increase in 2022. Biden cancelled XL Pipeline which would have brought 840,000 barrels of cheap Canadian heavy crude to refineries and now we get to buy 800,000 barrels a day of Russian heavy oil at a higher price. OPEC has the most influence on oil prices and when they see USA production going down by Biden dumb policies they increase oil prices. It has been that way for 50 years. Oil companies bottom line is great. Stock prices are up 30% in January and went up 50% last year. Oil companies are paying huge dividends. Biden green policies are making oil companies rich.