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07-19-22 13:27 #9138
Posts: 723President Biden and his acolytes have killed "wisdom" in this country. He points to incomprehensible policies like diminishing the police and failing to secure the southern border, among others.
What is absolutely true is that Biden's open border stance and emphasizing social justice over criminal justice are stupid indeed. And stupidity is the opposite of wisdom.
There are not really two sides to those issues. The campaign to harm traditional policing has led to thousands of violent deaths. No bail for dangerous criminals will do that.
And the unrestrained migration and narcotics traffic on the Mexican border has also killed legions of people.
President Biden has no answer. He and his minions simply deny there's a problem. Biden won't even visit the border, perhaps because he knows he could never pronounce "Juarez."
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07-19-22 12:40 #9137
Posts: 1823Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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07-19-22 12:04 #9136
Posts: 1823Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
My point is that you are apply rues to data in an uneven and unfair manner in order to prove your POV. You are wanting to treat unions / orgaisations / federations of states as individual countries on the communist side, yet not allowing it on the capitalist-pig side. Clear, dishonest manipulation.
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07-19-22 06:33 #9135
Posts: 1138Originally Posted by Gino02 [View Original Post]
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07-19-22 06:23 #9134
Posts: 1138Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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07-19-22 04:35 #9133
Posts: 2003Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
But yeah, who said that 25 ain't the new 50? Not Chris.
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07-19-22 02:49 #9132
Posts: 5536Originally Posted by Gino02 [View Original Post]
From your link:
In response, the crown prince brought up the abuse of prisoners that took place at Abu Ghraib prison during the U.S. war in Iraq.
Along the way, that one and other Repubs have reversed a half-Century of Human Rights freedom for Americans to engage in sex purely for the pleasure of it and not solely for the purpose of procreation.
Meanwhile, Biden did get this agreement, which is far and away a better response to the global energy inflation problem initially triggered by Trump's Pandemic than anything else proposed by any Repub:
Saudi Arabia agrees to increase oil production levels, will help 'stabilize markets,' White House says.
Saudi Arabia committed to increase oil production levels 50% above what was initially planned for July and August
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sau...rkets-white-ho
Granted, it's from a FUX News source. But it has been repeated often enough by real news sources to have some legitimacy.
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07-19-22 02:42 #9131
Posts: 1823Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
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07-19-22 02:05 #9130
Posts: 1680All Very Predictable
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wo...eory-explained
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07-19-22 00:10 #9129
Posts: 1044Originally Posted by Gino02 [View Original Post]
Now we've got this senile clown who just a couple of years ago was reading from his teleprompter that he was going to make Saudi a "pariah state" because they whacked some guy who was making trouble for them (as if the CIA, Mossad, whoever else haven't murdered hundreds of their enemies) and because of some ludicrous green bullshit. Add in to that the fact that Anthony "Rabbit in headlights" Blinken the failed rockstar apparently brings up trannies and faggots every time he meets with the Saudis. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...-time-00040325.
Literally imagine being a high-level Saudi official. You sit down for what you think are serious talks with the US Secretary of State about trade, oil prices, regional security etc, and he starts whining "Why aren't you letting faggots buttfuck each other in public and brainwash kiddies at school?" WTF?
No wonder they just told America to fuck off and are about to join China like the rest of the world.
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07-18-22 23:59 #9128
Posts: 1044Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
The democrats cook up a vast, insane, nation-wrecking, inflation-causing, debt-rocketing bill costing trillions of dollars, most of which is entirely wasted on green bullshit, kickbacks for Nancy and Joe, tranny-groomer indoctrination for small children, and all the other crap we know govts burn up our money on.
There's a couple of lines hidden in the bill about funding cops.
Republicans and any other fiscally sane people vote against the terrible bill.
The democrats and fake news shriek "THEY VOTED AGAINST THE COPS" while completely ignoring the other multiple trillions of pork bullshit.
If you want to fund the cops, pass a separate bill funding the cops. Don't hide it in the middle of your multi-trillion horseshit. Jeez, you have to be functionally retarded to fall for that. Which is another reason why democrats are so keen to replace heritage Americans with 75-IQ turd world illegals.
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07-18-22 23:48 #9127
Posts: 1044Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
As I stated, the number of countries is irrelevant, unless you believe that Liechtenstein and Monaco are somehow "more" than China.
Finally, are you stating that the land area of the 46 countries (USSR, China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Yemen, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Rep. Of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, DR Congo, Angola, Benin, Dem Rep. Of Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Mozambique) is about 10% of the worldwide land area? Subtract Antarctica from the total, do the math again, and show me the results. Regardless, the important factor is population, which you failed to understand (as always) was very different in 1970 to now.
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07-18-22 20:25 #9126
Posts: 2003Nah!
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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07-18-22 20:13 #9125
Posts: 3354Originally Posted by Gino02 [View Original Post]
But we do not need any more refineries or oil production. Oh no. There is that climate change theory and ESG scores.
Here is a great piece on nuclear. Like more oil production, it is something else we do not need.
https://environmentalprogress.org/co...se-for-nuclear
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07-18-22 20:13 #9124
Posts: 1604It figures
Originally Posted by Gino02 [View Original Post]
Donnie the Dumbass said that Germany imported too much Russian gas from Russia. Here's what we know:
World Jul 11,2018 3:29 PM EDT.
BRUSSELS — President Donald Trump wasted no time in escalating his verbal attacks on Germany in the opening leg of his European tour. Seated across from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at breakfast Wednesday morning ahead of the alliance's meeting, Trump expanded his criticism beyond how little – in his view – Europe's most powerful economy spends on defense to target where they buy their energy.
"Germany is totally controlled by Russia," he said. "They will be getting between 60 and 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. ".
But those numbers aren't correct. Here's what we know about the pipeline and the broader fight over natural gas exports.
Trump was referring to the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline that is being built under the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany. Gazprom, Russia's natural gas producer, is building it alongside an existing pipeline of the same name. Several European energy companies, including Royal Dutch Shell and France's Engie, are providing billions in funding.
But Trump's assertion that the pipeline will provide 60 to 70 percent of Germany's energy is incorrect. While Russia will be able to increase the amount of natural gas it sells to Germany through the pipeline, Russian gas will only provide a sliver of the overall energy Germany needs. Germany's energy comes from a diverse mix of oil, coal and renewables. Less than one fifth of the country's power is powered by natural gas; at the moment, just 9 percent of the country's power is generated by Russian gas.
That said, when Nord Stream 2 is completed, it will increase the amount of natural gas Germany gets from Russia. It will also allow Russia to send more of its gas to Germany and its European customers through Germany, therefore bypassing Ukraine, with which Russia is engaged in conflict. Ukraine has long argued Russia wants to both deprive it of badly needed income that it collects for the transit of Russian gas to the rest of Europe and also increase the continent's dependence on Russian energy.
Trump complained Germany is "making Russia richer. " When the NATO secretary general told Trump trade was a separate matter, Trump fired back. "How can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection against?" he asked. "I think it is a very bad thing for NATO and I don't think it should have happened and I think we have to talk to Germany about it. " From Trump's perspective, trading with adversaries is bad business.
It's not just the Germans who are in the words of Trump "paying the Russians billions. " Along with gas from Norway, Algeria and Qatar, Europe gets more than a third of its gas from Russia. Tens of thousands of American homes burned Russian natural gas this winter. The gas itself was produced and liquefied by a joint venture between the French energy company Total and Novatek, a company which has been subjected to USA Financial sanctions.
The Europeans have long been concerned about an over-dependence on Russian energy and moved to diversify their sources of supply. And Trump is not the only critic of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. At a meeting earlier this week with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, European Council President Donald Tusk said "Nord Stream 2 is a mistake and will not best serve European interests. It is against our strategic interests, our security, and also our rules. ".
It's important to point out that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has herself called for the construction of terminals that would enable Germany to take in liquefied natural gas from other countries, including the United States. And, this March, standing alongside Poroshenko, she acknowledged the politics surrounding Nord Stream 2 and that Germany would demand Russia outline how it plans to use the existing pipelines in Ukraine after Nord Stream 2's completion. Prior to that, she had maintained the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was a purely "economical project. ".
President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium on July 11. Photo by Kevin Lamarque / ReutersPresident Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium on July 11. Photo by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters.
What Trump didn't say Wednesday is where he thinks Germany should get its gas. But he has made his stance on the issue known, to Germany and other world leaders. On the world stage, Trump has become the USA Natural gas industry's salesman-in-chief, telling a steady stream of foreign leaders from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to South Korean President Moon Jae-in that they should buy their gas from the USA Last year, on a visit to Poland, Trump vowed to raise USA Natural gas exports to Europe.
USA Energy producers would love to export natural gas to Europe. The USA Is awash in gas. The so-called "shale revolution" — the combination of American innovation and technology that has enabled producers to get at previously inaccessible oil and gas — has transformed the USA From a country unable to cover its own energy needs to one that on occasion can even export.
Until recently, USA Energy exports were largely of oil. But the emergence and spread of technology and infrastructure that allow companies to cool gas into a liquid, put it on a ship, and turn it back into gas when it reaches its port of call means the USA Can now export its gas, too.
The upside for American companies: There's so much natural gas in the USA, it's cheap. The problem: It's not so cheap by the time it's gone through all those other steps and moved across the Atlantic.
The upside for American companies: There's so much natural gas in the USA, it's cheap. The problem: It's not so cheap by the time it's gone through all those other steps and moved across the Atlantic. The most promising market for USA Liquified natural gas exports is actually Asia and more specifically, China, a country on which the Trump administration has just slapped tariffs.
For that reason, Russian gas is cheaper than American gas in Europe. With a network of pipelines already in place –- and more to come — Russia can simply pipe its gas to its European clientele. Russia is the world's largest gas exporter. Europe can simply not live without Russian gas, especially as some existing sources — particularly in the Netherlands — are on the decline. The only question is through which pipelines Western Europe is going to get its gas from their eastern neighbor. The Russians know this. The Europeans know this. And surely the Trump administration knows this.
This summer, a Russian energy official detailed an emerging concern among Kremlin officials. He'the just come from the annual Munich Security Conference, which is ostensibly focused on matters of defense and security. The Russians have long been accused of wielding their natural gas as a weapon, the stick in a "carrot and stick" approach, and yet the Russian official complained to me that America is also taking just that approach.
"A USA Official at the conference was telling the Europeans American natural gas is 'freedom gas' and to buy it to free themselves of Russian influence. The Americans want Europe to buy American gas even though it's much more expensive. They want Europe to pay 'protection money. '.