American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

Trump's economic decisions had wiped out millions upon millions of jobs in the USA and around the world, destroying global Supply Chains along the way by January 20, 2021.

Even the imaginary Santa Claus in the sky with his talking snake that I know you believe in could not have waved a magic Christmas wand and produced a recovery from Trump's colossally disastrous economic stewardship results without triggering significant inflation.

Economic conditions today are many multiple times better than when Trump was wiping out more jobs than had been created several years before he became so-called potus on his way out.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditie...u8nmlx7xDSm3vA

Looks like your dollar won't buy as many THB, you may have to find a job bro.

[PVMonger]

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-viewers-t...063911332.html

Evidently, a large diet of FUX "NewZ" leads to a belief in idiocy. Unfortunately the study didn't examine other more partisan rightwingnut propaganda outlets. But here is the article:

"Fox News viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days eventually became more skeptical and less likely to buy into fake news, according to a new study.

The study titled "The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers' beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers" by David E Brockman and Joshua L Kalla was conducted in September 2020 and published last week.

"Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritizing the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News," the study said.

The study found changes in attitudes and policy preferences about Covid-19, evaluations of then president Donald Trump and Republican candidates as well as elected officials.

"Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues' importance, and overall political views," the authors of the study said.

They found that participants became more likely to agree that if Donald Trump made a mistake, Fox News would not cover it.

"CNN provided extensive coverage of Covid-19, which included information about the severity of the Covid-19 crisis and poor aspects of Trump's performance handling Covid-19. Fox News covered COVID-19 much less," said the study.

It found that Fox News gave viewers information about why the disease is not a serious threat, while CNN provided a lot more information about the disease itself.

Fox News covered racial issues "extensively but selectively about Biden and other Democrats' supposed positions on them and about outbreaks of violence at protests for racial justice in American cities". The study found that CNN provided little information about either.

The two networks also covered the issue of voting by mail, but again differed on the information provided about it in addition to offering different frames.

A survey was conducted after three days on the participants.

"We found large effects of watching CNN instead of Fox News on participants' factual perceptions of current events (I. E, beliefs) and knowledge about the 2020 presidential candidates' positions," the researchers said. "They discovered changes in attitudes about Donald Trump and Republicans as well as a large effect on their opinions about Covid."

The researchers concluded that this is an effect in part of "partisan coverage filtering", wherein partisan outlets selectively report information, leading viewers to learn a biased set of facts.

"Consistent with this, treated participants concluded that Fox concealed negative information about President Trump. Partisan media does not only present its side an electoral advantage — it may present a challenge for democratic accountability," the study said."

[PVMonger]

The blind leading the blind. Two of the least knowledgeable people on the planet when it comes to the oil industry congratulating themselves on their nonsense. Provide one scrap of evidence that Canadian producers have any surplus oil they could send to the US. You cannot because they are selling everything they can.

Yep. They are "breathing their own exhaust". The following is a month old but the telling portion of the report is: "They can sit with their feet up right now, with money flowing into their pockets, while hardly working," said Rafi Tahmazian, portfolio manager at Canoe Financial in Calgary, which owns shares in oil sands producers. "Why would they want to be a growth business again?" https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...th-2022-03-03/.

But the wingers are "all in" on the API "drill, baby, drill" propaganda.

[PVMonger]

Above post is stupidity in its finest. Canada oil does not all come from the oil sands. The majority is discovered by drilling rigs just like in the USA and the rest of the world. Oil from the oil sands is probably at $30-40 a barrel. Oil is at $100. It may be clear to you and Biden that your lies and his lies are why oil companies are not drilling but the rest of the world doesn't believe it..

Canada, the country produces about 5 million bpd of oil. Of that 5 million barrels, about 100,000 bpd comes from offshore drilling, and about 1. 5 million bpd comes from drilling conventional wells. The remainder comes from unconventional production such as oil sands, shale, fracking, etc.

Therefore, "the majority" of Canada's production doesn't come from drilling at all. And you lied. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/page...in-canada.html.

You are a VP? At a "financial institution"? Where they hand out VP titles like candy and where everybody but tellers and janitors are VP's? What a hoot.

But sure, let's ignore industry experts who say that the lack of drilling comes from financial pressures from investors to show more profit. And by all means, let's focus on the API's propaganda that "drill, baby, drill" is the way forward. After all, if you'd invested a dollar in 2016 in oil company stocks, you'd have lost about 60% of your investment by the start of 2021. If you'd invested the same dollar in the S&P 500, you'd have doubled your money.

What an idiot you are.

[GDreams]

Above post is stupidity in its finest. Canada oil does not all come from the oil sands. The majority is discovered by drilling rigs just like in the USA and the rest of the world. Oil from the oil sands is probably at $30-40 a barrel. Oil is at $100. It may be clear to you and Biden that your lies and his lies are why oil companies are not drilling but the rest of the world doesn't believe it.

I am VP of one of the biggest financial companies in the USA and most of my customers are savvy investors. They know that when the president of the USA tries to kill an industry like oil and gas that shortages will come and oil will skyrocket. I convinced about 70% of my customers to load up on major oil stocks shortly after Biden took office. Returns were 60-80% in 2021 and they are up 35-40% already this year. Plus they pay 3-7% dividends. Exxon is walking away from a billion dollar project in Russia and will take a loss of 1 billion in 2022 but Biden made sure their profits everywhere else in the world would go up $3 billion. Don't tell me investors are worried about new drilling because that is an outright lie. Investors want them to produce as much as they can.

For EV business to take a 40% share of the industry will take at least 20 years. Do you think Americans can survive with $10 a gallon gas and record inflation. Of course not. That is why the democrats are going to get killed in November. To get rid of this stupidity.

Well unlike you I am a mineral processing engineer whose expertise processing minerals. Drilling 100 m holes for mineral resource exploration is much different form drill holes several thousand meters for exploring and extracting oil via the drill hole. Canadian oil sands are mined. See the simple little video put out by none other than the Canadian oi industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxiA40XHF0I, and here is a factual quotation for you about costs:

Oil sands are among the world's most expensive hydrocarbon resources, and the heavy, sulfur-rich crude fetches a lower price than the "light sweet" crude that sets the benchmark for the value of oil. In mid-February, a barrel of Western Canadian Select was selling at $12/ barrel less than the USA Benchmark, West Texas International (WTI crude). (See real-time prices.).

The oil sands industry has been walking a difficult balance between the high cost of production and its value on the open market. In 2014, the cost to produce oil sands crude was more than $60 per barrel (expressed in WTI terms), but improvements and efficiencies have brought costs down to $46 to $53 per barrel, according to one estimate, and the mid $40's, by another. Nevertheless, the margins are thin in the best of times, and the industry incurred billions in debt in 2020 when a barrel of Canadian crude was worth less than a bottle of inexpensive wine.

Now if you were a clever investor you would invested in lithium and rare earth stocks that have at least doubled your returns.

So you are trying to tell us you are the VP of an investment firm and that shareholders are only concerned about production and not profit and return on investment and you call me stupid, LOLOL.

[EihTooms]

Biden keeps saying that also. He can't believe that his numbers on the economy are so bad when he thinks he is doing a good job. Unfortunately all the independents and republicans disagree with him and 30% of the democrats disagree. He got blasted today for touting his jobs report. Which still shows less people are working now than pre pandemic Trump presidency. All these democrat states closed businesses and laid off millions of employees during the pandemic and now they are returning to work. They were earning $2000 to $3000 more during Trump presidency with Trump tax cut but now they are paying $5500 more per year with inflation. Great job Joe. No new jobs created and people returning to their old job are $3000 poorer. And you brag about it. Let's go Brandon.

Trump's economic decisions had wiped out millions upon millions of jobs in the USA and around the world, destroying global Supply Chains along the way by January 20, 2021.

Even the imaginary Santa Claus in the sky with his talking snake that I know you believe in could not have waved a magic Christmas wand and produced a recovery from Trump's colossally disastrous economic stewardship results without triggering significant inflation.

Economic conditions today are many multiple times better than when Trump was wiping out more jobs than had been created several years before he became so-called potus on his way out.

[ScatManDoo]

Just because you don't want to accept it isn't our problem, ISG Baghdad Bob!

Calling us clowns doesn't make the truth any less true

But it adds to the humor when detailing your flawed conclusions.

[Golfinho]

With a senile political hack (and a garbling non-entity) as their Front should at this point raise the concern the whatever is directing this Administration is intentionally destroying the USD as world reserve currency. No US braintrust could be so stupidly incompetent as to implement policy that could be easily used against them as the Russians have done. Getting the dollar inflated out of the way is the logical next step towards implementation of the Digital Currency.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Evangelicals usually believe that but they are only about 30% of Americans. And there's plenty of variety among Christian theists, many who'd recognize the mythical, non-literal nature of many of the biblical accounts, especially those regarding creation and Adam and Eve. This while embracing the lessons taught. Don't toss the baby with the bath water. Also given the beauty and complexity of the universe it's reasonable to at least suspect there may be some higher intelligence behind it. You can forward your leftist causes without attacking religion, which just makes you come across bitter and as intolerant as the rightwingnut mongers you invest hours each day opposing.

You would be well served by listening to this inbred cracker, she was born again whilst doing a bit in the Florida DOC LMAO.

[Xpartan]

Just because you don't want to accept it isn't our problem, ISG Baghdad Bob!

Calling us clowns doesn't make the truth any less true, you Biden asslicker.

Self delusion is a horrible malady!

Accept what? What's that mysterious IT that am I supposed to accept, LOL?

And yes you're right. Calling you clowns doesn't make the truth any less true. For people seeking "the truth" in Sputnik or RT are clowns.

Sad ones.

[EihTooms]

Evangelicals usually believe that but they are only about 30% of Americans. And there's plenty of variety among Christian theists, many who'd recognize the mythical, non-literal nature of many of the biblical accounts, especially those regarding creation and Adam and Eve. This while embracing the lessons taught. Don't toss the baby with the bath water. Also given the beauty and complexity of the universe it's reasonable to at least suspect there may be some higher intelligence behind it. You can forward your leftist causes without attacking religion, which just makes you come across bitter and as intolerant as the rightwingnut mongers you invest hours each day opposing.

Hours each day? Hardly.

If Canada believes "71% of Americans" know the data, the actual record of results and have honestly assessed their own situation today vs what all of it was on January 20, 2021 and "know" Biden has done a bad job on the economy rather than having been bamboozled into that belief by pro Repub Mainstream Media then he definitely believes there once was a snake that could talk, that there is a Santa Claus in the sky and that there has ever been a Repub in the WH whose economic results outperformed rather than grossly underperformed that of the Dem on either side of his presidency on any important metric for the past 100 years or so.

[GDreams]

Yes you are correct. USA and Canada are the leaders on technology in oil and gas industry. Our market analysts state that less than 40% of drilling rigs are operating now. With USA production down over 1 million barrels a day and the void of the 830,000 barrels a day from Canada we are forced to go to OPEC, Saudi, Iran and Venezuela to buy oil. These countries are not stupid like Biden cultists. They know USA will buy the oil at any price. That is why companies like Chevron and Exxon are putting their exploration money into other countries. Investing billions in other countries. Employing workers in other countries. Paying taxes in other countries. The oil companies are making billions and Biden can take credit for it. On tv Biden talks tough and blames the oil companies for overcharging but he is totally to blame.

The blind leading the blind. Two of the least knowledgeable people on the planet when it comes to the oil industry congratulating themselves on their nonsense. Provide one scrap of evidence that Canadian producers have any surplus oil they could send to the US. You cannot because they are selling everything they can.

[MarquisdeSade1]

The real problem is that people like you believe the crap you read at these off-the-wall media sites. You think it is the truth because it reinforces the crazy notions that you already have. An old boss called it "breathing your own exhaust".

There are two articles here from Forbes and from MakeUseOf. The latter uses ratings from https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news. The two articles are: https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlins...h=1dba9c06e9b5 and https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/trust-news-sites/.

Here's an excerpt from Forbes. "One key question for any publication is this: If a reporter gets facts in a story wrong, will the news outlet investigate a complaint and publish a correction? Does the publication have its own code of ethics? Or does it subscribe to and endorse the Society of Professional Journalist's code of ethics? And if a reporter or editor seriously violates ethical codes. Such as being a blatant or serial plagiarizer, fabulist or exaggerator. Will they be fired at a given news outlet? While some may criticize mainstream media outlets for a variety of sins, top outlets such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC News and the New Republic have fired journalists for such ethics violations.".

The problem with the list is you're trying to be a bootlicker to the Davos agenda.

Show me one name on that list that isn't pro mass unlimited illegal immigration.

Every name is bought and paid for by the Davos crowd including the Nation.

Tell me your opinion of it, oh wait don't bother.

I'm sure its the same as the rest of these scumbags.

Illegal immigration the more the better, correct.

https://mises.org/library/bernie-koc...d-open-borders

BTW I voted for Bernie in the primary in 2016 and Our Lord and Savior in the general election.

The far left and far right are both out to destroy the USA.

1 illegal at a time.

Or in Bidens case 1 million illegals at a time.

A gift to the oligarchs for giving him the title POTUS.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Have you no self respect?

Look at your list.

WSJ Murdoch.

WAPO Bozo.

And Bloomberg et al.

All propaganda for the Davos / Billionaires agenda.

After this list I will put you on ignore.

You're incapable of having an intelligent conversation.

Your list is so childishly biased I'm pretty sure there isn't even one outlet that calls illegal immigration illegal.

[Cali Guy]

Firstly the Canadian oil sands are mined not drilled which clearly shows your ignorance. Prior to the pandemic the oil sands industry was in crisis as the breakeven for this supply is over $50 per barrel and this oil being bituminous has lower yields and is more costly to refine so sells at a steep discount. To increase production requires major investment in mining equipment and processing plants to separate the oil from the sand and convert it to a form that can be transported (all of which is expensive and energy intensive). The fact that even at current pricing this oil isn't very profitable and that the Canadian government have legislated commitments to reduce greenhouse gases of which oil sands mining is a huge emitter means there is great reluctance to expand capacity. I know economics and managements are your weak points but sorry political rhetoric does not drive investment decisions. I am glad though that you have finally admitted that there is not currently the production capacity in Canada to require the Keystone XL pipeline..

Above post is stupidity in its finest. Canada oil does not all come from the oil sands. The majority is discovered by drilling rigs just like in the USA and the rest of the world. Oil from the oil sands is probably at $30-40 a barrel. Oil is at $100. It may be clear to you and Biden that your lies and his lies are why oil companies are not drilling but the rest of the world doesn't believe it.

I am VP of one of the biggest financial companies in the USA and most of my customers are savvy investors. They know that when the president of the USA tries to kill an industry like oil and gas that shortages will come and oil will skyrocket. I convinced about 70% of my customers to load up on major oil stocks shortly after Biden took office. Returns were 60-80% in 2021 and they are up 35-40% already this year. Plus they pay 3-7% dividends. Exxon is walking away from a billion dollar project in Russia and will take a loss of 1 billion in 2022 but Biden made sure their profits everywhere else in the world would go up $3 billion. Don't tell me investors are worried about new drilling because that is an outright lie. Investors want them to produce as much as they can.

For EV business to take a 40% share of the industry will take at least 20 years. Do you think Americans can survive with $10 a gallon gas and record inflation. Of course not. That is why the democrats are going to get killed in November. To get rid of this stupidity.

[Cali Guy]

And 65% of adults in America belong to a club that believes there once was a snake that could talk.

Biden keeps saying that also. He can't believe that his numbers on the economy are so bad when he thinks he is doing a good job. Unfortunately all the independents and republicans disagree with him and 30% of the democrats disagree. He got blasted today for touting his jobs report. Which still shows less people are working now than pre pandemic Trump presidency. All these democrat states closed businesses and laid off millions of employees during the pandemic and now they are returning to work. They were earning $2000 to $3000 more during Trump presidency with Trump tax cut but now they are paying $5500 more per year with inflation. Great job Joe. No new jobs created and people returning to their old job are $3000 poorer. And you brag about it. Let's go Brandon.