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[QUOTE=Xpartan;2561110]Blinden said clearly that our opposition to to Nord Stream has not diminished. But it's nothing but silly to keep the sanctions up and annoy our European allies when the 90% of work is already done. It's pointless not unlike our sanctions on Cuba. Smart politicians choose their battles carefully and avoid those they can't win.

Now, Canada calling Biden "Putin's minion" is priceless after everything that his idol had done for his BFF Vlad.[/QUOTE]It is what it is. Biden proved he is Putin's minion with his actions.

XL Pipeline was further advanced than the Russia pipeline. Pipe had already been purchased. Dirt work had started and some of the lateral pipelines were already installed when Biden cancelled it hurting the states like Montana, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma for jobs and taxes but helping Biden buddy Warren Buffet since all the oil now will have to be transported by rail and truck. Proves Biden helps his buddies. Buffit and Putin.

Why did you lie about the pipeline was 90% completed? That is a total lie.

[QUOTE=TheCane;2561119]That's right! Deny it all you want to. But there is no canceling what happened, and who is responsible. Yes sir indeed![/QUOTE]I agree totally. I am not denying that Biden screwed up Trump successes. Biden in 4 months has put America back 4 years. We get to look forward 3 1/2 more years of high gas prices and inflation and higher taxes. Good news is that the socialists and the democrats are fighting amongst themselves now. Socialists are demanding democrats support terrorist groups like Hamas. Will be interesting to see Biden squirm through this.

[QUOTE=Canada;2561124]It is what it is. Biden proved he is Putin's minion with his actions.

XL Pipeline was further advanced than the Russia pipeline. Pipe had already been purchased. Dirt work had started and some of the lateral pipelines were already installed when Biden cancelled it hurting the states like Montana, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma for jobs and taxes but helping Biden buddy Warren Buffet since all the oil now will have to be transported by rail and truck. Proves Biden helps his buddies. Buffit and Putin.

Why did you lie about the pipeline was 90% completed? That is a total lie.[/QUOTE]Is it? Here is my source. What is yours?

[QUOTE]A U.S. official conceded that stopping the project would be difficult but that Washington would keep trying. "We inherited a pipeline that was over 90% complete and so stopping it has always been a long shot," the State Department official said.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-waive-sanctions-firm-ceo-behind-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-source-2021-05-19[/URL]

Now you've said that Biden "approved pipeline from Russia to Germany. ".

You've also accused me of lying.

Go ahead, show me yours.

This report includes several charts and graphs showing the extraordinarily poor performance of Trump's economic "stewardship" across the board all throughout his four years in office. The [b]Jobs Growth by Presidential Term[/b] graph is a particularly interesting one, showing how poorly Republican presidential jobs growth is compared to Democratic presidents. Note how many jobs were created under Carter in just 4 years compared to any other president both Dem and Repub serving 6-8 years, especially Reagan.

Too bad they had to lay so many of George W. Bush's plunging jobs numbers at Obama's feet since he took over just as the Niagara Falls of those Republican policy job losses were cresting and crashing onto the rocks below. Otherwise, Obama's jobs creation numbers would have dwarfed those of the best Repub numbers for Reagan too. Mind you, Reagan's years in office benefited from virtually every Baby Boomer (age 16 to 35 when Reagan took office) fully participating in the workforce while those same Baby Boomers were retiring with Social Security at a rate of 10,000 per day when Obama took office.

Imo, they cut Trump too much slack in this report by not emphasizing enough the Trump economic decisions as early as 2018 and certainly in full force in early 2020 that turned a manageable (by a better USA President) endemic in the Wuhan area of China into a deadly worldwide economy-destroying Pandemic.

Then again, that is what mainstream media punditry typically does in order to help Republicans look like viable if not preferable candidates for future elections. Another recent example being the way they characterized the 266,000 or so jobs created in April under a Dem as "dismal" while they and Trump would have been crowing about such a monthly jobs creation number for a year as one of the "greatest of all time!" even prior to Trump's Pandemic crash. lol

[B]Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. Its not just the pandemic.[/B]
January 8, 2021.
[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/trump-jobs-record/[/URL]
[QUOTE]President Trump took office at the crest of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. He leaves presiding over the worst labor market in modern U.S. history, as an already-sputtering economic recovery has turned negative.

Fridays awful jobs report from the Labor Department showed there were still 3 million fewer jobs in the United States than there were on Inauguration Day 2017, when Trump stood in front of the Capitol and vowed to reverse the American carnage.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Canada;2561143]I agree totally. I am not denying that Biden screwed up Trump successes. Biden in 4 months has put America back 4 years. We get to look forward 3 1/2 more years of high gas prices and inflation and higher taxes. Good news is that the socialists and the democrats are fighting amongst themselves now. Socialists are demanding democrats support terrorist groups like Hamas. Will be interesting to see Biden squirm through this.[/QUOTE]If only we could go back 4 years and just erase Trumps diabolical performance. Strong jobs growth for 7 straight years, 11% down to 5%. Consistent economic growth while fixing the economic collapse Bush created. Getting the annual deficit down to 400 b unlike Trump who blew it out to $1 t whilst achieving the same growth and jobs creation as Obama, no pointless trade wars that achieved nothing but increased costs to consumers and massive socialist bailouts to farmers, minimal corruption unlike Trump with more cronies going to jail and being investigated since Nixon, better law and order, no fake border crisis, no alienating all our allies and schmoozing dictators, no playing golf for half the presidency, no supporting domestic terrorist, having stable government without weekly firing of people over twitter and no 100 lies a day to try and process.

[QUOTE=Canada;2560925]The issue is they posted a chart showing receiving 1,100,000 more ballots than they sent out. The chart was deleted and an excuse was made of why they pulled it. Maybe it was a mistake or maybe it want but no one got a chance to verify it before it was deleted. It does not deprive their constitutional rights if they are not registered to vote. What do you have against honest elections and both sides being able to verify the results?[/QUOTE]Your discussion is a wonderful example of the Trump character. You make a dishonest post that tries to claim USA Today is agreeing with you when they absolutely do not. You are called on it and the facts are there for all to see. But despite several requests you edont have the balls to acknowledge what we all can see- that you were full of crap. In front of everyone, you choose your wishful delusion over an obvious truth when we all can see the difference. I guess I should not be surprised you can't admit your favorite sociopath got his but kicked in the election.

I previously asked you to provide evidence that something was taken down as that contradicts the article you cited but clearly didn't understand. You have no proof, but continue to make things up.

Fundamentally you set out to prove a point with an article that proved you were wrong. Continuing to dodge the issues and make things up after you've lost may not make you look as tough or smart as you think. Doesn't seem like a great use of your time or mine.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2561107]Show me one reputable "world news" outlet that confirms that Biden "approved pipeline from Russia to Germany.[/QUOTE]"Reputable". LOL. You mean "leftist fake news".

The USA has vast influence in Germany. They literally occupy the country, and have been protecting them from Russia for 70 years. Trump used that leverage, and sanctions, to pressure the Europeans to block the Russia pipeline, which would have meant they would have bought American natural gas instead. (he also used it to make them pay their fair and agreed share into NATO, and much else which benefited America).

Now we have returned to the status quo of American weakness, and Biden's handlers have not only destroyed the Keystone pipeline, they have removed the pressure and sanctions and allowed the Russia-Germany pipeline to go ahead. This will again cost American jobs. The gas that would have been supplied to Europe from America but now will come from Russia. As well as obviously hugely strengthening Russia's position economically and its leverage over Europe.

Imagine if Trump had done that. Imagine the hysterical fake news media shrieking about how he was empowering Russia, he was Putin's stooge, etc, etc. In reality, Trump was standing up against Russia, and Biden's handlers have caved in to them. What do we hear from the fake news media?

Why, it's almost as if the democrats want to destroy America!

[QUOTE=DCups;2561043]You are correct, Canada. The democrats in this forum represent the dumbing down of the USA. I say this as a former business owner and former business (full) professor with a doctoral degree and 50 years of work experience while woefully watching the steady decline of the American dream, empire and its former values. I can't wait to get the fuck out of the USA: rising costs and rampant crime; me too feminazis; BLM bullshit; ad infinitum. I've got a sweet, young, super sexy, intelligent, gorgeous, Filipina waiting for me over there to spend my golden years with. And I'll be laughing at you democrats wallowing in the fucking mess you created.[/QUOTE]Amen. The Philippines is going the opposite way to the USA: it now has leadership who enforce the rule of law and severely punish violent criminals. Compare that to America with violent BLM felons openly cheered on the by the fraudulent Vice-President Kamala "Heels-Up" Harris, a nonentity born of foreign parents who grew up in a foreign country, and was a low-level, undistinguished municipal prosecutor until the age of 30 when she began an affair with Willie Brown, the married mayor of San Francisco 30 years her senior, who then purely by coincidence gave her two big political promotions for which she was unqualified. Yes, she literally fucked her way to the top.

The situation of the McCloskeys is indicative of the future in America, at least in democrat-run cities. A mob of antifa / BLM broke through their gate, trespassed onto the McCloskeys' property and began shouting threats to them about stealing their home, burning it down, killing them etc. In response, the McCloskeys got their legally-held firearms to protect themselves and dissuade the rioters from making good on their threats.

The district attorney of this democrat-run city is a far-left anti-white black woman who was elected thanks to heavy funding from George Soros and support from leftist fake news media. She ignored the various crimes committed by the mob, and instead had the McCloskeys indicted and their legally-held weapons confiscated in violation of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

Ditto for the MeToo bullshit. I'm no fan of Harvey Weinstein but the precedent set in his case is truly shocking. He was convicted of "r_ping" a woman who accepted that she was his legitimate girlfriend both before and after the alleged act, backed up by emails and texts she sent before and after begging to see him, and never referencing the so-called crime. Then, many years later, she decides that in between all of the many occasions in which they had consensual sex, she was "r_ped". No physical evidence, no evidence from any messages she sent at the time, and yet the guy is guilty. Despite having the best lawyers money can buy! So what the hell chance do the rest of us have?

That means that any woman in the US can now claim that any guy she ever had sex with, going back years or decades (or even spent any time with, because no physical proof of sex is even needed) "r_ped" her, and she doesn't need any evidence whatsoever other than her own testimony. The precedent is set. Of course we all know how nasty, crazy and vengeful women can be (hell hath no fury) and many are now using this crap as yet another weapon against men.

None of that crap in the Philippines. You're making a good choice, and I hope to join you one day!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2561211]This report includes several charts and graphs showing the extraordinarily poor performance of Trump's economic "stewardship" across the board all throughout his four years in office. The [b]Jobs Growth by Presidential Term[/b] graph is a particularly interesting one, showing how poorly Republican presidential jobs growth is compared to Democratic presidents. Note how many jobs were created under Carter in just 4 years compared to any other president both Dem and Repub serving 6-8 years, especially Reagan.

Too bad they had to lay so many of George W. Bush's plunging jobs numbers at Obama's feet since he took over just as the Niagara Falls of those Republican policy job losses were cresting and crashing onto the rocks below. Otherwise, Obama's jobs creation numbers would have dwarfed those of the best Repub numbers for Reagan too. Mind you, Reagan's years in office benefited from virtually every Baby Boomer (age 16 to 35 when Reagan took office) fully participating in the workforce while those same Baby Boomers were retiring with Social Security at a rate of 10,000 per day when Obama took office.

Imo, they cut Trump too much slack in this report by not emphasizing enough the Trump economic decisions as early as 2018 and certainly in full force in early 2020 that turned a manageable (by a better USA President) endemic in the Wuhan area of China into a deadly worldwide economy-destroying Pandemic.

Then again, that is what mainstream media punditry typically does in order to help Republicans look like viable if not preferable candidates for future elections. Another recent example being the way they characterized the 266,000 or so jobs created in April under a Dem as "dismal" while they and Trump would have been crowing about such a monthly jobs creation number for a year as one of the "greatest of all time!" even prior to Trump's Pandemic crash. lol

[B]Trump will have the worst jobs record in modern U.S. history. Its not just the pandemic.[/B]
January 8, 2021.
[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/trump-jobs-record/[/URL][/QUOTE]This post proves you can't fix stupid!

[QUOTE=Canada;2561320]This post proves you can't fix stupid![/QUOTE]In the face of overwhelming evidence Canada admits that nothing is going to fix his stupidity!

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2561282]"Reputable". LOL. You mean "leftist fake news".

The USA has vast influence in Germany. They literally occupy the country, and have been protecting them from Russia for 70 years. Trump used that leverage, and sanctions, to pressure the Europeans to block the Russia pipeline, which would have meant they would have bought American natural gas instead. (he also used it to make them pay their fair and agreed share into NATO, and much else which benefited America).

Now we have returned to the status quo of American weakness, and Biden's handlers have not only destroyed the Keystone pipeline, they have removed the pressure and sanctions and allowed the Russia-Germany pipeline to go ahead. This will again cost American jobs. The gas that would have been supplied to Europe from America but now will come from Russia. As well as obviously hugely strengthening Russia's position economically and its leverage over Europe.

Imagine if Trump had done that. Imagine the hysterical fake news media shrieking about how he was empowering Russia, he was Putin's stooge, etc, etc. In reality, Trump was standing up against Russia, and Biden's handlers have caved in to them. What do we hear from the fake news media?

Why, it's almost as if the democrats want to destroy America![/QUOTE]LOL. Biden just took over the presidency. The pipeline is almost complete! You think that was done in 3 months? Nope they had 4 years ignoring Trumps sanctions and non influence. No they were not going to buy US gas when Qatari gas is much cheaper. Qatar is increasing output 50%. Basically all new US gas terminals are on hold because they can't secure the contracts to raise finance.

What has the keystone pipeline got to do with anything? The US isn't paying any more for the oil, the Canadians need to deliver at a competitive price. The objective is that the oil won't be needed at all in 10 years as electric vehicles take over the roads.

The reality is it would have been good if Trump succeeded to cancel Nord stream 2 unfortunately he was grossly incompetent. Anything that provides sustenance and support for Russia is a bad thing. Russian girls need to be kept poor so I can satisfy my infatuation with dyevushkas.

[URL]https://www.nord-stream2.com/[/URL]

Today: [URL]https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20210521[/URL].

Please educate yourselves with respect to above private project.

[QUOTE=Canada;2561320]This post proves you can't fix stupid![/QUOTE]So right. It is astonishing that anyone who wants the USA Economy to do well would vote for a Republican at any level after Reagan's first presidential term, much less for president.

Not only is the accurate historical record of results for creating USA Jobs crap under Repub presidents compared to Dem presidents, stock market gains border control, paying down the deficit, even crime rate declines have strongly favored Dem presidents over Repub presidents since records for such things have been kept.

Yet, we now have incredibly stupid people storming the Capitol Building, attacking cops, searching out elected officials to shoot and lynch, brandishing and mounting traitorous flags there for the first time in American history, killing, stealing, vandalizing and attempting a violent overthrow of American democracy just so we can have "4 More Years!" of the worst economic "stewardship" and results of all time.

Yes, it probably can't be fixed anytime soon.

[QUOTE=GDreams;2561364]LOL. Biden just took over the presidency. The pipeline is almost complete! You think that was done in 3 months? Nope they had 4 years ignoring Trumps sanctions and non influence. No they were not going to buy US gas when Qatari gas is much cheaper. Qatar is increasing output 50%. Basically all new US gas terminals are on hold because they can't secure the contracts to raise finance.

What has the keystone pipeline got to do with anything? The US isn't paying any more for the oil, the Canadians need to deliver at a competitive price. The objective is that the oil won't be needed at all in 10 years as electric vehicles take over the roads.

The reality is it would have been good if Trump succeeded to cancel Nord stream 2 unfortunately he was grossly incompetent. Anything that provides sustenance and support for Russia is a bad thing. Russian girls need to be kept poor so I can satisfy my infatuation with dyevushkas.[/QUOTE][URL]https://fortune.com/2020/09/08/trump-pipeline-russia-germany-natural-gas-merkel-navalny-poisoned-nord-stream-2/[/URL]

"there is growing pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to kill the $11 billion scheme. If Merkel does reverse her long-standing support for Nord Stream 2, as she has for the first time hinted she might do, the beneficiary would likely be the USA."

If the election had not been stolen and Trump was still in office, the pipeline would have been cancelled. Unfortunately, former Vice-President Biden's handlers have returned to the era of American weakness.

As for "electric vehicles", LOL, where do you think that electricity comes from? Windmills? Good luck with that.

We can at least agree on Russian girls.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2561287]Amen. The Philippines is going the opposite way to the USA: it now has leadership who enforce the rule of law and severely punish violent criminals. Compare that to America with violent BLM felons openly cheered on the by the fraudulent Vice-President Kamala "Heels-Up" Harris, a nonentity born of foreign parents who grew up in a foreign country, and was a low-level, undistinguished municipal prosecutor until the age of 30 when she began an affair with Willie Brown, the married mayor of San Francisco 30 years her senior, who then purely by coincidence gave her two big political promotions for which she was unqualified. Yes, she literally fucked her way to the top.

The situation of the McCloskeys is indicative of the future in America, at least in democrat-run cities. A mob of antifa / BLM broke through their gate, trespassed onto the McCloskeys' property and began shouting threats to them about stealing their home, burning it down, killing them etc. In response, the McCloskeys got their legally-held firearms to protect themselves and dissuade the rioters from making good on their threats.

The district attorney of this democrat-run city is a far-left anti-white black woman who was elected thanks to heavy funding from George Soros and support from leftist fake news media. She ignored the various crimes committed by the mob, and instead had the McCloskeys indicted and their legally-held weapons confiscated in violation of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.[/QUOTE]Thanks, Cris P. There is plenty of room for you over there!