American Politics

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2593006]I have hear so much on the news about Trump and Russian influence. I don't hear on the California news about $5.00 gas prices. In 2020 USA was energy independent with the continued drilling of new wells and installing pipelines. Gas prices here were $3.09 per gallon. First month of Biden presidency drilling permits on federal land were cancelled and Trump energy policies were reversed. XL Pipeline was cancelled that would have delivered 833,000 barrels a day of heavy oil from Canada. Killing 10,000 jobs and killing USA energy independence. Biden reversing Trump sanctions on Russia so that they could build their pipeline to Europe enhancing Russia energy economy. Now USA has to import 800,000 barrels a day of heavy oil from Russia transported over the ocean at a higher cost. Now USA has to import more oil from OPEC at higher costs. Yesterday Biden was on the news begging Russia and OPEC to produce more oil for USA. Why is Biden supporting Russia and foreign oil and foreign economies? Why is Biden killing USA energy independence. I don't care if you are democrat or Republican. You must realize gas prices are higher and there is a reason for it. Gas prices since Trump 4 years average have almost doubled. This is killing small business in California.[/QUOTE]Excellent post. You can usually tell what bad things leftists are doing because it is precisely what they accuse others of. For all the baseless lies about Trump / Russia, the fact is that it is Biden's handlers who have given Russia an enormous boost by approving the Russian pipeline to Europe and destroying the XL pipeline. Russia will now have vastly more energy exports, and vastly more power over Europe. Meanwhile America will need to import a huge amount, and Americans will suffer for it.

Ditto for the current shitshow in Afghanistan, with helicopters fleeing from the embassy just like in Saigon 1975. America is humiliated, and Russia and China are literally moving in as we speak to make deals with the Taliban.

What is interesting about this is that even the fake news media is battering Biden over it. Seems to me it may be used, alongside his obvious dementia and frailty, to push Biden into retirement and get Heels Up Harris into the hotseat (the Oval Office, not Willie Brown's lap). Then the persecution of heritage Americans, the new kulaks, will really begin.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2593002]Unfortunately you are right about California. I have lived my whole life in California. There was a time when it was a two party state and I always believed that I would be a lifelong democrat. The democrats have slowly killed our state from taxes, crime and to homeless. I voted for Biden because the media over and over again told us how bad Trump was and I believed it. Now after 8 months of Biden disasters and policies Trump looks like the best president ever. Amazing when Trump was president I hated him. Now I would welcome him back. Biden even makes Jimmy Carter look good.[/QUOTE]The problem is that thanks to mass third world immigration, you now have an ANC type situation in California. That is to say, no matter how incompetent and corrupt the ruling party is, they can never be voted out because they have a ethnic mass of low-IQ welfare-addicted voters who will never vote for anyone else. This is the case with the ANC in South Africa, which is completely, uselessly incompetent and whose previous president was just sent to prison over corruption, but which will never, ever lose an election.

So it is in California, where the democrats will never lose a senatorial or presidential election despite the terrible problems you correctly list which their misrule and incompetence have caused. This is what people mean when they use the expression "third world shithole". It is why we need to get the border secured with a big, beautiful wall, and get deportations ramped up, or the entire country will soon be the same.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2593182]When Trump or a Trump Wannabe Repub wins California because Californians are so horrified by what Biden and the Dems have done and long for the wonderful Trump Crash, Great Trump Repub Recession and Massive Job Destruction in the millions and millions of yore, get back to me.[/QUOTE]Getting back to you quickly because there was no Trump crash, no Trump recession and no jobs lost by Trump policies. There was a pandemic. Trump policies today are keeping the economy going. Biden is doing his best to kill it.

California is suffering from Biden policies. Our restaurants and businesses were closed while other states were opened. Millions of people were put out of work and lives were destroyed. Businesses are closed. Democrats policy of defund the police and looting and stealing under $1000 not being a crime have destroyed business and made it unsafe to shop in many cities. Homeless control many areas in our state making our streets unsafe. Lower income families can no longer afford to buy gas. The destruction is here but you refuse to acknowledge it. You keep trashing Trump for made up fantasy when Biden is destroying America.

I am a democrat and I can see it. Biden has destroyed the lives of all innocent people in Afghanistan in just 6 months. Our borders are not secure and thousands are entering daily. How many of them are terrorists? The world sees a weak leader of USA and the world is taking advantage. We will see another 9-11 under Biden and you are to blame.

Real democrats care about USA. Obviously you do not. I don't know how you benefit from the crime, poverty and destruction of USA but you must to be ignoring the facts.

We are all Americans not democrats or republicans. Americans care about USA. Why don't you?

"Ronald Reagan once said, "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

Joe Biden has proven not to be a leader, which is something that was predicted by another. It was just one year ago, on August 14,2020, Politico reported a dire warning from former President Barack Obama: "I think the turnout tonight demonstrates the high regard in which the vice president is held in the extended Obama family," Rouse told the crowd of about 50 people. "And I think that that message is not out as far as it should be. " Yet searing, anonymously sourced quotes from Obama kept appearing through the race. One Democrat who spoke to Obama recalled the former president warned, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f**k things up. " Speaking of his own waning understanding of today's Democratic electorate, especially in Iowa, Obama told one 2020 candidate: "And you know who really doesn't have it? Joe Biden." Obama's statement was a true prediction of Joe Biden's first seven months in the Oval Office. Since inauguration Day on January 20, everything Joe Biden has touched has turned to manure. . . "

[QUOTE=Gino02;2593179]Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for the Biden administration, hope Biden-Harris also flee like the Afghan president. This administration is really dangerous and delusional for the humanity.

Twenty years of Afghanistan mistakes, but this preventable disaster is on Biden.

[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/15/twenty-years-afghanistan-mistakes-this-preventable-disaster-is-biden/[/URL]

Trump demands Biden 'resign in disgrace' over chaotic Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

[URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9896573/Trump-demands-Biden-resign-disgrace-chaotic-Taliban-takeover-Afghanistan.html[/URL]

China's state media mocked the US withdrawal in Afghanistan, saying the Taliban takeover was 'more smooth than the presidential transition in the US.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Kadeem;2593104]From a democrat not a Trumper:

Biden cancelling drilling in USA and cancelling pipelines reducing domestic production definitely contributed to higher oil prices and higher gas prices. Only a fool would argue that cutting supply of any commodity doesn't increase prices. Gas prices are up 50% in our state due to Biden policies.

[URL]https://ru-main.ru/russia-became-second-largest-oil-exporter-to-usa/[/URL][/QUOTE]Is there inflation worldwide? If yes, what caused it.

[QUOTE=Gino02;2593179]Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for the Biden administration, hope Biden-Harris also flee like the Afghan president. This administration is really dangerous and delusional for the humanity.

Twenty years of Afghanistan mistakes, but this preventable disaster is on Biden.

[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/15/twenty-years-afghanistan-mistakes-this-preventable-disaster-is-biden/[/URL]

Trump demands Biden 'resign in disgrace' over chaotic Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

[URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9896573/Trump-demands-Biden-resign-disgrace-chaotic-Taliban-takeover-Afghanistan.html[/URL][/QUOTE]First, did trump negotiate with terrorists? Yes he did. [URL]https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/15/2046070/-Taliban-leader-and-top-commanders-are-among-the-5000-fighters-Trump-released-against-objections?fbclid=IwAR07k1RBfVep-wdSwFXsXAU8dxiZG0yLtEhSiE-ndzzbzYBHLvKfspCPWXg[/URL].

Second, why did the QOP remove all traces of dump's Afghanistan treachery? [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/gop-quietly-removed-webpage-hailing-111358281.html[/URL].

Could Biden have handed this better? Sure. But the QOP isn't blameless. [URL]https://www.rollcall.com/2020/11/17/trump-afghanistan-withdrawal-mcconnell-republican-criticism/[/URL].

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2593284]Getting back to you quickly because there was no Trump crash, no Trump recession and no jobs lost by Trump policies. There was a pandemic. Trump policies today are keeping the economy going. Biden is doing his best to kill it.

California is suffering from Biden policies. Our restaurants and businesses were closed while other states were opened. Millions of people were put out of work and lives were destroyed. Businesses are closed. Democrats policy of defund the police and looting and stealing under $1000 not being a crime have destroyed business and made it unsafe to shop in many cities. Homeless control many areas in our state making our streets unsafe. Lower income families can no longer afford to buy gas. The destruction is here but you refuse to acknowledge it. You keep trashing Trump for made up fantasy when Biden is destroying America.

I am a democrat and I can see it. Biden has destroyed the lives of all innocent people in Afghanistan in just 6 months. Our borders are not secure and thousands are entering daily. How many of them are terrorists? The world sees a weak leader of USA and the world is taking advantage. We will see another 9-11 under Biden and you are to blame.

Real democrats care about USA. Obviously you do not. I don't know how you benefit from the crime, poverty and destruction of USA but you must to be ignoring the facts.

We are all Americans not democrats or republicans. Americans care about USA. Why don't you?[/QUOTE]Total nonsense. Nobody worked harder and more successfully to turn a likely manageable endemic in Wuhan into the Trump Pandemic it became than Donald Trump. Starting even earlier than Xi by his defunding the CDC and pulling their monitoring Pandemic Prevention and Response teams out of those Chinese labs in 2018 against all expert advice and dire warnings not to do something that stupid.

Followed by his publicly lying about the mode of transmission and deadly risk of it while mocking proven mitigation efforts in the critical early months.

Followed by him spending almost a year telling the world it was a "HOAX! There are only 15 cases out of China, one here and that will be near zero soon, we've got this under control, this will go away WITHOUT a vaccine, there will be NO coronavirus in the Fall (of 2020), oh did I mention this will go away WITHOUT a vaccine!?"

And those lies were all Trump economic decisions because he was hand-wringing terrified of disturbing Xi in the midst of his godawful failed Trade Negotiations.

Another 9-11? How about 200+ TIMES 9-11 already so far and you are to blame.

Stop with the revisionist history. We all heard and saw it in real time. The recordings of Trump admitting he "downplayed" all of it (read: lied about all of it) in his interviews with Bob Woodward have not been erased.

Btw, the Repubs in the House of Representatives are the only ones who voted to Defund The Police and they voted to do that unanimously.

Even FUX News Channel reported it:

[b]Congressman: Its Your Party Who Are Defunding the Police (Video).
Fox News Sunday host pushed Republican Rep. Jim Banks on his decision to vote against Bidens relief plan that would help police departments[/b]
June 27, 2021
https://www.thewrap.com/chris-wallace-argues-gop-defunding-police-jim-banks/

Trump policies today are keeping the economy going?

Horseshit.

Neither Trump nor any other Repub voted for or signed the $1.9 Trillion Covid-19 Relief Package in March of 2021:

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/13/976595300/the-covid-19-relief-bill-passed-whats-bidens-next-big-move

I'll bet even FUX News Channel reported that, too.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2593250]The only part of the post worth reading.[/QUOTE]Because the rest of the post trashes trumpian logic.

Is there a reason for importing Russian oil? Yes, because it is better and my links proved that.

Are we energy independent as trump said? No, and my links proved that.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2593353]Because the rest of the post trashes trumpian logic.

Is there a reason for importing Russian oil? Yes, because it is better and my links proved that.

Are we energy independent as trump said? No, and my links proved that.[/QUOTE]Is there a reason for importing Russian oil rather than producing our own oil?

Is there a reason for boosting Russian Energy companies while hurting domestic oil companies?

Is there a reason for creating millions of jobs in Russia and losing millions of jobs in USA?

Is there a reason for paying more for Russian oil than USA oil?

Is there a reason for making Russian economy great and killing USA economy?

Is there a reason for gas prices of $5.00 gallon?

Only Biden and his loyal democrats can see good in this.

I am sure that there probably is a socialist on here that can agree with Biden on this.

Washington, D. C. —Many are expressing concerns over how far the Taliban has managed to advance after Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave her latest press conference while wearing an Islamic Hijab.

"No, there is nothing to worry about, Alhamdulillah, Allah be praised," said Psaki. "The Taliban poses no danger to the USA And they definitely have not advanced as far as Washington, the. See. Everything is fine here. ".

When asked about her new modest religious veil, she responded, "What do you mean? I always wear these! It's sunny out and it keeps the sun off my head. Nothing to worry about!" She then circled back to face Mecca and bowed her head to the ground. She then also stated: "Rumors of the fall of Afghanistan to the Islamist Taliban are greatly exaggerated!

The White House also confirmed that the crowd of military-aged males with AK47's playing soccer on the White House lawn was just a fun little bit of performance art and nothing to be concerned over.

In other news, the. See. Has confirmed that call to prayer will be at 3 pm this afternoon and that everyone needs to be on time. . .

[QUOTE=Kadeem;2593369]Is there a reason for importing Russian oil rather than producing our own oil?

Is there a reason for boosting Russian Energy companies while hurting domestic oil companies?

Is there a reason for creating millions of jobs in Russia and losing millions of jobs in USA?

Is there a reason for paying more for Russian oil than USA oil?

Is there a reason for making Russian economy great and killing USA economy?

Is there a reason for gas prices of $5.00 gallon?

Only Biden and his loyal democrats can see good in this.

I am sure that there probably is a socialist on here that can agree with Biden on this.[/QUOTE]How much oil does the US export? About 35% of production. [URL]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6[/URL].

The bigger question is this: In 2019, the US imported 9.14 million BBLS / day and exported 8.47 million BBLS day.

Why?

I'm not sure who wins or who is really showing true IQ points for posting about politics on an international internet mongering forum.

However.

Whether Bush, Obama, Trump, or now Biden.

And none of the other international powerhouses of the day who were involved.

Could make Afghanistan a suitable mongering destination.

Peace and love Peace and LUVVV.

[QUOTE=Travv;2593381]Washington, D. C. Many are expressing concerns over how far the Taliban has managed to advance after Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave her latest press conference while wearing an Islamic Hijab.

"No, there is nothing to worry about, Alhamdulillah, Allah be praised," said Psaki. "The Taliban poses no danger to the USA And they definitely have not advanced as far as Washington, the. See. Everything is fine here. ".

When asked about her new modest religious veil, she responded, "What do you mean? I always wear these! It's sunny out and it keeps the sun off my head. Nothing to worry about!" She then circled back to face Mecca and bowed her head to the ground. She then also stated: "Rumors of the fall of Afghanistan to the Islamist Taliban are greatly exaggerated!

The White House also confirmed that the crowd of military-aged males with AK47's playing soccer on the White House lawn was just a fun little bit of performance art and nothing to be concerned over.

In other news, the. See. Has confirmed that call to prayer will be at 3 pm this afternoon and that everyone needs to be on time..[/QUOTE]Then again, the real pictures are attached.

Chris, I admire you for sticking in here and arguing but in the end it is futile. A Dem sent me an article today from Thomas Friedman about how Biden could still be proven right in Afghanistan.

I would put GW Bush and Carter as the two worst presidents in my life time. Thing is both started out with good approval ratings because they were quiet and not in the news at first. Biden's best quality was that he was not the headline grabber Trump was.

Well, now we see what happens when we put someone with dementia in the White House. That there are going to be the Democratic douches putting lipstick on this pig is inevitable but it is not going to stick. In addition to the Afghan disaster, there was this bit in the news: [URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bidens-abysmal-day-just-got-worse-opec-snubs-plea-more-oil-says-wont-pump-more[/URL].

Biden's response was predictable. He blamed everyone but himself but the world is laughing at him in a way they never did with Trump. Say you what you will about Trump, he was crude, egotistical, but I do not recall anyone showing him this much disrespect. No one takes Biden seriously. Biden was talking about how Afghanistan was not going to fall on TV, and I had to tell my GF to change the channel because I could not handle such BS. Biden may have to bomb an aspirin factory like Clinton did to get this debacle off the front page.

The irony is that the Republicans in the know will never impeach Biden because they know that a demented Biden is actually better than a fully functioning Kamala Harris. Republicans I know are praying that Biden stays well. How screwed up is that?

100% of the focus of Dems in the primary was on beating Trump. They had no vision. They elected a horrible candidate whose only positive quality was they thought he could beat Trump.

That we are going to see a repeat of Carter IMO is inevitable. But then you have some douches here who actually think those were good times. Ha! They are going to be eating those words, but you know no matter how bad things get, those douches will never, never admit they are wrong.

Nobody could be worse than Trump right? Yeesh.

Again, I just want to leave this forum to them. I thought women were the ones who could delude themselves the most but these men make these women look completely rational. It is going to be fun laughing at their total BS.

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2593254]Excellent post. You can usually tell what bad things leftists are doing because it is precisely what they accuse others of. For all the baseless lies about Trump / Russia, the fact is that it is Biden's handlers who have given Russia an enormous boost by approving the Russian pipeline to Europe and destroying the XL pipeline. Russia will now have vastly more energy exports, and vastly more power over Europe. Meanwhile America will need to import a huge amount, and Americans will suffer for it.

Ditto for the current shitshow in Afghanistan, with helicopters fleeing from the embassy just like in Saigon 1975. America is humiliated, and Russia and China are literally moving in as we speak to make deals with the Taliban.[/QUOTE]

Might I remind all the intellectual geopolitical geniuses here that Fat Nixon set an earlier date for withdrawal. In another time we chanted in the streets "Pull out Dick, like your father should have" Another jingoistic failed fantasy. The British, Russians, and others also got bloody noses from underestimating their adversaries. I'm not advocating for the Tally Band, a primitive tribe ascribing to religious claptrap and superstition. Please, no more black vs white verbal diarrhea about a very complex situation. Study the history before taping fingers to keyboards. "Charlie Wison's War" ?