American Politics

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2662233]The point is that while Biden voted against Thomas, he was responsible for shutting down Anita Hill's testimony.[/QUOTE]It cracks me up, another DD attempt to rewrite history. Anita Hill was a fucking liar. [URL]https://www.dailywire.com/news/6-pieces-evidence-anita-hill-was-lying-amanda-prestigiacomo[/URL].

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2662233]That clenched the POS Thomas' confirmation.[/QUOTE]Clenched?

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2662233]In other words, Biden enabled one of the worst justices ever.[/QUOTE]Yes, because with you DDs, you recall that Anita Hill was a beacon of truth when she was a liar. She was an angel and Carter was a great president. LMFAO.

Any time a Republican judge comes up for nomination who may threaten Roe v. Wade, that judge is going to have these mysterious (and unprovable) stories of sexual misconduct.

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662195]Only an uneducated idiot thinks an American President has control over oil prices. While your eyes glaze over as you fawn over your own voice, your grasp of anything beyond a Fantasy Football season is tenuous at best. Don't worry your pretty head about these things- let the smart folks fix it for you.[/QUOTE]Most presidents can't control oil prices. Biden put a war against oil his first day of office. Cancelling XL Pipeline and cancelling drilling permits on federal land stopped alot of the drilling and most of the exploration domestically. Result was less oil produced creating a shortage. Creating a shortage raised prices. OPEC sees USA with a shortage of oil and they manipulate prices higher. Biden begs OPEC to produce more oil. OPEC sees USA in trouble and raises prices again. Trump had North America not dependent on OPEC and energy independent. In one year Biden has USA dependent on foreign oil.

Only an uneducated idiot thinks that a dumb president creating a shortage does not raise prices.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2662189][URL]https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-liberal-viewership-fox-news/[/URL]

The Nielsen MRI Fusion numbers reveal that in October, Fox News unsurprisingly got the majority of the audience of self-proclaimed Republicans, with 69% of them overall tuning into total-day programming and 73% of them in the demo tuning into primetime programming. CNN and MSNBC split the remaining conservatives with totals in the low double-digit percentages. Fox News also commanded the largest number of independents in the key news demo during primetime and total-day hours: 55% of those 25-54 watched the network in primetime, compared to CNN's 23% and MSNBC's 22%. During total-day hours, 58% of independents in the demo watch Fox News, 18% chose MSNBC and 25% selected CNN.

And yet the DDs here are constantly making fun of Fox News. Maybe this will change their mind.

More surprising are the stats about Carlson and Fox News' pull with self-proclaimed Democrats. Of those demo-aged viewers surveyed who identified as Democrats, 39% chose Fox News, 31% chose MSNBC and 30% chose CNN for programming from 8 pm ET to 11 pm ET. In total-day viewership, Fox News grabbed 42% of Democrats aged 25-54, CNN nabbed 33% and MSNBC got 25%.[/QUOTE]Great report. That is why Fox News will remain number 1 over the next 10 years too.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2662198]Polls Shmoles.

Out here in one of California's retirement villages.

The villagers have been screaming that the interest rates on their savings grow from. 15% to over 2%.

Seems like financial-type things are returning more to normal under senior Joe Biden.

Thank god.[/QUOTE]Biden is turning California retirement villages into poverty villages. Most seniors are on fixed incomes and this record inflation is killing them. There are no retirees stupid enough to have had their retirement funds in accounts paying. 15% interest. No one is this stupid other than possibly the guy that suggested it.

[QUOTE=MiamiSammy;2662190]Again, bullshit. The XL pipeline was designed to carry tar oil directly to ships that would then ship to India and the rest of Asia. There was never any intent for this nasty shit to be used in the US, it's too dirty to be used in our plants. BTW, it's heating oil, not petroleum grade. Therefore, the loss of the XL Pipeline had absolutely no effect on the price of gas, or the price of fucking tea in China, for that matter. Try to look in the mirror and understand just how profoundly ignorant you are and STFU.[/QUOTE]Obviously you know nothing about USA oil. Are you really this profoundly ignorant?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2662179]Yes, the Fed might need to raise the Fed Funds rate to as much as 0. 75% before the end of this year to cool down Biden's roaring economy with so many more jobs being created than there are applicants to take them, and good, higher paying jobs at that.

It might indeed take Biden and this Fed Chairman a little longer to reverse the upward trajectory of inflation and start bringing it down in a steady decline than it took Carter and his Fed Chairman to fully accomplish that mission and win that battle back in early 1980.

For one thing, the unemployment rate under Biden today is even lower than it was under Carter at the time. So a lot more Americans have a lot more jobs, higher incomes and therefore more discretionary money to continue to spend and buy things that they'd been denied during more than a year of Trump's Pandemic economic shutdowns and paralysis.

And for another thing, well, Volcker was Dem Carter's Fed Chair appointee and he was brilliant. But Powell was Repub Trump's Fed Chair appointee that Biden had to keep on so as not to add one more element of disruption and uncertainty to the incredibly complicated challenge of pulling us out of the historic mess Trump made of everything.[/QUOTE]Experts are predicting an increase of 100 basis points or 1% rate increase this year to try to slow down Biden skyrocketing inflation. And this might not solve it. Biden is a mess.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2662030]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![/QUOTE]Since you know nothing about oil production and you just fabricate lies you probably should know that a typical oil well production is less than 10 years. If we stop drilling now in 10 years we will be 100% importing foreign oil at $200 a barrel. Biden has to increase oil production in USA this year or mid terms will be a bloodbath for democrats. Don't worry about oil companies budgets. They are just ramping up drilling in the rest of the world. Oil companies will spend billions drilling this year and employing thousands of people. If not on USA soil then worldwide. Other countries economies will boom and USA will suffer. All because of an incompetent president.

In September 2021, after she had been earnestly working on the House Select Subcommittee for around two months, Liz Cheney was promoted to co-chairpersonship, alongside Nancy Pekosi. A well-deserved promotion for the lady now likely to be our first female President.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2662445]Most presidents can't control oil prices. Biden put a war against oil his first day of office. Cancelling XL Pipeline and cancelling drilling permits on federal land stopped alot of the drilling and most of the exploration domestically. Result was less oil produced creating a shortage. Creating a shortage raised prices. OPEC sees USA with a shortage of oil and they manipulate prices higher. Biden begs OPEC to produce more oil. OPEC sees USA in trouble and raises prices again. Trump had North America not dependent on OPEC and energy independent. In one year Biden has USA dependent on foreign oil.

Only an uneducated idiot thinks that a dumb president creating a shortage does not raise prices.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I do not see what is so hard to get about this. Biden pretty much told oil producers he wanted to put them out of business. I do not see what is so hard about that. Companies lost a huge amount of money when Keystone was cut off, and Brandon did not give a fuck. Well, maybe he cares now. Thing is I am not sure if he said he made a mistake and said it was okay that anyone would take it up again. That is how little he is trusted.

When I was out in the Permian country, there was a shortage of pipeline capacity. Maybe there is not now because production is down, but there was, and I have to tell you the pipeline companies are not fucking touching blue states which insures they will have higher energy prices as it is the cheapest way to transport fossil fuels.

Other thing going on was because of a lack of pipelines that Carlos Slim stepped in and is putting in a pipeline from Pecos to Juarez. If the Western USA is stupid enough not to want natural gas, Mexico will be happy to take it.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2662456]Experts are predicting an increase of 100 basis points or 1% rate increase this year to try to slow down Biden skyrocketing inflation. And this might not solve it. Biden is a mess.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.infowars.com/posts/republicans-introduce-hunter-act-to-block-taxpayer-funds-for-crack-pipes/[/URL]

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2662433]Life long democrat Donald Trump will continue his dismatling of the evil party and give the democrats stronger majorities after the midterms.

I like that the Donald has found his calling, and is deaf enough to stay focused on it.[/QUOTE]I have long disapproved of Twitter and Facebook muzzling Trump. In fact, I consider it another form of pro Repub election campaigning by the media. America is much better informed about his and his slavishly obedient Party when we read those blithering Trump idiocies on an hourly basis.

I firmly believe the decline in Biden / Dem Approval and Favorable ratings in the polls of late has a lot to do with the fact that Americans are not as exposed as they should be to the America-hating lunacy rattling around in the otherwise empty noggins of the alternative.

Imagine how sky high the ratings for Biden and the Dems would be today if all Americans were exposed to the America-hating winger Repub blather we read every day on this forum.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2662456]Experts are predicting an increase of 100 basis points or 1% rate increase this year to try to slow down Biden skyrocketing inflation. And this might not solve it. Biden is a mess.[/QUOTE]OMG!

1 whole percent increase? To a whopping 1.25 percent?

Since neither you nor Elvis nor Canada nor any other winger Repub looked at the History of Inflation, GDP Growth, Jobs Creation, Fed Funds Rates, etc links that I have posted and been able to come up with any citations illustrating how, for example, Reagan's overall economic policies, stewardship, accomplishments and record of results were better than Carter's rather than the other way around, we can all assume you also have no idea what the Fed Funds Rate was in 1988, Reagan's last year in office.

Although by then I doubt Reagan knew what it was either.

See, this is why America is much better served when media like Twitter and Facebook are not muzzling Trump and thereby helping to "improve" his chances of getting himself and his Party more votes.

Trump is out there now on the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential campaign trail, flappin' his yap, opening his piehole, being heard more than any time in the past year blathering the same ignorant America-hating winger Repub nonsense we read here.

And as a consequence?

Behold:

[B]Bidens Loss Isnt Trumps Gain.
Trumps Falling Star.
Joe Bidens approval ratings may have slipped, but that doesnt mean voters are nostalgic for Donald Trump[/B]

[URL]https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2022-02-11/bidens-loss-isnt-trumps-gain[/URL]

[QUOTE]His favorability ratings are well underwater, and key voter groups that propelled him to the White House have soured on him. Twice as many people say they'd be less likely to vote for a congressional candidate endorsed by him, compared to those who say they'd be more likely to vote for the down-ticket contenders. In a hypothetical rematch in 2024, he'd lose to his 2020 opponent.

The numbers are not looking good right now for Donald Trump, whose iron grip over the Republican Party appears to be weakening. And while the former president still has substantial influence with party brass witnessed by the Republican National Committee censuring two lawmakers participating in the investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection Trump's power is not what it once was, experts and pollsters say.

No nostalgia for the Trump years is a good way of putting it," says Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll. While some Democrats have been unhappy with President Joe Biden of late, "what those Democrats haven't done is decided they voted for the wrong guy," Franklin says...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Canada;2662457]Since you know nothing about oil production and you just fabricate lies you probably should know that a typical oil well production is less than 10 years. If we stop drilling now in 10 years we will be 100% importing foreign oil at $200 a barrel. Biden has to increase oil production in USA this year or mid terms will be a bloodbath for democrats. Don't worry about oil companies budgets. They are just ramping up drilling in the rest of the world. Oil companies will spend billions drilling this year and employing thousands of people. If not on USA soil then worldwide. Other countries economies will boom and USA will suffer. All because of an incompetent president.[/QUOTE]There is a large mosaic of holes in the ground where companies have been sucking up oil for more than 30 or 40 years.

Oil companies are no longer putting many these 20+ year wonders in place anymore, Future need is projected to be insufficient.

[QUOTE=Canada;2662427]We can't wait for the midterms. This forum will be a little quieter when Republicans have the House and Senate control. Democrats are panicking already. They are finally listening to the science and dropping the mask mandate in their cities trying to get votes. They are even going to start funding the police. It is going to be a happy November.[/QUOTE]You were pretty darn silent when there was a bet offer on Democrats maintaining their thin control of the Senate.

Canada couldn't risk betting even a dollar.