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[QUOTE=EihTooms;2921216]That jury as well as any jury anywhere would have produced a unanimous 34 count acquittal after only 10 minutes of deliberation with 9 of them spent checking the boxes on the form.[/QUOTE]When you mean anywhere, you mean anywhere that is solidly blue. You douches like to point out that rule of law schtick, but the rule of law is if someone is caught lying under oath, you strike everything that person said, and in this case, even the left wingers were saying he was full of shit. If there is no Cohen, there is no case. If this case were prosecuted in upstate New York, which is red, Trump walks.

Speaking of which, the Democratic Department of Justice is prosecuting Hunter Biden for the least important part of what was found on his laptop, his drug use, and his lying on a gun application to get a gun. Unlike with Trump, when the star witness was in jail, this time the star witness is Hunter Biden himself and what he wrote and is on video. It is as open and shut a case as it gets. If anyone else had been charged with this, there would have been a plea deal offered up and anyone who not in the family of a high ranking Democrat would have taken it. The defense has been left with defining what an addict is. Yes, it is the Clinton what is your definition of is is all over again.

Anyway, there is a lawyer on youtube who got most everything right in the Trump case predicting that Hunter Biden would be acquitted despite the fact that everyone admits all the evidence is against him. His rationale is Jill Biden is flying back from France daily and spending time in the court room to intimidate the jury. I was not sold on that until I heard where the venue is. Guess where? It is in Delaware and I openly guffawed. And then I was like, yeah, Hunter is going to walk. No doubt.

Masterful. Thanks, Joe. You flipped Trump's Pandemic Inflation and Putin's idiotic War into a Big WIN for America and its energy future!

[B]It Turns Out President Biden Is A Genius Oil Trader.
Who knew Scranton Joe found a way to break OPEC, earn $582 million in profits for the U.S. Treasury, stabilize oil prices and help the green market?[/B]

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/it-turns-out-president-biden-genius-oil[/URL]

A Must Watch 8 minute video:

How Joe Biden rewrote the rules for oil trading and broke OPEC!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2921351]When you mean anywhere, you mean anywhere that is solidly blue. You douches like to point out that rule of law schtick, but the rule of law is if someone is caught lying under oath, you strike everything that person said, and in this case, even the left wingers were saying he was full of shit. If there is no Cohen, there is no case. If this case were prosecuted in upstate New York, which is red, Trump walks.

Speaking of which, the Democratic Department of Justice is prosecuting Hunter Biden for the least important part of what was found on his laptop, his drug use, and his lying on a gun application to get a gun. Unlike with Trump, when the star witness was in jail, this time the star witness is Hunter Biden himself and what he wrote and is on video. It is as open and shut a case as it gets. If anyone else had been charged with this, there would have been a plea deal offered up and anyone who not in the family of a high ranking Democrat would have taken it. The defense has been left with defining what an addict is. Yes, it is the Clinton what is your definition of is is all over again.

Anyway, there is a lawyer on youtube who got most everything right in the Trump case predicting that Hunter Biden would be acquitted despite the fact that everyone admits all the evidence is against him. His rationale is Jill Biden is flying back from France daily and spending time in the court room to intimidate the jury. I was not sold on that until I heard where the venue is. Guess where? It is in Delaware and I openly guffawed. And then I was like, yeah, Hunter is going to walk. No doubt.[/QUOTE]No, I meant any jury anywhere would have acquitted Trump on the basis of him being too stupid or too cognitively impaired or too insane (the jury can pick 1-3) if his argument had been he didn't understand, know or even bother to ask why he was signing off on 34 Over Payments to the 2nd in command of the Trump Org Election Fraud Conspiracy To Steal The 2016 Election.

You know, his defence team could have and should have presented the evidence of him mistaking a photo of his $85 Million sexual assault / rape victim for his wife, claiming WWII hadn't happened yet, that he is actually dead today since he only "nearly escaped death" several months ago when he was 1100 miles away from the house the FBI searched, etc.

Sorry, but a trial by a jury of your peers is generally conducted where the alleged crime was committed. That is why Trump should be pulling these big money fraud and election interference crimes in Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota or wherever he can find folks like Aunt Bea and Barney Fife to con and make sure there would no smarty pants blue-staters in a jury.

Of course, that would require him and Melania to hang out in red states and interact with the people who are bussed from Trump Rally to Trump Rally and vote for him. LOL. No chance they'll want to endure that for very long unless they can hide out in a fortress like Mar-a-Lardo in Florida.

[QUOTE=Spidy;2921265]
Our resident consipiracist, continues to out do himself and trot-out the utter rubbish and twitter nonsense as "proof" and "evidence" of facts, with zero journalistic integrity from the shit he finds, reads and believes. The gullible idiots, propagating the lies and pretexts from the Twitter (and Russian) slave masters of chaos and disinformation, is only evidence that idiots can be very useful.
[/QUOTE]Yeah, that was a hell of a conspiracy on my part. A rigged court found Trump guilty, pissed off Republicans, and did not make a dent in the polls. Meanwhile, your dumb douche ass has been pounding sand on all the irrelevant nonsense. 91 indictments! Twice Impeached! 34 counts! And all you did was net Trump nearly half a billion.

Obviously, you cannot only read the lea leaves; you think the plant is coffee. So only the usual "disinformation" outlets covered the judge's letter: zero hedge, Newsmax, and Twitter. What does that mean? Well, you and the douches think it is nothing / disinformation as usual. Have you noticed there has been none of this "convicted felon" talk in the media? Oh yeah, there was the usual comedy routines on Kimmel and Colbert the night of but after that it has been crickets. No one on our side finds this shit funny. It was a disgusting, gutless act. Who has been prosecuted for what Trump did before? Oh right. No one. When you say you follow rule of law, that does not mean you make up rules as you go along.

And now the next big issue is the sentencing. If the judge rules Trump should be in jail, Trump will be hitting the $1 billion mark in donations, and this so called judge will have to be staying in blue country the rest of his life. So how comes this letter comes now? Especially when the post was made before the jury went into deliberation? And why a cousin? Maybe because I cannot identify my second and third cousins. They could be anyone.

Like I said that post was as dumb as the posts you make, but it was taken seriously enough for the judge to write a letter. Why? Again, you douches are so focused on your "victory" you do not see what comes next. And why from the Supreme Court which is the next court where Trump would head? IMO it is a message from that court. Keep us the fuck out of this circus. Let the case fester in the media a few weeks and then get rid of it or we will.

So this holier than thou jury which were made up of people like you and Tooms will be smacked down. This judge will say he cannot in good conscience let this verdict go on given jury misconduct and declare a mistrial. Bad, bad jury. And this verdict just like Russiagate, Ukrainegate ETC will be put in the never mind pile. Russiagate? Never mind. The irony is that the judge does not even have to prove this is true. He can make this decision totally on his own without proof. Just the NY Supreme Court sending it was proof enough.

A jail sentence would be the best thing for Trump and a mistrial would be the worst. Now, you douches can be shocked, shocked that the jury was rigged, and the justice system is saved.

FWIW, I hope the prediction is wrong. This trial brought Republicans together like nothing else.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2921370]Masterful. Thanks, Joe. You flipped Trump's Pandemic Inflation and Putin's idiotic War into a Big WIN for America and its energy future!

[B]It Turns Out President Biden Is A Genius Oil Trader.
Who knew Scranton Joe found a way to break OPEC, earn $582 million in profits for the U.S. Treasury, stabilize oil prices and help the green market?[/B]

[URL]https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/it-turns-out-president-biden-genius-oil[/URL]

A Must Watch 8 minute video:

How Joe Biden rewrote the rules for oil trading and broke OPEC![/QUOTE] Excellent video and watch, w/r to how President Joe Biden is playing chess to his predecessor's playing checkers.

Another great reason why Joe Biden should be President in Nov 2024, from a President who actually makes deals for the country and Americans, instead of for himself and/or his mob crime family.

Well Done JOE!

[QUOTE=Spidy;2921437]Excellent video and watch, w/r to how President Joe Biden is playing chess to his predecessor's playing checkers.

Another great reason why Joe Biden should be President in Nov 2024, from a President who actually makes deals for the country and Americans, instead of for himself and/or his mob crime family.

Well Done JOE![/QUOTE]Repubs think the solution to every challenge facing a complex national economy like the USA is to give disproportionately high tax cuts to their political donor class in the top income margins, abolish or ignore regulations and then just go fishing. Or golfing. Or pony riding. Or golfing again. Or clearing brush down at the ranch. Or golfing and golfing and golfing again.

They have been doing that for 100 years. And, no surprise, they have produced and presided over every single Great Depression, Great Recession, Massive Jobs Destruction and Historic Stock Market Decline for those same 100 years and none of the Historic Recoveries, Expansions, Jobs Creation or Stock Market Gains.

Of course the Repubs' "Cut taxes, forget about regulations and we all get to be rich Deadbeats" would be a more popular Economic Policy than the kind of real work, knowledge, wisdom and experience it takes to avoid producing and presiding over any historic downturn, massive jobs destruction and disaster of the past 100 years, not one, and produce every historic positive opposite of those results instead, as Dem presidents have done.

The polls tell us so.

However, I much prefer to consider actual results shown time and time again over the course of 100 years rather than how pleasant an Economic Policy sounds.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2921434]Yeah, that was a hell of a conspiracy on my part. A rigged court found Trump guilty, pissed off Republicans, and did not make a dent in the polls. Meanwhile, your dumb douche ass has been pounding sand on all the irrelevant nonsense. 91 indictments! Twice Impeached! 34 counts! And all you did was net Trump nearly half a billion.

Obviously, you cannot only read the lea leaves; you think the plant is coffee. So only the usual "disinformation" outlets covered the judge's letter: zero hedge, Newsmax, and Twitter. What does that mean? Well, you and the douches think it is nothing / disinformation as usual. Have you noticed there has been none of this "convicted felon" talk in the media? Oh yeah, there was the usual comedy routines on Kimmel and Colbert the night of but after that it has been crickets. No one on our side finds this shit funny. It was a disgusting, gutless act. Who has been prosecuted for what Trump did before? Oh right. No one. When you say you follow rule of law, that does not mean you make up rules as you go along.

And now the next big issue is the sentencing. If the judge rules Trump should be in jail, Trump will be hitting the $1 billion mark in donations, and this so called judge will have to be staying in blue country the rest of his life. So how comes this letter comes now? Especially when the post was made before the jury went into deliberation? And why a cousin? Maybe because I cannot identify my second and third cousins. They could be anyone.

Like I said that post was as dumb as the posts you make, but it was taken seriously enough for the judge to write a letter. Why? Again, you douches are so focused on your "victory" you do not see what comes next. And why from the Supreme Court which is the next court where Trump would head? IMO it is a message from that court. Keep us the fuck out of this circus. Let the case fester in the media a few weeks and then get rid of it or we will.

So this holier than thou jury which were made up of people like you and Tooms will be smacked down. This judge will say he cannot in good conscience let this verdict go on given jury misconduct and declare a mistrial. Bad, bad jury. And this verdict just like Russiagate, Ukrainegate ETC will be put in the never mind pile. Russiagate? Never mind. The irony is that the judge does not even have to prove this is true. He can make this decision totally on his own without proof. Just the NY Supreme Court sending it was proof enough.

A jail sentence would be the best thing for Trump and a mistrial would be the worst. Now, you douches can be shocked, shocked that the jury was rigged, and the justice system is saved.

FWIW, I hope the prediction is wrong. This trial brought Republicans together like nothing else.[/QUOTE]Why would anyone expect Trump's Cult Followers to refrain from lavishing him with love in the polls or at the ballot box for being a convicted criminal, s Felon 34 times over, and for committing Election Fraud in order to steal the 2016 election? That has been their entire agenda right up to and beyond their violent, cop-attacking, cop-killing Insurrection on January 6, 2021. LOL.

No, Biden closing the gap in the polls vs Trump in the only 3 Battleground States that matter according to the months long unchanged RCP No Toss Up States EC Map and will move the score to 270 ECs for Biden has been happening since Biden's terrific State of the Union Address and since he has been appearing and campaigning in those states.

See, Biden benefits from showing up and being seen and heard. Trump suffers from that. Which is why I have always recognized the past Facebook and Twitter bans on Trump as little more than those CEOs helping him win polls and possibly elections. Same with him sleeping through his trial for a few days per week and any gag order that sticks. It only helps Americans forget what an addlebrained loon he is.

Meanwhile, this is the virtual tie in all three of the only Battleground States that matter and that Biden needs to flip a tiny Trump advantage over the next 4 months, continuing his post-SOTU Address positive trend as shown in the RCP and 538 Consensus of Polls on those states:

RCP Consensus.

WI = +0. 1 Trump.

MI = +0. 3 Trump.

PA = +2. 3 Trump.

538 Consensus.

WI = +0. 8 Trump.

MI = +0. 4 Trump.

PA = +1. 4 Trump.

Those are tiny and still shrinking advantages, easy to flip at any time but most especially if you have a behemoth Get Out The Vote / Ground Game presense in those states, as Biden does, vs zero ground game in those states, as Trump has.

Really, all things considered, Biden could easily win those 270 EC Votes and the election if it were held tomorrow. It's been that way for several weeks already.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2921549]Why would anyone expect Trump's Cult Followers to refrain from lavishing him with love in the polls or at the ballot box for being a convicted criminal, s Felon 34 times over, and for committing Election Fraud in order to steal the 2016 election? That has been their entire agenda right up to and beyond their violent, cop-attacking, cop-killing Insurrection on January 6, 2021. LOL.

No, Biden closing the gap in the polls vs Trump in the only 3 Battleground States that matter according to the months long unchanged RCP No Toss Up States EC Map and will move the score to 270 ECs for Biden has been happening since Biden's terrific State of the Union Address and since he has been appearing and campaigning in those states.

See, Biden benefits from showing up and being seen and heard. Trump suffers from that. Which is why I have always recognized the past Facebook and Twitter bans on Trump as little more than those CEOs helping him win polls and possibly elections. Same with him sleeping through his trial for a few days per week and any gag order that sticks. It only helps Americans forget what an addlebrained loon he is.

Meanwhile, this is the virtual tie in all three of the only Battleground States that matter and that Biden needs to flip a tiny Trump advantage over the next 4 months, continuing his post-SOTU Address positive trend as shown in the RCP and 538 Consensus of Polls on those states:

RCP Consensus.

WI = +0. 1 Trump.

MI = +0. 3 Trump.

PA = +2. 3 Trump.

538 Consensus.

WI = +0. 8 Trump.

MI = +0. 4 Trump.

PA = +1. 4 Trump.

Those are tiny and still shrinking advantages, easy to flip at any time but most especially if you have a behemoth Get Out The Vote / Ground Game presense in those states, as Biden does, vs zero ground game in those states, as Trump has.

Really, all things considered, Biden could easily win those 270 EC Votes and the election if it were held tomorrow. It's been that way for several weeks already.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-approval-538/2024/06/10/id/1168177/[/URL]

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2921761][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-approval-538/2024/06/10/id/1168177/[/URL][/QUOTE]I see Joe's post-SOTU Address momentum toward closing the already tiny and easily surmountable gap between him and Trump to capture the 270 EC votes needed to win a 2nd term has tightened since yesterday.

Note the improvement for Biden in all three of the only battlegound states he needs to flip in the 538 Consensus Polls below:

RCP Consensus.

WI = +0. 1 Trump.

MI = +0. 3 Trump.

PA = +2. 3 Trump.

538 Consensus.

WI = +0. 7 Trump.

MI = +0. 3 Trump.

PA = +1. 3 Trump.

[URL]https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls[/URL]

[URL]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/michigan/[/URL]

Interesting that demonstrably Winger-leaning RCP has been sitting on those particular Consensus Polls figures for a very, very long time, especially that 2. 3 point advantage for Trump in PA. LOL. If RCP is behaving as usual, they are holding back a few PA and perhaps other polls that show Biden tightening if not outright overcoming and exceeding those already tiny gaps until another Rasmussen, Emerson or Harris poll showing Trump with a lead in those states comes along to Save The Day! LOL.

Well, no matter. Even with the numbers as they are shown on RCP right now, Biden's serious Get Out The Vote / Ground Game vs Trump's zero ground game other than apparently to sink to the bottom of the sea on a boat with a very heavy battery rather than get your leg bitten off by a shark all but guarantees a Biden win if the election were held tomorrow.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2921434] [b]Was it you Elvis? [/b]
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2921135][URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mistrial-trump-hush-money-judge-suggests-juror-may-have-had-predetermined-guilty-verdict[/URL]

So the NY Supreme Court has a website and someone wrote: Thank for all the hard against the MAGA crazies! My cousin is a juror on Trump's criminal case and they are going to convict him

tomorrow according to her. Thank you New York Courts!![/QUOTE]

[b]This sounds just like a typical provocation straight out of the Trump / Putin Joint Disinformation Manual. [/b][/QUOTE]

Xpartan, that was a good idea to just ask, Elvis 2008. It appears the GUILT was just too much to bear! (...kkkk!)

[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2921434] Yeah, that was a hell of a conspiracy on my part. [/QUOTE]

Good for you Elvis 2008, I guess it is true what they say...CONFESSION is good for the soul! And the truth shall set you free! (...kkkk!)

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2921549]No, Biden closing the gap in the polls vs Trump in the only 3 Battleground States that matter according to the months long unchanged RCP No Toss Up States EC Map and will move the score to 270 ECs for Biden has been happening since Biden's terrific State of the Union Address and since he has been appearing and campaigning in those states. ...

RCP Consensus.

WI = +0. 1 Trump.

MI = +0. 3 Trump.

PA = +2. 3 Trump.

538 Consensus.

WI = +0. 8 Trump.

MI = +0. 4 Trump.

PA = +1. 4 Trump.

Those are tiny and still shrinking advantages, easy to flip at any time but most especially if you have a behemoth Get Out The Vote / Ground Game presense in those states, as Biden does, vs zero ground game in those states, as Trump has.

Really, all things considered, Biden could easily win those 270 EC Votes and the election if it were held tomorrow. It's been that way for several weeks already.[/QUOTE] President Biden, now also has the majority support among INDEPENDENTS, yet another important voting base, in many of those swing states, since citizen Trump is convict and criminal Trump.

[b]Majority of independents and 'double haters' think Trump should end 2024 campaign: POLL[/b]
[URL]https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/majority-independents-double-haters-trump-end-2024-campaign/story?id=110778206[/URL]

[QUOTE][b] "Double haters" [/b]

Former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial appears to have a majority of independents and "double haters," those who have an unfavorable view of both Trump and President Joe Biden, feeling that the former president should end his bid for the White House, according to a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll -- a number that could have a ripple effect on the election in November. [/QUOTE]

So if you believe in the POLLS, Biden is definitely the stronger and winning candidate for the 2024 Election, among independents.

Fuck, if I know!

But the demented, deranged and drooling wack-job that is Trump, will tell ya, if you care to listen? (...kkkk!)

[b]Trump Reveals He'd Rather Die by Electrocution Than by Shark[/b]
[URL]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/06/trump-reveals-hed-rather-die-by-electrocution-than-by-shark.html[/URL]

Is convict Trump, surely breaking from the pressures of going to jail?

It appears even an additional $400 million, can't help a crazed lunatic!

PS: I hear the video is even just as CRINGY!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2921370]Masterful. Thanks, Joe. You flipped Trump's Pandemic Inflation and Putin's idiotic War into a Big WIN for America and its energy future!

It Turns Out President Biden Is A Genius Oil Trader.
Who knew Scranton Joe found a way to break OPEC, earn $582 million in profits for the U.S. Treasury, stabilize oil prices and help the green market?[/QUOTE]You mean less than 1% of what Joe wasted in Ukraine.

And wasn't another of Biden's goals to take Russian oil off the market?

Russia's budget revenues from oil and gas soared by 73.5% in January-May of 2024 compared to the first five months of 2023, according to data from Russia's finance ministry released on Monday. Between January and May 2024, the revenues for the Russian federal budget from oil and gas hit $55.7 billion (4. 95 trillion Russian rubles), per the data reported by Russian news agency TASS.

And if we are spending so much to fight Russia in Ukraine so it cannot take over Europe, why are Europeans still buying Russian gas?

[URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/european-leaders-might-renew-contract-keep-russia-ukraine-gas-pipeline-flowing-despite[/URL]

Bloomberg reported Monday that European officials are currently discussing plans to keep the gas flowing through a key Russia-Ukraine pipeline, and that Ukraine. Which has hit desperation given its dire wartime energy needs and situation. Favors it.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2921370]How Joe Biden rewrote the rules for oil trading and broke OPEC![/QUOTE]Senile Joe did not break OPEC. He helped Russia after trying to break it! And the only people doing anything constructive on cheap energy are the American oil and gas companies Biden wanted to tax the shit out of. When gasoline prices were hurting him in the polls, Biden begged the Saudis for more oil and they told him to fuck off. He then went to Venezuela and after he learned they could do nothing, finally quit fucking with American oil companies.

You are in essence cheering on Biden for using the emergency oil reserves to make money by gambling. That is not what the oil reserve is there for.

And how is this helping green energy? If this is the best Biden can do, he has already lost.

[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996[/URL]#text=Congress%20 at%20 the%20 urging%20 of, to%20 install%20 a%20 single%20 charger.

Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7. 5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change.

Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger.

But Biden made half a billion on oil trading!

As to why we have electric cars, there was this from the same authors of getting us under the Covid curve, [URL]https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/08/electrifying-transportation-reduces-emissions-and-saves-massive-amounts-of-energy/[/URL].

Modern gasoline-powered vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. In all, the various energy losses in an EV add up to 31% to 35%. Regenerative braking adds 22% back into the system, making the overall efficiency around 87% to 91%.

Even if the grid were entirely fueled by coal, 31% less energy would be needed to charge EVs than to fuel gasoline cars.

Build more coal plants? You cannot make this shit up.

Of course, this all misses the point. I rented a car and they gave me an EV. Thing is I had no fucking clue how to recharge it and how long it would take. I was in this area for 48 hours and did not want to spend 10 hours on recharging it. I turned the car in half full and waited for the bill and was happy to see that if it was above 20% I would not be charged extra. The car was not bad. It drove like a golf cart, but it underscores the point with EVs, the problem with them is time.

Even Elon Musk said that his "superchargers" take an hour to charge a vehicle. "You know when you are talking a long trip, you just pull in and get some food and coffee while you charge up. ".

And who wants to do that?

And Trump has pounced on this. "They say the happiest day when you buy an electric car is the first 10 minutes you're driving it, and then after that, panic sets in because you're worried, 'Where the hell am I going to get a charge to keep this thing going? Trump said at a September rally with autoworkers in Michigan.

[URL]https://mishtalk.com/economics/ford-loses-132000-on-each-ev-produced-good-news-ev-sales-down-20-percent[/URL]

Ford Loses $132,000 on Each EV Produced, Good News, EV Sales Down 20 Percent.

These losses are despite huge tax incentives and subsidies. Ford is more dependent on truck buyers than GM, and truck buyers have shown little interest in electric trucks.

On April 15, Elon Musk Fires 10 Percent of Tesla Workforce, Prepares for "Next Phase of Growth".

In preparation for more growth, Musk issues a memo announcing an workforce cut of 10 percent and two top Tesla (TSLA) executives resign.

So no chargers built, EVs losing money like crazy, Tesla laying off 10% of its workforce, Chinese EVs literally sitting empty in parking lots because no one wants to buy them, and the tax payer on the hook for subsidies for building EVs that few want.

But, but, but EVs are more efficient. We just need to build more coal plants.

Ah yes, the Biden energy plan is such a success. Thanks Joe!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2921888]You mean less than 1% of what Joe wasted in Ukraine.

And wasn't another of Biden's goals to take Russian oil off the market?

Russia's budget revenues from oil and gas soared by 73.5% in January-May of 2024 compared to the first five months of 2023, according to data from Russia's finance ministry released on Monday. Between January and May 2024, the revenues for the Russian federal budget from oil and gas hit $55.7 billion (4. 95 trillion Russian rubles), per the data reported by Russian news agency TASS.

And if we are spending so much to fight Russia in Ukraine so it cannot take over Europe, why are Europeans still buying Russian gas?

[URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/european-leaders-might-renew-contract-keep-russia-ukraine-gas-pipeline-flowing-despite[/URL]

Bloomberg reported Monday that European officials are currently discussing plans to keep the gas flowing through a key Russia-Ukraine pipeline, and that Ukraine. Which has hit desperation given its dire wartime energy needs and situation. Favors it.

Senile Joe did not break OPEC. He helped Russia after trying to break it! And the only people doing anything constructive on cheap energy are the American oil and gas companies Biden wanted to tax the shit out of. When gasoline prices were hurting him in the polls, Biden begged the Saudis for more oil and they told him to fuck off. He then went to Venezuela and after he learned they could do nothing, finally quit fucking with American oil companies.

You are in essence cheering on Biden for using the emergency oil reserves to make money by gambling. That is not what the oil reserve is there for.

And how is this helping green energy? If this is the best Biden can do, he has already lost.[/QUOTE]The average price of a gallon of regular gas in the USA today is $3. 44 and has been steadily declining for more than a year:

[URL]https://gasprices.aaa.com/[/URL]

In 2019, the last of Trump's well below average economic years that he was already skyrocketing the deficit to "buy" pre-Trump's Pandemic, a truly historic debacle, the cost rose to $2. 90.

Yeah, that's 54 cents more per gallon.

The good news is today the USA has more and better paying jobs abundantly available, no Recession in the Manufacturing and Agricultural sectors due to Trump's failed trade war so severe that emergency welfare checks have to be issued just to keep them afloat, there was no Bear Market Decline last year as there was in 2018, Biden is not, repeat not, defunding and removing any Early Warning / Pandemic Prevention teams from any labs in China or anywhere else, the USA Military is involved in exactly zero Wars anywhere on the planet and have not been for 3 years and our President today is not publicly siding with and blowing Putin, Xi or any other enemy of America at every opportunity.

America is a million times better off today than it was 4 years ago, 5 years ago, 6 years ago and 7 years ago.