American Politics

[QUOTE=TheCane;2668109]It's important to set the right mood and theme during these solemn times to explain why things have transpired as they have:

[URL]https://youtu.be/LyQ8GyjuTWo[/URL][/QUOTE]Quite fitting, actually!

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2668107]Not a chance Brookings LOL.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]by 2024 Trump may turn out to be the little man behind the curtain in “The Wizard of Oz.”[/QUOTE]Yeah, my hope's on behind the bars, not the curtain.

"The invasion of Ukraine is a humiliating defeat for President Joe Biden. He is the supposed leader of the free world. He staked his country's reputation, billions of dollars, and the full force of the USA Government on preventing Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine anyway, and we are all worse off for it. The 2nd Cold War has begun with a hostile, unlawful invasion of a peaceful, democratic country.

But it's not the first time Joe Biden has done something like this. Less than six months ago, Biden oversaw an almost indescribably chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. He left American citizens behind. He armed the Taliban with advanced weapons systems on the way out. It could not have been worse disaster."

So Biden has two historic foreign policy debacles in under a year not to mention an open border with Mexico, a surge in violence across all American cities, and record high rate of inflation not seen since 1982. Is there a precedent for this level of failure in an American Presidency?

Well yes, there have been 3 weak, catastrophic presidents that have led the US to disaster. "The first was James Buchanan who did nothing in his term in office to stop the South from seceding from the Union. He was a terrible President. Lincoln came into office after him and faced Armageddon, the Civil War, because Buchanan had done nothing to stop the South from gathering strength during Buchanan's term in office. The second was Herbert Hoover who came into office just before the Great Depression hit the country like a tsunami 6 months into his term. But Hoover did nothing for 3. 5 years to help the American people who were literally starving. The country suffered tremendously for 3 years and it was all left to FDR to do something to clean up Hoover's mess once he, FDR, came into office. Sadly nothing really worked until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor which ended the Great Depression in 1941."

But now we have the Wizard of OZ: President Joe Biden, the third worst President of all time. This mentally deficient, front man for the Woke Marxist movement does not have a clue about what to do and we are stuck with him and his administration for 3 more years! What's on the Biden agenda? Defeating Putin or at least making it excruciatingly painful for Putin to continue? Doubtful. Ending inflation? Don't make me laugh. Biden does not have a clue as to the root causes of inflation, so inflation will only become more painful during his remaining time in office. How about standing by and doing nothing as the Chinese Communists take over Taiwan, or the USA enters a recession, or Iran tests a nuclear weapon? After witnessing Biden's catastrophic first 13 months in office, these horrible events all seem possible IE doable now. Way to go Joe! You the man.

[QUOTE=Canada;2668033]Please stop getting your data from fantasyland. That is a typical socialist fake post. All the pipe and supplies were on the ground and construction had started on the pipeline when Biden took office. It would be delivering oil today. Biden cancelled pipeline and increased oil from Russia. Oil companies were not going broke in Trump presidency when prices are stable. Oil is being transported by Warren Buffett rail at a high price but there is no way that rail can handle 800,000 barrels a day that is needed in USA refineries.

Biden cancelled drilling permits on all federal land and offshore and put numerous stupid regulations on oil drilling to slow USA exploration and production which he succeeded in doing by 1.2 million barrels a day. We were energy self sufficient under Trump and now we depend on Russia, OPEC and Saudi for oil. These 3 are getting rich by Biden. Biden is financing Russia to invade Ukraine. Ukraine children lives are on Biden failures now. People who voted for Biden need to know they have blood on their hands.[/QUOTE]The Keystone XL pipeline was 8% completed when it was cancelled. I don't care if all the pipe and supplies where on the ground. The. Pipeline. Was. 8%. Complete. What part of 8% do you not understand? Just because FUX "News" or Tucker "Nobody in their right mind should believe anything I say" Carlson says otherwise doesn't make it true. I'll bet you think that if 1 woman can have a baby in 9 months that if you gave the job to 9 women, they could have a baby in a month.

The fact that Biden delayed drilling permits on the 22% of land that drilling occurs on doesn't mean squat. The simple facts are that oil companies are not drilling because they don't want to get caught with their pants down. Again.

Please stop getting your data from fantasyland.

[QUOTE=CaliGuy;2668053]Keep watching fake news. Stay in fantasyland.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/politics/cnn-biden-polls-democrats/2022/02/26/id/1058631/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2668122]I'm not sure what crackpots want from Biden. Like you said, there are thousands of unused permits they can use but no. They're just sitting on them waiting till the prices go even higher.

[URL]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-22/biden-halts-oil-permits-just-as-gasoline-prices-surge-on-ukraine[/URL]

Maybe, trumpers should direct their false outrage at oil producers who are taking their sweet time at this time of the unprecedented crisis. And maybe Biden should threaten to revoke these permits (although I don't know about the legalities here) from greedy bastards sitting on their hands while America is hurting at the pump.[/QUOTE]Biden has done nothing but do everything possible to kill the oil and gas industry in USA. There are not thousands of permits waiting to be drilled. Our customers in Wyoming, Colorado and Texas are fighting to try to get enough wells permitted to keep the existing during going. Maybe you could send some of these thousand permits that you have. At $100 oil price oil companies are trying everything to get more permits and produce more oil. Texas is begging Biden to come to them instead of OPEC for oil. Trump opened the flood gates for oil companies to drill and removed regulations so that they could make money at $50 oil. Biden killed all that. Only one person to blame and it is Biden not oil companies so stop fabricating lies.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2668066]Please cite a source, any source, that if Biden opened up drilling everywhere on day 1 of his Presidency that those wells would be producing today. [URL]https://energyhq.com/2017/08/from-inception-through-completion-the-life-cycle-of-a-well/[/URL] But sure, blame Biden.

I realize that you are just parroting FUX "News" but only about 22% of oil production comes from federal land. The rest comes from private and state land. So Biden didn't do anything to affect [B]current production[/B]. But the talking heads at FUX "News" didn't tell you that, did they? But sure, blame Biden.

And besides, Biden doesn't control what private companies do. Unless, of course, you think he should force private companies to start drilling. The results of which, BTW, wouldn't be felt for several years. But sure, blame Biden.

And, of course, there is the "but it would be so easy to just ship American oil and gas to Europe" canard. Obviously this idiotic idea was thought up by the same idiots who thought that Chinese thermostats changed 2020 election votes. [URL]https://news.yahoo.com/more-us-gas-production-wont-affect-russia-ukraine-or-europe-experts-say-200717731.html[/URL].[/QUOTE]Why do you supply sources that don't support your lies? Fake news and fake sources don't make it true. Stopping drilling on the 22% federal lands plus the offshore drilling made oil production go down by over 12%. Created shortages. Stopped exploration. Putting more regulations on oil companies made getting drilling permits on private land more difficult and more expensive. Killing pipelines also made delivery more difficult so no increase from Canada could pick up the slack. We had to go and buy more oil from OPEC, Russia and yes Iran. Much better than cheaper oil from Canada.

Creating a shortage of any commodity raises prices. Killing USA production gives Russia and OPEC room to raise prices dramatically. Biden screwed up and we are paying for it. Yes Biden is to blame. Like it or not. The world knows it. Why don't you?

Just 11 trains carrying oil can handle the capacity of 770,000 barrels a day.

[URL]https://www.bing.com/search?q=how[/URL]+much+oil+can+one+train+carry&cvid=7 f636 ed473 bf4 e25 bff4 before b3853473 a4&aqs=edge. 69 i57.23351 j0 j1&pglt=2211&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2667701]Thanks for reminding us how much weakness Putin saw in Trump when Putin conducted "the most successful cyber infiltration of USA Government and corporate institutions in history" on his watch.

[B]Trump administration officially says huge hack was likely Russian espionage[/B]

[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1252882[/URL]

Might as well add the weakness Putin saw in GW Bush when he invaded Georgia on his watch.

And the weakness Saddam Hussein saw in Bush1 when he invaded Kuwait on his watch.

Oh, how about the weakness the Hezbollah saw in Reagan when they bombed the USA barracks in Beirut on his watch? Boy, they really got that one right. Nobody saw a USA Commander in Chief turn tail and run faster from the fight before or since. Anti American Jihadists certainly learned a lesson about the value of attacking Americans with bombs to get their way after that one.

Ho Chi Minh saw weakness in Eisenhower when he conducted "the peoples war" on South Vietnam and invaded Laos on his watch..[/QUOTE]This is huge touche, and demonstrates the mindset one develops when spoon fed by sources like Faux News. The aim there is to tear down Dems and promote Repubs, not provide news reporting. The same phenomenon is behind why most Russians approve of the invasion of Ukraine. They are only listening to state controlled media.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2668056]"The Saker is strongly integrated into both Kremlin-controlled networks and homegrown US-based conspiracy groups. The Saker and South Front syndicate content; a special section of The Saker Site is devoted to reports from South Front. The Saker personally contributes to sites in Canada, the US and to Russian nationalist groups. The site contains a selection of news sources most are affiliated to Russian state or oligarch structures. RT, Sputnik, New Eastern Outlook, Strategic Culture Foundation, South Front, News Front and other contributors to the EUvsDisinfo Database on Disinformation.

The site has a rather impressive traffic data from Similarweb shows that the site had over 360 000 visitors in May. Most visitors come from the US, some from Canada.

Saker is in all a fairly mainstream conspiracy site. The unique selling point is that the site combines a slightly leftist anti-colonialist sentiment suggesting the USA as the evil force in global politics with traditional right-wing approaches to Jews, Moslems, the LGTB community etc. He is eloquently supporting Orthodox Christian values, as long as the Orthodoxy is commanded by the Kremlin..[/QUOTE]Sounds like an ideal Golfinho source. LOL.

The beginning of the problem. The Ruskie-influenced election and inauguration of Donald Trump:

[URL]https://youtu.be/cxQz7TE1x-E[/URL]

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2668200]Just 11 trains carrying oil can handle the capacity of 770,000 barrels a day.

[URL]https://www.bing.com/search?q=how[/URL]+much+oil+can+one+train+carry&cvid=7 f636 ed473 bf4 e25 bff4 before b3853473 a4&aqs=edge. 69 i57.23351 j0 j1&pglt=2211&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531.[/QUOTE]And where are you going to get 11 more trains per day every day of the year just for oil? The trains are already at capacity carrying oil.

When copying and pasting someone else's words, link to the source, or at least reference their name and credentials.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2668171][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/politics/cnn-biden-polls-democrats/2022/02/26/id/1058631/[/URL][/QUOTE]Great post. Even fake news admits Biden is a failure. Even democrats admit it. Soon the socialists will admit it too.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2668150]The Keystone XL pipeline was 8% completed when it was cancelled. I don't care if all the pipe and supplies where on the ground. The. Pipeline. Was. 8%. Complete. What part of 8% do you not understand? Just because FUX "News" or Tucker "Nobody in their right mind should believe anything I say" Carlson says otherwise doesn't make it true. I'll bet you think that if 1 woman can have a baby in 9 months that if you gave the job to 9 women, they could have a baby in a month.

The fact that Biden delayed drilling permits on the 22% of land that drilling occurs on doesn't mean squat. The simple facts are that oil companies are not drilling because they don't want to get caught with their pants down. Again.

Please stop getting your data from fantasyland.[/QUOTE]Biden has been president for 13 months not 1 month. The pipeline could be shipping oil today.

Please provide proof of one oil company that isn't drilling because they don't want to get caught with their pants down. Oil companies are drilling as fast as the can get permits to take advantage of Biden pushing oil prices over $100. Your lies are getting old. No one believes fake news or lies except for socialists.