re: Political Melt Thread

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The rest of this is just gibberish from someone who thinks they are the smartest person in the room.

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Also, when you want to address my points and not apply ad hominem, maybe that's a start. I've never impugned your intelligence, as you just did mine. Hence why I said you prefer rhetoric to dialectic.

What's the point in having a discussion with someone who is only going to call you a fool when they don't have a retort at hand? That's not a path to anything.

The article I posted neatly explains why presidents have so little power over oil prices. It's pretty easy to guess that gas was going to go up once demand started increasing. There was a point in 2020 where there was so much supply, oil producers were having to pay people to take barrels off their hands. From there, that explains why what's going on is going on. Yes, canceling the Keystone XL will probably affect prices, but not for another decade or two at best.

As far as you jobs claim, yelling about correlation is not an argument. CNBC is hardly some far left think tank, which is why it was the source I chose. We had a natural experiment, as they would say in economics. Several states ended the pandemic unemployment benefits early, yet there was no change in their unemployment status vs. those that kept them. It's a spurious claim.

There are two things I'll hang my hat in regard to this discussion.

1. I've learned I'm rarely the smartest person in the room.

2. When people stoop to calling you names rather than addressing your points, you've exceeded their level of knowledge and they're firing with all they've got left.

And that's not a judgement on how smart you are or aren't or even what kind of person you are. It's simply a critique of the quality of your counter argument. The above was essentially knocking all the pieces off the chessboard and shitting on it.

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Gas prices may be somewhat better under him, but that would be because his relationship to OPEC countries was less antagonistic that Biden's is.

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I agree with some of what you said, but this statement is just incorrect. Gas price were considerably lower under the Trump administration because he favored domestic oil production over using OPEC oil. He was not detoured from this policy of American oil independence by the tree huggers of the Democratic party, who have hijacked Biden and his energy policy.
Don't even try to argue that point or I will just say you are injudicious on this topic. If the prices were moderately higher, you might have an argument but gas prices are up approximately 30% nationwide. Short of a fundamental change in policy or a global increase in demand this would not happen.

Tested positive for Covid Tuesday as did wife and 86 year old mother. We were infected………….wait for it, by a relative that was vacated twice and boosted and passed it thru the family. Day 5 now and all are feeling ok, still a little weak. Lost sense of smell today. What pisses me off is that I can’t return to work until the 10th of Jan because my employer hasn’t updated Covid protocol so basically missing 2 weeks of work for a bad cold. Let’s go Brandon, shut it all down, dumbasd.

65 and a bit overweight. No other medical conditions

so the vax mandate got halted today... hopefully for good.

Hell yeah

i wish i was going to be at home tonight to watch it, but i'll be watching "the batman" tonight in imax.

Well Brandon didn't disappoint, fiction at it's best told by a senile clown. I bet Putin was laughing in his vodka tonic.
It was hilarious when they showed the faces of some of the Senators as he was lying, they could barely keep from laughing out loud.

And the "Go get em." at the end of the speech. WTF was that about? November can't come fast enough.

Gas price now. It's crazy.

Some Bay Area gas tops $6

Back to the facts for the uninformed.

Inflation is the highest in over 4 decades.

Oil prices highest in history.

More instability in the world than in decades due to weak leadership by the United States.

Electric cars, windmills and solar panels will not fix this.

Elections have consequences, learn from this.

Vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of Covid.