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That doesn't stop present drilling. And the oil companies are sitting on thousands of acres of land they could be drilling on but aren't.
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How Proud You Must Be of Crooked, Incompetent Biden
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Harry Bosch
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They are drilling more. But at the end of the day, oil companies are in the business of making money. And today is the most profitable time for them in history. They love these high prices. Although its not in their best interest for the US to go into a recession either. Anyway, here is a good article:
U.S. Oil Companies Have Increased Drilling By 60% In One Year
Some have claimed that oil companies aren't increasing production in response to high oil prices. Here's what's really going on.
www.forbes.com
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Wake me up if you ever find out. It’s gotta be a real gold mine of RW stupidity.
I suspect much of it is like his personal “research”, I.e. a bunch of sciencey sounding claptrap of his own invention.
“You won’t find it on the internet because I made it up and nobody in their right mind would want to publish it.”
Like the others I have identified as a CWOT, I put him on ignore. But that’s not to discount his entertainment value!
steve_bank
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The Bush, Clinton, and Kennedy families were as corrupt. Trump stands out as the extreme.
Ted Kennedy got away with Chappaquiddick. In the JFK election corruption probably got or at least contributed to his win. His father had influence and traded votes for favors.
The issue is how to minimize corruption not eliminate it, which is impossible.
In the 90s China had a serious corruption problem, offenders faced a firing squad.
In American politics I don't think you can get elected to a national office without corruption of some kind. Campaign funding is a big one To his credit McCain tried for years to get campaign funding reform. Neither side wanted it.
If want corruption free politics find incorruptible people.
Pariah, on a scale of 0-10 how do you compare Biden and Trump on corruption and competence?
0 being sainthood, 10 being a slime crawling treacherous snake.
Biden 3 (the average)
Trump 10
O don't agree with some of his policies, but Biden is competent.
Trump is an incompetent, treacherous, lying, corrupt idiot. Contrary to his claim of being a bigness genius, he has a long string of failures and cheating investors and suppliers.
Ted Kennedy got away with Chappaquiddick. In the JFK election corruption probably got or at least contributed to his win. His father had influence and traded votes for favors.
The issue is how to minimize corruption not eliminate it, which is impossible.
In the 90s China had a serious corruption problem, offenders faced a firing squad.
In American politics I don't think you can get elected to a national office without corruption of some kind. Campaign funding is a big one To his credit McCain tried for years to get campaign funding reform. Neither side wanted it.
If want corruption free politics find incorruptible people.
Pariah, on a scale of 0-10 how do you compare Biden and Trump on corruption and competence?
0 being sainthood, 10 being a slime crawling treacherous snake.
Biden 3 (the average)
Trump 10
O don't agree with some of his policies, but Biden is competent.
Trump is an incompetent, treacherous, lying, corrupt idiot. Contrary to his claim of being a bigness genius, he has a long string of failures and cheating investors and suppliers.
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Yeah, we seem to continue dealing with people who have no problem with proclaiming Joe Biden being a super corrupt, evil... yet incompetent and feeble politician, human being.
Reminds me of Phil Hartman's Ronald Reagan on SNL.
My favorite is below though.
Reminds me of Phil Hartman's Ronald Reagan on SNL.
My favorite is below though.
It continues this bizarro world where the right-wing uses everything wrong about their guy to describe their opponent. It is almost like it was ripped off entirely from a Trump meme with the text altered just a little.
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Ah, but you misunderstand the right wing.
See, they don't see anything "wrong about their guy."
Trump cheated on his first wife with his second, his second wife with his third, and his third wife with a porn star...that he paid hush money. This is both "Christian" and "family values."
Trump overvaluing his properties to inflate his net worth and then undervaluing them to avoid taxes isn't documented and obvious criminal fraud. It's "good business."
Trump barely passing a cognitive test given to dementia patients is "genius."
And when Trump claims he's smarter than all the generals, a better President than Lincoln, more popular than George Washington and that he won both elections by tens of millions of votes, he's not lying. He's telling God's Honest Truth...which is to be found on page 1 of the upside down Bible Trump held up. See, when you read it upside down it proves Trump is the Second Coming of Jesus.
Actually...scratch that. Jesus was second rate. Trump is actually better than Jesus. I mean, Trump thinks he's the real King of the Jews...
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Well when you start from that end of the book, by jove Trump is in there practically rebuilding the world! By the end of it, from that end, we're back in the garden and the snake fucks off to who knows where, to enter an eternal world of blissful ignorance.
steve_bank
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Both sides use the same tactics.
When in power both sides try to pack the Supreme Court with biased judges, then accuse the other side of packing the court.
When the TV wrestler Jesse Venture got elected to governor he likened left vs right to staged and scripted TV wrestling. Both sies need each other as enemies to motivate voters and raise funds.
When in power both sides try to pack the Supreme Court with biased judges, then accuse the other side of packing the court.
When the TV wrestler Jesse Venture got elected to governor he likened left vs right to staged and scripted TV wrestling. Both sies need each other as enemies to motivate voters and raise funds.
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What is the left wing’s equivalent of the Federalist Society?
steve_bank
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The communist party?
Back when I had a long communte I went back and forth between progressive and conservative radio. Both sides used the same kind of rhetoric and tactics.
Progressive radio hosts called the right dangerous Nazis. Conservative radio called the left dangerous communists.
I forget the name, a progressive radio host got suspended for excessive use of the word Nazi. He was the progressive flip side of Rush Limbaugh.
There are real issues and consequences in politics, but what we see in the media is a show for the public. It is all managed by high priced political image specialists on both sides. Psychologists.
What tie a a politician wears and where he stands on a stage. It is all scripted, like TV wrestling. Once you realize the political image as a crafted facade then politics can make sense.
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Are you fucking serious? The Federalist Society is engrained in the GOP. The communist party in the US consists of thousands of Americans who have less than zero influence in any part of American politics.
The right-wing rhetoric has gotten uglier over the years. It went from political to close to the insane. Michael Savage became somewhat mainstream, and now we are hearing about children hospitals performing "experimental surgeries" on children and "genital mutilation".
Moore-Coulter. Yes, both sides, but one side is beyond outside the limits of rational politics. Between 2017 and 2020, Fox News began losing viewers due it not being biased enough. Viewers moved to ONN and Newsmax, which were flat out propaganda, where nothing was accurate. The left-wing has MSNBC.
Cheerful Charlie
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In recent years, we have seen various far right protesters marching carrying Nazi swastika flags and wearing Swastika T-shirts. Great champions of Trump. And spray painting swastikas all over America. No Nazis on the far right, no! Really!
Cheerful Charlie
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Before he croaked, Lush Rimjob used to loudly claim Biden was a communist. Rupert Murdoch was OK with that.
Worldtraveller
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Pariah's posts are already starting to become spam.
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A decades long project to install "left wing" judges at every level of the federal judiciary that's co-opted one of the only two relevant parties in the US?
Such a thing does not exist.
A liberal justice in the federal judiciary is - by comparison - a happy accident. A lifelong friend of my sister was installed as federal judge in the contentious Southern District of New York. Was she groomed as a law clerk at the feet of a liberal SCOTUS justice? Nope. Is she a member of an organization dedicated to tilting the judiciary in a "leftist" direction? Nope. Does she have millions of dollars behind her seeking to push wedge issues through the courts? Nope.
She's the daughter of my high school geometry teacher. For most of the last decade, she's been representing the Girl Scouts. Seriously.
On the right, you have people who are pegged from an early age as someone who would bring an agenda to the bench and maybe someday tilt the Supreme Court to overturn abortion and civil rights. On the left? Girl Scouts.
Shadowy Man
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But Steve said both sides are doing it. Hmm...
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And MSNBC has Joe Scarborough as one of their big shows... a former Republican congressman. They had some shows that leaned a little left, but on the whole they are more a pro-establishment centrist I think.
Worldtraveller
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So Steve cites one example of a single "left wing" host who was canned for (probably accurately) using the term nazi too much.
Meanwhile, the right wing radio sphere is chock full of fucking lunatics and nazis who spout actual dangerous propaganda with barely a veneer of deniability when the inevitable violence occurs. And none of them are getting canned.
So you know where you can shove your both sides bullshit.
Meanwhile, the right wing radio sphere is chock full of fucking lunatics and nazis who spout actual dangerous propaganda with barely a veneer of deniability when the inevitable violence occurs. And none of them are getting canned.
So you know where you can shove your both sides bullshit.
Shadowy Man
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Amazing demonstration of projection. I mean it is demonstrably the case that all of the else adjectives describe Donald Trump perfectly.
Pervert; Trump would go intro the dressing rooms of his beauty contests.
Criminal: where to begin? Tax fraud, stealing classified documents, many many more.
Congenital Liar: Trump Lies about everything, even things it doesn’t make sense to lie about and/or are obviously untrue to anybody with eyes. Crowd size, for example.
Productive: I’ll leave it to his backers to identify the most productive thing Trump has accomplished.