Biden's Cascade of Failure!

[bromides]

The problem for the 1/6 hearings is that, at this point in time, I think that many Bidenists wish they had voted the other way.
It's not the slam-dunk hearing for the Democrats that they think it is.

The Democrats have a reality problem. The reality is that Biden created more and worse chaos than the chaos Trump was responsible for.

Hard-line, stubborn, backwards-thinking Democrats have cratered this country for their politics.

[Battlemaster]

About the economy issues.

Gas prices and inflation are soaring around the world. The Ukraine war has been officially blamed.

Speaking of the war in ukraine, it's put Russian oligarchs in the spotlight. Has it occured to people there might be oligarchs in America and other countries too? They might be raising prices just because they are addicted to taking money from people because they can never have enough.

Speaking of American oligarchs, since 2008 and the OWS movement, and the 'new economy', I. E.  The 'screw economy' to most people, there bas been rising hostility towards the American aristocracy, the 1%, the oligarchy.

There are rising calls for living wage laws, worker's rights laws, privacy kaws that give workers the right to tell employers that ''my personal life is none of your business. ''

Democrats are more likely to pass such laws, the reps are certain to block them no matter how much tge viters want them.

So the Ukraine shit happens and the oligarchs just spin the inflation dial as fast as they can and tell their media to blame ''Brandon''.

And sadly enough of them are stupid enough to buy it.

[Ratman_tf]

So they're trotting out the J6 show trial truth and reconciliation committee.

I'm sure people will be spellbound to see this Hollywood-produced docudrama about how Occasional Cortex and San Fran Nan saved Our Democracy (TM) from the evil hordes of the Orange Man. Surely this will distract them from $5/gallon gas and shortages of everything from baby formula to coffee.

[Pat]

There are rising calls for living wage laws, worker's rights laws, privacy kaws that give workers the right to tell employers that ''my personal life is none of your business. ''

Democrats are more likely to pass such laws, the reps are certain to block them no matter how much tge viters want them.

So the Ukraine shit happens and the oligarchs just spin the inflation dial as fast as they can and tell their media to blame ''Brandon''.

And sadly enough of them are stupid enough to buy it.

Vaccine passports are the exact opposite of the right to tell employers your personal life is your own business.

And Biden is responsible for inflation. Trump, too. Inflation is a general rise in prices, and has a specific cause. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." The massive printing of money during the repo crisis and then the pandemic is what's causing the rise in overall prices. The Fed is the agent of inflation but is only ostensibly independent. It was the absurd amount of money being spent that drove them to do it. And it's the massive government debt that's preventing them from putting on the brakes, because if they dial back the flow of easy money, then interest on the federal debt will skyrocket. Even just a few points rise in the prime rate could make servicing the debt a bigger part of the federal budget than Medicare and Social Security. This kind of inflation needs to burn itself out, and we'll be lucky if we avoid the stagflation trap.

Prices of specific products can also rise, due to other causes. We're seeing a lot of prices spike because of supply chain woes, as well. And again, that's almost entirely the fault of the government, who thought they could just turn off the global economy like a light switch, and then flip it back on later, without causing massive damage. It's a complex interactive system, and government bureaucrats who have never had a real job in their life deciding which jobs are essential and which ones aren't was very dimwitted.

Gas prices in particular are also rising due to government intervention. A lot of the world's oil comes from Russia. Banning Russian exports cuts back on supply, which means the countries that get a lot of their gas from Russia have to look for alternatives, and bid up the prices. This causes a global price rise, even in countries like the US that don't get much of their oil directly from Russia. it's also affected by the permit and pipeline bans, because prices are predictive, and those actions discourage companies from investing in future capacity.

[bromides]

Gas prices and prices in general were going up long before Russia, so blaming this on Pooty Putin is a typical feckless Brandon scam.

Supply chain issues have to include things like California's AB5, which will keep people from entering the job market long before it goes into effect (not to mention diesel costs). We have created our own bottlenecks at the ports of entry in California, and I guess some people are surprised by that.

Brandon, playing the victim, has done zero to help out. He's done the opposite of fighting inflation, and now the Fed has to jerk on the money spigot since they were amongst the few who were surprised by the not so transitory inflation issue.

But, hey, we are parachuting infant formula from Germany (instead of shipping overland from Mexico because that border be so tough to get through). Winner winner, chicken dinner, I guess.

If you're defending Biden at this point, you're further along the wing than others, IMO.

[Chris24601]

If you're defending Biden at this point, you're further along the wing than others, IMO.

The ONLY defense I will grant to Biden is that he has no clue what he's actually saying;
He's a puppet with a hand up his ass parroting words sent to his earpiece. Removing him just puts Cackles Harris into the puppet role and if we removed her Skeletor Pelosi would be the same (as would McCarthy if we got a Repub House Majority this fall; they're all owned by the same shady cabal of unelected degenerates who made their fortunes cheating the system and believe they're the masters of the universe because they got away with it).

That said, Biden (and all the rest of those ingrates) probably enjoys the hand up their asses; it probably makes them feel important. As such, they will fully deserve every bad thing that comes their way; possibly in this life, definitely in the next if they don't get with the sack clothes and repentance and do it right soon.

[Battlemaster]

Gas prices could be brought down very easily with one simple, logical move.

Drop all sanctions on Venezuela.

Venezuela has the world's largest petroleum reserves. That crime ring ran oil company of Putin's isn't even in the top five. 

Venezuela has been under sever sanctions since 2019 (guess who was President and put them on. It wasn't Biden)

The sanctions were put in place because Venezuela is a socialist country and wouldn't suck American oil oligarch dick or let the CIA topple it's government to put in an American corporate approved one.

Well, what Vnz didn't do was invade a foreign country, use military hardware to murder civillians, target civilian residential buildings with artillery and missiles,forcibly kidnap thousands if people and drag them off to Russia to force them to accept Russian dominance, use them as slave labor, etc.

Now some people would consider Russia to be better than Vnz because it's capitalist, but those people should be ignored utterly.

The sanctions on Vnz, which have only hurt the people and not the government, should be ended at once, even if Mitch McConnell must be bound, gagged and locked in a closet to stop him blocking it, it's oil production should be brought up to full ASAP and used to help Europe stop buying any Russian oil at all leading to a total implosion of Russia's pathetic economy, which is already in such a poor shape Darth Vader himself would weep for it.

With some aid to restart it's sanction crippled oil industry Vnz could soon replace all Russian oil exports. The very threat of this and the annihilation of the anaemic Russian economy could force putin to withdraw or lead to his replacement.

[Ghostmaker]

Gas prices could be brought down very easily with one simple, logical move.

Drop all sanctions on Venezuela.

Venezuela has the world's largest petroleum reserves. That crime ring ran oil company of Putin's isn't even in the top five. 

Venezuela has been under sever sanctions since 2019 (guess who was President and put them on. It wasn't Biden)

The sanctions were put in place because Venezuela is a socialist country and wouldn't suck American oil oligarch dick or let the CIA topple it's government to put in an American corporate approved one.

Well, what Vnz didn't do was invade a foreign country, use military hardware to murder civillians, target civilian residential buildings with artillery and missiles,forcibly kidnap thousands if people and drag them off to Russia to force them to accept Russian dominance, use them as slave labor, etc.

Now some people would consider Russia to be better than Vnz because it's capitalist, but those people should be ignored utterly.

The sanctions on Vnz, which have only hurt the people and not the government, should be ended at once, even if Mitch McConnell must be bound, gagged and locked in a closet to stop him blocking it, it's oil production should be brought up to full ASAP and used to help Europe stop buying any Russian oil at all leading to a total implosion of Russia's pathetic economy, which is already in such a poor shape Darth Vader himself would weep for it.

With some aid to restart it's sanction crippled oil industry Vnz could soon replace all Russian oil exports. The very threat of this and the annihilation of the anaemic Russian economy could force putin to withdraw or lead to his replacement.

Not happening, chummer. Chavez and his butt buddy Maduro were nationalizing assets that did not belong to them. That's a great way to piss people off.

You can bitch about how mean and stupid America is, but it won't change the fact that 'Zuela's a shithole run by commie vermin.

[Battlemaster]

Gas prices could be brought down very easily with one simple, logical move.

Drop all sanctions on Venezuela.

Venezuela has the world's largest petroleum reserves. That crime ring ran oil company of Putin's isn't even in the top five. 

Venezuela has been under sever sanctions since 2019 (guess who was President and put them on. It wasn't Biden)

The sanctions were put in place because Venezuela is a socialist country and wouldn't suck American oil oligarch dick or let the CIA topple it's government to put in an American corporate approved one.

Well, what Vnz didn't do was invade a foreign country, use military hardware to murder civillians, target civilian residential buildings with artillery and missiles,forcibly kidnap thousands if people and drag them off to Russia to force them to accept Russian dominance, use them as slave labor, etc.

Now some people would consider Russia to be better than Vnz because it's capitalist, but those people should be ignored utterly.

The sanctions on Vnz, which have only hurt the people and not the government, should be ended at once, even if Mitch McConnell must be bound, gagged and locked in a closet to stop him blocking it, it's oil production should be brought up to full ASAP and used to help Europe stop buying any Russian oil at all leading to a total implosion of Russia's pathetic economy, which is already in such a poor shape Darth Vader himself would weep for it.

With some aid to restart it's sanction crippled oil industry Vnz could soon replace all Russian oil exports. The very threat of this and the annihilation of the anaemic Russian economy could force putin to withdraw or lead to his replacement.

Not happening, chummer. Chavez and his butt buddy Maduro were nationalizing assets that did not belong to them. That's a great way to piss people off.

You can bitch about how mean and stupid America is, but it won't change the fact that 'Zuela's a shithole run by commie vermin.

Yo, dude! The 50's called. It wants its zeitsmode back.

[Ghostmaker]

Gas prices could be brought down very easily with one simple, logical move.

Drop all sanctions on Venezuela.

Venezuela has the world's largest petroleum reserves. That crime ring ran oil company of Putin's isn't even in the top five. 

Venezuela has been under sever sanctions since 2019 (guess who was President and put them on. It wasn't Biden)

The sanctions were put in place because Venezuela is a socialist country and wouldn't suck American oil oligarch dick or let the CIA topple it's government to put in an American corporate approved one.

Well, what Vnz didn't do was invade a foreign country, use military hardware to murder civillians, target civilian residential buildings with artillery and missiles,forcibly kidnap thousands if people and drag them off to Russia to force them to accept Russian dominance, use them as slave labor, etc.

Now some people would consider Russia to be better than Vnz because it's capitalist, but those people should be ignored utterly.

The sanctions on Vnz, which have only hurt the people and not the government, should be ended at once, even if Mitch McConnell must be bound, gagged and locked in a closet to stop him blocking it, it's oil production should be brought up to full ASAP and used to help Europe stop buying any Russian oil at all leading to a total implosion of Russia's pathetic economy, which is already in such a poor shape Darth Vader himself would weep for it.

With some aid to restart it's sanction crippled oil industry Vnz could soon replace all Russian oil exports. The very threat of this and the annihilation of the anaemic Russian economy could force putin to withdraw or lead to his replacement.

Not happening, chummer. Chavez and his butt buddy Maduro were nationalizing assets that did not belong to them. That's a great way to piss people off.

You can bitch about how mean and stupid America is, but it won't change the fact that 'Zuela's a shithole run by commie vermin.

Yo, dude! The 50's called. It wants its zeitsmode back.

"1980 called, it wants its foreign policy back." --a certain black politician

Don't cry cause it's true. Unless someone hangs Maduro, it's very unlikely there'll be any normalizing of relations. Even Cuba has a better chance.

Besides, you know who else has oil? Mexico.

Granted, we'd have to clean out the cartels, but hey, that's what purges are for.

[GeekyBugle]

Gas prices could be brought down very easily with one simple, logical move.

Drop all sanctions on Venezuela.

Venezuela has the world's largest petroleum reserves. That crime ring ran oil company of Putin's isn't even in the top five. 

Venezuela has been under sever sanctions since 2019 (guess who was President and put them on. It wasn't Biden)

The sanctions were put in place because Venezuela is a socialist country and wouldn't suck American oil oligarch dick or let the CIA topple it's government to put in an American corporate approved one.

Well, what Vnz didn't do was invade a foreign country, use military hardware to murder civillians, target civilian residential buildings with artillery and missiles,forcibly kidnap thousands if people and drag them off to Russia to force them to accept Russian dominance, use them as slave labor, etc.

Now some people would consider Russia to be better than Vnz because it's capitalist, but those people should be ignored utterly.

The sanctions on Vnz, which have only hurt the people and not the government, should be ended at once, even if Mitch McConnell must be bound, gagged and locked in a closet to stop him blocking it, it's oil production should be brought up to full ASAP and used to help Europe stop buying any Russian oil at all leading to a total implosion of Russia's pathetic economy, which is already in such a poor shape Darth Vader himself would weep for it.

With some aid to restart it's sanction crippled oil industry Vnz could soon replace all Russian oil exports. The very threat of this and the annihilation of the anaemic Russian economy could force putin to withdraw or lead to his replacement.

Not happening, chummer. Chavez and his butt buddy Maduro were nationalizing assets that did not belong to them. That's a great way to piss people off.

You can bitch about how mean and stupid America is, but it won't change the fact that 'Zuela's a shithole run by commie vermin.

Yo, dude! The 50's called. It wants its zeitsmode back.

"1980 called, it wants its foreign policy back." --a certain black politician

Don't cry cause it's true. Unless someone hangs Maduro, it's very unlikely there'll be any normalizing of relations. Even Cuba has a better chance.

Besides, you know who else has oil? Mexico.

Granted, we'd have to clean out the cartels, but hey, that's what purges are for.

Just drone strike the lot, ALL the cartels, drone strike them until the survivors are so afraid that the mere thought of selling drugs causes them to shit their pants.

Many other Mexicans agree with me BTW.

[Shasarak]

You know who else has oil?

Canada! And there is even a pipeline and everything

[jeff37923]

Or we could, you know, just go back to drilling in the USA and return to $2.20 a gallon gas prices like they were during the Trump administration. All of those Keystone Pipeline workers would still have jobs too.

[Shasarak]

Or we could, you know, just go back to drilling in the USA and return to $2.20 a gallon gas prices like they were during the Trump administration. All of those Keystone Pipeline workers would still have jobs too.

Let's not go crazy

[Pat]

In the meantime, I think we can all agree that the best short-term solution to gas prices is to have the president talk about treating Saudi Arabia as a "pariah state", because our ally has the largest easily accessible reserves in the world, and is able to quickly ramp up production, and treating like shit and pissing them off is the diplomatic way to guarantee that they'll do what we ask and help relieve the supply shock by increasing production and keeping prices low.