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@zedvictor4
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
It's illegal to skin cats and fetuses in many states now.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Sadly, a state can grant anything rights. Including dogs.
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@Polytheist-Witch
You are free from illegal searches and seizures.
Apparently, a fetus now has a right from an illegal seizure in some states now.
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@Polytheist-Witch
And just a hint, almost every constitutional amendment ever passed in American history requires bipartisan support, so excluding any party means you won't get anything. Guaranteed.
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@Polytheist-Witch
is not about abortion it's about privacy
Lol, if it was so important, they would make an amendment like they did to free the slaves instead of waiting for a President to die. They had 50 years to do it.
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@Polytheist-Witch
I've never voted Republican in my life since the day I could vote I voted Libertarian.
Mad respect for that.
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@Polytheist-Witch
I'll be voting Democrat from here on out.
Democrats had 50 years to introduce an amendment. You'll be waiting another 50 years if you give them your continued loyalty.
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@FLRW
At least Donald Drumphles knew what a woman was.
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@ILikePie5
Self-defense is the ultimate expression of individual liberty from tyranny.
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@FLRW
At least you can get cheaper gas in a red state as you drive to California. Make sure you bring enough for a round trip though, you don't want to be stranded there.
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@Dr.Franklin
The overruling of Prop 187 was particularly disgusting because it effectively extended Constitutional rights to non-citizens.
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@Dr.Franklin
50 years and it wasnt overturned. So yeah, a bit surprising in my view.And, it is a W
How many countries have their abortion policy decided by courts, versus democratically?
The US is truly a global outlier in allowing judges to remove this issue from the political process.
The same people engaging in performative hand-wringing about the so-called decline of "democracy" in America are perfectly happy to have unelected judges decide major issues of public policy (so long as the outcome suits them).
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@ILikePie5
Funny how all of sudden libs know what a woman is
"With Roe in place, the United States has also been an international outlier on abortion rights, but in the other direction. Few countries allow abortion without restriction until fetal viability, the cutoff set by Roe v. Wade half a century ago — currently around 23 weeks, because of medical advances. That makes the United States one of just over a dozen countries that allow abortions for any reason beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy, the threshold in the Mississippi law that the Supreme Court considered in its private vote to overturn Roe. France and Colombia recently joined that group."
USA is forced to join the rest of the developed world that has no national rights for on-demand abortions up to the 9th month.
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@ILikePie5
Nothing in that court ruling is stopping Democrats from running an abortion platform to get 2/3 support for a national Amendment to the Constitution....oh yeah, that inflation thinghy...
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@ILikePie5
No. Your statement: “by the lack of supply which was obliterated during COVID,” is just straight up false. Supply of oil was overwhelming relative to demand. During COVID, prices were low because there was not demand.
This parallels exactly with the Afghanistan debacle. Biden's team knew for many many months that they had to prepare for a shift, yet they just sat around doing nothing. Only now is Powell taking steps by raising rates in the hopes of triggering a mini recession. Imagine if they took those steps in 2020 instead of 2022.
Imagine if Biden's team did at least ONE of the things I mentioned in post 154 in 2020. This is just straight up incompetence on full display, like the energy secretary laughing at the suggestion that we could or should produce more oil back in 2021.
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@Double_R
Do you have an opinion of your own to share?
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@ILikePie5
or demand gets higher while supply stays constant.
Which would have happened with a temporary tax holiday.
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@ILikePie5
The only thing Biden can do right now to prop up oil futures is to promise substantial subsidies/permanent tax breaks/long-term investment guarantees/ and permanent removal of barriers to market entry for new oil drilling; including and not limited to subsidized access to oil pipeline distribution networks and a substantial reduction of permit fees. That's not going to happen for obvious reasons.
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most Americans agree today we shouldn't be funding Russia's genocide.
Or Azov genocides.
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@Double_R
Ukraine/Russia is also a major driver
Jerome Powell says that statement is pure bullshit.
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@ILikePie5
By admitting that Biden’s rhetoric during his 2020 campaign and heavily regulatory policies have directly contributed to most of the increase in gas prices.
Even Powell testified the high prices are not a result of "Putin"
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@ILikePie5
"Stop saying we are in a recession, you sound like a Republican Politician!"
-Joe Biden
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"We are in a recession"
-Jerome Powell
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@ILikePie5
"Lowering gas prices is as easy as riding a bike."
-Joe Biden
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@Double_R
Why can't you admit you were very happy to hear Biden was going to "end fossil fuel" in 2020 and didn't care what that meant for average people.
Why is it only now that you care? Is it because your religion is losing it's church in DC?
I think so.
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@Double_R
That's what Russians say about you when you say "America liberated Iraq."
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@Double_R
Does genocide not qualify as a reason?
Pretty sure Russia was an oil exporter before Putin decided to liberate Ukraine from the west.
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@ILikePie5
Right now Dems sound like Thomas Malthus saying we’re all gonna die.
There's no reason why Americans have to suffer while Russians can buy 3 dollar gas.
If we were an oil exporter we could also have 3 dollar gas right now today.
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@ILikePie5
Lol, Democrats can't help but mess this all up.
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@Double_R
So what's the point here?
The point is we have to ask a genuine question here. How can Democracy force Biden to improve the country?
And if it cannot, what is the realistic value of Democracy to everyday Americans?
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@cristo71
My main point was that even radical leftists know Biden is going down a similar path as Carter, I don't really care what twisted logic they took to get to that conclusion.
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@cristo71
The article is PRO price fixing, which Carter did not do.
Fact checked false:
That publication is decidedly left biased but factually reliable
I love those sources because it's more likely to be accepted by the radical left as truth.
Disclosure: just looked this up— Nixon instituted a 90 day wage/price fix to prevent the notorious “wage/price spiral.”
Most historians know that, and the policy on oil was continued into the Carter era, which compounded the supply and inflationary problems when Carter ALSO imposed wage and price fixing.
The article is a cautionary tale in favor of keeping Democrats in power.
And yet, Biden is objectively repeating most of Carter's mistakes. (he has yet to do price controls though) with the unique detriment of having Powell and Yellen in charge instead of Volker.
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@Double_R
The only thing Biden can do right now to prop up oil futures is to promise substantial subsidies/permanent tax breaks/long-term investment guarantees/ and permanent removal of barriers to market entry for new oil drilling; including and not limited to subsidized access to oil pipeline distribution networks and a substantial reduction of permit fees. That's not going to happen for obvious reasons.
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@Double_R
supported an anti price gauging bill the republicans killed,
Lol, price fixing! Go Carter! Too bad some Democrats blocked it or we could have 40 years of Democrats out of power instead of the projected 20.
and is considering a tax holiday.
We could use a holiday from government. Preferably a long term one.
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That’s also supposed to be stockpiled for a national emergency.
Biden's election was a national emergency lol.
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@ILikePie5
Biden says the Economy is doing great. This is the kind of false hope the country needs right now.
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@coal
You mean oil investors don't want to rack up another $320+B in losses over 15 years so consumers in America can get a discount on gasoline? Wow! I mean here government wants to destroy their businesses within 10-30 years, they have massive losses from over a decade of investing to grow the US energy industry and now these selfish people actually want to get some of their money back! I mean what kind of country is this! People need to wise up. If it had not been for the second dip in the great recession from Q3/08-Q1/09 we would have had triple digit oil prices from 2008-2014, as is we had them from 2011 thru 2014.
The only reason they came down was because US shale producers were funding a massive expansion of US shale at 1m bpd a year production increases while losing massive amounts of money. Indeed, if you were to sum up all of the loses, producers haven't even made a net profit off of US shale after nearly 20 years of investments. Oil prices only went down because of an OPEC price war that resulted in OPEC+ and of course the Covid induced lockdown recession . Those two anomalies likely won't repeat which means $100+ forever is a much higher likelihood than anything else. Especially if we can't stop the present day anti-fossil fuel lobby and overt actions by governments. Biden doesn't have to continue down this path. He wants to.
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@thett3
What concrete actions has he taken to lower inflation/gas prices?
He is releasing oil from strategic reserves, further proving Biden doesn't understand the Oil Market runs on future supplies, not present supplies. He fucked the oil economy in 2020, not 2022.
The only thing Biden can do right now to prop up oil futures is to promise substantial subsidies/tax breaks/investment guarantees for new oil drilling. That's not going to happen for obvious reasons.
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@Double_R
the GOP is literally trying to end democracy.
Maduro said the exact same thing about Venezuelan Democracy while his country burned to the ground. I don't buy it.
Threats to Democrats are never threats to Democracy if the majority of the people hate Democrats, which is the case right now.
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@thett3
Exactly. Every apologist is blaming Trump for not giving Biden room to mess up knowing full well that Biden was absolutely going to make the country worse.
The amount of people that think Biden is doing a great job is a terribly small minority.
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@secularmerlin
I did not say it was the only thing just one of them.
What have you chosen to invest your 401k into? Surely you have some expert economic advice into safe investments for the common folk if you know what is safe for rich people to invest in.
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@secularmerlin
Futures are a way to protect cooperate interests from the market.
Lol. If that was the case, everyone's 401K retirement package would ONLY consist of investments in futures.
(hint: they are not)
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@secularmerlin
If the president of the United States of America cannot simply make the oil companies lower their prices.
A president can. Go research former president Carter's policies.
Clearly these are all dictated by supply and demand too.
And supply is clearly restricted by Executive orders. From NEPA regulations to excise charges.
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@ILikePie5
Trump sure as hell isn't perfect, but at least he didn't promise to decrease oil production and then followed through on that campaign promise with hundreds of executive orders.
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@secularmerlin
None of which is under the control of the president of the United States of America.
Do you know what an Executive order is?
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@Double_R
How has Biden decreased supply? Be specific and quantify how much it's decreased as well as how much this had driven up today's oil prices. I'll wait.
Coal pointed to more than 5 specific things and you rebutted none of them. Guess I will wait too.
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@Double_R
and the US isn't experiencing inflation any higher than the rest of the world
Provably false. Why would you say this?
You and others claim these high gas prices is because of Biden. Not because of inflation (a global issue), not because of the supply chain and COVID's complete disruption to it (also a global issue) and you do this whole ignoring that the entire world is dealing with had prices just as high as us.
That's not at all what we are claiming. We are saying Biden is making an already bad problem worse with shit energy policies.
What do you think Biden can do right now to stimulate oil production? If your answer is a predictable "nothing", then put someone else in charge that can do something.
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@ILikePie5
When asked why they aren’t raising production more, 59% of respondents said it was because investors are pressuring them to maintain capital discipline. Another 11% said it was because of the environmental social and governance movement, 8% said it was because of trouble accessing financing and 6% said it was because of government regulations. Another 15% marked “other,” which included things like “personnel shortages, limited availability of equipment, and supply-chain issues.”
“The industry is facing serious supply issues for the materials needed to grow production,” wrote one production executive.
“In the first quarter of 2021, I divested all properties in the state of Colorado due to the unbelievably hostile and increasingly aggressive regulatory environment driven by anti-fossil-fuel ideology,” said one oil producer. “The administration has no clue about the oil-and-gas industry,” an oil services executive said.
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@secularmerlin
What I'm saying is that they already have permits which they are not using for one reason or another.
Economic neophytes don't equate high prices with high production, labor, and transport costs which also translates to a lack of investor funding.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Why are you asking grey parrot to make an argument for why having less supply of oil would cause prices in oil to rise? Have you seriously never heard of supply and demand?
I replied with a wiki page on supply and demand. It's astounding the level of economic ignorance in this thread.
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