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So, making all the right requests is doing things to hurt America? ? Trying to hold a US president accountable for global oil production is next-level stupid. It's not even a sincere argument in the slightest. We can all see through you. Oh, and you're gonna want to look up the word "impudent."

Your questions are incredibly stupid. The don't merit any response. It's like talking to a child--in this case a simp of a child who will give the bully his lunch money every day. Grow a brain and a backbone and in no time at all you'll be on your way to becoming a real boy, Tokyo Rose.

I'm pretty sure he'll take that as a compliment. ?‍♂️

I will take this lame deflection above as you concession that, indeed, Biden has done everything under his control to manage gas prices. That you, a "Nationalist" is now complaining that Biden can't control oil production worldwide is about as comical. Do you really think that US Presidents dictate terms to OPEC and Russia? GTFO. You're shitty argument has run its course.

^^ This is wildly dishonest. Advocating that Putin to stand trial for war crimes in the war that Putin initiated is, in every way, unlike US efforts at regime change in Iraq, Libya etc. We didn't move the chess pieces. It's just asking for accountability. Russians SHOULD remove Putin. This "Go fight in Ukraine" nonsense is abysmally stupid. You keep repeating it as if it's meaningful or clever, but it just makes you look ridiculous. Like saying, "If you want to fight cancer, why don't you donate all of your money to research quit your job and become an oncologist, hypocrite!" Well, sure, a person COULD do that, but there's nothing wrong with offering material support to people fighting for their survival. It's pretty great, actually. The Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom and their survival. We're supporting them with goods to aid their fight--exactly what they asked for in terms of help. There's only good in that situation. Cowards like YOU don't get to decide that they'd be better off if they surrender to your buddy Putin. It's neither your place nor your choice. They are free people fighting to remain free, and as long as they remain free, they get to make for themselves the judgment of what their freedom is worth.

You sound dumber every time you try to imply that Biden has caused high gas prices. I mean, it's not even a debatable question. Just look at the damn numbers. Domestic oil production is UP dramatically since Biden took office We produced 11,137 K barrels as Trump moved his fat ass out of the White House. Two years later it was 12,568 K. 2019 is the biggest complete production year on record, with a monthly average of 12,327 K barrels. The 2023 monthly average is 12,642 K barrels so far. Yes, we are outpacing the biggest year ever. Domestic oil production is at record levels, 2022 was literally double the production of 2012, just 10 years ago. Yet magically, prices are not half what they were.? Seriously, WTF is wrong with you that you can stare at plain black and white data and still repeat the lie? The explanation is easy too. US Oil production has recovered from the pandemic, but global production is still under 2019 levels and oil is a global commodity with prices set in a global marketplace. The US produces less than 20% of the world's oil, which means the fact that our production has recovered is NOT going to offset the lower production in the rest of the world. It's supply and demand in a global marketplace. We have less supply and more demand. So prices are higher. Basic stuff that's been explained to you many, many times. Why can't you get it? Realistically, the idea that any POTUS is a major driver of gas prices is pretty silly, but even if you are a person who believes such things you can look at plain data and see that Biden hasn't hindered production.

Oh, good. Someone else who can't read domestic oil production numbers--and all while calling other people dumb. Sigh. It's like Hervé Villechaize calling other people short.

Oh, sure. The other half of the truth you just can't articulate. Must be something though. You've got a hunch!

We're not deposing anything. This isn't engineering regime change. We're simply supporting a democratic ally as they defend themselves from an aggressive dictator. People who think that if they give a bully what they want the bully will leave them alone are both cowards and fools. Your buddy Putin will keep taking until someone stops him. Unlike you, the Ukrainians have the wisdom to understand this and the courage to fight for their freedom.

Nah, just a coincidence. Like how Putin's critics coincidentally get polonium poisoning.

Ah, you've decided facts are too much work. Back to hand-waving and clucking. Some people just aren't equipped for debate.

1. Completely irrelevant to the fact that you simultaneously whine about inflation AND advocate for tariffs. 2. You don't have to say stupid shit like "if what you say is true." Oil production is not a matter of opinion. You can literally look up the production volume and see that we are producing at record levels. And I've really lost count of how many times I've explained to you that gas prices are high in spite of high domestic production because OIL IS A GLOBAL COMMODITY. Market prices are set by global supply and demand. 3. Biden's deficits are dramatically lower than those he inherited from Trump. Again, not a matter of opinion. Look it up. It's been posted here so many times, but by all means, go look for yourself. And I think for either POTUS spending as a driver of inflation is questionable. At a minimum, it's complicated. Inflation is a result of too many dollars chasing too few goods. Yes, government spending increased during the pandemic, BUT did it put enough dollars into the economy to offset the pandemic contraction? Probably not. In fact, you can see negative GDP growth in 2020. So clearly the inflation driver there is too few goods due to the global supply chain disruption. GDP rebounded dramatically in 2021, so more dollars were in the system, but still we managed to keep our inflation rate lower than most other countries, so again I'd place most of the blame on supply chain disruption. And what do we get for that deficit spending? Well, we avoided another 2008-sized recession or worse--massive economic disruption. And a quick post -pandemic recovery. A bargain compared to the alternative. To be clear, when people point the finger at Biden deficits I am happy to point out Trump's larger deficits, but Trump wasn't wrong on this. (His mistakes were earlier.) Those deficit spending measures in response to the pandemic were absolutely the right choice.

I wish you were either a little bit smarter, so you could come up with your own clever banter, or a lot smarter, so we wouldn't have to have this discussion at all. The bottom line is that you support brutal dictators waging wars of aggression instead of the victims fighting for freedom and sovereignty. There would be no France or Britain without the help of the United a States in the world wars. Nobody sent Americans into harms way because they really like war. We helped them because it was right and necessary. And, in this case, we're not even directly engaged, but simply giving another society of free people the material aid that they are pleading for in order to resist their would-be conquerors.-- That's the way it works. People who believe in freedom support others in the quest to be and stay free. Simply because it is the right thing to do. Frankly, it takes a real piece of shit to look at Ukraine situation and side with the invaders, but there you are.?‍♀️

Identify a single lie. Meanwhile, look at my finger for yourself.?

I don't love war at all, but I certainly respect and support those with the courage to fight for their liberty. People with backbone and principles--you wouldn't understand. Have you traveled to Russia yet to fellate Putin physically, or is the online knob gobbling satisfying enough??

I suspect he had a sense of irony. Democrats don't have any problem with conventional Republicans, except for thinking they're wrong about most policies. But let's be honest about the newer MAGA subset, which is almost entirely motivated by spite and hate. To make up for turning off the moderate independents, Trump made a cozy home for the worst of America. All the anger, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia in the country now has political representation in a mainstream party. So all we hear now is how everyone NOT in that extremist group hates America and is trying to destroy the country--including conventional Republicans. We won't have a return to fruitful politics until the a normal Republicans reject the crazies--even if it means breaking ranks. Take the hit, fix the mistake and move forward.

"I hate inflation!" vs. "We need tariffs to make goods more expensive" "There's a war on fossil fuels" vs. Oil production is at record levels and we are a net energy exporter. "Biden spends too much" vs. Biden has dramatically reduced the Trump deficits ^Sometimes you argue with yourself. Sometimes you argue with reality. It's hard to keep track.

Trump is the first of his kind. Have you forgotten already, how absurd the premise of a Trump presidency was from day 1? Every week he did something disqualifying. Every primary opponent thought him wholly unfit and said so. There is a reason we wore out the word "unprecedented" during his campaign and presidency. You can take shots at McCain, Romney, Obama and Clinton and Biden-- or back to Bush and Bill Clinton and Al Gore. There is nothing like Trump in our history. None of them engaged in that kind of behavior. Whether you think they were they held the right policy positions or not, none of them went around saying crazy conspiracy shit, courting the Q-Anon crowd or fundamentally undermining every American institution. The contrast is stark. In terms of Money, McCain, Obama, Gore and Bill Clinton were not Rich, though they made money on books and speeches during and after their time in high office. Hillary and Biden had post-office book and speaking money as candidates, but a sort of pedestrian version of new-money rich--not that much and not for very long. Really Romney, Bush and Trump are the super rich with family money. We've had one rich dummy (Bush) but the only rich kook is Trump. It's bad, to the point that even faithful Republicans -- even core, powerful Republicans -- are vilified simply for disagreeing with Trump. Raffensperger is getting death threats because he didn't "find" votes for Trump. Mitch McConnell -- a ruthlessly effectice Republican leader of very long standing -- is called a RINO because he disapproves of Trumps bogus election claims. Anybody who opposes Trump is automatically a bad guy, no matter how minor or justified. This is an analysis worth reading in full. Why Republican voters believe Trump This idea of any substantial "far left" in the United states is really silly. It just doesn't exist at any significant scale. Democrats are overwhelmingly moderate and would be conservative in most countries. We don't even have an active communist party. A communist candidate for POTUS has never gotten more than .3% of the vote and there hasn't even been a communist candidate since 1984. Even Bernie isn't a radical socialist, and he couldn't win the nomination. Let's not try to compare the nonexistent "far left" to a party that is doing its damndest to re-nominate a man who tried to end the republic by seizing power in a multi-faceted coup after losing the last election. ^^It's not that they just made a mistake and didn't realize how awful Trump would be. They saw what he did, and they want more of it.

IIRC, there is a neo-nazi battalion, but that should please you given your comments about Jews. Regardless, Putin is not trying to protect anyone, let alone Jews. Zelensky, on the the other hand, is Jewish and was elected by the rest of Ukraine. So stop pretending like Ukraine is some kind of Nazi state. You don't have to blindly parrot anything that Putin says. Putin will take what he can, and if appeasers and Putin fanboys like you simply give it all to him, yes, he'll continue to take. He's having trouble holding Ukraine because the Ukrainians are fighting back--which you don't want them to do. ? Come up with your own clever nicknames, Tokyo Rose--preferably one that makes sense. I'm not the one giving comfort and support to a ruthless dictator who has invaded a sovereign democracy unprovoked.

You are just bog stupid. What do you think happens in Europe if Putin is allowed to take whatever land he wants and people like you encourage it through appeasement? We've been down that road, Tokyo Rose. Nazis? lol get a new schtick.

No, the majority of politicians are neither rich nor kooks. Or at least they weren't traditionally kooks. The Republican base started rewarding insane conspiracy thinking over the last couple of decades, so we've seen a considerable uptick. There has always been political fighting, and sometimes it has been dirty fighting, but it has never been by fundamentally attacking faith in the country. Think back. Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell played dirty as hell--full contact politics. But neither of them ever tried to win by sowing wholesale mistrust of American and its institutions. That's change--and dramatically so--with Trump. Trump told people that they can't trust the Democrats, they can't trust the Republicans, they can't trust the government, they can't trust the courts, they can't trust the media, they can't trust science, they can't trust our law enforcement agencies, they can't trust schools--and indeed, the only one they CAN trust is Trump. And they bought in. At this point they trust Trump (a pathological liar) more than they trust their own friends and family. <-- That's not an exaggeration, it's polling data. That's how far we've fallen. And most of the Republicans running in the primary are tapping into that same toxic, fundamental undermining of faith in all American institutions. Ramaswamy is among the worst. 9/11 an inside job? Jan 6 insurrection by govt. plants? COVID planned by our agencies? -- Ah, of course, he's "just asking!" It's going completely in the wrong direction. We will never heal as a country that way. You can't heal without at least a shared reality. That whole line of thinking only ends with a charismatic authoritarian dictator. If you can't trust anyone other than the latest savior, that's what inevitably happens.

You don't always say who or what you're quoting, but at least you're quoting! And that's something. Look, you can't reasonably complain about inflation and root for more expensive local manufacturing at the same time. Like you, the rest of the market is going to go with the cheapest equivalent product, and that's usually made in LDCs. Meanwhile, we continue to develop the knowledge economy. The service sector has grown as the manufacturing sector has shrunk. It's not an exact 1:1 trade off, but it's to be considered. And it should also go without saying that we may not have the perfect balance of domestic manufacturing vs offshore manufacturing, but it's simplistic and silly to say that all of one or all of another is the right answer. We live in a global marketplace, and always will. Unless you'd prefer a strictly controlled marketplace via authoritarian government, which could effectively limit the freedom of choice for citizens.

Maui is getting help. That was an unnecessary anecdote and I don't think it achieved the goal of connecting with his audience. He did make an effort, but perhaps he should have thrown rolls of paper towels. ?

Lol. You don't favor either side. You just think we should abandon Ukraine and that Ukraine should "negotiate" a surrender. No favoritism there, Tokyo Rose. ?

Are you capable of formulating a cogent reply to any point of conversation? Is that a thing you know how to do? -- And if so, why don't you do it? Everything I said there is true and simply accepted as fact in economics. You are welcome to present a heterodox argument, but your weird feelings don't constitute an argument. Frankly, after extensive talks about gas prices, I think you have almost no knowledge or understanding of economics and aren't equipped to formulate any opinion on globalization one way or another. In which case, my advice is that you should stop spouting off random, uninformed crap and go learn something.