U.S. Politics

Post Reply
User avatar
Giggle
udonmap.com
Posts: 1895
Joined: October 18, 2016, 4:24 pm
Location: In your head

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by Giggle » May 13, 2022, 3:49 pm

Trump still living in millions of hysterical libby brains, rent free. Irrational lunatics often can't escape that which petrifies them.

Jump! Jump!


Ashli Babbitt -- SAY HER NAME!

User avatar
Earnest
udonmap.com
Posts: 4331
Joined: January 14, 2014, 3:56 am

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by Earnest » May 13, 2022, 6:28 pm

Jumping but getting out of breath, when can I stop?
This message has been submitted successfully, but it will need to be approved by a moderator before it is publicly viewable. You will be notified when your post has been approved.

User avatar
jackspratt
udonmap.com
Posts: 16077
Joined: July 2, 2006, 5:29 pm

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by jackspratt » May 13, 2022, 8:34 pm

Giggle wrote:
May 13, 2022, 3:49 pm
Trump still living in millions of hysterical libby brains, rent free. Irrational lunatics often can't escape that which petrifies them.

Jump! Jump!
In contrast to the Orange Blob living in the brains and souls of tens of millions of irrational RWNJs. Talk about lunacy.

Suck, suck!

ps stand at ease, Westers.

User avatar
Earnest
udonmap.com
Posts: 4331
Joined: January 14, 2014, 3:56 am

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by Earnest » May 14, 2022, 12:11 am

Right, off to the showers then a bite to eat at the Mess.
This message has been submitted successfully, but it will need to be approved by a moderator before it is publicly viewable. You will be notified when your post has been approved.

User avatar
GT93
udonmap.com
Posts: 7848
Joined: June 5, 2009, 9:37 am
Location: Auckland

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by GT93 » May 14, 2022, 3:38 am

Nice try Giggle. That kind of psychobabble bullshxt might be worth flying among Americans but it won't cut it with an international audience. American democracy, thanks to many GOP boofheads, remains on its knees.
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

glalt
udonmap.com
Posts: 2984
Joined: January 14, 2007, 10:35 am
Location: Nong Hin, Loei

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by glalt » May 14, 2022, 9:49 am

Do you think Biden is doing a good job? I blame him for crippling the oil industry and going from an oil exporter to an importer. Nearly everything moves by truck and oil prices are a BIG part of inflation. The only good thing is that my Social Security will be getting a big COLA raise.

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17220
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by tamada » May 14, 2022, 1:18 pm

The shift from net importer to net exporter in 2019 was tiny and a trend that had been building since the early Obama administration. The US was producing more than it imported as far back as 2013 but domestic consumption kept exports low. Trumpism made it sound like he was responsible for what in reality was an infinitesimally small change in fortune.
.
oilchart_520_111313.jpg
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-21535
.
Trump inherited the tail-end of fracking boom which is an expensive oil production process. When Wall Street and the hedge funds that sustained the fracking boom finally realized they weren't all going to become 'big rich oil and gas men', the funding for these hundreds of fracking companies vanished. When Saudia Arabia and OPEC decided to cut production, US fracking imploded.

https://qz.com/2028009/why-us-fracking- ... il-prices/

A few years later, Biden was elected President.
'Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence'
~Reinhold Messner~

'You don't have to be afraid of everything you don't understand'
~Louise Perica~

User avatar
GT93
udonmap.com
Posts: 7848
Joined: June 5, 2009, 9:37 am
Location: Auckland

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by GT93 » May 22, 2022, 11:38 am

Crazy crazy USA:

Image

From The Washington Post.
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

anefarious1
udonmap.com
Posts: 465
Joined: October 9, 2014, 4:36 am

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by anefarious1 » May 22, 2022, 11:41 am

glalt wrote:
May 14, 2022, 9:49 am
Do you think Biden is doing a good job? I blame him for crippling the oil industry and going from an oil exporter to an importer. Nearly everything moves by truck and oil prices are a BIG part of inflation. The only good thing is that my Social Security will be getting a big COLA raise.
I'll take the strength of the Biden dollar over the weakness of the Trump dollar any day!

User avatar
GT93
udonmap.com
Posts: 7848
Joined: June 5, 2009, 9:37 am
Location: Auckland

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by GT93 » May 23, 2022, 6:18 am

I'll take the very tough on Putin over the mates with Putin attitude any day!
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17220
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: U.S. Politics - Tejas style

Post by tamada » May 24, 2022, 9:53 am

Here's a hoot from the great state of Texas. Yeah, I know it's state politics and an indictment of the right wing lunatics in charge of that southern asylum but maybe they want all those lefty 'immigrant's who drove in from CA to make a better future in Texas to turn around and go home?

Texas lawmakers move to raise penalties on owners of Teslas and other electric vehicles

"Essentially, EV drivers would have to pay additional taxes somewhere between $240 and $400 a year because politicians in the state want them to pay for the equivalent of fuel taxes they would otherwise pay, Clean Technica reported."

Gonna tax yo' ass for doing your bit to try and save the planet.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/su ... owners-of/

What's happened since 2014 when it was noted that:

Why oil state Texas turns out to be friendly for electric cars

"As the land of big pickup trucks and Big Oil, Texas would hardly seem like the kind of place where electric cars could thrive.

Yet the Lone Star State is one of the friendliest for plug-in cars which, according to a recent Navigant Research post, have a powerful ally there: utility companies.

There are now around 5,000 electric cars registered in Texas, and that number is expected to grow to nearly 100,000 by 2023."


https://www.greencarreports.com/news/10 ... ctric-cars

These are the same utility companies who can't keep the Texas lights on in a heatwave OR a freeze.

YCMTSU
'Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence'
~Reinhold Messner~

'You don't have to be afraid of everything you don't understand'
~Louise Perica~

anefarious1
udonmap.com
Posts: 465
Joined: October 9, 2014, 4:36 am

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by anefarious1 » May 24, 2022, 11:23 am

GT93 wrote:
May 23, 2022, 6:18 am
I'll take the very tough on Putin over the mates with Putin attitude any day!
Me too (meaning Biden) and the strong dollar to boot.

glalt
udonmap.com
Posts: 2984
Joined: January 14, 2007, 10:35 am
Location: Nong Hin, Loei

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by glalt » May 24, 2022, 1:35 pm

tamada wrote:
May 14, 2022, 1:18 pm
The shift from net importer to net exporter in 2019 was tiny and a trend that had been building since the early Obama administration. The US was producing more than it imported as far back as 2013 but domestic consumption kept exports low. Trumpism made it sound like he was responsible for what in reality was an infinitesimally small change in fortune.
.
oilchart_520_111313.jpg
.
Trump inherited the tail-end of fracking boom which is an expensive oil production process. When Wall Street and the hedge funds that sustained the fracking boom finally realized they weren't all going to become 'big rich oil and gas men', the funding for these hundreds of fracking companies vanished. When Saudia Arabia and OPEC decided to cut production, US fracking imploded.

https://qz.com/2028009/why-us-fracking- ... il-prices/

A few years later, Biden was elected President.
I think your chart is a little outdated.

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17220
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by tamada » May 24, 2022, 2:30 pm

glalt wrote:
May 24, 2022, 1:35 pm
tamada wrote:
May 14, 2022, 1:18 pm
The shift from net importer to net exporter in 2019 was tiny and a trend that had been building since the early Obama administration. The US was producing more than it imported as far back as 2013 but domestic consumption kept exports low. Trumpism made it sound like he was responsible for what in reality was an infinitesimally small change in fortune.
.
oilchart_520_111313.jpg
.
Trump inherited the tail-end of fracking boom which is an expensive oil production process. When Wall Street and the hedge funds that sustained the fracking boom finally realized they weren't all going to become 'big rich oil and gas men', the funding for these hundreds of fracking companies vanished. When Saudia Arabia and OPEC decided to cut production, US fracking imploded.

https://qz.com/2028009/why-us-fracking- ... il-prices/

A few years later, Biden was elected President.
I think your chart is a little outdated.
Read the text and don't just look at the pictures. I was specifically addressing and commenting on the net US oil production versus imports in 2013, well before Trump came along.

Now, if you want to talk about the MAGA moment when Trump declared they were a net exporter in early 2020, here's the truth.
importexport.jpg
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45216

If you cherry pick the type of oil, where you are importing it from and where you are exporting it to, it looks like this.
importexporttweak.jpg
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41754

Since US crude export restrictions were lifted in 2016, the Trump administration's impact on oil production was irrelevant.

Biden's administration hasn't made the US oil business any worse.
'Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence'
~Reinhold Messner~

'You don't have to be afraid of everything you don't understand'
~Louise Perica~

User avatar
GT93
udonmap.com
Posts: 7848
Joined: June 5, 2009, 9:37 am
Location: Auckland

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by GT93 » May 25, 2022, 1:06 am

I see Sleepy Joe recently waved the stick at China over Taiwan. Mr. Wang, a spokesperson for the Chinese government, replied by quoting an old Chinese song: “When a friend comes, there is good wine; if a jackal comes, he will be greeted with a shotgun”. I suppose these days the shotguns are out at practically every GOP meeting.
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

User avatar
GT93
udonmap.com
Posts: 7848
Joined: June 5, 2009, 9:37 am
Location: Auckland

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by GT93 » May 25, 2022, 12:10 pm

The jackals are out and about in Georgia. It looks like voters are going to give Trump a big smack:
If David Perdue’s challenge to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp fails Tuesday, it will show that you don’t have to embrace Trumpian insurrectionism to compete in GOP primaries. That would be welcome: Perdue’s candidacy is built on the idea that Kemp’s refusal to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election was a massive betrayal, an absurdity that merits the most dramatic humiliation possible.

But the looming shaming of Perdue is important for another reason. If he loses decisively, as is widely expected, this will also suggest that a certain type of Trumpist culture-war politics has its limits at a time when that sort of politics is metastasizing in a virulent and ugly new way.

With Georgia voters going to the polls Tuesday, Perdue is ending his campaign with a fitting burst of abject self-debasement. Perdue spent months running on an implicit vow to use the powers of the governor to subvert a 2024 election loss on Trump’s behalf in a way Kemp refused to do.

Now Perdue, who lost his Senate seat in a 2021 runoff and has tried to hitch a ride on Trumpism to revive his career, is signaling that he might not accept his own election loss. Asked about this by reporters on Monday, Perdue said: “Depends on if there’s fraud or not.”

This raises an amusing possibility: If Perdue loses and refuses to accept the results, will Trump even join him? Trump is reportedly angry that his endorsement of Perdue has associated him with a losing campaign and is washing his hands of it.

So you can easily see Perdue claiming that he’s the victim of fraud, waiting for Trump to amplify this injustice and getting silence from Trump, who will have moved on to blaming Perdue for failing him. That would be a well-deserved humiliation, payback for an extraordinarily cynical exercise in this kind of Trumpist politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 5489d93d87

I'm getting as bad as Lonestar.
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

pepesgrill
udonmap.com
Posts: 1240
Joined: April 21, 2020, 8:37 pm

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by pepesgrill » May 25, 2022, 1:16 pm

worse , far worse . i think an exorcism would be
required to purge the evil from vessel you occupy

User avatar
GT93
udonmap.com
Posts: 7848
Joined: June 5, 2009, 9:37 am
Location: Auckland

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by GT93 » May 25, 2022, 3:24 pm

:lol: Very good.

Trump got a bloodied nose. \:D/
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

User avatar
tamada
udonmap.com
Posts: 17220
Joined: February 21, 2007, 4:03 am
Location: Down two...then left

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by tamada » July 28, 2022, 9:06 am

So the RNC is forking out for a former president's legal bills, including personal litigation? Much has been made about separation of Church and State but how about State and backhanders?

From ABC News:

RNC to Trump: If you run for president, we stop paying your legal bills, per official

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rnc-warning-t ... d=87486985
'Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence'
~Reinhold Messner~

'You don't have to be afraid of everything you don't understand'
~Louise Perica~

User avatar
papafarang
udonmap.com
Posts: 4300
Joined: August 2, 2013, 10:14 am

Re: U.S. Politics

Post by papafarang » July 28, 2022, 12:53 pm

tamada wrote:
July 28, 2022, 9:06 am
So the RNC is forking out for a former president's legal bills, including personal litigation? Much has been made about separation of Church and State but how about State and backhanders?

From ABC News:

RNC to Trump: If you run for president, we stop paying your legal bills, per official

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rnc-warning-t ... d=87486985
His bills are peanuts for a multi billionaire
Hansa village clubhouse . Tel 0981657001 https://www.google.co.th/maps/place/Han ... 5851?hl=en

Post Reply

Return to “U.S. Politics”