So much for the leader of the free world

Didn’t know you were capable

 

Really. Your response to being called out for an inability to explain the point you were trying to make is a gratuitous insult. Is that all you have?

 

It’s all I need

 

You wrote a post, the content for which you have no explanation. At least not one you're willing to admit to. Instead, you fall back on snark. That's just pathetic.

 

You got snark, if you can’t take it don’t dish it.

 

Biden is trivial on the world stage. He is a doddering old man that can barely read a teleprompter.

 

Your opinion of him does not match with reality. You should just stick with duplicity. Like criticizing him for not blocking imported Russian oil and then after blocking imported Russian oil criticizing him when gasoline prices go up.

 

Opinions and reality are two different things. Opinions are just opinions. He is the major cause of high fuel prices in the U.S. That is reality. If he were to go on TV and say he was going to do what it necessary to get American crude oil flowing in America as fast as possible, fuel prices would go down instantly.

 

No, it's not reality. It's disinformation. See post #110. http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/the-blame-game.597547/page-5

The US is already very near record oil production. Increasing it would take nearly a year. He asked US producers to increase production in Oct. last year. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/13/white-house-biden-gas-prices-515957

 

Stop trying to confuse <censoring myself> with facts.

 

Seriously? I don't have Alzheimer's and I doubt many regular posters here have it either.

You've been posting several times per week about Biden being an idiot and not "running the show". You absolutely have been cheering his failures and stoked that fire constantly. I'm not trying to be a board Nazi but come on, Joe. Let's be honest.

 

His posting history paints the picture clearly. He doesn't like Trump because he tried to encroach on 2A and he doesn't like Biden because he thinks he's an idiot and somebody else is the acting President. Anything and everything Joe does or doesn't do warrants a new thread about his sheer stupidity.

Nobody voted for him because we thought he was a Rhodes scholar and great orator. We voted for him because the pansy with bone spurs that runs away from summits like a little girl is a damn psychopath.

JoeK hasn't kept his disdain of JoeB a guarded secret, Lee.

 

Not very close. We are 1.5 million barrels per day below 2019. Thanks for the misinformation, though. I have read it before.

 

That's less than 10% off peak levels. You said "He (Biden) is the major cause of high fuel prices in the U.S. That is reality."

But it's not reality. Production is down as a carryover from the COVID reduction and can't be quickly ramped up. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/oil-industry-production-hikes-russia-00014778

Thanks for the misinformation, though. I have read it before.

 

No production is down because of the toxic environment the administration has caused by going to war with oil companies. The companies don't want to risk investments while this is hanging over their heads. Are you aware that the so called "9000 leases" are mostly in process and stalled because government won't approve permits for pipelines, roads, oil rigs etc. The situation is exactly what the administration wants just like the unfettered illegal immigration. You can't talk your way out of it.

 

That's an unsubstantiated talking point directed at the uninformed.



The primary reason for rising gas prices over the past year is the coronavirus pandemic and its disruptions to global supply and demand.

“Covid changed the game, not President Biden,” said Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, which tracks gasoline prices. “U.S. oil production fell in the last eight months of President Trump’s tenure. Is that his fault? No.”

“The pandemic brought us to our knees,” Mr. De Haan added.

In the early months of 2020, when the virus took hold, demand for oil dried up and prices plummeted, with the benchmark price for crude oil in the United States falling to negative $37.63 that April. In response, producers in the United States and around the world began decreasing output.

As pandemic restrictions loosened worldwide and economies recovered, demand outpaced supply. That was “mostly attributable” to the decision by OPEC Plus, an alliance of oil-producing countries that controls about half the world’s supply, to limit increases in production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Domestic production also remains below prepandemic levels, as capital spending declined and investors remained reluctant to provide financing to the oil industry.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has only compounded the issues.

Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices
They have pointed to the Biden administration’s policies on the Keystone XL pipeline and certain oil and gas leases, which have had little impact on prices.
www.nytimes.com

 

Perhaps Biden should work with US energy producers since they are the class of the world.

Psaki: Our partners on Biden's Iran deal sure are untrustworthy liars, huh?



"Recall the words of Mikhail Ulyanov, Vladimir Putin’s mediator in the talks for Joe Biden’s efforts to re-enter the Iran deal. Speaking in English to reporters last week, Ulyanov bragged how he and his Chinese partners got Iran a much better deal out of the US than Tehran would otherwise have gotten:

Shocking video: This is the lead Russian negotiator for the Iran nuclear talks, Mikhail Ulyanov. He's bragging about how Russia, Iran, and China teamed up to deliver huge wins for Iran's nuclear program in Vienna negotiations.

“Iran got much more than it could expect. Much more … Our Chinese friends were also very efficient and useful as co-negotiators.”[/quote]I'm sure they were.

Once the Iran Deal emerges, the US Senate, once back in GOP hands, should submit it to a Treaty vote, and reject it.

Jen Psaki
@PressSec
·
Mar 9, 2022
United States government official

"We took note of Russia’s false claims about alleged U.S. biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We’ve also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories."

"This is preposterous. It’s the kind of disinformation operation we’ve seen repeatedly from the Russians over the years in Ukraine and in other countries, which have been debunked, and an example of the types of false pretexts we have been warning the Russians would invent."

"It’s Russia that has a long and well-documented track record of using chemical weapons, including in attempted assassinations and poisoning of Putin’s political enemies like Alexey Navalny.".

So Psaki, if that's all true, and it is, why did Diaper Boy invite "Russia to negotiate a deal over illegal WMD development in Iran? Having Mikhail Ulyanov negotiate Iran’s compliance on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is akin to having Ted Bundy mediate Jeffrey Dahmer’s sentencing."

"What will Russia do when it comes to enforcing the terms of the Iran deal? Psaki gives us a preview:"

"It’s Russia that continues to support the Assad regime in Syria, which has repeatedly used chemical weapons. It’s Russia that has long maintained a biological weapons program in violation of international law."

"Also, Russia has a track record of accusing the West of the very violations that Russia itself is perpetrating. In December, Russia falsely accused the U.S. of deploying contractors with chemical weapons in Ukraine."

Psaki goes on:
"Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag operation using them. It’s a clear pattern."

"So again, the question remains: why did Joe Biden and Antony Blinken invite Russia and Putin to negotiate a deal with Iran in the first place? Were they really that naive? If that was the case, Biden would break off the Iran talks immediately and insist that neither Russia or China take part. Rather than naïveté, this looks like plain ol’ stupidity. That’s a clear pattern in this White House, too."

 

This will be seen as another foreign policy disaster for Biden and his lackeys, and continued loss of American influence in the world.

https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/zelensky-rubbishes-bidens-war-on-russia/
Zelensky rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia

What was the need for all that happened in the period since mid-December when Russia transmitted to Washington its demands for security guarantees? This question will haunt US President Joe Biden long after he retires from public life.

The foreign-policy legacy of his presidency and the reputation of this much-vaunted 80-year-old politician with a half-century’s record in public life, much of it supposedly in the domain of American foreign policy, are in tatters – irreparable.

News has appeared that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has conceded that he is willing to concede to the Russian demand that his country will not seek to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Why such visceral hatred on Biden’s part toward Russia, something unworthy of an 80-year-old world statesman?

Why is it that the economic war against Russia has become such a very personal affair for Biden, as his White House speech on Tuesday shows?

But such an ignominious end to this entire episode over Ukraine’s NATO membership was entirely to be anticipated. Fundamentally, this is an existential issue for Russia, whereas Biden, Blinken and Nuland are dilettantes sitting 10,000 kilometers away indulging in old neocon pastimes of interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, threatening them, disciplining them or punishing them for defying America’s diktat.

Biden already swallowed his pride and sent a team of officials to Venezuela, a country under crippling US sanctions, to beg for oil from President Nicolas Maduro (who was on the Central Intelligence Agency’s hit list not too long ago for being a socialist) to replace Russian oil.

Maduro sent them back suggesting a broader mutually beneficial relationship between Venezuela and the US. All this drama took place in broad daylight witnessed by the entire Western Hemisphere. Wouldn’t they be laughing that America’s president is a man of straw.
​

 

Rubbish perfectly describes that article. Ukraine's desire to join NATO is in no way a threat to Russia's security. Those who think otherwise have accepted Putin's propaganda.

 

I don't doubt your media fails to substantiate it. I wonder why you post a video of government making excuses for the oil prices. Even if I could watch internet videos I wouldn't believe a word of it.

 

That doesn’t seem to match reality


It is up since Biden took office

 

It would be up significantly if the administration weren't trying to stop the oil industry.

 

So, the Saudis are going to screw their other customers because they dislike Biden?



https://oec.world/en/profile/country/sau#yearly-exports

 

I think everyone, even FOX 'News' knows it, but choose to spew partisan propaganda anyway. A comment like "Biden is trying to stop the oil industry" is a popular lie these days.

 

You're making up stuff.