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Eighty-five percent of US adults feel country headed in wrong direction
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Posta "diversity" pandering hire like Mayor PeteLast edited by Starlight; 07-01-2022, 06:50 PM."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostCan you point to actual implemented policies where this is occurring as opposed to in your imagination? Cos the reality is: WaPo: Biden is approving more oil and gas permits on public lands than Trump, analysis finds.
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Originally posted by seanD View Posthe's only being held up by the courts, not anything he's doing himself.
Unless you can actually cite actions that Biden has actually taken that really actually happened that really actually did provably damage the oil and gas industry, I'm going to have to ask you to stop making and repeating false claims about him doing so. You have been called out on this issue enough multiple times now, and consistently failed to cite anything of substance."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostSo is your claim now "well he isn't doing bad things to the oil and gas industry, but it's only because the courts are stopping him"?
Unless you can actually cite actions that Biden has actually taken that really actually happened that really actually did provably damage the oil and gas industry, I'm going to have to ask you to stop making and repeating false claims about him doing so. You have been called out on this issue enough multiple times now, and consistently failed to cite anything of substance.
All this does is continue to show how clueless you are about how oil markets work. When there's instability and uncertainty in the oil markets from these actions and this hostile rhetoric you have less investment and more speculation. This is undoubtedly what his anti-oil, pro-climate change policy cult cabinet wants to happen in the markets.
Again, that's not a "center-right" position, you nitwit.
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I am a pessimist by nature. I don't think I could imagine any circumstances in which I would say no to a question about whether the country is headed in the wrong direction."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostEighty-five percent of US adults feel country headed in wrong direction
President Joe Biden faces tough numbers, as nearly 85% of U.S. adults feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.
In a survey conducted bythe Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs, 92% of Republicans feel the nation is heading in the wrong direction, and 78% of Democrats feel the same way.
With inflation and gas prices rocking the economy, adults across the board view the direction of the economy in a negative light. Eighty-one percent of adults perceive the economy as poor. Broken down by party, 67% of Democrats have this view, while 90% of Republicans do.
These numbers are significantly up from what the poll found last year, when only 37% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans felt negative about the economy.
In the new survey, 60% overall said they disapprove of Biden's job as president, and 39% said they approve. Among independents, 73% said they disapprove of Biden's performance.
"The nationwide poll was conducted June 23-27, 2022 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,053 adults," according to a post from AP-NORC. "The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.0 percentage points."
By the way, I'm posting this without comment so that, if anybody doesn't like it, I can pull an H_A and run away from it.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostOkay I think I've managed to translate your senile blatherings.
Being gay doesn't make the staff "far left" you disgusting bigot. Plenty of Republicans from McCarthy to Reagan have had gay staff members.
They didn't scour the country trying to see how many diversity boxes they could check. Biden outright BRAGS about doing that.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostCancelling keystone pipeline. There you go.
The thing is though that the keystone pipeline wouldn't have affected much. It also wouldn't have been open yet, so nothing happening in the industry in the present is a product of that decision.
When there's instability and uncertainty in the oil markets from these actions and this hostile rhetoric you have less investment and more speculation.
Did it hurt the feefies of the oil and gas execs? Did they cry into their coffees and then have to wipe away their tears with their billions of dollars in profits? Were they... triggered?!?"I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostWell at least that is a thing that really happened as opposed to things happening in your head.
The thing is though that the keystone pipeline wouldn't have affected much. It also wouldn't have been open yet, so nothing happening in the industry in the present is a product of that decision.
LOL. "Biden once said mean things about the oil and gas industry, so even though he hasn't done anything relevant, he's to blame for the present situation because he once said some mean things."
Did it hurt the feefies of the oil and gas execs? Did they cry into their coffees and then have to wipe away their tears with their billions of dollars in profits? Were they... triggered?!?
A) What's a "feefie"? (I'm guessing 'feelings')
2) Anybody who knows squat about oil and gas investment knows that it's not as much what a particular President says, or even any leases or permits they may issue -- it all comes down to whether there is a friendly or hostile environment for profit, because it takes a HUGE investment in each project, and the return is over many years. That's just basic petrochemical math.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostWell at least that is a thing that really happened as opposed to things happening in your head.
The thing is though that the keystone pipeline wouldn't have affected much. It also wouldn't have been open yet, so nothing happening in the industry in the present is a product of that decision.
LOL. "Biden once said mean things about the oil and gas industry, so even though he hasn't done anything relevant, he's to blame for the present situation because he once said some mean things."
Did it hurt the feefies of the oil and gas execs? Did they cry into their coffees and then have to wipe away their tears with their billions of dollars in profits? Were they... triggered?!?
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostThe major difference is that "Plenty of Republicans from McCarthy to Reagan" hired the best person for the job, and sometimes that person happened to be gay.
They didn't scour the country trying to see how many diversity boxes they could check. Biden outright BRAGS about doing that.
I would be far more impressed if he actually appointed someone whose politics was seriously left. The neo-liberals have been gas-lighting the left for decades now by finding a couple of people with neo-liberal political views who happen to be from minority groups and pretending that by graciously deigning to include those people that they are "leftist".
"He knowingly appointed a gay person" might have been a radical leftist act in 1970. But today it's not even worthy of comment. It's only extreme right wingers who today think that knowingly appointing a gay person is a radical act.
As a leftist I care about things like: What is Biden doing to ensure everyone has healthcare? What is he doing to ensure everyone has housing? What is he doing to ensure everyone has human rights? etc. Leftism is about doing things to actually help people and meaningfully improve their lives. The sexuality of the people in his cabinet wouldn't even be as high as number 100 on my list of priorities.Last edited by Starlight; 07-01-2022, 09:25 PM."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostIt's somewhat nice that he passes the low bar of having some humanity by trying to ensure at least a minimal amount of diversity.
I would be far more impressed if he actually appointed someone whose politics was seriously left. The neo-liberals have been gas-lighting the left for decades now by finding a couple of people with neo-liberal political views who happen to be from minority groups and pretending that by graciously deigning to include those people that they are "leftist".
"He knowingly appointed a gay person" might have been a radical leftist act in 1970. But today it's not even worthy of comment. It's only extreme right wingers who today think that knowingly appointing a gay person is a radical act.
As a leftist I care about things like: What is Biden doing to ensure everyone has healthcare? What is he doing to ensure everyone has housing? What is he doing to ensure everyone has human rights? etc. Leftism is about doing things to actually help people and meaningfully improve their lives. The sexuality of the people in his cabinet wouldn't even be as high as number 100 on my list of priorities.
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostCan you point to actual implemented policies where this is occurring as opposed to in your imagination? Cos the reality is: WaPo: Biden is approving more oil and gas permits on public lands than Trump, analysis finds.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostThis is where you fail --- it's not about "a minimal amount of diversity" --- it's finding the best person for the job, regardless.
But a cabinet position isn't like that. For any given cabinet position there would be in the US literally about 100,000 expert and qualified people who would be incredibly good at it. And the chances of any single one of them being significantly better than the next best 10, are basically zero. i.e. there's literally no such thing as the single "best person for the job". There's instead, lots of really good people for the job. So you can easily introduce some other criteria, e.g. "I would like them to be young" or "I would like them to be a woman", or "I would like them to be from state X" without dropping the quality of the candidate, because from among the really good candidates you just consider the ones that meet the extra criteria.
In addition it improves the quality of the decision making of the cabinet overall if minority voices are present in it, because if everyone in it is from the same background they may not understand some issues or some perspectives or have heard or relevant ideas or opinions that a diversity of perspectives could have contributed. So actually, the cabinet gets actually better at their jobs due to diversity, not worse in absolute quality.
Biden even announced he would nominate a black woman to SCOTUS --- no pretense about it whatsoever. Not "the most capable person", but a "black woman".
Biden is an empty suit - what "they" are doing to him is elder abuse. But, he spent a lifetime earning it, so..."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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