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"Buy-dem Sells Alaska Back To Russia So America Can Start Drilling For Oil There Again" - But The Truth Isn't Funny. Moron Tyrant Buydem Is Sucking Up To Venezuelan Commie Dictator Maduro

Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 1 month ago to Government
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OK, that title is humor from the Babylon Bee. https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-sel...

Commentary below from Joannenova.com.au ...

"Joe Biden needs to stop buying oil and gas from the Russian dictator, but rather than getting it from the US or Canada he’s talking to a dictator in Venezuela.

President Biden is scrambling to contain soaring oil prices, which closed at more than $123 a barrel on Monday. It speaks volumes about this Administration that it’s seeking help from Vladimir Putin’s client in Venezuela and our estranged Saudi allies rather than U.S. shale producers or our Canadian friends.

The Saudis and UAE are the only OPEC members that appear to have spare capacity, but they’ve rebuffed Mr. Biden’s pleas to increase supply. One reason is they don’t want to alienate Mr. Putin, who has become a power broker in the Middle East. Mr. Biden should never have alienated the Saudis, but we’d be much better off if he simply encouraged U.S. energy production.

Ed Morrisey explains why the Democrats keep getting blamed for high gas prices:
The problem isn’t that “Big Oil” wants to keep production low. It’s that Joe Biden, Hassan, and the rest of Senate Democrats have made it clear for years that they want to force “Big Oil” out of business entirely. They’d rather put money in the hands of Iranian terrorists and Putin’s imperial army than put it on the household tables of American oil workers. Even the sight of Russians targeting civilians in Ukraine hasn’t changed their calculus on their opposition to American production of fossil fuels as a necessity for strategic leverage in a very dangerous world.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board slams Biden and Democrats for seeing oil from malevolent dictators in Tehran and Caracas rather than in the good ol’ USA. It makes no sense from a security perspective, nor from an economic perspective:

Easing Venezuelan sanctions would be a strategic blunder that provides a financial lifeline to Mr. Maduro while doing little to ease the oil price spike. Venezuelan oil companies say they can increase production by several hundred thousand barrels a day in eight months. The war in Ukraine may be over by then. …

Shale producers can increase production twice as fast as Venezuelan oil companies, and the profits would go to U.S. workers and shareholders rather than another dictatorship.

The anti gas and oil thing was never about the weather, and not about CO2 either. It’s not about the workers, the voters, or the environment either. Just power and money."


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  • Posted by 4 years, 1 month ago
    Don't just impeach Buy-dem for incompetence.
    Oust the entire bureaucracy for treason.
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    • Posted by term2 4 years, 1 month ago
      we would never get 60 votes in the senate right now to impeach him. Maybe after the mid terms? Kamala might be better as president, in that she would at least be too afraid to do anything !!!
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      • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 1 month ago
        We couldn't get the necessary votes to convict Clinton despite the evidence. Unless there are 65 Republicans in the Senate, we won't convict Biden either.

        (I use 65 because of the several squishy Republicans in the Senate like Murkowski, Romney, etc.)
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        • Posted by term2 4 years, 1 month ago
          In a way, I like the system they have in Britain, where a vote of NO CONFIDENCE means the Prime Minister is history. With all the screwups Biden has done, I would say most people do not have confidence in him at this point.
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          • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 1 month ago
            IMHO, one of the biggest mistakes made by the Founders was the 12th Amendment. Why? It entrenched two-party politics by putting the President and Vice President on the same ticket. Downstream, this has several major effects. First, it means that a third-party challenge to the Presidency would never go anywhere other than to act as spoiler. Cases in point include Theodore Roosevelt, Ross Perot, etc. If a third-party candidate had a real chance to come in second - and thereby claim the Vice Presidency - it would create a whole new power dynamic in the political system.

            Second, it severely undermines the threat of Impeachment and removal of a sitting President because real power doesn't change hands, e.g. it doesn't change from one political party to another. Having the President removed only to have the Vice President from the same party take over is rather pointless when the Presidential candidates select their own running-mates.

            The British system is interesting but VERY different than ours. Once a party is in power in Great Britain, they can do pretty much whatever they want and the minority party has no choice but to sit and watch and complain. In the US system, even the minority party has power - especially in the Senate. In the British system, a vote of No Confidence doesn't change the party in control necessarily, it simply means that the Prime Minister and his/her cabinet is forced to resign and they pick a new one. But it's still the same Parliament who selects the new Prime Minister - not the public. And the British Parliament has more than two parties, meaning that a ruling coalition (which usually is forced to include a minority faction) has to maintain that coalition in order to rule, so in the case of a contested Parliament, the ruling power has to rule near the center rather than on the fringes where the US Democratic Party has drifted.
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            • Posted by term2 4 years, 1 month ago
              I have thought the major goal of government is to promote itself and its minions
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              • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 1 month ago
                Not what it should be, but what it usually turns into. I keep trying to find the quote (Benjamin Franklin?) from one of the Founders about how knaves gravitate toward government. If you come across it, I'd appreciate the quote and source.
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              • Posted by 4 years, 1 month ago
                Power corrupts.
                The solution is to gut the government of its power and gut the corrupt traitors literally.
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                • Posted by term2 4 years, 1 month ago
                  every dollar they get from us they use to promote government and its minions. one solution is to fight their attempts to increase the "take" in terms of taxes and fees
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                  • Posted by 4 years, 1 month ago
                    Fight? Via voting?
                    We all saw how effective that is in the past 109 years.
                    They don't care if we authorize it. They don't even read the spending bills (because then they wouldn't have that excuse, however idiotic.)
                    They are scum.
                    There is no peaceful solution, imo.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago
    Idiots would have us believe that if the USA ignores it own largest natural resources of oil and gas in the world and instead buys fossil fuel from abroad, that will somehow save the end of the world from the climate change religion.
    Or would those "idiots" be our own enemies of our Republic both foreign and most especially domestic?
    The real "idiots" would be all the clueless libtards who actually believe all of that illogical Schiff.
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