brenthutch

Just having a good laugh

You must still be having those reading comprehension difficulties. What part of: “You also havent addressed the more important point I have mentioned twice now. The cost of driving the car is not even the most important concern here. Oil prices affect the price of all goods and services sold in the United States. There is not one product sold in any store anywhere on American land that is immune to the affects of oil pricing, so when the price of oil goes up the price of every product that exists in this country goes up.” don’t you understand? Murps2000 and others pointed out, higher prices disproportionately impact lower income folks. I can offset higher prices by not going out to eat as often (which also hurts waitstaff, cooks, bartenders etc.) however people on a tight budget have to make more painful choices.

You have a point, the younger demographic clearly trends toward the left. However the young have a tendency to grow older, and as someone once said “if you are not a liberal in your twenties , you have no heart, if you are still a liberal in your thirties you have no brain”

It says a lot about you if you think I am/was a Trump supporter. I really feel sorry for you, if you are a Newsom sycophant because you don’t even know how to spell his name.

And now he is getting his return on his investment. Nothing nefarious, just a simple quid pro quo. Unfortunately the rest of America will be picking up the tab.

Please show me evidence that Trump was my “glorious leader”?

And we have a winner!!!

That might have more to do with the socialist policies of Venezuela than it does with the cost of oil.

Biden has already suffered a political cost. I know you might not want him to, but he has, especially with the hard hat union folks. BTW I would be interested to see evidence that the increase in transportation costs is borne solely by producers in Alberta.

Westerly is correct. In the real world, higher gas prices are passed down to the consumer. A farmer can’t decide not to fertilize his crops, a truck driver must put diesel in his truck to move his freight from point A to point B, we all can’t buy used Nissan Leafs for $4000, (if we did market forces would quickly make them $20,000 used Nissan Leafs). The Obama State Department made five different assessments on the environmental impact of the Keystone pipeline and concluded it would not contribute to global warming as the tar sands resource would be exploited regardless. Moving tar sands crude by pipeline costs $10 a barrel, moving the same barrel by rail is $30. Riddle me this, who will benefit from that $20 marginal increase and who will pay for it?

Vaccination is how “herd immunity” is achieved.......(face palm)

https://youtu.be/iVAqDuT4D0Q The fun starts at 3:40. It’s worth noting he is reading the teleprompter on his left and NOT looking into the camera.

Fact free? “Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America: "The Biden Administration’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit on day one of his presidency is both insulting and disappointing to the thousands of hard-working LIUNA members who will lose good-paying, middle class family-supporting jobs. By blocking this 100 percent union project, and pandering to environmental extremists, a thousand union jobs will immediately vanish and 10,000 additional jobs will be foregone.” BTW I don’t hate anyone.

Before: “Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA on November 7, 2020: "When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take office next January, we will have two of our own in the highest offices in the land. Joe and Kamala truly understand the trials and tribulations of working men and women; they never forget where they came from; and they value hard work and the people who do it.” After: “Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America: "The Biden Administration’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit on day one of his presidency is both insulting and disappointing to the thousands of hard-working LIUNA members who will lose good-paying, middle class family-supporting jobs. By blocking this 100 percent union project, and pandering to environmental extremists, a thousand union jobs will immediately vanish and 10,000 additional jobs will be foregone.” I don’t know what O’Sullivan is complaining about. He frets over loosing a few thousand real jobs when, according to John Kerry, there are literally MILLIONS of better paying imaginary green jobs to be had.

Really? “In short order, four regions — about 98% of the state’s population — were under the restrictions after their capacity fell below the 15% threshold. A map updated daily tracks each region’s capacity. At the start of last week, no regions appeared likely to have the stay-at-home order lifted soon because their capacity was well below 15%. But within a day, the state announced it was lifting the order for the 13-county Greater Sacramento area. Suddenly, outdoor dining and worship services were OK again, hair and nail salons and other businesses could reopen, and retailers were allowed more shoppers inside. Local officials and businesses were caught off guard. State officials did not describe their reasoning other than to say it was based on a projection for ICU capacity. State health officials relied on a complex formula to project that while the Sacramento region’s intensive care capacity was below 10%, it would climb above 15% within four weeks. On Friday, it was 9%, roughly the same as when the order was lifted. “What happened to the 15%? What was that all about?” asked Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist and infectious-diseases control expert at University of California, San Francisco. “I was surprised. I assume they know something I don’t know.” State officials projected future capacity using a combination of models. “At the moment the projections are not being shared publicly,” Department of Public Health spokeswoman Ali Bay said in an email to The Associated Press.” Did you get that? Not being publicly shared. Looks like Newsom is taking a page out of Cuomo’s playbook.

In other words, some people get vaccinated, others don’t, a lot of people get it, some die, nobody wears a mask, we don’t do lockdowns and we just get on with our lives. I agree. BTW influenza is in a different category of virus that is more prone to mutation, and it is much more deadly to people who are at the beginning of the beginning of their lives while COVID predominantly strikes down those at the end of their lives.

I also quoted the WHO and https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349478824606502912.html

Point of clarification What is the difference between “you need to rectify your cranial rectal inversion” and “get your head out of your forth point of contact”? I don’t see a substantive difference but apparently some of the moderators do.

Non sequitur? It was in response to sfzombie’s personal attack.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj8s4u828TuAhUKMVkFHZzHDw8QwqsBMAF6BAgFEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fawakenwithjp%2Fvideos%2Fhow-to-be-a-woke-white-person%2F338802160459971%2F&usg=AOvVaw0i1fVw0vSIO_r381kv6bDT

Upside down, he was holding it upside down. No doubt bookmarked at two Corinthians.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2020/06/dating-a-recession/ As I said, we will just have to wait to see what the official date of the end of the recession is. Biden killing thousands of jobs in his first 48 hours is not a good start.

You are so spun up with Trump rage you can’t even read. I never said HE developed the vaccines. I don’t like Trump, never did. I blame him for loosing the House in the midterms and perverting the GOP. If he had just turned off Twitter, stayed in the executive residence, eating Big Macs, watching FOX news, let his staff run things and signed whatever a Republican Congress sent him, we would have all been better off. But blaming Trump for COVID is like blaming Obama for the Gulf oil spill. I really don’t understand the Trump phenomenon, I don’t get the blind devotion and I don’t get the raging hatred.

Jerry I already know, I just wanted to get the thoughts of others. BTW I have no idea what Jakee is talking about, but what ever it is, it has him all worked up. He posted that at least three times in the last five minutes.

What makes China so special? Lyme CT, the Rocky Mountains, the Middle East, and the Ebola river valley didn’t seem to make a big fuss.