Are you ready for a Donald Trump second term as President ?

Trump 2024: Republicans are uniting behind the former president and four more years of MAGA
Plenty of Republicans are readily accepting the former president’s endorsement.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-2024-election-republican-nominee-b1939432.html

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JesseInTX · 51-55, M

I don’t care if it’s a second term for President Trump or not. It just needs to be someone competent. The current administration is tearing this country apart either by design or negligence. Every day it gets worse and it’s not sustainable.

fernie2

@JesseInTX So, you didn't notice that trump continues to throw gasoline on the fire? Wow. Are you even suggesting that he is competent?

JesseInTX · 51-55, M

@fernie2 he is more than competent. And a certified genius compared to the empty suit in the White House right now. He may be too toxic to win the nomination in 2024 but there are plenty of other possible candidates that can run. 10 months into this administration and it has been failure after failure. Fortunately people are taking notice.

fernie2

@JesseInTX Any person who supports trump thinks this administration is a failure will demonize Joe, the orange freak LOST and you're all pissed about it...Joe is a fine human being, a MAN with fine morals, a MAN who is on OUR SIDE...a PEACEFUL MAN!He would never incite violence !What did you think about Obama? He is also a peaceful, caring, compassionate MAN? The only people taking notice are the same racist, violent, deeply narcissistic,unhinged, ignorant, hateful,unintelligent,mini trump morons who are blind.

JesseInTX · 51-55, M

@fernie2 so let me explain something to you. I vote for policy, not the person. I don’t care about mean tweets. I don’t care about Obama’s birth certificate and I don’t care if Joe is a nice guy with a high moral character (although that can be debated). I care about the average American citizen. All Joe has done is cause gas prices to double which has in turn cause prices of goods to increase dramatically. He sentenced 13 American military personnel to death with his Afghanistan withdrawal. The southern border is overrun with illegals which he releasing into my state and they are traveling to other states. He’s either a liar or incompetent. Personally I think both. And it’s funny how both he and Obama ran as uniters and all they have done is divide. But that’s their strategy- divide and conquer.

fernie2

@JesseInTX Let ME explain something to YOU! He is a destroyer, an evil hitler wannabe, he is toxic to this planet. How the hell can you support this evil genius??? WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!

ElwoodBlues · M

@JesseInTX

All Joe has done is cause gas prices to double

Actually, gas prices have gone from $2.39 to $3.27. That's a 37% increase. Doubling would be a 100% increase. Increases like that happen when the economy gets rolling again. In the past 9 months, Biden has added 5.6 million jobs to the US economy, including half a million in Oct; no small feat.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/204133/retail-prices-of-motor-fuel-in-the-united-states-since-2009/

JesseInTX · 51-55, M

@ElwoodBlues

Increases like that happen when the economy gets rolling again.

Nope. Increases like this happen when policies enacted by the administration in office are put into place. Killing the Keystone pipeline, banning drilling on federal lands, etc. We were energy independent as a nation as little as 11 months ago. Not anymore. I can tell you that I paid $1.65 a gallon on January 1. Today it’s $2.95-$2.99. And the price of fuel affects every single product consumers purchase.

ElwoodBlues · M

@JesseInTX

Killing the Keystone pipeline

Actually, the Keystone pipleline already exists. The Keystone XL pipeline would only have transshipped Canadian oil for export.

banning drilling on federal lands

You couldn't be more wrong about that! Biden proposed a freeze on new permits, not a ban. But there was no freeze; just the opposite!

July 13, 2021, The Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Biden's reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance.

The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20.
. . .
If the recent trends continue, the Interior Department could issue close to 6,000 permits by the end of the year. The last time so many were issued was fiscal year 2008, amid an oil boom driven by crude prices that reached an all-time high of $140 per barrel that June.

I regret to report that your source about the alleged "Biden Ban" had it dead wrong.

Update: Wanna know what reduced US oil production? Low prices. Wanna know what's rebooting US oil production? Higher prices. So if you're going to blame higher prices on Biden, you need to give him credit for all the new production. And if you want to deny him credit for new production, it means he's not to blame for higher prices.

JesseInTX · 51-55, M

@ElwoodBlues

(Reuters) - When Stan Rounds heard about U.S. President Joe Biden’s plans to suspend new drilling on federal lands to fight climate change, he worried about the education budget.

Rounds heads a state association of school administrators. He knows that New Mexico - home to the country’s richest oil fields on federal lands - depends heavily on drilling revenues to finance its struggling public schools. And budgets have already taken a hit from falling crude prices as the coronavirus pandemic sapped global fuel demand.

Biden last month signed an executive order pausing new oil and gas drilling leases on federal lands in what is widely viewed as the first step to delivering on a permanent ban promised during his campaign for the White House. Such a policy could have a big climate payoff by eventually shutting down what now represents about a quarter of U.S. oil and gas production.

But it would also have a big public price tag. The U.S. federal lands drilling program yielded some $1.8 billion directly to states in 2020, supporting schools and other programs in places like Wyoming and Utah, according to data from the U.S. Interior Department. It also supports coastal erosion remediation efforts in hurricane-battered Gulf Coast states such as Louisiana that are among the regions most threatened by sea-level rise.

New Mexico, a Democratic-led state, is the biggest beneficiary of revenues from drilling on federal lands. Nearly a third of the state's land is owned by the U.S. government and much of it overlies the Permian Basin, the world’s most productive oil field. Revenues from drilling on federal lands there soared 85% over the last decade to $707 million in 2020 - making up about a tenth of the state's total budget. Much of that money goes to its schools.

Understand I have no further interest in communicating with you.

ElwoodBlues · M

@JesseInTX Read more carefully. Biden's EO banned new leases. It didn't ban new drilling permits. Drilling on existing leases is booming. The most new drilling permits since 2008.

Block me if you like, but all I've done here is supply the facts you seem to be missing.