US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Puff]

I think that electric cars can play a part but they are limited by income, residence, weather, usage, and range. A wealthy bugmen living in his luxury apartment with a dedicated parking spot with a charger is not that big of an issue.

I've got the cash to get an electric car, but this isn't a solution even for the middle/upper middle class.
I would expect a waiting list that's at least 6 months, so the problem might be gone then and who knows if my monopoly money can afford one then.
I live and work in 2 places many hours apart right on the edge of EV range.
Tesla interiors are stupid and ugly. Why did they glue an ipad to the dash? How am I supposed to navigate menus while driving? Give me some fucking buttons.
One of the locations uses electricity from fossil fuel plants, so I doubt the electricity will stay cheap for long.

Unless you have the cash to just tank it or live somewhere you can walk or use public transport, this is going to hurt.

The first thing I noticed was the blurriness, which I guess could be a bad makeup job on the lower half of his face and not enough on the upper half. But then I noticed the polygonal chin, which does have enough imperfections to look natural but still the edges are a little too sharp, like they're using photographic textures of varying quality on a model not meant for close inspection. Conclusion: Andy Serkis is underneath the East Wing covered in little dots.

The image is either entirely composed of compression artifacts or there's some fuckery. Digital or otherwise.

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

The issue is that by the time they call in the engineers, hire all the staff, get the equipment ready, and the bit finally gets going it's been about six months at best. This is notwithstanding any lawsuits that can be filed by whatever tribe, community group, or environmentalists.

Now comes extraction but most of the more easily accessible oil has already been exploited. As such, the use more labor intensive and costly methods.

Here in lies the kicker, if the oil prices drop after Ukraine signs a peace treaty they have taken a loss with the entire set up.

Exactly, you don't just go punch a hole. There's a lot that goes into it and your time table isn't taking into account how bad the supply chain is right now.

I'm in a chemical plant right now and am looking for Charms (individual I/O points) for a Delta V DCS. In normal times, I can get this stuff onsite in a week. Historically, these are not long lead items but right now I'm at 3 months out from being able to lay my hands on them.

The large breakers that go in the motor control center? It's damned near impossible because, according to the vendor, they can't the polymer used to form the breaker housing. We had to do a variance on one of our large pumps that we're installing for turnaround because the vendor couldn't get aluminum to make the impeller (we had to go with Stainless Steel).

All this equipment is used on drill rigs, so they're going to have the same problems that we're having getting them recommissioned.

This isn't even dealing with offshore drilling. Those you have to get an offshore drill rig to punch the hole (and it takes longer but they're typically heavier producers) and get a production rig out to it. Those are multiyear projects (even if you have a design package for one sitting on the shelf), you typically cut the steel and build the floating systems in the far east (because you can't afford to do it in the states), build the topsides here, put the hull on a special ship (of which there's only a handful in the world) and drag it over here to be integrated (where you're going to inevitably redo a lot of work because the construction crews are not particularly detail oriented in Singapore or Korea). Then that same ship takes the production platform out to well and you connect it to the wellhead. Meanwhile, another ship (which is also rare) is running the pipeline back to land.

When you shutdown offshore drilling, it takes years to get back up to speed, costs hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billions). Independence Hub, one of the rigs I commissioned back in the day, cost $100k for every day it stayed past it's deadline in the shipyard (it was there for about 6 months past it's scheduled ship out).

This is years of work and it isn't something you can just kickstart when things get bad. When you shut it down, it takes a long time to get the logistics back in order.

 

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https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1501369508698759169

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Exactly, you don't just go punch a hole. There's a lot that goes into it and your time table isn't taking into account how bad the supply chain is right now.

I'm in a chemical plant right now and am looking for Charms (individual I/O points) for a Delta V DCS. In normal times, I can get this stuff onsite in a week. Historically, these are not long lead items but right now I'm at 3 months out from being able to lay my hands on them.

The large breakers that go in the motor control center? It's damned near impossible because, according to the vendor, they can't the polymer used to form the breaker housing. We had to do a variance on one of our large pumps that we're installing for turnaround because the vendor couldn't get aluminum to make the impeller (we had to go with Stainless Steel).

All this equipment is used on drill rigs, so they're going to have the same problems that we're having getting them recommissioned.

This isn't even dealing with offshore drilling. Those you have to get an offshore drill rig to punch the hole (and it takes longer but they're typically heavier producers) and get a production rig out to it. Those are multiyear projects (even if you have a design package for one sitting on the shelf), you typically cut the steel and build the floating systems in the far east (because you can't afford to do it in the states), build the topsides here, put the hull on a special ship (of which there's only a handful in the world) and drag it over here to be integrated (where you're going to inevitably redo a lot of work because the construction crews are not particularly detail oriented in Singapore or Korea). Then that same ship takes the production platform out to well and you connect it to the wellhead. Meanwhile, another ship (which is also rare) is running the pipeline back to land.

When you shutdown offshore drilling, it takes years to get back up to speed, costs hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billions). Independence Hub, one of the rigs I commissioned back in the day, cost $100k for every day it stayed past it's deadline in the shipyard.

This is years of work and it isn't something you can just kickstart when things get bad. When you shut it down, it takes a long time to get the logistics back in order.

Things getting a little strange on the construction front for housing too.

Instead of demanding that the breaker boxes have plastic/rubber backings between the box and the wall now, the county is allowing wood with, get this, fucking Flex-Seal coating on the 2x4's.

But, if you ordered windows or siding for your house? You ain't getting that shit for 3-6 months and it's 3-5X what it cost only a year and a half ago.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

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https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1501369508698759169

Firstly, Matthew (((Rosenberg))). Secondly, now more than ever, we need to watch out for more false flags like this. Suddenly, the MSM's reaction when everybody learned their lesson and didn't show up for 9/18 makes a lot more sense.

 

[Sithis]

Buddy of mine was talking to a buddy of his about Biden. Apparently his buddy was watching Biden's SOTU, and he noticed something was weird with Biden's face (besides the fact that he looks like a ghoul).

Keep in mind this is a picture of his TV (if it wasn't obvious). Probably just some weird blur effect, but I figured I'd upload it anyway.

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Around the eyes almost looks like a mask outline, wtf is going on?

 

[CarlosDanger]

Biden telling low and middle class families to buy electric cars if they are pissed about the gas prices is insulting. This just shows how out of touch with reality the current left and Biden truly are with the everyday people. The cost of food, the cost of gas, home heating, electricity prices, are all skyrocketing and electric cars isn't going to change and I don't see many 18 wheeler electric trucks coming anytime soon.

 

[Salubrious]

Firstly, Matthew (((Rosenberg))). Secondly, now more than ever, we need to watch out for more false flags like this. Suddenly, the MSM's reaction when everybody learned their lesson and didn't show up for 9/18 makes a lot more sense.

Wasn't there also supposed to be a trucker convoy in D.C. that didn't show up? Was that a fake story or did the truckers realize that it would be another "insurrection"?

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

I should of posted that they were TRYING to do it, but yea the source said that the states were laughing at the Feds for that. They remarked that they would do it when the Federal government does it first(tax holiday). It's a big shit show in DC right now. I know the hysteria of January 6th did a doosy on DC, but this has eclipsed it by 100x in the short amount of time it's happening.

Its funny how when the federal government pitched a state gas tax holiday/moratorium, all the governors and lieutenant governors and mayors, democrat and republican said, "how about you lose the 20 cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline and the 30 cents of federal tax on diesel and if that doesn't work, we can think about it on the state level." Gretchen Whitmer, the democrat governor in Michigan, was one of the first ones to tell the feds to eat shit on a state fuel tax holiday.

 

[Pig Cups]

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The latter-most sentence of this is also likely to come true, unfortunately. Buttigieg is already on camera recommending to just buy an EV, honey.

Man do you think Trump gets tired of being right?

I find myself feeling that way when family members notice predictions/“conspiracy theories” of mine from the past year coming true.

Follow up question: why is the government trying every solution EXCEPT domestic production? There has to be something else going on besides "Muh Green New Deal", right?

Because they’ve spent decades emotionally manipulating through autistic screeching about how it was killing the planet. Ditto to Keystone. Doing a 180 not only betrays their cornerstone cause and most loyal voters (fuck ‘em..as if they’ll ever vote R), but is a *massive* mea culpa that makes them look irretrievably stupid. They think that begging the saudis and venezuelans makes them look “proactive,” as opposed to “admitting wrong” by restarting domestic production, when all they’re succeeding at is fucking us sideways and sourcing from sources that abide by fewer green regulations.

Remember, politicians never admit that they are wrong. The current administration just wants to avoid the optics of slinking back with its tail between its legs, corroborating again that Trump was right re: policy, and just overall looking like Cersei during her walk of atonement.

 

[Puff]

Around the eyes almost looks like a mask outline, wtf is going on?

I was being hyperbolic when I suggested deepfake, but I think that's an artifact of some taping or prosthetic they're using to make him look not dead.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

The latter-most sentence of this is also likely to come true, unfortunately. Buttigieg is already on camera recommending to just buy an EV, honey.



I find myself feeling that way when family members notice predictions/“conspiracy theories” of mine from the past year coming true.
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Because they’ve spent decades emotionally manipulating through autistic screeching about how it was killing the planet. Ditto to Keystone. Doing a 180 not only betrays their cornerstone cause and most loyal voters (fuck ‘em..as if they’ll ever vote R), but is a *massive* mea culpa that makes them look irretrievably stupid. They think that begging the saudis and venezuelans makes them look “proactive,” as opposed to “admitting wrong” by restarting domestic production, when all they’re succeeding at is fucking us sideways and sourcing from sources that abide by fewer green regulations.

Remember, politicians never admit that they are wrong. The current administration just wants to avoid the optics of slinking back with its tail between its legs, corroborating again that Trump was right re: policy, and just overall looking like Cersei during her walk of atonement.

Allow me to present this image, which everyone should take the advice of.

 

[God of Nothing]

The latter-most sentence of this is also likely to come true, unfortunately. Buttigieg is already on camera recommending to just buy an EV, honey.



I find myself feeling that way when family members notice predictions/“conspiracy theories” of mine from the past year coming true.
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Because they’ve spent decades emotionally manipulating through autistic screeching about how it was killing the planet. Ditto to Keystone. Doing a 180 not only betrays their cornerstone cause and most loyal voters (fuck ‘em..as if they’ll ever vote R), but is a *massive* mea culpa that makes them look irretrievably stupid. They think that begging the saudis and venezuelans makes them look “proactive,” as opposed to “admitting wrong” by restarting domestic production, when all they’re succeeding at is fucking us sideways and sourcing from sources that abide by fewer green regulations.

Remember, politicians never admit that they are wrong. The current administration just wants to avoid the optics of slinking back with its tail between its legs, corroborating again that Trump was right re: policy, and just overall looking like Cersei during her walk of atonement.

And they wonder they keep fucking up.
a good leader knows when they have, accepts it, owns it, and strives to make up or never repeat the mistake

 

[b0x]

Follow up question: why is the government trying every solution EXCEPT domestic production? There has to be something else going on besides "Muh Green New Deal", right?

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

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Petrodollars are U.S. dollars paid to an oil-exporting country for the sale of the commodity. Put simply, the petrodollar system is an exchange of oil for U.S. dollars between countries that buy oil and those that produce it. The petrodollar was the result of the oil crisis in the mid-1970s when prices spiked to record levels. It helped increase the stability of oil prices denominated in U.S. dollars. The term regained notoriety in the early part of the 2000s when oil prices rose once again.

Globalism: because fuck America.

 

[The Nothingness]

Wasn't there also supposed to be a trucker convoy in D.C. that didn't show up? Was that a fake story or did the truckers realize that it would be another "insurrection"?

They are staying around DC because they don't they'll end up like the 1/6 trespassers if they enter the city.

Meanwhile here is some memes related to gas prices.

Spoiler

 

[Pig Cups]

Saw a sign threatening legal action on anyone "vandalizing" the pumps with sticker residue next to it. Assume this was why.
If I owned a gas station, I'd let them know REMOVING the stickers was vandalism

There are some good people out there who see eye to eye with you and me.

 

[CarlosDanger]

 

[AnotherPleb]

I'd laugh my ass off getting to speedrun the Carter era if it wasn't so damn worrying.

It's beyond any other presidency already and we haven't even gotten through half of his term.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

There are some good people out there who see eye to eye with you and me.
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Based and gas-pilled. If he were near me, I'd only go to his gas station.