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Random Internet Person said:
Also, couldn’t cartels just use American land to grow, and later fight over that? Not sure if a Breaking Bad scenario is in the cards, but I’m sure that if you got a plot in the middle of nowhere and have farming knowledge, people will find you.
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That is a HUGE problem in California and Southern Oregon.

There's people who have had armed guys come to their door and tell them to stay off the back end of their property and not go to the cops.

Hell, the Rogue Valley is full of fucking illegal grow ops that have suspiciously brown people patrolling with guns and ATV's.

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I feel like I'm trapped in a half assed rendition of William Johnstone's 'Out of the Ashes'. Hopefully this doesn't wind up with a nuke war like that book did.
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So I'm not the only one?

I'm just waiting for fucking cannibals to take over the cities.
 
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thx1138 said:
Yeah but the press is desperate to salvage Joepedo's presidency and will do anything anything anything to shore it up. Anything to shut people up about $4 gas. Anything to shut people up about hyperinflation coming.
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I use a couple of my family members as a gauge of what the next grift is. For gas prices, the up and coming reasoning is that oil companies are greedy and are refusing to pump more oil so they can increase their profits. That is then being used by other companies to justify the increased prices for all goods.
 
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I use a couple of my family members as a gauge of what the next grift is. For gas prices, the up and coming reasoning is that oil companies are greedy and are refusing to pump more oil so they can increase their profits. That is then being used by other companies to justify the increased prices for all goods.
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TBF, that's not exactly wrong. Big Oil ARE reacting to supply and demand accordingly and Biden can't do shit about it because "drill baby drill" is anathema to his party.
 
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Kinda damning that this is coming from the Hill.
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Go to the article and check out the comments. The copium and TDS are overwhelming.

Not once does anyone there admit that it is, like you said, indeed damning that such news is coming from a source like The Hill. They can’t even get a little introspective and simply admit that the numbers are damning on their own, because doing so is apparently the same as endorsing Blumpfth. They’re also too emotionally invested in Mushbrain to admit he’s failing, because to them, it’s an admission that they fucked up wrt character judgement. It’s an admission that they got taken in by Joe’s empty promises/virtue signals, and it ruins the sense of security they gain via the democrats. They can never admit that they’re wrong, and continue to refuse to do so.

I’m unafraid to criticize the politicians I support, and when they fail/their polling grows dire, I’m quick to recognize that there’s a serious problem, that “my guy” is fucking up, and a recalibration is needed. After all, I’m not emotionally invested in those individuals like I am my family. Criticizing your own side is not the same as supporting the other. This thinking, apparently, is beyond the abilities of those who comment at The Hill.
 
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Go to the article and check out the comments. The copium and TDS are overwhelming.

Not once does anyone there admit that it is, like you said, indeed damning that such news is coming from a source like The Hill. They can’t even get a little introspective and simply admit that the numbers are damning on their own, because doing so is apparently the same as endorsing Blumpfth. They’re also too emotionally invested in Mushbrain to admit he’s failing, because to them, it’s an admission that they fucked up wrt character judgement. It’s an admission that they got taken in by Joe’s empty promises/virtue signals, and it ruins the sense of security they gain via the democrats. They can never admit that they’re wrong, and continue to refuse to do so.

I’m unafraid to criticize the politicians I support, and when they fail/their polling grows dire, I’m quick to recognize that there’s a serious problem, that “my guy” is fucking up, and a recalibration is needed. After all, I’m not emotionally invested in those individuals like I am my family. Criticizing your own side is not the same as supporting the other. This thinking, apparently, is beyond the abilities of those who comment at The Hill.
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There was one article there (that was shared here on A&N) raising concerns about the coming digital dollar and how it's going to wreak havoc on the economy and privacy. It was written by some libertarian chick, I think her name is Kristin Tate?

Anyhoo, many of the comments were "hurr durr conspiracy theories, ur cheating on ur taxes, you have nothing to hide, pay ur fair share, muh 1/6, Muh Russia."

Reading comboxes on news articles make me so MATI I could bend rebar with my bare hands. Twitter and Reddit have more common sense. Commenters on news articles are so terminally online that social media isn't enough; every nook and cranny of the internet has to be permeated with their retarded opinions.
 
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Do you think they're still having the "talk" with him about leaving office after midterms or do they avoid bringing it up out of fear that he'll repeat it?
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So I just saw this in the Ukie war thread and ... just what the fuck is this? Is it really normal for US presidents to be fed questions and answers like these?
 
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Badungus Kabungus said:
Fun fact, in Russia they refer to Joe Biden as "Punch Card Grandpa." (дед на перфокартах)
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(Tries it in Startpage via Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V because I sure as hell ain't typing Cyrillic.)

OK, that not only worked, it opened up a whole new group of unflattering JPGs to me:

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Kane Lives said:
So I just saw this in the Ukie war thread and ... just what the fuck is this? Is it really normal for US presidents to be fed questions and answers like these?
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I would say to a certain point presidents are advised on current matters and presented with options for responses, especially before media events. But in this case, the feeding is more heavy-handed because Biden is the oldest president in America at inauguration time at 78 years old and is more likely to suffer from the typical problems of old age such as moments of forgetfulness and behavioral problems. You can see traces of this whenever Biden goes off-script or absentmindedly does something that forces the staffers to abruptly kick the media/newspeople out of the room.

I suspect that Biden's party members didn't realize the breadth of that type of problem until after they won the presidency.
 
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I suspect enough of them knew. That's why he was kept under wraps in 2020
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Imagine being the fly on the wall in the room where they were discussing which candidate to keep, only to find out they actually went with the dementia riddled patient as their prime choice.

You know there had to be at least one motherfucker going "what the fuck happened to this party???"
 
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Delta Integrale said:
I use a couple of my family members as a gauge of what the next grift is. For gas prices, the up and coming reasoning is that oil companies are greedy and are refusing to pump more oil so they can increase their profits. That is then being used by other companies to justify the increased prices for all goods.
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There is probably some truth to that but it is more complex than just a simple "increase their profits".
Ramping up an operation takes a lot of capital. It is a major investment and with Biden at the helm I too would be very vary about making massive investments in this area. For no other reason than that you put down massive amount of money and then just out of the blue Biden suddenly banning your entire operation just to score some points with the green new deal folks. And your investment is gone.
 
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