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Kane Lives said:
Now I'm not American, but shouldn't you all be alarmed that Old Joe is draining the strategic reserves of the country just for political points?

Like, what if America actually needs that oil? Is this another "what could possibly go wrong?" moment ala Germany/EU and Russian gas?
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I'm sure the Chinese wouldn't ever dream of taking Taiwan while our strategic reserves are depleted and we are already begging enemies for oil... Right? Right guys?
 
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Article: https://longisland.news12.com/biden-planning-to-tap-oil-reserve-to-control-gas-prices
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Biden planning to tap oil reserve to control gas prices
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PROGRAMMING NOTE: President Biden is expected to make the official announcement at 1:30 p.m. today.

WASHJINGTON - President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve, according to two people familiar with the decision, in a bid to control energy prices that have spiked as the U.S. and allies have imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration's plans to combat rising gas prices. The duration of the release hasn't been finalized but could last for several months. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the decision.

High oil prices have not coaxed more production, creating a challenge for Biden. The Democratic president has seen his popularity sink as inflation reached a 40-year high in February and the cost of petroleum and gasoline climbed after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The markets reacted quickly to the likely release from the strategic reserve with crude oil prices dropping 6% on Thursday morning to roughly $101 a barrel. Still, oil is up from roughly $60 a year ago as supplies have not kept up with demand as the world economy began to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.

Americans on average use about 21 million barrels of oil daily, with about 40% of the consumption devoted to gasoline, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Domestic oil production is equal to more than half of the country's usage, but high prices have not led companies to return to their pre-pandemic levels of output. The U.S. is producing on average 11.7 million barrels daily, down from 13 million barrels in early 2020.

Oil producers have been more focused on meeting the needs of investors than consumers, according to a survey released last week by the Dallas Federal Reserve. About 59% of the executives surveyed said investor pressure to preserve “capital discipline” amid high prices was the reason they weren’t pumping more, while fewer than 10% blamed government regulation.

The steady release from the reserves would be a meaningful sum and come near to closing the domestic production gap relative to February 2020, before the coronavirus caused a steep decline in oil output.

The Biden administration in November announced the release of 50 million barrels from the strategic reserve in coordination with other countries. And after the Russia-Ukraine war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed to an additional release of 60 million barrels from reserves, with half of the total coming from the U.S.

According to the Department of Energy, which manages it, more than 568 million barrels of oil were held in the reserve as of March 25.

News of the administration’s planning was first reported by Bloomberg.
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Just doing this is already exceptional(ly retarded), but the absolute best part? It's the grand stopgap until domestic production comes online to make up the current shortfall. You know, that production which no oil company will be providing because it requires investment the Dems can shut down at any time through regulation and prog-influenced election promises.

Whoever pinned these morons as West Wing larpers earlier had it right, they have absolutely no idea what they're doing and expect you to praise them for it.
 
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Abyssal Bulwark said:
Now would be a good time to read the essay The Fate of Empires by John Glubb. Basically, great nations and empires last around 250 years before they collapse:

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I hate to break it to you, but the United States will never Balkanize. As hilarious as it would be to get in a trench and shoot Californians and New Yorkers to death, it just won't happen. Instead, it's just going to be more Chinese land lords.
 
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Abyssal Bulwark said:
Now would be a good time to read the essay The Fate of Empires by John Glubb. Basically, great nations and empires last around 250 years before they collapse:

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The question is mostly "when do you say the American Empire started?".
It certainly wasn't the American Empire in 1776.
 
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Wargarbl said:
Biden admin turning up the heat, officially endorsing the medical transition of minors.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bi...ender-agenda-youth-sex-change-hormone-therapy (archive)



So their response to obvious pushback against troonshit is to double down on the most reprehensible area of it: medically damaging children.

This is a bright line issue for many, myself included. Not that I needed another reason to throw Senile Joe out of office, but this is exactly the kind of thing that repulses moderates to their core and drives people to the polls to make sure you are gone.

Texas is right, this is child abuse. Officially endorsed by the Sniffer-in-Chief and his disgracefully incompetent diversity hire in HHS.
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They never learn, do they?

This is just like ‘defund the police.’ At the time that bullshit exploded onto the scene, the left got themselves all worked up with the self-righteous moral indignation at the unsurprising expiration of some North American pavement ape in Minnesomalia. Through their anger and political opportunism, they didn’t consider just how much a slogan that stupid would backfire. From a marketing standpoint, anybody with an IQ above 60 should’ve seen the backlash potential. By the time leftist acquaintances of mine saw the problem, and started posting on social media “hey, let’s say ‘reimagine the police,’ not ‘defund’,” it was too late. That shit is killing democrats in elections, and they can’t shake that chained ball easily. The fallout from DTP is going to be enduring for a while.

They’re now knee-jerk doubling down on the most deplorable aspects of troonism, and they’re doing so as the pro-troon side is hemorrhaging support. Thanks to NCAA’s William Thomas shining the light on troons in sports for normies, and de-transitioners becoming harder to censor, the pendulum is swinging back and society (hopefully) is becoming more intolerant of the troon institution as a whole. Where does that leave the democrats when troons are no longer trendy to normies, and their only support is among activists, pols, and corporations?

Republicans are so fucking spineless for not capitalizing on the dems’ horrid position on this issue. If they were smart, they’d be saying “THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY THAT SINGLE-HANDEDLY OWNS, SUPPORTS, AIDS, AND ABETS THE INSTITUTION OF TROONING OUT CHILDREN WITH BLOCKERS AND GRS. THE PARTY SYMPATHIZES WITH AND ENABLES PEDOPHILES AND GROOMING. ERGO, THEY ARE THE PARTY OF KID-FUCKING.” They could easily turn the American Parent voting bloc against the DNC forever with that messaging, because the dems can’t convincingly refute it as a result of their actions. But nooooooo…
 
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Abyssal Bulwark said:
Now would be a good time to read the essay The Fate of Empires by John Glubb. Basically, great nations and empires last around 250 years before they collapse:

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Ehh, I would argue that the US didn't actually become an "empire" parallel at all until at least after the civil war. If you really wanted I guess you could say the mid 1800s with the conflict vs. mexico but it was really WW1 that we became a global presence or had any real power and wealth. And up till now we've been more similar to the roman republic than the empire. There's always a chance that rather than collapse America will molt and adapt, possibly upending its current political structure the same way Rome went from being a Republic to being an empire. God help us if the tards currently in office are the first ones to seize that power.
 
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Republicans are so fucking spineless for not capitalizing on the dems’ horrid position on this issue. If they were smart, they’d be saying “THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY THAT SINGLE-HANDEDLY OWNS, SUPPORTS, AIDS, AND ABETS THE INSTITUTION OF TROONING OUT CHILDREN WITH BLOCKERS AND GRS. THE PARTY SYMPATHIZES WITH AND ENABLES PEDOPHILES AND GROOMING. ERGO, THEY ARE THE PARTY OF KID-FUCKING.” They could easily turn the American Parent voting bloc against the DNC forever with that messaging, because the dems can’t convincingly refute it as a result of their actions. But nooooooo…
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But then the RINOs wouldn't get invited to the Dems' orgies dinner parties anymore. We call our governmental system the Uniparty for a reason.
 
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borsabil said:
It was the claim that some of the family members were crisis actors. Now to be totally honest if some fat burger called me a fake actor after my 6 year old just had his brain blown out I'd do more than sue the cunt, and I like Alex Jones.

But yeah in a country where it's perfectly OK for the media to defame and lie at will the case is 99% political.
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It's strange to see social media purge him for that when other people done way worse things than him. I don't know how this whole thing will play out. I'm curious to know why he called them crisis actors. Was it because of how they reacted?
 
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