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[mooby]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

Laura Ingraham shows a graphic of Trump accomplishments and it shows blank tiles https://mobile.twitter.com/acyn/stat...36990904475649

Rising wages? LOL.

How much did Trump raise the minimum wage to help out the poorest working Americans?

How much has inflation and the COL gone up since minimum wage last rose in 2009?

[Giantone]

I'll put this here but I know chico won't read it.



GOP attacks on Biden for high gas prices don't add up, expert says



https://news.yahoo.com/gop-attacks-o...161903465.html


Since President Biden announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would ban imports of Russian oil as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine, several Republican politicians have attempted to blame him for rising gas prices.

On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a speech in which he asserted that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was not the reason for high gas prices — Biden's energy policies were. To back up his claim, McCarthy asserted that gas prices "started rising the day President Biden took office."

Yahoo News reached out to Christopher Knittel, a professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, to help explain whether the Republican criticisms of Biden hold water.

"The first thing is, that’s factually inaccurate," Knittel said. "Gas prices actually started rising in November of the previous year. That’s just data, so you can graph gas prices and you’ll see them starting to trend up in November of 2020."

Knittel noted that there "is no evidence" Biden's inauguration "broke the trend in gas prices," and pointed back to the early days of the pandemic, when the price of oil dropped precipitously as the world went into lockdown to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

“What everybody seems to be forgetting, and it’s shocking that they are, is in April of 2020 the futures price of oil was negative. It had never happened in the history of oil markets. We had a negative price," Knittel said. "People were paying others to take their oil. That is a huge disincentive to drill for more oil. The low prices, generally, that happened during the pandemic and up until the end of 2020 created a huge disincentive to drill oil. Despite that, we’ve seen U.S. production increase over the past year. Why hasn’t it increased more? Because oil companies are leery of drilling for more oil — certainly they were during the pandemic — and that’s a market effect. It has nothing to do with President Biden.”

[sdskinsfan2001]

Anyone that isn't Chico:

How would you describe Kamala Harris' performance as VP?

Just the best answer you have, with no deflections.

Even just a grade A-F works. Curious to know what you all think.

[Giantone]

As with most VP's there is nothing to grade.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Anyone that isn't Chico:

How would you describe Kamala Harris' performance as VP?

Just the best answer you have, with no deflections.

Even just a grade A-F works. Curious to know what you all think.

Have you every seen the show VEEP? Watching Harris speak is like watching that show.

She’s an inept clown.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Have you every seen the show VEEP? Watching Harris speak is like watching that show.

She’s an inept clown.

Speaking of Clowns!!!

[sdskinsfan2001]

Trump Save America Rally at 7 pm in South Carolina! Fuck yeah!! MAGA time. Almost there.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Have you every seen the show VEEP? Watching Harris speak is like watching that show.

She’s an inept clown.

I have not watched that show. But I already knew your opinion. And frankly, I think she has been embarrassing too. But I also was interested in hearing from people on the other side.

Thanks for responding SS.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Anyone that isn't Chico:

How would you describe Kamala Harris' performance as VP?

Just the best answer you have, with no deflections.

Even just a grade A-F works. Curious to know what you all think.

Just saw this.

I'd grade as a D-, wish Biden would've defined her role more clearly because it seems like their communication hasn't been in-sync. As a VP - your primary job is to be available if something happens to the P, but beyond that Biden should have drawn up a gameplan for the things he expects her to lead on. If not, then you can't really blame her for not doing anything because the last thing she needs to be doing is stepping on Biden's toes.

From where I'm sitting at this point in the game it looks like she was hired not because of her strong list of merits that she brings to the table - she was hired to win the female/minority vote. So great job making history - but I'd rather he hired someone he trusted to handle some responsibility as we all know Biden can't do everything himself.