Do you think president Biden and his administration is incompetent or are they purposely trying to screw things up and America?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I think its the latter. You have the best educated and experienced advisors available to help you when it comes to the economy, national security, energy etc. How can you possibly get it so wrong? Has to be on purpose.

[Oigit]

So as he tells us simply deal with inflation and raising gas precises, he is shipping oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve overseas to countries like China. While also demanding that gas station owners lower the price at the pump. Despite the fact that the profit margins on gas is razor thin and gas stations make the bulk of their revenue form the merchandise they sell.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/joe-biden-exports-oil-barrels-despite-us-gas-prices-report/

In a way it seems like him and the people financially pulling his strings wanted to create a massive issue that they can swoop in and play Superman. Fix the issue they created and fool people into hailing Biden like a hero. Though it seems like it simply spun way out of control and keeps getting worse. But they are too committed to their plan and too many things are in motion to stop it. So they have to see it to the end and hope things to get bad enough they can't be fixed before everything is done.

[exitseven]

Some things were done on purpose. Killing the fossil fuel industry was somethin Biden said he was going to do and if anyone bothered to read his manifesto it is all spelled out there.
Killing all those Americans with covid even thought he was handed 3 vaccines by his predecessor was incompetence. He totally screwed up the vaccine rollout and alienated people by making it mandatory. There would have been much less push back if he just made it available to everyone and educated the public on the advantages instead of firing everyone that refused to take it and then make it so they could not collect unemployment. It made the public very distrustful.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Bee-Hatch]

As an outsider it appears the American people don't take electing their leaders seriously.


Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes and then Trump you people do not give a single fuck. If one of your parties could shave a chimp and get it legitimately elected, Bobo would be your next president.

[Exterminatore]

On a scale of 1 to America how free are you?

[Bee-Hatch]

Oh dear you think America is free😂

Sweetie, I live in the country that gave you your independence. I'm free enough for my liking.

[Jamie05rhs]

@Bee-Hatch Nobody gave us anything, hon.

[Bee-Hatch]

If that's he case why do you celebrate July the 4th? You know when Britain gave you independence?

[Jamie05rhs]

We won our freedom by fighting and killing members of the British Army.

Nice try, though.

[Sixgunsound]

Oh we take it seriously enough, the problem is the people we elect don’t seem to make it to office.

[Amy10223]

The one below this one

[Amy10223]

Yes, the guy on the bottom is the one who screwed the country... they're coming to indict him because of 1/6/21

[Snakeyes7]

I think most Republicans didn't vote for them because they don't think it is the government's job to manage these. Not to that extent at least.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

@Snakeyes7: It is the government's job to fund those projects. It's why we pay taxes.

[Sixgunsound]

Well damn if he can do all that for Ukraine why not here🤣

[Sixgunsound]

We pay taxes as a protection racket so the government doesn’t send thugs to shoot us

[Snakeyes7]

As far as the US goes, it is the government's job to protect the rights of their citizens as ordained by the constitution and the tax dollars are supposed to go towards their efforts to do so. Anything else is a waste.

If all that money is going to those things, they better be free for the public to use because I am already paying for it out of my paycheck but I am not holding my breath.

[Sixgunsound]

@Snakeyes7 In my state, the governor just helped build or renovate or some thing a privately held NFL stadium that her husband has a stake in and provide services to.

[Snakeyes7]

@Sixgunsound That's nice I guess. If this was independent of her business then I don't see an issue with it. I can't say I know everything about what the governor has the power to do.

[Sixgunsound]

@Snakeyes7 no politician has the right to fund their partner’s business with my money. That’s illegal.

[Snakeyes7]

@Sixgunsound Oh yeah, you're right.

[Amy10223]

@Snakeyes7 Then whose job is it to make sure we have clean water, energy, safer roadways and bridges, airports, etc? It may be up to the states--but who funds the states for all those? The president. The states don't have that kind of money on their own.

[Amy10223]

That's right. And yet, the Republicans voted against those bills.

[Amy10223]

@Snakeyes7 All, you do use highways, bridges, airports, water, etc, right? You don't get this for free. You pay for them, just as we all do. That's what taxes are for, and you've been doing it since you were working.

[007kingifrit]

look at the old lady share memes instead of actually knowing about the world

1. the infrastructure money will largely be wasted on democratic unions and kickbacks to political groups that favor the ruling party
2. the rest of these things aren't BAD per say but are a waste of money at a time when we can't handle the inflation. it's easy to spend money. it's not a sign of competence

[Snakeyes7]

@Amy10223 The only thing that we *usually* don't pay out of pocket anyway for are bridges. Some of them still have tolls even though our taxes are supposed to pay for them. Everything else we still have to pay out of pocket for anyway. Believe me, I would love to have my airline tickets be free especially considering the price for tickets more than quadrupled since Biden came into office.

[Amy10223]

@Snakeyes7 airline tickets have gone up through the roof since the pandemic began. No one was flying if you recall in Feb of 2020. After that people didn’t fly for at least a year. Believe me, I had to fly in 2020 and the airports were empty. Don’t attempt to badmouth Biden on the pandemic and the results of it. the pandemic is not his fault, never was. But denying it even existed, or ignoring health warnings about it. saying it would “go away” in a few months, is. That’s what Trump did.

[Snakeyes7]

@Amy10223 Whatever, the point is that if the government is throwing billions of dollars into it, why are we paying for these tickets? Isn't this how we think healthcare is going to work?

The pandemic itself is neither presidents fault. Trump did what he had the power to do (which wasn't much) and he was no fortune teller so he assumed it would pass like the swine flu did. Even the World Economic Forum warned against causing widespread panic over it.

[Amy10223]

@Snakeyes7 Well see, that isn't exactly what they told Trump. they said that there was a very strong possibility that a pandemic would spread because of a virus that was coming from the east that would be hard to contain. It was clearly a warning from a medical source. That happened around the end of January, and he ignored it. I believe he was golfing that day and didn't have timed for it. Of course eh wasn't a fortune teller--but that doesn't matter. He could have paid that email them serious attention.

[Amy10223]

** He could have paid that email serious attention.

[Snakeyes7]

@Amy10223 Didn't he stop all travel to any of the suspected countries it might have come from? Pretty sure he had the power to do that. It ended up not working because someone who had it from one of the countries he didn't ban flew in.

[Sixgunsound]

The reason those studies don’t exist, is because the manufacturers obstruct any attempt at proposing let alone carrying out safe for your advocacy studies, with all the weight of the mega box that multinational big Pharma companies have at their command.

[Sixgunsound]

Biden doesn’t know what kind of oatmeal Jill had to feed him this morning and can’t walk upstairs. This is in fact Obama’s third term, because he can do all the things he actually wanted to without affecting his own legacy. Not that he had much of one to begin with, but still. Obama was caught on a hot microphone stating that he wished he had somebody that he could be a behind the scenes puppet master for, and who better to be Obama’s puppet than his boy Joey?

[Stoner710]

Both incompetent and trying to screw over the country. Democratic hate the United States and what the United States stands for our values and our history of course democratic want to destroy the United States Mao Zedong is better then the United States in the opinion of democratic

[HighValue]

It is on purpose. Biden even said he would kill the oil industry. He signed the executive order causing fuel prices to rise substantially, which in turn increased the prices of everything transported using fuel. (All products and food are transported that way.)
Democrats hate America and want Americans to suffer. Same goes for releasing criminals so they commit more crimes, opening the border so there are now record number of fentanyl deaths, etc. It is all intentional.

[RolandCuthbert]

You haven't stated one thing he has gotten wrong.

We can't respond to your feelings dude. You have to state something objectively factual. Like inflation. What is the issue with national security? You disagree with helping Ukraine?

Make it make sense.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

#1: The withdrawal from Afghanistan.
#2: Doesn't care to protect the border which is a president priority when it comes to national security.
#3: Closed off drilling for oil when America has more than enough oil at home. We don't need other countries.
#4: Cost of living has gone up dramatically up under his watch.

What the hell more you want worse than that?

[RolandCuthbert]

1. Noted. Though I am not sure what you wanted there. We overstayed our welcome about 10 years.
2. You want a useless wall. A wall doesn't do anything. It is symbolic. Technology is a far better defense for the southern border.
3. We are the largest oil producer the world. And under Biden we have increased that lead. This is the funny thing. Your tax dollars to go funding research and development for oil companies, who in turn raise the price of gas, while the price of oil drops.

And then you blame Biden.

4. Inflation is something he should have seen happening. That is his fault and the fault of the FED. Together they should have come up with a strategy. But I don't think you understand that inflation is affected by the amount of debt we are carrying. One day, someone is going to have to come up with a strategy to cut the deficit. But we are going to have to become a society that starts to deal with objective reality in order for that to happen.

[Daniela1982]

US does not produce the most oil. There is way more in the Mid East. If we were the biggest producer why are we importing oil from the Mid East? And why are the gas prices high here when we have so much? Whatever happened to the Alaskan oil pipeline?

[RolandCuthbert]

@Daniela1982 Ladies and Gentlemen. . . a shining example of the American Public School System. . .

and you are not even embarrassed.

The United States of America is the Number One Producer of Oil on this Planet.

investingnews.com/.../

1. United States. Production: 18,875,000 bpd. ...
2. Saudi Arabia. Production: 10,835,000 bpd. ...
3. Russia. Production: 10,778,000 bpd. ...
4. Canada. Production: 5,558,000 bpd. ...
5. China. Production: 4,993,000 bpd. ...

worldpopulationreview.com/.../oil-production-by-country

1. United States - 11,567,000
2. Russia - 10,503,000
3. Saudi Arabia - 10,225,000
4. Canada - 4,656,000
5. Iraq - 4,260,000
6. China - 3,969,000

[Daniela1982]

You didn't answer the questions. As the Garden of Eden was in the mid east, and since oil is produced by old vegetation/animals, that is where you will find the most oil. The production of oil there made them rich, and you saw the US jump in when the oil would be cut off to the US with Sadam trying to take over Iraq. So I repeat. If we have that much oil why are our gas prices through the roof since it is not in short supply here as you claim?

[RolandCuthbert]

@Daniela1982 Dude? I didn't answer the question. You said that the U. S was not the number one producer of oil. Something easily verified using any standard of measure you wish to employ.

As for your inability to understand complex things like economics, import/exports, that isn't my problem. I would advise you go to back to school to get an education.

We are not a Communist state. The government does not own one single oil company. On behalf of the U. S. taxpayer, the government purchases oil for the military and other agencies but also for the strategic petroleum reserve.

We import oil from the middle east, etc. . . but we also export oil. Because again, the government doesn't own an oil company. Oil companies buy and sell nationally and internationally based upon supply/demand.

I don't expect you to understand that. I expect you to stay as ignorant as possible and post all manner of superstitious nonsense about things that are common sense.

www.eia.gov/.../imports-and-exports.php

n 2021, the United States exported about 8.63 million barrels per day (b/d) and imported about 8.47 million b/d of petroleum,1 making the United States an annual total petroleum net exporter for the second year in a row since at least 1949. Total petroleum net exports were about 0.16 million b/d in 2021, and total petroleum net exports in 2020 were 0.63 million b/d. Also in 2021, the United States produced2 about 18.66 million b/d of petroleum and consumed3 about 19.78 million b/d. Even though U. S. annual total petroleum exports were greater than total petroleum imports in 2020 and 2021, the United States still imported some crude oil and petroleum products from other countries to help to supply domestic demand for petroleum and to supply international markets.

[Daniela1982]

Wow, that makes perfect sense. Export a million barrels and import a million barrels. But someone must be making money doing that and making jobs for someone. That is like filling your gas tank up and selling it for the same price to someone else, or at a very slight profit. But not really as you put out work to fill up and take the gas out. Then you have to fill up again. Someone's time must be not worth much.

[RolandCuthbert]

@Daniela1982 Yes, it makes perfect sense to folks who understand the import/export game. You don't know and you use your ignorance like a baseball bat. Just because you don't understand what oil companies to do make a profit, it seems nonsensical to you.

So an oil company drills for oil. In order for that oil to be usable, it must be refined. That's something the U. S. is expert at. But anyway, an oil company has to make decisions.

1. Should that oil be refined and sold domestically?

2. Should it be sold in an unrefined state to another nation?

3. Should it be refined and sold to another nation?

4. Does it make sense to import unrefined oil if that is cheaper?

They are trying to make money. They give two fucks about what the impact is to you or yours. They don't care what you think is common sense. They are buying and selling using whatever model gives them the most money.

[Daniela1982]

Thanks for confirming that it is all about money lining politicians and the rich pockets. They don't give a crap about the country, just that they make money. We are run by a bunch of putzes.

[RolandCuthbert]

@Daniela1982 I don't think you have to worry about me conversing with you again. That statement has nothing to do with your original assertion.

[Daniela1982]

That's fine by me, you are too big of a condescending dick for me anyway. That's what I get for unblocking people.

[Mijopapi2000]

Of course it is all on purpose. All presidents push the NWO agendas and since 2020 they have attacked the people in so many ways! Fake virus fear mongering, suffocating people in a mask, pushing poison vaccines. Destroying the economy. Now a food shortage, inflation and gas prices through the roof.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Malfeasance. But Grey's Law comes into play. Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malfeasance.

[RealMarek]

There is no single point of accountability or person in charge in this administration, so I believe it’s fair to say both explanations are true.

[DryGermanGuy]

In all honesty, I thought you to be above this kooky conspiracy nonsense… 🙄

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

What conspiracy? The reality things in this country unless you have money to burn is freaking tough for the average person.

Food prices are getting more expensive and expensive seems by the week and who can afford and sustain $5 dollars a gallon to fill their tanks about every 10 days? It's ridiculous.

[DryGermanGuy]

All the same things are happening in Germany too and for the same reasons, only a nutcase would suggest, the German government is causing it on purpose.
We have a perfect storm of Covid 19, disrupted supply chains and a war in Ukraine, none of which could be handled by snipping your fingers. Events of a certain magnitude are very hard to contain, just like you cannot make a law against earthquakes.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Thing is we have more than enough here in America to do produce our own energy unlike Germany.

[DryGermanGuy]

Long-term you would have which then would mean to even further delay the transition to renewable energy. And why that topic is highly urgent you can see at the condition of Lake Mead.

It's basically about finding the right energy mix for every country. Germany has outlawed fracking while phasing out nuclear energy and coal, which is an extremely tall order. Goddamned Putin and his war just makes everything even harder.

[Chazmatazz269]

They know EXACTLY what they’re doing. When the shit hits the fan, none of them will suffer the consequences of their choices, and they know it.

[fireforeffect]

Both. Joe Biden is incompetent, having only a Double-Digit IQ. but his Administration truly does hate the United States and is doing everything that they can to mess it up.

[joeldalton]

Biden is a corrupt puppet. He does what his handlers tell him.

[Anonymous]

They have their own agenda and want it done their way whether it’s right or not, they don’t care because they will still be fine financially whether we are or not

[Surely]

That is a tough question to answer.
Ruining the country is about the only thing the current administration is doing well!
How they can lie to everyone with a straight face is another question.” Do they really believe in themselves?

[BillyBalls]

Well Biden did say that Americans having to pay high prices for gasoline is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Looks like he's the senior clown of Bozo's circus. It's the worst circus I've ever seen. I personally think they're trying to destroy our Nation.

[Anonymous]

If you aren't trolling, we're dealing with a pandemic, war, the mess Trump left.

If Trump was still going, things would be a lot worse.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Can't hide behind the pandemic excuse anymore..

[joeldalton]

Lmao. Trump invaded Ukraine? Dope.

[Pterodon]

Things were much better under Trump

[Avicenna]

It's deliberate by these totalitarians

[Snakeyes7]

The latter without a doubt.

[Pterodon]

The most incompetent in history

[Anonymous]

They're all dumb asses!