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Here is what Trump did for gas prices. His actions are the reason we are where we are now. Of course, anyone that bent a knee to Trump will acknowledge this, nor would they take time out of spouting their Trump loving talking points to do a minute of research. Who knew alienating allies and cozying up to dictators could have such long term affects and repercussions even after TFG left office, you lose a friend's trust, you lose that friend. Price of gas: How Trump's manipulation of oil policies reaped profits for Putin and fossil-fuel benefactors | The Milwaukee Independent It was a double-whammy for two of then-President Donald Trump’s biggest patrons, Vladimir Putin and American fossil-fuel billionaires and their industry: the price of oil was too low. Between the pandemic-induced collapse in demand for oil and the price war Saudi Arabia was then fighting with Russia — two of the world’s largest producers — Putin was being pinched badly. And in America, from Pennsylvania to Texas, oil producers were outright losing money on the oil they pumped. Gas prices were at record lows, gutting the profits even of refiners. So, Trump acted. It seemed inexplicable at the time, but in retrospect — knowing now how tied to Putin he was — it makes perfect sense. In the second year of his presidency, Trump had blown up the Iran nuclear deal that Obama had a hand in fashioning, letting us all think it was because he was trying to erase Obama’s legacy. But the real and immediate impact of Trump’s decision was to pull almost 3 million barrels of Iranian oil a day off the world market, boosting profits for Russia, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. fossil fuel industry. But that was 2018 and by 2020 prices were again sagging — and thus about 40 percent of the total revenue/income to Russia’s economy was sagging — as demand dropped because of the pandemic. Saudi Arabia was making the situation worse for Putin, keeping their oil production high to compete with Russia for worldwide market share, particularly in Chinese oil markets, and in retaliation for Russia refusing to go along with price-supporting production cuts. Oil prices had fallen as low as $15 a barrel because Saudi Arabia had opened their spigots full-on, according to Reuters: So Trump took decisive action. He called up his buddy, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, and essentially threatened that if MBS did not cut production — and thus raise worldwide oil prices, which would help out Putin and U.S. petrobillionaires, the United States would reconsider its seven-decade-long military support for the kingdom. As Reuters reported on April 30, 2020, in an article titled Special Report: Trump told Saudi: Cut Oil Supply or Lose U.S. Military Support: Oil-drenched Republican Senators Kevin Cramer and Dan Sullivan had drafted legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Saudi Arabia, giving Trump the club he could wield against the Saudis to help out both Putin and the U.S. oil industry that was seeing bankruptcies spread across the country. Thus, in the last year of his presidency, Trump oversaw the worldwide cuts in oil production that would lead to today’s prices soaring well past $130 a barrel. Which brings us to today, with oil prices soaring. When President Biden tried to reach out to our allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to ask them to restore the production they’d cut under threat from Trump, both refused to take his call, according to press reports. Meteor Blades reported at Daily Kos that The Wall Street Journal laid it out: The outcome is predictable. Saudi Arabia and Russia keep oil production tight to keep oil prices and profits high, while President Biden is attacked from every direction in the U.S. for high prices at the pump. Republican politicians grandstand on the issue and hammer it daily into the news, blaming the increased price of gasoline on a president who’s trying to both get Iranian oil back on the market and increase Saudi production. The high price of gas and diesel, meanwhile, keep jacking up U.S. inflation, giving the GOP another lead pipe to hit Democrats over the head with. Neither of Biden’s efforts to lower oil prices are working, though, as the result of Trump’s two gutless actions on behalf of his patrons. The Iranian talks are bogged down — the Iranians can see what happens to a country that gives up its nukes just by turning on the news and looking at Ukraine — and Saudi Arabia wants Biden to come on bended knee and approve of their slaughter in Yemen, something that would be very costly to American moral standing in the world. The result is more money for Putin’s war machine and the Saudi crown prince, and a significant increase in the chances an oil-industry-friendly Republican Congress will be installed next year and a Putin/Saudi-friendly Republican President will win election in 2024. Trump may be long out of power, but the impact of his corrupt treachery lives on

Congress can take care of home first.

in the republican utopia....wearing a mask is living in fear and a violation of your freedoms.....but kids wearing bulletproof backpacks to school in class rooms with bullet proof glass on the doors and windows and doing active shooter drills while wackos can buy any type of weapon and as much ammo as they like isn't living in fear and all within everyone's rights

Any GOP congressional rep/senator who says they are pro-life and yet is against common sense -gun control isn’t pro-life and is a hypocrite of the worst kind

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kids need some sort of protection from the well regulated militia that is shooting up the school.

If the argument is to play “politics” and selling projects using networks of who you know and persuading officials of what is and isn’t a good use of taxpayer money, I agree that it is definitely responsible govt and why we elect people. But I also feel that not weighing pros/cons but instead proudly withholding money because a private business said something you don’t like is a dangerous place to go. Im not naive enough to think this hasn’t always happened. But I’m not a fan of politicians doing for the world to see. And I’m even more nervous about the many constituents that are cheering it on.

lol 'Please stay on the call to answer a brief customer survey. ' 'On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest score, how satisfied were you with your Javelin support technician today?'

I believe it was something called a global pandemic.

I don’t know if you’re intentionally missing the point or not. The article I posted, was the Outkick article that “broke” the news that Desantis vetoed because of a political statement the Rays made. You are correct that the article also mentions some taxpayers were against the spending. A conservative media personality champions the veto because he claims Desantis is a conservative champion that understands that Floridians love their guns and Condtitution. (I’m paraphrasing here based off his other Tweets so please don’t look for those literal words). A Desantis spokeswomen retweets the conservative pundits tweet with no comment. Reasonable people could deduce that Desantis’s decision was based on the Rays statement and not the wishes of taxpayers. If the decision was made because Desantis listened to taxpayers and truly felt the money was best used elsewhere, good for him and bad for the Rays. This would be really easy to communicate, they have interns on staff to handle things like this. Instead, Desantis is in a situation where it looks like a decision was made out of spite. That isn’t good governance in my opinion. Bottom line: there are two possibilities. The veto was out of spite, or Desantis listened to the concerns of some of his constituents. One of his spokespeople is advertising it was out of spite.

Actually , we apparently avoided a ROCKET.

Im not talking about his struggles in growing up and having to deal with adversity there im talking about college and how he put the quote. Im going to have to leave really you don't have to leave you can make a choose to leave and by the way he makes it sound bc Nebraska has to deal with adversity in winning he wants no part of that where in other parts of the country they don't automatically winners every year.

truth

I know the Trump admin often acted like the keystone cops, but did they really think a bunch of fired up pawns storming the capital was going to accomplish anything? Aren’t most coups executed by the military, or maybe a well armed insurgency?

And ol' Louie going to bat for perjury and obstruction of justice all the while playing the tried and true Republican victim card.

Escape Goat.

A time when huge swaths of the electorate believe that the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Other than when those good guys chill in hallways for 40 minutes while the bad guy searches for people to kill, of course.

No kidding.

Of course they throw in drugs being the problem. Pot smokers aren't going out and killing people. Nebraska leadership is so a$$-backwards.

You obviously don't know his story if you say he doesn't want to deal with adversity.

$40 billion to Ukraine is definitely a good thing. It's best to acknowledge that Congress can do both things, send money to them while also allocating money for education/baby formula/whatever else. It isn't a zero sum game.

They're so unserious about gun violence that we get gems like this. Will Republican voters punish this? Absolutely not. The gubmint is gonna getcha, best be armed when they do!

Repubs in congress, when asked to comment:

Ouch!!!! He can say what he wants or feels but the way he worded it sure doesn't come across in a good way. Its almost like he doesn't want to deal with any type of adversity at all. Hope he doesn't tell SF his demand to start.

Yes it’s why I posted it You do realize that the local reporters are not confirming this story, right? You also realize she retweeted not the Outkick article, but another persons take on Ron DeSantis who retweeted the article that had this little nugget in it, right? Florida residents had called for DeSantis to veto the spending anyway, saying that Floridians’ tax dollars should not help fund a facility for a professional sports team.

You do realize that article doesn’t give reasoning for the veto and Desantis’s spokeswoman retweeted the Outkick article as if to confirm it, right?

helping people doesn't seem to be a priority

Coon hunting? I called it beaver hunting and when I did it while in high school I was armed with Zima and jolly ranchers...Beavers could not resist.

5 people shot and wounded today in Racine wisconsin...they were shot at a funeral for a man shot and killed by police. so now we have to either lock the doors to the cemetery and/or make sure mourners at funerals are armed to the teeth to protect themselves from gun violence. maybe during the summers those teachers who are armed to the teeth to protect their students from school shooters can hire out as funeral protectors.

Gambling, alcohol, religion, and pretty much anything else also potentially ruins families. And no, I didn’t say religion as a cheap point. A former student killed herself because her “religious” parents couldn’t handle her being gay. That seems pretty destructive to the family unit to me…

I’m not intentionally missing whatever point you are trying to make. I’m giving you another possible explanation as to why the funding was vetoed, which interestingly enough, you admit is a possibility later on in your own post. Here is further clarification for you…..

Wow, saying Congress should care about America first is silly... Okay!

I guess I'll follow the victim farming post above with this doozy. How about not being involved in a coup to overthrow our democracy, Pete?

Big time get. Coached against this kid. He is the real deal.

He can't, but he's gotta rationalize his vote for Republicans - completely devoid of policy objectives, who reject reality when it comes to climate change, and offer completely off the rails responses to gun violence - some how.

Geesh. Never knew this. I wonder if this is like the companies that sell 30 year food pouches to the doomsday’rs. How effective would a bulletproof backpack be when it doesn’t protect the front chest cavity, many kids would have them in their lockers or cubbies during the day and not by them in the unlikely event a school shooting happened.

Serious question….are bulletproof backpacks really a thing? We just get a backpack off the rack at Target

Sounding

Wish we still had mean tweets instead of that.

Far more important to be sure we can obliterate a raccoon with an AR-15 than it is to come to some sort of sane gun control.

Good thoughts there

In the next 5-10 years conferences as we know it are probably going to go the way of the dodo... There'll be 4 conferences made up of 16 or 20 teams, and the winners of those conferences will go to the final four.

I just feel that with the injuries and turn over that's what made in a bad season. Hopefully next year we get back to winning bc Will Bolt is a great coach.

He runs a company that deals in financing high wealth individuals. Doesn't seem too out of place on the surface. Oh, and also, from your article: He and his husband Bryan Eure were long-time high-profile Democratic fundraisers, hosting lavish events at their multimillion-dollar New York residences for then-President Obama, the Clintons, and other Democratic politicians. But on the night of the 2016 election, the New York Times reported, White and Eure decided to switch allegiances and began making inroads into the Trump inner circle.